Feb 7, 2025 … He Sees My Heart

Feb 7, 2025 … He Sees My Heart  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with an unknown singer singing … God Looks At the Heart …  describing God’s promise in !Samuel 16 to judge the heart, not the externals.

Highlight Passage: … 1Samuel 16:7 …[NLT] … 

7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”          

… God to Samuel (and us) that God does not judge man by the externals, … rather looking at the heart.   

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Samuel 16:1, 6-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Samuel conveys to Jesse’s family that God looks at the heart of man, not at the eternals.                                                                            

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 51:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… David’s prayer in song that God restore his heart after his sin with Bathsheba.              

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 4:23, 21:2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God. thru Solomon, shows that believers must guard their (our) heats, which will determine how they (we) live.

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 17:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God shows that He judges us by searching our hearts.  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:21 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches that whatever born-again Christians value in their (our) hearts is what they (we) will pursue in life.  

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 9:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians that we must decide, in our hearts, what we give in life because God loves a cheerful giver. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 3:3-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… … The Apostle Peter teaches truth that Christians must not judge based on the externals of life but rather see what comes from within the heart and what is precious to God.      

                              

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Lisa M Samra … <b>AT THIS LINK - … today’s ODB author, related the story of Brock Purdy, who was the last NFL candidate chosen in the 2022 draft of pro football draftees, … taking on the annual press label of “Mr Irrelevant.” But as the Quarterback for the San Francisco team which drafted Purdy that year, he became a leader and and all-pro talented quarterback for the San Francisco “Forty Niners” team.

And that ODB entry demonstrated what was brought out in the highlight passage of 1Samuel 16:7 and all of the reference Scriptures posted above (also see the linked song and the photo), all of which show that God sees and judges us on what’s in our hearts and not on the externals of life.   Personally, I still need some heart-cleaning in my life; … how about you?                             

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for promising me Your cleansing Spirit, Lord, as I pray every morning from <b><u>Psalm 139:23-24</b></u> (find that one on your own).

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. … again today, … that all reading here will join me, … to seek Your cleansing Spirit, Lord    … Amen

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