Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

In this episode, Haley and Dustin discuss the concept of guarding your heart – what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and why it’s important to our spiritual growth. With personal stories and biblical insights, they also share how to practically guard your heart from harmful (and seemingly harmless) influences.

Subscribe to the podcast and tune in each week as Haley and Dustin share with you what the Bible says about real-life issues with compassion, warmth, and wit.

So you have every reason for hope, for every challenge in life. Because hope means everything.

Hope Talks is a podcast of the ministry of Hope for the Heart.

Listen in  to learn more :

(02:30) Guarding the Deceitful Heart 

(06:04) Guarding Your Heart and Hope 

(10:18) Guarding the Heart From False Hope 

(17:07) Guarding Your Heart 

(24:40) Guarding Your Heart and Faith 

(31:08) Guarded Heart and Rooted Identity

(35:19) Choosing the Path of Life 

(51:24) Exploring Joy in Christian Hope 

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Bible verses mentioned in this episode

Psalm 119:125 -- “I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.”

Proverbs 4:23 – “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

Proverbs 20:5 – “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.”

Proverbs 23:26 – “My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways” 

Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Matthew 18:9 – “And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away.”

Mark 12:30 – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”

Romans 12:2 -- “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.”

1 Corinthians 10:12 -- “So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall”

1 Corinthians 10:23 – “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything"—but not everything is constructive.”

Galatians 5:22-23 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control”

Galatians 6:1 – “If someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.”

1 Peter 5:8 – “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”