A heart in the right place and brightly burning faith

Keep your heart right and your faith will burn bright.

'For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'
Matthew 6:21


Dear God, give me guidance with Your infallible Word
and let my heart be directed by It in the right direction
giving me a faith which can be bright as a light in the darkness
calling others to come to You.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Een hart op de juiste plaats en helder brandend geloof

Let us not forget it was God who chose us

Grace (Amos 5:14b, 15b; 1 Pet 1:15b)

We are reminded that it was God who chose us, and extends free and unconditional grace to us. He is pleased to do this willingly out of his great, undeserved love for us (Eph 2:4-10).
In return we have nothing to give him to express our thanks except lives that grow in holiness and reach out in love to share grace with others. We will continually fail but thankfully, it is the intent and the heart that he reads, not the result.
To be holy is firstly, and above all, a matter of who we are that flows into what we do. Our being initiates and colours our doing.

- Alan Hermann

In the Grace of Your Love (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Purify my heart

 
 "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;
he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.
Then the Lord Jehovah will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness..."
Malachi 3:3-4

 

'Purify my heart, let me be as gold
and precious silver.
Purify my heart, let me be as gold,
pure gold.

Refiner's fire, my heart's one desire
is to be holy, set apart for you, Lord.
I choose to be holy,
set apart for you, my master,
ready to do your will.

Purify my heart,
cleanse me from within and make me holy.
Purify my heart,
cleanse me from my sin, deep within.

Refiner's fire, my heart's one desire
is to be holy, set apart for you, Lord.
I choose to be holy,
set apart for you, my master,
ready to do your will'.

Brian Doerksen

 

Brian Doerksen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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A cheerful heart filled of hope good medicine

A Jewish proverb observes,

"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."

Paul, a first-Century follower of Jesus, emphasized hope:

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope. . ."

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Een vrolijk hart vol van hoop goed medicijn

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Open your heart

Open Your Heart (Europe song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Without Gods grace you become nothing,
without a through the man opened heart it comes till nothing.
-  Ds.  Masters

Dutch original / Nederlands origineel> Stel je hart open

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Sow and harvests in the garden of your heart

"The heart is our garden,
and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed.
We can use a sharp knife to cut someone,
and if our intention is to do harm, we will be a murderer.
We can perform an almost identical action,
but if we are a surgeon, the intention is to heal and save a life.
The action is the same, yet depending on its purpose or intention,
it can be either a terrible act or a compassionate act."
- Jack Kornfield

"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
* When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it,
the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.
This is the seed sown along the path.
* The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time.
When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
* The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns
is the man who hears the word,
but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it,
making it unfruitful.
* But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil
is the man who hears the word and understands it.
He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."
Matthew 13:18-23

Dear God, let me produce a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Zaai en oogst in de tuin van uw hart

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If there is bitterness in the heart

"If there is bitterness in the heart,
sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
But God’s love makes the heart sweet,
And the mouth full of praise."
- Yiddish Proverb

"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because it is of Jehovah’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:19-23

“Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God,
who keeps covenant and mercy,
let not all the trouble seem little before you,
that has come upon us, on our kings, on our princes,
and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people,
since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.”
Nehemia 9:32

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Als er bitterheid in het hart is

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God doesn't call the qualified

"God doesn't call the qualified,
He qualifies the called."
- Unknown

God doesn't call people who are qualified.
He calls people who are willing,
and then He qualifies them.
- Richard Parker

God examines both rich and poor,
not according to their lands and houses,
but according to the riches of their hearts.
- St. Augustine of Hippo

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts,
for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- William Law

"May you be strengthened with all power,
according to his glorious might,
for all endurance and patience with joy,
giving thanks to the Father,
who has qualified us to share
in the inheritance of the saints in light."
Colossians 1:11-12

Creator of heaven and earth,
make me clean, physically and mentally healthy,
and pure of heart.
God make that I can be justified to be selected
to enter into Your kingdom.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > God roept de gekwalificeerden niet
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Keep your heart on the right path

Benjamin Franklin 1767 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Great beauty, great strength, and  great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path."
Proverbs 23:19

“Keep your heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.”
Proverbs 4:23

God, let my mind focus on the right things.
Let me enter the path of knowledge and give that I also can show others the right way.

Dutch version > Houdt uw hart op de goede weg

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