Establishing Your Heart
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Guarding Your Heart
Guarding Your Heart
20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.
Proverb 4:20
says, Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life (NLT).
Why must we guard our heart?
Why must we guard our heart?
Because your heart is extremely valuable.
Because your heart is extremely valuable.
We don’t guard worthless things. I take my garbage to the street every Monday night. It is picked up on Tuesday morning. It sits on the sidewalk all night, completely unguarded. Why? Because it is worthless.
Not so with your heart. It is the essence of who you are. It is your authentic self—the core of your being. It is where all your dreams, your desires, and your passions live. It is that part of you that connects with God and other people.
Notice that it doesn't say somebody else will guard your heart. It doesn't say God will guard your heart, your neighbor will guard your heart or your pastor will guard your heart. It says you need to guard your heart.
This is why Solomon says, “Above all else.” He doesn’t say, “If you get around to it” or “It would be nice if.” No, he says, make it your top priority.
Notice that it doesn't say somebody else will guard your heart. It doesn't say God will guard your heart, your neighbour will guard your heart or your pastor will guard your heart. It says you need to guard your heart.
Because your heart is the source of everything you do.
Because your heart is the source of everything you do.
King Solomon says it is the “wellspring of life.” or “spring the issues of Life” In other words, it is the source of everything else in your life. Your heart overflows into thoughts, words, and actions.
“The idea that we can think with our hearts is no longer just a metaphor, but is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. We now know this because the combined research of two or three fields is proving that the heart is the major center of intelligence in human beings.” - Guru Joseph Pearc
Guru Joseph Pearce
Guru Joseph Pearce
science is discovering and catching up with What bible said it 1000’s of years ago.
bible
7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, “Eat and drink!” But his heart is not with you.
3 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Illustration:
Proverb 27:3
about the girl who had heart transplant,
there other who where murdered and person who got their heart identified the killer.
Proverb
Proverb 23:
So when the scripture says “as the man thinks in his heart so is he “ not only embraces whole mans being but its saying in essence of man is literally what he thinks. So His or her Character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. Thoughts are like a seeds that will produce its kind. Every aspect to man springs forth by the seed of thought and couldn’t have appeared without it.
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis
18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
18 “But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. 19 “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. 20 “These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.” 21 Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.
Matthew 15:18
Because your heart is under constant attack.
Because your heart is under constant attack.
Matthew 15:18-21
Because your heart is under constant attack.
Because your heart is under constant attack.
Because your heart is under constant attack.
When Solomon says to guard your heart, he implies that you are living in a war zone—one in which there are casualties.
The Enemy uses all kinds of weapons to attack our heart. These attacks often come in the form of some circumstance that leads to disappointment, discouragement, or even disillusionment. In these situations, we are tempted to quit—to walk off the field and surrender.
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Proverb 23:77
KJV 1900
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
You say you are a by product of your thoughts. Or you can say we become what we think about.
Through out all history, teachers, philosophers, wiseman and prophets disagreed on many things but its only on this truth they all are anonymously in agreement.
you say you are a by product of your thoughts. Or you can say we become what we think about.
Through out all history, teachers, philosophers, wiseman and prophets disagreed on many things but its only on this truth they all are anonymously in agreement.
Roman Emperor Markus Aurelius said this
“ A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson famous Philosopher said this:
“ A man is what he thinks all day long”
James Allen another Philosopher said this
“The greatest discovery human kind made is they can alter their life if they alter their attitude on mind.”
Research from the National Science Foundation found that we have between 12000 and 60000 thoughts per day and that more than 80% of them are repeated daily. We basically keep running the same script daily in our minds day after day and anchor or thoughts further into our destiny.
Research from the National Science Foundation found that we have between 12000 and 60000 thoughts per day and that more than 80% of them are repeated daily. We basically keep running the same script daily in our minds day after day and anchor or thoughts further into our destiny.
How you think daily will determine if you walk in victory or defeat, in love or fear, in health or sickness.
How you think daily will determine if you walk in victory or defeat, in love or fear, in health or sickness.
Heart / mind - very fertile land
You cannot think Negatively and manifest positive results
You cannot think Negatively and manifest positive results
Many think thoughts can be kept secret but it cannot, it rapidly crystallises into habit and habits solidifies into circumstances.
Thi is what Jesus said:
28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.
33 Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers.”
We are not only know this truth but also know that Our LORD empowers us to think higher, because we have the mind of Christ.
Numbers
We are not only know this truth but also know that Our LORD empowers us to think higher, because we have the mind of Christ.
Last we week I said do not let life speak louder than His word.
Last we week I said do not let life speak louder than His word.
Let our thoughts be aligned to His thoughts
Let our thoughts be aligned to His thoughts
First we need to believe and know that we know His word never fails
8 The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah
33 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
Matthew
teaches us how to lift and maintain higher thought life and live victoriously:
Psalm 1 teaches us the secret to living victoriously:
“ The difference between the impossible and the possible is believing you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you”.
David was living with the thoughts of God in his mind, he could say “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” ().
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:
5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
14 A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words, And the deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.
Ephesians
Proverb
2 Corinthians 10:
