#32 – Guard Your Heart (Proverbs 4:23)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 11 September 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23. |
| 0:09.5 | Keep your heart with all vigilance. |
| 0:13.9 | For from it flow the springs of life. |
| 0:17.8 | What a simple command. |
| 0:20.8 | What a significant command that we must heed. Keep your heart with all |
| 0:27.7 | vigilance. We've got to guard our hearts, our affections, our minds, our minds attention, |
| 0:36.6 | our hearts longing, what we focus on. There's a reason why when Jesus |
| 0:41.9 | has asked, what's the first and greatest commandment and his reply is love the Lord your God |
| 0:47.3 | with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, that this is the spring from which everything in our lives flow. |
| 0:56.3 | And we are so tempted every day to give our hearts to things in this world in ways that |
| 1:05.1 | pull us away from God, in ways that taint the purity of our hearts before God, the wholehearted nature of how |
| 1:15.2 | we're intended to love Him. And where we place our affections and where we fix our minds is going |
| 1:23.0 | to direct everything in our lives. So God help us, we pray, to fix our affections on you, |
| 1:32.2 | to not give our hearts a way to things to people in a way that pulls us from wholehearted love |
| 1:43.1 | for you. Help us to love you with all our hearts, soul, |
| 1:47.2 | mind, and strength in a way that then frees us to love other people as we do ourselves in a way |
| 1:52.8 | that frees us to love other people rightly and to live in righteousness because we're seeking you with all of our hearts. God help us to guard our hearts. |
| 2:05.1 | Help us not to be casual with where we place our affections. For we know it springs of life |
| 2:12.1 | flow from a heart that is wholly given over to you. So God, nurture our hearts. Help us to grow today in love for you, |
| 2:24.1 | and desire for you, in longing for you, even as we reflect on your amazing, incredible, unfathomable |
| 2:33.5 | love for us. |
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