The relationship between your thoughts and your heart is the difference between your search bar and the results you get when you hit enter. If you choose to fill your mind with selfishness, lust, greed, and envy then it won’t be long until those things penetrate your heart. Once you’ve developed these patterns in your heart, your actions will follow. But if you want a different track in life, if you want to hit pause and start over, you must learn to guard your heart. In this week’s message, Pastor Sean talks about what it looks like to guard your heart and why it’s so important to do so.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOUR HEART ARE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR SEARCH BAR AND THE RESULTS. WHAT YOU TYPE INTO THE SEARCH BAR WILL DETERMINE THE OPTIONS THAT COME FROM THE FEED.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
    and desperately wicked.
    Who really knows how bad it is?

Isaiah 5:20

What sorrow for those who say
    that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
    that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

What Can We Do About It?

Guard Your Heart

Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else,
    for it determines the course of your life.

Why?

  • If your heart is corrupt, your life is corrupt.
  • If your heart is healthy, your life will be healthy.

Luke 6:45

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

“Your heart doesn’t want what it wants. Your heart wants what you feed it.”

Proverbs 4:24-27

Avoid all perverse talk;
    stay away from corrupt speech.

25 Look straight ahead,
    and fix your eyes on what lies before you.
26 Mark out a straight path for your feet;
    stay on the safe path.
27 Don’t get sidetracked;
    keep your feet from following evil.

APPLICATION:

Work to fix your heart.

Proverbs 21:2-3

People may be right in their own eyes,
    but the Lord examines their heart.

The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just
    than when we offer him sacrifices.

“God doesn’t want your apology as much as he wants your heart. Heart drives behavior.” 

  1. Mark Out A Straight Path
  2. Set boundaries for yourself to protect you from the things that sidetrack you.