FTI R C HARACTERI ZATION

Listen to your heart! It’s so much greater to live by the heart and following what the heart tells you to do than do just hearken to the narrow confines of the mind. The mind sees the boundaries and impossibilities and why it can’t be done and shouldn’t even be tried. The heart just feels the urge to do it anyway and trust Me for the outcome.

It’s the heart that counts. You won’t be judged or rewarded by how smart you were in this life, but by the love you show. It’s the heart that matters most!

You've just got to have a heart for people, be concerned about them, be moved with compassion upon them as I was and still am.

Take time to absorb Me fully, and to become a part of Me - to let Me become a part of you, a conscious part of you that's always there, one that you cannot lose. Staying in My presence is more a matter of the heart than of the mind.

Even though with your mind you can make the decision to love somebody, it's still another step until you can truly say you love somebody, and that's just something that comes from the heart, not the mind. Love is a matter of the heart, "the heart of the matter..."

If you really want to dig down deep, you not only have to discover mind-boggling truths, but let those truths sink deeply into your heart where they will change your life & take the desired effect.

Drops of heavenly rain, heavenly love, cause your heart to blossom into life and warmth. The spiritual winter of your heart is over. The hardships you've been experiencing, the heat I've been putting on, are causing the hard shell to soften & crack open & finally the new you is coming to life, the person I wanted you to be. Not the cold, reserved, critical & calculating old you, but the loving, warm, affectionate, embracing you, that does not hold back from Me nor from others!

A giving you, a smiling you, bubbling over with My humble joy and love, dropping warmth and love and affection and encouragement into the hearts of those you pass by.

Changes of the heart are miracles that only I can bring about, you can't do it yourself, so quit trying & let Me do it!

You must allow My Words to really sink into your hearts. That's from where the fruit of learning comes. Wisdom is so much more a matter of the heart than the mind. You've got to let Me plant My seeds into your heart, & you must absorb them with all your heart, not just acknowledge them with your mind. You've simply got to take the time for those seeds to really sink in.

Relate from the heart and gut side of things, the love side, not the judgmental, analytical side of the mind. From the side of mercy, as you would want mercy if you were in their shoes.

You just can't legislate sincere goodness of the heart.

Those who get the core and gist of My message, that love, nothing else, is the secret, they are the ones who have their hearts open to Me.

It's the heart that matters, not some kind of dogma or theory, doctrine or any other head stuffing. The key and the gist of My teachings and of My life, and of all I want to convey to mankind is love, and that's a matter of the heart, not of the head.

Let your faith, your religion, what you live and preach, be a matter of the heart, not a head issue!

"The heart speaks to the heart." You've got to learn that language of the heart, the communication from heart to heart, that's what's going to touch lives, change people, and consequently, change the world.

Words won't do you any good if you just keep them up there in your head. You need to reach out & apply them on a heart-to-heart level, saying "I understand. I've been there, too. But He pulled Me out, & I know He can do it for you!"

You've got to let My heart speak to your heart, in order for your heart to be able to speak to theirs. Everything is a matter of the heart.

It's gotta be the heart. Hope is a matter of the heart. Faith has got to be a matter of the heart in order to become really real and spur you on to works and deeds which prove that your faith is alive; and love certainly also is a matter of the heart, not just a "concept" you can grasp.

The position of your heart has to be right.

It's not that I'm opposed to people using their brains, but I'm trying to get you to operate more by the heart, & not so much by the head. It's the heart that attracts people. The regular, average people are almost always rather inclined to be suspicious & mistrusting of intellectually inclined people, who convey an air of intellectual superiority, usually because they often breathe criticalness of those who are less so inclined.

And I usually side with them. The Devil is the smart aleck who tries to pretend he's so much smarter than everybody else,

& he ridicules them & makes them feel inferior. But blessings come from elsewhere, not only smartness. I bless the honest, humble, hard working people, & they're often more blessed than those incredibly intellectual thinkers, which usually tends to make the thinkers only more bitter & cynical & critical, but what it actually should do is cause them to think for real: that it's not only this supposed intellectual superiority that makes things happen, but the heart is an engine that can generate wealth more efficiently and reliably than mere intellect.

The brain alone doesn't do it. It's the heart that moves one to action, which then actually makes the difference. The mind alone doesn't really have creative power. It's the heart that moves the rest of your body along to really get something going. You need inspiration, not just mere brain-power & intellect.

If it all just remains in the realm of thought, it can so often be and remain nothing but hot air. You can think things up &

down until it hurts & you can talk about them for ages, but usually the simple people will have simply done it long before you ever got around to stop talking about it.

I am a very deeply integrated and inseparable part of you, the heart and center from which you've got to live.

I want to be connected to your heart.

My Kingdom must be based on more than mere intelligence or thought. It's got to be more than brainpower, but love power that moves you into action... emotion!

Put your heart into it! If you try to figure it all out in your head & analyze it to pieces, it's going to look ugly. From a rational point of view, this life doesn't make a lot of sense; too much imperfection. It's not smooth enough for the mind. It's too rough, too many rough edges.

That's why you're only really going to get through life successfully if you put your heart into it.

The heart is what matters, the motivation; you've got to have the right incentives.

You can only change another heart through something that comes from your heart in the first place: words from the heart, prayers from the heart… Whatever love has been there in your heart in the first place, must go out and reach another’s heart.

There are other challenges in life than finding out what the great universal truth of everything is. Sometimes it’s the little truths, the little right attitudes and the proper position of the heart that make life on a local and practical level a lot more livable.

While with some acquaintances and friendships the mind can be helpful, it is the heart, not the mind that will draw them to you. It is the Spirit that will thrill their hearts and minds and refresh and quench their weary and thirsty souls, not so much the input that comes of the mind.

…Heart vs. Mind

Don’t listen to your head, listen to your heart! Your head says, “You’ve got to do this or that or the other in order to fulfill your duty, so that men will speak and think well of you.” Your heart says, “Just listen to the Lord! Forget all that and just love the Lord, and He will work out the rest!” Your head says, “Oh, but there’s bills to pay, shopping to be done and this and that and the other...” The heart says: “There’s listening to be done, there are Words to be heard from the Maker of the universe, Words from the mountain!” (I:62)

Generosity is an open heart that pours forth; it can do no other, ignoring the reasoning of your mind.

“Giving your love away” (and whatever I’ve given you)... “is doing what your heart says to.” So, listen to your heart! It’s so much greater to live by the heart and following what the heart tells you to do than do just hearken to the narrow confines of the mind. The mind sees the boundaries and impossibilities and why it can’t be done and shouldn’t even be tried. The heart just feels the urge to do it anyway and trust Me for the outcome. (I:365)

You must allow My Words to really sink into your hearts. That's from where the fruit of learning comes. Wisdom is so much more a matter of the heart than the mind. You've got to let Me plant My seeds into your heart, and you must absorb them with all your heart, not just acknowledge them with your mind.

There is so much to learn, but it doesn't all fit into your mind. You've got to make room for it in your heart. Don't seek to absorb it with your head! Let it sink in deep inside of you! (II:285)

Isa.26:3 - You can have the perfect peace of knowing that I'm with you every step of the way, in all you do, if you keep your mind stayed and fixed on Me.

It's a permanent fight to strive to keep your mind stayed on Me, and that's what those weapons of our warfare are there for, to pull down those thoughts and mental picture that are trying to separate and distract you from the knowledge that God is right there with you.

You've got to train and discipline those thoughts in the obedience of Me! They try to break loose and run wild, hither, thither and yon, but you've got to catch them and bring them into captivity, tell them Who's the Boss, and Who they should obey.

If you would truly be mindful of Me in everything you do, things would be different.

If the devil tries to distract you, zoom right back in on Me!

That's what you've got to do in order to train and discipline your mind!

You've got to keep an eye on Me, keep your mind focused on Me, and you're just going to have to make a conscious effort to do that.(II:286)

Most people just don't know any better than being the way they are, and even the knowledge acquired from My Word didn't protect you from erring, either. It's a matter of the heart, and as you've learned, "the heart speaks to the heart." You've got to learn that language of the heart, the communication from heart to heart, that's what's going to touch lives.

You need to reach out and apply them on a heart-to-heart level, saying "I understand. I've been there, too. But He pulled Me out, and I know He can do it for you!"(II:451)

You've got to let My heart speak to your heart, in order for your heart to be able to speak to theirs. Everything is a matter of the heart.

It's gotta be the heart! Hope is a matter of the heart. Faith has got to be a matter of the heart in order to become really real and spur you on to works and deeds which prove that your faith is alive; and love certainly also is a matter of the heart, not just a "concept" you can grasp.(II:466)

It's not that I'm opposed to people using their brains, but I'm trying to get you to operate more by the heart, and not so much by the head. It's the heart that attracts people.

It’s not only the supposed intellectual superiority that makes things happen, but the heart is an engine that can generate wealth more efficiently and reliably than mere intellect.

The brain alone doesn't do it. It's the heart that moves one to action, which then actually makes the difference. The mind alone doesn't really have creative power. It's the heart that moves the rest of your body along to really get something going.

The intelligent mind often only sees the obstacles, it sometimes even creates them, whereas to be a pioneer, you need more than mere intelligence. You need to be able to see beyond the confines of the mind.

Only those who can see further than the confines of their minds can break out and dare to go where no one else dared to go, do what no one else dared to try.(II:543)

A hard and painful way is the only way some lessons really stick and hit home. Otherwise, they’re often forgotten too easily, or only briefly grasped with the mind, and not deeply absorbed by the heart… life-changing.(II:640)

Move from the heart, know from the heart, speak from the heart, share from the heart, live and give from the heart... the inner you that is often so well protected that few can ever find it, but what you’ve got to reveal. The world needs a whole lot more heart!

Your mind is trying to get in the way, trying to figure it out!

But you can’t figure out where one that is born of the spirit is coming from, and where he’s going.

While with some acquaintances and friendships the mind can be helpful, it is the heart, not the mind that will draw them to you. It is the Spirit that will thrill their hearts and minds and refresh and quench their weary and thirsty souls, not so much the input that comes of the mind.(II:656)

All of My true apostles have heard My voice inside their hearts, that’s why it was My Love that constrained them, not just some knowledge of duty they had in their heads... It’s got to be love that motivates you, it’s got to be the heart.

When you pray, pray from the heart! When you speak, speak from the heart! When you sing, sing from the heart!

Faith from the heart, that’s the flame you’ve got to tend, the power you’ve got to feed from and act from: that’s gotta be your motor, the hearth on which is to be done whatever you’re cooking up... where it’s got to be happening!

That’s where you’ve got to find your answers, your motivations, your direction, your driving force that spurs you on…. that knowledge deep inside the heart!(III:2)

I want to be connected to your heart.

My Kingdom must be based on more than mere intelligence or thought. It's got to be more than brainpower, but Love Power that moves you into action... emotion!

Put your heart into it! If you try to figure it all out in your head and analyze it to pieces, it's going to look ugly. From a rational point of view, this life doesn't make a lot of sense; too much imperfection. It's not smooth enough for the mind. It's too rough, too many rough edges.

That's why you're only really going to get through life successfully if you put your heart into it. (III:25)

Love is My Spirit which is like the wind that bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell from whence it cometh or whither it goeth. You can never figure out love. You can only know it in your heart; it doesn't fit in your head.

It's so much greater than anything that men could pin down and define with their finite minds, and it's definitely so much greater than some of man's limited perceptions of It.(III:83)

You can only change another heart through something that comes from your heart in the first place: words from the heart, prayers from the heart… Whatever love has been there in your heart in the first place, must go out and reach another’s heart.

In order to really leave an impact on the world, you’ve got to live from the heart!(III:410)

I’m trying to get you organized, but from the heart, not the head, and in the right spirit: My Spirit.

It means: bathing issues and matters before you in prayer, meditating about them, listening for the whispers of My Spirit about them to fill in the blanks and give you any checks, warnings and nudges when you’re about to forget something important, or you’re heading in a wrong direction.(III:416)

It takes effort to bring “every thought into the captivity of the obedience of Christ (2.Cor.10:5).” The mind wants to run free, like a wild horse. It’s the strongest part of that which I call “the flesh,” that wants to rely on its own strength and show off its own power, instead of yielding to and relying on Me.

That is why there are older folks who still strongly refuse to accept Me as their Lord and Savior. Their bodies may have weakened, but their mind is still strong and determined to resist Me for whatever reason.

It’s a sacrifice to yield your mind to Me. It doesn’t come naturally. You give something that costs you. You must be convinced that you’re better off giving your mind to Me than letting it roam free where it can do what it wants.

It’s a sacrifice to yield your mind to Me. It doesn’t come naturally. You give something that costs you. You must be convinced that you’re better off giving your mind to Me than letting it roam free where it can do what it wants.