Checkmate Isn’t the End — Renewal Begins Here

Have you ever felt like life was saying “checkmate” — like there were no more moves left?

That question is at the heart of a short video I’ve just shared, and it’s also the inspiration behind the free 12 Days of Christmas Devotional I’m inviting you to join.

This Christmas, I want to help remind you that what looks like the end is often not the end at all. With God, there is always another move.

Each day is a brief moment of Scripture and encouragement to renew your faith and walk this season with hope!

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07/30: You Are Secure In Me

Message:
My Beloved, you are secure in Me. No matter what the world may throw your way, I am your refuge, your strength, and your security. Trust that I hold you tightly in My arms. There is no fear in My love, only peace and assurance.

Scripture:
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:38-39 ESV

“The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” – Proverbs 18:10 ESV

“I will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, Lord, make me live in safety.” – Psalm 4:8 TPT

Reflection:
You are safe in My presence. I am the fortress around you, and nothing can reach you without My permission. You do not need to fear the storms of life, for I am your refuge. Trust in the security of My love today.

Journal Prompt:
Where do you need to experience God’s security today? Reflect on the areas of your life where you feel insecure and invite Him to bring peace and protection into those spaces.

Unexpected Faith Journey with Guest, Judith Maria



  • Well, good morning. Do you ever have your faith challenged, unexpectedly, unexpectedly? You know, when we, when we’re lined up and we’re got our armor on and we’ve got our faith in place and we just are girded and ready for the battle, we really are, you know, are ready. But when things happen that are unexpected, that’s when your faith needs to really kick into overdrive.

    And I have a guest this morning that is going to share with you a real unexpected need to place faith from a very simple procedure medical procedure to a, an emergency ambulance ride all the way to the ER room and then being kept in the hospital. So let’s talk with Judith. Maria are a life coach and of course, a lot of, you know,

    she’s my sister. So Judith welcome this morning. How are you? Good morning. Good morning. I’m great. Thank you. Ah, really say good morning everybody. Hey, you already got Gail out there and you got Johnny out there and Janet, I mean, they’re just popping on it because I know we didn’t want to give her a lot of,

    a lot of the storyline during the, because it was so fast, but so fast, give a little background of your, what you went through and the circumstances that took place. When we had our journey of an unexpected thing. Well, I had to go in for really a simple procedure to have a growth removed to mean they had to test it because of my past history and the cancer.

    And, and I just knew that, you know, it was, it was really a simple procedure and, you know, Jeffrey, you as my Uber driver, it was like, Jeffrey was picking me up, dropping me off at the shopping center and pick me back up when I was finished. But so I went in and you know, they go through the,

    you know, in the surgery center, you know, you, they prep you and, and everything was going great. Doctor came in and the anesthesiologist came in, everything was great. They all said simple C procedure. You’d be going home. We doubt that you knowing you and your, your history, you’ll, won’t be in recovery too, too long,

    maybe a couple hours. And so I, and I go through the surgery, I guess, but I was out of it. But when I come out, I’m in, I’m in the recovery room and they’re getting ready to prep me to go home. And all of a sudden they said, how do you feel? And I said, yeah, I was feeling good.

    I said, but I did have just a little pressure in my chest. Well, as soon as I said that the alarms went off, they put the EKG on me and you know, they, the anesthesiologist came over and then all these nurses came over and it was like, what is going on? I I’m I’m I’m I want to go home.

    And so, you know, after they were looking at the reports and everything, the doctor or the anesthesiologists turned over to the nurse and she said, call 9 1, 1, we need to get her to the emergency room, the trauma center over at Fairview. And I’m like, I’m like, what, what is happening? This is like, this is like,

    this isn’t supposed to be happening. And I tell you what it was. Thank God. I have a, a relationship with God. And I, I, he just brought me to that piece where, where everything is going to be, okay, he’s got me. He is, he’s got me. He’s going to take care of me because things were happening.

    They were trying to talk to me. But you know, it’s almost like, you know, it’s like, you’re in a different dimension when you’re going through this because your, your mind is going, I’m having a heart attack. And I thought, I don’t have any heart problems. So they call 9 11, 9, 11. The squad comes in. They Never want to hear.

    And I, I do know, cause they did say we’re calling your brother. So all I knew that that was taken care of. So I didn’t have to worry about that. But then there was the ride to the emergency room and you know, they ran tasks because it’s heart issues and they kept me, they kept me overnight. And as they were running through all the tests and the blood work and you know,

    the EKG is all started to coming back. Okay. And, but they did find in the, in the blood, there’s something that the blood releases, an enzyme that the blood releases, they don’t have the, the, exactly what it is yet because we’re waiting for a couple other tests. But Now pause right there for a minute. Cause I don’t want them to know all the results yet.

    I’m going to hold them on an intrigue at the moment, but let’s go back from the moment you heard let’s medially, call 9 1 1, you hear this, it triggers a complete level of fears. Anxieties. I don’t care if you’re the strongest person in the world or the, you know, a pastorate, it doesn’t make a difference. Because at that moment we are unexpectedly being challenged in our faith and our,

    in our understanding and our logic, then the ride still not knowing it. And all of a sudden the thoughts begin. I’m sure. And I’m speaking for you. I want you to speak for yourself, but the thoughts that process through a person’s mind on the way to find out I get to live. Am I going to die? Now? This is a big decision making process to really get your head wrapped around then to the hospital and this whole day.

    I mean, I think you were there if I’m at nine hours and you still weren’t even in a room or waiting for some kind of results and nothing was coming back to give you a it’s okay. Wow. We got to go to surgery or whatever. We got to go talk about what was going on in your inner spirit during that time period. Yeah.

    That’s great. Jeff Jeffrey. Yeah. My inner spirit did want to go. I did go into fear anxiety set in. I had a little bit of doubt. Yeah. Was I going to have a heart attack? Was I going to die? And as I was speaking those words, you know, it was, it kept coming back to me,

    is that, is, are those the words that would come from God and God wouldn’t talk to me like that. I, I, I’ve never had God talked to me like that and all the storms I have been in, but he has, he has just, I just had that peace again, you know, to say, I I’ve got to Judith,

    you know, you have, you have a destiny that I need to strengthen you. And through the storm mitzvah, you’re going to become more strengthened and to be able to fulfill that destiny that I have I have on your life and that it would take that fear away. Cause I pulled on God and, but it kept coming back. It kept coming back.

    I wanted to surface back up to tick to keep me in fear, you know? And the more I went into that fear I can see on the monitor and the heart monitor where my heart was beating much faster. And I just knew that I couldn’t have that. I had to, I had to calm myself down. So I have always done this with,

    with God, is that when I go into, I had to go into what I call my meditation, my meditation in, in, in being silent and just quiet with God. And I have to picture talking with him and it’s always been going, I’m on, I’m on a beach, I’m in a beach house. And I walked down, I go to the water and I have my conversation that is always been for years,

    a vision that I have to be able to bring my fear down and my anxiety down. So I have to go into that quiet moment to be reassured that I’m going to be okay. So did that keep rising? Yeah, it did. But I think God, I know God’s word and I’m, I’m having the past couple of years and having a real love affair with God.

    And when you have that, you just, you, you can get through those times, you know, cause we’re going to go through storms. I, you know, it’s not, why me, why am I going through this? I’ve been through this into 2020. Why now? You know, so you get through one storm and then you get that,

    that, that light at the tunnel. Then it’s like, you go into another storm. You know? So since 2020 I’ve been through six storms. But I have learned that I have to go into that quiet moment in, of speaking to God and allowing him to speak to me and, and confirming his word in my life of how I’m feeling. Yes,

    I I’ve. I’ve put in, in the comments to scriptures, Ephesians chapter six, verse 10 through 20 that you know, well, GERD yourself up with the armor of God. But I’m going to challenge the listening audience to read that and look towards some commentaries because it’s very, it’s much more powerful than knowing the parts of the, the armor. As let’s say,

    a Bible student might know the reality of depth of knowing in season and out of season, we need to be ready. Then I put in Psalms 46, which I’m going to right now play for the listening audience because it’s absolutely a power punch, especially in verse 10 where it says be still and know that I’m God, but what you said, the battle going on all day in and out up and not it’s like a rollercoaster ride,

    but the more you get into that state, the more that we learn, how to go into that place, that inner dwelling, the inner sanctuary that the temple is talked about when they break that down, the reality is we can really grab a hold of an anchor. The Bible talks about in Hebrew is an anchor that secures us through the storm. You know,

    the anchor is there. So when the storm throws the boat around, it’s still stays stable. So let me play this from the NIV. This is a short verse. There’s a verses from Psalms one of the six. Let me know if that you can hear this from the audience, because I want to be sure that you hear every word of it because it’s a very powerful what Judy has been sharing.

    So I’m 46 for the director of music of the sons of Korah. According to Alamosa a song, God is our refuge and strength and ever present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear though. The earth, if way in the mountains fall into the heart of the sea though its autos roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

    the holy place where the most high dwells God is within her. She will not fall. God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar kingdoms for he lifts his voice. The earth melts. The Lord almighty is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress come and see what the Lord has done. That desolations he has brought on the earth.

    He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear, a burns shields with fire. He says, be still and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord almighty is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress. Now the important part is when you,

    when you go through that and you read it, it’s something you said, and I want to draw a conclusion in that area. You heard God’s voice. You heard this voice when you read that. Some it is as if someone is standing up at a pulpit and reading what God, the character, God, but in Psalms 46, 10 God’s voice says be still and know that I am God.

    And I think that when we start to meditate and this is kind of a good word for all of us, the word I am that he gave Moses, the word that I’m sure you heard so many times when you’re in your prayer time. If you read sight that that God is the, I am, he is the, I am. He’s the one that’s able to pull me through this.

    Whether he takes you home, which wasn’t quite think about at that point. This is everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go right now as the song goes. But in turn, the other part of it is how do I get through this and start to hear that I am your strength. I am your power. I am your courage.

    I am all that begins to meditate and bring, like you said, if we’ve put it in, brings up all those scriptures brings all of God from his living word to really give it strength, will, will it be like a fight that we get? We may get a moment to sit in the corner, taking people breath, but we got to go back and fight again.

    And that’s the unexpected fight of faith that I think that we really saw you go through it. Wasn’t expected. It wasn’t like you were new. You were going to go into a battle somewhere. You went in almost Lala put into that process. Yeah. It’s a comfort. It’s a comfort when you have that relationship with Christ, you know, and we all,

    when nobody’s going to skate through, through life and we’re all going to have these storms and cause God says, we’re going to have tribulations and you have to, if you’re not in God’s word, what do you do in the middle of, like you said, in the middle of a storm where all of a sudden something that was so simple, turns out to be something that could,

    that was much greater unexpected and sure. Could you, could you just fall apart? Sure, absolutely. But like you said, the scriptures, if you’re in his word, you’re, you’re, you’re filling yourself up. So when that time comes you, that it does come up, it does surface. And you know, the spirit just brings that to you to bring that comfort and God,

    and God’s there to comfort you, you know, he’s there to hold your hand to walk through the store, you know? And you know what you’re saying is so important. And that’s why I want to extend a minute or two more because the reality is that without the holy spirit, even if you were reading scripture, even if you’re going to church now,

    I want everybody to hear, this is a sobering thought. If you haven’t asked if someone has an ass, the holy spirit, the living God to come within you to take over your life, to take over your mind, to take over your body and really surrender that and receive the forgiveness, receive the relationship, receive what you’ve been describing to us.

    Then we don’t have the power. We can do mental tricks and gymnastics in our head. We can do the self-help trips and I’ve done them. I’ve got a library full of them. But the truth of it is when we go to the comforter and you use that word just a moment ago, the comforter is there to comfort us. We’re going to fall and he’s there to comfort us and lift us up.

    Once we’ve fallen, we’re going to have doubt because remember the, the, the father that said, I believe, but help me with my misbelief. So understanding that this is a real word, that world that we live in. And that’s why I put a fusion six in there. Cause if, if the, the listening audience would listen to that and do a little study on that,

    that is not a simple get dressed because when you study the words that Paul, must’ve fine tuned, every word that he used, like gird up your loins. That’s an alert to be ready for the unexpected, which is what you were. And if we’re not getting up every morning and girding up, hearing the voice of God tuning up, if something unexpected comes,

    we’re really caught off guard. Now he can deliver us. He can raise us up. He can, you know, take us off. You put Humpty Dumpty. He can put us back together again. But why not go in as a, Victoria’s more than a conqueror as you did. And although you’re going to get a couple of blows, you get back in that corner and get the other meditation,

    get that voice of God speaking to you. Get those scriptures flowing through you, get the holy spirit connection. And now come back into the ring to win the faith, even if it’s unexpectedly called upon. Absolutely, absolutely. Jeffery. Yes it’s. It’s I, I, again, and I, I say that you can, you can have, you can have your family around you,

    your friends around you, your church, around you, your community around you. You can have all of that, but when you’re in that moment, and as I was in that moment, laying in that bed, and I hear the words, call 9 1 1, get the squad here. Th they, they weren’t around. Only thing that I knew to do was to go in and call upon God,

    because he was there. There is there with me. He walks with me every single day, every moment, every breath that I take. And if he’s walking with us, he’s talking to us, you know, I can’t imagine God walking with us and that talking, You know, and, and I knew enough to be able to tune into him.

    I had to go inwardly. So, yeah, Well, as the listening audience, I hope this was an inspiration. It was was for me going through it. Not only that they have, but the, even this morning, because again, you, every time that you give testimony, you learn a little bit more yourself and people that are listening to the testimony and we are a testimony,

    and you’ve heard this, the saying that, you know, our tests create our testimony. Judith. You say that all the time in your coaching. And I think that it’s really important that we hear that, that James, the book of James says that rejoice through your trials and tribulations, because if you persevere, if it doesn’t mean every day that you don’t fall down,

    but if you persevere connecting to the spirit of God and letting the word of God sustain you and anchor you, then you will mature and lack nothing. It’s James chapter one. And that’s powerful because that’s living life abundantly. Not that it all goes perfect. Not that everything is, is, you know, you know, right. Every day, but the truly I am right with God.

    And that makes a big difference. I mean, that’s right. That is right. You all have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for staying with us for an extra five or six minutes, because I think it was worth it to hear the testimony that the Judith went through, and this is hot off the presses. So this was like the day after she got home and we will continue to keep all of you and your prayers and each and every one of us need each and everyone has pers so good morning to each and every one of you,

    we love you put in the, in the comments, if you wouldn’t right now, you know, what you take away from today, you know, what was one thing that you really got out of the testimony of Judith? And I know that she’ll be blessed by that, but also that others that we’ll see this later on the replay will be blessed by it as well.

    So have a beautiful and precious and wonderful day. And remember beauty and change begins within you where the holy spirit lives and dwells and is powerful to do more than you could ever ask or imagine see you next week. Thank you. Bye-bye

Do You Know Your Purpose?



  • Good morning. I have another question for it. This must be the question week. Do you know what your purpose is? Do you know what your purpose in life is? Do you know? That’s one of the greatest level of seeking for understand that you can ever imagine. Good morning, I’m Jeffrey Paul with your morning inspiration, and I want to really bring it to an awareness that your purpose is important.

    Do you know that psychology sheers that a person who has purpose lives longer lives healthier, has more energy, has more joy. Isn’t that the thing that most everyone is seeking for? I mean, seeking for that knowledge to know that you’re in the depths of Jeff’s a lately, what you were created for, well, the very scripture that I’m gonna share with you today that identifies the importance of this,

    and then the other scriptures that instruct us how to find a purpose. You know, I have gone through probably a multitude. I’m going to say everyone because the multitude of, of testing and evaluation and assessments of who am I in, in what’s my characteristics and what am I an ABC or G or LBN, whatever it might be. What am I,

    because all of these assessments have you take a test. And that test though is on the conscious level. It’s on the conscious level. What you know, where you’re at, what you maybe think you’d like to do, but it’s not on the inner, inner, true inner level, because there’s no way for a test or an instrument that a psychologist or a counselor would use can get deep.

    Now, those are good things. They’re good things to give you some kind of markers to, to find that true north in your life. But there’s a purpose you were given that purpose, right from the womb. You know, Jeremiah chapter one talks about the fact that God knew him in the womb and had prepared and planned his purpose. Now he went a lot of different ways,

    like all of us do, but the purpose was within his heart. It was written by God’s finger on his heart, as it is you and you and me. I want you to realize that that’s really a truth, but we’re all seeking because we get kind of mesmerized by life. We get overwhelmed by life. We get set back by in life.

    We have experiences that cause us to hit the proverbial ceiling, the glass ceiling or the wall. If you been there, have you been seeking your purpose? Is that a question that rises up or have you have buried it now? Like, you know, it just never going to happen because of your age, because of the circumstances, because of your situation.

    Well, if so in the comments, put hash mark, purpose, hash mark, purpose, hash mark is the numbers. It’s right above number three. So you shift hit the hash mark and then purpose, put it in the conference right now because the issue, let me see here. I just realized that Randy sent me a note that the issue is that the reality to purpose comes from only one source.

    The one that created you remember, I was talking about Jeremiah in Jeremiah. The reality is he was given purpose in his heart before he even entered this world because God’s plan was on his life. Like God’s plan is on each and every one of our lives. Let me take you to a beautiful scripture out of the book of Proverbs and, and really just give you an understanding that will give you the representation of what I’m talking about.

    It says here in Proverbs chapter 19 verse 21, a person may have many ideas. Boy, if you live with me or if you’re a part of my team, they would just, their eyes would get this big because every morning I wake up with more ideas every day I have expansion on those ideas and it’s like for creative people, it’s hard not to think creative ideas,

    but it can be a hindrance. If it’s taken you in the wrong direction or outside of the direction that God has planned for us and prepared us for an in called us to is it talks about in Romans chapter eight, verse 28 through 39, but it goes further and says again, I’ll start in the beginning of verse 21 person may have many ideas concerning God’s plan for his life or her life,

    but only the designs of God’s purpose will succeed in the end. That creates the ability that we really don’t have the understanding, unless we go to God to really get our plans. You know, Proverbs 16 talks about, we have lots of plans, but we need to come to God and place our plans before him and allow his plans to really be the plans that give us the ability to see what’s before us to see the goal that Philippians chapter three,

    verses 12 through 14 talks about that. We forget what’s behind us and strive to what we’ve been called to a purpose. What’s the purpose. Well, I can’t give you that answer. I’m sorry. And neither can any counselor and neither can any father, mother, neither can any other person on the face of the earth. They can give you good advice and they can give you some good direction,

    especially if they love you and care for you. And they’re seeking the Lord for you. But the only way, and I’m going to underline this, I generally say anything only, but the only way they send this scripture is that you and I must go before the Lord and do our due diligence to seek back into the womb back even before we were in the womb and see in the presence of the Lord.

    What’s my purpose. Now you might think, well, Jeff, I’m going to be a monk. Isn’t me. I’m a priest. I’m going to be a pastor. Am I going to minute in may that you’d be, be the best barber in the world. It might mean that you’re the best lawyer in the world. It might be you you’re the best mother at home.

    Caring for your children as unto the Lord is it talks about in collections. You see purpose is not a religious thing. Purpose is a God thing. Purpose is what gives energy and inspiration, motivation, and empowerment for your life, but not the one or two things that you think are your purpose, because how happy are you if you’re not in your purpose?

    Well, some of us in many of you have not had the opportunity for a long time to be in that state that you love what you’re doing. Did you do it with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your strength. And even if you don’t use the words you’re doing it unto the Lord purpose is what drives the encouragement and excitement of life.

    Abundant life. As Jesus said in John 10, 10, he came to give us, but without the holy spirit, without God’s understanding without God’s relationship unveiling, breaking through the veil, breaking through the curtains, giving you insight, you’re just running a race, like a hamster on a wheel, and you might make it that we all go and really good.

    But at the end, as our proverb says, at the end, only his only God’s purpose will succeed to make you happy to make you joyful, to make you fulfilled, to hear the voice of God out of Matthew three 17, say you are my child. I am well pleased with you. So seeking your purpose. I can’t tell you what that is.

    I seek my every day and continue to hear his voice, to be sure that I keep in the do North, keep on the path. It’s narrow keeping in clear sight. The purpose that have given you the scriptures today about it’s time to find your purpose. It’s time to put all your energy into your purpose, but you must seek first God’s purpose to be revealed in you through the holy spirit who will and his promise and will never fail show you The,

    then it’s up to you to walk in it, to be joyful, to be strong and encouraged, to make a difference in the world. Find your purpose, seek him. Let’s see it tomorrow. Oh, by the way, stop only it’s Giovanni’s birthday today. And I just sent her pictures of the first birthday of her life and from the hospital when she was born.

    So all of you would you just put up a prayer of Thanksgiving that Giovanni and of course Valentino, but today’s Geovanna is focused day of her birthday, of her seventh birthday of her life. And boy, she has life and purpose exploding in her. And I just ask you to remember her in your prayers today. Have a beautiful day, see you tomorrow.

How Important Are “People” To You?



  • How important are people do? Let me just ask that question again. And I love to start our program on the morning inspirations with a question I’m Jeffrey Paul, and today’s question should provoke you. It should most likely challenge you. How important are people to you? Well, how you treat people is really what makes it real in your life to that answer.

    The real answer to that question. So to say, you know, when we study today, the gospels and we see Jesus in the things and people that he encounters. Do you think that was kind of like by chance or by design? What do you think with Jesus meeting the woman at the, well, she, she didn’t even have a name.

    She wasn’t even liked. She had to leave her home at the heat of the day to go get water. Because if she went during the morning, when all the other woman would go to the, well, she would be ridiculed because she was considered a prostitute. How about Matthew? That short little Jewish guy that was up in, in the, in the,

    you know, I think he was Jewish. Maybe he was Italian, but he was up in the tree and Jesus has got a crowd around him coming along the road. And he shouts out to this person. No one liked a tax collector. Matthew, come on, let’s go have dinner together. How much do we miss or devalue people. I told you is going to challenge you today.

    You see it’s kind of easy to value the people that you can get something from. Ooh, that doesn’t feel good, huh? Whether it’s love whether it’s money, whether it’s service, whether it’s, whatever it is, when we get something they’re important for the moment. But in turn, how important are people to you? All people we’re going to John three 16,

    the famous verse that Billy Graham carried all over the world. God so loved people that he gave his only begotten son. God, so loved people. The prisoners, the prostitutes, the rulers, the politicians, the doctors, the barbers, all were loved by God. And when he sent Jesus to earth, he sent that example. That, that, that,

    that true level of example, for us to imitate, there’s no one, no one, no one unimportant. How about the guy at the pool of Bethesda? I mean, 38 years, he was hanging out there and he couldn’t even get anybody to help him get into the water. When the water would be stirred, the healed Jesus stops. And doesn’t just put his hand on his head and get them healed.

    He dialogues with him. He goes into his soul. He begins to seek the answer to the question that was truly holding this man crippled. Do you want to be healed? Do you want to be healed? He said, you see, to be able to ask people deep questions, to converse with them, to minister, to them, to teach them,

    to share with them needs the holy spirit inside you radiating in monitor monitoring the issues of people. You got to read them as they say, well, we read them for a lot of different reasons. If you’re in sales, you kind of read the signs as they teach in sales school. If we’re in the romance business, we’re looking for that glimmer in the eye.

    So we learned way back when, as kids to read our parents to read people, but that was what the human mind, the human feelings and emotions. Now with the holy spirit inside, you can see a Richmond, poor man, a prostitute, or a queen. All the same as Jesus did. Nicodemus was a high level. You know, Pharisee.

    He took the time with him in the midst of the night to answer his questions, woman who was 13 years of, of, of, you know, bleeding spent all her money on doctors that couldn’t heal. Her, broke the law of the, of the Jewish, you know, faith to be able to go into the streets of a woman who had an issue of blood,

    touched him. And he stopped for her, stopped in the midst of the crowd often, are we too busy for that phone call? How often do we get that text that we, we may, you know, quickly do emoji back, or we get the phone call and we just say, you got the, we got the pre-made, you know,

    answers can’t talk right now. Well, I’m challenging all of us today. The reality of truly understanding your value of people is how you treat them. And I’ve never been more embarrassed to be with someone when they treated a waitress who serving. And we don’t know behind the scenes that she might have a sick child at home, that she might not be feeling her best.

    She might be going through a divorce. We have no idea in the human level, but if we’re in the spiritual consciousness, if we’re in the spiritual connection with the holy spirit, the holy spirit will tell you those things will reveal to you. Those things in people so that you can be a vessel of Jesus Christ to serve them, to encourage them,

    to lift them up, to give them the strength, to give them the hope and to them, to him if necessary. So today I challenge each and every one of us and I include myself. How much, how much do you value people? How much do you value people? Because see, here’s the by-product of that. If you buy now value people,

    because you recognize how much God values you, you value yourself. Oh yeah. Really important message there. Because if you value yourself, I’m not talking about ego. I’m not talking about cried. I’m talking about if you value yourself because of what has been poured into you through the intimacy of Christ as a toxin, Philippians chapter two, starting in verse one all through the first chapter.

    If you’ve had an encounter with him, then have that encounter expressed in your treating of others. And you will then value yourself incredibly more than you could ever ask or imagine there’s your challenge. It’s on a platter. And I hope you take that challenge today. I have a prayer request right now, my sister, I just dropped her off at a Cleveland clinic.

    She’s going to get some minor surgery done today, but any surgery is important to pray for and lead her through the process because you’ve prayed for her. Many of you for her cancer being healed for her heart issues. I mean, she’s just, she’s battled, but now this is her new year and she’s really going forward. And I’ll tell you something.

    She’s one that really values people, values, friendship. And we had a beautiful sharing before the surgery center opened up. And that was just about what it was about. That’s what motivated this particular teaching. As I got back to my office and my new studio, I realized it’s really about people. That’s why we’re here. Are we? That’s why we’re here right now together.

    So in the comments, why don’t you say I value people. I value people, put that in the comments to, to recognize a reminder for you today and write it down, write it down in your journal, write it down in your, on your hand. As the kids do with phone numbers and stuff, write it down to remember it, to remind you to fan into flame,

    the precious gift of people, such a precious gift that God himself chose to send his only begotten son to redeem us and to give us the holy spirit to help him. Yes, LPM redeem others through our love for people because Galatians says the greatest of everything. The only thing that counts is love. It’s the only way that you can express love is through giving it to others.

    Have a beautiful, precious day, loving people. See it tomorrow.

What Are You Doing with What You Got?



  • What are you doing with what you’ve got? That’s the question for this mornings morning. Inspiration. Good morning. I’m Jeffrey Paul and the inspiration today is about challenging you in what you’ve got, not what you’re going after. Let me share something with you that maybe you’ve heard this before, because it’s one story in my life that absolutely illustrated perfectly John 15. And it came from the most unlikely person to teach that lesson.

    My father-in-law beautiful man, tough as nails, short, little Italian man, born in Italy, immigrated to this country, raised his family and knew about grapes new, because that was his specialty. He was a incredible gardener and he, he took care in what he did. He was able to graph things together. He’d had a peach tree in a,

    in a plum tree. He’d create new fruits. Amazing, amazing guy, but tough as nails. Like I said, wait, he came over our house, a brand new home when we had moved in Zena and I, and I think we might’ve had one of the boys or maybe two. And again, I was like, you know, try and impress the father-in-law.

    And in this property that we bought, there was a grapevine and the grapevine had grown while we were setting up the house and everything else. And I was just so excited. I created a Tampa terrorist over the top of the fence, all these leaves and all these vines and all these, I mean, it was just immense. It was immense. It was about 30 feet long and it was immense.

    And I couldn’t wait for him to come over. Cause I wanted to prove I’m Italian. And I wanted to prove that I could grow grapes. Well, for those that have heard this story, you’ve heard what took place next, because I took them out. They’re very proud and you know, pride proceeds the fall or maybe this case, the lesson.

    And the reality was that he, he took his time. Cause I took him out there. He walked slow and he’s looking and I’m watching him look and he had this little Italian hat on and he had his little mustache and he’s looking at this 30 foot of vine and branches and you know, just green all over the place. It’s a shade. It’s like almost a shaded roof.

    And he looks at me and he goes, you’re stupid. That went right into my heart. What look at these, look at how big the leaves are. I said, look at, look at, look at this. And he said, where’s your grapes? Where’s the fruit. And I pause for a minute. And I really had to take back a step because I looked around and I figured it wasn’t time.

    Yet. He goes, it’s almost past time. So he said, go a pair of pruning scissors in a garbage can. Well, he then pruned this 30 foot long vine down to the scrubs. There might’ve been 10 Leafs on it, but as he’s going through it, he’s teaching about these little suckers. He called them. They come off that SAP out the nourishment of the,

    of the, of the vine and all these leaves that SAP out more and more of the nutrients of the vine. So that the vine, which has the production ability to grow great fruit is unable to produce fruit or it’s very little fruit. Well, I’m, I’m, he’s talking to me through this process. He’s cutting this. We filled up three bags,

    literally garbage bags. And he says to me, now listen to this. Now, watch your grapes grow well. I was for sure that that wouldn’t happen. But the next morning, no, they didn’t grow in the next morning, but the next morning I’m in my scriptures and I’m reading my Bible study still frustrated by the embarrassment of this situation. And the Lord guides me to John 15.

    And I’m want you to know that I’m going to put that right now so that you don’t forget it. The, the John 15 scripture came in my episode of my life experience with my father-in-law with a grapevine expounded, my understanding reveal, but through the holy spirit and incredible lesson that I want to share with you about what are you doing with what you’ve got?

    You see one of the reasons why the grapes and by the way, they grew weeks later abundantly. I was so pleased and he just smirked at me when he came back over. But nonetheless, the real story is why are we not growing? Why are we not manifesting? What we’re learning? Why are we not taking and being true disciples as John 15 talks about why is that?

    Well, let me share with you a message that the Lord gave me this morning. There were three principles and one of you is probably going to be Johnny, but maybe janitor, Rebecca or Judith, you put this in the comments, there are three addictions or symptoms, or even a, you know, a process in your life in my life that we are like no other generation worse than any other generation.

    Although they had similarities worse than any other generation. And these are the three of them. I want you to write them down. T O oh, too much, too, too many. And T O O fast, too much, too many too fast. We are not absorbing and digesting. We’re not taking the nutriments. We’ve got too many leaves.

    We’ve got too many suckers. We have very little food in most cases. So what does this all mean? It means that if you’re doing a Bible study and then you’re also running off to this study and that study, and you’re reading this book in that book, how many of you been there? Raise your hands one way or another, even in the comments,

    how many of us have three or four books on our desk ready to go after we’ve got, you know, one little article and one little sermon and maybe one YouTube. And we’re trying, we’re trying because we’re, we’re part of the vine, if you’ve accepted Christ in your life, but we we’re, we got so much. And what we don’t want to do,

    listen to this. What we don’t want to do because of the addiction is that, is that too much, too many too fast is that we don’t want to stop and just take one thing, one thing, and really dig down deep into it and allow the holy spirit to reveal a deeper and deeper and a deeper and deeper in regards to the abundance of the fruit that comes from the word of God.

    Now I’m going to show you something, hold on. This is a card because this is a symbol of, of what happened when they came back from the promised land. After going the first time in the promised land, they said that they would find abundance and grapes and milk and honey, well, Joshua and Caleb had to bring back a bunch of grapes on a,

    on a pole between the two of them, because the bunch was so great. So big. So large. Now of course, that’s a little exaggerated, but this is a symbol of ESSA girl, which is the Jewish sign of abundance. And the representation is this, that when we’re connected to the vine, when we’re focused and it says in John 15,

    seven remaining in that take one scripture, take one scripture and extract every bit of nutrients out of it. We, before and after it read a commentary about it, study it, ask the holy spirit to reveal more to you. Even after he’s revealed it to you, ask God to expose you to experiments. Life’s experiences. My father-in-law, who’s not here right now,

    but you must have someone in your life. That’ll walk into your life and give you the real illustration of that scripture so that it becomes so powerful, too much, too many, too fast. We have so many vehicles from Google to apps, to all the things that are out there. And we’re chasing so many instead of focusing and really what’s important because then you’re no longer a permanent student.

    You’re a disciple. There’s a difference. It could be born again, but with no fruits, but you can be born again, living in the spirit, producing incredible fruits, not by your strength, not by your power, but by what’s being generated within you. As the vine feeds you. As the vine produces in you, the nutrients, you just simply pop the grapes and you have abundant graves,

    much fruit. And it says fruit that will last. So here’s what I’d like you to do for your own challenge. Your own life started verse one and go to the end of chapter 15 of the gospel of John, read it slow, take one at a time. Don’t read the whole Bible today. Just take a few verses an over the week,

    read and digest and reread again and digest and reread again and go through it so that you really come to the point, not to memorize it, but embody it to embody it so that it truly becomes one with you. And you become one with it. One scripture, I’ve heard so many authors and so many men and women of the spirit speak about one scripture that has transformed their lives continually.

    It’s never gotten no why. That’s why in the first chapter of John, that God made the word living is the living word. And it will live in you unless you dormant, unless you don’t allow it to manifest. Like I was doing with my grapevine in my yard. I hope this speaks to you in the comments. Simply let me know what you got out of this.

    Simply let me know what you’ve gotten out of this, but do remember when you catch yourself too much, too many too fast, know that you have an addiction and firm on who was delivered from an addiction and many, I know what an addiction is and we can convince herself. It’s not an addiction. We can convince ourselves that it’s, it’s good.

    It’s good because we’re not doing bad things, but it’s better to do one thing incredibly well. You have a beautiful day. See you tomorrow.

Living In the Spirit: Conversation with Guest, Tony Valore (Copy)



  • Good morning. This is an unusual Saturday morning kind of bonus, or was supposed to be a bonus. Last night, we were having a wonderful dinner with two beautiful friends of ours. And, and it was just one of those things that was just spontaneous and Tony and Jan and Valori and Tony got into a sharing of what the Lord was sharing with him on a day-to-day basis,

    living active life in the spirit of working and being a parent of a beautiful dog, being a husband and all those things. Well, I said, impromptu, Hey, let’s do a bonus session and we’ll talk, we’ll just have a discussion because it’s going to be part of the weekend new format of, you know, it’s morning inspirations. He was all excited about it.

    So got everything set up, sending an announcement. Some of you got that and that’s why you’re here. And he couldn’t make it. He happened to oversleep, but that happens as part of life in the spirit. So I’m going to take the Tony, the Lori off of my banner, and I’m going to still go on the show must go on.

    So to say, and I want to really share with you what we were going to share, and we will we’ll have him on again, near future. And if you have any interest in joining me on a discussion morning, discussion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of you, we can accommodate up to 10 and we plan to do that because again, instead of just my voice and just myself on the weekends,

    it’s great to have a little sharing, a study of what you’re learning, what you’re really feeling in the spirit or what you’re struggling with. In fact, you don’t, you want to put something in the comments, put down that only that you have an interest of joining me and I will send you a link and a date, but also what subject matter are you,

    or what topic or what issue are you challenged by? You know, walking in the spirit and we’re going to go there. And just a minute in first Thessalonians, chapter five, verses 16 through 22 in the message Bible, you know, living the life of a Christian Day to day is different than being a Christian in church. Would you agree if you agree?

    Give me a, give me a yes, I agree here because so often we can be in our prayer time. And I know my sister, by the ways that her birthday today, would you all send her a happy birthday today, we’re celebrating her birthday. That’s Judith Maria. That’s already on, you know, she goes into her per time, like I do each morning.

    And you know, you feel that, that, that beautiful fragrance of the Lord, you feel the presence of the Lord. You feel good, you get through some challenges and difficulties, and then you go into the world and you get beat up or you get, you know, lost in the smoke of life. You know what I’m talking about? And,

    and what do you do with that? Because we’re not just the boast to go to church and be Christians and live in the spirit and church. We’re not just supposed to go to our prayer closet and pray inhibitor devotionals, and read our Bible and, you know, be in the spirit then. But Christ wants us to be in the spirit 24 7. We’ve talked about that 24 7.

    And it’s so important to realize that, but how well, the scripture that I was going to share with Tony this morning, and first Thessalonians, as I said, 5 16, 3 22, turn your Bibles. There still just got a little bit more of a Bible study this morning, since I hope most of you don’t have to go to work. I got my coffee.

    It’s filled to the brim, get your pencil on paper, your journal, and your Bible out and turn the first Thessalonians five, 16 and 22 through the message Bible. And I read it. And this is just a tip for you. When I on my Bible app. And I’ve told all of you about the Bible app, it’s free life church,

    a capacitor credit growth shell puts it out for free. It is everything from Bible searches to Bible versions, to devotionals, to you name it, it’s there, and you can do it together. You can do it together. But in turn, when I read a scripture, I don’t read it just from one translation. I generally start in my NIV because that’s my basic of my,

    my, you know, hard copy. And I read the search. The other ones that I go to so often, especially the amplified version. Why? Because it amplifies one sentence in the Greek or the Hebrew to really give you an in-depth understanding of that particular area of study. And then in my commentaries that are in my Bible, it’s really another part of studying that scripture instead of just going through the scripture and knowing it.

    So you go through a couple of different versions to see the different angles. The message Bible is more contemporary. The amplified burden is very, you know, much more deeper. And the interview is just like that balancing bridge between all of my fine, but I read them and I read a little bit before and I read a little after. So just to kind of a Bible study tip,

    it’s really important. Why? Because you want the Bible to lead your life in the spirit. That’s what we’re talking about today. You want the words of God, the counsel of God, the illumination of your steps that come from the word of God to really, really lead you in the living everyday in the spirit. So that there’s the good days,

    the bad days, the rough days, the easy days, the fun days and not so fun days that’s life, but Christ knew that when he said for us to live in the spirit. So go with me to first Thessalonians, excuse me. And let’s take a look at the scripture and, and really just meditate on it for just a moment. Verse 16 through 18 says this be cheerful,

    no matter what would you put in the commentary for yourself? This is not for me now. No matter what, put that in the commentary, would you be cheerful no matter what, pray all the time. Now, let me define that. If you went into the amplified version, you did a study on that word, pray. That’s not like praying a recital of words or a script or a written prayer or a list of,

    I want things. The prayer it’s that there is communion, communion, communion, like dialogue. Be dialoguing with me all the time. Be cheerful, no matter what, pray all the time. I think it should be reversed. If I were writing this being communion with me all the time as John 15 seven says, remain in me and I will remain in you though,

    my spirit and why were to remain in you? That premise will allow you to be cheerful no matter what, no matter what we go on, it says, thank God, no matter what happens, there is again, no matter what, if you haven’t already put it in the comments, put it in the comments and no matter what, this is the way God wants you,

    who belong to Jesus Christ to live the live in the spirit. Well, let’s go back. Do we just read two verses, but let’s go back. Be cheerful, no matter what does it mean? Like how hot somebody just got hit by a car? No, as you study the other translations, as you study commentaries, as you study the word and you stop and let the holy spirit counsel you on what this says,

    you’ll understand that this cheerfulness is a reference to being not conscious, be fully conscious. The God is in control. No matter what you’re looking at, no matter what you’re experiencing, no matter what you see, God is in control. That is worth being cheerful about the other part of it, which comes out of Romans 8, 28 through 30. He’s working somehow all things together for the good of his children each and every one of us.

    Now, here’s what we talked about last night. And that’s what really spearheaded me. Do you know that some of the things that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, you know, all of the prophets did or prophesized, or, you know, went through, performed a miracle and created a sense of change and transformation. Hundreds of years later, 400 years later,

    200 years later, they never even saw the working all things together for the good, because the funnel of Adam and Eve, the funnel listen to the funnel of all of this was the focus on Jesus. The Redeemer coming to give us life everlasting and our life is still in the process because the story has been written. We haven’t seen the end of the story until we walked through the pearly gates.

    Do you want to see what I’m saying? So we can be careful, even if we don’t see our prayers answered right now, we can be cheerful knowing that he knows what’s best for us. We can be cheerful no matter what the government’s doing, no matter what the circumstances, what the economics are doing, know what the health issues are. We can be cheerful because God is in control.

    That’s worth being cheerful for. So if you get that, if that comes across to you and put cheerful in the comments, put cheerful in the comments for us today. So the cheerful, no matter what print all the time, thank God, no matter what happens, this is the way God wants you and I to belong to Christ Jesus. And to live.

    I look at 19 and 20 and 21 and 22. Don’t suppress the spirit. Raise your hand. If you suppress the spirit, what does that mean? If you hear that quiet, whisper. If you hear that sense or you read that scripture and you know, that’s for you and you walk away and ignore that you suppressed the holy spirit. When you are sensing in your spiritual consciousness,

    this is not the way to go. I should, you know, and I’m not talking about the big things. It could be the very simple things, because as we do in the simple things we’re going to do in the big things. And he says, don’t suppress the spirit. And don’t stifle. Those who have a word from the master. You know how many times that we may not listen to someone,

    give you an example. My little Valentina, she’s either Elijah’s spirit in, in, in, in the flesh, but she is just amazing young girl. And especially both of them are of course, but she has the sense of the spirit. She has the sense of the spirit. And you’ll say something, but because she’s only nine years old, it would be easy to tell her what you should think.

    It would be easy to be able to say, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’d be easy because she may not be able to explain it in the amount of language that would be easy to, for an adult to communicate. But do we stifle them? What Jesus said, bring the little children to me, don’t stay for them because that’s worse than that thing.

    You can imagine. He talks about, you know, throwing them in the sea with something around their neck and, and letting them drown. If you did this to the child, I mean, he really gets very visual in that situation. He says, bring these little shootings to me. Why from the, from the mouth of babes, great wisdom comes.

    You’ve heard that thing. I’m sure before. So don’t surpass the spirit and don’t stifle. Those who have a word from the master. You know, so often someone you don’t expect may have a really great word for you. So often if you’re listening to the spirit, go back up to those first verses. And you’re in communion with the Lord and it could be a bum on the street.

    It could be a waitress. It could be. And they say something, they may be only a voice from God speaking through them. And they may not even be totally conscious of it. But the reality is, are we listening? Because we’re hearing God’s voice and listening. We definitely won’t stifle that word. So again, don’t suppress the spirit, listen closely in obey what he says to you.

    It’s for your very best. And don’t stifle. Those who have a word for the master. On the other hand, don’t be gullible. I mean, don’t just chase every word down. Don’t be like a fool. And you know, this is the way it going in and that’s the way and go at it. And it talks about that in the,

    in the old Testament house. Sometimes we just go into the left and right. And we’re just running around in circles from every word. What would Jeff, how would I know which one, how do I know which one’s right or wrong? Glad you asked that question. The word, because if somebody brings you the word, the Bible says, test everything by the word,

    test everything by the word. When Paul went to Athens and he went to the teachings and he went to, to the, you know, to Berea and he, he listened to all these philosophies for the whole day. I mean, he honored and respected their beliefs. Why? Because after he had done that, they respected him to give his testimony and his understanding of God and his understanding of the gospel.

    What did they do? Did they believe right away? No, they were wise individuals, probably the wisest around at that point, they all went home and examined what Paul said against the scriptures. And the next day multitudes had come to Christ because they had seen what Paul shared was from the spirit and was from God and his word, not from Paul,

    not from Jeff, not from anybody else. Are you following me? So in turn, on the other hand, don’t be gullible. Check out everything, check out everything B be wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove, the scripture says, and keep only what is good dispense with whatever else is, is thrown at ya throughout anything tainted with evil.

    Now, what are we talking about today? We are talking about the relationship of living life, life, real life, male, female child, student worker, retiree in the hospital, hospital life real life, no matter where you have been placed in this story, no matter where you’ve been placed in this relationship of life, living life, the way the spirit leads.

    And the only way to do that without getting twisted up is to truly listen to the holy spirit, truly be in that community. And that, that will forever first versus talk about really being in consciousness. Do you want to listen to the spirit more? Do you want to take the spirit out of your per time and devotional time in the morning, inspirational time,

    put it in the, in the comments again, I want to hear the spirit, put that in the comments. I want to hear the spirit, put that on the, on the alter right now and allow that fragrance to go up in the spirit of God, because you know who wants that more than you is God, because he wants his children to be guided,

    cared for, watched over alert. Knowing ahead, before the circumstances take place and being conscious of being cheerful, knowing that he’s working all things together for good. He wants that for you. So if you want that, if you want to really hear the spirit, if you really want to understand the spirit, if you really want to be conscious of the spirit so you can live life in the spirit,

    then the relationship is this five words that I use since the first days that I came to the Lord, the first word is stuck stuffed. In fact, I think I got that today. My journaling today. Yes, I did. I even showed you one of the words you shared with me. Stop. You see that stop and stop. Stop all the chatter.

    Stop all the doing. Stop. All the, the processing. Stop. All the electrical calling and dings and beings really stop. I put that in the, in the notes, stop capital letters, put it in stop. And for those that are like eight type, let me put an explanation point after that, stop really stop. If you really want to live life in the spirit,

    you really want to hear the spirit. The first of five keys to transformation that Lord has put in my heart and I’ve taught for over 45 years now and live, try to live every day. Stop. I could be in the busiest day and I know it’s going downhill. I know I’m in a tailspin and I’ll go bury myself to just stop. Just stop,

    stop thinking, stop trying stuff. Stop. And in the stillness, Psalms 46 10 says be still and just know that I’m God, I’m here with you. I’ll never leave you or forsake you. I’ve told you that I am in control. I’m working all things together for the good. And I like what he’s been telling me recently, he’ll say to me now,

    listen, I got this. I got this. So the reality to that is, is that you have to stop. What’s the second word. Listen, once you get into that state, listen, don’t just buzz in and buzz out. Stop. Bring that stillness to know that he’s God that he’s with you, bring their consciousness, bring that, that atmosphere around you,

    of the, of the kingdom of God that it’s talked about throughout the scriptures. And then, and then take the time to listen. What is he saying too? I got this. I’m working all things together for the good I haven’t lost control. I don’t care what the news media says. I don’t care what the pandemic is. The numbers are.

    I don’t care. I don’t care. I’m in control. Been here, done this already. Jeff, after you’ve listened change, transform. And you know, you don’t have to do anything except surrender. Your thinking of before there was running around and everything’s going upside down. You’re conscious of the task that you got to get through. And the time is getting passed to what you all that you change because he said,

    when you stopped, he’s got this, he’s working on things together. And if you come out of your closet or you come out of the bathroom or we’re coming wherever you were at stopping you change, you’re transformed you Romans chapter 12, verse two, you’ve been transformed by the renewing of your mind. God’s in control. Me and I was getting scared.

    I thought I was in control. Oh my God, I am so grateful. I am not in control. And then obey. That’s the fourth word? Obey. Obey means to believe what he said. When he was walking gyrus to go heal his daughter and the woman stopped him and the woman with blood, anytime Jesus took the time to hear and dialogue with her and then heal her.

    That was for him for Jaris. That was so long and a child was dying. And by the time the Jesus turned back to him, his servant says, don’t bother the master. Your daughter’s dead. Oh my gosh. What a, what an impact? What does Jesus say? Jesus says, cheers. Jared’s Jaris. Stop. Listen to me changed from thinking how they’re thinking.

    Don’t be afraid. He says just believe don’t be afraid. Just believe don’t be afraid that the world’s in control. You’re in control the S the health issues. The disease is in control, just believe. And the fifth word that I’ll close on is trust. And although you may know this verse, study it because after you have stopped after you’ve listened,

    after you have changed and been transformed by the renewing of your mind, and you obey and believe what you have sensed and felt and heard in the spirit, then it is an absolute must that you trust. That’s the fifth word trust in the Lord. Proverbs chapter three, verse five and six, read it eat. And if you could recite it word for word,

    read it slower, read it in every translation. You can get your hands on or get in your app. Trust in the Lord and lean, not on your own understanding. Stop trying to be God and let God be God, stop trying to fix it and let him restore, renew and replace it. If necessary, understand to trust in the Lord is the highest level of surrender,

    because we have to re surrender that we’re in control. We know better. We are smarter, just like a child who thinks that they’re smarter than their parents. And they’re not, no matter what digital things that they have and all that intelligence of electronics, they’re not smarter than the wisdom of life of the parent that may give them them the life itself.

    How are we thinking we’re better or smarter than God? Would you say Jeff? I never, never feel that way. Every time you take your life in your own hands, you are seeing without words, but with action, I am in control. I am God in this circumstance. Oh yes. Check the scriptures out. But every time I surrender,

    I say, Lord, this is not what I want. This is the prayer to disseminate. This is not what I want, but I will be done Lord, that I will be done because your will, your power, your strength, your love for me is greater than anything else. And that’s why in first, John chapter four verse 16 says,

    rely and depend on this love that God has for you. So living life in the spirit, you may want to review over this, this session this morning. It’s really the most important part of our walk, living in the spirit. For two reasons, it makes it a whole lot easier for you and me to live life in the spirit and not trying to fix our lives and take control of our lives.

    But it’s also the illumination that is in the world of our life, weight, eating to others. When something happens to you, your testimony that you look to them and say, you know, God’s got this, guy’s working all things together for the good. And I’m not just seeing words. I’m not just saying, make those words come out of your mouth.

    I’ve seen from your soul that you believe in him, that sense that all things are working together for the good. I may not even see all those things work together for the good, I mean that see the result of this. But I will from heaven. I will, from my eternal position of my life. Wow. You ready to live life in the spirit then in the comments say,

    yes, I’m ready. Yes. I’m ready. Yes. I’m ready. And then do me a favor, please. Listen to me, share this message with your finger and click share. Send it out. I’m going to check afterwards if you’ve done that, because if you really got something from today and I’d love you to put in, in the,

    in the comments, what you got out of this, what’s one thing, one thing that you, you are extracting from this Mo this time of what look like, listen to this, look like it was going to be a discussion with my dear friend, Tony Valori. It was going to be, it was improv. I sent out a post and an early post I got already in and found out he couldn’t make it.

    I could have just canceled. I could have just said, you know, you know, postpone, but the Lord had better idea. Cause when I went there, I said, what am I supposed to do? Or, you know, when somebody doesn’t show up, what do you do? These live in the spirit, share with them. What I’ve shared with you.

    You don’t have to make things up. So as you go through this day, every time you find yourself playing God, and that sounds harsh, but it’s true. Every time that you are playing God, fixing and maneuvering, people are maneuvering. Your life are trying, and you’re going faster than you think you’re going to catch up sooner or later. You know what that’s like?

    It’s like the hamster wheel say, stop, listen, change, obey and trust that moment of pause. That moment of listening. That moment of believing that moment of trusting would change your life. That I can guarantee that I can guarantee. So let me know your thoughts in the, in the commentaries. Let me know your, your challenges. Tell me,

    but most of all of anything, please let me know. Let me know. One thing that today spoke to you that whoever’s on now or later on the replay that an unexpected teaching, an unexpected circumstance that caused the event, not the happen, turned out to be this sharing with you 27 minutes. What did you personally get out of this from the Lord?

    Take the time to really put it in there in the comments. Not for my good, but for you to be able to express as how Baca chapter two verses two through four says when you have had revelation, write it down, write it down because as you write it down, Habakkuk says it will Herald you. It will remind you, it will encourage you.

    It will sound the trumpets for you to remember when you’re faced with that moment to take control again, to take control again, to fix your wife, to fix your husband, to fix your kids, to fix the world, to fix, fix, fix, fix, fix, fix your granddaughters, whatever it is you step back, step back and let God be God and work all things together for the good.

    Have a beautiful, beautiful weekend. Looking forward to reading some of your comments. See it Monday.