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Victory In Your Heart – Do NOT Build Walls

“Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.”

- Proverbs 4:23 NET

We can learn what someone is saying by what is said AND what is NOT being said. Notice that this verse is saying to “guard” your heart, not to build walls around your heart. Guarding our hearts means examining everything that comes and allowing the good in. Putting walls up stops EVERYTHING from coming, including the things that our hearts need.

Have you ever met someone who has walls around their heart? Have you ever been the person with walls around their heart? I can answer YES to both questions. I can say from experience that it is not a good place to be. When walls are present around someone’s heart, fear is behind that wall.

Fear Keeps Us Trapped

Fear and walls work together. Walls are meant to keep EVERYTHING on two different sides. Whatever is in when the wall is built will be trapped inside until the wall is broken down. Also, whatever is outside the wall when the wall is built, will be stuck outside unless the wall is broken down.

Trapped in the Heart

We all have experienced pain in the past. I can say “ALL” because this world is filled with imperfect people, and we hurt each other from time to time. If we are holding on to pain, bitterness, and resentment, we must let it go. If we build a wall, the pain, bitterness, and resentment will never leave.

Stuck Outside the Heart

God has joy, peace, and healing for us. He has happily provided it through His Son Jesus, and He wants us to have it. However, when walls are present, they will stay stuck outside our hearts. It is not that it is not available; walls prevent it from coming in. One thing God won’t do is force Himself on anyone.

Get in the Word

“Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If your heart is open to hear my voice and you open the door within, I will come into you and feast with you, and you will feast with me.”

- Revelation 3:20 TPT

It is time to start knocking down the walls around your heart. Get in the Word to see what He has to say about what you are holding on to. You may also have to talk to your pastor, friends, or even a professional Christian counselor. Do whatever you must do to let Him in.

You can have victory in your heart.

Confession Today

“I will not continue to build walls around my heart. Today I will get in the Word to see what God says about the pain I feel. I will allow His life to enter my heart.”