Your heart is you (Prov.27:19) – you are not what you do, have done, look like, dream – you cannot change many things, but you can change your heart
Your heart determines the quality of your life (Prov.4:23; Luke 6:45) – your heart is the soil – you eat the fruits that grow on your ground
The Role of the Heart
Your heart is the soil where relationships grow In relationship with God (1 Sam.16:7) – as much as you cannot see my heart that is how God cannot see anything but your heart; heart not lined up with actions & words (Mt.15:8-9); people pleasers cannot take care of their heart (sofa or bed) In relationship with others In relationship with self (Prov.14:30)
Protect Your Soil
Your response to what happens to you makes your heart
We protected the soil in Ukraine
What is your heart made of?
Everything in life affects you: you have a choice to accept it or reject it
Quality of soil
Rock – things that the devil throws at you through others; unforgiveness; envy; anger, worry, fear
Seeds – sin is small in size but damaging in result; invisible in the ground
Sun – hide under God’s shadow (Ps.91:1)
Quality of life
Seed – life without relationship with God, others & self is like empty ground
