How to Guard Your Heart | Bible Study on Guarding Your Heart
proverbs chapter 4 verse 23 says above all else guard your heart for everything
you do flows from it I think for a long time I would read
this verse and I would just think that I need to guard my heart from everyone I
have a huge issue with trusting people and so I kind of used to think that this
scripture was just saying guard yourself put up a wall kind of block people out I
don't know that's the verse of the day on my Bible app today and I just really
want to study it because I'm reading it again and I'm just thinking I'm pretty
sure that's not what the Word of God is trying to say so I'm just going to write
it out okay so I think one of the main words in the scripture is a guard and
the scripture is saying above all so we need to put guarding our hearts before
everything but what does the Bible really mean about guard so the
definition of guard is in order to protect or control so how do we keep
watch over our heart so one thing comes to mind is by being careful of those
that we are around the people that you spend the most time with are the ones
that usually develop habits from and start to behave like so for example if
you have an issue with I don't know smoking cigarettes and you want to quit
but you have a lot of friends that smoke cigarettes and you hang out with them
all the time it's hard to quit that habit if you are spending time with
people who participate in that habit and now I'm not saying that you can't be
friends with people that are not Christians I have tons of friends people
who are not Christians that's not what I'm saying at all I'm just saying that
the people who you surround yourself with tend to rub off on you whether you
realize it or not especially if you spend a lot of time with them so just be
really mindful of the people that you spend a lot of time with I think the
biggest thing to think about when it comes to keeping watch over our hearts
is what are we feeding more are we feeding our flesh more or are we feeding
our spirit if you feed your spirit more then you will tend to act more like
Jesus because if you think about it when you read the word and listen to sermon
and get into the Bible more it's kind of like you're hanging out with God you
know you're hanging out with the Holy Spirit and that goes back to being
mindful of who we surround ourselves with when you feed your flesh more so
you know when we're not really into the word and praying and studying the Bible
at least I could only speak for myself I feel it well when I am in the word and
feeding my spirit I just tend to make better decisions I tend to say things
that are more christ-like rather than things that are more worldly and I just
have a lot more control over my thoughts in my actions when I'm in the word more
and I'm feeding my spirit more so whichever one you feed more is what will
grow when you feed your spirit more then you can make decisions more based off of
the Holy Spirit and how your heart would you feel like you know God is trying to
impress on your heart God gives us a free will for a reason and he wants us
to get closer to him and study the word and get to know him better so that we
can have the Holy Spirit to guide us this makes me think of Galatians 5:18
but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law I just like to refer
to this verse if we are led by the Spirit we are not under the law if you
are truly led by the spirit and truly feeding your spirit with God's Word he
will guide you into the way that you should go I think if anyone wants to
discover what it is that they want what it is that they that God wants them to
do in their life get into the word and follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit
and he will definitely guide you into that so back to this original verse
above all else guard your heart so keep watch over your heart by doing these
things for everything you do flows from it
so our heart really harbors our thoughts and our thoughts become our words so
that just comes back to this what are you feeding more are you feeding your
spirit more or are you feeding your flesh more if you're feeding your spirit
more than those spirit-led actions that will be shown with the decisions that
you make but if you're feeding your flesh more that would also be shown with
the decisions that you make everything that you do
flows from whatever you're feeding your heart with so going back to my original
thought process of guarding my heart not letting anyone in not trusting people
pushing everyone away putting up walls that's definitely not what the scripture
is talking about at all and that just goes to show how sometimes we can read
scripture and very innocently take it and have it you know think that it means
one thing when it probably actually means something else so I know that this
study was pretty quick today but I hope you enjoyed it anyway thank you so much
for always watching and I will see you next time bye