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Keep Your Heart

Thus guard your heart
Take steps to ensure
‘Tis not overtaken
By those things, impure.

To bring hope, facing trials
Temptations and testing
God’s Spirit in us
Protecting, perfecting.

May our wants and our will
Be in line, with the Lord
Lest our hearts become hard
And resentments, are stored.

Get rid of the junk
In your mind and heart
Wrong thoughts and motives
That mar, tear apart.

Yes, be an encourager
With a Barnabus heart
All are called to encourage
Not criticize, tear apart.

So dear saint, do not focus
On outer flaws, your external
Know God searches hearts
‘Tis our soul, that’s eternal.

Are you caught up with ‘life’
Desires of the flesh
Deceived by the devil
Let this world enmesh?

In exchange for your sin
He will give you, His Spirit
Be discontented, no longer
Yield your life, He will fill it.

Deeper, yet deeper
Drawn deeper still more
Am so devoted, desirous
Of Your presence, O Lord.

Before God, none condemns us
Nor separates, from His love
O, hallelujah His salvation
Ever sealed, from above.