Keep Your Heart Pure

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Our hearts must be set toward pleasing and glorifying God. God wants us to be pure in heart; if the heart is not pure then we can’t see God. An impure heart falls short of seeing God. Matthew5:8 states “the pure in heart…shall see God.” God knows the thoughts of our mind and the intent of our heart. Our hearts has to be pure, the heart pumps blood that has life in it throughout our body. If our hearts are not pure and the blood is contaminated, it can produce hardness of heart or weakness of heart. Our blood cannot be polluted, or else it will slow down the appropriate circulation throughout the body. Our hearts must be purified; the pure in heart is no deceitfulness, but open transparency before God and men. Let us empty our hearts of anything that will affect the function of our heart rate or blood pressure. As we throw off the snares of unnecessary negativity that infect our spiritual and emotional well-being and our physical health it looses the chains of bondage and we are no longer enslaved to ourselves.

When we keep our hearts pure before the Lord our relationship can be close and intimate with Him. Mark 12:30 tells us “And thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.” With everything in us we must make God priority and the center of every facet of our lives. The heart is the controlling center of our life. Our thoughts, motives, words, feelings, attitudes, and actions all originate from our heart (Read Mark 7:20-23). What flows out of our heart defines the quality of our life and our character (Read Proverbs 4:23). Our veil of unrighteousness is an impure heart. We can’t be effective laborers for the kingdom of God if the conditions of our hearts are not clean. We must make sure the Holy Spirit lives in the throne room of our heart to be the Lord of our lives.

Prayer: Father, make our hearts pure so we can worship You in spirit and truth with a pure heart, remove all impurities in our hearts, create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit with us. We thank You for purity in mind, heart and deed. Thank You for hearing us when we pray. In Jesus name. Amen.

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