Dear Children Keep Away From Anything That Might Take God’s Place In Your Hearts

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Dear Children
Keep Away From Anything
That Might Take God’s Place In Your Hearts

Scripture

1 John 

²¹ Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.

Observation

What might take God’s place in your heart? It could be drugs, alcohol, lust, greed, pornography, a man, or it could be a woman, or anything else. Satan knows our weakness. Satan knows where we are vulnerable. He is so subtle.

Does God have His rightful place in your heart and in my heart right now? Is He Number One in our lives? 

Do we need to repent and ask God for forgiveness? Do we need to confess that we have allowed something else to take His place in our life?

Everyday, every single day we must guard our hearts. Satan wants to destroy us.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. Proverbs 4:23

Today is Monday. We serve a God that loves for us to start all over with Him.

Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you. Psalm 143:8

Maybe that is just what you need to do this morning.

Here is a promise so that you know that He will hear and respond to our prayers:

 And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for. 1 John 5:14-15
JOY acrostic
Jesus #1
Others # 2
You #3
How about taking a dry erase marker and writing a BIG # 3 on your bathroom mirror to remind you how to have JOY this week? Let me know if you do it! I just put a Red #3 on our bathroom mirror!

Application

I will guard my heart today. I will not let anything take God’s place in my heart. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me to guard my heart this week. Help me to keep You as the most important Person in my life. And help me to keep Kathy in the number 2 spot. My kids and grandkids right after that and those that You place on my heart right after them. Don’t let Satan or my sinful nature get that order out of place. I look forward to this week and I look forward to what You are going to do in the lives of the ones that I love. Nothing is too hard for You!

Daily Bible Reading:  Jeremiah 33,34; Psalms 74; 1 John 5

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