​Experiences Create Belief Systems

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We are not random and here by chance, but are created with design and purpose.  When we suffer physically or emotionally it is our spirit and body alerting us that something is off.  Medical science has confirmed that 80% of disease is rooted in problems in subconscious belief systems.  If we are only conscious of about 5% of the 60,000 thoughts we think every day according to Robin Braun, then our life is guided by our subconscious.

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Proverbs 27:3 As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.

Proverbs 4:34 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

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To quote Robin Braun in her book “Thrive”, “Many people have a difficult time believing God is good.  There is a deep subconscious mistrust in their relationship with God. The subconscious block of distrust cannot be easily overridden by a simple will to connect.  Safety is felt, not willed and the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious desire to believe God is good.”

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Our experiences in life that are tied to an intense emotion create memories.  These experiences and memories generate thoughts and whether they represent truth or not, over time create a belief system by which we live.  Although we may choose to change our thought patterns, this belief now rooted in our subconscious is often unable to change by mere will without new experiences and memories to create a new belief system.  God guides us to interpret these experiences and develop belief systems leading us into spiritual wholeness, physical and emotional healing.

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Jesus links faith to the impossible, seeing those things manifest which are part of the destiny you were designed for.  (Ephesians 2:10) We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it. 

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We Are More Spirit Than Matter

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When we are stressed, these emotions create chemicals that impact our whole body but primarily it’s first attack lands in our gut.  There are more nerves going to the abdominal area than any other part of the body.  If left unchecked, it rarely stays in the gut but ripples out to the body and can become chronic disease over time.   God in His great love for us will reveal what leads to fear, stress, illness and disease.

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Luke 12:2-3 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.  Emerson Ferrell in his book the Resurrection Generation, states that according to quantum physics, the building blocks for all material are atoms.  They are 99.999% spirit and less than .1% material.  Science validates that we are more spirit than matter.  Our spirit moves in and out of the invisible dimension 8x/second.  Our spirit joins with God, the Creator of life, around 691,200x/day. This means our source for life is His Spirit which comes to us through Jesus and His resurrection.  We are in Him more than in the material world yet we tend to focus on the .1%.   John 8:12 He says, "I am the Light of the world.  Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." He is eternal, omnipresent and outside of time and space.  According to Genesis 1, with His voice, God spoke and all life came into being.  His spirit filled creation with the breath of life.  Jesus, light and frequency, heal us. 

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Heaven’s Touchpoint in Us is Our Belly

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Robert Wurtz II wrote a wonderful article called "The God of the Belly" and the following section has been taken from this. 

God indeed created the stomach for processing the food we eat, which is meant to bring pleasure. However, God never intended for our stomachs to rule over us. He never intended hunger or the pleasure of eating sweet and savory foods to control us or dominate our lives. However, today we find ourselves eating to combat depression, stress, loneliness, cravings, to celebrate and everything in between.  Culture promotes continual eating.

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Food has become a god even an idol. An idol is something we turn to for help giving it power it should not have over us.  The belly is harmed by indulgence and food becomes so important it gets in the way of our connection with Jesus.  In Titus 1:12 NKJV, we have the word glutton, which in the KJV reads, “The Cretians are always brute beasts and slow bellies,” meaning gluttons. Such in Ancient Greece were called gastródouloi, slaves of their stomachs. Our English word gastritis and gastric are derived from gastḗr.  Our over eating and eating food that is not life-giving leads to gastric imbalance and eventually to disease.​

The Greek expression is ek tes koilias autou (lit. from within his belly). The belly here pictures the center of the believer’s personality. It may imply the womb, the sphere of generation.

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Jesus said that our belly is the source of our spiritual life. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Jn. 7:38.  In this verse, the Greek word for “belly” is “koilia.” It denotes the womb, stomach and innermost being, but it can also refer to our entire physical cavity. Interestingly, koilia is the basis for the Latin word for “heaven,” which is “coelum.” Thus, heaven’s touch point in us is in our gut\belly.

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In the Old Testament, the “gut” was the spiritual center of man. The King James translates this area as “reins,” which in the Hebrew is “kilyah” and literally means “kidneys.” The Jews believed that “the seat of the will, emotions, mind and spiritual powers is often found in the general area of the gastro-intestinal tract.”

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"The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." Prov. 20:27.​

"Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom." Ps. 51:6.

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Jesus’s Compassion to Heal Came from His Gut

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"And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick." Matt.14:14. When the above passage says that Jesus was “moved with compassion” to heal the multitude, the Greek word is “splanchnizomai,” the verb form of “splancha.” Splanchnizomai means to be moved by ones’ bowels or inward parts to perform some function. This word is frequently recorded of Christ towards the multitudes and towards individual sufferers.  In Hebraic thought, kidneys spiritually symbolize the will of God for our lives. 

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Our gut (visceral knowledge) then may be the touch point between God and man. From this touch point rivers of living waters flow through our hearts, minds and bodies. (Jn. 7:38). Isn’t it interesting that the kidneys produce 200 quarts of laboratory pure water every day! What a tribute to our gut as the physical and spiritual wellspring of lives and connection with God.