Question: Have you ever gotten bad advice?

Follow your heart

Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)  //  The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?

Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)  //  Above all else, Guard your heart, For everything you do flows from it

Feelings aren't a fruit of the Spirit.

Psalm 22:1-2  //  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest.

Scripture calls David the “man after God’s own heart.”

YET

Psalm 22:3-5 (NIV)  //  Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
To you they cried out and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

The goal isn’t to NOT FEEL, but to remember the YET in the midst of the feelings.

The heart to follow is the Heart of God

Psalm 51:10  //  Create in me a pure heart, O God

Acknowledge the places you’ve allowed feelings to take the place of faith.

Guard your heart

Find the heart of God

Psalm 51:17 (NIV)  //  My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise

Being broken isn’t bad. It’s the start of healing.