How to seek Truth and find it!

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Lafftur

Lafftur

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You will find the Truth when you seek it with ALL your heart! :love:(y)

Jeremiah 29:13 King James Version (KJV)
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Isn't it interesting that God doesn't want us seeking Him with our head, rather He desires us to seek Him with ALL our heart...........:unsure:

I don't believe our heads can find truth. This is the mistake we make, when we search for God with our heads and not our hearts.

Here's an example:

When considering all the people that went out to see John the Baptist in the wilderness - who went seeking him with their heart ........ and who went seeking with their head?

Matthew 3:4-6
4 Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him
6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

John the Baptist is out there in the wilderness, wearing camel's hair, eating locusts and wild honey, crying in a loud voice "Get ready! Repent! God is coming!" baptizing people in the Jordan River......

Who in their right mind would want to go see him?

Yet, all of Jerusalem, Judea and all the region around Jordan went out to meet him, confessed their sins and were baptized by him in the Jordan River! Their hearts were seeking truth and found it!

Matthew 3:7-10
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
9 and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

So, the Pharisees and Sadducees show up........ BUT, their hearts are NOT seeking truth.

He calls them a brood of vipers because he knows their hearts are evil because their hearts are not seeking God in truth.

An evil heart is an unbelieving heart, a heart that rejects truth because the head says it doesn't make sense or it does not want to comply with lifestyle changes as a result of knowing the truth.

God hears our hearts, He doesn't listen to our heads. Our minds are amazing computers that collect data, store and process it but, it's our hearts that have the capability of seeking and finding truth. Our hearts are amazing!

When our hearts cry for truth, He answers. Yeshua/Jesus knew when people were "reasoning in their hearts" and He would answer them.

Mark 2:8
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Luke 5:22
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

That old cliche' "Follow your heart, not your head" is the treasure map that leads to Truth.
 
posthuman

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Lafftur said:
I don't believe our heads can find truth. This is the mistake we make, when we search for God with our heads and not our hearts.
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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ​
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Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ​
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Gen 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
 
dcontroversal

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The word translated heart = seat of intellect.........the organ that pumps blood has no cognitive ability.........

Romans 12:1-2 Be transformed by the RENEWING of the MIND

The idea behind the whole heart = all of one's being.....sincere, with a genuine, whole intent etc....
 
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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Joseph Campbell

I also like to add, you must begin YOUR journey alone.
Always go with your gut feeling.
 
GracethroughfaithinChrist

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Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
 
Lafftur

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dcontroversal said:
The word translated heart = seat of intellect.........the organ that pumps blood has no cognitive ability.........

Romans 12:1-2 Be transformed by the RENEWING of the MIND

The idea behind the whole heart = all of one's being.....sincere, with a genuine, whole intent etc....
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Hello dc, :love:

Hmmmm...........interesting.:unsure:

Heart = “seat” of intellect

So, the heart should “sit” and rule and reign over the intellect........:unsure:

I’m ALL for renewing the mind and being transformed! The supercomputer needs to be totally reprogrammed! The whole database needs to be the Word of God, not the world. :love:(y)

Yes, to find truth, it does take the “whole” heart. :love:(y)
 
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Lafftur said:
Love that song!!! Thanks for sharing! :love:(y)
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Your welcome.

I don’t mean to rude or anything like that. but we also have to realize God created us humans with the ability to reason to think, he created the human mind to think, of coarse the mind can be corrupted which leads to a corrupted heart, the two go hand and hand, but it’s best to reason about things ponder on them to determine a truth about something. to uncorrupt the heart is to uncorrupt the mind then that leads to a better heart and mind.

snakes swallow their food whole there is no chewing at all, the cows chews it’s food first for awhile then swallows the food, us humans it’s best to chew our food first to break it down so the body can process the food for the heart and organs within us. the split toe hoof mind/heart the cud food chew it for awhile.

Isaiah 1:18
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

you mentioned this verse below, Jesus knew that both their mind and heart was corrupted.

Luke 5:22
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

thoughts are in the mind which reasons with the heart.
 
Lafftur

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KnowMe said:
Your welcome.

I don’t mean to rude or anything like that. but we also have to realize God created us humans with the ability to reason to think, he created the human mind to think, of coarse the mind can be corrupted which leads to a corrupted heart, the two go hand and hand, but it’s best to reason about things ponder on them to determine a truth about something. to uncorrupt the heart is to uncorrupt the mind then that leads to a better heart and mind.

snakes swallow their food whole there is no chewing at all, the cows chews it’s food first for awhile then swallows the food, us humans it’s best to chew our food first to break it down so the body can process the food for the heart and organs within us. the split toe hoof mind/heart the cud food chew it for awhile.

Isaiah 1:18
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

you mentioned this verse below, Jesus knew that both their mind and heart was corrupted.

Luke 5:22
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

thoughts are in the mind which reasons with the heart.
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Hello KnowMe,

I agree that both the heart and mind work together.

Do you think the amount of times God refers to our hearts in scripture is way more than when He refers to our minds?

I may have to research that one but, just guessing I’d say God talks about our hearts more.

Enjoyed reading your post! Well said! :love:(y)
 
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Lafftur said:
Hello KnowMe,

I agree that both the heart and mind work together.

Do you think the amount of times God refers to our hearts in scripture is way more than when He refers to our minds?

I may have to research that one but, just guessing I’d say God talks about our hearts more.

Enjoyed reading your post! Well said! :love:(y)
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True because truly the heart will be what is judged, thoughts come and go but what is in the heart can remain a lot longer.

James 1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

listening is with the mind, speak and anger comes from the heart
 
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Listening with the heart is processing through the mind.

Almost no one here on the site post things without some kind of thought first think about it.

though some more than likely have a knee jerk reaction and are ed something and they blurt it out without thought.
 
CherieR

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"Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings"

Jeremiah 17:5-10
 
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