Guarding your heart - practical ways to work through the issues of life!

#guardingyourheart - is meant to serve as protection from people, thoughts, attitudes and behaviors that might be unhealty and/or hinder me from living life on purpose - yet out of fear, I have been known to take it to the extreme leading to isolation, tangled thoughts, and a hardened heart - closed to accepting love (from self and others). I hope you will join me for this series of posts as I remove layer after layer sharing how I moved from fear to faith, from bound to free and from forgotten to forgiven by guarding my heart.

Before we delve into guarding your heart and what it may or may not mean and whether or not you should or shouldn’t guard your heart there are a few things you need to know about me and what I believe to be the truth of the gospel.

I do not proclaim to be neither preacher nor teacher; I am a child of God who seeks a more intimate relationship with Him through the finished work of His son Jesus on the cross. As a result, I choose to share my faith journey to encourage and draw others near to God knowing that without Him I would still be forgotten, unworthy of love and fearful.

I believe…

1-      God is love and there is no condemnation in His love!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17.

2-      In the message of salvation!

I believe. Jesus redeems, God forgives and the Holy Spirit renews! That is the message of salvation in eight powerful words as per the bible (Titus 3:4-8)

3-      In guarding your heart for out of it spring the issues of life! (Proverbs 4:23)

The word heart deals with my soul – my thought life, my emotions, and the beliefs that motivate me and mold me.

In the context of this blog, the heart is my thought life because my thoughts control the rest of my life. My thoughts determine my attitudes which lead to my actions. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). 

So as you join me on this journey, I encourage you to WATCH and pray making discoveries of your own to guard your heart.

W- Watch your Words.

A- Watch your Actions.

T- Watch your Thoughts.

C- Watch your Character.

H- Watch your Heart.

-         - Paraphrased from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pray your heart belongs to God first.

Create a great day and live a greater life in Him!

Chantale