The Ground Of The Heart
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Your heart is the
production center of your life.
Whatever you send to it in the form of a word-seed, it will produce in
your life. – Matthew 12:33-35
I.
In the Kingdom of God
system the soil/ground is your heart.
Your heart is designed to be the production center of your
life. That whatever you send to it
in seed-form, it’s going to produce it in manifested form in your life. (Matthew 12:33-35)
A. The Earth will bring
forth fruit of herself and your spirit will do the same thing-Mk 4:28
1.
The
Earth will bring forth what’s put in it
2.
Your
spirit is going to bring forth what you put in it; good bad or indifferent;
whatever word-seed you put in your spirit, your spirit is going to produce in
your
B.
God
has given you a production center called heart that will produce anything in
your life that you plant in it in seed form (Proverbs 4:20)
1.
The
word-seed in your heart, then your heart works with the seed to produce a
belief, & then that belief yields fruit in ur life-The Production Center Of Your Life.
a.
Whatever
the Farmer puts in the ground in seed-form, manifests
out of the ground in harvest-form.
b.
Whatever
u put in ur heart in
word-form will come out in manifested-form.
2.
Mark
4:22-24
a.
Every
word-seed that you hide in your heart, will be manifested in your life
b.
Be
aware of what your hearing because what you hear will go into your heart and
manifest in life
c.
With
what measure you mete, in hearing, it will be measured in harvesting
3.
Proverbs
23:7 – Whatever is going on in my heart is going on in my life
C. The man who’s sowing the
seed is the man who’s bring forth the harvest (Mt 12:35)
1.
The
man brings forth based on what HE
put in
a.
The
man is determining what comes out based on what he puts in
2.
God’s
given all these great things to you seed-form and now it’s our job with the
help of the Holy Spirit to bring them forth
a.
We
do that be sending the word-seed to the production center of our heart and it
will be brought forth in our lives
3.
When
something needs to be produced I send it down the pathway to the production
center in seed-form
D. Can I rightfully expect
to see something in my life that I have not sown in my heart?
1.
Your
spirit cannot bring forth something that has not been planted in there
a.
Soil
will only produce outside of it, whatever is inside of it and our hearts are
the same way
1)
Whatever
you want outside in manifested-form must be sown first in seed form
2.
Matthew
12:35 – There had to be a good deposit before there could be a good thing
brought forth
a.
If
u don’t send good in, in seed-form, then good can’t be sent out in harvest form
E.
APPLICATION: Your heart is the
production center of your life.
That can be a good thing or bad thing based on what you put in your
heart.
1.
What
you want to see in your life send to your heart in the form of a
word-seed.
II.
Guard your heart
(Proverbs 4:23)
A. The Earth doesn’t know
the difference between a good seed and a weed seed; it’s just brings forth
fruit of herself (Mark 4:28, Matthew 12:35)
1.
Evil
things can be brought forth from the heart if evil things get deposited in
2.
EXAMPLE: A fence post that’s
been in the ground for a while is rotted because the Earth is trying to bring
forth that fence post. The first thing that the ground does to the seed is
removes the shell. When something is planted in the ground, the ground is going
to work to bring that thing forth.
B.
Guard
your heart/Guard the production center – The word-seeds that dominate
your heart will be the harvest that dominates your life
1.
Above
all keeping keep your heart
a.
Obviously
this is a serious thing to God if He’s saying above all guarding, don’t guard
anything more than you guard your heart
1)
Why?
That’s where your life comes from
b.
Keep
your heart above all keeping – There’s a urgency and seriousness in that
2.
Words
are traveling down your eye-way and ear-way and getting into your heart and
producing a belief and your life is coming from what you believe
a.
Your
life is coming from the deposits of word-seeds that you make in your heart
b.
You’ll
become the words that you spend the most time with
c.
If
you believe that you’ll guard your heart
C. You guard the
Heart/Production center by closing down the pathways to wrong seeds
1.
The
only way into the heart is through the eye-way, ear-way, and mouth-way. If you close down those pathways to bad
word-seeds they won’t get into your heart.
2.
You
have to have authorization from God to go down these pathways that lead to my
heart
a.
If
you aren’t the Word of God then you aren’t authorized and you can’t travel down
that pathway
1)
What
unauthorized word-seed-vehicles have you been allowing to
travel down the pathways that lead to your production center?
b.
I’m
closing the ear-way, the eye-way, the mouth-way, and the mind-way down to authorized word-seed vehicles only
3.
If
you want to stop something from being in your life, then you must stop it first
on the word level
a.
What
you don’t put in your eyes, ears, and say out your mouth won’t reach your heart
and won’t be produced in your life
D. 4 Keys To A Guarded Heart
(Proverbs 4:20-24)
1.
1)
Attend to God’s Word – You got to start putting the right thing in
a.
Don’t
dwell on the problem, the circumstances or the evil report
1)
I
see that, but I’m giving my attention to this
b.
2
Corinthians 10:3-5 – Cast down every thought that’s not in line with God’s
word
1)
When
you take thoughts that don’t line up with God’s word, those thoughts are
non-verbal word-seeds that are being sown into your heart
c.
Philippians
4:8 – Fix your mind on the Word
2.
2)
Hear God’s Word – Guard what you’re listening to (Proverbs 4:20)
a.
Mark
4:24 – Take heed to what you hear
1)
Watch
what you hear verbally and non-verbally
b.
It’s
important to audibly hear yourself say the word, sometimes to shut up the voice
of your mind
3.
3)
Keep your eyes on God’s Word – Guard what you’re looking at (Proverbs
4:21)
a.
Proverbs
4:25 AMP – Open up the Bible and fix your eyes on the Word
b.
Peter
missed it because he put his eyes on something else (Matthew 14:24)
c.
Abraham
put his eyes on the starts & the sand and not on their bodies-Rom 4:19
4.
4)
Speak the Word only – Guard your mouth
a.
Prov 4:24-Put away talk that’s contrary to the
Word-seed that you want to harvest
b.
Joshua
1:8 – Fix your mouth on this word
c.
We
call things that be not as though they are to sow the
seed that may be not. When you say what is you’re just establishing and
developing your belief in what is (Romans 4:17)
1)
When
you talk the problem you are developing your belief in the problem
E.
APPLICATION: Do not allow word-seeds
to continually travel down the paths of your eyes and ears that you do not want
to see come to pass in your life.
Guard your heart with all that you have because who’s
ever words are dominating the production center is determining what’s
being produced.