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Personal Study: The Heart (Hebrew: lev/levav)

The heart is the inner person where thoughts, motives, desires, and decisions are formed. YAHUAH sees it clearly, even when people cannot.

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Key Scriptures (Read slowly)

• Genesis 6:5 — YAHUAH saw that the wickedness of man was great, and that every imagination of the thoughts of the heart was only evil continually.
• Luke 24:38 — “Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”

1) What the Heart Produces

• The heart has thoughts (Luke 24:38).
• The heart has imaginations and patterns (Genesis 6:5).
• The heart can become a “factory” that produces either righteousness or wickedness.

Reflection questions

• What kinds of thoughts have been “arising” in my heart lately?
• Are my imaginations feeding faith, obedience, and purity, or fear, unbelief, and compromise?

2) Guarding the Heart

• Proverbs 4:23 — Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

Practices to guard the heart

• Bring thoughts into obedience (2 Corinthians 10:5).
• Refuse bitterness and unforgiveness (Hebrews 12:15).
• Feed the heart with truth (Romans 10:17).

3) The Heart Can Be Deceitful (Need for Discernment)