In response to a great series by Mike Hoesch Healing Journeys, Id like to visit the subject of renewing the mind and convincing the heart of truth, a very helpful series. I think it very interesting and helpful to note that our natural mind is a hindrance to believing the truth of spiritual things, including healing. And because healing is a spiritual thing that changes a physical thing, it is super important to get the key to believing and convincing your heart of healing since the heart is where we believe! I have a blog about “convincing myself of the truth” in which I explain a story about how I became convinced and persuaded that a burn will heal without surgery. It was a third-degree burn and I was told by two doctors and a whole burn unit that it wouldn’t heal without surgery, or wouldn’t heal right. Find that story to learn the details of the beautiful results of healing I obtained.

While I agree with Mike Hoesche who says that you cannot convince your natural mind of the truths in God‘s word and don’t even try, I will say that our heart is like a courtroom. Sometimes it requires evidence to believe and sometimes it just believes because there are no opposing beliefs to fight with…. no objections.

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.” Proverbs‬ ‭4:23‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans ‬ ‭10:10‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The courtroom of your heart often condemns you. The Bible has an answer for that too. “if thy heart condemns you, God is greater than your heart.” 1Jn 3:20

We can only see spiritual things by being born of the spirit (John 3:3) And only then we can see with spiritual eyes:

“while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:18‬ ‭. Looking at unseen things is using the mind of Christ. Our imagination is part of our spiritual eyes.

The more we use our spiritual eyes and spiritual understanding, the more renewed our thinking becomes. Thus renewing our mind is simply switching gears from natural limits to spiritual unlimited. We can be only partially persuaded or fully persuaded. The more persuaded we are of truth the better results we have in our life.