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God is not into recycling.

He does not take the worlds discarded and patch them up. He is strictly into make old things a new creation.

The Apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18 NKJV).

The whole concept of being born again (John 3:3-7) and the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:3-7) is that you become a whole new species through the miraculous working of God.

You were once a sinner, living by the passions of the flesh and the pleasures of the world. Your heart was filled with bigotry, envy, jealousy and bitterness. Through the miraculous work of new birth imparted by the power of God, you have become a saint.

You are now living in true righteousness and holiness by the power, motivation, direction and discipline of the Holy Spirit.

You are not just a sinner saved by grace because if you are a sinner you are not saved. If you are saved by grace you certainly are not a sinner.

Once you were a sinner, but now, you are saved by grace.

Once you were alien and not a part of the Kingdom of God, but now, you are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and adopted in the family of God.

That same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead now lives in you and He has made you a son or a daughter of God; an heir and join-heir with Jesus Christ. You are blessed “…with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:3-6 NKJV).

Jesus Christ said, “For I have come that they might have life and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

Abundant living means living a life of wholeness or completeness. James wrote, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Two things happen to you when you begin seeking God with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength.

When learn to live by the power of the Holy Spirit so that He directs your life, something begins to happen.

You begin to love heaven more, and year for Jesus' second coming.

You love the world less, and everything it has to offer.

These become natural to you.

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Dr. F. Dean Hackett has served in full-time Christian ministry since October 1971. He has ministered throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, serving as pastor, conference speaker and mentor. He has planted four churches, assisted in planting 15 others and currently serves as lead pastor of Living Faith Church in Hermiston, Oregon. Dr. Hackett founded Spirit Life Ministries International in 2001 to facilitate ministries in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina and to open a training center for workers in those nations.

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God wants us to stop being driven by our emotions and begin directing our emotions so that our thoughts align with what His Word says.

He wants us to stop our stinkin' thinkin' and transform our thoughts and emotions so they express the fruit of the Spirit!

When you start doing this, God will begin pouring out blessing into your life. More than you can contain!

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  • Becoming Ambassadors for Christ
  • Father's Promise
• Join the Leadership Development Institute
• Join me at 10 AM PST every Sunday morning at my online Worship service

About Dean

Dr. F. Dean Hackett has served in full-time Christian ministry since October 1971. He has ministered throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, serving as pastor, conference speaker and mentor. He has planted four churches, assisted in planting 15 others and currently serves as lead pastor of Living Faith Church in Hermiston, Oregon. Dr. Hackett founded Spirit Life Ministries International in 2001 to facilitate ministries in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina and to open a training center for workers in those nations.

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Sometimes we allow the stuff of life distract us, and down the road we remember the commitments we once made, and it feels like the great things that led to that commitment have faded.

We have to stick to the commitments we made. We need "stick-to-it-evness".

We need to commitment that in this hedonistic, post-modern culture, we're going to live a life of holiness and purity.

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About Dean

Dr. F. Dean Hackett has served in full-time Christian ministry since October 1971. He has ministered throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, serving as pastor, conference speaker and mentor. He has planted four churches, assisted in planting 15 others and currently serves as lead pastor of Living Faith Church in Hermiston, Oregon. Dr. Hackett founded Spirit Life Ministries International in 2001 to facilitate ministries in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina and to open a training center for workers in those nations.

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Choose to Live by the Power of the Holy Spirit

God wants you to live in the fullness of His blessing. But there is an enemy that comes to steal, kill, and destroy that we must deal with.

If, as in Colossians says, we are complete in Him, not barely getting by.

In today's podcast I talk about a famous parable of Jesus that teaches us about how to live in God's full blessing, and how to not get robbed by the enemy of our souls.

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  • Becoming Ambassadors for Christ
  • Father's Promise
• Join the Leadership Development Institute
• Join me at 10 AM PST every Sunday morning at my online Worship service

About Dean

Dr. F. Dean Hackett has served in full-time Christian ministry since October 1971. He has ministered throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, serving as pastor, conference speaker and mentor. He has planted four churches, assisted in planting 15 others and currently serves as lead pastor of Living Faith Church in Hermiston, Oregon. Dr. Hackett founded Spirit Life Ministries International in 2001 to facilitate ministries in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina and to open a training center for workers in those nations.

I was introduced to the gospel of Jesus Christ while in high school.

My life was radically changed, July 3, 1964, during a family camp in Sanders, Idaho. After coming home from that camp I would occasionally visit the home of some new friends made at the camp.

Jim became a very good friend.

His dad was a pastor on the north side of Spokane, Washington. Dale and his wife were the youth leaders at the church in Spokane Valley where I was attending regularly. He worked for Armor Meats in Spokane.

Going to the home of these two friends was an amazing experience for me.

Walking into their house was like walking into a sanctuary. There was an atmosphere very different from anything I had known. The light in the house was brighter.

I heard George Beverly Shea for the first time at Jim’s house.

His mom loved the music of this man who sang for Billy Graham. I heard intercessory pray for the first time while visiting Dale’s home.

It was more than the music or hearing someone praying, it was a powerful awareness of being in a holy place.

There was peace, yet more than peace, it was serenity. This was totally foreign to me, but fully aware this was a Christian home. While, uncomfortable at first, it was good and I was drawn to their presence more and more.

I wanted what they had in my life.

That is what Jesus was talking about when He said:

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:13-16 NKJV).

The light was shining bright in these homes. It revealed how much darkness was in my own.

The salt was very tasty in these godly families and I wanted more.

That is what our Lord was talking about.

Every disciple is to be a sanctuary, the

March 1620, a Native American named Samoset came into the Plymouth colony.

He told them about another Native American named Squanto. These two men became significant in the life of the Plymouth colony.

They introduced the leaders of the colony to the leader of the Indians in that area, Massasoit.

William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrims, described the event in this way in his journal entitled The Plymouth Settlement.

After some time of entertainment, being dismissed with gifts, in a little while he returned with five more, and they brought back all the tools that had been stolen, and made way for the coming their great Sachem, called Massasoyt, who about four or five days after, came with the chief of his friends and other attendanctgs and with Squanto. With him, after friendly entertainment and some gifts, they made peace which has now continue for twenty-four years:

William Bradford, Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650 Original Manuscript Entitled Of Plymouth Plantation, rendered into modern English by Harold Paget 1909 (San Antonio: Mantle Ministries 1988) 79-80

These were the terms:

1. That neither he nor any of his, should injure or harm any of their people.
2. That if any of his did any harm to any other theirs, he should send the offender, that they might punish him.
3. That if anything were taken away from any of theirs, e should cause to be restored; and they should do the like to his.
4. If any made unjust war against him, they would aid him; if any made war against them, he should aid them.
5. He should send to his neighboring confederates, to certify, them of this, that they might not wrong them but might be likes comprised in the conditions of peace.
6. That when their men came to them, they should leave their bows and arrows behind them.

Some historical records document this treaty went beyond the 24 years of Bradford’s records into 60 years of peace.

The peace pact was broken by another tribe of Native Americans that was either discontent or did not agree with the treaty being signed in the first place.

Professor Mookgo Solomon Kgatle of the University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History, and Missiology, is a prolific writer.

In 2016 he authored, The influence of Azusa Street Revival in the early developments of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. He wrote in the introduction of that paper,

This article demonstrates the influence of Azusa Street Revival in the early developments of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa. This will be done by studying the Azusa Street Revival in context, the role played by William Sey- mour and the characteristics of the Revival. The article also studies the

Halloween has been controversial for decades and it's roots entirely in paganism.

So the question is, "Should we be celebrating Halloween?"

Many in the church today say you shouldn't celebrate Christmas, because of the verses in the Old Testament about sacrificing to idols "under every green tree".

This has nothing to do with ghosts and goblins and ghouls.

Halloween has its roots back in the 3rd century A.D., in Ireland the New Year started on November 1 and the spiritualists believed that October 31 was the night when all of the spirits would roam around.

The Roman Catholic Church picked it up and changed November 1 to All Saints' Day.

The pagans would build bonfires to keep the spirits away.

But, while Satan has the dark side of Halloween to propagate darkness and paganism, there is another side to Halloween that we need to look at.

Fast forward from the 3rd century A.D. to 16th century A.D.

Martin Luther was a Catholic monk and a preacher of the gospel, ordained in a very backslidden church. By this time the church was a thousand years in an era when many men had tried to bring revival back to the church.

• The Waldensians - Printed the Bible in the language of the general public
• Francis Assisi
• John Hus
• Girolamo Savonarola

All of whom, besides Francis Assisi, were martyred for preaching the gospel.

In Martin Luther's search for God began studying the book of Romans and discovered that salvation is by grace alone.

By this time the Church was selling people's salvation by way of indulgences.

They could drink, be immoral, be evil and wicked, and participate in every kind of darkness, but if they came and paid the church their sins would be forgiven.

This is the scene into which Martin Luther made his appearance and he picked a very interesting day to launch his protest.

He wrote a document with 95 reasons why the church was not preaching the true gospel.

He took them and walked to the door of the church and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

And the date he picked to do this was October 31.

The day that Satan established as his holy day, Martin Luther captured and brought back as a day of revival and reformation!

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The Father's promise to the disciples as he ascended into heaven was that very soon they'd be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Who is the Holy Spirit?

What is His role in our lives today?

Is the baptism of the Holy Spirit still valid today? If so, how does one go about being baptized with the Holy Spirit?

Is the gift of tongues for today?

How should a believer baptized in the Holy Spirit edify the body of Christ?

These are all very important questions that should be asked by every believer who seeks to possess everything that God has for Him.

While there are those would want to tell you that the gifts of the Holy Spirit died out with the Apostles, Scripture clearly shows us that this isn't the case.

And Scripture clearly tells us that the Holy Spirit works and operates in the lives of believers today.

This is why I wrote Father's Promise, a Bible study on the Holy Spirit.

Father's Promise is a comprehensive study that takes you through both the Old and New Testaments to provide you a solid foundation for understanding who the Holy Spirit and what His role was and still is today.

In Father's Promise you will learn:

• How a person receives the Holy Spirit
• What is the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit
• What is the work of the Holy Spirit in sanctification
• What are the manifestation gifts in the life of a believer
• Why the Holy Spirit is important in your life
• How to walk in the Spirit

and so much more!

Father's Promise is

The Pentecostal movement is at a breakpoint moment.

She has never faced such a challenge in the one hundred and thirteen years of her history. It is the making of a perfect storm spiritually, with cultural pressure from without and ecclesiastical pressure from within.

This hedonistic, pluralistic cultural of relativism is no longer demanding the church to be tolerant and sensitive to the new norms, but to embrace them or be labeled as intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, and extremist.

The Equality Act of 2019 that has passed the U.S. Congress and is now in the Senate increases that pressure exponentially.

At the same time this cultural pressure is reaching unimaginable proportions the Pentecostal movement has a new generation of spiritual leaders that have never experienced authentic revival and spiritual awakening, but have been educated from kindergarten through university in a post-modern system.

Their entire education and training have been within a system that has rewritten history and moral values.

Even within our Christian universities the influence of Christianity upon U.S. history and the significant impact revival movements have made upon our culture has been rewritten.

This is a very toxic spiritual cocktail.

It has created a spiritual prism vastly different from their spiritual grandfathers who gave birth to the Pentecostal outpouring at the turn of the twentieth century and the spiritual fathers and mothers who came to faith and the baptism of the Holy Spirit during the Jesus People Movement and the Charismatic Renewal.

We are facing a challenging task..

Current spiritual trends in the Spirit-filled church do not give a solid foundation for the next generation.

Forty-six percent (46%) of born again millennials, those who are twenty-three years old to thirty-eight years old, believe the Bible is the actual Word of God and should be taken literally, word for word.

That is not a strong spiritual pool from which to raise up the new generation of leaders in the Pentecostal movement.

The framework being built on this foundation is just as weak.