Omega Fire Ministries Rhema for Living 6 November 2021 | Saturday Daily Devotional
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Heart: Life’s Control Tower
by Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman
BIBLE READING: Leviticus 13-16
TEXT: “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” – Proverbs 4 :23.
Physically, the heart’s role in keeping a man alive cannot be undermined. This organ is very crucial to human existence. In the non-empirical world, the heart of man is that part of his soul that directs his physical actions. Jesus made this clear in Mark 7 :18 – 23.
It is the ‘heart’ we are considering as it is popularly said that “the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart” (Prov 4 :23). The care of issues of life are matters of the heart.
What moulds a life comes from the heart. Ordinarily, the Bible says the heart is evil-deceitful and desperately wicked (Jer. 17 :9). After a man experiences the salvation of Jesus, the heart is impacted and made available for working upon by the word of God. It is supposed to be a dwelling place for the word of God so that it can be transformed to bring forth virtues and success. For this to be experienced in reality, the child of God needs as a matter of duty to work constantly on the heart through studying, meditating and memorizing the word of God.
Basically, the heart of a man can be in any of these four states.
(1) The roadside heart.
(2) The stony heart.
(3) The thorny heart.
(4) The good heart.
Our Lord Jesus Christ explained these states in a parable he defined as the key to all other parables (Mark 4 :13 – 20). The state of the heart assumes the choice of the fellow. The heart is the place to receive knowledge, besides the head. What kind of knowledge do you receive into your heart?
A working relationship between the heart and the mouth charts the course of a man’s life whether good or bad. The mouth is the outlet of the heart thus; the issues that mould a life are coming out of the heart through the mouth. The state of the heart is the true identity of a man. It is the place God looks at to relate to a man (1 Samuel 16 :7).
PRAYER: My Father! My Father! As I begin to pray, empower me to examine my thoughts pattern as I pray for the healing of my soul.
Omega Fire Ministries Rhema for Living 6 November 2021 | Friday Daily Devotional from the Desk of Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman, Omega Fire Ministries International, Auchi Edo State
