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A Troubled Heart Leads To a Confused Walk

Have your ever been in a place, confused about why you were there or even made a decision about a thing in life and didn’t understand how you came up with that decision? How about even lost the reason why you were headed in one direction then turn around and start going back in the opposite direction? Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

The Word refers to the heart, but its actually talking about your mind. That is your existence. Brain cells are not only in the brain, but also in the heart. The brain gives your heart thought and memory on how to pump. What is inside of your heart that you can’t retain, explain, or control what goes on in your life? Why is your heart always causing you problems? Your heart isn’t any bigger than your fist. Do you allow things around you to effect your thoughts? Do you allow people to come into your life to destroy your heart? Do you allow thoughts of someone else’s misery to come in and cause you to be miserable? The heart (the mind) is deceitful. It knows to do good but won’t do it. It knows that a situation is wrong, but it goes along with the situation. A man once said, “A woman said she loved me once, then later said she didn’t.” When there’s a problem of the heart whether via emotions, hurt, sickness or even sin, you lose focus and the ability to make rational decisions or judgments. Your heart, which is your mind thinks about that and this. People have used the heart for generations to express their feelings. They notice that when they begin to fall for someone, their heart beats a little faster, being under the impression that it has an intellect of its own. However the mind tells the heart what to be. That is why people always say, “Do you have the heart for this,” or “Do you have the heart for that,” or “Are you heartfelt for those things?” all while grabbing their heart. Why do they grab their heart? Because they know if the heart stops beating so do you. If the mind dies, then you are dead, even if the heart is still pumping.

The Bible also mentions in Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” You think about this because its in you. You love money, possessions, for people to give you accolades, prestige, finances, lifestyle, big homes and cars. Why? Because that is where your heart is. For those who are the children of God, where does your heart lie? If you are someone who is attached to this world, take an evaluation of where you’re heart is. A lot of things that we care for in our hearts and minds where we conceive these thoughts sometimes open the door to Satan’s realm of sin and confusion, making you despondent, having no focus.

1 Corinthians 14:33, “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” So you’re confused. What has troubled your heart that you are confused at this stage in your walk, that you don’t know where your life is going? The Bible clearly state that God is not the problem of confusion nor is he progenitor of a lie. So as we walk our walk, let’s be very careful who we let into our heart or that secret place that we share with our Lord and Savior. That is serious. We talked before about the heart of a married woman to her husband, and the heart of a single woman is the Lord. Each has to be very careful of whom they allow in their presence who would steal her heart away. Why? Its like coming between a married couple. Satan knows that if he can separate you from the source, your walk will be hard and the more stumbling you do, the farther you’ll be from your destination. Its a curious thing to realize who you are and where you are in your life now. If you are in a confused state, look back and see where the confusion has come from. From the love of a thing, something or someone, from a hurtful situation? Emotional attachment have been one of the detriments of a Child of God’s walk in his life. Who are you attaching yourself to and why? When you attach yourself to the wrong things your heart begins to fall for it and you begin to be instructed and guided by that thing. Which is not a good thing for a Child of God. You’ll notice even when you go to school, they’ll tell you in college to maintain your focus on the thing at hand. If you are focused, there is less chance for some other thing to cause confusion to come into your life. Most people allow other things to come in and invade their mind and heart. Everything was going great, everything is good, the Lord is blessing me and all of a sudden he came along and “rocked your world.” You allowed him to come into a calm sea to rough up the water. Now both of you are sitting there in a confused state and don’t know which direction to go in. But you’re trying to walk a walk, which before was progressing so much. You were excited and you wanted things from God and you saw those things happen almost instantly. But under that process, you allowed someone else to come in and trouble your heart. When your heart is troubled it is felt through your whole body. Some of you have been to the point where you were so much in love you couldn’t eat right, talk right or sleep right. That is what a troubled heart goes through when it knows that the attachment is not quite solid. Has anyone broken a cold sweat over the Lord because they couldn’t contact Him? Our hearts and minds need to know one thing: work together. Don’t allow yourself to be over confident in your relationship. Because if there is a door that can be opened through hurt pain or sin, Satan will bring it.


He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.


Psalms 91:1

If you allow yourself to dwell in the secret place with the Lord, your heart will not be broken, no one will steal it or even mess with it, because you’ll be under the shadow of the almighty. He will protect what you are and who you are because you are His. Its when you step out from under the shadow. When its really hot outside and the sun is shining and gleaming down on you, you run under the shade. You’ve never seen anyone run out into the sun when they’re hot. They run to the shade because they want to be under its protection so the sun rays won’t bake them. When you come from underneath the protection of the almighty God, you will be hurt, experience pain and anguish. You will suffer things like you never have before. You will begin to feel that thing affect you more than ever because you are not under the watchful eye of our Cord and Savior. Whatever affects your heart, whether a person, situation or anything along that line, you need to be very careful who comes into your presence and exude control of who and what you are.

1.) Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 6.) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 11.) Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 12.) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. Are you doing greater works? Are you doing anything. The Bible says we’re known by the fruit we bear. What are you bearing. 13.) And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14.) If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Why is this so important. If he’s in you and your in him, your heart is in oness and you won’t ask anything unwarrented. So you know its benfitial to you and you’ve already talked it out.


John 14: 1,6, 11, 12-14

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.


Psalms 1:1-3

Are you a tree that’s planted by the rivers of water? Are you planted in the Lord like you should be? If so, how deep are your roots? Are you surface salvation Jesus, or do you rely on hearing a sermon here or there, or are you in your Word doing it as well? He said he meditates on the law day and night? How can you do that? Don’t you need to sleep? There was a science study done sometime back where they found out that if a person plugs their ears and has a book being read to them while they sleep, the comprehension of that person is very high. During the 1980s and 1990s students would do that with professors teachings and they would remember all that was said. Your subconscious is listening to what is going on consciously. You were at rest. There was nothing there to interfere with your heart. You have to be careful because someone could put a demonic device in your ear. Whatever you let into your heart, you have to be very careful. You shouldn’t allow emotions, hurt and sickness or sin to control your heart within.

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Caught in the Indecision of Circumstance

Why do we set ourselves up for failure, knowing that if we follow the same steps or patterns as last time, we’re going to get the very same results? Are we gluttons for abuse and pain or do we just like being in a mess? Is there something lacking or missing in our lives, as a Child of Jesus Christ (Yahweh)? I believe that being on the cusp of our life in this world, not of this would, not willing to let go of what this world has to offer in its ways of short term gratification, for surface desires, has brought us to a dilemma in our growth and understanding concerning who we are as a people of the One and only true God of the Bible. In some cases for instance, in our society we’re taught to go to the higher learning institutions so that we can gain a better understanding of the world around us. Yet while you’re there, you’re professors are teaching their philosophy on what they have been through by someone else, with a little of their life experience thrown in. So we accept their teaching without question, because we don’t know the answer ourselves. So as we where taught, we begin to mimic our professors, even reciting some of the same stories and situations he or she expressed. We do this with such fervor as though our professors were actually there reciting their words as though they were our own words, and repudiating anyone that begged to disagree.

We express it as though we’re the authority as our professor did with us while we were in school. Don’t ask a question on something in our field. Our chest pumps up, the hands go up and the gestures ensue, and we mimic what our professors taught us. Why? I ask again WHY do we accept their understanding as though it were from God? I say to them who don’t know much of anything: a little understanding of something has added more to your knowledge and understanding of anything. The little knowledge you’ve gain from them has made you puff up with knowledge, because you have something someone else doesn’t have. That is why doctors have that God complex. They go to school 8-12 years plus, then they do residency. We tend to see that they’ve spent their life in a profession for years and they are knowledgeable in their field. To the hearer who doesn’t know what those huge words are, they’re amazed. They have a god complex because they can diagnose what is going on with you, and you trust their word unconditionally. Just like your professor, whose words you accepted without questions. Why do we get caught up with indecision and mess, plus confusion in most areas of this life?

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.


2 Peter 1:3-4

We stand in the mist of a mess, having a decision of whether or not to step out of the mess. “What am I going to do? Should I stay in the mess?” He has given you the knowledge and understanding that you’re in a mess. If you’re a child and you just messed on yourself, and its all around your feet, what do you do? You cry out to Mom, dragging the mess along with you. Isn’t that what we do? We’re in a mess and drag it all along with us where were we go, instead of stepping out of it and wiping it off. Realize this, if you didn’t get the understanding of something earlier in your life, it will pop up later, in some way or fashion. That is why the Word of God says in all thy getting get and understanding, because if you don’t you’ll experience a situation in your life you never would have experienced had you gotten corrected from the beginning. In every situation they didn’t have someone to tell them which direction to go, and so they choose whatever their heart lead them to. The professor tells you something that you don’t know about, which you don’t question because you just don’t know! So the little kids don’t know what is right and wrong. That’s is why it takes a parent who has their head on straight to correct those things in their life earlier on before it effects them later on. So if you don’t answer the questions when little children have them, later on you’ll see the results of it. When they get older they began to act out what is was wrong, having not had a pure source of understanding when they were younger. Then we are the people who were suppose to know better say “that’s sins, that’s sin!” Where were you when they were going through, and had questions about life? Were you pushing them away? They were asking you a life question, because it would determine what their life would be afterwards. Have you ever asked someone a life question but didn’t get the answer you wanted? Its amazing to me that everyone wants to have children, but don’t want to properly raise them. The Word of God tells us clearly, train up a child in the way he or she should go so when they get older, they won’t depart. If you don’t correct it in the beginning, they’ll get results later on. That is why we have so many problems with kids today. Kids think its a style to sag, or roll one pant leg up; this is all prison behaviour, and not a style, but a statement. Do you realize most things we do in our life today are based on statements? As we walk into it people associate us with that statement and everything connected to it. No one ever told you better. The Bible tells us very clearly, when I was a child I acted like a child, talked like a child, operated like a child, but when I became a woman or man, by the choices of what someone told me, I began to act like a man or act like a woman. Someone’s signal got twisted, and they are living that life of homosexuality or lesbianism. It didn’t just come on them. Something happened in your life earlier on that caused you to make that decision based on someone else’s principles. Just as you heard from the professor his principles and take at face value his teaching, because you paid money to sit in his class.

You’re whole life is based on theories from other people. First of all you go to grade school. What is the important thing of grade school? Its how to interact with other students, different than you. Kindergarten is for one thing: to know that there are other little people like you, so its ok to be you. So why do we go to high school? So that we can build relationships and interact with people like us, knowing how to build our personalities; to mold you into something you weren’t before. Tagging on to when you were into grade school, tagging on to kindergarten. So what are college and university for? Global. To teach you how to exist in a global environment with people of different nationalities and tongues, to be able to work with them. So when you go to school, your professors tell you how to get along with people who are not like you. Learning a particular subject in school is immaterial. You can become the greatest of your profession, but if you have no people skills, you are worth zero. School has a 4 point system to help introduce you to an environment that you were not use to, so your life can exist among other human beings like you. David said I once was young, and now I’m old, but there is one thing I can say. I’ve never seen the people of God going hungry nor their children begging on the side of the street. What does that tell you? Someone got some teaching and training other than by our normal school system. The Word of God is to be listened to, put into your mind, to get an understanding, and operate there in your life through it. We are so studious and concerned about our professors and classes, making sure nothing gets in the way of us getting to them on time. We’ve paid money and know we need the credit hours from that class, right? Yet when God tries to get our attention, He says He’s given us the knowledge and understanding about everything; its right at your finger tips. What is it? Your phone, your tablet which has the Word of God on it. How we long for things and pay attention to things that are not good for our lives to the point that Christ fades out of our lives. When you were in the professors class, you heard every word he said, even when he got on your nerves, taking it as though he were the authority of God. We gave our professors the utmost attention. Do you not know that today in the house of God, your paying to listen to me? You don’t have a dime to give, but your paying with your life. Its a free enrollment. You can take notes, and get all the data about how to live according to life and Godliness, and its free! Do you know what undivided attention is? Just like the professor in school, you’re getting what God wants you to have. Be about Gods business, not yours. If we could only follow God’s word like we have for our professors in life we would have a totally different walk in this world.

The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.


John 20:25

But we’ll take the word of a professor and listen to everything without questioning it. But you’re fellow Saint in the church who has an upstanding background, a disciple of Christ, working with you, you won’t believe. “Until I can put my hand in His side.” We do that sometimes. We miss out on things that God has for our lives because we need to “get it first.” We miss things in our lives because it has to come to us personally. Where would your life be if you’d not walked out on faith then? God is not with us as a fleshly being, but He has said in His Word to do this, do that and this to go back to the Kingdom. Some of us today say they can’t believe it because….”I wasn’t there.” This has been us as the Children of God.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?


Matthew 6:24-25

Some of us will cry out “Lord I can’t pay my bill, Lord I don’t have enough.” He says one things to us, you but need to ask and it shall be given. Don’t struggle, ask. Whatever God has for you its waiting on you. The way you get it is through you. You need to clean up who you are so God can bless you. But you complain that sister so and so or brother so and so has this, and you’ve been in the Church for so long, why don’t you have it too? What happened to the stage where you just fall on your knees and say “Father I love You, I appreciate You for everything You’ve done for me, and if you don’t do anything else for me You’ve done enough for me. I’m not asking for anything, I just want to give You glory, for you deserve it.”