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Release part 2

05/03/2018 20:05

Love is giving. So in order to receive it, you must release it. In order to, in a sense, prove that you have it, you have to share it. And this is how I always try to explain that: You can't give what you don't have. You can only give what you do have. So if you love someone--if you give...

Release part 1

05/02/2018 19:53

The point of receiving... is having something to release. And, look, I'm not saying there aren't built in benefits. There certainly are. Especially when you consider that what we are receiving, and releasing, is love. How could there not be a built in benefit to letting God love the hell out of us?...

Receive part 5

05/01/2018 19:45

You have to receive in order to have something to release. Because you can't earn it. Let me say that again: You CAN'T earn it. "Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:9). Its not about what we can do. Its about what God can do in us, and through us, and as us. Its about what LOVE...

Receive part 4

04/30/2018 20:03

I think what I was trying to say yesterday is that it's important to receive. Because in order for you to be receiving something, someone has to be giving something. And that's not always easy for people. Reaching out makes you vulnerable. It gives someone else the chance to slap your hand away....

Receive part 3

04/29/2018 20:11

I don't really like cupcakes. Even chocolate ones. Shocking, I know. But at work when a kid has a birthday, he or she almost always brings cupcakes. And they usually bring them around the whole school offering them to all of the staff. And I usually politely decline. Because I don't really like...

Receive part 2

04/28/2018 19:50

Receiving is so important, because it gets us out of the mindset of getting. So often we spend our Three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) trying to get the things we think we haven't got. We waste our lives chasing the very things we've always had. And we do it, in my opinion, because we don't believe...

Receive part 1

04/27/2018 20:09

I preach about receiving and releasing a lot. Because I think its important. The secret of life, perhaps. Because the thing that we are receiving and releasing is the gift of God. Which is eternal life. Which is knowing the one true God and the One whom He sent. Knowing the Father in the context of...

Power part 5

04/26/2018 20:13

What we have been given is what we have to give. We have NOT been given a spirit of fear. A spirit of doubt, and a lack of self-confidence. That's not what we have. That's not who we are. We HAVE been given a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. We HAVE been given the gift of God, which is...

Power part 4

04/25/2018 19:50

Power, love, a sound mind. That's what we've been given. And that is a spirit. THE Spirit. The Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The truth that God is love and He loves you. And that's the point. Receiving and releasing His love. Its not a spirit of fear that...

Power part 3

04/24/2018 19:54

It takes power to do something powerful. Makes sense, right? But watch this: The word "power" in 2 Timothy 1:7 is number 1411 in Strong's Greek Concordance and it means, "force; specifically miraculous power." And since we're talking about love I want to say this as clearly as I can: Love is a...

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