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Think how hard it is to remodel your kitchen; now imagine remodeling a human! And yet Christ can bring about a total redo of anyone INSTANTANEOUSLY!!

Transforming Perspectives | Jesus's volition underlying this question invokes personal introspection before answering.Apostle John's narrative displays vivid imagery of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem during the festival season, appearing at the pool of Bethesda, observing the many sufferers waiting for the stirring of the waters.  A contextual framework structuring the fundamental doctrines of faith, hope and restoration, premised upon acknowledging oneself in the inclusivity of the ‘certain man'.Noteworthy, Jesus being omniscient having knowledge beyond the obvious immobility of the crippled man who supposedly has a desire to be healed, recognizes also, the immobility of his unbelief.  Prompting his question “Do you want to be made whole?” posed as a rhetorical volition ‘be healed'  underlined with the presumptive response, Yes!Which premise is to gain spiritual knowledge that the outpouring of the divine essence of Jesus Christ, is healing, reconciliation, restoration and wholeness, Hebraic term ‘Shalom.'  Instantaneously, occurring at moment upon which a small measure of belief meets its brokenness's resolve. Jesus Christ is omnipresent, always standing before each of us, awaiting for our eyes to see and hearts to respond to the consolation of our soul, wholeness in perfect harmony with the One True and Living God.Biblical Principles |Healing and restoration of the person God has created in you and me, become visible in our response of belief in the supreme totality of the person of Jesus Christ.  Scripture References | Matthew 9:20-22 “And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.” The Bible - New King James VersionThe Stirring of the Water – The Gospel according to John Chapter 5. __________________LINKS, PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES | AUDIO EPISODES available Podcast, Music and Radio Platforms.WEBPAGE |- You, Life and God Podcast powered by Buzzsprout. Transforming Perspectives. YouTube | Video Media - You, Life and God Podcast Episode's Previews.Live365 | Radio - You, Life and God Podcast Radio - Live365.Live Talk onAir Let's Have a Talk…, - Weekend Mornings, 9am. Bible Resources - TheBible.org, 2024 all rights reserved worldwide. Connect Facebook and LinkedIn

Welcome to "Hearts of Oak," where today we delve into a profound discussion on spiritual revival and cultural transformation. Our guest, a pivotal figure in the American Christian movement, shares insights on the upcoming "A Million Women" event set for October 12. This gathering isn't just an event; it's a call to action for women across America to unite in prayer and fasting, mirroring the biblical Esther's stand against injustice. We explore the event's significance in addressing critical issues like abortion and the erosion of family values, and how it aims to be a catalyst for national repentance and revival. Our conversation also touches on the power of collective prayer, the impact of recent cultural shifts, and the urgent need for a unified Christian response to contemporary challenges. Join us as we discuss the role of faith in public life and how this movement might just be the spark needed for a sweeping moral restoration in America. Lou Engle is an intercessor for revival, and the visionary co-founder of TheCall, a prayer and fasting movement responsible for gathering hundreds of thousands around the globe. He has been involved in church planting, establishing prayer movements and strategic houses of prayer. Lou is the founder of the pro-life ministry Bound4Life. Now residing in Colorado Springs, he is married to his beautiful wife Therese and blessed with 7 wonderful children. He is the president of Lou Engle Ministries, recently launched to mobilize fasting and contending prayer, and to envision and empower stadium Christianity, and to ignite reformation prayer into the nations of the earth. For the past twenty-two years, Lou has been an international voice calling a generation to Nazirite consecration, fasting and prayer, and the pursuit of God's dreams for their lives through the ministry of TheCall. Lou has raised up prayer movements, has been a voice for the shifting of the supreme court for ending abortion, and has encouraged a movement of adoption to be the answer for the great injustice. Now, Lou is prophetically declaring that we are on the verge of the 3rd great awakening, and Jesus the evangelist will be manifested in great salvation and deliverance power. A mighty Jesus movement is coming to America, Billy Graham's mantle is falling on a new generation of evangelists, and streets and stadiums will be filled with a new song of God's salvation.  A Million Women: Day of Atonement Solemn Assembly  amillionwomen.org October 12, 2024 The National Mall, Washington D.C.  Connect with Lou...

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Feel Good and Getting Better it me or do we all want everything NOW! Instantaneously or even quicker.I think we've fallen into the trap that instant gratification is the thing. But if we get that then we want the next thing and the next thing and I feel we miss out. Why do we want everything instantaneously? It got me thinking how does this apply to our personal development? Our dreams and desires? Enjoying the adventure and not just the elusive prize. Then I got to thinking about therapy and how I like quick and comfortable change. Is that in conflict with the adventure of developing our true self? If you would, come follow me on this little dive of of discovery of how we can create a practice of celebrating who and where we are and being curious of what's to come. It's really not how fast. It's enjoying how good and getting better. 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Why not look for me and the podcast on  SPOTIFY AND the app Castbox I'm also in iHeart radio YouTube - copy n paste UC3BlpN4voq8aAN7ePsIMt2Q into search bar The Libsyn podcast page http://personaldevelomentunplugged.libsyn.com tunein, learnoutloud, Google Play Music Music by Wataboi from Pixabay, Music by DreamHeaven from Pixabay, Music by ccjmusic from Pixabay, >, Music by freegroove pixabay seduction-jazz-112149 from Pixabay, Music by prazkhanal Pixaby ventura-117073 from Pixabay,   And the transcript WARNING if you're a lover of the written word this may make you frustrated, or angry - you have been warned - is it an 'ism   Hey, friend, you're back. I'm back. Feeling good, getting better. That might be the title of this podcast or this episode, I'm not sure yet, but just for a moment, just for a moment, while you're here with me, I'd like you to take a breath. Just a breath. And, know that you're blessed because you are. Just take that breath. Because I've been thinking. I do that. I do a lot of weird thinking. And I was thinking the other day, why do we want everything now? And I'm saying we, because I know I do. I know I do. Occasionally, not always, but I get lost in that. But I see it in so many different ways that people, want something right now. Right now at the latest, tomorrow. You know, everything you order has got to be here tomorrow. Can't wait. Got to have it. And it's like a race, even. It's not just getting things to be able to do things to, you know, maybe in this land, this life of personal development, there's a race to get somewhere quicker, to find that hack. And I hate the word hack, you know that. To learn something quicker, to have it now, to be able to do these things instant, bloody taneously. And it's. Is it? Or is it? Or is it. Is that search for instant gratification feeling good right now, no delay. It's got to happen now. And I think when you have that instant gratification, it just doesn't last. Because the thing is, we've got this in our mindset. I'm saying we. Maybe it's all me. I don't know. But I think there's a bit of this in everybody, and there's certainly a lot of it in a lot of people as well. And I think we can learn from others. We can learn the good things about others, and we can learn what not to do from others actions. But that instant gratification doesn't last, because the next thing I want, the next thing I want, the next thing now. I want it now. I want it now. You don't even have time to enjoy, to enjoy what you have, right now, what you've achieved. So that's why I said, let's stop, take a breath, pause for a little while, and just think for a moment, what is the prize that we want? That's a big question. Is it, Paul? And it's totally too vague. I'm thinking about what is the prize that we desire, a dream of for ourselves in our own personal development, because that's what this is, isn't it? It's personal development. Unplugged. so we're going to get into the raw part of this. Let's get naked. Where did that come from? Clubby. But, you know, what is the prize we won? I made a few notes, a few bullet points. I thought, well, there's skills I want to learn skills, different things. I want to improve the skills I've got and build upon them. So my skill base and that foundation gets bigger and stronger to enable me to do even more things. Maybe I want to let go of certain negative emotions, and I want to experience more positive emotions and things like, and they all link together, don't they? Because if I'm learning new skills that I really enjoy and it's making me feel I'm a better, more capable person, more confident, more confident person, my emotions are going to be more positive, aren't they? What will happen to my beliefs? My beliefs will be more positive about me. Probably, have more positive beliefs about other people, but it's all about me, my identity. Chipping away at the stuff that doesn't work. Chipping away the stuff that has been trying to protect me, but is no longer appropriate and, finding the real beliefs and, values of me, my identity, who I really am and who I can grow to be. And it's grow, not instant. It's grow, evolve. What about behaviors? Because they come from skills and emotions and beliefs, don't they? Because it's one thing just knowing stuff, but being able to do stuff, it's be and do and know, isn't it? it's that mastery again, knowing what to do and doing what you know and have that expand, have that grow.     Cloughie says letting go of anxiety and fears can lead to positive change   And ultimately, I guess it's to grow and experience a good life, because a good life will have all the wonderful things that you've done. M and I see that as the prize. We can go deeper into that. I mean, what would it feel like to have that dream come true, knowing that you're going to carry on growing, experiencing a good life even more, more richer, and having the time to wallow in it. And I. Wallow is a weird word, but I love the word to wallow in good experiences, wallowing, good emotions. Why not? We've created them. You've created it. You created your beliefs, your emotions, your skills, your behaviors, because you had the right intention. You know, I see those people who go, oh, I've been around. I've traveled, man. I've traveled. I've been everywhere. I've done this. And you talked. Oh, yeah, I've been there and I've been there. How did you be in so many places? Well, they did, but they only visited for half a day. A day. It was like getting your stamp and moving on. And to me, well, that's not experiencing stuff. That's not wallowing, is it? I love the term, let's just sit down for a spell. And that spell, spellbound, being in the moment and just thinking, yeah, this is good, and I'm gonna do more of this. Now, I've talked about slowing down and really getting into what the desire, what the prize, what the dream is. Not instant gratification, but on the other hand, there's a complete. When I was thinking about this, you're going, okay, Cloughie. That, to me, seems really positive. But on the other hand, what do you talk about when you do your own therapy? Cloughie. And you see, when it comes to change, as in change of letting go of the things that are, stopping us using our skills, our emotions, our values, and growing and evolving in experience, I like to have therapeutic change as quick as possible. In fact, our unconscious mind learns to change quickly. It doesn't like, like one word at a time, one word a day. If you read a book, one word a day, well, after two days, you wouldn't even. Three days, four days, you wouldn't know what's happening. You wouldn't know. Even if you read the whole book, you wouldn't retain anything because it wouldn't make sense. But if you could let go of anxiety and fears just like that, you have time, more time to grow those experiences, to grow those skills, to grow those emotions, to wallow in wonderful things. And, I think that's the dichotomy, really. I want you to have that gratification of quick change, knowing that you can change quickly because your unconscious mind is only trying to protect you. And you can find it in a better way, because if you compare anxiety, fears, unconfidence, any negative emotion, guilt, jealousy, what else can we have? Depression, OCD, aHD, AdHD? I don't believe that. But hey, all that stuff trying to do you some good, but is really stopping you. If you found a better way from developing those skills to developing more positive emotions. Because do you feel safer when you're doing the things that you love, being confident and competent in the things you love, having that good emotion, believing in yourself and the behaviours coming out into a good experience, that's safety. So we just need to learn from the past and we can learn from the past really quickly because we get your unconscious mind to do that. And because of that we can then allow ourselves to experience creating the you you want to be and experiencing those moments, those aha, uh-huh moments when you suddenly realize, if you stop, take a breath and realize, yeah, at this very moment in time, I'm blessed, I'm going to be more blessed as I evolve. But imagine what you'd see if you let go of that anxiety, let go of those fears, let go of that, unconfidence, let go of that guilt, whatever, whatever, whatever we talked about, you fill in the blank. What would it feel like if you could lose that in a few moments, a couple of hours maybe, what would it be? What would you see in the world? How would the world look different? Because it would look different because you'd be seeing it through a different set of filters. And when you look at. And you'd see it from a different perspective. And when you look at things differently, we know things look different. And, what were the sounds and the words that you would hear, that, self talk, what would that be like when you've let go of that anxiety, fear and confidence and all that other stuff, and living in the world of developing your skills, really aligning yourself with your values and your beliefs and your personal development, knowing that you're going to grow and experience a good life. And how would that make you feel when you put that all together? Seeing what you'll be seeing, hearing what you'll be hearing, because you've let go of all those negative, emotions, negative behaviors, negative beliefs, limiting beliefs, and you're working forward towards growing, growing into the next part of you. You might even taste and smell success. And that's when I say it's a matter of doing that quickly so you could be able to stop and pause, take a breath and, realize, how far have I travelled? You see, this is you now. So when you stop and pause just for a moment, notice, yeah, I may have a few issues I need to deal with. But if I look back, if I did look back, I, know I've gone through things and they've disappeared now. So I can do this. Let me do it quickly because Cloughie says you can, because that's what we do. So if you listen to hypnosis, tracks NLP processes, go and see a therapist, a good hypnotist, I always tell you, a hypnotist, NLP practitioner and timeline. Therapist, practitioner, you get one of those who has got those skills, boom. You'll do it really quickly and so you can then set yourself up to start learning and developing and evolving. But just. If you just say how, you know, if I look back now on this personal development, life that I've led, how far have I traveled in this hero's journey, hero's adventure? What was I like a year ago? Four years ago? Wow. Yeah. Because sometimes we forget that when we're living in the moment. But it's good to know how far we've come because now we can look to see where we want to go because it will give us more confidence in ourselves, more competence to be able to say, well, I can do more because I've got more skills. I've got more skills than I had back then. So if I've got more skills, more, access to more positive emotions, beliefs and values, and I've got behaviours that really go forward to my prize, my desires, my dreams of being the best version of me, I can do even more. And you begin to wonder in this moment of, just being you right now. You just wonder what's in store. What's in store for me, my life. Imagine that now. Just being you, just taking this breath, knowing you're blessed, feeling grateful because you're still. I nearly swore and still alive. You're above ground, you're taking breaths. So you've got everything you need. And I think you see, I, know you're going to work on your skills. I, know you're going to work on letting go of emotions, the negative emotions, letting go of limiting beliefs. And I know you're going to work at accessing positive emotions, being aligned to your highest values, having positive beliefs about yourself, the identity beliefs that really going to support you, therefore creating wonderful behaviours.     Practice of celebrating being you, being me. Whatever your circumstances   I want you to practice. This is what I'd like. I want you to actually sit down for that spell and create a practice of celebrating being you, being me. Even if we're a little bit broken. We've talked about that before, being a little bit broken because we always go, a little bit broken, but go, yay. Yay. I. She wrote that down on my notes. A big capital letters, uppercase y, a y, exclamation marks all over the place. Yay. It's just because I don't think we do. And once we celebrate who we are, I think our unconscious mind gets it, gets it even more. And, we can just. And it doesn't have to take long. You know, to me it's like, it's a form of the attitude of gratitude. Just taking this moment, taking a breath, realizing you're blessed. Whatever your circumstances. Yes, we've got some issues maybe that we need to deal with. Maybe life has thrown us a curveball and at this moment in time, we're not in our best state. But when we sit here right now and go, do you know what? I'm still alive. I'm me. And I've got. Because I'm still alive and because I'm still breathing, I've got the opportunity to develop those, skills even more, to deal with this, to access the right emotions and behaviours and beliefs. Because this too will pass. And even the good stuff, this too will pass. And you go, that's negative, Cloughie. No, because this too will pass and get richer, get richer, so much more richer in life, the experiences. And you could just sometimes, even imagine in the future of what that will be like because there is so much more to come. And it's not when we go right back to the beginning, it's not how fast, it's how good, how good it could be right now. Finding the good in the right now and knowing it's been getting better. Therefore it will keep getting better. And you then can look at that vision, that ultimate vision of you, the best version of yourself that will just keep getting bigger and brighter and better because you'll be building off that firmer foundation. And I think just doing this moment of practice, celebrating, because it's not just reviewing. We've done that, we do reviews, we do our planning, but just celebrating this moment in time. And yay. I'm still a little broken, but who gives a fuck? I did swear. But that's, that's it, isn't it? Who gives a fuck? It's me. I'm growing and I will continue to grow and I'm going to do the best I can. Wouldn't that be good? Isn't that good? And, how long does it take to practice celebrating being who you are right now? 30 seconds. Could be 10 seconds. Have you got 10 seconds in your day? You betcha. And with a lot of the stuff I talk about, there is only one negative side effect. If it doesn't work, if this doesn't make you feel better, more confident, more motivated to carry on, the worst side effect it will be is that 10 seconds in your day you will feel bloody awesome because you're celebrating the best of you. Nothing else. Just looking for the best of you and feeling grateful for it, feeling blessed. You're in this life and you're stepping up to the plate. And I'm celebrating being here because I'm going to make a difference, by the way. And that's what this will all come from. Because as we have that prize, that desire, that dream, in this personal development, to be the best version of ourselves, I know that will include helping and serving others, because it is. It always does. You'll be in that frame of mind to do things naturally, to help other people, the world, the planet, animals, whatever it is which floats your boat. You'll do good stuff for no one to return, and you'll make a difference. And then when you do stop and practice this celebration, you can take that in, too, and wonder how that's going to develop even more. That passion, that seed of passion will grow and then celebrate its growth, nurture it, feed it, water it. That's all there is. Well, maybe that's not all there is. There's lots of other stuff. But it's, to me, that's a lot of it. So let's just take that moment. Maybe if you want to. It's a muse. But if you just stop now, just celebrate yourself. Thank you for being here. Thank me for all the stuff I've gone through and I'm here and I'm still punching away, stepping up to that plate over and over again to be the best me I can. Sometimes I don't quite hit that bar, but that's okay because I'm going to do it better next time. Celebrate being you. Take a breath. There you go, my friend. I hope you enjoyed that little music. I just sometimes think that we can do all these wonderful different things, have all the processes in the world, and, you know, I've got loads of processes which are free. Where are they? Purcell? No, they're not there, Paul. They're at paulcloughonline.com podcast. Also, if you go to the main page there, you'll see some other stuff I've got there, which is good. All the discounted prices and all that stuff. And you can just have access to those low 60 plus hypnosis NLP processes to help you do that quick change from anxiety to confidence. So please take access of that. It's the whole reason. Not the whole reason, but one of the main reasons I've been doing this stuff. A lot of this is stuff is me talking to me. And you get, if there is any benefit, what falls out. But those processes, I've, put my best into those and I think they will. There's a lot of good stuff there. Not blowing it up bigger than it is, but I think I know it's stuff that I use in my therapy with other people and I just bloody work. I'm going to current adding to it.     What would happen if everyone celebrated being who they were   So if you could do that and if you could just share this as usual, that would be good. Because I think everyone. What would happen if everyone celebrated being who they were and feeling good for who they were and knowing there's so much more to come, knowing that it's not how fast, it's how good, how rich, we could enjoy the experience of evolution of ourselves towards the best version of ourselves. What would happen if everybody did that? So if you could share this, I think it'll make a difference. It'll make a difference to me, it'll make a difference to you, I know, but it'll make a difference to them and therefore it'll make a difference to little old planet Earth, which is the whole ecology of it all. Good for you, good for others, good for little old planet Earth. there you go. And if any of this is just that. Oh, actually, Paul, you know, you've said all this, but, I'm a bit struggling with getting rid of x, y, z. You know, I'm struggling with a bit of anxiety around or fear a bit about this, or this bloody adhd or all that stuff. Send me an email feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugedg.com. Have a little chat with you and we'll see what we can do about creating something just for you, because it'll be just for you and, everyone else gets the benefit of it. So it's good for you, good for me, because I love doing it, good for other people and therefore be good for planet earth. we're back there on the old ecology trail, so please do share, okay? And for goodness sake, if you haven't done it already, please do not press that subscribe button more than twice. Just once will do. Have more fun than you can stand, because that's the thing when you're celebrating you're going to have more fun. And you can stand right now. Take a breath and fly, my friend, and I'll see you on the next time, the fmqs and the longer podcasts. Okay? Have fun. Thank you so much for your time. It's precious and I appreciate it. Thank you. Bye bye now.     Paul Clough puts 90 seconds of hypnosis tracks on a separate website   So, the 90 seconds of hypnosis tracks. Why have I put hypnosis tracks on a separate website? Well, it's so simple, really. I wanted you to have them all in one place so you can look through them all. You can find the particular one you want. I've even made them downloadable so you can put them on any of your playing devices that you prefer. You don't need Wi Fi, you don't need the itunes or whatever, you can put them anywhere you like. You can even burn them onto disk if you want. Where did you get them? Well, there you go. I told you. It's paulcloughonline.com podcast. If you're worried about your email address, please don't be, because they stay totally safe with me. I only use them to send you out that email and give you access. Simple as that. I send you a link, special link, so you, and, only you can access those hypnosis tracks because I want them just for you. And the other thing about this is you've taken responsibility. I don't want to make these open to everyone, just random. You have taken responsibility to listen and be part of this community of personal development. And I want to help you. I want to help you personally to get your dreams, your goals, and therefore, I'm giving you these tools. Tools, these protocols, these paradigms, whatever you want to call them, but in deep hypnosis. So just enjoy, have more fun than you can stand with. Hypnosis one, you are now leaving the unplugged mind of Paul Clough. It's time to fly on your own. Be brave, my friend. Personal development, unplugged. Personal development [self improvement] [self development] [NLP] [Hypnosis]

This episode is sponsored by: Experience Daily Breakthroughs With The 'Secrets Od Success' FREE Newsletter - Transform Your Life In Just 2 Minutes A Day! https://sparklp.co/p/78beb8f30a In today's episode of the Thinking Big Podcast, we dive into a transformative concept that has the power to reshape your reality: Faith. In Step 2 of Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich," we explore how faith, the belief in the unseen, acts as a catalyst in turning dreams into tangible achievements. Faith: The Light Switch to Your Dreams Imagine entering a dark room and flipping on a light switch. Instantaneously, darkness is replaced by light, revealing the room's contents. This analogy perfectly illustrates the role of faith in our lives. Faith ignites the belief in our capabilities and the inevitability of our dreams becoming our reality. The Foundation of Faith At its core, faith is a state of mind, a conviction so profound that it transcends mere hope or desire. It's about instilling in ourselves a belief so unshakeable that our goals, regardless of their grandeur, become attainable. Setting the Stage for Success Success begins with clarity. Vague aspirations like "I want to be wealthy" lack the specificity needed to guide us. By setting precise goals, such as "I want to earn $1,000,000 annually through my coaching business," we provide ourselves a clear target, a destination for our journey towards success. The Muscle of Faith Building faith isn't about fostering blind optimism but nurturing a belief in our potential so potent that it materializes into our existence. It involves conditioning our mindset, much like cultivating a garden, where the seeds of our ambitions are sown and nurtured with positive affirmations and visualizations. Real-Life Inspirations Thomas Edison's story exemplifies perseverance fueled by faith. Despite numerous failures, Edison's unwavering faith in his vision for the light bulb propelled him towards eventual success, demonstrating that faith, coupled with persistence, overcomes even the most formidable challenges. Faith in Action True faith necessitates action. It's not enough to merely believe; we must also take the steps necessary to achieve our goals. Whether it's changing our diet to lose weight or diligently working towards our business objectives, faith demands action. Strengthening Your Faith Faith is akin to a muscle that grows stronger with use. Each obstacle overcome and each goal achieved fortifies our faith, making subsequent aspirations more accessible. Your Faith Journey Embark on a journey of faith by integrating it with other principles of success. Utilize tools like vision boards to keep your goals in sight and practice affirmations to reinforce your belief in their achievability. Remember, faith is not a static trait but a dynamic journey, constantly evolving and strengthening with every challenge faced and every milestone reached. Connect with Sean Osborn at Thinking Big Coaching https://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com https://www.instagram.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ https://www.facebook.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ Be sure to check out your free 6 Human Needs Assessment https://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com/6needsassessment If you enjoyed listening then please take a second to rate the show on iTunes. Every podcaster will tell you that iTunes reviews drive listeners to our shows so please let me know what you thought and make sure you subscribe using your favorite podcast player. It means a lot to me and to the guests.

In this first installment of the ‘Fire of God' series we acquire a knowledge that throughout scripture from the Old Testament to the New, that God chose to reveal Himself through fire. Instantaneously, through the once-and-for-all sacrifice of Jesus He qualified us to carry the fire of God through His Baptism by Fire!! Learn during this powerful teaching how to receive the fire of God, why you shouldn't live without it, what the fire does in YOUR life, and how it will change you forever!

Barb Broad is a 73-year old runner who lives and trains in Cleveland, Ohio. Barb is a retired Speech-Language Pathologist who discovered running, thanks to one of her sporty female friends, when she was 40 years old. Instantaneously, she loved the sport, becoming more and more passionate about it…she trained with coaches, went to a nutritionist, and general fully committed to being the best she could be. She tells that story and in particular honors a coach who saw something special in her. And pay attention because this is a great lesson for all of us: Barb raced her best marathon times in her sixties: 3:19:01 when she was 60 at the 2011 Boston Marathon and in 2012 when she was 62 at the Twin Cities Marathon she ran 3:18:40 to win the Masters Marathon Age Graded Championship. During her career she has run twenty-tree marathons including eight times at Boston where she won her age group four times. She's run about a half dozen half marathons with a PR of 1:33:09 at 62 years old. On the track she's won multiple gold medals in the 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000, and mile, including breaking the world age group record in the mile with a 5:59.5. Get involved and support the show and more sports media for women through https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hearher Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social including Instagram @hearhersports

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On Monday, May 22nd Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) announced his 2024 GOP presidential campaign. Instantaneously, memes and reaction videos circulated the internet in response to the only sitting Black Republican Senator announcing his bid for the Presidency. Trey expresses his frustration with the negative reactions to his former colleague and friend's presidential announcement. Plus, Trey revisits his answer to a question on primary elections being funded by state taxpayers. And later reflects on the potential emergence of a new political party and what will be needed for the party to thrive. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a truth-teller? We all like to think of ourselves as honest, but sometimes it is difficult to speak truth to others, to ourselves, and even to God. Today’s reading provides a shocking caution against telling lies. In Acts 4:32–36, Luke painted an idyllic picture of believers living in unity. The early church shared everything. If anyone sold property, the apostles would collect and distribute the funds to people in need. Luke provided the example of Barnabas, who sold his field and donated the proceeds (v. 36). In Acts 5:1–11, Ananias and Sapphira wanted the same admiration Barnabas had enjoyed. They, too, sold a piece of property. However, instead of donating the entire amount, they kept part of the money for themselves. Ananias brought some of the money to the apostles. Immediately, the Holy Spirit revealed the deception to Peter who accused Ananias of allowing Satan to “fill” (“control” or “influence”) his heart (v. 3). Ananias not only lied to the apostles, he lied to God (v. 4). Ananias’s giving was not compulsory. God hadn’t demanded it; nor had the apostles. The land had been his to do with as he pleased. So had been the money. Ananias’s sin wasn’t keeping back funds; it was faking generosity. He had lied against God. In Ananias, we see the dangerous progression of sin. Envy led to pride; pride to greed; greed to lies. Instantaneously, Ananias died. The young men removed his body and buried it. Three hours later, Sapphira arrived, unaware of her husband’s death. Peter questioned her too. Foolishly, she lied as Ananias had done. She also died. Luke wrote that “great fear seized the whole church [ekklesia]” (v. 11). This fear was appropriate, a fear of displeasing the holy God. >> Sapphira’s story teaches us to take sin seriously. We must always seek to be honest before God and live a life that is open and truthful. Spend some time today in confession. What do you need to bring before God today?

Script To Manifest Your Dreams: www.howtomanifestnow.com   Wesley Virgin, the overnight millionaire and king of internet marketing, has taken the online world by storm with over 1 billion views on social media. Known for his expertise in making money online, Wesley is the creator of the famous "Overnight Millionaire" program, the "Genie Script", and his own "Done for You Affiliate Services." He also runs the highly successful "Millionaire in Training" community, where thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs join to learn the secrets of financial success. When Wesley isn't busy building wildly profitable online businesses, you can find him living the lavish life on Instagram @wesleymilliondollarvirgin. He's not afraid to show off his fancy cars and designer clothes, but he also takes the time to educate his followers on how to make money fast. With his high level of influence and digital mentorship, Wesley is truly a global expert in the online business world.

Susan's story draws into sharp focus just how damaging family secrets can be and how they can pave the road to alcoholism and drug addiction. Like some of us recovering alcoholics, Susan experienced a traumatic event when she was a child. The natural need to tell someone and seek understanding and comfort, was quashed with a “not now” attitude by her parents. Having no one to turn to, she repressed the feelings as yet another horrible secret. The continuous fear and self-recrimination darkened the ensuing years, until she found alcohol and drugs as a teenager. Instantaneously, they had the desired effect of obfuscating the negative feelings Susan had bottled up for years. Subsequently, she became a daily user, but still functioned despite the debilitating disease. That made for a life fraught with two failed marriages. It also meant serious parenting issues, while she was befogged alcoholic blackouts, and increasingly dangerous behavior. By the time Susan finally made it to Alcoholics Anonymous, the disease had essentially whipsawed every aspect of her life. Despite a bleak outlook, Susan went to meetings where she met her sponsor and started working the Steps. However, a couple more traumatic events occurred at five years sober. Her AA life-line was stretched almost to the breaking point. Thanks to another alcoholic who observed the fraying strands, Susan was able to hang on. But for as many meetings as she regularly attended, some of Susan's most regrettable behavior occurred while she was in AA. Some of her darkest hours ensued during sobriety when lost virtually everything of value and meaning. Thankfully, at some point during the past several years, Susan doubled down on her Program and ardently reworked the steps to address the bad behavior and personal losses during sobriety. That work paid off, as today she lives free of secrets and loss, while imparting her hard-won experience to the women she sponsors. Those noble efforts have grown through the years and helped her establish a stronger connection to her higher power. With 15 years sober, Susan's daily life in AA is frequently augmented with insightful spiritual experiences. Her demonstration of the ability to pass that wisdom and hope onto others is a beauty to behold. So sit back and enjoy the next hour of AA Recovery Interviews with my friend and AA sister, Susan A. If you've enjoyed my AA Recovery Interviews series and my Big Book podcast, have a listen to Lost Stories of the Big Book, 30 Original Stories Missing from the 3rd and 4th Editions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's an engaging audiobook I narrated to bring these stories to life for AA members who've never seen them. These timeless testimonials were originally cut to make room for newer stories in the 3rd and 4th Editions. But their vitally important messages of hope are as meaningful today as when they were first published. Many listeners will hear these stories for the first time. Lost Stories of the Big Book is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. It's also available as a Kindle book and in paperback from Amazon if you'd like to read along with the audio. Check out my Big Book Podcast, the complete unabridged audio version of the First and Second Editions of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Big Book Podcast is an engaging cover-to-cover, word-for-word reading of all 11 chapters and Personal Stories, many of which were left out of the Third and Fourth Editions. Follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Or listen on https://bigbookpodcast.com [Disclaimer: AA Recovery Interviews podcast strictly adheres to AA's 12 Traditions and all General Service Office guidelines for safe-guarding anonymity on-line. I pay all podcast production costs and no one receives financial gain from the show. AA Recovery Interviews and my guests do not speak for or represent AA at-large. This podcast is simply my way of giving back to AA that which has been so freely given to me. -Howard L.]

Dr. Elizabeth Hoefer, DCCJP, tells the story of how her anxiety and suicidal thoughts left her in an instant. Now she is devoting her life to multiplying the kind of help she herself received by being a leader within the Upper Cervical Chiropractic Profession, where she has obtained the highest level of specialty in head and neck issues in order to continually be able to help even the most severe, chronic and complicated conditions.In this episode, we talk about the following:Suicidal thoughts. Looking at where she is right now as a successful doctor in private practice you can draw the conclusion that the beginning doesn't dictate the ending. Your choices every day are what make the difference. Dr. Hoefer always had a resolute determination to be successful. It didn't necessarily mean financial; it just meant that she was going to get up every day and survive. Education was a pathway to success.Getting off medication, she started feeling a little better, but it didn't take away that suicidal ideology, which is that overwhelming perseverating thought of just wanting to die every day. A friend recommended Blair Upper Cervical. She didn't believe it would help because she had been under chiropractic care her whole life.It was determined that she had a tiny posterior inferior left misalignment of the atlas vertebrae. The reason it's called the atlas is that they named it after that Greek God that held the world up on his shoulders. This little two-ounce bone holds up this big bowling ball of a brain and a skull. The implications of that being misaligned and literally choking off communication between your brain and your body and your body and your brain is massive. Kevin Leach, a student, gave the correction. Instantaneously, her mind was healed. Dr. Hoefer had hope for the first time in her life and had never experienced that kind of peace.Dr. Hofer says God healed her so that she can heal others. This is the motivation that has driven her to continue to pursue education to get to the top of the profession in order to understand healing better and to help more people. You can find Dr. Elizabeth Hoefer at Well Connected Chiropractic in Mission Viejo in Southern California.info@wellconnectedchiro.comTo contact Ruth, go to https://www.blairclinic.comruth@blairclinic.comhttps://www.facebook.com/rutelinWe hope you will consider sharing this episode to share hope with someone who is struggling with mental health issues.

Now THAT sounds like a title I can get my arms around as we close out the year. :)

After this episode, our “Stop Making Yourself Miserable Podcast” will be taking a Holiday/Winter hiatus. We will begin again sometime in late January. As I have mentioned in a few previous episodes, I am busy working on The Higher Mind Training, and in particular, I am adapting it for use in a halfway house for people suffering with alcohol and drug addiction. The training for this facility should be in place by late-February. As I am working on it, I am looking through some of the notes that I have made over the years, and I have found a few phrases that I have written that I would like to share with you at this time. Like a lot of other people who are involved with writing, I always keep a file opened where I can drop in random thoughts that occur to me as I am working. They don't necessarily relate to anything in particular. If something occurs to me that I feel I should keep, I just write it down and put it away, possibly for later use and possibly not. So, before we take our hiatus, here are a few of those random thoughts for your consideration See if they do anything for you. The first one is, “Follow the heart, not the herd.” In this, I was pondering how powerful the herd mentality factor is for us. I remember watching a documentary that featured a holocaust survivor.  He told a story about something that happened to him during the early days of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. An enormous rally was going to be held with 100,000 Nazi loyalists. They had gathered up about a hundred Jews and seated them near the podium so Hitler could vilify them and spew hatred on them during his speech to the crowd. They were instructed to remain in their seats throughout the entire proceeding and they would be taken out at the end. At one point, the gate to the stadium opened and Hitler came riding into the stadium in an opened car. Instantaneously, everyone rose, giving the Nazi Salute and started chanting, “Heil Hitler.” The survivor then said that the energy of the crowd was so powerful that it took every bit of will power that he had within him not to stand up, give the Nazi salute and join the crowd in chanting “Heil Hitler.”  I never forgot that story because I had spent my entire childhood at basketball games along with 10,000 fans and I was all too familiar with the power of a crowd. For some reason, for the most part, we humans basically like to be just like everyone else. But as the Nazi rally story illustrated, the feeling of safety in numbers is often what it seems to be. Around the same time, I had written myself a note that pretty much speaks for itself: “Get your information from the horse's mouth, not from the horse's ass.” As the Gershwin brothers wrote, “Nice work if you can get it.” Then, in a completely different framework I noted, “A quick look can reveal a treasure.” This is especially true if you ever get the opportunity to be in the presence of someone who has attained a truly elevated state of consciousness. A lot of times they don't need to say a word to lift you up a little, or a lot. Just a look will do it. Two things I had jotted down about moving along the journey of life. The first one was, “To do anything, you have to do something.” Sometimes it can be very small, but everything takes effort and even if it's just something small, something big often starts from something small. But small or large, the step of taking action has to happen. Still, it often takes persistence. You just have to keep going, so I had written, “In the long run, it's a long walk.” Guts or glory, up down or sideways, you just have to stick with it. Along those lines, here's an anonymous quote that I've always admired called, “Press On.” Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence, it starts. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. And when it comes to going through inner obstacles that we might encounter, I was focusing on the idea of inner growth and the thought occurred to me that “It's not so much a matter of going through it that counts. It's more a matter of growing through it.” But along with growth comes the necessity of practice and I noted, “The practical becomes impractical if it's not practiced. So, to wrap things up, I wish you a very happy and healthy Holiday Season, and I am going to leave you with two of my favorite quotes from two of my most treasured influences. When it comes to giving Parmahansa Yogananda gave us this advice, “Spread rays of hope in the hearts of the poor and forsaken. Kindle courage in the hearts of the despondent. And light a new strength in the hearts of those who think they are failures.” Now, that's quite a high bar for giving, but for me, it certainly seems like something to aspire to. And Prem Rawat, who is a master of the art of expressing a profound truth in a rather understated way once said, “Within you resides the essence of every single scripture ever written.” That one always gets me. So, this will be the end of this episode and the beginning of our holiday/winter hiatus. We'll pick it up again in late January. As always, keep your eyes mind and hearts opened, and let's get together in the next one.

Value is a function of perception and perception is subjective, understand this 1 principle and you will always be able to up your value.

This has the capacity to change your life instantaneously. We are talking about increasing your capacity to receive NOW within the next few minutes. I want to invite you to step into this very simple shift in perspective and perception.Receiving is what happens moment, by moment, in every second of your experience. It is impossible for you not to be receiving infinitely in every single moment of your life.  When you start to get your head about this concept, it can instantly change your life. Learning to allow and praise all sides of others and yourself by being in the moment, without berating yourself, is how you step into the upgrade and expand your capacity to receive the gift in its most pure state. I'm inviting you to learn that you are really receiving in all experiences, even the seemingly negative ones.Listen now to learn how I do this and how you can receive the opportunity for the upgrade in each moment; this changes your entire life experience.Highlights 01:22 This is a very simple shift in perspective and perception that I want to invite you to step into.02:15 This morning, when my little girl Aluna, who is so full of joy and sunshine, woke up and was having a moment, then I had a moment; it felt stressful.04:04 It is rare that I allow situations to get under my skin, yet there are times when I don't feel high vibe.QuotesIt is impossible for you not to be receiving infinitely in every single moment of your life. You can read the transcript here.Links Find Suzy on Instagram Find Suzy on Facebook Find Suzy online Join The Quantum Success Hub on Telegram Faith + Action = Miracles

Acts 9:32-43 ESV 32 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed. 34 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose. 35 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. 36 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas.[d] She was full of good works and acts of charity. 37 In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.” 39 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them. 40 But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. 41 And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 43 And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner. FROM SADNESS TO JOY We found commonalities in the result of both miracles. When all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him [Aeneas], they turned to the Lord. And when Tabitha's rising from death became known in Joppa, many believed in the Lord. In other words, these miracles are an authentication to the gospel message, that Jesus is true and alive. e alone with Tabitha in the upper room. Why? Perhaps he did not want to show off. Kneeling down and turning to the pronounced, “Tabitha, arise.” Instantaneously, she became alive again... So, Peter started to travel outside Jerusalem into the coastal towns, particularly Lydda and Joppa. Peter is continuing the work he had done in Jerusalem in spreading the news about Jesus and performing miracles to authenticate his God-given message. Peter had seen Jesus firsthand healed the paralyzed. (Mat 8:5–13; Luke 5:17–26; John 5:2–9). And, he had performed many miracles in Jesus' name since His ascension (Acts 5:12–16). Here, we saw God used him to heal Aeneas of Lydda and Tabitha in Joppa, respectively. At Lydda, Peter found Aeneas who was bedridden for 8 years. In the case of his healing, Peter's faith alone is evident. Aeneas was not even asked or told to believe. Peter just declared unto him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” On the other hand, at Joppa, a disciple Tabitha [Dorcas], full of good works and acts of charity, got sick and died. Peter was summoned but when he arrived, Tabitha's body was already placed in the upper room. The widows, who Tabitha gave tunics while she was alive, were grieving. They led Peter to Tabitha's room. And Peter asked to be alone with Tabitha in the upper room. Why? Perhaps he did not want to show off. Kneeling down and turning to the pronounced, “Tabitha, arise.” Instantaneously, she became alive again. -------------------- Visit and FOLLOW Gospel Light Filipino on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram

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How do we view David and Goliath? Our modern church today with social media influencers and feel-good sermons alike has done damage to this historical event. unfortunately in chasing a "self-centered and feel good" approach the truth and beauty of David and Goliath are lost in most places. My heart is to bring to light the doctrinal and Christ-centered realities of the account to challenge us to see where our faith is truly at! Is it in what we get from God or in simply who God is? Key Doctrines: The doctrine of Imputed Righteousness – This is the reality that outside of Jesus, we are dead in our sins and unholy, unrighteous, and completely separated from God's presence. Yet, when we repent and believe into Jesus Christ as LORD and SAVIOR, we are given the righteousness of Christ. Instantaneously we are made justified in the eyes of God. The doctrine of Imparted Righteousness- This is the premise that once we are justified, now God is working through the Holy Spirit to sanctify us. This is the daily living righteousness that is the fruit of the righteousness given to us by Jesus at salvation. Whereas once we would do good for our own sake or based on loose cultural morals. We now can live rightly with God in actual accordance with His commands, out of love and not fear! Points: 1. Genuine faith is built on who Jesus is, not all the things we think He can do for us. 2. Genuine faith will stand when our emotions and experiences fail us. 3. Your salvation is secure! We now live in the victory of Christ. Stop fighting battles He has already claimed. Questions: 1. How do we view faith? Is it a golden ticket to gain rewards from God in life? or is it because you realized outside of Jesus we deserve nothing? 2. When approaching situations, do we just leap in head first? Or do we seek where and how Jesus commands us to approach them? 3. Seeing David and goliath where Jesus is David and not you, how does that change your view of the story and the points it makes?

The traditional face-to-face identity check has exhausted its welcome.  Instantaneously proving our identities when online banking and booking flights has made things such as physically opening a bank account or applying for a mortgage seem incredibly inefficient - and only limits access to those who are busy during working hours or unable to travel.  In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Editor Matt Harris speaks to Russell King, CEO at Xydus, about: Driving factors behind the growth of digital identity verification Challenges when verifying workers and customers The ethics, bias and risks of facial recognition

For 14 years, Anita Myles Dames, struggled with same-sex desires. As a result, over the years she searched for true clarity about her identity, “Was this the way God created me? Gay?” She would frequently ask herself. Receiving rejection, condemnation, and experiencing depression, caused her to live in isolation. In search of truth (still gay) between the years 2008-2012, she came to faith (believed in who God says He is) and went before the Lord, believing that He has all the answers. It was in the year 2013, the unexpected miracle transpired. God SPOKE DIRECTLY to Anita and instantly erased fourteen years of same-sex desires. After her supernatural encounter, Anita, out of complete obedience, humbly answered the call to share God's love. She encourages those struggling with same-sex desires through teachings on The Power Of Faith. Anita´s primary focus is educating such individuals on the key ingredients of her testimony: 1) The importance of the activation of one´s faith 2) Creating unity with God through prayer and studying of His word. Now through the guidance and leadership of the Holy Spirit, He allows her to: minister to the hearts of those who are currently battling—asking the question she too once asked, ¨Who Am I?", encourage and bring awareness to others, exclaiming God is able to renew their mind in Him, but it requires one's faith in God. Follow or contact Anita on Instagram at thepowerof_faithhopelove www.onelittlecandlepodcast.com www.christianpodcastcommunity.org

For 14 years, Anita Myles Dames, struggled with same-sex desires. As a result, over the years she searched for true clarity about her identity, “Was this the way God created me? Gay?” She would frequently ask herself. Receiving rejection, condemnation,...

For 14 years, Anita Myles Dames, struggled with same-sex desires. As a result, over the years she searched for true clarity about her identity, “Was this the way God created me? Gay?” She would frequently ask herself. Receiving rejection, condemnation, and experiencing depression, caused her to live in isolation. In search of truth (still gay) between the years 2008-2012, she came to faith (believed in who God says He is) and went before the Lord, believing that He has all the answers. It was in the year 2013, the unexpected miracle transpired. God SPOKE DIRECTLY to Anita and instantly erased fourteen years of same-sex desires. After her supernatural encounter, Anita, out of complete obedience, humbly answered the call to share God's love. She encourages those struggling with same-sex desires through teachings on The Power Of Faith. Anita´s primary focus is educating such individuals on the key ingredients of her testimony: 1) The importance of the activation of one´s faith 2) Creating unity with God through prayer and studying of His word. Now through the guidance and leadership of the Holy Spirit, He allows her to: minister to the hearts of those who are currently battling—asking the question she too once asked, ¨Who Am I?", encourage and bring awareness to others, exclaiming God is able to renew their mind in Him, but it requires one's faith in God. Follow or contact Anita on Instagram at thepowerof_faithhopelove www.onelittlecandlepodcast.com www.christianpodcastcommunity.org

For 14 years, Anita Myles Dames, struggled with same-sex desires. As a result, over the years she searched for true clarity about her identity, “Was this the way God created me? Gay?” She would frequently ask herself. Receiving rejection, condemnation, and experiencing depression, caused her to live in isolation. In search of truth (still gay) between the years 2008-2012, she came to faith (believed in who God says He is) and went before the Lord, believing that He has all the answers. It was in the year 2013, the unexpected miracle transpired. God SPOKE DIRECTLY to Anita and instantly erased fourteen years of same-sex desires. After her supernatural encounter, Anita, out of complete obedience, humbly answered the call to share God's love. She encourages those struggling with same-sex desires through teachings on The Power Of Faith. Anita´s primary focus is educating such individuals on the key ingredients of her testimony: 1) The importance of the activation of one´s faith 2) Creating unity with God through prayer and studying of His word. Now through the guidance and leadership of the Holy Spirit, He allows her to: minister to the hearts of those who are currently battling—asking the question she too once asked, ¨Who Am I?", encourage and bring awareness to others, exclaiming God is able to renew their mind in Him, but it requires one's faith in God. Follow or contact Anita on Instagram at thepowerof_faithhopelove www.onelittlecandlepodcast.com www.christianpodcastcommunity.org

At twenty-five years old, Laura Carney met her husband-to-be in a summer romance that began like a movie script, then suddenly lost her father in a tragic car accident three months later. After a decade long relationship, the two of them got married and, six months later, found her father's bucket list when he was a young man. There were sixty items on the list and only six had been checked off. Instantaneously, both Laura and her husband agreed – she had to finish the list. For the past five years, Laura has been on a quest to complete all of the items on her father's bucket list, but that is only part of her amazing story. While fulfilling the last few of her father's wishes, she is writing a book about the adventure called, My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free, being published by Post Hill Press in May 2023. Along the way, she has garnered the courage to face a difficult past and set the foundation for helping encourage and inspire others. Laura is a writer and magazine copy editor in New York. She's been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runner's World, Good Housekeeping, The Fix, Upworthy, and other places. In our conversation, Laura unwraps a triumphant story of a soul set free, intertwined with her marriage every step of the way. Show highlights: · Growing up with divorced parents · Meeting her future husband just before losing her father in a tragic accident · Waiting ten years to get married · How they stayed together after a tragedy · Finding her father's bucket list · Deciding to finish the bucket list and write a book about it · Divine connections with her father · The importance of learning to trust · Being real and open instead of trying to look perfect · Why we should break more eggs in life Where to find Laura: www.myfatherslist.comand www.bylauracarney.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfatherslist?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myfatherslist/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carney.laura Photo by: @jonibilderbackphotography Follow Mike on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mikebellini7/ Ultra Marriage Resources: Book: www.theultramarriage.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/ultra_marriage/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011729101170 Youtube: Ultra Marriage https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsoiUBRBK9BsZ8FDxj3kZ_w

I am delighted to welcome you to Episode #92, the first episode of SEASON 10 of 'Sharing Life Lessons'. A podcast that brings you stories from around the world to have fun with and to learn from because stories inspire, stories teach, and stories heal! We are one spirit; one soul; one world; and together we are creating a library of stories and life lessons. Sharing Life Lessons has expanded to YouTube. Please click the link below and subscribe. Also click on the bell to be notified of all new episodes. https://youtube.com/channel/UCj9tq1TlyMj79sSxITvzdMw To support the creation of this podcast please go to https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons and click on the support button with the dollar sign to sign up for a monthly subscription for an amount of your choice. This will enable me to continue to bring to you an enhanced season 10. The target audience for this episode is EVERYONE; especially those interested in learning about the Law of Attraction Our guest for today is Salima Balouchi. Salima Balouchi holds a Doctor of Homeopathy, is a Reiki Master, and an Acupuncturist with a longstanding career in delivering energy therapies. Her choice of career was catalysed by a long research sabbatical during which she focused on the connection between Conscious and Subconscious/Unconscious Mind and its applications for Quantum Healing. Over the past 20 years, Salima has mentored and coached Celebrities and Executives, as well as delivered keynote speeches and workshops around various subjects such as Reiki, Wellness, Motivation, and Personal Development. Links for Salima: https://www.facebook.com/vibratehigherandevolve https://soulvibrations-sv.com/ https://bit.ly/35CoviN Here is a summary of my conversation with Salima regarding the components of the Law of Attraction: 1. Most of us have trouble with boundaries, most of us don't know how to set boundaries or say no. But if we want to keep our vibration high, we will have to say, oh no, I'm not compromising my vibration, which enables us to automatically set our boundaries. Those people that are willing to be with us on our journey will automatically raise their vibration to match ours. 2. We must understand that there is nothing in the world that says you get to be rich. You get to be poor. You get to be happy. You get to be sad. You get to manifest, you get stuck. If we just grab what we are deserving of, what we are entitled to, it's so much easier than waiting around for something to drop in your lap. 3. This is not an all-exhaustive list but some tools to elevate our vibration that Salima mentioned are meditation, being in nature, finding something that grounds us, and having a good support system. 4. It's dumbfounding how we have so much more power and grip over our lives than we really think and if people understand this basic, simple, and deep concept, their whole lives can change instantaneously. We have much more power than we realize 5. Our third eye is our intuition, it is our psychic awareness, it is our gut. It can be developed. This gift can be yours, all you have to do is be open to receiving it, to enhancing it, to evolving it, so you can be the one that starts that generational gift of passing it down. I will bring you the next episode of Sharing Life Lessons next weekend. Until then, 'be happy, be safe and be blessed'. Podcast links: YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCj9tq1TlyMj79sSxITvzdMw Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sharing-life-lessons/id1495248815?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EZMzRw1cWMyvSiyeeyTRdD --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharinglifelessons/support

Restoration for the Saints (5) (Audio) David Eells - 2/27/22   The Spiritual City of God Restored Vision given to Cheri Watson - 07/06/05(David's notes in red) I had a vision of a castle, with a city surrounding it, suspended just above a mountain in a layer of clouds. The mountain and the city were enshrouded/surrounded by darkness (the mountain and city were black in color in the vision...but it felt more like a presence than a color). I had the feeling that the city would soon touch down onto the mountain...its resting place. (The city is the Bride as John was told in Revelation and the head of the city is the David Man-child company. The city is shrouded in darkness because it is not yet come down to be revealed. Rev. 3:12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.) (This vision was fulfilled in Jesus' day before God's spiritual city was destroyed and the people taken captive to Babylonish religion and now it is about to be restored as promised. This city and mountain are "heavenly", not physical, for they cannot "be touched". (Heb.12:18} For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; (20) for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; (21) and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, As in Jesus' day spiritual Zion was the firstborn church, meaning "called out ones", so in our day will God call out of Babylon a firstborn. "The things that have been are the things that shall be". The coming "castle" of David's dominion, which is Christ in the body of his "firstborn", or first-fruits, will soon be established in God's capitol city on the mountain representing His kingdom on earth.  As in Jesus' day, it will be shrouded in darkness to the world and seen by few of God's people who have only earthly eyes to see. This is a place of safety from the invading beast kingdom. (Eze.34:22) therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. (23) And I will set up one (corporate) shepherd (the Man-child) over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (24) And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.  (25) And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness (tribulation), and sleep in the woods. (26) And I will make them and the places round about my hill (of Zion) a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. (27) And the tree of the field (God's people) shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke (free from bondage to the flesh), and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them (their carnal man and the faction against them.). (28) And they shall no more be a prey to the nations,neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them (They will be safe from the Beast); but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.) In my quiet time I felt impressed of the Spirit to read Isaiah 62:11 which says, "Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him". I had the whole passage underlined so I read the whole passage...10-12 which reads... "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; (or stumbling blocks) lift up an ensign for the peoples. Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken". (Just as Jesus did in His day, He will do through the first-fruits in our day. He will make the path to the spiritual City of God, called "the spirits of just men made perfect", plain. And the stones of stumbling will be removed through the teaching of the pure unleavened bread of the Word. Then many more will travel the holy road from spiritual Babylon to the "daughter of Zion". She is called the "daughter" because she is the firstborn of original New Testament Zion in Jesus' day.) I felt the need to agree with my Father to walk through the gate so in my mind I imagined a gate in front of me that was opened. It was dark on the other side and I was a little afraid of the darkness but I determined to walk through the gate anyway. (We cannot walk by sight for we have never been this way before. The way is enshrouded in darkness to the natural man. Jesus said, "I am the way". After two millennia of apostasy, to walk in His steps is to be the first-fruits who will show the multitudes "the way" to enter Zion. Through the faith of "Praise" we must enter the "gates" of the fullness of "Salvation" where we will find safety and peace. (Isa.60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. {19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Notice that when we walk in the City of God our light is no longer to be the light of the natural man but the light of God, which only the spiritual man knows.) As I stepped through the gate I went into a free fall. I was not afraid at all...I had given myself completely over to my Father. As I fell I felt peace and I felt a fullness that I can't explain. I extended out my arms and as I did they turned into wings and I became an eagle. (To enter that city through faith is to overcome the earthly, natural forces, which cause man to gravitate towards the world and its ways.) I flew to the top portion of a mountain and there I found a nest with eggs in it. I was told to 'sit and nurture the eggs', so I sat. I felt unqualified to do so, but I was completely satisfied in knowing that it was all about Him, NOT me. He was in control. I think the best way to explain how I felt was that it was probably kind of how Moses felt when the Lord told him he was to speak to and lead the Israelites through the desert... (To be an overcomer of all that is earthly now, by God's grace, is to be prepared to birth others into Zion in the time to come.)   The Throne on Mount  Zion Jeremiah tells us of a spiritual capital city and throne for spiritual Israel, the church. (Jer.3:12) Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel... In this text God is commanding His backslidden people to come out of Babylon in the north. For God's people to live in Babylon instead of submitting to Zion was a type of the backslidden state of bondage to the harlot that the church has been in for almost 2000 years. Jeremiah cries for God's people to come out from among them. (14) Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.  Notice that at first only a first-fruits bride is taken from among the backslidden multitudes and joined with her "husband" on His throne in Zion. When this happens all of the New Jerusalem is the throne for the Bride to sit in. (17) At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. Notice that after the bride sits in her throne "all the nations" (Hebrew: Gentiles) of the elect church will be gathered out of Babylon to submit to their true spiritual capitol city, the New Jerusalem. Also, we see here that Jerusalem has manifested the Name of the Lord. Name, in Greek means, nature, character and authority of the Lord. The mountain beneath Zion represents the true kingdom of God, the true church, whereas the New Jerusalem Bride sits on top of Mt. Zion because she is over the rest of the church in the throne. It was revealed to Pastor Shelley that "The Throne of God, the Throne Room, His true Presence is on top of Mt. Zion". As spiritual Jews, the Church, is called to grow up out of the "falsehood" of religion and enter into the Mt. Zion of "a pure heart", "truth", and holiness. (Psa.24:3) Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place? (4) He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood... (15:1) Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? (2) He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart... Notice that the church enters "into" the hill of Zion, however the King, His Bride and His throne are "upon" the hill of Zion. (Psa.2:6) Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. As we saw, this spiritual Mt. Zion and its city are not physical and cannot be touched by carnal man. (Heb.12:18) For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched... When the church was full of apostolic teaching and the Holy Spirit they submitted to the spiritual city of God. (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Notice that "mount Zion" and "heavenly Jerusalem" are called the "church of the firstborn". Church is from the Greek word "ekklesia" meaning "called out ones". "The firstborn" in Paul's day were being called out of Babylonish religion to this holy mountain and city as we are today. Shortly after this verse was written the church was taken captive to Babylon, having been led astray by the wolves into all sorts of sectarian, religious bondages. A first fruits company is coming back to Zion in these days. The church's position on earth is in the spiritual, heavenly, New Jerusalem. However, our position is what is given to us at the cross and not necessarily what we have attained to on earth. For instance; "We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ" but we are told "this is the will of God, even your sanctification...that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor". What we are given at the cross is ours to manifest by faith or to reject. Like the early church, we are born at the foot of Mt. Zion but are quickly led away captive by the lies of Babylonish religion. (Psa.58:3) The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. Instead of climbing the mountain and entering the throne room of the authority of God we go astray. (Isa.53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way... The reason we are hesitant to climb the mountain is because it is holy and represents death to the flesh. (Exo.19:12)... Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and heard the Word directly from God, which spiritually put him to death. (Exo.20:19) And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. God was weak to the weak in that He put His Word in flesh. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and became a pure vessel to bring the Word of God to His people. If we humbly turn and submit to the pure Word from the mountain we will have His throne authority. (Rev.3:21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne... Notice once again what Paul said. (Heb.12:22,23) ye are come unto... the heavenly Jerusalem... the spirits of just men made perfect. Clearly, while we are in the old body on earth only our spiritual man is being perfected into "the heavenly Jerusalem". We manifest the "New Jerusalem" here as our spirit and soul are born of the Spirit. John said that the city "cometh down out of heaven" in his day as the saints overcame sin. (Rev.3:12) He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. The word "cometh" here is spoken to the church in John's day. It is present tense in the ancient manuscripts, the Received Text, and the numeric pattern. Only the King James falsely translates it "shall come”.  The New Jerusalem bride is born from above as she "cometh down out of heaven" now in spirit and soul. She becomes born of the bread of the Word. Jesus said: (Jn.6:33) For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world... Notice that both the "New Jerusalem" and the "bread of God" "cometh down out of heaven". (51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. As each saint is being born out of heaven by consuming Jesus, the Word, the holy city is coming down. (Jn.3:3) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew (Greek: "from above"), he cannot see the kingdom of God. As long as the "New Jerusalem" is only manifested in spirit and soul it is invisible to the creation, which only sees the outer man. (Rom.8:19)... the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. "Revealing" here in the Greek means the "uncovering". This means the New Jerusalem sons are here but hidden. The full revealing of the sons is seen at "the redemption of our body" (23). We are now being born from above, first spirit, then soul, and then body at the end. The bride with her new body will be seen by the creation as they are "coming down out of heaven" with Jesus at the end of the day of the Lord. (Rev.21:9) Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. (10) And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. The bride will manifestly be the "holy city Jerusalem", which the whole church was given by position in Christ when He was resurrected. Sadly, many are selling their birthright by walking after the flesh.   Bride Packs Light; Man-Child Saves Her From the Curses Claire Pienaar - 6/18/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was packing a suitcase as I would be leaving the place I was at in three days. It looked like the garden of the retirement home my gran used to live in. Both of my grans were there, smiling and so happy to see me! (I represent The Bride, the retirement home represents being “at rest” and my gran represents the ancient true Church). I was sitting on a ledge, looking out over the old age home. Then my name was called, and I had to go. I went into my gran's room, and she said to me, “Open the suitcase so I can check that you have everything you need”. (Everything you need to go in to the wilderness.) I smiled and did so.  She laughed at the contents of my case, not in an ugly way but more out of astonishment. There was almost nothing inside the case! The suitcase was a royal blue color on the outside (The case belongs to the heir of the kingdom. We are not bondservants but sons of God. Romans 8:14-17: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.).  On the inside of the case were some books. Picture books, chapter books for my children, and my bible journals and all kinds of bibles. My gran said, “This will be heavy to take”. I replied, “But this is who I am now. I am always learning more and I can't not take this with me”. Then I picked it up and said, “See? It's not heavy because there's nothing else in it.”. (Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.). The scene changed. I was in the hull of a big black boat or ship. I could see women dressed in black trench coats on the shore, cursing. These were not swear-words but actual curses that were exactly like witchcraft or magic. (This is the apostate church who resent us being freed from their system of slavery. They are always so contrary to what God's people are called to do and be.) I looked down and realized I was tied to the ship with light brown rope. David Eells was untying the rope. (This represents the Man-Child saving His Bride [from the slavery of religions]). I was watching this scene in the spirit from outside my body. I could move or fly around and I knew the thoughts of myself tied up, as well as my own thoughts as the spirit man outside my body. My spirit man was thinking, “They are going to be fine, but David will need to untie that rope quicker”. (This will be accomplished by the anointing on the Man-child David's. Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.) Then my bound self was thinking “I don't want to die down here. Hurry up!”. (We don't want to die in the slavery of apostate religion where we do not bear fruit unto Christ-likeness.)   The black boat looked like an old ship that was used to carry slaves over the trans-Atlantic many years ago. But now it was docked and completely in darkness. It was falling apart, and it had many cracks. (Paul realized that his time in religion was darkness and he had to leave it behind. Php.3:8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ.) I could see the women in black on the shore. (These women in darkness represent the denominational groups.) I knew they wanted us killed. I could feel the death in the air, but I was not scared of the death, I just did not want to die in the darkness of the hull of the ship.  David freed me and we walked out of the ship, under water, onto 5 steps. (Under water represents baptized in the water of the Word unto death to self by grace represented by the number five.) While we were under water, we could breathe completely perfectly like we were outside in plain air. (All who are baptized unto death to self, live unto Christ.) David did some strange things on the stairs. At each stair, which was almost two meters wide and about seven meters long, he lay down and rolled over the stair. It was like he was marking the stair or the sealing the stair with his body. (Laying down is a position of rest which comes by grace and not man's works. The sealing represents those who are filled with the Spirit. Eph. 1:13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,? in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. The Bride will follow in the steps of the Man-child being filled with His anointing.)  David did not expect me to do this (roll around and “mark” it). However, he wanted me to follow him onto each stair afterwards. At the fifth stair the waters appeared, and now I could see that we'd actually never been underwater, but we were only now getting into the water. (The water of the ship of apostasy before the steps of grace represents their words and is not as the living waters of truth and freedom.)  The water was the most amazing color despite there being no light around. The only way I can explain this is that the old boat had no light coming in, save for the slivers of light that escaped through the wooden boards of the boat that I peeked through earlier in the dream. On this fifth stair, David said, “Time to swim out”. The waters became deep and dark and both my body and me floating around watching all of this from a higher vantage point saw a pile of car tires in the water. I knew not to swim anywhere near there, even if the current swept me away. Those car tires were bad news. I don't know what lurked beneath them but in the dream those were dangerous. (Car tires are powerless like the dead slavery religions. We want to avoid at all costs those that "have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.")  I could feel the current trying it's best to sweep me away. It was like the current had an actual assignment on my life. But David got into the water after me and wrapped me in a white rope around and pulled me really close to himself.  We just waited there in the dark water. We didn't have to swim against anything or struggle as long as I was right there next to David. Then I woke up. (The Man-child Jesus said in John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.)     I asked God for a word by faith at random and received Zec 2:9 with my finger on “hand over them” and “be a spoil”, (in context 8-11)  For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (The Man-child is raising the Bride up to go first to the nations of apostate Christianity which will be a spoil to them.) 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. 11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee.    We Hear that Everyone in Your Fellowship was Healed! Sandy Shaw - 6/9/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was standing in front of U.T. Medical. I was there to show Dr. Freedman that God gave me my leg! (Sandy had lost a leg to diabetes years ago but had many promises from the Lord to give her back her leg. The medical profession was always trying to drag her down into the physical sight realm. In this way, of course, they would steal her supernatural leg.)  As I was walking through the hospital, a nurse yelled out, “There she is, the girl who got her leg!” They started running toward me. I took off running trying to find the doctor's office. More people started chasing me, I ran down the hallway and there was another hallway crossing it. And this doctor grabbed me in a headlock, saying, “We're going to cut off your leg. God didn't heal you, you're lying. We're going to put this new electric leg on you.”  I said, “No you're not! Let go of me!” He said, “You're never going to leave this hospital.” He grabbed me tighter and I opened my mouth and bit him. So I put my chin down and squeezed it behind his arm. And yes I was healed completely because I had teeth! He let go and I ran. And there were a lot of people chasing me. I ran into a room where there was no way out. Then I was in a corner. People were asking me questions. “We hear that everyone in your fellowship was healed. (Something we have seen in dreams when the Man-child comes at the restoration.) Where is your fellowship at? We can't find it. God didn't really heal you guys, your leg was never amputated. Why are you lying? What's the name of everyone in your fellowship? If you don't tell us, we'll have all of you arrested.” “We heard you have a lot of dreams. Who's Eve? So, who are you and Eve? Mediums? You might as well tell us, because you can't come out of here.” A man was walking through the crowd with a big stick in his hand. Then I said, “Lord Jesus, only you can get me out of this. Then I was standing outside the hospital. There was a big, white limo. I ran into it and woke up. (God made a way of escape through the promises but they talked her out of it and, in effect, they stole her leg. The factious made war against her constantly with witchcraft and her blood is upon them but "the curse that is causeless abideth not". As we have seen with the vaccines, many will die trusting in man. Rom. 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.) I received this text by faith at random. Eze 32:11-12  For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.  12  By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. (Egypt represents trusting in the arm of the flesh. Of Babylon it was said in Rev. 18:23 …for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery (or Pharmakeia in Greek, also translated witchcraft) were all the nations deceived.)   Revival Beginning at UBMCharlie Smith - 12/12/12 (David's notes in red) Notice the date of this dream: 12/12/12, the fullness of the elect. In the early hours of the morning, the Lord gave me this dream. In it, suddenly, I appeared in a large room where I saw brother David (representing the David Man-child reformers) and about 10 or 12 brethren standing around. (I asked the Lord if this was 12 and got a yes, which fits with Jesus and his 12 when revival began then.)  I knew David but his features had changed some. I mean, he really looked great. I could really see God in the man like I never had before. (David here is a type of the Man-child ministry which will start this revival, just as Jesus, the Son of David, did in His time. The things that have been are the things that will be.)  And I knew him but the other brethren I did not recognize, although I really knew who they were. As I stood looking, a man came over to me and He was the Lord! The brethren were being taught how to minister to the needs of the people. Brother David walked across the room to pray for a man who came for healing. And he stood before the man and said, "Be healed", and the man was healed instantly. David turned and walked back to the other side of the room. (God's power is made perfect in man's weakness, so that no flesh can glory.) The brethren, as well as myself, were amazed that the man was healed and we started praising God and giving thanks. As we rejoiced, another man came forward for healing. I believe the man was blind. One of the brethren came forth and laid hands on the man's head, saying, "Receive your sight". And the man cried out, "I'm healed and I can see!" Other people in the room who were in need came forth immediately, some with missing or deformed limbs, twisted bodies, crippled, all such of humanity that was so pitiful; they came up and every one of them were healed instantly.  I said, "Oh, God, how is it that everyone was healed instantly, so fast, so easily? Some had hands laid on them and others did not, but they were all healed". The Lord smiled and said, "You could not see". The Lord opened my spiritual eyes and said, "Now look". And He showed me again the part where David said to the man, "Be healed". This time I could see the words "Be healed" coming out of David's mouth, like a mist, and entering into the man. And as the word went into the man, he was instantly healed.  I received a few scriptures that go with this dream: (Isa.55:11) So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please; and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Jer.1:12) I watch over my word to perform it. (Eze.12:25) For I am Jehovah and I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed. (Rom.10:8) The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart. And I was still wondering about the mist that I saw and I got (Joh.6:63) The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. So I understood, like Jesus spoke the Word and it came to pass, so did these brethren operate on that level. Then there was a scene change. This time in a different, larger room, David and about 100 or more other brethren were gathered together. The brethren were being taught how to minister and were then sent forth. They went forth preaching the Word and healing the sick everywhere. The brethren covered much of this area. You couldn't go anywhere without seeing these brethren.  And then the scene quickly changed again and we were at another place outside. It was a large, grassy area with parking nearby, but I don't know where it was. Brother David and maybe as many as 500 brethren were gathered together and crowds of people were coming from everywhere. It looked like thousands or even hundreds of thousands were coming. The meetings ran day and night. One night, all the people saw a pillar of fire burning in our midst. They were being drawn by the Lord and it definitely was a holy move of God. So many saints were now coming together. Again, the scene quickly changed and I was lifted up, looking down on the earth, and I saw the saints running through all the earth, spreading the gospel and the light shining all over the earth. I think what I saw was a revival to prepare the saints to manifest sons of God in the earth to do the will of the Father. I also believe that this is a revival for the Man-child because every one of those scenes David and the brethren were gathered but they were being taught how to minister the Word and heal the sick.  And I noticed that everything was on a higher level than what we're used to now. They didn't spend a lot of time, a lot of words when they prayed; they just commanded it and it was immediately done. And when they gave the Gospel, they didn't have to stand there for hours trying to nail a point down. It was just like the glory of the Lord fell. When these brethren got around people out here on the streets to witness, the glory of the Lord was so strong that they just automatically fell down and cried, "Save me!" This was definitely a sign to us all that God's getting ready to do something wonderful here. I'm just like my brothers and sisters here. I want to be a part of it because I know God's going to do a fantastic work here and it's going to spread worldwide because I saw the lights cover the whole earth. I don't know when this is going to happen but I know it will. Amen. We are informed by the Lord in many more dreams and scriptures that there is coming a great revival here and across the country and world. It will be in the midst of darkness and turmoil and many will come out of darkness. {Isa.60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee. {2} For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. {3} And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {4} Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms. {5} Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee. We have a part in this. The principalities and powers of darkness have been put under our feet but we must fight the good fight of the faith and cast them down from over UBM and this area and the U.S. {Luk.10:18} And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. {19} Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. {20} Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Let us have fasting and prayer and praise meetings and confess our sins and cast down these powers. Let us decree freedom from bondage and darkness. I received this a few days ago: {Job 22:28} Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways. {29} When they cast [thee] down, thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; And the humble person he will save. {30} He will deliver [even] him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.   A prophet named Phillip shared this vision with us:  I have prayed for three days now for the Holy Father's will in this matter of sharing the vision I received during a meeting with David as the speaker (in Phoenix, a type of resurrection life). I am permitted to share the following: As I prayed with David at the start of the meeting, I saw the room change into a stadium filled with people and David was at the podium shouting through a microphone that was in the shape of a shofar. He wore a silver yarmulke that glowed as he spoke, and from above it came a white golden light pouring down from the sky as a beam of glory growing brighter with each outpouring. From David's clothing came the same glory lights pouring though the tzit-tzit on his garment flowing like fingers through the people. They touched the forehead and were grabbed by the right hand of people who became pregnant and began shouting as they were covered in glory. This is the vision I had at the meeting. The Holy Father says that David would know its meaning, if not now very soon.   Months after that meeting we received this from Phillip: Holy Yahweh is forming this ministry into His Image to spearhead the Man-child Ministry Birthing and Delivery to the World! Amen! He has given this to me in a mighty vision that ran continued for three nights along with some other things that I can't say just yet. In short brethren the "white golden light pouring down from the sky as a beam of glory" will flow through obedient servants in whom Christ is manifested through the latter rain and belief in the truth. It will flow first through the man-child and then through the witnesses to the Church at large. (This light is pouring down from the sky upon the giant body of Christ below in Tommy Hick's revelation.)    TOMMY HICKS' END-TIMES VISION July 25, 1961 (The following is a stunning vision given to American preacher Tommy Hicks (who was a major figure in the powerful 1954 Argentina Revival).VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES.(My message begins July 25, about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the vision and the revelation that God gave me came before me. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and upon the end-time ministries.The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the end times.I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his wife were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika, they came across a small village. The entire village was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong.They told him of their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days. They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them where they were. They pointed to the hut and he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go.The native and his wife went to this little cottage and entered in where the man and woman had been dead for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the man's name and the woman's name and said, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to your bodies." Instantaneously these two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of those people.To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning of these end-time ministries. God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God. In the book of Acts we read that "In the last days,” God said,"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if we realized what he meant when God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I fully realized nor could I understand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain -" (Joel 2:23). It is not only going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of God!)As the vision appeared to me after I was asleep, I suddenly found myself in a great high distance. Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down upon the earth. Suddenly the whole earth came into my view. Every nation, every kindred, every tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and the south. I recognized every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in fear and trembling as I beheld the great sight before me: and at that moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.  As the lightning flashed over the face of the earth, my eyes went downward and I was facing the north. Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and as I stared and looked at it, I was almost bewildered by the sight. It was so gigantic and so great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the south. Its arms were stretched from sea to sea.  I could not even begin to understand whether this be a mountain or a giant, but as I watched, I suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted to live, but his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times this great giant would move his body and act as though it would even raise up at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away. Hideous creatures would run away from this giant, and when he would become calm, they would come back.All of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand towards heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when it did, these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this giant and go into the darkness of the night.Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands went into the clouds. As he rose to his feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and filth that was upon him, and he began to raise his hands into the heavens as though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the clouds.Suddenly, every cloud became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this phenomenon, it was so great, I could not even begin to understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto the Lord and I said, "Oh Lord, what is the meaning of this." and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of the Lord even as I was asleep.And from those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light raining down upon this mighty giant, and slowly, slowly, this giant began to melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted, his whole form seemed to have melted upon the face of the earth, and this great rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the very earth itself and as I watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of people over the face of the earth.  As I beheld the sight before me, people stood up all over the world! They were lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord. At that very moment there came a great thunder that seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my eyes toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening white; the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life.  I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and to another, and to another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the nations and the people of the world -men and women- as he pointed toward them, this liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord.I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this Christ as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people, as he stretched forth his hand, that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call of God.  But as he stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away, seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they went forward in the name of the Lord.I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor men. I saw people who were bound with paralysis and sickness and blindness and deafness. As the Lord stretched forth to give them this anointing, they became well, they became healed, and they went forth exactly as the Lord did. And this is the miracle of it - this is the glorious miracle of it . It seemed as if there was this same liquid fire in their hands - those people would stretch forth their hands and said, "According to my word, be thou made whole." These people continued in this mighty end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I looked to the Lord and said, "What is the meaning of this?" And he said, "This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpiller - I will restore all that they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times will go forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth."As I was at this great height, I could behold the whole world. I watched these people as they were going to and fro over the face of the earth. Suddenly there was a man in Africa and in a moment he was transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or China or America or some other place, and vice versa. All over the world these people went, and they came through fire, and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed to stop them.Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, they passed through the multitudes and they could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands, the sick were healed, the blind eyes were opened. There was not a long prayer. And after I had reviewed the vision many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realized that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!As they marched forth in everything they did, as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried to attack those workers that were giving the message.God is going to give the world a demonstration in this last hour as the world has never known. These men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no "big I's" and "little you's," but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common - there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked together, and as they lived together.  It was the most glorious sight that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their life. They continued and it seemed days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry, and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the face of the whole earth, bringing forth in this last end time.As I watched from the very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, "I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,"and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and woman that received this power and anointing of God, the miracles were without end.(We have talked about miracles. We have talked about signs and wonders, but I could not help but weep as I read again this morning, at 4 o'clock the letter from our native workers. This is only the evidence of the beginning for one man, a "do-nothing, an unheard-of," who would go and stretch forth his hand and say, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to flow into your body.” I dropped to my knees and began to pray again, and I said, "Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!”)  And then again, as these people were going about the face of the earth, a great persecution seemed to come from every angle. Suddenly, there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I heard again the voice that seemed to speak, "Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride.” (In Rev. 19:7-8 we see the Bride in her “lampros" garment who has been doing miracles all over the world. John the Baptist saw Jesus' first fruits disciples and called them the Bride for he said, “He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom.” This Bride went forth to do miracles in the gospels and Acts and to pass this anointing on to the rest of the church. Then in Rev. 19:14 we see the rest of the church in a “leukos" garment who are invited to the marriage. And then below we will see in Tommy's revelation the dead in Christ rising at the end of the 7 years to join them. ) And when the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from every direction. From the East and the West, from the North and the South, and they seemed to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first, (Before the rest of the “leukos” body of Christ.) I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvellous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of. But as this body suddenly began to form, and take shape again, it took shape again in the form of this mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. (In Rev. 19:14 the white garments are the “leukos" garments.) Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, (Jesus is the head of the Bride, Jerusalem, in whom David ruled. In this way Jesus is the head of the rest of the Body of Israel; a type of the church. We see this same relationship of Esther as the Bride head of the body of Israel and the Shulammite in Song of Solomon as the Bride head of Israel.) "This is my beloved bride for whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I have loved from the beginning of time."As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw  destruction of men and women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in destruction. Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth."From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of God's wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction.I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up. They leaped into water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy them. They were wanting to take their lives, but they could not.Then again I turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments. Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it did, I awoke.What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the end-time ministries - the last hour. Again on July 27, at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same vision came again exactly as it did before. My life has been changed as I realised that we are living in that end time, for all over the world God is anointing men and women with this ministry. It will not be doctrine. It will not be a churchianity. It is going to be Jesus Christ. They will give forth the word of the Lord. I heard it said so many times in the vision, "And according to my word it shall be done." 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The power of your mind… is endless. Harness it, use it, master it. Be your own biggest hype man/woman. Do this and watch your life change instantly, others will feel it too, you will start to emanate a blissful, positive energy without even realising it.

When someone accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they are suddenly thrust into a battle for their soul. Instantaneously, they become part of an eternal conflict between God and Satan. How is the Christian to participate in this battle, and how can she protect herself? We are called to wear the armor of God. By equipping ourselves, we can withstand the attacks from the devil.

Join Avital in her Unlock Unlimited Energy Webinar happening every two months! http://www.unlockunlimitedenergy.com Learn how to: • Instantaneously raise your energy • Tap into natural resources of energy • Shift towards energizing attitudes • Increase helpful perceptions about life • Practice easy techniques you can do on your own for lasting energy Would you like to have more choice in how much energy you have and avoid those moments where you don't have energy when you need it? Learn the three most impactful keys to easily unlock unlimited energy within yourself. Avital Miller, best-selling author of the books Healing Happens and Practice, inspires people to experience boundless energy, absolute happiness, and true success in order to live the best life possible. For over fifteen years Avital has been serving thousands of people worldwide as an award-winning international keynote speaker, neurolinguistic programming practitioner, healing breakthrough facilitator, and global dancer. Her leadership background includes working as a program manager at Microsoft, lead coach for Success Resources America, sales and marketing director for Crystal Clarity Publishers, yoga and fitness teacher trainer, fitness director, and ordained minister. Her articles have been published in Fitness Professional Online, 30 Seconds, and Sacred Dance Guild Journal. Avital has been trained as an energy healer in Pranic Healing and Ananda Level 2 Healing. Contact Avital: Website: https://www.avitalmiller.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avital.love/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avitalmiller/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healinghappensbook Watch this Episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/Vq8N4HwxbF8 Have A question in Mind? Submit Your Question here. We might answer it in the next episode. www.SalmanFarsi.co/ask Discover the host: Instagram: @salman.yt Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesalmanhub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesalmanhub/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salmanfarsi/message

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Americans' phones and screens were inundated with news of the latest arrival of so-called "new variant." Instantaneously, the Fauci-Fearmongering began over what the global health community has dubbed the "Omicron Variant." On this in-depth episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie dives deep into what you need to know in order to cut through the propaganda smokescreen and uncover the truth about this latest strain. He also asks the simple question that everyone deserves an answer to—who stands to benefit from a renewed round of lockdowns, mandates, and mandatory vaccinations? The answer is sadly, not surprising.  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

God still heals today I'm living proof of it personally. I was healed in 2012 of a mass on my pancreas, a gallbladder full of stones and a 2 inch nodule on my adrenal gland. Instantaneously healed by Jesus, my healer. Your healer.

What difference does it make how God heals you? Instantaneously or through medical science---I just want Him to heal. Is your belief in Him solid? Do you believe He is able? Do you realize we win in the end? 

Thomas Paladino joins to share his decades of work on scalar energy or also called Tesla technology. We discuss how research shows that scalar waves can communicate instantaneously across very long distances, allow faster than light travel, anti gravity propulsion, scalar light treatments that treat incurable diseases, and much more. You can see more of Thomas Paladino's work at ScalarLight.com - See exclusive interviews on SarahWestall.TV or on Ebener (My Truth Platform that has replaced Patreon)! Sign up at SarahWestall.com/Subscribe

《Incense Anthem Chieh Ting》 Incense for discipline and serenity burns to reach heavens above. We, the disciples devout, Offer it on an exquisite censer. Instantaneously and suffusively. It has permeated all places. In the past Yasodhara avoided calamities and averted disasters. Blessed be Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas under incense-cloud canopies. Blessed be Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas under incense-cloud canopies. Blessed be Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas under incense-cloud canopies. Powered by Firstory Hosting

In the mid-to late 1970's, during the gray area when Los Angeles was still all about glam rock while embracing the nascent punk scene, a group of groupies became an all-girl band called Backstage Pass. Instantaneously, they took Hollywood by storm, got international press, made a splash wherever they went, stealing -and in some cases breaking-the hearts of musicians who'd go on to be household names...at least in rock'n'roll circles. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman chats with her long time pals from Backstage Pass Genevieve Schor (aka Genny Body) Spock and Marina. The stories are uproarious tales of love, teenage lust, intercontinental trysts, debauchery on The Sunset Strip and LA's first underground punk club The Masque. The Hot Girl Mayhem stars the likes of The Damned, Elvis Costello, The Screamers, Sex Pistols, Richie Blackmore, Doctor Feelgood, Nick Lowe...and way too many more to mention.More from Pleasant Gehmanwww.pleasantgehman.comInstagram: @princessofhollywoodwww.facebook.com/pleasant.gehmanwww.twitter.com/PleasantGehman1This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

In the mid-to late 1970's, during the gray area when Los Angeles was still all about glam rock while embracing the nascent punk scene, a group of groupies became an all-girl band called Backstage Pass. Instantaneously, they took Hollywood by storm, got international press, made a splash wherever they went, stealing -and in some cases breaking-the hearts of musicians who'd go on to be household names...at least in rock'n'roll circles. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman chats with her long time pals from Backstage Pass Genevieve Schor (aka Genny Body) Spock and Marina. The stories are uproarious tales of love, teenage lust, intercontinental trysts, debauchery on The Sunset Strip and LA's first underground punk club The Masque. The Hot Girl Mayhem stars the likes of The Damned, Elvis Costello, The Screamers, Sex Pistols, Richie Blackmore, Doctor Feelgood, Nick Lowe...and way too many more to mention.More from Pleasant Gehmanwww.pleasantgehman.comInstagram: @princessofhollywoodwww.facebook.com/pleasant.gehmanwww.twitter.com/PleasantGehman1This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

In the mid-to late 1970's, during the gray area when Los Angeles was still all about glam rock while embracing the nascent punk scene, a group of groupies became an all-girl band called Backstage Pass. Instantaneously, they took Hollywood by storm, got international press, made a splash wherever they went, stealing -and in some cases breaking-the hearts of musicians who'd go on to be household names...at least in rock'n'roll circles. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman chats with her long time pals from Backstage Pass Genevieve Schor (aka Genny Body) Spock and Marina. The stories are uproarious tales of love, teenage lust, intercontinental trysts, debauchery on The Sunset Strip and LA's first underground punk club The Masque. The Hot Girl Mayhem stars the likes of The Damned, Elvis Costello, The Screamers, Sex Pistols, Richie Blackmore, Doctor Feelgood, Nick Lowe...and way too many more to mention. More from Pleasant Gehman www.pleasantgehman.com Instagram: @princessofhollywood www.facebook.com/pleasant.gehman www.twitter.com/PleasantGehman1 This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mid-to late 1970’s, during the gray area when Los Angeles was still all about glam rock while embracing the nascent punk scene, a group of groupies became an all-girl band called Backstage Pass. Instantaneously, they took Hollywood by storm, got international press, made a splash wherever they went, stealing -and in some cases breaking-the hearts of musicians who’d go on to be household names...at least in rock’n’roll circles. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman chats with her long time pals from Backstage Pass Genevieve Schor (aka Genny Body) Spock and Marina. The stories are uproarious tales of love, teenage lust, intercontinental trysts, debauchery on The Sunset Strip and LA’s first underground punk club The Masque. The Hot Girl Mayhem stars the likes of The Damned, Elvis Costello, The Screamers, Sex Pistols, Richie Blackmore, Doctor Feelgood, Nick Lowe...and way too many more to mention. More from Pleasant Gehman www.pleasantgehman.com Instagram: @princessofhollywood www.facebook.com/pleasant.gehman www.twitter.com/PleasantGehman1 This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Join Rob as he challenges himself to quit alcohol indefinitely and to run a few more marathons. Rob wants to know if living completely sober and running consistently will dramatically improve his life. Everyday Rob will be uploading an episode sharing how he is developing his discipline, self control, focus and how he is rewiring his belief system by embracing the new science that is emerging that empowers us all to create the reality that we choose. Join Rob as he transforms his life by continuing to experiment with waking up early, meditation, fasting, growth mindset, visualisation, using vision boards and habit tracking all while challenging himself to remain sober all day, everyday…. For the rest of his life.

In Acts 19 we have a controversial encounter between Paul, the Holy Spirit, and some believers in Ephesus (Acts 19:1-7). One side claims it proves the Holy Spirit can, and will, come upon believers after salvation thus justifying much of the fringe charismatic movement. The other side, just as dogmatic, claims this encounter proves nothing more than the fact these “disciples” (Acts 19:1) were lost until Paul preached Christ to them even though the Scriptures state they “believed” (Acts 19:2). The question at the heart of this controversy is this: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” (Acts 19:2). And your answer, or on what side of this great theological chasm you choose to land, will have a critical effect on whether you experience the Higher Christian Life. Let me explain. The account in Acts shows Paul coming to a group of “disciples” (a key word) in Ephesus and obviously noticing something different, something missing in their Christian life. We are not told what he saw or what prompted his question, but nevertheless, the first words recorded out of Paul’s mouth were “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” Strange. Why would he begin this conversation with them this way? Note, the book of Acts calls them “disciples” and Paul asked about something they did, or didn’t, receive after they “believed.” Paul never shared the Gospel with them or made any indication they were less than fellow believers. So the inference is they were believers, Christians, but were obviously missing something, some power or intimacy, something expected and assumed for believers back then. Not so much expected today, but then we sadly live in different, more apathetic, lukewarm times. So let’s answer the question, Do believers receive the Holy Spirit when they believe? And do they receive the Spirit Immediately? Instantaneously? Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed?In a word, absolutely. On this, there is no debate. Consider the following statements from Scripture. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, (when) having believed, (what) you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory – Ephesians 1:13-14. The Holy Spirit is our security, proof, pledge, the guarantee of our redemption. And we are sealed in Him “having believed.” But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His (or is lost) – Romans 8:9. This is more direct. No Holy Spirit, no salvation. Therefore, a believer must receive the Holy Spirit as soon as they are saved, or they are not truly saved. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free— and have all been made to drink into one Spirit – 1 Corinthians 12:13. The Holy Spirit is the common bond that brings all people groups together in Christ and makes us one. And this obviously only happens after salvation. This brings us back to the reason Paul asked the question of these believers in Ephesus, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” (Acts 19:2). As we will discover in this message, it is not how much of the Holy Spirit we received when we believed. But how much of ourselves are we giving to the Holy Spirit? How much of us is He receiving on a daily basis? This is what makes the Higher Christian Life so appealing. It is more of Him possessing more of us, to be used to bear the Father’s fruit and bring glory to Jesus. Join us as we unpack this amazing truth. The following message is about answering the question: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”...

We are continually opening gates for others, and for those who find their way through them, they are learning how to open ever more gates fearlessly. In the moments that we become AWARE that we are not alone, and that our playing field is FAR GREATER than we were able to perceive, we EXPAND exponentially into the depth of our Conscious Awareness. Join both Master Lady Kira Raa and Wisdom Teacher Sri Ram Kaa as they dive into the moment at hand, inviting us ALL to SOAR beyond the basics!

What is the meaning of life of every human in this world? Who is human? About the internal search, which led to the acquaintance with the Knowledge outlined in the books by Anastasia Novykh and in the programmes with Igor Mikhailovich Danilov. This vlog describes the experience of the first feeling of the Spiritual World and inner understanding that was gained. The difference in the perception of the illusions of the material world and true contact with deep inner feelings. The beginning of the spiritual path. This short story describes inner formation on the Way to Life. Programme "LIFE" : https://youtu.be/gRyQs4zzmlw E-mail: info@allatra.tv

In this episode I discuss a combination of different elements to figure out how we can manifest instantaneously. I talk about time being an illusion. I talk about how we were created in the image of God. And how that makes us gods. I discuss perception and how to switch it to a reality you want. I talk about thoughts and emotions, and how to manifest faster with stronger emotions. And much more.

NOTE: Before listening, view the model here: http://www.fourgamestheory.com — — — When I first saw a visual depiction of the 4Game model I was floored. Instantaneously, all of the studying I had done across everything from metaphysics to productivity systems sorted itself into a coherent narrative, a structure where everything fit together. Immediately I knew I wanted to explore this further. To my surprise, there was very little information available! As the trophic cascade of mental imagery and insight continued, I knew this model had the makings of something revolutionary. This was the Cultural Theory of Everything. A model so unwaveringly aesthetic, so deeply comprehensive as to give a shared cultural-cognitive grammar to anyone who was blessed to bear witness to it. The more I dove into the Unified Culture Field Theory, the more I knew the world needed this. This was the foundation for the deep discussion we as a collective need to have. This is the language that unites the masses. From that point, I reached out to the creator Jamie Combs, and this conversation is what emerged as a result. Jamie is a brilliant systems thinker, an intrepid designer and thinker, and I'm extremely excited to be sharing this conversation with you now. What We Cover: An introduction/exploration of the 4Game Model The personal significance of altering your lenses of perception Creating a common cultural language Deep dives into the short, mid, long, and deep game components Cultivating an individual Way of Being Memetically spreading cultural evolution MUCH more...

On episode 082 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Roxane Gay. Roxane and Paul catch up on how she has been spending her time in quarantine baking, gardening, and reading. In this episode, they talk in-depth about Roxane’s recent article in The New York Times, “How We Save Ourselves,” on the subject of racism and police brutality. She elaborates on the critical role of imagination in our response to the current moment. Roxane offers a thoughtful perspective on the need to sustain the energy of ongoing movements against racism and police brutality. “I don’t really deal in hope,” she says near the end of the episode. This episode’s conversation takes a frank look at both the skepticism and the possibility of this moment.Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a YA novel entitled The Year I Learned Everything.

In the first episode Tealy is telling everyone why quarantine is the best thing that could've ever happened to your fitness journey. This episode will cover: Where most of the extra calories in your diet come from Why grandma's Sunday dinner needs a makeover How people with kids have the advantage You will guaranteed become a healthier person when you adopt these three practices. Hint: These tips do not include detox cleanses, tea laxatives or waist trainers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

THE ORIGINAL VERSION | 原版 If you love something,Set it free...If it comes back, it's yours,If it doesn't, it never was yours....你若爱它就还它自由它若回头找你，那它注定是你的它若不再回头，那它从曾不属于你THE PESSIMIST VERSION | 悲观者版本If you love somebody,Set her free ...If she ever comes back, she's yours,If she doesn't, well, as expected, she never was.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头找你，那她注定是你的她若不再回头，额，清醒点，她从不曾属于你THE OPTIMIST VERSION | 乐观者版本If you love somebody,Set her free ...Don't worry, she will come back.你若爱她就还她自由别担心，她会回来的　　THE SUSPICIOUS VERSION | 好奇宝宝版本If you love somebody,Set her free ...If she ever comes back, ask her why.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头问她理由　　THE IMPATIENT VERSION | 不耐烦版本If you love somebody,Set her free ...If she doesn't come back within some time limit,Forget her.你若爱她就还她自由她若超期还不回头那就忘了她THE PATIENT VERSION | 有耐心版本If you love somebody,Set her free ...If she doesn't come back, continue to wait,Until she comes back ...你若爱她就还她自由她若超期还不回头，继续等直到她回头THE LAWYER'S VERSION | 律师版本If you love somebody,Set her free...Clause 1a of Paragraph 13a-1 in the second amendment of the Matrimonial Freedom Act clearly states that...你若爱她就还她自由《婚姻自由条款》第二版纠正法案第13a-1 段第1a条明确规定　THE BILL GATES VERSION | 比尔盖茨版本If you love somebody,Set her free...If she comes back,I think we can charge her for re-installation fees and tell her that she's also going to get an upgrade.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头找你我们可以收取重装的费用并提醒她系统需要升级了　　THE STATISTICIAN'S VERSION | 统计员版本If you love somebody.Set her free...If she loves you, the probability of her coming back is high.If she doesn't, your relationship was improbable anyway.你若爱她就还她自由她若爱你，那她大概率会回头找你如果她不回头，你们的关系要继续维系将是小概率事件THE POSSESSIVE VERSION | 占有欲版本If you love somebody,Don't ever set her free.你若爱她坚决别还她自由THE MBA VERSION | MBA版本If you love somebody,Set her free...Instantaneously...And look for others simultaneously.你若爱她就还她自由然后趁其不备攻防下一个　　THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S VERSION | 心理咨询师版本If you love somebody,Set her free...If she comes back, her super ego is dominant.If she doesn't come back, her ID is supreme.If she doesn't go, she must be crazy.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头找你，是她的超我在占主导地位她若不回头，是她的本我在支配她的行动她若坚决不走，那大概是疯了　THE FINANCE EXPERT VERSION | 财务专家版本If you love somebody,Set her free...If she comes back, its time to look for fresh loans.If she doesn't, write her off as an asset gone bad.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头找你，赶快去申请新一轮贷款她若不再回头，把她当作一笔坏账注销吧THE MARKETING VERSION | 市场营销版本If you love somebody,Set her free...If she comes back, she has brand loyalty.If she doesn't, reposition the brand in new markets.你若爱她就还她自由她若回头找你，她的品牌忠诚度较高她若不再回头你要重新做一下品牌定位了

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Sean is a tax-focused financial planner. He helps individuals and small businesses with financial planning, tax strategies, and tax return preparation. The discussion we have is not intended to be financial, tax, or investment advice for any particular individual. You should consult your own advisor regarding your specific situation. Website: I have a tax and financial independence blog at https://fitaxguy.com https://mullaneyfinancial.com Resources mentioned in this episode: 7 day Budget Challenge (www.budgetsmadeeasy.com/budget-challenge) Millionaire Next Door (https://amzn.to/2ReIpVT) aff link Simple Path to Wealth (https://amzn.to/2TjmuiW) aff link Full transcript: Welcome to the money mindset podcast where you will find the inspiration and motivation you need to manage your money better so you can stress less and live the life you want. I'm Ashley Patrick with budgets means easy and the money mindset podcast. Today we are talking to Shawn Malaney. He is a tax focused financial planner and he helps individuals and small. This is with financial planning tax strategies and tax return preparation. And today we are going to talk with him about preparing for your taxes so that you can lower your tax bill. Now it may be a little too late to lower your tax bill for this year, but these are some helpful tips in planning for next year. So if you're getting a big tax refund, there's even some tips in here with what to do with the money to lower your tax bill for next year. Now, as a disclaimer, you know the discussion we have is not intended to be financial tax or investment advice for any particular individual. You should consult with your own advisor regarding your specific situation. But of course he's got lots of different ideas and helpful tips that kind of help you, uh, lower your tax burden for the coming year and possibly years down the road. So before we jump in, I do want to mention that the seven day budget challenge will be changing. I plan to change it by the end of this month. So this is airing in January of 2020 and right now the budget challenge is a pay what you want, challenge minimum of $5. So I am going to be changing mat. I'm going to be turning it into a mini course and the price will be going up. Now I may have another budget challenge where I shorten it. Um, but you know, for those of you who have taken the budget challenge, you know, it's um, pretty detailed videos, step-by-step videos on how to do everything. So I am going to be adding to that and increasing the price probably and by you know, next month. So if you haven't already, go ahead and check that out. You know, if you've been waiting, you know, people on average that do the seven day budget challenge save almost $500 every single month. I think the math is like $493 on average whenever I take out the average. So almost $500 a month just by doing their budget. And then there's lots of helpful tips, a Facebook group and everything like that. So if you have waited to jump on the budget challenge, if you are overwhelmed and you just really don't know where to start, this is where you start. This is where you start to save money. It's where you start to pay off debt is where you start to build longterm wealth. It all with your budget. It's the foundation. If you hate the B word, you know, call it a cashflow plan, you know, call it whatever you want, that'll get you to motivate you to actually do it. So, you know, if you just really hate the word budget, think of another word. Uh, you know, a lot of people call it a cash flow plan, which you know, is what it is. So go ahead and check that out at budgetsmadeeasy.com/budget-challenge. And now we will jump into Sean's interview. Hi Sean. Thanks for being here today. Thanks so much for having me Ashley. It's a pleasure to be with you today and I am so excited. You know, it's, it's beginning the new year and Tech's time and you know, you focus on taxes and so I'm really excited to talk to you about, uh, ways that people can prepare for taxes or maybe even, you know, next year, things that they can do throughout the year to kind of get ready for tax season because you know, it's coming whether you like it or not, you gotta pay your taxes so it's better to be prepared than surprised come tax time. Right? Absolutely. Ashley, you know, I think there are two things people should think about, right? One is every year you must file a federal income tax return. And in most States you're going to have to file a state income tax return too. And that's an important exercise, right? The IRS is a high priority credit or so you don't want to be on the wrong side of the IRS current in your filing obligations. But even more important I think is the longterm planning that I think some teachers, sometimes people get lost, you know, they say, Oh, I've got this tax return. You gotta make sure it's prepared on time and I'm all anxious and concerned about that. They get that done whenever they get that done. And then it's like, okay, I'll think about taxes some other time and then that other time becomes next year's tax return. But it's important to do some strategic thinking around your own tax situation. And that's true whether you're just starting out in your career or if you're much later or if you're, even if you're retired, uh, I think all people can benefit some from some intentional action on the tax front. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and it's so easy to just kinda put it off and think about all, I'll do it later. But you're right. Preparing for is the best thing, you know, especially if you think that you're going to owe money or you know, you're close or you typically owe money or something like that. Um, what are some ways that people can prepare and just kind of make adjustments through the year? Yeah, so I think for younger workers, I think to my mind I'd have four top priorities and then we could talk a little bit more about some tactics in terms of making tax season itself better. So the first thing is if you work for an employer, you should absolutely contribute up to the employer match in your 401k. Um, I say that because one, it's a way to reduce your taxes, but to, it's a way of a guaranteed return. So think about if your, if your employer says we will match dollar for dollar up to 5% of your salary or maybe we'll match 50 cents up to 5% of your salary, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of that. And unfortunately in America there are plenty of people not doing that. And the reason it isn't so much a tax reason as it is a financial reason, which is a guaranteed return on your money, right? There's no investment that I or anyone else can guarantee you a return on what if your employer is going to make a an a match to your 401k or your four Oh three B or your TSP. Then you need to be taking advantage of that because that's guaranteed money. The second you put in the first dollar you get back from the employer, 25 cents, 50 cents a dollar, whatever, the match percentages. So I'd say that's the first thing you should do in terms of organizing your tax life. The second would be if a health, a high deductible health plan makes sense for you. You want to cut that are a high deductible health plan with the matching health savings account. And Ashley, I don't know if you've talked about that previously with your listeners. Maybe might want to take a a S a minute to step back and just explain what a uh, an HSA is and just why it might be so powerful for your, Oh yeah, go ahead. I have not talked about it. Um, I actually have a high deductible plan and an HSA. Um, but I'd love to get your perspective on it. Yeah. So what this is, is it's a special kind of insurance that typically has higher deductibles than most people are used to, but there are some trade offs for that, right? So the deductible means it means you might have to pay more out of pocket, but if you're young and relatively healthy, that may not be such a bad thing, right? Because you're essentially a calculated risk. And on the other side you're getting benefits for, for taking that risk. One is the insurance premiums themselves typically are lower. Second is you have the ability to contribute to a tax advantage account called a health savings account. And that account lets you put in for an individual, it's up to 35 50 and 2000 or 2020 for a family it's 7,120 20 you can put in 35 50 every year of tax deductible contributions, which is really cool, right? So you see income tax around that. Not only do you save on the income tax around that, if you do it through your workplace withholding, you save on your payroll tax, so your FICA and your Medicare, you save on that stuff as well. So it's real neat tax saving tool. And then the, the money sits in the HSA, it builds up over time. You can invest it and hopefully grow it that way. And then if you take it out for qualified medical expenses, the money comes out tax and penalty free. So you get a tax deduction the way in and then the money comes out tax and penalty free. It's the best of both worlds, right? It's, it's like a Ronk and that you get a deduction upfront and then it's like a Roth IRA or a Roth 401k in that you get the money out tax free. Now you have to manage it correctly, right? You can't just take that out for a vacation or things like that. Um, and I also say make sure if you don't have major medical expenses, the only thing you got in the year is a cold and maybe a sprained ankle. Try to not take out from your HSA so you'll let the money sit and compound tax-free for many more years. Um, but I, I think if your circumstances warrant using a high deductible plan, the HSA high deductible plan combination is very powerful. Those who might not want to take this path would be people with chronic medical conditions, things like Crohn's and colitis, things that will have predictable high annual medical expenses. Um, these plans are great for the relatively young and the relatively healthy because their way of reducing your medical insurance costs while at the same time building tax advantage wealth and many employers are actually trying to move their employees toward these plans, which is, you know, good and bad. But if you're young, it can be very powerful, partly because the employer will usually make a contribution to the plan as well. So you're, you're making your own contributions and then the employer might put in 600, 700, a thousand bucks. And that's more tax-free compensation and more tax-free wealth building if you magic correctly. [inaudible] yeah, we had, um, at my previous employer, which is a, um, it's city government, uh, we had both options. We could stay on the regular plan, which, you know, cost more per month or go to this and they would give you so much for your HSA. And then, uh, my husband's plan, um, previously they had moved to it and then they contributed, but now they don't, uh, he moved to a different employer and they don't contribute anything and then they have the high deductible. So actually for like our family of three kids, so we meet our deductible every year and so it costs us quite a bit of money really. But the plan itself is pretty cheap. Like we don't pay that much per month for the plan, but I'm also putting, I have to put in like $500 a month into the HSA just to cover all the medical bills through the year. Like it's, it's a lot. Yeah, it's interesting actually. You say you're making this calculation around, well, okay, yes, we're going to pay more at the doctor's office, but we're going to pay less every pay period for the health insurance premium. We get all these tax benefits from funding the health savings accounts. Right. You're making, you know, it's a trade off and you know it, you know, so that's your family where, yeah, you've got three kids and there's a lots of, a lot of doctor's visits and those sorts of things. But think about your, your listeners who are 25 years old, right? Who maybe have any children, right? And maybe they're very healthy. Why would you pay a whole lot? For a gold plated insurance plan when you're doctor, hopefully twice a year if that. Oh yeah, absolutely. I think these, these HSA is, can make a lot of sense, um, for folks in terms of getting their tax life in order and saving on income tax and on payroll tax. Yeah. I didn't realize the payroll tax part, like I knew we saved just on taxes, but I guess I didn't realize that aspect of it. I'm not big into, you know, all those fine details. Think about that Ashley though, is you need to get the payroll tax saving. You need to do it through employer withholding, right? So if you just say, Hey, I've got this HSA, but yeah, you know, employer don't take any money from my paycheck every two weeks and put it in the HSA and then you get to the end of the year, there's no money in the HSA. What you could do is you could say, well, all right, I, you know, I've got this HSA I didn't contribute say for 2019. Right? Maybe you didn't contribute, but you are covered by a high deductible plan for the whole year. What you could do is then write it, check in early 2020 to your HSA and say this is for 2019 you would get the income tax deduction on your federal tax return, but you wouldn't get the payroll tax safe if you can do it through your employer withholding, which most employers will facilitate that right through your HR portal. Right? You set that up. Um, it's a, it's such a powerful tool, especially if you're below, right? If you're below the social security threshold, you're gonna save not only the Medicare tax, which is 1.45% of every paycheck, but also the social security tax, which is 6.2%. You know, a lot of younger workers, they pay more in payroll tax and they pay an income tax. So the HSA can be very powerful for them as a tax planning strategy. Yeah, that's, those are really good ideas. I didn't know about all that, all those details. So that's why I'm so happy you're here talking to us today. Um, so those are really great options and things to plan. Um, did you have a couple more? I'm trying to think how many you said you had. I've got at least four to start and then at least one tactical run one. The third one is the Roth IRA. And I know you've talked with your listeners before about the Roth IRA, but you know, as long as you're making a relatively modest income, the Roth is a very powerful planning tool. And actually I remember you talked about the experience you and your husband had a few years ago with a 401k loan. To refresh your listeners memory, please correct me if I'm getting any of this wrong, but if I'm remembering correctly, you and your husband did significant home renovations and you found yourselves cash strapped. And so what you did was you said, okay, well we've got money in a 401k, we'll take a loan from the 401k and yeah, sure we'll pay it back and we'll get the house, you know, built and [inaudible] and then we'll repay the loan. And then your husband left his job. And so that required you guys to either pay back the loan very quickly or to have the loan show up in your taxable income and have it be lip on your rate. You know, on your one year big slug of taxable income plus a 10% penalty. Right? Right. So let's think about if, what if you guys instead had had a Roth IRA at that time? You know, if you had had a Roth IRA and say you'd borrowed 40,000 of, well let's say each of you had a Roth IRA, you would contribute each $5,000 for the four years previous. So you each had 20,000 worth of contributions to that Roth IRA. What you could have done is you could have taken each the 20,000 of contributions out tax and penalty free, and you could have used that for any purpose. You know, under the sun, right? You could've taken a vacation with that. You could have done medical expenses, you could have, you know, rebuilt your house, whatever you want to do, 20,000 you just withdraw your old contributions. That's it. You don't withdraw the earnings. You now have $40,000 you can redo the house. Now, that's not exactly great tax planning and that you're going to lose the future growth on that $40,000 that would have been tax free, but at least you could have used that money, gotten the house repaired, gotten all those renovations done, and now tax time, there's no income tax hit, there's no penalty and you walk away from it and you say, well next time we go through that path, hopefully we'll have money in cash or other taxable investments to pay for it, but at least we don't have this huge penalty and this big slug of taxable income this time. Right. So I think the Roth IRA is powerful one because it's tax free growth for your retirement, but two, because the contributions that you've previously made could be withdrawn tax and pound, be free at any time for any reason. Not to say that that's something you should be planning on doing, redrawing early. But if you had to, it's a nice life raft where you are a tax hit and a penalty hit on top of an already difficult financial situation. Yeah. Cause our taxes, I mean it was crazy. We should have got back, you know, I think it was around $4,000 and we ended up owing over 6,000 so it was like a 50% hit. It was crazy. Cause I mean it just, it costs us a whole lot. And so like give you, like you said, if you have the other option then you don't take that big hit. Yeah. So I think the Roth IRA is just such a powerful tool. Four, pretty much all Americans have at least some access. You know, there are some who make too much to make a direct contribution. There's some strategies around that. You can also have a Roth 401k or four or three B Roth TSP. So I think for most Americans, and certainly for younger Americans, having Roth accounts is imperative because it just gives you so many more options and opens that door to tax free growth in the future. That's very powerful. And I think a lot of employers are moving to give the option of Roth 401k. Um, but if somebody didn't have that option at their job, like how would they go about opening a Roth? Like could they, you know, sometimes I see, um, just you know, at banks they have IRA accounts but those really aren't the same thing are they? Yeah. So these days to open a Roth IRA is relatively simple. There are plenty of discount brokerages and I'm not recommending any one particular brokerage or financial institution for any of your listeners, but just to list some examples that are commonly cited, Vanguard, fidelity, Schwab, there are others, right, where you can go to their websites or call them off and say, Hey, you know, I have earned income for whatever year it is. And in fact your, your listeners, if you're listening in January of 2020, you could still make a contribution to a Roth IRA is assuming you qualify in before April 15th of 2020. So there's still time in 2020 to do some tax planning for 2019. And the way yet, the way you would do it is you would contact one of these discount brokerages and say, you know, I want to open up a Roth IRA and their websites are usually pretty user friendly in terms of navigating you through that process. You'll have to link a bank account, right? Cause they all need some stores of funds to get the money. You know, in the contribution limit. If you're under 50 years old in 2019, uh, in 2020 is six thousand seven thousand. If you're over 50, you know, so you, you know, and this is done person by person, right? So even in a community property state, I live in California, retirement accounts are individual accounts. So you know, you can do it and then your spouse can also do it too. I'm assuming that you have, between you and your spouse, there's a neuro [inaudible] earned income there for a Roth IRA. And the threshold is pretty low, right? It's about $12,000 if you're under 50 years old. Um, but assuming between you and your spouse, you have 12,000 of earned income, you can go to one of these websites and set it up. Yeah. You link a bank account, the funds come over and then you invest them, you know, obviously for a younger investor that's gonna probably be, you know, skewed towards a, a [inaudible] equity portfolio. Um, perhaps if you're older you might want to do it in a more conservative portfolio. But you know, the, the brokerages are generally pretty user friendly. You know, some people will critique certain websites, but generally speaking, they're pretty user friendly in terms of setting up a Roth IRA. Great. And I do have a quick question because I see this in Facebook groups all the time and your comment about, um, having to have a $12,000 earn income. Like I see people in Facebook groups, obviously they're not, you know, they're just random people, uh, on the internet. So obviously everybody has different opinions, but they'll make comments about, um, okay, putting money in for your child into a Roth IRA, or how do you do that? Or can you do that? If they technically don't have any income, can you start a Roth for your child? Yeah, that's a great question actually. So the answer is yes, as long as your child is an American with earned income, that's the big key earn income, you can contribute to a Roth IRA for them. So a lot of kids don't have earned income and thus wouldn't be able to do it. Right. Where this comes up a lot is if you know mom or dad has a small business and as long as it's a sole proprietorship or partnership owned by mom and dad, then theoretically that business could hire you know, junior or daughter and you would then, you know, pay junior daughter, there's a payroll tax exemption if you do it the way I said you did it. And as long as that compensation is reasonable for the activity, right? So we're talking about relatively low value services, but you know in most cases you could justify, Hey, you know what, somebody who's got cleaned this office or you know, you know that mom and dad used for their, their trader business, you would then pay them. And based on the tax rules, you would not owe payroll taxes on that compensation because they're working for their mom and dad and their mom and dad's trader business. And then they would have, you know, if it's $1,000, 2000, 3000, whatever their earnings for the year are, that's the cap, right? So you would say, okay, and you could, you can just gift them that piece of it, right? So you can pay them the $3,000. They then put that in, you know, their savings account or you know, they do whatever they do with it. And then you could separately then say, Oh, well you had $3,000 worth of earnings, I'll just gift you the other 3000 to actually put in the Roth IRA account. Um, or you just use the earnings that they actually took home. Um, yeah, so this can be a powerful tool. I would say though, you want to be careful because if you're saying, Hey, you know, my 12 year old has, you know, school and soccer practice and swim practice and Oh by the way, my, my 12 year old earned $10,000 this year, the IRS might start looking a little scance at that. And the issues there can be that they would deny your business the deduction for that compensation, and they might even say, Oh, you made your child made an excess contribution to your return to his or her retirement. So you want to be careful and logical here with this stuff. But it certainly can be, you know, it's one of those things where, yeah, a thousand this year in 2000 next year, these aren't big numbers, but if you start stacking them on top of each other and you give your child, you know, your child's 10 years old and they don't touch that money till they're 60 or seven years old, all of a sudden it can be quite impactful. Absolutely. I mean, the younger you can start investing the better because it just has so much time to grow. I mean, it's just crazy how the compound interest work. That is exactly right. Um, and, and yeah, they will love you if, you know, you put in, you know, four or five, $6,000 over their childhoods and then that grows for 50 years con, you know, tax-free. It can be a very impactful maneuver. And if you can get a business deduction for it because it was reasonable compensation for the tasks that your kids did, you know, all the better. Right? Absolutely. Now would you recommend doing that as opposed to like an ESA or a five 29 plan for college? So it depends on the purpose, right? So if the purpose is we want to get our child to a place where they're going to have a lot of wealth or a relatively high amount of wealth in the future to have flexibility, I tend to like the Roth IRA. If the purpose is I want to use that money for my child's college education, I would not put it in my child's Roth IRA. And there are two reasons for that, right? One, if the money comes out of the child's Roth IRA while they're in college. You know, like I said earlier, it could be a return of their contribution. So there'd be no tax and there'd be no penalty. Well that's fine, but one, you're going to lose decades of tax free growth on that money. And then too, for the purpose of the FAFSA form, right? So the form that determines the federal aid, the student aid that your kid will get, that money that comes out of the Roth IRA goes into what's called the expected family contribution. The EFC. Yeah. So, and what happens is they say, Oh, that's income of the child, even though it's not taxable income, it's still income of the child. And we expect up to 50% of that income to go into the family's contribution for tuition next year. So you've just created essentially a 50% tax on a Roth IRA, which is not, you know, not advantageous planning. So if your goal is, look, I just want to fund Junior's college education, then I would look at alternatives such as you mentioned the ESA or the five 29 plan. The other thing to keep in mind too is we've got to take care of mom and dad, right? Mom and dad are going to get older by the time the kid is in college and it's gonna have a lot of time to repay the student loan, right? So, um, sometimes there's, there's a real benefit of just investing that money in a taxable account in the parent's own name and sure that that taxable account will generate interest and dividends and capital gain distributions over time. That'll go on the parents' tax return. But now mom and dad have more of a cushion and their financial futures more stable so that when, you know, the child is 25, 30, 40, you know, 50, the child doesn't have to worry about mom and dad's finances as much, you know. So I think there's a, there's a bit of a balance that needs to be struck there. Um, and before, you know, fully committing to a large contribution to your child's college and Oh, you know, five 29, that sounds great. Or ESA, that sounds great. I think you need to step back and say, well, what about mom and dad? How are we doing in our finances? And if it's, Oh, we're living paycheck to paycheck and we've got a big debt and those sorts of things, then maybe you say, well, why don't we focus on mom and dad and pay down debt or whatever we need to do to build up our finances. And then we can think about mom or about junior or daughter and their college education. So building off of that, would you recommend people, like if they're already in debt, living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, should they still be investing or should they take that money and put it into debt? Like paying down debt, like even your company match or your 401k? So I would be hard pressed in most cases to tell folks not to take advantage of the company match. Right. So let's say, because you know, let's think about your debts, even if it's credit card debt. So let's say you've got credit card debt and that's at 19% so that's not a good place to be in. That needs to get paid down, you know, as soon as possible. Yeah. But let's say you're getting a dollar for dollar match at your company 401k yeah, I, you know, so essentially every dollar you put into your 401k, you get another dollar back. Instantaneously. Every dollar you put towards the credit card debt, you're getting 19 cents back, right? Because essentially you don't have to pay down 19% in interest. So what I would tell a person in that situation is, first of all, you've got to meet your minimums right on your credit card. That's number one. Number two. Then you've got to get that employer match on your 401k. And then after that you need to aggressively pay down the debt. And I know actually you subscribed to the debt snowball will say, well, you should look at the mathematics. What I would say is what's most important is behavior, right? If the debt snowball is going to be that thing that gets your behavior on the right track so that you're aggressively paying down debt, go for it. Right. Um, cause at the end of the day we want to get that debt paid off and if that's going to be that carrot that for whatever reason gets you particularly to get that pay down, absolutely go for it. Mmm. But you know, if some other say no, I've got my spreadsheet here and my spreadsheet says pay down 19% first and 8% second and 3% third and that's what I'm going to do and I'm satisfied with that. Then if that's what works for you, go with that. Exactly. I mean as long as you're paying down debt, I don't care how you do as long as you're doing it. That's exactly right. Right. And it's more about behavior than prediction. Right? Right. Yeah. I mean I think start good habits now, right. Contributing to your 401k to at least get the employer match, doing an HSA if you can, doing a Roth IRA. If you start those habits now, then it's just going to be so much easier in the future to keep doing that and to get the right results. You know, we don't know. No financial planner can come on and say, you know what, the S and P is going to return 8.3% for the next 10 years. Who knows? Right. That's just, we're all just guessing. Right. But what we can control today and what we do know today is your behavior today. So let's get that. If you're right and then go forward and you know what, the numbers are probably going to work out pretty good if we get the behaviors right. Okay. You're exactly right and then you'll stay out of debt. Because I do see a lot of people that tried to take shortcuts or they say they paid off debt, but really all they did was move it. Like you know, he lock or refinance their mortgage or you know, 401k loan. Then they say they paid off their debt, but they really did it. They just moved it. So whenever you can actually like make those changes, you will stay out of debt also and not go back into it. That's exactly right, Ash. My fourth point is just save, save, save. Right? So, you know, people will get, and this goes back to that, uh, behavior versus predictions, right? People get sort of, Oh, what should I be investing in? Oh, the market's high, the market's low. There's going to be a crash. We're going to have a recession. You know what, yes, the 401k to the employer match. Absolutely. The HSA, the Roth IRA, once you're beyond that, just start saving, right? And you could figure out what you're invested in tomorrow, right? Um, but just start saving. The more you save, the more wealth you're going to create, the more you're going to be in good shape. And the other thing about saving is if you were do, if you increase the asset side, you're also reducing the expense side, right? So every dollar you save today accustomed you to a little bit lower expenses. And just that, forget the assets for a second. Forget the savings. Just building up that I'm getting used to spending less and less on once you're going to become much more used to, um, paying less for your wants in the future. So I'll give you an example, right? Say you're 22 years old, you're coming out of college, you got a good finance or tech job, right? Well, I would tell you do not get a BMW for your first car out of college because if you get the BMW, then it's going to be so much harder in your 30s and forties to cut back to the used Corolla. Right? But if you start off in your 20s with, I'm going to get a, a used accord and then, you know what, in my thirties, well maybe a slightly better used accord and now I feel rich versus, Oh, I started off with a BMW and now I'm cutting. You know, it's so much harder to cut back if anything, you're going to have lifestyle creep, but on successful. So I would just say, you know, focus on getting those expenses lower and getting those savings up and your taxes will be better because investments are generally taxed at a lower rate, then earned income and your finances are going to be so much better too. That's really good advice. I mean, just keep living like a broke college student and pay off your student debt and then you can enjoy your money and buy the BMW later if you want. But it's not so much a status symbol, you know? And like you said, lifestyle creep and everything. So, um, you know, just keep saving now and then work toward it in the future and then that way you can, um, you know, instill those good habits as saving money and investing cause that's what's so important. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And then you actually, you'd mentioned about what are those things you could do around tax season, right? To make your tax return a little more or a little less painful. Right. The big thing I think, I think it's two things, right? So one in January and February be very attentive to your mailbox because you're going to get very important documents, right? You're gonna get your form W2 from your employer. You're gonna get these fancy things called forms 10 99, right? It might be called a 10 99 int, which is for your interest, might be called a 10 99 div for your dividends. It might be called a 10 99 B. That's for your capital gains and losses from your financial institutions, right? So you sold, you know, a hundred shares of Apple stock and there's a gain and you got to report that on your tax return. So January and February, sometimes in the March, be very attentive to your mailbox. Just make sure you're collecting that data these days. You can usually go online and grab those documents too. But either way, just be very attentive to that. And then during the year, be attentive to your expenses that could possibly be tax deductible. Um, but that said, you know, the landscapes changed a little bit here. Um, so it used to be that there was a relatively low standard deduction or you could choose to itemize, right? So to take your mortgage interest, your state taxes, your charitable contributions, those sorts of things. Well there was a tax law change in late 2017 and it significantly increased the standard deduction, right? So for 2019, the standard deduction is 12,200 for a single person, 24,400 for a married filing joint couple. And they even kept the amount of state and local taxes you can deduct for that purpose to 10,000 per year tax return. So think about if you live, say in Texas, right? Yeah. And you ha so you have no income state income tax and say you have a relatively modest home and so you're paying, I dunno, say 8,000 in mortgage interest. That might not be all that modest of a home in Texas, but just say 8,000. Well, that means in order to deduct, uh, itemized deductions [inaudible] and say you're married, you and your husband at that point would need over $16,000 worth of charitable contributions in order to do the itemized deductions. Otherwise, you and your husband are just going to take the standard deduction. So if you think, well, Oh yeah, we easily donate 20,000 a year, then yes, throughout the year, take good notes of all your charitable contributions, do an Excel spreadsheet or a Google doc or Google sheets, you know, a file and just track all your charitable contributions and then you should get a receipt from the charity in most cases. Um, that's, it's a really effective way of handling that. But you might say, you know, yeah, we, we contribute $10,000 to charity every year and we have low mortgage interest and no state income taxes and we're married. We're not going to be anywhere near that 24,000. Well then there's not a whole lot to track. Right. You'll get your, you'll get your W2 and your 10 99 and those things in, yeah, during the year or in January. And February, and then you just use those and you use the standard deduction. The exception to what I just said is business owners, right? So if you're a business owner, even if it's a small business, that's a very different situation, right? If you have a small side hustle, you might be able to get away with tracking your expenses in Microsoft Excel. But the second you have a significant business, you probably need some sort of accounting software to track those throughout the year so that you can, you know, report your business income on your tax return. [inaudible] absolutely. Um, now what about like, do you recommend people get a big tax return or would you recommend adjusting your withholdings throughout the year so that you get a smaller tax return? Yeah, so I generally recommend adjusting your withholdings if you can. Right? So, um, and this is a great time of year to think about that. And you know, what I would do is yet do your 2019 tax return and see where you came out. And if you wind up with a large refund, what you've done is you've given the government an interest free loan and that's not an optimal path, right? Because the government had used to that money. You could have had that money and earn interest or invested earlier and earn more investment returns. So what you could do, the app, the IRS actually has a pretty good online calculator around that and that would be my first, um, stop is I would Google IRS w four withholding calculator. It's IRS w four withholding calculator and the software, you know, the IRS software will ask you some questions and it's, it's a pretty good calculator. And what it'll do is we'll say, okay, through 2020 thus far you've made this much and you've had this much withheld and here's what your withholdings are right now. And it'll tell you, okay, this is what you should do to, um, make sure you're having the right amount withheld every year. Um, yeah, the withholding structure is a very sort of screwy structure. Yeah. It's taking me so confusing. And so some people wind up with very large refunds and then other people wind up, Oh, a whole lot of money. And this was exacerbated by the tax law change and people who generally would get a small refund all of a sudden owing a lot of tax that was particularly true of married people in high tax States like my own California, um, where their tax profile is very much changed and the withholding tables changed but not enough to account for that. So, um, yeah, I, I think the best thing, I think the [inaudible] two action steps. There are one, see what your 2019 refund looked like or if you owed a lot in 2019 and then two, you may want to use the IRS withholding calculator. Um, it's certainly not perfect, but it's a good start. And then if you're in a situation where, wow, we owed all these penalties and we got, you know, it was horrible results, then you might want to consult with a tax professional. Somebody like me. Absolutely. Um, you know, do you recommend that people, like just your average family contact a CPA, or do you think that that's more like if it gets complicated? I think it depends, right? So there are, obviously there are thousands of tax return preparers out there. And to my mind, there's sort of two things that they're doing for you. One is literally the time and expense of doing their tax return. So if, if you've got, you know, three kids and you and your husband have jobs and one of you has a side hustle and you're just busy, it may be worth your while to offload that work to a paid professional, even if your return isn't all that complicated. Um, but then second is the judgment, right? So, um, there are times where you're going to need a professional's judgment. And that often deals with things like businesses, right? So if you have a small business or a side hustle, if you are setting up a small business retirement plan, I think that's a big one where you may need professional assistance. So, yeah, you know, different people are different ways in terms of just how painful that tax return exercise is, right? If you've got some engineers in your audience, they might be like, well, we love playing with spreadsheets, but then what we do at work every day, you know, I'll, I'll knock this out while watching a football game. Right? Well, okay, fine. If you know what you're doing and you're using a good commercially available software, fine. I think that actually it's, it's hard to give a one size fits all. I think I will say this though, for your listeners, there are certain times where you should reach out to a tax professional and you know, this'll vary for folks, but sort of what I'll call him Disha of, Hey, this is a situation where I should reach out to a tax pro. I'd say if I'm starting a business, if you're starting a retirement plan for a business, right, like a solo 401k or something like that, or you think you should, that would be a good time to reach out to a tax return professional. And the other time would be if I ever received an IRS notice, so I owe a lot of money or it could be your state, you know, a taxing authority if you receive a note. So they're going to be sort of two sorts of notices, right? One is going to be, you get a notice from the IRS and it says you owe us 25 or you know, 20 more dollars in tax because there was a $67 dividend on a 10 99 div that you didn't report. And that might be just one of those that got lost in the mail. It got lost in your home office, whatever. If that happens and you think, yeah, they're right, I owe, you know, I got that $70 dividend and I owe some tax on it, fine. You know, write the check and move on. That probably doesn't need a professional's assistance. But if you get a IRS notice saying you owe us $3,000 in tax, I think at that point you need to reach out. In most cases you absolutely need to reach out because one, you gotta make sure, you know, the IRS can be wrong on these things. So you need to make sure, you know, before you cut that $3,000 check, you ought to ask somebody. And then too, even if the IRS is correct, then there's something wrong in your process and you now have $3,000 worth of indication that there's something off in what you did and that needs to be corrected. So, you know, I think, I think those are situations, and again, this can't be comprehensive and we only have so long to chat. Yeah, those are sort of, I think, three situations where you'd really want to think about reaching out to a tax pro. Absolutely. Um, now do you have any last words of wisdom? Last words of wisdom? I would say, um, a point I made earlier is focused on your behavior and the numbers will work out, right? So don't get obsessed of, Oh, we got to run a million different numbers and I need 8.25% return or no, don't be obsessed with that. Do what football teams do, right? So get your blocking and tackling right. And eventually the winds start stacking up, right? So do, do the, you know, pay down your debt, avoid debt, reduce your expenses, get your employer match in your 401k, get your Roth IRA set up, start saving and investing, you know, and those things will make your taxes much better and they'll make your finances much better. Absolutely. Now I do like to ask people, um, at the end of every episode what their favorite nonfiction book is. Do you have any that you would recommend? Yeah, and I'm going to do, some of your previous guests have cheated a little bit, so I'll give you a multiple answer. So the first one is obviously the Bible, right? So, um, that lays the predicate for all that we do on this earth, hopefully. So the Bible would be number one. And then in terms of financial books, I think there are two chestnuts that I strongly recommend to the listeners. One would be the millionaire next door, which is doctors, Stanley and Danko. I believe the author's names are [inaudible]. And that came out in the 90s. And that just goes over the mindset of most of the truly wealthy in this country, uh, against the millionaire next door. Just a classic and personal finance. And then the second one is a more recent book. It's called the simple path to wealth. It's by J L Collins. And the cool thing about this book is it started out as a series of blog posts. So the author was thinking about his daughter who was about to go to college and he does these blog posts, which are essentially just short letters to his daughter about saving, investing, managing your taxes, managing your finances. And what he said was, Oh, you know, I've got a, you know, dozens of these letters. Now I could make that into a book. And so that's what the simple path of wealth to wealth is. It's a book that is based on these blog posts and it's written in a way that's not targeted for somebody who's financially sophisticated. Um, that said, I think everybody can get something out of it, but it's done in a very relatable way. And if you read only those two books, you would be well on your way to a very good financial future. I have heard that the simple path to wealth, but I didn't, I didn't know the backstory. I hadn't heard that. That's pretty good. Yeah, isn't that a, it's a neat, it's a neat way of writing a book, write a book. You've got this other material that you then translate into a book and because of what it was originally intended for, I think that gives the book so much power. Absolutely. And I'm sure it's, it's a lot. It's easy for us to read it if he wrote it for, you know, his daughter going off to college. So it's not, you know, uh, complicated. Yes. Oh, right now before we go, where can people find you? Okay, so you can find me three different places. One would be my firm website, which is Malaney financial.com. You could find me on my blog, which is five tax guy.com. I blog on the intersection of tax and financial independence. So that's five tax guy.com. And lastly on Twitter, I'm at Sean money tax. Um, I'm not on Instagram, I'm not on YouTube. Maybe one day, but those are the three main places you can get. You can find me. Yeah, you should try YouTube or Instagram. I've just started learning Instagram and it's a lot of fun. It's something I got to get to. But um, for now those are the three portals I'm trying to, uh, to optimize. Absolutely. Well thank you so much for being here and talking to us about taxes and making it interesting and making tax not boring. Thanks so much for having me, Ashley. It was a pleasure speaking with you today. Thank you. Thank you so much to Sean for being with us today. And don't forget to go check out the seven day budget challenge before it gets its revamp in the price increases at the end of the month. So go to budgetsmadeeasy.com/budget-challenge to get it at the lowest price that it's going to be. I will talk to you guys next week. Special Guest: Sean Mullaney.

Investing Education with Bola Abdul Bola Abdul has plenty to say about investing education, financial education and advice, and foreign exchange. In a nutshell, Bola is a self-starter and has learnt a lot about the financial market and the foreign exchange market. Investing education: starting as a young 'un Bola started learning about the finance and foreign exchange market when he was 18 - 8 years ago. He's still a kid! How did he get into it? http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/How-much-money-do-you-need.mp4 Surprisingly, it's quite a low entry point to get into this market. Bolo says it's because the brokers introduced LEVERAGE. That enables you to trade on a higher volume, relative to your count size. The low end is 1 to 30. For example, you might have a $10 million account and you're trading 1:30. If you wanted to buy pounds versus the US dollars, and have a stake of £10, for every single point that the market goes up or down you would either gain or lose £10. How it works is, with a 1:30 leverage, you're capped as to the stake size that you can do. Now, this is a bit tricky to understand so here's another example. If you opened an account NOW, with a 1 to 30 leverage, there is a maximum you can stake. Let's say you cannot stake anything above £10. Contrastingly, if you opened up an $10 million account with a leverage of 1 to 400 a point, you would be able to do a significantly higher stake size. Points and pips Pip - this is a term used in the foreign exchange market. "It moves in pips". This is an abbreviation for Price Increment Point. Now, we're talking about the pound-dollar exchange rate. It's quoted in 4 decimal places. For example, let's say it was quoted at 1.3001 - if it changed to 1.3002 it would have moved one point. If it moved to 1.3003, that's two points. However, the brokers have their spreads - how the brokers make their money I based on the spread they give people like Bola (retail traders). E.g. Let's say you are earning £10 a point and the spread is 2 pips. Instantaneously, the broker makes £20 pocketed, regardless if that trade is a winning or losing trade. If it was £100 a point, and the spread was two pips, the broker would make £200. http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Pips-and-Points-explained.mp4 Ultimately, the trick is to figure out that, regardless of what you're paying a broker, you're betting that the outcome of the trade will appreciate considerably because of some event. Is this trade about events then? Bola says you must think about what the demand for currency is today. Because the market works by supply and demand. If we were on an island with US dollars and pound sterling, and there was a high demand for USD, you would have to give away sterling to acquire the USD. There are sporadic events - for example, Nov. 2016 where Trump was inaugurated - that can make an impact. You've always got to think about what the market participants expect. If the market participants expected the USD to go up in value, that will make a difference to the foreign exchange rate. So, to answer the question, yes the market can be impacted by big events in society...most likely political. However, these are SPORADIC. What the market is based on, and what is most important and influential, is supply and demand. There are many ways in which market participants base their trade ideas: Supply and demand Technical analysis Sporadic events (thinking political shifts in power). More on technical analysis Within the market, there is also something called support and resistance, which fits in with demand and supply. Essentially, supply sits within the support zone and demand sits within the resistance zone. Where supple = demand, is what is called equilibrium. Equilibrium is where market participants like the put their orders in - it's where a fair value is placed. How technical analysis works is price gravitates f...

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Praying the Fog Away All my Christian life I have delighted in stories about men and women of faith. People whose faith enabled them to, as William Carey put it, expect great things from God and attempt great things for God. Perhaps one of the greatest heroes of faith that I've ever studied is George Müller, a man who in the 19th century cared throughout his lifetime ministry for over 10,000 orphans, 10,000 orphans in England. He trusted God again and again for their material needs, for their food, clothing and shelter, for their educational needs and for their spiritual needs. Now, toward the end of his life, Müller, whose work with orphans had become famous worldwide, was traveling to North America in 1877 on a steamship, The Sardinian. And as they traveled across the North Atlantic there was a heavy fog. And the ship's captain wisely felt it good to throttle the ship back and slow down to a crawl to avoid icebergs, especially at that time of year, the very thing that would sink the Titanic 35 years later. Well, George Müller went to see the captain, his name was Joseph E. Dutton. He explained very clearly to the captain. You have to understand about George Müller, he was Prussian-born and this is a man who gets what he wants, very precise. And he explained to the captain that he had to be in Quebec by the following afternoon. He never missed an appointment, he was not going to miss that one. The captain explained that it was impossible because of the fog. And Müller answered, "My eye is not on the fog, but on the God who holds every circumstance of my life in His hands. Let us go down to the chart room and pray." Well, the captain went down reluctantly and Müller prayed a simple prayer. Then the captain dutifully began to pray in like manner. Müller stopped him, and he put his hand on his shoulder and stopped him. He said, "First of all, you don't believe that God will. Second of all, I believe God already has, so there's absolutely no need for you to pray." "You may go up and look, the fog has lifted." And it had. Now, that's quite a moment, isn't it? Now, the question that's in my mind, and it's a perennial question about prayer, the efficacy of prayer. Did Müller's faith-filled prayer move the fog, or did God's power move the fog? Now, the answer of course must be both. Biblically it must be both, and that's the mystery of prayer. In James 5 and verse 16 it says, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much," in the King James version. It is powerful and effective. Prayer is effective, it produces an effect. Jesus said in Matthew 21:21, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt… you can say to this mountain, 'Go throw yourself in the sea' and it will be done." Now in the end, as we'll see this morning, faith-filled prayer is totally humble and gives all glory to God. If it were not for the power of God to move fogs then the prayer would be meaningless. And if a person prays for a mountain to be thrown into the sea and it does, a person knows full well they didn't move the mountain, God moved the mountain. So, in today's account we're going to see both astonishing faith and even more astonishing power. Amazing faith and even more amazing power, the power of Christ. I. Christ’s Mysterious Manner Now, as we come to this account in Matthew 15, we come to a bit of a mystery. And it all just has to do with how Jesus treats this woman. I mean, when you read this text don't you find yourself a little bit perplexed? Like you want to pull Jesus aside and just give him some lessons on how to win friends and influence people. This is not how we treat people. Imagine you giving Jesus instructions on how to treat people. But there it is, it's strange. Robert Stein in his book Difficult Passages in The Gospels says, "This is a difficult passage. The problem is obvious, Jesus' words appear harsh, austere and insensitive. The Jesus of the Gospels, however, is loving and kind. Jesus who has special compassion for the outcasts of society, and this woman is an outcast in the Jewish mind." So that's what makes it difficult, his demeanor. Now, let's set the context. Jesus is in retreat mode with his apostles. He's pulled back from the increasing heat of his ministry in Israel, the Greek word there, if you look at verse 21, it says, "Leaving that place Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon," and the Greek word there means more than just went away, he... This is a strategic, intentional retreat that he's taking. And he's doing it to escape the building pressure, to kind of tone things down, because it's not time for him to be arrested yet. His time had not yet come, so he wants things to cool off. There is pressure from the huge multitudes that are coming all the time for healing. Pressure that he would be arrested imminently by Herod Antipas, the same one who had arrested John the Baptist. Pressure, most of all, from the Jewish religious leaders led by Caiaphas and Annas, who had no desire for Jesus to continue his ministry and who were already plotting his death, and Jesus knew that, so he retreats. And he's going there to be hidden with his disciples for a little while, but this woman found him anyway. If you look at the Mark account, just listen, in Mark 7:24 and 25, it says, "Jesus entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, yet he could not keep his presence secret.In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and fell at his feet. So Jesus is in retreat mode but this woman has found him and forces this interaction. Tyre and Sidon: Notorious in Jewish History Now Tyre and Sidon is notorious in Jewish history, it was well known as a prosperous pagan place, a pagan society founded on shipping and trade and merchants that went throughout the Mediterranean and made tons of money. Now the relationship in Scripture, started positively. Hiram King of Tyre, sent David logs for him to build his palace and then when David's son, Solomon went to build the temple it was Hiram also who sent craftsmen and logs and all of that, and they had a very cordial relationship, Solomon with the King of Tyre. But the flip side was darker, Tyre and Sidon represent worldly luxury, through abundant sea trade and that abundant sea trade is likened by Isaiah the prophet to the plying the trade of a prostitute. Worse Amos 1 and Joel 3 reveal that Tyre and Sidon was actually involved in the slave trade. Also in Ezekiel 26, they mocked and celebrated the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians. Ezekiel 28 implies that the real ruler of Tyre and Sidon was Satan himself, the guardian cherub in the Garden of Eden, the King of Tyre the king of Sidon, it seems was the devil himself, and therefore several prophets predicted total devastation of Tyre and Sidon. Ezekiel Joel, Amos, Jeremiah, Isaiah all of them prophesy against Tyre and Sidon. Yet, for all of this, Jesus knew their hearts and he knew some of them better. And he said, in one of most remarkable statements that he ever made concerning his ministry there, in Jewish cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida in Matthew 11, he says, "Woe to you Chorazin, a Jewish city, woe to you Bethsaida, a Jewish city. If the miracles that were performed and you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I would tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you." So that's the context. That's Tyre and Sidon, Jesus has gone up there to that pagan area, that gentile area for a retreat with His disciples. Who Was this Woman, and What Was Her Plight? So who was this woman? Well, she's a Canaanite, we have in our text, the very people that God had commanded Joshua to destroy completely when they entered the promised land. The Canaanite woman in particular, Canaanite women in particular, in general, people of God were warned, the sons of Israel were warned against intermarriage with Canaanite women, because there was a deep concern that they would lead the hearts of their sons astray from following the Lord. Now Mark 7:26 tell us, "The woman was a Greek-born in Syrian Phoenicia." Ao sometimes she's called the Sira-Phoenician woman, a Canaanite woman. So she would have been a complete outcast as far as the law of Moses was concerned. A Canaanite woman. But yet, as we see in this text, she has tremendous faith in Christ and is for all time, memorialized in the scripture as an example of conquering faith. But what was her plight? Her plight was that her little daughter was demon-possessed. Look at verse 22, "She was crying out, 'Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me. My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession." Mark's Gospel heightens the fact that the little girl is young, she's her little daughter, she's a young girl. Now demons are fallen angels. They are immensely powerful, more powerful than we can imagine. We're surrounded by both angels and demons every moment of everyday though we do not see them. Faith is the eyesight of the soul by which we see invisible spiritual realities, past, present, and future, and one of the present spiritual realities is that there are demons. We westerners are so materialistic, scientific, we think, "Well we just call God anything we don't understand from science, once we understand things in science then the invisible spiritual realms disappear." Well that's just not true. Demons were very powerful and active in Jesus' day and they haven't gone anywhere friends, they just use different tricks here in the West. But they're immensely powerful and this demonization or demon possession is one of the things that we see in the Gospels. Demon possession is a very serious spiritual affliction, a demon takes possession of the mind and the heart, the will, and the body of a human being. The demons do actual bodily harm to these individuals, or cause them to do bodily harm to themselves, cutting themselves with rocks, howling at the moon, breaking chains, falling into fire or water, it's horrible. And more than one demon can inhabit a human being. As a matter of fact one demoniac of the Gadarenes has legion of demons, thousands of demons led by one central main demon. And nothing could cure this little girl. And imagine what life was like in that household, what it was like to be the mother of that little girl, and the horror and the terror and the agony, middle-of-the-night screams and outcries. A father of a demon-possessed boy said, "The demon often throws my son in the fire or the water. So you got to be on 24/7 vigilant outlook to just keep him surviving." Life is unbearable for this woman because of her daughter. And this seems to have been an especially bad case, an extra Greek word is used to heighten that sense. So this is a terrible case. Jesus’ Strange Actions So she comes to interact with Jesus and now we get to look at Jesus' strange actions. First of all, in verse 23 He doesn't answer her at all, like she's not even there. Then the disciples come and they're weary of listening to this woman's pleas for help. So look at verse 23-24, "His disciples came to him and urged him, 'Send her away for she keeps crying out after us,' and he answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Third, in dealing with her directly, once she forces that interaction, she falls on the ground before him, and will not be denied, He seems to insult her, calling her a dog. Now, I know it's hard for you dog lovers, but I've looked it up, dogs never do well in the Bible. I've not found any positive dog verses in the Bible. Maybe some of you can, but they're usually... What am I? A dog, a dead dog, something like that, it's that kind of thing. So this is... It feels like an insult. The woman came in and knelt before him in verse 25-26, "'Lord, help me,' she said. He replied, 'It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs.'" So this is strange, this is difficult. Now, there's some mitigating factors. We need to understand some things. First of all, we don't have a record of facial expressions, tone of voice, those things mean so much. You can't tell just from the words how Jesus is being, is He inviting more conversation? Is He being dismissive? We don't know. The Greek implied that Jesus was having actually an ongoing conversation with her. It says Jesus was saying to her, it's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs. So there's an ongoing thing. The Scripture frequently omits a lot of the back and forth and streamlines the account, so there's not everything said that was said, we've got that. And also the word dogs here, there are certain Greek word for dogs where they're just wild animals, like junkyard dogs out in the street, that's not the word used here. Then there's more of a pet, like a household pet kind of aspect, it's more that word, but still for all of that this doesn't seem like what we would expect from Jesus. II. Christ’s Wise Motives Alright, so we have to understand Christ's wise motives here. Christ is always wise in everything He does, perfect in all of His ways, so let's try to understand. And let's do that negatively, let's come at it from just ruling out some options concerning why Jesus acted the way He did. 1) Not because He didn’t care about Gentiles, or had no saving purpose First of all, it was not because He didn't care about Gentiles or want them saved, not at all. When the original call to Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation came, called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees, it says in Genesis 12:3, God said to Abraham, "I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." So God's call of Abraham, the father of the Jews makes it plain that God always had a plan to save people from every tribe, language, people and nation, that was always God's plan, it wasn't plan B. That was exactly what God was going to do through the Jews, through Abraham. Also Jesus Himself, His mission was clearly described for us in the Book of Isaiah, in Isaiah 49, we get an amazing inter-trinitarian conversation where the Father says to the Son, "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth." It's too small a thing Jesus for you to just save the Jews. That was written centuries before Jesus was born, and Jesus knew the Book of Isaiah very well. So He knew that He was the light for the Gentiles. Like Simeon, when baby Jesus was being circumcised, he took Him in his arms and called Him the Light for the Gentiles, they knew that, He knew that. And after His resurrection, He would send His disciples to the ends of the earth. "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore go and make disciples of all nations." And so Chris and Debbie are there in Bangladesh, in obedience to that commission. It's not plan B, that's what God always intended. And we have missionaries, friends, brothers and sisters serving all over the world, that's the great commission, it's been going on from Jerusalem through Judea to Samaria, to the ends of the earth. It's not plan B, it's always what God wanted. And one of the places, one of the first places the disciples would go was this very region of Tyre and Sidon. Paul on his journey back to Jerusalem after his missionary trip, he landed at Phoenicia and went and visited the disciples in Tyre. And there were many there who deeply loved Paul because they deeply loved Jesus. It would not surprise me at all if this woman and her daughter were among that church, how marvelous would that be? We'll find out in heaven. But Jesus clearly had a saving intention for the entire world including Tyre and Sidon. 2) Not because He lacked the power to do miracles in a Gentile land Secondly, it's not because He lacked the power to do miracles in a Gentile land. Okay, the end of the account proves that that's not true. Jesus' power worked very well in the mountains and in the valleys. It worked very well in the cities and out in the country, He does very well everywhere. He is omnipotent, there's nothing He cannot do. And He was no more or less powerful in Tyre and Sidon than anywhere else. 3) Not because He lacked mercy or compassion for her plight or that of her daughter Thirdly, it's not because He lacked mercy or compassion for her plight or that of her daughter, Jesus is the most perfect man that ever lived, the only perfect man that ever lived, perfect in compassion. As a matter of fact, again and again, we are told Jesus moved with compassion healed somebody. As a matter of fact, compassion is the number one emotion ascribed to Jesus more than any other emotion. He was perfectly compassionate all the time. Anyone who came to Him empty, like a spiritual beggar with a need got what they needed from Him. 4) Not because He was weary and annoyed It was not because He was weary and annoyed at the end of a long day, or needed a break or a vacation as so many of us do. Jesus never had a bad day and never got weak and weary in that sense. Think of Him on the cross, hands and feet nailed, dying under the wrath of God and showing compassion for His mother, setting her up with John, showing compassion on those who nailed Him to the cross saying, "Father forgive them they do not know what they are doing." Showing compassion on the thief saying, "Today you'll be with me in paradise." Perfectly loving while dying on the cross. So it's not because He was too tired to help this woman. 5) Not because he was taking a break from ministry and didn’t want to care for her needs at that point And it's not because He was taking a break from ministry and didn't want to care for her needs at that point. 6) Not because there was only so much “bread” to be fed to His children, and if He gave some to her there wouldn’t be enough for them And it's not because there's only so much bread to give to the children and it's going to run out. Let me ask you a question, do you think it would have been harder for Jesus to feed 6000 than 5000? Do you think He'd need a few more loaves and fishes to pull it off? Friends, there's no limit to the power of Jesus Christ. No miracle is particularly difficult for Him or particularly easy. Jesus can do anything, that's what omnipotence is all about. And so there's no limit to the bread supply. 7) Not because she didn’t ask properly or with enough faith And it's not because she didn't ask properly or with enough faith. Jesus commends her faith in the end, he wasn't forcing her to give more or he wouldn't respond. Actually, I think he wants to put the greatness of her faith on display. And so we'll get to that in just a moment, but these are not the reasons why. Why then? Well, let's look at some possible reasons. First of all, there's just an order to God's redemptive plan. He has a very clear and wise purpose and order to the Jew first, then to the Gentile. Peter spoke about this after Jesus' resurrection and ascension to heaven, he's preaching there in the Jewish temple. And he says in Acts 3:26, "For you, first God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless each of you by turning you from your wicked ways." God sent him to you Jews first. Peter said that, Acts 3:26. Over and over the Apostle Paul, the same thing, lived out what he wrote in the book of Romans, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." And he acted it out in his ministry, Paul I mean. Every city he went to, the first place he would go if there was one, was to a Jewish synagogue, that's where he always started and he would preach to the Jews and they would inevitably be divided, there'd be a small number of them that believed and was interested and the rest would turn because there was a veil over their hearts, as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3 and they would become hostile. And so in Acts 13: 46 when Paul and Barnabas were in Pisidia in Antioch, they had preached a couple of Sabbaths at the synagogue, the Jews turned and became hostile, and this is what it says, "Paul and Barnabas answered the Jews boldly, we had to speak the word of God to you first," just ponder that there's just a clear order here, "since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us, 'I have made you, [Jesus] a light for the Gentiles that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth." And so they went out and preached and did very well among the Gentiles there. This is God's strategy. It was part of God's redemptive plan for Christ to be sent first to His own people, to have them reject Him, and then turn to the rest. As it says in John 1:11, "He came to his own and his own people did not receive Him, but as many as did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God." So Jesus is here declaring the focus of his ministry. It's the Jews. Look at Verse 24, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Not ultimately only but in this mission, I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. Also Christ hadn't died yet, so the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, so-called, set up in the Laws of Moses, were still in effect. Circumcision was still in effect, the dietary regulations were still in effect although Jesus in His life declared all foods clean, but all of that would be fulfilled when he died, and the moment he died, the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the Levitical animal sacrifice system was fulfilled and obsolete, and welcome was offered to both Jews and Gentiles through faith in Christ to draw near to the Holy of Holies, and find salvation. So that happened when Jesus died and rose again, the end of the old covenant, the beginning of the New Covenant, hadn't happened yet, and so we still have that barrier the dividing wall of hostility, established separating Jews and Gentiles. Also Jesus has a strategic order in dealing with his own apostles, the 12, the inner circle. He came to this region to focus on them. One way to understand his statement is that the disciples are the children and the children's bread is time spent with Jesus. Jesus had limitations in the days of His incarnation. He could only be in one place at one time, he could only effectively deal with one situation at one time, though he is omni-competent and can do all these things when he ascends to Heaven through the Holy Spirit, at that point he's limited, and he's focused on the apostles. He's retreated to be with them, and he therefore couldn't give himself to a general healing ministry, there in Tyre and Sidon, would have taken all their time, remember there was such a crush of people that they couldn't eat or do anything in some of the days of Jesus' ministry. So he said, "Look I'm going to focus on them." To Test Her Faith? But let's get to the real point I think, and that is to test her faith, perhaps, but more I would say to draw her faith out and put it on display. And that's why the Holy Spirit wanted Matthew and Mark to write about it, so that we could learn from her and learn what faith is really like so to put her faith onto... To test it and to put her faith on display. So let's talk about her testing of her faith. Jesus already knew the level of her faith. We also know that God sometimes tests our faith to strengthen it. Much like a physical therapist who's working with somebody after surgery or after an illness, will oppose the very motion that they want, they'll push on the foot or the arm and cause pain. I've seen it, and not myself, praise God, but I've seen some loved ones that have gone through some painful experiences at the hand of PT people. Now some of you may be PT, I know you mean well, alright, but there is a high level of pain. And what is your good intention, to strengthen the damaged area, to build that area up, and so it is in our lives, our faith is too weak and it needs to be strengthened and it has to be strengthened as so often by opposition by not getting instantly what we want. So our faith has to be strengthened, so I think that's what's going on. III. True Faith Put on Display He wants to put her faith on display for all time, but also strengthen it, so let's look at the nature of true saving faith. Let's see how it's put on display. The Basis of Faith First of all true faith must have a basis, there has to be content, there has to be truth, that faith zeroes in on and believes. So we don't have faith in faith itself. Alright, we're not believers in believing, we're not generally vaguely people of faith. Have you heard of that... In our secular, "Let's get all the people of faith." And I say, "I'm not a person of faith, not like that, I'm a person of faith in Jesus." And specifically because of who he is revealed to be in the pages of Scripture, the content I get out of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and indeed, the whole Bible, tell me who Jesus is, I believe that, I believe what has been revealed about Jesus. Faith is not merely an optimistic outlook, like this, "I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, a candle glows." I'm not going to sing it friends...I don't remember the tune. John McArthur said: “That sort of faith is essentially faith in faith, which is to say no faith at all. To jump out of an airplane with a parachute is an act of faith. To jump without a parachute while exclaiming, ‘I believe’ is an act of stupidity. To say no more than ‘I believe in love,’ or ‘I believe in believing,’ or ‘I believe it will all work out’ is contentless faith and therefore pointless and powerless.” So this Canaanite woman had heard of Jesus, she knew some of who he was, she didn't know everything, none of them knew everything, but she knew enough to believe in him. Look what she says, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me." What is that? He is the fulfillment of the Davidic promises, he is Lord of heaven and earth, that's who he is. And that's what she calls him, "Lord, Son of David." Faith comes from hearing, she'd heard the reports about Jesus, his miracles, all that he had done, she didn't have the New Testament, it wasn't written yet. But she had heard reports, and she believed them, she believed that Jesus could heal her daughter. Faith initially springs in the human heart through hearing of the word, it comes from hearing the Scripture. Not only that, but faith is fed and strengthened the same way. And so my task, as a preacher, is to feed your faith so you have a more vivid, a stronger sense of Jesus when you walk out of here than when you walked in, a stronger sense of reliance on Christ. So we see the basis of faith. The Reverence of Faith Secondly, we see the reverence of faith. She calls him, "Lord," she falls on the ground before him, before his feet, she worships him, she is submissive, she is reverent. She doesn't presume on him, she doesn't demand from him, she knows that he is exalted. Like John the Baptist said about Jesus, "I don't deserve to tie his shoes, his sandals. I don't deserve to touch his feet." John the Baptist said that. She had the same sense of the exalted nature of Jesus, reverence of faith. We see the confidence of faith; there's zero doubt in her mind Jesus can do this, he is capable of doing this. The essence of great faith is confidence that God has the power to perform the very thing that's desired. Like Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now, to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or think according to His power that is at work within us…" He can do infinitely more than you think he can. It's amazing. The Repentance of Faith We see also the repentance of faith, she says, "Have mercy on me. Have mercy, show me grace. I don't deserve anything from you. I'm a sinner." Like the Pharisee and the tax collector, I'm the... Like the tax collector, beating my breast, and I won't look up, and I just say, "Have mercy on me, O God, the sinner." Just like the songs we sang this morning, "Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, I'm a sinner. I can't ask anything of you, but will you please have mercy?" These are the very people that Christ saves. Blessed are the spiritual beggars for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. She knows who she is, she is a sinner, and she's calling out for mercy, she's not making demands. The Persistence of Faith We see also the persistence of faith. Jesus just puts up one roadblock after another. This is the very thing I'm talking about, the strengthening through the physical therapy, Jesus is strengthening it by putting up obstacles, putting up roadblocks. So it is in your life, there are things you want, they come from Scripture, you have desires, they're good things, but they just aren't happening. And you're praying and praying, and it just doesn't happen, and you should see it in this light, God is the one that's making you wait, God is the one putting roadblocks up; but faith perseveres, it's persistent. And note that her persistence springs from her love for her daughter, it springs from that horizontal connection. One could argue that it's the strongest love there is in the world, you could make that case, of a mother for her child, sick child, hurting child. The Lord said, "Can a mother forget the child at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has born? Though she may forget, I will never forget you." God himself chose that as the paradigm example of love. And so, here's this woman, and she has linked her heart to her daughter. And look what she says, verse 22, "Have mercy on me... Lord, help me," she says in verse 24, she says, "My daughter…" It's like it's happening to me. I think that God tests us in prayer to strengthen our horizontal love for other people, because we don't love very much, we don't have Jesus' compassion, it's not because he wasn't compassionate, it's because we're not compassionate, and we need to learn how to really love other people and care, and that happens in prayer. When you pray again and again and again for some dire situation, you grow in love for that person, you actually care whether it happens. Faith overcomes all the obstacles and keeps persevering, like Jacob wrestling with the angel, and he's wrestling, and the angel of the Lord is saying, "Let me go," and Jacob says, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." Romans 8:37 says, "Know in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." We see also the humility of faith. "It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs.' 'Yes, Lord.' She says, 'But even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.'" It's incredible. She finds hope even in the seeming put off. It's like well, there's still hope for me though. Isn't there? There's still a chance. If I could just be a dog under the table, there might be something for me. So the images of a laden table, rich household kids sitting around the table dogs under... We don't have dogs. I've been told it's best not to feed them off the table. They get certain bad habits. But you can picture this, the dog is there and maybe something accidentally falls off the table. Now, what's amazing to me is that she doesn't bristle, she doesn't bridle up, at this seeming insult. He calls her a dog of sorts. "True Lord," She says in one translation, "Yes, I'm a dog." Faith takes it's rightful place under Jesus. Remember the centurion who sends a messenger saying, "My servant is at home paralyzed in terrible suffering." To the Centurion Jesus said, "I'll go and heal him." Centurion says, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just give the word and my servant will be healed." Naturally in our sin, we are all dogs and worse than dogs. You have to have that work on you through the law. The gospel doesn't come puffing up your self-esteem. It comes and tells you the truth and no passage does it better than Romans 3, verse 9 and following. "What should we say then? We any better? No. We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin as it is written, 'There is no one righteous, no one who understands, no one who seeks God, all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one. So you're saying that I'm a worthless sinner. Because of my sin, I have lost worth and value, and I don't do anything good at all. Actually I have more to say. Throats are open graves, tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips, ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace, they do not know, there is no fear of God before their eyes. Oh, that's the rest, that's what the law does, that's what the work... It says, "I am a sinner, I'm broken, I need a savior." God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. And this woman was humble. Now, imagine if she had said to Jesus, "You know, I'm not a dog and I don't appreciate you saying that to me. I came for help and look what you did, you just insulted me," and she walked away, what would she have gotten from Jesus? Nothing. Go home to a demon possessed daughter. God opposes the proud, but He gives grace to the humble, and she was a humble woman. And so faith humbles us. It doesn't make us arrogant it humbles us. The Reward of Faith We'll look at the reward verse 28, Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith. Your request is granted." And her daughter was healed from that very moment. So faith perseveres to get the reward. It perseveres until it obtains. Jesus made her wait some, He makes other people wait more. Some of you may be waiting on blessings and you wonder why God doesn't give it, He may be going to give it to you next year or next month. Five years from now. Waiting and waiting, perhaps conversion of a relative, something, He makes you wait. He made her wait, but then she got what she wanted. The ultimate reward of faith, how about this? Eternity in heaven in a resurrection body. Every blessing in the heavenly realm's given to you in Christ Jesus, all of them fulfilled in Heaven. He'll make you wait for it though. Live the rest of your life, but He'll give it to you. So true faith perseveres through all the obstacles and obtains. IV. Christ’s Power Put on Display Now Christ's power is put on display. I said before, her faith is great, his power is greater. Can I tell you something? In heaven we're not going to be celebrating the greatness of faith. We'll be celebrating the greatness of Jesus. And His power it's infinitely greater than she can possibly imagine, and this particular display is amazing. I hadn't realized an aspect of this until about a year ago. Power in the mechanical engineering world has to do with the ability to move things quickly if you can think, to get work done. So it's not that huge a deal for a 1000 or a million people with little shovels to move a mountain over a thousand years. But if a mountain moves and throws itself in the sea in an instant, now that's incredibly powerful. So listen to this, Mark7:28-30, "'Yes Lord.' She replied. 'But even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.' Then He told her, 'for such a reply, you may go, the demon has left your daughter.'" Keep in mind, we're talking about demon possession. Demons are very powerful spiritual beings. The issue for me here is timing. I'm going to get really geeky on you. Really engineering here, alright? When she began her statement, the demon was in the daughter. When Jesus finished His statement, the demon was gone. Now I'm not advocating sympathy for the devil, at all here, but what's it like to be that demon? You're in the girl, and now you're not. You're out on the street, you're out. You've been served your eviction notice, actually, no notice you're out. Sometimes demons would throw people down and make them foam at the mouth and there'll be a bit of an argument, a bit of a back and forth. There was none of that... This time, that demon was out. Power, infinite power. And what did Jesus say? Did he pray? Did he drop to his knees? Did He look to His Father? Did He do... Nothing. Just demon's gone. When did that happen, how did that, what, what just happened? Sometimes He uses instruments, He will make mud and put it on someone's eyes and watch... Somebody He touched somebody, this time what did He do? Think it. He just thought it and the demon was gone. Can I tell you something? Jesus' power is infinitely greater than any of your problems, all of your problems. He could solve them instantly. Just know that. You may be asking, "Then why doesn't he?" And that's an important question in the doctrine of Providence, I understand. I'm just saying, His power... There was no difficulty here for this healing. This is also a picture of our forgiveness. Another woman came to Jesus and washed his feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. Jesus read her heart, saw her faith and her repentance from sin, and he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." Instantaneously. All of them, yeah, all of them, past, present, future, they're all forgiven. That's the power of Jesus. And that'll be the power of Jesus on your body, your resurrection body. In an instant, you'll be transformed from a lowly corrupting body of sin and death to a radiant, powerful, glorious resurrection body, in an instant, in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye. He will do that. V. Application Alright, so what applications? First of all, learn to pray like this. Pray like this. Pray... Go over the lessons of faith, the basis of faith, and all of that. Get your faith strong, based on the Word of God, and then pray God's word back to Him. Pray His promises back to Him. Pray like this. Let me say an aside to some desperate parents. I don't know who you are, I know some of you. Take this text and bring your problem to Jesus. Pray and pray and pray like this woman, don't give up. Don't give up on your rebellious teen or your grown person maybe in their 20s or 30s, married, with kids, not walking with the Lord, in a pattern of sin breaking your heart. Take it to the Lord in prayer, take it to God in prayer. It could be your little ones. They're not sinning in any unusual ways, they're just kids, they're growing up. Take them to God in prayer. Secondly, on God's silence. Don't let God's silence and His slowness put you off. God knows exactly what He's doing. He knows that you're praying, he knows what you want before you ask Him, He makes you wait because He's not a vending machine and He's wise and He knows His timing, and He doesn't always give you what you ask for. But be willing to persevere even when God is silent. Go back over the lessons of faith. Feed your faith in God's word. Be humble. Know that you're a sinner, saved by grace. Know that God can do immeasurably more than you ask or think. Be repentant in your faith, confess your sins often. Be humble. God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. And wait on God until you finally have your reward. And then stand in awe of Jesus, just stand in awe of this incredible Savior, Who can think a thought and a demon has to obey. Stand in awe of the power of God in Jesus, He's infinitely more powerful than you can possibly imagine. Now, in my prayer I prayed for any that were here that are outsiders, came in here not believers. I pray that you have heard the gospel today, that God sent his Son into the world to save sinners like you and me. He died on the cross, in our place, as a substitute for sins. In an instant, he can forgive your sins, in an instant. All you have to do is come to Him in faith. Call on the name of the Lord Jesus. Say, "I am a sinner, just like this Canaanite woman. I need You to forgive me of my sins." And He will. Close with me in prayer.

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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Kings+18%3A19-39&version=NIV (1 Kings 18:19-39) Our message this week takes a trip to Mount Carmel in Israel and a contest of gods between Baal of the Caanites and Yahweh, the God of the Israelites and the prophet Elijah. It is the type of story that leaves us asking, What do we really believe? Where do we derive our security, our purpose, our motivation in life? Where is the pure object of our affection focused? I might also ask, Do you have any idols? A doctor of theology was teaching world religion at a university and made a mission trip to India. While there, he met and befriended a local fellow who was a Buddhist. This man was very friendly and took the doctor around to see the sites and help him become acquainted. One day he took the doctor to the Buddhist temple. When the doctor walked in, he was amazed at all the strange, peculiar statues lining the walls of the temple, each one representing a different god. Then he felt a little poke in his side, and his newfound friend gestured toward one of the statues saying, “See that one? You recognize it, don't you? That's your God!” The doctor of theology looked up to see a statue of Jesus on the cross – as if Jesus were just one god among all the other gods. In that man's mind, though well intended, he believed you could be Buddhist and Christian. You can worship whatever god you want or as many as you want. We have often heard the phrase It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you are sincere. We live in a culture of time that says all truth is relative to the individual's perception and conviction. However, I don't believe this. Instead, I believe the God of the world, the God of life, has, in a beautiful way, revealed His heart and love to us in His Son, Jesus Christ. He went to the cross to bring us back into a relationship with Himself, even though we were sinners, and, by His resurrection, gives us eternal life. He invites us to repent, turn our hearts back to Him, and confess our faith in Him as our God. At Mount Carmel, Elijah prayed this prayer: “Lord, by your power show that you are God and we are your servants. Turn the hearts of your people back to you.” In our story, the Bible describes King Ahab and Queen Jezebel as the new champions of evil in their time. They not only promoted the worship of the idols Bael and Ashera, but they hunted down and killed God's prophets in an effort to eradicate faith in Yahweh. They especially hated the prophet Elijah and searched every inch of their kingdom for him. They even threatened neighboring kings who might hide him. They treated Elijah like the number one criminal of the world and wanted him dead. After three years of drought with God telling Elijah to hide from Ahab, now He tells Elijah to go show himself to Ahab. In the context of threat and danger, Elijah boldly walks into the palace and issues a challenge to Ahab and the priests of Bael to have a contest on Mount Carmel. May the best god – the real God, the God of power and glory – win. So the priests of Bael go first and offer their ox as a sacrifice. From morning till noon, they prayed. Louder and louder they prayed as they danced around the altar of sacrifice. Bael, hear us, they say. Elijah begins to mock them. Is god meditating? Is he too busy, indisposed, on vacation? Perhaps he is sleeping. Cry out louder! They danced louder; they cut themselves with knives until they bled; and they hollered louder and louder. Nothing except silence was the response. This continued all day until Elijah stepped forward and poured barrels and barrels of water over the sacrifice. Instantaneously a firebolt from heaven consumed the ox, the wood, and the twelve stones representing the twelve tribes of Israel. Even the water was licked up dry. Everyone fell on their faces in that revelation of God's power and glory and shouted, “Yahweh is God! Yahweh surely is God!” Yahweh revealed Himself

Freddy Fender rose from poverty to musical success, battled addiction, and found peace through religion.Fame can be amazing. However, many famous people get caught in the trappings of addiction. Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender tells the gospel truth about her father, Freddy Fender. Known as the King of Tex-Mex, Freddy wanted the whole truth of his life to be honestly shared. Freddy was a Mexican-American singer who rose from the depths of poverty, breaking free from a life spent picking cotton and rising to a life spent picking guitar. In his youth, in 1956, he was the first to record and sing Spanish rock and roll; he was known as the “Mexican Elvis” and called “El Bebop Kid.” In the mid-1970s, Fender would become famous literally overnight as a rock ‘n’ country megastar with his first two monster hits “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” Instantaneously, his records crossed over the Billboard country charts into the rock and pop charts, each rising to No. 1. He was given a Country Music Association award for “Single of the Year” and an Academy of Country Music award as “Most Promising Male Artist” in 1975. His voice and charismatic personality also made him a nationwide television celebrity in the ‘70s and ‘80s. During his last 21 years of sobriety, Freddy sought spiritual redemption, practiced forgiveness and made amends in his daily life; he came to lead by example with the aid of his higher power Jesus Christ. Freddy Fender was known to millions of people across the world as “an ordinary man who had extraordinary God-given talents.” Listen as Tammy joins Dr. Bond to share her memories of her father’s life of adversity and redemption.

Freddy Fender rose from poverty to musical success, battled addiction, and found peace through religion.Fame can be amazing. However, many famous people get caught in the trappings of addiction. Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender tells the gospel truth about her father, Freddy Fender. Known as the King of Tex-Mex, Freddy wanted the whole truth of his life to be honestly shared. Freddy was a Mexican-American singer who rose from the depths of poverty, breaking free from a life spent picking cotton and rising to a life spent picking guitar. In his youth, in 1956, he was the first to record and sing Spanish rock and roll; he was known as the “Mexican Elvis” and called “El Bebop Kid.” In the mid-1970s, Fender would become famous literally overnight as a rock ‘n’ country megastar with his first two monster hits “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” Instantaneously, his records crossed over the Billboard country charts into the rock and pop charts, each rising to No. 1. He was given a Country Music Association award for “Single of the Year” and an Academy of Country Music award as “Most Promising Male Artist” in 1975. His voice and charismatic personality also made him a nationwide television celebrity in the ‘70s and ‘80s. During his last 21 years of sobriety, Freddy sought spiritual redemption, practiced forgiveness and made amends in his daily life; he came to lead by example with the aid of his higher power Jesus Christ. Freddy Fender was known to millions of people across the world as “an ordinary man who had extraordinary God-given talents.” Listen as Tammy joins Dr. Bond to share her memories of her father’s life of adversity and redemption.

Ti Caine is called “The Future Whisperer™” because as a Hypnotherapist, Healer, Metaphysician, Futurist, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Life Coach, he is the only therapist in the world who has created an entire therapy, healing and growth process based on Connecting People with Their Ideal Future! His process is called FutureVisioning™! Over 45 years ago Ti started traveling around the world learning and practicing every psychological, personal growth, spiritual and healing technique he could find, including “Positive Thinking”, “Meditation”, “Affirmations”, "Energy Healing", "Being in the Moment", "Vegetarianism", "Law of Attraction", "NLP", "Mindfulness" Etc. Etc., but after 10 years of practicing all these he still wound up in an emergency room with a life-threatening illness and 3 doctors telling him that he had to have emergency surgery he would die within hours! He tried all the techniques he knew and none of them helped at all, yet he still refused the surgery! The amazing part of the story is that during his studies he had been introduced to metaphysics, quantum physics and working with taboo emotions and the Future by Lazaris, a channeled being, who continues to this day to be his favorite teacher. And when Ti finally tried working with his dark emotions and his Future, he healed his life-threatening illness Instantaneously! Several years later, all the “Positive Thinking” and “Spiritual” techniques failed again and he found himself in a suicidal depression, once more he ultimately used his growing understanding of The Power of the Future™, and instantly healed his suicidal depression! He then realized he had discovered a totally new approach to healing and growing, and he created his FutureVisioningTM Process! In the last 25 years he has helped thousands of individuals, couples and organizations to create their Ideal Futures! He actually guides his clients and audiences on a visualization journey into their brightest futures, so they get to experience the life where their Dreams Come True, and then helps them to heal whatever stops them from moving forward into that Awesome Future! Through his 37 years of studying our relationship with the future he discovered that people like Einstein, Richard Branson, Oprah, Bill Gates, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins were all natural visionaries, and they saw their futures before they created their incredible successes!  In fact, more and more research shows that a powerful connection to a bright future is the only characteristic that is shared by that top 3% of our population, and they are the healthiest happiest and most successful people in the world! Ti’s work has been written about by the senior writer from Psychology Today, and in the multimillion copy bestselling book “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom,” by Dr. Christiane Northrup M.D. He has co-written an e-book called “The Goddess Cure” which is a true story that shows how to completely heal PMS, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Breast Cancer and all female illnesses by reconnecting with The Goddess, the Divine Feminine! And he is just finishing his second book, “Falling In Love with Your Future!” His website www.futurevisioning.com features a fascinating free video that shows Ti teaching regular people how connect with the future like Einstein and Oprah, and it actually shows those people changing instantly when they connect with their Ideal Future! JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11, the CW and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame debuted at #2 on the Amazon Best Seller List for Women’s Health and #2 as a Hot New Release on May 18th 2017.  

Ti Caine is called “The Future Whisperer™” because as a Hypnotherapist, Healer, Metaphysician, Futurist, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Life Coach, he is the only therapist in the world who has created an entire therapy, healing and growth process based on Connecting People with Their Ideal Future! His process is called FutureVisioning™! Over 45 years ago Ti started traveling around the world learning and practicing every psychological, personal growth, spiritual and healing technique he could find, including “Positive Thinking”, “Meditation”, “Affirmations”, "Energy Healing", "Being in the Moment", "Vegetarianism", "Law of Attraction", "NLP", "Mindfulness" Etc. Etc., but after 10 years of practicing all these he still wound up in an emergency room with a life-threatening illness and 3 doctors telling him that he had to have emergency surgery he would die within hours! He tried all the techniques he knew and none of them helped at all, yet he still refused the surgery! The amazing part of the story is that during his studies he had been introduced to metaphysics, quantum physics and working with taboo emotions and the Future by Lazaris, a channeled being, who continues to this day to be his favorite teacher. And when Ti finally tried working with his dark emotions and his Future, he healed his life-threatening illness Instantaneously! Several years later, all the “Positive Thinking” and “Spiritual” techniques failed again and he found himself in a suicidal depression, once more he ultimately used his growing understanding of The Power of the Future™, and instantly healed his suicidal depression! He then realized he had discovered a totally new approach to healing and growing, and he created his FutureVisioningTM Process! In the last 25 years he has helped thousands of individuals, couples and organizations to create their Ideal Futures! He actually guides his clients and audiences on a visualization journey into their brightest futures, so they get to experience the life where their Dreams Come True, and then helps them to heal whatever stops them from moving forward into that Awesome Future! Through his 37 years of studying our relationship with the future he discovered that people like Einstein, Richard Branson, Oprah, Bill Gates, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins were all natural visionaries, and they saw their futures before they created their incredible successes!  In fact, more and more research shows that a powerful connection to a bright future is the only characteristic that is shared by that top 3% of our population, and they are the healthiest happiest and most successful people in the world! Ti’s work has been written about by the senior writer from Psychology Today, and in the multimillion copy bestselling book “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom,” by Dr. Christiane Northrup M.D. He has co-written an e-book called “The Goddess Cure” which is a true story that shows how to completely heal PMS, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Breast Cancer and all female illnesses by reconnecting with The Goddess, the Divine Feminine! And he is just finishing his second book, “Falling In Love with Your Future!” His website www.futurevisioning.com features a fascinating free video that shows Ti teaching regular people how connect with the future like Einstein and Oprah, and it actually shows those people changing instantly when they connect with their Ideal Future! JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11, the CW and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame debuted at #2 on the Amazon Best Seller List for Women’s Health and #2 as a Hot New Release on May 18th 2017.

Ti Caine is called “The Future Whisperer™” because as a Hypnotherapist, Healer, Metaphysician, Futurist, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Life Coach, he is the only therapist in the world who has created an entire therapy, healing and growth process based on Connecting People with Their Ideal Future! His process is called FutureVisioning™! Over 45 years ago Ti started traveling around the world learning and practicing every psychological, personal growth, spiritual and healing technique he could find, including “Positive Thinking”, “Meditation”, “Affirmations”, "Energy Healing", "Being in the Moment", "Vegetarianism", "Law of Attraction", "NLP", "Mindfulness" Etc. Etc., but after 10 years of practicing all these he still wound up in an emergency room with a life-threatening illness and 3 doctors telling him that he had to have emergency surgery he would die within hours! He tried all the techniques he knew and none of them helped at all, yet he still refused the surgery! The amazing part of the story is that during his studies he had been introduced to metaphysics, quantum physics and working with taboo emotions and the Future by Lazaris, a channeled being, who continues to this day to be his favorite teacher. And when Ti finally tried working with his dark emotions and his Future, he healed his life-threatening illness Instantaneously! Several years later, all the “Positive Thinking” and “Spiritual” techniques failed again and he found himself in a suicidal depression, once more he ultimately used his growing understanding of The Power of the Future™, and instantly healed his suicidal depression! He then realized he had discovered a totally new approach to healing and growing, and he created his FutureVisioningTM Process! In the last 25 years he has helped thousands of individuals, couples and organizations to create their Ideal Futures! He actually guides his clients and audiences on a visualization journey into their brightest futures, so they get to experience the life where their Dreams Come True, and then helps them to heal whatever stops them from moving forward into that Awesome Future! Through his 37 years of studying our relationship with the future he discovered that people like Einstein, Richard Branson, Oprah, Bill Gates, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins were all natural visionaries, and they saw their futures before they created their incredible successes!  In fact, more and more research shows that a powerful connection to a bright future is the only characteristic that is shared by that top 3% of our population, and they are the healthiest happiest and most successful people in the world! Ti’s work has been written about by the senior writer from Psychology Today, and in the multimillion copy bestselling book “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom,” by Dr. Christiane Northrup M.D. He has co-written an e-book called “The Goddess Cure” which is a true story that shows how to completely heal PMS, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Breast Cancer and all female illnesses by reconnecting with The Goddess, the Divine Feminine! And he is just finishing his second book, “Falling In Love with Your Future!” His website www.futurevisioning.com features a fascinating free video that shows Ti teaching regular people how connect with the future like Einstein and Oprah, and it actually shows those people changing instantly when they connect with their Ideal Future! JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11, the CW and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame debuted at #2 on the Amazon Best Seller List for Women’s Health and #2 as a Hot New Release on May 18th 2017.      

Ti Caine is called “The Future Whisperer™” because as a Hypnotherapist, Healer, Metaphysician, Futurist, Author, Inspirational Speaker and Life Coach, he is the only therapist in the world who has created an entire therapy, healing and growth process based on Connecting People with Their Ideal Future! His process is called FutureVisioning™! Over 45 years ago Ti started traveling around the world learning and practicing every psychological, personal growth, spiritual and healing technique he could find, including “Positive Thinking”, “Meditation”, “Affirmations”, "Energy Healing", "Being in the Moment", "Vegetarianism", "Law of Attraction", "NLP", "Mindfulness" Etc. Etc., but after 10 years of practicing all these he still wound up in an emergency room with a life-threatening illness and 3 doctors telling him that he had to have emergency surgery he would die within hours! He tried all the techniques he knew and none of them helped at all, yet he still refused the surgery! The amazing part of the story is that during his studies he had been introduced to metaphysics, quantum physics and working with taboo emotions and the Future by Lazaris, a channeled being, who continues to this day to be his favorite teacher. And when Ti finally tried working with his dark emotions and his Future, he healed his life-threatening illness Instantaneously! Several years later, all the “Positive Thinking” and “Spiritual” techniques failed again and he found himself in a suicidal depression, once more he ultimately used his growing understanding of The Power of the Future™, and instantly healed his suicidal depression! He then realized he had discovered a totally new approach to healing and growing, and he created his FutureVisioningTM Process! In the last 25 years he has helped thousands of individuals, couples and organizations to create their Ideal Futures! He actually guides his clients and audiences on a visualization journey into their brightest futures, so they get to experience the life where their Dreams Come True, and then helps them to heal whatever stops them from moving forward into that Awesome Future! Through his 37 years of studying our relationship with the future he discovered that people like Einstein, Richard Branson, Oprah, Bill Gates, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins were all natural visionaries, and they saw their futures before they created their incredible successes!  In fact, more and more research shows that a powerful connection to a bright future is the only characteristic that is shared by that top 3% of our population, and they are the healthiest happiest and most successful people in the world! Ti’s work has been written about by the senior writer from Psychology Today, and in the multimillion copy bestselling book “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom,” by Dr. Christiane Northrup M.D. He has co-written an e-book called “The Goddess Cure” which is a true story that shows how to completely heal PMS, Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Breast Cancer and all female illnesses by reconnecting with The Goddess, the Divine Feminine! And he is just finishing his second book, “Falling In Love with Your Future!” His website www.futurevisioning.com features a fascinating free video that shows Ti teaching regular people how connect with the future like Einstein and Oprah, and it actually shows those people changing instantly when they connect with their Ideal Future! JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11, the CW and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame debuted at #2 on the Amazon Best Seller List for Women’s Health and #2 as a Hot New Release on May 18th 2017.

Alysen Starko-Bowes is a movement educator I started working with after a major knee surgery a few years ago. I was so impressed with what I learned from her and how my body felt I wanted to share her with every equestrian I met. Since then, Alysen and I started collaborating on a project we […]

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It is Tuesday, the third day of Easter week and today’s devotional is from Luke 24:13-35. Have you ever tried to find something in a dark room and can’t see where you are going? As you feel around in the dark, maybe you bump into furniture or stub a toe? Then someone flips a switch and the room is flooded with light. Instantaneously, everything is illuminated. You not only see where you are going but also the people alongside of you. In today’s passage, two disciples experienced a spiritual “turning on of the lights.” These two followers of Jesus were traveling the road to Emmaus. They had probably witnessed Jesus’ death, seen the nails driven into his hands and the spear into his side. As the Bible tells us, these followers were downcast and confused. In Jesus’ death, their dreams and hopes were nailed to the cross and died as well. And then there were these unbelievable accounts of Jesus being alive. I wonder why they didn’t stay to find out if these reports were true. Instead, these two disciples decided to walk seven miles to Emmaus. As they were discussing these things, Jesus came alongside of them and entered into their conversation. As they walked together, the disciples didn’t recognize Jesus. They obviously weren’t expecting him. They believed he had died and was gone. Jesus listened to their confusion and reminded them what the Scriptures had said of the Messiah. Hearing these historical promises, the disciples urged their companion to stay with them. When you are reminded of God’s goodness, don’t you want to take a moment to savor it as well? I wonder if they didn’t want the conversation to quite end yet. And Jesus was not finished reminding them of God’s promises. When they ate together, Jesus took bread, gave thanks, and broke it. I wonder if these two disciples were reminded of similar time when Jesus took bread, gave thanks, and broke it. The Bible tells us that in that moment, their eyes were opened to the risen Lord. And then, poof! Jesus disappeared from their sight. It was then they realized that, all along, their hearts had been burning inside of them as Jesus shared the Scriptures. The Bible then tells us: “They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, ‘It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.’ Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.” In many ways, we are like these disciples walking a road in life. Just like he illuminated truth and light into this situation, are there questions you are wrestling with that needs understanding and the light of the Resurrected Jesus? As you walk the road of your life, open your eyes to Jesus’ presence and welcome him in. In closing, gather in a dark or dim place nearby. Bring along 3 sources of light for the third day of our experience. As the light begins to push out the darkness, speak these words: “Out of the darkness of the tomb, the light is shining. Jesus is the light of the world.” If you can, sing a verse of the song, “This Little Light of Mine.”

Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week! Play that funky music weeb boy! Something that we feel doesn’t get enough credit and recognition in any form of media out there is the epic soundtrack that comes with every show! Instantaneously being able to set the mood, the score composed for any good show is truly a staple in the foundation to what we are watching! So let’s talk about some tracks we like to spin! Join Jonathan, Andrew, Victoria and Evan of the Boston Bastard Brigade as they talk about what’s happening in anime and the anime tunes our shows like to spin, yo! PLUS – Cat fights, train otaku ruin everything, and fist-fighting voice actors! Links and more in the episode's main page: http://nerdyshow.com/2016/02/wicked-anime-podcast-episode-081-bow-to-your-moe-overlordsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Episode’s Focus On Strengths Jason Treu joined me to chat about using your natural talents to build better relationships at work. He gives lots of ideas for building real connections.   What You’ll Learn Jason reminds us that business is not the only thing about your life. And he translates it into asking simple questions like, “what do you have planned for this weekend?” Those questions can build rapport very quickly. It’s about being human. And getting beyond conversations about spreadsheets. And he shares ideas on: Tapping into emotions (don’t worry, you don’t have to be a walking Hallmark card). Rapport, likability, and trust – getting beyond the surface in small talk so you can get to know a person. Being magnetic and irresistible, even when you feel awkward or quiet. Listening. I mean listening actively. And not thinking about your next topic while your conversation partner is still talking. Spreading the contagion of high fives. Allowing vulnerable moments. Stop trying to be perfectly perfect. Build on people’s ideas with a “yes, and” philosophy. Learn how to lead through a person’s strengths to be a better manager. Why you should consider offering the gift of a book (and Jason did this for me–what a delightful surprise to receive a book as a gift). Jason, if you’re reading this, I’m digging right in to Give and Take. Thank you for walking your talk!   Resource of the Episode Check out Jason’s book Social Wealth when you’re ready to go deeper on these topics.   Subscribe   To subscribe and review, here are your links for listening in iTunes and Stitcher radio. Subscribing is a great way to never miss an episode – let the app notify you each week when the latest question gets published. You can also stream any episode live on the website. Just click through the title you like and there will be a player waiting for you on each page. See you there!   Episode URL http://pinchyourselfcareers.com/build-extraordinary-relationships-through-your-strengths-with-jason-treu/   Read the full Conversation:   Lisa Cummings: Today you'll get some ideas on how to make career transitions and how to increase your success through the relationships you nurture and you'll get to do all of this with Jason Treu. So Jason is the author of a book called Social Wealth, and just like the title implies, the wealth part, it's not about the blinky kind of currency, it's about building extraordinary relationships and that's why it's social wealth. So Jason, thanks for joining. Jason Treu: It will. Thanks for having me on. Lisa, in speaking to your fantastic tribe. Lisa Cummings: They are fantastic and as you know, these fantastic people are all about exploring their strengths, how to find them, leverage them, and what it's like. What's your life is like when you do that. So let's give him just a little glimpse of your life before getting into your expertise. So think about your life and a peak experience or a peak moment where you can think about when you were in your relationship flow and can you tell us about what that was like for you? Jason Treu: Well, before I found the job that I have now been in business and executive coach, I was working as a marketing executive and I noticed that when I was on the road and doing roadshows with my usually my CEO of the company, I was with, you know, I'd be on fire. I would just be so passionate because I'd be speaking to different people. We'd be evangelists to whether it's financial analysts or media or customers or whatever it is. And I just be loving it. And you're right. And that was when I was in my peak because connecting and belonging are my core emotions, are my top emotions. And so having that ability to connect and feel that belonging and be passionate about speaking and evangelizing with something that I really got me excited in my life. Lisa Cummings: And I love that. You know, that the connecting and belonging matters for you. How did you find those values and how have you come to that to determine that those matter that much to you? Jason Treu: Well, one of the things is finding your purpose, so people typically mixed up a mission statement with a purpose because they say to themselves, well, my purpose is to help entrepreneurs or help you know my clients do better work, or whatever it is, but that's something external to you and everything external to you will let you down. So if you have your purpose outside of yourself, what happens with people as they go through some precipitative crashes in their life? Because eventually when that purpose lets you down, whether it's something you've unconsciously made or consciously, you really go through some significant trauma. But if your purpose is inside you, you don't. And when you attach it to emotion and your top emotions and figure that out, life really opens up for you. And how you really do that as an exercise. You know, you go back and recall your earliest happiest memories in your life. And from those you can extract your emotions that are in each of those memories. And then ask yourself what emotion would you rather feel and you can really uncover that. And what's really great about that is that although as you age, you will want your different experiences will be different. The structure and form of bad emotions will not. And so then when you can say to yourself, am I living my emotion? Am I living my purpose? And that's a little bit more than that, but that's really an easy way of taking a look at it for someone. So to see what they're doing. Because the problem for me in my job before was I was great when I was connecting and belonging, but I was, as I was going up the corporate ladder, I was sitting in my office more and more about myself and I was dissatisfied more and more so I realized at some point I connected the dots and realize well I'm better with people and I need to be with people all the time and not just part of the time. Lisa Cummings: Yeah, and your hitting on a topic and getting into things like emotion. I love that you brought that up straight away here because a lot of people shy away from that and the corporate space and they're afraid to talk about it or use that word and I think that one thing that's important as, hey, there are a lot of emotions that go well beyond the hallmark kind of emotions. I mean you might go through that exercise and recount all of the times where you just felt jubilant because you were riding your bike faster than anyone else on your street or because you won a track meet or something like that and you can start tracing back those. And those are emotions too. So that's cool to hear that terminology in this context because a lot of people shy away from it. Jason Treu: Yeah. And I think the great thing about it, I have a client of mine who's a CEO of a large company here in Dallas and he is extremely unemotional. His father was in the police force in Boston area and you know, they never showed emotion and I went through exercises like that earlier on with him and you know, probably like a month ago and then I working with about three months. He's like, I got to tell you a story, and I'm like, okay. And he was like, he told me he dropped off his daughter at summer camp and as he drove away, he cried for the first time in 25 years. Oh Wow. And he felt so good. And the ability, he said, the ability for him to actually open up to people, be more vulnerable, be authentic speak his truth and be generous, has transformed his ability to lead, manage and actually run his entire organization, which is a very large company. And I thought that, you know, that's a really critical thing because when you're not in touch with your emotions, you don't understand what drives you, you really become lost because you can't connect to other people. People don't buy facts and figures. They buy emotions and buying could mean anything, any part of the organization, right? It's everyone's selling something right and idea of thought or to a client partner or supplier, etc. Lisa Cummings: Yeah, and let's talk about that part where you get into the other. So building relationships, it's great if you can feel your own emotions and also watch what other people are feeling because it's going to inform you about how your connection. So okay. One of your key principles I've heard you talk about is that your career potential, your success happens because of your relationships with other people. So give us a tip on making the brand-new connections and not feeling awkward about it. Jason Treu: Right? So the building blocks of any relationships are rapport, likability, and trust and how you build a relationship quickly or you can take an existing relationship significantly farther is on the rapport side. You have to start tapping into people's emotions because emotions are what runs people. That's why they do everything that they do. So I find that people ask questions to other people that are just surface level questions. You know, where do you work, what are you doing or how's your weekend? And that's fine, but if you never get any farther than surface level, you will never really get to know a person and that's going to hurt you in your career because people make promotion decisions, they give you money, they do everything because they like you. And the more passionate they feel about you, the more they're going to advocate for you in anything that they do. Jason Treu: So in an easy way to ask this, I've done this to strangers all the time, is I ask people, what are you passionate about? What projects are you working on that you're passionate about? And in fact, I did that a month ago to a woman. I was at a charity event and I asked her, you know, what's, what are you passionate about? And she told me she's passionate about, you know, cancer, charity events. And I was like, well gee, that's awesome. I am too. And my mom had leukemia and I told the story about how she almost died and etc. And you know, this woman just lit up. She didn't. She told me a story about her sister having breast cancer and literally in a couple of minutes later she was crying and I'm sitting there and I gave her a hug and she introduced me to her friends like, this is the greatest guy you got to meet him, and so we carried on a conversation and all that. Jason Treu: My conversation between me and her was less than 10 minutes. Right? And then I created an emotional connection at that point that I could have done anything else. And in top of that, what you do then is you ask a person, well, what do you need any help with that? Are you having any challenges around that passion in your life? And then you can actually help people with the things they actually care about the most. And if you can do that, people will do anything for you, right? Because one, if you lead with giving, people know that you don't have a scorecard and the only people that don't have score cards with them are people in their inner circle. The closest people to them. And also there's a thing called the law of reciprocity. Meaning, people don't like to get things too far out of whack typically, so when someone gives the other person many times will at least give back in match that in that relationship and get back to even. So either way you can get pretty far and take relationships pretty quickly or take existing ones and really move them forward quickly. Lisa Cummings: Yeah. So okay. There's a situation that I keep hearing happening with the audience and they will buy what you're saying and when it comes to their peers and where they get tripped up is with exec senior executives that they want to build a relationship with, but for some reason the hierarchy gets this thing all out of whack for them. So let's say because you mentioned promotional opportunity in there, so that’s what prompted me to think about this. I keep hearing at where suddenly people feel more awkward or they feel that the opener that they might be pushing. Strangely if they come in and they're trying to make emotional connections. So when somebody is approaching a senior executive, they don't yet know who would be in a promotional power kind of situation or even just an org chart kind of power situation in their company. What would you do if anything that's different or would you do it totally the same? Say you're nervous around that person. How do you work through that? What's your first step? Jason Treu: I realized they're human beings too and they’re having a connection with me too. You need to understand that you have to learn about them. Right? And the business is not the only defining thing; their personal life really is and what their passions are. So I think a great thing is I ask people all the time is what did you do this weekend? What's on your agenda for the week? Right? Something like that. So I can try to find some things that they might really like, that I can find some common ground and build rapport quickly with them. Especially if I don't have very much time because at least you can build some quick rapport with that. The other thing that you can do is some more technique on mirroring and matching them, and that's a very powerful way because most communication is nonverbal, so you can, if you mirror how someone is, speaks, the tone of their voice, if it's high or low, if they're animated, not animated on the space in between them to make sure you have the proper space. Jason Treu: If you can actually match their movements a little bit, you don't need to be like mirroring every possible thing, but the more that you can do, the more helpful it will be because people like people that are like themselves or the people that they want to be like. So you need to build that rapport on both sides of it, the verbal and nonverbal because then it's a way a quicker way to build a relationship that matters for them. Right? And how they see you in view and you because people make snap decisions really quickly. So you want to go in there and do that in plus most people are not really interested in the other person, right? Or they're trying to ask them business questions or they're trying to get it and they're trying to an angle and when you try to do that, the other person knows because again, most of communication is nonverbal so people know when you're trying to get something from them or you're trying to run your own agenda on them. I try to go into with a contribution mindset, like how can I help someone else and how can I get to know them? Right. And that is what I'm always acting like in everything that I do and everyone I meet. Lisa Cummings: Yeah, I love those. And I like the weekend one because it's easy. It's repeatable. I mean, if you give someone that tip alone and they go ask five people that same question, then they have something also to follow up and take the conversation beyond later because you can say, hey, how'd your triathlon go that weekend? Or how was your son's play? And then it fuels future conversations as well. And then on the mirroring part, one of the simplest of all of those is the kind of the pace and the tone of that person. So that's an easy one. If it's too much mentally to handle having all sorts of things to watch, for just the pace of their conversation. Trying to match that and bring it up a level or down a level can really be helpful. Jason Treu: The other thing to do too is that if you know, something I think often we don't do is trying to do that little bit extra. Like perhaps you find out when their birthday is and you know, you give them a card or perhaps that you decided to get a book and just buy a book and you know, write a little note saying, I thought you might like this book and you know what? You may not even know what they like, but if you go find a business book that you really enjoy, odds are that person will. And even if they never even read it, the fact that you were thoughtful and did something like that, you're immediately going to stand out because you know what, no one does that. I've talked to senior execs all over the place. I've asked them that question because I bring people books know, and I ask. So when's the last time someone's brought your book? Never, Jason Treu: You know. And that's the question. That's almost always the answer. Never. Or it will be someone that they know really, really well. So if you're an organization you want to stand out, why would you not do something like that? Because it's a $10 investment in your future and it's an easy thing to do for other people and, you know, you won't ever be wrong because someone will least appreciate the thought. And that's what matters the most. Lisa Cummings: Yes. And it could really go well as an opportunity to notice something that you appreciate about their leadership style, where if you read this and say, hey, when I read this, I thought of you. It's almost as if you contribute it as an author. And then they realize, of course they liked the generosity and that you thought of them and that you would, you know, get grab a book for them. All of that is great and you noticed something that they're doing well and you're reinforcing their strengths and just because they are a higher level in the org chart, then you are at that point, doesn't mean they don't like to be appreciated as well. And those things they stick in the memory. Jason Treu: Yeah, because often as a pretty lonely existence because my clients that are that level, you know, they have no one to talk to, right? Because they have a board over them or they're on the board and the people on the leadership team like, you know, that's a difficult challenging conversations. They can share something but people below in the organization, they really can't. Right. So they're often very alone and lonely in that role. And so they want people to actually embrace them. And I think the way to do that as well have been talking about today and realize that they're not sitting on some high mountain and they want to be a part of something else in the organization itself is just filling a role that makes it many times very challenging to do so. Lisa Cummings: I like how this topic is really getting into a feeling of being a magnetic person and in a lot of ways you're doing that by offering that same sentiment out to someone else. And I think you've gone as far as calling it irresistible, like you believe anybody could be irresistible. So for a lot of people when they hear that term, that feels way far away from where they are today. So what are a couple of steps? Let's just start with the first one. What do you do out of the gates? When you don't feel like an irresistible person, you want to build better relationships at work with all the people around you. Get us a starting point, Jason Treu: Listen. You know, very few people actually listen. How many people do you know are thinking about the answer? And everyone listening, ask yourself, how many times are you really listening to someone or are you finding the answer in your head before they finished the sentence? Right? And I think being an active listener is one of the skill-sets that seems so simple in like, oh yeah, how can they make a difference? But it makes all the difference in the world because when you actually listen to someone and give them positive feedback, it's amazing what can happen, right? And be an active listener along the way because you know they have feelings too and they have emotions and I think that's something that is really important to do in the process. The other thing is just be excited. Be passionate and be enthusiastic. You know what I mean? Jason Treu: They've proven that happiness and enthusiasm is contagious so you can actually change someone's state right in front of you by being happy, enthusiastic, and being excited. And I do it all at a time and prove it out. My friends were. I go anywhere what I do anything or done it all the time in organization. I might go in and I've hired five people and it's wonderful, right? If I see a client's really down, I get always more exciting and I’ll five them, or I'll do something just because I want to get them excited. You know what? Instantaneously their state changes and if you're around in doing something like that with people, that's amazing. I think the other thing is what we don't do is actually share vulnerable moments with other people and we don't really tell them about ourselves. We try to be perfectly perfect instead of imperfectly perfect. And when you actually are vulnerable and authentic with people, you make it okay for them to be dumb selves around you because they don't need to worry about being perfect. So I love to lead with being vulnerable and telling stories about things that are going on in my own life or things that are not going well so I can actually create a level of… it's not even beyond rapport. It's that emotional connection as a human being and what's going on and people's struggles. Right, and that again, then and you can listen to what they're saying and you don't solve it. You don't know. You don't need to come up with a solution or try to fix it. All you need to do is be empathetic and listen. Right, and a lot of times that's the best thing because sometimes when you're offering solutions and trying to help people, people look at it as you're not really listening. You're trying to fix them. Lisa Cummings: Yeah, I love the phrase “perfectly imperfect” too, and that sharing that stuff is. It's not about the thing itself, it's that you're willing to share the story and that you've become human to them and then you get the emotional connection and the listen thing. Let's back up to that because, this is big and there are many factors. There's obviously the huge number of distractions that people have that keep them from listening and then when I've been around people are trying to listen better, I've also noticed that one thing that's missing from the equation is actually acknowledging back that they actually heard what the person said. I mean, they might be watching, they might be hearing the words yet kind of to that point of pre planning what you're going to say next, even if they're trying to focus intently, just bringing the conversation through instead of it being a choppy, you know, you're saying your part. I'm saying my part. So I think that's another good step is acknowledging, oh, I loved, oh, okay. Here's a perfect example. Let's get real meta here when you said perfectly imperfect. And I said, oh, I love that phrase. Perfectly imperfect. This is a small way of listening and paraphrasing what you said yet it's at least acknowledging I heard that and I made some meaning out of it and let's break it down a little bit more. Jason Treu: Yes, and that's the thing, that important point, if you can bring part of what their content of what they just said to you back into your first statement or two that will make the other person's feel like they've been heard and that you actually listened to them because otherwise you wouldn't have been able to do it. And that's like that's what they call active listening. Right? Versus focusing on what you're going to say and getting out what you need and not in just asking them a question, not because you want to hear what they have to say but more because you want to get your point made. Lisa Cummings: Exactly, and I noticed something that in the way that you hold a conversation personally that you say a lot of yes and not literally. You do a lot of “yes, and” and that can be another great one and listening that you're modeling is instead of saying sometimes you're going to disagree with somebody and instead of jumping right in with your defense or your butts or your other way to view things can say yes, I see where you're coming from on x and here's another way we could also consider it. And that is a way to throw in another perspective without shutting down what that person said. And I love how you've been modeling that here. Jason Treu: Yeah, that's important thing. “Yes, and”, and the other thing too, for managers out there I think is really helpful to do is when someone comes to you with a problem or a challenge, you spend five percent on the challenge and making sure you define specifically what it is, but 95 percent of the solution and what I tell people all the time is when someone comes into your office or your cube or wherever it may be an ask a question, you should ask back, okay, well what are three suggestions to solve this problem? Right? Or what are a couple ways that you believe they can solve the problem? And if they say to you, well, I don't really know, then I say to them, well, if you did know, what would you say? And if the person continually doesn't give an answer saying, well, you know what? I tell them to come back when you have some things; are there some ways that you think you could possibly solve it, right? And it doesn't have to be right, but I want to know that you actually thought this through more and you force people. It's like fishing, right? If you teach people to fish, they can continually do that, but if you give them this fish will always need your help and when people walk away from that conversation and they've solved their own problem, he feels smarter and they feel like, wow, like that's awesome. Like I can do this on my own. right, and that's a really powerful way, again, to build an irresistible brand for yourself and other people because people want to be around those people because you're lifting them up, right and you're helping them and it's a fantastic way and very few people do that. Jason Treu: Most managers give the solution and they say, well, no, that's not right. Do it this way. Right? Well, the other person then feels like they walked away and that they were broken or they did the wrong way and it will because the manager didn't take the time which would have helped the manager have a better relationship and the employee be way more motivated and proactive moving forward because they're excited about being in a learning environment where you know where being wrong isn't panelized. What's wrong is not having any thought or any idea and not communicating it forward. Lisa Cummings: And it's such a fun skill to practice as a manager because it's actually easier to ask back and the tendency is, okay, well yeah, I have an idea in my mind I could offer up this advice and instead of doing that, I love how you did the three options. That's cool too because the person who's coming in with a problem, they might have an idea of a solution. They probably feel stuck, but they have a solution that they don't love yet. Or they would have taken action and started solving it, so to say what are a few options? It gets them feeling open enough that they could throw out bad options and then it's good options and then work through them. So that's a really cool too. Jason Treu: And if you're a manager, what you can’t say back, let's say someone throws out an idea and you're like, wow, that's not really right. You can say to someone, you know, I can see how you could think that that can be an option. Right? And you know, and then you can sort of guide them by asking another question. We'll have you have you thought or considered, you know, doing x, y, or z, right? And you can lead them down the path by asking them questions and having the other person then give answers back, right? In guiding them through the question sets to get to the answer right then. And then you can say to him, see, you knew the answer, right? I may have had to help guide you a little bit, but all along you had the answer inside of you. So I want you to continually start looking inside of yourself because you're a smart, motivated, intelligent individual, and you can do anything you want if you set your mind to it. Right? And I helped you a little bit along this process, but now you see that you can do this yourself, right? So I'll be excited next time when you come to me and we go through this process and we see how much quicker you're going to get to the solution. It's got way more motivating. Someone was walking out of an office like that or somebody who's been told the answer, what do you think is going to motivate and get people excited? Right, Lisa Cummings: Right. Obviously the second one, and it also, if you tie this to strengths, it's such a beautiful way to have a conversation because everybody problem solve a little differently. We have different thoughts, patterns of thoughts and behaviors and that influences how we solve problems and how we process what's going on around the world. So when you as a leader asks somebody else how they're thinking through the issue, you're helping them use their strengths to solve the problem and you're also learning how they think and then you're learning how to lead in a way that supports that person individually. So it does so much beyond even just getting the answer to the problem; it really does help you individualize your style to that person. Jason Treu: Yeah, I think it's really important. And you know, the last thing for managers to. I think it's important to really understand your employees and understand where they're at, because you know one of the challenges I've been finding, I was just doing some sales training a few weeks ago and I was talking to people and I was doing more inner work than I was doing actual strengths that they would be using in the external world. What I found when people were coming to me, marital problems, some people had abuse other things that had gone on in their life and this is the things that were holding them back. So I think we've got to realize that when people walk into a business or organization or work remotely or whatever they're going to do, they don't leave their personal life at the door. It goes with them. So you have to get to know people. Jason Treu: You have to understand what people are doing and you have to support them and be empathetic and possibly even get them help because that's affecting their work performance and affecting the bottom line. And if you try to gloss over that, you're missing a huge opportunity to uplift people and really improve the bottom line. Because people who are more happy and motivated work harder because when you are in a negative mindset or sad or frustrated or angry; the first thing to go with self-discipline and momentum and motivation. Every time. You've heard this before, people say, well, I'm not motivated. I'm not this, I'm not that. Well, you know, one, if you get happy, excited or really joyful in your life, you're going to be more motivated. The other thing is you've got to take action in your life, but you're less likely to take action when you're in a negative place. Lisa Cummings: Yes! And there are stats from Gallup that they've put out and have studied this really deeply and those who focus on their strengths and focus on what's right about them in the workplace are six times as engaged with their work. So it's a significant difference in the way that you feel. Jason Treu: Yeah, and I think that's how you find out your strengths a lot of the times too is you know, you got to help people figure those out and see where their challenges are as well. Right? And help them with their own blind spots and weak spots and help them alleviate those or bring those up, work around it. Right. And figure those out. And I think that these are ways for you as a manager and also to manage up and you can see that in other people as well, once you get more in tune with them on an emotional level and started connecting with them and they've done all the studies that the managers today that are succeeding and the people they lead are succeeding because they have vulnerability and authenticity; they are key leadership traits because end of the day, that's what influences other people. And that's what creates charisma. That's what creates persuasion and at the end of the day that creates leadership. Lisa Cummings: So I know a lot of people are going to want to get their hands on social wealth because there'll be thinking about the charisma and building their leadership and building those relationship skills. So for everybody who wants to get more of Jason, where can they find you, where can they find your book and how can they dig into your stuff? Jason Treu: So you can go to https://jasontreu.com/(updated, February 2019) it's all one word and you can find my coaching. There are tons of free guides on branding, networking, you know, how to email busy people. There's tons of things and self-development as well and there's stuff on my coaching as well there. And then you can go there also to Amazon to get my book and audio book. Lisa Cummings: Wonderful. And that is called Social Wealth. So thanks so much for joining Jason. This has been really cool to look at relationships and emotional connections. Jason Treu: Well, thanks a lot. 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In Search of Perfection Andrew M. Davis: So on to focus your mind this morning, immediately on Pivotal text in our section of scripture today, I want you to look at Hebrews 10:14. I really do mean for you to look there if you have copies of the Bible. It's just helpful to look at the text as I'm preaching because all I'm going to do is go phrase by phrase, as usual, and explain it, and you'll be able to track. And my desire is that you would take the teaching that the spirit gives you during this time and marry it or link it together with phrases or text, or words that are in the text, so that you can remember it later and you go back and as you read Hebrews 10:11-18, you'll be able to call to mind again the things that are unfolded for us today. But I want to focus immediately on verse 14. It's just one of those sterling verses those glittering verses that you can just remember for years to come. It says, "Because or for by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." It's an Incredible verse. And it brings our mind immediately to consider the topic of perfection that we think about the issue of perfection or being perfect. What does it mean to be perfect? We use that word from time to time, maybe not every day, But we think about the topic of perfection. It's been in front of philosophers, and religionist for since time immemorial, Greek philosophers worked on the concept of perfection Aristotle said there are three elements or aspects, perhaps to perfection, something is said to be perfect, if it's complete having all of the necessary parts. He used the word perfect in that way, or something secondly, so good that it cannot be in any way, improved upon. Or thirdly, he said something which absolutely or finely in every way attains its purpose. That's what Aristotle thought about Perfect. I think it's probably valid. Those insights do link up with the concept of perfection. We use it in various realms of experience like in mathematics. There's something called a perfect number, Something like that. In science, there are perfect... There's a perfect gas, or a perfect crystal, something like that. We use that word. Gems, people always looking for the perfect diamond, I think that that's probably behind the pearl of great price, the parable that Jesus told of an expert in pearls, who spent his whole life looking for... We would have to just stick the word in there. The perfect pearl. He had in mind what it would look like the size of it. Its shape, its color etcetera. He knew what he was looking for, a connoisseur of pearls spent his whole life and finally found one worth more than anything he'd ever seen in his life. You have to say, "Is this the perfect pearl?" He would say "Yes, as far as I can understand a perfect pearl this is it." In baseball there such a thing as a perfect game I'm such a purist, I just think a perfect game is 81 pitches, all of them strikes. And the batter didn't even need to bring his bat, okay? Because he's not touching the ball. That's never happened. Probably never will, but that's my idea of a perfectly pitched baseball game. Alright, but basically the pitcher gets every 27 all 27 men out, They don't succeed to get on base. That's a perfect game. There's just not many of them. You know in everyday life, we probably hear the word, most frequently in this expression. No one's perfect. And here we come to the real issue, and that is that as we look around this world, as it says in Psalm 119:96, "To all perfection, I see a limit, But your testimonies are boundless." So, he's comparing what he sees in the physical realm around us with the pure, the perfect word of God, there Psalm 119, the testimony, the greatness of the scripture. And he says, I just see flaws everywhere when it comes to us as human beings, we know that we are not perfect, we're not physically perfect. We know that as you look in the mirror, you can see flaws. You have, in your mind, an image of what a perfect man or a perfect woman would look like, 'cause you look in the mirror and you see flaws and deficiencies just physically as you get older, as your body doesn't work as well as it used to. You can see, you're not perfect, physically, you're actually heading toward death and you know that your body systems are falling apart, to some level. But none of that troubles us Christians anywhere near as much as the fact that we are sinners, and that we do not line up with the perfect standard of the Law of God, that we are morally imperfect that we are morally impure. That's what causes us grief and we have a sense through the Word of God that we must be morally pure, perfect to be in the presence of God. Jesus said in Matthew 5:48, "You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." Other verses teach it without using the word perfect. "Be holy because I am holy." Be perfectly separated and pure from sin. "God is light, and in Him, there's no darkness at all." We can't bring any contagion of sin into His presence, if we hope to be with him and live with him, we must be perfect and the glorious good news of the gospel. Look again in verse 14, if you are a Christian, this verse declares that you are perfect right now. You are already perfect, by one sacrifice Jesus has already made you perfect. It's an incredible teaching. The past tense is there by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever etcetera. And so this is a declaration that we are perfect in some sense, and I want to unfold what that means to try to understand the nature of that perfection. And then to try to understand the yearning that we have inside us stated, I think, very plainly for in 2 Corinthians Chapter 13, "Aim for perfection." That we have within ourselves, a sense of what the perfect Christian life looks like, That we would wake up tomorrow morning and say, "I want God today the perfect Monday. I want to live in perfect obedience to your laws today. I yearn for it." And how do we put those together? That's what's in front of us in this one text Hebrews 10:14. The Context But let's get the context for it, as we try to understand how it fits in and try not to go astray, we want to interpret everything in context, and try to get it properly. And so we're right in the middle of Hebrews 10:1-18, and this is the doctrinal pinnacle of the book. Really from 10:19, I think to the end of the book, more or less, all the author's doing is telling you how we should live based on the doctrines we've learned in the first 10 chapters, so we're going to get, we're turning a corner as of next week, and we're going to leave the doctrinal considerations of the atonement, and the blood, Jesus' priestly sacrifice, these things that have been occupying our minds for months now, really in Hebrews, And we're going to start asking the question, "Okay, now how shall we live?" We'll start that very thing next week. But here we come to the culmination, the pinnacle of the doctrinal section of the Book of Hebrews, the book of Hebrews was written I believe, to Jewish people who had made a profession of faith in Christ, in the first century there. But under tremendous pressure, various pressures, they're being tempted to turn their backs on their profession and to go astray from Christ, and to go specifically back to the Old Covenant back to the Old Testament, sacrificial system back to the animals, analytical priest, all of that. So the author gives us just magnificent 10 chapters of the greatness of Jesus Christ, His glory. How much greater He is than the Old Testament prophets and the angels greater than Moses, greater than Aaron and Levi and Abraham and all the heroes of old. And then, specifically, as he zeros in on what the Old Covenant did greater as a high priest to offer a greater sacrifice that is effective for removing sin. And praise God for the book of Hebrews. That's all I can say. I think without this what I would call a linchpin book here. We really would wonder what the Old Covenant was all about. I think without Hebrews, we just didn't have it. We had 65 books in the Bible we just didn't have Hebrews. I would personally be wondering what was all that about? Maybe there's enough in other places to try to understand it, but there's just so many insights that come to us by studying Hebrews that we wouldn't have, I think, any other way. And so, in a magnificent way this book of Hebrews just pulls together the old covenant and the new and explains it, It explains why did God institute, the animal sacrificial system and Why do we need it no longer. The Book of Hebrew stands in the gap between the two and explains it so beautifully. And so, in this chapter, already we've had Hebrews 10:1-10, we're assured in verse 4 that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away human sin. It's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away human sin. We have pitted against the blood of bulls and goats, the Body of Christ, the physical body. "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." And so we have the Doctrine of the Incarnation. Talked about it last week, how God the Father knit Jesus's body together, inside the womb, of His mother, Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit and so Jesus was fashioned a normal ordinary human body, He was truly man, and He also was fully and truly God. And so He came to die. And so we have these things, compared, the blood of bulls and goats ineffective with the body of Jesus, which was given for us. And so in verse 10, we have by that will, the will of God, to establish this New Covenant, "By that will we have been made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all." So that's where we ended it last time. I. The Superiority of Christ’s Priestly Ministry (vs. 11-12) Now, we go on into verses 11-18. And so he immediately talks about the superiority of Christ priestly ministry look at verses 11 and 12, "Day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties. Again and again, he offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins, but when this priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God." So here, one last time, we have declared for us very plainly the superiority of Christ's priestly ministry. Five Points of Superiority Final summary of this doctrinal section. And so he's going to compare Christ to the Levitical priest at five quickly, just five ways. This is really by way of repetition. We've already had these kinds of things, but just very quickly, he compares Christ with the Levitical priest in the issue of time, the issue of person, the issue of His physical posture, His sacrifice, and His effectiveness. These five things. So because it's review I can go through it quickly. We have the issue of time, day after day in verse 11, and also, again and again, do you see that. Day after day and again and again, compared with in Verse 12, one sacrifice. This priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice for sin. So the endless repetition is compared with the once for all nature. We've already seen that before, don't need belabor the point. Secondly, the person. Day after day, every priest stands. Etcetera. So we have the sense of a plurality of priest. There were many of those priests. The author has told us. We've already been through this before again, by way of review. There were lots of those Levitical priests, many of them, all of them sinners. But again, contrast in verse 12, but when this priest had offered etcetera. So we have a clear contrast of the actual person, we have the sublime person of Jesus Christ, who is the image of the invisible God, He is the radiance of God's glory, He is the Son of God, took on a human body, compared with these sinful descendants of Aaron of Levi. That's who we have. So we have person then we have His posture. I'm going to talk more about this in a moment, but it says every day or day after day, every priest stands to perform his religious duties. "But when this priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, He sat down." So we have a contrast of the standing priests plural with the seated priest singular. Again, the author is saying that those priests had to continually offer their sacrifice their works are never done. It's always more animal bloodshed because it's ineffective. And they were under the law, to keep doing it. There were no days off. It's like, "Hey, Israelites if we can just take one day off from sinning I'd like to take a day off from offering the blood." But there won't be any days off. And so they're continually needing to offer these sacrifices. Jesus doesn't need to do that. And so He sits down, it says. We'll talk more about that in a moment. And so we also see the sacrifice day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties again and again. He offers, what does it say, the same sacrifices. Here we go again. The same things. Bulls and lambs and sheep, goats and pigeons and doves, it's the same thing over and over, it's just animals. But when this priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice, that body which we just referred to in the first 10 verses, referred to a predicted in Psalm 40, "A body you prepared for me." That was the one perfect final sacrifice, we talked about last week. And then the final point of comparison, the effectiveness. Day after day, every priest stands and performs his religious duties, again and again, he offers the same sacrifices which can never take away sins, they're ineffective. They were just types, shadows, pictures, they were not the reality, they couldn't do anything. But Jesus's blood can. And we have this incredible picture of the effectiveness of Jesus, and so we come to this question of just the total ineffectiveness of human devices for making sinful people like us right in the side of God. There's nothing we can contrive to do that. Two great categories of contrivances, false religions, and human moral striving, and effort. Those are the two great things that we try to do. I had the opportunity, earlier this summer to see first hand Tibetan Buddhism. It's remarkable to me to see the number of Westerners that were there, and we would talk to some of them from Germany or Russia, or America who came to Kathmandu, thinking that they would find spiritual enlightenment there. And what they found at the center of that Tibetan Buddhist system was this big stupa, this huge kind of round building with whitewashed steps that led nowhere. You go up to this kind of portico area, and you can just walk around the thing, that's it, it doesn't go anywhere, it doesn't do anything. You can't get inside it. There are these weird human eyes painted at the top, there are these long ropes going up to the pinnacle, there are these prayer flags fluttering in the stiff breeze and that's it, and they walk around and around thinking to reduce their karma and to be enlightened, and they spin these prayer wheels and that's it, that's a human contrivance, God didn't command these things to be done. They can't make a sinner right in the side of a holy God, they can't take away our conscience of wickedness, they can't clean a defiled conscience, it's ineffective. So also, every other human religion. The same also with that human moral striving, the turning over a new leaf-ism. Taking care of the alcohol problem or the sexual addiction or the problem with anger, anger management, whatever it is you try to do, you may actually see some improvements in specific areas in your life. All that's going to do is stoke your pride to make you think you don't need Jesus. It's not effective for appeasing the wrath of God or making you righteous in God's sight, and it really can't cleanse your guilty conscience. It's ineffective. Friends, if even the animal sacrificial system that came down from on high established by the Word of God is ineffective how much more these human contrivances that God never commanded nor did they enter His mind. Ineffective. But there is something praise God that is effective. For reconciling sinners like us and making us according to the verse, perfect and in God's sight. Oh, how sweet is that truth. There is one way, there is only one way, and it's Jesus. By this one sacrifice and that's what we have. Is it effective, is it enough? Is it enough? I was thinking about that is the blood of Jesus enough for me? So I pictured in my mind. I don't know why I was picturing this a young boy, maybe not little boy, but he may be an adolescent in the colonial days and he's left by some uncle in some inn somewhere. And he's left with a little wooden box. And this is a rustic lad, he doesn't have much education and worldly wisdom or in currency or any of these sort of things. He just says that his uncle told them that everything he needs is going to be in that box. Well, he brings the box of the Innkeeper and sets it up on the platform and says, "Is this enough for my room and board for the week?" The Innkeeper, a scrupulously honest man opens up the box and finds inside dozens and dozens and dozens of gold coins. Is this enough? One of these coins would be enough for a month of room and board here. This is more than enough. Friends, I tell you the blood of Jesus is more than enough for your sins, infinitely so. It is a treasury of merits that is infinite, in value. And I know that that word was used by medieval Catholic theologians to speak of the acts of the saints, the extra credit that they had gotten by being more righteous than God, needed in this world. How do you do that? I don't think you can, it's not possible to do more than God's will. You can certainly do less. I've done that before, so have you. But how do you do more? It's impossible. They had this idea of a box, a treasury of merits and the Pope could dispense these merits. Forget all that. I'm just taking the language. Treasury of merit. Yet the real treasury of merit is Jesus and out of the box of what He has achieved on the cross, come all the good things in your life, including full forgiveness of sins. It's more than enough it's effective. II. Christ Seated at the Right Hand of God... and Waiting (vs. 12-13) And so it says, When He had offered this sacrifice, He sat down at the right hand of God and He is there waiting, it says, look at verses 12-13, "When this priest had offered for all time, one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God and since that time, He waits for His enemies, to be made His foot stool." So there He is, at the right hand of God, the Scripture says that He is seated. Four times in the Book of Hebrews, that doctrine is given to us, it's there right at the beginning in Hebrews 1:3, "Son is a radiance of God's glory, the exact representation of His being, and sustaining all things by His powerful word, and after He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven." And so that's a picture of Jesus, seated on a throne of divine glory as the Son of God. So there's a sense in aura of divine radiance, around that being seated. In Hebrews 8:1-2, it's a seed of priestly glory, it says, "We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary. The true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man." And so, the picture there is of His accomplished priestly work, which we pick up here again in Chapter 10, but also of His ongoing ministry. He's seated and He serves. So the sacrifice has been offered, once for all, but the ongoing intercessory ministry He continues to pray for us at the right hand of God. Here we have a seed of perfect sacrificial achievement. He sits down. Because there's no more work to do, it's done. And then in chapter 12, we'll see it one more time. It says there in 12:2, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." And so there is a picture of the victor, the champion, He has run His race with endurance, He has received the victor's wreath and He sits down in triumph and glory, having achieved our salvation for us. Four times we have this image of Jesus seated at the right hand of God. It's a position of access to God. And it's a position of power over the world, I think those are the two reasons that we're told this. He's at the right hand of God, so He can speak to his father on our behalf, and He does. He talks about you a lot. Some days you need more talking about than others, but He's interceding for you, as we've already talked about, He is interceding and praying for you, for your faith that it will not fail, no matter what Satan throws at you, no matter what your flesh is doing and how it acts up, He is praying for you that your faith will not fail, He is at the right hand of God so has access to the Father. He's praying for you. But I think that the Scripture also presents the right hand as a place of power from which He rules the universe on your behalf, isn't that marvelous? Christ Waiting for His Enemies to be Made a Footstool Jesus is running, He's King Jesus, and He's running the universe to benefit you and finish your salvation. It's beautiful. Get that at the end of the Ephesians at Chapter 1 and there it says that "God [the Father[ raised him [Christ] from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all ruling authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come and God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the Church." The word for there to me means to benefit the church or on behalf of the church, He appointed Jesus sovereign King of kings to benefit you and me. So that our salvation will be completed in this life. Beautiful, so there is Jesus seated at the right hand of God, and also the scripture presents Him as waiting, He's at the right hand of God, He's seated and He's waiting for his enemies, to be made His foot stool. So it pictures Jesus waiting. Now behind all of this is the zeal of God, the father to glorify God, the Son for what He did at the cross. What a rich theme that is. The Father says in Hebrews 1:13, "Sit at my right hand." Father is speaking to son, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a foot stool for your feet." This is the activity of the Father. And He's zealous for the glory of His son. And because in Philippians 2 Jesus "obeyed even to the point of death, even death on a cross, God exalted Him to the highest place and He gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, in heaven and earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." That is the Father's zeal to exalt Jesus and get every knee to bow, it is to His glory, it is, His zeal to do that. Teaching on Wednesday nights, and we've talked about this in John Chapter 8, how Jesus in every chapter in John's Gospel is pictured arguing with His enemies. In every single account, there's division, and argument and conflict. At one point, Jesus's enemies get extremely disrespectful to Him. In John Chapter 8, they come and say, "Aren't we right in saying, that you're a Samaritan and demon possessed." In other words, that He is born of illegitimacy, He's a bastard son, His mother had relations with some Samaritan man. "Aren't we right in saying that, and that you're demon-possessed?" Oh, it's disgusting as you read it, it's just disgusting what this pure holy Son of God had to endure. Jesus said this, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor My Father and you dishonor Me. I'm not seeking glory for Myself, but there is One who seeks it, and He is the judge." Do you realize the power of those words? He said, "I'm not going to do it, I'm just going to sit at God's right hand, the Father will do it, He'll see to it that I'm honored, He'll see to it that I'm glorified, He'll see to it." And the father is zealous, He burns like the sun to see that thing done. Psalm 2, talks about it. "Why do the nations rage and the people's plot in vain, the kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His anointed one. 'Let us break their chains, they say let us throw off their fetters.' The one and throne in Heaven, laughs, the Lord scorns of them. Then He terrifies them and rebukes them in His anger saying, 'I have installed my king on Zion, my Holy Hill.'" The end of that Psalm, Psalm 2 he says, "You better be warned, don't fight the son. Don't oppose the son because that'll make Almighty God your enemy." It's a terrifying thing. And so Jesus in this text is pictured as seated and waiting, He's waiting for His enemies to be made His foot stool. And He is waiting with the same patience that God the Father exhibits toward those wicked people and He's very patient, it's amazing how patient God is to wicked people. You know it says in Romans chapter 9, "What if God choosing to show His wrath and make His power known bore with great patience, the objects of wrath prepared for destruction." Oh, He's patient toward wicked people who are fighting His Son, He doesn't kill them in an instant, He's patient. Christ Waiting in Expectation And Jesus is waiting patiently too, He's waiting. The Greek word here implies a patient waiting for the Father to do this work. So he's there at the right hand of God, He's waiting patiently for His father to subdue His enemies. He's waiting in submission and in dependence, total dependence on the father, whatever the Father wills, is fine, He's submitting to the will of the Father. And His father will make His enemies a foot stool, and so also the church has to learn to wait patiently for that too. John writes about this in Revelation 1, and verse 9, he says, "I John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours and Jesus, was on the island of Patmos, because of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus," he was in exile. And you know what you get as a Christian? That's what John says. He said, "You get a kingdom, you also get patient endurance." You've got to endure patiently, because the enemies are still there and they're powerful. In the Book of Revelation, later Chapter 6, after the fifth seal is broken. John saw vision of martyrs, people who have been beheaded, up in heaven waiting and they're crying out for vengeance, for what was done to them while they were on earth. "How long Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" And they're told the wait patiently until the full number of martyrs has come in. So we have to wait patiently. Jesus is waiting patiently, the father's waiting patiently, but be assured, Christ enemies will be a foot stool under His feet. So what is the Father waiting for? Well God's patience means salvation, some of the elect begin as enemies. I tell you, all of them did. Doesn't the same Colossians at one time we were enemies in our minds as shown by our evil behavior? We were enemies, we were in opposition. God worked our salvation and God's patience means salvation for the elect, and we can't tell the difference between the weed and the terrorist, can we? Saul of Tarsus that morning of his conversion sure, looked like a weed to me, he sure looked like an enemy, sure, looked like a persecutor breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, murderous threats. In one sense you could say he should have been killed God said, "No, he should be converted." We'll convert him not kill him. Thanks be to God. And so, all of Jesus' enemies are either going to be converted or condemned, that's how it is and Jesus is waiting patiently for whatever the Lord wills. III. By One Sacrifice We Are Made Holy Forever (vs. 14) Now we come to the verse, look at Verse 14, again, "Because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." Now, what's the link between verse 13 and 14? We know that there is a link because verse 14 begins with the word for or because. Well, it's really not that complex here. Jesus is seated because there's no more work to be done on the issue of sacrifice. That's the link. And so, He is seated in verse 13, because by that one, sacrifice He's made us perfect. The work is perfect. And you know what's so magnificent about this? Jesus in John's gospel, His final words before He dies were, "It is finished." The Greek word for finished, it literally could be translated. It is perfect. There is your perfection dear friends, that is your perfection, Jesus dead on the cross, His blood shed there is your perfection. There's nothing more that can be added nothing more needs to be done. It's perfect, what an awesome thing and so it says by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever. Those who are being made holy. Now, why does this verse glitter for me so much? Well, I look on it. I don't mean in any way to be irreverent, but as your one-stop-shopping verse for the doctrine of salvation, in one verse you can get both justification and sanctification. In just one small verse you can just memorize this because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever, those who are being made holy, and you get both justification and sanctification in one Verse. Now, what do I mean by that? First, I don't think that Hebrews was written by the Apostle Paul. And so I don't think that the author speaks about the doctrine of justification with the same type of language that Paul uses in Romans or in other places. What is the doctrine of justification? It is that by the blood of Jesus, by the sacrifice of Jesus we are forgiven of all of our sins, simply by faith if you just trust in Jesus, there is a beautiful exchange between you and God, you and Christ your wickedness and sins imputed to Him, and He dies justly under the wrath of God for them, His righteousness imputed to you and God justly receives you as righteous on the basis of that, that transfer happening only by faith. As you trust in Jesus, you are seen to be righteous. Well, the author here uses different language with the same concept, by the one sacrifice of Jesus, He has past tense, made you perfect forever. Oh what a thought that is? You can't be any more righteous in God's sight than you are right now, you can't do any better you can't be any more positionally acceptable to God than you are, and the word forever means it's never going to change. It will survive whatever it is you do this week, whatever it is that happens between now and the day you die, you'll be seen day after day after day after day, as perfect in Jesus. Isn't that awesome? Perfectly righteous. Can't improve on it. That's what the word "perfect" means. And through Judgment Day, God on Judgment Day, when the Cortes see that the books are open, and everything is rolled out from your life. Every careless word that you've ever spoken, every intention of your heart all of it rolled out, God will declare you perfect on that day as well, perfect forever and beyond on into the new Heaven, the new Earth, into the eternal state, every day in that beautiful place. You will be morally perfect, in God's sight. And it's past tense here because it already happened to you if you're a Christian, whenever that is, whenever that happened for me coming on 30 years ago. For 30 years, god seen me as perfect in Jesus. That's my position. That's your position. Doesn't matter what you did today, yesterday, if you're genuinely Christian, you have genuine faith in Christ, you are perfect seen to be perfect by faith alone, that's justification, beautiful. Those Who Are Being Sanctified Now here's the tricky part, is the rest of the verse talking about progressive sanctification. Most scholars say no. I say yes, just because I love it. It's just, it's so convenient to have it all in one place. I'll do my best to persuade you, if you're not convinced it's okay because both of the options are good ones and it all comes down to the use of this word "sanctified" or made holy trying to understand that. Okay, let's dig in and try to understand what the second half of the verse may be saying. "For by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever, those who are sanctified." Most of the translations just say those who are sanctified. The problem with that grammar is it gives you the sense that that is past as well, but that's not what the Greek grammar says. It's a present tense. The NIV gives a sense of present progressive activity, something that's going on right now that is accurate to the Greek, it's passive, something is happening to these people, by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever. Those who are presently at the present time being sanctified, that's true grammar, everybody sees that. Well, what could it mean? Well there are two options two responsible options. One of them, which I'm not choosing this morning, but which is the majority choice, has to do it the way the word is usually used and the word usually means set apart unto God as His sacred holy possession. It's sanctified in that it's His, it belongs to Him, it's His, He puts His name on it, a stamp of ownership, and it's His holy possession, that's it. There's no progressive-ness there, there's no improvement on that you're just set apart and you are God's. That is true, that happens in Jesus at justification that happens, and so that is a once for all instantaneous sanctification. You see what I'm saying? And that is the way the word is usually used not as a gradual improvement getting better and better every day, with Jesus, that's progressive sanctification. So in John 17, Jesus prays, He says, "Father, for their sake I sanctify myself that they too may be truly sanctified." Now listen, do you think Jesus is getting better and better in every way, growing in grace in the knowledge of Christ? Friends he is not He is setting Himself apart unto God at the cross to die for us, that's what it is. So there's no improvement there. Or again in 1 Timothy 4, he talks about the food you eat, I hope you pray before you eat. I hope you at least do that. Friends, you should do so much more than that when it comes to prayer. But it says in 1 Timothy 4, that the food as you are praying for it and receiving it thankfully, is sanctified by the Word of God and by the prayers of the saints. Look that food is not getting holier and holier, it's not improving every day. No, it needs to be eaten right now or it's going to go bad. It's set apart for God's sacred use namely to feed the saints and to make them strong. That's the way the word is usually used. So how would this work? Well, how is that once for all, thing happening a lot right now? Well, it has to do with the elect, God has chosen people, and as the Gospel spreads people are hearing the gospel and they're repenting and coming over into the kingdom, and are being sanctified, instantaneously all over the world. That's a valid interpretation. So as by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are getting saved, all over the world. See? You understand it? Okay, let's set aside. It's not as exciting as this version, okay? This version says that by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever, those who are little by little by little getting to be more and more like Jesus. And why is that so sweet? Because we know we're not perfect, you know you're not. And what grieves you the most in your life, are your imperfections morally, the ways that you stumble over temptations and sins, and so in one verse, it's saying you're already perfect, now live perfect, and God is working that perfection in you, little by little, gradually He's working perfection in you. And frankly, if that second piece isn't going on the first piece, never happened friends. If you're not growing in grace in the knowledge of Christ, if you're not seeing by the power of the Spirit sin put to death in your life, if you don't have, let's just go to the heart of the matter, the heart of the matter. IV. The Holy Spirit Also Testifies to Us (vs. 15-18) If you don't have a heart yearning after God's laws, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, that's exactly where He goes, the rest of the verse, He says (quoting Jeremiah 31) "The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 'This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.' Then he adds: 'Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.'" Interesting order. Transformation of the heart, then you know your sins are forgiven that's the order. So as you see your changed life as you yearn for righteousness, as you yearn to be a holy man, or a holy woman, as you grieve over the sin in your life, as you feel written inside your heart, the laws of God, though you can't seem to live them like you'd like to, but yet by the spirit putting to death and misdeeds of the body, growing in grace then you know you're already positionally perfect. I think that's what the verse is giving us. Now I've got other proof we'll get to it and do time. I don't want to give it to you, I do tell you the book of Hebrews does have a vision for progressive holiness. Chapter 12 is very, very clear, we're told in chapter 12 that we're to set our eyes on Jesus who is the author, and perfecter of our faith, our faith isn't perfected yet, so we've got to run with endurance, we need to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles and run this race with endurance, that's sanctification language. Then it goes into discipline and says, the father disciplines us that we may share in His holiness, and that the discipline helps those that are trained by it, a training in holiness is sanctification, right? Or look again at 12:14, it says, "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy, without holiness no one will see the Lord." That's a holiness that comes by efforts, by striving by putting sin to death without that holiness, you will not see God. We'll get to that in due time. I say to you even to the end chapter 13, he says, "May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant, brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus the Great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will listen and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him." That's sanctification language. In one verse, you have the beauty of justification and sanctification. And the very next verse testifies it has to do with God writing His laws in your minds, in your hearts. That's what He's doing. This is a glorious salvation, isn't it? To be declared right at the beginning of the Christian life. Perfect, and then to be challenged every day of your life, to be perfect, like Jesus, it's a beautiful salvation. If you are running that race right now, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, grieving, when you sin, but knowing that Jesus is enough for you, trusting leaning on the Holy Spirit running that race, you're perfect, perfect right now, you'd be perfect tomorrow, you'd perfect the rest of eternity. And He is standing over you calling you upward, to live more and more like Jesus and some day, again Hebrews 12, you'll be among it says, "the spirits of righteous men made perfect." Instantaneously at death, they are made perfect by God, glorified and in the presence of God. How beautiful is that? V. Applications Application is plain, come to Christ, believe in Jesus, trust in Him. I've already called out to you, if you were invited here today as a friend or a guest, if you don't understand what I'm talking about, ask the person who invited you, ask someone else, don't leave this room in a Christ-less state, you don't know that you'll survive the day. I'm pleading with you to believe in Jesus while you have time and just know what I'm calling you to. Look with eyes of faith to Jesus dead on the cross, say "He is my Savior. That death was my death, I deserved it, I'm a sinner, I deserved it, but Jesus died for me it is more than enough for me." And then run that race with endurance. Know that He is sanctifying you, remember at the passive for by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever, those who are listening, being made holy. It's not primarily your work though, you must work. It is God's work in you by the power of the spirit through faith. Close with me in prayer.

Healing Happens in Different Ways at Different Times: Progressively, Instantaneously, Unconditionally, Conditionally

Healing Happens in Different Ways at Different Times: Progressively, Instantaneously, Unconditionally, Conditionally

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Only Knowing God, Receiving Eternal Life Now, Satisfies. Healing Happens in Different Ways at Different Times: Progressively, Instantaneously, Unconditionally, Conditionally

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God will destroy any man who defiles the temple.

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