Fast 2026 - Day 13

What’s In Your Heart?

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil.  For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Here our heart is seen as a treasure chest; and our words help us to recognize the treasure that we have filled our hearts with—either good or bad.  What we have stored up in our hearts is heard in our speech!
 
Words carry creative power—the power of life and death.  The words we speak are capable of building up or tearing down.  Our words are seeds and every word we speak plants something in our lives or in the lives of others.  Every spoken word will grow into a future harvest of either positive (life, faith, joy, healing, hope, etc) or negative (hurt, doubt, poison, death, discouragement, etc) outcomes.  The life we are living now is the harvest of words we spoke in the past and the words we speak today will bring forth a harvest in our future.  Our words affect our destinies and our words affect others—either for good or for bad!
James 3 speaks about the power of our words and that growing up into spiritual maturity and godly character requires that we learn to control our tongues!  He says that the tongue is a fire!  It can be compared to the sum total of wickedness and is the most dangerous part of our body—unable to be tamed!  He says that with our tongues we praise God and then we turn around and curse people—this should not be!  The Word also says in Matthew 15:11, 18-19 that what goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, for what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart.  It is in our hearts that our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, doubts, fears, hatred, etc. are stored up and that treasure produces fruit.
 
It is our words that reveal the true condition of our hearts, so today let’s examine our words and really look at our heart’s condition.  God tells us we can be sure that we will be held accountable for every word we have spoken.  God takes our speech seriously and so should we.
 
Holy Spirit, search us today and reveal what is hidden in our hearts.  Let there be no wicked way in us—no hidden sin, and like Isaiah who stood in Your holy presence and was overcome by the fear of the Lord because of the sins of his mouth—we also cry out Father forgive us for we have sinned with our words!  Forgive every wrong word, every idle word, every lie, every word of doubt and unbelief, every unkind, slanderous, profane word, every curse and accusation that has come out of our mouths; we have sinned!  Let every ungodly word lose its power today and become null and void.  Cleanse our lips; may the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable to You O Lord our God.  In Jesus name we pray, Amen!