Healthy Hearts

Decorations :

Red heart shaped balloons filled with helium and placed in a tall vase or attached to a weight make attractive centerpieces. You can also mix red, pink and white for variation.

Favors:

Some very cute heart shaped gifts can be ordered from www.beau-coup.com. They have heart shaped measuring spoons, tea infusers, bookmarks, tins, candy, frames, etc. Another great place is www.keepsakefavors.com. They offer a wide variety of heart-shaped gifts.

Devotion:

The Franklin Institute for Resources for Science Learning offered this simple yet profound advice for a healthy heart. (http://www.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/healthy.html)

A Prescription for Living

If you want your heart to be healthy for the rest of your life, follow this prescription:

1. Get plenty of exercise.

2. Follow a good diet.

3. Keep your heart clean and drug-free.

People who don't follow this prescription often develop some form of heart disease.

Be heart smart and have a healthy heart.

Have someone speak on the following:

• Exercise
• Natural – benefit of walking, lifting weights
• Spiritual – Walking with God, walking uprightly, Walking to the prayer room, etc. Lifting the weight of sin off our life.
• Diet
• Natural – Eating a balanced diet
• Spiritual – Feasting on God’s Word, (daily Bible reading) Thy Word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11
• Drug Free
• Natural – talk about substance abuse
• Spiritual – Being free from the drugs of slothfulness, apathy, worldliness, carnality

Game about hearts:

1: In the book of Exodus, whose heart did God harden? (Pharoah)

2: Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the _____ in heart. (pure)

3: In Ezekiel 11:19 God said he would take away the stony heart and replace it with what kind of heart? (heart of flesh)

4: According to Psalm 119:11 what is the purpose of hiding the word of God in our heart?

(that we might not sin against God)

5: What kind of heart did David request of the Lord in Psalm 51:10? (a clean heart)

6: In Job 23:16 Job asked God to make his heart ____. (soft)

7: In Proverbs 4:23 we are instructed to keep our heart with all __________. (diligence)

8: Luke 12:34 says that where your __________ there will your heart be also.

9: Matthew 12:34 says that the mouth speaketh from what? (the abundance of the heart)

10: Philippians 4:7 states that the peace of God will keep your hearts and ______through Christ Jesus. (minds)