Your Spirit & Your Heart
Week 7: Outward Flow
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! -Psalm 139:23-24
This week’s blessing:
Extra blessings from previous classes:
Home Base
Ask your spirit to help you use your imagination to create a mental picture of you having a meeting with one (or more) of the members of the Trinity. (Example: mine is meeting Jesus for a cup of tea, at a nicely laid tea table.)
Use your design. Make it something that is emotionally lovely for you.
Over the weeks (months), spend time “loading up” this image, like you load up a battery. The more details you can imagine, the more your brain will help you make it memorable. (I could imagine what colors the teapot & tablecloth are, the surrounding garden or room, what kinds of lovely foods are on the table, etc.)
This will become a “spiritual locator” for your heart & its GPS system. When you are emotionally troubled, you can picture this place, ask the Lord to meet you there, and your heart will be able (with the help of your brain) to recognize that the Lord actually is there with you, at that very moment. This is a way of investing into spiritual realities that your brain & heart are designed to help you identify & locate.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. . . .
Create in me a clean heart, O God…
Psalm 51:6, 10
This week’s powerpoint:
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. - I John 4:16-19
HEART TOOL BOX
We have been developing a treasure chest of tools for your heart. Here’s a page that lists the ones we have worked on: