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Mark 16:1-8

John 20:11-17

John 19:25

How 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 21:1-11

John 12:18-19

How to Not Get Left in the Dark, When You're Looking for the Light:

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"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 3:14-22

How 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 19:31-37

1 John 5:5-8

Matt 3:11

Acts 2:1-4

Numbers 5:21-22

A Deep Dive on the Blood, Water, and Fire

1 - 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 3:1-17

Understanding 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 NLT

Deuteronomy 7:21-22 NLT

Psalms 37:23 NLT

Proverbs 4:18 NLT

Galatians 6:9 AMPC

Galatians 4:4 NLT

Hebrews 5:8-9 NLT

1 Timothy 1:12 AMP

Colossians 3:23-24 AMP

1. 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 2:1-10

James 1:2-4–

Hebrews 13:5-6

Deuteronomy 31:6-8

How 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 8:1-11

Leviticus 20:10

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

How 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 AMPC

Matthew 13:24-30 NLT

Proverbs 19:3 NLT

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 NLT

1. 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 15:11-24

How 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.