Preparing Your Heart

Heart means Spirit.

We must prepare our heart to seek the Lord.

If our hearts are not prepared, evil will be present.

2Ch 12:14

(14) And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

You will go the way of your heart.

Even though God directs your steps, you won’t follow His direction until your heart is prepared.

Pro 16:9

(9) A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

A heart prepared to seek God and His direction will start with a commitment.

Pro 16:1-3

(1) The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

(2) All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

(3) Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

A heart prepared to seek God is a heart that is filled with the words of God.

Pro 22:17-21

(17) Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

(18) For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

(19) That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

(20) Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

(21) That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Your heart must be prepared to seek God before the day of trouble.

Psa 77:1-14

(1) <To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.> I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

(2) In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

(3) I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

(4) Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

(5) I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

(6) I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

(7) Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

(8) Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

(9) Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

(10) And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

(11) I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

(12) I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

(13) Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

(14) Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

What to do in the day of trouble.

Vs 5- Consider how God moved in ancient times. He still moves the same today.

Vs 6- Begin to search your heart, and call to remembrance what you put in it.

Vs 10- Acknowledge the problem and remember that God is the answer.

Vs 12-14 As you meditate and talk of how mighty God is – expect God to declare His strength to you.