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Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
Steve Jobs of Apple once said that the definition of a superbly designed product is you want to lick it!… So my question to you today is… Your Christian walk… do people want to lick it?
Gross… Ok, the point of Jobs quote is that if something is really desirable you want more of it, You want to fully experience it. I love guitars… yes i play them, but I also love the design of them. A great car can be called sexy… and I have heard people say things like “it was so exciting… I would eat it”.
Maybe you have something that you just love the design of it. I have a really cool knife… yes it is sharp,,, but the design of it is so radical. It is wood, gray steel, curved, with notches in it, and a cool dovetail, with a knurled back end… But Im not going to lick it… LOL, lose a tongue…. but it is so much more then a knife.
And I also love a great pair of cool looking boots… weird I know. But I have had some boots that have two layers of soles, with two layers of leather binding, with outside steel toes and killer stitching up the sides and back. A wicked thick still zipper on the sides and the eyelids are extra big and silver and the laces are super thick rugged nylon black and silver …. I could eat dessert out of it…
Don’t even get me started on motorcycles… My wife and I were looking at a custom bike and it was so flawless and beautiful I just calmly said “I would make love to you on that bike… weird right? Yea she thought so… but It just popped into my head and out of my mouth.
It begs me to ask myself what would make my Christian walk one that people look at and think… wow! That is amazing… or what would make people look at my life and say … I want that life…it seems so desirable.
Here’s a clue. It has very little with how much you know the bible, or how much you go to church… It has a lot to do with Fruit… Who doesn’t like fruit?
Back in the time of Christ fruit didn’t exactly come in huge bountiful quantities… the land was dry, most fruit was a dry date type. Really exotic fruits like bananas and berries and coconuts etc… were almost unavailable… So when God uses fruit as an example he is stating how desirable and how rare it is in todays world.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs.” –Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
When our lives are filled with the fruits of the spirit… we become so desirable… Ever see that popular person who just doesn’t get rattled by what people say or do… he just loves them anyway. They have an air about them that makes them desirable.
We live in a world where it is ok to practice recreational hate and sarcasm and rage…. We don’t have to necessary preach the gospel every where we go if we just simple practice the fruits… We will stand out just by being loving… yes of course we share Jesus, but even outside of that we practice the fruits.
What makes my Christianity desirable? Its filled with fruit… rare exotic delicious fruit.
May the goal this week be that someone looks at our life and says… wow that life is designed so well… I want to lick it.
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
Remember when you were a kid and you got tired or scared or went to bed… you wanted your blanky! I want my blanky… what if you saw someone in serious trouble as an adult and they wanted their blanky…. it actually might not be that bad of an idea.
Where do you feel the safest? At home? By yourself? With others? At the police station? With your neighbor who is a world ranked powerlifter? Your best friend who is a SWAT team leader?
Pick the person and place you feel most safe… now imagine in that moment you are still surrounded by thousands of enemies. Do you still really feel safe? Maybe… but I doubt you have complete peace and calmness at that point. The real question might be - is it possible to be fearless and calm in that situation, To actually feel safe.
Psalm 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell. 3Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust. 4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.…
5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.…
6Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
David is surrounded by his enemies and he says that his head will be lifted up above his enemies. He will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. He is giving one complete picture here, that of offering up prayer. The word “tabernacle” is “ahal” which is used to express a prayer shawl - a blanky. Under this prayer covering which is meant to create a privacy between a person and God in prayer, - People would pull this over their head when they would pray. David is able to lift his head above his enemies by pulling the prayer shawl over his head. In that secret place between him and God he can find freedom from the fear of his enemies.
You remember as a kid hiding under the covers… right? Well this time its you hiding under the covers with God. Just you and God hiding under the covers… no big deal.
There is no fear under the covers… that is -when you are in his presence. When you take time to just be with him. No phone, no computer, no distraction, no time limit, no agenda, no list of wants… just you and Jesus and your bible… maybe some worship music- but the intent is to just be with him and spend time with him. Reading, praying, worshiping him… just you and him and a blanket!
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
Matthew 14 and John 6: 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). 11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” 13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
Jesus asked the disciples “Where we gonna buy bread for all these people” - and it was a test. He wanted the disciples not only to recognize the need but to also realize that Jesus was putting it on them to meet the need. Jesus shows the need, he points it out, he brings it to our attention so that we might say… uh, I don’t have a clue. In a way it brings clarity to the fact that if God don’t show up, it aint happening!
I got needs in my life that if God don’t show up it aint happening… I can lament all I want or I can just level up and say - yep, I need God.
And what’s crazy is that Jesus asked the disciples and the text tells us that he already knew what he was going to do. Uhm, hello - that should be the mic drop right there. I go to God with my unbelievable problem that I can’t even comprehend the solution… knowing that he already knows the answer… get it. I don’t know the answer, and I can’t figure it out… he even pointed it out to me… maybe put an exclamation point on it and a bow for good measure… but he already knows the answer. I took my boys and daughter in law to the NF concert. It was open seating and it was about 5k people. At the time he said it was the biggest concert he had ever had… my kids were looking at me like wow, this line is forever… lets make the best of it, but alas I told them to follow me. I knew the concert promoter, we went around back, I texted her “I’m here” and she came out and led us up to box seats looking directly on the stage. Dad already had the answer.
now we know that this was hardly enough food for even one man at this point. Because it was the lunch for a small boy. I would think that the disciples were probably telling themselves, “well at least we have food for Jesus… I mean, he has been doing all the work”. But it wasn’t just for Jesus… in fact for a man it would have been a nice snack after walking and working and ministering all day… but not enough for the crowd of thousands. But Jesus did not see the need he saw the provision. Jesus did not see the problem he saw the promise.
Here is a great insight… Jesus starts out by talking about solving the problem with money. “hey where we going to buy enough food for these people”. Everyone was thinking the solution had to come from one resource - that being money. Jesus again shows us how limited that thinking is. Because he does not use money… he uses what we have. You say I don’t have money or this or that… thats cool, Jesus will use something else to test you and help you pass the test.
But here is the most interesting part of this story… he does not wait until after the miracle to say thank you. And in fact some translations use the word blessed - he blessed it, like it was a magic spell. But the word truly means saying thank you for the solution, thank you for what I have.… its just enough in the hands of God. And after thanking God for what he had….
Wait wait wait… he is thanking God for the problem, starving people, he is thanking God for not enough food, he is thanking God in the middle of the disciples doubt and questions..
he is thanking God before there is any talk of reaping all the leftover bread and fishes… he thanks God for the little he has in faith knowing in Gods hands it is enough to meet the need.
Now what you might really miss is this… there are 12 baskets left over. How many disciples are there?
Not only did Jesus bless the food, he then put it in the hands of the disciples to pass out… and in their hands they sowed the loaves and fishes into the needs of those in the crowd and they in turn reaped a full basket back.
I see a need, I thank God in advance for that test, I thank God for the provision he has given me (even though it may not seem like enough)… even though it may not actually be enough, I bless others with it… and I in turn reap more than I had ever expected in my own life.
3 things
Thank God for your problems
Thank God for knowing the answer in advance
And thank God for the little that you have and sow it!
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom. 5:5 says Gods spirit is love… soooo
if nothing can separate us from the love of God (i.e. the spirit of God) then why is it so hard to walk in the spirit?
Because we lose that awareness of his love, of his spirit.
Back in middle school / High school I loved to hunt. When my friend Mitch got his license we would go out hunting together… I loved the woods. And I got good at spotting animals… Driving with Derek Cortez and spotting a pheasant….
I was completely aware of it because I surrounded myself in it.
We must learn to be aware…
This past week eating out with I was walking to the restroom and a man just said nodded his head and said “hi” - what was it…. but immediately the HS said talk to him. I ended up having a prophetic word for him and got to pray with him and even got his phone number.
You can have the HS in you and just simply lose awareness that he wants to be a part of your whole day.
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
What is my topic for today… well it usually stems from a couple of places, something I have read or something I have meditated on… but this week something just hit me out of nowhere… yeah it was a 315 pound barbell…. and thats where we are going today!
yes, its true this past week I was doing military press and not paying attention. I thought I had racked the weight and let it go (I do my military on the smith press due to limited shoulder mobility) I thought I had racked it over my head… uhm lets just say a big loud NO! So 315lbs comes a crashing down on just my left leg, upper top part of my quad. It sucked! I got up a few minutes later and tried to walk it off… Well a few days later I had a few people look at it. I have torn my Sartorius, my rectus famoris… I more then rectus I killed us… and my MCL. So I am off of lifting legs or racquet ball for about a month to 3 months… seeing how well it heals up. But it got me thinking about farming… GARDENING???
I don’t mind gardening… farming.. not so much. But in the past my wife and I had a really nice garden. We grew all kinds of stuff…. but never a body. I don’t mean we buried bodies… I mean we never planted a body expecting to grow more bodies… but guess what that is exactly what will happen to those of us who are followers of Christ.
ARE YOU STILL LOST? Well when I hurt myself this time (and yes there have been many times) I thought to myself “if I wreck my car I can get a new one, If i break a guitar I can get a new one, If I lose a gun I can get a new one… but my body… man o man.”
But the truth is this- our body is a seed and we do get new ones.
1 Cor. 15:42
It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
We don’t know much about our new bodies, we can glean a few things from Christ when he came back with his new body… We are not sure what age we come back as… maybe 33 like Jesus, or maybe at the age we died… now you might say that would suck if you died at 85 and your new body is 85. but you are missing the point. What we do know is that from Christ reappearance he was Whole, healthy, without sickness. He could transport himself anywhere, He was able to walk through walls and make himself undetected to those around him. There will never be a sprain, tear, cancer, zit or bad breath… We are made new.
The other thing we know about sowing and reaping is that we always get more than what we have sewn… a hundred fold or more. So in my body I get more of all that is good… and probably beyond what I can ever imagine and or even comprehend. So today take time to thank God as you look in the mirror at the seed… Thank him for the harvest, the body that will be 100 times better and more!
Lets end on this…
But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.
He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
EASTER!!!
All of Christianity is different from all other religions…
THEY ARE ALL BASED ON X CLAIM TO DIE AND RISE AGAIN - BECAUSE HE WAS GOD’S SON.
If that doesn’t happen..
then its all a sham
BUT THATS NOT ALL
Jesus died and rose again so that he might send the comforter - the Holy Spirit
Fight in a Bar… Jesus enters and beats up the other guy, but then leaves and you are there with all of the other Bikers staring at you…
(He doesn’t leave us stranded….)
John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate (Masculine noun for person) to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him (relative pronoun), because it neither sees him(personal pronoun) nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Any new experience or atmosphere or job is always hard until you understand the language and the culture.
- I go to a different country… gotta know the customs
- A new job… new lingo
- Remember going through the culture curve in marriage men? She says fine…
Does this look good on me…
How does it taste…
And what does it mean when a man says he is stressed…
In Christianity unless you understand the environment and the language of the Holy Spirit it will be hard to fully involve yourself in that lifestyle.
So we must learn how to walk in the Spirit of God… Many Christians lack depth or power or meaning in their walk with God because they simply don’t understand the moving of the Holy Spirit… They are unaware of it…
Romans 8
Talks about the Holy Spirit living in us, breathing in us, moving in us and goes on to say that Gods spirit will never leave us… neither height nor depth nor powers or kingdoms, devils, angels, seas, mountains… nothing can separate us from God… so why can’t I sense him and move in him more.
Simple: we have become desensitized - we are no longer looking for his leading.
So a quick step to get back in the groove. Get up every day and ask God to speak to you and then do what he says to do… no matter what it is. And if you fail, you learned - and keep doing it. If you feel like God told you to tell someone something and they don’t understand, just tell them you are trying to hear Gods voice more and be obedient… if nothing else it will probably give you an opportunity to share Christ with them.
He’s here, He’s everywhere, He’s in you… tap into him.
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
When you see a lion tamer in the cage and he has a lion clawing and snarling as he raises a chair up in his face and cracks the whip… you gotta admire a guy dumb enough to try to defend himself from a lion with just a whip. But things are never the way you see them…
Its not the whip… its the chair. The whip just simply adds excitement to the performance. The crack and snap of the whip and the lion tamer looking distressed… oh my scary. But actually it is the chair that is the weapon (or at least thats the way the lion sees it) The lion sees 4 appendages coming at him… four legs and not knowing which one will strike, they get confused and just fall into somewhat of a trance like state.
I recently saw a movie that robbed the federal reserve of a bunch of Gold. But none of the gold was missing and in fact it seemed like they had failed close to the end of the movie… but in reality it was all a smoke screen… they did in fact steal the gold and no one figured it out until it was too late. The Robbers had explosions, and hostages, victims of abuse and all kinds of diversions… but that was just what they wanted you to focus on… diversions. Like a good magician they create an illusion steering your logical mind away from reality so that you create in your own imagination what you perceive to be reality… and before its to late… boom.
Lets look at reality and then check out the diversion.
Master what is the greatest command…
Luke 10:27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Hard cold reality. Jesus said the greatest command is to Love God with all your heart, mind and soul. Thats it… simple direct, not confusing, easy to know and work on… Basically read our bibles, pray, seek him and obey
Ahhh but we as Christians have been distracted by politics, policies, border patrol, LGBQT, BLM, Anti gun this and inflation… not to mention wars, oil consumption and coming asteroids.
Now the truth is as Christians we should still find it easy to focus on what really matters i.e. Love God with all we got - and why? Because he already told us all of these things will be coming down the pipe as time gets short here on earth. So I can just focus on the greatest commandment.
But how easily we get distracted from what matters most… Loving Jesus, spending time with him.
Don’t get me wrong, as a follower of Christ I have strong biblical opinions on lots of issues… but I do not let it distract me from what is most important.
Finally, you may not realize it, but distraction is a very powerful way to make us feel like we are involved in life and or keep our minds off of our weaknesses or excuses… don’t fall into either of these traps. In fact recognize if you are walking in either of these realms. If God gave us specifically the greatest command… and its written down, black and white easy to read… then lets do it with all our heart, mind and soul.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
"Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it."- Elaine St. James, Author and Simplicity Guru
How about this: Maintaining a critical spirit towards others is a great way to feel better about yourself.
Fault finding is a great way to make yourself look better than others.
Greed is a great way to look frugal.
Laziness is a simple way to look “relaxed”.
There is always a theory for those who have an excuse. What’s yours?
I love Proverbs 22:13 which reads “The sluggard says I better not go outside a lion might eat me”.
My bet is if you questioned the sluggard on his logic he would say he was just trying to be safe for the sake of his family… you don’t want to do something stupid.
- But remember - What we tolerate will soon dominate. Do not tolerate anything outside of the will of God. Now Im not saying being overweight is outside the will of God, but the point is… If Your pants get a little tight, but you tolerate it… and guess what, pretty soon you have to buy new pants… bigger waistline- because you tolerated the tightness- you didn’t change the right thing… I’ll say that again you didn’t change the right thing.
- James 5 healthy? sick? Good, bad? Turn to God and PRAY. Don’t make an excuse or let the gremlins it to build a case against taking the appropriate action.
- don’t let your mind build a mindset, personality and persona that makes you an excuse minded man or woman. Immediately go to prayer and to Gods word regarding your situation and deal with the issue. ...isn’t it time you transcended all your usual excuses through prayer.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 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
July 9th - Saturday - A Father Daughter/Son conference called PROTECTOR! Speakers on how to protect your son and daughter Emotionally, physically, sexually, socially and spiritually. Ages 10 and up if you feel your student is mature enough. Price $100 per family. At HillSpring Church New prague south of the Twin Cities
Just landed a speaker who will challenge you how to keep your kids safe from human trafficking… you say well my kid will never fall into that… oh not so fast. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about… so get ready to sign up!
They used to scoff at the scriptures that said the earth would burn up and even melt in the end times… but they are not laughing now… we have these things called nuclear bombs - enough to blow up the earth 17 times from what I have read.
The psalmist said that the stars all sing a different song to the Lord… and it was thought to be fairytale language. And low and behold every star emits a different musical pitch… They are not laughing now.
And now we have graduated to the worldly wisdom that says you can have a penis and still choose to be a woman. You can be a woman and choose to be a Them or an it. You can choose to be genderless. Oh why of course you can in todays wisdom.
1 Cor. 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”[c]
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
It just doesn’t make sense… I used to challenge kids to take a penny out of their pocket at taco bell and go to the bathroom and scrub it clean. While they were doing that I would take a penny and put it inside a full taco bell hot sauce packet. I would a few minutes later take out the penny and wipe it off with a napkin and it would look almost brand new. Many times Kids would accuse me of replacing the penny with a new one… Then I would challenge them to do it themselves and they would be shocked. Foolishness proved wisdom. In fact some of you today listening are going to do this because you doubt me…. please do and be shocked!
In todays world I don’t try to convince people that Gods ways are better… but I do challenge them to at least try. I mean think about it… you are struggling financially and you can barely make it and I tell you to give some of your money to the church… how much? 10%… thats stupid, foolish and makes no sense… until you try it for a few months.
You tell me that man raped you and abused you and you want to get back at him and I tell you to forgive him (oh most certainly press charges… but still forgive him) and then I tell you to even pray that God blesses him and changes his heart… you scoff- never going to happen… but I challenge you to do the foolish thing and you are amazed at what happens to you, not just him.
I don’t know if you remember back in 2011 the US was looking for some heavy terrorist operatives and were guilty of massive destruction of life and liberty. They were in fact war crime criminals in the highest degree… they US said they had crawled into caves in mountains and were almost impossible to find, let alone the danger to our soldiers not knowing the territory… and lo and behold it started to rain… and rain and rain and they had to come out of the mountains like rats from a sinking ship leading to the arrest and capture of some of the vile men in the world…
How you gonna do it God? I think I will make it rain… silly almost foolish… but effective.
If there are areas in your life that do not line up with scripture.. you are sleeping with your girlfriend, you don’t tithe, you don’t serve, you hold bitterness etc… it is actually just you being a very very wise man… in the worlds eyes… but a complete fool in Gods. So why not step over into the foolishness side of God and watch what real wisdom can do in a persons life.
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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10 things to know while being used by God
- 6 Just because your current Christian life is growing doesn’t mean you should do more.
I can imagine Jesus used the picture of fruit and gardening so much as examples of our christian walk because they both are so transferable. If you plant a garden in a 200 by 300 foot plot of soil, water it, fertilize it, weed it and it becomes lush and fruitful… why not plant even more in it - right? I think we can see how absurd that would be. The ground (that being a 200 by 300 foot plot) can only hold so much activity and nutrients to provide the ability for optimum growth. Your life is much the same… you are growing leaps and bounds as a follower of Christ… you go Sunday to church. You are involved in a Tuesday mens bible study and you serve 2 weekends at church helping feed the poor. You actively are sharing Christ with those around you and your personal discipleship time is spot on… and it shows in your life.
So do you do more? The easy answer is pray about it… but in this scenario I would most likely say No, you have found your sweet spot and if you do add more or less it should be under direct supervision of the Holy spirits leading.
- 7 Just because your current Christian life is NOT growing doesn’t mean you should do more.
Now you say wait what? Garth you just said if it is growing don’t add more… but if its not growing… uhm… you still don’t add more?
Well I would do two things… one is check what you are doing. Here is an example… you are going to a bible study, but you and I know very little bible is studied. You talk a lot, you read very little, guys love to just chatter and no one in the group has a deep intense relationship with God. So just eliminate it and find a new one. Don’t add another.
Secondly I would remind you that in regards to planting, there is a waiting period. Sometimes we are doing the right things but it is winter time in our spiritual life and it will take a while to see growth. Pray over and know the difference.
- 8 Perseverance is underrated -
Man oh man this could preach! Just never give up… regardless of the outcome of your life, circumstances, goals, visions, dreams… whatever they are and no matter how much the crash… keep persevering in your walk with God and your desire to be used by him. Here is conviction I have….
satans greatest strategy is patience… we should outlast him!
- 9 Loving people is hard
So you want to minister to people. So yes lets minister to the single mom who is 28 years old, has a child and is sooo appreciative of your time and talent and it makes you feel like a super hero. Or if you are a woman you want to help the young adolescent girl who needs self reassurance and love to see the beauty she has inside her.
Scratch that… those come along rarely. You will be asked to love the person who constantly disagrees with you, simply doesn’t like you and who opposes all your beliefs regarding Christianity… now go love them.
YOu will love people who in turn will gossip about you, turn on you, lie about you, LOVE THEM anyway… thats the truly hard and most rewarding part about ministry.
- 10 Let your kids grow up loved, with a great example…. but let them be normal.
Ok if you don’t have kids apply this to your bone head friends who say they are Christians.
Look if you are a deeply committed Christ follower then you can definitely feel the pressure of wanting your kids to tow the line and be as passionate about Jesus as you. They should not talk back, should not go to parties, should not be attracted to ungodly people, should not dress in that manner… etc.
Love your kids, give them a great example of someone who is crazy about Jesus. Talk to them about everything, and I mean everything and use those awkward conversations to build a trust and a friendship with them. You can disagree and they can still feel loved in the process. Let them be normal, put them first before ministry. It will pay off and beside they are your number one ministry !!!