The Heart of the Matter Is the Matter of the Heart

Evangelism start with Passion and Compassion

Passion for God and Compassion for People

Matthew 22:37 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”

Matthew 22:39 “Love the Lord your neighbour as yourself”

The Human Heart - Is the organ that provides the continuous blood circulation through the cardiac cycle and is one of the most important vital organs in the human body

The Spiritual Heart- Is the internal, invisible centre of our spiritual being that needs continuous work that only God can do.

Jeremiah 17:9-10, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."

In the physical and spiritual realm, there are a lot of reasons why we may have heart trouble.

Physical: We may have inherited some Bad genes. Our genes contribute to some heart trouble.

Spiritual: Old self-being inherited from our former father

John 8:44 “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

Another factor that contributes to heart trouble is something called Diabetes

Another cause of heart trouble is something called hypertension or high blood pressure.

High blood pressure is called the silent killer because it often causes no symptoms for many years, even decades, until it finally damages certain critical organs.

Causes: Genes, stress, lifestyle, bad eating habit.

The Cure for Heart Problem

First, is our Diet

What kind of diet do we need to have?

What are some things we need to watch so we don’t clog our spiritual arteries?

Watch out for Fat

Revelation 3:17 - "You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.“

Luke 12:21 - "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

Second is Exercise.

Do the Faith Stretch!

All of your muscles have to be stretched properly

So we stretch our Patience muscles and our Understanding muscles and our Love muscles and our godly living muscles.

Spiritual exercise for the spiritual heart

Philippians 2:12 “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed--not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence--continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling”

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What kind of heart do we have?
Notice how this artery is open and clean?

Notice how this artery is clogged with cholesterol

This is an artery that was so bad, it had to be lacerated and cut.

Our heart is precious…..it is the centre point of our spiritual life

I declare… I will be careful with my heart