THE LINK PART 2 (Heart to Heart)

Welcome back...if you are just joining us...be sure to read Part One of THE LINK. We have seen that we are created beings...designed with the capacity to receive and transmit communication with God. He desires to SPEAK...we have EARS to HEAR...
beyond the mere sound of words...but filtering through a RENEWED MIND by the WORD of God. The next level in our communication process is for the WORD OF GOD...to drop deep into the center...the core...the heart of who we are. Now we are not talking about the HUMAN PUMP aka The Heart. We are talking about the LAMP OF THE LORD...THE SPIRIT (Proverbs 20:27) This is the point of REVEALATION....Spirit (Holy) to spirit (human). "For to us God REVEALED them (read I Corinthians 2:9 for what is revealed)...through the Spirit (Holy); the Spirit searches all tings, even the depths of God (Read Romans 8:27)...For who among men knows the thoughts of man except the spirit of man, which is in him? Even so the THOUGHTS of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might KNOW the things freely given to us by God." (I Corinthians 2:10-12) So we see that God is a revealer...and that what the Spirit has found out from the depths of God...He SPEAKS to us in our spirit. What do we do with what He speaks to us.? That takes us to the next step.

The MOUTH....the lips...the tongue...the articulators. We take our thoughts and speak them out. Of course if we speak from an unrenewed mind...we are not speaking from a God perspective but a SELF prespective. Have you ever given someone a piece of your MIND. Well, you did it through your mouth. "Death and Life are in the power of the TONGUE, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. (Proverbs 18:21) The question is...what are you speaking...what are you eating? NOTE: Recommended Reading: Joyce Meyer's book ME AND MY BIG MOUTH (Your Answer is Right Under Your Nose). What is in your mouth is what is in your heart...or as the Word puts it, "Out of the abundance of the heart...the mouth speaks." If you take a cup of coffee and shake it violently...to the point of where coffee spills out everywhere..you must wonder...WHY DID COFFEE COME OUT OF THAT CUP? The obvious answer is because you shook the cup. But in reality...the shaking only revealed what was in the cup. Why did coffed come out of the cup? Because that was what was IN THE CUP. What comes out of our mouths...whether it be anxiety, worry, tension, anger, doubt, unbelief, sarcasm, faith, believe, postive, etc...is revealed when we are under pressure. If our communication link is clear...if our minds are renewed...if our minds are stayed on the word...there is a peace that should flow over our lips. Speak words of God...life....speak words of yourself with an unrenewed mind...death.

Anyone can talk the talk..but can you walk the walk. "But prove yourselves DOERS OF THE WORD, and not merely HEARERS who delude themselves. For if anyone is a HEARER of the word and not a DOER, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirro; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was."
(James 1:22-4) Hearing is important...but doing is effectual. "But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and ABIDES by it, not having become a FORGETFUL HEARER...but an EFFECTUAL DOER, this man shall be blessed in WHAT HE DOES." (James 1:25)

In the Ruminator Sunday School Class we have a saying:

UNRESTRAINED THOUGHTS (what we think) PRODUCES
UNRESTRAINED WORDS (what we say) RESULTING IN
UNRESTRAINED ACTIONS (what we do)

Proverbs 29:18 states that "Where there is no vision/revelation, the people are UNRESTRAINED, but happy is he who KEEPS the law."

When we hear the word...filter the word through a renewed mind...plant that word in the soil of our heart...speak out of the abundance of the heart...and do what the word says instead of being unrestrained...but restrained by the Word of God...then we accomplish the purposes of God in our lives and become an communication tool to a lost and dying world.

Keep da faith baby.
Love and Spoken Kisess
(Rod "Clear Channel" Boyd