What it Means to Believe With the Heart !

What it Means to Believe With the Heart : ". . . Believe [first] that you receive them [the desires], and you shall have them [the desires]" (Mark 11:24). The amplified Bible's translation reads, "For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe-- trust and be confident-- that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]." When are you going to get it ? After you trust and all confident it is granted to you. Too many want to get it first and then they will believe they have it. But Jesus said that you have to believe you've got it, and then you will have it. You believe it with your heart. And to believe with the heart means to believe with the spirit. How is it that our spirit obtains faith which our intellect cannot obtain ? The answer is through the Word of God. Faith in God only comes by hearing and by hearing the Word of God ! (Romans 10:17). Just as faith in anything else comes by hearing. (Matthew 4:4) says, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Jesus is speaking here of spiritual food. He is using a natural, human term to convey a spiritual thought. Our spirits become filled with assurance and confidence as we meditate in the Word. To observe to do ! The Word is spiritual food; it is faith food, God's kind of food. The Word is the food that views the spirit. The Word of God is the food that makes the spirit strong and kills it quite assurance and confidence in God. To believe with the heart means to believe apart from your physical body or your physical senses may tell you. The body--- the physical man--- believe what he seems with the physical or filled with the physical senses, and here's with the physical ears, or what his physical feelings tell him. The spirit, all the heart, however, believes what the words say is, regardless of seeing, hearing, or feeling. Faith must be based upon what the Words says. Many people are prayed for again and again and again. Now I do not mean that you should not come back to be prayed for the second time. I have a reference to those who come repeatedly. Those who come repeatedly and do not receive healing do not have faith in the Word. They may tell you that they believe God or that they love the Lord but they have no corresponding actions to what the Word says. They have a natural human faith. Because they do not see that they are healed or have some physical evidence of it, they won't believe it. Heart faith believes the Word of God first; then the physical evidence will take course of itself. To believe with all your heart is to believe with your spirit. To believe with all your heart is to believe independently of your head and of your body. (Proverbs 3:5) tells us, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." Most people practice that, all right, but they practiced it in reverse. They trust with all their understanding and lean not to their own heart ! The next two verses in (Proverbs 3 say, "in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes. . ." (vv. 6-7). In other words, "don't be wise with natural human knowledge, which would cause you to act independently of the Word of God. In the New Testament we find the counterpart of this Scripture: "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations [reasonings], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ "(2 Corinthians 10:4- 5). It's true, a man can have what he or she is saying if they believe and doubt not in their hearts those things which he or she is saying ! This is very important: if you want to walk by faith, the Word being superior to anything and everything else. It must be superior to any knowledge, whether that knowledge is yours or someone else's. When you trust God with all your heart, a quietness and a piece comes into your spirit, because the Word says "For we which have believed do enter into rest. . ." (Hebrews 4:3). We believers take God is His Word when we see that He says, "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Now the reason that Paul made this statement was because the believers in Philippi was preparing and offering to the Macedonian believers. In other words, believers took care of believers which are the church of Jesus Christ. We simply know in our spirits that everything we need will be supplied, and we don't worry. We have no anxiety. If we were worrying and being anxious, we would not be believing. Our hearts take courage as we read the Word. As we meditate in this Word of God, our assurance becomes deeper. This assurance in our spirit is independent of our human reasoning or human knowledge. It may contradict human reasoning. It even may contradict physical evidence. Believing God with the heart means to believe apart from your body.