Proverbs 16: 2 All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord . Proverbs 21:2 A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” Dear Lord, Our heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Thank you for actively searching and examining our heart and mind and renewing them by the washing of the water in your word. Help us to understand your word in Titus 3:5 that it is not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to your mercy you saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. We pray as in James 4: 7 that we will actively choose to s ubmit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from us. May your Spirit