Thanks so much for tuning into the Church of the City, New York podcast.

We are in a new series called God Comes Where He's Wanted, and we're studying the principles

behind revival and awakening and what it looks like to cultivate hunger and thirst for God. I hope this is a blessing to you

and it stirs up fresh desire to seek God in a new way this year. I also wanted to take a moment to say

thank you to everybody who's given to our Living the Liturgy campaign. So many folks who are outside of

New York but who consider themselves a part of our online family,

have been so generous. So if that's you, thank you so much. It has been really, really encouraging

to have all of the support so we continue to seek God and all he has for us here in the city.

We're going to jump back into the podcast, but thanks so much and grace and peace.

And the teaching text comes to us from Proverbs 423.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

The word of the Lord.

I want to ask and answer one simple but profound question tonight.

How do we cultivate a heart in which God delights to dwell?

You ever seen some people and just regardless of what's happening in their life, they just seem to prosper.

Go through hard circumstances, doesn't phase them.

Deal with difficult relationships, doesn't phase them.

Problems at work doesn't phase them.

It seems like they're drawing on a deeper well than most of us have the ability to access.

How do we get a heart like that that is robust and healthy and resilient?

That's what I want to ask and answer tonight.

Now this passage is making a meta claim.

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