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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
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Rock paper scissors
Urim and Thummim
Isn’t this divination? Well lets look at it this way… You could go to a witch, a sorcerer or a Ouji Board, or horoscope… what ever, but instead you are asking God to use the Urim and Thummim and you trust God has given you this to have his will performed in this matter.
what do you do when you don’t know what to do? When honestly pray and don’t hear his voice? You ask strong Christian friends and they don’t seem to know, the bible is silent and your spouse doesn’t even know…?
Well you can practice your own urim and Thummum by simply trusting God to work out his will in the circumstances.
We can trust God to know that even when we don’t know what to do, he wants to direct us and be a part of even the smallest areas of our life. He wants to be a part of our life in every area, even the areas where we don’t see immediate direction we know he cares enough to work out his will if we are willing to let him and obey it.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Podcast
A 5th grade Sunday School class blew my mind and forever - and I mean forever changed how I saw things and how I allowed myself to see things… all this in 5th grade? YEP!
Edna Roberts… God bless her.
Pictures… tire, nail
Fire home
Car brick wall
Cat fire department
Hospital family
Key insights… we all thought negative
But story we came up with got worse
We were tunnel vision… even after we understood the power of the mind, we still had a hard time trying to come up with good circumstances with the pictures.
*even as a 5th grade kid, I could see immediately how I could do this in my own life.
1 These. 5:18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
Mindset is everything… it programs the body and soul and spirit…
BE GK = its a command and its a choice! and its in the aorist tense - continually.
Rom. 12:2 Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind
Again BE YE GK 2 words Meta Morpho in the aorist tense. Continually!
Renew: GK Rennovation… work, plan, see it, work at it.
You envision what you see, you work at it, you work around obstacles, you always keep the positive vision in your mind.
Its as simple as a faith mindset
Here are 5 faith mindsets to check
- what is bad you see as good.
- what you don’t understand you trust God for the good
- what at first your minds tells a horrible story regarding you stop it and tell an amazing story.
- you understand that faith with works makes the magic
- and ultimately you see every little or big setback as seasoning to your testimony from good to phenomenal.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Mingle Mate Marry
Revivals are over rated…
I asked my church yesterday who would love a revival , who would love to see another 3-500 people come to church next Sunday…
I then began to point out to them and say ok, we need you four to help park cars, we need you 12 to help in childrens church and we need you 6 to help in the nursery, we will need another 8 to help disciple, and at least 20 more in our worship team, we will need 8 more in the kitchen to help with coffee, donuts, clean up…we will need 10 more to come during the week and help clean… Hey Church is hard, what does Christ have to say…
Matt. 16:18 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
We need to understand THREE fatal flawS in our Christian world… and that is
#1 yes our Nation was founded as a christian nation, but it does not nor will it ever take the place of the church. Our country can become socialistic, world dominated and even completely under the regime of another country… but changing the world is not dependent on the USA and its freedoms
WORLD CHANGE IS BASED ON THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE CHURCH.
#2 understanding that a Christ centered church has a much greater impact on the world for the kingdom of God than a super Christian.
#3 YOU ARE THE CHURCH….
What do I mean? It is your job as the church to reach, lead, serve, give, produce, heal, sacrifice, defend, cast out…
It is not the Pastor’s, evangelists, teachers, preachers, missionary’s…
V. Upon this Rock I will build my church…
build: Founded upon, encourage, edify, literally build.
Let me spell it out for you… Labor, hard work, hands on, boots on the ground. sweat toil and tears… no need for Blood, jesus already shed his… but you know what I mean.
Jesus did not say upon this rock (the knowledge of knowing I am the Messiah - this is what a revival is based on, that Jesus is who he said he was) he did not say that upon that understanding a revival would build his church, it would manifest out of thin air and some prayer, NO it takes hard work. It takes labor… remember when Christ said the harvest is white, it is ripe… but pray for laborers.
706 survivors – 473 empty seats
Maybe you know the story of the Titanic. But did you know that when the ship had sunk there were hundreds of people in the icy waters and there were plenty of seats still left in the life boats. But they never went back to rescue those that were drowning freezing to death. They were safe, no need to work.
The hole in the titanic was 6 square feet total. About the size of me, or close to most of you… if I am not laboring for the church i am just a hole and lives will be lost!
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
1-11-04
Scream the truth and live it even louder!
I don’t take showers! Yeah we know!
A friend mine growing up was one of the strongest men in the world. When I first met him he told us all sorts of stories about lifting weights. One day we were in a sports store and they had an Olympic barbell set on the floor as a display. My friend Donny looked at mike and said “I’ll give you 10 bucks if you curl this” he bends down and curls it 6 times.. and quietly walks away and says you owe me sixty bucks!
Your actions speak so loud that it doesn’t matter what you call yourself your actions will name you!
Kids growing up that had certain actions that gave them nick names
*egg – his head looked like an egg
*booger
*Linda redders bind us together
*if you go to school and people call you a druggy, jock, brain – they are because of their actions
Jesus said “I am the way the truth and the life” The power behind this statement is simple if you know the secret!
What is the secret about the truth? The power only comes when you live it… it has no power by just saying you believe in it!
"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words
will be of no help." John F. Kennedy
Thomas Edison is known for inventing the light bulb… he did not discover it (duh- meaning he found it under a rock somewhere) he tried one thousand things (now if that is me I don’t even know if I could come up with a thousand things… cheetahs?) to use as an element that would heat up and give off light… maybe you have heard that! But did you know in the process of discovering light from a light bulb he destroyed his laboratory over one hundred times! And never gave up until he discovered light! THOSE ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
Why do you suppose out of all the writings in the bible, of all the apostles nowhere do you read of their goals, ideas, intentions or desires. Yet they dedicated a whole book on the “acts” of the Apostles. There actions truly spoke louder than words.
The life of Christ was not a story about what he said.. as much as it is a story about what he did!
Our generation today has been more vocal about their faith than any other generation, but have had less “action” than any other generation.
“Incredible as it may seem, ‘accepting Christ’ and making a profession of faith makes
little to no difference in a person’s attitudes and behaviors. The majority of our churched people are adopting ‘a Christianity’ but it is not true Christianity.”
In the last 12 months
Cheated 76% - 74%
Lied to teacher 85% - 83%
Lied to parent 93% - 93%
Physically hurt someone when angered 67% - 63%
Who was satisfied with their character and ethics 90% - 91%
I call them the two percent’ers! The Christian kids are only 2% different in their response then that of the non Christian kids.
Practical ways to scream the truth!
1. An accountability trio - one adult and one more person your age.
1 Thes. 5: 11So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.
Pradeepan preaching at the theatre.
Encourage one another… do you encourager? Do you have someone who will encourage you?
Rusty … crippled walking to school with his hand held crutches on his first day to school and it was a snowy day.
2. Realize your potential. Phil.4:12 I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. 13 For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need.
One of People magazines biggest sellers this past year was an issue on the richest kids in America.
Olson twins - 76 million
Athina Onassis - 800 million
Eric and Ivanka trump - 1.9 Billion
Amanda and Lydia Hearst - 5.2 Billion
Were enamored at their potential to have fun, do whatever they want, go anywhere etc…
We focus on what we think we need - the truth is all we need is God and his strength.
What do you really need? Food water shelter and God!
You will never live a life that screams Jesus unless you know your potential.
What we can do as Christians is utterly amazing… what we typically do is utterly dismal!
A man was once asked late in his life if he could live it over who would he want to be. He said slowly… I would want to be the man I could have been!
Your Christian walk is not like Pizza Hut… it does not deliver. You must go out and get it!
3. Feed the fire: fires are out of control… they only try to contain it. If you simply try to contain it - you will burn out. You must feed it!
Someone once said if you are on fire for God 3 things will happen
1. Someone will watch you burn
2. Someone will try to put you out
3. Some will help you burn
The more you try to spread the fire the more you will be on fire. There is one way to really be on fire… spread it! You cannot witness to others and not stay lit for Jesus!
Your friends will not be one over by your words…but by your actions
Let me read a portion of a teen devotional I just read this week!
Teen Witch: Most witches practice what we call daily devotions, where we take at least 5 to 10 minutes twice a day to reaffirm our faith and talk to spirit. Sometimes we do our daily devotions at our altar (you don’t need to cast a magic circle for this) or we may walk outside and do our devotions, as long as you do them.
Your devotions can begin with a prayer you have written yourself or you can just relax and talk to God your own way. Some witches sing, hum or chant.
Good (students) witches practice discipline.
Good (students) witches don’t use drugs or alcohol.
These are the steps to becoming a great witch!
Are you taking steps to be a great Christian?
Get out your pictures!
In about 2 months these pictures are going to start showing up at youth group… ahh yes graduation pictures! Anyone have a purse or wallet that has pictures in it from friends. How many people have pictures that have writing on them!
What do they write about?
Has anyone’s life screamed the truth so loud that your friends wrote about it?
As you read those… has anyone written on the back how much they see Jesus in your life.
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
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Vulnerability
Mary at Jesus feet
The woman who came and poured perfume over Christs feet
The man who looked into Jesus eyes and said “I believe, help my unbelief”
The woman who snuck up and touched his robe
The Nicodemus the pharisee who came and sought out Jesus late at night?
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
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This is a swift kick between the Pharisees theological crotch! And it stung… and they could not do a thing about it. Lets read!
LUKE
20 One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. 2 “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?”
3 He replied, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me: 4 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin?”
5 They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ 6 But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
7 So they answered, “We don’t know where it was from.”
8 Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
First off…2 “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?”
What do they mean? Are they simply speaking of signs wonders and miracles? yes… but that is only a small, very small portion of what they are getting at. Jesus just rode in on a colt with people chanting Behold the Messiah, the king of the Jews… They wanted to know who gave them authority to chase out the money changers at the temple…
So what is really going on here. Well the P’bags… oh, I mean pharisees are jealous.. they ARE the religious authority of the day… you don’t do anything religious with out their approval. They are the law. So this Jesus dude is taking their lime light. And on top of that Jesus just kicked in the doors to their money laundering scheme in the temple costing them thousands of dollars…
So when they come and ask Jesus this question it is totally based on their own self interest and greed. They want to trap Jesus and put the money changers back in the temple…
Let me dumb it down for you: The pharisees were more in love with themselves than the truth.
Then just a few verses later the P’bags wanted to arrest Jesus because he made them the butt of one of his stories… but they wouldn’t touch him because they were afraid of the people.
So here they are in love with themselves and in love with what other people thought of them.
Hey, maybe thats you?
You are in love with yourself, you can’t admit the truth, you want the admiration of others even when it is for the wrong cause.
Where am I going with this… well Jesus just exemplified an aspect of what we will face and how we will face it. In the very next chapter we read
Luke 21: 10 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
12 “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. 13 And so you will bear testimony to me. 14 But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
What do we learn? When you are worried more about Gods opinion than how you look or by mans opinion of you - God will make you stand out like a Rock star for him.
Don’t let the haters get you down - Don’t panic, Don’t fret… Jesus will fill your mouth with words that will slay the greatest and most evil critics!
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe they are smarter and more capable than they are. Essentially, low-ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their capabilities.
that fools are blind to their own foolishness. As Charles Darwin wrote in his book The Descent of Man, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
You are so dumb you don’t know how dumb you are.
People who scored in the lowest percentiles on grammar, humor, and logic tests also tended to dramatically overestimate how well they had performed (their actual test scores placed them in the 12th percentile, but they estimated that their performance placed them in the 62nd percentile).
Ps. 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Search GK - penetrate me intimately in the deepest parts of my being where I don’t even know me.
v. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Offensive GK - two words combined for this word.
One is idol and the other is pain.
God search and rescue comes from our request to him. he is a gentleman and we typically need to push into him and ask him, give him permission to go deep into our lives and and reveal the things we don’t see in ourselves.
And most importantly ask God to lead us out of this behavior.
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
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Mark 8
14 His followers had only one loaf of bread with them in the boat; they had forgotten to bring more. 15 Jesus warned them, “Be careful! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.” 16 They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”
17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? 19 When I broke the five (Grace) loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
“Twelve,” they replied. (12= faith)
20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
They answered, “Seven.” (completeness)
21 He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”
Reese getting on the plane, the guy with the snake tattoo!
INTRO
Yeast = speaks positively and negatively in the scriptures… but the nature of yeast is that it spreads!
Pharisees = The religious, religion over relationship,
Hated sin,
Hated sinners,
Hated art music etc…
HATED THE WORLD
they thought everything was worldly keeping them separate from everyone.
Herod = The world, and politics, mindsets over relationship.
Herod was known for money, power and prestige. Liberal who was out to do whatever was best for him at the expense of everyone else.
Scene 1
18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
“Twelve,” they replied.
20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
They answered, “Seven.”
21 He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”
JESUS IS SAYING… HAVE YOU NOT SEEN ENOUGH EARTHLY MIRACLES - THERE IS A PROBLEM IF YOU SEE THE POWER AND DON’T BELIVE !
- voting democrat will not change anyones life
- voting republican will not change anyones life
- pushing your religious view points will not change anyones life.
- Pushing your world order mindset won’t change anyones life.
1 Cor. 4:20 The gospel is not mere words, but of power.
V.21 What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
Words = your opinion your ideas, your interpretation of what scripture says….
BUT POWER… WHAT KIND OF POWER? LOVE!
Wuest says it like this: What are you desiring? With a stick shall I come to you or in a love that has as its impelling motive the benefit of the one loved, the exercise of which love demands self sacrifice, and in the spirit of meekness?
VOLTAIRE
Even if a miracle should be wrought in the open market place before a thousand sober witnesses I would rather mistrust my senses than to admit a miracle.
*this is what the Pharisees did… they covered up Jesus resurrection.
POWER WASN’T ENOUGH.
Power won’t always reveal who God is to the blind!
Scene 2
22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?” (JESUS KNEW HE COULDN’T SEE!)
24 He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”
25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the village.”
22-26 Jesus heals a blind man… he prayed for him twice.
We often preach this as to say “sometimes you have to pray 2 times for someone to be healed”. I disagree (yes you do sometimes have to pray more than once- but that is not what this is getting at)
Why would Jesus have to pray twice?????
He is stressing the point - sometimes we do not see things clearly and we must ask him to clarify!
IN THE GREEK = HE CONTINUALLY ASKS - DO YOU SEE CLEARLY?
Scene 3
27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”
30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
JESUS ASKS = WHO DO PEOPLE SEE ME AS?
THEN V. 27-30 Jesus asks the disciples “who am I”?
Peter answers you are the messiah!
Jesus exclaims… YES!
Matthew 16: 17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
THERE ARE A LOT OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WHO STILL DO NOT SEE GOD FOR WHO HE IS.
THERE ARE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WHO STILL DO NOT SEE GOD FOR WHO HE IS.
AND ALL OF US TO SOME DEGREE DO NOT SEE GOD FULLY FOR WHO HE IS… JESUS CONTINUE TO HEAL MY SPIRITUAL VISION!
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
PART 3
Getting rid of hinderances….
A quick google search of hinderance in a mans life you run into things like…. a life on auto pilot, scared to show vulnerability, constant rejection, unreachable dreams, facing the same challenges over and over…
Interesting but here are the the main hinderance #3 that keeps you from being a foundational and fit man of God. in order…
Going to Church
Spending time with Godly men
Third H - Spending time with Christ
I think we know this… but I think we have dumbed it down and need to reestablish what spending time with God is really about.
The point is not just to say you read and pray… it is, but you must realize it is to start to live in the realm of faith. That is, to start to live in the invisible… Living beyond your senses
Living beyond what others think is reasonable, possible beyond what others see.
Live the gospels but in todays world.
When you read your bible ask yourself three questions.
What is going on?
How do I simplify this into an applicable step?
Where in my life and how soon will I live out this application.
When you pray ask these three questions.
What is the nuance that I feel in the spirit?
What is an area I need more obedience in?
What do you want me to do today?
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Second H - Being with Godly men
I have a lot of people vying for my attention… I am outspoken, I am a pastor, I have a pretty strong social media following, I am a totally committed follower of Christ… and lots and lots of people want to hang with me, connect with me… so why am I saying this… because typically those people are reaching up - hold on before you think this is arrogant… I too have people that I am reaching up to that are even more outspoken, a better pastor preacher evangelist and businessman, an even bigger social media following than mine and an even stronger Christian than me with more fruit and more power.
We are all hopefully reaching up… and if not you are definitely being pulled down if for other reason than you are idling - and if life that means you are going backwards.
So how do you hang with Godly men… how do you find them and why would they want to hang with you?
Well first off- if they don’t want to hang with you there are a few reasons. a - they are very busy and they do not have time… and in a way they are protecting you from wasting your time. If they cannot commit total focus to helping you grow, then be happy about that. b - it also may mean they are currently maxed out on discipling people. I am at a point where right now I am maxed out at about 15 people…. I do not have time to meet one on one with any one else.
BUT… why would someone say yes and want to hang out with you? Well a true mentor sees how much it helps them and they realize how much someone else helped them… and they themselves are still getting mentored.
I am still getting mentored and I still make time to hang out with other Godly men… I need it. You need it. Don’t think you don’t.
I am going to say something that you have to hear and take -the right way… Godly men will take you farther in your Faith journey than reading and praying. Now that is fundamental- reading and praying is necesarry it is vital… but it is limited in its application without other men pushing you, exemplifying it in front of you and keeping you accountable to do it.
When you are thinking of catching a movie, going out to dinner, calling someone with a question, when you take your lunch break… are you seeking out men that you reach up to?
WHAT DOES ECCLESIASTES SAY
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart (Ecclesiastes 4.9-12).
Here is the nuts and bolts of what I am saying.
You find out you are sick, it looks bad… do you have a FRIEND (not just an acquaintance) but a friend who you can call who has a proven track record of healing.
You find out your marriage is in trouble, do you have a friend who has a proven Godly marriage you can talk to?
You need solid financial advice on an investment, on retirement do you have a Godly friend who God has blessed his finances?
You have a hard question that is making you doubt your faith… do you have a solid theological faith filled man of God to turn to?
Reach up to Godly men…and in turn others will reach up to you. it is a must in todays world.
Like they say “who you hang with is who you will hang with” Are your friends worth dying for?