What it Means to Believe with the Heart !

WHAT IT MEANS TO BELIEVE WITH THE HEART: We take God at 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). The apostle Paul said this because the Philippian believers were givers (Luke 6:38) "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you measure it shall be measured to you again." 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 of God out loud, because faith cometh by hearing and by hearing the Word of God. As we meditate in this Word, our service becomes deeper. This assurance and 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 physical five senses. HOW TO TRAIN THE HUMAN SPIRIT: The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly." (Proverbs 20:27). Your spirit can be educated just as your mind can be. And your spirit can be built up and strength just as your body can be. Here are four rules by which the human spirit can be trained and developed: [1[. By meditating in the Word. [2]. By practicing the Word of God. [3]. By giving the Word of God first place in your life. [4]. By instantly obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit within your spirit. After a wound you can know the will of God The Father in all the minor details of life, because it is through your spirit, and not through your mind or reasoning faculties, that He communicates with you. When God says in (Proverbs 20:27), that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, he means that He is going to use man's own spirit to enlighten and guide him. [1]. MEDITATING IN THE WORD: Three of these four points have to do with the Word of God. You must realize the value of God's Word and the value of quiet meditation in the Word of God. The most deeply spiritual men and women I know gave time to meditation in the Word of God. You cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation. God made that fact known to Joshua at the very beginning of Joshua's ministry, just after the servant Moses had died. All the children of Israel at that dispensation of time had was the book of the Mosaic law. (Joshua 1:8). "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou may is observed to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success." Another translation of the last phrase reads, "and then you will be able to deal wisely in the things of life."