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CENTRE OF LIFE

Text : Proverbs 4:23

 *Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. (NLT)

Your heart is the control room of your life. It is the engine that powers your whole life. Your heart is where your 'things' are kept(1Cor 2:11).

Your real personality is hidden in your heart. So, when God wants to change you,  He simply changes your heart and makes it a new heart. (Psalms 51:10).

God's focus is not on the externalities but the heart. The Lord reads your heart before He considers your actions. This is because your actions are products of your heart. So, the Lord goes to the very source of your actions. Proverbs 21:2 says _People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their heart._ 

 *Your heart is your life's production room, that's why you must guard it with all diligence.*

No man can discern or know his heart without the help of God's Spirit upon his own spirit. Hence, except a man's spirit is quickened, his heart cannot be transformed.  The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.(Proverbs  20:27).

Your heart carries your thoughts and your intents. While the thoughts of your heart can sometimes be touched in your mind; the intents of your heart cannot be discerned by you in any way.

You need two things to be able to discern thoughts and intents of the heart.

1. Your spirit man must have been quickened (born again). And you must be subjected to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 2:11). 

2. You must allow God's word percolate into your heart from your mind (Hebrews 4:12).


 *You need the active workings of God's Spirit and the Word to guard your heart.*


 *Bible reading* : Matthew 15:16-20.


 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1.) Father God, I submit my whole life under the Lordship of Christ Jesus, I therefore ask for a changed heart.


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