What Do You See in Your Heart?

 

  

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”

—Jeremiah 1:11-12

 

 

The almond tree flowers in Israel in Shevat, the 11th month of the ecclesiastical Hebrew calendar. This was the month that the Lord called Jeremiah. When the Lord asks Jeremiah what He sees and Jeremiah replies that he sees an almond tree, Jeremiah sees that the almond tree is budding and awakening from its dormant sleep. The Lord tells Jeremiah that he has seen well and that He is ready to perform His Word. When we awaken from a dormant sleep to the living truth of God’s Word, He is ready to perform His truth in us.

 

We all need daily new awakenings to the Word of God and new awakenings to God’s purpose. We all have a need to believe that there is something new. God’s mercies are new every morning. We should expect new things in our lives.

 

Many believers who face issues in their lives say they are standing on the Word. If you ask them what they see for their lives, some of them don’t have an answer. They are declaring the Word, but that Word hasn’t yet been sown into their hearts. It hasn’t created a vision yet of what they are saying. A person can quote a Scripture, but if that Scripture hasn’t taken root and created a vision in his heart, he will flounder without direction in life. 

 

What have you heard from the Lord? What have you seen in your heart? What vision has Scripture conceived in you? 

 

What you hear and see in your heart is powerful. 

 

Through twelve years of sickness, loneliness, and loss, the woman with the issue of blood kept on seeking help. When no one could help her, she still had enough hope to hold on. When she heard about Jesus, her faith woke up and came to life, and she conceived a vision in her heart. 

 

“When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, ‘If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well’” (Mark 5:27-28).  

 

This woman had a picture in her heart. She saw herself touching Jesus’ garment and being healed. So she pushed her way through the crowd to Jesus and touched his garment, speaking to herself what she believed would happen. Her words came out of the vision in her heart. And the moment she touched his garment, healing power came out of Jesus and into her. Out of the good treasure of her heart, she spoke and brought forth this good thing (Luke 6:45).

 

Realizing healing power had gone out of Him, Jesus knew it was not just from the crowd touching him. Someone had touched Him, believing. When the woman confessed she was the one who had touched Him, Jesus said, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction” (Mark 5:34).

 

It was her faith that made this woman well. She had faith to receive because she had a vision conceived in her heart. She had heard about Jesus, and a vision had been born in her heart. Then, she spoke the vision and acted upon what she believed. 

 

This woman’s vision set the course for her healing and determined her outcome. If she had seen herself sick the rest of her life, as she had been for the last twelve years, she would have never received her healing. Envisioning herself sick, she would have remained sick. But in her heart, she had a picture of herself touching Jesus’ garment and being set free from her illness. And Jesus met her there.

 

What is your need? Have you seen a picture of God’s promise in your heart? 

 

Today is a new day. Don’t bring your past “twelve years” into today. Don’t say God won’t do anything. God is just waiting to perform His Word in your life. He wants to awaken His Word in you. His Word has no power if it is just vain repetition. The Word has power when it is conceived in your heart. And when the Word is conceived in your heart, the Holy Spirit gives you a vision of God’s promise as a reality in your life. 

 

What is your issue? Are you dealing with illness? Are you dealing with circumstances that are overwhelming? 

 

Get into the Word of God, and study it. Bend your mind to the Word. Pray over it. Think and reflect on it. Be open to hearing from the Holy Spirit, and when you hear that still small voice, sow the truth you have heard into your heart. Conceive its vision. Nurture that vision, and don’t allow doubt. Persevere. When you truly believe something in your heart, you won’t give up on it. You will hang on to what you see is promised.

 

What incredible Word is the Holy Spirit trying to paint inside your mind and heart? Do you see yourself healed as this woman did?  Has “by His stripes you were healed” been conceived in your heart? Do you see yourself as a victor over whatever you face in life? Has the authority Jesus given you been sown in your heart? Or do see yourself as a victim of the one whose purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy you? Is your sickness and what you are experiencing determining the vision in your heart, or do you see yourself receiving the truth of God’s Word? 

 

If the Word has been conceived in your heart—it you have allowed it to create a vision of its truth within you, you see yourself healed. In your heart, you see your provision. You see your circumstances improving. You don’t need your flesh or your circumstances to prove it to you. You know it. You believe it by faith.

 

Never give up on Jesus. He is the Word. When you do your part by getting in the Word, praying, meditating, studying, and listening to what the Holy Spirit has to show you, the Holy Spirit does His part. God’s promise that is conceived in your heart, will one day be received in your life.

 

“If you can believe,” Jesus said, “all things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23).

 

When you see well, God is ready to perform His Word in your life (Jeremiah 1:12).

 

 

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