Guard Your Heart
PROVERBS 4:23 NLT
“GUARD YOUR HEART ABOVE ALL ELSE, FOR IT DETERMINES THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE.”
BODY: (SOMA). Physical part of your being. The New Testament also calls it FLESH, which God tells us has an ongoing appetite for sin.
The BODY: IS THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN. God formed it out of the ground and gave it 5 senses to navigate and interact with the physical world
TASTE—TOUCH—SEE—SMELL—HEAR
SOUL: (PSUCHE). MIND—WILL—EMOTIONS. It’s where your CONSCIENCE AND PERSONALITY ARE FORMED. The center where we process all our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and decisions.
SPIRIT: (PNEUMA). The HEART OF A PERSON; the central core of who a person is
HARDENED HEART—DECEIVED HEART—LUSTFUL HEART—COVETOUS HEART—WOUNDED HEART—OFFENDED HEART—PRIDEFUL HEART all working to form an EVIL HEART…
EZEKIEL 11:19 THE LIVING BIBLE (TLB)
“I WILL GIVE YOU ONE HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT; I WILL TAKE FROM YOU YOUR HEARTS OF STONE AND GIVE YOU TENDER HEARTS OF LOVE FOR GOD…”
ACTS 13:22 NLT
“But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whose God said, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART. HE WILL DO EVERYTHING I WANT HIM TO DO.’”
HOW DID DAVID KEEP HIS HEART AFTER GOD HIS WHOLE LIFE?
1. HEART OF WORSHIP
PSALM 111:1 ESV
“Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my WHOLE HEART, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.”
PSALM 150:1-6 ESV
“Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise Him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!”
PSALM 95:6-7 NKJV
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.”
PSALM 92:1-2 NKJV
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness every night…”
PSALM 134:2 NKJV
“Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord!”
JOHN 4:23 NKJV
“BUT THE HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH; FOR THE FATHER IS SEEKING SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM.”
HOW DID DAVID KEEP HIS HEART AFTER GOD HIS WHOLE LIFE?
1. HEART OF WORSHIP
2. HEART OF TRUST
PROVERBS 3:5-6 NKJV
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
1 SAMUEL 17:45-47 NKJV
“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.’”
HOW DID DAVID KEEP HIS HEART AFTER GOD HIS WHOLE LIFE?
1. HEART OF WORSHIP
2. HEART OF TRUST
3. HEART OF GENEROSITY
1 CHRONICLES 29:3-4 NLT
“And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple. I am donating more than 112 tons of gold from Ophir and 262 tons of refined silver to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings…”
DAVID GAVE: 3 billion, 950 thousand DOLLARS’ WORTH OF GOLD (35,273 ounces per ton).
348 million, 460 THOUSAND DOLLARS’ WORTH OF SILVER
1 CHRONICLES 29:10-14 NKJV
“Therefore David blessed the Lord before all the assembly; and David said: ‘Blessed are You, Lord God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty; for all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and You are exalted as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You.’”
1 CHRONICLES 29:17 NKJV
“I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You.”
HOW DID DAVID KEEP HIS HEART AFTER GOD HIS WHOLE LIFE?
1. HEART OF WORSHIP
2. HEART OF TRUST
3. HEART OF GENEROSITY
4. HEART OF REPENTANCE
PSALM 51:2-12 NKJV
“Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
PSALM 51:17 NKJV
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise.”
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