Are You Listening to Your Heart?

Who are you listening to?

As we know heart health is vital for our physical body. If we don’t exercise, eat right, and live in sabbath rest, we will become susceptible to heart and health issues.

In the same way, there is a specific diet and way of living that can harm our identity in Christ and derail us from our destiny.

So, let’s take a heart test now and examine how we are doing.

When Adam and Eve sinned in Genesis 3, they hid and covered themselves with fig leaves. God asked where they were and hid and covered themselves because they were naked and ashamed.

God asked them (even though He knew): “Who told you, you were naked and ashamed?”

Our heart health can be determined by what we say to ourselves in moments of pain and stress.

If negative thoughts we’ve had, like Adam and Eve had, have bred negative thought patterns in our lives—they came not from you and not from God, rather they are from the enemy.

The best way to address heart health is to find out what we are feeding ourselves. What we say and think about ourselves determines our future.

So, let’s do an inventory—who are you listening to and who are you basing your worth by?

I want you to be ruthlessly honest. No cop out or pat answers, like I am doing great when you really feel alone and deal with not being good enough, which shows up in what you say to yourself.

These lies can be buried so deep that we are unaware of them and the patterns that we have accepted in our lives. If you have said to yourself: “I am so stupid or I am so unattractive or I feel so socially awkward”—that my friends, is NOT FROM YOU—it’s a lie that you bought into—maybe because of trauma, being made fun of, or just plain hatred for yourself for not being perfect and the enemy is loving it.

If I seem a bit harsh or abrupt, I wanted you to understand that sometimes the way you treat yourself negatively has been so a part of your life, that you have ignored your heart for so long that you just have stopped caring or listening.

But the great thing about LOVE is it never stops believing or searching to find us!

The second greatest commandment is that we are to love others as we love ourselves. So, if you don’t love the way God created you to be, you will have a hard time loving others and will push them away, blame them, or distance yourself because you feel you’re just not good enough.

If that’s you in any way, I want you to know it’s okay to be honest and to really do a heart search as David asked in Psalm 139. God wants to search you and He wants to ask you: “Who told you, you were naked and ashamed?” It wasn’t me—so get rid of that narrative...

But how?

The Great Exchange

James 5:16 says that “if we confess our sins one to another, and pray, you will be healed.”

You see, it’s a sin to put down your value because Jesus died for you. You are not junk and you are not ugly or stupid, rather you are His Masterpiece and He died to silence the inner voices of the enemy that tell you you’re not good enough or you don’t measure up.

5 Ways to Renew Your Mind (Romans 12:1,2)

• Say what God says about you

• Disrupt the negative thought pattern by putting in God’s Truth to replace the lies

• Daily Declare who you are

• Share in a safe community to get support and vulnerability

• Repeat as often as needed!

HOPE IS HERE

I want you to know that God CAN and WILL Transform US if we follow all these 5 ways.

Remember, you are valuable and will overcome as you create a life of freedom with Him,

-Theresa