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December 6, 2019
SHINE HIS LIGHT
Choosing to see yourself as He sees you gives others the opportunity to see Jesus in you. Choosing to see others how He sees them gives you the opportunity to represent Jesus. Become the Jesus people need to see today and receive your blessing!
HOLY GHOST ROCK STARS
As things spin more and more out of control on this earth, know that this is why: what is celebrated in Heaven is not celebrated on earth because the King of Heaven is not celebrated on this earth. Jesus is the ruler of things in heaven and, my friend, He is good!
And Jesus said unto him, “Why call me good? None is good, except one, that is, God.” – Luke 18:19
The One who is good is coming back soon. Know that there will be more and more opposition to His appearance and, because of this, a greater hostility to His goodness and yours.
Despite this growing hostility toward good and celebration of evil, your calling as a Christ follower who understands that God is a good God is to continue going around doing good! Not only that, you are to do good things in His name!
When the world calls you a hypocrite for calling people to repentance, call them to repentance anyway!
When the world calls you a fake for feeding and clothing the poor or visiting the prisoner, do it anyway!
When the world tells you that your efforts to save the lost are futile, continue to extend a hand to the drowning. Testify to the love of Jesus and His saving grace anyway!
When the world hates you because you’re a Christian, know that the world first hated Jesus (John 15:18) for bringing light into the darkness and exposing sin. Continue shining His light anyway!
You’re not called to a life of fear even when things get tough. You are called to be a Holy Ghost rock star who stands in front of the band and shouts into the microphone that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life – no man comes to the Father except through Him.
You see, the results don’t belong to you, but to Him! Your job is to be obedient.
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. – Isaiah 55:11
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DO GOOD IN THE FACE OF EVIL, EVEN IF THOSE AROUND YOU PERSECUTE YOU. FEAR NOT! BE OF GOOD COURAGE BECAUSE JESUS IS THE LORD OF THE HARVEST!
FROM MY BOOK GOOD OVERCOMES EVIL
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December 5, 2019
Episode 22 – An Interview with Austin Cole
Austin Cole died went to heaven and came back with a message listen in as he, his mama, and Pastor Troy discuss his experience.
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WHERE IS YOUR REFUGE?
Welcome to the perfectly flawed world created for your entertainment and endurance training. Your “over” is “coming” right around the bend of life as you know it. Focus only on those things above your circumstances and rise to your reward.
REFUSE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE
Over the years, I’ve come to know God speaks through the headlines and events all around us. Music is one of His favorite microphones and musicians are often His “accidental” prophets. Take the prophet Tom Petty, for instance.
1979 was not a good year for the singer/songwriter. The pressure of the music business was getting to him. His label, ABC Records, tried to sell his contract to MCA Records without him or this band, The Heartbreakers, knowing it. Angry at the system, defiant and refusing to be a victim, he pushed forward with his new recording. The music reflected his mood.
“Damn the Torpedoes!” struck a chord in our society and became an instant classic. Those three words, “Damn the torpedoes,” were made infamous by US Naval Captain David Farragut as he pushed “full steam ahead” against the odds at the Battle of Mobile Bay to victory in the War of 1812. Somehow, Petty tapped into that spirit. His song “Refugee” was an anthem against defeat with the words:
“Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.
Tell me, why you wanna lay there and revel in your abandon?
Listen, it don’t make no difference to me. Everybody’s gotta fight to be free.
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.”
A refugee is someone without a shelter, a home – a safe place. Refugees struggle to survive because they don’t have a place of protection. Petty was determined to be a survivor. Where was his place of refuge? Was it in Jesus? I don’t know. I do know that album gave Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers a miraculous survivor story.
Miraculous survivor stories always have one thing in common – a place of refuge.
A Japanese businessman survived the bombing of Hiroshima because he was working in a bank vault. An Indonesian woman survived five days at sea when a tsunami carried her away from her family. Her refuge? A floating palm tree. She held on tight, eating the fruit and bark until she was rescued.
Don’t you just love hearing a good survival story? So does God, but He especially loves to write them! He wrote yours!
Jesus knows the importance of refuge. He doesn’t just offer to build you one. He offers to be your refuge. David took him up on the offer. So should you.
“Be merciful to me, oh God. For my soul trusts in you. And in the shadow of your wings, I will make my refuge.”
– Psalm 57:1
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO KNOW GOD LOVES A SURVIVOR, BUT HE WON’T LEAVE YOU THAT WAY. HE’LL MAKE YOU AN OVERCOMER!
FROM MY BOOK BEST OF BREWER
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December 4, 2019
YOU WILL OVERCOME
Crush the lies the enemy throws at you by praising God and worshipping Jesus. When you replace wrong thoughts with praise and worship you will always overcome!
HERE COMES THE JUDGE!
This is what’s real: you have the God-given ability to arrest every thought at every stage of development. You can also advance those thoughts to the next level. Just because you are aware of a subject, does not mean you have to entertain thoughts about it into the advanced stages – that’s where trouble becomes manifest.
Remember what Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”
– 1 Corinthians 11:31
For example, you can be aware of the fact you don’t have the money to pay your bills without having a mental breakdown. If you entertain that thought and let your mind revolve around it, it will absolutely advance into thoughts more painful. You will begin to panic at the endless “I should have,” “what if” and “what about” scenarios that will crowd your mind.
I should never have bought that new phone! What if they repossess my car? What about my credit? What if they turn off my electricity? These are the thoughts that will fill your head with strife and your body with tension. It will inevitably show up in some nasty behavior or malicious outburst and the downward spiral has begun.
First off, when you ask “what if,” the mental picture you are conjuring up is in the future and doesn’t include Jesus. If He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, He is there in your future so “what if” thoughts need to be cast down!
“Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established.”
– Proverbs 16:3
How do you stop yourself before your thoughts become worries, and those worries become actions? Be aware of the thought’s potential and JUDGE IT accordingly. At the moment you become aware that a thought wants dominion over your thinking, discern whether it’s from God. If it’s not, verbally commit your thinking to Jesus. Praise and thank Him for the answers yet to come.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO JUDGE YOUR THOUGHTS! ARREST THE ONES THAT WANT TO ROB YOU OF YOUR JOY AND TAKE YOU INTO DESPAIR. CAST THEM DOWN AND THINK ON BETTER THINGS!
FROM MY BOOK SOUL INVASION
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December 3, 2019
WHAT ARE YOU BUILDING?
Jesus said, “my peace I leave with you,” and He wasn’t kidding! He has given you access to His “peace that passes all understanding.” (Philippians 4:6-7) Don’t be anxious! Pray with thanksgiving. Meditate on His goodness and be filled with perfect peace.
THE CHIEF ARCHITECT
As the Pastor of OpenDoor Church, I don’t think my most important job is to be the best preacher around. Of course, I am hands down for at least 100 miles, but enough about me!
I think the most important job I have is to be the architect of the culture of the house. To make sure the way we do things and relate to each other looks more like heaven than hell.
This is not something we always accomplish, but it is something we always go after. The culture of the house is simply this: what we make a big deal out of, or what we don’t. This defines what we do and how we do it.
We make a big deal out of serving the poor even if they will never come to our church. We make a big deal out of healing, hearing the voice of God and prophetic things. Relationships and kindness are also big deals to us here at OpenDoor.
You see, if our culture is toxic, it doesn’t matter how much I know about the Bible, how good a preacher I am, or that I give a salvation call every Sunday.
I don’t believe God moves through a church service. I think God moves through the relationships of the people within the church service. Because of this, we can’t give the atmosphere to the enemy, and know this: he desperately wants it!
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in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience…
– Ephesians 2:2
You see, Satan is called the prince of the power of the air for a reason. He wants to control the atmosphere. He wants to fill it with anger, discord, disobedience, and lies so he can raise up a mob to crush you.
That’s why Jesus is called the “Prince of Peace.” He is the opposite of Satan and peace is the opposite of discord. If you want the Prince of Peace to show up in the midst of your mess, do this:
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do,
and the God of peace will be with you.
– Philippians 4:8-9
If you want to change the atmosphere, change your thinking. Think of Godly things and be the architect of your house, your office, car, marriage, friendships – your everything!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO MEDITATE ON GOD’S GOODNESS. DON’T LET THE ENEMY HAVE YOUR ATMOSPHERE. GIVE IT ALL TO THE PRINCE OF PEACE!
FROM MY BOOK LIVING LIFE FORWARD
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December 2, 2019
STEP INTO IT
Today is a day for pursuit. Go after those things you’ve been putting off. You have a green light until God says, “Stop!”
MAKING TRACKS
In the arena of Promised Land living, you never see what God has given you until you are willing to walk in it first. In other words, you have to be able to walk in it before you get it.
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
– Deuteronomy 11:24
When God told Joshua to cross the flooded Jordan River and go into the Promised Land, he did something very different than when they left Egypt to cross over into the wilderness. Both involved a miraculous crossing of bodies of water. Who can forget about Moses and the parting of the Red Sea?
But here at the gateway to the Promised Land, a different courage and trust was required as the key. The water didn’t part first like it did when they crossed the Red Sea. This was the Promised Land, and there was a new set of rules: they had to step into the water first. They had to start pursuing the Promised Land before the waters ever parted.
If you want an upgrade, if you want blessing and more of Jesus, the way does not present itself until you move toward it. You have to step into it first.
…and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
– Joshua 3:15-16
FROM MY BOOK GOOD OVERCOMES EVIL
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December 1, 2019
ALMOST HOME
Your position in Christ is rock solid. Your home in heaven has been prepared for you. You are His beloved child and no power of hell or earth can snatch you out of His sure grip.
ALMOST HOME
About 100 years ago, there was a missionary named Samuel Morris. Samuel spent the last 25 years of his life-giving medicine and life to people in the darkest regions of Africa.
When he came down with a terminal illness, he decided he wanted to go home to the United States to die. It just so happened, Samuel traveled back to the states on the same ocean liner that brought President Teddy Roosevelt back from his famous African hunting expedition.
When the great ship pulled into New York harbor, it looked like the entire population of the lower 48 had showed up to greet the president.
Bands were playing. Banners were waving. Choirs sang, balloons flew, flashbulbs popped and newsreels were poised to record the return of the nation’s leader. Mr. Roosevelt stepped down the gangplank to thunderous cheers and applause.
At the same time, frail and exhausted, Samuel Morris limped off the boat at the other end. No one was there to greet him. He slowly made his way through the mob, then realized there were no cabs available.
Inside his broken heart, he began to sadly complain, “Lord, the president has been in Africa for three weeks killing animals and the whole world turns out to welcome him home. I’ve been in Africa 25 years serving you and not one person has greeted me or even knows I’m here.”
No sooner had his heart whispered those words than his Lord and Savior replied. “My child, you’re not yet home.”
Let that be His response to you and me. When we start to become too attached to this world, or the people in it, may God remind us that this is temporary. It’s not home.
When we look for the applause, love, and attention of others, let Him remind us the homecoming celebration in heaven is worth the wait.
“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” – Revelation 22:12-13
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO REMEMBER THIS IS NOT YOUR HOME. DON’T SEEK THE APPLAUSE OF MEN BUT WORK TOWARD YOUR HOMECOMING IN HEAVEN.
FROM MY BOOK BEST OF BREWER
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November 30, 2019
THE MIND OF CHRIST
Willingness to work out your salvation is more than showing up and suiting up. You must take action beyond the physical. Agreeing with and aligning yourself with the Word is an ongoing action that coincides with God’s truth – not yours.
THE MIND OF CHRIST
You need to make one of the most important decisions of your life: are you going to let the mind of Christ be in your head, or are you going to allow the thinking of this world to lead your thoughts?
It is God’s desire that you submit how you think about things to the way God Almighty thinks about things. It is here that your reasoning becomes Holy Spirit led. That’s where you begin to have a mind that is full of life, pleasing to the Lord.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
– Philippians 2:5
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
– Isaiah 1:18
If you and I are reasoning together with the Lord, we are partnering with Him to not only think how He thinks but act as He acts. When we do this, we reflect Jesus and that’s the whole point of being part of the family of God – to show a family resemblance!
The more you think like God, the more you will look and act like Him. Knowing He is love, light, good, righteous and pure, you and I should be begging every day to have the mind of Christ.
Well, good news! We don’t have to beg because heirs are part of the family, not beggars! All we have to do to have the mind of Christ is freeze out ungodly thoughts and replace them with thankfulness, praise, worship and anything admirable or good.
When you refuse to get a Christ-centered worldview or get addicted to the thrill of anger, the high of being offended and the adrenaline rush that is rage, that’s when you partner with hell. That hell will be the only thing people see as your witness is crushed by wrong thinking, followed by wrong actions.
Hear me now: that’s not you!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO PROCLAIM THAT YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND TURN ANY ANGER OR NEGATIVITY OVER TO THE LORD. LET HIM REPLACE IT WITH GOOD BECAUSE GOOD OVERCOMES EVIL!
FROM MY BOOK SOUL INVASION
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November 29, 2019
LIVING KINGDOM MENTALITY
Be a lifesaver today. Find someone who is drowning and give them a hand. What better way to show the love of Jesus?
LIVING A KINGDOM MENTALITY
The church of Jesus Christ should be kingdom oriented, not a personal empire. Do not ask me to participate in your personal empire, because I want no part of it.
Empires fall without exception, but the kingdom of Jesus Christ will indeed last forever.
And He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His Kingdom, there shall be no end.
– Luke 1:33
My life belongs to the Lord. Whatever I can do to build His kingdom, I’ll do it. If that means helping a Baptist brother with his outreach, a Methodist with a mission trip, or the church next door with a revival, I’m there! Why? Because it’s not about me.
It’s about Jesus Christ being glorified. It’s about real people being saved from the clutches of darkness and slavery to Satan – forever separated from God’s goodness! Why would I not want to be a part of that, however I can?
You see, it’s not about building my kingdom or OpenDoor Church. It’s about building God’s awesome kingdom!
The body of Christ is not a worldwide organization. It is a living organism that miraculously grows by the Spirit of God. It transcends race, language, culture, geographical location and generation.
Because of this, we are not building the kingdom – we are the building of the kingdom! This body does not belong to us, but to the Lord Himself. And so it is with our thinking.
My mind belongs to Him and will be used for service to my King. A kingdom mentality keeps me submissive in my thinking and allows Jesus to truly be King, even in the secret areas of my thoughts.
What about you? Are you kingdom minded?
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
– 2 Corinthians 2:15
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO COMMIT TO A KINGDOM MENTALITY. BE A WORKING PART OF THE WORLDWIDE BODY OF CHRIST. RESCUE THOSE DROWNING IN SIN TO THE LIFEBOAT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST.
FROM MY BOOK SOUL INVASION
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November 28, 2019
YOU ARE A PART OF HIS FAMILY
Your heavenly Father wants you to know that you belong at His table. He keeps no record of your wrongs so pull up a chair! You are welcome to His amazing provision and presence today!
GOD’S GREAT BIG FAMILY VALUES
When you become part of this great big family of believers, you also inherit a great big set of family values that come from the heart of the Father Himself.
You learn to make a big deal out of what He makes a big deal out of. As you magnify the Lord, it becomes clear what things you should blow up and bring attention to. You will also understand what things to dial down because the Lord isn’t in them. Remember, not all good things are God things!
There are lots of people who never master the art of upgrade or get the fever for forward. But that’s not you!
Since you are different, it stands to reason you are going to make a big deal out of things others do not, like buying girls out of sexual slavery, or feeding homeless people, or giving backpacks filled with school supplies to kids in your town.
I have found the values of those of us who journey in the fast lane are quite a bit different from the values of the world. You’ll see that too, the longer you walk with Jesus.
Do you remember the lessons of the wilderness?
When you learn the lesson, you learn to have a high priority for the things you were taught – God loves you unconditionally, He provides all your needs and He sees you as an overcomer, not a loser! You are a mighty warrior for good, so jerk that pistol and get to work!
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”
– Romans 12:21
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF WHAT GOD VALUES – RELATIONSHIPS, REDEMPTION, AND RESTORATION. BRAG ON YOUR FATHER GOD SO OTHERS WILL WANT TO MEET HIM TOO!
FROM MY BOOK LIVING LIFE FORWARD
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