A Scripture and a Prayer: “Don’t Trust Your Heart”

“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered.” (Proverbs 28:26)

Prayer:

Lord, help me not trust in my heart on what matters, because, as You state, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and the only one who truly knows it is You. Your word also states that whatever we value most in this life, is what we will find our hearts dwelling upon. Lord, I know that within me nothing good exists, because there is no one who is good, and there is no one who is righteous but You. Therefore, Lord, help break my heart with what breaks Your heart. Help me to walk in Your wisdom and in Your ways, and it is only then that my heart will line up with Yours, and it is only then that I can trust my heart in this world that is out to steal it. And this I ask in Jesus’s name. AMEN