Tag: Bible verses about God giving us a new heart

Bible Verse of The Day – 2-10-24

Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV) 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

To keep, is to cause to continue in a specified condition, position, course, etc. It means to have or retain possession of.

Diligence means careful and persistent work or effort.

So, keeping our heart with all diligence is simply conditioning ourselves with His word to continue to be doing the things of God with every bit of our heart.

Knowing His word will cause us to be more aware of what God would want us to do regarding any given situation, even keeping us at times from sinning against Him.

Psalm 119:11 (NKJV) 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

Everything we say, we think, or do comes from our heart.

If our heart constantly remains in the same condition that it was in before we met Christ, we will still think, talk and do wrongly. It will continue to defile us.

Matthew 15:18-19 (NKJV) 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

As we become a believer, we have to make every effort to learn God’s way. We must be taught. And we must let it take root and fix that heart of stone.

Keeping our heart right by staying connected with God’s word will help us to do the very things that bring life and goodness to ourselves and others around us.

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-11-23

Matthew 13:15 (NKJV) 15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’

Jesus said that the hearts of the people had grown dull.

Another way of saying this would be that their hearts had become calloused.

If something is callous, it is hardened and thickened. It is tough to penetrate.

So it can be with the heart.

In an effort to protect ourselves, we try to turn off our feelings. If we are not careful, not only do we shield ourselves from those who irritate, hurt or stress us out, but also from those we care about the most.

Sometimes we don’t even realize it; we can’t see it or feel it.

But we can recognize it if we are aware that it happens and we pay attention. It will show up in how we hear and see things.

Our actions will prove the state of our heart.

Having a dull heart will keep us blinded toward seeing the things God may be showing us, and deaf from the things God would be speaking to us.

It will keep us from receiving His understanding when we need it most.

We can develop such a heart if we don’t get in God’s word and stay open to His teachings or chastening at times.

We need to develop a heart that is sensitive to Him and calloused to the tactics of the enemy.

It’s His word speaking to us that will keep us sensitive to hear and see and have understanding. But we have to read it in order for it to be effective in getting rid of the dull, calloused and hardened heart.

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

Are we walking around today with a hard, calloused and dull heart? His Word will fix it, provided we listen and make the necessary changes.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
49 N Lamplighters Walk 
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-15-20

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

This verse in the Old Testament is very symbolic of the new birth, made available to us through the blood of Jesus Christ.

As we recognize our lost and sinful condition, and we ask God to forgive us and make us new through Jesus, He makes us a new creation in Christ.

Part of that new creation is a new heart. A heart that is soft and pliable. God takes our heart of stone and replaces it with a heart of flesh.

Most of us think of this as a one-time event. It happens as we become a child of God, and then that’s it. We move on.

This isn’t necessarily true, though. Because once our heart is replaced, soft and new, hardness will try to creep in again over time.

Sometimes things we face, situations that are difficult or hard to bear, can cause us to become hard or angry. And before we know it, that soft heart that we were given starts to become hard again.

But, as we are diligent to go to God and seek His counsel, repent and ask for His forgiveness, He softens it for us in whatever areas where it might have started to become hard again.

It’s up to us to make sure we recognize when it might be getting hard, so we can let Him touch it and restore it for us.

So, as we “work out our salvation with fear and trembling”, let’s be sure to keep tabs on the condition of our heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-14-18 – The Heart

The Heart - Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of Jesus. 

God is in the heart-changing business. He takes broken, uncaring hearts and changes them to warm, loving hearts that are pliable and teachable. He does this a little at a time, teaching us how to become mature in our walk with Him. 

We have just published a new video on this topic. We called it “The Heart”. 

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God will not force us to surrender our heart to Him. Instead, He will show us a little at a time what He wants to change, and then He will wait for us to allow Him to help us change. 

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The important thing is that we actually do surrender to Him and let Him make the changes He wants to make. 

Please take a few minutes and see what God has to say about our heart in this short video. 

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Be blessed in all you do. 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808 

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-1-17

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

Salvation in Jesus Christ comes with His new Spirit and a change in our heart.

It doesn’t happen as fast as we probably would like it to, but if we stick with Him and let Him train us up, it will change over time.

Have we ever met someone who we know is sincere in what they say and do? You can tell they truly are sincere. You can almost see it in them, without them even saying a word. It is written all over them through their actions. People are like a magnet to this type of character.

That’s the character Christ wants for each one of us. He wants our actions to draw people in, and once they are curious and convinced that we are sincere, they will listen to what we say.

A sincere, kindhearted person will draw people in. It is then that we can show them the One who brought this change to our hardened heart of stone.

Be sincere in what we do and let our kindness show through our words and our actions. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-18-17

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

Stone is very HARD. It doesn’t give. It doesn’t flex. You can’t squeeze it, you can’t bend it, you can’t stretch it. It is what it is.

The only way to change the shape and size of a stone is to crush it or break it.

You see, our hearts without Christ are hard as stone. We can tell by the way we act and think. Our attitudes show us our heart condition.

We may say, “well, I’m kind and giving. Oh and I do love people. Sometimes I go out of my way for others. I even give to charitable organizations. I would say that makes me a good person with a good heart”.

Even though we may do these types of things all day long, it still does not change our heart condition in God’s eyes. The only One who can bring a complete change to our hard heart is Jesus Christ. His Spirit living in us will change us forever.

Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

With God’s spirit dwelling in us, our hearts become soft, pliable and teachable. And over time, the desires of our heart will become One with Him.

God is calling for a people that will surrender their hearts completely to Him, so that He may show them a deeper love and a closer walk.

John 4:23 (NKJV) 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible verse of The Day – 1-27-16

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a 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.

We desperately need a change of heart in this world today.

God is the only one that can do this. We cannot work for this. We cannot pay money for this. We cannot fake this or pretend we have this. It comes only from God.

How do we get this kind of heart? How do we get rid of our heart of stone and have it replaced with a heart of flesh? How do we get a heart that’s rich and flowing in the things of God?

How do we get a heart that is loving, kind, full of wisdom and understanding, compassionate, forgiving, caring, and that trusts Him to lead us in everyday life?

We enter into to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son. We talk to Him. We spend time with Him. We put Him first. And we inquire of Him and His thoughts and plans toward us each day.

He becomes our best friend. We trust Him with our life, our decisions and our concerns. He becomes our guidance each day. Not just on Sunday or Wednesday or when there is a crisis. But every minute of every day.

We give over to Him our greatest valuables and possessions. They become meaningless to us.

Our love for Him becomes so strong and real that we can’t stand to be away from Him or His presence at any given time. We yearn to please Him.

Ezekiel 36:27 (NKJV) 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

He does this for us as we give Him our heart of stone. He breaks it down and gives us a new heart, flowing with a river of living waters. Everywhere we step foot with Christ living in us, we bring life, happiness, peace and JOY!!

John 7:38 (NKJV) 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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