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Making men MEN again. The David Alliance will help you slay your giants.
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Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page. This Week the Jezebel Spirit… and not just women have it.
August Friday and Saturday 16th 17th End times conference at HillSpring Church sponsored by The David Alliance,
I take blood pressure medication… Yes, I have high blood pressure. But not because I have a bad heart or high cholesterol or plaque in my arteries.. actually they look great, clear as a bell… but my heart is enlarged… my atrium is to big… and thats where we are going today.
Hey ever read scripture and get a heart check? When they were looking to find out why I had high blood pressure it was a little bit of a riddle until they took a sonogram of my heart… which was a great day because I led my Muslim Doctor to Christ… story for another day. But they did all kinds of tests checking my heart…. When I read scripture I get heart checks like that… and here is one today for us.
Exodus 32:7 The Lord told Moses, “Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 8 How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
9 Then the Lord said, “I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are. 10 Now leave me alone so my fierce anger can blaze against them, and I will destroy them. Then I will make you, Moses, into a great nation.”
WE can see 3 things clearly here in scripture regarding Man, God and Those greatly used by God.
-1 Men can do stupid things…. Israel created their own God.. a golden statue… This is after their current God (YWHY- the true and real God) just led them out of Egypt, spit the read sea, drowned their enemies, gave them gold, jewelry, food and booty in their exit… but hey, you know… its just not good enough. Yes we all can do stupid things… and quite regularly for some of us.
-2 God can get mad! We see in scripture where Jesus gets mad. He turned over tables, he cussed out the pharisees and sadducees. He threw over tables, he swung a whip around chasing people out of the temple.
Which means… we can get God mad. Thats a thought we should reflect on… maybe a later podcast. But here in Exodus we see God wants to wipe out the nation of Israel and start over.
Wow… Im not saying that it sounds like God is pouting… but, well… this is an extreme response in my mind… which leads us to the 3rd things we see in this scripture.
-3 Moses is given an amazing offer. God says I will make you the father of a great nation… First just let me wipe out Israel. Next I will give you the ability to impregnate some women… I guess right? Your family tree will grow and grow and grow and you will take over from where the other generation blew it….
How many would jump at that opportunity. But maybe one of the most impressive and most humble and maybe one of the most “God responses” in scripture… Moses says
11 But Moses tried to pacify the Lord his God. “O Lord!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand? 12 Why let the Egyptians say, ‘Their God rescued them with the evil intention of slaughtering them in the mountains and wiping them from the face of the earth’? Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you have threatened against your people! 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. And I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.’”
14 So the Lord changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had threatened to bring on his people.
Moses could be handed an amazing future, an amazing legacy, an amazing story… I am sure it would have fed just about anyones ego… (yeah God, Im so much better than those sinners… kill’em all and lets do this) But not Moses, his heart was for the salvation of those people.
What dream, goal hope would you trade to see more people come to Jesus…
I am some day going to own 2 or 3 corvettes… at 58, a 63 split window and a 68 removable hard top or T top. Would I trade those dreams for more people to come to Christ? Would I trade my future dream home and cars and guns and boats and the ability to spoil my parents and my kids… would I trade all that to see more people come to Christ….
But don’t miss the point… these “people” are a pain in the butt to Moses… they cause him nothing but trouble, they whine, they complain, they don’t follow rules or Gods word… they want a different leader than Moses… would you give up your future promise for those people?
You know the people that drive you crazy… they talk behind your back, they gossip, they want nothing more than to see you fail, fall and fizzle out. They revel in your loss… would you give up your dreams for those people to come to Christ?
HEART CHECK… lets put that at the top of our prayer list….
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
August Friday and Saturday 16th 17th End times conference at HillSpring Church sponsored by The David Alliance,
One of the scams happening is you get a bill via email that says you need to pay your bill for your anti virus provider… which is kind of funny that a scammer is scamming you pretend to help you not get scammed… But kind of do the same thing in our spiritual walk.
Romans 9:30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
Think of it… God paid the bill, and the jews still send him a bill…. What do I mean exactly?
Same salvation for both Jews and Gentiles… but we go after it different ways. The Jews tried to earn it through the law… Gentiles had to receive it by faith…
WE still tend to receive it and then add our own law… but this verse says.. you can’t bill God. You can’t send God a bill saying… hey I did this, I did this, Im good, Im better than most, so you need to give me this….
The Jews tried to please God by pleasing God… I know right.But thats the truth. They failed to realize that you cannot obtain right standing with God by what you do…
Yes we hear a lot about right standing with God.. yes we need to pursue this… but not by our own efforts… but rather by acknowledging to God that we cannot do it without him.
So what pleases God? Choosing to rely on him in order to please him.
How do you live a sinless life?
How do you heal people?
How do you not lust?
How do you not be greedy?
How do you respond in love to those who hurt you?
You don’t earn it.
You can’t send him a bill showing him how well you have behaved….
BUT YOU CAN SEND HIM A BILL MARKED PAID… of course he is the one who paid it with his own blood, but it is as good as paid if you trust that he paid it.
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
August Friday and Saturday 16th 17th End times conference at HillSpring Church sponsored by The David Alliance,
Renew your mind…
Welp… you heard it here first. Its all on you. You are to blame or to bless… but again its clear…YOU renew your mind… don’t blame me.
If you go to the gym one day for 3 hours… you will not change one bit… but you will be very tired.
If you go 3 days… no change
If you go 3 weeks… no change
If you go 3 months… a little change
If you go 3 years… you may not believe what you look like
And in some type of twilight zone world if you could work out your whole life and compare it to you not working out your whole life… you would not recognize yourself.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Look we all have seen kids just succumb to conformity… they slowly dress, talk, act like all the other cool kids… maybe if its our kid we think its harmless… or maybe we put a stop to it… but what is most baffling to me - I hang around a lot of men who are just as easily swept up into conformity…
They watch the same crap, they have the same lazy schedule, they drink the same stuff at the same time at the same place, they complain about the same things, they dream of the same things, they have the same wishes and fears….
Dude, you are just like everyone else. You have conformed to the pattern of this world.
What if I told you that you don't have to have all your wishes granted or all your dreams come true to be fulfilled and to have a life that drives you with enthusiasm.
But its up to you.
You renew your mind…
The truth is we are all renewing our mind.. its just some of us are renewing it with fodder, garbage, the mundane.
Whats the outcome of a happy life? Simple we know and do the will of God. If I am living in Gods will I know I will feel fulfilled, I know I have a purpose greater than myself… I know I am driven by the supernatural and empowered by GOd… and how does this happen… oh yea, what does the verse say? By the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and know Gods perfect will…
If you renew your mind one day for 3 hours… you will not change one bit… but you will be very tired.
If you renew 3 days… no change
If you renew 3 weeks… little to no change
If you renew 3 months… a little change
If you go 3 years… you may not believe what you turn into
And in some type of twilight zone world if you could renew your mind for your whole life and compare it to you not renewing your whole life… you would not recognize yourself.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
August Friday and Saturday 16th 17th End times conference at HillSpring Church sponsored by The David Alliance,
When I was a kid I thought burning my hand was the worst pain you could ever have. At the time it was in fact the worst pain I had ever experienced. Time when by… I tore my achilles… that hurt, then I broke my neck and I had bolts put in my head… thats gotta be the worst pain in the world…. Nah, were just warming up.
I have had 18 surgeries, I have had 16 hernias… 14 all at once. 16 months of chemo… and so so much more… and now rehabbing my shoulder every day… every day… every day…
Now I have a whole new respect for the NFL Quarterback Alex Smith… 18 surgeries just on his leg. Fighting a flesh eating disease racing to his organs… an open wound… and I mean if you have seen the pictures… it is utterly graphic… open to the bone, muscles and ligaments exposed for weeks…
But thats only one kind of pain… no one likes physical pain. But do you remember that break up, or that fight with your spouse. You remember the pain of watching your kids get hurt. The pain of losing your job, not being able to pay bills. Maybe you have pain from following Christ… you get mocked, you get fired, you get martyred… is it worth it?
2 Corinthians 4:17,18
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; …
You gotta love the apostle Paul and I hope we can all live up to this verse. Here is a follower of Christ who has been
2 Cor. 11:in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— 28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak?
And he says… eh it was just for a moment compared to the glory we will experience.
Rom. 8:18
I am sure what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us.
Scarface… Tony Montana meets Frank his boss for the first time… Tony just about got cut up to pieces with a chainsaw… within the first meeting Frank says “not to mention that job you did for me… with that SOB….
You don’t have to mention it… That was fun…
Ok Frank….
I got a feeling when we get up to heaven it might happen that Jesus says “welcome, and thanks for that job you did for me… well done thy good and faithful… AND YOU WILL INTERRUPT HIM LOOKING AROUND AT HEAVEN, AT JESUS AT THE FATHER… AND YOU WILL REALIZE… THAT WAS FUN… YOU DON’T HAVE TO MENTION IT… WHAT WAS FUN.
When will we get it through our thick skulls, he is worthy… no matter what. No matter what… no matter what… whatever happens… take your best shot, hurt me, my family, my loved ones… He is worth it.
Ok Frank?
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
August Friday and Saturday 16th 17th End times conference at HillSpring Church sponsored by The David Alliance,
If you do not lead your expectations then they simply become unrealistic expectations.
- You must harness your unrealistic expectations
Here is what happens when you lead your expectations. You see the decision as a chess player you see it in 3D. You see what you want in the future and how to make decisions and lead yourself there. Now the problem with those around you- be it family, friends, people at work or on social media… is that — see it as a checkers move. A to B… but that is not leading your expectations… let me give you a real life example.
*Your Mom tells your daughter to hug uncle Bobby as you are leaving thanksgiving… - she is a 4 year old… that is a checkers move by your mom. You get pressure from other family members at that moment… tell her to hug uncle Bobby… Our family is an affectionate family… teach her to love her family etc.. etc.. and other Checker move thoughts…
A chess move is what do you expect for your daughter 10 years from now, 15 years from now and even 25 years from now… “you tell her you never have to hug a man you don’t feel comfortable with”. Relatives will get mad because they see checkers… you see chess.
I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO LEARN TO SAY NO TO MEN- ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO PHYSICAL TOUCH. I never want my daughter to feel like she has to do something that she feels uncomfortable with… especially when it is regarding her body.
You lead best by design… Which means you have it planned out ahead of time.
Who do you want to marry, where do you want to work, What kind of Dad do you want to be…
What does scripture say? Lead according to it.
I heard a story of a young man who was working a basic construction job at the age of 21… he tried college but it just wasn’t for him. He liked construction and decided he wanted it as a career. Early on most weeks his co-workers would go out every Friday night after work to the bar… He never did, but after a few months he started asking around “how much money do you spend on average at the bar during the week?” The average was about $100 a week… that dumbfounded him… but he was wanting to lead his expectations - so on a whim he decided to simply invest $100 a week in a basic mutual fund. He worked construction for 20 plus years and his friends never stopped drinking and he never stopped investing…
They are all now alcoholics and he is a millionaire.
He learned to lead his expectations…
A couple quick questions… what do you expect to happen they way you are leading your health? Family? Marriage? Job? Spiritual walk?
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024