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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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I just got back into bow hunting after a short 37 year lay off. how much did things change in 37 years? Everything…
In fact I just bought my son a bow… we are both now in the learning curve… but even in a few weeks I have learned a ton. Dan McCarthy and his youtube videos have been a God send.
What’s a spine?
What’s a nock
Fletching
shaft
Now if you are into this you are probably thinking what a nob… this is easy
Same thing with cooking. I had no idea other than how to make toast.
I watched my wife for years, I asked a lot of questions… she at first would get mad… I wanted to learn.
Now I make some great meals. I especially make some amazing sauces, including my own green sauce or salsa verde… my own recipe. I watch cooking shows, I watch cooking videos, I subscribe to cooking youtube channels.
The learning process in shooting, or cooking or even brain surgery is doing with the learning.
How do you get to be a specialist in your faith walk? Well lots of learning. again I read books on spiritual disciplines, I listen to podcasts of theologians and preachers and teachers, I subscribe to youtube channels, I read dozens of different translations of the bible, I have a few theology degrees and I hang out with other smart driven faith followers… but I do as well as learn.
Scripture is pretty clear in how to grow in our faith.
Jn. 15 15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
- Study - Plug into the vine, Gods word, his spirit
- persevere - Remain… there will be tests, bad weather, lots of fertilizer and insects… but you must remain.
- Grow/ mature in the faith -if you don’t mature, grow in the faith you will die. You will in fact be cut off.
what does it say in verse 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
We are doing… yes doing while plugged into him, but we are doing. We are not just simply learning or going to church but we are doing.
Yesterday in church God told me to pray for someones arches… nope, at the end of service I need to pray for someones arches… nope. I wasn’t thrown I am learning by doing… and after service a man came up to me and said hey thanks for praying for my arches… i just didn’t want to come up.
STudy
Persevere
Grow
And I might add NOW!
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Oscar Wilde was quoted as saying “I can resist everything except temptation”. But the thought still remains… how does one resist temptation… It might be easier and weirder than you think.
What to do when you are tempted?
Run away like Joseph and Potiphars wife… sure
Pray? ok, thats a good one.
Confess to a strong Christian brother? not a bad idea
Block and stay away from the temptation… again smart move…
But what if I said there is another way that might seem a little weird?
Eph. 5:3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. 4 Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
And Again in
17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What is temptation?
Its wanting something, its a craving, its a sinful desire, its a deep pull.
Well yes but it goes much beyond that. Temptation is about what you want. Its is a selfish, greedy, self centered want.
Temptation is simply “all about you”.
Temptation is me me me me
So when Paul says if you are facing all kinds of temptations give thanks it sounds weird until you realize that Thankfulness is selfless. it takes your focus off of you. You almost never hear anyone tell themselves how thankful they are for themselves. You never thank yourself because it just sounds self centered and honestly Pompous!
You thank others for what they did. You thank them with words that go out of your ME ME ME ME zone and into a world of how they feel. I am giving thanks to make you feel good, to encourage you, to lift your spirits up. I am giving thanks to others, to God and Jesus for what they did. True thankfulness has nothing to do with what I want or what I did.
The very nature of thankfulness destroys temptation because it changes your focus off of you and onto others.
Its hard to be tempted when I am thinking about others.
Are you feeling tempted? Start to practice thankfulness especially to God and watch how quickly your focus changes and how fast the temptation will die!
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
WE assume David killed Goliath because of some supernatural ability or some God given secret…
So David was good with a sling. So were 700 other men in scripture. They could toss a rock at a hundred yards and hit a target.
Well David had a great family upbringing - uhm no! His Dad forgot about him. He didn’t even recognize him. He put him in the last place possible to even gain any recognition.
David had a great job and preparation… uh no and no.
Well i got it. David was anointed King so that is why he was able to kill Goliath. Hold on skippy, King Saul was anointed King and was in fact KING! If simply being anointed was all it took then he could have killed him.
Why did David kill goliath? he was a singer first and then a slinger. He was intimate with Jesus. he spent his time as a shepherd writing poetry about God, singing about God, talking to God.
What is funny is in this story it says hat the soldiers of Israel were getting up every morning and chanting their war cry… and it meant nothing. But while they were busy chanting David was busy Chasing God. He was a man who was After Gods heart. he went after him… are you a man AFTER Gods heart. I hope so, because that is the secret to victory.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
Who do you want to be when you grow up? Fireman, Rock star, NFL player, UFC fighter, Doctor, Homemaker, Mother or even a veterinarian….
But I don’t ever remember as a kid being asked “what do others want you to be like when you grow up…
Charlie Chaplin - 26TH place
it might be a myth…
But what is not a myth is in todays world more than ever we feel a pressure to promote our best version of ourself which in fact is not the real version of ourselves. Even people who truly are the hardest working, the most successful and seem to have it all together may in fact be driven by horrible motives. They are adopted, they are trying to prove their worth to their parents, they have an axe to grind with those who hurt them… whatever the case- even in success you may be a failure in your foundation that produced that success.
Some people won’t like you for being you
some people won’t like you for being someone else
Some people just won’t like you
So why don’t you be the person who doesn’t care and just be who God created you to be.
When you get to heaven God is not going to ask you why you were not more like this person or that person… he is going to ask why you were not like who he created you to be.
Psalm 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
Praise = confess you made me spectacular.
Marvelous = distinguished.
YOU MUST LEARN TO CONFESS THAT YOU ARE SPECTACULAR AND DISTINGUISHED! LIKE NO ONE ELSE.
Eph. 2:10 We are a masterpiece…
what does that truly mean? Well yes we are exquisite, and beautiful (and not by the worlds standards) but what it truly means more than anything is we are one of a kind, The only one of its kind. When we talk about the mona lisa we don’t compare it to other Mona Lisa’s… because it is one of a kind.
There are no duplicates of the Mona Lisa… now you may argue and say surely someone has painted a Mona Lisa… yes for sure… but when you ask a true master artist who is also a professional art critic they will laugh at any such suggestion that you can create a duplicate. As one might suggest - you can paint a mona lisa, you can call it a mona lisa, but it is not only a fake but a piece of trash which should never even have the title Mona Lisa mentioned in the same breath as this caricature.
There are no duplicates for you. Be who God created you to be in him and in his word. Do you truly want the formula for happiness? Be the YOU God created YOU to be.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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- Xn Fellowship
Heb. 10: 23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Matthew 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
We are sheep! We have a shepherd. The wolves do not run straight into the fold… they sneak around and wait for a sheep to start to stray from the fold… then they attack!
STay in the fold. Stay in church. Stay in bible study. Stay in Christian centered friendships.
You will find rest, encouragement, protection from the body.
I have been there. Wiped out, tired, spiritually beat up and I walk into a service (no one knows me) and the worship, the word, the kind conversation by other believers… it sweeps me into the spiritual world.
COVID - Barna - those that were affected the least Emotionally, mentally and physically were those who kept meeting in Christian fellowship during COVID.
Don’t neglect meeting together… You know in China it is against the law to meet together… but they still do. They risk their lives secretly meeting because they know more than most how important it is for their lives to stay hot for God.
When I was in Seattle I was not in a good place. I did not like my church, my pastor, the weather, I was burned out and depressed. I took my youth to a seminar with about 4000 other kids…
How cool. You don’t even have to know those in the body of Christ to be fired up, lifted, and filled with life. Just be in a body of believers.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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“if people only sought basic services, Caribous double cappuccinos would cost less than Taco Bells burritos, because the raw ingredients and labor cost less. /but consumers buy more than things, they purchase connections. They purchase by their gut… they purchase passion.
The world may tolerate mediocre Christianity and luke warm living but they will never buy into it.… Worse yet they won’t love it or hate it. And if you try to preach true Christianity with a passive lack luster lifestyle or attitude… as if you are talking about Jesus with just a hunch…. you will turn people off even more. People are not lining up for a religious Christianity… but they will at least have a peaked interest in a person who is passionate about Jesus.
DO you have time for boring people? I don’t. Talk to me about coat hangers or hair scrunchies Or even packing tape - talk passionately and I will listen. Talk to me about the grizzly bear in my closet- as if I’m an inconvenience and you will have to wake me half way through the conversation.
I truly believe that most people reject Christianity due to the delivery and the personality behind it. People get a feel for you, and then reject jesus and walk away justifying it due to your presentation of him.YOUR PRESENTATION OF HIM - NOT FOR WHO HE TRULY IS. You can see it in the disciples lives from Pre- cross and Pre- Holy Spirit filling to the Post Cross and Post HS filling. The difference is astounding.
So what is one to do? Do you just become phony and ramp up your excitement when sharing jesus hoping that they are sold on your enthusiasm and don’t actually smell your barely smoldering Christian walk?
I think sometimes we just need to check our hearts and lives about what we are thankful for and what Jesus did for us. If one truly began to meditate on what the cross did, and on who jesus is and why he would die for me… passion starts to rise.
Many times in my prayer life I imagine someone breaking into my house and storming off with my granddaughter shouting she must die for all your sins. It would hurt me deeply, it would wound me, I would beg the intruder to take me and not her… she is sweet, innocent, her emotions break easily when she sees others hurt, she cares with great compassion… she is the last one to pay a price for my sin. And why do I play this narrative in my mind? Because it helps me connect with what Jesus did… as sweet as my grandkids are, they still don’t even come close to Jesus and the price he paid out of our sin and from his intense and pure life.
I can get passionate about that Jesus, I can tell others about that Jesus. I can gladly be rejected for sharing that Jesus.
The more I focus on the cross, his price, my sin and his grace and forgiveness the deeper my passion grows for him. It quickly becomes evident in my attitude, my smile, my love and my personality.
Remember Rev. 3:16 I threw up, I blew chunks because you were luke warm… meaning you were just like everybody else.
People are not hoping to fill the void inside of them simply by being like everyone else… They are looking for someone to show them a life worth dying for.
Friday Aug 12, 2022
Friday Aug 12, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
What name do they call your ethnicity or your type?
White trash, or a reject? Slick willy as a slimy preacher, and even Religious phony…
what about Dog? In todays world its used as a compliment. “thats my dog, he got my back he’s my dog”.
Well it wasn’t always that way!
Matthew 15: 21 Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Gentile woman who lived there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! For my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.”
23 But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
24 Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.”
25 But she came and worshiped him, pleading again, “Lord, help me!”
26 Jesus responded, “It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs.”
27 She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even dogs are allowed to eat the scraps that fall beneath their masters’ table.”
28 “Dear woman,” Jesus said to her, “your faith is great. Your request is granted.” And her daughter was instantly healed.
A dog. This is a cut down, a slam to the gentiles…
This woman did not defend who she was… She was completely honest in who others thought she was and in who she thought she was.
Wether Jesus thought this or not (which we know he did not) was not her issue- she just knew that Jesus was the answer and that even the smallest amount of grace was enough for what she needed.
Her righteousness… her good deeds… her personal reputation was not what she put her stock in, her hope in.
She simply trusted that Jesus could heal her daughter.
The disciples… such compassionate fellows… are like “look this woman is a gentile, she’s not clean, right, from our party or the right side of the tracks… just tell her to go.
And Jesus sits silently for a few minutes
Awkward…
But she waits.
What do you do when God doesn’t talk back? You wait. others scoff, want you to give up… but you know- you wait!
What are you waiting on God for today? Don’t give in, don’t give up, don’t let the voices in your head call you names, or even let so called “friends” give you well meaning advice to just give up… Keep waiting and know that even a crumb is enough… but remember the very next few verses Jesus multiples bread…
With Jesus there is alway more than enough to those who are willing to wait!
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
Not only has the IRS been granted funds to hire 87,000 new agents, they have also been the biggest buyer of ammunition in the past few years… Ah pencil pushers and popguns… it’s time to get serious about your money.
Are you tithing? God can’t grow what you don’t plant.
Check your rates on everything. Insurance, cable, groceries, mechanic, transportation, online subscriptions, Sams club
EVERYTHING IS NEGOTIABLE.
Maximize your benefits. Will your company match investments and are you maximizing your contribution?
Change your work or your work schedule.
I have friends right now who are getting paid less but making more because they no longer have to drive to work. Pay for parking, buy lunch, drive home.
Cut out one essential item. Coffee? Movie night? Spotify?
Whatever it is, then bank it or put it into your investments.
Sell your skills. Teach math, guitar, art, coding, baking, You are not going to live off of this most likely, but an extra $100-200 a month helps.
Start an online business selling anything. You can use amazon, eBay, facebook, AGAIN you may not make a living off of this, but you can make a comfortable bonus activity.
Check if your company or business offers money towards ongoing education.
Part time job with tips… especially if you have a great personality and are good with people.
Write a book and speak on it using social media to your best advantage.
Residual income… books, music, inventions,
Rent out a room or basement… much caution and preparation on this. Get a solid contract and great lawyer.
AirBNB
Sell your goods. Lyrics, music, art, ideas, scripts, photos
Rent your garage for storage.
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
3 challenges I didn’t expect in following Jesus.
Keeping the mission the mission #1. You have probably heard the quote Keeping the main thing the main thing.
I sometimes feel like we are the only soldiers that sign up for duty, take the pledge, read the commands, give our oath to our Leader and then completely just ignore the mission.
four commands of the Great Commission as found in Matthew 28:19-20 and Mark 16:15-18. In the Great Commission, Jesus commands us to:
1. Preach the gospel to all nations and people
2. Work miracles in Jesus’ name to testify to the gospel
3. Baptize new believers, and
4. Disciple those who receive Christ.
preach the gospel
According to Barna, “Almost half of [practicing Christian] Millennials (47%) agree at least somewhat that it is wrong to share one’s personal beliefs with someone of a different faith in hopes that they will one day share the same faith.”
We wouldn’t want to offend anyone…
2 Cor. 2:15, 16 The gospel is like perfume to some and the smell of death to others. Its our job to say it… not spray it. What do I mean? I will speak the gospel in love, how they smell it is up to them.
But again- don’t forget the mission.
signs and wonders
In Mark’s record of the Great Commission, Jesus makes a shocking promise: “These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover” (Mark 16:17-18 NASB). Yes, Jesus promises that as we go he will flow!
baptize
The truth is clear—if we don’t baptize new believers, we’ve failed to obey the Great Commission fully. Water cannot save you; only blood—the blood of Jesus. But in baptism, we make “an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21 NASB). Baptism is the biblical “sinner’s prayer.”
In some countries they don’t bat an eye for you to accept Jesus, but if you get baptized you are stepping over the line and it is offensive… even causing your family to denounce you.
How many of you think a pastor has to baptize? Yep thats part of the problem. You preach, you baptize, you do it all. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A PASTOR!
disciple
In the late 1800s, Evangelist William Booth warned, “The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell.” Booth sure got it right.
It is up to us to disciple people in the word of God in all areas of life. not just theology. Do you know verses to share and teach new believers on politics? Health care? Money? Forgiveness? Sex? Marriage? Business?
Study to show thyself approved in all areas of life.
"There is an old story about a lighthouse keeper who worked on a rocky stretch of coastline. Once a month he would receive a new supply of oil to keep the light burning so that ships could safely sail near the rocky coast. One night, though, a woman from a nearby village came and begged him for some oil to keep her family warm. Another time a father asked for some to use in his lamp. Another man needed to lubricate a wheel. Since all the requests seemed legitimate, the lighthouse keeper not wanting to offend anyone of course tried to please everyone -
late one night a northeaster whipped up like no other… when the lighthouse keeper went to light the massive lamp… it was out of oil. That night ships ran into rocks and into the shore and hundreds of lives were lost…. The next day the state authorities came. The young man said he was deeply sorry and really tried to do the right thing and be helpful… He was arrested and tried on 131 counts… lives lost forever. The judge looked at him before sentencing and said “you were given one job, and you failed and because of it hundreds lost their lives”.
Jesus gave us on main job- share the gospel- period!