302 - Are You Guarding Your Heart

The PowerBreak Podcast

Program 302 – SHOW NOTES (2024 – 22)

Show date – June 4, 2024

THE Q&A FORMAT

  1. OPEN with Tease

(Bob) “This is the PowerBreak Podcast, number 302 titled:

Are You Guarding Your Heart?

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– I’m Bob Brubaker along with JT, as we hope you will stay tuned as we seek to give you a little power in this break to help you succeed in the race of life.”

  1. (JT) This is the – PowerBreak Podcast – with a focus on the spiritual, the mental, and the physical aspects – all to help you succeed in the race of life. For show notes from today’s podcast go to bobbrubaker.com and follow the link for the PowerBreak podcast.

 

  1. Welcome – Bob and JT – chit chat about PROGRAM 302

 

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  1. TRANSITION

BB –  We are talking today about  “Are you guarding your heart?”

 

So JT What does that title bring up to your mind? ((JT ANSWERS))

  1. Bob – POINT:  Our hearts are constantly under attack by the world, our own flesh, and the devil. If you don’t believe me, go back and dissect the last time you spilled out words,  you wish were never said.

 

Matthew 15:18–19 (ESV) — 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

 

“Are you guarding your heart?”

  1. JT ------ OK THEN LET’S TALK SOME MORE ABOUT THAT as we bring up… WHAT’S NEW –  as we open Bob’s recent blog from bobbrubaker.com …

“Are you guarding your heart?”

 

  1. Presentation and discussion of Bob’s published article,
  • Bob and JT discuss highlights of the PowerBreak blog

“Are you Guarding Your Heart?”

 

Bob concludes with “The PowerBreak blog is found at bobbrubaker.com”             ((((:03 PAUSE))))

 

  1. JT – What’s happening Bob? What would you like our listeners to know about this week?

 

  1. Bob – Running To Win –… & Sermon link on the website.

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  1. JT This is the PowerBreak Podcast, I’m JT along with Bob Brubaker and this is the –– time for some questions and answers. Feel free to submit your questions by EMAIL TO JT@bobbrubaker.com and we’ll get to the answer on an upcoming PowerBreak. Podcast…

 

  1. JTQuestion ONE - FROM THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF LIFE….

 

You brought up the need to keep ourselves from idols? What do you mean by that?

  1. Bob

1 John 5:21 (ESV) — 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Jeremiah 17:9–10 (ESV) — 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Exodus 20:3–6 (ESV) — 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Mark 12:28–31 (ESV) — 28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

DISCUSSION

 

  1. JT – Question Two… “FROM THE MENTAL ASPECT”

 

What is an appropriate mental strategy when it comes to guarding our hearts?

  1. Bob

Realize the importance of it since the Scriptures give us many examples and calls to guard our hearts.

Proverbs 2:1–3 (ESV) — 1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

 

Proverbs 23:12 (ESV) — 12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

 

Proverbs 3:3–4 (ESV) — 3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

 

Make a determination to seek God’s help and apply the help He has given us in His word.

Discussion

  1. Third question … Turning to the Physical

 

What is a rough handle of time needed to train for an endurance event?

 

  1. Bob & JT discuss

 

To go from 0 to event I have heard a month of training for every mile of racing…. Again going from couch to marathon would be 26 months. If you have a good base already, then it would be cut in half.

For cycling events 0 to event would be a month for every 10 miles. So to train for a century ride from couch to even would be 10 months. Again for a person with a good base it would be less.

Any other thoughts JT?

Bob’s final comment – It takes discipline train adequately for events which means you are less apt to injure yourself.

 

Point: DISCIPLINE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE --- in all aspects of life

Closing statement Bob…. “check out today’s show notes at bobbrubaker.com and click on the PowerBreak podcast – today’s show is 302.

 

  1. JT – Submit your questions by EMAIL to JT@bobbrubaker.com and listen for OUR answer on an upcoming PowerBreak Podcast (((:03 pause)))

 

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