I write my leaders hand written notes of encouragement every month. It’s so cool to hear their responses, especially if they can’t read them! With the invention of the computer and the smart phone, I rarely hand write anything anymore. This has caused my penmanship skills to greatly deteriorate. Putting a pen in my hand can lead to scribbles; whereas if you put that same pen in someone else’s hands, you can see a work of art. Same pen, two very different results.
Living with a biblical worldview is a daily process of allowing the Spirit to retrain our brains to think differently. You become more like Jesus and see a work of art by putting the Set Free Nowww tools into the Spirit’s hands. Or, you can never pick them up or use them yourself and end up with religion, an illegible work of man. These tools are God given and need God’s power to allow the great exchange to take place – us with Jesus. I’m getting better at daily giving Him the tools. I hope you are as well.
Set Free Now“W”w

I heard the most interesting phrase today. “Fish don’t know they’re wet.” How could they? This is all they’ve ever known.
This statement is also true for the believer in Christ. You only know what you know right now. Until you’re exposed to the truth, you can’t know what or the way you’re thinking is not healthy for you, which only leads you away from Jesus by the taking of your drug(s) of choice (i.e. your sinful behavior).
This is why we need to be in the Word of God each day listening to Jesus. We need an outside source telling us that we are wet, that our thinking is not helping us become more like Him – the Source of all the good stuff that we want in life.
How’s your commitment to reading through the Bible in a year coming along? Mine is going great!
S“E”t Free Nowww

I read the most interesting story today about a very successful woman. By the world’s standards she had it all – beauty, brains, connections, money, position, etc. Her attitude “was more like the Billy Joel song: ‘I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun!’” She wanted nothing to do with God as what she’d seen of those who walked with God was anything but fulfilling.
Yet as the years raced by, no matter where she went or what she did she never quite felt satisfied. The words to Joel’s song became a distant echo in her life. She said, “The fulfillment I was looking for all those years wasn’t somewhere ‘out there.’”
Where are you looking for fulfillment? The Psalmist says the LORD “satisfies the desires of every living thing. … He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him.” (145:16,19) It’s time to stop playing games with Jesus. Half-hearted Sunday only measures won’t bring the satisfaction you’re looking for.
It’s time to pick up your biblical tools (Set Free Nowww), let the Holy Spirit use them to filter out the lie-based messages so you can hear Jesus calling you toward Him, The Source of fulfillment.
S“E”t Free Nowww

One of the daily comics, Hagar the Horrible, I read was very insightful.
In the first panel Hagar, who is overweight, is sitting on a stool in his doctor’s office. He says, “Dr. Zook, I’m so out of shape I can’t even walk up a flight of stairs.”
The doctor replies, “Ah-Ha! What does that tell you that you should do?” The doctor was hoping, after all these years, to get his client to lose some weight.
In the second panel Hagar replies, “Sell my castle?”
Do you really want to see the Spirit change your life or do you want to play games like Hagar? How’s your reading and listening to Jesus in the Word coming along so far after seven days? If you’re serious about getting closer to Jesus, you must allow the Spirit to guide you into the truths you need to hear. These truths are found in the Word of God. There’s no sense complaining about the stairs unless you’re willing to do what Jesus, The Doctor, says to do.
S“E”t Free Nowww

“What in the world are you talking about?” Before you stop reading, let me explain.
A few days ago the index finger on my right hand started hurting. I didn’t have a clue how it happened, but a tiny splinter of wood entered the last digit. After seeing it through a magnifying glass I was eventually able to get it out.
We live in a fallen world where some of the information that makes its way to our brains lines up with the truth and some of it doesn’t. The lies, if allowed to remain, will lead to behaviors (aka sin) that will bring great discomfort to our lives.
Once we start to feel the pain from our bad choices, we have a choice to make. We can either deal with it by allowing the Holy Spirit to use our biblical tools (i.e. Set Free Nowww) to remove the lie causing the discomfort or we can ignore the pain and continue to experience the negative side effects of sin (i.e. guilt, shame, ruined relationships, etc.)
All lies will eventually cause pain. It doesn’t matter whether they are big or small, or how or who put them there. The issue is will the pain drive me to hear Jesus on how to stop it? If I didn’t feel pain I wouldn’t have known about the splinter, which if left in could have meant the loss of that digit.
Life without pain would just be plain miserable. Though we don’t seek the consequences of our bad choices, we can use them to allow the Spirit to draw us closer to the One who has the good stuff we seek – Jesus.
Set Free Now“W”w