Comments on: Heart Recovery http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery Communication with God Through Journalizing Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jaque http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-35 Jaque Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:19:35 +0000 http://www.visionwriters.com/?p=1162#comment-35 That's a great prayer to keep in motion Marji. I really think mind dominance "paralyzes" all of us, keeping us nailed to unbelief until something like desperation causes us to say, "The way I think isn't working..." I love the fact that "people who get something other people don't have--did something other people didn't do." In this case they 'let go' of mind dominance and let God recover their hearts. Blessings, Jaque That’s a great prayer to keep in motion Marji. I really think mind dominance “paralyzes” all of us, keeping us nailed to unbelief until something like desperation causes us to say, “The way I think isn’t working…” I love the fact that “people who get something other people don’t have–did something other people didn’t do.” In this case they ‘let go’ of mind dominance and let God recover their hearts.

Blessings,
Jaque

]]> By: Marji http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-34 Marji Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:40:48 +0000 http://www.visionwriters.com/?p=1162#comment-34 Jaque, This is an awesome journal. I fell so blessd by it. Thank you for sharing. I particularly like the thought: "Salvation is the recovery of your heart Jaque; it is Me getting you back where you belong. Every time you repent you return from mind dominance to heart recovery. When the mind is in ascension you feel driven to ‘figure out’ the difference between good and evil. You can easily recognize these times because you feel pushed, condemned and captive to the tyranny of guilt. Heart recovery is the release (letting go) of mind domination; here you are free to simply “be” the love that you are. " I definitely need to get out of mind dominance to heart recovery. I tend to do too much thinking, and it does lead to polarization and sometimes even paralization. I am going to begin to pray for less mind time and more heart time. Marji Jaque,
This is an awesome journal. I fell so blessd by it. Thank you for sharing.

I particularly like the thought:
“Salvation is the recovery of your heart Jaque; it is Me getting you back where you belong. Every time you repent you return from mind dominance to heart recovery. When the mind is in ascension you feel driven to ‘figure out’ the difference between good and evil. You can easily recognize these times because you feel pushed, condemned and captive to the tyranny of guilt. Heart recovery is the release (letting go) of mind domination; here you are free to simply “be” the love that you are. ”

I definitely need to get out of mind dominance to heart recovery. I tend to do too much thinking, and it does lead to polarization and sometimes even paralization. I am going to begin to pray for less mind time and more heart time.
Marji

]]> By: Sara http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-16 Sara Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:16:21 +0000 http://www.visionwriters.com/?p=1162#comment-16 Yes! This is something that I keep having to learn, Susan. You put it into words well: "Our true heart is invested…but we ought not assign an outcome to the event. We may “know” that we are to go “over there”, but God’s purposes may be far different from the meaning the mind (the presumptuous one) will ascribe." Oswald Chambers says: "God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. We say, "I know that this is what I should do" - and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance." I often get my 'mind' around something my heart knows God is telling me to do and start to run with it when, bam!, God shows me again the depth of my ignorance and reins me in, back to the place where I remember that I am "empty handed but alive in His hands." Step by step, He just doesn't want us to move ahead in our minds or without our hearts invested. Only He can show us our true heart motives and give us that daily tweaking that we need in order to see from His perspective. I love that through this He keeps us humble and close to Him so we can just BE! Yes! This is something that I keep having to learn, Susan. You put it into words well:
“Our true heart is invested…but we ought not assign an outcome to the event. We may “know” that we are to go “over there”, but God’s purposes may be far different from the meaning the mind (the presumptuous one) will ascribe.”
Oswald Chambers says:
“God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. We say, “I know that this is what I should do” – and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance.”
I often get my ‘mind’ around something my heart knows God is telling me to do and start to run with it when, bam!, God shows me again the depth of my ignorance and reins me in, back to the place where I remember that I am “empty handed but alive in His hands.” Step by step, He just doesn’t want us to move ahead in our minds or without our hearts invested. Only He can show us our true heart motives and give us that daily tweaking that we need in order to see from His perspective. I love that through this He keeps us humble and close to Him so we can just BE!

]]> By: Susan http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-15 Susan Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:41:26 +0000 http://www.visionwriters.com/?p=1162#comment-15 I love this post! The mind is so linear. It prefers cut and dry or black and white with no shades of grey. It calls for “either” “or” and chokes on the paradox of “both.” Salvation is the recovery of the heart! Yes! To rest soundly in the mind of Christ is to see the natural mind rescued from its impulse to interpret or decode life. The mind's insistence on true or false, right or wrong, or good or evil is being tamed and reclaimed so it can thrive as the heart's happy helper. You said, "To state a thing will be “thus and so” without having your true ‘heart’ invested in it is presumption, or sin. The heart guided by love never tries to manipulate tomorrow; it just is." This too is wonderful! Our true heart is invested...but we ought not assign an outcome to the event. We may "know" that we are to go "over there", but God's purposes may be far different from the meaning the mind (the presumptuous one) will ascribe. The heart hears the leading and the mind jumps in to say, "oh, He must be sending me there to bless me, make me happy, ease my hardship..." and therein lies the evil. The only "outcome" we can be sure of (thank God) is the further emergence of CHRIST - living His life as mine. All else is the mind's wishful thinking. The heart knows to go...and doesn't try to manipulate tomorrow. It trusts God, rests in His goodness, and expects Christ...no matter what the process looks like! I love this post! The mind is so linear. It prefers cut and dry or black and white with no shades of grey. It calls for “either” “or” and chokes on the paradox of “both.”

Salvation is the recovery of the heart! Yes! To rest soundly in the mind of Christ is to see the natural mind rescued from its impulse to interpret or decode life. The mind’s insistence on true or false, right or wrong, or good or evil is being tamed and reclaimed so it can thrive as the heart’s happy helper.

You said, “To state a thing will be “thus and so” without having your true ‘heart’ invested in it is presumption, or sin. The heart guided by love never tries to manipulate tomorrow; it just is.”

This too is wonderful! Our true heart is invested…but we ought not assign an outcome to the event. We may “know” that we are to go “over there”, but God’s purposes may be far different from the meaning the mind (the presumptuous one) will ascribe. The heart hears the leading and the mind jumps in to say, “oh, He must be sending me there to bless me, make me happy, ease my hardship…” and therein lies the evil.

The only “outcome” we can be sure of (thank God) is the further emergence of CHRIST – living His life as mine. All else is the mind’s wishful thinking. The heart knows to go…and doesn’t try to manipulate tomorrow. It trusts God, rests in His goodness, and expects Christ…no matter what the process looks like!

]]> By: Sara McDaniel http://www.visionwriters.com/blogs/jaques-blog/heart-recovery/comment-page-1#comment-12 Sara McDaniel Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:54:51 +0000 http://www.visionwriters.com/?p=1162#comment-12 Wow Jaque, thats deep! I love your flow of questions and answers and my favorite line is: "Every time you repent you return from mind dominance to heart recovery." How wonderful it is that Love dominance can reverse the damage done in the Fall. Heart recovery sounds so good to my soul, what Hope there is from our God! Love you Sara Wow Jaque, thats deep! I love your flow of questions and answers and my favorite line is:
“Every time you repent you return from mind dominance to heart recovery.”
How wonderful it is that Love dominance can reverse the damage done in the Fall. Heart recovery sounds so good to my soul, what Hope there is from our God!
Love you
Sara

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