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Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Hey I have been telling you about a new channel that myself and Cheri Milton Marriage and Family therapist are starting specifically now for relationships. We started loading content this week on all channels… called Mingle, Mate and Marry. So Today I am going to give you a little taste. 

 

5 things Men must know about women:

1. Women want to feel loved unconditionally 

Many women feel insecure - not about how they look as much as about our love for them.

Reassure her. 

Pursue her. 

Woo her

 

2. Women want to know… you are trying to understand. Trying to connect, trying to make the relationship a priority. 

 

3. Women want to feel protected - we call it secure, but it actually is protection… do they feel protected enough to share their feelings, emotions, do they feel protected enough to tell you what they feel you need to work on. 

Do they feel protected by how you spend money, budget, deal with your kids…

 

 

4. Women want to feel felt not fixed.

 

Don’t fix them, feel them… try to feel how they feel. Can you listen, replay and then tell them a time you felt the same way. 

 

5. Women want to feel beautiful.

Not to everybody… but definitely from you.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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There are quite a few boys in the gym and by boys I mean ages 17-25 who come up to me and ask me for advice on lifting. One young man in particular is trying hard to stand out, find his place… he suffers tragically with self esteem and awkwardness, but doesn’t see it. When he does come to the gym, he kind of works out, he brings a young girl with even less self esteem as him along. He points out how to lift, when to lift, why he isn’t so strong that day… etc.. But he will forever come up to me and ask me questions about lifting… he will share with me what new routine he is doing… always from some person on instagram. He will ask me why his deadlift isn’t going up, or how to help his lock out on bench. And I will graciously tell him what to do… But I know he won’t do it. So I finally  got to a place where I said “look skippy, you don’t do what I tell you to do, so just keep lifting and you will figure it out, but Im out of advice”. He just passed it off and said yea ok cool. 

Don’t you hate when people ask you advice and they don’t do it? 

You know we often ask God for advice… but here is the problem - he doesn’t give advice. He gives truth… pure solid, unapologetic truth. We don’t get to choose wether it its the truth or not, wether it is good advice or not… we only get to choose if we will do it or not. If we don’t do it, we have simply chosen to live a lie. 

he is not a counselor 

a consultant

An advice column writer

He is not a hunch or a magic spell book looking for the verse that best fits our problem and our answer…

HE IS GOD. 

Lets state the not so obvious… you don’t need faith to obey God. WHAT? Oh we need faith o please God, we need faith in his word and faith in who he says he is, and we need faith to move mountains… but to simply obey him???? no faith required. WE see the ten commandments needed no faith to obey, When Christ gave the 2 commandments… love the Lord your god with all your mind body strength, soul spirit… and love your neighbor as yourself… Don’t need faith to understand them or obey them. We just need to do them. 

I think sometimes I must be that 17 year old kid that walks up to God in the gym and says “hey I uh don’t seem to have as much intimacy as i want… whadddya think I should do?” And he rolls his eyes and says “have you thought about rather than listening to music all day long you listen to the bible, and spend a little more time listening to my still small voice. And maybe try to serve your wife more and not complain so much… And I say… oh yea, well right now I am trying harder and just hoping my wife gets a better attitude… blah blah blah… And god just shakes his head and says… whatever…

I come up to him again and try to ask him some more advice and he says “look you don’t need another faith routine, you don’t need another book or seminar routine, you don’t need another spiritual revelation, illumination or rationalization… you just need obedience.

oh… yea, but that’s not fun and its all on me…

Yep, its all on you.

Read pray and obey, every day… do that and you won’t need much advice from God, you will be to busy obeying him.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Think for a second all the factors that go into serving God in the perfect mix. You have passions, dreams, desires, natural talents, gifting, spiritual gifting, abilities, skills, not to mention family upbringing and life history… all play a part in you finding the “fit” for serving God at your best level possible. 

 

CHOOSE YE THIS DAY… THE STATE YOU WILL SERVE IN

Josh. 24:15 14 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

 

 

NOW I WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU TODAY WITH THIS THOUGHT… SERVING GOD IS MORE THAN CHOOSING TO FOLLOW HIM…. 

IT IS SERVING HIM WITH YOUR GIFTS, TALENTS, PASSIONS, DREAMS, abilities, and so forth

 

 

*Have you ever wondered about those people who seem to be able to use everything they are good at, everything they are passionate about, everything they are naturally talented at… They find a place to use it for God. Its like they just naturally always fall into a place where God can use them… the truth is, it may look that way, But I find more often than not - they have gone through plenty of preparation, problems and patches of hard times… but if you don’t give up, in time it can be truly an amazing experience 

 

How God creates our perfect niche 

Paul - 13 years of prep

Joseph… Had a vision, told the wrong people

God taught him in every poor circumstance… even being the youngest of 11 brothers…

He was hated by his brothers

He was sold into slavery

Sold again to a General 

He was falsely accused

He was jailed

He was forgotten

BUT HE KEPT USING HIS GIFTS, PASSIONS, ABILITIES FOR GOD. 

IT ALL CULMINATED IN HIS PERFECT POSITION

Where he became 2nd in command of the whole then known world.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Simon says is one of the stupidest games ever created… I hate playing it, I hate putting it on, I hate watching it, I just hate it. And why? Because simon says so. 

 

 

All through out the bible we see where God calls people to do something and many times he provides methods, means, materials, masses… And then… sometimes he does provide… but it just doesn’t seem enough… a few fish and a few pieces of bread for 12K people… and many times God asks us to do things and he provides us with nothing… no money, no support, no provision, no vision, no back up plan, no talent, no supernatural gifting, no history to fall back on for confidence - he almost asks us to do something out of a total void. But what he does ask us is to do is the one thing that only you can do and that is obey. 

 

 

As William Mierop wrote, and I quote “in John 15, the secret of abounding is abiding, the secret of abiding is obeying and the secret of obeying is abandonment. 

You just abandon yourself if in trusting him… you just obey and not worry about the why or how.

 

Look I have learned early on that life is just plain hard. It just sucks sometimes… period. It just has seasons of waking up with a truck parked on your chest and your stomach on fire… 

But on top of that if you make dumb decisions… spending money you don’t have, having children out of wedlock, always showing up late to work, looking at porn, lying, gossiping, laziness… You compound lifes hardships X’s a 1000.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 sums it up like this: "Obey and you will be blessed. Disobey and you will be cursed.”

If I could add a pre-verse to this (and Im not adding to scripture) But if I could … or lets just say I am going give pre-commentary to this… I would add before this verse… life is brutal, but if you obey you will be blessed despite of it and if you disobey its brutality we will turn volcanic. 

But what really is obedience… 

Have you ever tried to set up rules for kids to follow… but they can always find a way to manipulate the rules…

You say Don’t eat any more cookies until you have supper and its only 1 in the afternoon. You come down 20 minutes later and they are eating cookies… but let you know they ate supper early like 5 minutes ago and now they are having cookies…

 

We can always manipulate our obedience or lack thereof - 

But rule following is not truly the fullest concept of obedience in scripture. What is?

its the idea of positioning oneself under someone by submitting to their authority and command. We choose to revere them in our behavior.

Rather than saying to God “ok, give me the rules and I will try to live by them”. its more of a “Yo, you got this, I will follow your lead. Im under you Big G”.

We submit to his leading and not just his rules.

So in part we must know him, to hear him in order to obey him. OR IN FACT, we must know him to trust him and hear him to obey him.

 

Look when I was in 8th grade I went to a Christian camp and we we’re playing simon says… the point to the actual strategy was which leader could get the other teams kids out the fastest in the least amount of moves. So my leader of team Boanerges aka sons of thunder had to call the shots for the other team to see how fast he could get them to all fail. And in turn their leader had to call out the orders for our team to do and they had to see how fast they could get us to fail…

Except the other teams leader cheated… well not really but she did. oh did I mention She… as in a college age girl, blond bombshell, tennis shorts and top perfect smile… 

look we were in 7th grade people… give us a break. But the point is, we were so enamored by this innocent, beautiful smily girl we were out in about

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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in 1978 Giovanni D’Arco of Italy was sitting comfortably by her fireplace when a spark jumped out and caught her clothes on fire… tearing them off she dodged being severely burned… the irony is that her name in Italian actually means Joan of Arc… 

You do know how Joan of Arc died right?

 

It only takes a spark to get a woman glowing… 

 

Im not here today to talk about martyrs, but rather the irony of life and following Christ. What do I mean? 

 

In life we all have pictures of what a Christian looks like. Or maybe more what a super Christian looks like… ok, I will simmer it down a little, just a solid Christian looks like. And my question would be what does he or she look like???

 

You know John the Baptist gave heavy warning to the messiahs coming. he even said he was unworthy to untie his sandals… He belted out and belittled the religious leaders of the day… saying Jesus would come with fire and power from the Holy Ghost.. Gods spirit himself. he ate locust, he ate honey, he wore a leather belt and camels hair… in the summer…. really? Thats a bad dduuude. People came out to see him, he shouted repent, you are a sinner, he challenged all… he was totally the opposite of Jesus, In fact as Larry Osbourne points out in his book “Contrarains guide to knowing God” he said even Jesus and Johns disciples we’re confused at who which what where… who is the one to follow, who is the right one? Who is living out the solid Christian walk per se’. 

Johns disciples came to Jesus and asked are you the one? 

and Jesus disciples came to him and asked how could this John Dude, be in his right mind.

But Jesus makes no bones about it… he says the Father is greatly pleased with John. 

Lets get back to irony right… Jesus said we will be greater than John… John said he was the least and shouldn’t even take of Jesus sandals… Lets throw the apostle Paul in the mix… he is sooo arrogant he tells his audience to be like me… follow my example… 

So should we be like Peter, bold loud mouth, should we be like John and meek, mild and thought himself to be Gods favorite? Should we be young and naive and a little impetuous like Timothy? Should we be highly detailed like Luke… 

The irony is its not who you should be… it is truly about the fruit. Forget the pattern, forget the idol of the latest Christian talking head, Are you producing fruit? and if not, maybe its more about you trying to be somebody you are not. Look, if you know me you know I am a loud mouth, I am bold, mouthy, I can come across arrogant… but I believe (and with the help of my mentors and accountability partners) I am producing lasting fruit. Leading people to Christ, seeing healings and manifestations, disciplining people into full fledged followers of Christ.

Here is a simple prayer for today… god give me the freedom to be who you want me to be… and give me a piece of fruit to lead me… and by that I mean have peace and see fruit.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Hypocrisy is the homage (reverence) that vice (evil) pays to virtue (righteousness)… ouch. So true. 

 

Hypocrisy versus life

You call me master and obey me not

YOu call me light and see me not

you call me the way and walk not

You call me life and desire me not

you call me wise and follow me not

you call me fair and love me not

you call me rich and ask me not

you call me eternal and seek me not

you call me gracious and trust me not

you call me mighty and honor me not

you call me just and fear me not

If I condemn you, blame me not. 

For I am the consequence of hypocrisy 

 

The problem isn’t your hypocrisy… and the problem isn’t my hypocrisy… the problem is that neither of us can see our own hypocrisy. As John Milton wrote in paradise lost (book 3) For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, it is the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone. 

 

A book came out years ago by Dan Kimball, I did not read it, but the title was they love Jesus, they just don’t like the church. And I get it, and again I have not read it… I have heard Dan speak and he seems legit… but my thoughts on this are simple…

The world will hate us and love us at the same time for different reasons.

I stand for God and the world hates my views.

I love like God - i.e. give sacrificially to those in need, love the unlovable, pray and heal the outcast, seek out the sinner and love them even while they reject me… I love like God and they applaud me.

 

What I am talking about is, we are imperfect beings trying to serve and uphold a perfect love, a perfect message and a perfect example. Sounds somewhat unattainable… we are in a sense set up to be hypocritical with that goal in mind… yet that is the goal.

what should we do?

Here is the cure to hypocrisy… ready… its not hard.

Honesty + Openness + forgiveness 

If I am honest with myself and realize I am a hypocrite in many ways - THAT I DONT EVEN SEE, If I am open with others and without reservation let them know I blow it, I blew it, I will blow it again… and then simply ask then to forgive me and ask God to forgive me… you can’t really be called a hypocrite if you follow that full equation. 

Oh sure you can still be hypocritical, we all are, but no one will label you an outright hypocrite - at least not any sane person. 

 

From straight talk counseling:

At the root of hypocrisy is fear and low self-esteem. We use hypocrisy to avoid looking at our shortcomings and figure out our part in it. It typically stems from a sincere belief that we should not be held to the same standards as others because we have better intentions. Our belief is juster, nobler, and sincerer.

 

I believe this to be accurate… but what does scripture say in return? 

 

Rom. 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. i.e. hypocrisy 

23. For we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God

We are all hypocrites.

 

Next time your around people you are trying to win to Christ… be honest with them in a moment of vulnerability and tell them you are trying to represent Christ as best you can, and if they see any hypocrisy you would love for them to kindly point it out to you…

You may be surprised, when we are honest about our hypocrisy, it allows others to see theirs… and that is when they are open to the gospel.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Were you a pew sleeper? My son just posted a picture and story line of a young kid sleeping under a pew… oh how I can relate. And so can my boys. I loved the fact that they wanted to be at Youth group at the age of 5… when church was open we we’re there. 

 

 

When I was a kid we went to church a whoooole lot. And I mean almost every day. My father was the pastor and we had services Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, Saturday morning get togethers.. Now you may say that still doesn’t seem real excessive… oh did I mention I grew up right across from our church… I was there every day. Sometimes when my mom could not get my dad to pick up the phone or it was busy, she would send me over to get him. I probably was at church 4-10 times a day… and it didn’t hurt that I was into skateboarding and we had a huge parking lot with lots of things to olly over and jump. 

 

But what if I told you… 

You go to church a whole lot more than you think? You might say well garth I hate to admit it, but I am not that regular at church attendance.. I hope to get better but its not an every Sunday type of thing… well first lets look at what the church is.

The greek word for church is

Ekklesia – Most often translated “church,” but it actually means assembly, gathering a group of people for a particular cause. It depicts the body of Christ in both a universal and local sense. See Acts 19:32; Romans 16:16; Matthew 16:18; Revelation 1:4

 

But what that means is you don’t have practice worship on Sunday mornings between 8 and 11am to be a church. You don’t have to have a pastor there to be a “church”. You don’t have to have it on Sunday or take an offering or even sing songs… 

however… We do need to still consistently meet as a church and it is still easiest to do it on Sunday because it is our culture. you can ask a total nonChristian person to come to church and they will say… “oh Im busy this Sunday”. Thats how much it is in our culture… if you were to say “oh we have church Thursday early mornings at 4am at the parking lot of the local YMCA… well they might think you are a cult… but I digress.

My point is this - and I promise you if you practice what I am about to talk about it can literally transform your life. 

 

What if you practiced church out of church when you were with the church… worship, giving, testimonies, healing, scripture…

Hold, on let me back up and give a real life example. I was at a theater years ago (now this happens a lot, but this one time was sincerely anointed) My wife and I walked out from the movie and saw a couple we knew - not from our church but great Christian friends… we are talking and up walks another couple and their teens, then another couple, then a couple single guys that all knew one of us or more. We were all Christians… and in a matter of just minutes we were praying for one another, we were speaking into each others lives aka little mini sermons with scripture. and we even gathered up some money for one of the guys who was struggling financially. We had church in the theater lounge with 15 people, no band, no pulpit, no preacher… 9:15 at night with hundreds of strangers walking past us. oh and we represented 4 different churches and 3 different denominations… 

We were the church

WE ARE THE CHURCH

so what if every time you got together - wether planned or unplanned with other followers of Christ you practiced what being the church was. We see in Acts 2:

41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread (Lords supper)  and to prayer. 43 Ever

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” (John Stuart Mill) and what happens when you do nothing? your fire goes out.

 

Marvin Hagler It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas”

He never wanted to lose his edge… but knowing it can happen he would make appropriate changes in his training. He knew if you lost the motivation to train you could still bring the best out of you if you created extreme measures. He would train on the East coast in the dead of winter, jogging out in the snow in combat boots. One reporter remarked that his training camps were more like prison camps. 

 

Stay close to the Fire

Sometimes we find ourselves truly keeping our quiet time sacred, and our prayer time in tune… but we still seem to lack that motivation and fire. I think in todays world we need to understand that my fire can only keep so many things warm in my life.What do I mean? Cut some things out of your life. You are doing to many things. I used to question why famous evangelists would come to our church, preach a week long every night, but you would never see them during the day… they would just hide up in their hotel room. Once I started to travel and speak I had a better idea as to what was going on. to pour out every night I needed most of the day to recover and retire with the Holy Spirit. Now I understand that when I tend to my fire, I gotta make sure I don’t try to share it with to many or it can die out and leave me cold. 

 

 

Stay close to those building fires (motivated people motivate people) 

I have 3 specific people that I can call on, talk to and get fired up. You know to be honest, I am usually the one people call to get fired up… but there are times when I need it. The older I get the more I realize I just don’t have time for lukewarm Christians… sinners? absolutely, I love hanging with sinners… but people who say they are followers of jesus and don’t live it… get to the back of the bus. 

 

 

Learn to build your own fire. 

I loved Awana as a kid… but only because I had some cool leaders… one took us camping and taught us how to build our own fire… it was pretty awesome as a kid learning how to build a fire with just one match. 

I wrote down on a 3/5 card a simple line… be your own revival. 

I have pictures in my head of me at my best, I pray those pictures into reality. I see myself on fire for God. I see myself passing the test of daily living with all its temptations. I see myself passing my fire on to my kids and my grandkids. 

I have a bunch of sermons that I listen to again and again that I know will fire me up. I worship songs that I listen to and my secret weapon… I have parents that love God and are still alive that I talk to regularly. 

*You know sometimes it would be easier if we just gave advice to someone else about how to stay fired up for God, stay motivate for Christ… but then after giving that advice we chose to do it ourselves. 

 

BTW your fire can die by not only NOT feeding it, but also by feeding it the wrong stuff. Due a gut check once and a while to see what you are feeding yourself.

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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The liver king is a fake?

Disney does have an agenda to promote LGBQT?

Hillary really lied… are you sure?

Wait just a second… Biden lied?

Hold the phone… vaccines don’t work?

Fauci made money from the pharmacy companies?

Nancy Pelosi had inside information on buying and trading on the stock market?

Excuse me… you mean to tell me that not everyone on instagram is telling the truth?

 

Lets just talk about Liver King? Don’t know him? just imagine a dude jacked on steroids… however spewing lies that he does not take steroids… its all based on him eating raw liver, organs etc… from animals. But ahhhh as many people called him out on his BS - you know people like Joe Rogan, and the Steroid Doctor (who is actually a doctor) and some of his ex-friends who were closest to him. And then emails came out between the liver king and his dealer… The dude made hundreds of millions on a lie. 

 

Have we really gotten to the point where everyone under 40 have become gullible? 

 

Here is a spoiler… The Rock, Dwayne Johnson is on steroids… I have kids at the gym argue with me… he is not. **and here is their logic… he even says he is not on steroids… oh well then that clears it up for sure.

Anyway- he’s juiced like a Sunkist!

 

Mass information brings mass disinformation and misinformation. 

 

Prov. 14:16 A wise person is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is careless and overconfident.

17 A short-tempered person acts stupidly, and a person who plots evil is hated.

18 Gullible people are gifted with stupidity, but sensible people are crowned with knowledge.

19 Evil people will bow to good people. Wicked people will bow at the gates of a righteous person.

20 A poor person is hated even by his neighbor, but a rich person is loved by many.

 

How about Job 5:2 Jealousy kills the Gullible 

 

what to do?

 

1 Tim. 4:7 But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

 

I have in my hand right now… thee greatest tool for knowing wether someone is lying or not… its called a computer… or better yet GOOGLE.

what is the best way to use Google… first off no matter what you find out on Google you must compare it to what scripture says to what you have found after study and comparison. Scripture is the ultimate spotlight. 

 

First never assume they are telling the truth.

Second, gut check.

Third, is this lived out in other peoples lives

Fourth ask questions like is there a bias in peoples opinion? Who is making money on this claim?

Fifth, if it works I can assume everyone is using this. (the diet pill, cream, exercise, drink) 

Sixth, are there sources sited for their information? 

Seventh, Where to check:

• Primary Sources:

- Government reports (infodocket.com, everycrsreport.com)

- Data (state, federal and municipal open data portals)

- Court documents (search LexisNexis or courtreference.com)

- Original scholarly research (found in Google ScholarTM, or open source repositories like academicworks.cuny.edu or Base-Search.net)

• Secondarysourcesfoundindatabasesatwork,and in your public, state and university libraries:

- Search articles in databases like Nexis® or LexisNexis Newsdesk®

- Search for data on Statista.com or Data.gov

• Askanexpert:ascholar,governmentagency employee, or industry representative.

• Searchfact-checkingsitestoseeiftheinformation has already been debunked.

Check your sources, back your sources with other sources, cross reference your sources. 

 

Eighth, am I bias? Now for me on exercise and diet I know I am extremely bias due to my hands on experience for over 40 years. So I must push that off to the side even before I do my research. here is a great example. 2 years ago I say

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Have you ever become angry? Of course you have… and we all know that anger is a sin… uhm not exactly- in fact the bible says be angry and sin not… so we are allowed to be angry, in fact the bible says BE ANGRY. But don’t sin… so how do you handle anger? How can we use it for good?

This is taken from Mental help net and it states…. 

As you become angry your body's muscles tense up. Inside your brain, neurotransmitter chemicals known as catecholamines are released causing you to experience a burst of energy lasting up to several minutes. This burst of energy is behind the common angry desire to take immediate protective action. At the same time your heart rate accelerates, your blood pressure rises, and your rate of breathing increases. Your face may flush as increased blood flow enters your limbs and extremities in preparation for physical action. Your attention narrows and becomes locked onto the target of your anger. Soon you can pay attention to nothing else. In quick succession, additional brain neurotransmitters and hormones (among them adrenaline and noradrenaline) are released which trigger a lasting state of arousal. You're now ready to fight.

So now you are angry… but before you get there you need to ask yourself what is acceptable to be angry about? My reputation? My losses and gains in the stock market? What happens to my job? My health? There are sooo many variables… but lets clear it up. We can and should be angry regarding the things God has spoken to us in his word. So lets clarify… you say God wants me blessed… I agree with that and there are many ways he can bless us. But you continue on with the thought I am angry that he has not blessed me financially… ok, now hold on skippy. Have you tithed faithfully… that is 10% of your income to your local church. If not, no need to get angry, you need to get giving. Your anger is out of place. 

You are angry with what people think and say about you… Well are you offensive, are you selfish, are you arrogant? are you a jerk? If so… hold your anger and get your self squared up with Jesus and how about repenting and asking those people to forgive you? again anger in this situation is out of place.

You are unhappy with your marriage and your spouse just doesn’t seem to get it. You feel cheated by them and you truly are angry about where you are at after all these years. ok, are you empathetic with your spouse? is your love unconditional with your spouse? Do you sacrifice and serve your spouse? Would you want to be married to you? Well then… how about that- again your anger is misplaced.

See here is the point today… the bible verse says in Eph. 4:26 BE ANGRY AND SIN NOT… buuuuut, if we have been sinning before the anger… maybe the anger is because of our sinning? 

Look in todays world everyone is angry at something… someone, some cause, some group… but is your anger misplaced? Here is a thought, use your anger to feed your passion into changing and becoming a better you. Get so mad that you take an afternoon off and seek God to change you and not the other person or situation.