The Heart of Your Struggle

It is not your circumstances at the root of your deficient behavior and attitudes — it is your own heart! Understand your heart desires, own them, trust that the sinless Jesus took them as HIS own in His death on the cross, and look to Him to change your heart.

1. Do you have struggles?

 

2. Significance of your struggles

 

3. What your struggles reveal about you

 

4. What to do?

 

Change project

1. With regard to your change project: When do you struggle with this problem?

  • When does the problem tend to surface in your life?
  • What triggers it?
  • Can you see any patterns?

2. What’s going on in your heart when you struggle this way?

  • What desires?
  • What fears or worries?
  • What are you thinking you need?
  • What or whom are you turning to for help or relief?
  • Whom are you trying to please or impress?
  • What are you loving? What are you hating?
  • What would bring you the most happiness? The most pain or misery?

3. Write a brief summary of when you struggle or sin and what’s going on in your heart.