The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“I the LORD search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
—Jeremiah 17:9-10 (ESV)
O LORD, who searches my heart,
Show me my heart and reveal the true motives in my mind, so that I won’t be led astray by any deceitfulness within me.
Help me to understand that to trust my heart is to trust in man—and that You have warned me against trusting in man. Help me to put all my trust in You alone!
Heal my heart and purify my mind, so that Your thoughts and ways will be made known to me and reflected in all my thoughts, words, and actions.
May love be my only motive for the choices I make—love for You and love for others—so that Your perfect will for me would be accomplished, and Your goodness and mercy would overtake me.
Show me my heart and reveal the true motives in my mind, so that I won’t be led astray by any deceitfulness within me.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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