HEART FAITH

HEART FAITH,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”   12/26/19,   (Across my desk this morning from Joel.)

My Thoughts,
Could not have said it better.  Christ Jesus spent a lot of time teaching about our “heart” our subconscious,  the place where we are really real,  the place of our soul.  There are 160 verses in the New Testament and 724 verses in the Old Testament concerning our heart.  The heart is somewhat like an ice berg.  Our conscious mind is the 1/7 above the water and the heart is the 6/7 below the water.  Much of what we say comes out of our mind and we can be talking just to see what it sounds like with no commitment as to the truth at all.  For many even being a Christian is really somewhat like belonging to a bridge club, nationality or of  environmental conditioning. 

Jesus taught us: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matt.6:21,  “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Matt.5:8, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” Matt.22:37,  “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45,  “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” Luke 21:34,  “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.“John 14:27,  “⁸ But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.“  Rom.10: 9-10. 

The little books of James and Jude are great also in training the heart as to what is GOD’S TRUTH.  I like listening to the New Testament in my truck while driving.   Usually our hearts are initially filled with the junk of this world from Adam and seriously needs to be replaced with the TRUTH of the Word of God.  This means that we need to saturate our mind many many times (what ever it takes) to change our heart into believing what we know to be God’s truth.   The mind is the gateway to the heart.  The conscious mind is very flexible but the heart can be like stone and difficult to change.  And especially to agree with God’s Truth in humility.  One time I remember going though the process and it was like a very serious hard drive crash.  The erroneous issue that needed God’s Truth were so woven into so many facets of my thinking that it trashed all kinds of stone work in my mind.  Knocked some big holy holes into my heart library and I gained a great deal of freedom,  That was back in 1967.  Sure benefited from GOD’S Truth that finally got through to my heart.   God’s Truth sets us FREE!!!!!
Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

Let God’s Light Shine:
D. L. Moody told the story of a man who was crossing the Atlantic by ship. He was terribly sick and confined to his cabin. One night he heard the cry “Man overboard!” He felt that there was nothing he could do to help, but at second thought, he said to himself, “I guess I can at least put my lantern in the porthole.” He struggled to his feet and hung the light so it shined out into the darkness.  The next day he learned that the person who was rescued said, “I was going down in the dark night for the last time, when someone put a light in a porthole. As it shone on my hand, a sailor in a lifeboat grabbed it and pulled me in.”  All of us have weaknesses — and times of weakness. The fact of the matter is, though, that weak or not, we need to muster up the strength to put our lights in our portholes for the sake of the dying and the lost among us. It’s so tempting to sulk in our weaknesses, and stay in our beds — but God expects more of us. He has given us the strength to do all things — even move mountains! There are so many people around us sinking in despair. But God has chosen us to reach out and light up their lives!

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