Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  Hebrews 4:7  NASB He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” It is easy to do.  When our focus is not on God, we will allow our hearts to go in any number of directions, but it will not take us in the direction of God. That is one reason that we need to take the warning that this verse.  When you hear from God, don’t harden your heart.  To do this us to turn away from God, to not listen to God or even to simply avoid what God is saying. There is a problem with our hearts when we do not have them turned toward God.  We stop listening.  We stop being fed by God.  We stop caring about what God cares about.  That is why we have to take some precautions. Proverbs 4:23  NLT Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. This is the place to start.  Guard your heart by the best means po...

Proverbs 4:23   NLT Guard   your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Many situations that come across our paths that we have to make quick decisions about, and each of them point either to our strengths and our weaknesses.  That is why it is vital to guard the places where critical decisions will be made.   That would be our heart. The heart actually determines the direction of our lives, our spiritual heart.  In the desires of our heart are the direction or the lack of direction we need.  Think about the condition and the content of your heart.   We will need resources that are clear and reliable so that we can deal with the hard stuff of life.   That is why I asset that we must make some decisions before we have to make the real decisions.  God is the one who will guide us… if we let him. If we guard our heart as well as give God our heart, we will go the right way where God can bless us and th...

Proverbs 4:23 NLT "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life." One of the most important part of our bodies is our heart. It beats to keep us alive sending the stream of life or blood flow through our bodies. We must keep our hearts healthy.  Yet the heart is also the most important place of our lives spiritually and emotionally. It is the place where our good or our crookedness comes from.  That's why God tells us to guard our hearts. It is vital that we do this so our physical and spiritual lives are healthy. Guard it so that nothing can penetrate it that will be deadly.  Because of the work we do as leaders it is easy for our hearts to become cold to the people we serve because the wickedness of the world or the poor choices that people make or the way some try to manipulate the church to serve their own needs or wants.  I pray that our hearts will be pure and pointed toward God. I pray that we will allow God ...