The Gateway To Your Life
Foundation Statement: The gateway to a
person’s life is their heart and therefore the only way into a man’s life is
through His heart
I. There has been an negligence
where the heart is concerned; people are ignoring the seed & the ground and
trying to change the harvest-Proverbs 4:23
A.
Everything in life is getting is instructions
from your heart-Proverbs 23:7, 4:23, Matt 12:35
1. You pray for stuff, tithe & give but your own heart is working
against you
2. You can do all the religious things that you want to do, you can pray,
you can tithe, you can sow, but until you deal with the root issue of what’s in
your heart the results will never change
B.
Your life is attached 2 your heart-u can’t
have success in spite of what’s in your heart
1. You can’t ignore ur heart & just put your
head down pray, tithe & expect change
C.
Many believers have their own heart working
against them
II. The only way into a man’s
life is through his heart; The only way into a man’s heart is through words-Proverbs
4:23
A.
We’ve addressed God and beg and cry b/c we’ve
been taught our life is in His hands, but HE SAID your life is in your heart;
If your life was in his hands it’d look better
1. In times of need we’ve addressed God to get Him to do something b/c
we’ve been taught that our lives are in His hands
a.
We’re supposed to be co-laborers with God
b.
I sow, I water, Gove gives the increase-1
Corinthians 3
2. We’ve skipped sowing the Word and go straight to asking, not knowing
that these words must abide in me-John 15:7
3. If we had a revelation of that we wouldn’t go to God begging and crying,
we’d go to Him/His word to find out what he wants for our life and then spend
time with Him by our side sowing that word
4. The only way God can get involved in a person’s life is through faith
and faith can only come when the Word of God is sown in a person’s heart
5. You say it’s in God’s hands & God’s saying I can’t move b/c of your
heart-Mt13:58
a.
Ephesians 3:20-God is able to do according to
what’s in you
6. Luke 8:49-It was in Jesus’ hands if Jairus stayed in faith-faith comes
from words
B.
God cannot get something into your life
without going through your heart
1. Your heart is the gateway to the physical realm
2. When you allow God’s word into your heart (you allow Him into your
heart), faith grows and God has a way into your life
C.
We’ve been asking God to do something in our
life that we have not taken the time to put it in our heart & He’s saying I
can’t do it in your life apart from your heart
1. God cannot get something into your life that you will not sow into your
heart
2. Romans 10:13-17-We want them saved, but they can’t get saved without
faith and they can’t have faith without words
3. We want to skip words, skip faith, & go right into God please do it,
not realizing that if God wants to do something in my life He must come through
my heart