The term heart occurs over 800 times in scripture, in a figurative sense like finding strength, acquiring lasting motivation, courage, conviction, certainly all by-products of receiving God's Holy Spirit. The uncircumcised and hard heart of Pharaoh is contrasted with a new heart equipped to live by God's Holy Spirit, able to keep His holy and spiritual laws—the antonym of flesh. The term heart encompasses intellect, emotions, and will, all of which we must keep in perfect balance to graduate from being slaves of sin to become slaves of righteousness and offspring of Almighty God. Only through motivation from the heart can we resist the satanic powers pervasive in the world's culture, whose churches despise God's commandments. The apostle Paul emphasized wholeness of heart, mind and will. Emphasizing exclusively the intellect, the emotions, or the will is only partially exposing us to unnecessary scriptural dichotomies and only partial responses to God's truth. Only by combining the head, heart, and will can we attain full growth and maturity, godly character, and a mirror image of Jesus Christ. God admonishes us not only to hear the truth, but to practice the truth, harnessing mind, heart and will to develop His mind and character in the composite personality in the life-long sanctifying process.