Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Morning by Morning, September 2, 2025 – As We Think in Our Hearts, So Are We

 

Morning by Morning, September 2, 2025 – As We Think in Our Hearts, So Are We


Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for Your leading (John 10:27). ...


“As he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).


What’s going on in our hearts usually determines what’s going on with our words and actions. Even if we try to mask our intentions or hide our motives, our hearts know the truth. And You know our hearts.


You said it this way: “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man” (Mark 7:20-23).


Lord, I need Your cleansing of my heart every day.


Yes, I am a “new creation” in Christ and “all things have become new” in You (2 Corinthians 5:17). You poured out Your Blood on the Cross through Your mercy and love “that we might become the righteousness of God in (You)” (2 Corinthians 5:21). In You, “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16).


And at the same time, we live every day in a broken and fallen world full of thoughts and ideas, full of emotional temptations and spiritual attacks, that can defile our hearts and minds if we allow it. So we need Your Holy Spirit to cleanse us in Your Blood, to purify us in Your Fire, to sanctify us from the defilements of the world, the flesh, and the devil (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Not just in a one-time prayer but in an everyday lifestyle—all by the power of the grace of God at work within us. “For it is God who works in (us) both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).


Yes, “we have the mind of Christ” and at the same time, we must be continually “transformed by the renewing of (our) mind” (Romans 12:2) and obey the Command of Your Word to “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1).


Let David’s humble prayer be the cry of my heart day by day, morning by morning, even moment by moment: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).


You’ve put Your “right Spirit” within me, Your Holy Spirit. With my spirit open to Your Spirit, with my will surrendered to Your will, You keep cleansing my heart from every defilement and You keep renewing my mind so that as I think in my heart is what I am, what You are causing me to become, as I continue to grow in spiritual maturity in You.


“Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in (me) will complete it” (Philippians 1:6). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be continually cleansed from every defilement of the world, the flesh, and the devil, as the Lord continually creates in you a cleans heart and renews a right spirit within you, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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