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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.

Ephesians 4:1-16 How to Grow in the Right Things So We Are Remembered for the Right Reasons: 1- A life lived worthy of the call of God consists of humility, gentleness, patience, tolerance in love, unity and peace. Can thee words be used to describe me?? We feel empty when these attributes are absent. If you will take serious the process of God's character becoming your character, don't be surprised when God's power becomes your power... you don't need a thousands reps once... you need one rep every day for a thousand days. 2- Jesus' resurrection and ascension was about being able to give the gift of filling all of us with His Spirit... this Spirit is for us to walk in the fullness of Jesus' example, and to equip and to build up others to do the same. Rhythmic exposure to both private and corporate times of the Spirit and Scriptures is what turns a common life into an uncommon one, and makes an uncommon difference within the common activities and interactions of your day to day... equip and build yourself unto equppiing and building others. 3- We are to be built in love. There is no theology apart from love, no tricks of success that can cover the activity of love, or ways of functioning that can replace the action of love. IF those around you question the love you walk in they cannot receive the love you want to give. Love grows us in all aspects at once, and a deformed faith is one that allows you to pick and choose the love you walk and give to others based off your feelings of the day... the who and how of your love has a direct impact on the when and why of God’s will for you.

Ephesians 2:1-22How to Become New and Stay New: 1 - We must understand grace as the action of Jesus dying in order to make you alive, to raise you up, and to seat you rightly. It is not just a covering of sin, it is the elevation of your personhood to no longer desire it through the process of sanctification. Your choices and thought patterns determine how alive you feel, raised up you walk, and if you truly feel seated with God. His words and Spirit cannot convince you of something you don't want to be convinced of. 2 - You are saved by grace, not works... however we must not lose sight of a byproduct of that grace; good works. God's creative intention for your life is that you would be someone who His grace paves a way forward for good works to follow. The gift of God is the example of Jesus. If you won't follow the example, don't be mad if you don't like the taste of the recipe your choices and behaviors have prepared. 3 - You should be being built up inside personally, apart of building within your career collectively, and in the temple beside all those doing the same corporately. True purpose in God is found when He truly has no limits, and is invited to any and all things we do. Your career is not off limits, your daily lifestyle is not off limits... and if it is there will be a limit to the fullness of God we walk in. Grace is enough to save, only you can decide what that saving produces.

Ephesians 3:1-21How To Know Our Worth So We Can Find Our Place: 1- Your life has been purchased by His name. No other name can replace that. The greatest lie you can believe is that you are not worthy of what God assigned ultimate worth for; the life of Jesus. A defeated mind cannot bring about a victorious life. The resurrection was granting access to those who never had access before. A saint is just a gentile who grabbed hold and never let go. 2- You will know your worth when you rhythmically get close to the one who assigned it to you. Other people do not determine my faith's validity, my activated behavior of getting close to Jesus does. When do the uncomfortable with God, it becomes our comfort in life. When we choose a comfortable life, we will be uncomfortable in God. 3- The mystery you must solve is believing if you truly have a place.. No one can solve this but you, no one can believe this for you. The love of Jesus purchased you a life in him in which there is no outsider, no label, no stereotype, no bad reputation attached to your name. Only a son or a daughter of God. Your activated faith that then changes your behaviors is what will ultimately find the clues to solve this mystery in your heart.. You have worth, and will always have a place.

Ephesians 1John 12:32-33How we must apply adoption and inheritance to the here and now: 1- Adoption is rooted in the "kind intention" of God. You cannot inherit something from a Father you have not adopted. This is why it all starts with your view of Him being your heavenly Father taking root in our core. Embracing this view of Him as heavenly Father is accepting (and in some cases relenting) to the truth He has chosen you, and He has kind intentions for you within His will, and there is redemption and forgiveness in His shed blood. 2- In Jesus' time, inheritance was both a privilege and a responsibility; it meant not only receiving all the Father had; but also caring for the family the Father had left behind now entrusted to you. I pray we don't want the privilege of the Father's abundance without the responsibility of using it to help anyone other than myself... your inheritance is writing a story of redemption for your life, and the lives of those around you by the shed blood of the (First born) Son of God. 3- Adoption and inheritance starts with enlightenment. We must make conscious behaviors and habits to train our mind and will that Jesus has all authority and power and dominion, and is above every name that is named and to be named. If you don’t have an awareness of his power it will be hard to believe and walk in his promises. All things are under his feet, and his body on earth is the living church which has a fullness for all who would choose to be adopted into the inheritance he purchased.

Revelation 2:1-7Lessons from those who lost sight of what is most important: 1- You can be right, and still be wrong. Your faithful toil, fierce persistence, and hunger to be doctrinally sound can miss the mark if it has not been doused in a deep love for God and your neighbor. Your desire to be right cannot replace your desire to be obedient. Your desire to be right cannot replace your hunger for proximity to God. Your desire to be right cannot replace the first love. There is a difference between being right and righteous. 2- Self inventory, assessment, and alteration is paramount to salvation and sanctification. The deeds you did at first should be the habits that are sustaining your soul, not a phase when you were single and did not have responsibilities. There is no seniority or hierarchy in faith.. Only those who will submit, surrender, and rhythmically place all of their personhood in the hands and at the feet of Jesus. 3- Repenting and returning is accompanied with a promise from God; That you would eat from the tree of life within the paradise of Jesus. First love living results in eating the fruit of life in the spirit. Oftentimes we are ashamed to admit we lost that first love feeling, and are not happy with the fruit our lives are producing. Repent, return, and relearn how to live in Him again. There is life for you, and paradise for you, if you're willing to pay the cost.

Acts 19:18-29; 35-41..How to take care of the riots, riches, and idols before the bull kicks1- The idolatry today is syncretism. The idea that Jesus can be merged with any other belief or self expression you feel is right. Whatever you're trying to convince yourself can co exist with God is what God will buck off the throne of your heart first and most likely painfully. Duplicity is the basis of destruction.2- Exponential growth is most often behind exponential cost. What are the things that cost us most? These are the things that have the potential to grow us the most. If you will not pay a cost, you will not grow, and you will not grow unless you pay the cost of what growth requires. It is that simple. Growth comes from consistent, compounding behavior done over a long period of time.3 - Life feels out of control and in chaos (a riot) if you do not have an awareness of the power over your relationship with God your personal idols and riches possess. Surrendering Lordship of your life is not partial access to our lives for full time promises from Him. It is God you have my everything, and I will pursue you into your everything for me.

Romans 7:4-6… 7:14-25How to remind myself it's not about myself.. 1- Your war is internal before it ever is external. The flesh’s focus is external while the spirit's focus is internal. One fights for appearances, another for wholeness. If your external fruit and circumstances is not something you are proud of you must double down on the inward development of a life in the spirit following the ways of Jesus. 2- You must create centering anchor habits. Anchoring is designed to keep us stable when the storms come… centering is about the spirit teaching us not to get too high or too low. Your habits will either keep you anchored and centered, or anxious, unsettled, and unrestrained. The goal is union with God, not rule compliance.3- You cannot seek to be new while holding onto the old. How proactive are you attacking old ways of thinking, behaving, and functioning? This will determine the longevity and life you find walking with God. We carry something different when we profess faith in Jesus and walk his spirit. You cannot carry death and life simultaneously without one consuming the other. It's not just a new creation or an old creation, it's NEW or NOTHING.

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Mathew 13:44 ESV1. People don’t often treasure things that are freely given and not earned. We tend to place higher value on what requires effort and sacrifice. 2. We often make excuses to hold onto things we know we shouldn’t, unaware that those things are blocking you from the true happiness Gods treasure can bring. 3. If you struggle giving up past sins to experience more of who who God is, maybe it’s not that the power of that sin is too strong. But rather it’s that you haven’t fully grasped the meaning of being in his presence.

Luke 15:11-31 CSB The Three Parts to a Reconciled Heart: 1 - Forgiving God for the things He has and hasn't done to restore our view of Him and soften our hearts to receive His worth and love. 2 - Forgiving ourselves for setting a higher bar for worth, identity, and love than God has set for us. 3 - Forgiving others (even if they never apologize) for all the things they've said, done, or haven't done to allow the Spirit to heal you inwardly before bringing restoration outwardly.

Genesis 22:1-14 Exodus 32:1-4Three Lessons From the First Place of Worship: 1- Abraham did not hesitate to give what was most precious to him. We must learn the art of sacrificing idols promptly, especially when it costs us everything.2 - Abraham did not argue with God. We must learn to recognize our hesitancies for what they are: idols of understanding3 - Abraham did not expect someone else to do the sacrificing for him. We must learn how to rhythmically live on the altar and fight our flesh to stay there.

Matthew 18:21-35 3 Conditions Your Soul Will Find Itself In If You Do Not Forgive 1- If you do not forgive you will constantly find yourself choking the life out of others, not realizing you're losing the life of your own faith in the process. If we pursued healing with the same amount of zeal we pursued retribution we would be a much happier people. We must lay down our reasons, to pick up His reasoning. Have mercy, as He had mercy on us. 2- We have been freed from the torture and prison of our sin. Yet we place ourselves back into prison when we choose to harbor unforgiveness and bitterness. The enemy wants you stuck in the past, so you cannot go forward into your future. We must pray for the compassion of God, to release people from their wrongs, and truly walk in forgiveness. Compassion + Releasing = Forgiveness. 3- Only you know if your forgiveness is skin deep or heart deep. To forgive from the heart is a life that has lost count of the wrongs done to us, because we have such joy in the righteousness God has purchased for us. It's hard to be a carrier of the Good News when all you're focused on is bad circumstances of what you have walked through. The power of grace and a clear picture of grace comes into focus when we give grace to tohers when we have every right not to.

Matthew 3:1-2Mark 1:14-15..Luke 3:7-92 Kings 23:25 4 Quick Thoughts on the Good Fruit of Keeping Repentance:1- Rhythmic Repentance is a discipline of self awareness and sensitivity to the Spirit of God... oftentimes we won’t allow ourselves to repent and ever experience true forgiveness or surrender our own opinions and ideas enough for true change. 2- Repentance is turning around; and changing your mind. If you're not willing to turn from the direction you're going and change the mindsets you have, it's not repentance, it's just a coping mechanism. 3- The hidden fruits of repentance are humility, sincerity, and authenticity of your personhood.. The greatest place you can find yourself in christ is open handed and open hearted. 4- We will never graduate from a lifestyle of repentance, we will only grow in a heightened awareness of our need for it in day to day life and relationships… The fuel of accelerated growth and renewal, is a life of repentance.

Matthew 25:14-29 1- Your ability starts with how well you carry the commands and character directives of God right now. Stop asking God for more if you cannot carry and steward what's already in your hands. Developing the faith muscles of today is what ensures you have the strength of character to handle the blessings of tomorrow. Do not bury what He has given you, because what you start with is never supposed to be what you finish with. 2- Faithful sacrifice and faithful stewardship is how value is multiplied; there is no other biblical play book for increase. Whatever talent that has been entrusted must be invested in the right source, for it to produce increase. Be careful, God is in the business of confronting your idea of increase with what your character needs to develop. The test of rhythmic stewardship and sacrifice will directly determine the talents your life produces. 3- What the master gives, the master can take away. What the master entrusts the master can retrust to others. How we prepare for the day we see the master again is by producing a life of faith that that the master blesses in order to see others reproduce the life we have lived in Him. You don't get from God to become the God of your life. You get God in order to bring God into others lives.

John 20:19-22John 13:1-5, 21-30 Join us as we hear missionary Micah Studer share his heart on the Great Commission and the meek and lowly nature of Jesus.

Psalms 89:14Psalms 97:2Psalms 103:6Psalms 33:5Jeremiah 22:3Jeremiah 23:5Isaiah 9:7Jeremiah 9:24 Isaiah 33:5Isaiah 16:5Leviticus 19:9-10Deuteronomy 24:17-22Formula of Advocacy: Attention to issues around us + commitment to self awareness of blind spots/false thinking + creating proximity to marginalized or alienated within day to day life + repeat previous steps over and over until... we have changed behavior and thinking to reflect the thought and intent of God towards all creation = Advocacy

Luke 10:25-37 The Progression of Surrendered Sacrifice 1- We must see, how Jesus sees. 2- We must have compassion, as Jesus would have compassion. 3- We must seek to bring healing, as Jesus brought healing. 4- We must pay a cost, as Jesus paid a cost. 5- We show mercy, as Jesus redefined mercy.

JOHN 13:1-171- If you break the bread, and drink the cup... do you also wash feet? To partake in communion and not live out the sacrifice of a life of servanthood for your brothers, sisters, and neighbors is to miss the message of our Messiah. The sacrament is a reminder of sacrifice, invitation to sacrifice, and a promise of blessing that can only be found through sacrifice. We wash, as He washed. 2- Jesus knew what Judas was to do, and washed his feet anyway. The people you think have no right to be washed, actually have every right to be washed... and if that doesn't fit inside your theology, your theology is incorrect. Sacrifice plays no favorites.

1 SAMUEL 1:9-20 HOW TO ASK THAT HAS HIGHER CHANCES OF A RESPONSE. 1- God knows where your heart is, not just where your words are. Pouring your soul out to God is an accelerator of promises from God. We don't think he sees and knows and often times it is what he sees and what he knows that is inside of us that is the blockage from what he can release to us. Pouring out takes place before filling up.2- Most "asking" from God is for less dependence on Him, less faith in Him. This is not what He wants, therefore the response is not what we want. Do we think he responds to requests that lead AWAY from deeper relationships and intimacy with him? Hannah’s ask was to give me a son, then I will give him to YOU ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE... Don't pray for blessings that you don't want god involved in once they arrive… those turn into curses. 3- The process of getting a response; know and take in the words of God, repeat them back to God, change my countenance to reflect faith, and wait on His ability. During this process there will be a confronting and releasing my need to control and removing my selfish nature from the asks of Him. It's not about Him not responding as much as it is our character refining to know what an ask of His will is, not ours.

2 PETER 1:1-11THE RECIPE OF A RIGHTEOUS LIFE. 1- START WITH DILIGENCE IN FAITH AND DO IT SO MUCH IT PRODUCES MORAL EXCELLENCE… (VERSE 5)2- AS YOU PURSUE MORAL EXCELLENCE RHYTHMICALLY WATCH AS IT TURNS TO KNOWLEDGE… (VERSE 5)3- YOUR KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PRODUCING GREATER SELF CONTROL.. (VERSE 6)4- SELF CONTROL LEADS TO DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AND ACTION OF PERSEVERANCE.. (VERSE 6)5- PERSEVERANCE PRODUCES GODLINESS AS THE TESTS ARE EMBRACED AND NOT RAN FROM.. (VERSE 6)6- GODLINESS PRODUCES BROTHERLY KINDNESS (VERSE 7)7- BROTHERLY KINDNESS PRODUCES LOVE…. Love is last!!!! WHAT!!!! (VERSE 7)8- THE FROSTING— NOTICE THIS PROMISE AT THE END…. IF YOU PRACTICE THESE THINGS YOU WILL NEVER STUMBLE… GAIN ENTRANCE INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM… AND JESUS WILL BE ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED TO YOU.. THATS A MONSTER PROMISE.. (VERSE 10 AND 11)

BONUS CONTENT- “How do we live it?”At the conclusion of our practicing the way season of studying the disciplines of an apprentice of Jesus, pastors Micah and Grace gave an overview of how they rhythmically live out a wholistic practice of allowing Jesus into everything they do. Recorded on a Wednesday night formation gathering, this resource is designed as a challenge to the lifestyle of how we live day to day and designed to give people a lifestyle blueprint of what an activated life in the spirit looks like in a hyper practical sense.

Matthew 7:24-29Psalms 118:22Isaiah 28:16Luke 6:46-483 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOUR BUILDING ON THE ROCK OR THE SAND1- “Hearing" gives the illusion of a cornerstone building, but acting on what you're hearing is the true heavy rock work. You cannot act until you hear, however if you do not act upon what you hear, don't be surprised if you feel the rain, the wind, and slams of the storms of life as it destroys the foundation you tried to build that wasn't based on, and placed on, the cornerstone of Jesus. 2- The enemy will allow you to build on a bad foundation without knowing in order to make the fall "great".... His core aspiration is to discredit, distort, or sow dissension and confusion around great falls of once mighty people of faith in a way that tarnishes the name of Jesus to the world he's trying to save. Building on sand is not just something that will affect you, it will most certainly affect those around you, and how they view god. 3- Authority in Christ is when you have heard, acted, and built a life on Jesus in such a way that your voice now carries an authority that gets the world to notice. Authority is hearing, doing, and building. What got people's attention to the ways of Jesus is how he heard, how he spoke, and what he did (the way in which he built the kingdom).. And it transcended any man made title, accomplishment, and authority.

Matthew 7:13-23Three Thoughts on a Life in the Will of the Father: 1- The right gate is tied to my sight for the small, the ability to discern the straight and narrow, and a spirit that never gives up searching for more of God in my day to day life. The gate we enter to the Kingdom of God is through the life and example of Jesus... and there is a reason it says few will find it. What God has concealed, there is a kings reward for those who will search out and find. 2- Fruit remains is the goal of a rooted life in God. Good fruit is the product of right nutrients, sunlight, and pruning. A tree that does not embrace pruning will end up dead. There is a difference between a cutting back to produce, and a cutting down that results from death. Embrace the sun, get the right nutrients so the roots will grow, and embrace the pruning… this is the playbook of a good tree, with godo fruit … and a fruit that remains. 3- We can know His name, but not know Him. We can do miracles by His name, yet not know Him... we can prophesy by His name... and not know Him. Knowing Him is the rhythmic lifestyle of surrender, and being actively formed by the things He did; which merge us into the identity of Him. There is a difference in knowing the name of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus. He is the gate we enter that leads to life.

Matthew 7:1-123 WAYS TO EVALUATE HOW I TREAT AND VIEW OTHERS1- If you only notice specks in others and can’t remember the last time you recognized a log in yourself… there will be a “vision for your life” problem. We overestimate how much we can change others and under estimate how much we can change ourselves. Until you have learned to fix yourself with the lord, you won’t be entrusted to fix others for the lord.2-Stop asking for good things if the only thing that comes out of your mouth about God's creation is bad. Your treatment and view of God's creation has a direct connection to God’s treatment of you. Karma was in the scriptural story before it was ever on an instagram reel, or in an easter religion. How you treat others is how you will be treated. 3- The fulfillment of the old is the foundation of the new. We receive grace to give grace, we receive forgiveness to give forgiveness, we receive love to give love… ‘we love for he first loved us..’. You wont get new revelation if you can’t follow old instructions. We serve a God who wants to deal with the logs of our hearts before we deal with the specks of those around us and the society we live in. The fulfillment of a mature follower is as follows; how well do I give love? How well do I walk in love?

Matthew 6:25-34– Three Ways to unlock the jaw and drop the RPMS of Stress and Anxiety1- The bible says not to be worried, however… If you're undisciplined, you should be worried… because YOU WILL end up LIVING WORRIED. The only way we live without worry is to root our lives deeply in the one who clothes, feeds, and provides for our souls. If we do not have discipline, we will have stress, worry and anxiety. 2- Anxiety is an issue of worth. Jesus' response to man's need for food and clothing is to point to the birds and flowers and say, "are you not worth more than they?"... Rooting yourself into the ways of Jesus is designed to remind you of the worth you have in his eyes. If you know who you are to him, you know his capability.. Anxiety comes from a view of our own ability and control… peace comes from a life that knows i'm tied to his ability, and he’s in control.3- There is a difference between what you seek, and what God knows you need. Our seeking should look different than the worlds seeking, and if it doesn't you may have an anxiety problem. We must realize it is seeking first His kingdom, and His righteousness... that the problem of "all things" is taken from our hands and placed into His. If you want God to take care of all things in your life, but won’t seek first the kingdom and righteousness.. You will have anxiety.

Mark 16: 1-13Hebrews 12:7-114 Details from His Victory to Help Get Your Mind off of Your Defeats. 1- The stone has been rolled away. It is easier to act like the stone is still there than to live like the grave is empty. Only you can decide if you will live like the grave is uncovered… or if you cover the victory of Jesus with the stones of defeat and death you have had to walk through. 2- Where they laid him to die became the place he stands alive. Death has only ever been a symbol of defeat, Jesus makes it a symbol of victory. Are there areas of your life others have laid you to die… or you have even laid yourself to die in… that Jesus wishes to turn into a place you stand in victory.. What are you laying in today that Jesus wants you to leave behind by the power of his spirit, truth, grace and forgiveness?3- The discipline to develop your beliefs will determine your perspective of God's power available to you, that you then walk in. The rhythms of your behavior will dictate if you live in defeat or walk in victory. Doubt happens when healthy discipline isn't present, and a disciplined life in Christ determines if you see death every time you encounter a grave moment in life, or an opportunity to press into God for victory. 4- If the enemy can get you to think you serve a victorious king with a defeated mind and undisciplined life then he wins and he knows it. Our life in Christ is tied to the victory of the cross and the discipline of following the one who overcame it. A defeated and undisciplined mind and heart to the ways of Jesus rolls the stone in front of the grave, and places ourselves inside a dead existence. He rose, so you too may rise from whatever grave you have found yourself in.

Matthew 21:1-10John 12:18-19Matthew 21:12-14. 4 WAYS TO ENSURE YOU'RE NOT A PALM TREE WAVER AND COAT GIVER THAT MISSES THE MESSAGE AND KILLS THE MESSENGER. 1- Don’t forget “your king is coming to you” when you feel like you cannot come to him.. A gentle disposition is his heart for you.. Do you view him this way in your walk? 2- Salvation and suffering have been hand in hand since the blood purchased the life.. If you have a view of God that omits any type of suffering or hardship this is an incorrect view, for our faith is founded upon life, light and beauty that comes from death, darkness and ashes. 3- JESUS IS LORD OF ALL, NOT A POLITICAL HEAD OF STATE. We have too narrow a view of power, and narrower still of how God uses his.. If your heart is connected to an institution or person more than him, don’t be surprised if you're caught in the wrong place after you thought you gave your coat and waved the palm branch. 4- If we wanna wave the palm branches and lay our coats down, we are saying you have permission to reorient and reposition our personhood to the ways of being a faithful follower of only Jesus. Your no strings attached, full hearted trust in Jesus will be tested the moment you wave the branch and drop the coat... press into it.

MATTHEW 6:16-24 LUKE 4:1 LUKE 4:14HOW TO BE A “DO IT WHEN IT HURTS” FOLLOWER OF JESUS 1- WHATEVER YOUR DEPENDENT ON, GOD WILL TEST. HE LONGS TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, RATHER YOU ARE COVERED BY WHO YOU SERVE. FASTING IS ABOUT LOOKING AT THE THINGS WE NEED TO SURVIVE, AND SAYING I NEED TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE EVEN MORE SO. THE REWARD OF A LIFE THAT RHYTHMICALLY FASTS IS A MEMORIAL OF MOUNTAINS CLIMBED, AND BATTLES WON. 2- WHERE MY HEART IS, IS WHERE MY MONEY IS. WHERE MY HEART IS NOT.. IS WHERE MY MONEY IS NOT. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE. ONLY YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE A VIEW OF GOD AS YOUR SOURCE, SUPPLIER, SUSTAINER, AND PROVIDER... OR IF WE SING IT, AND SAY IT, BUT BACK OFF WHEN IT COSTS US (NO PUN INTENDED). 3- IF YOUR FAITH DOESN'T COST YOU RHYTHMICALLY, I WOULD CHALLENGE THE PERCEPTION OF HOW DEEP YOUR FAITH IS. IF GOD DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MY BANK ACCOUNT, HE DOESN'T HAVE FULL ACCESS TO MY HEART. THE WORS PLACE YOU CAN BE IS DEPENDING ON YOURSELF, THE BEST PLACE YOU CAN BE IS DEPENDING ON GOD... "THROUGH YOU" COMES BEFORE "TO YOU".

Join us as we hear from members of our community share testimonies, advice, and wisdom from their personal walks with God. Amanda: "Following the Voice of the Holy Spirit"Parker: "How to Trust the Lord Through Hardships" Jarell: "How Discipline Helped Me Press In" Noah: "How to Make It Through Difficulty"

Matthew 6:1-15 3 TESTS OF HIS KINGDOM HIS WILL OR MY KINGDOM MY WILL 1- Your secret relationship with money will determine A LOT about your secret relationship with God. Money is a tangible test of if I believe in building his kingdom, and submitting to his will… or if I’d rather focus on my kingdom and my will. There is a reward for those who will repeatedly do in secret what others do not see, because there is a promise that HE SEES AND HE REWARDS. 2- Your prayer life is not what others see, it’s what you do alone, in the quiet. There is a reward for this quiet, rhythmic, faithful commitment to a life of prayer. If you can remember more acts of sinning in secret than praying in secret there may be a “his kingdom but my will” theology present. Rewards from the secret will always be better than the affirmations of being seen. 3- The war you will fight everyday your eyes open; whose kingdom and whose will do you pursue? If it's his kingdom and his will, we must do the things he commands; both in public and in secret. Committing to the things that bring transformation, and pushing through the tension of sanctifying our flesh with his spirit and word. If it is our kingdom we want to come, and our will we want to be done.. Don’t be surprised if Jesus feels empty, boring, and distant. If we will not practice, he cannot produce.

Matthew 5:21-48HOW TO RAISE THE BAR ON MOTIVES, DESIRES, AND HEART POSTURES WE MUST CONFRONT ON THE JOURNEY TO KNOWING JESUS. 1- The bar is not too high, your view of yourself is too small. We drop the standards when we view them as unrealistic, not realizing we filter our reasoning through our own lens of what's possible or not, not God’s. The spirit has given you a new ability to become a new creation, it's your choice if you believe the lie of the flesh that says you can't change, this is just who you are. 2- You can fake words and actions; you can't fake motives, desires, and heart postures, this is why Jesus is this direct in this passage. Going through the motions and knowing the words to say doesn't show a changed life... it’s the little things we won't let slide anymore, the development of our desires to match his, developing our motives to not be purely selfish over time… It feels like perfectionism because it's so countercultural; this is the way of Jesus Christ. 3- Perfect is attainable; God wouldn’t set a target if he believed you couldn’t hit it. What we have to realize is the sight we aim through towards the target of perfected living is Jesus. The spirit that leads us in righteous/perfected living, the word that reveals the perfect law of God, and then following Jesus' model as a perfect person… Jesus didn't pay a high price for a low bar.

Matthew 5:13-20Jeremiah 31:33 Ezekiel 36:27 3 TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PASSAGE1- Salt can lose saltiness; and light can become darkness. Discipline is when you are regulating what the salt of your personhood tastes like, and if your light shines bright enough to be seen by those around you. You can’t go anywhere if you do not know where you are to start. The key to everything in the beginning is self awareness; becoming aware of what you need, and developing a plan to develop the weakness of the flesh into a strength of the spirit. 2- Good works are the measuring stick of how bright a light shines; those who carry out action that accomplishes something attractively good, inspiring, and beautiful. Would the works of your faith be described in this way? 3- How close you get to God will be no one else's choice but yours. There is no gatekeeper of the spirit, no select few who are allowed to read scripture. The old covenant was selective and controlled… The new rules allow all the right to become a child of God. It will be your choice how faithful you want to be, how deep you want to go, how close you want to get… how fixated you wish to become.

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Mark 1:40-45Leviticus 13:45-46HOW TO MAKE CHANGES THAT CHANGE1- There are 4 steps to change: First we must want to change. Second, we must develop goals and intentional framework to change. Third, we consciously and constantly regulate ourselves to maintain change. Four, we practice this cycle over an extended period of time, so much so that the change is done so many times consciously that it becomes an activity we do unconsciously. 2- There is a death to self part of change. A "carry the cross" part of change. A "I'm not looking for self help" type of change. This is a revelation, that it is not change you seek.... it is to be cleansed and made new. 3- Your creator cannot change and cleanse you until you know fully who your creator is; who Jesus is... he is benevolent.

Genesis 24:10-27Three tests that will determine if you live limited or limitless in Christ...1- The test of entitlement2- The test of hospitality3- The test of boredom

LUKE 8:5-15HOW TO CULTIVATE GOOD SOIL1- Good soil starts with plenty of water. 2- Good soil is positioned regularly to receive "Son" light. 3- Good soil requires tending and awareness, and that anything against the growth and sustainability of the plant being uprooted. 4- Good soil is a commitment over a long period of time to steward what is necessary for a seed to grow, it requires focused and meticulous patience.

Mark 10:46-52THE PRINCIPLES OF A FAITH THAT MAKES IT HAPPEN1- We all will have a condition in life, a status about our life, and a name unique to our life. How you form your identity will dictate more about your destiny than any other choice you make. 2- Your communication with Jesus must be built on an accurate viewpoint of who he is. He is a Messiah, Lord, Savior, or “Son of David”. But it is not so much the words we call him as much as it is if those are true in the deepest parts of our soul. Lip service is not always what the heart serves. 3. You cannot pick up the new things of God if you have not put off an old identity of what your life is currently or has been that you are holding on to. He has the power to heal, he has the power to give new purpose and meaning, but there is a tangible step of putting off the old we must undertake before he can ever lead us into new work of restoration, healing, and fulfillment. 4- Your faith has made you well is a reality you can live in as a believer.. The question is are you willing to build a life on Jesus that will make your life well. Through the obstacles, challenges, negativity, time constraints, and discomfort, are you willing to build. You can't have a faith that “makes you well” without a life that revolves around knowing his will, and doing his will.

1 Kings 18:41-46HOW TO BUILD FIST SIZED FAITH FOR 20241- Before you ever see the rains of provision, favor, and promise on your life there will be a test of if you will keep your head in between your knees when the timing feels off. The response of God to the cries of his children rarely meet our timeframes, and that's because he is reframing our existence back to dependency. Faith without dependence is like a car without a transmission. It will run, but it won’t get you anywhere. If the only prayer you are praying is for greater independence, don’t be surprised if the drought persists.2- God shows up more in the little things than the big. So often we are looking for huge signs, wonders, and miracles that confirm his grace and favor upon us. But when you train your eyes to believe in the ‘fist-sized’ you might come to find out that those become the fondest memories of faith in your life. When you believed something that no one else believed in, when you pursued God even when others said it was a waste… and you experienced a downpour of his presence and promise. This year, train your eyes to the small, and I believe you will experience the almighty.3- You may need to start sounding stupid and looking foolish in order to see the rain. Press into it. Humility is God's character attribute of choice for those who he uses greatly. Often we want to look like we know it all, have it all, and don’t need anyone or anything… and this is what causes the drought of our souls. In 2024 may we be a people who aren’t afraid of what others will say or think even if we may look foolish. Who knows… it might mean we call a fist sized cloud a monsoon, in the midst of 3 years of no water.

MATTHEW 1:18-25;2:1-12LUKE 2:1-20 3 REMINDERS OF GIFTS YOU SHOULD NEVER FORGET THAT ARE WRAPPED IN THIS STORY1- If your eyes are open, and your heart is open, he speaks profoundly, no matter who you are, and how far you are from him. 2- From the beginning his purpose has been you. Everything written, remembered, and spoken about is designed to get you to see; that it is all for a relationship with you. 3- There are two kings and kingdoms in this story, just as there are two kings in your story. These contrast each other as they fight for control of the outcome, and fight for control of the hearts of people. Kings we swear loyalty to in the fallen world will only fail. The choice of following the true king comes down to choosing the manger over the palace, the stable over the crown, the child over the man. These pictures do not make sense, but that is the beauty of it, to choose something that relinquishes control.... And makes your life, a life about him.

1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 AMP1. When it’s harder than I thought, will I stay all in where I’m at.2. I must learn to see past and get over the poop and the dirt and stay focused on the right things.3. With God my attitude is connected to my latitude.4. He was a servant to Elijah.5. Avoid the Trap of comparison.

Romans 5:1 NLT Philippians 4:6-7 NIV John 14:27 ESV John 16:7; 33 How to Unwrap the Gift of Peace Daily: Peace is found in a person Peace is accessible through prayer Peace knows there is a purpose Peace can be extended to other people Peace is in your pocket

John 11:1-44 Hebrews 4:14-16 He wants to shape you, not hurt you He can handle what you bring to the table You're His own & He loves you Reflection Time: Ask, Be, Rest