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Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Psalm 103
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion, 5 who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.…
-God redeem our life from destruction .
Gives us more than what was taken from us.
-God crown us with loving kindness… people see us coming. Crowns are noticeable, they are gaudy, they are beautiful, they are a sign that we are royalty!
-God tender us in mercies… he does not just give in… oh fine I forgive you, you can have a second piece of cake… NO NO NO he WANTS to show us mercy.
-who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.…
Ever feel down in the dumps, discouraged, dissapointed… and a gift is dropped into your lap. Or a financial blessing? Or a great relationship… and it changes your state of mind, your head space… you feel better, more energy, you feel young again. This is what God does.
A youthful eagle… competitive intensity of their high-energy lifestyle. Overall, a young eagle's energy level is like a high-octane engine in overdrive—voracious, explosive, and transformative, turning a fragile hatchling into a majestic predator in just months. This is adapted from observations of bald and golden eagles, the most studied species.
Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Psalm 139:7 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol- the grave, You are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, 10 even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.…
No matter what gets thrown at us.
No matter where we end up in life.
No matter the ups and the downs the ins and the outs.
No matter how backwards things end up or how the ending greatly and vastly is different from the beginning…
He is always there.
If we end up as far from home as we could possibly be, if we are hopelessly alone, separated from family, friends, loved ones… if our job ends up being the worst thing in our life, or our marriage or our health. If everything we dreamed of, expected and even put our time and energy into… if it all blows up in our face and actually goes completely backwards from what we had planned… God is there.
You know what happens sometimes in life is that life happens sometimes. It happens to all of us. We tend to think that if bad things happen it was God who let it happen and if he let it happen then he surely can’t be there with us… right? He is punishing us so why would he stick around to comfort us - what a terrible lie to believe in.
God took the punishment of sin and shame on the cross and he took it so that not only do we not need to take the brunt of it, but he took it so that he could comfort us during those times. I love this Psalm - much like I love Romans 8:35-39. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. But Psalm 139 says it like this - surprise im here. You find yourself in your bosses office losing your job and God says - hey Im here. You hear the dread words You have cancer… God says Im here! God is already there - more than you might realize. I remember (and I’ll admit this probably a terrible example) but an old corny horror flick when I was in High School where this woman kept seeing the eyes of a demon everywhere she went. Her day job, her car, her kitchen, her kids soccer game… they were everywhere… I know stupid, but thats God. He is actually waiting on you in your bosses office when you lose your job. The worst thing going on in your life…he is waiting there for you… he knows when it will take place and he is there just waiting. So don’t forget to reach out to him. He is there!
Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
1 John 4:4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess [a]that Jesus [b]Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 Thess. 5:21 Test all things and hold on to what is good.
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
ADORE YOU
(Written and arranged by Garth Heckman, Spirit Drop Music)
Your bonds are my delight
Your death is my new birth
Your Love my only escape
Hopelessly in love with you
Your grave is now empty
Your throne a flame of fire
Your love my only escape
Hopelessly in love with you
Pre Chorus:
My only desire
My only request
My only response
This Holy unrest
My hearts deepest hunger
My souls deepest thirst
All that Im craving
My minds only verse
Chorus:
To know you Daddy
To know you more
To know you Father
Whom I adore
Bridge:
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
I adore you
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Mark 7:13
13 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
Colossians 2:8 8 Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. 9 For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. 10 So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
If you become captured by empty philosophies bad things happen?
Notice the way this verse states it… you allow yourself to get captured. How… you quit staying vigilant - you quit seeking the voice of God. You fail to realize that the best way an enemy captures you is not with Bombs and bullets but by voices of compromise.
When you listen to compromising voices what happens?
Fosters Complacency: Relying on the voices in your circle - be it social media, politicians, friends… etc… erodes motivation to increase in intimacy.
Hinders Personal Growth: It traps people in comfort zones - what do I mean? One of the keys of knowing Gods voice is that it grows in clarity, focus and detail. But we don’t need to grow or act as disciples if we choose the voices outside of the Holy Spirit.
Damages your soul with a lack of joy from obedience, testimonies and will ultimately produce a spirit of comparison that will rob you further.
Now if it is you that is canceling the word of God you are doing so at the peril of practicing idolatry. You have set yourselves up as God.
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Monday Nov 03, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
When you read the gospels it is so clear that Jesus is just going to do what he is called to do: Promote himself as the messiah, teach, heal, deliver, feed and challenge the religious elite. And he is only going to do what God the father tells him to do… in a sense what I say all the time MGLG make God look Good.
And the disciples are going to tag along… they are going to doubt, argue, question, become arrogant, act confused… because they are.
How did this relationship dynamic work exactly. God seems to expect a lot from the disciples… who continue to underwhelm in their attempts to be disciples.
At what point do the disciples see their 92nd miracle and think “you know… he might actually be the Messiah”. How many times did the religious elite come to trap Jesus… the disciples know all about these guys.. they are not to be messed with- they are smart, well connected and large and in charge… and Jesus continue to make them look like fools, even chastising them. Do you think the disciples ever said… well if he can handle pharisees, the Sadducees and the temple priests… maybe he is the Messiah.
When he wakes up from the bottom of the boat and wipes the sleep from his eyes in the middle of a tempest and almost acts annoyed… he commands the waves and the sea to calm IMMEDIATELY, and it does. Do you think the disciples finally looked at each other in the boat and whispered “this guy’s gotta be the Messiah”. NOPE, they look at each other and actually ask “who is this guy”.
**I find great comfort in the disciples actions. How many times I have seen God at work in my life and in the lives of others and seconds later I doubt God. I think it is human nature and yes we can mature out of it to some degree… but here is what I think the secret is to the disciples. THEY HAD ALL THESE QUESTIONS, ALL THESE GUESSES, ALL THESE HOPES, ALL THESE UNSPOKEN THOUGHTS… But they kept following him. A disciple follows Christ - not up until a question can’t be answered… they follow at all times. They may not understand all there is to know about Jesus… but they keep following.
In Mark 6:6 It says Jesus was amazed at the peoples lack of faith. These were the people in Jesus city that he grew up with…
The CEV version says he was appalled at their unbelief.
That actual word there - many translate it “amazed” actually has the connotation of “Wonder” - as in after them watching miracles and they doubt him… he says “really, even after all that… you still disbelieve…hmmm wow - amazing”.
But he never says that about the disciples… he chastises them for their little faith, their lack of faith… but never for their disbelief.
So what’s the distinction I am trying to make? Well disbelief does not continue to follow God. But a lack of faith can still follow God. A little bit of faith can still follow God… we may fail, we may be confused, we may feel like we are the worst disciples ever… but the promise is in not giving up. Continue to follow him… what Does Jesus say in Matthew 24:10 - many will turn away.
Be encouraged today… you don’t have to be perfect, you don’t have to have all the answers, you don’t have to have massive faith… all that will come as long as you don’t quit following Jesus.
Sunday Nov 02, 2025
Sunday Nov 02, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
THERE IS AN AURORA AROUND PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE IN BIG OBEDIENCE!
BUT HOW DID THEY LEARN IT?
How did they learn BIG obedience?
Ok, seems simple enough but it is through little obedience… small steps of obedience, wether we are talking about witnessing on campus in front a few hundred students or giving up our boyfriend or even stepping away from our beloved career… how did the small steps lead up to that?
Question?
Can you give .10 out of a dollar?
Lets say you walk into Church and the pastor challenges you… hey you got a dollar? You do! Great… can you give put .10 into the offering today from that dollar… is that a challenge?
Nah!!!
Can you give $100,000.00 out of a million?
IM NOT TALKING ABOUT MONEY OR PROSPERITY!
Does God want you prosperous? -… I have a problem with that prosperity gospel.
Ok, does God want you generous?
How you gonna be generous with what you don’t have?
Generosity does not come from you having excess.. it comes from what you currently have. Remember the widows mite? The 2 pennies. That is all she had…not wealthy at all - But God called her incredibly generous.
GOD WANTS YOU OBEDIENT
GOD WANTS YOU GENEROUS
GOD WANTS YOU!
AOC Alexandria Ocasia Cortez the US representative for NY said recently - that the millennial generation is the first generation to not experience the American dream, the prosperity or wealth that their parents experienced…
WHUH?
That is what entitlement will do to you. Actually the most recent statistics that have come out is that these last two generations have more wealth than their parents or their grandparents or their great grandparents had? They just don’t see it because they are spoiled… entitled. Its not their fault - it is the parents who raised them. And yes some of it is the society in which we live in.
So when God asks you to give 10% it seems like an astronomical undertaking to big to even believe.
Now this podcast is not about giving, prosperity or even generosity… it is about taking small steps of obedience.
You know what makes 10% seem impossible to give? Selfishness. You might say oh yea, wow Garth news flash… we know that. But you miss the point. Its not selfishness from the stand point of not having enough… it is selfishness while standing in excess, the ruins of spoil… overflow upon overflow…and you are still selfish… that is why it seems to hard to understand - at least for me and maybe a few more who have some history under their belt.
God is not asking us to obey in war, oppression, poverty, under persecution (at least not in the US - I know I have listeners all over the world…so I will be careful) God is asking most of us to be obedient in the best time of the world and in the smallest of ways… and yet we our so blind or Blond - we don’t get how easy it should be. But again - entitlement is poison.
Much like exposure to chlorine or formaldehyde are so strong and pungent but over time you get used to them and then at some point you can’t smell anything. They have destroyed your olfactory system. Entitlement is that smell… be wary of it. Act in obedience and let not the world poison your ability to see your blessings!
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Matthew 17:27
Payment of the Temple Tax
24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went into the house.
But before he had a chance to speak, Jesus asked him, “What do you think, Peter? Do kings tax their own people or the people they have conquered?”
26 “They tax the people they have conquered,” Peter replied.
“Well, then,” Jesus said, “the citizens are free! 27 However, we don’t want to offend them, so go down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a large silver coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us.”
The little things:
But Jesus said ONE FISH is all you need!
…one crumb is all you need. Matthew 15:21
2 Kings 4 “a little oil”
A few fish
A couple pieces of bread Jn. 6:9
A mustard seed Mtt. 17:20
The widows mite
She gave out of total obedience and complete trust
Small things done in total obedience and trust ARE GREAT THINGS IN THE EYES OF GOD.
Its the little things - like the rock in your shoe!
Hebrews 12:15 Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.
**Don’t miss the underlying application… Roots start with a seed. A small thing.
The fruit in your life is bitterness… your family is raised on bitterness.
We must be aware of the small things in life.
We tend to look for the meaning in life in the - - - - - Grand Gestures
- The Massive achievements
- The Headline Moments
- - Accomplishments due to great personal sacrifice
THERE IS AN AURORA AROUND PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE IN BIG OBEDIENCE!
BUT HOW DID THEY LEARN IT?
Question?
Can you give .10 out of a dollar?
Can you give $100,000.00 out of a million?
IM NOT TALKING ABOUT MONEY OR PROSPERITY!
Does God want you prosperous? -… I have a problem with that prosperity gospel.
Ok, does God want you generous?
How you gonna be generous with what you don’t have?
GOD WANTS YOU OBEDIENT
GOD WANTS YOU GENEROUS
GOD WANTS YOU!
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Matthew 17:27
Payment of the Temple Tax
24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went into the house.
But before he had a chance to speak, Jesus asked him, “What do you think, Peter? Do kings tax their own people or the people they have conquered?”
26 “They tax the people they have conquered,” Peter replied.
“Well, then,” Jesus said, “the citizens are free! 27 However, we don’t want to offend them, so go down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a large silver coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us.”
Two other thoughts
God takes Peters natural gifting, work and talent and does what he Can’t do with them.
Jesus was with Peter and fishing and when Jesus had him fish Peter would catch a lot of fish… but not this time. Jesus says… the first fish you catch - look in its mouth. See if you fish you know that sometimes they are hitting in certain areas of the lake… when you find that spot - its lights out. But if they are not hitting there you move. If Peter was operating in the natural he would have cast his net… caught one fish and thought… nope, not here and moved on.
God supplied it, but Peter still had to fish! He still had to do the work! He still had to obey.
Willy and the deck piece that he retired on.
JN. 2 - Christ first miracle.
Wine without planting, seasons, watering, weeding, fertilizing, getting the people to do the work, picking, stomping, bottling, aging and finally pouring…. He skips it all and goes straight to the blessing/answer.
One small act of obedience - Fill the pots with water… And he skips steps 1-20
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Matthew 17:27
Payment of the Temple Tax
24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went into the house.
But before he had a chance to speak, Jesus asked him, “What do you think, Peter? Do kings tax their own people or the people they have conquered?”
26 “They tax the people they have conquered,” Peter replied.
“Well, then,” Jesus said, “the citizens are free! 27 However, we don’t want to offend them, so go down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a large silver coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us.”
Couldn’t pay my taxes my first year at my Fathers church… walked in to his office - what am I going to do? I owe $4000. The phone rang… are you still wanting to sell your boat? I will give you 4k for it.
Tax collectors are trying to catch Jesus…
How much money did you give for the new sign???
I thought you loved your church and God????
JESUS HAD THE -
Freedom to not pay taxes… but wisdom to pay taxes.
Freedom without wisdom is a stumbling block to others.
Any virtue in and of itself is an evil. Aristotle
On this occasion Jesus chooses to not offend… but later he will flip tables in the temple.
There is an intimacy that one requires in order to know which one you choose?
LESSON: I no longer question someones motives or actions if I know they are intimate with God.
Graceful compromise…
Early on in our Marriage going to her relatives dinner… THE RIDE HOME. Why did you not say anything???
Invited to your spouses family dinner. They are all raving lunatics that hate religion, faith, Trump, puppies and chocolate… You don’t need to go, but you gracefully compromise so that you might have a chance to love on them… and not give them a reason to be offended.
You are dining out and trying your best to share Christ with your server… but they are subpar at best… but you tip them generously anyway because you don’t want to give them a reason to be further offended at the gospel or Christians.
Someone blows up at you at work… they tell human services you get pulled in and reprimanded. You just take it, smile and ask for forgiveness… because you know righteousness is more important than you being right.
This isn’t weakness - its meekness. I could, but I won’t!
WE SOMETIMES PROVOKE NEEDLESS OPPOSITION TRYING TO HARD TO BE RIGHT - RATHER THAN LOVING!
When we are right morally we may in fact be wrong spiritually…
We can focus on Non essentials, Captious, making mountains out of mole hills.
We attack abortion and not share Christ Love
We attack Socialism and not share Christ Love
We attack Transgenderism and not share Christ love
We attack their music, clothes, Political stance, their theological stance, even their religion and choices…