Today's Verse: Jeremiah 17:9-10

Friday, July 2, 1954

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? "I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
— Jeremiah 17:9-10
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Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Jesus told us that what is in our hearts ultimately works its way out into our public lives (Luke 6:43-45). The wise man of Proverbs told us to guard our hearts because the heart is the wellspring of our lives (Proverbs 4:23). Jeremiah wants us to know that God knows our hearts. At Heartlight.org and verseoftheday.com, we want to stress the importance of what goes into our hearts because it really makes a difference in what goes on inside our hearts and heads, and what comes out in our lives as behaviors. Please, invite the Lord into what you do, plan, think, read, scroll, swipe, watch, and hear. Ask the Lord to remove deceit from you. Ask the Spirit to help you see if what you are doing is truly worthy of your time and interest as a child of God and one who lives for the Kingdom of heaven.

My Prayer...

Righteous Father, please help me guard my heart. Help me be wise enough not to place things into it that would rob it of its purity and devotion to you. I want to be holy through and through - body, soul, mind, and spirit. Please search me and help me remove everything that would steal my devotion from you and that would ruin my influence with others for you. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

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Today's Verse is a free daily devotional that includes a Bible verse, thought and prayer.

The Thoughts and Prayer on Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware.

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

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