MIND

HEART STRENGTH

What do you love the most?

KING DAVID

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

— Acts 13:22

2 Samuel 6:1-15

David longed for the presence of God

in His Life

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

— Psalm 42:1-2

One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.

—Psalm 27:4

The Bible is a means of

APPLYING & PRESERVINGthe presence of God in my life.

Lazy approach to God?

God cares about the details.

PRECEPTSPRINCIPLES

PRECEPTSClearly Defined

Guidelines for Living.

PRINCIPLESFundamental Truths about How Life Should be Lived.

A person after God’s heart delights in the

precepts and principles of God’s Word.

When you seek the heart of God

YOU GAINa heart of joy.

God’s Heart is OurMost Worthy Goal.

“O that we may love our Bibles more, and keep closer to them than ever! And then shall we find the benefit and advantage designed thereby, and shall at last attain the happiness therein promised and assured to us."

—Matthew Henry

Duty > Desire > Delight

There is no such thing as instant maturity.

Read Psalm 119 two times.

Examine the little things.

Journal a page a day.

Action Steps: