CULTIVATE A HEART AFTER GOD

Acts 13:22

“After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’”

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil  [a] treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Matthew 12:34

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

I. CULTIVATING A HEART OF WORSHIP

John 4:23-24

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Deuteronomy 6:5

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

Psalm 86:11–12

“Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart.”

Acts 13:22

After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’

Psalm 63:1–4

“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.”

2 Samuel 6:14

“Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might.”

Psalm 100:1-4

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his [a] ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Matthew 4:10

“Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.”

Romans 12:1

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”

Ezekiel 36:26

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.”