My heart... the source

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Get to know two things about a man-how he earns his money and how he spends it-and you have the clue to his character, for you have search light that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, and his real religion. Robert J. McCracken

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Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. (Matt. 6:21) NLT

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"Yet true religion with contentment is great wealth. After all, we didn't bring anything with us when we came into the world, and we certainly cannot carry anything with us when we die. So, if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content." 1 Timothy 6:6-8 (NLT)

Watch out for preachers who teaches about wealth and asking you for money- "there will be false teachers among you, in their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money." (1 Timothy 2:1,3)

Discipleship and my heart

Discipleship means to know and follow Christ is to be saved from all forms of idolatry. As a disciple, my Christian faith should be inward, not outward because the Bible teaches that faith is of the spirit and not of the flesh. Christ dwells in my heart, and "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27) is the burning core of the Christian faith. In the past, I have struggled with my weaknesses and I don't want to be a feeble Christian, weak, half-hearted and pitifully unsure of myself again. Those weaknesses are diseases to my heart and the Bible says to guarantee immunity to these diseases, I must cultivate my spirit of faith and humility to God. I am to be humbled and have a strong relationship with Jesus within my heart. The better I know Him the more I will trust Him because I will understand who He is. Through the knowledge of God, Holy Spirit will communicate to my spirit at the deepest levels of my heart. My heart is the key to submission and obedience of discipleship. There is head knowledge and a heart knowledge, in knowing God (not just about Him) the heart must be involved with the head. God has sent us the Holy Spirit (John 16:12-15). If I humble myself to God, the Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus in me and teach me with revelations of spiritual truth (Matthew 11:25-27). My faith of actions should be my relationship with My Lord, my daily life, my worship reflect my concept of God.

Looking Back

Discipleship requires following Jesus on His terms. A person who looks back is not fit to be His disciple (Luke 9:62). I must love Jesus more than myself and any other persons in my life (Luke 14:26). Looking back is a struggle for me that I need to work on NOT looking back. Remember a story about Sodom and Gomorrah? The angels warned Lot and his family not to look back when they run from the cities or they will die (see Genesis 19). Lot's wife died when she looked back. Looking back means you are still holding on to sin or sins that you will miss. When I was a prodigal Christian, I was involved in destructive sinful act ivies and God was trying to wake me up by giving me rough circumstances and the finally, my wake up call when I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I came back to Christ, I have decided long ago that I SHOULD focus my life on Christ. My prodigal life's situations were destructive and I must fight the temptations of looking back. I need to focus on Christ without looking back. In Phillippians 3:13-14 says "....I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Jesus Christ, is calling us to heaven." (NLT).