THE SECRET OF GUARDING OUR HEARTS 

Pr. Geoffrey Kibombo

Revelations 3:20-21(NLT) 

“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. 21 Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.

Every person’s heart has a door. The things we see and hear or the people we inhabit in lives affect our response to certain issues like love, forgiveness, hate, bitterness and anger. It's our responsibility to guard our hearts because out of them emanate issues of life (Proverbs 4:23 [NKJV] “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”). Nothing can hurt you unless you open up your heart to it.

Proverbs 4:20-23 (NLT)

“My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. 21 Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, 22 for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. 23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

When you understand this mystery, you can be able to make successful spiritual warfare, because always the devil will return to check if he still has a place in your heart but he will find his house closed up. Mathew 12:43-45(NLT) “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. 45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

Learn to open up your heart to only music, movies, books, conversations, friends and other things that benefit and enrich you. Appraise your life and take out everything that is not beneficial to you, allocate your time to people that can only take you ahead in life.

God bless you as you guard your heart in this year of fruition!