Don’t Follow Your Heart
Don’t Follow Your Heart
by: Pastor Ryan Scheibel
1 Samuel 27:1, “And David said in his heart, ‘Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.’”
David started talking to himself in his heart which is not a good idea because he came to the wrong conclusions, answers and he fell into depression.
The first sign that we, as a believer, are depressed is prayerlessness. You stop talking to God and you start talking in your heart. Now why is its so bad to talk in your heart?
Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.”
Jesus said in Matthew 15:19, “For out of the heart perceives evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness and blasphemies!”
When we talk in our hearts and not to God, our hearts will encourage us to do evil things. You have to monitor self-talk carefully because you can tell yourself things that aren’t true.
We need to compare our feelings with the truth of scripture.
The mistake he made was he didn’t turn to the Lord and talk to God for help, answers and guidance! And it’s always a mistake when we think we’re going to figure it out on our own.
By the way, what’s interesting about this chapter is God is not mentioned in it at all because He’s really absent from David’s thoughts. From David’s life. David is not seeking the Lord.
Pastor Ryan Scheibel
Water Brooks Church
by: Pastor Ryan Scheibel
1 Samuel 27:1, “And David said in his heart, ‘Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.’”
David started talking to himself in his heart which is not a good idea because he came to the wrong conclusions, answers and he fell into depression.
The first sign that we, as a believer, are depressed is prayerlessness. You stop talking to God and you start talking in your heart. Now why is its so bad to talk in your heart?
Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.”
Jesus said in Matthew 15:19, “For out of the heart perceives evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness and blasphemies!”
When we talk in our hearts and not to God, our hearts will encourage us to do evil things. You have to monitor self-talk carefully because you can tell yourself things that aren’t true.
We need to compare our feelings with the truth of scripture.
The mistake he made was he didn’t turn to the Lord and talk to God for help, answers and guidance! And it’s always a mistake when we think we’re going to figure it out on our own.
By the way, what’s interesting about this chapter is God is not mentioned in it at all because He’s really absent from David’s thoughts. From David’s life. David is not seeking the Lord.
Pastor Ryan Scheibel
Water Brooks Church
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