Scripture clean hands and a pure heart3/29/2024 Amen.ġ Corinthians 2:16 - “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. I want the Spirit of life and peace to be ruling within me. Pray: Dear Lord, take control of my mind. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:5-6 - Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. Pray: Dear Lord, I recognize that Your thoughts are so much greater than mine. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. Thank You that I have the power to run from impurity and run to You. Pray: Dear Lord, I will forsake wicked thinking today. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Isaiah 55:6-7 - Seek the Lord while he may be found call on him while he is near. Pray: Dear Lord, I want to please You with my thoughts, not just my actions. Proverbs 15:26 - The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked, but those of the pure are pleasing to him. Pray: Dear God, I will stay away from impurity and lust in my mind. Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel. Proverbs 5:7-9 - Now then, my sons, listen to me do not turn aside from what I say. I will not allow intruders of impurity to come in. Pray: Dear Lord, I will guard the gates of my heart and mind today. Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. I do not want to offend You, even in my thoughts. Pray: Dear God, I surrender my anxious thoughts to You. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:23-24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts. I want my mind to reflect Your purity of mind. Pray: Dear God, I am amazed that You are thinking precious thoughts of me… so many that they outnumber the grains of sand. Psalms 139:17-18 - How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. I want to please You with my thoughts today. Pray: Dear Lord, You know my thoughts even before I think them. You know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from afar. Psalms 139:1-2 - O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. I will not only read it but also live by it. Pray: Dear Father, thank You for Your Word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. I seek you with all my heart do not let me stray from your commands. Psalms 119:9-11 - How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. Pray: Dear Lord, I surrender the secret thoughts of my mind to You. Psalms 51:6 - Surely you desire truth in the inner parts you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. I want to walk continually in Your truth. Pray: Dear Lord, search my mind for areas of impurity. Psalms 26:2-3 - Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth. Show me if there is any impurity within me so that I can worship You in freedom. Psalms 24:3-4 - Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. I want to be pure on the inside and outside. You see the places within that no man sees. Pray: Dear Jesus, I want the hidden places within me - the meditations of my heart - to be pure. Psalms 19:14 - May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. I will remember Your goodness and Your promises. Pray: Dear Lord, I want to make room for You in my thoughts. Psalms 10:4 - In his pride the wicked does not seek him in all his thoughts there is no room for God. So, today, I run after You and seek You with all my heart. Pray: Dear Father, I believe that You search and see my thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. 1 Chronicles 28:9 - “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
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