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Juicy Fruit- Self Control

Fearless LA Podcast

Release Date: 06/08/2024

Unfinished Business show art Unfinished Business

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We’ve gone through some things in 2024 but we all have unfinished business that might carry through to the new year if we don’t actively choose to let go. The thing is, our unfinished business is not just going to go away at the start of the new year, that healing, forgiveness, that sin: if it’s not intentionally removed will remain. Like the Israelites that came across Jericho, there are walls we face that can only be overcome through obedience. As we lean not on our or understanding and see a circumstance through the eyes of God, it begins to give us the strength to...

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There's A Miracle Inside Your Faith! show art There's A Miracle Inside Your Faith!

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Read: John 1:9 The first Christmas wasn’t this wondrous occasion full of gifts and celebration but it was a moment where Mary had to reveal some difficult news to Joseph about the miracle baby she was carrying. He didn’t believe her yet he had to submit to obedience when the Lord asked him to trust His plan. The first Christmas was filled with feelings of betrayal and confusion but there was a greater purpose that was about to unfold. Could it be that you are running from something and cursing something that looks like it is from the enemy is actually from God?Being chosen to change...

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This Is Your Last Meal On This Level - Jeremy Johnson show art This Is Your Last Meal On This Level - Jeremy Johnson

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For Such A Time As This - Christy Johnson show art For Such A Time As This - Christy Johnson

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A Scared World Needs A Fearless Church show art A Scared World Needs A Fearless Church

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Without vision people perish, which means they expire living hopeless lives and many times they end up waiting around dead things expecting it to give them life. Religion is man made and as we go through the motions we might become dry in our faith but as a river of living water Jesus will bring life wherever He shows up.  Let’s not be like the people surrounded at the pool waiting for an angel to save them when the one who carries healing we desire,, is in the room waiting to encounter us. We can be people that hear about Jesus but because our eyes are so focused on breakthrough...

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Wake Up, Oh Sleeper show art Wake Up, Oh Sleeper

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All throughout the Bible God would constantly ask the Israelites to remember. Because sometimes looking back at the things that God got you through can give you the courage and confidence to believe that He’s going to get you through the now. But there are times that the Lord says, “I need you to forget the former things and perceive the new.” If we are looking back we will never be able to move forward into what He’s wanting to do through us. When we start living in a way that fills our house with light, we can be entrusted to change the neighborhood and then the world! The...

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Just Carry The Water show art Just Carry The Water

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God is everywhere and is not confined to a building because of that we see Jesus at a wedding, where He ends up performing one of His very first miracles. The miracle that turned water into wine wasn’t as simple as Jesus snapping His fingers but instead He gave the servants a process, a series of steps to follow that brings this miracle to pass. Oftentimes this ends up being the case with our own lives; we might be broke and He gives us a process to heal our finances, we might need community and He gives us a process to getting plugged into the family. Here are some things to remember about...

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7th Hour show art 7th Hour

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The 7th hour represents the God hour over our life as 7 is the number of completion. Sometimes in life we find ourselves stuck on a road without end but with, there is always something to expect at the finish line. It's at the 7th hour that miracles take place, it’s where the sun stands still and we see God move. The Roman Official that came to Jesus for a miracle  heard the stories but he wasn’t a follower of Jesus yet he came humbly to God as the answer for his heart's cry. What Jesus ended up giving this man was a word, a precious word that was planted on rich soil that then...

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Chosen To Change The World show art Chosen To Change The World

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The Lord longs to give us His Holy Spirit power, not just power for selfish gain but power so that we can be a witness in testifying about the truth of God. It’s okay if we don’t have the personality of the prerequisite in our biblical education to do so but all we need is the power to go out and preach this word with our lives. Along with the power we also need to be able to discern where the Holy Spirit is leading us because some things can simply be a good idea instead of a God idea. Sometimes the call of God might lead us to encounter closed doors which is why it is important to start...

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Awakening The Church! The Dangers Of Lukewarm Living show art Awakening The Church! The Dangers Of Lukewarm Living

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Revelation 3:14-17 Those who God loves, he disciplines through truth in love by giving us an honest picture of our lives. As we continue this series on the churches we see that in everything God says He is longing for intimacy with us. With the church of Laodicea He does commend them for their works but because they were a church that worked hard yet has chosen to be lukewarm, He ultimately rebukes them the most. God addresses the attitude in which they had succumbed to living their lives and implores them to become either hot or cold. Christianity is an all in the way of being, you cannot be...

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There comes a point in life when we realize that we cannot control anyone other than ourselves and we need to develop our weaknesses into strengths. If our self control starts in our minds then we need to become masters of what thought patterns are cycling through them and by living out the fruit of the spirit, its evidence will convict those around us! Sometimes the things we choose to do might not be sinful but we do need to ask the question if it was helpful or beneficial. We need to live to a standard that raises the people around us also to a new level. We need to look at every area of our lives when it comes to discipline because everything we have been given is for others and not for us.

1. Self control and discipline is a way we get to honor God. 
2. Discipline in one area will bleed into other areas. 
3. There are consequences to a lack of self control and can cost you your call

We need to take ownership and authority over our minds, our mouths and our actions. If we are more concerned about what people see instead of what God sees we have completely missed the point. If we continue to live a life that pleases our sinful nature eventually it ends up feeling right. But the Bible doesn’t tell us to follow our flesh, it asks us to crucify it and we need to be people who pursue that discipline till the end. Jesus himself displayed the greatest moment of self control by dying on the cross for us and He did so that we have a model to look at as we are on this journey!

Application:
What are some areas that you lack self control that you need to be made obedient to Christ? Prayer:
Father I ask that you help me self control and discipline. I long to please you in every area of my life so I ask that you help me strengthen and work on my weaknesses so that I continue to look like you!