Rodney Howard Browne

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What I have learned from this class is how the heart and mind operates and work together. Also I have learned how they can work against each other. When a decision or thought comes at you it enters you emotion part of your brain. Right there, says that you should not make a decision in an emotional state because it is responding off of memories and just fleshly emotion. All what goes through the brain goes through the free will part. There we have the decision what to do with the information. Here is where we can choose to throw out thoughts that are not lining up with the Word. All the thoughts go through a mini brain in our heart. This is where God speaks to us. It’s where His peace is. If our hearts aren’t filled with the Word of God then when thoughts come from the enemy we may not tell whether they line up with the Word. When we feed ourselves things of the world such as in movies, music, friend’s conversations, and our own raging thought life sparked by the enemy but stirred by us we are feeding our flesh and mind and allowing it to dominate over our hearts which is where God will lead us and guide us. When the mind is fed more and is stronger because we allow it, then things like stress, depression, fear, and anger start to dominate us. Then we can’t make a decision and can’t hear God’s voice that is speaking in our hearts. We only know how to respond to the emotion part of our brain and when it gets to the free will part it isn’t hearing the Word of God so we either don’t know what decision to make or make a wrong decision because we aren’t following the heart. It’s so important to feed our heart the Word of God and to follow the heart which hears God’s precious voice. When we hear our hearts instead of our mind and emotion then we will be full of God’s peace and be led in His perfect Will.