Sept 12, 2025 … Guarding My Heart …

Sept 12, 2025  …  Guarding My Heart   … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Steve Green singing… Guard Your Heart,  … Warning Christians to be careful to guard their (our) hearts.

Highlight Passage: … Philippians 4:8 … [NLT] … 

8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 

… Paul charges fellow Christians to think on ONLY those things  which honor and glorify God. 

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Philippians 4:4-9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul challenges fellow Christians to think on things which honor our Lord.    

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 19:14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings a prayer for him to bring only thoughts to God which are acceptable to the Lord.

Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 4:23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon teaches truth … that believers should guard their (our) hearts from which our life depends. 

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 26:3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Isaiah, provides His prescription to prevent unGodly thoughts or actions.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 6:45 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus teaches that good words and actions flow from a heart which is good like good fruit comes from a tree well protected and cared for.

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:1-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians how they (we) must think on only those things when honor and glorify God, avoiding dwelling on things of this world. 

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 1:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter charges fellow Christians to prepare their (our) hearts to exercise self control.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Unpublished online - Nancy Gavilanes  … AT THIS LINK   … tells of the thoughts revealed by Katie Ladecky which the great Olympic swimmer was thinking as she swam to one of her many gold medals in the 1500 meter freestyle competition.  Ledecky revealed that all she thought about, as she was many lengths ahead of her competitors, was about all those who had helped her train for her Olympic swim.  

And that’s the heart of a champion Christian as well.   We must ask ourselves as surrendered Christians; .. what kind of thoughts are in our hearts as we live out our lives as Christians?  Because if we, as Christians, believe what is taught and revealed in the linked song and the Scriptures shared in today’s journaling, we MUSt guard our thoughts by praying and thinking ONLY on thoughts which honor and glorify our Lord.   And once again, meditating on God’s word, which I’ve shared here today, we MUST guard our thoughts to produce good fruit in our lives.  And I - for one - will be doing my best to do just that today. How about you?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for giving me the enabling grace to guard my heart today.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, Lord. … for helping us to guard our hearts by thinking thoughts which only honor You! … Amen

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