FAITH CAPSULE: How are you keeping your heart from becoming a victim of Satan?

Jeremiah 17:5-18, Acts 5:1-11

Heart is described in the book of Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Without any doubt, heart seems to be the prime target for the enemy to take over. How are you keeping yours from becoming a victim of Satan? God promised to give the Israelites a heart to know Him. It is written, “Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.” (Jeremiah 24:7) God’s promise to one is not limited from all, ask God for the heart that will never be accessible to Satan anymore and in anyway.
Ananias sold his possessions in the spirit of blessing fellow believers but allowed Satan to enter his heart. “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?” (Acts 5:3) Satan is always after the heart to occupy as his playground. He is the master of trick masters. It was also reported that Satan entered Judas, “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” (Luke 22:3-4) There is no other place that Satan could have entered in Judas that could have been more effective than the heart. Both Ananias and Judas died an untimely death because their heart became the victim of Satan.
God’s promise of giving a new heart included the fact that after giving a new heart, there shall be a return to Him with a whole heart. A whole heart is what it will take to get to His Promised Land; a whole heart is what it will take not to doubt Him, a whole heart is what it will take for man not to complain against Him, a whole heart is what it will take not to die in the wilderness journey. Whole is all that made Caleb to confess positive after spying on the Promised Land. There is no man who can follow God fully except the heart is guided against the moves of Satan. A heart that follows God fully is a whole heart and whole heart is what God has promised to give. Caleb followed Him fully because of his whole heart and God testified in Numbers 14:24, “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.”  

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you a heart to be whole in Him.