Shaken Awake

Get shaken awake with Michael Sanders of West Virginia, who was a former alcoholic. He experienced great abuse growing up; he was a drug addict, sex addict, and a pleasure seeker of all the wrong things life had to offer him, not to mention growing up with depression and anxiety disorders. God set him free from all the abuse, all his inflictions and all his addictions. And Michael is joining us today to give us one heck of a story of deliverance and being born again into the family of God.

The point of today’s episode is to Shake You Awake and Away from the deceptions and misdirection of the enemy – there are too many distractions created by the enemy to redirect, mislead, misdirect and deflect those that would otherwise be on the right path. God’s already won – the enemy has already been defeated, but as we see in today’s current state of the world, the enemy is on hyperdrive to take down and mislead as many to destruction, along with him, as he possibly can. We have the Guidebook and Guide, God and His Word, to prevent us from going astray. Take the blinders off and allow Him to lead you in both truth and knowledge. Stay on the straight and narrow path, that few find.

The forms may change and the temptations may vary. But the devil and his cohorts seek disrupt, distract and misdirect the people of God. We need to do whatever it takes to focus on the Word of God, worship the Lord, quiet the voices of distraction, and remove the misdirection of the enemy.

If you are not in the Word of God, you need to be there. If you are not in a place of vital worship, you need to get there. In the last passage in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught on the danger of getting distracted from the Word. "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." (Matthew 7:24-27)

Where is your CURRENT walk leading you to believe, to act, to place your hope, faith, happiness, peace, joy, and truth in? Is it of the world, or is of the Word? You can only serve one – which will you serve?

The point of today’s episode is to throw a pebble in your shoe to create an awareness of what we do with the time God has given us, once we become His children by being born again. The enemy is working overtime to create a life of creature comforts and selfish motives so that you are the one your serve, and not God. It’s real easy to do – just ask ME! I never realized that I was my idol for the first 41 years of my life, one that would’ve costed me an eternity in hell had I died before He pulled me out of the fire I was headed towards. It’s easier to take God’s hand and help those in need to produce the works that back up your faith, than it is to produce nothing, which shows your faith was dead to begin with.

The more rocks you throw into the middle of the lake, which represent your works (acts of service and kindness), the more that will produce the number of ripples that only God can count and use to perform His miracles.

How many ripples does YOUR faith produce?

The point of today’s episode is to throw a pebble in your shoe to create an awareness of what we do with the time God has given us, once we become His children by being born again. The enemy is working overtime to create a life of creature comforts and selfish motives so that you are the one your serve, and not God. It’s real easy to do – just ask ME! I never realized that I was my idol for the first 41 years of my life, one that would’ve costed me an eternity in hell had I died before He pulled me out of the fire I was headed towards. It’s easier to take God’s hand and help those in need to produce the works that back up your faith, than it is to produce nothing, which shows your faith was dead to begin with.

The more rocks you throw into the middle of the lake, which represent your works (acts of service and kindness), the more that will produce the number of ripples that only God can count and use to perform His miracles.

How many ripples does YOUR faith produce?

The point of today’s episode is to bring awareness and hopefully some clarity and peace above and beyond the chaos going on around us today. If you’re listening in and it’s still 2021, I need to go no further in explaining the chaos that is growing by the week. If you’re listening and it’s 2022 or beyond, I cannot imagine what you and I and we are facing – I have an idea though, and it makes 2021 look like a twisted fire drill. Like nothing. Like, had we only seen what was coming…we’d have done things a bit differently. Good news, that’s what has prompted me to speak today, and to ask God and The Holy Spirit to fill me with Their words, not mine, that They want you to hear. Some of what I’ll speak on today is already in your Bibles. Some of what I have to say is Brotherly advice based on the Bible’s teaching and where God is leading me to go with today’s message.

We have accurate accounts from Creation to now, as well as prophecy, both foretold and which has come to pass as well as prophecy which is unfolding, undeniably, in front of our very eyes. God’s never been wrong, and has never fallen on his promises – How much faith do you have in God vs. those around you, including establishments, government, vaccines, and false hope? What does YOUR BIBLE have to say to you about what you need to be doing during the signs of the end of times?

I suggest you start following it today, and putting your 100% faith in God and God alone. Those that didn’t place their complete faith in God in all the stories in the Bible, fell. Don’t be like them – let’s learn from God and from our History that He had and has documented for us.

Please join us in welcoming to the show a very special guest, a man of God, and a true example of God's glory and mercy as He has shaken awake and crated a great warrior for Christ in Matt Hardy. We learn a bit about how Matt's live was prior to being Shaken Awake by the Lord, how he lived life for himself, believing he was "saved" due to a number of alter calls and sinners’ prayers, but found out exactly what it means to serve God with all your heart, mind, soul, and body. You don't want to miss this episode and Matt's story - so strap yourself in for a very uplifting story about a great man of God and what he's doing for the Kingdom now.

The point of today’s episode is NOT to bash the church or those in it. The point of today is to hold a mirror to the churches (buildings and those in in) and ask, why don’t we see enough of Christ in them, and what are we missing that they’re not sharing.

So, this episode comes from several genuine and sincere places – 1.) what I’m hearing in the Christian community today, 2.) what I’m reading in God’s Word that was never taught to me in the churches growing up or today, and 3.) reflection about the first 41 years of my life where I ask myself – how come no pastor, church, or Christian every shared this wisdom and knowledge with me my entire life, that I’m now plainly staring at in my Bible in front of me?

We’re human. We want things. We need things. We’re creatures of habit, and we have emotional needs, spiritual needs, financial needs, nutritional needs, and social needs. We’re all after the same things, really, aren’t we? I mean, after all, at the end of our day, don’t we all want to feel appreciated, loved, cared for, joyful, peaceful, happy, fulfilled, without stress, enlightened, non-pressured, with meaning and purpose, and living a life worth living? I could go on for the next 10 minutes talking about what we all need and want. The problem is – we go searching for the pursuit of these needs and wants in the wrong places and people. The irony is three-fold – 1.) we spend our lives in pursuit of the very things we never get, 2.) we typically get the opposite, and 3.) the most astounding of them all – God has them in His hand holding them out in front of our faces all the time, but we don’t go after what we cannot see. Yes, you heard me right – we don’t go after what we cannot see! What do I mean by that? We don’t go after what we ourselves cannot see or achieve on our own, even though God has them readily available, in overflowing abundance for us, every waking moment of every single day!

Today, the world won’t read the Bible, because it’s busy reading YOU (the Christian). It is by your example that they will become thirsty for what you have, which is Jesus. And it’s not talk – it’s action. Faith without works is DEAD. Don’t let the devil place importance on worldly things and what you spend your time on over and above what God would have your spend your time and devotion on. Two different paths, two different outcomes.

God is worth what percent of your day? What percent are you willing to give to the One who died for you, rose again, defeated sin and death, and offers free salvation and grace to everyone who will love and obey Him?

Take it from one who was one for 41 years of his life – Being a lukewarm Christian is so dangerous, because you blend in with everybody and impact nobody.

When everything around you is pleasureful and inviting, who wants to get sucked up into rules, righteous living, and put away self for the sake of our Savior? You see, what they don’t realize is – everything you ever wanted, and MORE that you didn’t even realize is real, is all and only found in Jesus! Everything everyone wants, ultimately, is to feel loved, to feel appreciated, to feel valued, to feel true peace, true joy, true happiness, and which doesn’t fade, but only grows stronger. And like the saying goes, everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die. But here's a news flash: EVERYONE DIES, but only a very few will enter Heaven. Oh, now the saying has a different twist, doesn’t it? It sure does. What we do NOW, TODAY, what we do TOMORROW, and the NEXT Day, who we choose to follow and worship dictates our eternity.