Stewardship of the Heart

The following is the brief outline of the sermon series I just finished Sunday:

1. Do you really trust God? We can easily say yes but our actions prove otherwise. We must reach a point where we depend on God for our needs above and beyond our own strength and wisdom.

2. What do you really want out of life? Godliness with contentment is great gain yet we always want more stuff. And we never reach a point of satisfaction; the human heart always wants one more thing. We need to daydream more about the Lord than we do the Lottery.

3. Who are you really? Are you the same person when no one is looking? We need to be people of integrity who are defined by God's standards and not the world's standards. Our lives need to be consistent, honest, and characterized by integrity, as if every job were being done for the Lord Himself.

If we guard our hearts in these ways then we avail ourselves to the greatest agent of change in the universe, the Holy Spirit. God can change our hearts, our desires, our attitudes and appetites. He will lead us His ways if we would surrender control of our hearts.

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Update: I just looked at my blog and realized how short this post was. And the folks at church had to sit through four sermons at 30-40 minutes each!