God Speaks through Whispers on the Heart When God directs our prayers He is speaking to us, whispering to us words of guidance, discernment, encouragement. Sometimes we call this our conscience or our “little voice inside.” But the One who dwells within us has a voice as well.
He speaks through dreams, visions and voices. We can learn to hear God speak through his Church, through the love of his people and through the voice of his priests and pastors. When we listen to, read and study the Holy Scriptures, he speaks using the voice of our heart.
Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Because we live from our hearts, God wants access to our hearts, to form them so that from them, we live into his purposes.
The Bible agrees that God knows your heart. God said to Samuel that He sees not as man sees: “man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7 ).
God looks at the motives of the heart for evidence of righteousness in our hearts. Our motives reveal who we are living for and the things we care about. When God searches the heart He can see the “why” behind our thoughts and choices. The Bible tells us that God judges the intents of the hearts (see Hebrews 4:14).
In the Bible the heart is considered the seat of life or strength. Hence, it means mind, soul, spirit, or one's entire emotional nature and understanding.
The Bible far more regularly speaks of God's Spirit living in the hearts of believers, such as in Romans 5:5 where it states that “God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
He wants our hearts in order to Exchange them
In exchange God offers us a heart that is clean, true, tender and warm. Notice he does not offer to patch up the old heart (2 Corinthians 5:17). If you have not done so, will you give Him your old heart and let Him give you His new one?
When it comes to hearing God, the Bible is the language of his heart. Nothing he says in any other way in any other context will ever override, undermine or contradict what he has said in the Scriptures.
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Through the scriptures, we are taught that God will always hear our prayers and will answer them if we address Him with faith and real intent. In our hearts we will feel the confirmation that He does hear us, a feeling of peace and calm. We can also feel that everything will be fine when we follow the Father's will.
Human Heart
Proverbs 23:7 says, “As he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Hebrews 4:12 talks about the thoughts and intents of the heart. Finally, the word heart can also refer to the will. Daniel 1:8 says, “Daniel purposed in his heart….” When you put this all together, the human heart refers to the innermost being.
The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither a voice of great tumultuous noise, but rather as still and small, of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it can pierce even the very soul and cause the heart to burn.
Psalm 37:4 tells us that God grants us the desires of our hearts. That is true, but Philippians 2:13 tells us that God puts those desires in our hearts! If you want to fine tune to His voice, look inside your heart.
Through Nehemiah, we see that God breaks our hearts so we can REBUILD our world. Sometimes, God's breakings come from a place of pain, but they can also come from a place of abundance.
What kind of heart is God looking for? Deuteronomy 10:16 says “God needs a circumcised heart”. We must therefore open our hearts to God by removing all reservations, coverings, secrets and unbelief. Only when we circumcise our hearts, can we be obedient and walk in the ways of the Lord.
Guaranteed Protection
The Lord, through his Word, is the guard, shield, and protector of our hearts.
When we are “saved,” Jesus does indeed “come into our hearts,” at least in a manner of speaking (Romans 8:9–11; Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 1:27–28; Galatians 2:20). “Asking Jesus into your heart” is among the more biblical summations of salvation, if the concepts behind the words are understood.
We Do Need God to Change Our Hearts
And this means that we need God to change our hearts if we hope to live changed lives. The psalmist understood this perfectly well: “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!” (Ps. 51:10).
Love God with your heart by living a loving, faith-filled, and purpose-driven life. This requires letting God lead the way. It means living each day in close connection with Him so we can recognize our calling. Once we do this, once we let Him lead, lives will be changed.
The heart is the locus of physical and spiritual being, and represents the "central wisdom of feeling as opposed to the head-wisdom of reason" (Cooper, 82). It is compassion and understanding, life-giving and complex. It is a symbol for love. Often known as the seat of emotions, the heart is synonymous with affection.
The spiritual heart has no physical form and so is limitless. It's our connection with the Divine and is like an inner sun, that shines forth Divine Light into all areas of our lives. The spiritual heart is always awake, always ready to light our path to enlightenment.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8). "This verse means people that go all out, not halfway, will see God," says Matthew, age 9. Lukewarm Christians make Jesus nauseated to the point of vomiting.