Bible Dictionary: The Heart: should be Prepared to God

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Great Voices from Heaven
... It was fitting that the road for such a coming should be prepared. ... Christ must come
to the heart before the heart can be prepared for His coming. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/great voices from heaven.htm

Psalm x.
... lest their punishment be too burdensome to Him, or lest He should be disturbed ... the
heart, of which it is sung in another Psalm, "My heart is prepared, O God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm x.htm

A Knowledge of God
... We should then enjoy a rest of soul to which many ... nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/steps to christ/chapter 10 a knowledge of.htm

How the Apostle Maintains that Christ is the Power of God and the ...
... into the heart of man, what God hath prepared for them ... any man see, or the ear hear,
or the heart imagine this; viz., that the Lord of glory should be born ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter x how the apostle.htm

How, While the Whole Heart is Employed in Sacred Love, yet one May ...
... measure of glory which the divine Providence has prepared for him ... the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, shall be ... in love, in this mortal life there should be many ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii how while the.htm

The Holy Spirit.
... manifestation of God should come. He would be "sent from the Father;" the Savior
would "shed him forth;" he should be the possession of every heart prepared by ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/the holy spirit.htm

Preface to the First Edition.
... eye hath seen nor ear heard, nor heart of man conceived the happiness prepared for
God's ... Should the worshipper of mammon, on perusing these pages, pause in ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/preface to the first edition.htm

Of Certain Other Means by which we May Apply Our Works More ...
... He lifted up his heart to God, and reflected ... of Divine Providence, this scourge was
prepared and determined for his ... that in this their scourge he should take a ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ix of certain other.htm

How we are to Conform Ourselves to that Divine Will, which is ...
... desires with a true desire that we should do what ... The conformity then of our heart
to the signified will of ... while the Gospel is read, as being prepared to obey ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii how we are.htm

The First Chapter: the Great Reverence with which we Should ...
... with trumpeting and jubilation to the place prepared for it ... life-giving Godhead no
unbecoming thought should arise and no creature possess my heart, for I ...
/.../kempis/the imitation of christ/the first chapter the great.htm