The FLOT Line Show: Recent Episodes
Rick Hughes Ministries
Welcome to The FLOT Line, with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you will be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated.
FLOT is an acronym for Forward Line of Troops. The show teaches principles from the Bible and focuses on God’s 10 unique problem-solving devices. If you choose to learn and apply them, they will act as a main line of resistance in your soul, a FLOT line, preventing the outside sources of adversity from becoming the inside pressure of stress in your soul. The intent is to give you information to help you identify the plan of God for your life.
Stand fast in the Lord. God’s steadfast, unfailing love is an amazing promise for us. “Give thanks to the Lord, for His steadfast love is everlasting” (Ps 136:1). This country needs you to become spiritually mature and be a blessing by association. Don’t be discouraged in your spiritual growth by those who criticize you for being too committed to learning God’s Word. The Apostle Paul encouraged his congregations and us not to be deceived by enemies of the cross. Rather, to stand fast in the Lord. “With regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed by a spirit or a message or a letter” (2 Thes 2:1-2).
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When you complain about anything or anyone, you are complaining against God because God allowed the circumstances. If you are “gritching” you aren't using the faith-rest drill and impersonal love. Complaining is a sin. “Do all things without complaining or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world” (Phil 2:14-15). Our job as Christians is not to complain about the crooked and perverse things we see in our government and circumstances but to reflect the glory of our resurrected Savior and hold fast to the truth found in Scripture. Our mindset must be Scripturally grounded. “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thess 5:18).
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The Christian poet is a doer of God’s Word and becomes a living epistle to the world—an expresser of God’s grace and forgiveness through thoughts and actions. “You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men” (2 Cor 3:2-3). When you reflect God’s policy of grace it will attract interest from those who observe your demeanor. “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” (Matt 5:16). Knowledge of correct Biblical information and proper application is required of a living epistle. ”But prove yourselves doers of the Word and not merely hearers who delude themselves” (James 1:22). The beauty of your spiritual life as a doer of God’s Word, a Christian poet, glorifies God.
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You can’t understand God unless you diligently get to know Him. This comes by learning God’s Word from a pastor who accurately teaches it. God reveals Himself through the Bible. Learning and applying God’s Word is how you glorify God. “Let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things, declares the Lord” (Jer 9:24). God expects you to represent Him and to do it accurately. The protocol plan of God means the right thing must be done in the right way, His way. “For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, and in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings” (Hosea 6:6).
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Without learning and applying God’s Word you’re never going to glorify God. And you won’t learn about one of the most important provisions God has for you—logistical grace. Learn how God will supply your every need. “Which one of you by being anxious can add anything to your life?” (Luke 12:25). You never have to worry when you use the supernatural power of the living Word of God. Doctrinal/Biblical orientation is a problem-solving device. You are mandated by God to study His Word. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15).
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If the current and future generations have no humility, they will destroy this country. Humility is in fact teachability. Since humility is not inherited at birth, it must be learned. For a young child, the home is the classroom where the mother and father enforce humility and restrain the child’s sinful nature through training and discipline. Get into the minds of your children and grandchildren while you can. Teach them about God. Share the gospel and read the Scripture to them. Teach them how to pray and pray with them. Let them see what it means to have a fruitful, abundant, long, wonderful life in Christ Jesus.
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Your spiritual life, not your physical life, is the key to your success and happiness. “For bodily discipline is only of little profit but godliness is profitable for all things since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come” (1 Tim 4:8). The secret to happiness is not people or circumstances. “Happy are those who hear the Word of God and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Victory in life is through the Lord Jesus Christ. When you acquire His mindset, you can live a life free of stress, doubt and misery. It’s a life of confident expectations.
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Carrying the colors means representing the Lord Jesus Christ to those in your sphere of influence. The gospel is the most powerful thing in the world. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Rom 1:16). Are you prepared to carry the colors for Him? “Not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord” (Rom 12:11). God can only use prepared people. “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, 'Here am I. Send me!’” (Is 6:8).
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Good or bad circumstances do not move a mature believer because his focus stays the same. His faith is not shaken. Learning God’s Word is how you grow your faith and develop a relaxed mental attitude. “So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Regardless of your circumstances, you can be content if you grow spiritually and depend on the Lord who strengthens you. “For I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am…I can do all things through Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:11-13). The contentment in your soul gives you the capacity for life, the capacity for love and the capacity for happiness.
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Scripture doesn’t authorize you to slack off and coast into heaven. “Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles [maybe self-pity] and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Heb 12:1). Your spiritual life is an intentional lifestyle. It requires fidelity. Here is a warning. “But I have this against you, that you left your first love” (Rev 2:1-4). Your personal love for God is your motivation to finish the race spiritually strong. Without some spiritual muscle, you will be crushed by circumstances in life. It’s easy to get discouraged, especially as you get older. But this is when you can be the strongest spiritually, when under pressure. “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9-10). Paul discovered that as his human abilities diminished, he relied on God more. Infirmities give you opportunities. You’ll either be bitter about your condition or realize you have more of a privilege to glorify God. Spiritual growth should never end.
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This great nation, America, is in the middle of a confluence of satanic propaganda and human viewpoint thinking that is destroying the lives of many. This confluence spawns the cosmic vortex. Social media influencers recruit every day and lure many into this vortex. “Each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust” (Ja 1:14). The cosmic confluence doesn’t want the truth of God and His Word. If our nation doesn’t change direction and turn back to God, we will be destroyed by the justice of God’s discipline. It will take years to get back to where it should be, and it starts with you and your spiritual growth. “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). You have to acquire the mind of Christ and take seriously your mission, the same as Christ’s, to lead the world out of darkness. “I have come as Light into the world so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness” (John 12:46).
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Your attitude of confidence and trust in God’s plan during times of suffering is a witness to those who observe you. What suffering God does not remove, He intends for us to bear by applying the Word of God. God will never give you more than you can handle. Suffering never leaves a Christian as it found him. Suffering can be a warning you are in prolonged carnality. “Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die” (Prov 15:10). Suffering for blessing is designed to advance you by putting muscle on your spiritual life. The Apostle Paul wrote, “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you” (1 Pet 5:10). You are never to complain about adverse circumstances. We are to celebrate our tribulation. “Knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance” (Rom 5:3). Your attitude of confidence and trust in God’s plan during times of suffering is a witness to those who observe you. What suffering God does not remove, He intends for you to bear through the application of the Word of God. God will never give you more than you can handle. Suffering can be a warning you are in prolonged carnality. “Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die” (Prov 15:10). Suffering can be for blessing, designed to put muscle on your spiritual life. The Apostle Paul wrote, “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you” (1 Pet 5:10). You are never to complain about adverse circumstances. “We celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance” (Rom 5:3).
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You must guard your thoughts by being occupied with Christ (problem-solving device number 10). “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). Satan is the master deceiver, and he will try to capture your thoughts through the lures of the world. “I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ” (2 Cor 11:3). Obedience to Christ is the occupation with Christ. You can follow the lures of the world, or you can renew your thinking and get with the Word of God. People should never take precedence over God. Your Father seeks fidelity and devotion motivated by your love for Him. “Search me, O God, and know my heart [thoughts]. Try me and know my anxious thoughts; see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way” (Ps 139:23-24).
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Godliness is not sounding spiritual or having a sweet personality. Godliness has everything to do with what you think. “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Are you God’s child? Have you been saved? Are you obedient to Scripture by staying filed with the Holy Spirit and growing in grace? Have you developed a consistent daily routine of studying God’s Word every day under a well-qualified pastor? Are you living for the Lord Jesus Christ and not yourself? Are you re-presenting Him to others? If you are, you are living a life of godliness. Godliness is the mental attitude of virtue love being obedient to the plan of God for your life. This requires discipline. “On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness” (1 Tim 4:7). You must be able to discern good from evil. Evil is Satan’s scheme to influence the mentality of the human soul. “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” (Heb 12:11).
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Bitterness is a harsh, hostile attitude that results from arrogant reactions and sometimes becomes a source of habitual carnality in your life. Bitterness pollutes your thinking. You can't glorify God with bitterness in your soul’s mentality. “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it, many be defiled” (Heb 12:5). “Do all things without grumbling or disputing” (Phil 2:14). Bitterness is one of the greatest forms of arrogance you can get into because it feeds on self-justification. A habitual complainer is bitter, and you have no right to complain about anything. God wants you to share His happiness. Don’t allow bitterness to destroy your happiness.
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Our strength in times of testing is always the Word of God. God allows the pressures of people and system testing so you will grow and become spiritually strong. Passing people testing is possible if you use God’s problem-solving devices of personal love for God and impersonal love for others. You must have this virtue love to successfully live the Christian life. Count on it, people will be a test, friends will turn on you. We are to forgive and move on. The Apostle Paul said, “At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them” (2 Tim 4:16). The greatest glory you can bring God through testing is your relaxed mental attitude. You turn it over to the Lord and forgive those who have turned on you. “Jesus was saying, ‘Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.’" (Luke 23:24).
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God’s Word will cut into your soul and show you things you’ve never seen before. “The Word of God is alive and powerful” (Heb 4:12). You are warned to guard your thinking and the mentality of your soul. “Watch over your heart [soul] with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life” (Prov 4:23). Satan is out to capture our minds, especially the minds of our kids. What’s your priority in life? Is it about you or about your sacrifice and service for the Lord? “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7). This is the kind of soul God wants you to have—a complete soul.
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You need to arm your soul with God’s Word. “Put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil” (Eph 6:11). You must prepare the souls of your children and grandchildren with God’s Word. Divine viewpoint acts as brakes when they are tempted to go wide open down the hill with their lost friends. If the 10 problem-solving devices aren’t in the mentality of your soul, you won’t be able to successfully live the Christian life. Every believer must grow in their soul because it’s the soul that’s going to spend eternity with God in heaven. “Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord and He will exalt you” (James 4:10).
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Your soul’s mentality is the real you, not your body. “For as he thinks, so he is” (Prov 23:7). Your volition determines your soul’s worth and destiny. “Obtaining as the outcome of your faith [volition] the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9). The soul has volition (I will), self-consciousness (I am), mentality (I think) and conscience (I ought). Without the Word of God in your soul acting as a main line of resistance, your sin nature is free to manipulate your thinking. The answer to what’s going on in America is a spiritual revival of believers who have walked away from the doctrines of the Word of God and in arrogance no longer seek to know what God’s Word says.
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Many Christians say or do things that have no basis and no impact. Don't sell out for cheap emotional experiences and call it the spiritual life. Our pulpits are not teaching the Word of God. Churches are becoming Christian recreation centers. This is what allows the F.O.G. to settle across America (Failure of spiritual leadership. Open rebellion in the streets. God’s Word rejected). The spiritual life can’t be lived apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit and knowledge of God’s Word. God has a protocol. He expects the right thing to be done in the right way. Growing old is inevitable—growing up is optional. God mandates you to grow up spiritually. Spiritual growth requires you to choose to be consistent in the daily learning and application of God’s Word. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).
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Value developing a FLOT line in your soul as your number one priority. Using God’s 10 problem-solving devices is exactly how to live the Christian way of life. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom 12:2). God left you here for a reason and that is to grow to spiritual maturity, fulfill your spiritual gift and glorify God to the maximum. Personal love for God is your motivation to do this. If you don’t understand the essence of God, you can’t love God. Happiness is a system of thought in your soul based on God’s Word. “Happy are those who hear My word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Occupation with Christ is having the thinking of our Lord. God makes a direct demand on your volition to be occupied with Christ which is a mandate to be consistent in the metabolization of God’s Word in your soul. “Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” (Heb 12:2).
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The strength of your spiritual life depends on using God's 10 problem-solving devices as the FLOT line in your soul. If you don’t understand Rebound (1 John 1:9) and the Filling of the Holy Spirit, you are not living the Christian life. Religious rituals are meaningless unless you are filled with the Holy Spirit. “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). Faith is trust in God’s provisions. Learning to walk by faith pleases God. “It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Your statutes” (Ps 119:71). If you want to grow up spiritually you must learn God’s Word. Grace Orientation will keep you stable in times of hardship and suffering. The power of Christ in His grace provisions. “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9-10).
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You can’t operate in the Christian life with an unrealistic self-image. An unrealistic self-image leads to unrealistic expectations and creates a role model out of self. A person with an unrealistic self-image can’t look into the mirror of God’s Word and see themselves as they really are because they don’t have objectivity. They are totally subjective and focused on themselves. Apart from Satan, arrogance is the greatest enemy of a Christian. “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord” (James 4:10) is a mandate from God. There is no substitute for humility in the spiritual life.
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We are witnessing the loss of America’s client nation status and impending severe divine discipline. We have lost our focus on God and our spiritual vigor. “From whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48). America is under liability to the Supreme Court of Heaven. The future of our nation depends on whether enough Christians fulfill the unique spiritual life God designed for us. As the pivot of mature believers shrinks, then the nation loses its client nation status with God. A client nation is a national entity under the patronage of God that is assigned the responsibility for the preservation, communication and fulfillment of the canon of Scripture, evangelism at home and around the world, and providing a safe haven for the Jew. Believers within the client nation are said to be salt, preservation, and a light to the world. “You are the salt of the earth” (Matt 5:13).
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The Lord Jesus Christ walked out of the tomb alive. This guarantees we as Christians will have life after death. We will have a resurrection body just like Christ if we have accepted Him as our Savior. This is the single most significant decision to make in life. “So it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance for forgiveness of sin would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem” (Luke 24:46-47). Our Lord Jesus Christ said He would return for us. “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also” (John 14:3).
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Jesus Christ was subjected to six illegal trials, beaten beyond recognition, found not guilty by Pilate, yet sentenced and crucified. The next time you receive unjust treatment or think you’ve been disrespected, recall the horrific ordeal of your Savior, and what He endured to provide your means of salvation. Perspective. “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into this world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice” (John 18:37). It is through Jesus Christ’s spiritual death on the cross, being identified with the sins of mankind, that we have salvation. He paid our penalty. “He who knew no sin was made sin for us” (2 Cor 5:21). “Whoever receives Him has the power to become the sons of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12). Jesus Christ walked out of the grave alive and He is alive today. This is the meaning of Easter.
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You have to decide whether you want to live a Christlike life or live the life the world offers. You’re being recruited by the world 24/7 through social media. Jesus Christ’s spiritual life during His earthly ministry is the template He left for us to live the Christlike life. “For you have been called for this purpose because Jesus Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps” (1 Pet 2:21). The power of Christ is the template. “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” (Matt 11:29). This is an amazing promise from the Lord. Zugos is the Greek word for yoke. The yoke refers to using God’s grace provisions by means of the mentorship of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit uses the template to cut you into the Christlike life as you acquire the mindset of Christ by learning His Word. The zugos is illuminating and enabling. “I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength” (Phil 4:13). This is the power of Christ.
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Anger and bitterness are consuming and will rot the mentality of your soul. The sin of anger often motivates chain sinning. A divine viewpoint allows you to handle anger using principles taught in God’s Word. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) You must learn to turn things over to the Supreme Court of Heaven—let God handle it!
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As a Christian, the best thing you can do is respect God and heed His mandates. When you obey God's ordinances, you get three things: length of days, long life, and peace. To reverence God and His Word is the most morally pure thing you can do. “The laws of God are correct and obedience causes rejoicing and enlightenment” (Ps 19:8). God’s ordinances provide warnings and unlimited blessings while you are living in the devil’s world. Being obedient is how you demonstrate you love God. “Whoever says, ‘I love God’ and is not obedient is a liar and the truth is not in him” (1 John 2:4). You can misdirect your love, which is very easy to do when you get occupied with the wrong things.
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Do not complain is a mandate from God. Complaining is a sin and the sin nature’s number one pop-off valve. Complaining and serving the Lord with a superabundance of happiness are mutually exclusive. “Do all things without complaining or arguments so that you will prove yourself to be blameless and innocent children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world” (Phil 2:14-15). You can’t be a light without the filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God in your soul. The attractiveness of God’s Word is the light. Do not complain. “You are a letter from the Lord Jesus Christ to the lost world” (2 Cor 3:3). Shine.
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Think about what you’re missing by not seeing with the eyes of your soul, by not having faith. Faith is the muscle of the spiritual life. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Without faith you can’t please God. “Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6). With the eyes of your soul, you can have the confidence and assurance in the Biblical descriptions of what awaits you in the future. For your soul to see God’s promises you must have them in the mentality of your soul and then you can stand on faith and believe them.
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People testing is one of the biggest problems you’ll have as you advance spiritually. The solution to people testing combines personal love for God and impersonal love for all mankind. Without this virtue love, you will surrender control of your life to others. “Be not deceived; evil company corrupts good morals” (1 Cor 15:33). We create evil companions by getting close to those who distract us from the Word of God. If someone maligns or slanders you, let God handle it. Don’t seek revenge. Take it to the Supreme Court of Heaven. It is open 24/7.
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This might be the year you discover your destiny in Christ Jesus. “See then that you walk circumspectly not like a fool but as a wise person, redeeming the time because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16). God wants to make you rich spiritually, to give you a wonderful, meaningful, full life. You have a personal guide for life—God. Go to the Word under the filling of the Holy Spirit and in prayer acknowledge God and He will direct your path. “He will direct your path” (Prov 3:6). He does it through Scripture, through circumstances and through peace and contentment in your heart.
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Our salvation is secured by faith. “Having been justified by faith [not works] we have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1). Faith is trust in God and His Word. The more of the Word of God you know, the more resources of faith you have. “We walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). If you want to live by faith, you must exercise your faith and this develops it. Learning and applying God’s Word is how you do it. The victory of your faith is overcoming the world. “For whoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world - our faith” (1 John 5:4-5).
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You are the solution to the problems in this nation, not the President or Congress. Fulfilling the unique spiritual life God gives you is the primary factor in history. “Let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me” (Jer 9:23-24). There is a FOG across this nation. Failure of spiritual leadership, open rebellion in the streets to the rule of law and God’s Word rejected and ignored. If we continue to go down the path we’re on, ignoring God’s Word, the justice of God will destroy client nation USA. This is why it’s so important to have the Word of God in your soul so you are prepared for what is coming. Our nation is under liability to the Supreme Court of Heaven and the five cycles of discipline. When you turn to the Lord, grow spiritually and become a mature believer you are a blessing to this nation. “If My people that are called by My name will humble themselves and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways and pray, then I will hear and heal their land” (2 Chronograph 7:14).
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If you don’t have a fantastic life, it’s your own fault. Happiness is a state of the soul. The secret to happiness is learning and applying God’s Word in your life and advancing to spiritual maturity. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). God’s happiness, true happiness, the tranquility of soul, a relaxed mental attitude, and perfect contentment can be yours but only if you establish a FLOT line in the mentality of your soul. You must grow spiritually. “These things I have told you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full” (John 15:11). You must utilize God’s grace provisions. “I will rejoice and be happy in the provisions of God’s grace” (Ps 31:7). “O Lord of the armies, how happy is the man who trusts in You” (Ps 84:12). The unfailing love of God is the most powerful source of blessing we have and provides an increasing degree of a superabundance of happiness.
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The secret to contentment is being occupied with the Lord Jesus Christ, problem-solving device number 10. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil 4:12-13). Acquiring Biblical wisdom to build a FLOT line in your soul’s mentality is the true path to inner happiness and contentment. “The peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:7). Stress-related sins of worry and anxiety rob you of your happiness and take away your relaxed mental attitude. A FLOT line in your soul will insulate you from peace-stealing circumstances because eternal security is your greatest peace.
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The big lie of the cosmic system is that people and circumstances will make you happy. The cosmic system creates doubt and confusion. If you doubt, the first thing you’re going to doubt is God’s Word and you’re going to get confused, especially if you’re listening to the wrong pastor. The cosmic system stirs up chaos. We call it the FOG - failure of spiritual leadership, open rebellion against God and rejection of God’s Word. “Stop loving the cosmic system or anything that is in the cosmic system.” (1 John 2:15). We. Must stick with the Word of God. This is our only defense against cosmic lies. Arrogance is the super-food of the cosmic system. Satan seeks to draw us into preoccupation and obsession with ourselves.
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Disobedience to God’s rules leads to rebellion and ruin - personally and for a nation. The one stabilizing factor that steadies the ship and calms the storm is always authority. There has to be an authority and this establishes the rules we live under. “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities” (Rom 13:1). This is a divine mandate, a rule. The fool rejects God’s Word and this is rebellion. “For the ways of the naive will kill them and the complacency of fools will destroy them” (Prov 1:32). You can’t hide your rebellion from God. He knows. Using your volition to ignore God’s rules will bring you misery. Not going to God and admitting your sin will lead you to ruin. Yes, you can recover through the use of rebound. God will never abandon you. David prayed, “I did acknowledge my sin to You and you forgave the guilt of my sin” (Ps 32:1-5).
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Christians are peculiar people because we have different mindsets and particular callings. We don’t think as the world thinks but instead with a divine viewpoint, thinking with the mind of Christ. “Be not conformed to this world” (Rom 12:1). Divine viewpoint gives Christians understanding, insight and discernment. Christians don’t fear death. “For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain” (Phil 1:21). What makes us peculiar is our position in Christ. We are in Christ and Christ is in us. “Christ in you, the hope of glory” Col 1:27). And our uniqueness lies in the power we have from the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God.
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As a Christian, you are in the royal family of God. You are in full-time royal service for the Lord as both a believer priest and a royal ambassador. “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood” (1 Pet 2:9). With the royal priesthood we represent ourselves and with the royal ambassadorship we represent God to all mankind. All distinctions are erased at the point of salvation. We are all one in Christ. Divine power in the royal family comes from the filling of the Holy Spirit and the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. Spiritual self-esteem is the base for effective application of the Word of God in your life. Be dependent on God and independent of problems. The royal honor code revolves around three principles: truth, integrity in your life, impersonal love toward others and grace orientation.
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A lazy believer is not willing to put forth the effort required to reach spiritual maturity. You must see your own spiritual malnutrition. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). God wants you to grow up to be spiritually strong and healthy re-presenting the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a mandate from God. “Study to show yourself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). Knowing God is not the same thing as understanding God. God wants you to understand His unfailing love, righteousness and justice. Put in all the effort possible so you can reach spiritual maturity while there is still time.
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Satan is infiltrating churches and schools as a means to shut down client nation America. Many Christians are accepting being dumbed down. Satan is successfully planting his own ministers in churches to teach his doctrines. If you don’t study under a well-qualified pastor to grow spiritually and learn divine wisdom and discernment, you won’t see Satan’s infiltration. “Some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons” (2 Tim 4:1). You must be on the lookout. “'Woe to the pastors who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!’ Declares the Lord” (Jer 23:1-2). It is critical you understand the need for spiritual growth and spiritual wealth—only acquired by studying under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor.
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Catfishing God doesn’t work. You can’t deceive God. The only way to get to heaven is to do the will of God the Father. “This is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes In Him will have eternal life” (John 6:40). Works or being good won’t get you into heaven. You will have eternal life only by faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone. “For by grace are you saved through faith and it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should brag about it” (Eph 2:8-9). Faith and works cancel each other. Do not give Satan an opportunity to impugn God’s name by being a deceiver. You can’t catfish God. Rebound, using 1 John 1:9, will cleanse you from your hidden sin.
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You are saved if you have believed in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jesus Christ said, “No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again” (John 3:3). When you believe in who He is and receive Him as your Savior you are born again. Believe is not something you do over and over. You make a volitional decision to believe in Jesus Christ and you are saved. Once saved, always saved. You can’t lose your salvation. “Whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The moment you place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior you enter into a permanent, eternal relationship with God and His royal family. “God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11-13).
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Nowhere in Scripture are we told to have human mentors to guide us through the devil’s world. Your mentor is God the Holy Spirit. You need to learn the mechanics of the spiritual life and the iron for this to happen is a well-qualified pastor plus the filling of the Holy Spirit, not a fellow Christian. Our Lord prophesied the mentorship of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16-17, “I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” The Holy Spirit, your mentor, will sharpen you with Scripture through a well-qualified pastor.
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Your power source to stand firm in the angelic conflict is the filling of the Holy Spirit so the Lord can work in and through your life and God’s Word in your soul. “Be steadfast and immovable and abounding in the work of the Lord” (1 Cor 15:58). The work of the Lord is your spiritual gift, what God expects you to do in the body of Christ. Your spiritual gift becomes operational through spiritual growth. Nothing is more serious than the condition of your spiritual life as it relates to your post in the local body of Christ. “Be on guard, stand firm in the faith” (1 Cor 16:13-14). This is what God expects of you. “Stand fast in the Lord” (Phil 4:1) means to obey Him and stay strong even in adversity. Your mission is to light up the world with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. God expects you to stand firm, be strong, be immovable and don’t give in to the devices of Satan.
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Our country's sands are shifting, requiring you to orient and adjust spiritually. You need objective optimism these days and it comes from having wisdom, knowledge, discretion and understanding as taught in God’s Word. “How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and gains understanding” (Prov 3:13-15). It’s time for you to be spiritually cognitively independent, to stand on your own. Learning and applying God’s Word in your life has to be your top priority. The Lord told His disciples and us, “These things I have spoken to you that you should not be made to stumble” (John 16:1). In the days ahead, you’re going to have opportunities to glorify God as you’ve never had before. Don’t miss the big picture of why God equips you and leaves you here on earth. You have a great responsibility to re-present Jesus Christ by means of word and deed.
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Wisdom comes from the instruction of God’s Word designed to be taught by a pastor and learned through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Solomon told his son “You will die from lack of instruction” (Prov 5:23) We are to live by God’s instruction. The Word of God is designed to give you a wonderful, fulfilling life. This is how to not make bad decisions—get divine wisdom from Biblical instruction. “Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you may gain wisdom in the future” (Prov 19:20). God’s instruction includes His establishment of the divine institutions of the individual with volitional freedom, marriage, family and nationalism. Adherence to these divine institutions is how the human race is preserved and perpetuated. Diversion from these divine institutions will bring about the downfall of any nation, including America.
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God’s 10 problem-solving devices are divine resources you need to use during your time on earth. By using the faith-rest drill, (the third problem-solving device), it is possible to have peace and a relaxed mental attitude during conflict. This is how God intends for you to live. “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You” (Is 26:3). When someone is facing personal difficulty you can offer intercessory prayer and help them recall relevant promises that will act as comfort in times of testing. Scripture has a calming effect on Christians. “Likewise the Holy Spirit also helps in our weaknesses for we do not know what we should pray as we ought to pray but the Spirit Himself makes intercessions for us” (Rom 8:26).
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Putting garbage into your mind will result in garbage coming out of your heart. In a hardhearted person, the thinking skills in the mentality of the soul become dull. Many in this country are dull to hearing God’s Word. This is negative volition. “They scarred their heart from the vanity of their mind” (Eph 4:18). They operate on arrogance skills and believe "my way" is better than God’s way. There are a lot of hardened hearts in America. Proverbs 18:2 calls a hardhearted person a fool, “A fool has no delight in understanding but in expressing his own heart.” Anyone who rejects God is a fool. The way to soften a hardened heart is through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. He convicts. Often it may take a tragedy, disaster or death.
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Evil represents the genius of Satan in relation to the human race. Satan is trying to replace God’s plan of grace. If you link anything to grace it cancels out grace. Evil can be a system or a deed. “The tongue can no man tame. It is unruly and evil, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8). All sin is evil but all evil is not necessarily a sin. The mentality of the soul is the battleground. If Satan can influence your thoughts, he can control you. Recovering from the evil of human viewpoint thinking and the distortion of God’s Word in your soul takes consistent studying, learning, growing, and applying the Word of God. the Bible warns us not to be influenced by evil. “Beloved, do not be imitators of the evil, but of the good” (3 John 1:11). You need to be able to recognize evil and this takes advancing to spiritual maturity.
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Tying current events with Bible prophecy is speculation. What you see happening in America is the downfall of a client nation but not necessarily an indication of the return of Christ. According to the Bible, the next prophetic event is the Rapture. “We who are still alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thes 4:13-18). There is a seven-year period called the Tribulation between the Rapture and the Second Advent when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth for His Millennial Reign. The Tribulation will be horrific and during this time evil will spread without restraint. During the Tribulation is when the mark of the beast will be a temptation but you don’t need to be concerned with this because if you’re a Christian you won’t be in the Tribulation. The Judgment Seat of Christ occurs during the Tribulation when all your human good will be burned up because anything you’ve done in carnality is unacceptable to God. The battle of Armageddon ends the Tribulation. Satan is defeated. Redeem your time wisely. Grow spiritually. Learn the mechanics of the Christian life.
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God’s primary will is that everyone believes in His Son and has everlasting life. “Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). It’s not God’s will that anyone spends eternity in the Lake of Fire but He has no choice for anyone who rejects His Son and the forgiveness He offers. Divine guidance and executing God’s will are private matters between you and God. The filling of the Holy Spirit empowers you but the Word of God takes you on the journey. To understand God’s will for your life you must be taught God’s Word by a well-qualified pastor and learn it. This is called Biblical inculcation which is perception, metabolization and application. Perception, you hear it. Metabolization, you believe it and store it in your soul. Application, you use it. There are three categories of God’s will: directive, permissive and overruling. When you understand God's directive will through learning His Word, you will know where He wants you to be, what He wants you to think, and what He wants you to do. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight” (Prov 3:5-7).
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If you die today, will you go to heaven? You can answer Yes, with certainty, if you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:11-13). Our Lord clarifies that the way to have eternal life is to believe in Him. You are sealed by God the Holy Spirit when you are saved and no one can take you out of God the Father’s hand. You also have the indwelling of Christ. Jesus Christ lives in you! Once you accept Christ as your Savior the next step is to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). You must be advancing to spiritual maturity to have an impact for Jesus Christ.
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God offers you a divine pardon from spending eternity in the Lake of Fire. “He that believes not, the wrath of God abides on him already” (John 3:36). We are all born spiritually dead and those who have not accepted God’s divine pardon by means of faith in the work of Jesus Christ remain dead. You need to be born again by accepting God’s divine pardon, accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior to have eternal life. Only your Savior can rescue you from the storms you face in life. You may not have control over much in life, but you do have control over your spiritual growth. If you want to become the person God intends for you to be you need to “Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that who does not need to be ashamed” (2 Tim 2:15). God rewards integrity and when your thoughts honor Him when you have divine viewpoint thinking, then you become what God would call an invisible hero.
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Christianity has nothing to do with emotion. Living the Christian life is about thinking. Only the knowledge of God’s Word in your soul will sustain you during life’s ups and downs. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). As you renovate your thinking you see life through a divine viewpoint rather than an emotional human viewpoint. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2). Often problems arise when you don’t think and act on your emotions. Your emotions were designed as appreciators in life, not to direct your intentions and actions. When you use your volition to override your conscience and you act on how you feel rather than on what you think, you are going to make bad decisions.
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Today, the American temperament is Impatient, irrational, irreverent, insolent, inconsiderate, ignorant and inconsistent. We are at a crossroads in America. God mandates us to deal with all people using His problem-solving devices of personal love for God and impersonal love for all mankind. “Let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). We are to use a relaxed mental attitude with all people and re-present Christ. “Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with any partiality” (James 2:1-4). Impersonal love is loving others based on your character, not theirs. When you are treated unfairly by others you must have the spiritual strength to put it in the Lord’s hands using virtue love. Impersonal love accepts and tolerates people as they are, not as you want them to be. God didn’t send us to straighten people out. Motivational virtue comes from your love for God. Functional virtue is using impersonal love for others. God’s given us His policies, problem-solving devices, instructions, principles, and doctrines all in written form in the Scripture so we should have no doubt about what to do. “I am looking for people that know Me and understand Me” (Jeremiah 9:24).
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You have a divine pardon from God. Take it! “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). You can have a wonderfully bright future through learning and living God’s plan for you. Jesus Christ knew His mission was to die on the cross. Through His finished work on the cross, our salvation is guaranteed. “He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross” (Phil 2:8). We need to live with humility also and this refers to respect for authority, fair or unfair. You need to acquire the mind of Christ, renovate your thinking, to be able to respond with humility.
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God disciplines us to get our attention. He does it from His love, not anger. The purpose of discipline is to wake us up to name our sins and get us back in His plan. He disciplines us to prevent us from self-destructing. “The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him, and the cords of his sin hold him fast” (Prov 5:22). When you are under God’s divine discipline you can do two things. You can respond with humility, use rebound, and get back on track with your spiritual life. Or you can react with arrogance and blame it on anybody but yourself. Arrogance is a sin that motivates us to commit additional sins and is a huge distraction to the Christian life.
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Jesus Christ died for all humanity. God never discriminates. When we receive Christ as our Savior, we are given His righteousness and we are brought into the royal family of God. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God and if children then heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:16-17). Jesus Christ guarantees you two things: He will never leave you and He will return for you. Once you are saved you need to realize you will still sin and you need to know how to handle personal sin. Sin uncovers you and exposes you to the elements of the world. This is why you need to use problem-solving device #1 rebound. The key to staying in fellowship with God is dealing with sin at the moment you recognize you sinned and putting the Word of God in your mind. “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11).
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The divine pardon of salvation is available to each of us because of God’s unfailing love for us. “For God so loved the world He gave His uniquely born Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we are not only freed from eternal separation from God, that’s our pardon, but our sins, our debts are forgiven forever. God sent His Son to pay for our sin. This is a grace gift of God. We don’t earn it. We don’t deserve it. All we must do is show faith. Regardless of some crime, you may have committed, regardless of your faults and failures (and we all have some) God still loves you and offers you a divine pardon. Take it.
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A divine pardon removes you from the penalty of going to hell. It is available to you, to all mankind, based on the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Simply “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). Jesus Christ granted a divine pardon to a criminal being crucified next to Him on the cross who recognized He was his Lord and Savior. Our Lord told this criminal, “Assuredly I say unto you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). It is at this point Christ granted a divine pardon. The criminal had simply believed in the true identity of the Savior. 1 John 5:1 verifies this fact, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.”
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Your objective is to advance to spiritual maturity and re-present Jesus Christ to those in your sphere of influence. This is how you glorify God. Spiritual maturity doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and requires you to be consistently filled with the Holy Spirit and committed to taking in the Word of God daily. The progression to spiritual maturity includes the stage of spiritual self-esteem, then spiritual autonomy, and spiritual maturity. With spiritual self-esteem, things will come into focus, and you’ll have contentment in life. This clearly indicates you’re beginning to have the capacity for life. If you are content, then God can pour blessings into your cup. “Now godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Tim 6:6-8). Spiritual autonomy gives you perpetual mental stability. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by means of the Word of God” (Rom 10:17).
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Your body will age but your soul is forever young. Your spiritual life is lived in your soul. Your soul, and what’s in it, is what goes to heaven. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). As you get older there is a change in the arena of contention inside your mind from fleshly desires to now battling aging attacks on your mentality such as frustration, bitterness, doubt, and insecurity. Only a strong spiritual life will keep you encouraged and focused as your body deteriorates. The challenge as you get older is to keep the lanes of thinking open so you can recall the Word of God you have learned and stored in your soul. God wants you to put His Word in your mind now because this divine wisdom will sustain you and give you understanding, discernment, and discretion as you get older. “For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul then discretion will protect you and understanding will guard you” (Prov 2:10-11). To live right you must think right. You have to work even harder as you get older to keep your soul’s mentality in shape, to keep your soul in shape. “With your Word in my soul, You will guide me and then afterward take me up to glory” (Ps 73:24).
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You need to learn to execute God’s protocol plan during your time on Earth. The key to this is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and under control of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18). “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Once you learn how to maintain fellowship with God by means of rebound, you need to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). The Bible is a textbook and is designed to be taught to you by a qualified pastor-teacher. “You have this treasure in your earthly bodies” (2 Cor 4:7). Take in the Word of God on a consistent basis and apply it. Avoid distractions to your Christian life. Growing to spiritual maturity doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lifetime of growing in grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior. You will come to understand what your place is in the plan of God.
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You have a destiny for your time on Earth and for eternity. The Bible tells us we are to live for, and be occupied with, the Lord Jesus Christ. The key for you to be the person God intends for you to be is to quit living for yourself and start living for Jesus Christ. “For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). "Who having not seen, you love. Though now you do not see Him and yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Pet 3:8). Do you love Christ? Do you live for Christ? You are to “put on Christ, " which requires humility and orientation to His authority. You must be dedicated to His interest. This life is not about us, it is about Him. “And do all that you do in word or in deed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Col 3:17).
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You have been given a certain amount of time on Earth. Only God knows the time, the manner and the place of your departure. Your mission during your time on Earth is to shine the light of the Gospel, to re-present Jesus Christ to those in darkness. “I am the Light of the world and he who follows Me shall no longer walk in darkness but will have the Light of life” (John 8:12). You must be ready to shine the light anywhere, any time, any day to lead lost men and women to Christ. “Now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light” (Eph 5:8). This means you are the reflective light of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The truth of the Word of God in your soul is the battery that produces the light. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105). The light of God’s Word keeps you from stumbling in the darkness of Satan’s world and comforts you. Your attitude and actions can enlighten the lost man. You are an ambassador for Christ. Shine the light.
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Our mission in our time on earth (TOE) is to serve our Master’s interest. We are to redeem our TOE wisely. “Walk circumspectly, not as a fool but be wise and redeem our time because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16). The key is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and thus being controlled by the Holy Spirit. This is a requirement to perceive and apply the Word of God. “That the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray the eyes of your understanding will be enlightened” (Eph 1:17-20). “Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needs not to be ashamed rightly diving the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). Our mission is revealed to us as we study His Word, the Bible.
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America is under attack by satanic forces. This attack is against the divine institutions of freedom-volition, marriage, family and nationalism. The siege includes replacing divine viewpoint thinking with human viewpoint thinking. A divine viewpoint must be learned from Scripture. You don’t inherit it. Therefore, it is critical you are committed to obeying God’s mandate “Grown in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). America is under siege. The ultimate objective of Satan is to eventually shut down client nation America and limit the impact we have across the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. What can you do about it? Learn to think divine viewpoint and grow to spiritual maturity.
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Your time on earth (TOE), is very short. God wants you to redeem your time wisely by learning and following His protocol plan and doing the right thing in the right way. To try and live the Christian life apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit and within the protocol plan is a waste of time. “See that you walk circumspectly. Do not walk like a fool but as a wise man redeeming your time because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16). God can capitalize you with time so you use it to gain divine wisdom and glorify Him. “Happiness belongs to the one who finds wisdom and to the one who gains understanding” (Prov 3:13). Your body may be racked and sacked by time but your soul is timeless. Your body ages but your soul is ageless and will live forever.
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The Christian life is executing the protocol plan of God. Put simply, it is making good decisions every day based on what the Bible says. You learn and understand God’s protocol plan by studying God’s Word under the ministry of a qualified pastor. “Happy are those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Our biggest problem is ourselves, our own sinful natures. The key to the spiritual life is staying filed with the Holy Spirit so you are empowered by the Holy Spirit. Spiritual momentum is you hearing and keeping the Word of God. Every problem you will encounter in life has a divine solution recorded in the Bible.
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Much of our suffering is self-induced. When we use our volition to go negative to the plan of God and say no to the authority of God this negative volition is a misery manufacturing machine. When we sin and don’t use rebound to recover we get under divine discipline. “Whom the Lord loves He chastens” (Heb 12:6). Divine discipline is punitive action taken by the justice of God to get our action to get back to obedience to His authority. “Do not be deceived, God will not be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap” (Gal 6:7). You can’t live the Christian life if the Holy Spirit is not in control of your life.
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Jesus Christ in His humanity defeated Satan by quoting Scripture, the Bible. Using Scripture is how we survive in the devil’s world. Being absolutely tuned into God’s Word is how you live the Christian life. Christ in His humanity had to grow to spiritual maturity by learning God’s Word and we do too. “Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52). Pastors are designated by God to study and accurately teach God’s Word to us. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Cor 14:33). the Bible doesn’t contradict itself. “Your Words were found and I did eat them” (Jer 15:16). You need to know and use the Word of God.
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Expect suffering and testing in your life. This is part of the process to advance to spiritual maturity. “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience” (James 1:2-4). God allows trials in your life to develop your patience and test your dedication to Him. You will go through infirmity and distress. Why? On behalf of Christ. “For to you it has been given on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake" (Phil 1:29). This is how you grow spiritually. Don’t pray for suffering to be removed. This is a means for God to bless you. If God doesn’t remove the suffering, He intends for you to bear it. Self-induced suffering may be unbearable but there is always a way out. Use rebound and get back to God’s plan. When you are undergoing suffering and evidence testing see it as an opportunity to glorify God to the maximum and use it! One of the greatest things you can ever experience is glorifying God to the maximum under evidence testing.
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There are many times when you should be laconic—keep your mouth shut. Here are a few reasons. When you are angry or tempted to lie. “A short-tempered person acts stupidly and the person who plots evil is hated” (Prov 14:17). When you are tempted to pervert or twist the truth. Satan is the greatest twister of the truth in the world. Keep your mouth shut when you are tempted to straighten out a fool or speak without having all of the facts. Your job is to re-present Christ, not try to correct others. “Those who are wise store up knowledge but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin” (Prov 10:14). Another reason to be laconic is when you are tempted to say more than you should. “Sin is unavoidable when there is much talk but whoever seals his lips is wise” (Prov 10:19). “The one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin” (Prov 13:3).
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The Bible makes it clear we are to put on Christ. Occupation with Christ is thinking as He thought and living as He lived. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh nor fulfill its lust” (Rom 13:14). “Acquire the mind of Christ” (1 For 2:16). Humility is a learned trait and necessary for being occupied with Christ. “He humbled Himself” (Phil 2:5). Jesus Christ thought divine viewpoint and you need to also. When you are occupied with Christ you have His perfect happiness and are prepared to meet any exigency head-on. “And come to know the love for Christ which goes beyond knowledge so that you may be filled with the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19).
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The Christian life is meant to be lived stress-free. You can have a life free of stress if you learn and use this problem-solving device of sharing God’s happiness. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue. “If we love Him we will obey Him and His mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). God’s happiness, perfect happiness, is always related to the grace policy of God. “I will rejoice and be happy in the provision of Your grace” (Ps 31:7). You are responsible for your happiness, no one else. “I have learned to be content…because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil 4:11-13). There is no greater joy in this world than fulfilling the plan of God for your life.
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There’s no reason for you to ever be unhappy. God gives you everything you need to have His happiness. “I have taught you these things that My happiness might be in you and that your happiness might be fulfilled” (John 15:11). The key to happiness is learning and applying God’s Word. “Happy is the one who finds wisdom and obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13). Wisdom is the knowledge of God’s Word in your soul that is ready to be recalled and used at any moment. Happiness does not depend on people or circumstances. True happiness is related to your soul—your thoughts.
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Without understanding the Word of God, you can’t orient to God’s plan for your life. You need God’s Word for direction and motivation to live your life for the glory of God. “If you love Me you will obey Me” (John 14:15). God mandates you to study His Word under the ministry of a qualified pastor-teacher and grow spiritually. Just as you eat food and your body metabolizes it for energy—so does learning God’s Word, the Bible, give you the energy you need for your spiritual life. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
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Grace orientation is you being oriented to God’s grace. Grace is God’s policy. God depends on who and what God is, not us. God does all the work. We are saved by grace. “For by grace you are saved through faith, it is a gift of God” (Eph 2:8). Religion counterfeits the grace of God. The only way to get peace in your soul is to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior ” (2 Pet 3:18). While Jesus Christ was on earth He demonstrated a grace way of living. Living grace means you grace people out just like God graced you out.
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I fought. I finished. I kept the faith. These are Paul’s final words. “I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I fought a good fight. I finished the race. I kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:6-7). Paul contended with an adversary his entire life. His ministry was one tremendous test after another. Like Paul, the moment you accept Christ as your Savior you step into the arena of contention called the angelic conflict. To prevail you need to learn and use God’s 10 problem-solving devices. Advancing to #10 Occupation with Jesus Christ is a significant accomplishment. This is you reflecting Jesus Christ through your life. “I want to carry out the mission that I received from Christ, the mission of testifying to the good news of God’s grace” (Acts 20:24). Embrace the sacrifice that God asks of you. If you are a winner believer, you are God’s trophy of grace.
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God has given you a personal sense of destiny for time and for eternity. “We according to His promise look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness” (2 Pet 3:13). The time He has given you is priceless. You are here to shine the light, to re-present Jesus Christ so when people see you, they see Christ. You are the light in a dark world. Having a personal sense of destiny is having the joy of Jesus Christ, inner peace and inner confidence that comes from serving Him every day.
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Grow up spiritually and be the man or woman God intends for you to be. There is only one way to do it. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit and take in God’s Word every day. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2). This is the only thing that will save America. When you neglect God’s Word, when you substitute entertainment for learning, you are playing right into the devil’s hand. “The wisdom of this world is foolishness” (1 Cor 1:20). Spiritual maturity is your objective so you can glorify God to the maximum. This will require a daily pattern of growth. America is God’s client nation. The continuation of our client nation status depends on us.
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Adversity is inevitable but stress is optional. If you have developed a FLOT line in your soul you can live a life free of stress. Problem-solving device #1 rebound is how you deal with the problem of sin. This is naming your sin to God the Father, 1 John 1:9. Being filled with the Holy Spirit and using the truth of the Word of God is how you worship God. “The day is coming when you will worship God in Spirit and in truth” (John 4:23). You are mandated to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18). Problem-solving device #3 is the faith-rest drill. This is you standing on the promises of God and using them as a shield to protect yourself from the strategy of the devil. “Put on the armor of God” (Eph 6:11). This is an amazing resource. It stabilizes your thinking.
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You were born with a sin nature. All humans are born with a sin nature. “For by one man [Adam] sin came into the world and death by sin and now death has passed on all for all have sinned” (Rom 5:12). This is why you need to be born again by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior. Your new birth gives you the ministry of the Holy Spirit. This is the only way you can control your sin nature which tries to dominate you. You make the choice on who controls your life - the Holy Spirit or your sin nature. “The flesh wars against the Spirit and the Spirit wars against the flesh” (Gal 5:17). You are mandated to stay filled with the Holy Spirit and live under the power of the ministry of the Holy Spirit “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16).
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Christianity requires that the right thing must be done in the right way. This is God’s protocol plan. God has rules for practicing your Christianity. For example, taking communion with unconfessed sin in your life, out of fellowship with God, is compromising the righteousness of God and you put yourself under extreme divine discipline. “Because of this many are weak, many are sick and many are dead” (1 Cor 11:30). The spiritual life only works off of the filling of the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the Word of God. This is the only way to advance spiritually and become an MVP for God. The M stands for momentum, meaning you hear and keep the Word of God. V is for virtue. The P represents poise and means you have the ability to think under pressure.
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Rage is a symptom of the epidemic of anger and hatred in America. America is divided and Satan loves this. Satan wants to see God’s client nation America fail. Unhappy and angry people are easily manipulated and there’s no doubt Americans are being manipulated. Hatred is a terrible sin. Hatred turns off the light in your soul. “Refrain from anger, forsake wrath, fret not yourself because it only leads to evil” (James 1:19-20). Remember “God so loved the world” (John 3:16). God loved all mankind, not just the people who think and act like you. The Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross and died for every person so that whosoever will believe in Him will have eternal life.
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God wants you to think a different way—not the way the rest of the world thinks. Divine viewpoint is based on your understanding of the Word of God and relating circumstances in your life to what the Bible says. “Stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). The Bible tells you how to deal with adversity, worry and fear. Fear is you assuming an unassigned responsibility. “What time I am afraid I will trust in You” (Ps 56:3). The FLOT Line uses the military acronym as an illustration to describe how the Christian life works, how you can have a main line of resistance in your soul from learning God’s Word that protects you. God’s 10 unique problem-solving devices can be used as a FLOT line to protect your thinking, so stress doesn’t overrun your soul.
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God loves you. He does not want you to spend eternity baking in the Lake of Fire. The choice is yours. “He that believes on the Son has everlasting life and he that believes not the Son of God shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36). Anyone who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ as the anointed Son of God will go to the Lake of Fire. Jesus Christ was judged on the cross for all the sins of mankind. You were purchased out of the slave market of sin. The moment you believe in Jesus Christ and the finished work of Christ on the cross you receive the righteousness of God and now you are acceptable to Him. But if you reject the love gift of Jesus Christ that God offers, then you leave Him no choice and the justice of God will condemn you to the Lake of Fire.
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“Take My yoke” and “Learn from Me.” Take My Yoke is your voluntary submission to His direction in your life. Learning from Christ is a mandate for living your spiritual life. The template our Lord Jesus Christ gives you is His life during His earthly ministry. If you learn from Jesus Christ, “you will find rest for your soul” (Matt 11:28-29). Rest from the chains of legalism, rituals without reality, and rules that aren’t in the Bible. Take My yoke requires you to use your volition to study God’s Word, to yoke yourself up to the life and mind of Christ. “Fools destroy themselves because of their indifference but whoever will listen to Me will live without worry and be free from the dread of disaster” (Prov 1:32-33).
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Jesus Christ tells us “Follow Me” (Matt 4:19). You are called to follow Him. “For to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps” (1 Pet 2:21). Everything Christ wants you to know from his three year earthly ministry is recorded for you in the Bible as an example of how to think and how to live. Our Lord’s life is a template. When you adhere to the protocol plan of God you are putting on the template and it cuts you into the very image of Jesus Christ. The two things that sustained Christ in His humanity will sustain you also, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and guidance from the Word of God, the Bible. Jesus Christ has marked the trail. You can choose to follow His path that He laid out or you can veer into the minefield of life.
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Patience is an incredible virtue of a spiritually maturing believer. Patience with people and circumstances. “Knowing this that the trying of your faith produces patience. But let patience have her perfect work that you may be mature and entire, wanting in nothing.” (James 1:3-4). God puts us through testing to produce patience, perseverance, character, and hope. “We glory in our tribulation knowing that this tribulation produces perseverance, and this perseverance produces character and this character hope.” (Rom 5:3-5).
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Avoid getting consumed by aging or you will get maladjusted to the Creator of time. If you get age conscious it can be a terrible prison. Learn to master time rather than letting time master you. God has given you the grace provisions to do this. “According to the riches of His grace which He has abundantly given to us in all wisdom and prudence” (Eph 1:7-8). Old age is an opportunity to exploit the grace provisions God gives you. “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak” (Is 40:29). The strength God gives you is the mental attitude dynamics that go with the spiritual life. Remember it’s God’s time, not yours. You are here to re-present Jesus Christ to others. God gives us time to glorify Him. Your ultimate opportunity to glorify Him is your death. God wants you to be a trophy of His grace. A mature believer living dying grace inspires devotion, appreciation and trust in God’s loving care by those who see it. Be a trophy of God’s grace.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, “To everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which has been planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to search and a time to give up as lost; a time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; a time to keep silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.”
Change is inevitable. Sometimes you and I might not necessarily like it, but it happens. Each event mentioned in this particular passage has been predetermined in God's plan.
God gives you autonomy and the freedom to choose. You can choose for or against Christ and you can choose for or against God's plan for your life.
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The will of God will never lead you to where the grace of God cannot protect you. God will show you His will through His Word, through the circumstances and through the Holy Spirit. This is divine guidance, Ps 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you with My eye.” God’s will doesn’t include you carrying despair or the sort of grief that is an unbearable load. He is not going to ask you to do something you can’t and He promises you rest. “Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your soul. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:28-30). “When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you" (Prov 2:22). This is you coming to grips with divine guidance.
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Divine guidance is the communication of God’s will for you through His Word. God speaks to you through the Bible. Get under a qualified pastor. Listen to the teaching of God’s Word. Be patient and God will reveal His will to you. Divine guidance and the execution of the will of God is a private matter between you and God. Paul said, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). “The Lord will give strength to His people and will bless His people with peace” (Ps 29:11). The Lord’s strength and peace are coping skills that give you the ability to handle horrific situations and deal with haunting memories, put them out of your mind so you can focus on God’s Word. Trust God.
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You need a light to guide you and this is learning God’s Word, the mind of Christ. You need a compass to know the way and this is using the ministry of the Holy Spirit, your mentor. “Do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Eph 5:17). This is a mandate from God. Here are the principles for following divine guidance. The 3 A’s. Align your life with His will. Abort your own plans. Adapt to the circumstances God leads you into. God has a directive will for you, a permissive will and an overruling will for you. There are three subsets to His directive will: His geographic will—where He wants you to be. His viewpoint will—what He wants you to think. His operational will—what He wants you to do. God’s permissive will means He will let you go down dead-end streets when you are in carnality. God can overrule your bad decisions if He wants to.
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God’s plan might not coincide with your plans. Your thoughts center around security while His purpose for your life is much greater and beyond your expectations. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Is 55:8-9). Here are your orders. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path” (Prov 3:5-6). Never make a critical decision without considering God’s will for your life.
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Understanding God’s directive will is essential to living the Christian way of life. God wants you to grow to spiritual maturity “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). LAG is a way to remember this. Learn. Apply, Glorify God. God’s system, the protocol plan of God, must be learned. The right thing must be done in the right way. If you don’t learn the plays, if you don’t understand the protocol plan of God, you may have the uniform of a Christian but you are going to sit on the bench because God can’t use you in the game. Are you willing to turn your life over to the direction of God the Holy Spirit? This is where many Christians lose sight of God’s Plan. They don’t have the confidence in the ability of God to care for their best interests.
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Thank God for the opportunity to glorify Him in old age, standing behind the shelf of faith, standing on the promises of God with confidence, and being a great encouragement to others watching you glorify God to the maximum. This is your challenge in old age, “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). Getting old with physical difficulties is normal because God never intended for us to live forever in these sin-infected bodies. Remember your soul never ages. “Though our outer man is decaying our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Cor 4:16). Scripture in the memory center of your soul is a sedative to worry and anxiety. This is why it is so important to never stop growing spiritually. “Let not mercy and truth forsake you” (Prov 3:3). “I fought, I finished, I kept the faith” are three things necessary to be a trophy for God (2 Tim 4:6-7).
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We have a national epidemic of lying in America. The motivation for all lying is deception. It’s a pattern of arrogance. The arrogant person seeks to deceive. Lying to self is one of the worst. Lying is listed twice in the seven sins God says He hates. “A lying tongue” (Prov 6:17) and “A false witness that speaks lies” (Prov 6:19). Lying started with Satan who is the father of all lies. Today there is an all-out effort to demonize Christians, marginalize their effectiveness, and stop them from having a voice in the public arena. “Who is the liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ?” (1 John 2:22).
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What gives a woman beauty is what’s in her soul. “Charm is deceitful and outside beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised” (Prov 31:25). Here’s an amazing gal. “Strength and dignity are her clothing and she smiles at the future. She opens her mouth in wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue” (Prov 31:25). Wisdom is wonderful because it gives you discernment, the insight you don’t get any other way than through the intake of the Word of God. The true strength and attractiveness of a woman are her inner beauty, which comes from her thoughts, and her joy for applying divine viewpoint to the circumstances of life. The shape of the soul is what matters! Click for Full Transcript: https://rhem.pub/kind-lady-31f3f3
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Are you the person God is looking for who will make up the hedge and stand in the gap for our nation? The enemy is pouring in. The enemy is Satanic viewpoint thinking and it is always out there as a lure to capture the thoughts of believers and unbelievers alike. To stand in the gap you must become part of the pivot. The pivot is a group of men and women who are the salt preserving a client nation by means of their spiritual lives. The pivot is an accumulation of primarily spiritually mature believers. God wants you to be part of the pivot. The Word of God must be the top priority in your life if you are going to grow to spiritual maturity. Your mission in life is to grow spiritually and lift up Christ to others. “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Myself” (John 12:32).
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Spiritual growth is a lifelong process. You don’t graduate from the Christian life. You must keep plugging. Emotions will not carry you. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Prov 23:7). You grow from learning the mechanics of the Christian life from the teaching of the Word of God. The key to growing is staying under the control of the Holy Spirit, not your sin nature. “Reason you also yourself to be dead to sin but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:11). The inward battle between the Holy Spirit and your sin nature will be never-ending.
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To win in the Christian life you need to understand what the will of God is for your life. God commands you to study His Word and grow spiritually. “I am looking for those who know Me and understand Me” (Jer 9:23). We worship God by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the truth of the Word of God in our lives. “Those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). The Holy Spirit that dwells in you is the very same Holy Spirit that sustained our Lord Jesus Christ and guided Him during His time on earth. You have all the power you need to live the Christian life if you will tap into the power of the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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You can know with certainty you are going to heaven when you die. “Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom 10:13). “This is written so you may know you have eternal life. He that has the Son has life and he that has not the Son of God has not life” (1 Jn 5:12-13). The issue of being saved is putting your faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross. You express this faith to God in prayer. Before we are saved, we are slaves to sins that manipulate and control us. With salvation, you are freed from the chains of sin and find freedom in Jesus Christ and His Word.
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If you think you’re having a bad day, remember this lesson on Job and your day won’t look so bad after all. The Bible records the history of Job who had the worst day ever. In just a few hours, maybe even one hour, everything Job had was taken away (his wealth, his children, his possession, his health), and yet he never cursed God. Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Adversity is inevitable and happens to all of us. Adversity is what circumstances do to you but the mental attitude sins of stress, worry, fear and anxiety are what you do to yourself. It doesn’t need to be this way. You can respond to adversity using the problem-solving device of the faith-rest drill and maintain a relaxed mental attitude. If you’re growing to spiritual maturity and acquiring the mind of Christ, you can handle adversity without freaking out.
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The truth of knowing Jesus Christ sets you free. “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Truth is in Jesus Christ. “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Truth for us is a divine viewpoint, the thinking of Christ. The Holy Spirit will lead you and guide you to where the truth is. “When the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all the truth” (John 13:16). He will do it through the Word of God, the Bible. “The Word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). Spiritual growth required thinking and applying the truth of God’s Word in your life.
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God gave us free will. We have choices to make. Sometimes we use logic, sometimes we use reason, sometimes we use faith to make those choices. In the end, every one of us, myself included, is responsible for the decisions that we make. Three things you need to remember about those decisions: (1) Bad decisions limit all future options. (2) Stupid decisions get people hurt. (3) Trusting your instinct or your impulse in a major decision is a sure way for you to mess up.
I can tell you on this show how to have a divine advantage in life that will give you discernment and understanding in all of your endeavors. That’s what life requires. It requires wisdom. Wisdom is discernment and insight.
Divine advantage number one: salvation“For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8-9). “He that believes Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (1 John 5:1).
Divine advantage two: our sins were judged on the crossRomans 5:12, “Just as through one man sin entered into the world, and then death by sin, and now death spreads to all because all have sinned.” ) Our sins were judged on the cross [therefore sin is not an issue in salvation] and are forgiven through the use of rebound. Romans 5:8, “God demonstrated His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Problem solved. A free gift from God.
But, if we will recognize the sin and confess (rebound) the sin to God the Father through prayer then we can be restored to fellowship, put back in fellowship - this is the second divine advantage. 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
The divine advantage of the filling of the Holy Spirit guarantees you the power of God in your life, it guarantees you the rewards of God in eternity, it guarantees you the ability to replicate the life of Christ, it guarantees you complete happiness in time and eternity - but only through the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Divine advantage number three: the Word of GodLearning the Word of God, learning divine viewpoint, beginning to operate on divine viewpoint will give you the resiliency in your life with this new mindset to keep pressing on, to keep using the divine advantage of wisdom, insight, discernment, and knowledge from the Word of God.
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This is how I became an evangelist. Without learning and understanding the Word of God I would have no ministry. God’s plan for you is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to receive Him as your Savior as I did. “As many as received Him to them He gave the right to become children of God even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12). God’s plan is for you to learn God’s Word under a qualified pastor as I do. God’s plan is for you to grow and replicate the life of Christ as I seek to do. I’m here for you. My prayer is The FLOT Line will challenge you and help you see God’s plan for your life.
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Sin, arrogance and a lack of discernment can destroy us. Sin is something you think, something you say, or something you do. The Bible tells us to immediately name a sin to God the Father. Using rebound is how we handle sin. “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to purify us from all wrongdoing” (1 John 1:9). You must learn to deal with arrogance. Arrogance is identified by self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption. It takes humility to know you are arrogant. Discernment comes from verifying your thoughts and actions with Scripture. Discernment comes from acquiring the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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Emotions are an enemy of the Christian. God gives you mentality. You don’t have to let your emotions control your life. Emotions react. Thinking responds. You have a choice. Controlling your emotions is a wonderful thing. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Humility is required to be successful in life. Arrogant people never have it. They are full of self-justification and this is very dangerous because it leads to self-deception. It is critical you understand the plan of God and it starts with “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16).
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To live the supernatural Christian life, you must be filled with the Holy Spirit. You need to learn how to let the Holy Spirit control your life and lead you to the truth. “When He the Holy Spirit has come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). The secret to growing to spiritual maturity is staying filled with the Holy Spirit so you have the power to live the Christian life. The Christian life demands the two supernatural powers of God the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God. “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). The Holy Spirit’s job is to help you take what is taught from the pastor and understand it, and then recall it later to apply in your life. God is looking for believers who know Him and understand Him.
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One of Satan’s traps is to get you out of sync with God’s timing due to your impulsive behavior. Impulsiveness is the act of doing something without thinking it through. Impulsiveness will destroy your destiny. If Satan can cause confusion and controversy, he can divide and conquer. The number one flaw in the Christian life is arrogance and often impulsive behavior is part of this flaw. Think before you speak or act. You must live by thinking not by emoting. Emotions are the enemy of thought. “A fool expresses all of his emotions but a wise person controls them” (Prov 29:11). A wise person is the one who has the divine viewpoint of the mentality of Christ and he controls his emotions. Wisdom gives you understanding, discernment and insight. Discernment to be able to recognize and control your hidden flaw of impulsive behavior.
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Worry and fear are sins and won’t help you handle adversity. "Do not be anxious for your life" (Matt 6:25). This is a mandate from God. Worry is self-centered emotionally driven fear. Faith is the absence of fear. “In God I will put my trust and I will not be afraid of what man can do to me” (Ps 56:11). Faith is you claiming God’s promises. Without faith-rest, you will have stress in your life. If you orient to God’s will and plan for your life then you will focus on how God uses adversity in your life. Wake up and realize that without Christ you have no control over your existence. “Many are the plans in man’s heart but it is the Lord’s purpose that always prevails” (Prov 19:21).
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Are you growing spiritually? Do you know more today than you did last year? Spiritual growth is a connection to the Lord. You must understand who He is, what He's done for you and continues to do for you every day.
You are commanded to grow spiritually. “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 3:18)
The objective of spiritual growth is for you to become more and more like Jesus Christ. When we place our faith in Jesus Christ, God the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us and lives in us and begins the process of making us more like Him, conforming us to His image.
If you are going to grow spiritually it takes three things: the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the living Word of God, and a well-qualified pastor to teach it to you.
The Christian life is lived in your mind. It's lived where you think. Your soul has a mentality. Your soul has volition. What you think and what you do has a tremendous impact on your life. If you don't think right you can't do right.
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“Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). This is your destiny. This is your empowerment to live your spiritual life. You can’t access this power with unconfessed sin in your life. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). You can’t live the Christian life in the energy of the flesh. Sin can be very subtle. All sin starts with something you think. You must rebound when you sin, recover from your sin, and regain the filling of the Holy Spirit so you can continue your advance to spiritual maturity and glorify God to the maximum. You are mandated to “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Eph 5:18). You are mandated to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
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Fear is an indicator of stress and a manifestation of arrogance. You can’t be afraid without putting an abnormal emphasis on yourself. Fear is a mental attitude sin and not compatible with the function of your spiritual life. “God has not given us a lifestyle of fear but of power and of love and of sound judgment” (2 Tim 1:7). Fear destroys your capability to think and your capacity to live. Courage is the opposite of fear. Confidence in God produces courage toward man. “We have been endowed with all power from the superior power of His glory resulting in fortitude and steadfastness along with happiness” (Col 1:11). Spiritual courage requires you to make decisions every day to fulfill the mandates of God using the unique invisible assets He has given us.
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You are in a war called the angelic conflict. The battle is for the hearts and minds of the human race. Satan is trying to vindicate himself so he doesn’t have to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. So Satan and his angels always seek to discredit, distort or eliminate the dissemination of the gospel of Jesus Christ. “Be sober and be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). You are not authorized to attack Satan’s forces. You are to stay filled with the Holy Spirit and learn the mind of Christ. Here are your orders. “Submit to God” (James 4:7). Resist the devil’s schemes and his attempts to lure you and isolate you. “Continue in the faith grounded and steadfast” (Col 1:23). “Watch, stand firm in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love” (1 Cor 16:13-14). Personal love for God is your motivational virtue.
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Don’t dwell on your past failures. If you’re still alive, God has a plan for you. “I forgot those things that are behind me and I reach forth to the things which are in front” (Phil 4:13). Rebound, stay filled with the Holy Spirit and press on toward the prize. “I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:14). The prize is hearing the Lord say, “Well done, My good and faithful servant.” The Christian life is lived one day at a time. Press toward the finish line by “growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” and applying what you learn. As you learn God’s Word and as the Holy Spirit uses it in your life, this conforms you to the image of Jesus Christ. This is the mark you are pressing toward.
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You are in the arena of contention of the angelic conflict. To be a winner in this conflict it requires spiritual self-discipline. “Run in such a way that you may win” (1 Cor 9:24). To receive the winner’s wreath, you must learn God’s Word by means of the ministry of the Holy Spirit and you must understand the protocol plan of God and adhere to its demands. “If anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned a winner unless he competes according to the rules” (2 Tim 2:5). You build spiritual muscle by acquiring the mind of Christ. “Exercise yourself unto godliness” (1 Tim 4:7). This is your duty and the responsibility under God’s mandates for the spiritual life. The Holy Spirit is your coach. The Bible is your playbook. Paul gives us his pattern for victory. “I fought a good fight. I finished the race. I kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7). Fought - Finished - Kept the Faith. This is what a winner believer must do to wear the wreath of glory in heaven.
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God has given you many operational assets to live your spiritual life. the Bible, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, and pastor-teachers are all grace resources you have. If you don’t use these resources and can’t concentrate on the teaching of God’s Word your spiritual life will be a waste. “Those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Heb 5:14). Solomon explains, “When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, then discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11). The heart is the real you. Your spiritual life is fueled by what you think. You are to think as Christ thought. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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Satan has a strategy against you and knows your weaknesses. Christians must understand the enemy and put on the full armor of God to stand against the cosmic system. Knowledge of the Word of God is converted into wisdom that gives you the advantage of having discernment and insight into the traps of Satan's cosmic system influences.
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Organized religion always places unrealistic demands on people. It has power and hold over people and uses God to control people. Religion will always find fault, some reason to condemn and criticize you, to chain you. “Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down” (Mark 7:1-14). They put the demands of religious men over the mandates of God. Remember Christianity is not a religion, it is a personal relationship with God. Christianity is not a set of rules or rituals or a lifestyle of legalism where you try to earn the approbation of God because of something you do or don’t do. God has set you free from this legalism. Don’t get caught up in it. Enjoy the freedom you have in Christ.
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Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ endured six illegal trials including beatings and horrid treatment before being sentenced to death by crucifixion. He never complained. “We have turned everyone to his own way and God the Father hath laid on God the Son the inquiry of us all. Jesus Christ was oppressed. He was afflicted and yet He opened not His mouth” (Is 53:3-7). When Jesus completed God the Father’s plan to go to the cross and bear the sins of the world, taking our place, He said “It is finished.” Believing in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross is how you get to heaven. Jesus Christ, the anointed Savior of the world, was crucified for you.
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A Christian who stays out of fellowship with God, who backslides and goes into reversionism, yields to the temptations of the sin nature. This shorts out the protocol plan of God. “They are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Pet 3:4). If you’re in reversionism you can’t grow spiritually. You’ll become hypersensitive and involvement in the cosmic system will lead to a frantic search for happiness. God will never abandon you. You may have turned your back on Him but He will never turn His back on you. God saved you. God gave you a destiny but you have moved into reversionism and lost sight of the objective. It is never too late to recover from prolonged carnality. Do it now. Use rebound, confess your sin, get back in fellowship with God and resume your spiritual life.
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Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ is the way to get rid of the dirt in your life. “If any man is in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away and behold all things become new” (2 Col 5:17). You can’t cleanse yourself by being good and you can’t earn God’s forgiveness. You are depending on Jesus Christ’s finished work on the cross to make you righteous. Jesus Christ already paid for your sins, past, present and future. “Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). God’s provision of problem-solving device number one, rebound, is His gracious gift to you to wash your sin away.
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Are you willing to invest in learning God’s Word? It is going to take time and effort. If you aren't, you will be a spiritual tumbleweed, blown about by the lures, lies and distractions of the world. Only if you have a solid, sound spiritual life rooted in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can you have what you’re seeking. “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, the person who thinks he can make it on muscle alone and sets God aside as dead weight. He is like a tumbleweed on the prairie, out of touch with the good earth and the lives rootless and aimless in the land where nothing grows” (The Message translation of Jer. 17:5-6). Looking for happiness in a political leader that promises to bring change is false hope. The living water of the Lord Jesus Christ is our hope. You and your spiritual life are the true hope for America. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).
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Your spiritual life is the anchor that holds your country together. As God blesses you, the blessings overflow into the lives of others in your periphery. Spirituality is a relationship with God the Holy Spirit. Spirituality is absolute. You are either in fellowship controlled by the Holy Spirit or in carnality controlled by the sin nature. “For if you live after the flesh you will die. But if you put to death the deeds of the body by means of the Holy Spirit, you will live” (Rom 9:13). You have a choice of who controls your life—the Holy Spirit or the sin nature. You decide. Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is being filled with the Holy Spirit and having a maximum amount of Biblical knowledge in your soul. You must be spiritual before you can become a spiritually mature believer.
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A Christian is never to mimic an unbeliever. Whatever the unbeliever finds to be entertaining, motivational, or stimulating is not for the Christian. We are to think and live differently.
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Many Christians are dull of hearing. They can’t or won’t concentrate and focus on learning God’s Word. “We have many things to say but they are hard to be uttered seeing that you are dull of hearing” (Heb 5:11). You can become dull of hearing from a lack of exercising your mind. You develop your faith by hearing God’s Word taught and applying it. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Spiritual growth takes time and concentration. Your pastor’s job is to equip you so that you can be spiritually autonomous and stand-alone on God’s Word. Jesus Christ tells us “Take My yoke and learn from Me. My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:29-30). You can’t do this if you are dull of hearing.
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Prosperity can be a greater test than adversity. Be careful it doesn’t turn you into being lukewarm to learning the Word of God and not advancing spiritually. If you think you are rich and need nothing and develop an unrealistic self-image, note what our Lord says about these kinds of Christians, “I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Rev 3:14-18). An unrealistic self-image comes from arrogance. An arrogant person doesn’t see himself as he really is. Arrogance is a pattern of self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption, justifying whatever behavior he’s involved. God is not impressed with this. God is asking you for seven days a week, full-time occupation with Jesus Christ. Don’t love the prosperity. “Do not love the things of the world” (1 John 2:15). This refers to priorities. What is your priority, your material possessions or your relationship with your Lord and Savior? “We must progress and move on to maturity” (Heb 6:1).
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America is in trouble. God is giving us some wake-up calls because as a nation we are focused on the gifts and not the Giver. “Each person’s ways are clearly seen by the Lord and He surveys all of His actions” (Prov 5:21). Satan uses all possible means to discredit the Word of God, discourage us and defeat us from ever reaching spiritual maturity. We need a spiritual revival in our nation and it starts with you. Can America be healed? Yes. It depends on you and your spiritual life. God promises, “If My people that are called by My name will humble themselves and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear their prayer and heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14).
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Satan has a strategy and a system of authority. His army consists of rulers, powers, forces of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph 6:12). Satan has assigned demon ambassadors that particularly influence world leaders to carry out satanic policy. Satan is trying to vindicate himself, so he doesn’t go to the Lake of Fire. If he could establish a utopia here on earth, then he could validate his claim that God is unfair. Satan’s greatest weapon is organized religion across the world. Demon influence is real. It is you choosing to let human viewpoint thinking into your soul and corrupt your thinking. One of the ways Satan influences unbelievers is to give a false gospel, a gospel that removes grace. It’s a counterfeit and is based on human morality and human works. There is only one way to get to heaven and it is by faith alone in Christ alone. If you put your faith in anything else but Jesus Christ, you are not saved.
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God is aware of what’s going on in this country and in the world. Nobody’s going to get away with anything. God sees everything and no one is going to escape His justice. “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him” (2 Chron 16:9). The divide we see in America has been created by the neglect of God’s design and failure to submit to what God teaches on divine viewpoint thinking and divine establishment. The justice of God will not let us self-destruct without giving us discipline and a chance to wake up. “They sit before you as My people. They hear your words but they do not do them for with their mouth they show a lot of love but with their heart, they pursue their own gain” (Ezek 33:31). Hypocrites. We’ve had every opportunity to glorify God to the maximum but the more prosperity we get, the deeper we slide into sin and degradation. If you have been subject to injustice, take it to the Supreme Court of Heaven and let God’s justice handle it.
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Many Americans today have hearts of stone. One of the reasons people are indifferent is scar tissue has built up on their souls from their alienation from the life of God. “Having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their heart” (Eph 4:17-20). The cosmic system is always out there luring people away from the plan of God and if successful producing hearts of stone from human viewpoint thinking and living. “He who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief” (Prov 28:4). Satan puts up the smokescreen of human viewpoint thinking, false doctrine, different norms and standards from Biblical principles we were raised on. Satan’s strategy is to corrupt the volition of individuals to choose human over divine viewpoint thinking. The Word of God addresses this behavior as “Drifting off course” (Gal 5:4). “Being an unstable soul” (2 Pet 2:14). “Having left your first love” (Rev 2:4).
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“Whatsoever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7). We have to make decisions every day of our life. The most critical decision we will ever make is, “What think you of Christ?” (Matthew 22:42). Is He the anointed Son of God or is He not? That’s a question all of us have to answer. That’s why the Bible says, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved” (Acts 16:31). “He that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (1 John 5:1). It is critical. It's the only way you'll ever get to heaven. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by grace. That's the only way we'll get there. “According to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He sheds on us abundantly through [by means of] Jesus Christ our Lord, that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope [or confidence] of eternal life” (Titus 3:5-7).
Stage three is when you move from time to eternity. It is critical that you understand this stage. Stage three starts with death or the exit resurrection, whichever one comes first.
Every one of us has the same privilege and the same opportunity to execute the plan of God. If we live our life in the cosmic system, ignoring the plan of God, then we are going to lose out. If we live our life in God's plan then we have some reward.
Your day-to-day attitude toward Bible doctrine and toward your priorities will determine completely what will happen to you at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
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Respect for authority is critical to the survival of any individual and to the perpetuation of a nation such as the USA. God set up a system of authority and it begins in the home. If a child rejects the authority of his parents, he will grow up to be a misfit in society. ‘Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right” (Eph 6:1). The acceptance of authority depends on your volition. the Bible is clear about the spiritual realm of authority resides with God, His Word, and your pastor-teacher. “Keep obeying those pastors who themselves are ruling over you and submit to their authority; for the same pastors keep watching for the benefit of your souls as those who have to render an account” (Heb 13:17). The authority of the pastor is in his message, not in his position. Today we have generations of Americans who don’t respect authority. We are in trouble as a nation.
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Make a resolution to be laconic. You can glorify God far more when you keep your mouth shut than when you’re running your mouth. Make this a principle in your life. Never judge another person. “Do not judge lest you be judged because with the measure you measure, it will be measured back to you again” (Matt 7:12). Don’t stick your nose in another person’s business. Be careful what you say about others. Use impersonal love. This is the same love that God used with you. We should be greasy spots right now but we’re not because God loves us. He demonstrated love for us when He sent His Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ to go to the cross and pay the penalty for our sins. “A soothing tongue is a tree of life but a deceitful tongue breaks the spirit” (Prov 15:4).
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Jesus Christ says all it takes to be saved is the faith of a mustard seed. The small mustard seed is the truth of the gospel. “God so loved the world that He gave His uniquely born Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). As a Christian, you are part of the Body of Christ. This is your family tree. Your family tree traces back to the Lord Jesus Christ! “For as the body is one and has many members and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit [the Holy Spirit] we are all baptized into one body [this is the Body of Christ.] The gospel seed that Jesus Christ planted has grown into a large tree, a living organism, the Church, the Body of Christ.
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You can’t live alone in the devil’s world. “The devil goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he can devour” (1 Pet 5:8). Satan would love to put doubt, anger or resentment in your mind related to some tragedy you’ve endured. Adversity is inevitable. You might not understand why things happen but you need to understand God has made provisions for you and this includes having confidence and courage in the face of adversity. God knows what is happening to you. Put your trust in God. “No circumstances have come upon you that is not common to man and with those circumstances, God always provides a way out” (1 Cor 10:13). Glorify God in your adversity knowing it teaches patience, breeds integrity, and gives you confidence in the Lord. “Stand still and watch what God is about to do” (Ex 14:13). Stand still and trust in God’s promises and provisions.
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We live in a very hostile and unforgiving environment. This is the devil’s world. Remember we are just sojourners. Our home is in heaven. You have to decide if you’re going to make it in this unforgiving environment. You must use your volition to build a FLOT line in your soul so you can stand against the hostility and glorify Jesus Christ as you re-present Him to those around you. Are you willing to grow to spiritual maturity? Or are you buying into the lies of Satan and thinking human viewpoint? “The double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways” (James 1:8). Not only is Satan a deceiver is the master of lies and a murderer. “He [the devil] was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks it from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of all lies” (John 8:44). You must quit justifying your lack of effort to grow spiritually. God mandates we acquire divine viewpoint thinking. “God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3).
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Jesus Christ will set you free. Accept His grace gift of salvation. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.” Christ freed you from the slave market of sin through His death on the cross. He redeemed you from the penalty of sin and death. “So the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36). “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17). You don’t have to live under the yoke, the burden, of religion. Christianity is a personal relationship with your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is not a religion. There is freedom in Christ. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Gal 5:1). Jesus Christ said “Learn of Me” and this is how you use your freedom. You will find rest living in harmony with Jesus Christ. “Come unto Me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28-30).
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In Matthew 16:26, “What good would it do for someone to gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul?” Or what could anyone give in exchange for their soul? Your soul is your most valuable asset because it is your soul that lives forever. “This is what the Lord says, [listen to it carefully] ‘Stand at the crossroads and look, ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls.’ But they said, ‘We will not walk in that way!’” (Jeremiah 6:16). The my-way highway is the way most people prefer to walk. Using their volition to do what they want to do instead of submitting their volition to the plan of God.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6). Trust in the Lord. A lifestyle of trust is demanded if you are going to live for the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t lean to your own understanding - that’s the my-way-highway. What seems to be the right way to you is not the right way.
The simple act of faith in the finished work of Christ is your door into eternal life. If we break your life down into stages, it starts with stage one. Stage one of your life is salvation by faith alone in Christ alone.
When you receive Christ as your Savior, God the Holy Spirit will impute to you the righteousness of Jesus Christ and this is what allows you to have a relationship with God.
After stage one, salvation, comes stage two - the Christian life. What do we do in stage two? Well, in 2 Peter 3:18, the Bible says we are to “grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” And the Bible says that growth can only come by one method. 2 Timothy 2:15, “Study to show yourself approved to God, rightly dividing the Word of truth.” So what am I supposed to study? Well, Hebrews 4:15, “The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart.” I am to study the Bible if I want to grow in the grace and the knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Walk worthy of the Lord. This is your objective as a Christian. Learn the Word of God. Apply it in your life. Glorify God to the maximum. “So you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects” (Col 1:10). You do this by staying filled with the Holy Spirit (this is your power) and learning God’s Word (this is your truth to live by). “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Understanding and using God’s 10 problem-solving devices is walking worthy of the Lord. It is a phenomenal way to live. “It is no longer me but Christ in me” (Gal 2:20). “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2).
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Self-destruction is not God’s plan for you. “Hear my son and receive my sayings and the years of your life will be many” (Prov 4:10). “The fear of the Lord prolongs days but the years of the wicked will be shortened” (Prov 10:27). Many Christians are not willing to learn. They are not interested in what God has to say. They have turned their backs on Him. When more terror comes to America, and it is coming, they will run to God and ask for deliverance. “They will call on Me but I will not answer…because they hated knowledge and they did not choose the fear of the Lord” (Prov 1:25-33). Knowledge comes from the Word of God. The Christian life is a supernatural life and requires you to use the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Bible to live it successfully.
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America will not survive much longer if we continue to spurn God and His Word, and not listen to His mandates and warnings. “The fool takes no pleasure in understanding” (Ps 18:12). The chaos we are experiencing is a result of unchecked sin natures. As the Lord looked upon His creation and upon the hearts of man, this is what He said, “Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was on evil” (Gen 6:5). Evil is the system of Satan. Satan loves to impugn the name of God. You are the answer to what’s wrong in America. As goes your spiritual life, so goes our great nation.” I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land so I would not destroy it, but I found none” (Ezek 22:30).
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Spirituality is absolute. You are either filled with the Holy Spirit or you are in carnality controlled by your sin nature. Spirituality is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is related to the content of the Word of God in your soul. Maturity is relative. To glorify God in this life you need to grow up spiritually. In maturity you have a maximum application of God’s Word in your life, this is wisdom, and you have maximum trust in God, this is faith. “These things I have spoken to you that My joy might be in you” (John 15:11). A maturing Christian is filled with the Holy Spirit and taking in the Word of God daily—learning, growing and applying. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). You have to learn to think with the mind of Christ and apply it if you’re ever going to glorify God.
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God has established a wall of fire to protect you. You are kept by the power of God. “My Father who gave them to Me is greater than all and no man can pluck them out of My Father’s hand” (John 10:29). The Word of God you put in your soul is wisdom and this wisdom acts as a wall of fire protecting you from the lures of the world and involvement in the cosmic system. God’s protective presence is a hedge of protection and you should use this to maintain a relaxed mental attitude. “‘For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her and I will be the glory in her midst” (Zech 2:5). God provides a wall of fire around a client nation but when individuals within the nation move away from God, God can remove this wall of fire. When you get distracted by those around you or the details of life, your relationship with God is diminished. The best exercise you can do for your soul and body is to grow to spiritual maturity. “The bodily exercise profits little but godliness is profitable for everything having the promise of the life that now is and even of the life that is to come” (1 Tim 4:8).
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You have the means to stabilize your thoughts and meet every difficulty with peace and tranquility. Claim His promise to you: “Do not fear for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” (Is 41:10). Fear is you assuming an unassigned responsibility. Fear is a sin. Fear is failure to use the faith-rest drill, a problem-solving device. Fear is putting your eyes on the circumstances and not on the solution. Your Heavenly Father knows exactly the circumstances you are in. God mandates, "Do not fear". Why? Because: "Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." (1 John 4:4), “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27), and “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper.” (Isaiah 54:17).
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The objective of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is to enable you and me to overcome the demands of our sin nature, what we call the flesh. The flesh is always there. All personal sins that we commit come from the desires of the flesh. They are a product of our volition. We choose to sin.
The Bible says in Romans 12:3, “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility, as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word.” This is where you live your spiritual life - in your thoughts. This is where the Holy Spirit can sustain you and teach you and encourage you. But if you quench the Holy Spirit, if you grieve the Holy Spirit, then He's not able to do His job.
When you sin and do not rebound the sin, you quench the Holy Spirit - He no longer has the power to guide you, assist you, encourage you because you have surrendered control of your life and your thoughts to your flesh. Now the flesh takes over.
Without the filling of the Holy Spirit, we could never ever fulfill the protocol plan of God. It is impossible because that requires the right thing to be done in the right way.
The key to being filled with the Holy Spirit is problem-solving device #1 on the FLOT line of your soul. Remember the FLOT Line is ten unique problem-solving devices given by God through His Word to sustain us in this devil’s world. When we learn and use these ten problem-solving devices we stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. The first thing every believer must learn is how to stay in fellowship with God using the rebound technique. Therefore, the Bible says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
When you admit your sin, it allows the Holy Spirit to cleanse you of the sin and to reinstate the filling of the Holy Spirit. When you fail to rebound, even though you are Christian, you are out of fellowship and you are operating in the energy of the flesh.
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Faith alone, in Christ alone, is how you get eternal life. “This is the record that God has given to us eternal life and this life is in His Son” (John 5:11-12). The issue is - do you believe in Jesus Christ? “He that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (1 John 5:1). You can express your faith to God by simply praying, “Father, I believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son and I am willing to accept Him as my Savior.” Now you can be confident and say, “I know I am going to heaven when I die.” Yes, you can trust God and have confidence in His promise of giving you eternal life. “These things have I written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God [that’s you!] so that you may know you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). Once saved, always saved. You can’t lose your salvation. Don’t look back in your life at your mistakes. God has wiped away all those past sins. Look forward. Christianity is a personal relationship with your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Authority orientation is the key to the survival of any nation. Orientation to the authority of the Word of God, your parents, your pastor, and others. Four generations are what it takes to destroy a client nation such as the United States. The first generation rejects authority. “There is a certain kind of person who curses his father and does not bless his mother” (Prov 30:11). The second generation has self-righteous arrogance and justifies their arrogance. The third generation has locked-in arrogance. In the fourth generation, they lust for power, have inordinate ambition for power and will destroy anyone who gets in their way. This is indicative of what’s happening in America today. “He who hardens his heart will fall into mischief” (Prov 28:14). When you lose your norms and standards because of the buildup of scar tissue you will always get into degeneracy. We are under divine discipline. You hold the key to turning around the degeneracy. “If My people what are called by My name will humble themselves and turn from their sin and seek My face then I will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14).
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God is the voice of truth. He speaks to you through His Word, the Bible. “It is alive and powerful” (Heb 4:12). You have the shared power of God when you combine the power of the Holy Spirit living in you and the power of the Word of God. There are voices that you should not listen too. “Let no man deceive you with vain words” (Eph 5:6). Vain words are empty words void of truth. This is human viewpoint thinking. This is the thinking of the world. Divine viewpoint is truth, the light. This is why you need to acquire the mind of Christ. To have truth in your mind, in your soul. No man can solve the problems we face as a nation. The solution is a divine one. “Cursed in the man who trusts man” (Jer 17:5). As goes your spiritual life, so goes the course of our nation. If you neglect God and His Word, you are inviting disaster.
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Be serious about your Christian life. Learn and live God’s Word to be prepared for the disaster that is coming. “Neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes” (Job 5:21). Acquiring the mind of Christ will give you a stable mind. Applying it brings a relaxed mental attitude. God will provide your logistical daily needs. This is a divine promise. “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. He will provide your needs” (Matt 6:33). You have the two greatest supernatural powers in the world - the Holy Spirit and the Bible. Use them! This is your strength. This is where you get direction. Remember, “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). You have a ringside seat observing the pending disaster. Keep your mind on the Lord Jesus Christ. Stand still and watch God deliver you.
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Your objective is to move from spiritual self-esteem to spiritual autonomy and eventually to spiritual maturity—where you glorify God to the maximum. Remember the key to spiritual autonomy is knowledge and application of God’s Word. “I have hidden Your Word in my heart so I would not sin against You” (Ps 119:11). In spiritual autonomy, you have contentment which is sharing the happiness of God. When you are content then God can bless you more and it won’t distract you from growing in grace and knowledge. My cup overflows. Certainly goodness and faithfulness will follow me all the days of my life” (Ps 23:5-6). You’ve got to have insight and understanding from God’s Word so you don’t focus on your light afflictions now but rather focus on eternal things. Redeem your time wisely and God will give you more time to glorify Him. God has given you ministering angels to watch over you and protect you. In essence, you have a heavenly secret service detail! “He will give His angels charge concerning you to guard you in all of your ways” (Ps 91:11). Divine protection and provisions are given to those who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, those who revere and respect Him. “You are of God and have overcome them because the One that is in you is greater than the one that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
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“Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart and you will find rest in your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:28-30). Jesus Christ is asking you to yoke up and learn about Him. He gave you the template to live the Christian way of life. That template is found in the Bible. This is why it is critical you study the Word of God under the ministry of a pastor who will teach it to you accurately. And you have the power of the filling of the Holy Spirit to live it. “Learn of Me” is where you get the motivation to live a Christian life. You see what He did and how He did it. As you learn about Him you will find that His yoke—His guidance and control—is easy. He is not going to put a load on you that you can’t carry.
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Thinking with the mind of Christ is called having a divine viewpoint and the only way you can get a divine viewpoint is by learning the Word of God.
The most critical thing in your life as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, apart from staying filled with the Holy Spirit every day by rebound, is to get under the mentorship of a well-qualified pastor, a man who's dedicated his life to studying and teaching the Bible.
If you are going to have Biblical Orientation it doesn't come through emotional stimulation, it comes through the imputation of the Word of God into your soul as you learn it, believe it, and apply it.
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Christians in perpetual carnality reverse direction in their spiritual lives and get into reversionism. They go backward by refusing to use rebound and acknowledge their sins to God. God doesn’t want you to be in carnality. “If we walk in darkness we lie and do not tell the truth” (1 John 1:7). In revisionism, you’ll yield to the temptations of your sin nature and act like an unbeliever. “Make no provision for the flesh” (Rom 13:14). “Do not be unequally yoked together” (2 Col 6:14). You will short-out the protocol plan of God for your life. It’s never too late to recover. God loves you. He is waiting for you to return home, to admit and confess your sin so He can restore you to fellowship. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to live your spiritual life. It’s time to resume your momentum to grow to spiritual maturity.
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God is looking for pivot potential. Those of you who will stand in the gap. “I looked for somebody to stand in the hedge between Me and the people and to make up the gap in the land but I could not find even one” (Ezek 22:30). A pivot is a core group of mature believers that God uses to sustain a nation. You manifest the light to a nation in darkness. You are the salt that preserves the nation. Through your spiritual life, your prayers, your blessing by association, your nation survives. You can’t be a member of the pivot if you compromise on God’s truth or serve another god. To be pivot potential you can’t be afraid to stand in the gap. God raised up Gideon, the mighty man of valor. “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor” (Judges 6:12). God uses prepared people, people that are alert, ready and equipped with the Word of God stored in their souls. God is counting on you to be a part of the pivot. We are facing unbelievable tests in the coming years and unless you reach spiritual maturity, unless you represent Jesus Christ to your generation, the next generation won’t have a chance. Are you serious enough about your spiritual life to realize the awesome responsibility God has given you?
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The train wreck coming to America will be stressful if you haven’t developed a FLOT line in your soul. “Cursed is the man who puts his trust in man” (Jer 17:5). Without truth, nothing will stop the train wreck. Truth is God’s Word, the Bible. The solution to what we’re facing today is a divine solution. Human solutions are no solutions. Americans have been enjoying prosperity, the gifts, and have forgotten the Giver. “If you love Me you will keep My mandates and My mandates are not grievous” (1 John 5:3). This is where it starts. Every motivation in your soul starts with personal love for God and this love is reciprocal. God loves you and His Son gave His life for you. Honor, love and respect God Almighty. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, “When I go away I will send the Holy Spirit and He will lead you into all truth” (John 16:7). Don’t deviate from the truth. “Some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits” (1 Tim 4:1). Study under a pastor that teaches the truth, apply what you learn and you will be prepared for the train wreck that is coming.
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You can’t be a game-changer for God just because you are enthusiastic or eloquent. You must be accurate. If you’re going to be a winner in the plan of God and be one of the people that hold this nation together you need to learn the process. You need to learn to think with the mind of Christ. God wants you to organize your thinking. “God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). You need to establish a routine in your life of studying the Word of God to grow to spiritual maturity. As a member of God’s royal family, you represent His interest during your stay on this earth. You must come to understand the God you know. You can only do this by studying under the ministry of a pastor who accurately teaches God’s Word. Never let appearance, ability or association sway you away from the content of God's Word. Without correct content, what anyone says is just useless rhetoric. Emotion and enthusiasm can override exactitude. Remember enthusiasm and eloquence don’t guarantee accuracy. Accuracy has to do with the content of Scripture you’ve learned under the power of the Holy Spirit. This is your energy to live your supernatural life.
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Spiritual autonomy is being able to govern yourself by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and applying the Word of God you have stored in your soul. You don’t need to run to your pastor or a friend to get answers. You know to use divine viewpoint and go to God’s Word for the answers. Spiritual autonomy is a key to understanding your destiny in Christ. Mental stability is having the ability to accurately apply what you’ve learned from the Word of God to the testing you face. Psalm 119 teaches the importance of God’s Word and our submission to the authority of the Word of God which results in happiness and fulfillment. Ps 119:11 is the key to having spiritual autonomy, “Your Word I have hidden in my heart so that I might not sin against you.” Also note these verses: “How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.” “Establish Your Word in me.” “It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Your Word.” “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
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God’s system is grace—saving, living, dying and surpassing grace. Evil takes God’s grace and the truth of Scripture and twists it. This is the genius of Satan. He is a counterfeiter. It’s very easy for Christians to get sucked into evil such as thinking giving money impresses God or will get you closer to God. Evil is always out there. Evil in salvation is faith plus works. All sin is evil but not all evil is sin. Evil can be human good works. Evil is the wrongdoing that insults the grace of God. One of Satan’s greatest ploys is to get us distracted—to lure us into trying to clean up the devil’s world. God never called us to do this. He called us to lift up Jesus Christ and replicate His lifestyle and mind. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Prog 23:7). One of the greatest evils is indicative bitterness and revenge motivation. Stay out of it. “Father, forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing” (John 15:13). Christ forgave, so should we.
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You must learn to depend on God's grace provisions. Grace orientation starts with salvation—you are saved by grace. “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one can brag about it.” (Eph 2:8-9). None of us can approbate God into giving us eternal life.
Logistical grace is the divine planning, support, provision, and blessing so you can fulfill God's will, purpose and plan for your life. He provides in grace what you need to fulfill that plan. “My God shall supply all of your needs [logistical grace support] according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). The only reason that you and I are still alive is because of God's logistical grace. We don’t earn it, we don't deserve it and there's nothing we can work for to do it and keep ourselves alive. It’s all grace.
Dying grace is a wonderful grace asset. It is the death of a mature believer. It’s experienced at physical death. It is some sort of special provision of grace where the believer involved experiences both blessing and happiness while he dies. “That through death He might render powerless the one who has power of death, that is the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all of their lives” (Heb. 2:14-15).
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Spirituality is a status of being filled with the Holy Spirit. Spirituality is an absolute and a mandate of God. “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18). You are either spiritual or you are carnal. You are either controlled by the Holy Spirit or by the sin nature. There are no in-betweens and no degrees. “Walk by the Spirit” (Gal 5:16). There are mechanics to living the Christian life. You can’t make up the rules as you go along. Knowledge is you understanding the mechanics. Wisdom is you applying the mechanics. Faith is you trusting the mechanics. Grace is how God supplies them to you. Production is what you do when you use them. “If I regard inquiry in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). Staying filled with the Holy Spirit is the only way to live the Christian way of life. Spirituality is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is related to the content of the Word of God in your soul and is a relative. You need to learn the mechanics to grow to spiritual maturity.
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Without understanding the process and learning the protocol plan of God, you will drift in time and fail to redeem your time wisely. “See that you walk circumspectly, not as a fool but as a wise person, redoing the time because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16). The measure of greatness in the plan of God is to serve and see to the needs of others. Learning humility is key to living the Christian life. Never try to promote yourself. “Everyone who promotes himself shall be humbled but he who humbles himself shall be promoted” (Luke 14:11). When you let an irritation go to anger that is when it becomes a sin. Anger is an emotional and reactionary sin. Many people say stupid things in anger. “Do not be hasty to be angry for anger resides in the bosom of a fool” (Eccl 7:9). Anger is never isolated and often leads to other sins. Anger will hinder your prayer life. Amos 1:11 says, “Anger can destroy a nation.”
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You must be willing to come to the place in your life where you say, “Whatever it takes, Father, I want to grow. I want to be the person you want me to be.” God has a system—the process—He wants us to operate in and it’s called the protocol plan of God. You must learn it. The basis is the filling of the Holy Spirit and Biblical orientation. The process takes a lifetime as we form Christ in us and others can see Christ in us. Here are ways you can fail to learn the process: put priority on people rather than your relationship with God. Fail to execute God’s mandates especially the ones regarding love. You will fail if you attempt to execute God’s plan with your own human power rather than divine power. “Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us” (Eph 3:20).
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Winner believers are those who learn the process, which means understanding the Protocol Plan of God and glorifying God to the maximum. “Come my children and listen to me. I will teach you respect for the Lord” (Ps 34:11-14). The protocol plan of God is the process by which you grow to be a winner, one day at a time. “Guide me with Your Word and train me because You are the God of my deliverance” (Ps 25:5). Learn and live the process and God will add days to your life. “My son, do not forget my teaching and let your mind keep my commandants for the length of days and the years of life and the prosperity they will add to it” (Prog 3:1-2). Your life only has meaning when it is related to the Word of God. If you are experiencing ill health or other difficulties, look inside and see if there is sin you haven’t dealt with. Is there any unconfessed sin in your life? If so, admit your sin to God and He will be faithful and just to forgive you. If you are under divine discipline, you are losing time. “My days vanished like smoke and my bones burned like glowing embers” (Ps 102:3).
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God leaves you here for a reason. Don’t give up and rust. Your soul never gets old. When you are faithful to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ you leave a faithful witness. This is your charge from God, Psalm 71:18, “Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, do not forsake me until I declare Your strength to this generation and Your power to everyone who is to come.” Our job in old age is to declare His power and His strength. “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race and I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:6-7). When the time comes to die, you want to be able to say, “I did my job, I fought the good fight, I finished my race and I kept the faith.” Don’t let issues of health and disease distract you. These are opportunities to trust God and utilize His marvelous provisions to run the race. “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak” (Is 40:29). Every day the Word of God gives you new life and the Holy Spirit empowers you. “Be exalted Lord in your own strength and we will sing and praise Your power” (Ps 21:13). Free of worry and fear is a wonderful way to live—to have objective optimism and share the happiness of God because you have the power of God living in you.
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The Bible is an absolute standard. It is not relative and it is not subjective to the situation. It is what it is.
There are two ways to live your life. You can live it according to the absolute standard of the Bible that is alive and powerful. Or you must choose some other way to live it. You must have some other rules to govern your life, some other way to think. Since you don't want to think divine viewpoint, you are not interested in what the Bible says, then you have to come up with some sort of human viewpoint, some sort of alternative way of thinking, rationalizing, perceiving what is truth and what is fiction.
You have to learn to respect the Bible. God preserved it for you. God left it for you. It is your course correction. It is your direction in life.
The Bible was around before you got here and it’s going to be around when you are gone. It is alive and powerful. It will change you if you will believe it and learn it and live it. It will give you a history and a definition and a purpose and a meaning in your life.
The Word of God is powerful, guiding and protecting you from yourself and from Satan, who obviously has a plan to destroy you, to deceive you, to discourage you, to defeat you.
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You come to know God’s will for your life as you learn God’s Word. "Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father's Word and keep it.” (Luke 11:28). There are three sources of naivety in the believer’s life starting with ignorance of the reality of your situation, your circumstances. Another is being influenced or inspired by the wrong people or led astray by even the right people. Don’t get your eyes on people. “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). Accuracy of God’s Word being taught and learned is the issue. The third way is not realizing arrogance is a combination of sins and therefore is a corrupting power. Arrogance forms blind spots. Becoming a Christian is life-changing. “If any man is in Christ he is a new creature; old things are passed away and all things become new” (2 Col 5:17).
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The Holy Spirit is your divine mentor. He reveals the plan of God to you as you learn God’s Word and empowers you to live the plan. Perception, metabolization and application of God’s Word are how you change your life. Hear God’s Word taught by a well-qualified pastor, learn it, accept it through faith, apply it and live it. This is God’s plan for you. “That you come to understand and know Me” (Jer 9:24). You can’t love a God you don’t know. This is your new priority in life. “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you” (Matt 6:33). As a Christian, you must use your volition to choose to follow Jesus Christ every day. This means to get into His Word, learn how He thought, replicate His life by using the 10 problem-solving devices.
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The Christian life is a supernatural life lived only by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. “They that worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). Salvation is life-changing because you are now a child of God, a member of the royal family. “To all who have received Him, those who believe in His name, He has given the right to become God’s children” (John 1:12). You have a new destiny, God’s plan for your life. A future with great expectations. In the directive will of God the filling of the Holy Spirit and consisted spiritual growth gives you the ability to perceive, metabolize and apply God’s Word in your life. God’s will is for you to execute the protocol plan of God. Coming to know and understand God is your priority now.
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Your objective is to be Christlike, to think with the mind of Christ. “It is no longer I but Christ in me” (Gal 2:20). Daily you face three enemies that will try to keep you from achieving your objective: the world, the flesh (your sin nature), and the deceptions of the devil. These enemies will attempt to keep you from growing to spiritual maturity. The world and the details of life are always there trying to lure and distract you. God mandates you not to be conformed to this world or the things of this world. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is the will of God that which is good and acceptable” (Rom 12:2). You can’t serve God in the energy of the flesh. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit. “Those in the flesh cannot please God” (Rom 8:8). Personal love for God is your strongest motivation to counter the three enemies. “If you love Me you will obey Me” (John 14:15).
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“Above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it” (Prog 4:23). Scripture distinguishes between the heart and the mind. The mind is where you assimilate information, and the heart is where you store the information ready to be recalled. Your thoughts can be hijacked if you’re not careful. You guard your heart with discretion and understanding that comes from divine wisdom. When you learn the Word of God under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor and comply with it, it’s called divine wisdom. The Word of God is the belt of truth. “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right… think on these things” (Phil 4:8). Concentrating on these things is how you keep your mind from being hijacked by cosmic distortion, the lies of the world. “Set your minds on the things above, not on earthly things” (Col 3:2). Trust is your faith in action. If you trust God it eliminates fear in your life.
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Information you’ve heard and understood is knowledge. Information you’ve heard understood and applied is full knowledge. This is your objective, to apply God’s Word that you have learned and stored in your soul. The Christian life is supernatural and is to be lived under the filling of the Holy Spirit empowered by God’s Word. You live it in your mind. “Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusts in Thee” (Is 26:3). When you are occupied with Christ your mind is stayed on Him. Every day when you awake, think this: “This I recall to mind, therefore, I have hope. It is because of our Lord’s mercies we are not consumed because His compassions never fail, they are new every morning, great is His faithfulness” (Lam 3:21-23). Satan wants to capture your thoughts and get your mind off of Christ. He wants to neutralize you. Keep control of your mind by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and thinking divine viewpoint. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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Jesus Christ took our personal sins on the cross. Christ paid for them. God the Father judged Him in our place. “He [God] made Him [Christ] who knew no sin [that’s the sins perfection of Jesus] to be sin for us [He assumed our sins on the cross] so that we might be made the righteousness of God through Him” (2 Cor 5:21). Recovery from sin is based on the work of God, grace, not any works on our part. God the Father did not forgive our sins on the cross, He judged them and canceled them out. “I am He Who blots out your sin for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins” (Is 43:25). When you sin, you break fellowship with God. To restore fellowship you need to use rebound, confess your sin through silent prayer. There is only one sin that’s unforgivable and that’s the sin of unbelief - someone failing to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the anointed Son of God (1 John 5:10). The source of all sin is our volition.
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What think ye of Christ? To believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as your personal Savior is the greatest decision you could ever make. You don’t have any guarantee you will be alive tomorrow so don’t delay another minute if you haven’t his most important decision on where you will spend eternity—heaven or the Lake of Fire. God has a process for living the Christian way of life and you need to learn the process. You will have shame at the Judgment Seat of Christ if you do right things in the wrong way and if you misrepresent Jesus Christ to the world. “So that when He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him” (1 John 2:28). The key is staying filled with the Holy Spirit. If you have unconfessed sin in your life you are producing human good. God can’t allow human good in heaven. Without the filling of the Holy Spirit, you can’t glorify God.
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Our objective, running the race, is to lift up Jesus Christ our Savior and to proclaim God’s Word as truth and infallible to those who would hear it and listen. Authority orientation is critical if you want to grow up spiritually. “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God” is the way to survive in the devil’s world (1 Pet 5:6). Respond, don’t react. “Be strong and of good courage” (Deut 31:7). Client nations are formed on divine establishment principles including freedom, marriage, family and nationalism. You can see by looking at these that there is a great fracture in America today. People are preoccupied with the gifts and have forgotten the Giver. We need to heed “I command you this day to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His mandates” (Deut 30:15-16). Pray and ask God for provision and protection and strength to defeat our enemies so we may carry on as a free nation and evangelize the world by sending out missionaries. The final mandate in Deut 30:20, “That you may love the Lord your God, you may obey His voice, and you may cleave to Him, for He is your life.”
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Human viewpoint thinking is prevalent in America today. Divine viewpoint has been shoved aside. America has been going downhill ever since the Word of God started getting rejected in the public. We have discarded the rules found in the Bible. This is why it is critical you finish the race. This is your personal sense of destiny, your goal. To achieve it you must have a personal love for God because this is your motivational virtue to be faithful. “If we love Him we will obey Him” (1 John 5:3). And John says, “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). The Christian life is lived in the soul. You are competing with yourself, your volition, whether you will be obedient to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Whether we will replicate His life by means of renovating our thinking. God doesn’t need us. We need Him to finish the race. There’s only one thing that can change the decline of our nation and that is a national revival. This is only going to happen when enough people turn back to His Word (2 Chron 7:14).
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As the core group of mature believers shrinks, client nation America is in peril. America has an authority orientation problem. Unthankful, unforgiving, slanders and no self-control are terms used in the Bible to describe the people of a nation in decline. “Having a form of godliness but denying the power” (2 Tim 3:5). Paul warns us, “Turn away from these, they are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim 3:5-7). Believers must not be distracted or captured by the details of life. You must finish the race. You must pass the baton of the Word of God to the next generation. You may be sick and hurting and wishing to go to heaven but remember it’s not God’s time yet. He has a plan for you. He is still using you. Your children and your grandchildren must see the importance of the Word of God is in your life. They must see your fidelity of faith and your stance in truth. The race is not over until you put the baton in their hands.
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To live your amazing new life in Christ you’ve been given a personal coach and guide, God the Holy Spirit, as well as divine resources. “The Holy Spirit will teach you all things” (John 14:25-26). God the Holy Spirit lives in you! At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit indwells you and sealed you. This means that no one can take you out of God’s hand. “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Cor 3:16). These manifestations of the Holy Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are attributes of Christ’s thinking and must be learned. “If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3).
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You have a mind and a heart, the invisible parts of your soul. Wisdom is stored in the heart and learned in the mind. When you hear the teaching of the Word of God and you learn it, it doesn’t do any good until you apply it in your life. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” (Prov 1:7). The objective of life is to get as much Biblical wisdom as possible to have foresight and discernment to make good decisions. Without humility, you can’t orient to God’s gracious wisdom. “Arrogance only breeds quarrels but wisdom is found in those who take advice” (Prov 13:10). The wisdom of God is never relative - it is always absolute. It doesn’t change. Divine viewpoint—a lifestyle of wisdom—is the highest form of happiness that can exist in this life. It is the sum total of the Word of God you’ve learned and applied in your life.
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Volition is the chooser, the decider in your soul. Developing a FLOT line in your soul is positive volition. Negative volition is refusing to believe or learn the Word of God. Negative volition is also refusing to rebound a known sin. “If I regard inquiry in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” (Ps 66:18). If the Holy Spirit is quenched in your life by unconfessed sin, then there can be no faith perception because you’ve shut off the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians fall into negative volition by being distracted by the details of life. That’s why we’re told in the Bible to put on the full armor of God to withstand the lures of the devil’s world (Eph 6:11-17).
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When the pivot shrinks, the client nation is in trouble. The trouble comes from the spin-off of believers who get distracted and get into self-absorption substituting ritual for reality. The justice of God will meet out judgment on this nation if the next generation doesn’t take the baton and carry on the torch of truth. “He who has My Word let him speak it faithfully because My Word is like a fire and like a hammer” (Jer 23:28-29). Very few understand the mechanics of the Christian life. You can’t live in the devil’s world in a blind condition. This is why it is critical to learn and apply God’s Word. “Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” (Ps 119:105). Personal love for God is what motivated you to be obedient. “If we love Him we will obey Him and His Mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). We are in the end times of client nation America having the protection and the blessing of God if we continue on the course we’re on.
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The pivot is the core group of mature believers. As goes the pivot, so goes the nation. America is God’s designated client nation now. If America is going to survive as a free nation it depends on two things: the older generation of mature believers finishing the race and the next generation picking up the baton. Study, learn and grow. This is how you advance in the Christian life and become the person God wants you to be. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:7). If you’re not hearing the Word of God taught by a well-qualified pastor you are not going to grow. God has only one problem-solving way of thinking—divine viewpoint acquired by learning to think as Christ thought. Satan seeks to defeat America by veiling the gospel and through deception and distraction. His objective is to shut down the light so the next generation doesn’t believe In the Lord Jesus Christ. Many people are afraid to be alone and are lonely. Time alone with God is very critical, especially if you want to have a prayer life. This is how Jesus Christ spent His time when He was here on earth, “Now in the morning, having risen before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place and there He prayed” (Mark 1:35).
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Your values must come from the Bible. Your trust must be in the Lord. “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man” (Ps 118:8-9). Nations rise and fall based on the power of God and His plan. The power of Christianity is invisible and spiritual. To be a good Christian you need to stay filled with the Holy Spirit and grow spiritually. “He who gives attention to the Word shall find good and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord” (Prov 16:20). We are facing a disaster in this nation if we do not get with it spiritually.
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America is in serious trouble. We have put our trust in the strength of man and not God. “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and who makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord” (Jer 17:5). No individual can change the course of our nation. Only we believers can if we prioritize growing to spiritual maturity. We need to put our trust in God, not man. If God is proclaimed, if His name is lifted up, if His Word is taught in the pulpits and studied across this nation, then America can continue to be the land of the free. “Blessed be the man who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is the Lord” (Jer 17:7). President George Washington said, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” Jesus Christ controls history. “He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. He existed before everything and He holds everything together” (Col 1:16-17).
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As a Christian, you are a citizen of heaven, not earth. Heaven is beyond description. “The eye has not seen nor has the ear heard nor has it entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Col 2:9). There are three regions of heaven. The first heaven is the atmosphere, the oxygen we breathe and the blue skies above. The second heaven is the universe with the stars and planets. The third heaven is the abode of God. None of us can see the third heaven, the spiritual realm. God wants you to understand Him, seek and learn about Him and want to please Him. “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after Him” (Ps 14:2).
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All of us have a pardon freely given by God through the sacrificial death of His Son, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us and paid our penalty. If you accept this and believe in Jesus Christ then you have this divine pardon and the guarantee of eternal life. “He that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (1 John 5:1). “These things are written so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). God wants us to become spiritually mature. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit and have a hunger to learn God’s truth, His Word, and it’s the Holy Spirit’s job to lead you into all truth so you can understand God’s glorious plan for your life. You have to make the decision to acquire the mind of Christ. “Have this attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Have the courage to make as your number one priority, God’s Word in your life. If you are going to live for Him, you must be diligent to grow. “I will follow You” (Matt 8:18-27).
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When we don’t discipline ourselves, we wind up assassinating our spiritual lives. You must be able to control your sin nature and stay filled with the Holy Spirit. What makes you a good Christian is following the protocol plan of God. “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). How do you TRASH your spiritual life and become a castaway believer? You distort the truth. “My ways are much higher than your ways” (Is 55:8). Rebound is minimized. You don’t recover from sin and stay in carnality. You reject the authority of God’s Word. Sin is overlooked and you begin to minimize sin. You humanize God. When you are content and advancing to spiritual maturity then God will pour out more blessings on you because they won’t distract you and they won’t destroy you.
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If you want to be the person God can use, you must realize your position in Christ and not be distracted. You need to recognize when you sin, use the problem-solving device of rebound, and recover your spiritual momentum. This is key to living the Christian life. “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Eph 5:18). This is a mandate from God. Realize the importance of counting the cost, evaluating, before you undertake any project that could be a distraction to your spiritual life. “I say this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord” (1 Cor 7:35). The world will distract you, Satan will deceive you and if you let your sinful nature control you, it will destroy you. Reclaim your affections. “Do not love the world nor the things of the world” ((1 John 2:15). Use self-discipline to keep your thoughts captive. “We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ Jesus” (2 Cor 10:5). If you are going to run the race and not be set aside, you must recapture your thoughts, reclaim your affections, realize your position in Christ, redirect your focus, redefine your values and reorder your priorities. You are a product of your volition.
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You must never blend or bend in your faith. Defend the truth of God’s Word. “Retain the standard of sound doctrine that you have received from me in the faith and the love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard by means of the Holy Spirit who dwells in you the treasure which has been entrusted to you” (2 Tom 1:13-14). The quickest way for you to get disqualified from finishing the race God has set you to run is to step out of bounds, get off course, by staying in carnality. You have been given the Holy Spirit to lead you and guide you in all truth. Let Him do His job. “He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). “Be sober, be vigilant” don’t be intoxicated with the influence of the world (1 Pet 5:8). When you try to live the Christian life outside the power of the Holy Spirit and the direction of the truth of the Word of God you will fall into evil.
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The supernatural blessings and privileges you have as a member of the royal family of God do not guarantee supernatural success. You must decide to run the race, to follow the rules, to stay on course and to complete the mission. You must learn to control your volition to stay filled with Holy Spirit and not get distracted by the lures of the world or the temptations of your sin nature. This is why learning God’s Word is so important. So you have a Biblical framework, divine viewpoint, in your soul that allows your volition to see its choices and make good decisions. If you don’t, God may set you aside. “Lest after having been a herald to others, I myself could be set aside” (1 Cor 9:37). Satan would love to stop the dissemination of the truth of God’s Word. God left us here to be the proclaimers of the truth. Never be ashamed of the gospel. “I do all things for the sake of the gospel so that I may become a fellow partaker of it” (1 Cor 9:23). If you fail to proclaim the good news, you are failing to fulfill the mission that God left you here to do.
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Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and you have a new start, a new life in Christ. “If any man is in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away and behold, all things become new” (2 Cor 5:17). This simple act of faith expressed in silent prayer is the most significant decision you could ever make. Because when you do, you are born again and this is when your permanent relationship with God begins. When you believe in Jesus Christ you’re given the power of the Holy Spirit to guide and sustain you. Faith alone in Christ alone is how we get saved. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). You have so many assets and so much power available to you. Use them this year and fulfill God’s plan for your life.
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Keep your mouth shut and mind your own business. This is the motto of the Christian. “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business” (1 Thes 4:11). Have the right motivation and priority, to study God’s Word, and mind your own business and you’ll go a long way in the plan of God. “Study to show yourself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). We are never authorized as a believer to gossip, judge or slander anyone. These are some of the seven worst sins identified in the Bible. Early on in your advance to spiritual maturity, you need to learn how to control your emotions and your tongue. “Those who are wise store up knowledge but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin” (Prov 10:14). Learn when to keep your mouth shut.
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Satan can’t make you do anything. He can tempt you and your sin nature can tempt you, but the source of all sin is your volition. You choose to sin. Base your decisions on thought, not emotions. The Word of God in your soul is the only thing that will sustain you, carry you through adversity and prosperity in life. Don’t dwell on past failures. “Forgetting those things that are behind” (Phil 3:13). Move ahead in your spiritual life. Use your situation to gain an advantage. Your volition chooses to sin and your volition chooses to confess the sin. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit by using rebound to handle your sin. You need the power of the ministry of the Holy Spirit to grow as a Christian. “The Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:26).
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Jesus Christ controls history. God has a wonderful plan for your life so what is there to fear? Nothing. A relaxed mental attitude is a faith-rest approach to life. An RMA is best described as having the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). It’s your understanding and maximizing the use of impersonal and personal love. It gives you the ability to look at people (that’s virtue love) and look at circumstances (with faith-rest) in a different way so you don’t think as the rest of the world thinks. Your mental attitude is what you are at any given time throughout the day. Your thoughts drive your decisions.
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To reach spiritual maturity you must have the self-discipline to learn God’s Word on a consistent, daily basis. This requires using your volition to prioritize God’s Word in your life and to say no to the lures of the world. You must also have self-control. This is learned from the Word of God. “In your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance” (2 Pet 1:6). Knowledge of God is your objective. If you don’t stay filled with the Holy Spirit and learn God’s plan for your life, He can’t use you. You’ve become a castaway. You’re a product of your volition and decisions. Choose God and His amazing plan for your life.
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God leaves you here on this earth “To press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:14). God has given you the resources to ensure you win the race. If you are going to get the winner's crown you must have self-control, self-discipline and self-restraint. Self-control: using your volition to keep your sinful nature in check. Self-discipline: to study God’s Word daily under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. Self-restraint: avoiding the nonessential things in life and not being impulsive. The only way to know yourself is to look into the mirror of the Word of God and see yourself as you really are. But you can’t look into the mirror of God’s Word if you don’t know it. “Bodily discipline is of little profit but godliness is profitable for all things” (1 Tim 4:8). Godliness is the filling of the Holy Spirit and advancing to spiritual maturity through learning and applying the Word of God.
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A castaway believer doesn’t have the interest nor takes the time to learn God’s plan for their life so God has to set them aside and find someone else that will do the job. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior” is a mandate from God (2 Pet 3:18). God wants you to run strong and finish the race. “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one will receive the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it” (1 Cor 9:24-27). There are rules in the Christian life called the protocol plan of God. The right thing must be done in the right way. Don’t move away from grace. Don’t deviate from sound doctrine. Once you learn it, don’t leave it. Never doubt God’s timing and God’s provisions, always there and always perfect.
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Spirituality is a relationship with God the Holy Spirit. Spirituality is based on the filling of the Holy Spirit. It is an absolute. At any moment in time, you are either filled with the Holy Spirit or in carnality. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh” (Rom 13:14). “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?” (1 Cor 6:19). When you allow unconfessed sin to defile your temple you set yourself up for divine discipline. Spiritual maturity is based on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God in your soul. “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another” (1 John 1:5-10). The spiritual believer who studies and learns God’s Word will advance to spiritual maturity.
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Obedience to God is mandated in the Bible. There are hundreds of divine mandates about obedience. “For this is the love of God that we keep His mandates and His mandates are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). They aren’t hard. We are to obey God rather than men. Your volition is where you choose to obey or disobey God. Disobeying a mandate from God is a sin. Obedience requires humility and the filling of the Holy Spirit. A mandate from God is to “grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
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Accept the divine pardon God offers you by belief in His Son and you become a brand-new person in Christ. “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things become new” (2 Col 5:17). As a Christian, you can talk directly to God. You can pray anytime, anywhere, any day and you can get answers to your prayers. Beware of arrogance. Arrogance can’t handle authority, especially if authority makes an unfair decision. An arrogant person reacts in contrast to a humble person who responds to unfair authority and turns the circumstance over to the Supreme Court of Heaven. “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes” (Prov 12:15). Arrogance has to be controlled. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). As you learn and apply God’s Word you renovate your thinking. You think in terms of humility, forgiveness, respect, honor and integrity. What a great way to live!
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Often these types of crimes are committed by those we love and trust. A principle - never do business at church. “Do not fret because of the evildoers” (Ps 37:1). Use your 10 problem-solving devices and let the Lord handle it. God knows exactly what’s going on. “The eyes of the Lord are in every place watching the evil and the good” (Prov 15:3). You can count on the justice of God. The Lord is well aware of what happened to you. Trust and appreciate His care and provisions. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” (Ps 37:4).
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Our Lord depended upon the Holy Spirit to guide and strengthen Him, give Him insight, and empower Him while he lived here on earth. This is the same thing we need to do! Our Lord used the 10 problem-solving devices when He operated in the devil’s world and these same resources are available to you to use. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). A Christian who gets into perpetual carnality and doesn’t use rebound gets into revisionism. If you don’t use rebound to recover from sin you will begin to slide into revisionism. Those in revisionism can’t be distinguished from the unbeliever. You can’t think clearly in reversionism, and it leads to operation boomerang and the frantic search for happiness. You can recover from revisionism. Go to God the Father in prayer and admit your sin. Then get into God’s Word and grow. This will remove the scar tissue that has built up in your soul. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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One of the predominant lust patterns of the sin nature is power lust. Power politics is using human solutions to try and make society better. Human solutions are no solutions. Pivot politics adheres to the principles of freedom and advocates the function of the laws of divine establishment. You can be part of the solution to what our nation needs by being a part of the pivot—the group of mature believers who God recognizes as His people. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and search for Me, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear their prayer and heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14).
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You are what you think, not what you think you are. There’s no magical button to push to change how to think. You need to choose to do it. Choose to concentrate on learning the Word of God and applying the thinking of Christ in your life. “How blessed is the man whose delight is in the doctrine of the Lord and in His Word. He meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers” (Ps 1:1-3). When you take in God’s Word on a consistent basis it builds up an inventory of Biblical thoughts and you’ll think differently. You’ll learn to identify God's Truth. “Send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me” (Ps 43:3). Stress in your soul will disappear.
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Love is one of the most important critical thinking skills in the plan of God. Love is a thinking skill of appreciation, devotion, dedication and motivation. Love is thinking, not emoting—personal love for God and impersonal love for others. Personal love is what motivates us to learn the mind of Christ. “For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandants are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). Use your volition to apply your renovated thoughts to your decisions and actions. Divine viewpoint brings the tranquility of soul, peace of mind. “So that the proof of your faith (thinking), being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Pet 1:7-8).
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There is only one way to heaven. Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). A delusion of the devil is you can work your way into heaven through human good. This delusion of the devil contends that faith is not enough for salvation, that you have to do something else. The world and the flesh are capable of doing good things that are not compatible with God’s plan. As a Christian, you produce either divine good, production when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, or human good, everything done in carnality. Human good will be judged and burned up at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Human good is never acceptable to God. God provides everything you need to live your spiritual life and produce divine good. A delusion of the devil is that by being good you will get to God and that if we would all be good the world would be a much better place. This is a lie.
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Learn how to keep your sinful nature in check. Temptations are not what make you sin. You choose to sin. Sin quenches and grieves the Holy Spirit and you must use rebound, confess your sin to God, to have an effective spiritual life. If you stay in carnality God will discipline you to get your attention. “Endure your discipline; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?” (Heb 12:7). The person with humility will respond to discipline and authority and admit his own sin and failure. “For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without favoritism” (Col 3:25). Everybody gets raw deals in life and sometimes authority is unfair. Responding to unfair authority when you are young is what gets you ready for life. Put it in the Lord’s hands and let Him handle it. He will teach you a lesson through it all.
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Only those who go through the gate of Jesus Christ, faith alone in Christ alone, will be in heaven. Jesus Christ is the gate. He is the way. He is the truth. He is life. “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but only the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven” (Matt 7:21). “This is the will of the One who sent Me, that you believe in Me whom He has sent” (John 6:40). When you believe in Jesus Christ the door is opened and you walk into eternal life. Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again. For you. He is with God the Father today. You can expect, with confidence, the same thing since you are in Christ and a member of God’s royal family. “We are confident, I say, willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord” (2 Col 5:8).
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What you think is directly related to what you know. That’s why it is important to make learning the mind of Christ a daily habit. The Bible says “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). When you stay away from false information and concentrate on learning and applying Biblical truths, you will think with a divine viewpoint. But unconfessed sin will pollute your thinkin’ and block you from understanding God’s plan for your life. “Lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices” (2 Cor 2:11). Don’t let Satan use your tongue to start a fire. “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matt 7:1). Sins of the tongue originate from stinkin’ thinkin’.
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Satan’s strategy is to exploit your weaknesses and to outwit your objectives. He does it through a three-pronged attack: the world, the flesh (your sin nature), and himself. If you can’t get victory over the world and your sinful nature, Satan isn’t going to worry about you. “God will not allow you to be tested more than you are able” (1 Cor 10:13). Testing often comes in one of two forms - people or circumstances. You need to learn and use the problem-solving device of impersonal love to pass people testing. Fear will neutralize your faith. Faith is an equally opposing force to faith. Using the faith-rest drill is how you overcome fear. Religion has a lot of canine clergies and they will try to devour you. “These are false apostles, deceitful workers, pretending to be apostles of Christ” (2 Cor 11:13-15). This is how to defeat Satanic devices: Stay filled with the Holy Spirit. Stay true to the faith. Don’t deviate from sound Bible doctrine. Sit under a well-qualified pastor. Grow in grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Hear, keep and apply God’s Word. This is how you counter Satanic devices. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:2). To do this it’s essential you get under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor because this man’s job is to shepherd your soul. “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that He might promote you at the proper time” (1 Pet 5:6). A humility profile is required for you to glorify God to the maximum. Satan’s strategies include trying to get the congregation to question the leadership and authority of the pastor, judge each other, and focus on the failures of others rather than on self. If you mess with a pastor, you’re messing with God’s man and the result will be bad for you. To counter Satanic devices, you must stay in fellowship with God by taking responsibility for your sins and using problem-solving device number one—rebound.
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Don’t be ignorant of Satan’s schemes. “So that no advantage be taken of us” (2 Cor 2:11). Satan’s objective is to exploit your weaknesses, outwit your objectives and circumvent God’s desires for you. The world is controlled by Satan, and he uses it as a decoy to lure you. He will offer you happiness and security, but he can’t provide either. “Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15-17). The world is a mirage. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is good and acceptable in the perfect will of God” (Rom 12:2).
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God loves you! His essence is love. “God is love” (1 John 4:8). God’s love is manifested to you in many ways. First He sent His uniquely born Son to be judged and die for your sin. God’s love never changes. He is immutable. God’s one is demonstrated in His promises and provisions. His promise of eternal life and eternal security. Nobody can take you out of God’s hand. God’s presence within you demonstrates His love for you. “You will show me the path of life; in your presence is fullness of joy” (Ps 16:11). His power over love and over death also show His love. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the only cure for a broken heart.
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God sent his Son to pay for your sin. It is a grace gift. God gives you a divine pardon because He loves you. If you believe Jesus Christ paid the penalty for your sin and accept Him as your Savior you are guaranteed life after death. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). You need to realize you will still commit sins. You need to know how to recover from sin. You need to know and use problem-solving device #1, rebound, 1 John 1:9. Name your sin to God the Father and He will forgive you. Here’s where you get victory over your sin nature, “If we will walk in the Spirit [stay filled with the Holy Spirit] we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal 5:16-17). All of us fail. All of us make mistakes. If you are alive, if you’re breathing, know God is not finished with you. He has a unique plan for you. “I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you” (Heb 13:5).
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We all must die. You can’t take this body to heaven, it won’t work there. You need a resurrection body. When you die your body will go to the grave, and your soul and spirit will go straight to heaven. “The eye has not seen nor has the ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor 2:9). Jesus Christ loves you. He died for you. He took your place. “This is the Son of God” (Matt 27:54). If you believe this, faith alone in Christ alone, you are guaranteed eternal life. “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). In heaven, you will be evaluated on those things you did here on earth while you were filled with the Holy Spirit and glorifying God to the maximum. Will it be gold, silver, and precious stones, which are rewardable? Or did you spend most of your life in carnality so all your good deeds are considered wood, hay, and stubble and burned up? Whether you hear, “Well done My good and faithful servant” depends on how you live your life. Click for Full Transcript: https://rhem.pub/live-even-e14fc9
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Becoming a spiritually mature believer takes time and requires you consistently grow, learn and apply God’s Word. This is how you come to know God. “Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ” (Eph 4:15) Spiritual maturity is relative and dependent on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God in your soul. Learning God’s Word requires academic discipline, concentration, and repetition taught by a well-qualified pastor. The advance to spiritual maturity is a progression through self-esteem and spiritual autonomy. Spiritual autonomy is relying on God’s Word for direction, not the advice of people. Self-esteem brings contentment and confidence knowing God has a plan for you. “Godliness is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment” (1 Tim 6:6). Mental contentment, being satisfied with where God has you and what He has you doing is stability in life. This is the key to advancing to spiritual maturity.
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Spirituality is absolute. At any moment in time, you are either filled with the Holy Spirit or controlled by your sin nature. Your volition decides which controls your life. The Christian life must be lived with the supernatural power God gives you—the filling of the Holy Spirit and the God’s Word, the Bible, which is “alive and powerful” (Heb 4:12). Spirituality is not avoiding some pet taboo such as not drinking or not smoking. Spirituality is a relationship with God the Holy Spirit. At the moment of salvation, you were sealed and indwell by the Holy Spirit. Spirituality occurs when you are filled with the Holy Spirit (no unconfessed sin in your life). “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ (be filled with the Holy Spirit) and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts” (Rom 13:14). Spirituality is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God in your soul. Click for Full Transcript: https://rhem.pub/spirituality-explained-0e77e1
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When you catch yourself thinking with a human viewpoint, stop and reorient your thinking. Stinkin’ thinkin’ is thinking with human viewpoint, not divine viewpoint. It has to do with bad attitudes and negative volition to learning and thinking with the mind of Christ. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Prov 23:7). As a Christian, you must respect the Word of God and learn it. “Whatever is honorable” (Phil 4:8). Within God’s Word, we are to respect the laws of divine establishment: the individual with volition; marriage; family and nationalism. The public arena is the main area of contention used by Satan today to weaken and dissolve the USA.
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What you think reveals the real you. Man looks at the outward appearance, God looks in your mind. Your spiritual life is lived in your thoughts. This study focuses on stinkin’ thinkin’—thinkin’ based on human viewpoint, not divine viewpoint. The Bible is very clear about how to think. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Rom 12:2). How do you renew your thoughts? By studying the mind of Christ. “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things” (Phil 4:8).
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The Word of God and the filling of the Holy Spirit can give you the confidence and the courage to endure the great pressures that can, and will, come your way. Take confidence in this—for you nothing is abnormal, it’s all in God’s plan. You are valuable to God. “What time I am afraid I will trust in Thee” (Ps 56:3). Fear is a sin and can ruin your life. “Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9). Physical courage is a human virtue but spiritual courage is a required character asset called faith. Here are three mandates from God for you to reach occupation with Christ: “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me” (Matt 16:24). This can only be accomplished with confidence in God’s promise of divine provident protection and spiritual courage. God’s problem-solving devices are designed to remove the cobwebs of fear in your soul and replace them with confidence from Scripture and courage under the filling of the Holy Spirit.
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Our Lord granted a Divine Pardon to a criminal crucified beside Him on the cross because the criminal “believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and was saved” (Acts 16:31). You also can get a Divine Pardon. “Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). As long as you are alive, God has a reason for you being here. Regardless of your faults and failures, God has a plan for your life.
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Your volition controls you. The decisions you make determine the life you lead. You decide. You choose. Your thoughts become your decisions and then your actions. If you use your volition in an arrogant way, with an unrealistic self-image and unrealistic expectations, you will destroy yourself. “He who obeys instructions guards his own soul, but he who is contemptuous of his own ways will die” (Prov 19:16). But if you have humility and use your volition to learn God’s Word to get the Fantastic Four: wisdom, knowledge, insight, and understanding. “He who pursues virtue love finds capacity for life, prosperity, and honor” (Prov 21:21).
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The three lives of a Christian: physical, spiritual, and eternal in heaven. God adds the soul to biological life, birth, creating physical life. “I will give thanks to You because I am wonderfully made” (Ps 139:14). Physical life is an opportunity to glorify God. Physical life is temporal. It must end because this body won’t work in heaven. The spiritual life, your second life, begins when you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. “If anyone is born in Christ he is a new creature and the old things are passed away” (2 Cor 5:17). You are born physically alive but spiritually dead. That’s why you need a second life to get to the third life, everlasting life.
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If you are in Christ, you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are a new racial species called a Christian (2 Cor 5:17). We all have Adam’s genetically formed sin nature in our bodies and as a result, we are spiritually dead. This is why we need to be born again to have a new life in Christ. “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). We worship God through the filling of the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the truth of the Word of God. By changing the way we think from a human viewpoint to a divine viewpoint and by acquiring divine wisdom we can replicate the life of Christ and re-present Him to our generation. “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:29-30).
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You live your spiritual life in your mind. Divine viewpoint is learning how God thinks. “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). The Bible is the mind of Christ and this is why it is so important to study the Word of God under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor who can teach it to you. The Bible is a textbook and it is designed to be taught to you. You defeat Satan's strategy toward you. by thinking with the mind of Christ. God wants you to have a FLOT line in your soul to combat the satanic invasion of your mind. “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You” (Is 26:3). If you are occupied with Christ, problem-solving device #10, you can have this perfect peace.
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This is an amazing time to live as a Christian. God has given us unique resources. We are indwelled by God the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ lives in us, and we have the living Word of God. We have qualified pastors, local churches, free sound Biblical studies. There’s no reason each one of us can’t reach spiritual maturity and hear “Well done, My good and faithful servant” from God the Father. Let’s get with it! Your human IQ is not a constraint. Spiritual IQ is what matters. We all have equal privilege and equal opportunity in the Royal Family of God. “The Lord’s mercies are renewed every morning. Great is His faithfulness” (Lam 3:22).
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God can use you in spite of your failures. Are you in prison because you committed some atrocity such as murder and you think God can’t forgive you? God can and does. Jesus Christ died for all of our sins. He freed us from the penalty of sin. Sin leaves scars and sometimes more problems. The only way to handle the problem of sin is to use rebound. Name your sin to God the Father and He will forgive you every time. Satan wants you to wallow in guilt. Guilt is a sin. The biggest mistake in the guilt pit is you go back and dig up your past failures. Rebound removes the guilt. God wants you to rebound, advance spiritually and not look back. “Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:13-14). Redeem the time - you only have so long to live.
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Faith is the trait God is looking for in all of us. “Without faith, it is impossible to please God.” To be the man or woman God intends for you to be you need to adhere to and follow the protocol plan of God and develop your spiritual life. Then God can use you. God can’t use cowards. No fear of fulfilling God’s plan. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim 1:7). God can’t use a self-centered person and He can’t use a quitter. “Not that I have already attained or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me” (Phil 3:12).
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God is looking for humble men and women. Humility = teachability. If you’re not willing to learn God’s plan, in spite of your efforts, your energy, your desire, God can’t use you. God is looking for those with positive volition, hunger for learning the Word of God and committed to making it a daily habit. Learn and apply to grow spiritually. Renovate your thinking from a human viewpoint to a divine viewpoint. Understand grace orientation. “A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless” (Prov 14:6).
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The birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah, is what we celebrate on Christmas Day. This is the single most critical moment in human history. God loves you so much He sent His uniquely born Son to pay for your sin. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 2:21). Jesus Christ came to this world and was born to die to solve our sin problem. There were three distinct announcements of our Lord’s birth in Scripture. All were done by a special, supernatural visit by an angel, once in a dream and two times face-to-face. God continues to divulge supernatural things to us today, but not through angels. He communicates to us through His Word, the Bible.
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Christmas is when we celebrate the most incredible gift that mankind has ever known—the gift of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. The truth is Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God. “For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all people” (Titus 2:11). A wish for a Merry Christmas should be a wish for all to know the joy of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. “Seek ye the Lord” (Is 55:6). The Messiah had come and the shepherds made the issue of salvation very clear. “He that believes on the Son has everlasting life” (John 3:36). Jesus Christ was born for one purpose—to die on the cross so that through Him we have everlasting life. From the beginning of His earthly life, He was identified with death. The shadow of the cross loomed over Him His entire life because at that moment God proclaimed to the world that the death of Jesus Christ, His Son, was even more significant than His life.
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Things can easily distract us, and so can the absence of them. “Take heed and beware of covetousness for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses” (Luke 12:15). Blessings come and blessings go, the Source remains the same (1 Chron 29:12).
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things (blessings) shall be added to you” (Matt 6:33). As a mature Christian, others can be blessed by the overflow of blessings bestowed on you. Spiritual possessions, what’s in your soul, matters most, and are the only things you can take with you when you depart this life.
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We are one in Christ. When we believe in Jesus Christ we become a new racial species—a member of the royal family of God. “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation” (2 Cor 5:17). God offers us a different way of living, A guarantee of a full life filled with meaning, purpose, definition, and lasting happiness. To live it - renovate your thinking. Think divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. “When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you, understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11).
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God’s peace is available to anyone who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). You can have peace with God because you are free of His judgment. Peace with God comes from accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior. “My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled. Do not be afraid” (John 14:27-28). The peace of God and objective optimism come from staying filled with the Holy Spirit, learning God’s Word and having a relaxed mental attitude by using the faith-rest drill. There is no greater peace for a Christian than to know you are exactly in the middle of the will of God fulfilling His plan for your life. God wants you to be an Agent of His Peace. You can be an agent of peace by growing to spiritual maturity and being a messenger of God. “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:13-14). “Go forth unto all the world preaching the gospel” (Mark 16:15).
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Will you have an impact in the devil’s world? You must decide. You can only have an impact if you choose to renovate your thinking and grow to spiritual maturity. “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:28-29). This is how you will be made rich spiritually because you will develop a treasure in your soul, the treasure of the Word of God in your soul. You’re not here to clean up the devil’s world, that’s not your job. God will handle this. Your job is to grow spiritually. Satan’s worried about you thinking like Christ thought, learning divine viewpoint, using the problem-solving devices, being part of the pivot that will hold this nation together.
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God is simply asking you to be faithful to hear and learn His Word, use it, and live by His system of principles and precepts. If you do this, God promises you “length of days, long life and peace shall they add to you” (Prov 3:1-2). God is looking for men who will stand in the pulpit and teach God’s Word. God is looking for men and women of faith. “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6). This means you must understand and use the faith-rest drill. You are the convincing agent through which God works. When you walk out of your house you are in a mission field. God doesn’t draft you into His service. You must volunteer to serve. “Choose you this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15).
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God has blessed our nation abundantly. Yet we have turned away from God and divine establishment principles. We’ve taken our eyes off the Giver and are focused on the gifts and we’ve become an arrogant nation. Our nation is involved in a lot of sin. Dishonesty, hypocrisy, greed have become the norm. “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord” (Jer 17:5). The Bible warns us we can’t change anyone but ourselves. That’s where it starts. We need to be spiritual influencers if our nation has any chance of recovering.
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Arrogance is the number one enemy to the Christian. Satan uses arrogance and you can’t afford to let him manipulate you by appealing to your arrogance. Arrogance is always identified by self-justification. Self-justification leads to self-deception which leads to self-absorption which ultimately leads to self-destruction. If you’re thinking, “Why did God have to discipline me” you’re in a bad place in life. “When arrogance comes, then comes dishonor” (Prov 11:2). Humility is the code word for respect for authority and it’s orientation fo the grace of God. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low but a lifestyle of humility will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). When you take on this attitude of humility based on divine viewpoint and orientation to the authority of God, humbling yourself, then God can use you. God promises that the humble believer who is grace-oriented will be promoted. “God opposes the arrogant but He gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).
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You can fulfill the plan of God for your life if you use the spiritual skills He gives you to find your personal sense of destiny. You can have your earnest expectation. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me…you will find rest in your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:29-30). Absolute expectations about your eternal security and eternal destiny. We magnify Christ in our bodies by learning His mind through the study of the Word of God. Requires humility, obedience to God’s authority and application of Biblical principles.
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Have you been diverted—your mind is distracted from the serious concerns of the Word of God—from the objective of the Christian life? Are you distracted by a relationship, prosperity, new job, family issues, etc.? “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28). Paul cautioned us, “According to my earnest expectations and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Phil 1:20). A personal sense of destiny, problem-solving device #6, requires you to understand the plan of God for your lives and how to use the provisions He gave you.
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Prolonged carnality will cause your heart (your mind) to be scarred over and become calloused and hardened. “Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart” (Eph 4:17-20). The Word of God can’t be learned and stored in your soul without the filling and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. To get rid of a hardened heart you have to use rebound (1 John 1:9) to handle sin and let the Word of God flow into your soul to wash out the pollution.
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You were bought out of the slave market of sin and given freedom in Jesus Christ. What will you do with the freedom Christ provides you? “Serve wholeheartedly serving the Lord, not people, because you know the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slaves or free (Eph 6:7-8). You must choose to serve Jesus Christ. It is voluntary. “You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve” (Matt 4:10). “In whatever you do in word or in deed, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ” (Col 3:17). Putting into practice the Word of God you’ve learned is to know the love of Christ. “And to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge so that you might be filled with the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19). Jesus Christ asks you to demonstrate your love to Him by being faithful. Remember, you are in full-time Christian service.
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Manliness is a mental state, not a physical attribute. Thought, not muscle, determines the true man. The man God is looking for must control his emotions. “Don’t be hasty to be angry for anger resides in the bosom of the fool” (Eccl 7:9). A man must practice the 3R’s: recognize sin; rebound sin and resume living the spiritual life. If God is going to deliver the USA we must have men to stand in pulpits and accurately teach the Word of God. A mature spiritual man will replicate the thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you can think like Christ you can live as He lived. God is looking for spiritually mature men. “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send and who will go for Us?’ And then I said, ‘Here am I, send me!’” (Is 6:8-9).
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You were bought and paid for by means of the spiritual death of Jesus Christ on the cross. He took your place. He took your sin and God the Father gave you His righteousness at the moment of salvation. God the Holy Spirit lives inside of you. “The Helper the Holy Spirit home the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you” (John 14:26). He gives us supernatural spiritual strength to survive the assaults we face each day. The Holy Spirit is your energy, your power. He enlightened you and encourages you in your spiritual journey. The claim of ownership by Jesus Christ is the basis for eternal appreciation and for eternal worship. “He set the seal of ownership upon us.” (2 Col 1:22).
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We are to become Christ-like. We are to learn and use God’s Word and grow up spiritually. “To the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Eph 4:13). Spiritual humility is you depending on God’s resources, God’s power and His grace provisions for you. “Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord” (James 4:10). The humility of the soul is you constantly evaluating yourself in the light of God’s Word. Humility as a way of thinking must become a way of life. The humility profile, “To sum it all up, be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted and humble in spirit” (1 Pet 3:18). Passions must not become priorities or you will lose focus. “We are to be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of our prayer. Above all keep loving one another earnestly since love can cover a multitude of sins” (1 Pet 4:7-8).
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God has given you the divine assets of the Bible, the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. Use these to live and “be in holy conduct” awaiting the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. “Since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of person ought you to be in holy conduct” (2 Pet 3:11). This takes applying problem-solving devices. “By this, we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep His mandates” (1 John 5:2). Your job is to fulfill the commission of why God left you here—to re-present Him and hasten the end of this sin-infected universe. “The Lord is not willing that any should perish” (2 Pet 3:9).
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God created the universe in one day and He is going to destroy it in one day. “Heaven and earth will pass away” (Matt 24:25). The body you have now won’t work in heaven. Your body is infected with sin just as the entire universe in infected with sin and that is why it must be destroyed. Satan goes all over the universe. “We fight spiritual wickedness in heavenly places” (Eph 6:12). Satan is a master deceiver and has amazing deceptive abilities. If Satan could deceive one-third of the angels and convince them to follow him in rebellion against God in eternity past, imagine what he is doing now. Don’t ever think you’re a match for his brilliance. You need the Word of God in your soul to counter his deceptive abilities. “While you wait on these things, I command you to be diligent so that you will be found by Him to be in peace without spot and blameless” (2 Pet 3:11-14).
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God’s Word reveals God’s plan. “The Word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Pet 1:25). It is alive, powerful, sharp and discerners of thoughts and intents of the heart. Scripture learned and applied is what gives you the strength to handle things in your life.
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You must guard your soul with the Word of God. “Guard your soul with all diligence because out of it are the issues of life” (Prov 4:23). You guard your soul by learning and applying God’s Word. You’re in a spiritual war. As long as you allow God the Holy Spirit to control your life then you can be in tune with God’s will, plan and purpose for your life. The secret to learning God’s Word is staying filled with the Holy Spirit so you can be empowered by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). The Holy Spirit will not allow false doctrine to cycle into your soul because it would be a sin. “To him that knowers to do good and doth not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17). Only the Holy Spirit can verify what’s true. Only the Holy Spirit can allow you to have fellowship with God.
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God is looking for a few good men. “I searched for a man among them, a man who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land so that I should not destroy it” (Ezekiel 22:29-31). What will happen in this country is a direct result of what we choose to think. Whether we choose to think like spiritually oriented men or think like males. Serving the Lord Jesus Christ is a voluntary mission. No one’s going to force you to do it. Have you forgotten God? “They had forgotten God” (Ezekiel 22:12 and 23:25). This is a warning to you personally and to the United States. “Therefore says the Lord God, 'Because you have forgotten Me, because you cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment for your lewdness.’” Individually and as a nation we need to humble ourselves and return to God. “If My people which are called by My name will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways” (2 Chron 7:14). For God to deliver this nation you are going to have to learn God’s Word, execute the spiritual life, orient to God's authority and not deviate from His Word.
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You have the capacity to destroy yourself by what you think. If you don’t think right, you won’t do what is right. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Prov 23:7). Change the way you think to a divine viewpoint by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and studying under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor as he teaches you the Word of God. You are in full-time Christian service. “Put on the armor of God” (Eph 6:11). Have you ever wondered why the Bible tells us very little about the first 30 years of the life of Jesus Christ? Perhaps it’s because He was studying His Father’s Word preparing Himself for the battles ahead to be victorious on the cross. You might be surprised the way your life would go if you would quit following your own desires and submit yourself to what God desires. “Nevertheless, not My will but Thy will be done” (Matt 26:39).
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If you allow the world, your sin nature, or Satan to control your life you will end up with a sick soul. You make choices. When you use your volition to make a decision to allow the lures of the world or any of the other enemies to capture your thoughts then your sin nature takes control. You have a simple, wonderful, grace provision called rebound and you can refresh your sick soul with this. God promises “I will never leave you, I will never forsake you” (Heb 13:5). Once you’ve confessed your sin put it out of your mind and move on in your spiritual life. Name your sin to God (1 John 1:9). Isolate your sin (Heb 12:15). Forget your sin (Phil 3:13). Move on in your spiritual life (Phil 3:14). God never gets tired of forgiving the sins you acknowledge to Him. “Where sin increases, grace increases all that much more” (Rom 5:20).
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The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God we learn and uses it to lead in representing the lifestyle of Christ to others. If “we will walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:16). You need to be filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit to acquire the mind of Christ. As you begin to think like Christ thought you will develop discernment. An enemy of the soul is a lack of discernment. If your soul is not firmly grounded in God’s Word, you will be tempted by the lures of Satan’s world. “I have a lot of things I want to teach you, but you are dull of hearing” (Heb 5:11). It’s time you get serious about studying the Word of God daily under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. To know the Word of God and apply it is wisdom. “The soul of the discerning person seeks knowledge and wise men seek understanding” (Prov 18:15).
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Emotions cannot produce muscle in your soul. The Bible very clearly teaches that when we allow emotions to control our thoughts, we are allowing the sin nature to control our souls. Satan wants you to rely on your emotions because they’ll take you away from God’s plan. If you think, you’re going to be thinking about God’s plan. “Stop becoming non-thinkers, but continue to become spiritually intelligent about God’s will” (Eph 5:17). You have to make a conscious effort to put distance between your soul and emotions. Transfer your trust from yourself to trusting God. Trust the One who gave His life for you. “The Lord is my portion of my inheritance says my soul. I will put my hope in Him” (Lam 3:21-26).
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Your volition guards the gate of your soul, the mentality of your soul. If you want to be a spiritually mature believer, it requires a series of volitional decisions every day. You made the decision to believe in Christ. Now you must make the decision to handle personal sin as soon as it occurs using rebound (1 John 1:9). Then make the decision to consistently learn the Word of God and grow in grace and knowledge. You must be willing to stand boldly and proclaim Christ. “Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:5). You must decide to keep your priorities straight and finish the race. “I fought a good fight, I finished the course, I kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7). The final challenge is done—you have the strength to walk alone if you need to.
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An unbeliever is described as a natural man. The natural man has no spiritual life, no eternal relationship with God. “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised” (1 Cor 2:14). A natural man doesn’t have a living human spirit so can’t understand spiritual things. “May God sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thes 5:23). A natural man will spend eternity in the lake of fire. Why? Because a natural man rejects the grace gift of God, salvation. Rejects that Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God.
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The Bible mandates you are to study, grow, learn God’s plan and apply it in your life and stay out of sin. There is a door to doom called the sin unto death. It comes as a result of a lifestyle of sin, prolonged carnality. It is maximum divine discipline. God uses divine discipline to get your attention before you go through this door. “For whom the Lord loves He punishes and He scourges with a whip every son that He receives” (Her 12:5-6). Taking communion in a perpetual state of carnality is another way to get under the sin unto death (1 Cor 11:27-31). You don’t lose your salvation. Once saved, always saved. But you will likely suffer a miserable death and it implies loss of rewards and blessings in eternity. Do. Not play games with God. Admit your sin, use 1 John 1:9 rebound, before it is too late.
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We all have volition and a sin nature and the ability to destroy ourselves. We have three enemies: the world, the flesh (sin nature) and the devil. Satan wants to distract you, to discourage you and to defeat you. “Satan goes around like a roaring lion seeking whom he can devour” (1 Pet 5:8). You can become a spiritual failure when you lack self-control. You must control your volition and your decisions and you do this by using the problem-solving devices.” Be not deceived God will not be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will also reap” (Gal 6:7).
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In spite of the injustice you may face, you can’t afford to be sidetracked by circumstances or by people who drive these circumstances. You must finish the race. You must complete the course God set for you. “I have competed well, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7). Arrogance will bring you low. Arrogance justifies why it’s OK to sin. “God makes war against the arrogant but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). To fail to fulfill God’s plan is sin. “Take care that this liberty of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak” (1 Cor 8:9). You never want to be an issue in anyone’s life, be a stumbling block. They don’t need to be looking at you. Rather they need to look at God and His Word.
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God’s love is unfailing. He will never abandon you. God’s love is shown to you “God sent His only begotten Son into the world so you might live eternally with Him” (1 John 4:9). This is amazing love. You didn’t earn it and you don’t deserve it. But it is yours by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior. God’s unfailing love continues into eternity. We serve God because we love Him. This is our motivational virtue in life. “For this is the love of God that we keep His mandates and His mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). Our faithfulness is the demonstration of our love for Him.
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“God is love” (1 John 4:8). “In this was manifested the love God toward us that God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live eternally through Him” (1 John 4:9). The only way that you become righteous and acceptable to God is through Jesus Christ. At the moment of salvation, you are given God’s righteousness. “The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him and on those whose confidence is in His unfailing love” (Ps 33:18). It’s very easy to get emotional when talking about God and God’s love but the Christian life isn’t lived on emotions. It is lived in the mind. Self-control is critical in the battle of mind over emotions. “Patience is better than power and controlling your emotions better than capturing a city” (Prov 16:32).
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If America is destroyed it will be our fault because we did not advance our spiritual lives. We did not do our part which is to grow to spiritual maturity and be a member of the pivot of our nation. What Americans are thinking in their souls, not who’s running the country, determines the course of our nation. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). The blame is twofold: failure of pastors to teach accurately the mechanics of salvation and the spiritual life and failure of Christians to be the light and the salt of this nation. Mature believers preserve the nation through their invisible and historical impact and are light re-presenting Jesus Christ in a dark world. Will you do your part so God will deliver America? Will you be this person? “Lord, here am I, send me” (Is 6:8).
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“Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). That’s how you live the Christian way of life. God is looking for you to know Him and understand Him. We are mandated to grow spiritually. “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed accurately handling the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). Simply put, you are to stay in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, study the Word of God, and learn about the grace of God and His protocol plan to function in His plan for you (Jer 9:23-24).
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You have to learn to control the sin nature or it will control you. One of the greatest tragic flaws in life is the failure to see who you really are. Self-centered arrogance is a door to doom. Four attitudes that open the door because of selfish ambition are wrong thinking; wrong motivation; wrong decisions; and wrong actions. “Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interest of others” (Phil 2:3-4). Lack of self-control is another door. The law of volitional responsibility. God holds you accountable for your decisions. If you cause other believers to stumble in their faith you have entered a door to doom. “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come” (Luke 17:1).
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“Let every soul be in subjection to the governing authorities” (Rom 13:1-2). This includes tyrannical and unjust authorities. God has allowed the authority and you are to be subject to it. God puts us under the authority and we are to obey it. God will judge abusive authority. God demands you leave judgment to Him (Deut 32:35, Matt 7:1-2). Arrogance makes you want to take justice into your own hands. Momentum is hearing and keeping God’s Word. You can’t build a divine viewpoint unless you’re being taught and learning the Word of God. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by means of the Word of God” (Rom 10:17).
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Your soul has four enemies: sin, arrogance, evil and emotion. With sin, you have three enemies: the world, the devil and the flesh. The world will distract you from advancing spiritually. The world is a distractor. Satan is a deceiver. Your flesh, the sin nature, is a destroyer. “If we walk in the Spirit [stay filled with the Holy Spirit] we won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Sin is any thought, any word or any action that violates the character or standards of God. Failure to grow spiritually is a sin. The lack of knowledge of God’s Word in your soul prevents you from recognizing sin. "Keep away from the desires of the flesh which wage war against your soul” (1 Pet 2:11).
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Developing a FLOT Line in your soul by learning and using the 10 problem-solving devices will keep stress out of your soul. The thoughts that fill your soul are what make the difference. “So that you may be blameless and pure children of God even though you live in the middle of a crooked and perverse society among whom you shall shine as lights in the world” (Phil 2:15). Your spiritual life is lived in your soul. God approves the soul focused on the His Word.
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Your soul is the invisible, immortal you and without it there is no life. Your soul has a conscience, self-consciousness, volition and mentality. When you come to God-consciousness if you think “Yes, I want to know God” God will ensure you hear the gospel in your own language. If you want to know, He will reveal it. Grace and the truth of God’s Words are God’s standards of thinking for you. Only by thinking with divine viewpoint and acting with faith can you have an understanding of God’s plan for your life. “Stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance but think in terms of sanity as God has assigned to each one of us the standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). Volition is your decision-maker and guards the entrance to your soul. The conscience is the protector of the soul. It houses your norms and standards, what your thoughts and actions are based on. Study, learn and grow - this is the process of the Christian life. Keep your eyes on the objective. “Looking to Jesus Christ, the author and the finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2).
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You can’t afford to be trapped in Satan’s world, the cosmos diabolicus. The inevitable consequence of man getting involved in Satan’s cosmic system is chaos. Satan doesn’t have the power nor the ability to control the inhabitants of the earth. Man can’t solve problems using human solutions. Americans have turned away from God and to the cosmic system and this is one of the reasons America is being brought to her knees - national and political arrogance. “You have become estranged from Christ, you have fallen from God’s grace” (Gal 5:4). “Having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and concerning faith have suffered shipwreck of their souls” (1 Tim 1:19).
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The real you is invisible—it is your soul. The real you is your soul - your thinking. “As a man thinks in his soul so he is” (Ps 23:7). A man and woman can copulate and produce biological life, but only God can give soul life. “The Lord is the One who stretches out the heavens and the One who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the soul of a man within him” (Zech 12:1). Our bodies age and die but our souls live forever. The souls of everyone, without exception, will spend eternity either in heaven or in the Lake of Fire. The decision you make about Jesus Christ today while you’re on this earth will determine the final destiny of your soul for all eternity so choose wisely. Choose the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. “He who believes in the Son has eternal life and he who does not obey the mandate to believe in the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him forever” (John 3:36). We choose the eternal destiny of our soul.
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Jesus Christ redeemed us out of the save market of sin. Our debt to God has been paid in full and we are now free of the penalty of death and free of the power of sin. “For by grace are you saved through faith” (Eph 2:8-9). Allowing sin to control your life and making a series of bad decisions is a door to doom. “Thank God for His grace that gives us victory over sin and the victory over death in Christ Jesus our Lord” (1 Col 15:57). Don’t hide anything from God - He sees. “If you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door and it desires to dominate it. You must subdue it” (Gen 4:7). You subdue sin by using problem-solving devices #1 and #2. Use Rebound, confess your sins to God, and stay filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Knowledge is something you understand and wisdom is what you believe and apply to your life. All wisdom for the Christian comes from the Word of God. “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt 4:4). Wisdom gives you insight and discernment to make good decisions. The Word of God teaches problem-solving as thinking skills. Perception means you listen to the Word of God. Cognition means you understand it. Metabolization means using faith you apply it in your thinking. With positive volition and using God’s grace provisions, you will reach His desired will and purpose for your life. “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you; not the peace the world gives. Let not your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27).
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Faith is required to live the phenomenal Christian life. Wisdom is a process, it is not inherited. Faith is how we begin the process of acquiring divine wisdom. “Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6). Divine wisdom, divine viewpoint thinking, is our advantage. “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” (Ps 119:105). As you learn and apply the Word of God through faith, you’ll acquire wisdom and find yourself moving to great confidence and stability in life. To a place of great peace and no fear.
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If security is more important to you than your freedom, you are misled. Don’t sell your freedom for security. The only security we have is the confidence we have in the grace of God to protect us and to provide for our every need. “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor 12:9). God has a master plan and it is revealed in His Word. National problems and personal problems are solved by learning and applying God’s Word into our lives. “I would seek unto God and unto God will I commit my cause” (Job 5:8). Soul food, the Word of God, is more important than physical food. As a winner believer growing to spiritual maturity God will deliver you from imminent danger. “Man is born into trouble” (Job 5:7). This is why you need a FLOT line in your soul.
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Hell is a real place. And there is a worse place than Hell. Unbelievers are brought out of Hell to the Great White Throne of Judgment and once they are found lacking, they are then cast into the Lake of Fire. Those who reject accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior will spend everlasting life in the Lake of Fire in everlasting suffering and punishment. “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into eternal life” (Matt 25:46). The Lake of Fire will be there as long as heaven is there for the Scripture calls both of these everlasting - everlasting punishment and everlasting life. It’s your choice. “Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
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Jesus Christ controls history. Don’t worry. Live with an RMA, a relaxed mental attitude, Free of stress - It’s a great way to live. “No weapon formed against you will prosper…This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord” (Is 54:17). Fear is a sin. Fear is a symptom of assuming an unassigned responsibility. “Whenever I am afraid I will trust in You” (Ps 56:3). Whenever you have a Conflict it calls for Courage. Living with an RMA produces Confidence in God’s provisions and protection and leads to Contentment and great Capacity for life. Having an RMA you can think under pressure. You can recall relevant Biblical principles and apply them to your situation. Living with an RMA gives you harmony. Harmony in the thinking, the functioning of your spiritual life.
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God mandates ‘No Fear.’ “Do not fear, I am with you” (Is 41:10). Worry is not a way of thinking for a Christian. We must think with a divine viewpoint. Pick up the shield of faith. Stand behind the promises of God. Focus on His solution and not the problem—the solution is to orient and adjust to the plan of God. “Worry in the heart of a man weighs it down, but a good word produces a superabundance of happiness” (Prov 12:25). God provides logistical grace for you. He keeps you alive. You are not to worry. “Cast all your burdens on the Lord, He will sustain you” (Ps 55:22).
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Your number one priority is to feed your soul with the Word of God. If you put this off, you are a spiritual sluggard. “Go to the ant, you sluggard. Observe her ways and be wise” (Prov 6:6-11). Putting your eyes on anyone but the Lord Jesus Christ can lead you through a door to doom. “Focus on Him who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross” (Heb 12:2). Lack of self-control and not taking responsibility for your decisions will also lead to doom and gloom. If you are a stumbling block to other Christians you enter into divine discipline. “It’s inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come” (Luke 17:1). You must know Scripture. This is where you get your strength from - from using His Word under the power of the filling of the Holy Spirit.
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You have the power to change the course of history by your invisible impact as light in the world. You are here to be the lighthouse. Jesus Christ is called Light. “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in darkness” (John 8:12). When you learn God’s Word it gives you light to see what lies ahead and understand God’s plan for you. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105). God wants you to be a bright and shining star - to have wisdom. He wants you to grow to spiritual maturity and be a winner believer so you will emanate light in eternity. The translucent robe of glory worn over the resurrection body is the highest decoration awarded to any Church Age believer.
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“This is the day the Lord has made” (Ps 118:24). It is a day of opportunity. Let your light shine! This is your purpose in life - to re-present Jesus Christ. To be a lighthouse in a dark world. “You are the light of the world…Let your light so shine before men that they may see your divine good production and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matt 5:14-15). To shine the light you need to stay filled with the Holy Spirit and be equipped with the mind of Christ by learning His Word. God will lead you with His Word. “Send out Your light and Your truth and let them lead me” (Ps 43:3). “The entrance of Your Word gives light and gives understanding to the simple” (Ps 119:130). You are a point of light to the unbeliever. Your job is to illuminate the path to eternal life with what you say and how you live.
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You live the Christian life in your mind. “Bringing every thought into captivity” (2 Cor 10:5) is how you live the Christian life. It is a 24/7 mandate. This is training your mind to be obedient to God. The power to live it comes from the Word of God combined with the filling of the Holy Spirit. The filling of the Holy Spirit is a simple process whereby we allow the Holy Spirit to control our mind, our life, under the protocol plan of God. “Your Word I have hidden in my heart so that I might not sin against You” (Ps 119:11). Having a clear conscience, developing the capacity for living from learning, and applying the Word of God bring contentment. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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Allowing your sinful nature to control you will make you a Christian casualty. Reversionism is a process of reverting back to your old habits and getting into the temptations of your sinful nature and yielding to those temptations. “Be sober, be vigilant, because Satan seeks to neutralize and destroy you” (1 Pet 5:8) “Do not let the devil get an advantage over you” (2 Cor 2:11). You have three enemies that will attempt to discourage and defeat you: the world, the flesh, and the devil. That’s why you need to be vigilant and learn God’s Word to develop a FLOT line in your soul. If you arm yourself with God’s plan and learn and apply God’s Word, you will not be a Christian casualty. You need to have truth in your soul and think divine viewpoint.
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The Royal Family Honor Code is a system of spiritual integrity mandated by God. It centers around truth and integrity. God gives you the truth and He expects you to learn it and live a life of integrity. “Each one of you should speak the truth with his fellow believers since we are members one of another” (Eph 4:25). We are a team, the family of God. We’re not allowed to malign or criticize each other. The Lord Jesus Christ is the basis for the honor code. He lived it and He left it for us to learn and use. He expects you to represent Him with integrity and honor—with the royal family honor code. You are aristocracy.
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There will come a time when God asks you to go it alone. To be prepared for this evidence testing you need to “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior” (2 Pet 3:18). Jesus used the ministry of the Holy Spirit and Scripture to pass His testing, and this is what you need to do also. Jesus Christ cut the template for us to be Christ-like. We can live as He lived in the devil’s world. The Holy Spirit prepared the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 years before He began His public ministry. The principle is, the greater the impact, the more time needed in preparation. When you honor God and you honor God’s plan, God will bless you in time and in eternity. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away” (Matt 24:35).
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A man you never met gave His life for you. Over 2000 years ago God the Father had you in mind. He knew you would exist and need redemption. He gave His anointed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as your Redeemer. “Even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father and I lay down My life for the sheep” (John 10:15). Christ gave His life for you and for me. When you believe in Jesus Christ you are guaranteed eternal life. Death has no hold on you. So Jesus Christ is the best friend you’ve never met. “He made Him who knew no sin to be made sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God by means of Him” (2 Col 5:21). When you receive Him as your Savior, He indwells in you. He’s in you and He will never leave. What an amazing promise!
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You get to know God through Jesus Christ. “I am the way, the truth, and the life and no man can come to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). You get to understand God by means of staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the Word of God (Eph 5:18 and 2 Pet 3:18). If you’re going to understand the God you know, you have to understand the protocol plan of God, how God works. God has a plan. You need to learn it. Spiritual momentum is hearing and keeping the Word of God. Understanding God is taking on the personality profile of our Lord Jesus Christ. Is this you? “The fruit of the Spirit is love and joy and peace and longsuffering and gentleness and meekness and goodness” (Gal 5:22). “Let him who glorifies receive his glory from this, that he understands Me and that he knows Me” (Jer 9:24).
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Lying is motivated by deception. Deceptive behavior is based on arrogance. “There is no truth and no knowledge of God in the land” (Hosea 4:1-2). There is a national epidemic of lying in America. “Liars believe liars” (Prov 17:4). Satan is the father of lies and organized religion is based on lies. “He speaks from his own resources, for he’s a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). Satan’s motivation is to use deception to distract you, to discourage you and to defeat you. As Christians, we are mandated to be honest and truthful with ourselves and each other. “Putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor for we are all members one of another” (Eph 4:25).
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God’s plan is clear. “He is not willing that any should perish” (2 Pet 3:9). He doesn’t want anyone to reject Jesus Christ as Savior and spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. God’s plan is for you to grow to spiritual maturity and re-present Christ in your life. To do this you need to learn under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. "If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). The real you is what you think and this includes your motives, your intentions and your desires. When you believe in Jesus Christ “You are sealed until the day of redemption” (Eph 4:30).
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Forgiveness is a mandate from God. “Be kind and tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God has forgiven you” (Eph 4:32). There’s never a time when you shouldn’t forgive someone for something they do to you. People are often the greatest test in life. That’s why you need to master the problem-solving device of Impersonal Love. You forgive others, you love others, based on who you are, not on who they are. Learning to forgive is vital for tranquility in life. “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay” (Rom 12:9). The Lord will handle it, you don’t need to straighten anyone out and never retaliate. Forgetting is a key part of Forgiveness. Forgive the person, forget the deed, and move forward.
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Christian Gobbledygook is when all reason and discernment disappear with the mechanics of living the Christian life. Yes, you joined up, you fessed up, you gave up, but you never grew up. This is the problem. You need to get serious about hearing, learning and applying the Word of God. Stay away from the gobbledygook and grow up spiritually. Grow to spiritual maturity and God will reward you for this. “Behold, I’m coming suddenly, and My reward is with Me to decorate each believer on the basis of his achievement” (Rev 22:12). Mature believers will wear rewards in eternity. “Keep on being faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life” (Rev 2:10). “Happy is that person who perseveres under testing for once he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him” (James 1:12). This is virtue love. You have a spiritual life and this life you will carry throughout all eternity.
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The survival of our nation depends on your attitude toward God’s Word and our nation’s adherence to God’s standards. God’s standards include four divine institutions: The Individual with volition, the freedom to choose; Marriage; Family; and Nationalism. There were ordained by God in eternity past for the function of a nation. “Let us walk properly in the day” (Rom 13:13). When we compromise our core values and adjust to the culture of the day so that we can be relevant or be accepted then we essence become a traitor to our own soul. The combination of the arrogance of ignorance with the arrogance of power will destroy human freedom and claim that the greater good justifies the means to the ends. Have you surrendered your freedom for security?
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As a Christian, you have direct access to the heavenly throne of God. But your prayers may not be getting through. There is a protocol for prayer. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit (no unconfessed sin in your life 1 John 1:9). Pray to God the Father and in the name of Jesus Christ. Your prayers may not be answered because you ignore the mandate to study and grow spiritually. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but thinking terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:1-3). Another reason for unanswered prayer is the wrong motivation. “You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss so that you can consume it upon your lust” (James 4:3). Be sure and use the faith-rest technique when you pray. The Holy Spirit makes intercession on our behalf “The Spirit helps with our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us” (Rom 8:26).
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You are to look forward not back. As a Christian, you have a personal sense of destiny. You know where you are going because you have eternal security. You have a race to run and your objective is to cross the finish line. This is your destiny. Keep your eyes on Christ. “Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith” (Heb 12:2). The greatest joy you can have is to fulfill the plan of God. When you grow spiritually you assume the personality profile of Jesus Christ and this is “the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness and mercy” (Gal 5:22-23). A personal sense of destiny: Your motivation is looking unto Jesus Christ. Your inspiration is the confident expectation in God’s provisions. Your application is standing on the promises of God.
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Personal love for God is the highest motivational virtue in our life. This is what motivates us to obey God. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all of thy heart, with all of thy soul and with all of thy mind. This is the first and the great mandate” (Matt 22:37-38). If you are prejudiced you are not loving God because the people you hate are people Jesus died for. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16). “And this is the mandate we have from Him, that he who loves God must also love his brother” (1 John 4:20-21). Loving and obeying God is a choice you make.
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“Let no advantage be taken of us by Satan for we are not ignorant of his devices” (2 Cor 2:11). Jesus Christ used Scripture and the shield of faith to counter the attacks of Satan and defeat him. You have the same and more divine resources to use. There are over 7000 promises in the Bible. Learn some and claim them. “Stand still and watch God deliver you” (Ex 14:13). Watch out for allowing Satan to get you to compromise when you don’t consolidate your spiritual victories with faith and humility. If you allow him to discourage or distract you, you will quit advancing spiritually. Satan is a master deceiver and manipulator. He is good at luring you with human viewpoint thinking and getting you into a frantic search for happiness. You are living in the middle of the angelic conflict. You need to grow up spiritually to win.
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“It is no longer I but Christ in me” (Gal 10:20). Satan is always quick to counterattack after a personal spiritual victory. Expect it. Satan is a master at counterattacking. He does it to shift your attention away from God and put your eyes on yourself. Satan and his cosmic system will try to distract you, discourage you and defeat you. He will try to knock you off course in your spiritual advancement. Satan knows your weakest point and that’s where he will attack. He will attack your lust pattern for power, or approbation, or acquiring material things, whatever your weakness is. Focusing on your problem, rather than the divine solution, is never the answer. Once you’re distracted, you’ll get into a frantic search for happiness. Be alert to the distractions of Satan’s world and keep your focus on God. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Rom 12:3).
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The spiritual sluggard is not willing to put forth the effort necessary to become a mature Christian. “Let each one of us examine his own work and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load” (Gal 6:3-5). God gives you a job to tend to your spiritual life and re-present Jesus Christ with the results being rewarded in eternity. “And that from childhood you have known the Scriptures which are able to make you wise” (2 Tim 3:14-17). God gives certain men the gift of pastor-teacher “To equip His people for the work of service so the body of Christ may be built up” (Eph 4:11-12). Spiritual sluggards, beginning with the clergy that fail to teach and the individual believer who fails to grow, are what destroy a client nation like ours.
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Your spiritual life is lived in your mind, not in your emotions. Do you want to be a good Christian? This is how: stay filled with the Holy Spirit, hear and learn the Word of God under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor, grow up spiritually by metabolizing what you learn so it is in your soul ready for recall and then use it! Application of what you’ve learned is the key. If you love God you will obey Him. “This is the love of God that we keep His mandates and His mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). You arrive at occupation with Christ when He takes precedence over everything else in your life. Your relationship with God is more important than your relationship with people or things. “Sanctify the Lord Jesus Christ in your hearts” (1 Pet 3:5).
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There are times to speak and times to be laconic—a person of few words. “He who guards his words guards his life; for whoever is talkative comes to ruin” (Prov 13:3). The Bible says you should keep your mouth shut when you are angry and when you are tempted to tell a lie, straighten out an idiot, speak without having all the facts, and say more than you should. Keep your mouth shut if you are tempted to malign your neighbor “A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor” (Prov 11:9). When you are tempted to pervert the truth or don’t know what you’re talking about be sure and stay silent. “The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off” (Prov 10:31). If you have a quick temper, want to say hurtful things or are tempted to judge another believer be laconic. “Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble” (Prov 21:23).
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God is the only One you can rely on to be totally faithful to you. “Faithful is He that calls you who will also do it” (1 Thess 5:24). His absolute faithfulness is His grace expression to you. “Great is Your faithfulness” (Lam 3:23). To reciprocate and be faithful to God you need to keep growing spiritually. The more you learn of God’s Word and grow in your advance to spiritual maturity, the more you are responsible for. God expects you to be faithful and to glorify Him. “From everyone who has been given much, much will be required and from the one who’s been entrusted with much, even more will be asked of him” (Luke 12:48).
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You can shorten your life by getting out of the plan and will of God. Emphasis on people should never take priority over the Word of God. If you don’t make God's Word the number one priority in your life. You can’t have a personal sense of destiny if you don’t have your priorities right. “If you want to brag about something brag that you understand Me and you know Me” (Jer 9:24). LAG Learn God’s Word. Apply God’s Word. Glorify Jesus Christ to the maximum. God won’t give where there’s no spiritual capacity. “Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that He may exalt you in due time” (1 Pet 5:6-7). At some point of time in your life, you need to trust God and turn your life over to Him. “Not My will but Thy will be done” (Luke 22:42).
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“My days vanish like the smoke and my bones burn like glowing embers” (Ps 102:33). Time doesn’t shout, it just runs out, quicker than you think. A key to your spiritual life is using the faith-rest drill: claim a promise, reverse your concentration and focus on God instead of yourself and your problem, and come to a Biblical conclusion standing on the promises of God. When you focus on the problem you fail to see God’s solution. “Picking up the shield of faith so you can stand against the strategy of the devil” (Eph 6:11-16). Learn to trust the justice of God. God will vindicate you. Our battle is with mental attitude sins. “Cease from anger. Forsake wrath. Fret not thyself in any way to do evil” (Ps 37:8). The issue is always God’s timing, not your timing. Be patient.
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Time doesn’t shout, it just runs out—quicker than you think. God only gives you so much time. Don’t waste it. There’s no guarantee you’ll be alive tomorrow so if you haven’t made the most important decision in your life, to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, don’t wait another moment. Do it now. “Now is the day of salvation” (Is 49:8). The Bible tells us about making the most of our time. “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise making the most of your time” (Eph 5:15-17). Six key attributes to using time wisely: be punctual; be patient; set priorities; have prudence; have perspective; and don’t get into procrastination. A well-disciplined person has a routine. “Daily with one accord … Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). God chooses the time and the manner and the place of your departure and He will be punctual about it.
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“For each one will bear his own load” (Gal 3:5). A Christian socialist wants to invoke God’s blessing from the growth of other believers and isn’t willing to put the work in themselves. When they go through testing they want prayers and want God to deliver them, they want blessings, but they don’t have the discipline to invoke these blessings themselves. They don’t want to study and grow to spiritual maturity to become a member of the pivot that God can funnel blessings to. Personal love for God is the greatest virtue you can have. “If you love me you will obey Me” (John 5:3). Those content to stay as immature believers are essentially living off the good life of those who merit God’s favor. “Without faith, it is impossible to please God” (Heb 11:6). When you refuse to take time for God’s counsel through His Word, if you ignore His requirements, you will be a spiritual failure.
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At the moment of salvation, you became a member of the body of Christ. “For by means of the Holy Spirit are we all baptized into one body” (1 Cor 12:13). As a member of the body of Christ, you have unique assets our Lord Jesus Christ passed on to you to live your spiritual life. You must stay filled with the Holy Spirit to have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to guide you using these assets. This is the only way to live the supernatural Christian life. The body of Christ is comprised of believers and is a living organism. It’s the universal Church, the body of Christ, in distinction to a local church. You are in Christ!
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Be content with the circumstances of life and have the capacity for lasting love and happiness by learning and using God’s plan. The Christian life is unique. You can have God’s happiness. True happiness. God designed you to be happy but not apart from Him. If you are trying to find that peace, security, contentment, and capacity apart from God, it won’t work. “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be full” (Heb 12:2). Once you begin to think as Christ thought, you will find happiness depends on God’s true happiness, not people or circumstances. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, the heart has not felt the amazing things God has for you” (1 Cor 2:9)
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The tongue is a fire and God does not tolerate a tongue that is not tame. It’s easy to fall into the trap of letting our mouth get us into sin. Judging, maligning, and complaining are all sins of the tongue. If you’ve been treated unjustly or want to complain about someone, take it to the Supreme Court of Heaven open 24/7 and then let it go. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t talk about it. “Judge not so that you be not judged because with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again” (Matt 7:1-5). This is called triple compound discipline from God. God did not send us to straighten out other people.
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Learn to handle sin and evil and have the discernment to identify both. Grace is the genius of God. Evil is Satan’s counterfeit of God’s grace. Evil sounds good, looks good, but is the opposite of grace. Evil is very deceptive. Arrogance will destroy you. “If a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Gal 6:3). Be aware of your arrogance tendencies and counter them with spiritual growth. Be aware a lack of divine wisdom is a problem and you can get ahead or get behind God. Your goal is to stay in step with God. Once your relationship with God becomes priority number one and everything else lines up behind it, then you will have the greatest happiness the world has ever known. Another problem in the spiritual life is the failure to understand spirituality as an absolute. At any time you are either in fellowship with God filled with the Holy Spirit or you are in carnality with unconfessed sin in your life. Spirituality and carnality are absolutes. Understanding and using God’s 10 problem-solving devices becomes the real key to you living your Christian life because if you don’t live it God’s way, you’re going to get frustrated.
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The sin nature is a problem. Whatever trend or lust pattern your sin nature has, if your volition feeds it then you’re going to go there. This is why the filling of the Holy Spirit is so critical along with taking in the Word of God on a consistent basis. A problem many face is attempting to execute God’s plan through human power rather than through divine power. It won’t work because it’s a supernatural plan and requires supernatural power. Another problem is ignorance of Biblical doctrine especially in regard to the Biblical mandates of love. “If you love Me you will obey Me” (1 John 5:3). The most serious problem in the malfunction of the spiritual life is failure to grow, failure to execute the protocol plan of God, and failure to make it the number one priority in their lives. “Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed but rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15).
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Placing relationships with people over our relationship with God is a significant problem for many. Our number one objective is to grow to spiritual maturity so we can glorify God to the maximum. “Daily they searched the Scripture” (Acts 17:11). Another problem is how you learn. You can’t teach yourself to spiritual maturity. You must grow from the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. Hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis is what brings spiritual momentum. “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28). God gives us testing as an opportunity to apply the spiritual skills we’ve learned and to accelerate our growth. Evaluate your life in the light of the Word of God to stay objective. “A person’s pride will humiliate him but a humble spirit gains honor” (Prov 29:23). This requires humility. And humility is required before you can reach spiritual maturity.
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You have a job to do as a Christian. You can’t afford to fall asleep on the job. “Let us not sleep as others sleep but let us keep awake and be sober” (1 Thes 5:6). “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith and act like men” (1 Col 16:13). God will never ask you to do something you can’t do. God gives you a job, to nurture your soul. To cultivate your garden. To nurture your life both physically and spiritually and bring God maximum glory. God has an excellent retirement system for you. There are blessings in time and in eternity. God expects of you a lifestyle of humility and of service. “The plans of the diligent lead to an advantage” ( Prov 21:5). Don’t be a sleeper. Do your job. Cultivate your soul so it reflects the light of God.
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The spiritually mature believer can live his life as unto the Lord and not as unto man. “Whatever you do, do it from your soul as unto the Lord and not unto man” (Col 3:23). You get to spiritual maturity by coming to understand God’s plan and consistently functioning in it. You get to know God through Christ and understand God through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and through Scripture as enlightened by a well-qualified pastor. Growing to spiritual maturity is the basis for our blessings in time and rewards in eternity. God provides everything we need to grow up spiritually through His grace provisions. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
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Many hear the Word of God but never apply it. “Be a doer of the Word and not a hearer only” (James 1:22). Being a hearer only means you fail to metabolize what you hear. You’ll lose the blessing of God when you hear and don’t apply truth and you’ll never establish a FLOT line in your soul. The doer of the Word of God replaces human viewpoint with divine viewpoint thinking. The Word of God is streaming in his mentality like a river flowing through his soul and he can easily recall and apply it in his life. Being a doer of the Word starts with what you think. “A doer of the Word will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:25). Analyze yourself from the objectivity of the Word of God that you’ve heard, learned, metabolized and stored in your soul.
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The rejection of truth and getting involved with the cosmic system always leads to a frantic search for happiness. “Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Tim 3:4). Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. The frantic search for happiness leads to Operation Boomerang. You go off down the My Way Highway seeking fulfillment from pleasure, people or circumstances, walk away from the plan of God and your misery will only intensify. When you put things in your soul that doesn’t belong there you scar up your soul and it becomes hardened. “He who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief” (Prov 28:14). Can you reverse course? Yes! “Call unto Me and I will show you great and wonderful things” (Jer 33:3). Use rebound, stay in fellowship and get under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. Replace human viewpoint thinking with a divine viewpoint.
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The Lord has not abandoned us. He promised He is coming back for us. Setting dates never work. No one knows when the Exit Resurrection, also known as the Rapture, will occur. But it will! “I will come back and receive you to Myself so that where I am, you may be also” (John 14:1-3). Dispensations are how you know there is a Church Age, an Exit Resurrection, followed by the Tribulation, the Second Advent, then the Millennial Reign of Christ, and then the new heavens and the new earth - the eternal state. You live your life in the light of what’s going to happen, not what’s going on in this world right now. Don’t get discouraged or defeated. Stand on the promises of God. Look forward. You have a personal sense of destiny. “The world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God will abide forever” (1 John 2:17).
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We live in the Church Age. It will terminate with the Exit Resurrection, also known as the Rapture. This is when the Lord Jesus Christ will return for us and we will meet Him in the air (1 Thes 4:17). This is His promise! No one knows when, but He will return. “Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lust, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming?” “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, loofah’s for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Pet 3:7-13). The new heavens and the new earth are created for the eternal state. This is our hope and our confidence. We are to wait patiently for the Exit Resurrection. “For in this hope we were saved but hope that is seen is no hope at all because who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently” (Rom 8:24-25).
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There is F.O.G. across America. Failure of spiritual leadership. Open rebellion to authority within the nation. God’s Word is being rejected. The cosmic system is fogging us in. There is confusion and chaos in America like never before. Unless something changes, you can say goodbye to America. You are the solution. “You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:14). Your job is to illuminate the Lord Jesus Christ in the fog. You must get serious about spiritual growth and your spiritual relationship with your Father. “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes but he that listens to the counsel of the Word of God is wise” (Prov 12:15). A wise person is a believer who learns and applies the Word of God and understands the plan of God.
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At salvation, you became a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). God speaks to us through the Bible. We need to be obedient to God’s Word and this requires humility so we can be teachable. As a believer, you have two royal commissions. You are commissioned as a believer priest and as an ambassador of Jesus Christ. You have to talk to people to represent Him to a lost and dying world. “We are ambassadors for Christ as though God were making His appeal through us; we invite you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” (2 Col 5:20). In private you function as a believer priest with direct access to God. In public, you function under your royal ambassadorship as a personal rep of Jesus Christ. “If I am lifted up, I will draw men to Myself” (John 12:32). Christ is a magnet. “Go therefore and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ” (Mark 16:15).
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You must take responsibility for your own decisions and actions. Your unhappiness and suffering are often brought on by your own bad decisions. Bad decisions limit future options. Under the law of volitional responsibility, we inflict on ourselves suffering by unconfessed personal sin, living in the cosmic system or failing to follow divine establishment principles. “Be not deceived, God will not be mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. When we sow to the wind, we reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7). In arrogance, you will fail to see yourself as you really are. You can get off the path to self-destruction through the use of rebound and then God can turn cursing into blessing. Decide to make a course correction and get back to learning and applying God’s Word and making decisions based on divine viewpoint.
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Sin is anything contrary to the character of God. Sin is not an issue in being saved. In your position in Christ, all of your sins are forgiven, past, present and future. In your experience in Christ when you sin in order to be forgiven you must use 1 John 1:9, rebound. If you died today with unconfessed sin in your life you would go to heaven because of your position in Christ. Sin comes in three areas: things we think, say or do. The temptation to sin is not a sin. It’s the volitional act of succumbing to the temptation that’s sin. When you do the right thing in the wrong way it’s called wrongdoing. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). Evil is the genius of Satan that contradicts God’s policy of grace. Evil is not truth. All sin is evil but not all evil is sin.
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The key to happiness is to have respect for the Lord and His mandates. “Thy Word I have hid in my heart so I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11). Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit, problem-solving device #2. Spiritual maturity is being filled with the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God learned and metabolized in your soul. “Don’t you know your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?” (1 Cor 6:19). Spirituality is absolute. You are either filled with the Holy Spirit or you are carnal because of unconfessed sin in your life. Spirituality is your relationship with the Holy Spirit. “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18). Spiritual maturity is relative. It depends on your positive volition to learning God’s Word and applying it in your life.
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When you were born God put a soul in you and now you had physical life. But you were born spiritually dead and that’s why you need to be ‘born again’ - saved by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior. “Just as through one man [through Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin [that’s spiritual death] and then death spread to the entire human race because all have sinned” (Rom 5:12). Your second birth is spiritual and it’s completely volitional. Your spiritual life depends on the filling of the Holy Spirit and learning and applying the Word of God. LAG. Learn it, apply it and glorify God. The Word of God is the nutrient you need in your soul so you can grow spiritually. To grow physically or to grow spiritually the mind must be trained. “Stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3).
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Pray for our country. “If My people that are called by My name will see My face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear their prayer” (2 Chron 7:14). Prayer is instant communication with God. Prayer is thought. “Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). You will short-circuit your prayer and it won’t be heard if you have unconfessed sin in your life. “If I regard inquiry in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). Part of the Holy Spirit’s ministry to you is to be the facilitator between you and God the Father in prayer. But if you have unconfessed sin in your life the empowerment of the Holy Spirit can’t work. “The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we don’t know what to pray as we should but the Holy Spirit prays for us with groaning that cannot be expressed in words” (Rom 8:26). Prayer is the most wonderful way you can express your appreciation for what God does for you.
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You can’t grow to spiritual maturity without getting under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. This is how you learn how to live the Christian life. You can’t teach yourself. Expect testing and distractions as you start to grow spiritually. Stay on course. God’s Word will instruct you on how to deal with people and circumstances and how to keep your sinful nature in check. “I don’t understand myself at all because the things I want to do I don’t do and the things I don’t like are the things that I do. It’s obvious that it’s sin in me” (Rom 7:15-17). You’ll have no idea what’s real and what’s not real until you get a framework of Biblical knowledge in your soul. When you grow spiritually and glorify God then you are the one that will deliver this nation because as goes your spiritual life, so goes the history of America.
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Every problem in life has a solution stated in the Word of God. Rejecting the Word of God and indifference to God’s Word are two areas where we can fail in our spiritual lives. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me” (Matt 11:29). Study under a well-qualified pastor and let him teach you. Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior and you will have an amazing life. To discover God’s plan for you, learn to emphasize God over people. Your relationship with God is your key to happiness. Go through the door, your personal sense of destiny, leave your agenda and failures behind and walk into God’s plan. “I forgot those things that are behind me and I reach forward to those things that are before me. I press on to the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” ( Phil 3:14). Spiritual maturity is your goal.
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The cosmic system is the devil’s world. It offers you happiness in people and circumstances and this is a lie. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. People who get into a frantic search for happiness are being lured by the cosmic system and are following the lie. “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). This takes humility and authority orientation to your Heavenly Father and His Word in your life. Immerse yourself in the Word of God and the lures of the cosmic system won’t be effective. The cosmic system has two points of attack. Exploit Christians through their own arrogance and through propaganda to promote antagonism toward the grace of God. It’s a battle for your mind. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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There is a real danger in experimenting with things the world offers. ’Sowing a few wild oats.’ It can build up scar tissue in the soul to the point of losing all norms and standards. “They are alienated from the life of God [God’s plan for your life] through the ignorance [lack of knowledge of God’s Word] that is in them because of the blindness of their heart” (Eph 4:18). If your heart becomes hard you no longer feel conviction. “Who being past feelings [no more conviction, no more feeling anything wrong] have betrayed themselves into sin to work it with greed, but you did not learn this from Jesus Christ” (Eph 4:19). Guilt will manipulate you and destroy you. Don’t let it happen. Rebound and get back to studying God’s Word and acquiring Biblical standards that will guide you and protect you in life. Going down the My Way Highway is the wrong way, it’s a dead end.
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The secret to a long life, a full and meaningful life is to learn authority orientation at home, as you grow up. This is how we overcome our arrogant tendencies that lead to self-destruction. “Honor your father and mother as the Lord your God has commanded you that your days may be prolonged” (Deut 5:16). Without the appreciation and respect of your parents, you’ll have a flawed life. Authority orientation is critical for your spiritual life. God wants you to have divine wisdom and use it to redeem your time wisely. “Redeem the time” (Eph 5:16) learning God’s Word and applying it and can add days to your life. The lures of the world will seek to distract you from redeeming your time wisely. There is a real danger in experimenting with the things the world offers.
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Teenage years are tough. The first test in life for any teenager is conforming to authority. Sometimes authority isn’t fair. How do you handle this? You can react with anger or bitterness or you can respond with obedience and understanding. God puts us through this to prepare us for life. Life isn’t fair. It’s inherent in the sinful nature to buck authority so you must learn how to handle it, whether it’s fair or unfair. “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right” (Eph 6:1). You acquire authority orientation by being filled with the Holy Spirit and learning and using the Word of God.” Honor your father and your mother” (Eph 6:2). Your parents are one of the most valuable assets you have. God mandates you to obey them while you are under their roof and to honor them for a lifetime.
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You have the double blessing of being a member of God’s royal family and His client nation, America. A client nation has responsibilities to uphold: evangelize our own, send missionaries throughout the world, preserve and teach the Word of God, provide a safe haven for the Jew, follow divine establishment principles. But we’ve turned our backs on the Lord and that’s why dark days are ahead. We have become preoccupied with the gifts and forgotten the Giver. “If you don’t obey Me and you do not observe My mandates… I will appoint terror over you” (Lev 26:14-17). Many believers in this client nation have let their light go dim. “You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:14). We are mandated to “Let your light shine” (Matt 5:16). When we reflect the light of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ we illuminate the darkness. To ensure your light is on stay filled with the Holy Spirit and take in the Word of God on a consistent basis under a well-qualified pastor. There are dark days coming and only your light of reflecting Christ can change it.
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Letting your emotions control your life is dangerous. Either you control your sin nature or the sin nature will control you. There is a battle going on “The flesh wars against the Spirit and the Spirit wars against the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Your volition will respond to both your mentality and your emotion. The key is to be controlled by your thoughts and not emotions. Acquiring the mind of Christ will give you the divine viewpoint and discernment you need to protect your thoughts. “Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil” (Eph 6:11). Satan seeks to lead your mind astray and plant desires in your thoughts. He will feed your thoughts with what you want. “There is no truth in him” (John 8:44). Scripture is your ally. “Submit yourself to God and resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). Recognize his schemes because he will reuse them. Don’t let Satan and his system outwit you.
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To interpret contemporary history is to be able to apply a maximum amount of the Word of God to the situation. To be on the right side of history you need to know and apply God’s Word or you won’t understand what’s going on around you. You’ll be discouraged and confused. God allows certain people to get into power, either for your blessing and prosperity or for discipline. If you look at the spiritual, political, social trends today, appears we are under discipline from God. Don’t be afraid of what you see happening in America today. This is your destiny as a mature believer. This is God’s promise to you: “He shall deliver you in six troubles, yes in seven there shall be no evil touch you. In famine He will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword” (Job 5:19-27).
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This is the mindset you need to operate in the devil’s world: “Be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves” (Matt 10:16). You must have divine wisdom gained from learning and applying God’s Word. You need to know when to be still. “Stand still and watch what God is about to do” (Ex 14:13-14). This is having a relaxed mental attitude even in adverse circumstances. You must be prepared and find opportunities to speak and represent the Lord Jesus Christ. “Don’t worry about what you’re going to say. The Holy Spirit will give it to you at that hour for it is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you” (Matt 10:17-20). You must have humility, this is being harmless as doves, and walk circumspectly. Be prudent and be wise.
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“Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matt 10:16). Jesus Christ had trained the disciples and sent them out with these instructions. Christ was telling them and us we need to have spiritual wisdom. This is knowing and doing the will of God. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Spiritual wisdom is the Word of God you’ve learned and apply. Wisdom gives you the ability to understand the will of God. God’s geographical will is where he wants you to be. God’s viewpoint will is what He wants you to think, divine viewpoint, the mind of Christ. God’s operational will is what He wants you to do. God gives you a spiritual gift at the moment of salvation. This spiritual gift works within the body of Christ as you replicate the life of Christ within your community. As you “shine like stars among those in the world” (Phil 2:15).
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Don’t blame God for your grief. Ask what God has for you. Miracles do not save you. No miracle performed by our Lord was eternal except the miracle of the cross. The miracle of forgiveness is eternal when you believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as your Savior. Suffering is designed for blessing and to accelerate our spiritual growth. It’s amazing, the more we suffer, the closer we get to God. The grace of God is sufficient to handle any difficulties you may have. “My grace is sufficient and My strength is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:8). Scripture is your power. The Holy Spirit is the anchor in your soul and He uses this Scripture, this is where the power comes from. God’s grace is always sufficient. Bible doctrine comforts you. The operational faith fueled by God’s Word and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit is the miracle. It will give you confidence in the Lord and the ability to understand your circumstances.
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To worship effectively you must concentrate have obedience to the Word of God and this comes from personal love for God. “If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). You must be filled with the Holy Spirit to worship God. Any production you do while filled with the Holy Spirit is divine good and rewarded in eternity. “We can only lay one foundation which is Jesus Christ. We can build on it gold, silver and precious stones or we can build wood, hay and straw” (1 Col 3:11-16). Human good is you trying to appease God and it won’t work. Human good, production done in carnality, will be burned up at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Focus on spiritual growth, not production. When you have spiritual momentum and you’re applying the Word of God in your life, then you produce divine good as you advance to spiritual maturity through the execution of God’s plan. God is glorified through divine good.
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Americans are failing to execute the mandates of God. “There is a lack of knowledge in the land” (Hosea 4:1-6). There is no love affair with God nor His Word. Rejection of divine establishment principles of freedom, marriage, family and nationalism, unrestrained lawlessness and a crisis in governance are all indicators of a dying nation. We’re losing our country. You are the solution. You have amazing assets of the power of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God. Use them. Your spiritual life can deliver us. “Take My yoke and learn of Me” (Matt 11:29).
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“I am looking for those who know Me and understand Me” (Jer 9:23). God is looking for those who are serious about growing to spiritual maturity. Those who consistently study and apply God’s Word. As go the spiritual lives of Christians in a nation, so goes the nation. Knowledge of God is on a serious decline in this nation. We have turned our back on God. This will bring divine discipline. “There is no truth, no mercy, and knowledge of God in the land” (Hosea 4:1-6). Does this sound like America today? “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being a priest [nation] for Me. Because you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will also forget your children.”
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Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit. At any moment in time you are either controlled by the Holy Spirit or by your sin nature. Your volition decides. Our foundation is Jesus Christ. “For another foundation can no man lay than that which is laid which is Christ Jesus” (1 Cor 3:11-16). Substitute spirituality is you trying to impress God with how good you are or by how you act or what you do. This is human good, “wood, hay and straw” which will be burned at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Substitute spirituality is emotionalism. The Christian life is lived in your thoughts, not your emotion. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).
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Humility is teachability. “Think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each of us a standard of thinking.” (Rom 12:3). Grace is God’s policy. Grace is the giving the power of Jesus Christ our Lord to us. “For by grace are you saved” (Eph 2:8). Cognition is awareness including knowing you are a permanent part of the royal family of God. The number one priority in your life needs to be learning God’s Word on a consistent basis. The Word of God stabilizes you’re thinking. It is powerful, and so is prayer. Volition drives your spiritual life. Do you want to glorify God? If yes, then you must grow up spiritually. Focus on advancing to spiritual maturity.
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The pivot is a group of spiritually mature Christians living in a client nation. Without a pivot, a client nation can’t sustain itself. America is a client nation responsible for: sending missionaries throughout the world; guarding and teaching the Word of God; providing a safe haven for the Jews, and governance based on the laws of divine establishment. “I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you” (Gen 12:3). Learning and applying God’s Word produces divine wisdom which is necessary to be a member of the pivot. As goes your spiritual life, so goes this nation.
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Worship is the expression of your personal love for God. Worship is thought, not emotion. “When you assemble let all things be done for edification” (1 Cor 14:26). You can only give to God what you actually possess. What can you give Him? Honor. Respect. Time. Concentration. There are three types of worship. The first is respect, deep admiration based on the quality of the person you’re thinking about. You can only respect the Lord through understanding His thinking. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Reverence is another type of worship and it is growing respect. The difference between respect and reverence is concentration, a matter of recall. Honor is the highest type of worship. It is great esteem. Nehemiah 8:8 gives us the pattern for church service: listen, pray, apply and celebrate.
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Relax even in the face of adversity knowing God has promised you logistical grace provisions. Faith-rest is a tremendous problem-solving device. “This I recall to mind and therefore I have confidence. It is through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is His faithfulness” (Lam 3:21-23). “Lay up for yourself treasures in heaven” (1 Cor 3:11-16). Treasures in heaven are the blessings God bestows on winner believers, those who grow to spiritual maturity and glorify God to the maximum. Keep your spiritual life as your top priority and money won’t be a distraction. Jesus Christ wants us to remember never to be a slave to money. “Let your lifestyle be free from the love of money. Keep on being content with what you have.” (Heb 13:5). Wealth can keep a person from seeing the need for salvation. “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
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Can God count on you? Are you part of the invisible pivot having a historical impact on our nation? “For the grace of God trains us to live self-controlled, upright godly lives in this present age as we wait for the happy fulfillment in the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior” (Titus 2:11). If you are a godly person, you represent and re-present Jesus Christ to all you spend time with. Others see Christ in you. “Holdfast the form of sound words [Bible doctrine] which you have heard from me in faith and in love which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim 1:13). A godly person: doesn’t drift from sound doctrine; understands and uses faith-rest; motivated by virtue love; is not self-righteous. God expects you to be a spiritual quiet professional.
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You are what you think. “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). The real you is revealed by the thoughts and intentions of your heart. “As water reflects the face, so a person’s heart reflects the person” (Prov 27:19). God knows our thoughts, intentions and motives. Acquiring a divine viewpoint is so important. Arrogance will short-circuit this. The only way to shed arrogance is to let the Word of God shed light on the real you. Have you ever asked God to give you a personal examination? “Test my thoughts. Let me know where I am out of line.” Replacing human viewpoint with divine viewpoint thinking is a life-long process.
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“Be on the alert because your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Pet 5:8). The world and the flesh are both opposing you and so is the devil. But the devil won’t fool with you if you can’t get past the lures of the world and the lusts of the flesh. You can neutralize yourself. If you ignore the instructions of the Bible, you are susceptible to deception and Satan is the master deceiver. Submit to God’s Word and you’ll be able to overcome the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil. “Fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Prov 1:7). But if you let your emotions dictate your thoughts and actions rather than a divine viewpoint, you are being deceived.
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Growing to spiritual maturity is your divine objective. Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit and it is an absolute. You can’t grow to spiritual maturity unless you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Maturity is a relative. It is dependent on the amount of Word of God in your soul, metabolized and available for recall to be used in your life. Spiritual maturity occurs in three stages. It starts with self-esteem where you develop self-confidence from learning and applying the Word of God. This progresses into spiritual autonomy. Your counsel is God’s Word, not people's. As you begin to think with the mind of Christ you develop divine norms and standards. Things will quit being fuzzy and come into focus in your life and you will begin to see God’s plan for you develop. Paul said, “Everything I’ve done, I count as dung except for the excellency of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Phil 3:8). Spiritual self-esteem gives your life purpose and definition. Spiritual autonomy is contentment with what God gives you and the capacity to enjoy it. “I have learned to be content in whatever state I am in” (Phil 4:11).
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Growing to spiritual maturity is your divine objective. Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit and it is an absolute. You can’t grow to spiritual maturity unless you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Maturity is a relative. It is dependent on the amount of Word of God in your soul, metabolized and available for recall to be used in your life. Spiritual maturity occurs in three stages. It starts with self-esteem where you develop self-confidence from learning and applying the Word of God. This progresses into spiritual autonomy. Your counsel is God’s Word, not people's. As you begin to think with the mind of Christ you develop divine norms and standards. Things will quit being fuzzy and come into focus in your life and you will begin to see God’s plan for you develop. Paul said, “Everything I’ve done, I count as dung except for the excellency of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Phil 3:8). Spiritual self-esteem gives your life purpose and definition. Spiritual autonomy is contentment with what God gives you and the capacity to enjoy it. “I have learned to be content in whatever state I am in” (Phil 4:11).
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Today America is filled with lying. National lies are indicative of national destruction. “Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit” (Ps 34:13). Political lies establish a false narrative and promote the evil thinking of the cosmic system. Lies are designed to confuse you so you can’t make the right decisions. God despises lying (Prov 6:16-19). Satan is the father of lies. We all have a sinful nature and are prone to lying. Learning to live a spiritual life contains the tongue. “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but those who deal faithfully are His delight” (Prov 12:22). Organized religion is the number one liar. Salvation by works is a lie. Morality is equivalent to spirituality is a lie. The best thing you can do does not impress God.
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Satan will attempt to lead you away from God’s plan, distract you from the Word of God and make you think you’re doing wonderful things for God because you’re busy at work in the energy of the flesh. If you are in carnality (unconfessed sins in your life) thinking with human viewpoint instead of divine, you are gullible to Satan’s leading. How do you know if Satan is trying to lead you? You may be tempted to compromise your core beliefs found in the Bible, justify yourself, fulfill your lusts, or seek revenge. This is how he can neutralize you. You will be tempted to ignore divine precedents of the Christian life. “Do not be unwise but understand what is the will of the Lord” (Eph 5:17). You’ll be tempted to ignore God's 10 problem-solving devices and live the lie. You’re not going to live the lie if you learn, study and grow. “Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me” (Matt 11:28-29).
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As goes the pivot, so goes the United States. Are you in the pivot? A pivot is a core group of mature Christians that sustains a client nation. Currently, the USA is the client nation for God. Mature Christians are a blessing by association. They, you, can have a historical impact. If there is a large pivot, the nation prospers and fulfills its client nation's responsibilities. You can preserve the nation by “growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:8). If the pivot is small and shrinking, the nation declines and ultimately is destroyed. This has happened throughout history. “My people are rejected because they rejected knowledge. They did not want to know Me, did not want to know My Word” (Hosea 4:6).
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America’s turning away from God is like cancer spreading across the nation. “The fool says in his heart there is no God” (Ps 41:1) or no need for God. Satan’s ultimate objective is to destroy the impact of Christianity this nation projects to the world, to remove us as a client nation. Three areas of cancer are humanism, socialism and internationalism. Refusal to accept that man has a sinful nature. Man can’t solve the problems of mankind. Divine solutions are the only answer. No one man is the answer to how things go in a nation. It’s the people within the country that control the destiny of the country. You are the hope of this nation. As goes your spiritual life, so goes the future of this country. “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). Please pray for America. “If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14).
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Jesus Christ showed us it’s possible to live in the devil’s world and be victorious by following the plan of God, using Scripture, and utilizing the power of the Holy Spirit. You can’t advance in the Christian life if you don’t allow the Holy Spirit to teach you. The Holy Spirit lives in you. He convinces you of sin (John 16:7) and He has a ministry through you where He reveals Christ to the world. “The fruit of the Spirit is love” (Gal 5:22). Every attribute of God is ascribed to the Holy Spirit just as fully and as freely as the Father or the Son.
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“Keep them from the evil one” (John 17:15) our Lord Jesus Christ asked the Father. You will be able to recognize the difference between good and evil if you learn God’s Word and establish a FLOT line in your soul. “Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil” (Eph 6:11). Evil is Satan’s policy ruling this world. It’s a system of human good that man can redeem himself by being good and man can solve the problems of the world. Mankind has an inherently sinful nature and is not basically good. The world’s problems can’t be solved apart from the Word of God and the laws of divine establishment. Grace and Bible doctrine represent the genius of God. Grace is God’s policy.
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Christ came to deliver you from the penalty and the power of sin in your life. Sin is anything contrary to God’s character or acting independently of Him and His provisions. Sin can be something you think, say or do. It’s not a sin to be tempted. There is no such thing as sinless perfection. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8-10). If you reject God’s Word and His will and stay in carnality, expect God’s discipline. “He that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he’s done and there is no respecter of persons” (1 John 1:8-10).
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Have the lights gone out in America? Chaos rules the day and darkness overs the land. America is in cosmic chaos because the wisdom of God’s Word has been silenced in public. Cosmic indoctrination, human viewpoint thinking, has taken over. “These things I’ve spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling” (John 15:18-21). Jesus Christ tells you “You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:14-16). You must be the light, the person who stands up and re-present Christ to those in darkness. Anyone who doesn’t understand the Word of God and the will of God can get sucked into the cosmic chaos.
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We must have patience with people and patience with circumstances. The Holy Spirit produces patience in the form of a relaxed mental attitude which is where joy comes from. “Rest in the Lord” (Ps 37:7). Rest means having a relaxed mental attitude. “Be strengthened with His might of all His glory, for all patience and long-suffering with joy” (Col 1:10-12). Patience is the capacity to endure evil, adversity and pain with fortitude. Patience grows in testing and undeserved suffering.
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Live free of worry fear. How? Learn and apply the 10 problem-solving devices. They are your FLOT line to stop the outside sources of adversity before they get inside you to cause stress. What a wonderful way to live—it’s the Christian life. “If the Lord is for me, who can be against me?” (Rom 8:31). All you need tando do is trust Him. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean. Not on your own understanding. In all of your ways acknowledge Him” (Prov 3:5-6). Be resilient. You can impact history by staying steadfast in growing to spiritual maturity. Grow in grace. Develop virtue love for God. “If you love Me you will obey Me” (John 14:15). Your life will count in amazing ways as a spiritual quiet professional. You -an invisible hero!
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Scar tissue in the soul, the hardness of the heart, happens when you have a vacuum in your mind. “Don’t walk in the vanity of your mind” (Eph 4:17). When the Word of God isn’t there your soul is filled with human viewpoint thinking. When you choose to separate from God’s plan and God’s will your understanding is darkened, “alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them” (Eph 4:18). The key to removing scar tissue - rebound, stay in fellowship, learn the Word of God.
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As you develop spiritual self-esteem on the way to spiritual maturity your life will become more meaningful. You’ll be a magnet to those around you. They will see your contentment, self-assurance, your confidence. “I have learned to be content with whatever I have, whether it is a little orange lot it doesn’t make any difference. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil 4:11-13). Contentment gives you the capacity for life. Spirituality is related to the filling of the Holy Spirit and is an absolute. Maturity is related to the content of the Word of God in your soul and it is relative.
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Any decision you make apart from the directive will of God leads to confusion. Base your decisions on the Word of God, not emotions. Otherwise, you’ll fall for the decoys of the cosmic system - human viewpoint thinking. “Everyone who comes to Me and hears My Word and acts on it I will show you who he’s like. He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rocks” (Luke 6:46-49). The Word of God in your soul is your foundation and guide for life.
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Reversionism is living in carnality, out of fellowship with the Holy Spirit, because of the refusal to confess known sin. It’s slipping backward in the Christian way of life. “Some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits” (1 Tim 4:1) and (Eph 4:7). If you aren’t advancing spiritually through the daily study of the Word of God, then you are at a standstill or regressing. ‘The rate of forgetting exceeds the rate of learning.’ You must be able to pick yourself up through the use of 1 John 1:9 and move forward. God still has a plan for you. Get over your failure and adversity and move on. You’ll become resilient through knowing and applying God’s Word.
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The Christian life requires learning how to execute the plan of God. It is knowing and using God’s 10 problem-solving devices. You grow by learning God’s Word. “Study to show yourself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). You have to study under a well-qualified pastor and acquire the mind of Christ. Every decision you make should be based on what the Word of God says, divine guidance. God the Holy Spirit will show you where you’re supposed to be and what you’re supposed to be doing. This is having a personal sense of destiny. Joy is a wonderful peace of mind that the Holy Spirit gives you. “I’ve said these things to you so that My joy might be in you and your joy might be full” (John 15:11). The source of happiness is the wisdom of God. Being occupied with Christ sets your priorities in life. “Happiness belongs to the person who finds wisdom and gains understanding” (Prov 3:13).
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Our God is a God of protocol, which demands that the right thing must be done the right way. We cannot make up the rules as we go along. We have to obey God's plan. “Study to show thyself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15).
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Use the spiritual life assets God gives you. “Be anxious for nothing” (Matt 6:25). Continuously recon yourself. When you identify sin, take care of it through rebound—problem-solving device “1 (1 John 1:9). The Word of God is the real critic to listen to and guide you. “It’s alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword … it’s a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12). When we get arrogant we don’t see ourselves are we really are. Rather we see ourselves as we think we are. We look into the mirror of arrogant self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption, and that falsely empowers us to act irrationally. Often we try to tell other people what to do. The only thing that helps other people is the Word of God. Not you sharing your misfortunes and experiences. What’s in the past should stay in the past.
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Mud killed so many in World War I and mud can destroy you. Don’t let the mud swallow you up in the spiritual war we’re in. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will reject you” (Hosea 4:6). Knowledge is understanding the Word of God, learning the protocol plan of God and how it works, and being victorious in this angelic conflict. “Put on the armor of God…Stand against the strategy of the devil” (Eph 6:11-12). MUD = Mission Unto Death. Your mission until you depart this life is to lift up Christ. Tell this generation and the next who He is, what He’s accomplished and what He provides.
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Divine discipline is designed to get you back where you belong—in fellowship with God and growing in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God’s discipline comes from His justice and is always done in grace because He loves you. “For whom the Lord loves, He judges, like a father to a son in whom he delights.” (Prov 3:12). You may be suffering now because you walked away from the plan of God. You chose to go off on the My Way Highway. This is the law of volitional responsibility. “As a man soweth so he reaps.” (Gal 6:7). You are responsible for the decisions you make. Bad decisions destroy future options.
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To love God you need to know Him and understand His essence. Jesus Christ revealed Himself to the apostles who recorded it for us in the canon of Scripture. “The world has not known You, but I know You and these men [the apostles] have known You that You sent Me because I declared unto them Your name and I gave them Your Word” (John 17:25-26). God is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Love, Eternal Life, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Immutability and Veracity. This is His essence, His attributes. We are totally dependent upon the divine revelation in the Bible to know God in order to love God. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue in life. Impersonal love for others is your functional virtue. You love God based on who He is, not based on what you are. Love for God is critical in your life if you are going to obey Him and advance in the Christian life.
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You are in a spiritual war. Satan’s objectives are threefold: to exploit your weaknesses or the trends of the sin nature; to outwit you reaching spiritual maturity, and to circumvent God’s desires for you. “Don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2). This means you have to change the way you think. Think with divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. You overcome the world and the flesh that Satan uses to deceive you by staying filled with the Holy Spirit. “Walk in the Spirit and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). If you are weak on the Word of God, Satan will seek to get you to question truth by presenting something close to the truth, but it’s a decoy. Use divine wisdom to stick with the truth. “Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may promote you at the right time” (1 Pet 5:6).
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Learn and use God’s 10 unique problem-solving devices and you can stop the outside sources of adversity from creating stress in your soul. Every problem in life has a solution found in the Word of God. That’s why building a FLOT Line in your soul is so important. 1. Rebound. 2. Filling of the Holy Spirit. 3. Faith-Rest Drill. 4. Grace Orientation. 5. Doctrinal Orientation. 6. Personal Sense of Destiny. 7. Personal Love for God. 8. Impersonal Love for all Mankind. 9. Sharing the Happiness of God. 10. Occupation with Christ. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17).” Grow in grace” (2 Pet 3:18).
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God holds us responsible for what we think and the decisions we make so our thinking is critically important. “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). Momentum in the Christian life is hearing and keeping God’s Word. Your power comes from the filling of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God. As go your thoughts, so goes your spiritual life. You are what you think. Think with divine viewpoint and grow up spiritually and you will have the happiness God intends for you. Satan wants to capture your thoughts, reclaim your affections, redirect your focus, distract you with the things of the world, redefine your values, and get you to doubt God’s love for you. Counter this with the Word of God in your soul.
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The Bible is practical. It’s direct and to the point in telling us how to live a principled life. All of our principled thoughts and actions come from the mindset of Christ as revealed by the Holy Spirit through the Bible. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). When you make the decision to believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as your Savior, you reboot your life, you start a new life in Christ. Are you willing to take a leap of faith and go down the road God leads you, the Thy Way Highway? The key to living the spiritual life is reconnoiter and rebound, meaning continually examine yourself because sin can be subtle. If you have unconfessed sin in your life, use the rebound technique (1 John 1:9) to get back in fellowship with God. Then move on and look ahead. Put your eyes on the prize—on your Savior. Don’t hang onto the past. “I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: I forget what lies behind and I reach forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:13-14)
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No one knows the date they will die. Are you gambling on your future? “What is your life?” (James 4:13). Life is very valuable and it’s brief. ”Just a vapor, here today, gone tomorrow” (James 4:14). Redeem the time you have left wisely. God has a plan for you. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit and learn God’s Word to understand it and live it. God’s plan is perfect for you. Are you willing to learn it? Are you tired of gambling on the future? “Nothing is hidden from God. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before Him, to Whom we must give an account” (Heb 4:13). “His eyes are upon the ways of man and He sees all of his steps” (Job 34:21).
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Legalism is the arrogant pretensions of fulfilling God’s plan through your own human ability. Legalism and grace are mutually exclusive. Legalism manipulates, legalism controls, legalism judges you and tries to force you to live a certain way. “Don’t judge lest you be judged” (Matt 7:1). God has provided you problem-solving devices. When you try to add to them, you foul them up. Rely on God’s grace. When you expose legalism for what it is, then the person who is legalistic loses his ability to manipulate people. What about you? Do you have enough freedom in Christ to live your life?
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Are you hot or cold, spiritually? Or are you lukewarm, playing at being a Christian? Are you just auditing the Christian life? God wants you to be hot. He wants you to be on fire to “grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). To be hot you need to use the supernatural powers God has given you—the filling of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God. By taking in the Word of God the Holy Spirit is able to renovate your thinking so you begin to think as Christ thought. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Don’t let distractions get you so wrapped up that you don’t make time for spiritual growth.
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“Many false teachers have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1) Be alert not to swallow false teaching.They are inspirational but they do not function by means of the power of the Holy Spirit. You have only so much time in this life and that’s why it’s so important to redeem the time wisely. The Holy Spirit is your guide, mentor, a tutor and will lead you into truth. Truth is what we need because Satan will flee from the truth. “Submit therefore to God and resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). The only way you’re going to get truth in your soul is to have a hunger to learn it; listen to it being taught; and swallow it, using your volition to believe it and apply it into your life.
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Patience is the strongest kind of faith in the Christian life. Put your faith in God and His Word. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Patience is developed by means of your spiritual life. God will put you through chaotic times to teach you to use His problem-solving devices. Patience is an amazingly powerful character asset that frees you from emotional sins that will override your thinking. “Be joyful in hope and patient in affliction” (Rom 12:12). Patience is required in suffering and adversity so we don’t get ahead of God, so we wait on His solutions. “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” (Ps 37:7). One of the reasons God allows adversity in our life is so that through our use of patience we can glorify Him by using the faith-rest drill. “There is no temptation overtaken you except what is common to mankind and God is faithful. He will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear, but when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so you can endure it” (1 Cor 10:13). Impatience is an acquired flaw.
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God directs you to stay in fellowship with Him by using rebound (1 John 1:9) whenever you sin and to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. We all have a sin nature. It will neutralize you if you allow it. That’s why building a FLOT line in your soul is so important. Allowing your sin nature to control your thoughts and actions will make you weak and take you out of the plan of God. “The flesh (sin nature) wars against the Spirit and the Spirit wars against the flesh, they are contrary one to another” (Gal 5:17). If you don’t rebound your sin, divine discipline will either break you or it’ll take you. “Don’t be deceived, God is not mocked. Whatever man sows, he’s also going to reap” (Gal 6:7). While God forgives sin, He does not necessarily remove the consequences.
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When you sin, it’s always against the Lord. It’s not against anyone else. As a Christian, when you sin you break fellowship with God, you quench the Holy Spirit and you try to live the Christian life in your own energy, in your own way and it won’t work. We fool ourselves if we think our sin affects only us. Disobedience to God can bring hurt and ruin even upon the innocent. Sin’s effects go beyond the initial sinner. “Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates a bribe will live” (Prov 15:27). Obedience is a consistent Bible theme. God’s blessings on nations and individuals are connected to those who are faithful and obedient to His commands.
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Learning God’s problem-solving devices and using them as a FLOT LIne in your soul are the coping skills you need to deal with the arena of contention all around you. You prevail in the devil’s world by learning the promises of God, believing them, and applying them in your life. “Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil, picking up the shield of faith” (Eph 6:11-16). The greatest joy in the world is when you know you’re exactly where God wants you to be. Occupation with Christ is a wonderful coping skill. “It is no longer I but Christ in me” (Gal 2:20).
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Use the faith-rest drill to calm yourself in the storms of life. Fear causes the focus to be on self but faith puts the focus on God and His Word. If the Lord Jesus Christ can calm the storm in the middle of the Sea of Galilee, can He not calm your storms and deliver you as well? He will—if you trust Him, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, keep your eyes on the facts and off of yourself, and don’t let fear take control. “My God shall supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:19). The Holy Spirit gives you strength by recalling the Word of God you have stored in your soul.
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We all have frustrations and flaws. Some flaws are inherited, and some are acquired. Flaws affect our lives and the decisions we make because they affect our thinking. “For that which I want to do, I don’t do, but the things that I hate to do, those are the things I do” (Rom 7:15). Nothing you can do in life will negate your salvation. Once saved, always saved. That’s eternal security. The problem is in guilt, we fail to forgive ourselves. Guilt is a sin. You’re going to fail. We all do. The key is to name the sin to God, pick yourself up, and keep moving ahead, taking in the Word of God and applying it in your life. Keep advancing in the spiritual life. “Forgetting those things which are behind me I reach forward to those things which are ahead” (Phil 3:13).
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Distractions stop you from growing in the Christian life. Wasted time is a serious problem. “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.” (Heb 5:12) You face four dangers: Placing our relationships with people over our relationship with God. Attempting to execute God’s plan with our human power. “Be filled with the Holy Spirit" (Eph 5:18). Ignorance of the Biblical mandate of love. “If you love Me you will keep my mandates and they are not hard” (1 John 5:3). Failure to grow spiritually under the plan that God established.
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Grace living frees you from human dependency. God’s Word, God’s plan for your life offers a phenomenal lifestyle of freedom. “If you continue in My Word, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31-32). Free from eternal condemnation. Free from sin and death. Free from the control of the sin nature. Free from addiction. Free from the details of life through occupation with Christ. Free from mental attitude sins. “Do not be anxious about anything” (Phil 4:6). “Therefore I’m telling you, do not be anxious about your life” (Matt 6:25). Spiritual freedom comes from the cognition and utilization of God’s Word through the filling of the Holy Spirit.
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Truth is the Word of God. God’s Word provides our absolute standards for living the Christian way of life. “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). We operate by faith and we verify everything with Scripture. What the Bible says should drive your decision-making. Spirituality is absolute. If you are filled with the Holy Spirit you are spiritual. If you aren’t, you are carnal. At any time in your life, you are either one or the other. Salvation is absolute. All it takes is faith alone in Christ alone. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13).
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If you hate someone, even if you haven’t killed them, you’ve committed mental murder. You are not allowed, as a Christian, to hate anyone. “Do not let bitterness rule your life or hatred or implacability or even malice” (Eph 4:31). The real you is what you think. Your spiritual life is lived in your thoughts, in your desires, in your intentions. “Let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evildoer or as a busybody in other men’s matters” (1 Pet 4:15). Sticking your nose in someone else’s business is one of the worst things you can do. The Bible says, “if you judge, you will be judged.” Your rebellion to God and His laws will make you a subject of Satan’s plan and his desire to vindicate himself by using you as a sucker. Don’t let human viewpoint, the thinking of the world, manipulate you into doing something stupid. Get control of your emotions. God will handle injustices.
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Fellowship with God in time is maintained by the Filling of the Holy Spirit. When you sin you break fellowship with God and that’s why problem-solving device #1, the rebound technique, is so critical to living the Christian way of life. You can’t live it in the power of the flesh, controlled by the sin nature. The only way to live the supernatural Christian life is with the supernatural resources of the empowerment of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God in your soul. “The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and He will bring them to your remembrance whatever I have said unto you” (John 14:26). All teaching must be metabolized by the mentorship of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit needs to be in control for you to execute your spiritual life. When the Holy Spirit controls your life, God can use you in spite of your abilities or inabilities. The Holy Spirit makes intercessions on your behalf. “The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities for we don’t even know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Holy Spirit Himself makes intercession for us” (Rom 8:26).
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The spiritual legacy of our Lord Jesus Christ was that He revealed His Father to the disciples. The legacy of the disciples was to reveal to us everything about Christ that they heard, saw and learned. Where is it revealed? In the Bible. That’s why it is so important to know the Word of God. Before you make any important decision ask yourself, what does the Bible say about this? Be a spiritual MVP (momentum, virtue and poise) by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning God’s Word. Momentum is hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis. Fidelity, being faithful, is key to having a spiritual legacy. Faithful to reflect and re-present Jesus Christ in the way you think, the way you talk and the way you live. Glorify God with your life and you will leave a spiritual legacy. “His Lord said unto him, ‘Well done My good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord.’” (Matt 25:21).
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Suffering is a form of teaching by God. Sometimes it takes suffering to motivate us to seek answers. “Affliction is good that I might learn Your statutes (the Word of God)" (Psalm 119:71). Learn God’s plan for your life and you will persevere through adversity (Romans 5:3). God loves you. He will take care of you! “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?” (Romans 8:35)
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If you keep playing games with God, you will shorten your life. God will take you home early. Permanent carnality is when you turn away from God and stay controlled by the sin nature. Controlling post-salvation sinning is so important. “Be vigilant, Satan seeks to neutralize and destroy you” (1 Peter 5:8). “Do not let Satan get an advantage over you” (2 Cor 2:11). “The wisdom of this world is foolishness” (1 Cor 1:20). There’s no shortcut to being a spiritually mature Christian. Becoming the person God wants you to require daily sacrifice. You must stay filled with the Holy Spirit and consistently learn the Word of God from a well-qualified pastor. As goes your spiritual life, so goes this nation.
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Jesus Christ handled it, you can handle it. Yes, He used the same problem-solving devices you have. They were His and He passed them on to you. If you learn them and use them you don’t have to live in loneliness or depression. There is a better way to live and it is the Christian life. You have to recognize your condition and then prioritize the Word of God number one in your life. If you begin to study God’s Word daily, you can restore the balance to your soul’s mentality. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). God’s given you a personal destiny. It’s one of your problem-solving devices. God has a plan for you. Live it. “Therefore on behalf of Christ, I’m content with my weaknesses, with vilifications, with adversities, with persecutions, with troublemakers because when I am weak, I am actually my strongest” (2 Cor 12:10).
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Grace is the way to live in Christ. Grace is God’s policy - always free and always based on Who God is, never on what mankind does. “For by grace are you saved through faith. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man would brag about it” (Eph 2:8-9). Saving grace. Learn and understand how Jesus Christ functioned when He was on this earth, see how He used grace, and replicate His mind. This is living grace. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). In grace, you can do a wonderful thing called forgiveness. Learn how to forgive others. Grace is the precedent for the Christian way of life. Living in grace, enjoying grace assets, giving grace, treating people in grace, receiving grace - what a wonderful way to live.
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We have to learn to control our sin nature. The mental attitude sins of bitterness, jealousy, and revenge can motivate someone, even a Christian, to commit horrible crimes. “If you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not become arrogant and lie against the truth. For where jealousy and strife exist, there is unruliness and evil deeds” (James 3:14-15). God sees everything. Nothing is hidden from Him. God knows your thoughts, intentions, desires, and motivations. So face the fact you’ve sinned, confess it to God before you get in deeper than you already are. Now is the time to be honest with God like David said in Psalm 32, “as long as I hid it I just dried up like an old man and died, but when I confessed my sin, You gave me the vitality of my life back.” You can’t be a criminal and serve God.
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You are either filled with the Holy Spirit or you are carnal and under control of the sin nature. One or the other. This is a daily battle. Will you let the sin nature control your life or will you allow the Holy Spirit to control your life? All of us have a sin nature inherited from Adam’s original sin. The sin nature has an area of weakness and this is the source of temptation. It has an area of strength and this is where human good originates. Your sin nature doesn’t force you to sin. Your volition is the source of sin. You choose to sin. “I want to do what is right, but I keep on doing what it is wrong. It’s clear that it’s sin in me” (Rom 7:15). When you sin you get out of fellowship with God. No, you don’t lose your salvation. You can’t lose your salvation. Your relationship with God is permanent. To resume fellowship with God, to get the Holy Spirit back in control of your life, use problem-solving device number one, rebound, name your sin to God (1 John 1:9). By growing spiritually, you will earn to recognize the sin nature’s temptations and its trend toward degeneracy and toward legalism. To overcome the sin nature you have a Bible and the filling of the Holy Spirit. These are the assets to keep the Holy Spirit in control of your life.
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It’s not patriotism that will hold our nation together. It is our spiritual heritage and that’s what we’re losing today. God has designated America as His client nation to the world. The question is, for how much longer? Our client nation status will be removed if we continue on our downward emotional trends of abandoning the plan of God and rejecting God’s Word. Christianity is to be lived by thought, not emotion. “Realize this, in the last days difficult times will come because men will be lovers of self” (2 Tim 3:1-7). A growing pivot, group of maturing believers, will preserve the USA as a client nation. God has several mandates for a client nation. Evangelize our own population. Communicate sound Bible doctrine to believers in our nation. Be responsible custodians of God’s Word, the canon of Scripture. Provide a safe haven for the Jew. Send out missionaries around the world to evangelize and raise up pastors to teach their people.
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America is a client nation, meaning we represent God in this generation. We send out missionaries around the world. We provide safe haven for the Jews. We are the guardian of the Scripture. God gave Moses information on what we are calling the Four Generation Curse. “Punishing the children for the sins of their fathers to the third and the fourth generation of those who despise Me” (Ex 20:4-5). Each generation is responsible for its own iniquity. The first generation rejects authority. The second generation is noted for self-righteous justification. The third generation has locked-in arrogance. The fourth-generation has inordinate ambition and lust for power and is the most corrupt having accumulated the sins of the previous generations. The simplest way to break the curse is through faith in Jesus Christ and learning and executing the protocol plan of God. “The Lord is slow to anger and He is abundant in mercy, forgiving inquiry and transgressions and sin, but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation” (Num. 14:18).
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In God’s plan, a miss by an inch is as good as a miss by a mile. The only way to get to heaven is to do the will of the Father. “This is the will of the One who sent Me that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life” (John 6:40). The question is, do you believe faith alone in Christ alone or do you add something to it? If you add something such as works, baptism, being good, giving money to the church then you’ve missed salvation. God is not impressed with our good deeds. The only way you can go to heaven and avoid the Lake of Fire is to have the same righteousness that God has and the only way you can get it is through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ on the cross. When you come to Christ through faith alone in Christ Alone this righteousness is imputed to you so that when God looks at you, He sees the righteousness of Christ in you. “He that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we may be made the righteousness of God through Him” (2 Cor 5:21).
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Complaining is a sin. Folks like to complain, gripe, malign, whine - they are all emotional sins. Complainers grumble about the raw deals they get in life, react and not respond to circumstances, resulting in self-induced misery. “For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining or arguments” (Phil 2:14). Apply the Word of God to the situation starting with grace orientation. Learn to grace people out, not complain about them. Without humility, you can’t serve the Lord. Humility is orienting to the authority of the Word of God. It is you objectively evaluating your own life in the light of what the Bible says. “This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and have a superabundance of happiness in it” (Ps 118:24). “Because of His unfailing love and mercy every day” (Lam 3:22-23).
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Sharing the happiness of God is perfect contentment. “I will rejoice and be happy in the provisions of Your grace” (Ps 31:7). Happiness comes from the grace of God. Wisdom and understanding are the keys to happiness. “Happy is the one who finds wisdom and the one who obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13). There’s no greater joy in life than to know you are in the center of the will of God. This gives you tremendous confidence, inner peace and an amazing understanding of what life is all about. “Happiness belongs to people who hear My Father’s word and keep it.” (Luke 11:27-28). Learning God’s Word gives you the capacity to be happy.
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This show is about renovating your thinking, changing the way you think. Not thinking in terms of human viewpoint, but thinking in terms of divine viewpoint. That's why the Bible says, “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). Learning to think as He thought requires that we learn the Scriptures. That’s why Proverbs 2:10-11 says, “When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge becomes pleasant to your soul; then discretion and understanding will guard and protect you.” When you have to make a decision, don’t make it based on emotions—make decisions based on what you think. The mind responds and the emotions just react.
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Your life is a vehicle. You have to learn how to drive it so you can maximize your time and your performance on this earth. Acquire The Fantastic Four. “When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11). The problem in America is so many are not hungry for the Word of God and many pastors are not dedicated to sticking with studying and communicating God’s Word accurately. You need to learn from a qualified pastor to gain a divine viewpoint. It will orient your life and is the only thing that will insulate you from the cosmic system. The Christian life is about maintaining spiritual balance and stability. You change the way you think and it will change the way you live. Acquire The Fantastic Four and you’ll live with objective optimism!
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Knowledge, one of The Fantastic Four, is a treasure. Jesus Christ is the key to eternal wealth because God’s grace plan is freely revealed to you through “Christ in you” “For in Him are all the hidden treasures of wisdom [one of The Fantastic Four] and knowledge” (Col 2:3). The Holy Spirit discloses divine intelligence to you by means of the teaching of the Scripture. You have the privilege and opportunity to have God’s playbook opened up for you. Think of the advantage you have! Understanding what lies ahead, what will happen in the course of American history is a great treasure. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).
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“Discretion will guard you and Understanding will watch over you.” Discretion is the ability to make wise decisions. The Fantastic Four can be your shield, but you must acquire and learn how to use them as your FLOT line. “No testing has overtaken you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you are able” (1 Cor 10:13). Testing gives us the opportunity to apply the Word of God and accelerate our spiritual growth.
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The greatest four things you can possess are the Fantastic Four: Wisdom - Knowledge - Discretion - Understanding. Solomon had amazing divine wisdom. You can have the same kind of wisdom if you acquire the mind of Christ by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and growing spiritually. The more you learn and apply the Word of God, the more you want to understand since it’s a never-ending knowledge treasure and it enriches your spiritual life. With this treasure in your soul, you can deal with circumstances when they arise. “Discretion will preserve you and understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:11). Discretion is like a blinking light that warns of danger ahead. Discretion can preserve you from Satan’s system of evil. Discernment means to use good judgment and know when to keep your mouth shut such as when you’re angry, tempted to lie, straighten out a fool, or say more than you should when you don’t know all the facts and many more. “The one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin” (Prov 13:3).
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Christians are to have a stable mindset. Get rid of fear, doubt, depression, loneliness. You don’t want to be on "the my-way highway" because it's the road to destruction. The greatest enemy you have is yourself. You are what you think and you will be the product of your decisions. “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). If you think with your emotions you’ll have a life of misery, always blaming others for your own unhappiness. Desperate people do desperate things. There is a solution. Our Lord faced tremendous challenges when He walked this earth. You have the same resources He had and used. Our Lord never complained, never felt hopeless. He told the disciples if they would learn from Him they would have “My joy in you and your joy could be made full” (John 15:11). Think with a divine viewpoint—that’s the solution. Guilt is a sin and motivates many failures in the spiritual life. Get rid of guilt, self-pity, rebound, don’t look back, and move forward by growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Pet. 3:18). Take in God’s Word, learn it, and apply it to your life. That’s how to stay off The Road to Destruction.
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The Fantastic Four (Wisdom - Knowledge - Discretion - Understanding) are the four most dynamic things we need as Christians. “When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion shall preserve you and understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11). Thinking controls your destiny. Wisdom is acquired not inherited. Knowledge comes through Jesus Christ. As you study the life and mind of Christ you see what your life should be. It is a mirror. Without wisdom in your soul you have no chance to withstand the strategy of the devil. Biblical knowledge believed by faith and applied brings great happiness. “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).
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God is faithful. He always supplies our needs. Grace-motivated giving is the way to go. If God is in it, God will pay for it. Giving is a commemoration of grace since God the Father gave His Son as the ultimate gift to humanity. Giving in grace demands proper motivation.
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Dying grace is an amazing blessing for a mature believer. This is the full grace of God being realized when dying. “For me living is Christ and dying is profit” (Phil 1:21). Dying grace is an extension of living grace so there is the maximum glorification of Dying grace is the link we have between blessings we get in time and what we will get in eternity. We will have an abundance of God’s blessing and God’s Word in heaven and an eternal inheritance related to Jesus Christ. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, the heart has never felt the amazing things God has waiting for you” (Is 64:4).
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If you want to get close to God you study His Word consistently under a pastor who has the spiritual gift to teach you. Everything in the Bible is inspired by God for a reason. The Word of God is here for you to learn and apply in your life. “You shall seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jer 9:23). Biblical information that is believed by faith in your mind and applied in your heart becomes wisdom. It’s a different way of thinking, a mindset of humility and not arrogance. Humility is teachability. Learning the truth from the Scripture establishes protectors in your soul. Satan will try to discredit the Scripture. Don’t be lured by false teaching. “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
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Spirituality is absolute and based on the filling of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is based on the content of the Word of God stored in your soul. The more of God’s Word you learn and store, the sooner you will reach spiritual maturity. As we assimilate the thinking of Jesus Christ from studying the Bible we build a frame of reference called a divine viewpoint. We need to have the mentality and the intentionality of Jesus Christ.
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Volition is the decider in your life. The decisions you make determine the life you lead. You are responsible for your thoughts and actions.
“He that believes on the Son has everlasting life and He that believes not on the Son shall not see life and the wrath of God abides on him forever” (John 3:36).
“Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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“God is my strength and my power” (2 Sam 22:23). This unique characteristic of God, His power, is called omnipotence. Your objective is to access God’s omnipotence in your life. From the time you make the decision to believe in Christ you can have direct access to God’s power by means of the indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit, by means of the living Word of God in your soul, and by means of “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). You can have power others don't have. It is called divine wisdom. God’s power becomes your power when you learn and use the unique invisible assets He has given you. These assets are revealed in the Word of God. There are no limits on what God’s power can do in your life but you have to learn to trust Him. “Without faith, it is impossible to please Him” (Heb 11:6). Faith comes from consistent learning and applying the Word of God. Here are 3 sources of power for you: “The Word of God is alive and powerful” (Phil 3:10); “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8), and “The power of His resurrection” (Heb 4:12).
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Jesus Christ when he lived on this earth knew and used Scripture for deliverance from the temptations of Satan. That’s what we must do also. Learning Bible doctrine, the promises, principles and procedures found in the Word of God and applying them is the problem-solving device of doctrinal orientation. God’s Word has to be learned and applied for you to get sustainable energy critical to living the Christian way of life. “Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). Study and Grow are mandates from God. If you aren’t studying the Word of God and growing you are sinning. The Bible is a textbook and is designed by God to be taught to you. Sometimes we confuse ourselves because we substitute ritual for reality or emotion for content. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Cor 4:33). Studying under the authority of a well-qualified pastor is key to getting it straight and to growing to spiritual maturity. Your maturity is based on the content of the Word of God in your soul.
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God expects you to be trustworthy. Two essential attributes are faithfulness and reliability. The trustworthy believer “lives by faith not by sight” (2 Col 5:7). Faith is an attitude that is learned. It’s confidence in God and His Word. Faith needs to be developed by learning God’s Word. “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). Being faithful to God means you have spiritual muscle. There are over 7,000 promises in the Bible. Do you have the courage, dependability and reliability to stand on those? Faith stands firm in God’s promises, but you need to know them. Faith gives you the ability to see what’s going on in the angelic conflict. Paul wrote to the church at Thessalonica, “we speak proudly of your perseverance and your faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure” (2 Thess 1:4).
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God wants us to grow in grace, come to understand grace, utilize grace and teach grace. The Christian life focuses and functions around grace. Grace is an amazing gift from God. “God is able to make all grace abound toward you” (2 Cor 9:8). This is our divine promises for all grace provisions. You don’t have to worry or have anxiety. Put it on the Lord. That’s one of His grace provisions. “My God shall supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:19). If you glorify God through living grace then you will glorify God in dying grace. One in dying grace experiences both blessing and happiness at the point of death. “Behold the eye of the Lord is on those occupied with Him, on those who have confidence in His grace to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in depression” (Ps 33:18-19).
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The best father anyone can have is God the Father. “Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.” (1 Cor 8:6). No earthly father can love you as much as your heavenly Father loves you. “God only is my rock and my salvation. My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken” (Ps 62:2). You are never alone. He sees everything you go through and He provides the means to endure. “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also so that you will be able to endure” (1 Cor 10:13). He sent His Son to pay for your sin and you have an eternal, permanent relationship with your Father through Christ our Lord.
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Your soul is the invisible part of you that lives forever. To leave a spiritual legacy you must learn and apply the Word of God in your life. Having an impact for Jesus Christ in your family and community by replicating His thinking is why He left you here. “I delight to do Your will O my God” (Ps 40:8). Live God’s agenda and not your own and you will have a personal sense of destiny. “I know whom I have believed in and I am persuaded He is able to keep that which I’ve committed to Him against that day.” (2 Tim 1:12). God’s plan for you is perfect. The Christian life is grace orientation—learning the grace of God, exploiting His grace, promoting His grace and sharing His grace. Grace out others because God graced you out.
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Change your actions by changing your thoughts. We are what we think. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). We learn the mind of Christ by learning the Scriptures. The Christian way of life is about learning and applying the Word of God. God has given us the unique resources of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and the Bible. He has made it easy.
Get on the Thy Way Highway.
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Satan wants to make a casualty out of you by affecting your thoughts. Satan’s objective is to frustrate the will of God in our life - mentally to doubt what we’re doing, geographically to get us in the wrong place at the wrong time, and operationally to get us to do the wrong thing in the wrong way. How do you defend yourself? You put on the armor of God. You train your mind to spot his evil, avoid distractions, and know when you’re being manipulated by his system of evil. You’ve got to prepare by learning and applying the Word of God so it becomes wisdom in your soul. “Stand firm…taking up the shield of faith, having on the belt of truth” (Eph 6:12-15). “Having been justified by faith we can have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1). Satan cannot stand against the truth of the Word of God. When you have the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, there’s no way you’re going to be defeated by Satan.
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We only get one shot at this life. At some point, you have to make a conscious decision to grow in grace by studying and making yourself approved unto God. This requires an attitude adjustment. “Don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is” (Rom 12:2).
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The Four Generation Curse is a significant truth taught in the Bible. You need to know about it considering what is going on in this country. We’re living in a chaotic climate. If the anti-God trends continue, fueled by social media influencers, God will bring judgment on our nation. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will reject you” (Hosea). God requires us to LAG: Learn, Apply, and Glorify Him. Every generation is responsible for the decisions it makes, the culture it chooses. Rejection of authority is the most prominent cause of suffering in life. Rejection of God will bring suffering to our nation. ”There’s a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose jaws are like knives” (Prov 30:14). This is the last generation before God brings the fifth cycle discipline upon a nation. This generation has a lust for power.
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God’s grace sustains you. Don’t get overly concerned about your security or safety. That’s God’s business, not yours. “My God shall supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:19). You have the righteousness of God through your faith in Jesus Christ. The justice of God sends life support to the righteousness of God that’s inside of you. That’s grace—you don’t earn it and you don't deserve it. Logistical grace provisions are amazing. “God is able to make all grace abound to you so that always having a sufficiency in everything you will have an abundance for every good thing of intrinsic value production” (2 Col 9:8). Your priority every day must be to grow spiritually, to stay filled with the Holy Spirit, to take in God’s Word. To be that faithful servant who keeps the lamp lit waiting on the Master to return (Luke 12).
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Your enemy, Satan, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. That’s why you need a FLOT Line in your soul. You don’t have to live under the influence of the devil’s world—you have a choice. “Be sober, be on the alert” (1 Pet 5:8). Learn and use God’s 10 problem-solving devices. Develop a FLOT Line in your soul to stop the outside sources of adversity from becoming stress in your soul. Learning and applying the Word of God gives you wisdom, knowledge, discernment and understanding The Fantastic Four (Prov 2:10-11) so you can be alert and recognize the lures of the cosmic system. “Stop loving the world or anything related to it because if anyone keeps loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 5:15-16). Use the faith-rest drill and put on the Armor of God (Eph 6:11-18) to stand against Satan. Your faith will allow you to keep standing in spite of the attacks. You are in a spiritual war. You are in the arena of contention of the angelic conflict. You need the armament of the Word of God in your soul, a FLOT line, to win. You must have rigorous discipline and single-minded purpose “For me to live is Christ” (Phil 1:21). God’s laws of divine establishment [freedom, marriage, family and nationalism] offer insulation from the influence of the cosmic system.
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Living the Christian life is thinking and living differently. Using the Word of God, the 10 problem-solving devices to think and make decisions to live. Divine wisdom! We must evaluate ourselves in the light of what the Word of God teaches. “The wise heart will receive mandates [God’s mandates] but a babbling fool will pass” (Prov 10:8). “Let the wise hear and increase in learning” (Prov 1:5). Arrogance is your top enemy. Be careful, be wise not to fall into the trap of self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption. A wise person orients to the authority of the Word of God and hopefully the authority of a well-qualified pastor. The wise person will guard his tongue. “I will guard my ways so that I might not sin with my tongue” (Ps 39:1). “The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things” (Prov 15:28). It’s never OK to complain, slander or spread falsehoods. Take it to the Supreme Court of Heaven, it’s open 24 hours a day.
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Your personal sense of destiny is right in front of you. The objective of your spiritual life is to find it, live it, use it and glorify God to the max through everything you do. “I delight to do your will O my God” (Ps 40:8). A personal sense of destiny is a door. Go through the door, leave your personal agenda behind and get into God’s protocol plan for your life. Get into the happiness and fulfillment He designed for you. Make time for learning God’s Word on a daily basis. God has a viewpoint will, what He wants you to think. He has an operational will, what He wants you to do. And He has a geographic will for you, where He wants you to be. Jesus told the disciples and you, “I am about to leave…the Holy Spirit is going to come and He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:7-13).
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Are you willing to strap on the armor of God in your mind and stand in the war against Satan? How do you arm yourself? By staying filled with the Holy Spirit and having the living, learned Word of God in your thoughts. “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). The Helmet of Salvation ensures you don’t doubt your salvation. Use the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to cut away difficult circumstances in your life. The Word of God is truth. The wisdom of God will bring you wealth - wealth in happiness and in the way you live your life.
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Without learning and applying God’s Word you’re never going to glorify God. And you won’t learn about one of the most important provisions God has for you - logistical grace. Learn how God will supply your every need. “Which one of you by being anxious can add anything to your life?” (Luke 12:25). You never have to worry when you use the supernatural power of the living Word of God. Doctrinal/Biblical orientation is a problem-solving device. You are mandated by God to study His Word. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15).
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Your spiritual profile is your spiritual maturity. When God looks at you, what is the profile He sees in your life? Look into the mirror of God's Word and get a realistic self-image of who you actually are.
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The power in the Christian life lies in the filling of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God in your soul, and an attitude of grace orientation. You need to understand grace to effectively re-present Christ to others. “Unto everyone of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ” (Eph 4:7). Jesus Christ gives us the ultimate grace gift - eternal security. The Holy Spirit in common grace will make the gospel understandable to an unbeliever. God’s given us the mandate to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Pet 3:18). God graces you out. You are to grace out others. Focus on the freeness of grace. The universality of the kindness, graciousness and goodwill of the person that bestows grace on you and responds with gratitude.
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Forgiveness is a sign of nobility in the Christian life. It's unique to Christianity. “Forgive as Christ forgave” (Eph 4:32). Forgiveness forgets. The two must go together. Justice belongs to God. We are never to retaliate. “For with what measure you measure, it will be measured back to you again” (Matt 7:2). Forgiveness requires the use of the problem-solving devices of impersonal love and grace orientation. “If someone says I love God and hates his brother he is a liar” (1 John 4:20). Let go of hypersensitivity. Forgiveness requires humility.
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Forgiveness is unique to Christianity. God never fails to forgive. We must learn to forgive. “If someone says I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar” (1 John 4:20). How often should you forgive someone who has offended you or done something against you? the Bible says always. Retribution and retaliation are sins. Don’t go there. Recall the words of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:24). Could you say this if you were being killed? Paul wrote, “Dearly beloved do not avenge yourself but rather give place unto wrath [in other words don’t let wrath take hold of you] for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will do the repaying’ says the Lord” (Matt 7:1-7). Humility is key to the Christian life. Humility and forgiveness go together. Hypersensitivity is the opposite of humility and often leads to sins of vindictiveness and implacability. The believer is obligated to extend forgiveness.
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There are three phases to God’s plan for your life. Phase one is salvation. Phase two is time on earth. Phase three is eternity. Once you’ve accepted Christ as your Savior, you know your ultimate destiny is to spend eternity in heaven with God. How will you know your destiny in phase two? By studying the Word of God under the teaching of a qualified pastor. With the filling of the Holy Spirit (using rebound) and the consistent Bible study and application, you will find and understand your destiny. “Call to Me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jer 33:3). God’s plan for you is much bigger, much more amazing than the plans you have for yourself.
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Concentration is key to learning. You need the empowerment of the filling of the Holy Spirit to learn, retain and recall Biblical principles. Each piece of the armor of God is something you think. It is a mindset we need to win the battles we’re in. The first piece of armor is the Belt of Truth. “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). We must strap the truth of God’s Word around our waist because all other pieces of the armor attach to it. The truth of the Word of God is our anchor. Now attach the Breastplate of Righteousness covering your vital organs. This is the imputed righteousness of Christ given to you at salvation and the capacity righteousness you acquire as you grow spiritually. Next is the footwear of the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace. “Having been justified by faith we have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1). The Shield of Faith is using the problem-solving device of the faith-rest drill.
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Without the freedom Christ offers, you are not free. You need to accept God’s grace gift of salvation to be free from the slave market of sin. This is spiritual freedom. “I will walk in freedom and seek Your doctrines” (Ps 119:45). Free from the penalty of sin - free from the power of sin. The penalty of sin is death and separation from God - that’s why you need to believe in the finished work on the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. The power of sin is the sin nature’s ability to enslave you in the lust of the flesh. There’s a better way to live. Spiritual freedom can function anywhere. Spiritual freedom only belongs to the believer in Jesus Christ. Your physical freedom was bought and paid for by the American military. Your spiritual freedom was bought and paid for by Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Divine establishment, principles God ordained for the perpetuation of the human race. They include the divine institutions of volition, marriage, family, and nationalism. As a nation, we’ve turned our backs on God and His divine establishment principles and we are in serious trouble.
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Faith is a legitimate way to make a decision and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ requires faith. That's why the Bible says, “For by grace through faith are you saved, not of works lest any man would brag about it” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
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The righteousness of God rejects arrogance, lying, murder, revenge motivation, those swift to run to mischief, false testimony, and those who manipulate others to gain power. What the righteousness of God rejects, the justice of God will judge. “A person who spreads conflict among relatives” (Prov 6:19b). This can be Christians in a local church or could be family. It refers to a person plotting and planning stirring up conflict. They try to manipulate people to gain power. Some people will try to manipulate you by coercing you to live your life a certain way to be a 'good Christian.’ Don’t do what they say. Do what the Bible says. Go to the Word of God to get direction for your life. The more of the Word of God you know, the more effective you will be to spot the lies and lures of the cosmic system. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit to stay free from the Seven Sins.
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God doesn’t force you to do His will - He gives you free will, the freedom to choose. You have volition. Learning how to make good decisions based on what the Bible says is the secret to the Christian life. Your objective: think and live like Christ. Keep a short account of sin by using rebound. The Bible lists seven sins that the righteousness of God finds highly offensive (Prog 6:16-19). Arrogance. Our own arrogance is the root of other mental attitude sins. Lying. Murder. “Satan was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). No sin is too bad for the plan of God. God offers A Divine Pardon to all. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13).
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Volition is your ability to choose. God gave us free will. With our freedom to choose, using volitional responsibility, most of the time we cause our own misery and suffering by the bad decisions we make. Wrong thinking, a human viewpoint is a self-imposed misery. Volitional responsibility applies to wrong thinking; wrong motivation; wrong decisions; and wrong or impulsive actions. “For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of that wrong for which he has done for there is no partiality with God” (Col 3:25). We can make a wrong decision based on sin, human good, evil resulting in evil, erroneous emotions in our life, bad judgment, and false teaching. Self-induced misery and divine discipline can result. “He who sows wickedness reaps trouble and the rod of punishment will surely come” (Prov 22:8). “Occupation with the Lord is the instruction for wisdom but before honor, there must come humility” (Prov 15:33). “He who gets wisdom loves his own soul and he who cherishes understanding prospers” (Prov 19:8).
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You are your own worst enemy. When you stay in carnality (don’t use 1 John 1:9). When you think with a human viewpoint instead of a divine viewpoint. When you make bad decisions. When you get lured by one of our three enemies: the world, the flesh, or the devil. The Christian life is about learning how to avoid these lures. “Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh but those who live according to the Holy Spirit set their minds on the things of the Holy Spirit” (Rom 8:5). The Holy Spirit protects you from yourself. By using problem-solving device #1 rebound you are guaranteed to have a protector in life—God the Holy Spirit.
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The Christian life is about training the way you think, acquiring a divine viewpoint. Your spiritual life is what you think. “Put on the armor God” (Eph 6:11-18) is changing the way you think. “Put on" is the mental process of learning and using God’s 10 problem-solving devices. You need to put on the armor of God to stand against the strategy of the devil. Using this armor you will have discernment, insight and understanding in your thoughts and actions. You will be thinking like Christ thought and won’t end up a Christian casualty in the angelic conflict. “Because we wrestle not against flesh and blood” (Eph 6:12). Without the Word of God in your soul, in your thoughts, you are walking in darkness without the light of truth. You are faking it in life. The Word of God brings light to the darkness. “For God who said ‘Light shall shine out of darkness’ is the One who is shown into our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 4:6). Knowledge is the source of the light.
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We are all one in Christ. There are no racial divisions in the plan of God. As Christians, we are all in the Royal Family of God. No racial issues. “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus… For you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal 3:26-28). You are secure in Christ. Now and for all eternity. “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Cor 3:16). At some point in your life, you may walk away from God but He will never abandon you. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself” (2 Tim 2:13).
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If you love God and you have reverential respect for God then you are going to fulfill God's plan for your life. Listen to 1 John 5:3, “This is the love of God, that we keep His mandates; and His mandates are not a burden.” This demonstrates that you love Him—it is called obedience. In Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge …”
When you have a desire to learn God's word you get wisdom. Over a period of time, learning gives you wisdom. And what wisdom does once it gets into the bank of your soul, it gives you understanding and discernment.
Your job and my job are to receive the instructions of wisdom that lead us to justice in our life, righteousness in our lives, and equity.
Either you adjust to the justice of God or the justice of God will adjust to you.
Now, God is offering you a life of pleasant circumstances and a life of peace - not conflict—if you seek wisdom, His word, understanding, discernment, insight. Guidance through the maze of this life is the very promise of God's wisdom. He will guide you through the maze of this life in the devil’s world. In Proverbs 3:6, “In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” You are talking about your own personal tour guide through life.
The wisdom of God is called spiritual solutions. The attainment of these solutions, or wisdom, is called spiritual growth. When you have spiritual growth, you develop spiritual skills that give you the ability to live a spiritual life. What are those skills? (1) self-esteem, spiritual self-esteem, (2) spiritual autonomy, and eventually (3) spiritual maturity.
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Hell exists. It’s a place where unbelievers go after death awaiting the Great White Throne of Judgment. Unbelievers are those who chose to not believe in Jesus Christ and rejected Him as their Savior. They will be judged for this sin and cast into the Lake of Fire to live forever in darkness and pain. The Lake of Fire is much worse than hell—it is eternal burning. “Death and hell delivered up the dead that were in them and they were judged, every man according to their deeds. Then death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:13-15). God does not want anyone to go to hell. “This is the will of the One that sent Me, that you believe in Me whom You have sent” (John 6:29). The choice is yours—heaven or hell and then the Lake of Fire. Don’t wait another minute to make the most important decision of your life. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.” (Acts 16:31)
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Hell is real. Hell is a holding place for those who chose to reject Jesus Christ as their Savior—the unbelievers, the unrighteous. “He that knew no sin was made sin for us that we may be made the righteousness of God through Him” (2 Cor 5:21). Hell is the place where they await the Great White Throne of Judgment before being cast into the Lake of Fire. Hell was prepared for Satan and his angels, not us. “God is not willing that any should perish” (2 Pet 3:9). If you want to avoid the Lake of Fire then “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved." “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13).
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Saved by God’s grace. Live through God’s grace. The Bible mandates “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). God will supply your daily needs. This is His promise of logistical grace. God has given us grace assets to live the Christian way of life: the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, the living Word of God, and pastor-teachers to teach us. Being grace-oriented is minding your own business and taking care of your own spiritual life. Grace orientation is living God’s grace every day by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning and applying His Word. And treating others with grace. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted and forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake forgave you” (Eph 4:30-31).
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"I have learned to be content” (Phil 4:11). Contentment is the capacity for life. You need to learn and apply God’s Word to be content. The more you learn, the more faith you have. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). The rate of learning must exceed the rate of forgetting. Be aware, Satan wants to distract you so you don’t study and learn God’s Word. The less you know the easier it is to be manipulated by Satan. Never stop learning about God.
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You are what you think, not what you think you are. Your mind is where you live the spiritual life. You worship God by what you think, by understanding Him. Once you become Christians you are mandated to change the way you think. Your mind must be transformed into thinking divine viewpoint over human viewpoint. This requires humility. “Do not be conformed to this world [Satan’s] but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may now be able to prove what is the will of God” (Rom 12:2-3). Learning God’s Word and applying it under the filling of the Holy Spirit must be the top priority in your life. Failure to learn God’s Word and execute the spiritual life is a grievous sin and is being committed daily by many Christians. The threat you face from the devil’s world is mental distractions. Satan wants to manipulate you by manipulating your thoughts. Don’t allow this to happen. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18).
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Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. Satan is a counterfeiter. He promotes a myth that people or circumstances can make you happy. They can’t. Sharing the happiness of God, problem-solving device #9 is what makes you happy. Jesus Christ wants you to be happy. “I have taught you these things so that My happiness might be in you” (John 15:11). This happiness only comes from staying filled with the Holy Spirit and consistently learning and applying the Word of God. This is a process. “If you abide in Me” (John 15:7) This is the source of happiness. God has given you the resources and ability to have self-contained happiness.
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Adversity is inevitable but stress is optional. Adversity is what circumstances do to you but stress is what you do to yourself. God has a perfect plan for you and if you will learn the plan and use the plan, you never have to worry, you never have to be afraid, you can have complete self-confidence and complete happiness in the plan of God.
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You can be a dream maker and follow your dreams. Or you can be a risk taker and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. God is looking for risk-takers, not excuse-makers. A risk-taker is dedicated to the mission of growing to spiritual maturity and is prepared to be used by the Lord. “Here am I, send me” (Is 6:8). Stay filled with the Holy Spirit and makes learning and applying the Word of God a daily priority. A risk-taker uses the Word of God, divine viewpoint, to control his life. If you don’t control your life, other people or circumstances will. A risk-taker is willing to take the point and lead out. If you are going to follow the Lord you can’t put a premium on security. To be a risk taker you need to get in the boat. Following Jesus Christ means you live by His example. “Because of this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow in His steps” (1 Pet 2:21). A risk-taker may be marked by sorrow but his life is always defined by joy. “I trust You. My times are in Your hands” (Ps 31:14-15).
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No Christian is charged by God to change the politics of any country. It’s not your job to be an activist. Your job is to represent Jesus Christ. Having a FLOT Line in your soul keeps you from political bitterness, from becoming bitter and antagonistic toward those who appear to be demanding a different way of life. We are mandated to pray for our national leaders whether we agree with them or not. “I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority” (1 Tim 2:1-6). Our leaders may be wicked and evil, but we are mandated by the Word of God to love them using the problem-solving device of impersonal love. “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” (Rom 13:1-5). God allowed it to happen. Remember Jesus Christ controls history. The Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24 hours a day and nobody gets away with anything. God will allow a nation to go under divine discipline.
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Flaws are things in life that prevent us from taking in the Word of God, understanding it, and storing it in our souls. Flaws are inherent or acquired. It’s hard for a flawed believer to apply God’s Word because of arrogance. Part of the trend of arrogance is self-absorption. Preoccupation with self will stop you from living the Christian way of life and prevent you from ever glorifying God. Humility is critical because humility is teachability. “Humble yourselves before the mighty hand of God” (1 Peter 5:6). Disassociation is a flaw. This is when you separate from truth or from reality in your life and it causes you to have garbage in your subconsciousness. A lack of authority orientation is a serious flaw. Your authority is Jesus Christ and His Word. Your place of contentment is in the person of Jesus Christ and knowing Him as your Lord and Savior. It’s letting Him give your life meaning and purpose. Without this, you will never have contentment.
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We all have faults because we all have a sin nature. We also have flaws. “There is none righteous, not even one” (Rom 3:10). What is a flaw? It is something that blocks your learning and understanding of the Word of God. Flaws are things that we acquire or inherit. A flawed believer may have a lot of knowledge but applies very little. Arrogance often is a trait of a flawed person. The only way to overcome a flaw is to recognize it and rebound. Admit the flaw to yourself and God, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, and get into a consistent routine of studying and learning God's Word. Do this and you can overcome your flaws and faults.
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God wants you to be a grace transmitter. That’s your job - to be a spiritual influencer in the devil’s world. Our spiritual lives are about conductivity, not activity. It’s through conductivity that God’s grace flows and is converted into productivity to glorify Him. Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world” (Matt 5:13-14). Let your light shine so others can see Christ in you. We are the transmitters of God’s grace provisions through representing Jesus Christ. “He who wins souls is wise” (Prov 11:30). The grace lifestyle is the most attractive thing the unbeliever can see. “This is the true grace of God, stand fast in it” (1 Pet 5:12).
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As Americans, we have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and this gives us the advantage to survey the times from the height of their perspective. Our country was built on core values and founded on the divine institutions of freedom, marriage, family and nationalism. These values act as a rudder to keep us on course. Your family and your church are where you develop your norms and standards. The rudder on America, our guiding force is gone. We are floating helplessly and about to crash on the rocks. Your spiritual life is the drift sock that can slow down our descent as a nation. To regain control we must Recognize we have lost our rudder from turning away from God. We must Realize our position both nationally and personally and Recover our destiny. “If My people will humble themselves and turn away from their wicked ways, seek My face and pray, I will hear, I will answer, I will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). If we Recover our destiny we can Reap the rewards God has promised.
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When disaster comes, it’s the Word of God in your soul that will deliver you and give you the ability to relax. So quit leaning on others. Lean on God and His Word. Understand that Jesus Christ controls history. “Take heed that no man deceive you” (Matt 24:4). To interpret contemporary history you must be able to apply the Word of God to the situation. You must understand the contemporary history and evaluate it as it unfolds. You should learn from history about the next prophetic event, the Rapture. “Be not troubled for these things must come to pass” (Matt 24:4-8). Jesus Christ controls history directly by means of His divine power and indirectly through certain safeguards which don’t overlap called dispensations. Each period inhibitory stands alone in history. Studying God’s Word on a consistent basis under a qualified pastor and observing history as it unfolds will give you tremendous stability in life. “Take Heed” - there is no disaster in this world that can remove you from life unless it’s God’s predetermined time for you to go. Relax.
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You have supernatural ability as a Christian when you are filled with the Holy Spirit and using the dynamics of the Word of God learned and applied. This is what gives you strength. “Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles…they will run and not get tired” (Is 40:30). To see the power of God you must stand still sometimes, stand still on His promises. “No weapon that is formed against you shall ever hurt you” (Is 54:17). This requires faith and the faith-rest drill. You can’t have faith if you don’t learn God’s Word. God is asking you to set aside distractions that entangle you and run the race with endurance. “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us fixing our eyes on Jesus Christ, the author and perfecto of our faith” (Heb 1:1-2).
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Knowing you have eternal life is wonderful. You don’t have to worry about death. Once God gives you eternal life He doesn’t and can’t pull it back. “I give unto them eternal life and they will never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father which gave them to Me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand” (John 10:28-29). You can’t lose your salvation because it is based on the work of Christ on the cross. It is not based on you. The fact that you’re not going to lose your salvation doesn’t guarantee you will live a successful Christian life. You need to learn the plan of God for your life. At salvation, you are brought into God’s royal family. “The Spirit bears witness Himself with our spirit that we are indeed the children of God” (Rom 8:16).
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Giving is an attitude toward the Lord and can be an expression of grace toward others. It depends on your understanding of Scripture and being well-motivated. “And not even as we anticipated, but they gave first of themselves to the Lord. Then they gave to us by the will of God” (2 Col 8:5). If you give money—which is the right thing—but it's done in the wrong way it will not glorify God. First, you must be filled with the Holy Spirit when you give. What you give is a matter of the privacy of your priesthood related to the Word of God. Tithing is not relevant in this dispensation. Giving is an expression of worship and it commemorates the grace of God in your life. “Give to the degree determined by means of what God has given to us, not from the distress of our mind [emotions]. God loves the well-motivated believer” (2 Cor 9:7).
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Are you willing to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ’s sake? Are you willing to be a Christian fool? “I count it a joy to be a fool for Christ’s sake” (1 Col 4:10). Do you possess an objective optimism based on the promises of Scripture? There are over 7000 promises found in the Word of God. Learn them and use them. If you want to be wise and not foolish, learn to understand what the will of the Lord is. His will includes you re-presenting Him to others and thinking with divine viewpoint. “The way of the fool is right in his own eyes but he that will listen to counsel is wise” (Prov 12:25). If you are wise you won’t associate with fools. “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of a fool will suffer misery” (Prov 13:20).
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Faith is absolute confidence in God and His Word. Jesus told the disciples and tells us, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). Faith is no doubt, no worry. You have eternal life. God has a plan for your life. Faith means be patient. Learn God’s Word to identify the plan He has for you. As you grow spiritually, as you learn God’s Word, your faith increases. “So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). Faith must comply with the plan of God, not your personal needs.
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“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16
The Gospel is the good news of the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross. The power of God is in the Gospel. The moment someone hears and believes the Gospel—faith alone in Christ alone—God seals that faith for salvation. From that one moment of faith, the believer becomes one with Christ and forever shares His inheritance and His glory.
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As you develop rapport with God by learning His Word, you learn to love Him. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Problem-solving device number seven. Personal love for God is the greatest virtue you can have and your motivation for life. It’s an appreciation for Who and what He is. “Whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. Because of this we know we are in Him” (1John 2:5). Personal love for God is stability in your life—it is a spiritual weapon. The more you obey and love God, the more capacity you’ll have for love. “Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Christ Jesus unto the glory and the praise of God” (Phil 1:11).
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When you learn the mind of Christ then you can live a Christ-like life. “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me” (Matt 11:29). We have to learn the Word of God. “Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth” (2 Tim 2:15). the Bible is God’s living Word to you! Knowing the Word of God is the power line in your soul. In every adversity of life, the Word of God is your strength. It is your power. But if you don’t learn it, you can’t use it. When you hear and apply the teaching of the Bible, it molds your thinking, it forms you. “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God” (Eph 6:17). The Word of God gives us our very life.
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God has a plan for you. He reveals it through the Bible, only through the Word of God. “The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword” (Heb 4:12). That’s why it is so important you find and study under a well-qualified pastor who will teach it to you. Everything you need to know about God is in the Bible. It is the only source of information about God’s plan that is available. God’s plan involves a new way of thinking. Thinking with a divine viewpoint. “Have this attitude which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). If you learn to understand God’s plan then you can fulfill His will in your life. God reveals Himself in a way that makes sense.
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Why do people suffer? Often because of our own bad decisions. That’s why it’s so important to think with a divine viewpoint acquired by learning and applying the Word of God. As man, Jesus suffered as we do and He handled it the same way we do. By staying filled with the Holy Spirit and using the faith-rest drill. Jesus was the prototype Christian. We can defeat Satan’s strategy to discredit, distract, destroy and discourage the same way Christ did. Apply Scripture. As Paul said, “I went through insults, distresses, persecution and difficulties - all for Christ’s sake” (2 Cor 12:10). God always designs suffering for blessing even when suffering is divine discipline. His discipline is to get you to adjust your attitude, to get back into the plan of God. Acquiring the mind of Christ allows you to use your volitional responsibility more wisely as you advance in your spiritual life.
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Jesus Christ taught his disciples and us how to have His joy. How to be content and be happy. “These things I have spoken to you so My joy. might remain in you and your joy might be full (John 15:11). You must be saved and be cleansed, filled with the Holy Spirit, to have this joy. Be faithful to God by learning and paying attention to His Word. Be compassionate toward others and learn to forgive. “Clothe yourself with compassion and kindness, humility, gentleness and patience and bear with each other and forgive one another and if any of you has a grievance against someone, forgive them as the Lord forgives you” (Col 3:12-13). Be confident in God and His promise of grace provisions. Be extraordinary through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and knowing and applying God’s Word. Use the unique resource inside you—your Mentor and Comforter. “I will give you a Comforter, He is the Spirit of truth. You will know Him because He will dell in you and abide with you forever” (John 14:16)
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Suffering is an opportunity for blessing. All suffering for blessing is designed by God for you to advance to spiritual maturity and glorify Him. Respond to suffering by applying the Word of God to your circumstances and you will put muscle on your spiritual life. Don’t ever pray for the suffering to be removed. There is always a reason for it. God will never give you more testing than you can handle. “No testing has overtaken you but such as is common to man. Moreover God is faithful. He will not permit you to be tested beyond what you are able to endure” (1 Cor 10:13). Even suffering as a divine discipline comes from God’s love for you and is intended as a wake-up call to get you back on track so God can bless you. “For whom the Lord loves He chastens” (Heb 12:6). God 'takes you to the woodshed' to get your attention, otherwise, you’d self-destruct. You can respond by rebounding and getting back to the protocol plan of God for your life or you can react with arrogance and anger and blame God for your suffering. The point of discipline is authority orientation and teaching humility. Most of the suffering you experience is self-induced.
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The Word of God must be learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor and that authority is vested in a spiritual gift. Your spiritual life is based on understanding God—learning the principles and the provisions He's provided for you so that you can begin to replicate the thinking of Christ.
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Satan will set up roadblocks to your spiritual maturity. “The Holy Spirit says in the latter times some may depart from the faith and give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy” (1 Tim 4:1-5). Religion substitutes false doctrine for truth and sets up a system of works and rituals to replace the protocol plan of God. False teachers can only be detected by means of you having wisdom and discernment from learning the Word of God. Without having the ability to discern the truth from the lies, you will fall victim to it. “Stop being double-minded” (James 4:8).
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People can be a stumbling block to your spiritual growth. Be careful who you take advice from. The Word of God is your best advisor, counselor. Colleagues who don’t know what they are talking about can be hindrances. Jesus Christ said, “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” (Matt 15:14). A pastor can be a stumbling block if he: doesn’t teach you accurate information, doesn’t teach you the truth of the Bible, doesn’t explain to you how the plan of God works, or hinders you from growing in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. God holds us accountable if we misrepresent Him. And the Bible makes it clear, you don’t sell the Word of God. You get it free and you give it away free. If God is in it, He will pay for it. Don’t be a stumbling block to growing believers. “Take care lest this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to the weak believer” (1 Cor 8:8-9).
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Guilt is a sin. Guilt leads to emotional instability. And if you live by guilt you will lose your perception of reality. Satan uses guilt to manipulate us, to discourage and defeat us. That’s why you need God’s problem-solving devices. Rebound and don’t look back. “Forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead” (Phil 3:13-14). Guilt will cause repression where you will force things deep inside your soul and never deal with them because repression denies the reality of the problem. When you sin, when you fail, confess your sin to God and move on. Do not look back. Your relationship with God is permanent. “The foundation will not be burned up” (1 Cor 3). With your supernatural spiritual life, you can overcome past feelings of failure, abuse, rejection, and guilt. The Christian life is wonderful. God’s plan for you is amazing. Let go of the past.
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Once saved, always saved. That’s eternal security. If you have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, by faith alone in Christ alone, you have eternal life. God will never, He can’t, take back the grace gift He gave you. Eternal security, knowing for a fact that you are going to heaven in spite of your flaws and failures, is an unbreakable relationship with God. Once in the family of God, you can’t be removed. “God has given to us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has eternal life and he who does not have the Son does not have eternal life. These things I’ve written unto you who believe in the person of the Son of God, in order that you may know [you may be confident] that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:11). “For He [that’s God] made Him [that’s Jesus Christ] the One who knew no sin [He was sinless] to be sin for us [that’s right, to take our place] so that we may become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21).
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God has given us prayer protocol. How to pray in the right way. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Address prayer to God the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit and close in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. “So that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you” (John 15:16). What to pray: gratitude and thanksgiving, intercessions - pray foremothers; petitions - pray for self. Pray for the sanctification of food before you eat. “For it is to be sanctified by means of the Word of God and prayer” (1 Tim 4:5). Your prayer won’t be answered if you pray in arrogance or with the wrong motives. “Honor each other so your prayers will not be hindered” (1 Pet 3:7). Be patient and persistent in your prayers. God will answer in His timing, not yours.
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Laconic means to be of few words. As a Christian, you should be laconic when talking about other people. But when talking about the Lord Jesus Christ you should always be ready! Keep your mouth shut when you are angry. “A short-tempered person acts stupidly and a person who plots evil is hated” (Prov 14:17). Be quiet when you’re tempted to tell a lie or twist the truth. “Everything I say is fair and there is nothing twisted or crooked in it” (Prov 8:8). Don’t try to straighten out a fool. “Do not warn a mocker or he will hate you. Warn a wise person and he will love you. Give advice to a wise person and he will become even wiser” (Prov 9:8). Be quiet when you’re tempted to speak without knowing all the facts. “Those who are wise store up knowledge but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin” (Prov 10:14). Learn to listen and not talk. Other times you should keep your mouth shut: when you don’t know all the facts; when you’re tempted to say more than you should or pervert the truth; if you’ve got a quick temper; if you’re tempted to malign your neighbor or say hurtful things. Be laconic!
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God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of The Royal Family of God. At that point, we have the personal love of God as family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”
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Faith obliterates fear and replaces it with peace in your life. This relaxed mental attitude founded on faith produces peace in a world of uncertainty. It’s an amazing way to live. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you. So let not your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27). Believing is the action of faith. This peace isn’t the removal of a crisis. It is the ability to maintain a relaxed mental attitude in the crisis using the faith-rest drill, a problem-solving device. “Without faith, it is impossible to please Him for he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6).
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You never need to be lonely. As a Christian, Jesus Christ lives in you. You have the supernatural resources of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to live your supernatural spiritual life. Loneliness is a type of arrogance. Preoccupation with friends can cause wrong priorities. Don’t lean on people to solve the issue of loneliness. Learning and applying God’s Word will solve loneliness. The encouragement to live God’s plan has to come from inside, from spiritual self-esteem, not from Christian fellowship. Spiritual self-esteem means you can handle being alone and you can be happy. Every day you fulfill God’s plan is a day of joy. “This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and have a superabundance of happiness in it because of His unfailing love and mercy every day” (Psalm 118:24).
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Solomon’s great wisdom, status, and wealth backfired on him because he took his eyes off of God. Solomon went into operation boomerang, a frantic search for happiness. Solomon tried to purchase happiness and it didn’t work. It was vanity, emptiness. “Whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labor that I had labored to do and behold everything was vanity and striving after wind” (Eccl 2:11). Look at your bank account. Look at your collections. They mean nothing. As Solomon said, “I came into this world naked and naked I shall leave it.” Understanding and following the will of God gives you inner happiness. “Happiness belongs to those who hear my Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28). Having a valid spiritual life by means of occupation with Jesus Christ as a young person will prepare you for the challenges you will face like an old person. Solomon finally got it, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear [respect] God and keep His Mandates” (Eccl 12:13). Keep your eyes on God, not people, circumstances, or things.
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Solomon had unbelievable wisdom and wealth, yet he was consumed with a frantic search for happiness. The book of Ecclesiastes tells us about it. Human viewpoint says people, things or circumstances can make you happy and it’s not true. What makes you happy is to renovate your thinking. Don’t think as the world thinks—you are just a sojourner in this devil’s world. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). If you get out of fellowship with God and search for happiness eventually you’ll end right back where you started - operation boomerang. “The wind goes toward the south and turns to the north. It whirls around continually and returns to its circuits” (Eccl 1:6). Solomon’s departure from the Lord led him to seven different substitutes he hoped would fill the emptiness in his heart, but they didn’t. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. "The pursuit of happiness causes bad decisions which only intensify one’s unhappiness. There is no true happiness for the believer apart from the execution of the protocol plan of God,” R. B. Thieme Jr.’s The Pursuit of Happiness available free of charge by calling 713. 621.3740.
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God is perfectly capable of handling everything that is going on in America today. God knows what’s going on. Relax and apply God’s Word. Take this verse seriously in the days ahead. “Assuredly the evil man will not go unpunished but the dependents of the righteous will be delivered” (Prov 11:21). The Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24 hours a day. Jesus Christ controls history. Take your issues to this court. If you are the victim of injustice you have two options. The faith-rest drill as a plaintiff to the Supreme Court of Heaven standing on the promises of God; or reacting with mental-attitude or verbal sins. Don’t try to handle things yourself or you’ll be miserable. Turn it over to the Supreme Court of Heaven. God will not tolerate evil. Evil will not win.
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Personal love for God and impersonal love for others are the two greatest virtues in your life. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue. Impersonal love for others is your functional virtue. “We love God because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Impersonal love is a terrific problem-solving device because the emphasis is on the virtue of the subject, you, not the object, the other person. Impersonal love is a mandate from God, personal love for others is not. “This is My mandate that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Without impersonal love you are never going to be happy because you will let people get to you. “If someone says, ‘I love God,’ but he hates his fellow man, he is a liar and the truth is not in him” (1 John 4:20-21).
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Proverbs 8:10-12, “Take my instruction and not silver [this is wisdom speaking now coming to you from God, wisdom is speaking to you, wisdom says,] take my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than the choicest gold. For wisdom is better than jewels and all desirable things cannot compare with her. I, wisdom, dwell with prudence and I find knowledge and discretion.” In this passage, we find the eternal value of God's wealth which is ours for the taking.
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Bitterness is a mental attitude sin. Sins that we think are the most unrecognizable sins we commit. “We must cease our bitterness” (Eph 4:31) There is no room for it in the family of God. Respond with forgiveness rather than react with bitterness. Bitter people have few friends. “A stranger cannot share in the joy of your bitterness” (Prov 14:10). Bitterness is self-absorption and defiles and infects others. “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you along with malice” (Eph 4:31). No one wants to be around a bitter person.
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To grow spiritually, you need to study under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. The 4 C’s describe how you learn to understand God. The 4 C’s are: Communicate; Capture; Comprehend, and Convert or Comply. Communicate is the job of the pastor-teacher. The ministry of the Holy Spirit empowers you to Capture and Comprehend what you hear. Then by believing it you Convert it into understanding. Complying is applying it to circumstances in your life. This is wisdom. The only way to convert knowledge to full knowledge is by faith. “Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13).
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Being impulsive is a lack of humility. Impulsiveness can destroy you. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low, but a lifestyle of wisdom will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). You must understand God’s Word if you’re going to speak about Him. Think before you speak. If you’re impulsive you give Satan an advantage. Don’t run ahead of God. “A fool expresses all of his emotions but a wise person controls them” (Prov 29:11).
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The filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God empower you to live the Christian life. The world’s problems can’t be solved apart from the Word of God and laws of divine establishment. Human solutions are no solutions. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low but a lifestyle of wisdom will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). Humility is the foundation for your spiritual life. God requires professionalism, humility and integrity from you. Professionalism—to represent Christ you need to have an academic understanding of God’s Word. Integrity is the spiritual strength in our soul.
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Salt of the earth—an extraordinary believer. You can be a preservative for your nation, family, and those in your sphere of influence. How? By staying filled with the Holy Spirit and metabolizing the Word of God in your soul. “You are the salt of the earth but if the salt has become tasteless, how could it be made salty again? It’s no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot” (Matt 5:13). God can’t use you if you don’t live by divine viewpoint. God wants you to be S.A.L.T. S—Saved. A—Anointed, set apart for a specific task. L—Learner. T—Trusted to re-present Christ to a lost and dying world. If you are that salty believer God is looking for, people will be attracted to you because you are living under the precepts of the Word of God. People will be drawn to you just like being drawn to a light on a dark night.
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You have a choice. You can love the world which is the cosmic system, the things of the world which bring temporary pleasures in life. “If anyone loves the world the love for the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). Or you can love the Lord Jesus Christ and have permanent happiness. “He that loves Me will be loved by My Father and I will love him also and reveal Myself to him” (John 14:21). The cosmic system is the system of evil perpetrated by Satan to control believers and unbelievers. God’s system is grace. The world can’t provide the happiness and joy that comes from fulfilling God’s plan for your life. Love for God is true motivation to live the Christian way of life.
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Do you think you’ve been treated unfairly in life? Get over it. No one had greater unfair treatment than our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He endured illegal trials and was sentenced to death even after Pilate proclaimed, “I find no basis for a charge against this Man." Yes, it was unfair but it was God the Father’s plan for Him. “He was despised and rejected of men…we esteemed Him not. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our inequities and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him” (Is 53:3-10). Jesus Christ purchased our redemption out of the slave market of sin. His substitutionary death on the cross frees us from the penalty of sin. “He that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we may be made the righteousness of God through Him” (2 Cor 5:21).
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Jesus Christ lives in you IF you have made the decision to believe in Him. “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27) is the confidence we have in our resurrection life. “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die” (John 11:25-26). When Jesus Christ walked out of the grave this is a signature guarantee to you that you will walk out of the grave also. You have victory over death.
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Contentment is the capacity for living. Personal love for God and sharing the happiness of God are where contentment, tranquility, and happiness come from. “I have learned in whatever state I am in to be content” (Phil 4:11-13). The greatest happiness you’ll ever experience in your life is when you know you are in the center of the will and plan of God for your life. “Come to Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28). This is a divine invitation. Take it! The only way you’ll have contentment is to keep the Word of God by learning the Word of God. Standing behind the shield of faith allows you to have tranquility, contentment in your soul in adversity and in prosperity.
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You can have fantastic happiness, security, and tranquility. Jesus told His disciples and us, “I have told you these things that My happiness may be in you and your happiness might be fulfilled” (John 15:11). The Word of God teaches us how to have true happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28). All momentum in the Christian life is related to learning and keeping God’s Word. “Happy is the one who finds wisdom and obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13). Wisdom and understanding must be learned. You don’t inherit either. True happiness is contentment. Contentment is a blessing from God for those who learn and follow His plan for their lives. Capacity for happiness has to precede the function of happiness. The two go together. Paul said, “Whether I have a lot or a little, I have learned to be content” (Phil 4:12).
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“He who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief” (Prov 28:14). Scar tissue builds up in your soul from perpetual carnality and turning away from God. Your heart hardened, your emotions control your thoughts and actions and you’re done for. You will react to hearing the truth. You’ll become unresponsive to conviction by God and be consumed by human viewpoint thinking. Your mind becomes a vacuum sucking in cosmic system thinking, Satan’s evil. When you stay out of fellowship with God and your rate of forgetting exceeds your rate of learning you’re going into revisionism. “Their understanding is darkened” (Eph 4:17-19). Heed God’s warning: “Harden not your heart” (Heb 3:8).
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You must persevere in your spiritual life to be anchored. God doesn’t expect us to be perfect, He expects us to be persistent in growing spiritually. God has decreed certain people for specific tasks. “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith and act like men, be strong” (1 Cor 16:13). This is an appeal for you to be in good spiritual shape, to be strong spiritually. You get strength from the filling of the Holy Spirit and the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. God often uses ordinary people in obscurity and shapes them into extraordinary believers who change the course of history. As an extraordinary believer you are salt, a preserving factor, for our nation. “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong” (1 Col 1:27).
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Personal love for God motivates you to use divine viewpoint, to think with the mind of Christ. “If you love Me, you will obey Me” (1 John 5:3). Personal love for God is your motivation to use impersonal love with others. So when you love God, you are reciprocating God’s love for you. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). How do you know if you love God? You obey Him. You stay filled with the Holy Spirit. You advance daily in God’s Word. Loving God develops the capacity for you to love others. Divine wisdom and knowledge are the banks that contain love and keep it from becoming an emotional overload. “This is my prayer that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and in-depth of insight” (Phil 1:9)
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The eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, those who reverence Him, on those who hope for His lovingkindness.
Human solutions are no solutions. Divine solutions are the only solutions. And here's the principle, the overruling will of God combined with the directive will of God provides numerous deliverances from adverse circumstances in your life.
The only solution to deliverance is your spiritual life. God can and will deliver you and can and will deliver your nation if you have an invisible impact that has blessing by association.
Psalm 33:16-22 is the Psalm of deliverance. It says this, “The king is not saved by a mighty army and a warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory [that was the mechanized infantry in those days] nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength. [talking about the horse] Behold [and here we have the answer] the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His loving kindness to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help; He is our shield. For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name. Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us according as we have hoped in You”.
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Personal love for God is your greatest motivation. ”You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul and with all of your mind. This is the first mandate.” (Matt 22:37). The only way to love God is to know Him and to understand Him. When God’s Word is taught, the rain comes and nourishes and your spiritual life grows. The love test—if you love God you will obey Him. “If you love Me, you will obey Me” (1 John 5:3). Without personal love for God, there’s no motivation to study, grow or glorify Him. “Though you have not seen Him, you love Him ... you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Pet 1:8).
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Satan and his system of evil will tempt you to ignore the divine precedence of the Christian way of life which is learning and using God’s problem-solving devices. As our Lord Jesus Christ did, you need to counter the temptations by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and using the Word of God. As God-man, Christ didn’t do anything you can’t do. He used the unique divine resources God the Father gave him. There is a place God wants you to be, where you can grow and serve Him. There is something He wants you to think, it’s to acquire the mind of Christ. There is something He wants you to do, that’s to glorify Him to the max. When you grow in grace and knowledge you will glorify God to the maximum and be a weapon in the angelic conflict. Or you can do it your way, not God’s way, and be lion bait. “Satan goes around like a lion seeking who he can devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
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With the filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God in your soul you can defeat Satan. But without it, you’re powerless. The Holy Spirit is the engine and the Word of God is the fuel He uses to power the engine. The Lord may give you evidence testing before you get to heaven. God will call you to the witness stand and you will have to go it alone. As God-man our Lord depended on the Holy Spirit and the power of God’s Word exactly the same way we are to live the Christian life and prepare for Going It Alone. “It is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Deut 8:3). Keep your eyes on the Lord to withstand the lures of Satan’s world.
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If Jesus Christ did not resurrect from the dead then everything He did is meaningless because we would have no guarantee that He’s alive. And we would have no guarantee of our eternal life. But the fact He walked out of the grave and was seen by so many is proof positive that Jesus Christ is alive. “After a little while the world will no longer see Me but you will see Me. Because I live, you will also live.” (John 14:19) These are the words of Christ. “And that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scripture” (1 Cor 15:4). We know that Christ in a resurrected body is alive today and face-to-face with the Father awaiting the shouted order to return for us. We are guaranteed a resurrection body just like Jesus Christ.
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The extraordinary servant of God understands exactly what God expects of him/her. Understands God’s divine desideratum, God’s policies, procedures and protocol plan. “The wise shall inherit glory” (Prov 3:35). An extraordinary Christian woman has these six traits and more. Courage, uses the faith-rest drill standing on the promises of God. Commitment, never looking back always pressing forward. Character, solid and a risk taker. Concern, genuine empathy and support. Cognizance, having the right priorities. Confrontational, not afraid to speak the Gospel, bold in her faith. “Strength and dignity are her clothing” (Prov 31:25). “She’s more valuable than rubies” (Prov 31:10). “For wisdom is greater than rubies” (Prov 8:11).
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Sharing the happiness of God is an amazing problem-solving device. It is a state of your soul. Capacity for happiness can be enjoyed in living and dying. “Happy is the person who keeps the laws of divine establishment” (Prov 29:18). How do you get this happiness? Acquire the mind of Christ. Be consistent in your spiritual life. Being happy is a mandate from God. “Keep on having happiness in the Lord” (Phil 3:1) The Lord is our source for happiness. You will never be happy until you are absolutely sure you are in the plan of God. God’s grace provision of His happiness brings contentment. “I will rejoice and be happy in the provisions of Your grace” (Ps 31:7)
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You could have freedom in Christ Jesus, the Bible is clear about that. In John 8:31-32, Jesus was saying “to the Jews who had believed in Him, ‘If you continue in My Word then you are truly disciples of Mine then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.’” You have an opportunity to be truly free today and for the rest of your life. We’re going to talk about that here for a moment. The Bible mentions freedom in many places. For example, in Galatians 5:1, “for freedom Christ has set us free…” What did He set you free from? He set you free from the law of sin and death. You don't have to go to hell. You don't have to go to the Lake of Fire. He took your place. He died for you. He was your substitute. In Galatians 5:13, “For you were called to freedom…” by God, not only to have spiritual freedom but to have physical freedom as an American in the US of A. God designed you to have freedom in this client nation of His.
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We all have failures, frustrations, and flaws. Some flaws are inherited and some are acquired. The key is to deal with sin. Confess your sin to God, move on, and don’t look back. “Forgetting those things which are behind me, I reach forward to those things which are ahead” (Phil 3:13). Let go of the past—guilt is a sin. If you are a Christian, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, God will forgive you. If you fail to adhere to God’s protocol and procedures and go off down the My Way Highway it’s inevitable you’ll have problems in your life and you’ll miss the plan of God for your life. Failing spiritually means not advancing, not growing. Live the spiritual life and you can overcome the past. “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).
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Be filled with the Holy Spirit when you partake of communion or you will face divine discipline. “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily [with unconfessed sin]; eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. Because of this, many are weak, many are sick and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we will not be judged” (1 Cor 11:29-31). This is a warning! Perpetually taking communion out of fellowship can take you to an early grave. The communion ritual is looking back at Jesus Christ’s sacrifices and looking forward to His return. The bread represents His virgin birth, celebrityship, impeccability and that He is King of kings, Lord of lords and hypostatic union. When you partake of the cup remember imputation, justification, sanctification and redemption. Communion is mandated by God to remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, our Lord and Savior.
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Jesus Christ gave the disciples communion during the Last Supper as a means to remember Him. The communion service is a remembrance service for us also. And it is a test. What do we remember about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God? When you partake of the bread remember He is virgin born, the only true celebrity, impeccable, King of kings and Lord of lords, hypostatic union, God-man in one body forever. The juice represents the removal of the barrier between God and man. The spiritual death of Christ on the cross which is the identification with our sin is what satisfied the justice of God the Father. “God commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died on the cross for us” (Rom 5:8). “To this witness God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has committed unto us the very word of reconciliation” (2 Col 5:19).
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Allowing your sin nature to control your life disqualifies you for service in God’s plan. Your Christian life ceases with unconfessed sin because you’ve quenched the Holy Spirit. You need the power of the Holy Spirit to live the supernatural Christian way of life. Using rebound resolves the problem of sin and restores you to fellowship with God. “If we confess [name] our sin [through silent prayer] He is faithful and just to forgive us and to purify us from all wrongdoing” (1 John 1:9). Simply put, when you bounce out of fellowship with God by committing sin—something you think, say or do—you bounce back by confessing your sin. That's using rebound, God's problem-solving device number one.
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An extraordinary believer goes above and beyond. He or she has the ability to motivate and encourage others in the faith. Not being preoccupied with circumstances, focusing on the divine solution, not the problem, is a trait. Thinking with Biblical wisdom, the divine viewpoint is a trait. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Extraordinary believers have objective optimism, a personal sense of destiny, and understand essential doctrines. When you absorb, metabolize, and utilize the Word of God—which is your mission—you can move from ordinary to extraordinary. That’s when you can be used by God. “How blessed is the man that finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. For her profit [wisdom] is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire can compare with her” (Prov 3:13).
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“Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). To have faith-rest you need to know God’s Word. For faith to have muscles, you must grow spiritually. The faith-rest drill is you putting your adversity in God’s hands and then standing still. “Stand still and watch what God is about to do” (Ex 14:13). The strength of the Christian life is standing still in God’s grace provisions, mixing God’s promises with faith. Rest in the Lord. He will provide for you. “Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28).
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So today the greatest problem that we have, the greatest problem that man has is the problem of sin and death. That's the greatest problem. And we have to solve that. So the good news is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, has redeemed us out of the slave market of sin and our debt to God was paid by Him so we are free - free from the penalty of death and free from the power of sin. And if you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you, in effect, accept the offering He made on your behalf. It is a free gift from the compliments of God. If you do not receive the free gift, if you continue to just drift around in life without any purpose, without any meaning, without any destiny then you're playing with fire. And if you play with God, you might get burnt.
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Has anger ever gotten you in trouble? Whenever you get angry you surrender control of your life to the one you’re angry with. Anger is a mental attitude sin and often leads to chain sinning. “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice” (Eph 4:30-31). Anger is often set up by an emotional reaction to unfair treatment. “This is a test that’s common to all humans” (1 Cor 10:13). because you have a sin nature, you have a tendency toward anger and it has to be addressed. This needs to start when you are young. Every child has to learn respect for authority. Without authority respect, there will be arrogance run wild. You need to learn to respond with forgiveness and not react with arrogance.
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Jesus Christ knew and used Scripture when He lived on this earth as the God-Man. He used doctrinal orientation as a problem-solving device. “Study [the Bible] to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). The Holy Spirit is the author of truth, He leads us into truth. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Cor 14:3). When Jesus Christ said “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, My yoke is easy and My burden is light” He’s telling you that if you learn His plan—if you understand what he’s telling you—it’s not hard to live the Christian life. It is a stress-free life. We are mandated to acquire the mind of Christ, doctrinal orientation. “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
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If you are being abused as a child or young adult tell someone in authority now, quickly. When a child is abused it deposits garbage in their sub-conscience. They don’t have the coping skills to handle it. You as a maturing Christian know-how. Encourage them to take it to the Heavenly Father. Take it to the supreme court of heaven which is open 24 hours a day. Think with a divine viewpoint. Focus on the solutions in the Word of God. A child abuser is “alienated from the plan of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart” (Eph 4:18). The buildup of scar tissue and the shut down of the conscience can lead even a Christian to do abnormal perverted things. The remedy to remove scar tissue in your soul is to rebound, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, and get with learning and applying the Word of God.
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God does not tolerate child abuse. Rest assured the supreme court of heaven is open 24/7 and you do not need to take matters into your own hands. God will deal with child abusers. How can someone do such evil as abuse a child? Because they’ve put a callous over their conscience. Their heart has become so hardened they don't know right from wrong, they have no guilt and by their arrogance, they justify why they can do what they want to satisfy their emotional needs. “Unto the pure, all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure even in their mind and their conscience is defiled” (Titus 1:5). Child abusers have allowed their sin natures to take control of their souls and their emotions dictate their actions. Their minds are polluted, defiled. God’s justice will prevail.
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A public lie minimizes the impact of a person. Told often enough, loud enough, long enough and people believe it. People are manipulated by public lies. “Do not be deceived, God will not be mocked. Whatever a man sows, that he is going to reap” (Gal 6:7). “With his mouth, the godless person will destroy his neighbor, but through knowledge, the righteous will be rescued” (Prov 11:9). How do you respond if you’re the subject of a lie? With forgiveness, as mandated by Christ (Eph 4:32). Half forgiveness is not genuine forgiveness, it’s just half forgiveness.
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To glorify God to the maximum you must know your divine resources and use them. The Bible is the thinking of Christ in written form and that is our #1 resource. Our #2 resource is the filling of the Holy Spirit. “I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper that He may be with you forever, that is the Spirit of truth” (John 14:16). Jesus Christ lives in you—that’s an amazing resource! “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). We are mandated to renovate our thinking. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). God wants you to think in terms of humility, not arrogance. Prayer, instantaneous communication with your Heavenly Father, is a powerful resource. The faith-rest drill, standing on the promises of God, is a critical resource. Use it. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths” (Prov 3:5).
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You cannot hide from God. You are being carefully watched and you are being watched over. You’re being watched by the world, that's for sure, and you're being watched over by God, that's for sure. “Behold the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, all those who hope for His lovingkindness.” (Psalm 33:18)
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Arrogance is the number one enemy of most Christians. Arrogance has an exaggerated opinion of one’s own importance and ability. It progresses in stages: Self-justification leads to self-deception, then self-absorption, and often ending in self-destruction. Sometimes it takes the enforced humility of God’s discipline to get genuine humility. Humility is the opposite of arrogance. The Bible tells you to have genuine humility. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who humbled Himself” (Phil 2:5). Children need to be taught humility and the Lord’s mandate to obey authority. “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right… so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth” (Eph 6:1-3).
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Many Christians are asleep spiritually Their rate of forgetting is exceeding their rate of learning. “You know the times in which we are living, thus it is time for you to wake up, our salvation is nearer now than when we first became believers” (Rom 13:11-14). Sleepers are distracted by the details of life, discouraged by adversity, and have lost sight of the hope that is ours in Christ Jesus. As a believer, you have a destiny and an eternal future. You are to replicate the life of Christ. He left us the template - His spiritual life, the life He lived while he was here on earth. The template is stay filled with the Holy Spirit and use God’s Word. “For to this, you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow in His steps” (1 Pet 2:21). When you operate under the plan of God you have four incredible things: wisdom, knowledge, foresight, and understanding.
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Curiosity is not positive volition. To grow spiritually, you must use your volition, choose, to study the Word of God consistently. “In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col 2:3). It’s the Word of God that makes you rich in wisdom. “I love those who love me [wisdom], and those who seek me diligently will find me” (Prov 8:17). Faith is required to seek God. A result of seeking Him is you are guaranteed divine protection. You can go through life with a ‘wall of fire’ around you. “Every word of God is pure, He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him” (Prov 30:5). The insight, foresight, knowledge, and understanding our Lord and Savior acquired in His human body we can have also. It’s this same lifestyle He offers you, the unique Christian life if you are a seeker. If you want to learn, to know.
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God loves you. You love others not based on who they are or what they do but based on who you are. That’s exactly what God did with you. When you have a personal love for God, you can have impersonal love for others. It’s an amazing problem-solving device. The plan of God is for you to love others. This means you have a relaxed mental attitude toward others. Your love for others is not based on their actions but rather it is based on your integrity that comes from your personal love for God. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).
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"Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people” (Prov 14:34). Imputed righteousness is the righteousness given to us the moment we receive Christ as our Savior. This is the only way we can approach God. To survive as a country we must have righteous people. Christians who: Have the imputed righteousness of Christ; are under the filling of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of a well-qualified pastor, and manufacture righteousness that is rewardable at the judgment seat of Christ. This is the stability of a nation. A big problem in our nation is the sin of Christians who aren’t growing spiritually. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” is a mandate.
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We can’t define the image of God. “God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth” (John 4:24). Often we have a tendency to create God in our image and then we humanize God. Don’t do this because God is indescribable. “He holds the world in His hands” (John 5 ). God doesn’t have hands but this gives God human characteristics so we can understand the Biblical concepts. We don’t have the perceptibility to understand the place God resides. He is everywhere. There is no time and no space in heaven. “Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for this that love Him” (1 Col 2:9). The omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient God loves you. This is amazing!
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Can you trust God? Absolutely! Would He ever lie to you? No, He would not. Our Father would never tell you a story. He loves you. He provided for you. He gave His Son for you. It’s the most wonderful gift anyone could ever receive. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
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Don’t deviate from sound doctrine. Don’t drift from grace. Don’t be discouraged with discipline. These are three essential steps if you are going to reach spiritual maturity and glorify God to the maximum. If anyone tells you that you have to do something to be saved other than faith alone in Christ alone, that is a deviation from sound doctrine. “We must give the Ernest heed to the things that we have learned lest we drift away” (Heb 2:1). Believers that learn the Word of God and apply it have the full knowledge. We are mandated to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Salvation—the guarantee of eternal life in heaven—is faith alone in Christ alone. It is you putting your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross for your salvation—and nothing else. You will be in the Book of Life when you do this. If you don’t, your name is blotted out and you will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. Yes, hell is real.”He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:12-13).
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As a spiritually mature believer, an invisible hero, you are the salt of the earth. “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its flavor...it is good for nothing” (Matt 5:13). You are a preserving factor for our nation when you allow the Holy Spirit to use you. How do you act as salt? Stay filled with the Holy Spirit. Grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). Reflect the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). Glorify God to the maximum—that’s how you become the salt of the earth!
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People can stress you out. This is a key area of testing for us. Learn how to deal with WOJ’s (weird obnoxious jerks) and those who want to manipulate and control you. To pass people testing you must have humility; understand the mechanics of God’s will, plan and purpose for your life; and develop divine viewpoint thinking. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). That’s why the 10 problem-solving devices are so important. You won’t doubt yourself. You’ll have the capacity and discernment to understand people and the circumstances around you. “For if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Gal 6:3).
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God is omnipotent—all-powerful. You can tap Into this power. The power to overcome any adversity “I can do all things through Jesus Christ who gives me the strength” (Phil 4:13). You have access to God’s unlimited resources. Use them by gaining wisdom and insight through the knowledge of Jesus Christ. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Eph 1:17). The mature believer with a divine viewpoint can soar over the circumstances of life. “He gives power to the faint and to him who has no might, He gives him increased strength” (Is 40:29). “Nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). Fear neutralizes the power of God. Fear is you assuming unassigned responsibilities.
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God uses undeserved suffering to get you to orient to His grace. Grace is unmerited favor—His divine provisions. “We can be enabled by means of the grace of God” (1 Col 10:13). Grace is the means of conveying the power of God to you. At the point of weakness because of suffering or testing, you will either turn to God for support or turn away in anger or bitterness. At your weakest point, you can be your strongest. “My grace is sufficient for you because My strength is made perfect in your weakness” (1 Cor 12:10). Suffering is designed to get you to rebound or for blessing, to get you to grow. Grace orientation is you using the same grace assets that Jesus Christ used as God-man. We are to stand fast in grace and “Not come short of the grace of God” (Heb 12:15). Use grace orientation and thank God for testing and suffering.
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Nothing of the flesh ever pleases God. Any good deeds that are done while there’s unconfessed sin in your life—not filled with the Holy Spirit—is human good and is non-rewardable.
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99% of the prayers people make are probably not answered. “If I regard inquiry in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” If you have known sin in your life, the only prayer that’s going to be answered is 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us.” Prayers must be offered in faith. “All things whatsoever you ask in prayer believing you shall receive” (Matt 21:22). If you are disobedient to God, your prayer won’t be answered. “And whatever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His mandates and we do those things that are pleasing in His sight” (1 John 3:22). Prayer won’t be answered if it’s motivated by power, money, approbation, or any other lust. “You ask and you receive not because you ask amiss so that you may consume it upon your lust” (James 4:2).
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The essence of God is the attributes God possesses. Sovereignty, righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, immutability, veracity, omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. God’s essence remains stable. It never changes. God is immanent and He is transcendent. “'Am I only a God nearby, declares the Lord, ‘And not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places that I cannot see them?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?'’” (Jer 23:23). Omnipresent God lives in you! “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Col 3:14). Jesus Christ controls history and therefore God’s purpose and God’s plans are always fulfilled.
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Occupation with Christ is one of the greatest problem-solving devices. “To put on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 13:14). It is focusing your thoughts on Him “Put your eyes on Him the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). Jesus came into this world as the undiminished deity and true humanity in one body, the God-Man. As man, Jesus Christ faced the same things we face and He had to use His Father’s Word. Being occupied with Christ is thinking as He thought and you can only do this by knowing Him through studying His Word. “And come to know the love for Christ that goes beyond knowledge so that you may be filled with the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19). You haven’t been told by God to straighten out others or the devil’s world. You’ve been told to “Lift up Christ, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27).
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Sharing God’s happiness is true lasting happiness. It’s demonstrated in contentment and capacity for life. Contentment is the secret to the Christian life. “Godliness is a means of great profit when accompanied by contentment” (1 Tim 6:6). This happiness is not dependent on people, things or circumstances. “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, prosperity and happiness by means of the Holy Spirit” (Rom 14:17). Happiness is what you think. It is related to what is in your soul, it’s self-contained. Self-contained happiness is mandated as a problem-solving device. “Keep on having happiness in the Lord” (Phil 3:1). The happiness God offers you is never threatened by circumstances. You can be as happy in adversity as you are in prosperity.
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The Divine Desideratum refers to God’s policy, procedures, and protocol plan. It is essential that we understand them. “Whoever is wise, let him understand the ways of the Lord” (Hosea 14:9). Learning the mind of Christ so we can re-present Him to others is how we become divinely appointed influencers. The divine policy starts in your soul where all rational thought originates. The imputed righteousness God gives us at salvation gives us the capacity for blessings so we can grow spiritually. Keep your eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t get distracted.
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With a relaxed mental attitude (RMA) you can focus on God’s plan for your life and not be knocked off balance by fear or adversity. Fear is assuming unassigned responsibility. With an RMA you can have inner peace and inner power. “For God has not given us a lifestyle of fear but of the power of love and of sound judgment” (2 Tim 1:7). Stand on the promises of God. Trust Him. With a relaxed mental attitude, you will be able to think and stay cool under pressure. An RMA allows you to respond, not react. Be faithful in studying the Word of God on a daily basis and you will develop the inner resources for an RMA.
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Fools don't have any wisdom. Wisdom comes from Bible doctrine in your soul. When you have Bible doctrine in your soul you have wisdom or the Greek word sophia. Wisdom only comes from the knowledge that's first been learned. If you don't learn anything it's impossible to have any wisdom because what you've learned has to be converted from knowledge into wisdom and then from wisdom into insight and discernment. A fool doesn't have that. “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing their own opinion.” (Proverbs 18:2)
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“As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). Your heart is the real you. Be heart-healthy! Learn God’s Word. God's Word stored in your heart, becomes wisdom. Guard it and use it to make wise decisions. “Incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding” (Prov 2:2). This isn’t emotions. It is the strength of God’s essence in your heart from learning and applying God’s Word. A heart full of divine viewpoint produces lasting happiness and contentment.
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To glorify God to the maximum you need to love Him. Personal love for God motivates you to obey Him. “If you love Me, you will obey Me” (1 John 5:3). Personal love for people is not commanded in the Bible. Impersonal love for others is a mandate from God. “Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the Truth, have a genuine love for one another, deeply from the heart” (1 Pet 1:22). Impersonal love is based on the virtue of the one doing the loving, not the one receiving the love. Personal love for God is based on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God in your soul. Emotions are designed by God to appreciate a relationship but never to establish the relationship.
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The only way to reverse the decline of America is for you to grow spiritually. God needs you to make your number one priority staying filled with the Holy Spirit and taking time every day to learn the Word of God and apply it. The life of Christ is our template. “Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed to you, keep it by means of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us” (2 Tim 1:13-14). As you see indications of our nation’s decline, don’t get discouraged. Remember Jesus Christ controls history. Don’t look at the circumstances, focus on divine solutions. Don’t speculate, just articulate. Represent Christ. “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourself that Jesus Christ is in you?” (2 Cor 13:5).
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The loss of spiritual stability, society’s anchor point, has allowed Americans to stumble into the darkness of social mores. Don’t ever blend your spiritual life with the world and never bend your principles. “Come out from among them and be separate” (2 Cor 6:17-18). The key to removing false doctrines, contaminants, in your life is to recognize, rebound and remove yourself. “You purify your soul when you obey the truth” (1 Pet 1:22). If you want to be a useful vessel in the Master’s house He must be able to trust you to attend to His interests. “The Lord knows the ones that are His” (2 Tim 2:19). Never compromise with the world or with false doctrine. Never compromise for cultural relevancy just so you will be accepted. “You must contend earnestly for the faith” (Jude :3).
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Divine Desideratum means what is essential—divine design. The Christian life is one of constant growth. “Whoever is wise let him understand these things and whoever is discerning let him know these things. For the ways of the Lord are right and the righteous will walk in them but wrongdoers will stumble in them” (Hosea 14:9). We live in the time continuum and we take our orders from the eternal side of the continuum. You can’t worship God if you don’t understand Him. God’s policy is for us to grow spiritually by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit and for us to assume the mind of Christ so we can re-present Him.
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Divine viewpoint is an anchor point. It’s solid and never changes because God never changes. There is no Biblical content in emotions. Emotions do not think. “God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). When you let emotions take over you quit thinking and become divorced from reality. God is looking for you to grow to spiritual maturity and replicate the mind and life of Christ by how you think and act. “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ giving thanks through Him to God the Father” (Col 3:17).
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In John 10:9, “I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved.” What a wonderful provision and a wonderful promise that is. Because of this verse, we know that our departed loved ones who have believed in Christ are face-to-face with their Savior. Remember, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
When you die as a Christian, your body goes to the grave, your soul and your spirit go to be with the Father and await the resurrection body; it’s the new body that you’ll get. Even though we cannot see heaven or begin to understand the scope of God's abode, our departed loved ones are basking right now in His glorious provisions and enjoying their new environment to the fullest.
A lot of people think you go to hell because you commit sins. That's not true. All sins—past, present, and future—were paid for on the cross. What people go to hell for is refusing to believe that Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God.
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The counsel of Scripture is what we need. Wisdom must be acquired—it isn’t inherited. “Listen to counsel and receive instruction so you may be wise in your latter days” (Prov 19:20). Our nation has turned away from Scriptural wisdom and we’ve become a society without a divine viewpoint. Discretion from divine wisdom guards us, as individuals and as a nation (Prov 2:10). We need to have the supernatural power of God the Holy Spirit and God’s Word if we’re to make correct decisions in life. If we’re to be synchronized with God, we have to understand His plan for our lives. Humility is key. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). Humility is a day-by-day decision to submit to the authority of the Word of God and to apply it in our lives. Humility to learn the mentality and the intentionality of Christ is critical for the coming crisis. “Blessed are those who put their trust in Him” (Ps 2:12).
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The only hope to break the cycle of decline-destruction in our nation is the spiritual life of believers in our nation. If you become an invisible hero by growing to spiritual maturity you can have a spiritual impact on our nation. “He that handles a matter wisely shall find good, and whosoever trusteth in the Lord, happy is he” (Prov 16:20). We have the dynamics of God’s Word and the controlling ministry of God the Holy Spirit to live the unique Christian life and grow to maturity. One of the goals of Satan is to eliminate divine viewpoint because it is the anchor to your soul. We’re not born with wisdom, we have to acquire it (Prov 2:10-11). Be wise about whom you associate with. “Don’t be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. What fellowship does light have with darkness?” (2 Col 6:14).
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God has ordained authority. Authority is designed to keep us from self-destructing, personally and as a nation. "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except that which God has established, and the authorities that exist are established by God” (Rom 13:1-7). Authority will make mistakes and part of growing up and developing humility is the ability to handle unfair authority. Freedom is related to knowing Scripture. “I will walk in freedom for I seek your doctrines” (Ps 119:45).
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The conventional Christian is a casual Christian—they have salvation, but are ignorant of God’s plan for his or her life. They substitute morality and sweetness. But morality isn’t spirituality and maturity is not being sweet. The Christian life must be learned to be executed. It’s not a feeling. It’s about faith and fact. Christianity is an in-depth study of the Word of God. “Solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Heb 5:14).
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Has our nation lost its integrity? Have we lost our standard of what’s right and wrong, as individuals and as a nation? “The integrity of the upright will guide them but the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them” (Prov 11:3). It’s not going to get any better unless there’s a turning back to God. God expects us to follow the laws of divine establishment: freedom, marriage, family, and nationalism. America has the wrong agenda. We need a spiritual revival, not social change. The only thing that can change the heart of a man is the Word of God. “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.” (Jer. 3:15). God’s 10 problem-solving devices are the basic modus operandi of the Christian life. As goes your spiritual life, so goes the history of America.
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You can have peace during confusing times. How? “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose confidence is in the Lord” (Heb 17:7). “Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusts in You” (Is 26:3). Three things you need if you want this peace: concentration, information, and occupation. Concentration on the teaching of the Word of God will purify your soul. Information is God’s 10 problem-solving devices and the unique assets He’s given you. Occupation with Christ is where you want to be because there can be no peace without absolute truth and there is no absolute truth without Jesus Christ (John 14:6).
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Mental attitude sins are sins you can commit while driving your automobile, sitting in your favorite chair, or just relaxing under the shade of a tree in your yard. You can do these sins without ever lifting a finger. They’re committed in your head, committed in your thoughts, in the mentality of your mind, and as you think words. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Proverbs 23:7).
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True happiness is a supernatural resource only available to the believer in Jesus Christ. The filling of the Holy Spirit combined with the Word of God acquired and converted to wisdom in your soul produces joy. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Contentment is being happy with what God gives you.
The three R’s of thinking are the keys to happiness in your life:
Reception is the consistent perception of God’s Word.
Retention is converting it to Biblical wisdom in your soul.
Recall is the application of wisdom in your life.
“Happiness belongs to the person who finds wisdom and gains understanding” (Prov. 3:13).
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Know and use God's 10 problem-solving devices and you can stop adversity before it becomes stress in your life. The FLOT Line won’t protect you if you have unconfessed sin in your life. Problem-solving device #1 rebound needs to be in place for the others to work. They are all tied together. The Christian life can only be lived by faith, that’s the power cell. “The Word they heard did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith” (Heb 4:2). The power of the Holy Spirit is essential in the Christian life. “We have been given the Spirit of God so that we may know the things God has provided for us” (1 Cor 2:12).
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When you have a sense of destiny you don’t have to worry because you know Jesus Christ controls history and He guarantees you an eternal destiny through Him. Success in your spiritual life, understanding your destiny in time depends on your attitude to learning and applying the Word of God. You have 3 enemies: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The world will distract you. The flesh will destroy you. Satan will deceive you. The 3 D’s. The most powerful thing in the world is the truth of the Word of God. You need to learn it to know your personal sense of destiny. “I will delight to do Your will O my God” (Ps 40:8). Focusing on God’s will for your life is having a sense of destiny. Your destiny in time is being an ambassador of your Heavenly Father representing Christ to the dying world. Become the man or woman God intended you to be, fulfill your personal sense of destiny, and you will hear “Well done, My good and faithful servant” when you get to heaven.
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Divine wisdom gives you insight and discernment to know how Satan is trying to neutralize you. Satan’s objective is to get you to operate under human viewpoint thinking. If you do, you will be neutralized. You will be ineffective in representing Jesus Christ. “Put on the full armor from God for the purpose that you can stand against the devil” (Eph 6:11). Unless you purpose in your heart to make learning and applying God’s Word a priority you are never going to fulfill your potential as a divinely-appointed influencer who presents Christ to the lost world.
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To be a game-changer for God we need to learn and execute His process. Ritual without reality is meaningless. Great oratory skill means nothing if the message isn’t accurate. Accuracy has to do with the content of the Scripture, not the communicator. That’s why it’s so important to study under a well-qualified pastor who teaches sound Biblical principles from the Scripture. “For he powerfully demonstrated by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ” (Acts 18:28).
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God allows unforeseen circumstances that often bring frustration so we would search His Word for the answers. How do you handle unfair circumstances in your life? Do you complain? Are you full of self-pity? Or do you have complete confidence based on trusting your heavenly Father? “Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance” (James 1:2) Your afflictions are designed to test you and create within you new confidence and a new joy through spiritual growth. A shallow soul produces a shallow faith.
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As members of God’s family, the Royal Family of God, we all need to be on the same page. That’s why learning and following the process is so important. God has a process for us to grow spiritually so we can maximize our impact in this world. Redeem the time God’s given us wisely. Be spiritual influencers. “For the equipping of the saints for the work of service to the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God” (Eph 4:11-13).
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We need to learn God’s system to fulfill the Christian way of life. God’s system is called the protocol plan of God. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit, learn and apply God’s Word, master the 10 problem-solving devices. The Christian life is a supernatural life and it requires the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit and learning the process. Sure you’re going to sin, you’re going to fail. The key is to rebound (confess your sins to God 1 John 1:9) and keep moving. “Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and observe it” (Luke 11:28).
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If you played football for Coach Bear Bryant, University of Alabama, as I did, you needed to learn The Process. Coach Bryant had a process for winning football games. He said, “I’m not worried about whether I’m going to win or lose, I know I’m going to win. I don’t worry about my assistant coaches, I know they’re winners. The only thing I don’t know is, how many of you in this locker room are winners?” God asks the same of you. Are you a winner in your spiritual life? Are you willing to learn the process of the protocol plan of God to be a winner? Are you going to stick with it?
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“Keep yourself in the love of God” (Jude 1:21). How? By knowing and being obedient to His Word. The basis of faith is your love for God. It’s you standing on the virtue of God’s love, believing in God’s Word, and living in God’s Word. Faith without virtue love for God is nothing (1 Cor 13:1-13). Reciprocal love motivation is mandated in the Bible. “We love God because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Our virtue love for God is personal and based on His character and essence. God did not send you to handle His affairs. We were sent to lift up Christ, to re-present Christ. When you fail to focus on the divine solutions then you fail to remember the unfailing love and justice of God.
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Our job is to glorify the Father by replicating the life of Christ and re-presenting Him.
In Romans 4:20, “Yet with respect to the promise of God, he [Abraham] did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Giving glory to God is what we have to do. In 1 Peter 4:10-11, “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to who belongs all the glory and dominion forever and ever.”
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Is it possible you can know God, but not understand the God you know? The only way you can come to God is through faith in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I am the way, the truth, and the life and no man comes to the Father but by means of Me” (John 14:6). To understand God you need to learn God’s protocol plan and realize Jesus Christ lives inside of you. You need the power of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of the living Word of God to execute God’s unique plan for your life.
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Our greatest virtue is personal love for God. It is a problem-solving device. We love Him because He first loved us. Develop rapport, love for God by learning His Word. Blessed are those who have not seen Me yet believed (John 20:29). Love for God motivates you to follow His mandates (1 John 5:3).
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Wisdom is critical in your life. You only get wisdom when you learn Bible doctrine. When you learn the Word of God it becomes knowledge. Knowledge is critical because without knowledge there is no wisdom and without wisdom, there's no discernment and no insight.
We have to be in synchronization with God's plan. We can't run ahead of God. We can’t get behind God. If we’re going to make some different tracks in this country in the future it’s going to take some different thinking by people who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s going to require you mastering and understanding and perceiving the Word of God and metabolizing what you learn into wisdom. If your timing is off you’re going to have a problem. Without the Word of God it's inevitable you will have a life of bad timing.
Don't ever worry about God promoting you, just do your job. Be on track. Don't get off track. A disoriented believer is off-track and there's no way that he can change the destiny of a country or change the destiny of his own family or the destiny of his own life if he's not oriented to the plan of God. If he's trying to rush things and get ahead of the plan of God.
The greatest service you could render is to become a mature believer, to have an invisible impact in your home, in your nation, in your church, and to change the tracks of history in this country as we go forward. This has been a time for you to reorient and adjust, for you to get your feet back on the ground, for you to calm down from the hustle and bustle of life and focus on your spiritual life. Don’t go back to the way you were living. Continue to put the Lord first as you did through the crisis. Continue to seek His will and to ask Him to deliver you and show you and guide you as you did in the crisis.
I think we were in national decline spiritually when the coronavirus hit and it's been an opportunity to get back on the tracks of righteousness, to get back in the right direction. But spirituality must manifest itself in a nation. It has to be manifested nationally. You're going to run into problems with this because there's a real strong foothold of demonism in this country. There's a real market for everything that is evil turned into good and everything good has now been turned into evil. This is one of the ways that Satan loves to divide and conquer. To get you to break ranks, to step aside or move ahead or fall behind, not stand shoulder to shoulder with other believers.
When you hear false teaching you do not need to bend or blend, just run away, get away from it. We have declined nationally. Our tracks are going in the wrong direction. We are bending the rules and blending in with the false teachers.
God wants you to live your life in such a way that you set the tracks of righteousness down in the future, that your life is a testimony to God's grace, and to your submission to your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God.
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Want to have God’s blessing in your life? “How blessed are those who obey His mandates, who seek Him with all their hearts” (Ps 119:2). Happiness belongs to those who respect and obey God’s Word and His mandates. LAG - Learn, apply, and glorify God. To counter the lures of the devil’s world, you need to think with a divine viewpoint. “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God” (1 Cor 3:19). In heaven you will be evaluated on your spiritual growth, what you learned, and how you applied it in this life, divine good (1 Cor 3:11-16).
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Impersonal love for others is one of the two greatest virtues you can have. It’s based on you, what’s in your soul, not the object. “If you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (James 2:8). It’s an expression of your virtue and humility. Only personal love for God is commanded in the Bible. “Let love of fellow mankind continue” (Heb 13:1). Personal love for people is not a mandate.
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"Our life is just a vapor trail that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4:14). This life is temporal but there are eternal values. “The Word of God lives forever” (Jam 4:14, Heb 9:27, Ps 89:48, 1 Pet 1:24). You can have absolute confidence you are going to heaven when it is time for you to die (1 John 5:11). The timing and circumstance of a Christian’s death is God’s decision. Nothing can remove you from this life until God decides it is time. Don’t worry about how you are going to die. Focus on how you are living. If you have not made the most important decision in your life, where will you spend eternity—heaven or hell - don’t delay. Make the decision now. Don’t gamble on borrowed time. “What think ye of Christ?” Today could be the first day of your life.
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If you're a believer, your job is to handle matters wisely. In Proverbs 16:20, “He that handles a matter wisely shall find good and whosoever trusts in the Lord will be happy.” God gave you a volition and every decision you make, every critical decision you make, you are responsible for those decisions.
What is your anchor point in your life? Is it human viewpoint or is it divine viewpoint? All decisions that we make in life must be governed by the Scriptures. Human viewpoint, human thinking is not Bible doctrine. This is why the Bible tells us we have to renovate the way we think, in Romans 12:3, “stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His word.” That's what the Father wants for you—a different way of thinking, that you renovate your thinking, that you don't think as the world thinks.
“Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father's Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Hearing it is not keeping it but "hearing and keeping" produces wisdom. Once you have wisdom in your heart that comes from knowledge of Bible doctrine, then you have discretion and the Bible says discretion will preserve you and then you have understanding and understanding will keep you. This is what I call spiritual x-ray vision: the invisible ministry of the Holy Spirit taking the power of the living Word of God that begins to be wisdom in your soul and the Holy Spirit through the Word of God gives you phenomenal discernment and insight through the eyes of Scripture.
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Christians are ambassadors for Jesus Christ. We are His personal representatives in the devil’s world. We represent God before man through our thoughts and actions. God is depending on us to present the Gospel to the lost and dying world. “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” (John 17:18). The angels are observing us and rejoice over the conversion of each person. “Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4)
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The human body is a marvelous creation of God (Ps 119) very complex and unique. And how the brain works is amazing. You were born with this marvelous body, a soul, and a dead human spirit. You were physically alive but spiritually dead. “Just as through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all have sinned” (Rom 5:12). When you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior your human spirit became alive. Now you have a spiritual life and now you can learn to understand God and how to live the unique Christian way of life. “If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” (John 3:12).
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“Whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). I have been speaking for 53+ years presenting the Gospel and communicating clear Biblical principles. It all started when I read this Scripture: “Pray for me that utterance may be given to me to open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in bonds” (Eph 6:20).
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You can be God's MVP if you have momentum, virtue, and poise. Momentum—hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis. Virtue—built on discernment and insight from the wisdom of the Word of God. Poise—the ability to think under pressure. That's what it takes to be a champion.
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How will we know if America is doomed, done for? You may not like what is happening but you don’t have a right to conduct civil unrest. Don’t take justice into your own hands, don’t seek revenge. Leave it in God’s hands. “Never take your own revenge, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay’ says the Lord” (Rom 12:19). God is allowing what is happening for our good. His plan will be fulfilled. “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God” (Rom 13:1). Do your part to restore America. Put God first. Learn and apply God’s Word, glorify God, re-present Christ to others.
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Jesus Christ is the key to eternal wealth. You will be wealthy by understanding the God you know. “That their hearts may be encouraged having been knit together in love and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself” (Col 2:2-3). This is how to be rich. You have the privilege and the opportunity to know God’s playbook, to live God’s playbook. It’s all there in the Bible. That’s why it’s so important to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. You have a personal sense of destiny – an amazing future with no fear because you understand what is ahead.
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Divine discipline comes from God’s justice and love. He does it in grace to correct us and teach us before we self-destruct. “Whatever a man sows, this he will also reap” (Gal 6:7). Divine discipline is to wake us up, encourage us to get in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and use our free will to get in God’s plan. “Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way and he who hates the reproof of God shall die” (Proverbs 15:10). If one doesn’t respond to increased stages of divine discipline, God may administer the sin unto death.
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God gave you the volition to choose how you want to live. If you fail to get with God’s plan for your life you ruin any chance for blessing in your life. If you have a subjective viewpoint in life you’ll have an unrealistic image of yourself. “He told this parable of those who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and viewed others with contempt” (Luke 18:9). You won’t see yourself as you truly are. Are you growing spiritually or are you starving? “Let he who boasts, boast in the Lord” (2 Cor 10:17).
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It’s time to RALLY to recover our strength, spiritually, and as a nation.
R = Reflection. There are two ways we can learn how to live the life God gave us: through the school of hard knocks or through the Lord’s grace provisions. “When I leave, I will send the Holy Spirit and He will be your tutor, your mentor; He will teach you.” (John 14:16,26).
A = Affection. Get back to a divine appreciation of Who and what God is.
L = Leave the world behind and return to your first love, your love for God the Father.
L = Learn and apply the Word in your circumstances and you will glorify God.
Y = Yield yourself to God’s plan. Have a personal sense of destiny. “In God I put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Ps 56:11).
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Sometimes the suffering and difficult times we go through is God putting discipline in our lives to get us back on track. To get us back on the Thy Way Highway instead of the My Way Highway. Divine discipline is the total of God’s punitive action taken by His justice, always done in grace and because He loves you. He wants the best for you. He doesn’t want you to destroy yourself. “My son do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord” (Heb 12:5). Stage 1 is a warning discipline designed to get our attention. Stage 2 is intensive discipline, it hurts. Stage 3 is dying discipline, the Lord taking you home sooner than you should be going.
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Patience is a wonderful virtue. Patience means having a relaxed mental attitude. Thinking with divine viewpoint and orienting to God’s grace. “Rely on the Lord and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way” (Ps 37:7). Don’t worry about the evil ones who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. Be confident God will handle them. “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Heb 12:1).
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The spiritual life is living the life God designed for you. Learning spiritual skills gives you the ability to be independent of human solutions. Comprehension is critical. Your capacity to perceive and apply the Word God can only come with the filling of the Holy Spirit. “To whom God would make known what are the riches of His glory and it is Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit live in you - that’s the power of the spiritual life! The goal of the spiritual life: spiritual self-esteem gives you self-confidence in God’s plan. Spiritual autonomy gives you the ability to operate independently, stand-alone. Spiritual maturity is you having maximum effectiveness in fulfilling God’s plan for your life. “I pray the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. And I pray the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so you will know what is the hope of His calling and what are the riches of His wisdom, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints” (Eph 1:17).
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“I called and you refused. I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention. You neglected my counsel and did not want my reproof” (Prov 1:23-27). As a man thinks in his heart so he is. As a nation thinks, so it is. Americans need to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ to change their hearts if this country is to survive. “The heart (mind) is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick, who can understand it? (Jer 17:9). A nation is only as great as the virtue of its people and the integrity of those who govern it. “Our schools will become the gates to hell if we take God out of our schools” Martin Luther, the great German theologian.“Our Constitution is designed for moral and godly people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other type” John Adams, 2nd President of the United States.
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Prayer is important. Are your prayers getting through to the throne room of God? The Bible teaches us that prayer is a privilege of those who have become the children of God (John 1:12) those who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. “My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). If we are to survive this cataclysmic time in our history, we must appeal to God and do it effectively.
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Having eternal security is a wonderful way to live. No fear of death. No fear of the future. Eternal life means having a resurrection body and living forever in the presence of God in the new heavens and the new earth. Once saved, always saved. You can’t lose eternal security. “I give unto them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. (John 10:28-29).
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Make enough bad decisions from a position of weakness, human viewpoint, and you’ll become hard-hearted. Repeated violations of the protocol plan of God creates hardness in the soul. Sucked into the cosmic system of thinking and acting, hard-hearted people don’t feel bad about hurting others. “Those who walk in the futility of their mind being darkened in their understanding by excluding God in their life because of their ignorance and the hardness of their heart” (Eph 4:17-20). Only the use of rebound and a return to spiritual growth will remedy hard-heartedness.
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The joy of Jesus Christ in you if you decide to do these things. Objective optimism is a relaxed mental attitude from the inner joy and confidence that comes from the Word of God in your soul. You have a promise from God of living grace provisions. He will provide for you. No worries. Learn these 10 problem-solving devices, apply them to create a mainline of resistance in your soul and you’ll have this relaxed mental attitude in spite of any adversity. Free of stress - one of the wonderful things of the Christian life. Not free of adversity. The Lord didn’t promise a life without adversity. He did give us promises to prevail through adversity. In the Lord’s last conversation with the disciples, He gave them these things “so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full” (John 15:11). The disciples could have confident expectations of what God was going to do with them and through them and for them - and so can we.
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“As a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Prov 23:7). You are what you think. That’s why renovating your thoughts by learning and applying the mind of Christ is so important. God knows what you’re thinking. You can’t hide from Him. “For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His” (2 Chron 16:9). As you take in God’s Word and learn and apply it in your life you get the wisdom of God’s Word that builds a house of understanding in your soul (Prov 24). You’ll learn what God expects of you. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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Adverse circumstances can cause you to fear death. The promised solution is given in Job where it says that you will have nothing to fear from a violent death. You and I can claim these Old Testament verses and relax in this situation.
The three spiritual skills you must learn and use: the filling of the Holy Spirit; sitting under a well-qualified pastor and applying what you learn.
The application of thought is what you have to do. Thinking is what changes us. Courage is us thinking under pressure.
f you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, your focus in these days must be on Him and not on the pandemic. Your focus must be on His promises, not on the news and the constant never-ending scare tactics perpetrated by the devil himself.
The strength of your soul is much more important than the strength of your body.
If you’re going to be a winner you have to think and execute. Secondly, you have to understand that the crisis personality demonstrates leadership in a crisis. How? They have a relaxed mental attitude, they have confident expectations, they have infectious confidence and security in the middle of the storm.
The Bible tells us that faith is the power that we need to overcome the distractions in the cosmic system.
The wrath of God is your first crisis. If you reject the free gift of eternal life that God gives you through Jesus Christ you will face eternity in the Lake of Fire.
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God gave you volition, your decider – your chooser. 90% or more of the suffering you’ll have is self-induced by mismanaging your relationships, your finances, or your health. “For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7). The decisions you make determine the life you will lead. Spiritual growth gives you wisdom and discernment to make good decisions based on divine viewpoint, not human viewpoint. “Do not be deceived, God will not be mocked; for whatever a man sows this he will also reap” (Gal 6:7). You must take full responsibility for the decisions you make. As we learn God’s Word we begin to think better, more correctly, which leads to better decisions.
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The cosmic system is Satan’s counterfeit to the plan of God. It’s a failed system. God’s 10 problem-solving devices act as a defense against the lures of the cosmic system. Learn them—use them!
The cosmic system is the world, human viewpoint thinking. “Do not love the world nor the things in the world” (1 John 2:15). All the world can offer you is temporal—temporal happiness, temporal success. Only God provides everlasting life and His Word provides spiritual solutions to any problem you will face. The cosmic system just provides human solutions. Human solutions are no solutions. Be on guard to counter the temptation of the cosmic system.
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Sin is anything contrary to the character of God. My ways are not your ways and My thoughts are not your thoughts. Sin is coming short of God’s righteousness. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). The solution to the problem of sin is the same for all: salvation and the use of rebound (1 John 1:9). The temptation in itself is not a sin. Sin is the volitional thought or act of succumbing to the temptation that is the sin. Wrongdoing is doing the right thing in the wrong way. That’s why learning the protocols of the plan of God is so important. Evil is the genius of Satan that contradicts God’s grace plan. Evil twists grace. All sin is evil but all evil is not sin. Evil is a system of thinking.
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The greatest joy is knowing you’re exactly where God wants you to be. You have a sphere of influence and can have an impact if you learn and use the 10 problem-solving devices. “I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you” (John 14:18) through the filling and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in you and with you wherever you go today. God gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us. Prayer is an important one of these things. Pray to God the Father using the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue—the motivation for obedience and faithfulness to God. God wants us to be faithful. He is always faithful to us. “I will never leave you, I will never forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).
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Without faith, it's impossible to please God. The one thing that God demands from you is faith. Each of us has a divine promise of security and the provision of peace in the midst of frightening circumstances.
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Do you want to be happy? At the Last Supper, the Lord taught the keys to happiness. “Be kind to one another, forgive” (Eph 4:32). “Love one another as I have loved you” impersonal love (John 13:14). Without faith it is impossible to please God. Focus of your faith should be Biblical solutions, not human solutions. Fear produces flight. Faith produces confidence. “Let not your hearts be troubled” (John 15:11). Fear and worry are not part of the Christian life. Sharing the happiness of God is objective optimism plus a relaxed mental attitude from confidence in the Word of God in your soul.
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Satan is a master deceiver. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). Satan wants to defeat you, discourage you in your spiritual advance using the lures of the world. Such as false religions promoting human viewpoint. “Resist him, steadfast in the faith” (1 Pet 5:9). Counter Satan’s contract with divine viewpoint, staying filled with the Holy Spirit. “Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time” (1 Pet 5:6).
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When you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you can be confident He will never leave you, He will never forsake you in any storm in life you may ever face. Your faith-rest is demonstrating your confidence in God's plan and your confidence in God's provisions.
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Jesus personally taught the disciples for the last time at the Lord’s Supper. “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full” (John 15:11). The greatest joy you will ever have is when you know you’re in the middle of God’s plan and you have confidence in that plan. Sharing the happiness of God is a life with objective optimism with a relaxed mental attitude. You'll have joy and confidence from the Word of God stored in your soul. ’These things’ include forgiveness. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God for Christ’s sake forgave you” (Eph 4:32).
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Do you have the faith to trust God? Can you trust God with your life, with the life of your children, with your finances?
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Spiritual maturity is being a professional Christian. A professional means making studying the Word of God under a qualified pastor a daily habit. You can’t grow to maturity by studying only a few minutes a day. It needs to be a time and concentration commitment. “Growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” develops divine viewpoint and spiritual common sense. As you grow you’ll reach spiritual self-esteem and then have a personal sense of destiny. “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Phil 4:11).
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You can’t be a mature Christian unless you are spiritual. Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is the content of the Word of God in your soul. Biblical principles you have learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor, metabolized, and stored in your soul. “Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard the noble doctrine in the soul through the agency of the Holy Spirit who keeps dwelling in us” (2 Tim 1:13-14). I can’t be more spiritual than you and you can’t be more spiritual than I, but spiritual maturity varies among Christians.
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Jesus Christ delivered you from the penalty of sin. Deliverance is based on who and what Christ is, not based on what you do or don’t do. “We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). The only unpardonable sin is to reject the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. All other sins were judged on the cross and forgiven through the use of the rebound technique. Sin is a volitional decision. You can sin by thought, by words, and by action. To succeed in this world you need to live under the filling of the Holy Spirit, not be controlled by your sin nature. Think divine viewpoint, the Mind of Christ.
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Spiritual IQ is totally different from human IQ. Spiritual IQ is the ability to have the invisible ministry of God the Holy Spirit take the power of the living Word of God in your life and place it into your soul where it becomes wisdom. “But whoever listens to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:33)
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You were born with a sin nature inherited from Adam. Are you going to let the sin nature control your thoughts and actions or the Holy Spirit? They are contrary one to another. You must decide. The Bible says walk in the Holy Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. “For by one man sin entered the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men because all have sinned” (Rom 5:12). “For if by one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift (salvation) by the grace of one Man, Jesus Christ, abounds to many” (Rom 5:15) The transcript of this episode is unavailable at this time. If you need a transcript to access the show leave us a message.
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Arrogance is the #1 enemy of most Christians. It’s having an exaggerated opinion of one’s self, importance, and merits. Arrogance is being self-absorbed. ”A man’s pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor” (Prov 29:23). Humility is the opposite of arrogance. Humility = teachability. You have to learn how to handle authority whether it is fair or not. Life isn’t fair. Get on with it! Authority orientation is key to being well-adjusted in life.
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You have the power to destroy your own life and you have the power to make a great life. It all depends on your volition and your decisions.
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It’s easy to become anxious, bitter, and aggravated with politics. That’s why you need a FLOT line in your soul. As Christians, our job is not to straighten out others or be activists. Our job is to re-present Christ. Jesus Christ controls history so relax. Pray for those in authority. “I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Tim 2:1-2). Pray divine establishment will prevail. Remember you have dual citizenship—earthly and heavenly. We are just sojourners in this life, passing through. Our home is in heaven.
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There are two ways that God can teach us. He can teach us from instruction without pain or He can teach us from instruction with pain. It depends on how stubborn you are, how arrogant you are, but God is going to discipline those that He loves.
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“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25) The Lord Jesus Christ loves you personally and He lives inside of you. As a Christian, you will get a resurrection body just like His. The grace gift of salvation is wonderful. Jesus Christ went to the cross, took our place, and died as a substitute for us. We have victory over death as Christians.
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“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12). Our mission is to re-present Jesus Christ to the world. Present the good news – the Gospel. The message of salvation is called light because our Savior is the light. 2 Cor 4 We are to shine the light of the Gospel, the glory of Christ, the image of God. “For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord…For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 4:5-6).
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You have the power to change the course of history by your impact as a light in this world. Don’t look back on the good ole days—look to the future and your personal destiny. Learning the Word of God gives us light to see what’s ahead. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). Applying the Word of God allows us to be a light for others. “For those who have insight will shine brightly” (Daniel 12:3). “Where there is no revelation (the ability to see from divine insight given by God) the people will cast off restraint” (Proverbs 29:18).
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You can’t live the supernatural Christian way of life without the supernatural power of the indwelling and filling of God the Holy Spirit. Problem-solving device #2 is key to functioning as a Christian. Unless you understand the ministry of the Holy Spirit to you, you can’t effectively live. John 14:26 You can’t advance spiritually without the Holy Spirit teaching you and helping you to remember and recall relevant Biblical principles to apply in your life. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:26).
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Faith in God means don’t worry. Have no doubts. Trust God. He will never abandon you. His eyes are on you 24/7. As long as you are alive, God has a plan for you. No adversity is too great for the plan of God, Yes, you will have adversity, suffering, trials – But God has given you unique resources to prevail through all of it. If you can trust God with your life, can’t you trust God for your daily provisions? Have faith! Earth is an arena of contention, and we are just passing through. Our home is in heaven, it isn’t here. “For our citizenship is in heaven from which we eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil 3:20).
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You must live by these divine institutions—freedom, marriage, family, nationalism—and you must be a part of the pivot if you want to save this nation.
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Cursed is the man who puts his trust in man. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is the Lord” (Jer 17:7). The spreading cancer in America is we’ve turned our backs on God. We’ve moved away from the divine establishment principles our nation was founded on. The only remedy to stop the cancer is you. You growing to spiritual maturity and being an invisible hero. You ‘standing in the gap’ and being a spiritual influencer. You re-presenting Christ at every opportunity.
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The divine punishment from the integrity of God is administered with exactly the same divine love as is His divine blessing. God loves you. He will discipline you to correct you, to deliver you, to get you to see what's going on in your life.
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We’re at the crossroads of history and it's time for us to step up and be agents of change. It’s time for us to step up and be influencers. It's time for us to commit ourselves to the Word of God and grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It’s time for you to get under a well-qualified pastor and grow.
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Your volition is the greatest God-given responsibility you have. Protect it. Our country was founded on divine establishment principles and core values. We’ve turned away from God and will get His divine discipline. As a Christian, don’t worry. God provides wonderful logistical grace provisions. “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on it. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” (Matt 6:25)
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The Word of God can clear your thinking up. It can give you absolute direction in your life so that you know what it is God wants you to do. So that you don't have to rationalize decisions based on seeking some sort of happiness through people or circumstances.
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We must be agents of change by means of the invisible and historical impact of the mature believer.
Moses was the founder of a phenomenal fraternity called Jeshurun. This fraternity is still operating today and it has the most dynamic invisible impact in history. The Jeshurun fraternity is made up of mature believers that think Bible doctrine is more important than anything else in their life.
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The plain truth is this, we simply need to learn how to keep our mouth shut at certain times so that we stay out of trouble and we don't get under discipline from God.
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The Christian life is about learning to avoid the lures of the world. The Holy Spirit is your protection. Protection from what? Yourself. You will be your own worst enemy if you think human viewpoint. “As a person thinks within himself, so he is” (Prov 23:7). That’s why it’s so important to renovate your thinking. “Do not love the world or the things of the world” 1 John 2:15). Learn the 10 problem-solving devices. Build up a main line of resistance in your soul to avoid the lures of the world. “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise; redeeming the time because the days are evil. Do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Eph 5:15-18).
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Every believer is God's personal representative for the Lord Jesus Christ during your time on earth. We represent ourselves before God and we represent God before men.
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An arrogant individual is his own worst enemy. He doesn't actually have a realistic image of himself. You cannot see arrogance. It's invisible. It's an attitude of the soul. But it is actually a complete complex of sins, not just one sin, many sins.
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Know God and His plan for your life by studying the Bible under the teaching of a qualified pastor. Develop SIQ, spiritual IQ, divine viewpoint thinking from the Word of God. “Be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and understanding (SIQ)” (Col 1:19). God’s Word will guide you. ”Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” (Psalm 119:105).
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The Bible is a textbook to be studied. “Your Words were found and I ate them; and your Words became for me a joy and delight of my soul” (Jer 15:16). Learn the meaning of Scripture under the teaching of a well-qualified pastor. “No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God” (2 Pet 1:20-21). If you want to know and understand God you must study His Word on a consistent, daily basis. “Guide me with Your Word and train me, for You are the God of my deliverance; all day long I have confidence in You” (Ps 25:5). Scripture will guide you. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105).
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The Bible tells us the only role model is the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's Who we are to model our life after. In 1 Peter 2:21, “For this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps: He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.” So leaving us an example, Jesus Christ is our spiritual role model, He is our influencer.
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Sharing the happiness of God is an amazing problem-solving device. It is true, lasting happiness. “These things I write to you that your joy (happiness) may be full” (1 John 1:14). Happiness from the details of life, people, and circumstances is temporal happiness and is fleeting. God designed you to have the capacity for happiness in living, in adversity, and in dying. If you live unhappily, you’ll die unhappy. True happiness comes from God’s grace. “I will rejoice and be happy in Your mercy (God’s grace provisions)” (Psalm 31:7). Paul restated this, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Phil 4:11).
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Being consistent staying in fellowship, learning God’s Word from a qualified pastor, and applying it as you advance to spiritual maturity guarantees you will have true happiness. And your family and nation will benefit from blessing by association. Spiritual maturity is your quest. True happiness is possible! The Lord Jesus Christ promises you this, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full” (John 15:11). LAG – Learn, apply, and glorify – that’s the key to happiness. Sharing the happiness of God is a problem-solving device. Use it.
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The essence of communion. When you take the bread, remember the uniqueness of the person of Christ: His virgin birth, celebrityship, impact ability, Hypostatic Union King of kings and Lord of lords, undiminished deity and true humanity in one body forever. The cup represents the work of Christ on the cross. His spiritual death on the cross, His blood shed for you. Remember how He removed the barrier between God and man. Imputation of His righteousness, justification, sanctification set apart to the royal family of God (2 Cor 5:21).
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Communion is a test. What do you remember of the Lord Jesus Christ? The communion ritual, eating the bread and drinking the cup, is done in remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 22:19-21). Communion needs to be done in the right way, filled with the Holy Spirit, or you will suffer. Remember the bread represents His virgin birth. Jesus was born without a sin nature and He remained sinless through dying on the cross. Remember He was the only true celebrity in this world and He was God-Man. His title over all humanity is King of kings and His title over all angels is Lord of lords (1 Tim 6:15).
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Encouragement for living through a crisis: Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.” If you can understand that verse, this is called faith-rest. The faith-rest drill is Problem-Solving Device #3 in the FLOT line of a believer’s soul. Learning how to stand on the promises of God. This is a promise that you can claim as a believer in Jesus Christ.
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The Word of God must be learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor and that authority is vested in a spiritual gift. Your spiritual life is based on understanding God or learning the principles and the provisions He's provided for you so that you can begin to replicate the thinking of Christ.
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If you’re going to glorify God to the max, you’ll do it because you love Him. Love for God is a mental attitude based on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God in your soul. It’s based on your appreciation and respect for Who and What God is. This motivates you to obey Him. One of the ways you obey Him is by having impersonal love for others. A terrific problem-solving device. “You have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Holy Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, loving one another with a pure heart” (1 Pet 1:22).
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Love is a tremendous problem-solving device. The more you know about love the more you will use it. Love is a Christian motivation. You are the giver, not the taker. Satan has distorted love and made it an emotional feeling. That’s not love. Love comes from your thoughts. “Whoever keeps His Word the love of God is perfected in him” (1 John 2:5). Learning the Word of God develops capacity. The more capacity, the more appreciation you have for God and what He has done for you. You will be motivated to reciprocate His love.
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God will never turn His back on you. He will never abandon you. “I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand” (John 10:28-29). His love for you is unconditional. Your reciprocal love for God is the greatest motivational virtue in your life. The only way you’re ever going to love God is to know and understand God. Here’s a test. If you love God, you will obey His mandates and His mandates are not a burden (1 John 5:3).
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God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. And when we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of the family of God and we then have the personal love of God as Royal family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”
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You live your spiritual life in the mentality of your soul. You have an invisible soul and you have an invisible spirit. These are the two things that go to heaven and get the new resurrection body. Your soul has a consciousness and that consciousness has norms and standards. Biblical norms and standards are called wisdom. God's wisdom comes from learning His Word, which enables you to have a fulfilled life. Being spiritually brain-dead means there is no wisdom from the Word of God inside the mentality of the soul.
When a person is spiritually brain-dead he is darkened in his understanding and he has nothing to do with the plan of God because of ignorance.
So when you get knowledge you gain wisdom, and through wisdom you get discretion and understanding, and it protects you from self-destruction, protects you from arrogantly destroying your own life by bad decisions. Psalm 119:9, “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word” the psalmist wrote. In Proverbs 23:19, “Listen, my son, and be wise and direct your heart in the way.” InProverbs 22:6 (a word to parents), “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That's not a promise that he will eventually come back to fellowship with God, but it is a promise that he will never forget what you put in his soul by information you taught him and by the illustration that you presented to him as he watched you live your life.
If you're going to avoid being spiritually brain-dead then you have to have some information upstairs. Let the mind of Christ be in you, learn the Word of God. Proverbs 23:7, “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” You are the sum total of your thoughts - not your emotions—your thoughts. If God wants to check you out, He’s going to look at what you're thinking.
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The spiritual life is lived in the soul. We express what we believe in our bodies—how we behave. Our words are a reflection of our soul.
When Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs under the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit, his apparent objective was to stress the importance of having the wisdom of God. He made it available for you and for me through his written words and we call it the Scripture.
Proverbs 1:1-7The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding, 3 To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion, 5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
We are exhorted over and over and over again throughout the New Testament to learn God's plan so we can execute and fulfill His desire for us so that we might in fact glorify him, not ourselves. Ephesians 3:20 says, “All glory belongs to God whose power is at work in us.”
In 2 Peter 3:18, “Grow [this is not a request, this is an order from Peter, this is a commandment] in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Mandated. If you are not growing, you are sinning. A Christian who does not progress in the Christian life is going to go backward.
You must grow on a daily basis. You must be under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor who can teach you God's Word so that you can learn it and apply it to your life.
You have got to learn to think as He thinks and that is why the Bible says it, “let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). The Bible is the mind of Christ. The New Testament is the mind of Christ. We have it and we are to grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 8:10-12, “Take my instruction and not silver [this is wisdom speaking now coming to you from God, wisdom is speaking to you, wisdom says,] take my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than the choicest gold. For wisdom is better than jewels and all desirable things cannot compare with her. I, wisdom, dwell with prudence and I find knowledge and discretion.” In this passage, we find the eternal value of God's wealth which is ours for the taking.
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Psalm 33:16-22 is the Psalm of deliverance. It says this, “The king is not saved by a mighty army and a warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory [that was the mechanized infantry in those days] nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength. [talking about the horse] Behold [and here we have the answer] the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His loving kindness to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help; He is our shield. For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name. Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us according as we have hoped in You”.
The eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, those who reverence Him, on those who hope for His lovingkindness.
Human solutions are no solutions. Divine solutions are the only solutions. And here's the principle, the overruling will of God combined with the directive will of God provides numerous deliverances from adverse circumstances in your life.
The only solution to deliverance is your spiritual life. God can and will deliver you and can and will deliver your nation if you have an invisible impact that has blessing by association.
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John 3:16 (NASB) “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
The Gospel is the good news of the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross. The power of God is in the Gospel. The moment someone hears and believes the Gospel—faith alone in Christ alone—God seals that faith for salvation. From that one moment of faith, the believer becomes one with Christ and forever shares His inheritance and His glory.
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You could have freedom in Christ Jesus, the Bible is clear about that. In John 8:31-32, Jesus was saying “to the Jews who had believed in Him, ‘If you continue in My Word then you are truly disciples of Mine then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.’” You have an opportunity to be truly free today and for the rest of your life. We’re going to talk about that here for a moment. The Bible mentions freedom in many places. For example, in Galatians 5:1, “for freedom Christ has set us free…” What did He set you free from? He set you free from the law of sin and death. You don't have to go to hell. You don't have to go to the Lake of Fire. He took your place. He died for you. He was your substitute. In Galatians 5:13, “For you were called to freedom…” by God, not only to have spiritual freedom but to have physical freedom as an American in the US of A. God designed you to have freedom in this client nation of His.
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Change is inevitable. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing but it's inevitable, it will happen. The principle is: uncontrollable circumstances in your life are often the way God directs you.
God keeps you here until He makes the decision and nothing's going to remove you from this life until He's ready to take you.
God's timing is critical in all of our lives. Understanding His plan and how His plan works. It starts with us having a spiritual life. That means a spiritual birth, being born again, accepting Christ as your Savior, demands you have a spiritual life.
2 Peter 2:11, Yet even the angels who are much more powerful don't bring slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. But these men, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct born to be caught and to be destroyed, they don't understand who they are, and consequently, in their destruction, they will be destroyed,” This is exactly true today. What's going on in this country is so many people are propagating this lifestyle and do not understand that they are planting the seeds for their own destruction.
You and I are the purveyors of truth and the purveyors of hope. That's why our Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). The life that we’re talking about in Christ is beyond your wildest dreams - it’s a life of blessing, it’s a life of confidence, it's a life of prosperity, all because of God's unfailing love for us. God’s love never falters, never changes. All He asks is that you love Him and that you obey Him. No one's asking you to destroy your life. No one's asking you to do anything harmful. Just listen to what the Word of God says and obey it because Jesus Christ our Lord said, “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father's Word, and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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Bad decisions limit future options. If you make enough bad decisions you will not have any options left. Good decisions open the door to wonderful blessings in your life. The best decision you could ever make is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul told the Roman jailer, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved and your entire family” (Acts 16:31). The Bible is clear, “He that believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life, and he that believes not, the wrath of God abides on him already” (John 3:36).
There’s a right time and a wrong time to do most anything in life. A lot of critical mistakes have been made when people choose the wrong time to undertake certain events. There is a right time and a wrong time. What you want to be sure you do is, do the right thing at the right time.
We have to make sure we are making decisions based on the best information which is the Bible.
In the pages of that Bible are all the principles and all the provisions that you need to have a wonderful life. To the extent that you neglect what's in the Bible, it’s a guarantee that you will wind up miserable and wind up destroying your life. “Shame is the legacy of the fool” (Proverbs 3:35). In Proverbs 1:5, “a man of understanding will attain wise counsel.” So the objective of the devil, a.k.a. the enemy is to brainwash us, neutralize us and just shut us down so we cannot be an effective witness for the Lord Jesus Christ. How does he do that? If he can get you to act on the wrong information then he can get you to represent his plan instead of God's plan.
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So today the greatest problem that we have, the greatest problem that man has is the problem of sin and death. That's the greatest problem. And we have to solve that. So the good news is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, has redeemed us out of the slave market of sin and our debt to God was paid by Him so we are free - free from the penalty of death and free from the power of sin. And if you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you, in effect, accept the offering He made on your behalf. It is a free gift from the compliments of God. If you do not receive the free gift, if you continue to just drift around in life without any purpose, without any meaning, without any destiny then you're playing with fire. And if you play with God, you might get burnt.
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You cannot hide from God. You are being carefully watched and you are being watched over. You’re being watched by the world, that's for sure, and you're being watched over by God, that's for sure. “Behold the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, all those who hope for His lovingkindness.” (Psalm 33:18)
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You can be the one poor man with wisdom that delivers your nation. Wisdom comes from knowledge and produces insight and discernment.
“How long will you that are simple love your simple ways? How long will you mockers delight in mocking God? Because fools hate knowledge” (Proverbs 1:22). What can we do about the future? In Ecclesiastes 9:14-15 one poor man with wisdom delivered a city. Just one poor man with wisdom. You can be that person with wisdom that can deliver your city, your nation, your family, your home but you have to do this: (1) You can't buy wisdom and you can’t inherit it, you must acquire it for yourself before you can have any sort of impact. You must acquire wisdom. What is wisdom? It’s simply you acquiring the mind of Christ or fulfilling Romans 12:3, "Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of sanity as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word.” Wisdom is you rejecting the control of arrogance in your life. Wisdom is you saying no to self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption - you saying no to these things and you saying yes to what the Word of God has to say. Wisdom is simply you acquiring the mind of Christ. All wisdom comes from knowledge and produces insight and discernment. Discernment gives you the ability to see what other people don't see. Wisdom is a byproduct of your personal love for God. The Bible says, “If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3).
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Why is hopelessness a national disease and loneliness an epidemic?
Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father's Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis relieves loneliness for the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
America is the land of the foolish. By and large, most Americans are not interested in what the Bible says about marriage, what the Bible says about family, what the Bible says about freedom, what the Bible says about internationalism. They're not interested. They’re only interested in what they want.
As a nation, we are so foolish that we actually think we don't need God's instructions, that we can handle it all on our own.
Wisdom comes from knowledge and when you have the knowledge of the Word of God it produces insight and discernment. Wisdom is acquired as a byproduct of personal love for God. “If you love Me you will obey Me and My mandates are not grievous” (John 14:15)
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You can’t change anyone but yourself. Give information from the Word of God, but you can only change yourself. The Scripture guarantees a long life and a prosperous life to those who learn and apply the Word of God. Don’t go through the Christian life not paying attention. “I warn you to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very soul” (1 Pet 2:11). Luring you away from the Word of God, thinking that security is in property, people, finances, friends… “They are of the world, even as I am not of the world, Jesus Christ said” (John 17:16). Stay mentally alert through Bible doctrine and the FLOT line in your soul. Being aware is the motivation to fulfill the dimensions of your spiritual life (Eph 3:18).
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As a Christian, you have direct access to the heavenly throne of God. But your prayers may not be getting through. There is a protocol for prayer. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit (no unconfessed sin in your life 1 John 1:9). Pray to God the Father and in the name of Jesus Christ. Your prayers may not be answered because you ignore the mandate to study and grow spiritually. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, but thinking terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:1-3). Another reason for unanswered prayer is the wrong motivation. “You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss so that you can consume it upon your lust” (James 4:3). Be sure and use the faith-rest technique when you pray. The Holy Spirit makes intercession on our behalf “The Spirit helps with our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us” (Rom 8:26).
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There are times to speak and times to be laconic—a person of few words. “He who guards his words guards his life; for whoever is talkative comes to ruin” (Prov 13:3). The Bible says you should keep your mouth shut when you are angry and when you are tempted to tell a lie, straighten out an idiot, speak without having all the facts, and say more than you should. Keep your mouth shut if you are tempted to malign your neighbor “A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor” (Prov 11:9). When you are tempted to pervert the truth or don’t know what you’re talking about be sure and stay silent. “The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off” (Prov 10:31). If you have a quick temper, want to say hurtful things, or are tempted to judge another believer be laconic. “Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble” (Prov 21:23).
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Content and happy. Sound ideal? Be content with the circumstances of life and have the capacity for lasting love and happiness by learning and using God’s plan. The Christian life is unique. You can have God’s happiness. True happiness. God designed you to be happy but not apart from Him. If you are trying to find that peace, security, contentment, and capacity apart from God, it won’t work. “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be full” (Heb 12:2). Once you begin to think as Christ thought, you will find happiness depends on God’s true happiness, not people or circumstances. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, the heart has not felt the amazing things God has for you” (1 Cor 2:9)
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God the Holy Spirit lives in us. We are now ambassadors, personal reps of Jesus Christ while we are alive on this earth. The Bible says, “let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus.” Emotions can enslave you if you’re not careful. Enslave you to the details of life. The objective of the Christian life is you being willing to serve your Lord and your Master, Jesus Christ. We’re to use the spiritual gift He’s given us to serve Him. Our standards to live by are found in the royal family honor code. The code is found in the Word of God—the Bible. This code is the privacy of the priesthood meaning that every Christian has privacy. No one has the right to stick their nose into someone else’s business. As you grow spiritually you will glorify Christ. You will start replicating His life, re-presenting Him to this lost and dying world. This is our challenge. This is what makes the Christian life so unique.
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You’re responsible for every decision you make. Wrong attitudes bring wrong actions. Wrong actions bring problems and self-induced misery. “He who sows wickedness reaps trouble and the rod of God’s punishment will surely come” (Prov 22:8). Man has a sinful nature. “God, have mercy on me, a sinner” (Luke 18:13). The only thing that will control the sinful nature from dominating your life is the filling of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Word of God in your soul. “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of a fool will suffer misery” (Prov 13:20). Divine viewpoint thinking brings good decisions. “Occupation with the Lord is the instruction for wisdom, and before honor must come humility” (Prov 15:33).
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God's 10 problem-solving devices: Rebound. Filling of the Holy Spirit. Faith Rest Drill. Biblical Orientation. Grace Orientation. Personal Sense of Destiny. Personal Love for God. Impersonal Love for Others. Sharing the Happiness of God. Occupation with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lives in you! This is the mystery doctrine of the church. “To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery which is Christ in you” (Col 1:27). The real you is what you think. The Bible says “As a man thinks so he is.” We are members of the body of Christ. In the family of God. We have a new purpose, a new responsibility, a new source of authority and we have a life that is planned specifically for us. A life of purpose, meaning, and definition.
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Core values are your fundamental beliefs. The guiding principles that dictate your behavior and help you understand the difference between right and wrong. Our core values come from the royal family honor code. Divine establishment is our value system. We have the protocol plan of God to guide us. A right thing must be done in a right way. Paul wrote about core values, “You are witnesses and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe” (1 Thess 2:10). Absolute truth tolerates nothing less than integrity, virtue, honor. This comes from the filling of the Holy Spirit and the perception and application of the Word of God in your soul. Spiritual growth = core values. Your volition is the decider. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus who humbled Himself and made Himself of no reputation” (Phil 2:5)
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Do you understand the God you know? You know God through His Son, Jesus Christ the Savior. You are a spiritual person. You know you’re going to heaven. But if you are going to grow spiritually, you must come to understand the God you know. “We learn about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people” (1 Cor 2:12-13). This is spirituality - growing in grace and knowledge and understanding. God gives you the Holy Spirit so you can know the grace assets you’ve been given. You are in the family of God. You have the Holy Spirit living in you. But if you have unconfessed sin in your life, you are not spiritual in your experience because you have grieved and quenched the Holy Spirit. Use problem-solving device #1 rebound (1 John 1:9).
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Live by the truth, not by lies. God loves you. His Son died for you, and by believing this you can have eternal life. This is truth. “Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life…everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice” (John 14:6). The Bible is absolute truth. Since God is truth and His Word, the Bible, is truth it is expressed to us in Jesus Christ our Savior. When Jesus Christ is rejected, the truth of God is suppressed. The world is full of lies. Satan is the father of all lies (John 8:43-44). If you want to live a life free of lies, learn the Word of God, acquire the mind of Christ because “you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32).
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The objective of Bible study is to acquire wisdom. Knowledge produces wisdom and wisdom makes an impact in the devil’s world. Satan will attack your thinking through the lures of his world. Satan can neutralize you by recapturing your thoughts, you’ll take your mind off of Christ and put your mind on people and circumstances. “Do not love the world, do not love the things of the world” (1 John 2:15). People and circumstances won’t make you happy. Your thoughts should be on Christ. “Cast down all imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and then bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). There is an angelic conflict and you’re in the middle of it. You must learn God’s plan for your life. Come to understand what God expects of you and how He has equipped you to live a fantastic life in this conflict.
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Quit thinking human viewpoint. Learn to think divine viewpoint. Use your volition to advance spiritually by taking in God’s Word on a consistent, daily basis under the authority of a well-qualified pastor. The Bible is a textbook. It’s designed to be taught to you by God the Holy Spirit through a qualified pastor. God uses His Word to tutor us, to guide us. We’ll come to think in a different way about our goals in life and have a sense of destiny. We have an amazing promise associated with thinking divine viewpoint. “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusted in Thee” (Is 26:3).
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In David's case, as a young man, he's having some stress and he's having a lot of adversity because the king is trying to kill him. How he handles it, we can compare to your life and how you're handling some of the things that you're going through today. David waited on God's justice and did not execute his own justice.
No man is too important to be replaced by God. Romans 13:1 tells us, “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except that which God has established, and the authorities that exist are established by God.”
Our freedom and the blessing of God on our nation depends on you. As goes your spiritual life so will go the history of the United States of America.
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How do you have perfect and lasting happiness? Use problem-solving device number nine: Sharing the Happiness of God. “Happy is the one who learns wisdom and obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13, 18). No person has the ability to make you happy. Happiness comes from acquiring the Mind of Christ through the 4 Cs: communicate; capture; comprehend; and comply. The living Word of God, learned and applied, will give you great happiness amid adversity. If you depend on any person or circumstance to make you happy you aren’t living the Christian life. Life for some is a frantic search for happiness. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. The world offers you pseudo-happiness. This neutral H won’t encourage or sustain you in adversity. It’s temporal, doesn’t last. God’s Happiness +H is protection against fear and arrogance in your life. “Happiness belongs to the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty” (Job 5:17). God’s plan is for you to be happy - not related to people or circumstances - but based on the content of the Word of God in your soul. “I taught you these things in order that My happiness might be in you and your happiness might be complete” (John 15:11).
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God knows your thoughts, motives, intentions, and desires. You’re not designed to run on emotions. Emotions will manipulate and control you if you allow it. Most people operate on emotions because that’s all they have. But you have a one-of-a-kind power system—the living Word of God and the filling and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Combine these two and you have unlimited potential. “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Eph 5:18). “Study to show yourself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). That’s why we need qualified pastors to teach us. Impersonal love is a professional attitude we must have as Christians. “To one who knows what to do good and does not do it, to him it is a sin” (James 4:17). It’s loving others based on who you are, not on who they are. We must love our spouse and not hold grudges. “Older women should teach younger women to love their husbands and to love their children” (Titus 2:4). “Stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). Personal love for God motivates us to love others with impersonal love.
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It’s never too late to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. Not even if it’s the dying phase of your life. “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise. He is long-suffering towards us and not willing that any should perish but all should be saved” (2 Pet 3:9). Express that faith to God in prayer, “Father, I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior.” That’s all there is to it. A simple act of faith alone in the finished work of Christ alone. Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, had a unique birth, a unique life, and a unique death. God doesn’t always have to tell you what He expects. As you get to know Him you can sense what He expects from you. “Present yourself as instruments of righteousness to God” (Rom 6:13).
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If you let your anger get away from you, you’re under emotional control of the soul and as long as you let your emotions run you, you're going to make bad decisions. Your mind is designed to think not to emote. Whenever something happens in your life that you don't understand you can react to it with anger, bitterness, and frustration or you can respond to it with faith and trust in the Lord. It's up to the justice of God to handle the issue and He will. He will expose, He will discipline and He will handle things.
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Impersonal love is a different type of love. Problem-solving device #8. It’s you loving an unlovable person. Didn’t God do that for you? God loves you based on who He is, not on who you are. “This is My mandate that you love one another, as I loved you” (John 15:12). Love is something that is learned. It’s not natural. “Let brotherly love continue” (Heb 13:1). The emphasis is on the virtue of the lover not the virtue of the receiver. Personal love is reserved for God. Impersonal love doesn’t work unless it’s motivated by personal love for God. Your two biggest enemies are arrogance and emotions.”If someone says I love God and he hates his fellow man he is a liar” (1 John 4:20). Emotions react. Forgiveness responds. Impersonal love is a great problem-solving device because it takes the monkey off your back. You don’t have to love obnoxious jerks. You just have to forgive them! “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). You love them because God loves you.
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Love is a virtue. Love for God is motivational virtue. Love for others is a functional virtue. If you love God, you will obey Him (John 14:15) and the base of this love is the filling of the Holy Spirit. “Whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him” (1 John 2:5). Love is the capacity for life. It’s like a flowing river with knowledge and wisdom being the banks keeping the water in control. If emotions take over, water overflows the banks, and love goes amok. The more you learn of the Word of God the more you realize the importance of loving God. And the importance of being occupied with Jesus Christ, problem-solving device number 10. Stability in life. “Now that you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have genuine love, love for one another developed deeply from the heart” (1 Pet 1:22).
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Love for God is the motivation of why you do what you do. It gives you the knowledge to understand and discern what to do. “I pray your love may abound more and more in knowledge and discernment” (Phil 1:9). “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind” (Matt 22:37). This is a command. Personal love for God is problem-solving device #6. You can’t love a God you don’t know. If you don’t know His Word, you don’t know Him. “For this is the love of God, that we keep His mandates; and His mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). God is not going to ask you to do something you can’t. “Though having not seen Him you love Him and though now you do not see Him yet believing in Him you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving as the end of your faith the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:8-9). Only one thing will make you happy. Christ said it this way, “happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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You can’t change anyone but yourself. You are the only one that can change you. How? By learning the unique life we have as Christians from using the unique resources God has given us. Starting with our most unique Savior. The world’s most interesting man is Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, our Redeemer, the One who walked out of the grave alive, the One Who will come and live in you if you let Him. Jesus Christ had a unique birth and a unique life. He was the God-man. God and man in one body. “I and My Father are one” (John 10:33). Our job is to replicate His life and to re-present Him to our family, friends, and those we influence.
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God didn’t say problems would go away. He said “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to man” (1 Col 10:13). You’re going to have adversity, it’s inevitable. But God has given you unique resources to prevail through the adversity. Yes, you’ll sin, you’ll fail. We all commit sins on a daily basis—mental attitude sins, sins of the tongue, and overt/outward sins. Rebound, problem-solving device number one, gives us the opportunity to recover from failure, recover from sin, and get back in the game. If we allow the Holy Spirit to control our life then we can use faith-rest to resolve issues using the promises of God. When you claim a promise you’re stabilizing your thoughts so you don’t worry. “Stand still and watch what God will do about this” (Ex 14:13). Then apply a Biblical rationale, problem-solving device number four. Problem-solving device number five is Grace Orientation. Saving grace, living grace, dying grace, and surpassing grace. When you begin to recognize what your reason for being here is, you’ve arrived at problem-solving device number six—your very own Personal Sense of Destiny. It’s sorta like a door. You leave your agenda behind and walk through the door into God’s destiny for you. Discover God’s purpose, plan, and will for you!
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The FLOT Line is about giving you truth from the Word of God without any gimmicks. Unless you understand what’s in the Bible, you’re going to have a miserable life. If you try to live your life using your own energy, not the Holy Spirit’s, using human viewpoint, you’ll wind up going down the My Way Highway and that’s a dead end. “Because they hated knowledge and did not choose to respect the Lord … the complacency of fools will destroy them” (Hosea 8:7). Knowledge of the Word of God is your protection. “For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will preserve you, and understanding will keep you” (Prov 2:10-11). The Fantastic Four: Wisdom - Knowledge - Discretion - Understanding. This is amazing. The Lord Jesus Christ lives in you. And He must shine through you. And the world must see Him in you. “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27).
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God’s ten problem-solving devices will stop the outside sources of adversity from becoming stress in your soul. As a Christian, you have an advantage. You have the indwelling of God in you!! And you have His Word, His mind to study in the Bible. Problem-solving device #4 is Biblical Orientation. That’s purposing the Word of God in your life. The Bible is a textbook, it’s not a novel. It was designed to be taught to you by men who have the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher. “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth” (2 Tim 2:15). A catchy way to remember this is LAG. Learn God’s Word. Apply God’s Word. And glorify God. The mandate to learn, study, grow is throughout the Bible. “Come to Me all who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me (Matt 11:28-29). God’s objective for us in time is to become mature Christians. You can’t grow to spiritual maturity unless you apply the Word that you learn and you can’t learn unless you study the Bible from a qualified pastor. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17).
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As a Christian, you have a totally different mindset called the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). It’s called thinking with a divine viewpoint. God has given you unique resources to live the Christian way of life. He’s given you His Word, the Bible, and He has given you the indwelling and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Use them! Problem-solving device #2 is the Filling of the Holy Spirit. Spirituality is being filled with the Holy Spirit, meaning you have no unconfessed sin in your life. Spiritual maturity is you growing up spiritually, getting content of the Word of God in your soul, and applying it in your daily life. “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). Every problem in life has a solution and the solutions are found in the Word of God, the Bible. The faith-rest drill is problem-solving device #3. Claim God’s promises - there are over 7,000 in the Bible. Trust in the Lord. Faith, the confidence in things unseen, is the real strength in the Christian life.
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You have a problem. You were born spiritually dead—spiritually separated from God. You were born with a genetically formed sin nature you got from Adam. “By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and now death is passed upon all (Rom 5:12). That’s why you need to be born again. “He who knew no sin was made sin for us so we could be made the righteousness of God through Him” (2 Cor 5:21). Sin breaks fellowship with God in time. Problem-solving device #1 is Rebound and it takes care of sin.”If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and purify us from all of our wrongdoing” (1John 1:9). Having unconfessed sin in your life, being out of fellowship with God, maybe one reason why your prayers aren’t being answered. You’re not dealing with the sin in your life. If you don’t learn how to use rebound nothing will work in the Christian life because you’ll be trying to do it in the energy of the flesh and you can’t live it that way. You must live the Christian life under the power and the filling of the Holy Spirit. Allow the Holy Spirit to control you and then the rest will fall in place. “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Eph 5:8).
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Adversity is inevitable, stress is optional. Adversity is what circumstances do to you. Stress is what you do to yourself. Learn and apply God’s 10 problem-solving devices and develop a FLOT line in your soul to resist pressures in life. The entrance to having a relationship with God is through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved and will enter in and find green pasture” (John 10:9). There’s no way you can produce your own righteousness; you can’t impress God by being good. “There are none that are righteous, no not one” (Is 64:6). If you’re not sure you’re going to heaven when you die, clear it up now, don’t wait. You can say, “Father, I believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as my Savior.” It’s a simple prayer and it’s a prayer that will change you forever.
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Our job is to glorify the Father by replicating the life of Christ and re-presenting Him.
In Romans 4:20, “Yet with respect to the promise of God, he [Abraham] did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Giving glory to God is what we have to do. In 1 Peter 4:10-11, “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to who belongs all the glory and dominion forever and ever.”
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“Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Is 40:31). To soar you need to learn principles found in the Word of God. The Christian life is spent learning. Learning how to execute God’s will, purpose, and plan. Figuring out your personal sense of destiny. You have unique supernatural resources to live a supernatural life. Strength comes from the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. But do you understand the God you know? “Let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord (Jer 9:24). Just as soaring eagles have the advantage surveying the situation from high above, you can see the big picture and have the advantage of wisdom and discernment when you apply divine viewpoint to circumstances.
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Your Heavenly Father is looking for risk-takers, not excuse-makers. Success in life breeds distractions. Once distractions start, spiritual growth stops, and excuse-making starts. What is a risktaker? “I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said, here am I, send me” (Is 6:8). A risktaker is someone willing to go out first, to ‘take point.’ Is dedicated and not afraid, “Be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid nor be dismayed, for the Lord God is with you wherever you go” (Josh 1:9). A risktaker knows what it takes to live for the Lord, is willing to risk everything for the mission, and doesn’t put a premium on security. “In You, O Lord, I have put my trust” (Ps 31:1).
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Love is the greatest motivational factor in life. The Bible says if you love God you will obey His mandates and they are not hard to keep (1 John 5:3). But when you begin to love pleasure more than you love God, you’ll get into the frantic search for happiness. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. Misery comes to lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God (2 Tim 3:4). You’ll go down the My Way Highway looking for pleasure, happiness, stimulation but you never find it. Operation Boomerang. You’ll find misery, unhappiness, emptiness, and a vicious emotional cycle. A vacuum in your soul will suck in the outside pressures causing stress in your soul. The Christian life is not designed to be lived on emotions. There is a better way. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).
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Has anger ever gotten you into trouble? Anger is a mental attitude sin. “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, and evil speaking be put away from you” (Eph 4:30-31). Whenever you get angry you surrender control of your life to the object of your anger. God may put you in unfair circumstances as a test for you to grow so you can learn to respond with forgiveness and not react with the arrogance of anger. “No testing has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able …” (1 Cor 10:13). Parents take note. If a child isn’t taught to control his anger when he is young, he will grow up to be explosive, irrational, self-centered, and hypersensitive. The Thy Way Highway is the only solution.
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“I’ve learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am” (Phil 4:11). Contentment is sharing the happiness of God and brings a capacity for life, love, and happiness. Learn God’s will and plan and you will have an amazing capacity for living. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” (Ps 37:4). God will reciprocate your love. Respect Him by studying His Word. He is waiting and wanting to overflow your cup with blessings (Ps 23:5). Let Him pour! Your spiritual life operates by means of faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Remember the rate of learning has to exceed the rate of forgetting for you to advance as a Christian and have a super capacity for life.
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By learning and using the Word of God you can actually live a life free from worry, free from bitterness and free from jealousy. It's simply called the Christian life. It’s the wonderful life that the Lord Jesus Christ lived and passed on to us, demonstrated to us in His humanity, and how we can live also. On The FLOT Line show, we teach the Lord Jesus Christ’s lifestyle. The Bible says, “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). If you’re going to replicate how He lived you have to replicate how He thought. You have to know what He intended, His motives, His initiatives, His desires—always to glorify the Father.
God never changes His mind. God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immutable, veracity. This is an illustration of how the Lord is influenced when people confess sin and people intercede for other people.
In Ecclesiastes 9:15 Solomon's wisdom teaches it only takes one. It only takes one champion to deliver a nation. In Ecclesiastes 9:15, “But there was found in that city a poor wise man and he delivered the city with his wisdom. Yet no one remembered the poor man.” The wisdom of God is unbelievable. When you have discernment and insight that springs forth from wisdom, you can be the deliverer that God is looking for.
You can be an invisible champion if you want to be. That's up to you. Let me tell you how. (1) The purpose of God's protocol plan in this day and time called the church is to manufacture champions, invisible heroes, champions in the angelic conflict. (2) These champions are defined as believers who attain spiritual maturity through the consistent function of LAG (learn, apply, and glorify).As the Lord Jesus Christ said, “Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father's word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Learn it and apply it and it glorifies God. (3) This means that you must perceive, metabolize and apply the Word of God on a consistent basis in your life because it can take you to spiritual maturity and when you get there you will be a champion and you will bring God maximum glory with your testimony, with your lifestyle, with the way you think and the way you live. That’s when you have an invisible impact.
The national impact of God's invisible champion sustains the client nation because it forms what we call a pivot—that core group of believers that holds us together. But remember, God does not use unprepared people. If you're God's champion, you’d better be prepared to answer the call.Isaiah 6:8, "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
You can be God's MVP if you have momentum, virtue, and poise. Momentum—hearing and keeping the Word of God on a consistent basis. Virtue—built on discernment and insight from the wisdom of the Word of God. Poise—the ability to think under pressure. That's what it takes to be a champion.
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Have you compromised your core values to adjust to the culture of today? God has standards for a nation. We can expect divine rebuke for not walking in God’s ways. “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Ps 33:12). “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge … Since you have turned away from the doctrine of God” (Hosea 4:6). God’s standards for a nation are four divine institutions that represent authority. They are the foundation of a country. First: Volition—the freedom to choose. Second: Marriage, the most basic organization in the human race. Third: Family—raising children with norms and standards and authority orientation (Eph 6:1-3). Fourth: Nationalism—which protects citizens from self-destruction. The further we get away from these standards of God, the nearer our end as a nation.
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Are you concerned about the future? To interpret the current history and this crisis is to be able to apply the Word of God to any situation. Be confident and comforted knowing Jesus Christ controls history. But you can only understand the context of history through learning Scripture from a qualified pastor, not drawing your own conclusions. Don’t try to make current events fit into Bible prophecy. “Take heed that no one deceives you…See that these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet” (Matt 24:4-6). Without a divine viewpoint, you’ll be suckered into the lies of the world. Take heed—God wants you to have discernment and insight through learning the Mind of Christ (Heb 1:1). This discernment will give you tremendous stability to prevail through any circumstance you’ll face.
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Wisdom is critical in your life. You only get wisdom when you learn Bible doctrine. When you learn the Word of God it becomes knowledge. Knowledge is critical because without knowledge there is no wisdom and without wisdom, there's no discernment and no insight.
We have to be in synchronization with God's plan. We can't run ahead of God. We can’t get behind God. If we’re going to make some different tracks in this country in the future it’s going to take some different thinking by people who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s going to require you mastering and understanding and perceiving the Word of God and metabolizing what you learn into wisdom. If your timing is off you’re going to have a problem. Without the Word of God it's inevitable you will have a life of bad timing.
Don't ever worry about God promoting you, just do your job. Be on track. Don't get off track. A disoriented believer is off-track and there's no way that he can change the destiny of a country or change the destiny of his own family or the destiny of his own life if he's not oriented to the plan of God. If he's trying to rush things and get ahead of the plan of God.
The greatest service you could render is to become a mature believer, to have an invisible impact in your home, in your nation, in your church, and to change the tracks of history in this country as we go forward. This has been a time for you to reorient and adjust, for you to get your feet back on the ground, for you to calm down from the hustle and bustle of life and focus on your spiritual life. Don’t go back to the way you were living. Continue to put the Lord first as you did through the crisis. Continue to seek His will and to ask Him to deliver you and show you and guide you as you did in the crisis.
I think we were in national decline spiritually when the coronavirus hit and it's been an opportunity to get back on the tracks of righteousness, to get back in the right direction. But spirituality must manifest itself in a nation. It has to be manifested nationally. You're going to run into problems with this because there's a real strong foothold of demonism in this country. There's a real market for everything that is evil turned into good and everything good has now been turned into evil. This is one of the ways that Satan loves to divide and conquer. To get you to break ranks, to step aside or move ahead or fall behind, not stand shoulder to shoulder with other believers.
When you hear false teaching you do not need to bend or blend, just run away, get away from it. We have declined nationally. Our tracks are going in the wrong direction. We are bending the rules and blending in with the false teachers.
God wants you to live your life in such a way that you set the tracks of righteousness down in the future, that your life is a testimony to God's grace, and to your submission to your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God.
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Information is of little use unless it is understood and applied. Spiritual IQ, the content of the Word of God in your soul, is what matters. God knows what we’re thinking. He knows our thoughts, motives and desires. Thinking with the mind of Christ gives us peace of mind. “The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever” (Is 26:3-4). However, our nation can go from great blessing to great historical disaster if we reject the knowledge of God (Hosea 4) and if we focus on the gifts and not the Giver. “Give attention to My Words, incline your ear to My thoughts. Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body” (Prov 4:20-22).
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If you're a believer, your job is to handle matters wisely. In Proverbs 16:20, “He that handles a matter wisely shall find good and whosoever trusts in the Lord will be happy.” God gave you a volition and every decision you make, every critical decision you make, you are responsible for those decisions.
What is your anchor point in your life? Is it human viewpoint or is it divine viewpoint? All decisions that we make in life must be governed by the Scriptures. Human viewpoint, human thinking is not Bible doctrine. This is why the Bible tells us we have to renovate the way we think, in Romans 12:3, “stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His word.” That's what the Father wants for you—a different way of thinking, that you renovate your thinking, that you don't think as the world thinks.
“Happiness belongs to those people who hear My Father's Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Hearing it is not keeping it but "hearing and keeping" produces wisdom. Once you have wisdom in your heart that comes from knowledge of Bible doctrine, then you have discretion and the Bible says discretion will preserve you and then you have understanding and understanding will keep you. This is what I call spiritual x-ray vision: the invisible ministry of the Holy Spirit taking the power of the living Word of God that begins to be wisdom in your soul and the Holy Spirit through the Word of God gives you phenomenal discernment and insight through the eyes of Scripture.
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Grace is God providing all of our needs. Grace is neither earned nor deserved. The enemy of grace is legalism, spirituality by works. God’s unique grace provisions start with saving grace (Eph 2:8-9). Living grace “grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18) is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning God’s Word on a consistent basis. God provides what we need to live on a day by day basis through logistical grace (Matt 6). We are to treat others with grace (Eph 4:30-31). Dying grace (Job 5:19-27) is the confidence of knowing God will not call us home too early and the transfer from time to eternity will be marvelous. Then the experience of surpassing grace!
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Life is a journey, God’s Word is the guide. The Bible is the light that makes the right path clear. It is the only source of absolute truth. Want answers? Want clarity in life? God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor 14:33). Any teaching of the Word of God that causes confusion is usually wrong and that’s why it is so important to study under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor. “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15).
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It’s time to RALLY to recover our strength, spiritually and as a nation.
R = Reflection. There are two ways we can learn how to live the life God gave us: through the school of hard knocks or through the Lord’s grace provisions. “When I leave, I will send the Holy Spirit and He will be your tutor, your mentor; He will teach you.” (John 14:16,26).
A = Affection. Get back to divine appreciation of Who and what God is.
L = Leave the world behind and return to your first love, your love for God the Father.
L = Learn and apply the Word in your circumstances and you will glorify God.
Y = Yield yourself to God’s plan. Have a personal sense of destiny. “In God I put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Ps 56:11).
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Suffering gives God an opportunity to bless you. It puts muscle in your spiritual life. The suffering God doesn’t remove, He intends for you to bear. Suffering for blessing causes you to depend on the Lord and His divine provisions and promises and accelerates your advance to spiritual maturity. “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9). We often suffer because of our own bad decisions. We mismanage our relationships, our health, our finances causing self-induced misery. We bring it on ourselves. How do we get back on track? Confess our sins (1 John 1:9) and return to learning and applying the Word of God, developing a FLOT line in our soul. Volitional responsibility.
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God will never give you suffering you can’t handle. “No testing has overtaken you that is not common in the world; God will provide” (1 Cor 10:13). You have an advantage, the unique assets of the power of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the living Word of God. Use these when you face suffering in life. Suffering can be for blessing or it can be discipline. The Lord may use suffering to get your attention. To encourage you to get off the My Way Highway and get back on the Thy Way Highway. “My son pay attention to my wisdom; lend your ear to my understanding” (Prov 5:1). If we ignore God’s instruction, the justice of God will administer warning discipline, intense discipline, and possibly dying discipline. “Harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way, and he who hates correction will die” (Prov 15:10).
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It just runs out—quicker than you think. So make the most of it! Live each day in the light of eternity. “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring” (Prov 27:1). Focus on these traits to make better use of your time: punctuality; patience; priority; prudence; perspective; and not get into procrastination. Remember you are responsible for your spiritual life and every decision you make must be guided by divine viewpoint thinking which is the mind of Christ. “Teach us to number our days correctly that we may gain wisdom and understanding” (Ps 90:12).
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Procrastination is the Christian’s downfall. Drifting off course, procrastinating in regards to Bible study, leads to a loss of confidence in yourself and in God’s plan for your life. By putting off your advance to spiritual maturity, the rate of forgetting will exceed the rate of learning and you’ll be vulnerable to human viewpoint thinking. “How blessed is the man whose delight is in the doctrine of the Lord and His Word…He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers” (Ps 1:1-3)
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Prudence is good judgment and helps us avoid certain dangers. God is always faithful to us. “Great is Your faithfulness” (Lam 3:20). Your advance spiritually depends on your perspective. Self-centeredness destroys capacity for life and happiness. “For this is the love of God that we keep His mandates and His mandates are not a burden” (1 John 5:3). Personal love for God motivates us to use the time we have left wisely.
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Punctuality is appreciated by others. Patience is required to fulfill God’s plan. Being impetuous wastes time. “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; fret not because of those who prosper in evil ways” (Ps 37:7). You’ll fail to see the solution and get discouraged if you focus on the problem. Fulfilling the destiny God designed for you requires the right priority. Learning God’s Word has to be #1 priority. People emphasis must never take priority over God emphasis. “Take My yoke and learn from Me. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matt 11:29-30).
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Where does time go? Time doesn’t shout, it just runs out, quicker than you think. We have traits in our life related to time: punctuality; patience; priority; prudence; perspective; and not get into procrastination. God only gives you so much time. Redeem your time wisely! Examine yourself and make adjustments where needed. “Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise; redeeming the time because the days are evil. Do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Eph 5:15-18).
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We are all one decision away from destroying our lives. Make decisions based on what you think, not what you feel. If you don’t control your emotions, they will control you. Do you trust the news or trust God? Human viewpoint manipulates our thinking. Divine viewpoint gives us objectivity. “The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace because he trusts in You” (Is 26:3). Developing a FLOT line in your soul protects against emotions taking control.
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Now is a critical time for you to orient and adjust to God’s plan.
Without faith, it's impossible to please God. The one thing that God demands from you is faith.
Do you have an insatiable desire to investigate the plan of God for your life? Are you hungry for that? The Bible says in Proverbs when knowledge becomes pleasant to your soul. A lot of people don't seek out knowledge, they're not interested in knowledge of the Word of God. It's either too threatening or too boring or they just don't believe it.
How can I find God? Well, let me give you one way you can do it. Psalm 19:1-3, “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day unto day they utter speech, and night unto night they show knowledge. There is no speech and no language anywhere where their voice has not been heard.” All you have to do is look up and realize there's a God. The heavens tell the story, the sun in the day time the moon at night, the universe, the stars, the planets - they didn't just happen to appear. They were placed there by a magnificent designer. God Himself placed them there.
If you are His child by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, that means if you have believed and received Christ as your Savior, what do you have to fear? Not one thing.
Each of us has a divine promise of security and the provision of peace in the midst of frightening circumstances.
Where’s your faith? You must trust God—you must know He's your heavenly Father and He loves you—He's not going to hang you out to dry.
There is an antidote for sin and death. That antidote is faith alone in Christ alone. God's textbook for you is the Bible. Why was the Bible written? Proverbs 1:2 says so you can learn wisdom and moral instructions and get some wise counsel.
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Easter weekend we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins” (1 Cor 15:17). As Christians, this is what we take our confidence in, “After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also” (John 14:19). Not only am I going to speak about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but I’m going to talk about your resurrection, what will happen for you.
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Prayer is important. Are your prayers getting through to the throne room of God? The Bible teaches us that prayer is a privilege of those who have become the children of God (John 1:12) those who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. “My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray and see My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). If we are to survive this cataclysmic time in our history, we must appeal to God and do it effectively.
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The devil will use our fear to make us weak.
Wherever you are, wherever I am, we must be the light for our family and our friends. We must have a peaceful presence to calm their fears. Is it possible for us to have this? Yes. Can I have peace in a worldwide panic? Yes, absolutely. The storm about you will rage and the battle will continue. What kind of battle? The battle to control your thinking. The battle to get you to live by your emotions and not think clearly. This is how the devil defeats you.
In Matthew 5:14a, “You are the light of the world.” This is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking to His disciples as He gave the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-14. Our Lord stated that we should not cover our light but rather set it on a lampstand. “Let your light so shine among men that they may see your divine good production, and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).
These are promises you should know: “What time I am afraid, I will trust in Him” (Psalm 56:3). “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper…” (Isaiah 54:17a).
Being occupied with the anointed Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is an amazing problem-solving device because you know He loves you and you reciprocate that love by loving Him back and it’s demonstrated by your obedience and your faith.
A relationship with Jesus Christ does not remove all the storms in your life but He gives you His assurance that He will ride out the storm in the boat with you. Accepting Christ as your Savior is you inviting Him to get into your boat.
When you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you can be confident He will never leave you, He will never forsake you in any storm in life you may ever face.
Psalm 119:130a, “The entrance of Your Word gives light…”
The whole reason for you to have that FLOT line in your soul and have that relaxed mental attitude is to be attractive, to be a light, to be a port in the storm because there are people in this nation that need what you have—you must talk about it.
Your faith-rest is demonstrating your confidence in God's plan and your confidence in God's provisions.
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If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, your focus must be on Him, not on the pandemic. Your focus must be on His promises, not on the news and the constant never-ending scare tactics perpetrated by the devil himself.
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The greatest news that I could ever tell you is that God loves you. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). That's great news. Holy God loves you in spite of what you may have done, in spite of what you may be facing. God loves you. He loves all members of the human race. You and me included. That's great news and you can love Him back.
If you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you never have to fear death.
Come to knowledge and it gives you great peace and great confidence in God's plan. We must all understand the spiritual life if we ever hope to glorify God. If we don't prepare then we don't have any recognition of what's going on and we don't have any confidence and trust in God.
Worry is you assuming an unassigned responsibility. It is not your responsibility to worry about your life, to worry about your kids, to worry about this. The Lord handles that. It’s His responsibility to protect you if you are His child.
There's only one thing to be inoculated with and that is “believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved” (Acts 16:31). That's the antidote to the virus of sin and death. It's yours if you want it.
Put your trust in the Lord and don't worry about what man can do to you. Psalm 56:11, “In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Regardless of what man can create, nobody is going anywhere until the Lord says it's time. In 1 Peter 5:7, “Casting all your anxieties on Him, for He cares for you.” This means your loving Father is watching over you.
Do you have the faith to trust Him? Can you trust God with your life, with the life of your children, with your finances?
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Know God and His plan for your life by studying the Bible under the teaching of a qualified pastor. Develop SIQ, spiritual IQ, divine viewpoint thinking from the Word of God. “Be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and understanding (SIQ)” (Col 1:19). God’s Word will guide you.”Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” (Psalm 119:105).
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The strength we need to face adversity comes from God’s grace. Keep our eyes on Christ, not on self. “My grace is sufficient for you because My strength is made perfect in your weakness…I am content with distresses…for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:9-10). Grace is the means God conveys His power to us to handle adversity.
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Replace fear, anxiety, depression with contentment. How? With the Lord’s power, you can be calm and clear-minded in adversity. “I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” (Phil 4:11-13). The Christian way of life is a relationship with God and renovated thinking, not emotions. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
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Spiritual IQ is totally different from human IQ. Spiritual IQ is the ability to have the invisible ministry of God the Holy Spirit take the power of the living Word of God in your life and place it into your soul where it becomes wisdom. From there, wisdom gives you tremendous phenomenal discernment and insight through the eyes of the Scripture. We call it spiritual X-ray vision. By having wisdom, discernment and insight you can save yourself a lot of trouble and a lot of mistakes.
Adversity is inevitable and stress is optional. Stress is what you do to yourself. Adversity is what circumstances do to you. When we have a national emergency as we have in this country today there are a lot of people stressed out, there are a lot of people afraid and there are a lot of people that don't have peace in their life. This doesn't mean that we don't all face perilous times - it means some people face it with a different attitude, a more relaxed mental attitude and that's the mind of Christ. That's the relaxed mental attitude that goes with what the Lord Jesus Christ said, “…My joy I give unto you…” (John 15:11b). Even in the fiercest battle of life, we can have joy and a relaxed mental attitude by leaning on the FLOT line in our soul.
Because in times like we face today, in crisis living we have today, there is strength to be found in the Scripture, there’s a comfort to be found in the Scripture, there’s confidence in the Scripture - if you believe it and if you use it.
The greatest virtue you could have is to love God because the greatest virtue He showed was loving you. Then there is sharing the happiness of God. A wonderful thing to understand. Christ said, “…My joy I give to you…” (John 15:11b). This is the ability to be happy regardless of the circumstances because you have something called contentment.
Our peace with God is a direct result of accepting Christ, a direct result of receiving Him as our Savior, because since He paid for our sin and God redeemed us by His mercy and saved us and forgave us then we have peace with God.
This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid.” Having fear is the expression of anxiety, not peace.
Your Father who loves you, the same way a human dad loves his children, will guard you even in the darkest moments of life. Your Father is watching over you right now. You might not feel it, you might not know it but He's there. Do you have the faith to trust Him?
Afflictions are an opportunity to exercise your faith. It’s an opportunity to demonstrate your confidence in God's plan for your life.
“But whoever listens to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:33)
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Faith defeats fear and replaces it with peace in your life. Believe in Jesus Christ and have eternal security—victory over this world. Take God’s promise “My peace I give unto you. Do not be afraid.” (John 14:27). Faith is your invisible muscle, your strength in adversity, and is based on the content of the Word of God stored in your soul.
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Be calm, be in control by learning and using the divine resources God provides. One of these terrific resources is eternal security. Know with confidence where you will spend eternity. No need to be afraid of living in a crisis, facing financial hardship, getting sick, dying. God will take care of you! “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding… He will direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5). Faith is a problem-solving device.
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I want to share some words with you this morning and hopefully, these words will encourage you. Here’s where we'll start, in Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.” If you can understand that verse, this is called faith-rest. The faith-rest drill is Problem-Solving Device #3 in the FLOT line of a believer’s soul. Learning how to stand on the promises of God. This is a promise that you can claim as a believer in Jesus Christ. Fear is the Hebrew word yare and it means do not be afraid. It has a negative with it, “fear not,” don't be afraid. Don't be afraid because God said, “I am with you.” This is a wonderful promise. You are never alone. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you are never alone. The Lord Jesus Christ told the disciples in John 16:32 that they were going to be scattered, and He said “and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.” Just as God the Father was with Jesus Christ in those final hours before He went to the cross and was crucified and died for the sins of the world, He's with you and with me where I'm sitting today and with you wherever you may be on this Sunday morning. Don't be dismayed. The verse says “Fear not, I am with you; do not be dismayed,” which means distressed. Don’t have stress in your life. There is no reason to have stress in your life. Stress in your life is indicated by worry, the stress in your life is indicated by fear—two things in mental attitude sins. You can't afford to let mental attitude sins control your thinking because, if you do, then you will get under the emotional revolt of the soul. If your emotions are controlling you, you are not thinking. You have to disassociate from emotions and, as the Bible says, “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). You have to learn to think divine viewpoint and this is how you do it: focusing on the fact that God is with you, do not be stressed out.
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God does discipline us. The Bible says those whom He loves, He disciplines. Revelation 3:19, “Those whom I love, I reprove [or correct] and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent.”
There are two ways that God can teach us. He can teach us from instruction without pain or He can teach us from instruction with pain. It depends on how stubborn you are, how arrogant you are, but God is going to discipline those that He loves.
In Hebrews 12:5, “and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, ‘My sons, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him.” Hebrews 12:6, “For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines…”
It’s not a question of whether He loves you or not. If you ever get under divine discipline it's going to hurt. It is designed to correct you, to reprove you. Why? So you don't self-destruct. You have the amazing ability to destroy yourself.
Ritual without reality is absolutely meaningless. You can have all the rituals you want, but if you don't have any reality to it, it’s not doing you any good. Sometimes taking communion is ritual without reality.
We are never to take communion with known sin in our life—never. We’re never to take communion out of fellowship. We’re never to take communion when we're quenching and grieving the Holy Spirit. We only take communion when we are in fellowship. If you take communion with known sin in your life you're going to get disciplined as a result. If you keep doing it, the discipline could be severe.
If you take communion, it’s a right thing but you can do it in the wrong way. Taking communion out of fellowship is a right thing being done in a wrong way.
That piece of bread represents virgin birth, celebrityship, impeccability, King of kings, and hypostatic union.
What does the cup represent? It represents the death of Christ on the cross. His spiritual death on the cross, not his physical death. You take that cup, you thank God for the imputation of our sins being imputed to Him and for the imputation of His righteousness being imputed to us.
When we receive Christ as our Savior then His righteousness is imputed to us and we are redeemed from the slave market of sin. Jesus Christ buys us out of the slave market of sin. That cup representing His spiritual death on the cross is indicative of what He paid to buy you out of the slave market of sin. He paid for your sin and now you're justified.
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How the love of God administers discipline to us:
“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent.” (Revelation 3:19) Repent basically means to change your mind, change the way you think. Your spiritual life is lived in your soul. In your soul is your mentality.
“Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). That's dealing with how you think. The Bible also says, “stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of sanity, as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Romans 12:3). When we say repent it means to change the way you think. “Those that I love, I reprove [that’s the discipline that God puts into our life] and I discipline, therefore, be zealous [do this quickly] and change what you're thinking.” In Psalm 7:9b, “… for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds (of each one of us).”
There's nothing you can hide from God. He can see what's in your mind. He can see what’s in your heart.
Every bit of punishment, every bit of discipline that comes to us as believers from the Supreme Court of heaven is always based on God's personal love for us. He loves you. He's not doing this to hurt you. He's doing this to deliver you, to get you to respond and recover.
“If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us.” (1 John 1:9).
The divine punishment from the integrity of God is administered with exactly the same divine love as is His divine blessing. God loves you. He will discipline you to correct you, to deliver you, to get you to see what's going on in your life.
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In God's wonderful plan your human IQ can be supplemented by learning God's Word and developing a spiritual IQ. There's a huge difference between human IQ and spiritual IQ. How do you develop a spiritual IQ? Well, it starts with the ten problem-solving devices.
Problem-solving device number one is the rebound technique or how to confess your sin and get back in fellowship once you've broken fellowship with God. Once you quench the Holy Spirit and grieve the Holy Spirit by an act of disobedience if you go to the Father in 1 John 1:9 as the Bible says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us and even to purify us from all of our wrongdoing.”
We have a battle. The battle is “the flesh wars against the Spirit, the Spirit wars against the flesh; they are contrary one to the other so that you cannot do the things you'd like to do” (Galatians 5:17). So when you allow the Holy Spirit to control your sin nature, that’s what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:18, “be filled with the Spirit.” You are not letting your sin nature control your life if you're filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” God loves us. This love is based on His character, not ours.
Following Christ in the devil's world will absolutely entail some sort of suffering and hardship. Why? Because we are in a spiritual war. There is a spiritual war going on. Denying self is the first requirement for all believers. We cannot be selfish. That’s the first requirement, pick up your cross, and follow Me. Your life is not about you. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, your life is about Him. Denying self is the first requirement of the believer who wants to fulfill the plan of God. This is an act of sacrificial love. It's the same exact sacrifice that Christ Himself made. He sacrificed His life because He loved His Father and He did exactly what His Father asked Him to do.
Selfishness is not an act of sacrificial love. Sacrificial love is an act of staying filled with God's Holy Spirit (problem-solving device #2) and by moment-by-moment obeying God's will for your life, not your own will—living God's will, not your will.
That love of Jesus Christ reflected through us, that sacrificial love, that servant love is what motivates us to continue following Him. God loved us. We love Him. Christ paid for our sins. We reflect that appreciation and that joy in our lives and we love others, as Paul said, and it is a mandate that we must do that.
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God expects us to have patience towards people, just as He, in love, is patient with you. When you are patient with people you are reflecting God's love through you. ,
We exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble, support the weak, and be patient toward all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
God doesn't want anyone to go to hell. That's not what the Lake of Fire was prepared for. That's why His Son came into the world to die for us, because He loves us and He's long-suffering towards us. This is characteristic of God's unfailing love for the lost. He never designed the Lake of Fire for you or for anyone on this earth, and He is long-suffering, not wanting any to perish. But I will tell you this, God's patience has its limits. His grace and compassion have limits.
Here's a principle I want you to remember: our longsuffering is us being comforted by the love of God; our patience is the manifestation of His love flowing through us—we must do that. (1) Patience, the faith-rest drill, plus occupation with Christ equals confidence in our life, which means we avoid emotional sins and frustration about failures and trials and tribulations. (2) Patience maintains confidence in God's perfect timing. (3) Your faith will be tested and through it your patience will increase. That’s God’s design for you, to develop confidence and trust in Him. (4) Patience is divine good production; it’s rewardable at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
God loves you. God has the best plan for you. He doesn't intend to hurt you or harm you. He wants you to represent Him to the world. That's why you are still here. Think about this. Think about every time you walk out of your door, you are reflecting the love of God. Every time you get in your car and drive to the store or go down the interstate you are reflecting the love of God. Don't forget it. God loves you, and you must love in return. Not only God, reciprocating His love to you but loving others as well. That's what our Lord Jesus Christ did and that's what He mandates you to do as well.
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I don't care what you've done in the past, how horrific or how bad it may have been, there is forgiveness when you come to Jesus Christ, Who was judged in your place and receive Him as your Savior—your sins are forgiven.
Forgiveness is a royal pardon from the Lord Himself. It's divine impersonal love being expressed to you and to me. That's what God does when He forgives us. When we receive Christ, He expresses His divine impersonal love on the cross and now we become members of the royal family of God.
Forgiveness is a requirement for members of the royal family of God. In other words, we are required to forgive also.
So even though we have forgiveness for our pre-salvation sins through faith alone in Christ alone, we still need that post-salvation forgiveness through rebound (1 John 1:9).
God judged our sins on the cross, therefore the sins we commit today already went to court over 1900 years ago. Thus, any post-salvation sin that you and I may do tomorrow or the next day has to be dealt with through a non-meritorious function and that's the rebound technique. This is where we go to God and admit our sins.
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God paid for our sin with His own Son's life. That first demonstration of His love for us is grace. That's the first demonstration. God's grace to you and to me is an indication of His love for us.
1) In order for the manifestation of God's purposes of salvation, grace must go before mercy. Grace has to come first for God's purposes. Grace before mercy.
2) Peace is the result of grace and mercy.
3) Peace with God is the reconciliation that we have to Him. We are brought nearer to Him through Christ.
4) The act of Christ on the cross, restored our relationship with God, and that's why Romans 5:1 says, “Therefore being justified by faith, we now have peace with God through our Lord [by means of, because of] our Lord Jesus Christ.” Grace, mercy, and peace. That's the demonstration of God's love for you.
Titus 3:5 “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but [here it is, listen carefully] according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, which He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
This is mercy granted to you because of grace. That's how much God loves us. If you can capture that thought, if you can fathom that idea, God loves you so much that He gave His only begotten Son. He was motivated by grace and mercy and you have the peace that comes with it.
The only way you can have a relationship with God is to have perfect equal righteousness. And the only way you can have perfect equal righteousness is through Jesus Christ who gave Himself as a ransom for our sin. He took our sin and gives us His righteousness. That's the expression of God's love for you in mercy and justice. Amazing, the peace you can have. You can go through life knowing that God loves you. You can go through life knowing you have no fear of death.
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God loves you. God truly does love you—that’s the greatest truth ever told. He demonstrates that with His compassion, with His patience, with His forgiveness, with His concern, and with His protection every moment of every day. Nothing can separate you from the love of God.
If you have received Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are a son or daughter of God by faith alone in Christ alone. That's the love God poured out on you. He made it available for you to be brought into His royal family.
There are two different loves: the love of God for you and your love for Him. The love of God - our security and our comfort. Our love for God —that is the greatest virtue that you could ever possess.
The love of God never changes toward us. He's immutable or unchangeable, and it doesn't change.
There is no such thing as the diminishing of God's love because of our failure. He loves you just as much in your failures as He does in your successes. You may walk away from God—He will love you from behind.
God’s love for us will never and does never change demonstrated by the cross.
God's love maintains the same intensity. We cannot do anything to change God's love for us.
He may approve of what you are doing, He may disapprove of what you are doing but His love never changes. It's not a matter of—does He love you or not love you; it’s a matter of—does He approve of what you are doing or does He disapprove of what you are doing.
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God speaks to you through His Word. When you learn it, the Word of God will clarify your thinking, and give you absolute direction in your life so that you know what it is God wants you to do. Take your time and let the Word of God counsel you. You don't have to be in a hurry. If you do not stop and determine God's directive will for your life, then you are probably going to step out of His plan.
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There are critical times you need to keep your mouth shut so that you stay out of trouble and don't get under discipline from God.
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Arrogance is a leading, emotional number one sin. An arrogant individual is his own worst enemy. As I said, he doesn't actually have a realistic image of himself.
You cannot see arrogance. It's invisible. It's an attitude of the soul. But it is actually a complete complex of sins, not just one sin, many sins.
The Bible clearly says, “Cursed is the man that trusts in man” (Jeremiah 17:5).
The worst decision you could ever make is to think you are smarter than God and reject anything the Bible has to say.
Proverbs 14:9 says, “Fools make a mockery of sin, but among the righteous there is favor.” In Lamentations 3:25, “The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul that seeks Him.”
“Don't forget my teaching, let your heart keep my mandates [that's positive volition] and they will provide length of years to your life and peace they will add to you.”
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