Fixate PHX

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Enemy of Longevity Pt 2; Protecting the Follow Through

2 Kings 5:1-14- HOW TO FOLLOW THROUGH WHEN EVERYTHING IN YOU SAYS TO QUIT 1 - Your healing is a provision purchased from your healer's broken body for you... however, how He heals is often deeper than our logic interprets healing should happen. Before we walk in the fruit of the external we must prune the branches of the internal... healing through God's hands oftentimes does not come how you think, by who you think, or when you think... but if you're faithful to follow... it is His wish, and His desire.. to heal and restore you. 2 - Your obstacles of follow through most likely will be confronted by the pursuit of affluence and identity. If you are busy building an image of yourself that is separate from God's Word, you will feel the tension of duplicity. It's hard to receive the power of God when we want the power and to be our own God. Every part of you must be surrendered so every part of you can be restored.... your image and affluence are either used for His glory, or for yours. 3 - If you follow through with you walk with Jesus it has a way of restoring more than what you set out to fix to begin with. We come to God seeking healing in a few areas, but He seeks wholeness in all areas. We come to God for our problems to be fixed, He seeks to use us to fix others problems while working on our own. Following through has no finish line, only a starting line. Your restoration is not about you becoming better, it's about you becoming the child of God He created you to be.

Enemy of Longevity Pt 1 - The Cycles We Won't Break

Luke 7:11-17 How to Break the Cycles You Need To, To Walk In Who You Were Made To Be: 1- Get a group around your coffin. Honesty is a chemical building block to healing. 2- Find ways to get Jesus' fingerprints on your coffin. 3- Be unoffendable. (Repeat to yourself 1 million times) 4- Switch your thinking; short term sacrifice for longterm reward, and what do I have to lost but what could I possibly gain.

When Kings Won't Fight

2 Sam. 11:1-5; 14-25 How to Discern If You're Fighting the Right Battles 1- When kings won’t fight they end up in situations they shouldn't have been in, doing things they shouldn't be doing, in relationships with people they shouldn't have given access to… which ultimately leads to consequences they couldn't imagine. 2- When you're not in the fight, but you should be, your eyes drift to something that will get your blood pumping like the battles you should be fighting. Time is not your most valuable currency, attention is.. And the easiest way to be fighting a losing fight is giving your attention to the wrong places. Seasons of IDLE attention are revealing times of the IDOLS of attention in our lives. 3- You prioritize what's important. What's worth the fight. How to drift from God is to not be aware of the fights you should be battling for, and using your energy on things that in the grand scheme of things are not that important. The three most important fights you must prioritize to walk in the royal priesthood that's been purchased for you; your faith, your family, your future.

Advent Week Four: Love

John 5:1-9 How to choose the love of the Savior, over the love of stirred water. 1- To man love is what you can offer me, to God love is what can I offer you. In a world in which we trample each other if it means our benefit, Jesus stops to show you proximity to him and his power is the only blessing worth having in this world. Our souls are fatigued trying to find a place to be healed and restored, and the only place your soul can be healed and restored is in the hands of Jesus. If we will drink deep of the living water, our life eventually finds what we looked for first in the stirred water. 2- To man belonging is based on appearance, to God belonging is faith and obedience. You do not have a category to God, you are not stereotyped in his eyes. You must fight to keep your eyes upward, because what you're surrounded by is not your condition. Your condition is what you will accept as truth over your life that then you adapt behaviors from. Just because you may feel you're surrounded by the sick, blind, lame, and withered, does not make you sick, blind, lame, and withered. Keep your eyes on the healer, not on whatever it is you think can heal you. 3- You cannot be the love you need, the acceptance you need, the healing you need, and the restoration you need. No promise of ‘stirred waters’ can either.. This is the love of Jesus in this story; for 38 years a man trying but failing to get what he wanted most, and then discovering what he needed most is just a person, who walks right up to him, and brings healing. If our eyes, even if they are weak and defeated, will look towards him and away from what we think brings whatever we think we need, he responds to the needs of our souls, he responds to the needs of his beloved.

From Moments to Mission: Embracing Sustainable Joy in the Lord

2 Samuel 6:13-23 NLT John 15:11 (NKJV) Philippians 4:4 (NIV) Psalm 16:11 (ESV) 1. You can either have Joy or Resentment: You Can’t Have Both 2. Never Prioritize pride over praise. 3. The purest form of worship sometimes looks like unrefined joy 4. Where there is No Joy there is no purpose

Advent: Peace

Matthew 14:22-27 Mark 4:35-41 How To Sleep and to Walk in Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: 1- Peace is proximation. Rhythmic, habitual, steadfast, centering proximation. Where Jesus is absent there will be distress. If you feel He is sleeping in your storm, it is your job to go to Him, wake Him, and call on His power to change it. Peace comes when the reason for my relationship turns from "rescue me, help me" to "I love you and just want to be close". We learn peace by being so close to the one who produces it that it just becomes us. 2- Walking in peace is your first coming to the realization of where you are not at peace. Don't ask for more if you aren't even aware of the areas it is lacking. "Take courage" can only be uttered with awareness that courage is absent. "Peace be still" can only be uttered after, "don’t you care we are perishing". Jesus has peace and courage. He wants to teach you how to rest in the storm, and to walk in authority on its waves. But your peace is directly tied to the pieces of yourself you need to be honest with him about that you maybe don’t trust him in, or don’t see him in. True peace is the ability to be courageous and restfully still, in the storms of life. 3- Peace comes when we truly come to the end of trying to control the winds and waves of life, and run after with everything the one who created, controls, and calms the them. Peace is not you rowing harder, it's you growing closer. Peace is the person of Jesus, not the condition of our circumstances, surroundings, or past mistakes. No matter how unpeaceful your life is, there is always one who wants to show you that he is all the peace you need.

Tree and Feast

Psalm 34:8 ESV Psalm 1:2 John 1:1 John 17:3 John 5:30 Acts 10:38 John 5:19-20 John 6:57 John 15:4-5 1. Fellowship is the very life of God. It is the eternal nature and infinite being of God. His nature is fellowship. He is a God of loving, joyful, spontaneous, delighted communion. It is through fellowship that we know Him. 2. Get obsessed with one thing in scripture. Know it. Think about it. Talk about it with your friends. Pray it. Sing it. When you’re bored, pull it up in your mind and turn it over and over, examining it. Apply it when it’s challenging. Return to it in scripture again to read it. Write about it. Do that one thing really well in every day life. This what Biblical meditation on Scripture is. This is what true Biblical knowledge is. This is the beginning of delighting in the Lord and knowing him. This is abiding

The Soil of a Thankful Soul

Luke 8:4-15 How to Develop Good Soil in Your Soul: 1- Good soil revolves around four movements: hearing, holding, obeying, and persevering. If I'm honest with myself how well do I do these four things? 2- Thankfulness is the weed killer in the garden of your life. We tend to not want to bless those who are ungrateful, and how you know if you're ungrateful is if you focus more on what you don't have than what you do have. Remove the weeds of discontentment, superficiality, and never having enough. The grass is not greener somewhere else, it's greener where you water, and take ownership of anything that has stolen the nutrients necessary for it to grow and thrive. 3- You must take ownership of the condition of the soil of your soul before you can ever produce fruit from the seed of God in your life. Don't be mad the seed isn't producing, practice awareness of asking yourself if there if there is something in the soil of my humanity that's not allowing the seeds of God to grow and into mature fruit. Growing weeds is easy, growing fruit is hard.

Out of Hiding: Letting His Power Be Made Perfect in Me

Genesis 3:8-10 Exodus 3:2-6 Romans 5:8-10, 5:14-16 & 18, 6:12-14 CSB How to step out of hiding and walk in the gift of repentance: 1. Bring Yourself — Trust is revealed by your willingness to come to Him. Maturity does not mean you will need Him less and less, because if you could’ve sanctified yourself, He wouldn’t have needed to sacrifice His son. It’s a gift to need Him. 2. Be Seen — Face the “risk” and give Him access to your deepest thoughts, doubts, feelings, desires, temptations AND sins. The deeper that’s revealed, the greater He can heal. 3. Be Known — As He shows you who He is, let Him remind you who you are. 4. Be Loved — Let Him draw you into deeper relationship. 5. Yield Fruit — Watch your depth of relationship yield the fruit of His Spirit and change the desires of your heart. Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness—His very power being made perfect in You.

Inosculation & Differentiation

Revelation 13:16-18 Romans 12:1-2 Isaiah 8:11-15 1 John 5:21

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