GUARD YOUR HEART 11-4-11 VIDEO DEEP THOUGHT ON HARD HEARTS

HEART-the man himself, it is considered to be the seat of the emotions and passions and appetites. The inner self that thinks, feels, and decides. Someone's true character or personality. Purity or evil sincerity or hardness

Prov 4:23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. AMP

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Prov 4:23 Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. MSG



Prov 4:4 He would sit me down and drill me: "Take this to heart. Do what I tell you live! MSG



Prov 14:30 A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. AMP

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Prov 14:30 A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones. MSG



Prov 15:13 A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. AMP

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Prov 15:13 A cheerful heart brings a smile to your face; a sad heart makes it hard to get through the day. MSG



HARDNESS Mark 10:5 But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this precept in your Law.



Mark 16:14 Afterward He appeared to the Eleven [apostles themselves] as they reclined at table; and He reproved and reproached them for their unbelief (their lack of faith) and their hardness of heart, because they had refused to believe those who had seen Him and looked at Him attentively after He had risen [from death]. AMP

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Mark 16:14 Still later, as the Eleven were eating supper, he appeared and took them to task most severely for their stubborn unbelief, refusing to believe those who had seen him raised up. MSG



Eph 4:17 So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.

18 Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature]. AMP ↕↕↕



Eph 4:17 And so I insist and God backs me up on this that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd.

18 They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. MSG



Num 6:26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually). AMP

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Num 6:26 God look you full in the face and make you prosper. MSG



Deut 6:5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might. AMP

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Deut 6:5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! MSG



1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods) [from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life]. Amen (so let it be). AMP



Acts 19:2 The first thing he said was, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart? Did he get inside you?" "We've never even heard of that a Holy Spirit? God within us?" MSG



Josh 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you: to love the Lord your God and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and to cling to and unite with Him and to serve Him with all your heart and soul [your very life]. AMP

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Josh 22:5 Only this: Be vigilant in keeping the Commandment and The Revelation that Moses the servant of God laid on you: Love God, your God, walk in all his ways, do what he's commanded, embrace him, serve him with everything you are and have." MSG



1 Sam 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. AMP

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1 Sam 16:7 But God told Samuel, "Looks aren't everything. Don't be impressed with his looks and stature. I've already eliminated him. God judges persons differently than humans do. Men and women look at the face; God looks into the heart." MSG



1 Chron 29:17 I know also, my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here offer voluntarily and freely to You. AMP

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1 Chron 29:17 I know, dear God, that you care nothing for the surface you want us, our true selves and so I have given from the heart, honestly and happily. And now see all these people doing the same, giving freely, willingly what a joy!



1 Chron 29:9 And the people were full of a sense of celebration all that giving! And all given willingly, freely! King David was exuberant. MSG



Ps 9:1 I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds! AMP

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Ps 9:1 I'm thanking you, God, from a full heart, I'm writing the book on your wonders.



Ps 138:1 I WILL confess and praise You [O God] with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing praises to You. AMP



Eph 5:19 Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. MSG



Ps 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firmly fixed, trusting (leaning on and being confident) in the Lord. AMP



Ps 108:1 O GOD, my heart is fixed (steadfast, in the confidence of faith); I will sing, yes, I will sing praises, even with my glory [all the faculties and powers of one created in Your image]! AMP



Ps 16:7 I will bless the Lord, Who has given me counsel; yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

8 I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices; my body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety, AMP



Ps 17:3 You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me and find nothing [no evil purpose in me]; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. AMP



Ps 26:2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; test my heart and my mind. AMP

Ps 28:7 The Lord is my Strength and my [impenetrable] Shield; my heart trusts in, relies on, and confidently leans on Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song will I praise Him. AMP VIDEO PAPER HEART



Ps 31:24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord! AMP



Ps 33:21 For in Him does our heart rejoice, because we have trusted (relied on and been confident) in His holy name. AMP

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Ps 33:21 What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name. MSG



Ps 45:1 My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words: MSG



Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me. AMP



Ps 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is steadfast and confident! I will sing and make melody. AMP



Ps 64:10 The [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be glad in the Lord and shall trust and take refuge in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory and offer praise. AMP



Ps 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the Rock and firm Strength of my heart and my Portion forever. AMP



Ps 86:12 I will confess and praise You, O Lord my God, with my whole (united) heart; and I will glorify Your name forevermore. AMP



Ps 101:2 I will behave myself wisely and give heed to the blameless way O when will You come to me? I will walk within my house in integrity and with a blameless heart. AMP



Ps 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought You, inquiring for and of You and yearning for You; Oh, let me not wander or step aside [either in ignorance or willfully] from Your commandments.

11 Your word have I laid up in my heart, that I might not sin against You. AMP

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Ps 119:10 I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted.

11 I've banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won't sin myself bankrupt.



Ps 119:80 Let my heart be sound (sincere and wholehearted and blameless) in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame. AMP

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Ps 119:80 And let me live whole and holy, soul and body so I can always walk with my head held high. MSG

WORD Deut 30:14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your mind and in your heart, so that you can do it. AMP



Prov 2:2 Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it]; AMP



Prov 15:30 The light in the eyes [of him whose heart is joyful] rejoices the hearts of others, and good news nourishes the bones. AMP



Prov 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. AMP



Ezek 11:19 And I will give them one heart [a new heart] and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony [unnaturally hardened] heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh [sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God],

20 That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. AMP

Ezek 36:26 A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. AMP

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Ezek 36:26 I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed.



Matt 5:8 Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! AMP

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Matt 5:8 "You're blessed when you get your inside world your mind and heart put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. MSG



Rom 10:10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation. AMP



Rom 14:17 [After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. AMP



1 Cor 2:16 For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. AMP

Gal 6:9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. AMP



Eph 1:18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), AMP



Titus 1:15 To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted. AMP



1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God. AMP



Eph 3:16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].

17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, AMP



1 Peter 1:22 Since by your obedience to the Truth through the [Holy ] Spirit you have purified your hearts for the sincere affection of the brethren, [see that you] love one another fervently from a pure heart. AMP VIDEO AFTER YOUR HEART 2