Purposed In Heart…
Proverbs 23:7 (Amplified Bible)
7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].
This weekend was one of those weekends where I knew going in I had an enormous amount of things going on. As the week progressed I dreaded the thought of having to run around all weekend, because as the week progressed it seemed like more and more things kept popping up and going wrong, although they may have seemed little to some they were still there none the less. On Friday afternoon I had about hit my wall with some things and wanted to shut down, and go take a nap and forget about all that had gone wrong, and wake up Monday morning to start a new week. I felt myself in that place and I dragged myself upstairs out of the path of everyone else in the house and lay across my bed and said a silent prayer. I had in those moments allowed my thoughts to overwhelm me and take me to a place where I was not confessing, “I could get through too, this too shall pass, or this is only a storm,” all I was seeing was everything that had gone on and everything I still had to get done. On Saturday morning I woke up before the sun came up and began to pray, asking God for strength and courage to get all that lay before me done. In that moment I felt my help…I mapped out the day and started to move, not giving thought to what had been behind or what lay ahead, only thinking that I had task to get done, people to see and places to go.
We do not realize how powerful our mind can be. It is and can be the very thing that drives the rest of us. It can make or break our day and our attitude. It can cause us to send out subconscious messages about our abilities or lack thereof. It can tell our heart to love or not to. It can cause us to be depressed or to be happy. The mind is so powerful it even has control over our bodies and certain thoughts that it produces can make us physically ill. This is the reason why you hear, doctors sometimes say, it is all in your mind, they are not off, there are times when illness does begin in the mind. This is why it is so vitally important to get our heart and mind right. Our thinking can quickly go from a passing thought to something imbedded in our hearts that takes root, grows, and fuels us one way or another on the positive or the negative side. I was having a conversation with a friend the other night and we were discussing being hurt in relationships, and we concluded that if we allow the hurts of the past to become something we are focused on and think about often it will be impossible to move on, because that pain will be the feeling that our mind tells our heart is waiting for us any time we enter into that type of relationship. It is important that we purpose in our hearts to do all we can to stay positive, stress free and focused on a God that has made us victorious and more than an overcomer. If we our focused on a God that promised to never leave us or forsake us and knowing that if He goes before us He is more than the world against us, we understand He has already given us the victory, we would understand that all we need to do is think on that and do what we have to do to get the job done, not through our strength and power but His!
Isn’t it time to deal with our thoughts? To deal with the very heart of whom we are? Our ability to do or not to do lays in what is in our heart. If we say we can’t we can’t, if we say the day is going to be bad, trust and believe it will be, if we say the circumstances are overwhelming they will be. But if we think on the goodness of Jesus and all that He has done for us, we will understand that whatever may be transpiring is but a temporary state of affairs and that God (as He always has) is going to bring us out. That He will give us enough grace to make it through and to accomplish just what needs to get done, in the time it needs to get done. If we can think ourselves happy we can be happy, but it will all depend on what we decide is purposed in our heart to see, say do and react to. Let your heart remember that we have the ultimate source of strength, power, love and ability and His name is Jesus!
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