2 Sundays ago we looked at 3 Root Problems in every human being:

1. “I want what I want.”

2. “I deserve it.”

3. “I’ll harm, if necessary, to get what I want.”

It’s not pretty, but knowing your heart has these three hidden purposes “in play” can help you understand yourself and others a whoooooole lot more. Those three roots make up the “engine room” in your heart. They are the platform that creates anger, depression, fear, stubbornness, control, worry, conflict, addictions, and, well, every non-physiological malady known to humans!

This Sunday we’ll look at 5 Self-Defeating Strategies. Every human being has adopted at least one of these. Whatever strategy you’ve adopted was done sub-consciously, and it is highly doubtful you could name it on your own. It is like my prostate cancer, doing its dirty work without me even knowing it UNTIL a blood test (internal) exposed the (internal) cancer.

God’s Word is like an X-ray machine. It can bring to light the 5 hidden Strategies.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

This Sunday, you’ll hear an explanation of each of the strategies. Between the 3 roots and the 1 or 2 strategies you use, you should get an “inside look” at what causes so many problems.

The last two weeks we’ll talk about how to reverse each of the 5 strategies.

His friend, your friend,

Seth