The Great Exchange

                                The Great Exchange

   Have you ever said, "I just have a gut feeling" about something. 

Well, it was a real impulse from your spirit because the Bible equates the 'Heart' of a man to his bowels.

   God's Word says "Bowels of tender mercy," and "Out of your belly (bowels) will flow rivers of Living Water." It does not say "Out of your heart."

  Jeremiah 4:19 "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart..."

   Philippians 1:8 "For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels (heart) of Jesus Christ."

   Why does God refer to the bowels as the place of compassion, affection and tender mercy as well as the place from which "flow rivers of Living Water?"

   Because its in the bowels, the small and large intestines where the "Life Exchange" takes place. The life giving properties of food are extracted and assimilated into our bodies in the bowels; here food is made usable to enter into the blood and the flesh of the body.

   Our heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout our body but gets its food from the blood via the intestines.

   Jesus had "Bowels of Compassion" (pity and caring) for the "lost-sheep without a shepherd."

Colossians 3:12 "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, (tender hearted pity and kindness)."

   Just as we eat food to live physically, we must take in, ingest, and partake of God's words to feed our born again "Spirit man." (Those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.)

   For Jesus said, "My Words, they are Spirit and they are Life. They are LIFE to all those that find them and Health to all their flesh."   

   

    Once one accepts Jesus as Savior, NEVER starve your Spirit. Just as a baby needs constant feeding, so does your Spirit on the "Milk of the Word" until you can eat the "Meat of the Word."

    The wonderful thing about the Word is it feeds your Spirit man but ALSO is "Health to ALL your flesh."

   "He sent His Word and Healed them."

   For vibrant continued health, read some scripture every day. Don't go 6 days a week without Spirit food. You wouldn't starve your baby or child for six days then feed them them on Sunday only. So don't do the same to your Spirit.. You pray earnestly when crisis comes, every day till you receive God's answer; so get in the habit of praying EVERY day and reading your Bible EVERY day.