Rooms Of The Heart Pt 1 foundation

I was surprised to fine out that the human heart has so much pressure it could shoot blood up to 30 feet away. I was also taken back by the fact that our heart will beat around 2 billion times in our life. The heart is so amazing. It is created to serve it's purpose and serve it with efficiency. Valentine's Day is fast approaching and we will hear sayings like I love you from the bottom of my heart and I give you my heart.

The human heart has often been associated with love and deep affection, but it has not always been the symbol of deep love like we think of it. In the Old Testament times the colon and large intestines were the center for deep soul based love and affection. That would change the way we see a lot of songs today. Achy Breaky Heart would take on a whole new meaning. Your singing the lyrics now aren't you.

In the human heart the center of love there are many rooms. Each room serves a distinct purpose. Before we can talk about the rooms of the heart we must first talkk about what the heart is built on. The foundation is the key part of the hearts design. The foundations footings are poured and then brick are laid on top of the footings.

It is this part that we have problems with. We were created by God and so our footings were poured. The footings are the 10 commandments that make up our morality. Then we begin to live our life and start placing the bricks of life on them. Unless a brick has mortar it will eventually crumble when it is put under pressure. Friction and movement will happen in ever person's life and unless the mortar is placed on a situation or event in our life we will start the process of crumbling.

Mortar is when you allow Jesus to take all of your problem and stop concentrating on the problem. We need to allow Jesus to cover the problem or hurt or struggle. When we do that, we will be strong and able to use that past event in our life even if it is a hurt or painful memory to strengthen ourselves and others.

When we take the problem away from Jesus and start focusing our energy and effort on it we become bricks with no mortar. Satan then begins to come and tap on that weak area of our wall until he knocks that brick back out and gets us focused on it again. He then starts strategically knocking out pieces of our wall until he causes it to collapse. We must give the entire problem to Jesus and then be proactive in doing things to help the problem instead of dwelling on it. When we do that, we will find that our hopeless feeling of collapse of our faith in God, faith in church, and faith in others begins to be restored.

Jesus wants to re-mortar your life. Even the worst wall can be fixed by the master carpenter. We simply need to be still concentrate on Him and listen to the words he has for us. God wants us to be strong for him. Build your house on the rock and not on the sand. Mt 7:26-28

We can surpass our imagination and be stronger than we ever thought possible with Jesus Christ as our hope and healer.

Can We Really See The People?

As I sat in the Omaha airport, I began to watch people as they went on with their day and boarded planes and passed through security checkpoints. When my number was called to board the plane bound for Phoenix, I remember looking at my ticket and thinking wow I am not last in line, but thinking man I am pretty far from the front. The plane boarded and I was pleased to find myself by the wing of the plane and with an open seat between me and another person. For me comfort had been achieved.

I still could not take my eyes off of the crowd that was on the plane. My mind was captivated by a young man's face that was absolutely normal. There were no distinguishing features about him, he was normal looking. As I saw his face and looked at his eyes I noticed something, this guy was just going through the motions of flying. From his actions, he had flown several times before. He spoke to no one/ He just put on his headphones and listened to whatever on his iPod.

The point I am trying to make is simply this. In our lives, we can get so caught up in the routine that we ignore the opportunities around us to witness and the opportunities around us to recognize and give honor to the creator of life and all that is. We can just put on our iPod's and seclude ourselves with no regard for the people around us going on with their lives.

The opportunities that God gives each one of us far exceeds our imagination. They are bigger and have more impact than we can even imagine. Do we truly see the people around us or do they just blend in to the pictures in our head of what normal looks like. Today, I encourage you to take a new look at what you call normal. Take the time to see each thing, each person, and each act in a new light. In that moment, God will make your normal even bigger than your imagination and the supernatural will become a part of your natural.