1. Secure Your Heart Proverbs 4:23 James 5:8
If we wish to see the Lord, our hearts must be secured in purity, guarded from defilement, and protected by God’s word.
Secure Your Heart
Proverbs 4:23
James 5:8

2. The content of your heart defines who you really are (Proverbs 27:19; Luke 6:45; Matthew 23:25-26)
It is what the Lord sees! (Proverbs 21:2)
The heart must be pure if we are to see God (Matt. 5:8; Proverbs 23:17-18)
Secure Your Heart

3. Purify Your Heart We cannot purify our hearts on our own (Prov. 20:9)
We must obey the gospel! (Acts 15:9; Peter 1:22)
The heart must first be wounded in order to be healed! (Acts 2:37; James 4:8; Proverbs 20:30)
Purify Your Heart

4. From lust (2 Timothy 2:22; Proverbs 7:25; Romans 1:24)
From envy and self-seeking (James 3:14)
From covetousness (2 Peter 2:14)
From ingratitude (Romans 1:21; Psalm 57:7)
From carousing & cares (Luke 21:34)
From false doctrine (Matthew 15:8-9)
Guard Your Heart

5. Protect Your Heart with God’s Word
God’s word must be valued by the heart (Ps. 119:162 Luke 12:34)
It must be hidden in the heart (Psalm 119:11)
It must rule in the heart (1 Peter 3:15; 1 Kings 8:61)
“Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God” (Hebrews 3:12)
Protect Your Heart with God’s Word