THINKING WITH THE HEART






THINKING WITH THE HEART

 

Pr23:7 says about man, “…as he THINKS IN HIS HEART, so is he…”

THINKS - shaar: To calculate, reckon, estimate, or think

 

WHAAAAT?  YOU CAN THINK IN YOUR HEART?

 

In 1991, pioneer neuro-cardiologist Dr. J. Andrew Armour discovered that the heart possessed its own complex nervous system that acts as a brain… yet functions independently from the brain in the head.

He coined the term, “HEART BRAIN”, and has proven this “HEART BRAIN” senses, processes and records information internally and autonomously, usually WELL  BEFORE  the brain’s conscious thought reacts to it.

It is the body’s FIRST RESPONDER.

 

 

Apparently, science is finally acknowledging what the Bible has always stated:  THE HEART… not the brain… has always been considered to be the center of being…

The Hebrew word for HEART (leb) is referenced as the source of all emotion, will, thought, purpose, intent, intuition, direction, conscience, intellect, and life itself.

It is the place of IDENTITY... the central, intrinsic awareness of who one really is.

 

And since “the fall” of man, that “source”, having been separated from union with the very heartbeat of The Creator, is dark, wicked, deceitful, and evil… taking after “the father of all lies”.

 

Hence… Jer17:9 “THE HEART is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

 

That is why “you MUST be BORN AGAIN!” (Jn3:3,7)

 

 

Eze36:26-27 “…I will give you A NEW HEART and put a new spirit within you…”

 

 

2Cor5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold, ALL THINGS are become new.”

 

As a NEW CREATURE… one that never existed before… with A NEW HEART… we have a new source of thought and idea generation… a new center of intent and purpose… a new vantage point from which to see all of life…

                  We NOW have the MIND OF CHRIST (1Cor2:16)

We NOW have the SPIRIT of wisdom and revelation

in the knowledge of Him [IN HIS KNOWLEDGE] (Eph1:17)

                  IT IS NOT BY OUR OWN INTELLIGENCE ANYMORE!

 

 

 “Trust in the LORD with ALL your HEART, And lean not on your OWN UNDERSTANDING (the faculty of insight and discernment)

“In all your ways be intimately one with him,

he will lead you wherever you go.” [Pr3:5-6(literal)]

 

 

 

I travelled a lot when our family was young. One day I asked my wife how she made all the decisions and kept everything flowing seamlessly in my absence. She answered with something that changed my view of life.

She said, “I think with YOUR HEART.”

 

 

That is how WE NOW LIVE…

WE THINK WITH HIS HEART.


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