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2 Kings 22:1-2; 11-20Process of Renewal: Holy discontentment + preparation + contending + holy patterns + remnant = a region renewed in the Spirit of God. How to Walk in a Holy Discontentment: 1 - The action of hearing the words of God must produce a heart of changing my behavior to reflect the revelation I receive from His Word. All it takes for idols and high places to remain in a heart indifferent to the effects of duplicity. What you behold you become, and if you're not happy with what you're becoming, be mindful of things you might be worshipping that you're not aware you may be kneeling before. Better is one day with Him than a thousand elsewhere is a real time litmus test. 2 - Holy discontentment often starts when my heart is tender to the spirit of God and I become humbled by and to the truth of His Word. We worship in Spirit and in truth; not one at the expense of the other. Holiness is the pursuit of the Spirit and presence of God while also developing a depth of wisdom and awareness with the truth of God's Word. When His Spirit and Word confront the high places and altars of a life contrary to Lordship, we must respond in full surrender and full submission. 3 - Holy discontentment is when His Spirit fills me and constantly highlights areas of idol worship and high places that we may never know actually exist. A true encounter with Jesus leads to a lifestyle of constant awareness of anything not of Him, and a discontentment of anything that I would view above my relationship and intimacy with His Spirit and truth. Removing idols is just His Spirit removing any obstacle or barrier of a life intimate and proximity to Him... righteousness and holiness are not the end goal.... awareness of an intimate God all around you, at all times... is.

Jude 1:20-25Cross References for further study: On divisions & building yourselves up: Romans 16:17-20 Hebrews 10:24-252 Peter 1:3-11Ephesians 2:20On having mercy on others: 2 Cor 5:11; 20 -Zechariah 3On Him who is able: Daniel 3 (16-18 specifically) Isaiah 43:2Philippians 2:13Hebrews 10:14

John 14:27 Isaiah 42:16 Matthew 16:19Matthew 5:17Hebrews 12:24Isaiah 45 :2-3Lord, I Wanna SeeI Wanna Be UnshakeableI Wanna Receive the Treasures Hidden in Darkness

Jude 1:10-16Genesis 4; 1-83 tests that reveal roots, fruits, and who not to become in your pursuit of Jesus.1- The Cain test; ‘They have taken the way of Cain’... Oftentimes it is our withholding from God that hinders our becoming in God. Man has had covetous and competitive desire since Genesis. If not submitted, and not fully released, it can become an angry bitterness at what others have that you do not, that becomes a lifestyle of cutting corners and controlling everything in order to gain what you think will elevate and bring approval from others in your life. Being surrendered, submitted and giving God my ABSOLUTE best, is what elevated Abel above Cain. Being not fully surrendered, not submitted, and not giving God my best, was the place the concept of murder in mankind originated and bore sin from. 2- The Balaam Test; ‘They have rushed for profit into Balaam's error’.. Is the only reason I am pursuing God for a fulfillment of my needs and desires? Or is my devotion to God a deeper surrender and submission that he is the only who knows my needs and desires and in his hands and spirit, is the place my life flourishes most. So often we come to God when we are out of options, seeking a God that would restore my fortunes. We must be sensitive and discerning of a life in God in which he is not there to build my brand and bank account, but to build a heart and life so rooted in him it bears a fruit that remains long after we are gone. He’s not a genie in a bottle, he's a king on the cross, and your dreams placed in the hands of the one who created them, are better than any life you could ever build on your own. 3- The Korah Test; ‘They have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion’.. Your devotion to God is not just found in a sanctified and righteously rhythmic walk. It is also revealed in the levels of self awareness and personal perception of what we need to eliminate in our individual circumstance that steals from the growth God has for my life. The flesh is in constant rebellion to the spirit, and this is most evident in the place of pride, authority, and submission that can be masked even spiritually; to place him on the throne of our hearts means we have to first remove ourselves from that place. Korah had every right as a levite to be a leader, but his character was rooted in jealousy, ambition, and rebellion that ultimately led to his death. We must keep our own jealousy and ambition submitted to God, or it will swallow up the work of the spirit in our lives.

Jude 1:1-10 NIV Three places where the grace of God shows its true deliverance power, and the same three areas the enemy wants to destroy in before you can experience freedom: Place number 1: Your faith must be a disciple of renewal within the whole of your mind/heart/spirit... we must have a faith that practices the hard stuff, even the things I don't want to believe. Faith that only majors on passion points, but never engages pain points, will miss the power that comes from the intersection of Jesus and His Spirit in the deepest part of our souls. My faith must be willing to wrestle in the dark of doubt and weakness, just as much as it grasps for the light and resurrection. My heart must come into alignment, spirit into alignment, mind into alignment, and if one is off... the alignment is off. Place number 2: A faith that believes as I am a walking, breathing, and functional temple of the Holy Spirit... what I do with my life everyday is building, strengthening, and mirroring the temple of God. The whole of you must be devoted to the whole of Him. My diet of eating and drinking, the things I allow to comfort me, the sexual desires I must learn to submit over my feelings, the judge-mentalness of people that I won't give space to that I know is wrong, the numbing agents I permit to allow me not to feel... all parts of me must seek sanctification in every area... for in the sanctification there comes sainthood. Place number 3: We must have a faith that willingly and humbly submits to the authority of Scripture, the authority of the leadership of the body, and the authority of corrective and accountable relationships.... a faith that will not submit to anyone (person) or anything (Scripture)... a faith that at some point will become shipwrecked upon the pride of oneself, you find protection, when you find submission.

Matt. 6:14-15Matt 18:21-22Rom. 12:17-19Prov. 28:13Heb. 12:13-14Definitions: Original Definition: “to give away/to grant”APA: "Willfully setting aside feelings of resentment toward an individual who has committed a wrong, been unfair or hurtful, or otherwise harmed one in some way"Forgiveness Institute: "You let go of resentment and the urge to seek revenge."The Practicals: 1. Uncovering 2. Decision 3. Work4. Outcome Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling It is meant for my benefit and for the benefit of those around me I need to wrestle with the actions, emotions, all while choosing to forgive Our dependence on Jesus for forgiveness

Emmanuel: Exodus‬ ‭16‬:‭18‬ ‭NLT‬‬What does it look like for manna to rain down and you lack nothing, and what would it look like to include someone else in that image?Megan: Jeremiah 29 10-14 NLTJose: James 1:5-8 (NIV)Psalm 139:7-12 (NIV)Amy: Zechariah 4: 6Psalm 143:10-12 Romans 12:11 Peter 2:9Colossians 1:16Daniel 2:22

I Cor, 1:1-25.Daniel 1: 1-51. Power Cord - different cords for different appliances. But all are meant to provide power/electric power from a source to a specific item.2. What's in a Name. How may I know your name? Have you ever searched out the meaning of your name. And I ask who made the decision that your name means such and such.The name Daniel, of Hebrew origin, means "God is my judge". It is derived from the Hebrew words "dan" (meaning judge) and "el" (meaning God). The name gained prominence through the biblical figure Daniel, known for his wisdom and faith. The name Hananiah, of Hebrew origin, means "Yahweh is gracious" or "God has favored"The name Mishael (מִישָׁאֵל) is of Hebrew origin and generally means "who is what God is" or "who is like God?The name Azariah, of Hebrew origin, generally means "helped by God" or "Yahweh has helped"Captured by the Babylonians King Nebuchadnezzar had his servant teach them the Babylonians language and gave them a new name.Belshazzar- the name Belteshazzar, given to Daniel by the Babylonian prince of the eunuchs, means "Protect the life of the king" or "Bel's prince".the name Shadrach, originally Hananiah, is of Babylonian origin and is interpreted to mean "command of Aku," the moon god.the Babylonian name Meshach is thought to be related to the Babylonian god Aku of after SHAK a Venus god in Babylon.The name Abednego, likely means "servant of Nabu" or "servant of Nebo". Nabu (or Nebo) was the Babylonian god of wisdom and writing.

1 Corinthians 2:2Romans 5:17-21Leviticus 14:1-7

Genesis 3:1-13The Test of Delight, Desire, and Provision 1 - The development and sanctification of delight in God is when your spirit can discern and go deeper than the surface layer of pleasure, and has the ability to bypass our flesh's hardwiring for instant gratification. Desire that disobeys is just desire we have allowed to rewire our appetites, impulses, and brain chemistry. It's hard to be a disciple when you're always searching for dopamine. Delaying cheap desire allows you to enter true fulfillment. Our souls don't want instant, they want real. If you do not rewire desire, desire will rewire you. 2 - For every action of fallen desire, there is a reaction to resurrect it through Jesus' life and example. If impulsive food and coping appetites is your desire, fasting becomes your weapon of submission. If coveting, spending, purchasing, and providing the stressor or easy dopamine fix... generosity becomes the rewiring and renewing element of the spirit. If my desire is for sex, a mate or a relationship that gives me meaning... I must first find relational intimacy in God, or I will struggle to find that in another. Your manna becomes moldy the second God becomes a vehicle of accomplishing your desire, and not a relationship of devotion. 3 - Rhythm can and will restore any and all desire if you will guard, tend, and keep it. If you do not live rhythmically close to Jesus, you will always struggle to see Him as the fulfiller of your desire, the one you delight in and who delights in you, and your provider and supplier. Your weakness in His hand of a proximate life, can become strength in due time. You cannot have New Testament promises with Old Testament behaviors. We redeem what is fallen, we don't identify as fallen. How we do this is learning, leaning, and living His Word, Spirit, and Presence through prioritized relationship. Rhythms restore, disciplines disciple, and wholeness only comes from oneness, with Jesus.

Mark 2:14-17Matthew 9:9-13Luke 5:27-32Walking in Activated Advocation: 1 - Advocacy is when we desire to recognize purpose beneath the surface of every person made in the image of God. There is no stereotype, skin color, past-situation, socio-economic class, sin, or mistake that invalidates someone's right to belong. We believe through our written Word of God that the pronouncement of faith and surrendered life brings you into alignment within the family of God. Advocacy is my maturity into activated faith that bridges the gap between heaven to remind people we are all sons and daughters of God (Yahweh). We build bridges, we don't burn them. We will not be a church that offers sacrifice, but does not offer mercy, or we will need a new pastor. 2 - The foundation of advocacy is the foundation of the character of the throne of God; righteousness and justice. Righteousness is the inward challenge of surrendered life, justice is the outward fruit of it. How we walk in advocacy rooted in righteousness and justice is centered on three words: awareness (pursuit of knowledge), empathy (pursuit of proximity), and solidarity (action born of previous two things). Jesus was aware of Matthew's situation, went to his house and got proximate not just to him to others that had been considered outcasts and sinners, and then defended him in solidarity to those who would accuse or condemn him based off his life. Our call is to unite all people into kingdom purposes. 3 - Vasili Arkhipov

1 Kings 19:1-18How to experience breakthrough from a breakdown.1- There is a difference between fatigue and failure. Just because you are tired, worn down, scared, questioning, running does not make you a failure. However, fatigue can bring all sorts of failure if you do not properly reorient yourself to God's rest, provision, and voice. Health starts when your pursuit of help does. Your mind, heart, and spirit will always be restless until it finds its rest in Jesus. 2- Spiritual maturity is when your mind starts to switch from just looking for God in the profound; to the one gentle blowing... the powerful; to the low whisper... the extraordinary; to the realization of God as a present person in my ordinary life. Maturity is inviting and learning to see God outside of the arenas I expect to see Him in (the flat and bang of cultural Christianity)... and that He longs to reveal to us a space of hearing the blowing and wisher of his spirit as it affirms, guides, protects, and provides for the deep needs of our souls. 3- The black rat.

Luke 7:11-18-28Luke 22:31-32Hebrews 4:12-13What To Do When What's Happening to Them Isn't Happening to Me: 1- Doubt begins to entomb when the outside circumstances begin to prevail against the internal disposition. When the external reality doesn't match the internal optimism we are taught to have in faith, it is up to us to go to a deeper place, and that's by design. You cannot stay in the spiritual shallows when life gets heavy. When outside is getting loud, the inside better be learning and leaning into the quiet with God. Life can easily become a reaction to the world around me, rather than an overflow of the world I have built within me. We are to be inwardly formed, while outwardly facing. 2 - There is a distinct difference between healthy doubt and deconstruction, and walking away and deconversion. Jesus can go as deep as we want to go, the tension is if we trust Him and His plan with our unknowns... He is with you in the prison, pain, weakness, unmet request, tension of waiting, fear, brokenness, and the main question of it all, "why doesn't He just do for me what He has done for others?"... it is life's great question that we find He does not always give answers, as much as He just becomes the answer, and reinforces who we are, and what we mean to Him. 3 - The Spirit's greatest work in your life is 'sifting'. Sifting either purifies the promise or offends the promisee towards the promiser. Doubt is the sifting of our souls to purify the purposes of our Creator in His creation. To wrestle, to question, to seek more... is an invitation to drink of deeper waters, to find a deeper rest. When His spirit sifts our motives, desires, pursuits, and ambitions, we become the home in which His Spirit dwells in its fullness. Don't allow the offense of what He hasn't done rob you of the faith in what He is going to do.

Matthew26:36-463 statements from Jesus designed to stir a sleepy soul awake: 1- “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me” (vs 39,42,44). Do you trust his will even when the cup you are drinking is one you don’t want to drink, the cup you are drinking doesn't make sense, the cup you are drinking is not your timing or your plan, the cup you are drinking is a cost you absolutely do not want to pay… when the cup is not being taken away, and not being passed off.. Do you trust God and drink? Your willingness to drink from the cup you don't understand is oftentimes the greatest ask of faith in our journey with God. The cup of communion was filled with His blood, the cup of a life in Him may have deep cost associated as well. 2- “Keep watching and praying, so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (vs41)... If you have not trained yourself to watch and pray in night seasons, at some point a dark night of life will come upon you and you will be forced to develop this muscle. "To watch" is practicing discernment and awareness of what is around you... "to pray" is to communicate with God in such a way that you're strengthened by His nearness even if the feeling is weakness. Your spirit must be strengthened to take control of your life, because your foes will always be weak when the temperature of trials rises. 3- “Yet not as I will, but as You will.”(vs 39,42, 44)... the foundation of every argument we have, every question we have, every reason to walk away… my will or His. Peter was falling asleep with his will, before he was using his will power to aggressively deny his walk with Jesus. We don't go from disciple to denial on the surface of our lives without a deep war internally of his will vs ours. Our will must be submitted before his will can sanctify. Our will must be purified, before his will can teach us to abide. This is not a one time test either, rather a life-time of his will or mine is a part of the journey.. But if we put his will above our own, drink from the cup we don’t want to drink, and stay awake and in prayer, there is remembrance of how we lived.

Mark 8:22-26Luke 9:59-62 How to Get Through the Spit to Experience the Shine: 1- Jesus uses uncomfortable to lead to completion. Meaning if you're looking for comfort you will always be searching for completion. Human nature has a tendency within its desire to drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. Leaning into the sanctification process and refinement of your character is the journey of trusting that the Lord will be faithful to use the ‘spitty’ seasons to shine. 2 - The first step of spit producing a shine is coming to the end of any dishonesty and walking in 100% honesty/transparency. We want our lives to shine but they feel like spit and no one knows... you cannot heal unless you are first honest. This might even mean telling Jesus that it's not working, and pressing into Him again, and again... until you find the healing your soul searches for. Don't stop pursuing the healer, until the healing power flows into your life. 3- If you do not train yourself to look up, you will not get out. We must rhythmically allow Jesus to reposition our spirit to look upon Him in order to receive the leading that has been purchased for us... we want all the benefits of a healthy spiritual life with none of the habits that make it healthy... you must learn your Savior is just as much in the spit as He is in the shine of life.

JOHN 2:1-11— Your life is not an overlooked detail to God. Your problems are not an overlooked detail to God... your pain is not an overlooked detail to God... your grief is not an overlooked detail to God... your relationships are not an overlooked detail to God... your family is not an overlooked detail to God... your health is not an overlooked detail to God... your desire is not an overlooked detail to God... your finances are not an overlooked detail to God... your dreams are not an overlooked detail to God... if it matters to you it matters to Him.

Mark 11:12-24 How To Make Sure Your Leaves Are Producing Fruit: 1 - No matter what you do externally, Jesus will always seek to purify you internally. How he purifies is by drawing close enough to challenge the leaves to produce fruit. If you're the one who sings/yells 'Hosanna", don't be surprised when the Spirit shows up in the temple of your heart to purify it in order to produce the right fruit of a surrendered spirit. External fruit is born from the internally disciplines life. The internal life must be reoriented, repositioned, and renewed to the heart of Jesus for fruit to be produced. 2 - The fruit of a healthy tree is there to be picked by others.... if people can't see the fruit of a godly lifestyle or don't want to pick the fruit that is present in your life, be careful.... as the roots may be withering. The purpose of fruit being picked is so a tree can produce more in the future. You cannot be a tree that produces fruit if you're too busy being a tree that protects its fruit. Don't be a leaf that turns to a thorn, when you're supposed to be a fig that quenches the needs of the hungry souls of this world. 3 - It's easier to choose leafiness over fruitfulness. Anyone can grow leaves, but it is hard to produce fruit. Leafiness is elementary knowledge of Scripture, but not fruit of the Spirit present in the my life. Leafiness has spiritual activity, but not deep sacrificial dependency. Leafiness knows what to say, fruitfulness learns to listen and discern what the Spirit is saying. Leafiness wants a testimony, but won't embrace the test it takes to produce the fruit of one. You produce leaves first that then produce fruit, but the leaves will never be the same as fruit.

Matthew 17:24-27 How to Fish for the Right Things, and Walk in the Miracle of an Unoffendable Heart of Gold1- We must change our perspective of those who wrong us. Offensive people are hurting people, possessing wounds that have not healed that infect those around them. When you choose offense oftentimes it is you who adopts the wounds of others. Your spiritual journey is to become thick skinned while having a tender heart, not thin skin with a hard heart. Forgiveness is oxygen, unforgiveness is carbon dioxide. It's your choice what your spirit breathes in everyday. 2- Forgiveness does not mean resolution of all problems. In fact, in some cases there is needed to be protective distance or time that takes place even in the midst of a heart posture that's releasing. Healing is everyone's journey, and the only person you will give an account for is yourself. You cannot control what you want from someone else, or what you feel you deserve from someone else... let that fish off the line. 3- If everything that happens to you is a big deal, your life will have a small impact; as you cannot handle the cost of elevation. Jesus was killed for how He lived, there may be something that has to die for you to fully live in what He has called you to walk in. Spiritual maturity is when you learn not to waste your energy on the small things, and keep your eyes on the prize. If you live in cycles of offense, you build an electric fence around your heart that the Spirit is repelled from getting close enough to transform. You're fishing for gold, not fishing for carp.

Luke 18:31-43 CSBHow to strengthen the vision of your heart when your eyes cannot see:1. Recognition of His Nature - He will reveal His abilities/nature as He lifts your eyes off the limitations of your inabilities/circumstances. As you come to Him, He will exchange bitterness and defeat with a restored hope and deep trust in Him. A faith that makes you well comes from a heart that knows Him well.2. Submission to His Lordship - Where our means of self-reliance, idols of understanding, and deceptive forms of control are given to Him as a proclamation that He is Lord. It is in this posture He will show you that there is miraculous power available when He’s seated on the throne of your heart.3. Invitation to Restore - Bring the desires of your heart to Him as a demonstration that you trust Him. After periods of waiting, the things we desire most quickly become the things we pray for the least. Stemming from fear of disappointment, past rejection, or unmet expectations, we simply stop asking. But He will approach the pure in heart, to restore the desires of their heart, once He is invited.

Mark 16:1-8John 20:11-17John 19:25How to Switch from Fathom to Sonar:1 - Resurrection life does not come without pain, scars, and a grave... but it always has faith and never lets go of its belief in healing, wholeness and life. The depths of your understanding of Jesus are shown by the depths of belief in His good when everything feels bad, is going wrong, and the reasoning isn't adding up. He was willing to endure the worst humanity had to offer for you, are you willing to endure anything in your pursuit of Him? Resurrection power is not about what got you into the grace, it's about what can take you out of it. 2 - If the cross can change from a symbol of torture to triumph, what in your life is Jesus wanting you to believe His resurrection power can rewrite, reorient, and redefine? Even those close to Him struggled to recognize Him and even doubted Him... but recognition came in the process of time in proximity. Sometimes our relationship with Him is so time sensitive, that He cannot properly train us to make our time sensitive to Him. He is the only one who can roll the stones away from whatever is trying to entomb your life. 3 - Don't tell a father what their child cannot do. This is a Sunday we recognize a father's love, and the father's ability to never leave his song behind. If your understanding of God and His love for you has not reframed your ability and vision of your life, you need a new sonar. Resurrection Sunday is about the Spirit of God now transcending the barrier of a singular body and becoming omnipresent for all people. Every child now has the power of the Father, resurrection life of the Son, to walk in the Spirit. He does not expect too much of you, you expect too little of yourself.

Matthew 21:1-11John 12:18-19How to Not Get Left in the Dark, When You're Looking for the Light: 1- "Your king is coming to you, gently"... the training to understand the ways Jesus comes to you in the gentlest forms is oftentimes the difference between accepting Jesus for being on a donkey or despising Him because He's not on a warhorse. We must see Jesus for who He is and not who we want Him, or wish Him to be. He comes in low, and speaks in gentleness. Meaning, develop a life of lowliness, and learn to see Him in everything. 2 - Salvation and suffering have been hand in hand since the blood purchased the life.. We cannot develop an image of God in which we do not have sacrifice or experience hardship. To take your coat off and put it in the road and wave the palm tree leaf is easy when it's based on your idea of what the schedule of life should be; but God's timing more often than not is different than ours. Waiting has a way of wanting to trade in the palm branch for a nail, and the coat at His feet for a crown of thorns on his head if our timeframes aren’t met. Waiting is trusting, trusting is faith, and faith is the oxygen to a life with Jesus. Your expectations oftentimes are the first obstacles you must overcome to find life in God. 3 - Worship, celebration, and public acts of devotion almost always will be followed by periods of cleansing in God. External behaviors do not excuse you from internal development. Group activities do not replace your personal life's character refinement. Distraction is when you're more focused on others cleansing process than your own. The deeper you go in God, the deeper the work of purification, cleansing, and re-orienting that takes place to see how Jesus sees you, your life, and the world around you.

Rev 3:14-22How to Know If the Drink of Your Life is Hot, Iced, or Lukewarm:1 - Our restoration from cold or lukewarm to hot is rooted in cost and sacrifice. "Buying" is transactional cost of valuable commodities. If wealth is what you live for, the gold must be given up and generosity becomes the focus. If appearance is what you live for (robes); then the righteous robes holiness become the new pursuit. If you feel you cannot see, it is the healing ointment of His Word and Spirit that orient us back to a life of wholeness. If we choose to buy from God with things most valuable to us, the promise is "I will make you hot again".2 - If God shows His love to us in His reproof and discipline, then we show our love back to God by zeal and repentance (verse 19). Zeal is when I burn so hot nothing that cannot stand the heat of a holy life can't be close to me or it is burned up. Repentance is when anything that comes to mind that may try to turn the heat down is cast out or removed. The fire becomes the focus, and the focus is the fire. Self awareness is the gift we open after salvation, that invites us into a sanctified, surrendered, and holy walk with God.3 - To sit on the throne created for you, you must become an overcomer. Many times we want God to knock on the door, sit and commune with us, but not respond to the areas we know He is challenging us to overcome. If you're not putting your faith to the test, and overcoming the areas of life you're scared to face, you may be sacrificing the throne He intended you to sit on. The true test of overcoming is our relationship with man's gold or God's gold, the robe of a righteous life or the robes of human hands, the eyes that we rhythmically apply the intent of the Spirit to; that we might see as He sees.

John 19:31-371 John 5:5-8Matt 3:11Acts 2:1-4Numbers 5:21-22A Deep Dive on the Blood, Water, and Fire1 - Faith in the blood of Jesus is the starting place of getting Heaven in you; the baptism waters are the immersion into the realization heaven is all around you; and walking with the fire produced from both reminds us to never lose sight of the access the blood and water has given you, to God. The blood says, "come close". Water says "come up". The fire says, "go out". 2- The blood opens the door to the reality of resurrection power, the water gives us an invitation to walk out the truth of that resurrection power, the fire becomes the unquenchable appetite we develop for resurrection power to always be present in our lives. Resurrection power is the common denominator in which everything is boiled down to. 3- When we question the forgiving power of the blood, doubt the waters' cleansing ability, and become desensitized to the fire of intimacy that longs to be close, there is a grace and space for you in the hands of God. However, life cannot be built again until these foundations become the footings of what we are building. The healing you search for through God oftentimes is the same things we run from in God. For from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things... it is well... amen.

Matthew 3:1-17Understanding the Affirmation, Illumination, and Gift of Baptism 1 - You have been reconciled through the baptism into peace, purity, holiness, and innocence. To not believe you walk in these things is to miss the symbolism of the dove's descent onto Jesus. It is life in the Holy Spirit that brings about peace, purity, holiness, and innocence; man has never and will never be able to produce these things with pure effort. The dove descending from heaven is a reminder of the gift that we will ascend to it one day, and can live in its power every day. 2 - The life lived from baptism is fastened and attached to my pursuit of the knowledge of illumination that can only be found in Jesus' example and the Word of God. In baptism we are made aware of the Spirit and the light, and in our choices and lifestyle after we discover if we believe that light is worth the fight of pursuit. Choosing this life and light brings about a holiness in you that can and will experience a heaven on earth; choose it, don't lose it. 3- The gift and illumination of the Spirit of God in baptism is designed for you to receive and understand the affirmation and love you have from your Father in heaven. “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”.. In baptism anything that comes against beloved and well pleased is washed away. Any narrative you feel has had the power to write a story of you being anything other than beloved or well pleased is erased. In the kingdom economy prodigals are still sons, fishermen become priests, prostitutes become worship leaders, persecutors become apostles, and baptism isn't just a tee shirt and a photo op. It's the realization you have a father that loves you, and is pleased with you. And you are affirmed, illuminated, and gifted with his Spirit.

Exodus 13:17 NLTDeuteronomy 7:21-22 NLTPsalms 37:23 NLTProverbs 4:18 NLTGalatians 6:9 AMPCGalatians 4:4 NLTHebrews 5:8-9 NLT1 Timothy 1:12 AMPColossians 3:23-24 AMP1. Do I understand how much Faithfulness affects Gods plan for my life ?2. The deepest roots of my Expectations must be in God and His word.3. Believe I’m Excelling where I’m at, even when I don’t like where I’m at.4. Cultivate Honesty and Humility without self condemnation.5. When I get knocked down.. get back up.6. Keep the main deal the main deal.

2 Kings 2:1-10James 1:2-4–Hebrews 13:5-6Deuteronomy 31:6-8How to Develop Diamond Hands in Your Personal Relationship with Jesus: 1 - The depths of your experience with, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" comes from the depths of your commitment to not leaving or forsaking Him. There is a one way promise found in Jesus, but the two way street is commitment to relationship no matter how high or how low. You will be tested everyday with the choice to turn away... can you say with certainty "as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you."2 - The double portion we seek to find in God is typically tied to endurance we have in our journey alongside God. Faithful obedience over the long haul has a way of weeding out the unfaithful parts of ourselves that hinder us from walking in the power/proximity He longs to entrust us with. We must learn to see the joy in the journey and switch our thinking from a disease we think we can only be cured from when a destination we have in mind is reached. 3 - There are identifying factors of those who have diamond hands over the long haul. A unique character that is developed, a distinct authority that is walked in, a deeper understanding that is seen, an endurance that almost makes them seem perfect and complete, a way of life in which nothing can stop them, and the waters of opposition part in response to the faith they have developed. This is the mantle we take hold of with the Spirit of God, that has been purchased and now is freely given.

John 8:1-11Leviticus 20:101 Corinthians 5:9-13How To Know If Your Faith Is Cherry Picking or Not: 1- If we believe Grace is for a select few, but not the many. We cherry pickin’. 2- If we believe love is just for the ones close to us, or the people we like, but not our neighbor, We cherry pickin'.3- If we believe we can judge others and not invite in the judgment of the church body, along with a hefty dose of self awareness within ourselves, We cherry pickin'.4- If we don't believe hope and a second chance is for everyone, we cherry pickin'. When we have lost all hope, and believe we have no chance left, is when we fall at the feet of the one who is hope, and who is a second chance. Your life should be a testament of bringing hope and second changes to those around you.

Hebrews 12:1 AMPCMatthew 13:24-30 NLTProverbs 19:3 NLT2 Corinthians 10:3-4 NLT1. Satans strategy is to plant Weed seeds among the Good Seeds.2. Satan almost always plants them at Night or Difficult Dark seasons when we’re not as alert.3. Satan is the source even if He uses someone else’s face.4. Learn from weeds but don’t get consumed with them.5. My Humility and honesty must exceed the autopilot of pain.

Luke 15:11-24How to Walk in a Lifestyle of Fulfilled Desire: 1- It is the proximity to my Father that determines the flourishing of my personhood. Money is not the pinnacle of human fulfillment, Sex is not the peak of human intimacy, and food is not the summit of human bodily satisfaction. When the son ran out of all of these things he returned to the one who had given him the means to experience these things; the father. A prodigal is just one who runs away from the father to try to experience the promises only proximity to the father can produce and fulfill. 2 - Your desires must be submitted before your heart ever can be. The proper containers for our desires allow the limits to be healthy, and the experiences holy. If you cannot contain your desires, your desires will remake you Into an uncontrollable and impulsive person. For every action of fallen desire, there is a re-action that brings it into Kingdom alignment.3 - Our desires are either running towards the Father or away. In this story, the prodigal ran from the father when he got what he wanted, only to find out that with the father he had all that he needed, so he returned. What you think you want isn't always what you need, and what you need sometimes is the last thing your flesh wants. But sometimes it takes a son begging to be a slave after squandering all he had, for the father to remind the son the worth, value, and love he has from his father always... a robe, a ring, and sandals.

Luke 12:13-21 1 Timothy 6:6-11, 17-19Philippians 4:11-13Matthew 6:26-30Ephesians 6:7-82 Corinthians 8:1-5

Acts 4:32-37; 5:1-11How to Avoid the Destruction of Coveting and Comparison: 1- Comparison is trying to be someone you're not to gain what was never meant for you. If your eyes are on any other person besides Jesus, there will be destruction in your future. When you crave titles, accolades, recognition, and riches over righteousness, obedience, and devotion to God you set yourself up to build your house on a sandy foundation. You were made unique in the image of God, don’t get caught up in the pursuit of the fallen image of man. He must increase, we must decrease. 2- The opposite of coveting is contentment. Oftentimes our lack of contentment is rooted in our coveting of what everyone else has that we think means we are less than. If you are struggling to find peace in your life I challenge you to shrink your exposure to what you don’t have in order to maximize your ability to see what you do have. It's hard to focus on what is in God’s hands when we crave what is produced by man’s. It’s hard to be happy with the BLESSOR if the blessing is never enough. 3- God cannot bless what you willingly withhold. Wishing for what others have leads to life that feels as though we are locked out of promises and fulfillment with God, unless HE produces/gives a lifestyle that has more than everyone else, and better than everyone else. If you have a scorecard of material blessing attached to your salvation, you will have a coffin attached to your christianity. There is only one who gives good and perfect gifts, and our lives must be postured on his kingdom above to see them.

1 Samuel L 13:1-14How To Win the War of Trusting God's Timing and Control. 1- The test of timing takes place before the gift of God given ability and blessing. If the timing is off the ability will be off, and the blessing will be off... a man after His own heart, puts God's heart and commands above the needs of my own heart and plans and learns to trust His timing above mine... and in this action and disposition; the kingdom you seek to build He will make sure endures. 2- The tired and trembling is healed by walking the straight path. My impatience and control are rooted in a fear of improper timing and inadequate ability. There is freedom when we realize it's His timing, not ours, and it is His ability, not ours. We must make the choice to lift tired hands and strengthen weak knees, and trust that on the straight path of holiness there is healing for our brokenness. 3- God not showing up when you wanted is not Him not following through, it's Him confronting the idols of control and impatience. Impatience and control are rooted in us wanting specific outcomes, and not having faith in God and His plan. It is our responsibility to build an altar of a life that honors the commands of God, not one that rewrites them to our feelings and needs when they aren't met how we want, in the timeframes we want. We don't serve a genie in a bottle, we serve a king on a cross.

John 4:46-534 Tips on How to Walk Blind with the Words of Jesus: 1- Your asking for interventions is the easiest part of the journey, Your persistence in what you do with that ask is what determines the comfort (or terror) level of the blind walk of faith. What are you saying to yourself and finding out about yourself on the way from the ask to the miracle you seek? 2- We need to be willing to pray for God to shut the wrong doors as much as we pray for Him to open the right ones. You sometimes learn more from the doors you thought you were going to walk through, than the ones you actually have walked through. 3 - A crack in the door deserves a kick to see if we can get it open... sometimes we are too passive, too non-committal, too cost-averse and comfort seeking, to seek out a life that forces God to open doors of healing, wholeness, and opportunity for us. His journey to find Jesus for his son was 28 miles, uphill, in a desert... sometimes we forget there is no testimony, without the word "test". 4- Would you have trusted the 4 words, or only trusted if he physically stood next to you and made the 28 mile hike back? Oftentimes it is what we think Jesus should do for us that is hindering what He is actually wanting to do for us.

2 Kings 5:1-14- HOW TO FOLLOW THROUGH WHEN EVERYTHING IN YOU SAYS TO QUIT1 - Your healing is a provision purchased from your healer's broken body for you... however, how He heals is often deeper than our logic interprets healing should happen. Before we walk in the fruit of the external we must prune the branches of the internal... healing through God's hands oftentimes does not come how you think, by who you think, or when you think... but if you're faithful to follow... it is His wish, and His desire.. to heal and restore you. 2 - Your obstacles of follow through most likely will be confronted by the pursuit of affluence and identity. If you are busy building an image of yourself that is separate from God's Word, you will feel the tension of duplicity. It's hard to receive the power of God when we want the power and to be our own God. Every part of you must be surrendered so every part of you can be restored.... your image and affluence are either used for His glory, or for yours.3 - If you follow through with you walk with Jesus it has a way of restoring more than what you set out to fix to begin with. We come to God seeking healing in a few areas, but He seeks wholeness in all areas. We come to God for our problems to be fixed, He seeks to use us to fix others problems while working on our own. Following through has no finish line, only a starting line. Your restoration is not about you becoming better, it's about you becoming the child of God He created you to be.

Luke 7:11-17How to Break the Cycles You Need To, To Walk In Who You Were Made To Be: 1- Get a group around your coffin. Honesty is a chemical building block to healing. 2- Find ways to get Jesus' fingerprints on your coffin. 3- Be unoffendable. (Repeat to yourself 1 million times) 4- Switch your thinking; short term sacrifice for longterm reward, and what do I have to lost but what could I possibly gain.

2 Sam. 11:1-5; 14-25How to Discern If You're Fighting the Right Battles1- When kings won’t fight they end up in situations they shouldn't have been in, doing things they shouldn't be doing, in relationships with people they shouldn't have given access to… which ultimately leads to consequences they couldn't imagine. 2- When you're not in the fight, but you should be, your eyes drift to something that will get your blood pumping like the battles you should be fighting. Time is not your most valuable currency, attention is.. And the easiest way to be fighting a losing fight is giving your attention to the wrong places. Seasons of IDLE attention are revealing times of the IDOLS of attention in our lives. 3- You prioritize what's important. What's worth the fight. How to drift from God is to not be aware of the fights you should be battling for, and using your energy on things that in the grand scheme of things are not that important. The three most important fights you must prioritize to walk in the royal priesthood that's been purchased for you; your faith, your family, your future.

John 5:1-9How to choose the love of the Savior, over the love of stirred water. 1- To man love is what you can offer me, to God love is what can I offer you. In a world in which we trample each other if it means our benefit, Jesus stops to show you proximity to him and his power is the only blessing worth having in this world. Our souls are fatigued trying to find a place to be healed and restored, and the only place your soul can be healed and restored is in the hands of Jesus. If we will drink deep of the living water, our life eventually finds what we looked for first in the stirred water. 2- To man belonging is based on appearance, to God belonging is faith and obedience. You do not have a category to God, you are not stereotyped in his eyes. You must fight to keep your eyes upward, because what you're surrounded by is not your condition. Your condition is what you will accept as truth over your life that then you adapt behaviors from. Just because you may feel you're surrounded by the sick, blind, lame, and withered, does not make you sick, blind, lame, and withered. Keep your eyes on the healer, not on whatever it is you think can heal you. 3- You cannot be the love you need, the acceptance you need, the healing you need, and the restoration you need. No promise of ‘stirred waters’ can either.. This is the love of Jesus in this story; for 38 years a man trying but failing to get what he wanted most, and then discovering what he needed most is just a person, who walks right up to him, and brings healing. If our eyes, even if they are weak and defeated, will look towards him and away from what we think brings whatever we think we need, he responds to the needs of our souls, he responds to the needs of his beloved.

2 Samuel 6:13-23 NLT John 15:11 (NKJV)Philippians 4:4 (NIV)Psalm 16:11 (ESV)1. You can either have Joy or Resentment: You Can’t Have Both2. Never Prioritize pride over praise.3. The purest form of worship sometimes looks like unrefined joy 4. Where there is No Joy there is no purpose

Matthew 14:22-27Mark 4:35-41How To Sleep and to Walk in Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: 1- Peace is proximation. Rhythmic, habitual, steadfast, centering proximation. Where Jesus is absent there will be distress. If you feel He is sleeping in your storm, it is your job to go to Him, wake Him, and call on His power to change it. Peace comes when the reason for my relationship turns from "rescue me, help me" to "I love you and just want to be close". We learn peace by being so close to the one who produces it that it just becomes us. 2- Walking in peace is your first coming to the realization of where you are not at peace. Don't ask for more if you aren't even aware of the areas it is lacking. "Take courage" can only be uttered with awareness that courage is absent. "Peace be still" can only be uttered after, "don’t you care we are perishing". Jesus has peace and courage. He wants to teach you how to rest in the storm, and to walk in authority on its waves. But your peace is directly tied to the pieces of yourself you need to be honest with him about that you maybe don’t trust him in, or don’t see him in. True peace is the ability to be courageous and restfully still, in the storms of life. 3- Peace comes when we truly come to the end of trying to control the winds and waves of life, and run after with everything the one who created, controls, and calms the them. Peace is not you rowing harder, it's you growing closer. Peace is the person of Jesus, not the condition of our circumstances, surroundings, or past mistakes. No matter how unpeaceful your life is, there is always one who wants to show you that he is all the peace you need.

Psalm 34:8 ESV Psalm 1:2 John 1:1 John 17:3 John 5:30 Acts 10:38John 5:19-20John 6:57John 15:4-5 1. Fellowship is the very life of God. It is the eternal nature and infinite being of God. His nature is fellowship. He is a God of loving, joyful, spontaneous, delighted communion. It is through fellowship that we know Him.2. Get obsessed with one thing in scripture. Know it. Think about it. Talk about it with your friends. Pray it. Sing it. When you’re bored, pull it up in your mind and turn it over and over, examining it. Apply it when it’s challenging. Return to it in scripture again to read it. Write about it. Do that one thing really well in every day life. This what Biblical meditation on Scripture is. This is what true Biblical knowledge is. This is the beginning of delighting in the Lord and knowing him. This is abiding

Luke 8:4-15How to Develop Good Soil in Your Soul: 1- Good soil revolves around four movements: hearing, holding, obeying, and persevering. If I'm honest with myself how well do I do these four things? 2- Thankfulness is the weed killer in the garden of your life. We tend to not want to bless those who are ungrateful, and how you know if you're ungrateful is if you focus more on what you don't have than what you do have. Remove the weeds of discontentment, superficiality, and never having enough. The grass is not greener somewhere else, it's greener where you water, and take ownership of anything that has stolen the nutrients necessary for it to grow and thrive. 3- You must take ownership of the condition of the soil of your soul before you can ever produce fruit from the seed of God in your life. Don't be mad the seed isn't producing, practice awareness of asking yourself if there if there is something in the soil of my humanity that's not allowing the seeds of God to grow and into mature fruit. Growing weeds is easy, growing fruit is hard.

Genesis 3:8-10Exodus 3:2-6 Romans 5:8-10, 5:14-16 & 18, 6:12-14 CSBHow to step out of hiding and walk in the gift of repentance:1. Bring Yourself — Trust is revealed by your willingness to come to Him. Maturity does not mean you will need Him less and less, because if you could’ve sanctified yourself, He wouldn’t have needed to sacrifice His son. It’s a gift to need Him.2. Be Seen — Face the “risk” and give Him access to your deepest thoughts, doubts, feelings, desires, temptations AND sins. The deeper that’s revealed, the greater He can heal.3. Be Known — As He shows you who He is, let Him remind you who you are.4. Be Loved — Let Him draw you into deeper relationship.5. Yield Fruit — Watch your depth of relationship yield the fruit of His Spirit and change the desires of your heart. Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness—His very power being made perfect in You.

Revelation 13:16-18 Romans 12:1-2Isaiah 8:11-151 John 5:21

Luke 4:1-13 NLT Romans 10:17 NKJV Proverbs 29:18 AMPC 1. It’s not about WHAT you know it’s about WHO you know.2. Have I heard God’s take on my life or situation?3. Rooted, Centered and Strong are always connected to my Rhythm’s, Routines and Relationships.4. Everyone has a bad day. I must learn to fall on my KNEES and not my BUTT.

1 Samuel 2:35Exodus 25:1-9 Exodus 36:4-6Reminders of What It Means to Build His House 1- When I build His house, He builds my house. 2- When His house endures, my house endures. 3- When His house is strengthened by my hands, my house is strengthened by His hands.4- When His house is the subject of my faithful generosity, my limited supply is placed into the hands of the one who has unlimited supply. 5- Holy is when people, place, an city merge into one. A holy people, building a holy temple to God, that would redefine existence into a holy city of God. A tent that becomes a temple, a temple that changes a city, an enduring house of God.

2 Kings 4:38-41Matthew 14:18-20Matthew 15;35-37The Process of Restoring the Poison of Greed in the Pot of Our Lives: 1- There is a taking of what is in our hands and a placing of it through direct/repeated action into God's hands. 2- There is an internal shift toward gratefulness and thankful contentment that produces a joy around our practice of generosity. 3- There is a breaking of the view of what it means to have and possess items of this world that leads to a heart that he multiplies from and through.

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Ephesians (5:1-21)How to Confront Limitations in Your Pursuit of Imitation: 1- If your imitation of Jesus is not making you into a fragrant aroma of sacrifice for those around you, you're gonna smell funky. You cannot claim the name of Jesus and contradict what he lived, and died for. Sacrifice is the aroma of righteousness and sanctification, and we become the aroma of heaven when we imitate the one who brought heaven to earth. We need less axe body spray and more Sauvage by Dior.2- You exchange the inheritance Jesus purchased for you every time you imitate the fallen mans pursuit of immorality, impurity, covetousness, and idolatry. The pursuit of the aroma of life in God comes from imitating Him in the fullness of all the Bible says, and the Spirit leads. When we choose to partake in a life of fallen living we sacrifice the inheritance we have in our risen Savior. Wherever there is distance there will always be longing. 3- The truth about light is that it is for both discovering and uncovering. We think it is only about the discovery of God, but it is equal parts about uncovering the parts of me that are not in line with God, and His will for my life. Imitation is the goal, but your flesh and character limitation and deficiency is where the starting line is. Salvation is unto sanctification and transformation. But we must confront the old before we can ever walk in the new. Tent to Temple Offering: fixate.com/give

Mark 2:1-12 How to Be a Person That Won't Allow Those Around You to Stay the Same: 1 - The Bible says the friends climbed, removed, dug, and let the friend down. There is effort and uncomfortability in the process of seeing a miracle come to pass. If you're not willing to climb over any obstacle, dig out any barrier, and remove any hindrance... your effectancy will be limited, The hard work is often the heart work, and the costs we are willing to pay often deteremine the levels we are able to climb. 2 - Are you a "seeing their faith" person??? Jesus' response was based on the disposition and devotion of the friends who knew what their brother needed... who then made a conscious choice that they would not allow themselves to quit until they exhausted every possible avenue for him to be healed. People who get close to you should not be allowed to remain the same just by your mere presence around them. You're either gas or water, and your habits, disciplines, and rhythmic walking with God are what determines that. 3 - Your souls formation is foundationally connected to miracles taking place... it is the closeness and fullness that we walk in that gives us the strength to remove the obstacles, and carry others to the feet of Jesus. The spirit must be in us, for others to get close through us. My life is an overflow of my time and attention. If he has both those characteristics of my personhood, a byproduct is a person who tears off roofs, and lowers people to the feet of the One that we gaze upon, and rhythmically follow... beholding is becoming and proximity develops potency.

Ephesians 4:17-32 How to Not Be a "Your Zippers Down" Christian: 1- Truth. (Eph. 4:25)Functioning Properly: We put on and practice truthfulness, and people would describe us as real and authentic. Functioning Improperly: our words cannot be trusted, we cannot be counted on, and people don't know if they can believe or trust us to follow through on what we say. 2- Anger (Eph. 4:26)Functioning Properly: We are allowed anger towards sin, not anger that becomes sin Functioning Improperly: Our anger renders us out of control, and alienates people from us, we cannot control it and it’s outbursts undermine our identity as a follower of God. 3- Delight (Eph. 4:28)Functioning Properly: We take delight in the work of your hands and that our production within our gifts and talents are used help others Functioning Improperly: We will do anything to anyone in order to feed unhealthy desires (in this passage references stealing directly).. We look for shortcuts to gain more for our desires, and our pursuit of more typically never involved anyone other than ourselves. 4- Words (Eph. 4:29)Functioning Properly: The words we choose are to build up and strengthen ourselves/others. Functioning Improperly: We seldom use our words for anything positive and are known for tearing others down, gossip, slander, and destabilizing people with our presence. 5- Conviction. (Eph. 4:30)Functioning Properly: We must follow the conviction of the spirit inside us. (vs 30)Functioning Improperly: We grieve the spirit by not following its voice inside as it leads our life in what we know is biblical and true, and in turn we become a slave to our desires and impulses. 6- Bitterness, Wrath, Malice (Eph. 4:31)Functioning Properly: We are self-aware of any areas of bitterness, wrath, malice (intention and desire to do evil), and we seek to dispose of before it disposes of us. Functioning Improperly: Our feelings become our truth, and we rationalize why we are allowed to feel how we feel and will not push ourselves towards a pathway of healing. 7- Tenderhearted (Eph. 4:32)Functioning Properly: We are kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving, and those around us describe us as so.Functioning Improperly: We are not kind to others, we do not practice empathy, and we do not forgive or ever ask for forgiveness.