The Holy Spirit this morning in my communion time with Him reminded me of the importance of us guarding our hearts and asked me to share again this truth as many of you are facing this situation presently of being required to commit your hearts to people and events which have the potential to rob you of the season of fruitfulness before you.

The Lord wants you to relook at the kind of commitments that are being required of you and step back. Then lean on the guidance of the Holy Spirit who is checking you to keep you from much pain and disappointment at the unfaithfulness of men to bring you into offense. Let these words give you grace to come out of what seeks to rob you and place you safely into the plan the Holy Spirit wants you to inherit at the inception of this year in your life.

The Holy Spirit said to remind the Brethren/ Sistren of the primary responsibility we have towards the Lord and that is to guard our hearts. He pointed out to me as I meditated on Proverbs:4 in my fellowship time and as I got to verse:23. which reads So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are.Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.

The importance again of the heart in all things that pertain to Him and our relationship with Him. He emphasized the issue of major priority to guard our hearts and the affections we have within our hearts so that our lives can follow the source of life He Jesus intended for us and not another. Now there are many things the Lord asks us to do and keep but He indicated that the state of the heart will determine what I obey and do regardless of what He speaks to me. This is crucial to my victory in Him.

Now as the Holy Spirit spoke these words to me my attention was focused on the level of security that is arranged and put in place to protect a leader and guard him from attacks or any possible assaults on his life and the Holy Spirit said that must be the priority we give to setting guard over our hearts because that will determine the path we follow.

The issues of life or the source of our life consequences will flow from where our heart is centred whether good or bad and for that reason we need to protect our hearts from deception and committing to people too easily and despising discernment of situations.

He pointed out to me that although it said in John:2.23-25 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Jesus never committed Himself His heart to men’s causes regardless of what they said or committed to do for Him because He knew what they would and could do once He gave His support and approval to them.

He also brought up the incident in Luke:12.13-34 where the man asks Jesus to make his brother divide the inheritance for him and Jesus responded by saying who made me a Judge and Arbitrator for you. Why do you think I will commit my heart to you receiving your inheritance when I don’t know you and what you stand for. We found out from Jesus it was greed.

On the other hand Jesus spoke in both situations that He would support those He chose under the supervision of the Holy Spirit and committed His All to support and help them because they followed Him. You will notice in the Bible that anyone who asked Jesus to follow Him He never committed to them and refused there offer to follow Him, but He chose specifically all those He committed his heart to and never forsook or hurt them but nurtured them with all He possessed and had and we need to be open to the Holy Spirit on who we can commit our hearts to and not just love arbitrarily and commit any part of our heart to everyone who asks.

He reminded me of when people came to me when I ministered in Botswana telling me what they wanted to do for me and my ministry because of the miracles they experienced and how I told the Lord that they would be faithful. This was because they seemed faithful and ready to do with what little they had to help promote the work I was doing. I felt committed in my heart to them to have supernatural provision, prayed and agreed. Then asked the Lord to release the provision and how that had panned out.

They all deserted me once the much resources arrived. They were nowhere to be seen. I learnt my lesson the hard way but the enemy still tries new ventures to get our heart’s commitment and we need to be constantly vigilant in guarding our hearts from things and people that rob us which He is bringing to my notice again today. I still have people asking me to commit my heart to their projects to succeed and I just simply say no the Lord is not leading me to commit.

I realize from the Holy Spirit again today the importance of guarding and keeping my heart even with those I chose through the Holy Spirit not to commit my heart to all they say regardless of how faithful they seem to be and have been over time.

The key is the commitment of our hearts to the Lord and His plan so that we are continually walking in the wellspring of life which He alone is. My prayer for you today as you hear and receive these words is to look at your heart commitments to people and ask the Holy Spirit to show you the ones you need to extricate from, the ones you need to review and change the position of being security for them and those you need to walk away from and remove from your heart and the weight and burden they have been to you.

Repent in all situations of committing your heart too easily and ask the Lord to recover your life from the pains, suffering and shame that commitment brought to your life and restore back fruitfulness and blessings back to you in Jesus, Precious Name. Amen.

Have a wonderful time of discovery from the Holy Spirit and celebrate the freedom your heart will experience as you prioritize guarding your heart with all diligence.