Heart Disease

The leading cause of death for men and women worldwide is heart disease.

And you may or may not know that what happens in the spiritual, manifests in the physical.

So, it may or may not shock you to hear me tell you that the leading cause of spiritual death is also... heart disease.

Proverbs 4:23 says,

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."

Proverbs 27:19 says,

"As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart."

Everything we do or say is a DIRECT result of the state of our heart. Is our heart healthy and giving life to others? Are our words doing this? Our actions? Or is our heart diseased, and spewing negative talk and treating others miserably?

In Psalms 51:10, David implores God to create a NEW heart within him, one that is pure:

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."

What does that new heart look like? The following verses tell us.

It accepts instruction/commands:

"The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin." Proverbs 10:8

It guards the Father's commands:

"My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity." Proverbs 3:1-2

It seeks after the Father, so that it won't stray from the Father's commands:

"I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands." Psalm 119:10

It praises the Father and learns His commands:

"I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws." Psalm 119:7

It serves Him entirely, walks in obedience, and keeps His commands:

"But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." Joshua 22:5

Paul tells the Romans that the Father placed His Holy Spirit in the hearts of the believers,

"And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." Romans 5:5

Ezekiel 36:26-27 reiterates this idea of the Father giving us a NEW heart with a NEW spirit:

"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."

What does that new spirit in that new heart cause us to do, based on the passage above? Causes us to walk in His statutes and observe His ordinances (walk and observe His law).

This is how we know that we CAN do these things, because the Holy Spirit is the empowerment for us to be able to do them, based on the passage above.

Further, we see in Philippians 4:13, that through this Spirit that God has given us, we are strengthened to be able to do ALL things:

"I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me."

If all means all, this means we are also strengthened enough, by His Spirit, to walk in His commands.

In closing, the leading cause of death, in both the physical and the spiritual is heart disease. The Father requires us to submit to Him, so that He can circumcise our hearts. This leads to us walking in His Spirit, and therefore walking in His commands. All of these things together lead to... life.

"The LORD your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!" Deuteronomy 30:6

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 says it best:

"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

Allow Him to cure your heart disease. Choose life that you may live, you and your descendants. <3