A Biblical Heart

MJM Chandler

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What is the inward appearance of our heart that God is looking at? When we understand this, then we can truly obey God.
What is in your heart?
Do you know what kind of heart you have?
Do you know where your Biblical heart is?
Does God look on our physical heart or a spiritual heart?
Do you know what is temporary and what is eternal?
Do you know if you are ready for heaven?
Do you know you can be ready?
Do you know you can have a savior that saves you from the penalty of sin?
This book is written with the purpose of leading of leading or confirming the reader's way of eternal life by the One True God of all people.
Hear what Jesus prayed before he was crucified. "Now this is eternal life: that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought YOU glory on earth by completing the work you gave Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me in your presences with glory I had with you before the world began." (John (17:13-5
The "what", "where", and "how" of the Biblical heart are studied in this book.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Biblical
• Philosophie et théologie
• Espiritual
• Circumcision
• God
• Physical
• Spiritual
• Spirituality
• Heart
• Natural

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 28 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664281905
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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A BIBLICAL Heart

 
What is it? Where is it? How is it used?
 
 
 
MJM CHANDLER
 
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 MJM Chandler.
 
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Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www. zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.®
 
Scripture marked (NCV) taken from the New Century Version®. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
 
Interior Graphics/Art Credit: Moriah Strozewski
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8191-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8192-9 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8190-5 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022919729
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 11/17/2022
 
This book is dedicated to my late husband Pastor Clair Chandler and my children who through the years encouraged me to keep on writing when I wanted to quit.
Thank You
Clair the Love of my Life.
My children Rebecca, Deborah, David, and Chri stin.
Deborah for her abiding love and patience in editing the book for the last nine years with the difficult job of dealing with the “Mo ther.”
To my granddaughter Moriah Stroze wski
for her gift of Art.
Thank You God for our Salva tion.
And to God be the Glory for the gr eat things he has done in our l ives,
If there be any praise, may it be in the name of our
Lord Jesus Ch rist!
 
“Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life (Proverbs 4:23 NIV).”
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
A Message for the Reader
Chapter 1 :    What is the Heart?
The Physical Natural Heart
The Metaphoric Spatial Heart
The Immaterial Spiritual Heart
The New – Circumcised Heart
Chapter 2 :    How the Circumcised Heart Came About
The Beginning
A Heart with a Purpose
Chapter 3 :    The Many Facets of The Spiritual Heart
The Heart Can Think and Plan
The Heart Can Display Evil
The Heart Can Hide and Treasure Knowledge
The Heart is the Seat of Emotions
The Heart Loves
The Heart Rejoices
The Heart Sorrows and Grieves
The Heart Desires
The Heart Wills and Rules
Chapter 4 :    Maintaining a Circumcised Heart
The Heart must be Guarded
The Heart Must be Inspired by the Word of God
Chapter 5 :    The Goal of the Circumcised Heart
Chapter 6 :    Conflicts of the Heart
Doubled Minded
Solutions to the Conflict
Chapter 7 :    Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
The Parable
The Purpose of the Parable
Chapter 8 :    In Summary
The Biblical Heart
Chapter 9 :    Proof Text of a Circumcised Heart
 
Verses used in the Study of “The Biblical Heart”
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Down through the years mankind has tried to answer the questions of the ages of their existence through history and theology. History has to be defined in order to know what the expectation of man is.
Theology must be taught in order to understand God’s expectations for man throughout history. The One who created the two, History and Theology, is the One to be reckoned with!
The following is just a simple explanation from a layman’s view:
You can fool some of the people some of the time,
You can fool all of the people some of the time,
But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. You cannot fool God, any of the time!
“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints, and marrow, it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him whom we shall have to give account
(Hebrews 4:12-13 NIV).” The writing of this book has been in my heart from the day I received Jesus as my Savior in 1970. I can say it is my journey of growing in the faith and knowing Jesus.
We live in troubling times, and I believe we are in a Spiritual war, good versus evil.
A true relationship with our Creator God is the only answer and putting Jesus first in our life.
A MESSAGE FOR THE READER
“Buy the truth and do not sell it, get wisdom, discipline and understanding (Proverbs 23:23 NIV).”
Why write? Any author who attempts to write has a purpose and a reason for that purpose. Knowing why a book is written is essential to understanding what the book is all about. If the reader realizes the purpose, the results will be more appropriately concluded.
The purpose of this book is to see and understand life through the eyes of your heart, searching for truth and eternal life. Making and forming your choices as a foundation of what you will ultimately believe will come from your search. If the reader accepts or rejects the thoughts and ideas of this book, where did that decision come from? How was the decision created and where was it formed? I say it is in the heart, the command center of a person, their heart/brain/mind/soul and I will attempt to prove this. Our decisions are formed in the heart with either a Biblical perspective or earthly understanding. In order to make a wise choice we need the foundation of God’s word versus the world’s claims. For ages people have been like sheep. Sheep are known to be readily distracted, not following the shepherd, myself included. Those who are parents, teachers, authors, preachers, men, and women of influence, are persuasive educators of young and the elderly people of their lifetime. They form opinions and dictate moral values in the lives of many people, whether intended or not, that come out of their wise or unwise heart. The voices of those we place in high regard impact the way we think and act. They may be good intentioned guides, but do we discern what we have received to become wise and righteous, or do we end up like mindless sheep that have gone astray. Do we just take things at face value, or do we study to find out what we are taught and believe to be true? “Truth” does matter and how it is formed in the heart and with which wisdom if applied, makes up our faith and character. The Bible, for Christians, is our guide for truth. “Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth and the life The only way to the Father is through me (John 14:6 NCV).” How we view the Bible, which declares that all issues flow from the heart, affects our outlook on life. “Good people bring good things out of the good stored up in their hearts. But evil people bring evil things out of the evil stored up in their hearts. People speak the things that are in their hearts (Luke 6:45 NCV).”
Whether the Bible is your foundation or not is another issue. It will make a great difference in how you see your destiny. Read on to see if the kind of heart you have will change the way you think, act, and make choices.
You are what you think and read about because that is where your heart is. I hope this book helps you to search for the source of truth through the eyes of your heart as established in the word of God. If nothing else, I hope it will cause you to dig deeper into the Bible, looking for truth, because truth matters. “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15 NIV).”
~ MJM Chan dler

Chapter 1
WHAT IS THE HEART?
T HERE ARE FOUR DEFINITIONS OF the heart that we will consider in this chapter, the physical heart, the metaphoric heart, the natural heart, and the new heart.
THE PHYSICAL NATURAL HEART
We all have a physical heart by which we live and breathe.