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Monday Sep 30, 2024
Monday Sep 30, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com
For anyone in IL. Luke is a linseed professional counselor who specializes with kids, teens, and families in Christian Counseling. If you or someone you know is struggling with anxiety, mood challenges, ADHD, and other mental health concerns, reach out to Luke
https://www.whitestoneresources.com/counselors-list/lmerrill
Its more than a one time thing… its a forever thing, but the clause is quite restrictive… but I do believe worth it. Its all about healing, deliverance, provision.
The Truth About Divine Healing
Divine healing through prayer is as old as the race of man. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, records the healing of the wives of a heathen king in response to the prayer of Abraham. The second book of the Bible, Exodus, gives us the terms of a distinctive covenant between the nation of Israel and Jehovah Rophie.-“The Lord thy Healer.” In this covenant God not only agreed to heal the people when sick, but not to permit the sicknesses of Egypt to touch them. Its terms are: “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight,
and wilt give ear to his commandments and keep all his
statutes"-on this condition Jehovah agrees,-“I will put
（permit) none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord, that healeth thee"（Exodus 15:26). Under this covenant the nation, 12-tribed, lived without doc-
tors or medicine for 450 years, until the nation of Israel had an army of 1,100,000, and Judah an army of 500,000. Figuring on the same basis as the number of Americans in the army during the World War, this would give Israel a combined population of
between 25 and 30 million. King David gives the most extraordinary report that history records.David says:"There was not one feeble person among
their tribes"(Psalm 105:37). such historic data should go far to convince the world of a day that an absolute trust in God is not Only a safe policy, but a most scientific guarantee of national health.
Isn’t it interesting that as America has gotten farther and farther from a God based biblical belief system we have also gotten more sick as a nation… yes, food quality is worse, health habits are worse, exercise as a daily habit is worse… yes all that is true. But we still can’t deny that as a nation that turns its back on God it turns into a sickly, diseased filled cancer ridden existence.
Now I get it… I sit here as someone who has had 3 cancers, a brain tumor, 20 surgeries and more… and I love God. So I am not saying that if you love God you won’t get sick… but I would be so bold as to say if you love God and you get sick… you will stand a better chance of surviving it.
Years ago I was talking to Samuel Success… from Africa, and yes thats his real name. When I asked him why he saw such great healings in his churches out in the bush… he smiled and without hesitation said “Because the hospitals are to far away to get to in time. If we tried to make it to the hospital we would surely die before we arrived.”
In a sense it was their only hope.
I think that is part of the equation here in this verse. What else could the children of Israel do when in a time of physical need? They had to rely on God… Again I am not talking about moving so far away up in the mountains that you don’t have any other choice but God… however there is a seed here that needs to be planted in our minds and our spirits… and that is this… Yes medicine is good, doctors are great and all that western medicine has to offer is a blessing… but do I still have an urgent dependence of God rather than a doctor or a bottle of pills.
YES I will see a doctor, I will take some pills and even get a few surgeries, but is God still the number one priority and number one survival option… maybe thats the prayer for us today… God whatever comes my way, May I see you as the most important and vital ingredient to the solution.
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
For anyone in IL. Luke is a linseed professional counselor who specializes with kids, teens, and families in Christian Counseling. If you or someone you know is struggling with anxiety, mood challenges, ADHD, and other mental health concerns, reach out to Luke
https://www.whitestoneresources.com/counselors-list/lmerrill
Mark 4
Matthew 13
When wanting to become proficient in anything we all know that the basics must be first understood. Without a firm foundation of the basics in any subject you will never fully understand or even remotely become good at that subject.
When I studied greek in Bible college I quickly realized how bad I was at just simple English… I did not know what a verb was, a pronoun, a noun… I just somehow missed all this and still passed the tests and got graduated…
But when you go to greek class and you don’t have these basics under your belt… trust me on this.. you will suffer… it will set you back and you might even fail…
Jesus says something remarkable about the parable of the seeds….
Some fell on the rocks, some on weeds, some the birds ate, some the sun scorched, some on thorns and some on good soil….
What are the seeds?
Its gods word… so then Jesus says something remarkable about this parable because it is actually a parable about out this parable… you won’t understand anything if you don’t understand this parable. Let me dumb it down for you… If you don’t have a heart prepared to receive Gods word… you won’t understand anything. It all starts with a heart that will receive, conceive and achieve the potential for what the word is for.
You can read the Bible, go to church, listen to Christian music and even go to bible college… but if your heart is not prepared and open to understand Gods word… none of that matters.
What did it take to have good soil in the days of Christ… you had to prepare it with tilling, fertilizer, water and protection from weeds and bugs and animals… Let me spell it out for you… it took hard work to prepare you soil. It takes hard work to truly get all you can out of scripture. Prepare your heart how?
I would start out with confession… Ask God to forgive you of sins, wrong motives, bitterness etc..
Then tell God you need his help, Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you, then till your heart by reading different translations, a few commentaries and even other scriptures that align with your topic. Work hard at it… if you don’t have a heart and a life that accepts scripture… nothing else will make sense.
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
For anyone in IL. Luke is a linseed professional counselor who specializes with kids, teens, and families in Christian Counseling. If you or someone you know is struggling with anxiety, mood challenges, ADHD, and other mental health concerns, reach out to Luke
https://www.whitestoneresources.com/counselors-list/lmerrill
Mark 4
Matthew 13
Its not enough to pray to God
Its not enough to just seek God
Its not enough to read his word…
You gotta study his word… study the intricacies, the whole bible. What does that verse you just read mean in the context of salvation, creation, sin, redemption…
What do other verses speak of regarding this topic…
In Bible college Pastor Harry Schmitt played a tape of an old southern -down deep southern pastor from a small tiny church… the pastor was preaching about King Solomon’s wealth and got to the verse in 1 Kings 11 where it talked about all of his wives and concubines…
300 combines…
Rev. 3:16 I want you either hot or cold…
So many bad sermons on that verse…
I read, study, study, pray, read etc… and here is a secret I have learned… my insight does not come from all the books but rather from the searching…
2 Timothy 2:15
Be zealous to be a proven hard worker that is shows in every area of your life. That you made a pure clean cut in your handling of Gods word… and his truth now makes a divine manifestation in your life.
By simply being a hard working zealous pursuer of Gods truth you are changed and blessed… maybe more than the actual truth at some times.
Back to what I was saying a minute ago… my insight, my blessing, my illumination is a gift from God from my hard work of handling his word properly.
Look peeps, get your bibles, get your concordances, get your study helps, your greek text and Hebrew text and study…
Yes pray
Yes memorize
Yes Read…
But don’t miss out on Studying Gods word… that goes a long way past simply reading.
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Roy, hope you had a chance to check out the podcast… its always great talking to you.
Acts 2:44 and they gave sacrificially - maybe that was part of the secret to such power and presence of the Holy Spirit.
Is it worth the sacrifice?
I was just talking recently to someone who said “I heard a person say that listening to secular rock music can invite demons… and it led into a great conversation in which I shared not only that, but also what you watch on TV, what images you put in your brain, who you hang out with and even jewelry or clothes you wear…
I told her that in fact most of this is seemingly harmless… even yoga can be demonic and invite a presence of evil that you are unaware of.
She had a hard time with what I was saying and then I stopped her and asked….
BUT EVEN IF IT SEEMS QUITE BENIGN - WOULDN’T IT BE WORTH IT TO EXPERIENCE EVEN MORE OF HIS POWER AND HIS PRESENCE?
And thats really what the Christian walk comes down to… sacrifice seems sometimes silly… but its worth it. Look if you told someone “quit listening to Slayer and Meshugah… its demonic and it hinders your walk with God”… you probably would not get much push back from most Christians… even those who listen to such music…
But if I said, don’t wear that chain that has a yin and yang symbol on it… you might just smile and let it go and think Im overreacting… but what if I am not. What if its worth it?
Today is not about all the weird, crazy, things we hear about what is and what is not demonic. For a long time Christian music was an idol for me… and I gave it up. At one time Working out was an idol for me and I gave it up…
Are these demonic? Yes and no. Not for you but maybe for me… maybe just for that season, but its demonic if it hinders what God wants to do in my life.
I know this…as I have read and studied the men and woman who are used the greatest by God… and I mean raise the dead, heal the sick, words of prophecy and words of knowledge… those people hold themselves to a much higher standard than the rest of us…
They do weird things like not shaking hands with certain people. Not walking into houses that have secular artists and art on the wall. Not even walking into stores that have secular music playing and even stranger stuff to most of us… and yet they promise me that its the standard by which God has called them to if they want more intimacy and power.
I think of it this way… my wife and I are best friends. We can be at a mall, shopping, eating, background music playing, friends with us, buying stuff we probably don’t really need and really enjoying ourselves… and we are intimate.
But not like when you strip all that away and its just us, in bed, no music, no clothes on, just feeling each others body heat and talking … even whispering our intimate secrets, whispering what we want the other person to know, whispering our love for them.
So you say… well yeah I would take that over the other as well.
Than I would challenge you the reason you don’t want to sacrifice things out of your life for God, isn’t because you think its too hard, but rather you have never experienced that deeper intimacy and realized “its worth it”.
To give up time with friends, food, money, laughter, shopping… is easy when I know how much more powerful true intimacy is… I will give it up in a heartbeat every time. She’s worth it… and so is God.
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Garth Heckman
TDA
Luke Merril killer sermon on dealing with anxiety at CLC college… the link is in my notes…
https://www.youtube.com/live/mJ8t8cr5kNs?si=zS3G66ixcAg115uy
Michael Keaton Knox goes away
10 Reasons Why Practice Makes Perfect
1. Muscle Memory: Repeated actions strengthen neural pathways, making it easier to perform tasks automatically and efficiently.
2. Improved Coordination: Practice helps synchronize movements, leading to better coordination and control.
3. Increased Confidence: As you become more proficient, your confidence grows, positively impacting your performance.
4. Reduced Errors: Consistent practice helps identify and eliminate mistakes, leading to fewer errors.
5. Enhanced Speed: Regular practice can increase your speed and efficiency in performing tasks.
6. Better Problem-Solving: Facing challenges during practice helps develop problem-solving skills and adaptability.
7. Increased Stamina: Practicing endurance-related tasks can improve your stamina and endurance levels.
8. Improved Focus: Concentrating on a specific task during practice can enhance your focus and attention.
9. Boosted Motivation: Seeing progress and achieving goals can motivate you to continue practicing and strive for excellence.
10. Greater Satisfaction: Mastery and proficiency in a skill can lead to a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
Handling the word of God…
Sword play
Study to show thyself approved unto God…
Scripture calls the word of God a two edged sword for a reason.
It was sharp, deadly and to be practiced with.
Question: Who wins in a sword fight? The one with the sharpest sword? The one with the biggest sword? The one who has the longest sword? The one who has the fastest sword?….
NOPE its the one who practices the most with the sword?
Read Your Bible Regularly
Study the Word of God Faithfully
Believe and Proclaim God’s Truth
Evaluate Your Life in Light of God’s Word
Put the Word of God into Action
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Garth Heckman
TDA
Luke Merril killer sermon on dealing with anxiety at CLC college… the link is in my notes…
https://www.youtube.com/live/mJ8t8cr5kNs?si=zS3G66ixcAg115uy
Michael Keaton Knox goes away
Matthew 24:42-51 being prepared being ready at all times before the lord comes back…
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. .
Jude 1:7 ESV
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Luke 21:11 ESV
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
- The Good News will be preached throughout the earth (Matthew 24:14).
- There will be wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6).
- There will be false messiahs and false prophets (Matthew 24:23-24).
- The antichrist will appear (John 2:18).
10 Reasons to Be Prepared for Anything with the end times in mind.
In today's rapidly changing world, being prepared for unexpected events can significantly improve your quality of life and resilience. Here are 10 reasons why:
- Natural Disasters: Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires can occur without warning. Being prepared can help you protect yourself and your loved ones during these crises.
Do you have non-perishable food? Do you have a months supply of water?
- Personal Emergencies: Medical emergencies, accidents, or job loss can happen to anyone. Having a plan in place can help you cope with these challenges.
I have taken quite a few first aid and first responder classes… I have a pretty good first aid kit in my car and a bug out bag… Did you know you can learn a lot on Youtube regarding personal emergencies and being prepared… look into it.
- Economic Uncertainty: Recessions, inflation, and market volatility can impact your financial stability. Being prepared can help you weather these storms.
Do you have fool proof investments? Cash on hand? Do you have more than 2 streams of income?
- Political Unrest: Civil unrest, political instability, or social upheaval can disrupt your daily life. Being prepared can help you stay safe and secure.
Do you know your local fire and police? The sheriff?
- Technological Disruptions: Power outages, internet disruptions, or cyberattacks can significantly impact your daily routine. Being prepared can help you adapt to these challenges.
Do you have a solar charger? Solar panels? Do you have a wood burning stove? Do you even have wood? Do you have 100 gallons of gas stored for your vehicle?
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Garth Heckman
TDA
Luke Merril killer sermon on dealing with anxiety at CLC college… the link is in my notes…
https://www.youtube.com/live/mJ8t8cr5kNs?si=zS3G66ixcAg115uy
Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs
So can paranoia be debilitating… yep, so can fear, pleasure and even exercise…
Anything can be toxic if it runs your life, but thats not what we are talking about. A healthy paranoia is the defender of truth. It is the mental and spiritual prepper, it keeps us safe and even alive… remember when the whole world is running off a cliff - its the person who is running the opposite direction that seems to be crazy…
- Prepare your mental health: Engage in activities that promote responding and acting accordingly… as well as relaxation and well-being.
If you have ever taken any marksmanship classes you often learn about dry firing. You just have your gun unloaded in your holster and during the day at home with no one around you practice pulling your gun out and firing at objects in your house.
This is simple mental preparation.
I will sit at my table and I will shoot anything that is an animal on TV… aim ready shoot… prepared, I will also walk mentally through the stages of having to pull my gun and shoot people, or how to avoid an attacker… how to distance myself from a knife attack etc… prepare!
I can’t remember who said it but the quote is…
Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed and terrified.
You are overtired, stressed and terrified when you fail to prepare.
As I always say (and its on my 1441ff website) its never to late to prepare but if you are not prepared.. its always to late.
- Build powerful relationships: Surround yourself with supportive people who can teach you, inform you, coach you and even doctor you up… as well as comfort you and give new perspectives.
Paranoia means I have a list of go to friends who can cover my back in any type of emergency.
I have prayer teams ready,
I have go teams ready
I have anti terrorist teams ready
I have a lot of powerful relationships… and its due to a healthy paranoia.
- Trust your intuition: Listen to your instincts, but don't let fear dictate your decisions.
John Katzenbach said “Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.”
But the more you are prepared and truly paranoid in the best possible way… you are less likely to fall under delusion, you are less likely to doubt what you know to be true… and the only thing that your paranoia will feed is a hunger to continually stay prepared.
By adopting these approaches, you can maintain a healthy balance between awareness and peace of mind.
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
The David Alliance
Garth Heckman
Bassist Geezer Butler went further in-depth on the song’s meaning in 2013 saying, “Basically, it’s just about depression, because I didn’t really know the difference between depression and paranoia. It’s a drug thing; when you’re smoking a joint you get totally paranoid about people, you can’t relate to people. There’s that crossover between the paranoia you get when you’re smoking dope and the depression afterward.”
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Sound mind GK SOPHRONISMOS
Prudent, self disciplined, sound mind, thinking with behavior that fits the circumstances, Thinking ahead, safe minded….
it's understandable to feel cautious or vigilant in today's world, but excessive paranoia can lead to unnecessary stress, anxiety, and isolation.
So lets call this healthy skepticism and awareness or the Four P’s
Paranoid
Practiced
Prepared
Powerful
When I drive my cycle I drive paranoid… my motto is everyone out here is trying to kill me… why? Because it keeps me alive!
Take a few days and read through the chapters of 2 Samual through 1 and 2nd kings… you will see smart leadership and dumb leadership. Some kings served God, they were paranoid going into battle… they would ask the prophet… is God with us? Will we win? Many times the prophet would tell the kings how to practice prepare and exemplify Gods power….
Here are some ways to stay informed and safe without succumbing to excessive fear:
- Stay informed: (a healthy dose of paranoia will help you stay informed) Be aware of current events and trends, but avoid excessive consumption of negative news.
Be aware of the newest ways that they are targeting children and women…
Tying up a puppy and leaving it out by itself at a street alley or corner…
Women at Walmart being asked to move their cars by employees…
- Practice critical thinking: Evaluate information from various sources and consider different perspectives.
Have you practiced scenarios with your kids, wife and loved ones…
When someone calls and sounds like your wife or husband and they need you to immediately put a thousand dollars in an account…. Do you have a question you would ask them?
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Sunday Sep 15, 2024
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
Hopefully everyone has experienced the feeling of being attractive…
Who do you attract?
My wife will tell you I attract a lot of young girls and strange or odd people.
Who do you attract?
Who does our church attract?
WE HAVE TO START HERE…
- **The prodigal story, boy takes his $, spends it, eats slop, comes back begging, Father takes him back in
BUT THATS NOT HOW THE STORY STARTS
AGAIN…WHO DO YOU / WHO DO WE ATTRACT?
JESUS ATTRACTED SINNERS WHILE THE
RELIGIOUS REPELLED THEM.
*The quote: you are so full of what is right, you have lost the ability to love.
Jesus didn’t just come to save the lost… but to love the lost… to the point of eating with them (be a part of my family)
*What’s worse? Being lost? Or not knowing your lost?
The pharisees could see who was lost…
- But they could not see who was loved…
- But they could not see they themselves as lost.
Jackie Robinson in 1947 broke the color barrier… but it took Pee Wee Reese his friend and second basemen of the Dodgers to break the hate.
May 13th 1947 the Dodgers are playing the Cincinnati Reds….
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Jesus starts by waiting
Jesus ended by waiting
Jesus went from the Desert to the Garden… and had to wait in both situations… But he waited and was strengthened by angelic beings.
But don’t miss the point!
- His first wait was for the launching of his ministry. Miracles, teaching, signs and wonders,
- His second wait was for death.
Waiting has an incredible way of killing our flesh!
My parents used to make me wait 30 days until I would spend money on a big ticket item. I still practiced that today and what wisdom.