The word Heart is mentioned for 840 times in the old testament.
The heart that is mentioned is not the one that pumps blood in your body, but its something that is within your mind

4 things that can cause a spiritual heart attack

one of it is...ANGER

Ephesians 4:31
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Anger is neither good nor bad

If we allow anger to grow, it'll build up and eventually blow up.

How other people treat us doesn't mean that we have to treat them the same way as well...

Matt 18:21-35(NLT)
Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!

“Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.“But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’

Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt.“But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.

“His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded. But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full.

“When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me. Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’

Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.

“That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters from your heart.”

forgiveness is about us, not about other people

Whenever there is a hurt, there is a thief

unforgiveness ia potentially a poison to the heart.

4 things to do to SLAY anger

1. Identify who we are angry with

2. Determine what they owe you
-if we don't know what they owe us, are we angry with them for nothing?

3. Cancel the debt
-forgiveness is a choice.
-people can provoke us to be angry, but we have the choice to stay angry or not.

4. Dismiss the case.
-Our feelings doesn't automatically follow our decisions.

2 things can happen when we forgive someone and they start to 'irritate' us again
-Stop forgiving
-think about something else

but both of the above is not what we should be doing, we should face it!

When memories of the past come, go and face it, don't reopen the case again, but restate your stand to forgive that person.

What we do with our memories, determines their impact in our lives.

FEELINGS IS NOT AN ACCURATE GAUGE

why should we cancel the debts? because, there are some debts that can never be repaid in any way