As we are wiling to let go of what’s working now, we make room for new solutions. A mind that creates the problem can’t fix the problem. We were never meant to endure unhappiness, and therefore don’t have the capacity to manage it. We spend our lives trying, so discontentment is the forerunner to transformation, resulting in true freedom.
Ep. 226: Holy Spirit Understanding
Staying in peace, you always have the download of Holy Spirit understanding. The joy of the lord is not exclusively about your circumstances, but rather what you’re experiencing in your heart. We can always expect a great outcome. I am sensitive to those around me, and I know how to show love to them, but am never worried or have a desire to fix them. The only “next step” you need, is the one for today.
Ep. 225: Tests of Faith
Patience and endurance are developed through the tests of faith. Peace gives us access (by faith) to grace which leads to power. The test of faith is simply to stand without wavering and decide to endure with patience. When our patience is developed, we don’t get crushed when challenges arise. Every time we give up before the promised outcome it diminishes our patience. Every time we win a battle and see it though it increases faith and patience.
Ep. 224: Remembering brings belief
God instructs the Israelites to “remember” the times they were rescued and established. We have massive amounts of authority when we “think on these things”. The thoughts of the mind, what we are focusing on emerge from the beliefs about yourself and who you are in each circumstance. The only reason we don’t reach our promised land is because of our unbelief. Your belief is always more powerful than your thoughts, and we have the power to create redeemed memories!
Ep. 223: Changing your neural pathways
When we meditate, we are telling our brain how to think, thus changing the neural pathways. Using authority, we place significance on what we want to remember, and create links and pathways. Meditation is simply pondering until it becomes emotional and real, and psychological change happens. Recover the value for God that you have in your heart, and you will begin to reshape your mind.
Ep. 222: Experiencing God in our past, present, and future
Step into the realm of severing yourself from your past and create new memories. Would you like to see yourself completely conquering sin? Would you like to be non-vulnerable to sin and temptation? We can reshape our memories in such a way that we can’t see and experience ourselves in any situation other than forgiven, loved and full of joy and peace. A memory is something that has happened in past, our imagination is something that will happen in future. Meditation is when we make it real now and think about it until it connects emotionally. Then, you have made it present tense.
Ep. 221: "Applied to life..."
When it comes to revelation, if you’re not experiencing it, you’re not applying it. As you experience God and you’re being renewed daily, and want to be happy and satisfied, be a blessing! Everything you give away, you experience. Making other’s lives better will make you happy. Follow those who move you towards righteousness, peace and joy. Instead of trying to create something that doesn’t exist, use your faith to experience what has already been given.
Ep. 220: Making things happen
We think our job is to make things happen, but it’s our job to let it happen and stay in harmony with God. Most people never get past their core struggles or core needs. Environments change throughout our lifetime, but our dysfunction is the same. Choosing beliefs to counteract our fears establishes true healing. The indicators that you believe something fully, is that it becomes your identity and it becomes effortless.
Ep. 219: Why do I keep getting off track?
Most people are looking for something to happen “to me” instead of something to happen “within me”. You don’t need a special gift to grasp and understand God, you just have to be willing to walk in truth even when it disagrees with your opinion. The mind-journey says, “I need to be right” and it turns into a one dimensional journey in a love-fest of yourself. The heart-journey says, “I don’t care what I’m wrong about, I’m willing to see how this all comes together.”
Ep. 218: Guard your heart
Every positive and pleasant emotion is connected and related to righteousness. Our hearts are guarded by righteousness, and this episode takes time to dissect the scripture: Guard your heart with all diligence. Look and see what’s working when it’s working according to how God created it, now apply that to every facet of life. Resting in righteousness is “as it should be”. Pay attention, remain flexible, seek to harmonize, be teachable and always ready to humble yourself.
Ep. 217: "Should be" is not your Solution
The way we create justifications or excuses is by deciding we can’t do it. On the opposite spectrum, once you start walking in righteousness, fully committed to walking in love and following God, no matter what circumstances happen, I will be humble and surrender to God’s possibilities. When we cling to our opinion and our idea of how people “should be”…or things “should be” we separate ourselves from solutions.
Ep. 216: The correlation and causation continuum
The correlation and causation continuum works like this: Something “works” in our spiritual walk, we attach ritual to it and create a new legalism for ourselves. Correlation isn’t causation, so we must be careful not to put faith in a process or formula. Every thought is based on a memory or an imagination with some connection to what you’ve heard or experienced, so in our mind we link and draw conclusions. Feeling truly secure is when we are in harmony with God’s never-changing character, and developing ability to flow with every moment.
Ep. 215: Re-examining Spiritual Warfare
Our western concept of wisdom is “depth of understanding”, but depth isn’t as important as making life work in a practical way. When a person wants to bring quality changes, the moment they attempt to change the outside, they shift to illusion. Re-examining spiritual warfare and the armour of God is about putting an end to what is “illegal” and releasing what is legal. Finding what is blocking God’s best is crucial as we experience transformation.
Ep. 214: Obedience over sacrifice
Awaken unto righteousness! God wants you to have a quality of life. A life lesson from David is his immediate response being confession and repentance. Obedience is better than sacrifice. When God is leading us to do something, it is for our own protection and the people we are helping. Grace is the power and strength to overcome!
Ep. 213: Planting Seeds: Self-Talk
Here is the big punchline: any area of your life, right now, that you’re not willing to walk through transformation, it’s not because it’s hard, it’s because you don’t want to. The desire for breakthrough is driving your desire for transformation. Everything on earth, in this realm, functions under the law of the seed. Your self-talk is seeds, your reason and motive for functioning are seeds, so whatever your real motive is will determine the fruit in your life.
Ep. 212: Thriving in relationships
All relationships and friendships thrive in an environment of communication and giving permission. We tend to think that solving life’s problems are complicated, hard and painful, then hesitate to communicate. When we are confronted with something that needs to change, we shut our ears and eyes and cover our hearts out of resistance. When we are willing to see and decide we don’t want the “divide” anymore, we will stop making excuses and choose connection.
Ep. 211: Created for enjoyment!
God provides everything for our enjoyment! There is a religious myth that says: The more I follow after God, the less fun I’ll have. Man was never designed to experience pain, but rather love, acceptance and kindness. Following Jesus through heart transformation is joy-filled, as we move towards new layers of peace and rest in Him. Feeding our ego is the substitute for pleasure where we attempt to obtain satisfaction from the outside world.
Ep. 210: Finding your calling
Being content is a state of being satisfied with what you have, where you are and who you are. Have you been looking for your destiny or calling? You will never find it by looking for it. Instead, find someone in need, is there something you can do to help? Find a biblical way to help them, and nurture a consuming passion to love others.
Ep. 209: Freedom is a Choice
It is a myth to try and do something to get God to do something for you. When circumstances seem confusing, we press on and continue to keep walking with God and following Him. This is the decision that immediately takes us out of our limitations. This is the year on jubilee where all debts are forgiven, but everyone has one core freedom, and that is their choice. Everyone has excuses, but we have the invitation to get up and walk... completely free.
Ep. 208: Living Authentically
Authenticity leads to freedom and experiencing freedom has two sides. We are set free out of slavery and bondage, and we are set free to walk in love. Without sin controlling our lives, we have the opportunity and invitation to be authentic because fear and sin no longer bring limitations. With Jesus as the King of kings, we are experiencing a small portion of the true freedom that is available to us.