What's in Your Heart?

We are having a Bible Study each Saturday with different groups of kids from our group homes. This week we talked about Psalm 139 and how God knows everything about us because He made us. We talked about the fact that no person can know all that we think or do or feel, but God does. God loves us with the good and the bad. We looked especially at the last verse where David asks God to search his heart... show him what he needed to change, depend on God for and show him the way to go to follow God.


The kids then took a few minutes to think through what was in their heart that day. Were they afraid of something, worried about something, upset, sad, happy... was Jesus in their heart? They wrote several things down and then we prayed that God would show us how to let our hearts be filled with Him and to help us trust Him with the other things we find in our hearts each day.

The kids were more honest than a room full of adults would be... they shared the things that made them sad, if they were happy, if they were upset with someone and more. Several wrote that in their heart was love for God because He loved them so much. It showed once again that there is often unknown pain in the hearts of those we come in contact with each day, that we can either help with or make worse. Pray that in the lives of these we are called to love and invest in that we would be healing, encouraging and pointing them towards the one that knows them best of all... their Creator.

It was a sweet time with the kids this week. Please continue to pray for our time together each week, as we share from God's word together and go a little deeper each time with the kids. Pray that hearts will be softened, that truth will take hold and that many will come to know Christ in a personal way as they look into His word.