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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Becoming a follower of Jesus brings us to one of the greatest paradoxes that the world will ever know
Matthew 16
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.
*Just before this portion of scripture to his disciples Jesus states this it was exactly what he was and is and is going to do. He must suffer many things and then be killed… truly this is losing ones life to live. He gave the example. (Wuest)
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(24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me)
Desire = its needed GK = TO SEIZE WITH PURPOSE
No feelings involved - you understand and you seize it
The worlds desires are quickly waning.
YOU
ARE
SEIZING THE
COMMITTMENT
What is your commitment to fishing?
********THIS YEAR I CAUGHT A 54 INCH MUSKIE
DESIRES…. INTERESTING…. FISHING….
I like to fish…
I want to be a professional fisherman…
One does not simply become a professional fisherman. It is the most dangerous job in the world.
You must know water conditions for fishing,
for the boat,
weather conditions,
be physically fit,
operate heavy machinery,
work with some of the most stubborn people in the world, navigate losing friends year round,
and losing body parts.
Where’s your desire?
I think most just want to fish
and not actually be fishermen/women.
What is your desire to follow Christ?
A one time decision and only when it is easy?
OR
A fisher of men - serving God no matter what!
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
MMM and no podcast the last week of the year!
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us and encourage us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have that person, you have all you need… but today I want to encourage you to be that person…see what I did there?
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Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
Amplified :and let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds,
This verse actually leans toward encouraging people we do not know. The word for consider is the word
Ka-ta-NO- eh-O
It means to see beyond what you know into what God is revealing to you.
When The Pharisees tried to trick Jesus on Luke 20:23 it said he perceived their trick… it was revealed to him. We get a spiritual insight into someones life that will encourage them and we may not even know them.
Yesterday at Chipotle with my grandson a man and his wife walk in, he is probably 65. And God shows me over his head the word “mentor” I ask God what that means and said this man has been given an opportunity to mentor young men and he is created for that in this next new chapter in his life. So he goes to walk out…
Now you might say “I want to do that or have that happen to me… I want God to speak to me so I can encourage someone” GREAT- but it starts first in the natural. You walk up to someone you know or don’t know and encourage them. Tell them they have a beautiful smile, that they seem like they are in tune with their kids, that the guy at the market is a hard worker… Tell the guy at the gym he has a great build… Find the good in people and thoughtfully encourage them.
You will quickly find that God will then start to reveal his voice to you in new ways regarding how to encourage someone.
When you feel like God has given you a specific word of encouragement for someone you need to know 3 things.
1`- They may not react the way you want them to. Thats ok, you are doing it for them and not for what you get out of it.
2 - You might be waaaay off on what you say to them. It might be nice and encouraging and even have some specific details… and you might say does that speak to you or does that mean anything to you… and they may say NOPE. Don’t let the disappointment of the moment keep you from staying open to what God wants to do in your life through encouraging others.
3- You might say something and be absolutely right in how you encourage them… and then if you are like me and so many others that i have talked to, you may push it… you might say “Hey I want to encourage you in your relationship with your wife, just keep loving her and let God take care of her past” - they may light up because it is exactly what they needed to hear and so you now have a confidence to speak more… DONT! Not unless you are completely certain it is from God.
The temptation is at that point you now try to really pump them up with your own minds point of view - like - “your marriage will be better than it ever has, you two will be in ministry together, you will have 4 kids who change the world…. NO NO NO NO just encourage them with what you know God put on your heart.
Obedience brings more power and more clarity.
Therefore encourage one another… IN THE LORD… not in you!
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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catholic woman… we can’t because it goes against tradition. DANGER DANGER DANGER…
A Winthrop Arkansa Man jumped out of a passenger window of a car moving at 60 mph, being severely injured. He jumped out to retrieve his cigarette that someone had thrown out the window… when asked what he was thinking he stated I live in a car and typically get in and out through the window… I guess I was just to use to it. Now you may call that stupid, but I call it stagnant.
Erwin M. Soukup has compiled what he terms “The Seven Steps to Stagnation”:
1. We’ve never done it that way before.
2. We’re not ready for that.
3. We are doing all right without trying that.
4. We tried it once before.
5. We don’t have money for that.
6. That’s not our job.
7. Something like that can’t work.
Soukup admits that “there’s probably an eighth step, but we’ve never looked
it up before.”
But what exactly is stagnation? I believe it is truly as simple as being out of balance. You are stuck in one place… and you might say “well that sounds like balance to me”. No really, not at all. Because you are saying that it is never moving, and never moving does not mean balance, it means you are stuck. If I have a scale and it never moves no matter what I put on it… thats not balance, that is error. I need to learn to see stagnation in my life as error - not balance.
Larry Osborne asks the question in his book Contrarians guide to knowing God. Is there anything so out of balance in my life that it is harming my health, relationships or walk with God? Again if you are feeling stagnant, you are out of balance. Lets get back to that scale again. There are two types of scales we use when we weigh ourselves. The one where we stand on it and the numbers just show up on the screen. And then there is the type we see at the doctors. It has weights and measures on it and everytiome someone stands on it they have to slide the two weights around playing with them until the arm is perfectly parallel and balanced. That is what our lives should look like each day when we get up. God you are the weights and your word moves them. What do I need to do to become balanced today, this week, this month and this year. What do I need to do to be balanced in life. Is there stagnation in my life… am I stepping on the scale and holding the arm in place on my own because its comfortable. Look it would be nice if we got on the scale and could control it… and actually we could… but as nice as it would be, it would also be dangerous. you don’t want to be your own balance keeper.
We talk a lot as Christians about Repentance but not a lot about Change. There is no repentance without change. Repentance is simply stating to God… Hey I don’t want to change, and I need your help to change. Im stuck, will you unstuck me. And if you are willing to trust and obey him, he will in fact unstuck you.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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There are some great quotes out there on goal setting… I have filed 100’s of such quotes. They stir me… but they also remind me that goals are not enough… what is missing is key- and thats where we are going today.
A new twist this year, rather than work on goal setting as my priority (and it still is, but hear me out) I am going to first write out my strategy and process on how to better take care of myself physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually) And by doing so It will increase my productivity my outcome and my chances when it comes to my goals.
Think of it this way, If I simply try to drive myself to achieve my goals but do not have the energy in my whole being to do so I am actually going to slow down over time due to not having the fuel to complete these.
It is definitely putting the cart in front of the horse.
Goal achievement will not produce the long term energy to create the life you want. However, if you learn how to create energy in your life you will have a much easier time reaching your goals.
You may or may not have heard my podcast on goals are overrated - and they are to some degree. In that podcast I talked about building a process and a strategy to create the life you want… but along with that you must have the energy to still pull off the process and the strategy.
Ok. so how do you create that energy?
Food?
Exercise?
Sleep?
Mental food?
Spiritual food?
Emotional food?
The key is creating space through out the week to find time for some nourishment in these areas.
Everyday we find time for food, but maybe the food choice needs to change.
Every day or at least 3 times a week we should find time for exercise… is it hard? Then find exercise that you enjoy… volleyball, racquet ball, swimming…
Sleep… Want to know why you hate mornings? Because you hate evenings… you say, No I love evenings I love to stay up late… thats not love, thats abuse. If you change your sleep habits to go to bed early, get up early you will notice a huge change in your energy.
What are you eating mentally? I read a book a week not just to be smart or learn more, but because I actually understand that my mental state needs food. I don’t always eat meals because they taste good, but rather I need food.
Emotional food is really key because it actually is the control center for the other energies. So who do you talk to weekly to build you up emotionally. What do you do to refresh your emotions, make you laugh, question and meditate. its all important for your health and your energy.
And finally what are you feeding your spiritual life. Scripture, sermons, podcasts and most importantly prayer time and obedience to his word and his voice.
look there are a bunch of big fat liars out there telling you if you know how to write a goal, if you know how to execute the goal if you have big enough goals…
But the truth is if you don’t have the energy to execute it won’t happen. Or let me put it this way… if you have all the energy in the world - you might spin your wheels quite a bit, but you will probably create a better life even without goals then if you have no energy and lots of goals.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson has said “life belongs to the energetic…. notice he did not say the young, but the energetic. Lets make it our first goal to be energetic… having fed all our states of being.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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The brand, logo or as some say the Mindshare.
When you think of McDonalds you think of the golden arches. Nike has the swoosh, Apple has the apple,
My two favorite logos that I love are the Jordan logo… He is mid air slamming the ball, but my all time favorite is the Van Halen black, white and red stripes. its on his original Frankenstein guitar, its on the The best of both worlds album, it is kind of represented on Diver Down but you can find it used on Shoes, hats, guitars, stickers - anything that has the black and white and red stripes is immediately Van Halen.
When you use the red, black and white in other forms and it reminds you of Van Halen you have what is called mindshares. It’s worth millions and why people have their logos trademarked. McDonalds may be worth 194.5 Billion market shares… and it is as of today. But it’s mindshares are worth TRILLIONS. Meaning you are known through out the world simply by a big yellow M. look, i can create a logo of a big purple z and it will mean nothing… no matter how cool the logo is, it has no mindshares.
So the point is, you have a logo, you have mindshares… what reminds people of you? What do you remind people of?
Ecl. 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.
What a great mindshare… just think about the guy who goes out running and comes back sore and stiff and in pain… and someone comes and rubs Painstop ointment on him and as it moisturizes and soothes and stops the pain and brings relief - he says “wow this reminds me of my Friend Ty Peterson”.
Or you are parched from digging holes and putting in fence posts all day in Texas… and a truck rolls up with a cooler full of ice cold drinks, Gatorade, Mt. Dew, Monsters, ice tea… and as you grab your favorite and suck it down you think “wow this reminds me of my buddy Scott Askew”.
I want my logo or my mindshare to be a person who loves to share Jesus, who is quick to pray for people… people they don’t even know. I want people to see a neon light at night and say “wow that reminds me of Garth”. When people see a person enter a dangerous situation, or when a snake handler picks up a cobra or a lion tamer walks into a cage… I want them to think of me going into the most hostile area to tell people about jesus. When people get a bonus, or find money or even get a free gas card… I want them to think… this is probably from Garth… that dude loves to give away money to those in need.
What do you want your logo or mindshare to be? Guess what… it doesn’t happen by chance. It’s gotta happen by choice. You get to choose. Listen to
Prov. 22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
You get to choose what your name means by your daily choices… you choose your name, your reputation by your daily choices… makes sense right?
As Yoda has spoken… Choose wisely young Padawan
Here is a warning… you can work years forming a mindshare, a reputation and you can ruin it in a matter of seconds.
My grandpa tells a story of his church years ago… before it was the thing to do, they put on a huge Christmas program with kids, adults, choir, animals the whole deal. They spent thousands of dollars… and again this was before such a thing was popular. The whole city of Kansas was talking about it. Opening night with a live orchestra… lights go black, a man dressed as an angel is being led down by a wire from the balcony… the place is packed, people are in awe, the music is lightly playing in the background… and half way down the cable lowering the guy down snaps and he picks up a wave of speed and slams into the back wall… well he is mic’ed up and he lets out a MF’er GD… in a second thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, 20K mailers… everything wasted… because the only thing people remembered was the first few seconds…
Ecc. 10:1 Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
So in Solomons day when they wanted perfume they didn’t just go buy their favorite smell of the day… you had to make it and it sometimes took months to do so. So after all that prep you have it made… and then comes along some dead flies… just a few and it ruined everything you worked so hard on.
Pick a great name to work on. Choose wisely and pray God protects you from YOU!
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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The Big announcement…
What is the biggest announcement you have ever made?
It was fun making the announcement to a a big party of friends and family that Kim and I got engaged…
Jesus the Messiah is coming and God announces it to Mary- probably a good idea, then to Joseph… another good idea… But the next announcement comes as a shocker….
-2 The Shepherds. The Lowly, the least of these. They were dirty, thought to be untrustworthy.
Jesus was the son of David… David was a shepherd. it would be like Jesus to say… you know what, I am going to reveal myself first to those that our in my history. The least of these. the shepherds… David will get a kick out of this.
*What would it have said to the world if Jesus had announced his birth to the KINGS, Pharaohs, the Elite, the Rich and Powerful?
Shepherds are one of the only jobs that you spend enough time doing your job (feeding the sheep, protecting the sheep, guiding the sheep, sleeping with the sheep) and you smell like your job. You smell like sheep.
Jesus came and served mankind to the point of smelling like mankind. He ended up taking on the sin of mankind.
The Shepherds… though they are smarter, more trained, have more class and dignity… over time the sheep start to see them as sheep. The shepherd has the power of life and death over the sheep… and yet familiarity is corruptive. And yet Jesus allows this while on earth.
HE BECOMES MAN… SEEN JUST LIKE ANY OTHER MAN BY MANY -
John 10:26-30 Jesus says he is the shepherd and his sheep know his voice.
The Shepherds kept the flock outside of Bethlehem for the different festivals and feasts where there we’re sacrifices needed… and specifically the day of atonement when the High Priest had to get a spotless sheep to sacrifice in the holy of holies. Now the angels are showing up saying.. “hey you are out of a job”. There will no longer be a need for sheep for slaughter!
Shepherds looked over the flock. Much like Jesus did. There is much symbolism and it is easy to see why God would choose shepherds.
Jesus said the sheep hear my voice and and know me… Jesus was seen as a shepherd. he was seen as the lowest of the low (can anything good come from Nazareth?)
The Shepherds traveled 90 miles by foot with sheep to find Jesus!
*WHEN GOD TRULY REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU, YOU WILL GO THE DISTANCE TO KNOW HIM!
And they set out looking for the savior in a manger, wrapped in swaddling cloths… These same wrappings were what they buried their dead in. A terribly beautiful reminder of Christ beginning and the end.
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Proverbs 17:22 which says, “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Ecclesiastes 3:4 says, “A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.”
Job 8:21 says, “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.”
Luke 6:21 says, “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.”
Laughter is the oil to life. It is the fastest way to lose the weight of the world off your shoulders.
Types of humor in scripture
- Irony - you strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
- Hyperbole - You point out my problem while you have a 2x4 in your own eye
- Sarcasm - Elijah 1 Kings 18 Maybe your gods can’t hear you because they are using the toilet and their bowls movement noises are drowning out your voices
- Absurdity humor - Balaam’s donkey speaks to Balaam
- Pranks
A nation that opposed Israel captured the Ark of the Covenant, an artifact that symbolized God’s presence, and placed it in a temple devoted to a pagan god. The pagan idol fell facedown before the Ark—twice—with the idol’s head and hands broken off.
- Amusing laughter to scorn - Psalm 37:13 God laughs at the evil and wicked man
I love a good joke… but honestly I don’t have to look far to have a good laugh. While others are wringing their hands and fretting over the world falling a part. The politicians who are feeding their own greed, to those who celebrate abortion through their own religious entities in the name of the Lord, to the rich who are getting richer, the powerful who want to tell us what to do, to the IRS who taxes beyond its moral right and to the president and others who lie openly and abuse their power in the name of “what’s right”. I laugh, I openly mock and snarl in scorn… it will not last. My God is laughing with me. He sees all, knows all and the absurdity is you will think you are winning all the way to your last breath… but when you die- I will be laughing so hard my lungs will be burning. I will laugh my head off… How hilarious to think that sin goes unpunished. That you can so boldly promote transgenderism, LGBQT, BLM, ABC and save the planet, save the apes, save the global economy… I can laugh at the coming anti Christ and the tribulation and more… why? Because Im a sadist and unmerciful? No… I can laugh because God laughs at the evil, its funny… wicked people think they are above God. Everyone has been duly warned… President Biden has been warned… he calls himself a catholic only because it is a lie that will garner votes… but that is his own confession that he knows better… so yes I will laugh at his demise… you had your chance… now your just one big joke.
In just a matter of time those who are pouring their life blood and efforts into all they want and need out of this world will be shocked to find out… it’s all coming to an end. Only those who know Jesus will live forever in a new heaven and new earth.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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It’s one thing getting lost… (just on your own)
Its another thing getting lost with bad directions
And it is a whole other thing getting lost with bad directions and you are late to something important.
I was late once for a wedding… let me explain. I was the one performing the wedding. It was in another state. I had planned on leaving that morning and driving to Iowa and getting there with plenty of time… but that morning I was sent a text that caught my attention. It was obvious that I had been given the wrong information about the time of the wedding. I was standing there in the kitchen in my underwear, no shower yet, and my suit and shoes and tie were hangin up in my closet. I looked at my phone, I realized I had 2 hours to get there and the wedding started in 1 hour and 10 minutes. You can ask my wife… I ran up stairs in my underwear, grabbed my clothes, shoes and socks and jumped in my car and took off in JUST my underwear and sped away breaking every speed limit on the way. In fact I prayed to God and said “im going to go as fast as possible which will be unsafe and possibly cost me a ticket… all the while- getting dressed in a 3 piece suit- So please Jesus have mercy!”
Have you ever had an argument with a parent, friend or even spouse about the fastest way to get somewhere? You are sure that your way is fastest… and typically there is a way that is fastest, but its not worth the fight. However most likely both ways are about the same time.
So what’s the fastest way to get a healing? What is the fastest way to connect with God and feel intimate? What is the fastest way to get Gods blessing? What in fact is the fastest way to get an answer to prayer?
We want speed, we want results, we want it now.
Do you realize the best part of faith in Christ is that there is no best fastest way…
I love the fact that each disciple had a different personality, different gifting, different emotional mental needs - and Jesus met them all in their own unique way. He loved John, He reprimanded Peter, He called out James, He wooed Thomas, He gave Judas enough rope that he ended up hanging himself. He made the prostitute feel beautiful and loved, he made the adulterer feel forgiven, He made the blind man question what he wanted, He told the lepers go prove yourself, He told others not to tell anyone what he did for them and of course they still did…
But each and everyone of those he came in contact with he loved them in their own style… He loved them in the way that was best for them.
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
A yoke is placed on an ox and hooked up to a plow or sickle and it is also a term used by pharisees regarding what they require if you are going to be their disciple… The picture of a yoke is work. But Jesus comes to say my yoke for you to learn is easy, light, you will even find rest.
If you are looking for God today… realize I can’t give you the best directions for you- I can only give you the best directions for me. You need to rest in God and the yoke he has for you. So do as his word says and ask God “Father give me your yoke, teach me, may I find your rest”.
You know, the best thing about a yoke is that it is made for two. And who do you think is yoked up next to you? You guessed it… this is why he can say “my yoke is easy, my burden is light”… because he shares it with us.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Hey I have been telling you about a new channel that myself and Cheri Milton Marriage and Family therapist are starting specifically now for relationships. We started loading content this week on all channels… called Mingle, Mate and Marry. So Today I am going to give you a little taste.
5 things Men must know about women:
1. Women want to feel loved unconditionally
Many women feel insecure - not about how they look as much as about our love for them.
Reassure her.
Pursue her.
Woo her
2. Women want to know… you are trying to understand. Trying to connect, trying to make the relationship a priority.
3. Women want to feel protected - we call it secure, but it actually is protection… do they feel protected enough to share their feelings, emotions, do they feel protected enough to tell you what they feel you need to work on.
Do they feel protected by how you spend money, budget, deal with your kids…
4. Women want to feel felt not fixed.
Don’t fix them, feel them… try to feel how they feel. Can you listen, replay and then tell them a time you felt the same way.
5. Women want to feel beautiful.
Not to everybody… but definitely from you.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
!Garth5150!
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There are quite a few boys in the gym and by boys I mean ages 17-25 who come up to me and ask me for advice on lifting. One young man in particular is trying hard to stand out, find his place… he suffers tragically with self esteem and awkwardness, but doesn’t see it. When he does come to the gym, he kind of works out, he brings a young girl with even less self esteem as him along. He points out how to lift, when to lift, why he isn’t so strong that day… etc.. But he will forever come up to me and ask me questions about lifting… he will share with me what new routine he is doing… always from some person on instagram. He will ask me why his deadlift isn’t going up, or how to help his lock out on bench. And I will graciously tell him what to do… But I know he won’t do it. So I finally got to a place where I said “look skippy, you don’t do what I tell you to do, so just keep lifting and you will figure it out, but Im out of advice”. He just passed it off and said yea ok cool.
Don’t you hate when people ask you advice and they don’t do it?
You know we often ask God for advice… but here is the problem - he doesn’t give advice. He gives truth… pure solid, unapologetic truth. We don’t get to choose wether it its the truth or not, wether it is good advice or not… we only get to choose if we will do it or not. If we don’t do it, we have simply chosen to live a lie.
he is not a counselor
a consultant
An advice column writer
He is not a hunch or a magic spell book looking for the verse that best fits our problem and our answer…
HE IS GOD.
Lets state the not so obvious… you don’t need faith to obey God. WHAT? Oh we need faith o please God, we need faith in his word and faith in who he says he is, and we need faith to move mountains… but to simply obey him???? no faith required. WE see the ten commandments needed no faith to obey, When Christ gave the 2 commandments… love the Lord your god with all your mind body strength, soul spirit… and love your neighbor as yourself… Don’t need faith to understand them or obey them. We just need to do them.
I think sometimes I must be that 17 year old kid that walks up to God in the gym and says “hey I uh don’t seem to have as much intimacy as i want… whadddya think I should do?” And he rolls his eyes and says “have you thought about rather than listening to music all day long you listen to the bible, and spend a little more time listening to my still small voice. And maybe try to serve your wife more and not complain so much… And I say… oh yea, well right now I am trying harder and just hoping my wife gets a better attitude… blah blah blah… And god just shakes his head and says… whatever…
I come up to him again and try to ask him some more advice and he says “look you don’t need another faith routine, you don’t need another book or seminar routine, you don’t need another spiritual revelation, illumination or rationalization… you just need obedience.
oh… yea, but that’s not fun and its all on me…
Yep, its all on you.
Read pray and obey, every day… do that and you won’t need much advice from God, you will be to busy obeying him.