MATTERS OF THE HEART 

  • Happy Mother’s Day 

 

    • Proverbs 4:20-23 NKJV
  • 20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

 

  • Luke 6:45 NLT - A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

 

  • Luke 6:45 MSG (Work the Words into Your Life) “You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree. The health of the apple (Heart) tells the health of the tree.

 

  • Ephesians 1:3 NKJV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places in Christ.

 

  • Ruth 1  – Ruth (Loyal Servant to her Mother -in-Law Naomi)
  • * The Great Grandmother of King David.   
  • * Loyal, Obedient, Humble, and full of Gratitude.

 

  • Ruth 4:7 NKJV (Boaz Redeems Ruth)  7 Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

 

  • Ruth 4:9-10 NKJV (Boaz Redeems Ruth) “9 …Boaz said, you are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, 10 …Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife…

 

  • Ruth 3 NKJV (Ruth Redemption Assured)

3 Wash and anoint yourself therefore and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

 

  • The Purpose of the Threshing Floor
  • A Place to Wash Yourself.
  • A Place to Anoint Yourself.
    • The Chaff is the unforgiveness, bitterness, strife, rejection, divorce, and Envy. The list goes on…
  • NOTE:  THE GRAIN HAS TO BE BEATEN TO MAKE THE CHAFF FALL OFF; IN OTHER WORDS, IT MEANS WE ARE COMING CLEAN WITH THINGS THAT WE HAVE CARRIED IN OUR HEARTS.  

 

  • Ruth 3:4 But when he lies down, notice the place where he lies; then go and uncover his feet and lie down. And he will tell you what to do. 5 And Ruth said to her, All that you say to me I will do. 6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.

 

  • Jeremiah 51:33 AMPC
  • “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is [being prepared]; yet a little while and the time of harvest shall come to her.”

 

  • Matthew 3:12 (NKJV) 

12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

 

  • Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV

26 I will give you new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

 

  • Galatians 5:1 NKJV

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.





  • The Title Deed
  • …I shall not die, but live, fully satisfied with the Life God has given me,  and I will declare the works of the Lord!

 

  • When I trust in Him, I am free to say whatever needs to be said and bold enough to go wherever I need to go!

 

  • I do not let my present trouble get me down. I am confident and strong in Him.
  • I am a virtuous woman because my standards are high!
  • I am beautiful from the inside out!

 

  • I am a woman to be admired and praised because I fear the Lord!

 

  • Blessed be the Lord, who bears my burdens and carries me day by day, The God who is my salvation. Amen!