- Question: Have you ever gotten bad advice?
- Follow your heart
Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV) // The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) // Above all else, Guard your heart, For everything you do flows from it
- Feelings aren't a fruit of the Spirit.
Psalm 22:1-2 // My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest.
- Scripture calls David the “man after God’s own heart.”
- YET
Psalm 22:3-5 (NIV) // Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
To you they cried out and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
- The goal isn’t to NOT FEEL, but to remember the YET in the midst of the feelings.
- The heart to follow is the Heart of God
Psalm 51:10 // Create in me a pure heart, O God
- Acknowledge the places you’ve allowed feelings to take the place of faith.
- Guard your heart
- Find the heart of God
Psalm 51:17 (NIV) // My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise
- Being broken isn’t bad. It’s the start of healing.
