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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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So how do the mighty fall?
Deception comes before DESTRUCTION.
REVIEW Steps…
Choosing to not fight - we are at war
Seeking peace over purpose - Peer pressure, personality, sincerity Spirit/Truth, media influence
Deception - false sense of peace and self righteousness
Perversion - Now the demonic gets involved because you chose to walk in deception
False worship -
Destruction - If not corrected you fall and affect others
subtle little erosions in your faith and belief in God and his word that will cause a fall and ultimately a destruction.
Samson
Samson fell because he was wanting peace… he was worn down, no longer wanted to fight.
Judges 16:15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was [b]vexed to death, 17 that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi
Choosing not to fight - with a woman
Seeking peace - gave up his secret
Deception - laid down after telling her
Perversion - his hair is cut/broken Nazarene vow
False Worship - The Philistines gave their god dagon the credit
Destruction - He died with the Philistines
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 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
So how do the mighty fall?
Deception comes before DESTRUCTION.
REVIEW Steps…
Choosing to not fight - we are at war
Seeking peace over purpose - Peer pressure, personality, sincerity Spirit/Truth, media influence
Deception - false sense of peace and self righteousness
Perversion - Now the demonic gets involved because you chose to walk in deception
False worship -
Destruction - If not corrected you fall and affect others
subtle little erosions in your faith and belief in God and his word that will cause a fall and ultimately a destruction.
David
2 Samuel 11
Choosing not to fight - stayed back from battle
Seeking peace - Sexual release
Deception - Try’s to get Uriah to sleep with his wife
Perversion - Kill Uriah
False Worship - Others join the plan
Destruction - Davids life was never the same
I have quoted this for a long time… the best thing to ever happen to David was Goliath… David chose to fight an impossible battle… except God stepped in.
in this story When David chose not to fight… it was him choosing to lose the ultimate battle.
Even though the prophet Nathaniel comes and rebukes him… he still sowed destruction into his family… and his family was never without strife or division from that day forward.
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Bill Cosby, Richard Nixon, OJ simpson, Roseanne Barr, Kevin Spacey, Brittany Spears and of course Nickleback
So how do the mighty fall?
Deception comes before DESTRUCTION.
REVIEW Steps…
Choosing to not fight - we are at war
Seeking peace over purpose - Peer pressure, personality, sincerity Spirit/Truth, media influence
Deception - false sense of peace and self righteousness
Perversion - Now the demonic gets involved because you chose to walk in deception
False worship -
Destruction - If not corrected you fall and affect others
subtle little erosions in your faith and belief in God and his word.
Lott
Gen. 19 the men from the city come to Lott and demand the men that were knew to town… who had not yet had homosexual relations… Lott offers his daughters… why to keep the peace.
He is going to offer up his own kids to keep peace…
WE BETTER BE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR OUR KIDS.
It is hard and painful and tiring to keep taking a stand for Jesus in this world… but we must choose to seek Gods purpose over peace with mankind.
Choosing not to fight
Seeking peace
Deception
Perversion
False Worship
Destruction
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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In my podcast last year I shared 20 things that i thought would happen in the next 10 years…
I THINK NOW *A YEAR LATER* IT WILL HAPPEN IN 5!
So how do the mighty fall?
Deception comes before DESTRUCTION.
Steps…
Choosing to not fight - we are at war
Seeking peace over purpose -
Deception - false sense of peace and self righteousness
Perversion - Now the demonic gets involved because you chose to walk in deception
False worship -
Destruction - If not corrected you fall and affect others
subtle little erosions in your faith and belief in God and his word.
Matt. 24:12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
your love grew cold… its love but cold.
A primary verb; to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from pneo, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of aer, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively) -- wax cold.
multiply - accepted, thus multiplied
Lawlessness - utter disregard of Gods law, written and living word
I still have a love… but it no longer has the power to do what it is supposed to do.
*Its like being cold and someone hands you a blanket that is frozen in ice… You can argue with me all day long that it is a blanket and it has kept you warm, and it is supposed to keep you warm… but it won’t keep your warm.
REVIEW Steps…
Choosing to not fight - we are at war
Seeking peace over purpose - Peer pressure, personality, sincerity Spirit/Truth
Deception - false sense of peace and self righteousness
Perversion - Now the demonic gets involved because you chose to walk in deception
False worship -
Destruction - If not corrected you fall and affect others
subtle little erosions in your faith and belief in God and his word.
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 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
I grew up with a razor sharp tongue, sarcastic to the core. You could not stick with me when it came to cutdowns or defending yourself. If social media would have been around when I was in Middle school or high school… it would have been magic and tragic… but not anymore… so what changed?
So where it todays podcast coming from? I made 2 posts this last week on the Roe vs. Wade decision and the world blew up at me. LOL what is truly funny, and I mean it when I say this - I was laughing because most of the haters were my own cousins and nephews and nieces etc…
But I am used to this. I honestly don’t try to post things that are flagrant… because I really want to always keep an open door to the thousands of my followers on Social media about Jesus… but anyway. It has happened time and time again and what amazes me most is that people will message me privately and ask “why don’t you hit back? I know you can put them in their place - why do you just sit silently and let them rail on you”.
Honestly…. Its love.
Prov. 12:16 Fools show their annoyance at once,
but the prudent overlook an insult.
Captious : marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise petty objections, Major on the minor to mark overblown criticisms: calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
Prov. 18:2 Fools find no pleasure in understanding
but delight in airing their own opinions.
2 Cor. 11:19 For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.
What do you do when people attack you. Snide, harsh remarks, untrue general statements or even blatant lies stated as facts about you as a whole.
Stop and ask yourself why?
People attack out of anger stemming from wounds. What has happened to them that they feel the need to use a platform pretending to stand up for that issue only to use it as a way to attack you. You know the kind right? (stupid example)
I love meat, and you gotta kill cows to eat meat.
And then the comments role in…
Did you know that 6 people die a year in farming accidents, and over 40 people die a year in meat plants and more then 100 people lose a finger in butcher shops a year. How can you be so cold hearted… you just want to fill your stomach and your wants over Gods given creatures of this world. You call yourself a Christian.
AND THEN SOMEONE CHIMES IN: Well he lifts weights and they think they need red meat for proper protein… we all know weightlifters are not the brightest in the world….
So I stop and ask myself… how hurt must you feel to attack someone else. How much have you been disappointed, poisoned or just unhappy with life.
2 Cor. 11:19 For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.
This is Paul being very facetious even sarcastic about how people who attack others also defend other fools who attack them.
Rather Scripture is clear that we are to bless those who curse us. Luke 6:28 bless those who curse you
Rom. 12:14 bless those who persecute you
Just remember love always wins… you don’t have to defend yourself. Jesus didn’t, He was silent among his accusers. Just love.
The donkey told the tiger, "The grass is blue."
The tiger replied, "No, the grass is green ."
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.
As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"
The lion replied: "If you believe it is true, the grass is blue."
The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him."
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence."
The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue..."
The tiger asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"
The lion replied, ′′You've known and seen the grass is green."
The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?"
The lion replied, "That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!”
The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.
When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on.
And Jesus calls us to choose love!
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 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
Robin Sharma a few months back shot out an email about taking careful analysis of our talent and how to keep an eye out for things that may rob it. It got me thinking about how our spiritual lives can erode over time and become less effective or on fire for God… And its tricky because we can become more fervent for the things of God and less on fire for God - yea thats right, we can become more in love with Gods attributes than with God himself. Or we can become more in love with his… shall we say “causes” then again with God himself. So I wanted to take a look at these 7 things Robin shared but in a spiritual light.
7 Threats to world class performance and success
The threat of talent erosion
The threat of energetic diversion
The threat of lifestyle complexity
The threat of success fed hubris
The threat of reaching good enough
The threat of reputation deterioration
The threat of human mortality
Now lets look at them if we were talking about threats to our Spiritual walk with God.
7 Threats to world class intimacy and power
The threat of talent erosion
If you quit pushing yourself to be used by God, you will lose that ability more and more. I have seen some pretty cool miracles in my life and from my hands… but still praying for some to come back to life, to have full health even though their body is wracked with cancer… I will not let my spiritual intimacy erode by lack of trying.
The threat of energetic diversion
If I focus my energy on other things, I will have little if any energy left for pursuing greater intimacy with God. When I was planting a church and having to work at a roofing company to pay the bills I knew that for the church to have the right foundation I had to keep my quiet time with Jesus #1, so I had to do it first thing in the morning at 5am.
The threat of lifestyle complexity
Don’t try to do everything, but rather find your gift, talent and abilities and focus growing spiritually in those. The more busy you are, the more hobbies you have the more you travel, speak, socialize etc… the more complex your life becomes. I am pretty simple - and I like that. Because I want to focus on Gods priorities first.
The threat of success fed hubris
How many big name pastors, or just pastors of successful churches have let their success eat them alive. Sex, money, arrogance, - you name it. My success is my greatest threat to my intimacy with Jesus. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you can keep it in check.
The threat of reaching good enough
You go to church more than most, you pray some times, you have read your bible and somewhat habitually - you even attend a bible study and are involved in a ministry… you are good… the problem is if you think you are good enough. Jesus said be ye perfect even as I am perfect…. uh, I guess there is room for growth.
The threat of reputation deterioration
Franklin D Roosevelt said “judge me by the enemies I have made”. You can lose your reputation to the world… thats ok. Jesus said “remember they will hate you, but they hated me first”.
But if you lose your reputation to the church… in time it will resonate so loudly that your walk will be hindered… and might I add I mean the church that still believes in the word of God and the power of his word and spirit. If you feel like people are starting to question your reputation… maybe check on your time with Jesus and your intimacy.
The threat of human mortality
We all get old. I am thankful after all this body has been through I still have lots of energy. I am up at 5am, I go to bed at 11 and I pretty much try to kill it every day. I eat right, I exercise daily, I drink coffee by the gallon… ok, Im not perfect. But I know now is the time to make hay, to do more for God…. because the truth is that I am getting older, I am getting slower, I am getting a little more dull mentally… it just happens. I can’t seek God if I am falling asleep during my quiet time. At the same time age is no excuse - push in and get older and bolder, not older and colder.
What was your GPA in high school and college? Whatever it was, you can’t change it now… but that doesn’t mean you still can’t get smarter, and more knowledgeable - now what is your GPA in your spiritual life? The goal is to be able to answer that honestly… every day and then push harder! (Garth Heckman)
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 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
Ever hear the saying… Don’t play the fool? Now maybe at sometime someone said that to a person and they actually woke up and were like…oh yea I am the fool. But to be honest if you are playing the fool, it’s not typically something you realize right away.
If we can all agree on one thing at this time in history I think its this… more than ever there is a lot of fake news out there, which means we can all be fooled at sometime or another. And in fact it behooves us to really make sure we are not the pawn. I know I have been fooled many times and in fact I have fought over the right to believe a lie… I just didn’t realize it at the time. There was a time I was convinced that if someone loved me they would never lie to me… but I realized that if THEY believe a lie, then in fact they were lying to me without realizing they were lying to me, because they were telling me something they thought was true, but actually was a lie… confusing right? But I think you know what I am saying.
I will never forget when my youngest was going in for a shot at the age of 4. He knew he had to get a shot, I knew he had to get a shot and so he wanted to know if it was going to hurt… I told him it would hurt a little, kind of like being pinched on the leg. He asked me to pinch him on the leg so he could see how much…. so yea, I pinched him… but not really that hard. On that fateful day he was calm and ready for the old pinch on the leg… uh I mean shot in the leg. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS AS LONG AS I LIVE… After some small talk the doctor said well lets give you a quick shot (it already sounded painless to Reese) but the second that needle struck his leg he winced and started to cray looking at me dead in the eye and said in a very painful voice “you lied dad”. I felt horrible… I really truly didn’t think I lied, I told him a pinch, I pinched him… and yet somehow it was much worse than I thought.
The enemy is so crafty that he will get people who are being deceived by the media and other influencers to stand up and defend the right of those who are deceiving them!
How crazy would it have been if through the tears Reese would have shouted in pain…’it didn’t hurt”. But it did.
I am on a quest to know the truth. Jesus said himself seek the truth and you shall find it. But that is not a shallow call to read a few things and listen to those we agree with - it means really see, study, dive into and know the facts, the ideas and facts around the facts and the truth of the facts and not someone else’s translation of the facts…. it also means continue to study the facts and the truth. We also see in scripture 2 tim. 2:15 study to show thyself approved unto God, so that we are not ashamed. This again means to study in every way possible and in every subject of our life- study to know Gods truth behind that subject so that we are not ashamed at what we promote as Godly… only to find out its not Godly at all, but more Garthly than Godly.
Exodus 14:14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”…
This is such a nice verse… but the story behind it tells a different side. The Israelites are running from the Egyptians… they are closed in (and in fact God wanted them close in) The Israelits are mad at Moses for leading them out… sure they wanted to believe Moses, then they didn’t believe moses, and now they are blaming him… saying if we stayed in Egypt at least we would be alive… and Moses says stand still the lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.
So sometimes we believe the truth, and we feel like we got burned, but rather than waiting on God and trusting him to hold our peace we change our narrative, our theology, our understanding - we become spiritual, but not totally gullible like those fundamental evangelical Christians…
So you grew up and thought Christianity was going to be easy, or get you the good life. Or you were thinking that Christians would always treat you right… and then you realized you maybe were deceived. What you should have been told was that Jesus is worth serving regardless of the sea does not open up or not.
If you treat your faith like it’s a part of your life it will only be a part of your life. It’s gotta be ALL your life. All in on Jesus regardless of what happened in my life… I will believe all of Scripture, I will trust him in every area of my life, I will choose to understand his word and act on it- even if I don’t understand why his word says what it says.
(It’s a big part of my life- what I choose to believe feels good - but feelings are but a deception)
I love Fyodor Da-story-ev-skee
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend imbeciles. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everyone likes affirmation, and we many times deceive ourselves by choosing to believe only what we are comfortable with so as to affirm our own beliefs. but what we need is validation. You can be told your a good driver (wether you are or are not) but validation comes from authority. You get a drivers license and you are now validated. Every movement in the world today clamors for validation (BLM, LGBQT, Feminism, global warming, pro-choice, save the whales, socialism, animal rights pick a topic etc…) But they will never get the fathers validation so they will forever be mad at those who do not affirm them… because once you have the fathers validation you don’t care who affirms you and you no longer feel the need to attack others. Am I making sense today? let me dumb it down for you. If you are not willing to truly seek the truth (and that takes time and hard work) you will end up being deceived and typically your believed deceptions will be easy to feel affirmed by… but you will still not feel the fathers validation and you will run on empty swinging at the air trying to defend and prove your deceptions.
Seek the truth at all costs… Seek his word… seek his face… seek him and not who you think he is.
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 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
God said it, I believe it, that settles it…. or God said it, someone misinterpreted it and I believe it… or God said it, I was hurt and now I misinterpret it… or maybe, just maybe… God said it, and wether or not I agree with it, I will live it because I am a follower of Jesus.
How is your Xy doing? is helping you love others? Do you stay awake praying for others to know, see and love God? Is it a Xy that is built upon your personality and your upbringing. A Xy that is built on your hurts and unmet expectations?
Does your Xy cause you to hurt for those who hurt you rather than wish hurt on those who hurt you? Do you feel the void in other peoples lives and wish they knew Jesus intimately?
One thing I have realized in my life of 57 years here on earth is that much of what I have believed was based on my personality and my upbringing. And in fact some of what I have believed in the past is due to hurts from those I loved and trusted…
So I have had to do a lot of study. Really getting in to the word of God. Not what others say about the word of God. Not what my parents said about the word of God… but rather what the word of God actually says and what it actually means.
Again, without trying to manipulate it to fit my narrative.
I love exercise… I did the 100 squat challenge and threw up and couldn’t walk for a week… but there are tougher ones out there….
Here is a good exercise in your own time with God. Read the bible and tell yourself what it said and what it means and without using your own agenda or personality… its a tough exercise.
Just read it and obey it.
I know I know it is actually really hard. I don’t want to love those who hurt me… but God tells me to… and I can’t so it tells me where I need to go to God and ask for his spirit to change my heart.
I don’t want to give up my last dime to that person… but God tells me to so i need his spirit to change me.
I don’t want to be respectful… I would rather lash out and speak with sarcasm and cutting truths that will put that person in their place… but again I need Gods spirit changing my heart… so I call out to him.
The problem lies somewhere between me posturing scripture to fit my needs and knowing enough about me that I know I need God to set me straight and be open to it. Then ask him to change me so that I might truly listen to his word and then know his heart AND FINALLY live it out in the real world.
Its not enough to know scripture
I have to know how God spoke it and what he truly meant by it. Then to actually ask for his strength to live it.
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 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
It is said that men don’t like to ask for directions… why is that? Because we think we always know where we are going? I don’t think thats why… and thats where we are going today.
What is the biggest difference in a life that is rich in beauty, full of surprises, great stories, rewarding and full of life…. and one that is just I don’t know maybe just meh…
its pretty simple actually and before I give you the answer I want you to promise me you will take time to realize how profound it is… even though at first you will think… “really Garth, that is what you think makes the difference?”
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,
James 4:2 you do not have because you do not ask.
What’s the secret? Prayer? NOPE, but that helps…
its simply learning how to ask… and lets be honest that is a problem for a lot of men.
This verse in James does not say “you do not have because you are not smart enough,
Because you married the wrong person
Because you don’t have enough money
Because you are to old, not connected, don’t have the right friends, have a checkered background, are the wrong color have the wrong upbringing…
NOPE NOPE NOPE you do not have because you do not ask.
There are people out there today who have a bad job… simply because they did not ask for a better job. They tried once and it didn’t happen so they quit asking… and I don’t just mean asking God, I mean asking anyone and everyone.
Remember the woman who in Luke 18 kept knocking on the door, kept asking, kept asking… that was the only prerequisite. Her prayer wasn’t answered until she got enough faith, the right spouse, read enough of the bible, live a perfect enough life… she got what she wanted because she did not give up asking.
Ask for a promotion, ask for a better job, ask for your spouse to be sweeter, ask Jesus to give you more answered prayers in your life, ask your friend how to be a better parent, ask your neighbor how to invest, ask the guy at the music store how to play drums…ask the women at the counter for the best price on that watch… just be willing to ask. Ask for stuff, ask for wisdom, ask for help, ask for directions…. just learn to ask.
And if it is a no, you have a story, and if they say yes, you have an even better story.
Ask and it shall be given to you