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Category Archives: heart care
The forefront of your mind and the center of your heart
To believe that Jesus rose and is now present everywhere yet neglect to daily interact with Him is to miss the point of Christianity. For Christians to wake-up is to become gloriously aware that we carry Christ’s presence and to … Continue reading
Posted in a healthy mind, Create in me a clean heart, fire in the heart, heart care, mental health, pure in heart
Tagged advancing Christianity, background dfinition, background quotes, center of your heart, forefront definition, forefront of your mind, forefront quotes, renewing of your mind, step out of the background
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Do Christians need a defibrillator?
Lord, defibrillate my heart. Revive me to the awareness of Your presence and Your prompts. Cause my heart to begin to beat in sync with You. Christians need God’s defibrillator! Too many Christians are unaware of and unresponsive to the … Continue reading
A closed heart creates “I-solatioion” & “lone-me-ness”
Heart wallsPrevent usFrom hearingHeart calls. When a human heart breaks insight enters into it, but too often people cling to the pain and push out the light. Jealously indicates a closed heart. Being happy for other people’s good fortune reveals … Continue reading
Open up the private prison of your closed heart
If you will startTo reveal your heartYou’ll soon discoverThat people aren’tVery far apart. Open hearted interaction with people creates beautiful interpersonal connections. Privacy prevents them. Fear of pain or rejection prevents many people from experiencing the daily joys of an … Continue reading
Posted in Christ in Christmas, Christmas season, Create in me a clean heart, heart, heart care, heart connection
Tagged closed heart, heart-felt love, insights about Christmas, lessons from the Christmas story, open heart definition, open heart quotes, openhearted, privacy definition, right to privacy quotes
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Jesus gave me a heart transplant
A fresh startWithout a new heartWill still dartDown old paths. You can’t mend aHeartWith a mentalAgenda.Many who are smartAre inwardly torn apart,But Jesus replacedMy shattered stone heartWith His healing love. Now Jesus revealsLight that thrillsAnd fillsMy heartWith joy. Jesus fills … Continue reading
Posted in Create in me a clean heart, heart, heart care, heart strangely warmed, human heart, pure in heart
Tagged a new heart, Ezekiel 36:26, God has shinned in our heart, heart is deceitful, heart of gold, Jeremiah 24:7, love God with all your heart, out of the heart comes, secrets of your heart, spiritual heart transplant
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Good works, faith-rest, and a rubber squeeze coin purse
Your heart is like a football-shaped rubber squeeze coin purse. If you won’t work to continually hold it open to God and to other people, it will suddenly snap shut. Much that is called Christianity is merely human effort and … Continue reading
Posted in faith in God, faith walk, faith without works, faith-based, football, heart care, heart connection, justification by faith, people of faith
Tagged football shaped coin purse, heart-felt, Jesus in my heart, loving heart, open heart, pure in heart, squeeze coin purse, surrendered heart, the heart of worship
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Experience “innermost being” Christianity
Innermost being Christianity is much more powerful than mere church attendance. What does the Bible mean when it talks about your “innermost being”? The innermost being is the place of awe-releasing rivers of living water that flow from deep within … Continue reading
Posted in burning heart, from the heart, heart, heart care, heart-felt, rivers of living water, soul, soul food, soul searching
Tagged Christ in your heart, heart-felt Christianity, innermost being, innermost definition, innermost quotes, Jesus rivers of living water, the heart of worship
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The glory of God’s oratory in my heart
God’s thought-voice is audibleAnd you are capableOf hearing it,If you makeYour heart available,Just like you hearOther thoughts in your mind. I’ve never heard anyone preach or speak like the glory of God’s oratory in my own heart. His thought-voice continually … Continue reading
Amazing things happen when your heart reaches for God
As long as you feelLike you haveWhat you want,You won’t wantGod to help you. Reach beyond your pride into the secret treasure chest of humility and brokenness. To reach for God is to exceed your grasp, but it begins to … Continue reading
Is heart ablation a biblical concept?
The Bible’s “Big Story” is that all human hearts are out of synch with the living God, yet He came to humanity as a human being as Jesus Christ to restore people’s connection to Him. The “Small Story” is that … Continue reading