Please read Genesis 20.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/gen/20/1/s_20001
Meditate on verse 6.
Then God said to him in the dream,
“Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this,
and I also kept you from sinning against Me;
therefore I did not let you touch her.”
Here is a
prayer warrior’s treasure verse! It is tucked in the middle of Abraham’s story
of trying to save himself at the cost of sacrificing his wife to King
Abimelech. God’s faithfulness to Abraham was unending, and He rescued Sarah
from the king’s harem.
Abimelech
tried to justify himself before God by saying he had innocent hands and a heart
of integrity. God quickly reminded the king He knew exactly what was in his
heart, and He (God) had kept Abimelech from touching Sarah.
Do not be
deceived! When the world tells you to “follow your heart,” it is not advice
from God. God says this about your heart in Jeremiah 17:9-10a: “The heart is
more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it? I
the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind ...”
God has the
cure for your heart issues. In Christ, God promises this: “I will give them a
heart to know Me, for I am the LORD, and they will be My people, and I will be
their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart” (Jeremiah 24:7).
Pray Genesis
20:6 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful
watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD,
You know ________ and my heart.
Please
keep us from sinning against You.
Do not
let us touch what we should not.
In Your
name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN
on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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