Engaging God, we are still on the pathway of relationship. God wants intimacy with us, he wants that intimacy to go deeper, and it flows from the outside, from heaven into our spirit and then out to the world around us. Therefore, in what we are doing right now is we are really looking for a deeper relationship in areas within our heart that God wants us to go deeper in. We looked at various different things and were on the four chambers of the heart gateways of spirit soul and body and how everything flows from the inside out. We have God in his glory, his presence on the inside of us, as we open first Love that flows out through us, so that we can engage the world ourselves from a relationship with God.
Everything that we’ve learned before we had God’s presence on the inside came from the outside in. So we learn from the world to interpret ourselves. But when we have a relationship with God and God is within our spirit then we become God conscious then self-conscious in a flow of God, God consciousness and then we become world consciousness from the perspective of God’s understanding of it, not our past.
So, we reinterpret how we see the world and how we experience things because we get revelation and it flows from the inside out. So, really God’s desire is that everything flows as we have a relationship with Jesus being yoked to Jesus and being discipled by him as we have a relationship with the Holy Spirit in the river of life and as God is enthroned on, in our spirit then everything can flow from the inside out because our spirit gates become open.
We have actually looked and seen the we have to deal with familiar spirits and things that block that flow and we dealt with that as we looked in the gateways. So, dealing with those familiar spirits that sit outside of our spirit trying to hinder the spirit gates being open and flowing and also those familiar spirits that operate in our soul in our conscience, imagination, reason, choice, all those areas and there is a flow of the river of life that comes through the garden of our heart outside of our spirit within our soul to enable us to be in that flow and to get a deeper intimacy with God in it.
So, we looked at ketubah, the marriage contract and have everything relating to these four areas is to do with Hebrew understanding of marriage and intimacy. God calls us to have that relationship and the first aspect of that is the garden, where God wants to engage us in a deeper relationship .The whole Hebrew word lakah was I want you for my own, the first aspect of any relationship. God established that relationship by sending Jesus because Jesus came so that we could have a relationship with God.
We have to prepare our heart for intimacy, our intimacy is hindered if we do not deal with the things in our soul.
So, God could say I want to restore mankind in intimacy so were looking today at preparing the heart. We look mostly last week what the heart is and what it does both from a physical perspective and a spiritual one. Were looking today at preparing our heart. So, we prepare our heart for fruitfulness. So, our heart is really the very core where soul and spirit are joined in a secret place of intimacy. It’s where the very essence of who we are, our personality, our redemptive gift can come into union with our spirit so everything becomes one. So, God wants to restore us and restore the image of how we see ourselves, so that were conformed to the sum of his thoughts that’s revealed to our spirit in eternity. And in intimacy can be re-revealed to us today, so that we can catch up with what we already knew from an eternal perspective. So what is in our heart will determine how we live. Our heart motivates and directs our lives. Our heart contains the programming that triggers our reactions and responses.
What’s in our heart has essentially come from the world, from nature, nurture and trauma and that is where our problem lies. Because that has programmed how we think and how we feel, how we react and if we don’t change that programming, we will keep on doing what we’ve always done and keep on getting the same results which generally are negative. So, God wants to restore us to the truth which can change the results in our life .So, originally with Adam and Eve it was God’s breath, the breath of life, God’s word that programmed their hearts. And God wants to bring that back so his word actually programs our thinking, our emotions and everything else, so we can see it from the perspective of truth not lies.
Genesis 2:7 the Lord God formed man, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being. And once we get born-again, we have the capacity to be that living being. But we need God’s breath, that his breath spirit is in us, but we need to see it begin to change us and transform us. So, God’s word is breath, it contains life, but it needs to be sown into our heart so that life can produce fruit.
Genesis 1:28 is the word that God spoke and breathed into them. God blessed them and God said to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth subdue it and rule. So, God gave Adam a garden, it was on earth so it would reflect Eden, God’s heavenly garden. God always designed earth to be like heaven. He gave man the responsibility for making earth like heaven, and that’s a great responsibility. And then God walked with Adam in those gardens, both of them because Adam had access to God’s garden in heaven as well as the earthly garden.
So, our heart is really designed to reflect our spirit and heaven to be a garden where God can walk with us today. So, we need to re-establish that relationship and that connection. Our heart is designed to be fruitful, it is supposed to be cultivated and growing and have life within it .Our heart is designed to multiply and expand and grow.
It is not supposed to stay the same, our heart is designed to be filled with good things. That was God’s intention, it was always his intention, but the enemy obviously wants to fill us with bad things because that draws us along the wrong path. So our heart, like a garden has soil which needs preparing. If anyone of you are gardeners then you know you can’t just throw seeds on the ground without preparing the soil and expect a really good harvest. So you have to prepare the soil of your heart if you want to produce a harvest of fruit, just like in a normal garden. So we need to prepare the soil of our heart for fruitfulness. Matthew 13:19 when anyone hears the word of the kingdom, you could say the breath of life spoken to us and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. So God sows the word, but the enemies desire is to snatch it away, to stop it producing fruit. And he’ll do whatever he can to try and do that. That means he may deal with the soil and make the soil not conducive for fruitfulness. So the living Word of God needs to be sown into good fertile soil in our heart for it to produce the life that it contains. And without that we are subject to everything that’s been sown there from the outside. So our hearts garden was created to reflect our image as a son of God, that’s our eternal destiny and our eternal relationship with God. He created us to be a son and our heart needs to reflect that. So, sonship is what we are looking to cultivate within our heart. Relationship with the father, with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit so that we come into the fullness of sonship. So, eternity and time converge in the union of soul and spirit. Our spirit came from eternity, our soul is born into time and we need to bring those two together to have eternity in our hearts fulfilled. So, we need to tend the garden to reflect that heavenly spiritual identity that we been given so that are redemptive gift identity and our spiritual identity come together in unison. Then we can fully be a son of God manifested on the earth to answer creation’s grown to bring restoration of all things. So, our heart needs to be in good condition if it’s gonna be a source of life. That’s why we need to guard it, protect it and make sure we are aware of what’s in it. So, our heart usually has soil which is the seedbed of insecurity. Now that’s been programed by our nature, nurture, and trauma experiences and therefore it is easier for it to receive negative things than positive things. Jesus described four types of soil in the heart, we need the right type of soil. Our heart needs to be conditioned and fertile to produce truth and life. Negativity, weeds grow anywhere, they don’t really need that much good soil, in fact some of them prefer actually to grow in negative conditions. So, in the garden some plants like acid soil like camellias and there are those like rhododendrons like alkaline soil, some just like neutral soil. Most plants can tolerate or adapt but they don’t necessarily thrive or are in the best condition if they are not in the right sort of soil. Lies thrive in insecure soil and truth does not, which is why so many people struggle to believe the truth even when they hear it because the soil is not conducive to it producing fruit. Whereas they hear lies and they believe it because it’s been fed and fed and fed. So the soil of the heart produces lies like weeds. Truth thrives in secure soil, lies do not. Lies don’t thrive in a secure soil of our heart. So conditioning the soil will determine what seeds get sown and how they produce fruit. So we need to prepare our hearts now. This is the parable of the sower what Jesus talked about those four soils. Matthew 13:18 hear then the parable of the sower, when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one who’s seed was sown by the side of the road. So another words that was hard heart with compacted soil so when you throw seeds on hard compacted soil they find it very difficult to put roots down. So generally that’s when the birds can come and peck them and take them away because they just sat on the surface. Because they cannot penetrate the soil, hard hearts. Matthew 13:20 the one on whom the seed was sown on the rocky places is the man who hears the word of God, immediately receives it with joy yet has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary. When affliction or persecution arises because of the word ,immediately he falls away. That is indicative of the heart with negative programs. Making that stony soil, so when God’s word comes and its received that’s wonderful, it can’t come down because the lies and the negative memories and emotions within the heart stop it taking root, because they can, they compete with the the seed. Verse 22 the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns this is the man who hears the word and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. Anxious ,worried heart creating a weedy soil which choke out the word. Now often as I said weeds thrive and when you have weeds within the plants often they choke out the plants life, take all its nutrients, so it doesn’t grow very well. So people hear the word of God but because their hearts are not trusting God for the needs of their life to be met then they look at other circumstances and they worry or fret. Verse 23 the one whom seed was sown on good soil, this is the man who hears the word, understands it and indeed bears fruit, brings for some hundredfold, sixty fold, thirty fold, that’s a heart with good fertile soil where truth thrives. God desires our heart to be like that but we have to prepare it, cultivate it, get rid of the stones, the weeds, the hard areas. It is actually quite difficult to break up hard compacted soil, you got to put some effort in. When you get rid of stones you have to dig them out, rake it, rake the soil. Sometimes weeds put down roots which are really really deep and you can’t just chop off the top of the weeds and leave the roots in the soil because they just regrow dandelions. They are a classic example of that. You have to get the taproot out because there are different sorts of roots that plants have. Some have fibrous roots which are tiny little roots and others put a taproot, one major root right down. Negative seeds tend to put down taproots so they put down deep roots which are difficult to get out but not impossible if we know how. So what is the soil of our heart like? We have to ask ourselves the question, if you don’t ask yourself the question then you’ll never find out the answer. Most of us just drift through life never really asking actually. Why do I think that, feel like this, why do I react like that, why do I respond like that. God wants us to reflect. So are there any hard areas in our heart. are there any areas that are filled with stones, bad memories, fear, trauma, are there any wrong seeds that been sown into our heart. Are there any roots from a wrong source are there poisonous fruits that grow. We have to ask those questions and God will show us the answers if were willing to be proactive about it. So thinking of the particular tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that tree or pathway was produced through Satan’s rejecting of God’s sovereignty and wanting to be like God and then offering Adam and Eve the same choice to rebel. So, it’s the pathway of and source of all self and humanism, therefore any independence, we can do it without God comes from that source, all roots from Satan’s trade. What he did is he offered us a shortcut, you can be like God without God which we can’t. Independence always comes from that fruit and that tree. So in our own lives we may have lots of fruit, things that people see on the surface, our behaviors, below there are roots. So, some of those fruits are rejection, anger, fear, and anxiety, addiction, depression, sickness, insecurity, low self-esteem, worry and you could add hundreds of others. They are there because there is a root system in the soil. That root system may have many different sources, we have to find out what sort of roots they are, what sort of sources, but they all came from one thing, a seed. Nothing grows without a seed initially or some sort of reproductive way of multiplying. So, we need to find out what that is, what seed was sown into our hearts that produce roots and then has produced fruits. Hebrews 12:15 says see to it that no one come short of the grace of God no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and by it many be defiled. Our roots of bitterness that causes the springing up of all those fruits, defile people. When we are angry or insecure or rejected and other things, they don’t just affect our lives they affect everyone who is around us. And people can eat that fruit if you like and taste and see that actually its not good. So, we need the right sort of fruit. Love, joy and peace, goodness, kindness, the fruit of the spirit and all the godly attributes of who God is. And God’s desire is that we will be like him. So the soil of insecurity, seeds of offence, roots of bitterness, fruits of resentment must be uprooted. So, the soil of insecurity, that insecure heart, comes through our upbringing usually and sometimes can be generational. But is through lack of love, lack of acceptance and affirmation, approval, encouragement. So, we lack something good sown into our lives, so we don’t know positive things about ourselves. The seeds of offence that come into that soil are things that are said or done or things not said or done, sins committed against us. And those things are seeds that are sown. If we have insecure soil then it’s easy to accept those things and take them on and then they produce roots. The roots of bitterness are things you think or you feel, your responses, emotions, and attitudes as a result of the seeds that are sown, as a result of the fact that you have insecure soil. The fruits are the things you say, and you do, your resulting behavior. So, we have in our heart insecure soil that results from those things, a lack of good fertilization if you like. So, in our heart seeds of offence causes emotion. Offence has to cause emotion; you won’t be offended if it doesn’t touch your emotions. When you feel anger or you feel various emotions attached to what was sown, it may be unfair, you may feel that wasn’t fair, why did someone say that you may feel betrayed or let down or disappointed. All those are emotions are a result of the seed that is been sown. It is usually people who say and don’t do, we may be hurt, all those types of things, so we have that seed now. If you get rid of that seed nothing is going to happen. If you don’t get rid of that seed, it will produce roots of bitterness, it is guaranteed because seeds are designed to produce life. Now in this sense roots of bitterness produce death. It is sown into our heart the subconscious mind so the memories of those things are there because that seed of offence is continually there and when something comes along and reminds us of it we often feel the same emotions. We remember the person who did it and we can feel angry all over again and it may have been something that happened 10 or 20 years ago and yet our button gets pushed and immediately we feel and respond the same way because it’s sown in our heart and programed in our thinking and our responses and reactions. So that really is what our emotions and our feelings and our attitudes that develop within us and they become patterns in our lives. So, we have the fruit of resentment. If you have roots within the soil, it will produce fruit, it is guaranteed. And you can keep trying cutting off that fruit but if there are roots still there it will keep coming back. And that becomes attached to our reason, our thinking and are the filters that filter everything we have. In life we see through colored filters and they are usually bitterness colored. If there are seeds of offence and roots of bitterness in us, we can see the world in a tainted way and that affects how we deal with people how we live how we feel about ourselves because that fruit of resentment is there. And that’s how it leads to our choices. We choose and make decisions based on those things in our lives and sometimes their automatic, we just respond, and we say things and we do things in an automatic way because its programmed. Were so used to doing it, it’s just how we live and that is our behavior and that’s what people see. People see the fruit of what’s gone on in our lives. If it’s good fruit great, people will see a reflection of God’s image in us. If it’s bad fruit they will see something that either they don’t like or birds of a feather flock together. People who have similar attitudes and behaviors actually hang out with each other. Miserable people like miserable people that is what happens. So, we need to deal with those things. So, we can keep cutting off the fruit and that’s what we try and do, you go through therapy, you have all sorts of things, and you keep trying to deal with the fruit, you keep repenting, you want to change, you don’ want to do the same things. But you just do, it just happens over and over again. So it just grows back and then you chop it off and it grows back and you try something else to deal with your behaviors and it just comes back. Temporarily you get rid of it but because the roots are still there it comes back. You can try getting rid of the roots. I am not going to try and deal with the fruit anymore. What are the roots in my life? And you can look at the roots and you can deal with the roots, and you can repent of bitterness, and you can deal with that. But if the seed is still there the roots will come back often bigger and then fruit will come back again. So, the key is you have to deal with the seed. And if you deal with the seed there is no roots can be formed and you can get rid of the fruit and there’s nothing left to come back. So, we need to deal with that. Now then you can look at it. How do you deal with it, forgive and release. You forgive the offences, and you forgive the fact that it produced roots and you forgive the fact that produced resentment and fruits in your life. You deal with the whole package not just I say I forgive you; you have to forgive from your heart as it says in Matthew 18. When you forgive from your heart then you actually remove the seed of offence and there are no possibility of roots coming back and fruit coming up. So, get rid of it, repent of the bitterness. If you have had bitter roots you have to repent of it, you have to renounce that fruit of resentment. So, renounce it, I don’t want to live this way anymore, I don’t want to have this way of thinking, this way of speaking, this way of behaving. So, I renounce that and then you can have good seeds sown into your life. It is so difficult to receive good seeds when you have negative ones. Because it’s so easy to believe lies because you’ve lived with lies all your life. So, when the truth comes it confronts the lies and there is a wrestling match that goes on. If you remove the lies, then the truth can actually be established. God wants us to have a heart of security. He wants us to know were accepted and loved and affirmed and approved, that we have purpose in him, a relationship. If we keep looking to the world to provide those things we will keep getting hurt and will keep getting damaged and will keep getting seeds sown in there and will keep getting roots and fruits. Because the world is designed to do that. Everyone lets us down. Now once you know God’s love then it’s easy to forget people who let you down and not let it affect you because you know ultimately God loves you and God affirms you and God accepts you. If you’re looking for affirmation from men if you’re looking for approval you may get some. But Jesus said you’ll get it here but it will have no eternal value. So, look for something which is going to produce good fruit for an eternal sense because Jesus said where your treasure is there your heart is. So, if were looking for earthly treasure then our heart will be fixed in earthly things. If we are looking for heavenly treasure, then we will have a focus in our heart which will bring heavenly truth. So, we need to have good roots, good things that are producing blessing in our lives, so that we can have fruits of righteousness. The peaceable fruits of righteousness, that which brings us into peace and joy and love and everything else. So, it’s important to give ourselves the time and space for reflection. If we don’t give ourselves any space, then we won’t ask ourselves questions. 1 Corinthians 10:28 says examine yourselves. You have to do a soil test to find out what sort of soil there is in the garden. You know you can do that by filling up a genre water and putting soil in it and you will see what comes out the amount of sand, the amount of clay, you’ll see the amount different things, how many stones there are in there, and it gives you a good idea. You can go further than that, you can do a pH test and test what the acidity of the soil is. You can find out various things by testing it. We need to examine ourselves to find out what sort of soil we got. 1 Corinthians 11:13 says judge yourselves, look to see is this good or is this bad. That’s what God wants us to establish, good soil produces good fruits. Now we can be open and transparent with God because he loves us or can we? With some of the problems we have, we may not trust God because of the things are in our hearts. So we may avoid being open and honest with God because if we think he knows what were really like as if he doesn’t anyway then we avoid being open and honest because we think he will reject me he’ll punish me. If we avoid dealing with things in our lives because of what other people think through the fear of man then that will create a problem. So, we need to be open and honest. God will reveal our hearts, he will show us if were proactive enough to ask. We need to ask and we need to seek and he will unveil and show us what’s in our hearts. Psalm 139:23 a prayer we used over and over again search me thoroughly oh God and know my heart try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there’s any hurtful idolatrous or wicked way in me and lead me in the everlasting way my eternal destiny. God can reveal what he knows to you, put me on trial, this is why we have a court system, a trial where we can find out whether there are anxious thoughts that give the enemy access to our lives. And we can do that through various things, we can do that through a court case, we can do that through lie busting, there are various ministry things we can do to actually sort these things out. But are we willing to pray that prayer and are we willing to honestly ask God to show us the state of our hearts, so that we can be free, healed, restored and made whole. So, we can look at what’s in our hearts, are there weeds, are there memories, are there motives in there, are there those hard stony areas. We can see if we replay events and if we meditate on negative things those negative things get stored in our heart. Which is why it’s so important to forgive people immediately, don’t replay over in your mind and think about well I should have said this or said that and get more angrier because all that does is sow it into your heart. Meditation is what sows things into your heart and if you meditate on negative things negative things get sown and then familiar spirits just love to remind you, they love to agree with you and you’re thinking and promote the reactions and the responses. So, there’s a whole process there which we looked at before several times. So when you look to deal with this, what can you do about it, we’ll forgive and release. Own it, if you don’t own these things are in your heart you will never deal with them. Pride will stop us owning it or fear will stop us owning it. Confess it, confess it as actually this is sin. If I have unforgiveness in my heart it is actually sin renounce it, I don’t want it any more, repent, turn from it, meditate on the truth, take those familiars to court, if they keep coming back with mindsets and thinking patterns and touching your minds and lying to you or tying to stir you. Use positive things, don’t agree with them and say negative things because if you say negative things about yourself you just reaffirm those things in your heart. Get a lie bust if you need deliverance, ask someone to minister to you. We need healing, it is okay dealing with the negative things, but we need healing from the damage that’s been done. So God will heal our hearts, he will restore our hearts. Take communion. Communion is about reprogramming the things that are in our hearts with the truth and use that for transformation to change our hearts to align with God’s plan God’s purpose for us. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says we are being transformed into the same image the image of Christ from one degree of glory to another. It is a process, it is not going to happen instantly, you are not going to deal with every single root or negative thing or memory in your heart overnight. It is a process of continually weeding the soil, it’s like you can’t change your soil instantly unless you go get hold of the new topsoil which we haven’t really got the opportunity of doing that in our heart. We have to deal with the soil we got, but it over a period of time. You can improve the soil, you can rake it regularly, you can get rid of the stones, you can dig it. Double dig, which means you dig a trench and then you go double dig, get down even deeper, breakup the subsoil. There is lots of ways you can improve your soil, you can add fertilizer, you can add manure, you can add compost, you can add things which break up the clay, you can add sand to clay soil. There’s lots of things you can do, it is a process. Every year beginning at the end of the year I add a whole load of manure to my garden because then during the year the worms break it down and they get a good soil over the winter, the worms break it down and it produces good soil. So, we need to see this as a process of change. The reason for this is so we can display God’s glory, so we can actually be his manifest presence of God on the earth as it is in heaven. God wants us to be reflections of who he is, but we need to choose to embrace and pursue the process of maturity, change. Maturity or not, it is our choice. You don’t have to become mature spiritually, you know there are a lot of people who are physically mature who are very spiritually immature. You have a choice. You can choose to stay babies and toddlers and infants but if you do you won’t inherit true sonship because true sonship comes to the mature whom God will entrust with the fullness of inheritance. God still loves you, but you won’t come into the fullness of being able to rule and be part of his government and to bring life into the world and bring transformation. So, our heart literally has senses just like our body. The ears of our heart is our conscience, those little voices on the inside that speak to us whisper to us if you remember Tom and Jerry you use to have bad Tom on one shoulder the good Jerry on the other shoulder little halo and a pitchfork and they’re competing from one another the negative and positive things. So we need our conscience programmed with the truth that will direct us in the right way. The eyes of our heart our imagination where we can begin to engage and see. The voice of our heart our reason, it is good to reason together with God to use his truth to be the foundation for our decisions and choices. Our heart has emotions and desires and a will. Our heart has a personality and a redemptive identity. Our heart thinks, has a mind, there is a conscious, subconscious and unconscious areas. Subconscious mind is where our memories are stored, our mindsets, belief systems, worldviews, values are programmed. that’s really what the soul of the heart is, the subconscious mind. The garden of our heart is where the subconscious and the conscious mind intersect and connect. You don’t think in your mind until it gets triggered from your heart. So your subconscious is where all the things are programmed, and will trigger what you think in your conscious mind. It’s like in a computer the subconscious mind is like the hard drive that has all the programs stored when you click on the icon it loads those programs into the random access memory of the computer and then they run. So the things that are stored in our heart often are triggered by things that happened to us and they come into our mind and immediately were thinking a particular way because those things are stored there. Our heart is created to be a place where our spirit and soul connect it’s always been God’s desire that we would be one. A living being becoming a godlike being as sons. It’s where our secret place of intimacy with God can be cultivated. We can cultivate a place in our hearts which has intimacy with the father which brings that sonship into us. It’s a place where those green pastures and quiet waters and the river of life flows where the table is set before us as described in Psalm 23. Where we can feast on the truth that he puts there for us to eat. Our heart, our spirit, really our inner world. Our heart connects with the outer physical world through our physical senses of our body. If we only interpret through our physical senses from outside in then we will be picking up the things that the world is showing us. If we interpret the physical things of the world from a God perspective flowing from the inside then we see things from a completely different manner. Our heart connects with the heavenly realm so that flows through us, so our heart is connected by the Spirit by the river of life that’s what brings life. It’s that living water that flows from within the river of life was flowing out of Eden God’s heavenly garden flowing into Adams earthly garden and then was supposed to flow out into the world. It didn’t stagnate there and die like the river Jordan does. The river Jordan flows into the dead Sea and goes nowhere. It is dead because it doesn’t flow, anything that stagnates will produce negative things, it has to be flowing. Therefore, freely we’ve received from God freely give, flow out into the world. That was always God’s intention for heaven to flow into the earth and to bring fruitfulness to the whole earth, not just a little garden. So, the river of life flowed out and divided into four rivers that watered the whole earth. Our heart is where our spirit is joined, where springs and rivers described the Holy Spirit and our spirit flowing together. That’s really what the fountain of life is, when we drink that Fountain, it becomes a river, and we are part of that river. So, the spring and fountain of John four is within our spirit, it becomes the rivers that is described in John seven flowing from our innermost being through the soul out into the world. That’s the whole purpose of this. If it’s just about me and all about me, then we miss the point. Relationship with God is wonderful and intimate and it’s an amazing thing to have but we need to give it away. We need to show others what that relationship is about. So, in Adams physical garden is now equated to our hearts garden. Were still responsible to tend and cultivate it just as Adam was we are responsible. We can’t just leave it and expect it to be fruitful we have to look after it. So those four rivers flowed to four physical areas. We now have the four chambers of our heart which are representing those four places of intimacy, restoration and connection with God. They’re all about connecting with the river of life, that’s what flows. The river of life is connected with the tree of life which is the source of life from heaven. God wants us to have that flowing in us so our garden is cultivated and created and looks great and feels great and tastes great and everything in there is full of life rather than death. So, my spirit is joined to the Lord in first Love. I become one spirit with him and then that flows into my soul, that bring spiritual life, guidance, direction, power, restoration to my soul because it flows from life itself. It brings agreement and cooperation and unity and unison, oneness. We don’t want our soul and spirit squabbling with each other for control, we don’t want flesh and spirit arguing. We want life that flows in unity. Unity brings blessing, unity releases the power and anointing of God so the more open my spiritual gates are and the gates of my soul the more depth there is to the river. And the more powerful the flow of that river is. So, if our gates are only just open, then there isn’t going to be much of depth and there isn’ going to be much flow. Ezekiel 47 talks about a river flowing from a house, now we are that house, we are the house of God. God dwells in us, we are a gateway and a Channel for that river to flow or not. So, it starts with a trickle in Ezekial 47 it says a trickle came under the threshold it becomes ankle-deep like a rivulet and it continues to become knee deep like a stream it increases its flow becomes waste deep like a tributary. But eventually it becomes out of depth like a river in flood. So, then that can flow out to the world, and it says in Ezekial 47 that produces live wherever it goes. It can turn saltwater into fresh, it can bring life to the world if it’s flowing through us. Now that river has a wavelength, the frequency it creates a spiritual atmosphere of vibrational frequency of love and joy and peace and power around us that can actually touch people’s lives. People can sense it and feel it such was that coming through Peter’s shadow healed somebody. So, they were in his atmosphere and that brought healing to them. Now it’s quite possible we can create the same things and it doesn’t just stop with this little bubble around us. It’s supposed to expand and flow outwards, so that spiritual atmosphere can extend and cover all the spheres of influence we have in authority on the earth as it is in heaven. It is not designed to be stuck within us, it’s supposed to expand and grow and bring the glory of God and bring the life of God and to bring the rule of God into those areas of our lives that were responsible for. And that can grow and expand to wider and wider places to fill the earth.
Ultimately some people have a destiny to touch the whole earth. Some people will touch their family, some people will touch their area or their region or their nation. We all have a destiny for that river of life and atmosphere that we create to flow from the inside of us to bring the rule of God to bring fruitfulness to bring blessing around us .So we have this picture ,spirit the breath of life like our lungs picks up oxygen goes into the heart it pumps out to our mind to our body then the mind and body run out of oxygen so they draw back from the lungs by sending the blood back to the heart then it pumps it back to the lungs and know the whole cycle goes on and on and on. So, the spirit the breath of life is supposed to touch our mind and our body, and the mind and body should be always drawing from our spirit from the breath of life not from the outside.
So, that’s where real life comes from, and God wants to see this established around us. So literally our blood flows through our heart physically carrying oxygen to our body, the brain cannot survive without oxygen for a few minutes. So, that blood is actually programmed from what is sown into the heart. What is spiritually in our heart actually has power to affect our physical body, our mind to reprogram our thinking and to reprogram the cells of our body because they carry eternal life. That’s what communion does when we’re taking communion. Looking to sow that into our heart to touch the whole of our lives with that life. Proverbs 23:7 as he thinks in his heart so is he. So, you are a sum total of what you’re thinking about now. Scientifically, quantum, physically we can prove that’s true because we have the power to create our own reality by our observation and our attitudes and thinking. But it goes on to show this when they did scientific studies of the mind. They were anticipating that they would see a lot of electrical electromagnetic energy around the brain because that’s surely that’s where all the thinking goes on. Well actually it’s 10 times stronger around the heart than it is around the brain. And the brain you can pick up activity about 10 to 12 inches away. From the heart you can pick it up to 10 feet away. So, there’s a lot more thinking that goes on in the heart that actually effects the atmosphere around us. So, we need to make sure what we’re thinking about what’s in our heart is good so the blood literally can reprogram our conscious mind and the cells of our body with what stored in our hearts good or not good. If we have eternal life stored in our hearts, then we don’t need to die. If we have lies and we believe those lies in our hearts, then it will produce death in us one way or another. So, God wants to bring a restoration of life. Proverbs 13:12 hope deferred makes the heart sick but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. We need to guard our hearts to be deliberate about what’s stored there. God wants to restore our hearts and heal our hearts, he wants us to have a heart that’s filled with good soil and fruitful.