THE HEART

What do you require I do with this new heart Lord? – heart verses

• Guard it – “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” – Proverbs 4:23
  • Proverbs 17:22
  • Matthew 5:8
  • Ecclesiastes 11:10
  • Proverbs 12:25
• Love God with it – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart…”
• Trust God with it – “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight – Proverbs 3:5-6
  • Psalm 27:3
  • Psalm 28:7
• Yield it to God – “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel” – Joshua 24:23
• Seek God with it – “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” – Jeremiah 29:13
  • Psalm 119:10
  • Psalm 119:2
  • 2 Timothy 2:22
• Serve God with it – “But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you…to serve him with all your heart” – Joshua 22:5
  • 1 Samuel 12:24
• Give thanks and rejoice with it – “I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart…” – Psalm 9:1
  • Psalm 119:111
  • Ecclesiastes 9:7
  • Psalm 13:5-6
  • Psalm 119:7
  • Psalm 9:1
• Be loving and faithful with it – Let love and faithfulness never leave you…write them on the tablet of your heart…” – Proverbs 3:3-4
• Store up wisdom in it – “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart…” – Proverbs 3:1-2
  • Proverbs 10:8
  • Psalm 90:12
  • Psalm 119:11
  • Proverbs 4:20-21
  • Proverbs 23:15
• Decide what to give with it – “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” – 2 Cor 9:7
• Believes with it – “…If anyone says to this mountain…and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them” – Mark 11:23
  • Hebrews 3:12
• Repent with it – “Even now…return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning” – Joel 2:12
  • Joel 2:13
  • Psalm 51:17
• Forgive with it – “…forgive your brother or sister from your heart” – Matthew 18:35

More on the heart

• It will reflect my life and desires – “As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” – Proverbs 27:19
  • Matthew 6:21
  • Psalm 40:8
• God examines it and rewards accordingly – “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct…” – Jeremiah 17:9-10
  • Psalm 20:4
  • 1 Samuel 16:7
  • Psalm 37:4
• God purifies it – “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me” – Psalm 51:10
• God restores it – “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” – Ezekiel 36:26
• God heals it – “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” – Psalm 147:3
• God makes it whole – “…give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name” – Psalm 86:11
  • Psalm 119:36
• God strengthens it – “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” – 2 Chronicles 16:9
  • Psalm 73:26