Introduction

By sharing my insights and experiences on the truths and principles applied to the four windows of the heart, I pray that anyone who needs and seeks deliverance and divine healing would benefit from this teaching as an empowering tool to unlock the Gates of Heaven, be set free, and receive love and healing from God.

In 1986 at YWAM Discipleship Training School, it was my first time to hear and learn about the teaching and application of the four windows of the heart. Since then, when hurting incidents occur and the lessons I learned are applied, I experience deliverance and divine healing of the deep hurts and bitterness hidden and shelved there.

As I look back at the beginnings of my hurts and bitterness since childhood and adolescence, which were conveniently shelved and forgotten with time, and not knowing that whatever is sown will take root and will bear fruit, the Lord enabled me to see through the windows of my heart the seeds of bitterness down there. The Lord made me see and understand that with time—because history repeats itself in one’s life journey on earth—unresolved bitter incidents symbolically happen in a way similar to the particular past incident the first time it happened at one time or another at a different time and space, with a different person. I call these “symbolic incidents” because the bitterness issue is the same as the first bitter incident in my childhood.

Yes, bitterness springs up unannounced. When we snap, it happens during our unguarded moment, unmasking a deep-seated bitterness in our hearts coming to the fore. We feel bad. In prayer, we reflect. Then the Holy Spirit shines on us, His grace stirring and making us realize that bitterness prompted us to snap. With conviction, we repent. But it doesn’t end there. He leads us to the beginning of that bitter incident. Even if decades have passed, the Lord brings us to that remembrance, a moment of intense pain and bitterness in a fresh vision of ourselves, a fresh painful memory at play. Our mind and heart see everything: the painful drama, the person inflicting pain on us. But at this moment, something awesome and glorious is happening. The tangible and loving presence of God our Father in heaven encompasses us—His love, so immense yet so tender, nurturing our hearts, transforming our emotions with love, spawning tears of healing flowing like living waters, washing our hearts and minds.

Thus we must uproot bitterness; if we don’t, it will somehow spring up again, defiling people—even people we love and who love us—and it will be passed on from generation to generation, even to the fourth generation.

Outline

First Window is our outer self—our public life. It is the part of ourselves we see and reveal, and others see it.

Second Window is our inner self—our secret life. It is the part of ourselves we hide so others do not see it.

Third Window is our blind spot. It is the part of ourselves we don’t see, but others see it. 

Fourth Window is the mystery part of ourselves. We do not know this part of ourselves, and others also do not know it; but God, who is Omniscient, knows it.