Your Greatest Battle In Life...Your Heart.

Your Greatest Battle In Life...Your Heart. 


The greatest battle you would ever fight in this life is in your heart.

The heart occupies so large a place in the bible 781 times in the old testament (lêb-557 times, lêbâb-224 times) & 159 times in the new testament (kardia).

The scriptures of truth are replete with matters of the heart and this comes as no surprise for the word of God is a discerner of thoughts & intents of the heart(Hebrews 4:12).

The greatest battle of life is in the heart, for out of it are the issues/proceeds of life.

All the works of man wrought upon the earth are first conceived in the heart and if the earth be full of wickedness and evil, then what a treasure chest of wickedness & evil the heart of man is upon the earth.

Every fellowship with evil or darkness that we may find ourselves caught up in or battling against, was first conceived and embraced in the heart. The real battle is thus in the heart to guard it against the intrusion or invasion of such evil thoughts and where they intrude, to dismantle their strongholds.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything you do. 
Proverbs 4:23 NLT. 

Darby Translation as well as the KJV says "out of it are the issues of life".

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked or incurable: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9

The deception that comes from the heart is above all things because the heart can even deceive it's owner; our hearts can deceive/mislead us.

Have you heard someone say I trust my spirit/my heart, my spirit never lies to me?

People often say follow your heart. These are words from people who trust their heart, having not really known how deceitful & misleading their own heart or spirit can be.

The heart can be so deceitful that it can be inflated with pride & self ambition even in the very presence of God & in very pious activities like worship, prayer & ministering the Word of God. See Luke 18:9-14.

If the deception that comes from our heart is above all else, then above all else, we should guard that heart. 

The human heart is so frail & fickle but God knows all the battles of our heart, every single battle we face in our heart, and he is greater than our hearts with all it's conflicts even when our hearts condemn us. He knows all things, he knows hearts that are sincere in the admission of flaws, earnestly trusting God for healing.

1st John 3:19-20
And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him; that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

We are of the truth and sincere if we persuade our hearts before God, if we see our hearts as always before God & that he knows/sees all that goes on in our hearts and he is infinitely greater & beyond whatever conflicts we go through in our hearts even if our hearts condemn us.

God looks at the heart, his greatest value in man is the heart of man, thus the enemy wages his greatest battle against that which is of greatest value to God, and that is the heart.

Above all else, guard your heart, don't let negative thoughts find a lodging therein when they stroll by or seek to invade, resist them.

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