In the book Fearless, the story of Navy Seal Adam Brown, the author shares about Adam’s checkered past, which if known to those in his group, could have sunk his career. One day while relaxing on a pier watching a fisherman, Adam opened up about his past with a fellow SEAL. Something neither had done during their intense training to become SEAL’s in the first place.
Adam shared about his past drug use, the still tempting voice to go back to that drug, his jail time, the heartbreak his drug use had caused his wife and family and how as a believer in Jesus, becoming a SEAL was not just a dream, but his last hope.
His buddy shared, “I was awestruck. I was glad to know that he had his demons too. I know I sure did. Weakness makes people real, and he let me know his, and that took serious trust. If the wrong people got wind of his past, that could have been bad for him. Something in him trusted me and so I shared my demons with him. As we walked away from that pier I thought, This guy is good to go. I could trust him completely.”
It takes tremendous strength to share your weakness with another believer; and yet, James 5:16 states it’s the only way to see your life changed. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:10, “For when I am weak, then I am strong.” This is not an oxymoron. The truth is that when we realize we’re weak, we can run to the only unlimited source of strength there is in this world – Jesus. And more often than we may care to acknowledge, He will use other believers to give us the strength we need to defeat our past and current drug of choice use.
It’s time to trust the Word of God. Let others in on your dirty secrets so the Spirit can clean them up and out.
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Today we learned from our Arab brothers in Bethlehem about the ancient world’s version of a flashlight.
People would take a clay lamp, like the one pictured here, fill it with a little olive oil as to not spill it and then tie one to each foot. This lamp contained a very small wick; thus, it would give the person just enough light to walk one step at time in the darkness.
Kind of gives meaning to the Psalmist words, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” (119:105) Notice it’s “a lamp to my feet” not my head or eyes. The author was telling the reader that God doesn’t necessarily shine His light very far down our path. He is asking us to trust Him with each step we literally take in following Him.
If you’re in His word listening for specific lie-fighting and filtering truths, you can make the right choice to turn to Jesus in any moment of any given day.
Don’t let tomorrow stress you out. It will only lead you down the path to your drug of choice. Instead, keep walking one step at a time in the presence of Jesus using the truths He gives you. As you do, you’ll find all that you’re looking for in life – love, significance and security.
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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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