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Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
How do you get good at anything? You practice… that seems obvious. But how do you get really good at something… like expert level. Well you practice but you practice under duress.
Doctors who came back from war were far better at their jobs having practiced under war time conditions. The Benefits of Military Medical Experience include….
- Trauma and Emergency Care Expertise: Military doctors, especially those who have served in combat zones, gain unparalleled experience in managing severe trauma, critical injuries, and mass casualty events under high-pressure, resource-limited conditions. This experience can be invaluable in civilian trauma centers and emergency departments.
- Adaptability and Resourcefulness: Military physicians are often trained to work in diverse and sometimes austere environments, using whatever resources are available. This fosters a high degree of adaptability, problem-solving skills, and the ability to remain calm in chaotic situations.
- Leadership and Teamwork: Military medicine emphasizes strong leadership, teamwork, and a clear chain of command. These skills are highly transferable to civilian healthcare settings, particularly in managing teams and coordinating care.
- Exposure to Diverse Patient Populations: Military physicians often change stations frequently and may be exposed to a wide variety of patient populations globally, broadening their clinical perspective.
- Focus on Pure Medicine (less administrative burden): In some military settings, doctors can focus more on patient care without the same concerns about insurance or billing that civilian doctors often face, allowing them to hone their clinical skills.
- Innovation: Many medical innovations and practices, such as triage systems and specialized surgical teams, have originated or been refined in military settings and have had a significant impact on civilian healthcare.
When you don’t let anyone in your emotions, your faith or your mind… you build your Spiritual strength or should I say your spiritual armor.
Wether it is a person or a circumstance or even a physical health issue - these aren’t just proving grounds, they are paving grounds for your life. You are learning to pave your walk in life in a straight and narrow.
When emotions, doubt, anger, bitterness… when these emotions attack you it can cause an uphill and uneven walk… with pitfalls and roadblocks… but they are of your making because you don’t choose to the right response.
Silence is your Protection
Scripture is your weapon
Faith is your push back into the darkness
Silence protects you a few ways…
You do not give your adversary any more ammo to pull your strings or trigger you.
You keep them guessing
You ultimately make them give up
You create a sense that you know something they don’t and it makes them feel vulnerable, more likely to expose their motives and their faults.
Scripture is your weapon. I just had a conversation with a young man who said he does not believe in speaking in tongues and the HS gifts for today… I said show me in scripture where it says that. He started to say “well I think…
I cut him off immediately and told him he was either incredibly stupid, naive or arrogant or he was God. Because no one who serves God should care what another man thinks if it does not line up with scripture. My life is lived according to scripture… not my circumstances, not my upbringing, not what others think… even if they seem smarter than me… My life and how I view my life is totally based on scripture.
If the rest of my life I pray for people to be healed and they are not… Im still believing God heals for today because that is what Gods word says.
My aikido sense was John Barr- I have talked about him a few times on my podcast. He was the best, well known, on magazine covers, fought with Steven Seagal… his wife tells a story of when they went to a restaurant that had a bar…. (Story)
No change in emotion, no anger, no change of demeanor… just a calm statement of faith.
John knew what he knew, he believed what he knew and he knew it was true. THATS FAITH.
When you pray a prayer of faith or live a life of faith… you don’t have to pray loud, live brash, but if you just know what you know, believe what scripture says, and live the truth. Thats faith.
Authority self esteem, self control, inner strength… self respect… its a muscle. And as they say… use it or lose it!
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
[Verse 1]
What have I gotta do to make you love me?
What have I gotta do to make you care?
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there?
[Verse 2]
What do I do to make you want me?
What have I gotta do to be heard?
What do I say when it's all over?
And sorry seems to be the hardest word
[Chorus]
And it's gettin' more and more absurd
That sorry seems to be the hardest word
The life of Allan
The life of Mitch
The life of Bill
The life of Lief
The life of Connor
The life of Londa
The life of Dane
The life of Shane
The life of Chris
And finally the life of Joash in 2 Chron. 22-24
He was the king of crash and burn… started out right but ran off the tracks in a hurry… Let me catch you up to speed.
Two kingdoms.
Judah and Israel
Jehoshaphat Ahab and Jezebel
Jehoram (reigned 8 yr) Marries Athaliah
Ahaziah - Murdered @ 1 yr
Athaliah kills her grandsons and takes the throne
Joash is saved by Jehosheba (Ahaziah’s sister) Wife of the priest Jehoiadah
Ahab and Jezebel had a daughter Athaliah
She marries Jehoshappaht.
Jehoshaphat dies and his son (Jehoram) becomes king (Athaliahs son)
Jehoram gets killed
So his mother kills all her grandsons and assumes the throne.
BUT… one of the grandsons is spared - Joash!
2 Chronicles 24:Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. 2 Joash did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.
17 But after Jehoiada’s death, the leaders of Judah came and bowed before King Joash and persuaded him to listen to their advice
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Using the persons appetites and weaknesses they gave him consent to do what would be easiest and best for him.
A young girl or boy has appetites to be liked, to be loved, to be accepted… if you just go with the crowd, if you just give in to sexual urges or peer pressure to do what will make you liked… If you are told your parents don’t understand…
YOU CAN BE PERSUADED.
All of us have physical appetites/fleshly appetites
Lust, sex, greed, apathy, laziness, anger, Gluttony
We have emotional appetites
To be needed, feel wanted, accepted, loved, cared for. We also have emotional needs to want to hate, strike back, hurt those who hurt us, to distrust, to be and stay bitter.
There will always be people who will persuade or feed those desires…
And if you listen you will cut short your blessings and maybe even your future in heaven.
2 Chron. 24: 20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands and keep yourselves from prospering? You have abandoned the Lord, and now he has abandoned you!”
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Medevil times had a torture where they tied each limb of a person to a horse. So there were four horses and each one had a rope tied from the horse to one of the arms or legs. Then they would command the horses to all run as fast as they could all in opposite directions. It was truly barbaric as arms and legs were ripped off.
What was the name of the torture called?
It was called distraction.
Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?
When was the last time you sat down next to someone or talking to someone at a party and asked them what they did and they said “Im a professional Bull rider”. I have never had it happen…. Now maybe if I lived in Texas, but still it would be rare!
Being a man of God is as about as rare today as being a professional bull rider.
Why? I believe the main reason is because of distraction. Sin isn’t any more or less than any other time in todays world… Men didn’t just recently start noticing beautiful women. Drugs have always been around. There are no new sins… Satan has always been around… but distractions are at an all time high.
The biggest danger in distractions is you don’t see them as distractions.
Let me ask you a very simple question. If you took all the time you have spent on your phone in the past 2 years… and simply practiced the piano - how good would you be? I asked AI this and here is what they said.
You would likely reach an intermediate level much faster than 3-5 years, potentially within 6 months to a year, assuming quality, focused practice.
In 3 to 3.5 years you would be an advanced pianist.
How long would it take to read the whole bible. If you read at an average pace or listened to it on an app…
In summary:
- Non-stop reading: 2-3 days
- Daily reading (typical pace): 1 year
- Daily reading (fast pace): 3 months (90 days)
- Daily listening: 2 months
Let me break it down into a realistic day to day… you would read 3.3 chapters a day.
So why are you not the man of God you want to be? Its not sin… its really not. Its distractions.
Being a man of God is as about as rare today as being a professional bull rider. Ride the Bull! Daily!
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam … And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva … So tweasure your wuv.
God loves everyone…
True. However.
Gods unconditional love is not Gods unconditional approval.
So lets look at some scriptures that seem counterintuitive
John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only son….
Romans 2:6 God will judge the world
2 Peter 3:10 God will destroy the earth and its inhabitants
The problem lies within our twisted world/self centered view of what love is. Love is a feeling, it is something that always makes us happy, it always feels good and it is always in line with what we want. NO and DOUBLE NO!
Love is discipline, love is honesty when we don’t want to hear what is right. Love is correction. Love is punishment. Love is not letting us get our own way. And thank God love is not a feeling or none of us would still have parents… im sure they would have all walked away at some point.
My parents loved me better than I could have ever expected.. but they did not always approve of what I did. When I wore 8 inch kiss boots to church… my Dad was none to happy, made me sit in the front row of Church… it was kind of embarrassing… did not feel loving at all - but it was.
Gods love will be responsible for all types of action on the earth… its not our job to try to figure it out or ask why. It is simply our job to trust him. There were a lot of things I did not understand as a kid that my parents did… but I understand now.
What we need to understand in todays world is
God is love. But love is not God. Do not worship love at the cost of watering down scripture, making excuses for going against his word or for excusing your behavior simply because …well… God loves us!
Division brings weakness. Separation brings power.
What do I mean. Well we think Love as a feeling (defined by what we want) is all inclusive. But it is actually divisive. Ever get a group of people together and tell them they all can have what ever they want? Its anarchy! It weakens humanity and our natural bond as people.
However if I understand that sometimes love seemingly separates us from what we want… but it is God keeping us from what is evil, bad, destructive… it is actually Gods power at its best. Again Division brings weakness… we are most divided when we all thing we can all get whatever we want.
Do not get fooled as to which is which… it will ruin your life in no time.
Monday May 19, 2025
Sunday May 18, 2025
Sunday May 18, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Talking to a young man lately who plays guitar and he plays on a worship team. I told him I was going to be teaching a short 2 hour class to the guitar players at our church… he interrupted me and said “I am a good guitar player… And they he said it again as if I did not believe him. I kindly nodded. Now he can play guitar and he can play some rock songs… but who knows if someone is good or not right? But when he asked me what exactly I was going to be teaching my guitar players on my worship team - the first thing I said was “Diatonic harmony”… which believe it or not if you are in fact a good guitar player you would know what that is. He stared at me blankly and asked what it was. I kindly assured him he was not in fact a good guitar player. Now I have told this young man as I tell many people - You may not like what I say to you, but I will never lie to you! EVER. I will try to say it nice… most of the time - but who else will be honest with you. And today what if you can’t be honest with yourself because… well you just can’t. Have you ever heard of the
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Blindness
of the Incompetent
Wheeler's lemon juice story inspired researchers David Dunning and
Justin Kruger to study this phenomenon in greater detait. The research-ers were intrigued by the obvious difference in people's actual abilities and how they perceive these abilities. Dunning and Kruger hypothesized
that incompetent people suffer from two types of problems
· Due to their incompetence, they make flawed decisions (such as
robbing a bank while covered in lemon juice).
· They are unable to realize the fact that they make Flawed decisions.
(Not even the video footage convinced wheeler of hjs inability to be
invisible he claimed that it was faked )
The researchers tested the validity of these hypotheses on a sample
of participants. First they laid out a test measuring their abilities in a
certain domain (logical reasoning, grammar, and humor). Then, the par-
ticipants were asked to assess how good their abilities were. The research-
ers discovered two interesting findings
The least competent people (labeled incompetent in the research) had
a tendency to significantly overestimate their abilities. In fact, the
less competent they were, the more they overestimated themselves.
For example, the more painfully unfunny an individual was, the
funnier they thought they were. this eftect was elegantly described
by Charles Darwin years ago ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge'
The second interesting finding was that the most competent participants had a tendency to underestimate their abilities. Their under-
rated results can be explained by the fact that if a task seems easy to
them, they will have the feeling that the task is easy even for other
people.
In another part of the experiment, participants had the possibility to
review the test results of other people. They were subsequently asked to
conduct a self assessment again. Competent participants realized that they were better off than they had thought. Thus, they modified their self assessments and began to
evaluate themselves more objectively.
So where am I going with this… David says something profound in Psalm 139:23-24 KJV. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
David is not saying this as a type of challenge to God… ok, God see if you can find anything wrong in me. NO NO NO he is saying it as one who realizes he can’t see everything in his life clearly.
He knows that he is blind to many of the sins, flaws, inconsistencies and choices he makes that are not Godly.
WHAT A POWERFUL INSIGHT TO KNOW YOU DONT HAVE INSIGHT. RIGHT?
Meaning, how powerful it is to know that you don’t know everything -especially about you.
Thursday May 15, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
James 3
Neither bitter water and sweet water should come out of your mouth as a believer.
More frequently, "πικρός" is employed metaphorically to describe a state of emotional or spiritual bitterness. This can refer to feelings of resentment, anger, or harshness that can take root in a person's heart. The New Testament warns against allowing such bitterness to grow, as it can lead to division and strife within the community of believers.
How do we deal with Bitterness?
- 1 Get rid of it. Eph. 4:32
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
Get rid of GK - to raise up your voice to deal with it.
YOU HAVE THE POWER OF YOUR OWN VOICE.
SPEAK IT OUT!
- 2 GO TO THE PERSON:
Aaron stood before Moses.
Peter Stood before Jesus.
- 3 Immediately deal with the root
Heb. 12:15
Deal with the root
This verse goes back to Deut. 29:18 which speaks of roots growing and causing a coldness of heart toward God.
- 4 Finally Don’t react - Respond
David Rostad - Bulls - overreacting, yelling or pushing the bulls would only cause greater injury to yourself.
The hound of heaven - Blue Heeler dog
"Hound of Heaven" comes from the famous poem of the same name by Francis Thompson, published in 1893.
Harboring resentment, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness steals the joy of our salvation…
HOW?
Holding on to these is unbelief in what God has done for you -
- forgive as God has forgiven you!
- And what he can do through you, He can forgive through you.
- He has the power to forgive anything!
Helmut Thelike - don’t let misplaced resentment misplace you.
In a bitter cold winter nothing can grow
A bitter cold heart is the same!
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Have you ever felt so bad over something you did that it affects even your appetite? You can’t even enjoy your favorite food or activity or people? And why… who was responsible for this?
Based on the information available from the search results regarding Chase Hughes's views, here are some basic traits and indicators he suggests looking for when trying to spot deception:
- Changes in Behavior: A key principle is to establish a person's baseline behavior when they are likely telling the truth (e.g., answering simple, non-threatening questions) and then look for changes in their behavior when the topic shifts to something they might be lying about. These changes can include deviations in how they answer questions, their eye movements, hand gestures, and breathing patterns.
- Stress and Fear Indicators: Deception is often linked to increased stress and fear. Physical signs associated with this can include an increased breathing rate, increased blink rate, and facial touching.
- "Closed" Behavior: Actions that suggest fear or a need to protect oneself, such as crossing arms or bringing fingers together, can be indicators.
- Increased Need for Control: As someone engages in deception, their need to control the situation and their presentation may increase.
- Difficulty with Reverse Chronology: When asked to recount events in reverse order, a person who has fabricated a story in forward chronology may struggle significantly compared to someone recalling actual events.
- Reactions to "Bait" Questions: Vague, hypothetical questions designed to see if a person shows a reaction even if they don't know if evidence exists (e.g., "Is there any reason someone might have seen you at a certain place?") can elicit a nervous response from someone being deceptive.
- Cluster of Unusual Mannerisms: While a single behavior is rarely a definitive sign of lying, observing a cluster of unusual mannerisms that deviate from the established baseline can be a warning sign.
Chase Hughes emphasizes that there is no single, universal body language signal for lying. Instead, the focus is on identifying deviations from a person's normal behavior and looking for clusters of indicators, particularly those related to stress and attempts to gain control. Raising the stakes of the conversation can also make deceptive behaviors more apparent.
Luke 22:62 Peter denies Jesus and goes out and weeps bitterly.
Bitter: GK Violently felt grief that leaves the soul and spirit tasting bitter.
Peter felt shame denying Christ… but shame is only the RED CARPET leading to bitterness.
Lets clear something up.
THIS IS A POWERFUL INSIGHT
Peter did not weep bitterly because of what Christ had said or done…
Why was Peter bitter?
HE WAS BITTER Because he did not respond correctly.
We want to blame our bitterness, unforgiveness, hard heartedness on what others did - but it is actually because OF WHAT WE DID NOT DO!
We typically become bitter not because of what someone did to us but rather because of how we responded and we know it was not Christ like.
Peter denied Christ and wept bitterly? Why bitterness? What did Peter do that made him bitter? *He did not represent Jesus AND He did not love the way Jesus would have loved… and he became bitter because of what he had done.
WE THINK AND SAY: I am so bitter because of what they did.
BUT THE TRUTH IS MORE ACCURATE:
I am so bitter because of WHAT I DID - Because of the way I responded.
**The right response heals not only us but the other person. Armando- wrapping my arms around him and telling him I loved him and want Gods best for him. He calls me later that night and falls apart.
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Have you ever felt so bad over something you did that it affects even your appetite? You can’t even enjoy your favorite food or activity or people? And why… who was responsible for this?
Based on the information available from the search results regarding Chase Hughes's views, here are some basic traits and indicators he suggests looking for when trying to spot deception:
- Changes in Behavior: A key principle is to establish a person's baseline behavior when they are likely telling the truth (e.g., answering simple, non-threatening questions) and then look for changes in their behavior when the topic shifts to something they might be lying about. These changes can include deviations in how they answer questions, their eye movements, hand gestures, and breathing patterns.
- Stress and Fear Indicators: Deception is often linked to increased stress and fear. Physical signs associated with this can include an increased breathing rate, increased blink rate, and facial touching.
- "Closed" Behavior: Actions that suggest fear or a need to protect oneself, such as crossing arms or bringing fingers together, can be indicators.
- Increased Need for Control: As someone engages in deception, their need to control the situation and their presentation may increase.
- Difficulty with Reverse Chronology: When asked to recount events in reverse order, a person who has fabricated a story in forward chronology may struggle significantly compared to someone recalling actual events.
- Reactions to "Bait" Questions: Vague, hypothetical questions designed to see if a person shows a reaction even if they don't know if evidence exists (e.g., "Is there any reason someone might have seen you at a certain place?") can elicit a nervous response from someone being deceptive.
- Cluster of Unusual Mannerisms: While a single behavior is rarely a definitive sign of lying, observing a cluster of unusual mannerisms that deviate from the established baseline can be a warning sign.
Chase Hughes emphasizes that there is no single, universal body language signal for lying. Instead, the focus is on identifying deviations from a person's normal behavior and looking for clusters of indicators, particularly those related to stress and attempts to gain control. Raising the stakes of the conversation can also make deceptive behaviors more apparent.
Luke 22:62 Peter denies Jesus and goes out and weeps bitterly.
Bitter: GK Violently felt grief that leaves the soul and spirit tasting bitter.
Peter felt shame denying Christ… but shame is only the RED CARPET leading to bitterness.
Lets clear something up.
THIS IS A POWERFUL INSIGHT
Peter did not weep bitterly because of what Christ had said or done…
Why was Peter bitter?
HE WAS BITTER Because he did not respond correctly.
We want to blame our bitterness, unforgiveness, hard heartedness on what others did - but it is actually because OF WHAT WE DID NOT DO!
We typically become bitter not because of what someone did to us but rather because of how we responded and we know it was not Christ like.
Peter denied Christ and wept bitterly? Why bitterness? What did Peter do that made him bitter? *He did not represent Jesus AND He did not love the way Jesus would have loved… and he became bitter because of what he had done.
WE THINK AND SAY: I am so bitter because of what they did.
BUT THE TRUTH IS MORE ACCURATE:
I am so bitter because of WHAT I DID - Because of the way I responded.
**The right response heals not only us but the other person. Armando- wrapping my arms around him and telling him I loved him and want Gods best for him. He calls me later that night and falls apart.