Bill Johnson talks about heart health and the importance of keeping your heart healthy in session 7 of The Pursuit of Wisdom devotional series. Proverbs 4: 23 urges readers to “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the issues of life”. Heart health is central to every area of your life and success, including your physical health. Keeping your heart healthy is not about soul-searching or introspection, but about recognizing thoughts and attitudes that are not consistent with God’s word. Bill Johnson also talks about parenting and raising kids to manage their own attitudes and respond well to the situations they face. This is Session 7 of The Pursuit of Wisdom devotional series. Join Bill Johnson for a journey through the book of Proverbs. This weekly study will take you through Proverbs, focussing on a new chapter each session. Learn keys for walking in biblical wisdom so that you would reign in life, leading and serving those around you well. Growing in divine wisdom is key to walking in the fullness of God’s purposes for our lives. Subscribe for the full series. The Pursuit of Wisdom Series (new videos added weekly): 
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Scripture References: Proverbs 3: 5-6 Proverbs 4: 23 Romans 10: 10 Proverbs 4: 22 Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #Devotional #HeartHealth
a number of occasions sat down with my
whole family I said you guys know all I
want to do is honor Jesus all I want to
do everything with my life is simply to
bring Jesus
Glory if you see anything that is not
consistent with that I’m not just giving
you permission to point it out I’m
asking you to point it
out well hey there welcome back glad uh
so glad that you’re joining us um have
you thought all about last week Proverbs
3:5 and 6 I don’t want to spend a lot of
time there but there’s one thought or
one point that I think would be worth
making and that is it says in all your
ways acknowledge Him if you remember
from last week we talked about all of us
have different areas like maybe you’re a
school teacher you have that way of your
life you may be in charge of a committee
you may be a uh in charge of a
neighborhood group you have all these
different responsibilities in
life and what the challenge is for us us
is to recognize God in that assignment
but then come to experience him in that
assignment and here’s the point I wanted
to make it explains to me why sometimes
you’ll have a guy uh that will be a a
genius in business and really represent
the lord well he’ll uh be generous he’ll
be kind he’ll uh only do business that’s
a win-win situation so that everybody
involved uh prospers the business that
they buy from the people they sell to so
it’s a win-win so Godly in that sense
and so you find this a businessman who
has come to know the Lord as a steward
of resource and ideas and people but he
never came to know the Lord as husband
or maybe father and so his home life
sometimes is really a mess and it’s not
because it’s not because he uh doesn’t
know the Lord It’s just lit literally
he’s never come to know the Lord in that
way that would influence his life to
represent Jesus well in that part of his
life here’s the invitation I throw it
out again every one of us can come to
know Jesus
experientially that means that encounter
with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ
experientially in such a way that he
impacts the course of our life and the
success and that is a biblical term the
success of that direction in our life
all right now let’s go to chapter uh
four of Proverbs and I had a friend oh
goodness this would be um it was it was
a few months before I was married and
I’ve been married 48 years so it was it
was actually it was actually about 49
years ago I had a friend come to me and
he said bill I want to share this verse
with you it’s it’s like one of the most
important verses of my life and it’s in
Proverbs 4:23 just take a look at it
says keep your heart or the the
translation I learned it in watch over
over your heart with all diligence
because from it flows the issues of life
and as soon as he shared that with me it
from literally from that I believe it
was a December a December of
19 uh
72 he shared that verse with me and it
so pierced me that it has shaped my
thinking my values ever since then watch
over your heart I don’t believe that’s
an invitation to be introspective
because I know for me introspection just
really cost me a lot hurt me a lot
because I you know I I’ve never met
anybody that went deep inside soul
searching and came out encouraged I mean
I’ve never met anybody that came out
saying wow wait till you see what I
found you know it doesn’t happen that
way we go soul searching we find
problems so I don’t think it’s that I
don’t think the Lord is inviting us to
that kind of a naval gazing approach to
life but what it is is it’s it’s an
alarm that says watch over your your
heart because attitudes and values come
out of that place of your heart and if
you see uh uh impatience you see uh
certain things that are not right they
suddenly become appealing where there’s
an appetite for something that’s not
right not healthy as soon as those
things begin to just take any form or
shape immediately they have to be
repented of been dealt with immediately
we used to do this with our children we
um our discipline in our home in raising
our kids is we discipline based on
attitude we based we based it on on
heart and that way we actually prevented
a lot of bad conduct we would see
something develop of impatience or uh
bitterness or you know whatever just the
stuff that you go through is is as
people and we would see that in a child
and we’d say all right son go to your
room I’m going to give you 10 minutes to
take care of that and they would learn
over time that they had to really
they weren’t controlled by the people
around them but they had Mastery if you
will Mastery over their own hearts and
that was something that we required of
them just in growing up and had to learn
it ourselves I actually uh a number of
occasions sat down with my whole family
I said you guys know all I want to do is
honor Jesus all I want to do everything
with my life is simply to bring Jesus
Glory if you see anything that is not
consistent with that I’m not just giving
you permission to point it out I’m
asking you to point it out address it
even my children I did that now
obviously they still have to maintain
respect all the other parts of protocol
for family you figure that out in your
own home but for me there were times I I
remember uh this uh guy that almost uh
almost hit us with his car and I I laid
into my horn I was very very angry with
him and later pulled over the family I
said guys I am so sorry I I responded
outside of uh the character of Christ
and I don’t remember how I how I worded
it I just I turned to them and I said I
was so wrong and I remember Eric my
oldest son he says yeah Dad you were
really wrong that was
wrong and and I couldn’t get mad at him
because I actually invited him to do
that I want I want people around me to
say um it feels like you’re getting
careless here it feels like you should
pay more attention there what is that
it’s watching over the heart why because
everything in your life flows out of
that one place that one place the heart
is the seat of affection listen to this
out of the heart man believes so the
heart is the place where faith is
nurtured and developed all the things
that are are valuable to us the love of
God God flows to us and through us from
our own Hearts to humanity around us
everything about our life that is of
great significance is connected to the
heart and so it’s really vital that when
you when you see uh um you taste salt
water coming out of that part of your
life you go H that’s not right that’s
not right that’s that that has a tinge
of resentment or or sarcasm or whatever
it might be that’s not good I’ve got to
make sure to clean that up so we get
before the Lord we repent repent deeply
we’re going to wrap it up with just a
couple more vers vers
here it says
um in verse uh 22 it says for they are
life these are the words of of God the
words of wisdom they are life to those
who find him and health to all their
flesh here’s what I want to do I want to
throw something out that I’m going to
cover more thoroughly in weeks to
come wisdom by Nature has Divine Health
attached to
it wisdom by Nature has abundance
attached to it there are certain things
that they it’s almost like they come
with the package it’s in the design of
those who reign in life to have the
resources they need to accomplish their
purpose and to be radically generous to
affect the people around them wisdom has
with it the attachment of a Divine
Health a way of approaching life that
Keeps Us in a place of physical strength
emotional mental strength so I pray that
for you I pray that that every one of us
would get to not just explore but
actually Delight in and enjoy in the
coming uh weeks and months the U
manifestation of wisdom as it affects
Health as it affects our finances as it
affects our family life our
relationships that every one of us would
see the beautiful fruit of reigning and
life I pray that over you right now in
Jesus Jesus name I bless you with that
amen amen next week we’re going to uh
take a look at uh a very interesting
verse out of Proverbs 5 and this whole
concept of of the purpose of the
community that’s what we’ll look at next
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