Private Preparation for Your Public Purpose | Scotty Gibbons - Audio

1. Guard your heart from things that dull your spiritual sensitivity.



Proverbs 4:23 - 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. NIV



Psalm 1:1 - 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, NIV



Psalm 101:3 - I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. NLT



2. Fill your life with things that align your heart with God’s.



Psalm 119:97, 103 –- Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! NIV



Psalm 119:11 - I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. NIV



Psalm 26:8 – Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells. NIV



Psalm 27:4 - The one thing I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple. NLT



Psalm 84:10 - One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. MSG



Psalm 27:8 - My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek. NIV



3. Learn to lead your thoughts.



Psalm 1:1-2 - Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.



2 Cor. 10:5 - 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. NIV



Colossians 3:2 - 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  NIV



Romans 12:2 - 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. NIV



Philippians 4:8 - 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ESV