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This message started its life out as a 4-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is four into one.

This message is about the value of reading your Bible, the steps for gaining revelation from the Word, and an example or two of what the maturity process looked like in the times of Jesus. If you have a Bible reading plan that is working then I would ask that you not toss it out. It is working or in other words you are growing from the exercise of reading and applying what it says the way you are studying it so why change. Changing your reading plan won’t make you more committed to change, you have to want to change. One of the most motivating things for me to want to change is to look at the difference between my life and the life of Christ. When I have loathed and gagged to googling enough, I am more open to allowing the Word to transform my thinking and being. 

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This message started its life out as a 3-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is three into one.

Welcome to the truth about death. It is not the end of life per say as D-Com defines it. Yes but no. you see death can concurrently be titled the finish line of this life, and the starting line of our new life. Now I must say that this new definition only applies to the authentically born again believer. Oh but yes it also applies to those who are voluntarily not saved, but after the end of this life, they enter into a new space, and I fret to call it life, but they will be alive in hell. And so but even now you can change that with a quick listen of my other messages so that this is no longer your destiny. 

I use the term door in this message to describe a crossing over if you will. Earth life exists on one side of the door and heavenly life on the other. Yes at some point the door will no longer exist because the option of choice will be extinct. Find out in your listening if death is not now killing your assigned purpose in God while you are still living on the earth side of the door.   

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This message started its life out as a 2-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is two into one.
This is my forth message on a topic that is near and dear to my heart because of wonderful unimaginable exciting experiences it affords when intentionally managed and addressed as a battle. I actually will have finished it before my third message on the same subject but so be it. 

I say again with a twist and that is that this subject is so near and dear to my heart because of its destructive force when it is used by the devil to bring people into an oppressively constricting and totally darknessing bondage that is difficult to break and escape from. If I could use deeper darker experlatives which by the way sounds better than explicatives, I would, but I think I ran out right then. 

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This message started its life out as a 3-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is three into one.

This is not a story about UFC fishermen, a wayward boating trip, Jesus Caspering His disciples; nope, this is about understanding that if you call for something to enter into a decision, circumstance or situation and you are not getting the results that you are expecting, which is Jesus results, as those are the results we should all expect, then take a look at your words and thoughts in that very moment and deal with them. Ask yourself, “What have I invited to this decision, to this comment, to my response to this situation?” Change what you speak to a situation and you will get different results. The situation will obey like the rock, trees, winds and waves, yes the donkey, even the donkey. LOL

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This message started its life out as a 2-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is two into one.

Yeah baby we are truly in it to win it. Now...do you have any idea as to what I am talking about? Nope, because I am known to mislead you to the truth. See I just did it. 
 
 This should be named, "How Committed Are You To The Things Of God?" but that would have been too direct and it lacks the boom ba to peak your interest. So enough about the title. 
 
 So how committed are you to the things of God? Well, if you didn't know it matters, and matters a whole lot, way more than you might initially have thought, then you should take a listen. Being a Christian is like a real thing that so few, even Christians, are unaware of. 
 
 Be aware, don't get caught off guard and you won't fall asleep in the Garden.  

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This message started its life out as a 2-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is two into one.

Yes of course all supernatural power that exists comes from God. But we know that we are given supernatural power to do the work of God, and all I am saying is that so is satan. It is important for us to know what power is being used in that moment, and who is using it being god or the devil. No not like real them, but who is God or satan using to display their power on earth. I thought that this message may be helpful to the believer that is not aware that the battle is fought in supernatural realms, using supernatural power or same, same, supernatural weapons. If you do not have the Holy Spirit, then you are walking around the battle theatre with weapons but no ammo. Hummm....good luck? I don't even know what to say of that thinking given it is written in the Bible that we would be given weapons which are mighty for pulling down strongholds. Lock in load you are in war Christian soldier!

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This message started its life out as a 4-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is four into one.

It is my belief that the Bible is for 3-people groups and I say this because I also believe that there are only three people groups in existence. 

I also want to share before I begin that I had initially considered to distinguish each of the three people groups separately, but then decided against it as I wanted to leave the distinguishing to you. In your reading you should be able to see which of the three people groups a person is in be it in the Bible or those in your life. When the bible states to test every spirit it in essence is telling us to know our audience (1 John 4:1). We need to be able to distinguish who we are addressing so that our responses can be measured according to what they can receive from us. If you end up in a conversation with someone who cannot hear and cannot see the things of God then there is a response that would be most effective for that person. I have gone to meetings where the ill-equipped believer who was not equipped for the work of their ministry was trying to win the devil to the church and Jesus. Now before you pass judgement on that situation you should consider the effectiveness of your church in your community. Does it operate in miracles, signs and wonders? Does it have a supernatural testimony in the community? Are all of the peeps being equipped for the work of ministry? Do you focus more on having spiritual babies (preaching the gospel and inviting lost souls through the doors of your church), than on raising the parents to care for the babies you already have? …

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This message started its life out as a 2-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is two into one.

Who wins in your decisions? The “dumb” you who often acts independently in a spirit of pride and inflated self-confidence, or the “wise” you that seeks to communicate and involve others who are added wisdom in your decision making endeavors? Did you know that the “dumb” you is at war with the “wise” you? Did you know that the “lack of understanding knowledge” part of you, and we can all, at some point in time, fall into that box, is at war with the “current level of understanding of the knowledge that you have, knowledgeable” you? Yes, the twin sisters named “stupid” and “dumb” are at war with you, attacking your communication center. What? Don't have wars in the natural that tell us that communication or the lack thereof wins or loses wars? Listening, hearing, and seeing, when in action are the greatest weapons we have for fighting this war. So now you know that one of the greatest battles you will face is making wise decisions over dumb ones. And the results you got will tattle and tell you who was zooming who. Look…

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This message started its life out as a 2-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is two into one.

So is this a message about attending the life or cell group of Jesus? Yes and well no but yes. You see you cannot see, and well you hear but are tone deaf to his voice, that is unless you are BORN AGAIN. I wonder how many young people have never even heard this saying, “born again?” I think the older generation that may have grown up in the church may grow to believe that everyone knows what this means. However, the past generation did not do as good of a job as the previous one as church became secondary to the American way of life. The women entered into the workplace and although unintentional or born out of necessity, they had others raising their children. And if both work then both come home tired and ill equipped to bible on through the rest of the evening. 

No this in not a chat about women in the workplace – just one man’s perspective as to how we leaned away from teaching our kids about God and the things of God, and fortunately for me time has proven me right, a position I could care less about.   

You know what they say, if you want it get it! Listen up!

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This message started its life out as a 4-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is four into one.

So we often hear about the “cost” to be a Christian, an authentically born-again on fire for God Christian, not those other peep Christians. And we are in many ways left to determine what that means. For example culture plays a role in defining costs as believers back in the way day seemed to pay a much higher price than we do in America for example. Surely not in all cases, but it has been a minute since we have heard or read about a Christian getting pulled a part because they believe in the Son of eternal life. In fact Jesus has never been so welcome considering the version getting handed out today. Oh but wait before you jump off your sofa. First give a listen to this entire series and tell me I am wrong in my assessment. This steak is going to need some wine time so be prepared least to whine. You know I love you but something has to change and I think it should be you and I.  

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