Week Six Practice Plan
A good and beautiful life flows from a good and beautiful heart. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Whatever is in your heart will flow out into your family, friendships, work, school, and every other area of your life. Jesus said it this way: a good tree bears good fruit, and a bad tree bears bad fruit (Matthew 7:17). The Sermon on the Mount is a message about the heart, and this week’s practice plan is too.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Read through the two options below, and ask the Holy Spirit which option He’s inviting you to walk through with Him.
Option A: Search My Heart
Find a quiet time and place where you can be alone with Jesus for 15 minutes. Grab a piece of paper and draw a large heart that fills most of the page.
Here’s How to Practice:
- Pray Psalms 139:23-24 to ask God to search your heart. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Ask the Holy Spirit, and write what the Holy Spirit shows you inside the heart.
- What’s in my heart? Is there anything there that shouldn’t be?
- How is what’s in my heart showing up in my daily life?
- What does a good and beautiful heart look like?
- Respond by talking with Jesus about what it looks like to live with a good and beautiful heart this week.
Option B: The Heart He's Given You
Find a quiet time and place where you can be alone with Jesus for 15 minutes. Grab a piece of paper and draw a large heart that fills most of the page.
Here’s How to Practice:
- Pray Ezekiel 36:26, and thank God for the new heart He’s given you in Jesus. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ask the Holy Spirit, and write what the Holy Spirit shows you inside the heart.
- What kind of heart have You given me in Jesus?
- Where is that heart already producing good fruit in my life?
- What does a good and beautiful heart look like?
- Respond by talking with Jesus about what it looks like to live with a good and beautiful heart this week.