Trusting in the Lord with ALL YOUR HEART - Ray Price

• 22/11/2018
• SLC Stuart Price

 

 

 

    Proverbs 4:23 says “Watch over (guard) your heart (SOUL – mind, emotions

    & will – or your THINKING, FEELING & CHOOSING part of you) with all

    diligence, For from it flows the springs of life.” Because from our soul,

    our life will flow…whether it be good or bad. Jesus said to seek first the

    Kingdom of God – His way of operating Matthew 6:33. “Wisdom is the

    principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get

    understanding.” Proverbs 4:7

 

    Who do you say that you are today?

 

    Often Christians compare God to sickness, lack or some other mountain by

    how they worry & are anxious about these things; dwelling on their

    problems, which exalts it in the area of their mind. If a small boy; who

    was bullied daily, was to make friends with the biggest boy at school, then

    the bullying would stop. We must spend time meditating on who we have

    become in Christ; this understanding is paramount to our ability to walking

    in the spirit.

 

    “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own

    understanding” Proverbs 3:5. The Message translation puts it this way:

    “Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out

    everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do,

    everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume

    that you know it all.” What we need to know is; that our confidence, is

    really in The One who knows it all. This One is the amazing Holy Spirit! He

    is ever-ready to help us in every way, every day. What we must do is to

    guard our heart (soul) because out of our thinking, feeling & choosing

    will come our words, which will produce what we get in life.

 

    We must understand about our soul-brain connection if we are to ever “renew

    our mind” as commanded to in Romans 12:2. The soul is a non-physical thing

    which programs the physical part – the brain. The brain responds to the

    thoughts & feelings & choices that we make in your non-physical

    soul, and then signals all areas of our body accordingly…right down to our

    genetic & DNA levels of our body. So, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO programs your

    brain by your reactions & thinking to all situations that you are faced

    with… every time without fail. Therefore to ‘renew our mind’, we must be

    our own brain surgeon & address bad thinking that we have programmed

    ourselves with. The good news is today, that if you have wired your brain

    in a particular way which is negative, then you are able to undo this

    wiring and rewiring it according to how Jesus would think and react under

    given stimulus with the help of the Holy Spirit. Neuroplasticity is the

    ability for our brains to be rewired – scientists have only understood for

    a short time, what the Bible has told us for 1000’s of years.

 

    Proverbs 3:6 says “ In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct

    (or make smooth or straight) your paths” so as God’s children we are not

    designed to do life resting on our own understanding but to be referring to

    Him in all things for His ‘perfect will’ & simply be asking His

    direction in all our ways. This is connecting with Him: which is prayer. To

    be continually looking to Him for all our choices is actually what it is to

    ‘pray without ceasing’ 1Thesalonians 5:17. This will require your own

    regular & deliberate personal effort!

 

    In 3 John 2, we are told that our health & prosperity is directly

    linked to how we think. Proverbs 23:7 says that we are, as we think we are.

    Therefore, our personal deep thinking is so important & will determine

    the kind of life that we will have. Philippians 4:6 tells us to “be anxious

    for nothing”… not 1 thing. We live in a time where stress (anxiety,

    pressure, fear, worry) is the root cause of almost all disease & death.

    Jesus came to bring abundant life & Hebrews 4 tells us that there is a

    rest for Gods people.

 

    The secret to gaining this rest in life is to be consciously, determined

    & focused on staying God-reliant & not self-reliant ... allowing

    the Holy Spirit to be in the driving seat of your life, following

    Philippians 4:4-9’s path to life. I encourage you to start today to

    regulate your thoughts & be your own brain surgeon… & we can have

    the mind of Christ.

 

    Ray Price.