05/14/2026
•A Prayer for God to Examine Our Heart and Thoughts•
👉 Search me, God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
(Psalm 139:23-24)
Search me, God and know my heart. To tell God to search us and to know us in the deepest part of our very being is a very bold request indeed. It takes incredible bravery to ask God to do this. It is an asking that will expose every detail, every thought, every emotion and every sin that stands in the way of us living an abundant life. It is an asking that will have results. It is an asking that will change our lives. Truth will be exposed and laid out.
Test me and know my anxious thoughts. The mind is so amazing! It can imagine so many possibilities, dreams and adventures. It can remember details from circumstances decades before. It can create moments of beauty. It can plan, organize and orchestrate a tremendous amount of details such as planning a beautiful wedding, or exploring medical cures.
The mind is also very intricate and can dive into multiple layers of logic, thought and emotion. It travels in an amazing way through thoughts of reason, weighing and discarding poor choices to make better decisions. Our thoughts can also be easily manipulated by our emotions, our tired moments and the stress that life can bring our way.
Our thoughts can become so consuming that we allow them to grow until they take over our intuition, over our judgment, and just about every detail of our lives.
If we truly desire to become closer to the Lord, then we will spend more time in prayer and in studying the Bible, which will cause our thoughts and our lives to be filled with the peace that comes only from God.
See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. If we truly desire to become closer to the Lord, then our hearts will cry out for the Lord to change every offensive way in us. The more the Lord reveals our sins, the more we repent and are cleansed of every offensive feeling, thought and action. This continual action will make us more holy and will make us more like Jesus.
Matthew 7:14 says this:
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Until we are brave enough to allow God to search us, know us, and test our every thought, we will not be ready to be led in the way everlasting.
Let us pray.
✝️ Dear God,
My mind is full of so many thoughts. I am full of fears about things that are happening in the world around me that cause me to worry and to fret. I am full of worry about things that affect my family and friends, that are causing heartache in their hearts and lives. I am full of busy thoughts of how to improve certain situations, things I must remember to complete on my to-do list. Lord, examine my heart and thoughts. Please calm down the thoughts that are causing me anxiety. Lord, please help me to make decisions based on peace, instead of panic. Lord, If there are any thoughts that are offensive or that will hurt me or someone else, please remove them so that I can move through my day filled with the thoughts that are pleasing to You. Remove the things from my life that cause me to take my eyes off of You. Lord, lead me in the way that draws me closer to You, that draws me closer to living the life that leads me to the way everlasting. Thank You, Lord. I love You, Lord.
In Jesus' name,
AMEN 🙏
For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
(James 1:23-25)
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
(Jeremiah 17:9-10)
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
(Psalm 143:10)
Let God weigh me on the scales of justice, for he knows my integrity.
(Job 31:6)
I will eagerly pursue your commandments because you continue to increase my understanding.
(Psalm 119:32)
Put me on trial, LORD, and cross-examine me. Test my motives and my heart.
(Psalm 26:2)
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
(Proverbs 28:26)
Lead me in the right path, O LORD, or my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to follow.
(Psalm 5:8)
That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup. For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died. But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way. Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
(1 Corinthians 11:28-32)
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
(Hebrews 12:15-16)
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
(Psalm 143:8)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
(1 John 1:9)
And Peter said to them, “Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
(Acts 2:38)
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
(Proverbs 28:13)
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
(Lamentations 3:40)
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
(James 4:8-10)
Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.
(Acts 3:19)
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
(Colossians 3:2)
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
(2 Corinthians 3:17)
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
(Hebrews 1:3)
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I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
(Galatians 2:20)
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