There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone
from harm and danger? What is amazing is how God keeps His hand upon us because He can see the other side of our heart —the side that is pursuing Him. However, a divided heart will eventually lead to a defeated life with divided loyalties, and no person can serve two masters (Matt. 6:24). Our first goal in defeating our inner me is to petition God to unite our heart and not have divided loves, such as a love for people’s praise and God’s favor, or a love for men’s attention and God’s attention, and a love for the world mixing with a love for God. Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. —PSALM 86:11 The heart is not just an organ in your chest that pumps blood, but it has an ability to reason, think, and sense emotion. There have been recent studies and books written on how heart transplant receivers have taken on certain personality and character traits from the person whose heart they received. Claims have been made that the recipient took on certain aspects of the donor’s memory, characteristic likes and dislikes, causing a change in his or her own personality. In published papers by Dr. Paul Pearsall, findings from seventy-three accounts from heart transplant patients and sixty-seven other organ transplant recipients were published. In most cases the recipient knew nothing of the donor and often had no clue who the donor actually was. One twenty nine-year-old woman received the heart of a nineteen-year-old
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