The health of your heart is important and not just its natural health, equally as vital is its spiritual health. The heart defines who you are and what you are capable of. No matter how hard one may try the heart eventually reveals itself. Last week, I wrote about the purity of our hearts and now I present you with something more.
Below, is some practical advice on guarding your heart against perversity, directly from John Eckhardt’s upcoming release “Destroying the Spirit of Rejection.” Enjoy!
How You Can Guard Your Heart From the Spirit of Perversion
JOHN ECKHARDT
Released 7.26.2016 for charismamag.com
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man” (Matt. 15:19–20).
The spirit of perversion rises out of the heart. Homosexuality, lesbianism, adultery and fornication are all heart issues. If you are a practicing homosexual, no matter how much you defend your lifestyle, you have a heart issue.
Somehow the enemy was able to plant the seed in your heart through trauma whether by direct means (such as molestation) or by indirect means (such as generational trauma). Because you did not guard your heart—or weren’t spiritually equipped to guard your heart—the seed grew and manifested as perversion.
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Let me give you an example. If a man molests a young boy, the boy may grow up with homosexual tendencies because his heart was open. He didn’t know how to close his heart to that.
Now, you can close your heart to things. You can make a decision, “I’m not going to be a homosexual.” You can shut your heart to it and say, “No, I will not be gay. I hate it. I don’t want to be a homosexual.” You can make a decision at a young age not to be a homosexual. There are a lot of men who were molested at a young age and could have been homosexuals, but they said no to it. When you close your heart to the defilement of the enemy, there is nothing the devil can do to get it in your heart.
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Proverbs 4:23 says, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” What comes into your life flows out of your heart. How you end up in life is based on how you keep your heart. You end up in certain places because of what came out of your heart. Judas, a disciple of Jesus, is an example of what happens when you don’t guard your heart.
Excerpted from John Eckhardt’s book, Destroying the Spirit of Rejection (Charisma House, 2016). To purchase the book, click here.
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