Everyone has a heart, that part of you that God gave you. The part for the most, we stopped listening to as an adult. As a child, we live by the heart only. As an adult, most live only by abstract logic, where logic can be twisted in so many ways and rationalized until it fits our desired or at least explainable without the existence of the heart, as we would like it to be.
I believe every person's heart has words it wants to hear, words it is longing for. People are not won to Christ by head knowledge, head knowledge is infinitely debatable and in the end we agree to disagree. It's tapping in to the heart of a person through the power of the tongue, "life and death is held in the tongue" and "The Word of God is sharper than any two edged sword" how awesomely true. The heart that needs to be tapped in to is what wins people to Christ, because nobody can deny the heart. The heart is true, though our hearts can be hardened and twisted, they do not lie about what they are. This is why the unsaved and even the saved try to ignore the heart.
The heart is the object of this supernatural war we're caught in the middle of. The assaults on our hearts is an attempt to usurp the throne that it is. It is the throne of Jesus Christ. Satan has always been trying to steal the thrones of God, whether it be the one in heaven or the one in our hearts and inevitably the one in Jerusalem one day. We are the objects of this war, the unsaved belong to Satan or the "adversary" and the saved belong to Christ. And the assault is on us, as the others are already "won" over.
This gets me back to what I was meditating on before. The hearts that need to hear the right words. If you can expose those words to someone and make them look at their heart I believe they *WILL* come to Christ. People ignore the heart out of fear of looking at themselves in the way that the heart reveals the most secret and intimate things of a person. It reveals the suffering it has endured, the bitterness and hardness it has become and eventually the captivity it is in. But it also shows that small glimpse of what it once was as a child, the love and compassion it once held, the life. It was an unconscious effort that we lived only by the heart then, good or bad. It makes a person long to live that once again, that maybe just maybe it is not something that children merely imagine. Just as unconscious as it was to live by the heart it became that easy to ignore it.
The day you're set free, you begin living by the heart again. When you're confronted with the loss of what you once were at the same time you are offered a *revival*. This is the point we reach and we come to Christ. No other can truly show you this. It is not head knowledge of spiritual things that show you this. Only the heart and the "Liberator" can. My heart was wild and untame. Like a wild horse no one could ride, I was unconquerable in my younger years and while I was smart I was not wise. No one could force me to do anything or believe anything. This was a result of suffering from failed love, a broken home and a puzzle for those trying to educate me and then forgotten. Fierce independence with anger and bitterness. And then one day Christ showed me my heart and what I had "accomplished", meaning nothing.
Made me remember that honorable part of me as a child. When you were a kid, you wanted to be a superhero or a police officer or a firefighter. When you were a kid, you ran around trying to save the girl in distress or the unpopular kid from the bullies. Your true accomplishments. I was conquered that night, Christ succeeded where no one else could ever come close. Awakened that heart I thought was long dead. To recapture that part of you as an adult makes you realize what you were always meant to be. You are a *real* superhero.
I believe every person's heart has words it wants to hear, words it is longing for. People are not won to Christ by head knowledge, head knowledge is infinitely debatable and in the end we agree to disagree. It's tapping in to the heart of a person through the power of the tongue, "life and death is held in the tongue" and "The Word of God is sharper than any two edged sword" how awesomely true. The heart that needs to be tapped in to is what wins people to Christ, because nobody can deny the heart. The heart is true, though our hearts can be hardened and twisted, they do not lie about what they are. This is why the unsaved and even the saved try to ignore the heart.
The heart is the object of this supernatural war we're caught in the middle of. The assaults on our hearts is an attempt to usurp the throne that it is. It is the throne of Jesus Christ. Satan has always been trying to steal the thrones of God, whether it be the one in heaven or the one in our hearts and inevitably the one in Jerusalem one day. We are the objects of this war, the unsaved belong to Satan or the "adversary" and the saved belong to Christ. And the assault is on us, as the others are already "won" over.
This gets me back to what I was meditating on before. The hearts that need to hear the right words. If you can expose those words to someone and make them look at their heart I believe they *WILL* come to Christ. People ignore the heart out of fear of looking at themselves in the way that the heart reveals the most secret and intimate things of a person. It reveals the suffering it has endured, the bitterness and hardness it has become and eventually the captivity it is in. But it also shows that small glimpse of what it once was as a child, the love and compassion it once held, the life. It was an unconscious effort that we lived only by the heart then, good or bad. It makes a person long to live that once again, that maybe just maybe it is not something that children merely imagine. Just as unconscious as it was to live by the heart it became that easy to ignore it.
The day you're set free, you begin living by the heart again. When you're confronted with the loss of what you once were at the same time you are offered a *revival*. This is the point we reach and we come to Christ. No other can truly show you this. It is not head knowledge of spiritual things that show you this. Only the heart and the "Liberator" can. My heart was wild and untame. Like a wild horse no one could ride, I was unconquerable in my younger years and while I was smart I was not wise. No one could force me to do anything or believe anything. This was a result of suffering from failed love, a broken home and a puzzle for those trying to educate me and then forgotten. Fierce independence with anger and bitterness. And then one day Christ showed me my heart and what I had "accomplished", meaning nothing.
Made me remember that honorable part of me as a child. When you were a kid, you wanted to be a superhero or a police officer or a firefighter. When you were a kid, you ran around trying to save the girl in distress or the unpopular kid from the bullies. Your true accomplishments. I was conquered that night, Christ succeeded where no one else could ever come close. Awakened that heart I thought was long dead. To recapture that part of you as an adult makes you realize what you were always meant to be. You are a *real* superhero.
