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GODLY USES OF THE HEART II
// Read Psalm 1 // MEDITATION: The delight of the heart must be in the word of the Lord. It must be used for meditation. It is in doing this that you will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. The word of God must be
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GODLY USES OF THE HEART I
// Read Matthew 22:37-40 // 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets
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LOVE NOT THE WORLD
// Read I John 2:15-17 // 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from
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GUARD YOUR HEART III
// Read Luke 22:1-6 // 22 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, 2 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. 3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one
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GUARD YOUR HEART II
// Read Acts 5:1-11 // 5 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet. 3 Then Peter said, “Ananias,
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GUARD YOUR HEART I
// Read Proverb 4:20-27 // 20 My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. 23 Above all else,
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GOD DEALS WITH THE HEART XI
// Read Ezra 1:1-11 // 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
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GOD DEALS WITH THE HEART X
// Read 1 Samuel 18:1-4 // 18 After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. 2 From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family. 3 And Jonathan made a covenant with
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GOD DEALS WITH THE HEART IX
// Read Acts 16:14-15, 4 // 14 One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. 15 When she and the members of her household were
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GOD DEALS WITH THE HEART VIII
// Read Romans 10:6-13 // 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[a] (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”[b] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it