Nicole Radina
Author and Pastor
About the Heart
We all have 3 Core Parts of our heart that are God-given. Our Function, Emotion, and Guardian. We also have a part of us that is our Original Self. God designed for us to live from the place that is our true self (Original Self), the self that is our God-given identity, but when we experience painful things in life the enemy comes in and lies to our heart and sometimes, we forget who we are in Christ. Our hearts have the ability to become divided. Jesus meant for them to be connected to each other as a part of the same family that is, your heart.
Function​
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Doer of the heart.
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How you get things done (gets you up in the morning to go to work, takes care of responsibilities, accomplishes tasks and goals).
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Sometimes the part of you that stays busy, so you don’t have to think about heartache.
Emotion​
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The part of you that is most closely connected to the pain.
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The part that holds good and bad emotions.
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Created to be a connector.
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Gets treated like a trashcan for pain.
Original self
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Came into being at conception.
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Your God-given identity (DNA).
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Who God created you to be without the lies that interfere with your true self.
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Has the capacity to connect most strongly with God.
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Created for deep connection (intimacy) with Jesus.
Guardian
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The protector or the "gatekeeper" of the heart.
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Believes the Emotion & Function parts of the heart must be kept apart, or the Function part will be too overwhelmed to do daily functioning.
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Your Guardian is the wall that goes up when your heart is triggered.
“I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them: I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 11:19
