What Are You Writing on Your Heart?
August 19th, 2008 | Michael Q. Pink
“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments within you. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the tablet of your heart.” (Proverbs 7:1-3) “My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” (Psalm 45:1)
It has been said that the palest of ink is better than the best memory. While this has truth in it, the Scripture in multiple places says we can actually write things on the tablet of our heart. This is a revolutionary thought. After all, Jesus said that it is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
So what are we writing on our heart and how do we do it? First the “what”… Our heart is a tablet, a recording device of sorts that stores up whatever it experiences. In one way, it is like a tape recorder that makes no judgment of what to record. It simply records. And from those recordings, comes our words. And from our words, flows our destiny.
David encourages us to hide the word in our heart that we might not sin against God. (Psalm 119:11) I believe this and other passages, plus sanctified common sense, direct us to be deliberate about what our heart records. That we are to make a conscious effort to deposit good things in our heart. It already records plenty of things we wish were not there. We need to be deliberate about depositing (recording) good things that we may access them in our time of need.
About a year ago I watched Dr. Lance Wallnau give one of the most riveting presentations I’ve ever seen on what he calls the seven mountains of influence. What was written on my heart has forever impacted my destiny. The man has a deposit of the kingdom of God I believe every marketplace believer needs. Recently I asked him to do a teleseminar with our audience to pass on his remarkable insights and he agreed. Mark your calendar for this Thursday at 1:00 pm and watch your inbox for how to register and where to call.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Hearts, tables, books! You know that through the process of time, we stopped calling them tables or scrolls and started calling them books. So if you hold that idea and then look at Revelation, Jesus opens the seals of the BOOK!. I think it is absolutely wonderful to understand that Father held in reserve the book with all the heart stuff written on it until someone was worthy to open it. Can you see the value Father places on the contents of the book? He held your heart in reserve (sealed it) until One was found worthy to open… I think He is the same when it is my heart or your heart that He is opening to read.
I believe that the writing is done like the Holy Spirit said to John the Revelator… “write what you see”…
August 19th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Thank you for that. I believe it is important that we walk in love as much as we possibly can and this will effect our hearts. When I was baptised many years ago I prayed out Psalm 51 just before I went down into the waters and this Psalm spoke volumes from my heart and it still does. David was a man after God’s heart and, although an adulterer and a murderer, the Lord looked on his heart and saw that he was repentant. So it must be for us
Helen
August 19th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
It is reported that often times people who have had a heart transplant will have memories of things “they” never did or experienced. The recorder is planted in the heart and yes it is unbiased in what it receives, just as soil will try to grow a wooden post in the ground and will grow what ever seed is planted.
The season in nature is important but in the heart any time is a good time to plant good seed and know you will reap a good harvest if you keep watering it with His Word and do it over and over till it burst forth. “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it flow the issues of life” Proverbs 3:23
Be blessed in your sowing and in turn be blessed in your reaping