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Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 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,
A dentist with missing teeth
A personal trainer who is grossly overweight
A business professor who has never owned a business
A politician who is worth millions but tells the average blue collar American to quit whining…
I have problems with these people.
What really matters as a follower of Christ?
Recent conversations with pastors, church members and local congregants… some churches getting smaller, going back to one service… budgets shrinking…
We have been getting some transfer growth… some due to people running to the next big thing - and some leaving dead churches… but thats not what matters. I can honestly say… I want non christians to come to my church and experience Jesus and give their hearts to Christ… thats all I care about. Our budget is primarily for the non christian. Our sermons are biblical and applicable but always have the non christian in mind.
What does this have to do with me…
What really matters in your life as a follower of Jesus. Do you think when you get to heaven God is going to say you were such a great follower of Christ… you read, you prayed, sought my will, you love me and you loved others… you were sacrificial… OH AND YOU LEAD NO ONE TO CHRIST… YOU NEVER SHARED THE GOSPEL…IM NOT SURE YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS.
Where do we get the idea that we can be a person who stands before God and he says “well done thy good and faithful servant”…. But we never took his number one command to heart, and didn’t just do it, but lived it, breathed it - made it our mission, our life. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO DO. That is what the original disciples stood for, preached and died for.
If Jesus is really that good then why are you not tell others about him…. Or maybe he is just an insurance policy for you. Maybe its easiest, you get blessings, and peace and love and forgiveness…
Shame on you…
Jesus cannot be who he said he was, do what he did, prove what he is ….AND YOU CLAIM HIM AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND YOU DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO SHARE HIM?
My wife is smoking hot, she is beautiful, she has got a body that knocks me off my feet, she is a beautiful blonde, with curves that a Ferrari can’t handle, she has the best smile… she smells like sex, she is sweet, innocent, tender, loving and more… but Im to embarrassed of her to introduce you to her… you may not think she is that pretty, it might offend you…. That says more about me than my wife.
Matthew 10:33
NIV But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
NLT But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.
Deny: To contradict by your behavior… to not confess him to others.
i.e. you can say you are a Christian all you want… but if you are not in such belief of that - that you are not sharing Christ on a regular basis then you are not a follower of Christ.
Social media influencers… by far the majority post sweet, nice, motivating and biblical posts… that are void of the gospel…
Again, that is like me posting things on marriage because I am a marriage expert, but I never share anything about my wife or my marriage… and in fact I am embarrassed of her… I might lose followers on my social media channel if I talk about my wife…
2 questions… chew on these.
Are you a follower of Jesus?
How would Jesus rate your success at following him?
LAST COMMENT: IF THE MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS CALL YOU A CHRISTIAN… IT MEANS NOTHING…
BUT IF THE MAJORITY OF NON CHRISTIANS CALL YOU A CHRISTIAN, IT MEANS EVERYTHING.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
Who said?
Who cares? And why would you?
Life can grind you down thru well meaning know it alls.
Who are these people… they are the experts, the pros, the intelligent people.
Most of these people are smart or successful by accident or luck. There are lots of smart people who never worked for it, as well as successful, and rich.
Ignore these people. What if The disciples listened to the experts, the crowds, the teachers of the law, the pharisees and sadducees…. Even Jesus own family… the disciples would have turned and run.
But practically speaking when you do a deep dive into success be it in chess, business, entrepreneurship, relationships, exercise… whatever it is. These people were all told not to do it. I heard Robert Kyisoki once say that 99% of all inventions would have never come to be if people had listened to the experts… the pro’s, the intelligent. I have to agree.
I want to hear Gods voice more.
I want to heal more people.
I want to make a billion dollars.
I want to win 1 million people to Christ.
I want to start a media company.
I want to employ my sons.
I want to build my wife’s dream house.
I want to raise people from the dead.
I want to start a revival….
I want to write a book for men that changes our country and is a best seller.
These are truly things I am believing for… but guess what the experts are saying?
Dude, you don’t have enough time, you are not smart enough, it will never happen…
I love what Louie Simmons said “if you train with the lame you will end up walking with a limp”.
If you allow the experts to plan your future… it will be hell on earth. If you are willing to just trust God and go for it… you will be surprised at what grows in your life.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
BAM - watch them every Tuesday night on our Facebook page.
How long does it take for you to get to know someone…
Most of us love telling others who we are and what we are about and love. And if you are slow to do this… it will still happen when you get comfortable around a person…
What if you practiced this in your walk with Christ. You get so comfortable with his word, his ways, his spirit, his commands, his wisdom, his advice, his grace, his stories of the miraculous… that you tell yourself that is who you are… its who you are in Christ. You don’t just tell it, you believe it, you feel it. You begin to experience it.
You are at a job interview or with a girl you met on a dating app…. Or speaking for the first time to your girlfriends dad….…. so uh Garth tell me about yourself…
Well I am a son of the King, I have unlimited favor. When things seem impossible I brace myself for an incredible miracle. When I don’t understand things I just laugh knowing God is working behind the scenes. I can’t help but be a blessing because I am blessed. I am an overcomer… I have Gods truth flowing through my veins and I have unlimited grace at my disposal. I am so powerful in the spiritual world it shakes hell… yeah thats about it.
Everyone thought Muhammad Ali was arrogant until he started knocking everyone out.
You may think I am that crazy hyper faith person… but what else is faith - other than hyper. I live by faith, I live by Gods word… it should seem over the top!
2 Kings 7 Elisha is being chastised by the King about how the country is starving and God isn’t keeping his word… he is hitting up Elisha with death threats…
Elisha knows who he is, he knows his God and in fact… we don’t see Elisha getting a WORD from God, we just simply see him speaking something into existence.
He knows who he is
He knows his God
He knows his place in God
He knows what his God is capable of
He knows what God has done, can do and will do
He looks at the king and says simply… again he speaks this into existence…
By this time tomorrow Israel will have all it needs and more… but your assistant will see it but not Eaton it!
So Elisha is so secure in who he is… he calls on a miracle by God and he calls it curtains on the doubting assistant.
Do you know your God?
Then call it out.
If you don’t have that confidence… then seek him, know him and know who you are and then call it.
Like I have said before to doubters who say I don’t believe it… I smile and say thats ok, Its already happened… carry on.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
I put a new binary trigger in my AR a few years back… whoa that think is smoking. I can go through 30 rounds in about 3 seconds…
But its all because of the trigger… So whats your trigger?
Whats your trigger?
What is a trigger? Triggers, also known as emotional or mental health triggers, are stimuli like memories, objects, things, places or people that spark intense negative emotions. These triggers can lead to a sudden and often disproportionate emotional response compared to the stimulus.
You don’t get to put all your feelings away like you do your Christmas ornaments… and then go through them whenever you want to. They will pop up like a change in the weather or an unseen pothole or even like a shooting star… out of nowhere you get hit and it can unbuckle an avalanche of reactions.
One of my favorite quotes is to have a mind like water. It basically means to have a mind that responds to things like water. Water always responds appropriately. You never drop a pebble into a pond and produce a tidal wave. And when a boulder topples down a hill crashing into a lake it doesn’t just ripple…it looks like a bomb going off. Water always responds appropriately.
How do you find out your triggers? Well anything that causes an unplanned emotional wash… you feel your mental makeup just become flooded with uncontrollable feelings…. Sometimes causing outburst.. .but not always. This is when you look back on your life and figure out what was that trigger from?
Psalm 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
V. 24 see if there is any offensive way in me…
David is asking God - look for my anxious thoughts, my triggers and see if they might cause me to become offensive in anyway.
Look Social media is a hotbed of triggers. And its easy to post your trigger happy reaction when no one is in front of you! But as followers of Christ, we need to make sure we don’t just DO what Jesus did, but we RESPOND the way Jesus did.
How to be a man March 26th GRUB@ 6:45, MTG @7:15 HillSpring Church. Looking for your thoughts ideas and topics.
200 E 280th New Prague MN
HillSpringChurchNewPrague@Gmail.com
What is my life about
How to get a job
What does it mean to be a man
How to prove to my woman I am a man of God
How to get a woman
How to deal with a woman who won’t give to the relationship
How to deal with a woman who pouts and wants her way
How to handle money
How to heal from the past
How to stay fresh spiritually, emotionally, mentally,
Whats more dangerous porn or alcohol
Ego: My worst enemy
Mindsets are the Key
Mentorship is the secret
The invisible word
Depression from lack of vision
Do you date your best friends X?
You need to be here! You need to invite your man friend!
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Sunday Mar 31, 2024
Video: He is risen
Where are you looking?
Luke 24
Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen!
Christianity is not a religion, but if it was, it could be called the resurrection religion.
Where do you look for life?
Mary and Martha went looking for Jesus in a hole/grave.
The stone to the tomb was rolled away not so Christ could get out… but so that we could see that there is no life there!
Is there a chance today you have been spending your time looking for meaning in things that don’t bring life?
Job, relationships, money, health, popularity, privilege, education - without Jesus THE RISEN KING life can feel “LIFELESS”.
Everyone
The Disciples looked to Jesus for a revolution, to be a part of some major political coup.
The women looked to Jesus as a prophet and man of God, dearly loved.
The politicians looked at him as a nuisance and a problem to deal with.
The crowd looked at him as a lunatic.
The religious leaders looked at him as a threat
MARY COMES BACK AND TELLS THE DISCIPLES HE IS ALIVE: AND PETER and JOHN RUN TO THE GRAVE… WHY?
John gets there first… but does not go in.
Peter gets there second and runs into the tomb
Peter was with Jesus for almost 3 1/2 years. He followed him, listened to him, watched him.
He saw how he lived his life…
Storms, sadducees, pharisees, women, prostitutes, nature, demons, money issues, death threats….
False accusations, greed, lies, gossip, mocked,
HE SWEARS HE WILL NEVER TURN HIS BACK ON JESUS…
And just a few days before the resurrection Peter was sitting at a fire…
A 12 year old girl identifies him…
HE CUSSES HER OUT… THE COCK CROWS AND HE SEES JESUS LOOK AT HIM…
NOW FAST FORWARD… JESUS IS ALIVE.
SCENARIO: you are playing ball in the house… mom and Dad are not home. The vase breaks….
You all go back up to your rooms….
You all hear the garage door open…
You all race to give your story first…
WHY DID PETER RUN.
Last time he saw Jesus he had denied him 3 times.
ARE WE OK?
ARE WE OK?
ARE WE OK?
PETER up to that point had looked at Jesus as a means to reaching his goals… it was in his best interest to follow Jesus… until it might cost him his life.
BUT THE RESURRECTION CHANGED ALL THAT.
Peter still goes fishing… I know the truth, but am I on good terms?
Jesus asks do you love me?
Jesus uses the word Agape twice…
Do you love me with Gods love?
*Then Jesus uses the word Phileo…
Do you love me intimately like a brother?
Then feed my sheep… serve me Peter.
Perspective - we have a whole different perspective than the pre -cross generation.
THE DISCIPLES NOW KNOW NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Your past knows where you are, it will come and get you at some time. Dan Little
Admit your past to those who you have offended.
Don’t make excuses, don’t make up reasons for your behavior… don’t tell them you have changed. Just admit your behavior, apologize if you need to and let your life speak for itself from that point on.
You don’t need to know why you did it…
You were young, you didn’t think, you were insecure… it don’t matter. Just admit it and move on.
If others want you to relive it, or continue to carry it… don’t.
The Monk and his protege… they were traveling for a day and could not talk from sun up till sundown. They came upon a young maiden who was standing in in front of a river… she was crying. The monk asked her what was wrong… she said I need to get to my best friends wedding, but I have no way to cross the river without ruining my dress. The monk picked her up and carried her across. The protege was very disturbed. Hours went by and finally the sun went down… the protoge could barely contain himself… pointing out that the monk had talked and not only that had touched a women… the monk smiled and said, yes I talked and picked her up and put her down… but you have still been carrying her all day and are still carrying her now.
Accept it, receive Gods forgiveness and move on. Jesus asks Peter, do you love me?
Yes, feed my sheep. Move forward.
What does Jesus do here? You may miss it. He does not let Peter push it to the side, he makes him deal with it. He forces him to face it and let it go. You must make yourself deal with it once and move on.
From here, now you can move forward and work on yourself and your mission. Jesus calls Peter to work on himself… the true nature of a disciple is to continue to grow in Christ…and go build the kingdom.
And in doing so you are now working with others who are working on themselves and working on the kingdom. The best thing you can do with your past is hang in a circle with people who have a past and have decided to move on - build themselves and build the kingdom. I find great comfort in knowing people who have a past - have dealt with it, EVEN not tried to hide from it… but now focus on growth and kingdom mindset.
Finally… help others move on by sharing your story. Your mistakes, your growth and your acceptance of them in their time of change.
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
How to be a man March 26th GRUB@ 6:45, MTG @7:15 HillSpring Church. Looking for your thoughts ideas and topics.
200 E 280th New Prague MN
HillSpringChurchNewPrague@Gmail.com
Tactic #2 Accuser - From his voices and minions and He will use other people
Principalities - a term for the highest rank and position
Powers - a Group of delegated demons with given authority from satan.
Rulers of darkness - raw power that has been put into rank and file
Authorities/ Spiritual hosts of wickedness - those who bring only bad. Evil, vile, wicked, twisted, sick, perverted…horrendous things.
Satan is the prince over these powers… he wants to rule, he is good at it. He is patient, he is tactical, he is brutal and he is never ending.
YOU BETTER BE IN GODS PRESENCE EVERY DAY
1 Peter 5:8 8 Be sober, be vigilant; (these terms point to being against the flesh) because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Adversary - antidikos insanely against anything righteous.
ROARS - THE old lions who have no power to hunt on their own must rely on their voice to cause people to freeze up in fear.
- The adversary has a voice… and thats all he has.
“WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR”
Not everyone will get devoured, only those who freeze up and have fear.
How to be a man March 26th GRUB@ 6:45, MTG @7:15 HillSpring Church. Looking for your thoughts ideas and topics.
200 E 280th New Prague MN
HillSpringChurchNewPrague@Gmail.com
What is my life about
How to get a job
What does it mean to be a man
How to prove to my woman I am a man of God
How to get a woman
How to deal with a woman who won’t give to the relationship
How to deal with a woman who pouts and wants her way
How to handle money
How to heal from the past
How to stay fresh spiritually, emotionally, mentally,
Whats more dangerous porn or alcohol
Ego: My worst enemy
Mindsets are the Key
Mentorship is the secret
The invisible word
Depression from lack of vision
Do you date your best friends X?
You need to be here! You need to invite your man friend!
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Sunday Mar 24, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Ephesians 6:12 For we do not Fight, Struggle battle wrestle (my words… grind, onslaught, clash, combat, rumble or harass) against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
V. 12 we wrestle… the term for this was to the death,
no breaks, no rounds, no timeouts… you either gave up or died in the ring.
**As teenage boys: Fighting to the next song that came on…. Greg “Free Bird”
We wrestle not against flesh and blood…
but wait.
Flesh - our flesh is at war - but the instigator is the spiritual forces behind it. Paul tells us to sacrifice the flesh… to kill the old man. Rom. 6:6-23 tells us to kill the old man and live by the spirit.
Tactic #1 The lust of the flesh - we must kill the old man.
When I was a kid we had an evangelist say all my flesh wants is sleep, food, to be tickled and sex… I was shocked… that he knew exactly what I wanted ;-)
THE FLESH IS SO WEAK THAT IT IS OVERPOWERING!
SO WE HAVE LEARNED THAT BEFORE WE GO TO WAR WE MUST HAVE OUR RELATIONSHIPS IN ORDER AND….
DEAL WITH THE FLESH
Put away lying Ephesians 4:25.
Speak the truth with your neighbor Ephesians 4:25. Be angry and send not Ephesians 4:26.
Give no place to the devil Ephesians 4:27.
Let him who stole Steal No more Ephesians 4:28
Let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth Ephesians 4:29
Grieve not the Holy Spirit Ephesians 4:30
Put all bitterness wrath anger clamor, evil, speaking and malice. Be put away from you Ephesians 4:31
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law- the flesh.
Stay in tune to the spirit…
**My wife grew up around men who were manipulative, deceptive, untrustworthy…. She can sniff them out in a heartbeat…. She was around it enough to know.
WHEN YOU SPEND ENOUGH TIME AROUND THE SPIRIT YOU CAN SMELL THE FLESH… AND QUICKY KILL IT.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024