STATE OF THE HEART
Numbers 14

How are you keeping your heart? The word of God commands, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverb 4:23) Just as the issue of life springs out of heart, so the issue of death springs out of heart. How are you keeping your heart? Heart operates as the manufacturer and whatever it manufactures the mouth delivers. This is indicated in the statement of Jesus “…For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34) Keeping the heart with all diligence is directly important to your deliverance unto your breakthrough in the journey of life. The children of Israel came out of the bondage of over four hundred years, they had miracle upon miracles in their journey but yet, they completely forgot in their heart. Despite the promise of God to take them to a land that flows with milk and honey, they allowed their mouth to terminate their promised land. After the spying of the land that the Lord had planned for them, they spoke from their heart, “…We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” (Numbers 13:31) How can the people that have overcome a giant task be speaking forth with such negativity? Out of the abundance of their heart they spoke out and God responded through Moses, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.” (Numbers 14:28) What is your heart manufacturing for you mouth to produce before the perfect Creator? Determination will not help you in keeping you heart with all diligence because determination failed Peter. However, the Spirit of God is what will help to keep your heart with all diligent. How can the Spirit of God keep your heart for you? The word of God encourages us in John 6:63, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” The word of God which is life will give you life and not death in the journey of life. Here is what the book of Proverbs commanded if you desire to keep your heart with all diligent, “…Let your heart retain my words; keep my commands and live” (Proverbs 4:4) Can your heart retain the word of God? Whatever is your desire is what the Lord God will deposit in your life and it will give you life. Get into thinking positive and confessing positive because as you think in your heart so you are (Proverbs 23:7).
It is a new month, depart from confessing negative and adapt to confessing positive.
 
Prayer for today: My Lord and my God, I ask today, circumcise my heart to love you with my entire all so that I may live.