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  • I shared a teaching with our staff about two months ago.

  • I came in and taught this teaching called Three Habits of a Healthy Heart.

  • Several of them said, "You need to share that with the church," and I couldn't find a good

  • weekend to share it because of all of the scheduling.

  • Well, when I realized we would have to postpone our series for a week, I thought, "This is

  • the time."

  • This is the window for me to share this with you.

  • So I want to teach you a little bit today.

  • This teaching is going to require your full attention,

  • and I don't just mean with your mind.

  • I mean your emotional attention.

  • While I get set up here to teach you today Three Habits of a Healthy Heart, how many

  • know real lasting change has to happen in your heart?

  • It can't just be in your behavior.

  • You really have to fundamentally change your belief.

  • That's what the psalmist is talking about in Psalm 119:112.

  • There aren't many chapters in the Bible that have 112 verses.

  • I think Psalm 119 is on record as the longest chapter in the Bible.

  • It's constructed grammatically in a specific way that we won't go into in this class.

  • I want to teach a little bit today, if that's all right.

  • Is it all right if I don't even shout or holler or anything?

  • If you wanted to hear me holler, you should have come to the praise party.

  • We had an amazing time saying, "Good morning, midnight."

  • We welcomed not only a new year but we also welcomed our challenges this year, knowing

  • that often our calling is contained in our challenges, if we learn how to see it correctly.

  • Everything begins with perspective.

  • The perspective of the psalmist in Psalm 119 is kind of all over the place.

  • I think he's dealing with some inner issues.

  • Getting beyond the grammar of the psalm, we can know a little bit of the intention of

  • it.

  • The psalmist says in verse 112, "I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever,

  • to the end."

  • I want this to last.

  • I don't just want to see some changes in my life for a few weeks in January.

  • I didn't hand them my gym membership and sign up for a year just to be eating chocolate

  • by Valentine's Day.

  • I want to see some lasting change in my life this year.

  • The psalmist said, "I incline my heart."

  • It has to happen within.

  • Not just the behavior, but the belief that drives the behavior has to change or the change

  • won't stay.

  • We've found this out over and over again.

  • Every new year we learn it again.

  • Lasting change is what I'm after, and I incline my heart.

  • That's an interesting choice of words.

  • If you incline something, that means it was naturally not in that position.

  • That means you had to act upon it in order to orient it in a different direction.

  • Right?

  • We don't incline something that's already upright.

  • It must have meant his heart was declined.

  • The problem with a lot of us is we go through life reclined.

  • However we wake up, that's how we stay.

  • However we feel, that's how we act.

  • The psalmist said, "I act upon my attitude, and I incline my heart."

  • Did you know you're in charge of your heart?

  • Quit saying people broke your heart.

  • They can't break it if you don't give it to them.

  • He said, "I'm setting my heart in the direction of heaven."

  • I wonder, is your heart set in a divine direction today?

  • Incline my heart.

  • I don't think this is something you do one time.

  • You just inclined your heart to God when you were 12 at summer Bible camp and you never

  • were tempted again.

  • I think we want it to be that way.

  • I want it to be like the infomercial.

  • Do you remember the infomercial with the Showtime rotisserie oven?

  • The man said, "Set it and forget it."

  • That's how I want my heart to be, like that infomercial.

  • Set it and forget it.

  • I want my heart to just stay there, you know.

  • "Hey, I went to church the first Sunday in January.

  • That ought to get me by.

  • I set it."

  • The psalmist said it's not enough to set it and forget it.

  • He said it's more like you set it, you check it, you reset it, you check it, because all

  • through your day and all through your year, your heart is going to be tempted to decline

  • to a default position.

  • Maybe it's a default position of discouragement or despair or dysfunction, but when you take

  • charge of your heart...

  • That's what the writer of Proverbs said.

  • It's not just the psalmist who did it.

  • The writer of Proverbs said, "Guard your heart."

  • It's your heart, and that's where the issues of life flow from.

  • Before we can get the windows working, we have to get our hearts open.

  • Hey man, the doctor was fussing at me a couple of months ago about my cholesterol.

  • It lets me know I'm getting on up there in age.

  • I've never had a conversation like this with a doctor before.

  • He's just talking and talking.

  • Blah, blah, blah.

  • LDL, HDL, triglycerides, all this stuff.

  • I know he could tell he wasn't getting through to me, because he took a really drastic turn.

  • He said, "Hey!

  • I don't want you to be one of those guys who looks really fit on the outside," which made

  • me feel happy that he said that about me, "but then one day you're just outside running

  • and you just fall over of a heart attack.

  • You need to listen to me."

  • I corrected him.

  • I said, "Doctor, I know you have some degrees that I don't have and all that, but you're

  • wrong about that.

  • I don't run.

  • So if I fall over, it's not going to be on cardio."

  • He said, "You can be blocked on the inside and look good on the outside."

  • You can be successful and fall over, be sexy and fall over, be married and fall over, get

  • a promotion and fall over, be religious and fall over.

  • It has to happen in the heart.

  • But it doesn't start with the heart; it starts with the habits.

  • Your habits create the condition of your heart.

  • I feel like God is going to help somebody set your heart on things above, get your heart

  • set in the right direction, but it's going to require some habits.

  • They're all right there in the psalm.

  • I want to read you the next two verses, because my three habits are right there in the verses.

  • "I set my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

  • I hate..."

  • What's that word doing in the Bible?

  • I thought we were supposed to love everything.

  • "I hate the double-minded, but I love your law."

  • I don't think we should go on until we talk about that.

  • He said, "I hate this.

  • I hate the double-minded."

  • That's not a person I hate; it's I hate the condition of double-mindedness.

  • I hate it.

  • See, the thing about hate is hate is the most powerful motivation to change, not love.

  • Before you start with wanting to reach your goals, maybe the first thing for you to do

  • is to make a decision about some things you hate.

  • It's going to be complicated, because for me, I have a love/hate relationship with some

  • of the things.

  • I feel kind of like David.

  • One time David's son Absalom died, and Joab came to him and said, "Your son is dead,"

  • and David started weeping.

  • Joab was mad, because Absalom was trying to take the throne from David.

  • Absalom had become David's enemy, but David's heart was connected to Absalom, so he was

  • crying.

  • Joab said, "You need to get it together.

  • You hate those who love you, and you love those who hate you.

  • You hate what's trying to deliver you, and you love what's trying to destroy you."

  • I feel that way about certain things in my life, certain actions, certain behaviors in

  • my life.

  • I love how they feel for a minute, but I hate the crash.

  • Certain things in my life, I hate how they feel when I'm doing them.

  • I hate the plank.

  • Exhibit A. For years, I was one of these people...

  • I would tell you to your face, "I hate to exercise."

  • You can go back and watch my sermon videos from three years ago.

  • I would stand on the stage and say, "I hate to exercise."

  • Do you know why I hated it?

  • Because it wasn't a habit.

  • I didn't do it enough to love it.

  • I hated it.

  • But you don't have to accept your default attitude toward anything.

  • I incline my heart.

  • The moment of realization for me was when I was paying my tailor $450 to come over to

  • my house and let my pants out.

  • I hated it.

  • I looked at him and said, "I hate this, man.

  • I could be using this money to buy new clothes, and I'm paying it to you to make my clothes

  • bigger.

  • I hate this."

  • He said, "Hey, keep eating.

  • It's job security for me."

  • That's what my tailor said.

  • I said, "No, man.

  • I hate this.

  • I hate this feeling."

  • Sometimes before you can make a change you have to be motivated by...

  • I know it's a strong word.

  • It's not very pastoral.

  • You have to hate it.

  • You have to hate self-pity.

  • The problem with hating self-pity is it feels good like a bag of Doritos on your tongue.

  • See, it's not that I hate the taste of Doritos.

  • I just hated what it did to my waist.

  • He said, "I hate the double-minded.

  • I love your law."

  • Before I can do what I love, I have to know what to hate.

  • I hate this.

  • I love what it does for me, but I hate what it does to me.

  • It's a complicated relationship.

  • A bag of Doritos does something for me.

  • It might not do anything for you.

  • It does something for me.

  • I have a long-standing relationship with carbohydrates.

  • They have been there for me.

  • In the midnight hour, when I couldn't call on anybody else, I could call on chocolate.

  • So I love it.

  • I love what it does for me, but I hate what it does to me.

  • I hate all this.

  • I hate anger.

  • It makes me feel good.

  • It even gets me some results.

  • I have a complicated relationship with anger.

  • If you get mad enough, you can get people to do what you want, but then you're all alone

  • after they do it.

  • Nobody wants to be with you.

  • I hate being angry, because I hate being alone.

  • I hate the outcome of this and that.

  • I hate what it does to my marriage.

  • I hate what it does to my relationships.

  • I hate how it disturbs my inner peace and puts me in a state of turmoil.

  • It's complicated.

  • It's a complicated relationship that I have with complaining.

  • I love to complain.

  • Ooh, I love to tell somebody.

  • You can look at me.

  • "Well, the Bible says don't do it."

  • The Bible says don't do it, but it doesn't say it doesn't feel good.

  • It feels really good to complain.

  • It feels like a choice morsel going down as it's coming out of your mouth.

  • Just to unload on them.

  • When somebody says, "How are you doing?" just let them know for five minutes every ache,

  • every pain, every disappointment, every struggle.

  • But guess what?

  • The next time they see you coming, they're going the other way.

  • It's the law of diminishing returns.

  • It gets you high for a minute.

  • I love to talk bad about people.

  • I do.

  • I shouldn't say these things.

  • I tell myself every week after I finish on Sunday when I'm watching back my sermon, "Furtick,

  • don't say stuff like that.

  • People put it on YouTube and use it against you as a weapon."

  • I just have to tell you I love...

  • It makes me feel really good about my dysfunction to spend a little time discussing yours.

  • I love to talk about other people's dumb decisions.

  • I love it.

  • It's a natural high, because if I can get you down here, then I feel like I'm right

  • here.

  • The only problem is I'm setting myself up for decline.

  • Now the next time I see you I can't treat you better than I talk about you, so it ruins

  • my relationships.

  • I love what it does for me.

  • It does something for me.

  • Come on, how many will admit it does something for you to talk about what Henry did and what

  • Suzie wore and what they should have done and what their kids are like?

  • But by the same measure you judge you will be judged.

  • I love the taste, but I hate the outcome.

  • I hate it.

  • The problem with a lot of our resolutions for change is that they are not motivated

  • by a healthy kind of hate.

  • There is a healthy way to hate.

  • I hate racism.

  • I hate poverty.

  • That's the only thing that will motivate me to do anything about it.

  • I have to hate it.

  • I hate bullying.

  • I was bullied.

  • Tony Wigfall jacked me up against the wall.

  • I still remember my head cracking against the wall and my friend Hamilton looking at

  • me, saying, "Don't look at me, man."

  • I still remember the view from up there.

  • I can't see somebody being picked on without seeing myself from up there, just wondering,

  • "Is this guy going to break my face?"

  • I hate it.

  • Holly said to me the other day, "I hate being late."

  • Notice she didn't say, "I love being early," because she doesn't.

  • You have to get to the point...

  • We were going to see somebody.

  • She said, "I don't want to walk in like that."

  • Until you hate being late more than you love hitting "snooze," you won't make the change.

  • Get that thing on your mind, that bag of Doritos, and say, "I hate it."

  • I hate the double-minded.

  • I hate indecision.

  • I hate it.

  • I'd rather make a bad decision than make no decision.

  • I hate procrastination.

  • I did it a lot, but I finally got to the point where I hate it.

  • I hate the discipline of preparation too, but I hate the pain of procrastination more

  • than I hate...

  • I actually said to somebody the other day, "I never thought I'd hear myself say this,

  • and I used to hate people who said this.

  • I think I like exercise.

  • After three years of doing it five days a week and finding out what works for me, I

  • think I'm one of those people I used to roll my eyes at.

  • I think I like to exercise.

  • I think I've reset my heart."

  • I declare reset.

  • There are some things in your life that have been on the decline, but God brought you to

  • church on the first weekend of the year, and you're setting your heart in a different direction.

  • You're going to love the presence of God this year.

  • You're going to love the Word of God this year.

  • You're going to love the right things this year.

  • Train your brain to hate it.

  • I know that's what my dad was trying to do when he made us eat all the food on our plate

  • when we overfilled it at Ryan's Buffet.

  • Vacation memories.

  • He said, "You're going to eat every bite on that plate."

  • My brother and I took turns causing diversions while the other one stuffed our pockets.

  • We walked out of Ryan's with pockets full of food.

  • I'll never forget it.

  • He wanted me to have an association.

  • He said, "I want you to hate waste."

  • Maybe that's why sometimes God lets us get so low: so I'll hate it, so I will despise

  • Egypt, because if I didn't despise it I would be tempted to go back.

  • "I hate the double-minded, and I love your law."

  • I know what to hate, and (this is healthy habit #2) I know where to hide.

  • Do you know where to hide?

  • You'd better.

  • The attacks are going to come and the missiles are going to fly and the doubts and discouraging

  • thoughts are going to try to set your heart on the decline, get you off track, take you

  • back where you've been, keep you stuck from moving forward.

  • Do you know where to hide when discouragement comes flying past your head, or do you run

  • to the same enemy that is attacking you in an effort to hide?

  • I'm not talking about physical places.

  • The hiding places we create that destroy us are usually the ones in our hearts, emotional

  • states.

  • He said, "You are my hiding place, Lord.

  • You are my shield."

  • That's a powerful thought.

  • Look at what he says.

  • "You are my hiding place and my shield..."

  • When attacks come, I've learned where to run.

  • The reason I'm moving forward in my life this year isn't because I won't be attacked.

  • It's because I know what to run to when I am.

  • The expectation of no attack is a setup for disappointment, but the psalmist said, "I

  • set myself up for success, because I designated in advance where I would hide when the attack

  • came."

  • You

  • can't find the place to hide once the attack starts.

  • I'm going to teach more on this in the weeks to come.

  • Are you coming back for the series?

  • When I say this series is something worth canceling your life to make sure you don't

  • miss, I mean it.

  • What God has shown me is so explosive I think it might even be my next book.

  • I don't even want to write another book, but it's so strong I think I might have to.

  • I'm going to teach you in this about the power of making decisions and sticking with them.

  • I'm not going back there.

  • I'm not running to that.

  • I can't ask God to protect me from the enemy I'm running to.

  • Where do you hide when it gets hard?

  • You'd better set it up in advance.

  • I'm running to the places where there's real protection, not the illusion of protection.

  • Some of us hide in places that seem safe.

  • He said, "You are my hiding place."

  • Elijah went and hid in a cave because it seemed safe.

  • It was far away from Jezebel, and she was threatening his very life.

  • This is an Old Testament story that's worth reading if you haven't read it.

  • The whisper of God came into the cave as Elijah ran from his calling.

  • Are you running from the conflict or are you running into the conflict?

  • The place of conflict is the place of calling, but you have to be comfortable hiding in the

  • midst of hardships to know that God is your refuge, your strong tower in the battle, not

  • from it.

  • Elijah ran south as far as he could go.

  • He went in a cave and spent the night, and the voice of the Lord went in the cave and

  • said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?

  • Why are you hiding here?

  • Why would you choose to hide in the place that would keep you confined when your calling

  • is out there?

  • Did I not protect you on Mount Carmel?

  • Did I not send down fire from heaven?"

  • You can hide in plain sight when you trust in the goodness of God.

  • "I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living," but I won't experience

  • life in dead places.

  • I have to know where to hide.

  • One of the staff members who heard this teaching when I taught it to the staff (and to be honest

  • with you, I'm teaching it better to you than I taught it to them; I've had some practice

  • now)...

  • She said her hiding place is blame.

  • She said, "When I'm confronted with a need to change, I hide behind blame."

  • When we were picturing our hiding places, because I had all of the staff members...

  • I could have you do this, but I don't want to embarrass you, and you might be a first-time

  • guest.

  • I had them turn to each other and say what their hiding place was, and they went deep.

  • Some of them said, "Porn."

  • Some of them said, "Eating."

  • Some of them said, "Destructive thought patterns."

  • Some of them said this, and some of them said that, but they all had a hiding place.

  • Everybody in here has a hiding place.

  • In fact, you have multiple hiding places.

  • She said her hiding place is blame.

  • Something goes wrong.

  • "Well, if the kids hadn't...

  • Well, if the car hadn't..."

  • Blame.

  • It's a convenient hiding place, because it will shield you from the inconvenience of

  • change.

  • If it's somebody else who needs to change...

  • It's a convenient hiding place...for a little while, but it's a papierché shield.

  • It can only keep you from so much.

  • She said, "I blame.

  • I blame everybody.

  • I blame everything.

  • I blame the way I was raised.

  • I blame my parents for being too hard on me, and then I blame them for being too easy on

  • me.

  • I blame them if they would have made me stick with piano lessons, and then I blame them

  • that they made me show up to choir practice."

  • "I blame what I did get.

  • I blame what I didn't get."

  • Blame was her hiding place.

  • What's yours?

  • Elijah had a cave.

  • She had blame.

  • I wonder, do you hide behind low expectations?

  • This one is really common.

  • If you don't expect much, you can't be disappointed.

  • You learn how to hide behind this fake smile.

  • You don't really have a whole heart.

  • You have a fake smile to cover up your half-hearted interior life.

  • We hide ourselves from even those closest to us.

  • We hide ourselves, because if I hide behind an image I present, I don't have to deal with

  • who I am.

  • The call of God is coming forth like the voice of the Lord went into the cave.

  • The voice of the Lord is coming into your heart today, saying, "Come out.

  • Come out of hiding.

  • Come out of fear.

  • Come out of low expectations.

  • Come out of hypocrisy.

  • Come out from this fake spirituality.

  • Come out, come out wherever you are."

  • When you hide in the shadow of the

  • Most High, you can abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

  • I have a shelter.

  • I don't have to hide behind anything but God.

  • I'm glad it snowed so I could preach this message.

  • This is going to open your heart.

  • What good will it do for the windows of heaven to be opened if your heart is blocked?

  • You have to know where to hide or you'll be running, doing your thing this year, and just

  • collapse, the doctor said, because you didn't know where to hide.

  • I know where to hide.

  • I don't always do it, but I know where, and that's a start.

  • I know where to hide.

  • My kids were playing hide-and-seek one time, and they got locked in the crawl space.

  • That's what you don't want to do.

  • Sometimes it's like that.

  • You're running from something, thinking you're hiding, but you end up locking yourself...

  • You can lock yourself in a pattern and an attitude in an effort to escape something,

  • and what you get locked in is worse than what you were running from.

  • You need a better hiding place.

  • You have to hide somewhere.

  • So memorize some songs, the little songs you like, the little songs we sing in the church.

  • You can sing them other than Sunday.

  • "The name of the Lord is a strong tower.

  • The righteous run into it."

  • You might have to sing in the shower to incline your heart to keep his commands.

  • You might have to hide in a different place.

  • Where else are you going to hide?

  • Are you going to hide in feeling sorry for yourself?

  • Are you going to hide in enemy-held territory and expect to be safe there?

  • I know where to hide.

  • I know how to say, "I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you, O my soul,

  • rejoice.

  • Take joy, my King..."

  • This is an old song, but it will still work to run the Devil off when he starts messing

  • with you in the middle of the night.

  • "...in what you hear.

  • May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear."

  • I can sing when I'm squeezed.

  • I can sing when I'm pressed.

  • I can rejoice, hit reset on my heart.

  • "I set my heart to keep your commands."

  • We're hitting reset.

  • I want you to picture yourself playing Nintendo, and you hit "Reset."

  • You're about to have to start over all your progress, and you hit "Reset."

  • The psalmist said, "I know where to go to reset my heart.

  • It's not that the missiles never fly.

  • I've just learned how to duck, and I know where to hide.

  • I've pointed my heart in the direction of my destiny.

  • I know where to hide, I know what to hate, and my heart knows how to hope."

  • I want you to stand up if you have hope.

  • It's good to have hope.

  • I preached a whole Christmas sermon on we have this hope.

  • I hope everybody at every location is standing up because you have hope.

  • The psalmist doesn't say in this particular instance, "I have hope."

  • He says, "I hope."

  • I'm not sure if I learned this in third-grade English or fourth, but when he says, "I hope"

  • instead of saying, "I have hope," that makes it a verb and not a noun.

  • Can any English teachers verify what I just said?

  • It's not just something I have; it's something I do.

  • It's an active hope.

  • You cannot go into another year of your life hoping it gets better.

  • Like the lady I sat next to on the plane.

  • She said, "Here's my philosophy.

  • Hope for the best; expect the worst."

  • That's clever, but it's crap.

  • Hope doesn't just wish it would.

  • I tell you what.

  • If you don't know how to hope, if you think hope is just...

  • When we say, "I hope in your word," that's not a bookmark in your Bible that you look

  • at every once in a while, or something on your coffee mug.

  • It is a way of living.

  • I hope.

  • Not just I wish; I hope.

  • What does hope do?

  • Hope puts its hand to work.

  • Hope, not just in my heart.

  • Have you put your hand to what you're hoping for?

  • "Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen."

  • God wants to open your heart this new year to possibility, but you're going to have to

  • put your hand to what you're hoping for.

  • In other words, you have to work your window.

  • I don't hope it's not cold.

  • I wear a coat.

  • When I was leaving for church this weekend, Elijah said, "Daddy, it's going to be great."

  • He said, "It's going to be record attendance."

  • I said, "No, it's not."

  • He said, "Yes, it is, Daddy.

  • Have a little

  • faith.

  • Practice what you preach."

  • I said, "Boy, let me teach you a little lesson about church growth and hope.

  • Some of my campuses have to be closed, so it can't be record attendance, and Charlotte

  • people are kind of crazy anyway."

  • Not y'all, but some people watching online.

  • I said, "My hope isn't that the rooms are going to be full.

  • My hope is that God is going to show up and speak to whoever comes."

  • That's how I hope.

  • I don't hope it's not cold; I put on a coat and go outside anyway.

  • I don't hope it's not hard; I charge the hill.

  • My hope is not in the path; my hope is in the promise.

  • The path can look like this, but I'm still headed to the promise.

  • "I hope in your word."

  • How many received something from the Lord today?

  • Do you feel your heart opening up?

  • You can feel it.

  • You can feel God doing something.

  • This is going to be an amazing year, church.

  • If I were you, I wouldn't miss the window.

  • Next weekend, I'm really going to start the series this time: Work Your Window.

  • But I feel like today was a little WD-40 on the hinges.

  • We have the window cracked.

  • We have our hearts open.

  • If you feel comfortable...

  • I don't know if you do or not.

  • Would you just lift your hands to the Lord to receive what he has for you?

  • Hope in your word.

  • Hope in your promise.

  • Thank you for your presence, Lord.

  • I thank you for the expectation of change.

  • We incline our hearts.

  • We're set up for success.

  • The windows of heaven are open, and so are our hearts.

  • We won't be blocked.

  • We've set our hearts, and we'll set them again and again and again.

  • "I will bless the Lord at all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth."

I shared a teaching with our staff about two months ago.

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健康心臟的3個習慣|史蒂文-福提克牧師(Steven Furtick) (3 Habits of a Healthy Heart | Pastor Steven Furtick)

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    Ping Huang 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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