• The Problem With How We Feel
    Sep 21 2024

    Lust is defined as a passionate desire for something.

    Lust of the sole eventually becomes lust of the heart. Provisioning the heart for a deeper evil, or a greater righteousness. And even empowering it to dictate over the soul.

    I John 2:16

    For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

    We have a natural yearning, and even a lust to understand the things of God. But because we have not conquered our feelings we are easily guided into the direction of everything that looks like God, because it makes us feel good.

    The purpose of religion is to point you away from the truth while at the same time making you believe that you found it. and once we’ve fallen into the trap, we embrace the lie with everything that we have, because the truth is now too uncomfortable to fathom. Now we will only accept something that makes us feel as good as the lie does.

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    44 mins
  • Condemned By Thine Own Heart
    Sep 15 2024

    From the moment that we exit the womb we’re on a journey…a journey to discover who we were configured to be. Or who we will choose to become. A journey that is first motivated by the aspirations of the sole; having only two perspectives. Happy and sad; content and discontent.

    In the beginning these are all we know. The self serving ways of our emotions. What we like and what we dislike. And the elevation of darkness or light are rapidly put into the motion of motivating the heart as to which path it will embrace.

    And once elevated, the heart will dictate over every aspiration of the sole, because that’s where it gained its empowerment.

    The heart of stone spoken of in Ezekiel 36:26 is now born

    Always embracing the endeavors of self, it is able to disavow and disregard any and all levels of truth that contradicts its own insight. This is the natural path of man.

    This is why Psalms 51:5 told us 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. But the indwelling of His Holy Spirit empowers us to rise above the works of the flesh. Provided that we choose the pathway out of the endeavors of the self serving heart.

    Jeremiah 17:9-10 says

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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    19 mins
  • Relationship Dynamics 3 (Blessed By Division)
    Dec 17 2023

    BLESSED BY DIVISION

    IN ALL HONESTY, the unity in the spirit of God that we profess within the fellowships just isn’t there. But notice that I said the unity of the spirit. We do in fact have a unity, but too often it is a unity in things contrary to the will of God. Mathew 10:34-36 says

    34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

    35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

    36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household

    The reality of a walk with God often requires that we accept the need to disavow any allegiance with people who are of a contrary spirit in the presence of God. Even though this is a clear message, it can be much harder to do than we think, but if we allow ourselves to be attentive to the verse of Psalms 1:1-3 we will surely obtain the ability to overcome the bondages of a heart of wayward endeavors

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    57 mins
  • Relationship Dynamics (To What Do You Relate)
    Dec 13 2023

    The scriptures say what dealing does light have with darkness. We have a standard perspective to our spiritual and moral values. But yet we will deal with people who clearly have spiritual and moral values that do not add up to who we are. So the question is, how do you relate to them, Do you truly relate to them to where you connect to their values? Or are their values feeding off of whats with you. Except that we stop and make an assessment of our relationship values, we will never know.

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    36 mins
  • Relationship Dymanics Part 1
    Dec 8 2023

    Some of the most basic things in life can be more complicated than we understand. Failed relationships can seem to be the root element behind everything from divorce, to the war conflicts that we now see in Ukraine and Israel. Yet, the failed relationship is not the reasoning; but the absence of the dynamics by which relationships become effectual. Take a walk with me as we seek to understand exactly what is missing in the endeavor or relationship. Understanding what is missing, could change the entire structure of our Social, workplace, family, and even spiritual relationships. I truly hope that this first segment of Relationship Dynamics encourages you to be on the lookout for next week's edition.

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    36 mins
  • Learning The Heart Of God
    Dec 2 2023

    It's only normal that we would believe that the word of God is sufficient for us when it comes to understanding his heart. But the nation of Israel had the word of God directly from the mouth of God, and still, they could not seem to understand the things of the heart of God. It was for this reason that God sent his son. Many people's perception of the coming of Christ ends with the concept of him dying so that we might have victory over the law of sin and death. But there's so much more to his coming. The greater purpose was that he rose so that the heart of man might be empowered with the ability to see, hear, feel, seek, and obey the things of the heart of God even as Christ did. This is a message that could be somewhat irritating for some. But the reality of it is if you face the truth of where you are you have a better power of arriving where you need to go.

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    26 mins
  • Be Ye Not Conformed
    Oct 11 2023
    Many earnestly believe that they are steadfast in the things of God, unfortunately, they are earnestly wrong. We always talk about how pleasing God is to us, but we never really consider what we must do to be pleasing to him. This life isn't all about us, but about the many that we can effect through a life of focused commitment. What have you been missing that could be vital to others that are watching?
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    7 mins
  • The Moral Divide
    Apr 2 2023
    Morals are defined as being of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior or simply put, ethical standards.There was a time when we did have principal standards of right and wrong. But in today's world, the truth has come to be whatever we perceive in our own minds. We have come to a place in time where we no longer even consider the explanation of clarity that’s right in front of our faces. Because the only thing that matters this our own opinion.We have come to a place where the moral compass of seemingly good people is easily swayed in the presence of their mental concepts. And the already misled compass of evil men has empowered them to commit even darker works than before. As of today, our nation has had 130 mass shootings this year alone. And with each one, we continue to ask the same question, what is going on here? Our nation's legislature is constantly making every attempt to find a solution to issues where they have not addressed the root element.I remember going through a period in my life where I was dealing with some kind of problem in my left leg. Before going to a doctor, I did everything that I could to address the discomforts. But little did I know there was no problem with my leg at all. The problem was an issue with my left shoe.The point that I'm making here is that too often we try to solve problems from a superficial perspective. But when you fix something from the top, it's going to rise back up from the bottom.If we trust scripture, we know that God said that things would be the way that they are, but it's still important that we be able to understand the root elements by which these conditions have come to be.Getting to the root cause of any problem is not hard at all, the issue comes with getting past our intellectual perspective of what's going on. We don't even have to get into a major explanation of spiritual things. All we have to do is rationalize the reality of what is truth and what is deception.This place of confusion begins within us. Let’s consider the age-old image of a man with a devil on one shoulder and an Angel on the other, a depiction of how we battle within ourselves over the competition between darkness and light.You know I truly believe that the heart of man does desire what is good. And the evidence of that is God said he made man in his own image. So why do we end up in such a conflict over foundational principles and morals?
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    26 mins