How To Seek The Lord With Your HeartPsalms 84:5 "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them." |
Jermaiah 29:11-13 " For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will hear unto you. And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your HEART. " |
Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." |
Joel 2:12-13 " Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your HEART, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. " |
Genesis 8:21 "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in HIS HEART, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's HEART is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." |
Ezra 7:10 "For Ezra had prepared his HEART to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." |
God Made A New Covenant With Abraham Nehemiah 9:7 "Thou are the LORD the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham." Nehemiah 9:8 "And found his HEART faithful before thee, and made a Covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and has performed thy words; for thou are righteous." |
THE JOYFUL HEART Psalms 15:2 "He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his HEART." |
 Psalms 119:1- 3 "Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole HEART. They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways." |
 Troubles of the Heart Psalms 11:2 "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in HEART." |
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Easton's Bible Dictionary On "The Heart" Heart: According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life. "Heart" and "soul" are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5; 26:16; comp. Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33), but this is not generally the case. The heart is the "home of the personal life," and hence a man is designated, according to his heart, wise (1 Kings 3:12, etc.), pure (Ps. 24:4; Matt. 5:8, etc.), upright and righteous (Gen. 20:5, 6; Ps. 11:2; 78:72), pious and good (Luke 8:15), etc. In these and such passages the word "soul" could not be substituted for "heart." The heart is also the seat of the conscience (Rom. 2:15). It is naturally wicked (Gen. 8:21), and hence it contaminates the whole life and character (Matt. 12:34; 15:18; comp. Eccl. 8:11; Ps. 73:7). Hence the heart must be changed, regenerated (Ezek. 36:26; 11:19; Ps. 51:10-14), before a man can willingly obey God. The process of salvation begins in the heart by the believing reception of the testimony of God, while the rejection of that testimony hardens the heart (Ps. 95:8; Prov. 28:14; 2 Chron. 36:13). "Hardness of heart evidences itself by light views of sin; partial acknowledgment and confession of it; pride and conceit; ingratitude; unconcern about the word and ordinances of God; inattention to divine providences; stifling convictions of conscience; shunning reproof; presumption, and general ignorance of divine things." |
