{"id":1792,"date":"2018-01-04T21:55:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-01-16T02:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:52:05","slug":"the-heart-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,\u00a0and\u00a0apply <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span> to understanding;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,\u00a0and\u00a0liftest up thy voice for understanding;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as\u00a0for\u00a0hid treasures;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Proverbs 2:1-5<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>When wisdom entereth into <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span>, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>To deliver thee from the way of the evil\u00a0man,<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>To deliver thee from the strange woman<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Proverbs 2:10-12a &amp; 16a<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My son, forget not my law; but let <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span> keep my commandments:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.\u00a0 Proverbs 3:1&amp;2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Trust in the LORD with all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span>; and lean not unto thine own understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.\u00a0 Proverbs 3:5&amp;6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For I was my father&#8217;s son, tender and only\u00a0beloved\u00a0in the sight of my mother.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>He taught me also, and said unto me, Let <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span> retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.\u00a0 Proverbs 4:1-4<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For they\u00a0are\u00a0life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Keep <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thy heart<\/span> with all diligence; for out of it\u00a0are\u00a0the issues of life.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Proverbs 4:20-23<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My son, keep thy father&#8217;s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Bind them continually upon <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span>,\u00a0and\u00a0tie them about thy neck.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and\u00a0when\u00a0thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>For the commandment\u00a0is\u00a0a lamp; and the law\u00a0is\u00a0light; and reproofs of instruction\u00a0are\u00a0the way of life:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Proverbs 6:20-23<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart.<\/span>\u00a0 Proverbs 7:1-3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you have heart trouble?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>These six\u00a0things\u00a0doth the LORD hate: yea, seven\u00a0are\u00a0an abomination unto him: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Item #4<\/strong><em><strong> &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An heart<\/span> that deviseth wicked imaginations.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Proverbs 6:16&amp;18a<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Let not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thine heart<\/span> decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths (the ways &amp; paths of the strange woman).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong\u00a0men\u00a0have been slain by her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Her house\u00a0is\u00a0the way to hell (Sheol*), going down to the chambers of death.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Proverbs 7:24-27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The\u00a0heart<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0deceitful\u00a0above\u00a0all\u00a0things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Jeremiah 17:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you need a new heart?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Who can say, I have made <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my heart<\/span> clean, I am pure from my sin?\u00a0 Proverbs 20:10<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>And I (God) will give them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one heart<\/span>, and I will put a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new spirit<\/span> within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Ezekiel 11:19&amp;20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But he is a Jew, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which is one inwardly<\/span>; and circumcision is that of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the heart<\/span>, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> Romans 2:29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>2 Corinthians 5:17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Thy\u00a0word\u00a0have\u00a0I\u00a0hid\u00a0in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mine\u00a0heart<\/span>, that I might not sin against thee.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><strong>Psalm 119:11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8230;..Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<em><strong>Sheol &#8211; a place of conscious existence after death.\u00a0 A place of reward for the righteous and of judgment for the wicked.\u00a0 See Luke 16.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong> (Vine&#8217;s Expository Dictionary of the New &amp; Old Testament)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;\u00a0So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,\u00a0and\u00a0apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,\u00a0and\u00a0liftest up thy voice for understanding;\u00a0If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as\u00a0for\u00a0hid treasures;\u00a0Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1792\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Heart of the Matter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}