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Today is the day of First Fruits, which is a reminder that Jesus was raised from the dead and presented himself as the First Fruits from the dead to God.
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Here is a summary of the First Fruits video.
First Fruits is very similar to Easter. It is a reminder that on the 3rd day the rock was rolled away and Jesus was raised from the dead. Then he presented himself to God as the First Fruits from the dead. God then took the Spirit of Jesus and sowed it as a seed into our hearts.
Before God planted this seed in our hearts, he gave us a new heart. We used to have hearts of stone, but God rolled away our hearts of stone and gave us a new heart of flesh, with his laws written on our hearts.
God rolling away our hearts of stone is a picture of him rolling away guilt, condemnation, and shame from our past. He rolled it all away and made our hearts new.
Our hearts are like soil. When the rock is rolled away our hearts are prepared to have the God's seed planted in us...
Today starts the 7 day feast of Unleavened Bread.
In Numbers 33:3 it says that on the day after Passover the Israelites marched triumphantly out of Egypt in the sight of all the Egyptians. 2 Corinthians 2:4 says thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession. Today is a reminder that God always causes us to triumph and he wants to make a victory parade out of it.
Here is the training from 7 Dates With Jesus on Unleavened Bread
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Here is a summary of Unleavened Bread
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is celebrate for 7 days by removing all leaven from your diet and replacing it with unleavened bread( Matzo crackers). Jesus said that he is the bread that came down from heaven. Matzo crackers are a symbol of his sinless body. The crackers have piercings and stripes, which remind us that he was pierced for our transgressions and by his stripes we are healed.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is about understanding righteousness. Jesus bore our sins on the...
Tonight is Passover. This was the night that Jesus instituted communion. If you don't do the full Passover it would be a good idea to take communion as a point of remembrance.
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Here is a summary of Passover
Passover is a reminder that Jesus has set you free and translated you out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light.
The traditional Passover meal includes...
The word Passover in Hebrew is Pesach which means talking mouth.
We are supposed to be talking about where Jesus has brought us from and God said that when you do the Passover it would provide an opportunity to speak to your children about what G...
Today starts the training on 7 Dates With Jesus: Crossing Over Into Abundant Life.
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Over the next week I am going to be posting about an hour per day of video/audio. To accelerate getting through the content try listening while doing chores, cooking, working out etc. You can take notes later. Just get it in.
Intro Summary
To live a balanced life you must balance the spiritual, mental/emotional, and practical areas of life. For a long time I had zero spiritual life. This changed when I came across a challenge to read 1 chapter from Proverbs every day. One day Proverbs 13:22 jumped out at me which says a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. From that point on I made a commitment to write manuals to pass on to my kids for how to live a better life. 7 Dates With Jesus is the spiritual training for how to connect with God, find your purpose, accelerate spiritual growth, and cross over into an abundant life.
7 Dates With Jesus started when...
Tomorrow we will start the series on 7 Dates With Jesus: Crossing Over Into Abundant Life with an introduction into the 7 Feasts of Israel and to understanding God's timing.
Many people will point out that the feasts are in the Old Testament and that they don't pertain to us any more, but here is why they are important.
Each day I will be posting the training at www.abundantlifetrainingcenter.com and I will also be emailing you the video and audio each day.
If you have friends or family members who would like to get the emails you can send them this link.
Every Spring I do a live seminar on my book 7 Dates With Jesus.
7 Dates With Jesus is based on the 7 Feasts of Israel and teaches God's timing and calendar. Each feast also teaches an angle of what Jesus has done for you. When you put them all together it is a very powerful way to accelerate spiritual growth. Several people have told me they have grown more in 1 year from this than their previous 20-30 years of being a Christian.
With all that is going on in the world it's important to understand God's timing and calendar. This year I will be teaching the seminar online for free and I am going to teach several of the lessons on the actual feast days. For example, Passover is coming up on Wednesday night, and we will do the Passover training that day.
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Right now we are in a time where it is important to have strong faith.
Faith makes you grateful, adaptable, positive, and eliminates fear because you are not relying on yourself, but on God.
But, not everyone has strong faith, and it is important that you don't let the exercising of your faith become a stumbling block for others.
You can have faith to move mountains but if you have not love then it accounts for nothing.
If someone has weak faith or no faith the exercising of strong faith could cause issues in their conscience and make them stumble.
For example, you may have no fear of sickness but someone around you does. In these cases, the loving thing would be to do nothing that would increase their fear. If washing your hands another time or wearing a mask decreases their fear then do it out of love.
P.S. Faith comes by hearing. Pay attention to what you are hearing in this season. It is either causing fear or faith. If you want something faith building to listen to lis...
The imagination is the table turner of the soul. It is the one thing that matters for your mind and emotions. It is very important to keep a close eye on your imagination.
When images pop up in your mind that generate fear, stress, anxiety, discouragement, etc you must learn to cast them down immediately and redirect your focus back to God with the belief that he is for you and nothing is impossible with him.
This is a skill. It takes the understanding that God has given you control of your imagination. You have the ability to reprogram it. Then it takes awareness throughout the day. Anytime an image pops up that shouldn't be there cast it down. The longer you let an image spin in your mind the stronger it becomes and the more emotions it generates.
The imagination is very powerful for good or evil. The imagination is where the seed of truth or lies grow.
Recently I was praying and heard the phrase “ a tsunami of blessing is coming.” Throughout the day I kept hearing this on the inside so I wrote it in my journal that night and even drew a picture of a surfer trying to catch a huge wave. The next morning when I turned on my computer there was a picture on the screen of a huge wave with a surfer trying to catch the wave. My oldest daughter had been playing a game on the computer the night before and had left the game up on the screen. Then about a day later, I felt prompted to finish listening to a sermon that I hadn’t finished several weeks before. When I clicked on the video it resumed where I had left off and the first thing out of the pastors mouth was about a tsunami of blessing.
As I am writing this right now the world is in a state of chaos because of the coronavirus. The world has basically shut down because of the pandemic so it does not look like a tsunami of blessing is coming. But, it is important to keep God’s calendar in ...
Here are some things to be thinking about every time a new month starts.
The other big thing I do is fill out a new Monthly Rhythm Tracker, which is a 1 page tool that contains the following...
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Criteria for Success on Projects - On your purpose what needs to happen this month?
Desires of Your Heart - What other goals would you like to see happen this month?
To-do list - What administrative things need to happen this month?
Monthly and Weekly Checklists - What needs to happen every month/week?
Weekly Criteria for Success - What needs to happen this week
Daily Habits - Seek God on what new habits he wants you to install into your life.
To fill out the form begin to seek God on what he w...
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