Fixate PHX

by Fixate Phoenix

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Asleep at the Wheel of Life

Matthew26:36-46 3 statements from Jesus designed to stir a sleepy soul awake: 1- “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me” (vs 39,42,44). Do you trust his will even when the cup you are drinking is one you don’t want to drink, the cup you are drinking doesn't make sense, the cup you are drinking is not your timing or your plan, the cup you are drinking is a cost you absolutely do not want to pay… when the cup is not being taken away, and not being passed off.. Do you trust God and drink? Your willingness to drink from the cup you don't understand is oftentimes the greatest ask of faith in our journey with God. The cup of communion was filled with His blood, the cup of a life in Him may have deep cost associated as well. 2- “Keep watching and praying, so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (vs41)... If you have not trained yourself to watch and pray in night seasons, at some point a dark night of life will come upon you and you will be forced to develop this muscle. "To watch" is practicing discernment and awareness of what is around you... "to pray" is to communicate with God in such a way that you're strengthened by His nearness even if the feeling is weakness. Your spirit must be strengthened to take control of your life, because your foes will always be weak when the temperature of trials rises. 3- “Yet not as I will, but as You will.”(vs 39,42, 44)... the foundation of every argument we have, every question we have, every reason to walk away… my will or His. Peter was falling asleep with his will, before he was using his will power to aggressively deny his walk with Jesus. We don't go from disciple to denial on the surface of our lives without a deep war internally of his will vs ours. Our will must be submitted before his will can sanctify. Our will must be purified, before his will can teach us to abide. This is not a one time test either, rather a life-time of his will or mine is a part of the journey.. But if we put his will above our own, drink from the cup we don’t want to drink, and stay awake and in prayer, there is remembrance of how we lived.

Message in the Miracle Pt 5: Spit Shine

Mark 8:22-26 Luke 9:59-62 How to Get Through the Spit to Experience the Shine: 1- Jesus uses uncomfortable to lead to completion. Meaning if you're looking for comfort you will always be searching for completion. Human nature has a tendency within its desire to drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. Leaning into the sanctification process and refinement of your character is the journey of trusting that the Lord will be faithful to use the ‘spitty’ seasons to shine. 2 - The first step of spit producing a shine is coming to the end of any dishonesty and walking in 100% honesty/transparency. We want our lives to shine but they feel like spit and no one knows... you cannot heal unless you are first honest. This might even mean telling Jesus that it's not working, and pressing into Him again, and again... until you find the healing your soul searches for. Don't stop pursuing the healer, until the healing power flows into your life. 3- If you do not train yourself to look up, you will not get out. We must rhythmically allow Jesus to reposition our spirit to look upon Him in order to receive the leading that has been purchased for us... we want all the benefits of a healthy spiritual life with none of the habits that make it healthy... you must learn your Savior is just as much in the spit as He is in the shine of life.

Message in the Miracle Pt 4: What's Important to You, Is Important to Him

JOHN 2:1-11— Your life is not an overlooked detail to God. Your problems are not an overlooked detail to God... your pain is not an overlooked detail to God... your grief is not an overlooked detail to God... your relationships are not an overlooked detail to God... your family is not an overlooked detail to God... your health is not an overlooked detail to God... your desire is not an overlooked detail to God... your finances are not an overlooked detail to God... your dreams are not an overlooked detail to God... if it matters to you it matters to Him.

Message in the Miracle Pt 3; Looks Can Be Deceiving

Mark 11:12-24 How To Make Sure Your Leaves Are Producing Fruit: 1 - No matter what you do externally, Jesus will always seek to purify you internally. How he purifies is by drawing close enough to challenge the leaves to produce fruit. If you're the one who sings/yells 'Hosanna", don't be surprised when the Spirit shows up in the temple of your heart to purify it in order to produce the right fruit of a surrendered spirit. External fruit is born from the internally disciplines life. The internal life must be reoriented, repositioned, and renewed to the heart of Jesus for fruit to be produced. 2 - The fruit of a healthy tree is there to be picked by others.... if people can't see the fruit of a godly lifestyle or don't want to pick the fruit that is present in your life, be careful.... as the roots may be withering. The purpose of fruit being picked is so a tree can produce more in the future. You cannot be a tree that produces fruit if you're too busy being a tree that protects its fruit. Don't be a leaf that turns to a thorn, when you're supposed to be a fig that quenches the needs of the hungry souls of this world. 3 - It's easier to choose leafiness over fruitfulness. Anyone can grow leaves, but it is hard to produce fruit. Leafiness is elementary knowledge of Scripture, but not fruit of the Spirit present in the my life. Leafiness has spiritual activity, but not deep sacrificial dependency. Leafiness knows what to say, fruitfulness learns to listen and discern what the Spirit is saying. Leafiness wants a testimony, but won't embrace the test it takes to produce the fruit of one. You produce leaves first that then produce fruit, but the leaves will never be the same as fruit.

Message in the Miracle Pt. 2 - I Got Bigger Fish to Fry

Matthew 17:24-27 How to Fish for the Right Things, and Walk in the Miracle of an Unoffendable Heart of Gold 1- We must change our perspective of those who wrong us. Offensive people are hurting people, possessing wounds that have not healed that infect those around them. When you choose offense oftentimes it is you who adopts the wounds of others. Your spiritual journey is to become thick skinned while having a tender heart, not thin skin with a hard heart. Forgiveness is oxygen, unforgiveness is carbon dioxide. It's your choice what your spirit breathes in everyday. 2- Forgiveness does not mean resolution of all problems. In fact, in some cases there is needed to be protective distance or time that takes place even in the midst of a heart posture that's releasing. Healing is everyone's journey, and the only person you will give an account for is yourself. You cannot control what you want from someone else, or what you feel you deserve from someone else... let that fish off the line. 3- If everything that happens to you is a big deal, your life will have a small impact; as you cannot handle the cost of elevation. Jesus was killed for how He lived, there may be something that has to die for you to fully live in what He has called you to walk in. Spiritual maturity is when you learn not to waste your energy on the small things, and keep your eyes on the prize. If you live in cycles of offense, you build an electric fence around your heart that the Spirit is repelled from getting close enough to transform. You're fishing for gold, not fishing for carp.

Message in the Miracle Pt. 1 - A Faith That Makes Us Well

Luke 18:31-43 CSB How to strengthen the vision of your heart when your eyes cannot see: 1. Recognition of His Nature - He will reveal His abilities/nature as He lifts your eyes off the limitations of your inabilities/circumstances. As you come to Him, He will exchange bitterness and defeat with a restored hope and deep trust in Him. A faith that makes you well comes from a heart that knows Him well. 2. Submission to His Lordship - Where our means of self-reliance, idols of understanding, and deceptive forms of control are given to Him as a proclamation that He is Lord. It is in this posture He will show you that there is miraculous power available when He’s seated on the throne of your heart. 3. Invitation to Restore - Bring the desires of your heart to Him as a demonstration that you trust Him. After periods of waiting, the things we desire most quickly become the things we pray for the least. Stemming from fear of disappointment, past rejection, or unmet expectations, we simply stop asking. But He will approach the pure in heart, to restore the desires of their heart, once He is invited.

Easter 2025; Faith in Fathoms, A Sonar Savior, and How Deep Can a Sunday Truly Go

Mark 16:1-8 John 20:11-17 John 19:25 How to Switch from Fathom to Sonar: 1 - Resurrection life does not come without pain, scars, and a grave... but it always has faith and never lets go of its belief in healing, wholeness and life. The depths of your understanding of Jesus are shown by the depths of belief in His good when everything feels bad, is going wrong, and the reasoning isn't adding up. He was willing to endure the worst humanity had to offer for you, are you willing to endure anything in your pursuit of Him? Resurrection power is not about what got you into the grace, it's about what can take you out of it. 2 - If the cross can change from a symbol of torture to triumph, what in your life is Jesus wanting you to believe His resurrection power can rewrite, reorient, and redefine? Even those close to Him struggled to recognize Him and even doubted Him... but recognition came in the process of time in proximity. Sometimes our relationship with Him is so time sensitive, that He cannot properly train us to make our time sensitive to Him. He is the only one who can roll the stones away from whatever is trying to entomb your life. 3 - Don't tell a father what their child cannot do. This is a Sunday we recognize a father's love, and the father's ability to never leave his song behind. If your understanding of God and His love for you has not reframed your ability and vision of your life, you need a new sonar. Resurrection Sunday is about the Spirit of God now transcending the barrier of a singular body and becoming omnipresent for all people. Every child now has the power of the Father, resurrection life of the Son, to walk in the Spirit. He does not expect too much of you, you expect too little of yourself.

Palm Sunday - War Horses or Donkeys, Palm Branches or Swords, and What To Do When Jesus Does the Opposite of What You're Thinking

Matthew 21:1-11 John 12:18-19 How to Not Get Left in the Dark, When You're Looking for the Light: 1- "Your king is coming to you, gently"... the training to understand the ways Jesus comes to you in the gentlest forms is oftentimes the difference between accepting Jesus for being on a donkey or despising Him because He's not on a warhorse. We must see Jesus for who He is and not who we want Him, or wish Him to be. He comes in low, and speaks in gentleness. Meaning, develop a life of lowliness, and learn to see Him in everything. 2 - Salvation and suffering have been hand in hand since the blood purchased the life.. We cannot develop an image of God in which we do not have sacrifice or experience hardship. To take your coat off and put it in the road and wave the palm tree leaf is easy when it's based on your idea of what the schedule of life should be; but God's timing more often than not is different than ours. Waiting has a way of wanting to trade in the palm branch for a nail, and the coat at His feet for a crown of thorns on his head if our timeframes aren’t met. Waiting is trusting, trusting is faith, and faith is the oxygen to a life with Jesus. Your expectations oftentimes are the first obstacles you must overcome to find life in God. 3 - Worship, celebration, and public acts of devotion almost always will be followed by periods of cleansing in God. External behaviors do not excuse you from internal development. Group activities do not replace your personal life's character refinement. Distraction is when you're more focused on others cleansing process than your own. The deeper you go in God, the deeper the work of purification, cleansing, and re-orienting that takes place to see how Jesus sees you, your life, and the world around you.

Hot or Iced

Rev 3:14-22 How to Know If the Drink of Your Life is Hot, Iced, or Lukewarm: 1 - Our restoration from cold or lukewarm to hot is rooted in cost and sacrifice. "Buying" is transactional cost of valuable commodities. If wealth is what you live for, the gold must be given up and generosity becomes the focus. If appearance is what you live for (robes); then the righteous robes holiness become the new pursuit. If you feel you cannot see, it is the healing ointment of His Word and Spirit that orient us back to a life of wholeness. If we choose to buy from God with things most valuable to us, the promise is "I will make you hot again". 2 - If God shows His love to us in His reproof and discipline, then we show our love back to God by zeal and repentance (verse 19). Zeal is when I burn so hot nothing that cannot stand the heat of a holy life can't be close to me or it is burned up. Repentance is when anything that comes to mind that may try to turn the heat down is cast out or removed. The fire becomes the focus, and the focus is the fire. Self awareness is the gift we open after salvation, that invites us into a sanctified, surrendered, and holy walk with God. 3 - To sit on the throne created for you, you must become an overcomer. Many times we want God to knock on the door, sit and commune with us, but not respond to the areas we know He is challenging us to overcome. If you're not putting your faith to the test, and overcoming the areas of life you're scared to face, you may be sacrificing the throne He intended you to sit on. The true test of overcoming is our relationship with man's gold or God's gold, the robe of a righteous life or the robes of human hands, the eyes that we rhythmically apply the intent of the Spirit to; that we might see as He sees.

Baptism Pt 2 - Blood, Water, Fire

John 19:31-37 1 John 5:5-8 Matt 3:11 Acts 2:1-4 Numbers 5:21-22 A Deep Dive on the Blood, Water, and Fire 1 - Faith in the blood of Jesus is the starting place of getting Heaven in you; the baptism waters are the immersion into the realization heaven is all around you; and walking with the fire produced from both reminds us to never lose sight of the access the blood and water has given you, to God. The blood says, "come close". Water says "come up". The fire says, "go out". 2- The blood opens the door to the reality of resurrection power, the water gives us an invitation to walk out the truth of that resurrection power, the fire becomes the unquenchable appetite we develop for resurrection power to always be present in our lives. Resurrection power is the common denominator in which everything is boiled down to. 3- When we question the forgiving power of the blood, doubt the waters' cleansing ability, and become desensitized to the fire of intimacy that longs to be close, there is a grace and space for you in the hands of God. However, life cannot be built again until these foundations become the footings of what we are building. The healing you search for through God oftentimes is the same things we run from in God. For from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things... it is well... amen.

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