Jesus gave us a quick way to examine and correct the attitudes of our hearts.
This video will show you how to do a quick 2 minute attitude test. And how to change your attitude. The test is in the activation at the end of the video.
0:00 What is the True Condition of Your Heart?
2:41 The 4 Attitudes of the Heart
6:21 Activation - Declaration
7:08 2 Minute Attitude of Your Heart Test
In Psalm 26, David is telling God how he tries to live a blameless life and how much he loves God. Yet, he asks God to examine his heart. “Test me and try me,” he says. “Examine my heart and mind.” David knew that we are often unaware of the true condition of our hearts. See Jeremiah 17:9-10.
The attitude of our hearts greatly affects how we think, what we say and what we do.
Jesus gave us a way to quickly test the attitude of our hearts in a parable.
Your heart is the soil in which God’s Word is planted. Isaiah 55:11 assures us that God’s Word never fails; it always produces what God desires.
But the attitude of your heart will determine what God’s Word will produce in you. Parable of the Sower and the Seed.
Mark 4:3-9 TPT
“Consider this: A sower went out to sow.
As he sowed some fell along the beaten path and soon the birds came and ate it.
Some fell onto gravel with no topsoil and quickly sprouted since the soil had no depth.
But when the days grew hot, the sprouts were scorched and withered because they had insufficient roots.
Some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
But some fell onto good, rich soil that kept producing a good harvest. Some yielded thirty, some sixty—and some a hundredfold!”
Jesus is Showing Us The 4 Attitudes of Our Hearts
“The four kinds of soils speak of four kinds of hearts: hard hearts, hollow hearts, half hearts, and whole hearts. With the first soil we see the activity of Satan, the second, that of the flesh, and the third, that of the world. Bearing fruit is never a problem with what is sown but with the soil it falls upon.” (TPT Footnote)
I review Jesus' explanation of the parable.
God’s Word never fails.
Isaiah 55:11
There is always power in God’s Word. But without faith, we can’t receive from God. Our faith is what activates God’s Word in our lives. (See Hebrews 11) James 1:6-8 NIV
Guard Your Heart Proverbs 4:23 NIV
ACTIVATION – Do a 2 Minute Heart Attitude Check
**1st Decide to Live Whole Heartedly for God
Daily Declare This (say it aloud) as a promise and commitment to God:
Today, I choose to live wholeheartedly for You.
I will not let my heart be hard (offended, angry, cold, indifferent, or rebellious.)
I will not allow my Christian life to be an empty, hollow thing. I will be a doer,
not just a hearer of Your Word. I will pursue relationship with You and believers.
I won’t be half-hearted - distracted by the shiny things of the world or allow
concern and worry to pull me away from You. I will not be double-minded.
My heart is wholly yours. Fill me with your presence, your purpose, and Your love.
2nd Do a Quick “2 Minute” HEART ATTITUDE CHECK several times each day. Set a time. Then do it.
A. Ask yourself:
Am I feeling or acting: hard-hearted, hollow-hearted, half-hearted, or whole-hearted toward Jesus and Father God right now?
*Hard Hearted – Am I feeling: hatred, offended, angry, cold or indifferent, or unforgiving. Am I rebelling against God, intentionally sinning, disobeying God, or resisting what he has told me to do?
*Hollow Hearted – Am I being a casual, passive Christian? Am I a hearer, but not a doer of God’s Word? Do I walk away from God when trouble or persecution comes because of my faith? Do I have a relationship with Jesus?
*Half Hearted – Am I distracted, pursuing human desires instead of God?
For example: pride of life (wanting to be my own god, to do whatever I want), sexual lust, greed, envy, strife and division, selfish ambition, drug abuse, or idolatry (making something greater than God in my life)? See Galatians 5:19-21.
*Whole Hearted – Am I loving God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength? Am I all in! Living for Jesus and receiving His love?
B. Repent and Replace that influence with God.
Mark 12:30 NIV
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
C. Renew Your Mind: Read scripture that promise what you want or need. And let God fill it.
Use this quick test to discover the true condition of your heart. Then Let God fill your deepest desires as you renew your mind with His Word.
“Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.” Romans 12:2 NLT.