We Are To Guard Our Hearts

 There is an intensity and urgency in this earnest pleading to guard your heart about all else, and in Scripture, the heart is the seat of the thoughts, the will, the conscience, and the emotions. The heart is the storehouse for wisdom and all that influences the life and character of an individual, and Jesus reminds us that we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with every part of our inner being. We have been endowed with reason and choices, with emotions and a will, which is bound up in our hearts - and we have been given them by God to glorify Him and to enrich our lives.
 These days, the world's cry is to let your heart lead you into whatever your heart desires. But the heart is more deceitful than anything else, and unless checked and guarded above all things, will influence our lives, evil and not for good. Yes, We Are To Guard Our Hearts as the highest priority, guarded above all else.
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, we want to guard our hearts above all things. Search our hearts and know our thoughts, and see if there is any wicked ways in us. Lord, we know that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. May we not follow our own hearts, but always be guided into the path of righteousness by You. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.