We were in a Druze village bringing humanitarian aid to poor families when I spotted this tree. It’s a pomegranate tree where the fruit was left to rot on the tree. It was never picked and eaten or used. What a waste of a source of nourishment.
A Bible left unused is like fruit left on a tree, a wasted source of nourishment. Yet, how many Jesus believers fail to pick up and use the Word of God? We have been given a tree full of fruit, but many fail to pick and eat it.
If you want to taste the sweetness of victory over your cycle of defeat, you must decide to pick the truths out of the Book and then follow Jesus by using them throughout your day.
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Bible prophecy is very specific and is coming true before your very eyes. Isaiah 35:1-2,6 states, “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus it will burst into bloom…Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” This is pictured here just outside Arad Israel in the middle of the Negev Desert.
Sprinklers drawing from reservoirs are turning desert into wheat fields and rocky/sandy soil into fruit orchards. Before the Israelis returned home, this area was a vast desert. The Beduins simply traversed this area, rather than farmed it.
Specific truths not only work with prophecy, but are absolutely necessary in real life as well. Just as fruit has come to the desert, so to fruit can come to your life. But, you must be willing to use the FREEdom process to exchange the lies in your thinking with specific truths the Spirit gives you from the Word. Christian cliches will not work, and neither will generalities.
As you read the Bible, ask the Spirit to give you specific truths to put into your shield of faith. Your enemy will throw fiery darts that can drive you to your drug of choice unless you extinguish them using these specific truths, biblical tools.
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This Israeli flag is flapping in the wind atop Masada. To Jewish people, this place has become a symbol of their “never again” belief. It was here that the last of the zealots (the freedom fighters of their day [Matthew 10:4 – Jesus had one in His group]) of the 66 AD Jewish Revolt against the Romans were ‘defeated.’ It would be the last Jewish presence in this area until the Israeli victory in the Six Day War of ’67, almost a 1,000 years later!
The last 900+ members of the Israeli army gathered in the synagogue on top of King Herod’s mountain fortress to decide their own fate. They believed in their cause so much that they decided to take their own lives and go out as free men rather than die at the hands the Romans or worse end up as their slaves.
We have to make that same choice each and every day. Do we believe the truths found in Scripture, our biblical tools, will actually bring freedom over our drugs of choice? Are we willing to die to ourselves, our way of thinking, our way of solving our challenges, and our way of meeting our needs to trust in Jesus, who is more zealous for our freedom than we are (“it is for freedom that Christ has set us free”)?
Hopefully your faith is more than a mere ascent to a number of doctrines or creeds. Hopefully it is something you’re willing to die for as victory only comes in death – ours. Freedom from your drug of choice will take real faith, one that exercises the truths the Spirit gives every day everywhere you go throughout your day.
Make the choice today, right now, to die to you and live through Jesus. Death is the only way to victory.
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I can’t tell you where I saw this car, but suffice it to say that today I traveled in both Palestinian and Israeli controlled areas. Either way, the owner of this car put a bullseye on their back…on purpose! They didn’t have to let anyone know they believe in Jesus; and yet, they have put it out there for everyone to see. Believers in Jesus are not warmly embraced in either country.
This is a huge and costly step of faith they’ve taken. They will either grow stronger in their faith as they choose each day to respond the way Jesus would to the slights, the stares and the stones they will face, all of which can lead to one’s drug of choice. Or, they will wilt under the intense daily pressure by running away – either emotionally or physically.
You might not deal with the same kind of pressure this believer faces each day, but the moment you placed your faith in Jesus, you choose to put a bullseye on your back…on purpose! Your enemy wants to intimidate, harass and unhinge you so you turn to your drug of choice rather than to Jesus.
Don’t attempt to cover up your bullseye. Instead, choose to keep putting up your shield of faith in the specific truths the Spirit has given you. This way your faith will continue to grow stronger with each passing day.
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Capernaum was Jesus’ home base and the location where He began His ministry. It’s name in Hebrew is actually two words, Kephar Nachum, and means, “the village of the comforter.” It was no coincidence Jesus camped out here.
Long before He was born, the Bible revealed in Isaiah 9 that this area would be called “the Galilee of the nations/gentiles,” not Israel. And yet there would come a time when the people would see a great light that would ease their burden.
Who was going to ease that burden? Jesus. He would be the light that would shine into their hearts to change them from the inside out. No matter how much outside pressure they faced, they could be at peace on the inside.
We head to our drugs of choice because of inside pressure; but when we’re at peace within, we don’t need them. Jesus is your comforter. He is the One who can bring light into any situation and bring comfort no matter what you’re facing.
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