Fixate PHX

by Fixate Phoenix

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PPPP: Personal Relationship with God, Provision, Promotion, and Protection

Luke 4:1-13 NLT Romans 10:17 NKJV Proverbs 29:18 AMPC 1. It’s not about WHAT you know it’s about WHO you know. 2. Have I heard God’s take on my life or situation? 3. Rooted, Centered and Strong are always connected to my Rhythm’s, Routines and Relationships. 4. Everyone has a bad day. I must learn to fall on my KNEES and not my BUTT.

Tent to Temple Pt. 2: An Enduring House

1 Samuel 2:35 Exodus 25:1-9 Exodus 36:4-6 Reminders of What It Means to Build His House 1- When I build His house, He builds my house. 2- When His house endures, my house endures. 3- When His house is strengthened by my hands, my house is strengthened by His hands. 4- When His house is the subject of my faithful generosity, my limited supply is placed into the hands of the one who has unlimited supply. 5- Holy is when people, place, an city merge into one. A holy people, building a holy temple to God, that would redefine existence into a holy city of God. A tent that becomes a temple, a temple that changes a city, an enduring house of God.

Tent to Temple: Poison in the Pot

2 Kings 4:38-41 Matthew 14:18-20 Matthew 15;35-37 The Process of Restoring the Poison of Greed in the Pot of Our Lives: 1- There is a taking of what is in our hands and a placing of it through direct/repeated action into God's hands. 2- There is an internal shift toward gratefulness and thankful contentment that produces a joy around our practice of generosity. 3- There is a breaking of the view of what it means to have and possess items of this world that leads to a heart that he multiplies from and through.

Worship as Warfare

Join us as we hear from missionary Tyler Connell about his experience with Worship as a Warfare on the mission field. If you feel led to give to our Tent to Temple initiative happening this month, please visit fixatephx.com/give

Ephesians Pt. 8: The Imitation Game

Ephesians (5:1-21) How to Confront Limitations in Your Pursuit of Imitation: 1- If your imitation of Jesus is not making you into a fragrant aroma of sacrifice for those around you, you're gonna smell funky. You cannot claim the name of Jesus and contradict what he lived, and died for. Sacrifice is the aroma of righteousness and sanctification, and we become the aroma of heaven when we imitate the one who brought heaven to earth. We need less axe body spray and more Sauvage by Dior. 2- You exchange the inheritance Jesus purchased for you every time you imitate the fallen mans pursuit of immorality, impurity, covetousness, and idolatry. The pursuit of the aroma of life in God comes from imitating Him in the fullness of all the Bible says, and the Spirit leads. When we choose to partake in a life of fallen living we sacrifice the inheritance we have in our risen Savior. Wherever there is distance there will always be longing. 3- The truth about light is that it is for both discovering and uncovering. We think it is only about the discovery of God, but it is equal parts about uncovering the parts of me that are not in line with God, and His will for my life. Imitation is the goal, but your flesh and character limitation and deficiency is where the starting line is. Salvation is unto sanctification and transformation. But we must confront the old before we can ever walk in the new. Tent to Temple Offering: fixate.com/give

In the Soul, For the Soul, With all our Heart and Soul

Mark 2:1-12 How to Be a Person That Won't Allow Those Around You to Stay the Same: 1 - The Bible says the friends climbed, removed, dug, and let the friend down. There is effort and uncomfortability in the process of seeing a miracle come to pass. If you're not willing to climb over any obstacle, dig out any barrier, and remove any hindrance... your effectancy will be limited, The hard work is often the heart work, and the costs we are willing to pay often deteremine the levels we are able to climb. 2 - Are you a "seeing their faith" person??? Jesus' response was based on the disposition and devotion of the friends who knew what their brother needed... who then made a conscious choice that they would not allow themselves to quit until they exhausted every possible avenue for him to be healed. People who get close to you should not be allowed to remain the same just by your mere presence around them. You're either gas or water, and your habits, disciplines, and rhythmic walking with God are what determines that. 3 - Your souls formation is foundationally connected to miracles taking place... it is the closeness and fullness that we walk in that gives us the strength to remove the obstacles, and carry others to the feet of Jesus. The spirit must be in us, for others to get close through us. My life is an overflow of my time and attention. If he has both those characteristics of my personhood, a byproduct is a person who tears off roofs, and lowers people to the feet of the One that we gaze upon, and rhythmically follow... beholding is becoming and proximity develops potency.

Ephesians Pt. 7: Wardrobe Malfunctions

Ephesians 4:17-32 How to Not Be a "Your Zippers Down" Christian: 1- Truth. (Eph. 4:25) Functioning Properly: We put on and practice truthfulness, and people would describe us as real and authentic. Functioning Improperly: our words cannot be trusted, we cannot be counted on, and people don't know if they can believe or trust us to follow through on what we say. 2- Anger (Eph. 4:26) Functioning Properly: We are allowed anger towards sin, not anger that becomes sin Functioning Improperly: Our anger renders us out of control, and alienates people from us, we cannot control it and it’s outbursts undermine our identity as a follower of God. 3- Delight (Eph. 4:28) Functioning Properly: We take delight in the work of your hands and that our production within our gifts and talents are used help others Functioning Improperly: We will do anything to anyone in order to feed unhealthy desires (in this passage references stealing directly).. We look for shortcuts to gain more for our desires, and our pursuit of more typically never involved anyone other than ourselves. 4- Words (Eph. 4:29) Functioning Properly: The words we choose are to build up and strengthen ourselves/others. Functioning Improperly: We seldom use our words for anything positive and are known for tearing others down, gossip, slander, and destabilizing people with our presence. 5- Conviction. (Eph. 4:30) Functioning Properly: We must follow the conviction of the spirit inside us. (vs 30) Functioning Improperly: We grieve the spirit by not following its voice inside as it leads our life in what we know is biblical and true, and in turn we become a slave to our desires and impulses. 6- Bitterness, Wrath, Malice (Eph. 4:31) Functioning Properly: We are self-aware of any areas of bitterness, wrath, malice (intention and desire to do evil), and we seek to dispose of before it disposes of us. Functioning Improperly: Our feelings become our truth, and we rationalize why we are allowed to feel how we feel and will not push ourselves towards a pathway of healing. 7- Tenderhearted (Eph. 4:32) Functioning Properly: We are kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving, and those around us describe us as so. Functioning Improperly: We are not kind to others, we do not practice empathy, and we do not forgive or ever ask for forgiveness.

Ephesians Pt 6: A Beautiful Eulogy

Ephesians 4:1-16 How to Grow in the Right Things So We Are Remembered for the Right Reasons: 1- A life lived worthy of the call of God consists of humility, gentleness, patience, tolerance in love, unity and peace. Can thee words be used to describe me?? We feel empty when these attributes are absent. If you will take serious the process of God's character becoming your character, don't be surprised when God's power becomes your power... you don't need a thousands reps once... you need one rep every day for a thousand days. 2- Jesus' resurrection and ascension was about being able to give the gift of filling all of us with His Spirit... this Spirit is for us to walk in the fullness of Jesus' example, and to equip and to build up others to do the same. Rhythmic exposure to both private and corporate times of the Spirit and Scriptures is what turns a common life into an uncommon one, and makes an uncommon difference within the common activities and interactions of your day to day... equip and build yourself unto equppiing and building others. 3- We are to be built in love. There is no theology apart from love, no tricks of success that can cover the activity of love, or ways of functioning that can replace the action of love. IF those around you question the love you walk in they cannot receive the love you want to give. Love grows us in all aspects at once, and a deformed faith is one that allows you to pick and choose the love you walk and give to others based off your feelings of the day... the who and how of your love has a direct impact on the when and why of God’s will for you.

Ephesians Pt 5; Dead and Gone

Ephesians 2:1-22 How to Become New and Stay New: 1 - We must understand grace as the action of Jesus dying in order to make you alive, to raise you up, and to seat you rightly. It is not just a covering of sin, it is the elevation of your personhood to no longer desire it through the process of sanctification. Your choices and thought patterns determine how alive you feel, raised up you walk, and if you truly feel seated with God. His words and Spirit cannot convince you of something you don't want to be convinced of. 2 - You are saved by grace, not works... however we must not lose sight of a byproduct of that grace; good works. God's creative intention for your life is that you would be someone who His grace paves a way forward for good works to follow. The gift of God is the example of Jesus. If you won't follow the example, don't be mad if you don't like the taste of the recipe your choices and behaviors have prepared. 3 - You should be being built up inside personally, apart of building within your career collectively, and in the temple beside all those doing the same corporately. True purpose in God is found when He truly has no limits, and is invited to any and all things we do. Your career is not off limits, your daily lifestyle is not off limits... and if it is there will be a limit to the fullness of God we walk in. Grace is enough to save, only you can decide what that saving produces.

Ephesians Pt. 4: How Did You Get In Here??

Ephesians 3:1-21 How To Know Our Worth So We Can Find Our Place: 1- Your life has been purchased by His name. No other name can replace that. The greatest lie you can believe is that you are not worthy of what God assigned ultimate worth for; the life of Jesus. A defeated mind cannot bring about a victorious life. The resurrection was granting access to those who never had access before. A saint is just a gentile who grabbed hold and never let go. 2- You will know your worth when you rhythmically get close to the one who assigned it to you. Other people do not determine my faith's validity, my activated behavior of getting close to Jesus does. When do the uncomfortable with God, it becomes our comfort in life. When we choose a comfortable life, we will be uncomfortable in God. 3- The mystery you must solve is believing if you truly have a place.. No one can solve this but you, no one can believe this for you. The love of Jesus purchased you a life in him in which there is no outsider, no label, no stereotype, no bad reputation attached to your name. Only a son or a daughter of God. Your activated faith that then changes your behaviors is what will ultimately find the clues to solve this mystery in your heart.. You have worth, and will always have a place.

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