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SHAPE Series Week 3
FOLLOWING YOUR HEART Shaped To Make A Difference
(Outline Saddleback)

Spiritual gifts
Heart
Abilities
Personality
Experiences

“As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the person.” Prov. 27:19 (NLT)

HEART = your interests, passions, desires

“It is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please Him.” Phil. 2:13 (GW)

II. WHAT KEEPS ME FROM FOLLOWING MY HEART?

• Disappointment.
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Prov. 13:12 (NIV)

• Fear.
"Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down…” Prov. 12:25 (Amp)

• Guilt.
. “My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see....I have lost heart.”
Psalm 40:12 (GW)

• Bitterness.
"When my heart was bitter and I was angry, I was senseless.” Psalm 73:21-22 (NCV)

• Rejection
“They cut me down with sharpened tinges; they aim their bitter words like arrows straight at my heart.” Psalm 64:3 (LB)

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.”
Col. 3:23 (NIV)

II. HOW DO I FOLLOW MY HEART?

1.Open it Jesus.
Jesus: "I am standing and knocking at your door.  If you hear My voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together."  Rev. 3:20 (CEV)

2. Let God heal your heart.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”  
Psalm 34:18(NIV)

“I run in the path of Your commands, for You have set my heart free.” Psalm 119:32 (NIV)

3. You listen to it.
“Be honest in your estimate of yourselves.” Rom. 12:3 (NLT)

• What do I love to do?

• What do I dream of doing?

• What fascinates me? (I don’t get bored)

• Where have I been most effective?

4. Look at my options
“Desire without knowledge is not good, and to be overhasty is to sin and miss the mark.”
Prov. 19:2 (Amp)
“...you should meet together and encourage each other.” Heb 10:25 (NCV)

5. Launch out in faith
“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 (NIV)

“You Lord, have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and wine.” Psalm 4:7 (NLT)