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Proverbs 17:22 says, “A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” AMP. This verse is a very powerful one which has a deep message in it. Let me explain the power within this verse.
A happy heart and a cheerful mind isn’t just something someone has like that, especially when it involves good medicine and healing. The human effort could attain this through various methods attached to it. Remember, the broken spirit dries up the bones. This verse isn’t figurative completely, it also has its strong literary meaning.
The heart of man cannot stay happy and cheerful all the time, the reason is that everything has a source, and the source Man has isn’t a happy and cheerful one. But there is a source that comes with being happy and cheerful all the time.
When you receive Jesus into your life, He becomes your life, and the old life passes away. And everything that Jesus has right now seated at the right hand of God is what we now have in our spirit, because our spirit is who we are.
This new spirit is a brand new life of Jesus which we now live. The spirit that functions within Jesus is the Holy Spirit, which implies that the spirit which we attained is the Holy Spirit. And as we live according to the Holy Spirit, we then portray the characteristics of the Holy Spirit naturally through how we live which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit which includes: love, joy, peace, patience (longsuffering), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (ref. Galatians 5:22-23). This is when we can be happy all the time and have a cheerful, then we start to see the good medicine and healing the verse was talking about.
Even though we have the Holy Spirit living in us, it is our choice to follow Him or be led by Him. This is why those who are born of God cannot be depressed or sick, or anything Jesus doesn’t have. We are to know who we are by looking and fixing our eyes on Jesus in order to unleash the fullness of Christ in our everyday life such as having a happy heart and a cheerful mind every second of our lives.
May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)
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