Blog Posts - Collaborative Transformation

New Creations

5/27/2023

1 Samuel 10:6 NLT
At that time the Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.”

See when Saul is open to accept what God says he was set apart but when he thinks of his transformation as nothing, he turns to the world and the change means nothing. Its ties in with what Jesus says in John chapter 12.

John 12:25 NLT
“Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.”

Truly this is how we live like Jesus. We don’t get caught up in our desires and lusts and we let go of all that drives our flesh and feelings, and we live the way Jesus showed us. When His example means more to us, then we will understand what it is to live. Look what He says next,

John 12:26 NLT
“Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me.”

Who do you serve? When it is Him and not us, we thrive, and God gets the glory. Amen

Born Again

5/8/2023

John 3:5-7 NLT
“Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’”

We have to accept Jesus and believe who He is and we will receive the Spirit that will give us rebirth. That will come a long with a dying to yourself and a desire to live like Jesus. The light will draw us in because we long for that new and we surrender our desires for His truth.

John 3:18-21 NLT
““There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.””

Believe is a word of action and surrender, if you don’t have that change and release of the old self you have not let go and turn to the Light. When we love our life and what we desire more than our Lord and Savior, we turn from Him because we are exposed to our sin.

This sin is anything that we chose to do that is opposite of what the Word (Bible) says. The light offends us because we want what we want. (This comes in anything you desire more than God.)

When we run to the light and live in His ways, we show people what right living looks like, and they can follow us because we follow Jesus. The light sets us free to be bold and love people like Jesus by sharing His truth even when it is not wanted. Amen

Always do what is right

4/18/2023

Matthew 5:10 NLT
“God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.”

When you believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior this world will not like it.

They will call you names and say you are mean and not understanding. It’s ok, we know the truth and that is what sets us free.

Matthew 5:11-12 NLT
““God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.”

it’s ok that people have different thoughts, I still need to share my beliefs and pray that everyone one will choose Jesus and be saved. I have been around all kinds of people that don’t believe what I do but I will try and share my belief with them because it is important to me. Just as theirs is important to them.

We all will sin and it will be in different ways, so it’s never condemning, it’s meant out of love. It’s not love if you believe in Jesus and then don’t share that truth with the world.

Keep focused on Jesus and model your life after His and you will understand joy and peace so His will is what you desire.

Why is it people expect you to accept their belief in their lifestyle, but they get mad at you for believing in yours?

Never worry about what this world says just lock into your belief and fight to live it out always. Care for the people around you by planting seeds and watering it, you can’t make them change but you can always share truth. Amen

Seeds

4/3/2023

Luke 8:12 NLT
“The seeds that fell on the footpath represent those who hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved.”

The seed (word) is going out, the ruler of this world, the devil, will deceive many so they never believe. He keeps them full of this world and the flesh.

Luke 8:13 NLT
“The seeds on the rocky soil represent those who hear the message and receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they face temptation.”

This seed gets in and starts to grow but there is no work to learn, there is just basic knowledge. When things are good this seed sprouts a little, then when the going gets tough they stop learning. No effort is put in and it withers.

Luke 8:14 NLT
“The seeds that fell among the thorns represent those who hear the message, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares and riches and pleasures of this life. And so they never grow into maturity.”

Here we have the seed (word) getting in but not developing because people want their cake and they want to eat it. Riches are more important than living for Jesus. Their physical pleasure is more important than Jesus. Their family and friends are more important that Jesus, so they have no desire to mature and live differently than this world.

Luke 8:15 NLT
“And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.”

The narrow road of people that hear the word and then believe, accept and surrender their will so God is glorified will keep growing. They don’t focus on themselves, or this world, they focus on Truth. When we are opened to truth we start to seek it, and when we seek it we will find it. When we find it, we are full of peace and joy and we get through all the trials and things that will go on in this temporary home.

Luke 8:16-18 NLT
““No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or hides it under a bed. A lamp is placed on a stand, where its light can be seen by all who enter the house. For all that is secret will eventually be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to light and made known to all. “So pay attention to how you hear. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them.””

When our soil is good, we shine, and we make a difference with the ones around us opened to His light. It might take time but when we are willing, He is able. When we listen to the correct things we can continue to mature and we build off of His truth and we make an impact through Him. It only happens in His strength not our, and He gets the glory from it so we never feel it is us that can do it alone.

When we stop listening to Him, we start losing what we had and start making up our own truth, hence the world right now!

Training is good

3/28/2023

Luke 6:40 NLT
“Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.”

Our goal and purpose should be to become like the teacher, studying everything He did and living it out. We can’t get caught thinking we know better or something needs to change, we keep learning and doing.

Luke 6:41-42 NLT
““And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying, ‘Friend, let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.”

As we learn and understand we are all sinners and need a Savior, then we work on ourselves and improve so we can help others. It’s that that we sit by and do nothing, we learn to be like the teacher and then we start to live like Him in obedience, then we can help others. We aren’t equipped to help until we are seeking Him fully and have surrendered our lives for His.

Luke 6:46
““So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?

Why do we want to say we are connected to Jesus, or say we are a Christian when we desire the things of this world more? Or the desires of our flesh, or doing things to get ahead in life. If we proclaim to be something, we should work hard to live it without letting the world manipulate us.

I love what Jesus says next:

Luke 6:47
I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it.”

I want to see by growing and learning to live like I have listened to His teaching followed it. Thank you Jesus for showing us and desiring us to be just like you. Amen

True Church

3/22/2023

This world continues to try and run from Biblical truth but tries to push its own truth. Here is the definition of a Church.
Etymologically speaking, the word church means “house of the Lord.” The modern word church is a direct descendant of the Old English word cirice or circe. The first recorded use of the Old English word is from the thirteenth century, and it could refer to either a body of Christian believers or to the place where they gathered.
Christian believers, not anything other than that. Ones that are Christian understand that we are the church, the body of Christ.

We must be aware of false teachers and people that decorate themselves as a church or call themselves a church when they are far from God and the truth. A gathering of Christians, Christians meaning Christ-like and desiring confessing their sinners and repenting and turning to God. The thought or push to call oneself a church and be open to worshiping anything or anyone is demonic.

For Fully Devoted followers of Jesus Christ there is a connection and understanding we are sinners and need a Lord and Savior. In the Gospel of Mark chapter 2 verse 17 Jesus says, “When Jesus heard this, He told them, Healthy people don’t need a doctor – sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

Until we have the understanding that we all have sinned and fallen short, and God sent His Son to die for our sins and raise Him again to wash our sin and give us that chance to repent. We wilk struggle in what truth is.
Truth is not the worldly things we desire they are given to us in the Bible the word of God. Jesus was the word, and He became flesh, and it is 100% truth and used to teach us what is wrong and right and to help us to do what is right.

2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.”

Without that belief there is no Christian term and then there truly is no church. If you want to be a group of people that make their own truth and just want to live with no boundaries will never be free. God set up everything we need to live truth and be a light in this temporary home as we look for the joy awaiting us who have accepted Jesus as Lord.

To think no boundaries or that we make our own truth is sadly leading people to a spiritual death. I pray for all people to die to themselves and choose Jesus and will always care enough to teach truth, but we have free will and God is not forcing anyone to have life, He gave it for the ones that willingly and sincerely seek Him. If He forced us to love Him it wouldn’t be real, it would be robotic and not sincere.

People can choose whatever they want, just don’t try, and use terms that have a meaning that you really don’t believe. There is a broad road and a narrow one, it is not God who wants the narrow road to be the one it is our selfishness and desire to make everything a god. We when stop making everything we desire the most important we can get back to the way we should live.

Read Psalm 36:5-7
“Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike. O Lord. How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadows of your wings.”

He is all that and has given us the only way to eternal life with the Father, it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. When this world forgets Him we get what we are experience right now, chaos.

We don’t know the basics of humanity and we fight to have the most ridiculous things happen. We can define a women, but we have medicine that is made only for a woman. We know genetically and biologically what the two genders are, but we want people to choose whatever they want. Before accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior of my life and moving into full time ministry I was a teacher for 18 years. I coached many sports from college football, high school football, high school girls basketball, jr high boys basketball, high school girls volleyball, high school wrestling, high school boys and girls tennis and high school baseball. While coaching all those sports one thing was the same, they had to know the rules and follow them and I coached all of them to understand the best technique and strategies so they could be successful. That is the case for all levels, so why in the world would we think taking away the values this country was set on and being afraid to tell people no, would make us successful?

We are so afraid to teach people the right way to do things that we let everyone do and say and live whatever way they want. It just doesn’t happen in any real job in this world. Could you imagine letting Doctors and Lawyers do whatever they want. Having no statutes or guidance. It would be crazy.
But we feel it is alright to let men say they want to be women and then play sports that they are physically stronger at. We shouldn’t make all our weird desires and fantasies be what drive a country.
Thank you God for showing us the way to live in this temporary home the correct way, honoring you not ourselves.

Love doesn't accept sin , it exposes it!

3/10/2023

Mark 10:21 NLT
“Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.””

The man struggled with thinking his stuff would give him peace, but it only kept him from freedom. The point isn’t that we can’t have anything, the point is nothing can be more important than God.

Mark 10:22-23 NLT
“At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!””

When we feel we have much the need for a savior get smaller and smaller, and we start to work in our own strength and that never works. It truly is in all areas of our lives, what will we put the most importance on? Love in this world is never offending and okaying whatever people feel or think, that is just not love. Jesus felt genuine love for this man and wanted to free him from his struggle, the man wanted to have his cake and eat it to.

Mark 10:23-24 NLT
“Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!” This amazed them. But Jesus said again, “Dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God.”

Wait, it’s a free gift, why is it hard, very hard? Because of ourselves. We must die to self, surrender our will and live to Gods standard not ours. That is very hard because of pride and our desire for more world.

Mark 10:25-27 NLT
“In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” The disciples were astounded. “Then who in the world can be saved?” they asked. Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.””

See, we want to eliminate the only thing that will help us have eternal life because He doesn’t ok sin. We want sin more than we want truth. This world is only helping with the very hard part by not understanding God and His boundaries and how they are for our gain. We live in a world that wants what it wants and will manipulate to make people fall as well, sadly people do because of pride and fear. I have met with many people in ministry and sadly the ones that love their families more than God will always ok their sin and lower Gods standard, so they feel better about themselves. God is clear.

Mark 10:28-30 NLT
“Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said. “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.”

See, nothing can make us lower Gods standard, His standard is set on Jesus as Lord and Savior, and we are to surrender to Him and follow Him fully. Fully means just that, fully. Nothing can come in the way of Jesus; He is the way the truth and the life. Our stuff isn’t and our family aren’t. Love is set on a standard of one, we can’t change it, we need to accept Him. If you love me, you will obey me. Thank you, Jesus, for showing us the way and giving us the life, now I only want your truth. Amen

Small as a mustard seed

3/8/2023

We are told if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains, to me that is the start. Our faith can develop and be unwavering when we choose to follow Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Hebrews 11:6 NLT
“And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.”

When we sincerely seek, our faith is unwavering and when it is unwavering, we don’t take no for an answer. The more we desire Jesus the more we will find Him. Look at this determined faithful mother who sincerely seeks Him.

Mark 7:25-30 NLT
“Right away a woman who had heard about him came and fell at his feet. Her little girl was possessed by an evil spirit, and she begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter. Since she was a Gentile, born in Syrian Phoenicia, Jesus told her, “First I should feed the children—my own family, the Jews. It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs.” She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the children’s plates.” “Good answer!” he said. “Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.” And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying quietly in bed, and the demon was gone.”

Jesus loves the Fathers will and Gods will is for all to be home and repent of our sin and turn to Him. Jesus is the way, the only way. The truth, the only truth. And the life, the only life that will be in heaven with the Father. Be seeking Him and you will find Him. Amen

Family

3/5/2023

Mark 3:33-35 NLT
“Jesus replied, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” Then he looked at those around him and said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers. Anyone who does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.””

Jesus understood why He came and that people wouldn’t all accept Him as Lord and Savior. He was sharing how we as followers of Jesus would never be alone. There is a true connection when we take God seriously and desire to die to self and live for Him.

He even said that He didn’t come to bring peace, He came to bring truth, the sword, the Word of God,

Matthew 10:34-36 NLT
““Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword. ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household!’”

It’s not because He wanted it that way, people are selfish and hold onto the things that make them stumble, He wants us to understand everything we need to have eternal life with the Father. Not our will be done but Gods.

Die to self, pick up your cross daily and know the family that will be with you always, then love people with truth, understanding grace and showing mercy. God has for us and gives us the ability to as well. Amen

Covered and Victorious

2/28/2023

Psalms 18:35-36 NLT
“You have given me your shield of victory. Your right hand supports me; your help has made me great. You have made a wide path for my feet to keep them from slipping.”

This is what He has done, all we need to do is turn to Him and trust fully that His way is best. He makes us prosper in this world by strengthening us and helping us see what is right. He knows this is not our home and He makes it possible to live here with joy and peace and with power and strength. Let go of ourselves and live the way He set up, just like His Son, Jesus. Then we won’t get caught in this world of traps and we will live in truth. Amen