Circles: How’s Your Heart? (Part 1)

Theme: Your heart is the control center of your life—it powers and shapes everything you do.

1. Heart Check

Jeremiah 17:9 – “The heart is deceitful above all things…”

• Your heart influences your thoughts, decisions, and actions.

• It can be deceptive if left unchecked.

Why examine your heart? How can it deceive you?

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2. What’s Hidden

• The heart is where we hide secrets—good and not so good.

• What’s hidden will impact how you live.

What are people hiding in their hearts?

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3. What You Feed It

Key: What you put in your heart becomes what you live out. – PJ
Your heart is your life’s food pantry. – PJ

Watch for: Unforgiveness, bitterness, envy, jealousy, contention, hate, anger

• What you store will show up in your life.

What have you allowed in? What has it produced?

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4. Fill It with God’s Word

Psalm 119:11 – “Thy word have I hid in mine heart…”

• God’s Word protects and transforms your heart.

Do: Read and memorize Scripture daily.

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5. Clean Heart Prayer

Psalm 51:10–12 – “Create in me a clean heart…”

• Ask God to cleanse, renew, and restore you.

Reflect: What needs cleansing or renewal?

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6. Healing Hidden Pain

• Give God your past: fears, abuse, embarrassment.

• He heals what you’ve been hiding.

Be honest: What do you need to release?

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7. Pure Heart

Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart…”

• A pure heart helps you see God clearly.​

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8. Restored Heart

Psalm 51:13

• A restored heart becomes a testimony that helps others.​

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Final Question

How’s your heart?

• What are you feeding it?

• What are you hiding?

• What is it producing?