Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23 We are created by God for His purposes. There's a flow of God's Spirit that He wants to have work through each of our lives—in relationship to Him, in how we reach out to others, and in how we handle our personal deals. We are to make way for a divine flow and leave no room for things that hinder His Spirit.

The Bible says we are to watch over our hearts with all diligence, for from them flow the springs of life (Proverbs 4:23). Various translations read: Guard your heart, keep your heart, tend to your heart, be diligent about your heart . . . What goes on in the heart is important. What is in it will eventually come out!

Jesus has a call on your life, and He wants you to come to Him and have something called "rivers of living water."
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" John 7:37-38 The Vietnam Vet who talked to me about Jesus; the girl who knocked on my garage door to invite me to a Bible study; my sweet little grandmother who prayed—these were people whose lives were in the divine flow of the rivers of living water. The springs of life flowed out of them and were catalytic to my salvation when I was a teenager. The divine flow was operating and it changed my life for eternity!

This is more than a nice biblical concept. We've got to do what it takes to see the flow actualized in and through our lives! Lives are attached to our obedience. Let's be diligent to guard our hearts and make way for the flow.

Press on!
Pastor Jeff






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