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Guard Your Heart: Perspective, Purpose, and Power · WholeHeart Conversations

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  Constance Lavonice: What are your core beliefs?
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  Constance Lavonice: What's guiding your experience of life?
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  Constance Lavonice: Proverbs four twenty three says Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
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  Constance Lavonice: What is the heart?
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  Constance Lavonice: It's your inner being, where your thoughts and decisions lie.
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  Constance Lavonice: Romans ten says for with the heart a person believes.
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  Constance Lavonice: It's the place of your core beliefs, what you really believe about yourself.
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  Constance Lavonice: It's not how you want to appear to others that you believe, but it's what you truly believe in your inner being.
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  Constance Lavonice: Sometimes you're aware of it, and sometimes you are not aware of your core belief.
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  Constance Lavonice: But it's your core beliefs that directs your life and determines how you experience life.
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  Constance Lavonice: As Christians, we have salvation by God's grace when we believe.
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  Constance Lavonice: And that salvation allows us to be one with Christ.
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  Constance Lavonice: And as a result, we have a new perspective, purpose, and power.
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  Constance Lavonice: I am your host, Constance Lavonice.
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  Constance Lavonice: Because of our oneness with Christ, the first thing we have is a new perspective.
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  Constance Lavonice: We now have God's perspective.
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  Constance Lavonice: We have his framework.
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  Constance Lavonice: Second Corinthians 5 17.
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  Constance Lavonice: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  Constance Lavonice: We have a new identity, a new reality of who we are based on how Jesus sees us and what Jesus says that we are.
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  Constance Lavonice: A perspective that informs and guides our life to experience more of it.
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  Constance Lavonice: Jesus said that I have come to give you life and I give you life more abundantly.
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  Constance Lavonice: So more of life.
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  Constance Lavonice: What is the more of life that you can experience?
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  Constance Lavonice: We have that perspective, temporal and also eternal.
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  Constance Lavonice: We are seated in the heavenly places with God.
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  Constance Lavonice: As He is, so are we in this world.
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  Constance Lavonice: Our purpose is to glorify God.
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  Constance Lavonice: Everything we do points to God.
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  Constance Lavonice: Ephesians 2.10 says we are his workmanship, his work of art, a masterpiece.
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  Constance Lavonice: We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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  Constance Lavonice: So we are not a random coincident.
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  Constance Lavonice: We have been intentionally designed and created in his image, in the image of God.
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  Constance Lavonice: And God has a plan for our lives.
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  Constance Lavonice: Jeremiah 29, 11 tells us that God has a plan, declares the Lord.
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  Constance Lavonice: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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  Constance Lavonice: Plans to give you a hope and a future.
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  Constance Lavonice: Our purpose, God has a purpose for our lives, and we can know God's purpose.
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  Constance Lavonice: Our purpose is to add value, temporal and eternal, to be revealing and expressing the character of God, to exhibit and experience the love of God as we serve God and others.
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  Constance Lavonice: We can know God's purpose for our lives.
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  Constance Lavonice: We don't have to wonder if God has a purpose for our lives.
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  Constance Lavonice: We can know God's purpose for our lives.
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  Constance Lavonice: And God's purpose is always to bring glory to Him.
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  Constance Lavonice: And He uses us to do that.
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  Constance Lavonice: The third thing that we have is the power of God.
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  Constance Lavonice: The resurrection power of Jesus Christ, the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead resides in us.
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  Constance Lavonice: God's power is made perfect in weakness.
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  Constance Lavonice: If you have an inadequacy, a habit to break, or you need courage to speak up, to take a stand, you have resurrection power within you that can help you in any situation in life.
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  Constance Lavonice: You're not alone.
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  Constance Lavonice: Paul said that when I am weak, then I am strong.
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  Constance Lavonice: And that's the same for us because of the spirit that dwells in us.
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  Constance Lavonice: In 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verses 27 through 29, God chooses the things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise.
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  Constance Lavonice: God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
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  Constance Lavonice: And as a result, no one can boast in the presence of God.
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  Constance Lavonice: All to the glory of God, everything we do in God's power is for God's glory.
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  Constance Lavonice: So we have God's perspective, his purpose, and the power of God within us.
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  Constance Lavonice: So this week, I want you to meditate on Proverbs 423 and examine what you are allowing into your heart and how it's directing your life.
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  Constance Lavonice: And then reflect on God's perspective, purpose, and power in your life and make adjustments that align with the Word of God.
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