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Having a Victorious Thought Life - Winning the Battle

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Scriptural examples and practical ways that I have discovered in having a victorious thought life. Here is the FaceBook Live video that started the podcast off! Show Notes: Chronology of sin; Looking at a woman and committing adultery Matthew 5:27-30 ; Setting no wicked thing before our eyes Psalm 101:3 Look - think - heart - action; We are our thought life Prov 23:7; Exploring 2 Cor 10:3-5 ; Matt 4 and Luke 4 Jesus models our warfare; Devil wants to topple the first thought domino; Casting down strongholds of the imagination; Exploring Joshua 1:7,8 ; Observing and following through; Speaking the Word out loud; Meditating day and night on the Word; This leads to good success; Deut 11:18 memorizing scripture ; Deut 30:14 mouth and heart; Psalms 1:1-2 delighting in the Word; Psalm 119:11 hiding the Word in our heart; Proverbs 3:1 Heart keeping commandments; Colossians 3:16 let Word dwell in us richly; exploring John 8:31,32 Conti...

Ever Increasing Faith - Book Review

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Book review of Smith Wigglesworth's book Ever Increasing Faith. Should you get this book? I believe it is an excellent book! Listen to the podcast to find out why I like it, and learn some theological views that Wigglesworth had that you may not be aware of. I love to study people who have 'signs of a believer'; This book is like a handbook for ministry; Wigglesworth on unforgiveness and healing; Wigglesworth on the 'thorn in the flesh'; Wigglesworth on sin and sickness; Wigglesworth on sickness and disobedience; Wigglesworth healed of appendicitis; Wigglesworth talks about moving pain; Wigglesworth on Shouting in Faith; Wigglesworth on unprofitable conversation; Wigglesworth on decreasing ourselves; Wigglesworth on money; LINKS: TWITTER COMMENTS FACEBOOK COMMENTS Christian Yoga Deception   ; Ever Increasing Faith Book

Cessationist Pastor Gets Healed Part 2 - Garry Nesbit Interview

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I remember the fluorescent hum of a Walmart aisle on a Sunday night. It is the kind of place where you expect to find milk, bread, or maybe a discounted set of tires—not necessarily a manifestation of the raw power of the Holy Spirit. But there I was, talking with my friend Garry Nesbitt, a man who spends his days repairing windshields and his spare moments repairing broken lives through prayer. Garry has this habit, one that every believer should cultivate: he and his wife ask God every single day to cross their paths with someone who needs a touch from the Lord. On this particular Sunday evening, they weren't looking for a theological debate. They were just picking up a few items when they saw a man sitting in one of those chairs near the front of the store, visibly twisted in pain. Beside him was his cousin. As Garry struck up a conversation, he discovered something striking: this man wasn't just a random shopper; he was an associate pastor at a cessationist church. For tho...

Cessationist Pastor Gets Healed Part 1

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I remember standing in a small West Texas town years ago, just a young boy sitting in a school auditorium. The air was thick with anticipation. There were some singers—I forget their names now—and a man preaching the Word. But then, something happened that I will never forget. The presence of the Holy Spirit came into that little auditorium so strongly it felt like a physical weight. I remember thinking, "Wow, God is here." I was so moved, so shaken by the reality of His presence, that it changed the way I looked at everything. But here is the struggle: many of us are raised in environments where we are told those experiences aren't for today. You might be sitting in a pew every Sunday, reading your Bible, and yet feeling like there is a wall between you and the power described in the book of Acts. You see the miracles in the text, but your daily life feels devoid of the supernatural. Maybe you have even been told, as I was, that the "gifts have ceased." This ...

Why does the Church ignore Pentecost?

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Have you ever scrolled through your social media feed in late spring and noticed a strange silence? In December, your screen is a literal forest of Christmas trees. By April, it’s a flood of pastel eggs and bunnies. But then comes Pentecost—one of the most earth-shaking, supernatural events in the history of the world—and... nothing. Crickets. It’s like the "birthday of the Church" has become the holiday the modern establishment wants to forget. I remember sitting in a stiff wooden pew years ago, surrounded by the smell of old hymnals and floor wax. The preacher was a good man, but he was a firm cessationist. He spoke about the Bible as if it were a history book about a God who used to do cool things but had since retired to a library. When the topic of Pentecost came up, it was treated like a strange, one-time lightning strike that we should study from a safe distance, but never, ever expect to happen again. This is the pain point for so many of us today. We read about the...