A Women Rock Small Group StudyA Wise Heart & A Clear Head

Part 3 of 4

Pastor Deborah Cobrae

Message Outline

(If you are listening online: this is first part of Wise Heart Part 2, stop the teaching at 36min 17sec.)

Growing a wise heart and keeping a clear head

Prov 19:8 (MSG) Grow a wise heart—you'll do yourself a favor; keep a clear head—you'll find a good life.

  • I have the ability to grow a wise heart.
  • I have the power to succeed.
  • I have to want it and seek after it.
  • I have to KEEP a clear head.

Who do I do these things?

Prov 10:22 (NKJV) The blessing of the LORD makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.

Knowledge: Gathering of facts or truth.

Understanding: Grasping and perceiving the facts and the truth.

Wisdom: When and how to apply the facts or truth.

Prov 2:6-8 (NKLV)For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints.

Ecc 8:5 (AMP) Whoever observes the [king's] command will experience no harm, and a wise man's

mind will know both when and what to do.

  • WHEN and WHAT… we need this in our everydays.
  • To step into everything God has for you have to go after it and grow it in your life.

Wisdom: Knowing what God wants, when He wants it and how to get it done.

#1: Fear God.

Prov 9:10 (NKJV)The fear of the LORD is the beginningofwisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

  • When I hate what God hates I’ve started growing a wise heart.

#2: Love to learn from instruction and from correction.

  • Learn this stuff, renew my mind, God works in a whole different set of rules to this world.
  • Get back in the WORD!
  • Need to be HUNGRY for God’sWord…. part of instruction is correction!

Proverbs 19:8 (NKJV) He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good.

  • A clear head is a head that understands. You get it and won’t forget it.
  • A clear head is clutter free, not a ‘pile-er’ in your head.
  • When you KEEP: you guard, protect, care for it… You PAY ATTENTION to it.
  • I don’t have the privilege of being slothful and old nature stupid.
  • I cannot have an undisciplined thought life.

#4: Stay cool in a crisis.

Prov 25:28(MSG) A person without self-control is like a house with its doors and windows knocked out.

Prov 25:28 (NKJV)Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls.

  • To stay cool means you have self-control and take responsibility.
  • Not fearful, not stressed, calm and cool in a crisis.

Mary’s testimony of keeping cool in the midst of crisis.

Growing a wise heart and keeping a clear head

Prov. 19:8 (MSG) Grow a wise heart—you'll do yourself a favor;

keep a clear head—you'll find a good life.

#1: Fear God.

#2: Love to learn from instruction and from correction.

#3 Learn to be generous: give yourself away because life is short.

#4: Stay cool in a crisis.

Note: This lesson covers the first half of the complete version of message #2 from Pastor Deborah’s Growing a Wise Heart and Keeping a Clear Head or Part 3 on the Growing a Wise Heart and Keeping a Clear HeadWomen Rock CD set.

**This teaching is 39 minutes in duration, to shorten you may end CD at 32:06 and listen to Mary’s testimony next time, it is included there also.**