Healthy New Year
Lesson 2: Healthy Heart –Open Flow
January 9, 2022
BC Warren
Your Life is FLOWING From Your HEART
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it. God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 4:23 …for everything you do flows from it. New International Version
Proverbs 4:23 …for it determines the course of your life. New Living Translation
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? New International Version
Mark 7:21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person. New International Version
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. New International Version
Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” New International Version
2 Corinthians 5:17 When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun! Living Bible
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. New American Standard Bible
Galatians 5:22-23 …things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life… The Message
John 7:38 “The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” New American Standard Bible
A Healthy Heart Produces an Open Hand
Genesis 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.” New International Version
Genesis 13:10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah). New International Version
Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. New International Version
Genesis 13:14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever… 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” New International Version
The Two Most Common Ways to Protect Our Heart
Give People Your Forgiveness
Proverbs 18:19 It is harder to win back the friendship of an offended brother than to capture a fortified city. His anger shuts you out like iron bars. Living Bible
Give God Your Hurts, Failures, Fears, and Frustrations
Philippians 4:6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don’t forget to thank him for his answers. Living Bible
Philippians 4:7 If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. Living Bible