You will learn how you can be a person after God's own heart like King David was.  The difference between Judging and Discerning others.  How to discern your heart's true motives and to rightfully divide the word of God.  What is the greatest command.  How to trust God Fully.  The prayer of a man that understands the heart of God.

 

When we truly examine ourselves by examining our motives we will be able to tell if our motives are pure or if there is a hidden agenda.  This is impossible however, to do on our own.  We must ask the Holy Spirit to examine our hearts and to expose any deception that we may be in.  Here are some synonyms of examine: Inspect, scrutinize, study, observe, scan and check.  The word of God tells us that we are not to judge others but that we are to judge ourselves. 

 

 Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it (RSV)? 

 

1 Corinthians 11:31 - But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged.

 

Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

The above verse is telling us that if there is ever a question about what we are doing or about to do is “of the flesh” or “of the spirit”; that we can look to God and His Word for discernment.   The Word of God will help us to rightly divide the thoughts and intents of our heart.  

 

One day I was invited, by a friend, to go see a Mighty man of God speak at a hotel in Dallas.  I live close to Dallas and decided to meet my friend at the hotel so I could attend the conference with him.  The man of God and his wife are recognized throughout the Evangelical community for teaching believers to stand on the Word of God and to apply it to every day life.  While this man of God was speaking, I seemed to get lost in my thoughts as we sometimes do during a service.  The scripture where the lawyer asks Jesus, what the great commandment is, started to bubble up in my heart.  Jesus answered him, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God; the Lord is One, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength', and a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend the Law (Torah) and the prophets."

 

It suddenly hit me.  Here I am, a believer in God and confessed Jesus as Lord, but…