STEADFAST HEART

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Key Verses

  • Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast1 spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 NKJV
  • Oh, that my ways were steadfast2  in obeying your decrees! Psalm 119:5 NIV
  • When he arrived and saw the grace of God [that was bestowed on them], he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with an unwavering heart to stay true and devoted to the LordActs 11:23 AMP
  • Therefore, your hearts are to be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as [you are doing] today.” 1 Kings 8:61 AMP

Other versions

  • Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right and steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 AMP

How?

  • Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they do not make you useless nor unproductive in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. … Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choice of you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. 2 Peter 1:5-8,10-11 NASB

GOD Changes Hearts

  • The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes. Proverbs 21:1 NKJV
Examples 

  • As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day. 1 Samuel 10:9 BSB
  • Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him. 1 Samuel 10:26 BSB

GOD's Promise

  • Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them. Ezekiel 36:26-27 AMP

GOD's Reward

  • For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. 2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV
Other versions
 
  • For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth so that He may support those whose heart is completely His. 2 Chronicles 16:9 AMP

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Footnotes

  1. 3559 כּוּן [kûn] \koon\ A primitive root; properly to be erect (that {is} stand perpendicular);. hence (causatively) to set {up} in a great variety of {applications} whether literal ({establish} fix6 {prepare} {apply}) or figurative ({appoint} render {sure} proper or prosperous): - certain ({-ty}) {confirm} {direct} {faithfulness} {fashion} {fasten} {firm} be {fitted} be {fixed} {frame} be {meet} {ordain} {order} {perfect} (make) {preparation} prepare ({self}) {provide} make {provision} ({be} make) {ready} {right} set ({aright} {fast} {forth}) be {stable} (e-) {stablish} {stand} {tarry} X very deed.
  2. 3559 כּוּן [kûn] \koon\ A primitive root; properly to be erect (that {is} stand perpendicular);. hence (causatively) to set {up} in a great variety of {applications} whether literal ({establish} fix6 {prepare} {apply}) or figurative ({appoint} render {sure} proper or prosperous): - certain ({-ty}) {confirm} {direct} {faithfulness} {fashion} {fasten} {firm} be {fitted} be {fixed} {frame} be {meet} {ordain} {order} {perfect} (make) {preparation} prepare ({self}) {provide} make {provision} ({be} make) {ready} {right} set ({aright} {fast} {forth}) be {stable} (e-) {stablish} {stand} {tarry} X very deed.