3. Check Your Heart

Question 1

Jr 2:13

Answer 1

for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Question 2

Jas 4:1

Answer 2

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Question 3

Jas 4:2

Answer 3

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Question 4

Jas 4:3

Answer 4

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Question 5

Jas 4:4

Answer 5

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Question 6

Jas 4:5

Answer 6

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

Question 7

Jas 4:6

Answer 7

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Question 8

Ps 63:1

Answer 8

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Question 9

Ps 27:4

Answer 9

One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.