Checking your Heart Position

Establishing the heart position of an overcoming Christian is an active act of free-will. Many people’s walks are stymied, and they are left without emotional and physical healing because they do not understand this through revelation.

Let’s take forgiveness as an example.
We are commanded to forgive people who have trespassed against us. Many people can’t get past this, and they remain under cursing, demonically oppressed and unhealed. They think that they need to have an emotional catharsis before they can forgive. They use their emotions as their rudder, and the oppression brings in additional intransigence.

The Spiritual mechanics of “Forgiveness” work the other way around.

If we chose through our free-will to have a heart position that says, “I obey Father God, therefore, I forgive XYZ, in obedience to Father God”, and then stand in that obedience to Father God. This will release healing and wholeness, as Father God can perform miracles in a heart maintained in that heart position.  As soon as we allow our obedience to Father God become greater than the ‘mountain of unforgiveness’, we have the correct Heart position.

Instruction for the correct use of your mind and heart

Set your mind to remember what God has done

Deuteronomy 4:9 ― Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

Seek God with your whole heart

Deuteronomy 4:29 ­―  But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Recognize that the Lord is God in heaven and on earth; there is no other

Deuteronomy 4:39 ­―  Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

Fear God and keep His commandants

Deuteronomy 5:29 ― O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

Love God with your entire being

Deuteronomy 6:5 ― And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

God’s words shall be first in your mind and heart

Deuteronomy 6:6 ― And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

Impress them diligently on the minds and hearts of your children

Deuteronomy 6:7 ―  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sites in thine house, and when thou wallets by the way, and when thou lies down, and when thou resist up.

Don’t fear larger nations

Deuteronomy 7:17 ―  If thou shalt say in thine heart, these nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Know if you will keep His commandants

Deuteronomy 8:2 ― And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

The Fathers Love and Compassion for you

Know also in your mind and heart that, as a man disciplines and instructs his son, so the Lord your God disciplines and instructs you. We should be diligent in our discipline and instruction of our children so that God will quickly and correctly discipline and instruct us

Deuteronomy 8:5  ―  Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

When God has blessed you don’t forget Him

Deuteronomy 8:14  ―  Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Don’t forget God blessed you and get proud and say you did it yourself

Deuteronomy 8:17   ―   And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Don’t say in your heart that God’s blessings fall on you because you are righteousness

Deuteronomy 9:4 ― Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before theedom mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

 God is keeping His promise to Abraham

Deuteronomy 9:5  ―  Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord share unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Diligently serve God and He will send early and latter rain for crops and grass for cattle

Deuteronomy 6:5  ― And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 10:12 ― And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 11:13-14 ― And it shall happened, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

Don’t be deceived and worship other gods

Deuteronomy 11:16  ―  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Lay God’s words as forehead bands before your eyes

Deuteronomy 11:18 ― Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

Shall not harden heart against nor refuse to help poor brethren

Deuteronomy 15:7 ―  If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Have no greed for brother’s goods

Deuteronomy 15:9 ―  Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Don’t be lifted up in your heart over your brothers

Deuteronomy 17:20 ― That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, amid Israel.

Do not be afraid of false prophets

Deuteronomy 18:22 ―  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Trust God fear no enemy

Deuteronomy 20:3 ―  And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

Let fainthearted return home

Deuteronomy 20:8 ― And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.

See how you will be blessed or cursed, read chapters 27 and 28

Destruction for not serving the Lord with gratitude of heart and mind

Deuteronomy 28:47 ―  Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Disobedience will bring extreme anxiety

Deuteronomy 28:67 ― In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Love and Obey Father God with your whole being, read Deuteronomy 29

If you sincerely repent you will be forgiven.

Deuteronomy 30:10 ―  If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

Word of God is in our mouth

Deuteronomy 30:14 ― But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Punishment for turning to demons and Satan

Deuteronomy 30:17-20  ― But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Set mind and heart on the words of God delivered to you this day

Deuteronomy 31:26  ―  Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Father God is not looking for demonstrated earthly perfection, He is looking for a willing malleable heart. If you take the smallest step towards Father God in Faith, He will meet you right at that point … There is no other God like Him!

This is a Spiritual Battle

We are helpless against Satan if we use natural weapons or our thoughts but, if in all confrontations we use God’s Word as the leveler, we win!

 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ― For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Destroying you old nature

This is where your discipline comes into play. There are 3 steps to putting on the active Mind of Christ

Firstly,  Bible study, and putting the Biblical information into practice, daily.

Secondly, by using God’s provision of deliverance from demon bondage.

Ephesians 4:22-32 ―  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Thirdly,  You must remain well grounded in the Gospel

Colossians 1:21 ― And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

You will learn to control the use of your thoughts

2 Corinthians 10:5 ―  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Philippians 4:7 ― And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Some practical, tactical ‘how-to’s 

While you are getting revelation from the scripture and the Holy Spirit is helping you get a handle on your Christian walk, here are some Practical solutions to help you day by day, (and on some days, minute by minute).

Remember that  Faith, Believe and Appropriate are all verbs, so take action.

Washing Machine Mind

If he can get you thinking in never-ending loops, and reliving past events, he will. Satan throws fiery darts and he throws them at the back of your head.

1. Catch that thought  (Firey dart).

2. Then say over the top of it “I put the Blood of My Lord Jesus Christ over that thought”

3. Then Declare “Mind Binding Spirits, I tell you to Shut up and Go, Now, in My Lord Jesus Christ’s Name”

 Don’t let Satan rob you! Believe that Lord Jesus Christ’s name never returns void.  You will be surprised at how rapidly you can reclaim your mind and thoughts by using Lord Jesus Christ’s Name.  Walk in the obedience to Father God, that He has given you a sound mind.

Put on the Full Armour of God

This means saying out aloud, declaring, and doing it (meaning the actions –  get into it!)

I am shod in the gospel of peace

I have the belt of truth around my waist

I have on the breastplate of righteousness on

I pick up the shield of faith in my left hand

I have the sword of the Spirit of God in My right hand

And, I have on the Helmet of Salvation

I belong to Lord Jesus Christ and I have His precious Blood of protection over me

• put it on in the shower in the morning,
• put it on when you are walking to the train
• put it on while you are sitting on the loo
• put it on while you are driving
• keep pitting it on

Declare that in Jesus Christ’s Name.

I have the Shield of Faith – to fight off the fiery darts of the enemy

I have the Helmet of Salvation – which stops Satan’s fiery darts from getting through to My Mind of Christ Jesus.

Take Communion

Communion isn’t just the reserve of Sunday church meetings.  Have some Grape juice in the fridge and crackers in the cupboard, and reflect on 1 Corinthians 23 – 27.  And then Praise the Lord God Almighty – regardless of your circumstances!

Nehemiah 9:5-6
Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.  You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you. – Amen!