The Heart Condition

Chapter 1 THE HEART CONDITION: 101 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the [complete] propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1 John 4:9-11 [KJV]

PROLOGUE Beginning this chapter with the sentiment of the above scripture; God loves us, so incredibly, and in the most incomprehensibly whole sense of the word. In love, Jesus endured Calvary for you; individually, intimately and completely; and because of Calvary, EVERYTHING changes. Though the burden of this debt is great, Jesus has wiped it – instead He invites us, in love, to become enshrouded in the unadulterated decadence, sweetness and purity of His love, to pursue relationship, and to become a partaker of the perfect peace which abounds therein. When God looked at the state of the world, considered the debauchery, wickedness and darkness upon her face; when He saw the enemy’s iron grip on His children; in deciding to launch an attack, He did not send Michael; but trading majesty for mortality and glory for flesh, He sent Jesus - for the greatest of these is love [1 Cor. 13:13]. Essentially, love is the message of this book, attempting to awaken and (re)kindle that realization, where in love, the burning, insatiable appetite of every sub-atomic element of your being, every fiber, pulse and every sinew, yields only to the truth and reality of the one you love. Selah. It is in this place, that we can truly begin to stand as sons and daughters, and articulate God’s relentless love, in understanding, effectually and with absolute authority, to the hearts of men.

God has declared the dwelling place of His choosing, ‘Heaven’ – that is to say that although God is everywhere, simultaneously, He has chosen anchor Himself to a habitation (Heaven), and so whenever we see the purposed, tangible, heavy and deliberate presence or ‘Kabod’ of God in a specific locality, we also witness the phenomena of ‘Heaven’. A very crude way of thinking about the ‘Heaven’ phenomena, is akin to an individual with a distinctive signature fragrance – anyone in this individuals vicinity, will experience the fragrance, whist they experience the individual. The individual has chosen to make ‘fragrance x’ his signature fragrance, and so now, the two are now synonymous. In Luke 17:21, Jesus said that The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. There is literally a designated place within your being, purposed to receive the ‘Kabod’ of God - The heart. This “Kabod” is only experienced in “Heaven”, and so IF the Kabod dwells in the heart of man; if you have truly enthroned the King of Glory in your heart, then understand that the heart of man in which the Kabod dwells, is in fact by definition; a type of Heaven.

This is why it is so vital to allow God in, fully, so that Heaven can be ordered in and of our hearts. Out of the fullness, depth and abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks [Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34]. Because of this, we – The Kingdom of God, through the lifestyle of compassion, are able, and dutifully expected to establish or ‘plant Heaven’ [Isaiah 51:16], God’s will for humanity, upon this earth – you are not being expected to establish something which is not already within you. THIS is the heart condition we should, as Christians be manifesting.

Throughout this book, reference will be made to The Heart Condition (THC). THC is simply a way of describing a specific series of systemic dysfunctions, which labor the heart of man; subsequently undermining the plan and purpose of God for the life of an individual at any given time. THC is a practically innate malady, which silently (but not without manifestation) plagues the hearts, and therefore lives of individuals, even Christian individuals, worldwide. THC’s effect is often miss-appropriated under the guise of one of its several manifestations or symptoms, but at its core, its intention remains sacrosanct. In the same way that a virus will enter into a system, whether human, animal, plant or computer, and reprogram cells, thus undermining any ‘healthy’ function with a highly inefficient, corrupted expression; THC in child of God, will cause the will of God to be inefficiently manifested in the life of a believer.