Above All Else Guard Your Heart - Proverbs Time of Guided Prayer on the BreakPoint Podcast
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The gospel isn't just two chapters, but four – not just fall and redemption. Rather, the whole story begins with creation – then fall, redemption – and concludes with restoration (for His glory).
Pastor Matt Heard shares the importance of guarding our heart, understanding that the gospel is restoring us to the original purpose for which we were made.
The heart includes – but is way more than – our emotions. It's where we experience longing. It's where we discern and understand. It's where we ponder and think. It's where we remember significant events. It's where my interactions with others are birthed (all authentic relationships are heart connections). It's where we experience stress (i.e., "Do not let your heart be troubled"). It's where we cultivate our intensity. It's the center of our attitude. It's where we exhibit courage. Bottom line – our heart – including our walk with God (it's with our heart that we believe)
Matt Heard is the Founder and Principal of THRIVE, a teaching, speaking, and coaching ministry that engages people to flourish as fully alive human beings to God's glory in every arena of their life, journey, and culture. The seeds for Matt's vision were planted when he studied at L'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland with Francis Schaeffer, who introduced him to the writings of the late Hans Rookmaaker, an art historian known for proclaiming, "Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human." A graduate of Wheaton College and Reformed Theological Seminary, Matt is the author of Life with a Capital L: Embracing Your God-Given Humanity. He and his wife, Arlene, are the grateful parents of three adult sons and two daughters-in-law and they divide their time between Colorado Springs and Orlando. He can be contacted through his website, mattheard.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to another week of our time of guided prayer as we look at different passages in the book of Proverbs, trying to get some timeless wisdom for our particular cultural moment. These things have been absolutely fantastic. If you missed, for example, our time together with Cheryl Batchelder just recently, a former CEO of Popeye's Chicken and just a |
| 0:21.7 | remarkable leader of people. You've got to go back and check that out. You can find all the |
| 0:26.4 | past sessions that we've done on the website, breakpoint.org slash proverbs. That's breakpoint.org |
| 0:33.7 | slash proverbs. Not only can you find the videos of those times of guided prayer that we've done |
| 0:39.3 | up until this point, but you can also find a PDF that frames out some of the key observations |
| 0:43.5 | from those times and also some ways to pray throughout the coming week. Well, we're excited to be |
| 0:49.5 | back here together. We've got just a few of these left. We're going to take, we're going to do |
| 0:53.7 | these weekly |
| 0:54.8 | times of guided prayer looking at the proverbs up through Holy Week. So just really a few weeks |
| 1:01.9 | left, but they really, I think, have been important and some remarkable observations have come out. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm going to open our time here this week, like I have every week, with a prayer |
| 1:12.5 | known as a colic for purity written by Thomas Kramner years ago. I think it says very well what |
| 1:18.4 | we're asking God to bring into our lives. Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires |
| 1:24.0 | known, and from whom no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the |
| 1:28.4 | inspiration of your Holy Spirit so that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your |
| 1:34.2 | holy name through Christ our Lord. Amen. Very excited today to have a very good friend of mine, |
| 1:42.9 | Matt Hurd. Matt's been a pastor at large churches on opposite ends of the country. |
| 1:47.7 | He's a speaker and a writer. |
| 1:49.4 | His book, Life with a Capital L, is one of my favorite books. |
| 1:54.8 | It really is. |
| 1:55.7 | It runs the gamut through everything from literature to theater, to great ideas and great thinkers |
| 2:06.4 | and biblical wisdom, particularly what it means, to understand life as the Bible describes it, |
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