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When the New Testament speaks of being “saved,” it refers to far more than how we usually define the issue. Whereas we generally denote “saved” as the forgiveness of sins, the New Testament authors ( in fact, it’s “red letter,” so it’s taught be Jesus Himself), use the word SOZO, which means— 🙏 forgiveness 🛟 physical projection ⛓️‍💥 freedom from demonic oppression ❤️‍🩹 physical healing 🪦 raising the dead — and more.   Or, to say it another way, SOZO denotes the total coming of the complete Kingdom of God. 💥   In this episode we talk about the pivotal role John the Baptist played (the last and greatest of the old covenant prophets), comparing his position with what Jesus proposed to be available now… … and we walk though several stories from the book of Luke where Jesus not only DISCUSSES the message of the Kingdom but also DEMONSTRATES its manifestations. 🔥   _________________ Links referenced Video | Ten ways Moral Injury occurs = www.GY6.online/blog/ten  Access the free Grace Basics audio = https://www.jenkins.tv/grace  The Healing Workshop, on-demand course = www.Jenkins.tv/THW  The Kingdom 101, book = https://amzn.to/4cnJfdJ  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Past episodes, related to this one 💥 You might not need a miracle, episode 6 = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149079766  ❤️‍🩹 Two kinds of healing, episode 36 = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149187864    Other mentions Rob’s book, The Long Way = www.RiseUpOnline.info/TLW 

Michael Belton asked me to talk about Moral Injury… a “lesser known” (but probably “more lethal”) invisible wound than PTSD. So, we compare and contrast PTSD with Moral Injury to set the stage. Here’s the core of it Moral Injury feels different, because Moral Injury starts differently than PTSD. Whereas PTSD is a response to external “triggers” (you can remove yourself from the situation or avoid certain scenarios) Moral Injury goes with you. Moral Injury IS you. You’ve probably heard the saying "Wherever you go, there you are.” When the issue is “in you” (i.e., your conscience, your spirit), you can’t fight it or run from it. Key differences Note the key distinctions between the PTSD and Moral Injury: 💥PTSD Is a reaction to external threats Takes the form of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn Generally occurs when triggered 🫣 Moral Injury Is a response to internal “threats” Takes the form of guilt & shame May be constant— not just when triggered Again, Moral Injury is not PTSD, and PTSD is not Moral Injury.   Why it matters You must heal the KIND of hurt you have. If you don’t identify the kind of hurt you have and also implement the correct healing protocols for that specific wound, then— The healing protocol will be ineffective The hurt will remain The injured person may feel “un-heal-able” The injured person may reach the point of despair and “give up” For clarity, even though every “part” of you impacts the others (interdependent realization), hurts generally occur in the ways listed above. If multiple types of hurts are present, we must address each of them in their own way.    _________________ Links referenced See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events   Differences between PTSD and Moral Injury  Ten ways Moral Injury happens = https://www.gy6.online/blog/ten  PTSD or Moral Injury = https://www.gy6.online/blog/MI    Serve Ministries Website = https://serveministriesinc.com  Become a certified chaplain = https://serveministriesinc.com/courses  Podcast / YouTube feed for Serve = https://youtu.be/HbVk4sQ608g?si=2z1hcqe-GXj55fkv  Other, related Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  Coaching One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

We’re often (understandably) anxious about revealing our “true selves” to the people around us. When we do, though, the promises of 1 John 1:7-9 manifest (connection and cleansing). Notice— But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It’s hard to walk in the light, though. ⭐️ Jim and Sarah recently shared their story of “walking in the light” with Beth and me while we were visiting them. They saw the truth of walking into the light firsthand. They experienced it. Whereas we fear people will consider us weak… … they consider us even stronger. Whereas we think they will push us away… … they come closer & we experience true connection + cleansing. ⭐️ Let’s define waking in the light, though… … because our culture has a tendency to over-share on social media ALONG WITH an epidemic of loneliness (no one close to us to share with). “Walking into the light" doesn’t mean you broadcast your hurts to everyone, everywhere. Rather, it entails entrusting your story to those who “have your six.” Think of it as concentric circles… ✅ A few people get to share all of your story, your struggles, your hurts, and more. They are your safe place. This should include your spouse / significant other and some close friends. 🟠 Some people get to hear “most” of your story. 🤷‍♂️ Many people get to hear “some” of your story. ❌ Most people get none of it. See the differences? ⭐️ When done in the right way, our stories of struggle + search + solution… they lead to freedom for us AND healing for others, as well.   _________________ Links referenced See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG  Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events  Other, related Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  Coaching One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Our friends Jim & Sarah have an interesting approach to date night: Make love first. Here are a few reasons why: It removes the build-up and the pressure. You’re energetic and excited. And it sets the tone for the rest of the night. Plus, you can always “go back for more” if you want. 🤷‍♂️ Sarah is a licensed counselor and Jim leads a men’s ministry… AND, they lead married couples groups, workshops, and more TOGETHER. In fact, long-term, they’re created a retreat center where couples can reconnect and reignite something special (or, nurture what’s already thriving). Maybe- just maybe— they’re onto something.   _________________ Links referenced See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG  Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events    Books Beth & Sarah mentioned The Great Sex Rescue = https://amzn.to/48g5kIt  31 Days to Great Sex = https://amzn.to/41MNER0    The “Stronger” resource Free access to the Stronger audiobook = 10 lessons, https://www.jenkins.tv/lead  Purchase the book or eBook = https://www.jenkins.tv/stronger  Coaching One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

I’ve been wrestling with a theory for a few years now— the more I’ve studied PTSD and Moral Injury. 👇 Here’s the hypothesis: the suicide epidemic is related to Moral Injury primarily— not PTSD. 👆   For sure, PTSD may play a role… … but, it’s important to figure this out. If we’re looking at the WRONG CAUSE, then we’ll create the wrong cure. And if we create the wrong CURE, we’ll provide a solution that’s largely ineffective. 💔   Here’s the basis for my theory…. The majority of military suicides occur after the age of 50. Or, to say it another way, time doesn’t heal all wounds— some get more intense. Let me explain… PTSD symptoms may lesson over time (you learn to cope with the triggers, you find tools that help you navigate life, and/or you adjust). You learn to read + recognize + respond to stressors in healthy ways. At the same time, the guilt & shame of Moral Injury seem to GROW if not addressed. Moreover, while they are raising their families, the responsibilities they feel for their families actually keeps many who contemplate suicide from acting upon it.   _________________ Links referenced See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG  Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events  Video explainer, Does PTSD really cause suicide? = https://www.gy6.online/blog/suicide  Long description of Moral Injury (compared to PTSD) = https://www.gy6.online/blog/MI  The article referenced in the intro = https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12317004/    And don’t forget about… www.JuntoTribe.com = Mike & Jim’s ministry for men www.HolosHP.com = Mike’s organization and coaching   Other, related Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW    Coaching One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Two things which occur when an event “marks” you… 1️⃣ Stored The event is stored regardless of your awareness of it in the moment. 2️⃣ Stamped The stored data includes all of your five senses. Note, this “stored and stamped” happens for every “elevated” and memorable event— and is why certain sounds (songs) and smells (even seasonal shifts) create instant recall of good memories. It’s why we begin to not only feel as if we’re back in the same space, but we recall— without trying to think about it— happenings of those moments. And it’s why we begin anticipating and even behaving in similar ways. ✅ Now, let’s add another layer to it… Memories aren’t just stamped & stored in your brain, they’re stamped and storied IN YOUR BODY. Or, to say it the same way a popular book does, “The BODY keeps the score.” ✅ And that leads to this… … sometimes, a “flare up” in the body isn’t just a physical issue, it’s a soul-issue. It’s your body telling you that you have unfinished business to deal with. In the same way a check engine light tells you that something is happening in your vehicle, these “check engine lights” alert us to something in the soul. ✅ The problem is two-fold… 1️⃣ We often “cover” these alerts instead of addressing the deeper issues. 2️⃣ We sometimes “cause” them…   _________________ Links referenced See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG  Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events  And don’t forget about… www.JuntoTribe.com = Mike & Jim’s ministry for men  www.HolosHP.com = Mike’s organization and coaching  Other, related See The Healing Workshop, on-demand course = www.Jenkins.tv/THW  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  Coaching One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Sometimes, healing happens instantly. Other times, it occurs over time as people how to be well. Or, to say it another way... sometimes, Jesus touches us and we are dramatically changed in that moment. Other times, He imparts His wisdom to us so that we can “walk out” the freedom. ⭐️  Now, think about what this really means, practically. Let’s move it from theory to real life: 👉 Jesus can heal lung cancer, but He can also teach us about the ills of smoking. 👉 He can cure diabetes. He also shows us how to eat better. 👉 He can heal sexually transmitted diseases. He also provides us with directions on how to live whole and healthy lives, as well as experience the joy of true intimacy with one person. 👉 He can heal us of the dozens of physical nuisances that we’ve grown to tolerate. Or, we can take His directions and experience what it really means to be alive! ⭐️ As far as it relates to emotional wholeness… … and overcoming the effects of PTSD and Moral Injury It’s possible— and even highly probable— you’ll find healing through the process of walking it out. Too many people wait to get struck by lightning, that is, for a supernatural event to occur that suddenly becomes their breakthrough. What if that doesn’t happen? Is all hope vanquished? Of course not. We can still therapeuo our way there. We can claim our freedom and begin the process of sorting life and fighting for wholeness. ⭐️   When I’m teaching these concepts from a stage— or in an online forum— I often express it like this, “Healing is something God does and health is something we do. Both work together.” For sure, this is a simplistic definition. But, it helps us get on the “same page,” so we can understand what we’re talking about. Notice how the two work together, long-term. 💥 If the iaomai / miracle happens, we want to walk it out with therapeuo / intentionality. ❤️‍🩹 Therapeuo / intentionality can, over time, reap the same results as a miracle / iaomai. I’ve taught this concept in several churches and used the following phrase to summarize the concept: “Miracle or no miracle, healing happens now.”     _________________ Links referenced Take a deeper dive at the GY6 website: www.GY6.online  Upcoming GY6 workshops = www.GY6.online/events  See the GY6 resources, referenced here: www.GY6.online/FG  Video explainer, two kinds of healing = https://www.gy6.online/blog/II  And don’t forget about… www.JuntoTribe.com   Other, related See The Healing Workshop, on-demand course = www.Jenkins.tv/THW  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Past episodes, related to this one: 💥 You might not need a miracle, episode 6 = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149079766 

A lot of people contend that the greatest force in the universe is faith— or a lack of it. That is empowers (or constrains) what God is able to do. So, let’s talk about it… … and address it as it relates to health + healing.   🛠️ First, it’s easy to turn faith into a “work” that we must do in order to earn God’s favor / blessing. If we do that, though, we’ve made healing an allowance, a paycheck, a transaction… This leads us to our second observation. 📦 Second, there’s no “box or formula” in the New Testament regarding faith. When we open the New Testament (remember, Jesus shows us what the Father is like, as we discussed in the previous episode), we see that there’s “no box or formula” we can fit faith into-- There’s no: This type of issue + this much faith = breakthrough. For example, in the Bible we see instances of Jesus healing people with the following SEVEN varying degrees of faith... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️   1️⃣ No faith John 5:1f., Man at Bethsaida, lame for 38 years. Matthew 8:15f., Simon Peter’s mother-in-law, fever.   2️⃣ Partial faith Mark 9:24, “I believe, help my unbelief,” cries father of the demon-possessed boy; disciples are chastised. Matthew 8:2, Leper approaches Jesus: “If you are willing...” 3️⃣ Total faith Matthew 9:18, Jairus tells Jesus to lay His hand on his sick daughter and she will live. Mark 7:24, Syro-Phonecian woman has her daughter healed of a demon. Her faith is commended. Luke 8:48, Woman with flow of blood: “If I touch His garment...” Matthew 9:29, Two blind men, “According to the faith.” *Side note: the only time Jesus healed someone “according to their faith” was when they had TOTAL faith. 4️⃣ Other people’s faith Mark 2:1f., A paralytic is healed after his friends drop him through the roof and Jesus sees “their faith.” Luke 7:1-9, Roman centurion, “Say the word...” (also, total faith). 5️⃣ Silent about faith Meaning: the Bible doesn’t address it, so we don’t know… Luke 13:12, Woman bent over for 18 years, cannot stand straight. 6️⃣ Sometimes backed by action Luke 17:14f., the lepers are healed “as they went” 7️⃣ Setup for sovereign intervention… We don’t always have a reason “why” something occurred. We know, as we discussed in the previous talk, that God doesn’t cause chaos or confusion. He doesn’t inflict His children with illness. John 9:1-7, the disciples ask about a man born blind. They want to know who sinned to cause it (a prevalent thought back then, too, apparently). Jesus tells them “no one.” Then, He suggests this is a time and place where God will break-in and do something extraordinary…   👇 Now, Jesus did REBUKE someone about their lack of faith… He criticized the disciples who were told to minister healing- and had previously been empowered to do it- and done it. He did not chastise those who needed ministry. The Father clearly has wavering faith, further adding emphasis to this point (see Mark 9:23-25)   ⭐️ Third, the bigger issue, greater than faith, seems to be honor… Some people point to Nazareth (Jesus’ hometown, where they had “little faith” and He was “restrained” from performing miracles) as an example of the definitive need for faith. But it was not a lack of faith that restrained Jesus from working miracles in his hometown of Nazareth (see Mark 6:1f., Luke 4:16f.). Honor seems to be more important than faith. There was no honor present in His hometown (Mark 6:4, Luke 4:24). He was unable to do many miracles there (Mark 6:5). We assume He was unable to perform mighty works there because of the faith issue. Notice what Mark writes, though: “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown” (6:4). Then- “And He marveled because of their unbelief” (6:6). In other words, Mark seems to tell us, “In addition... He also was shocked because...” The issue that restrained Him was not a “faith issue” but an “honor issue.”   _________________ Links referenced Take a deeper dive at the GY6 website: www.GY6.online  See The Healing Workshop, on-demand course = www.Jenkins.tv/THW  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Past episodes, related to this one: ⏮️ Go back to the previous talk, episode 34, 🧐 What God is like 💥 You might not need a miracle, episode 6 = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149079766 

Somebody told me, “I love Jesus but I hate theology.” What a dumb statement. Theology actually is “what we think about God when we think about God.” Or, to say it another way, that statement suggest God isn’t worth thinking about… 🙈 Plus, each day we practically live out what we truly believe about people, places, our possessions, and… yes… even Providence. So, let’s dialogue about it and dial it in… … especially since we’re midstream into a longer conversation about health / healing. What we think about God (theology) has everything to do with how we “go after” healing the hurts of the past and step into our purpose. 💥 Three things to “think” about God… 1️⃣ Jesus shows us what God is like. Scripture tells us He is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), that He is the “perfect imprint” of the Father (Hebrews 1:3), and that He did / said what He saw the Father doing (John 5:19). Jack Frost writes, “Jesus came to demonstrate who the Father is and what He is like, and He does so through His words and His actions. To gain a true picture of Father’s feelings toward His children, it is best to turn to the One whose purpose it was to show us the Father. Jesus spent three years in ministry, demonstrating His Father’s heart of compassion as He forgave sinners, healed the sick, and raised the dead.”   2️⃣ Jesus explains what this means… We can tell what God is like based on what Jesus did… … and what He did NOT do. That is, if we’ve seen Jesus, according to His own declaration, we’ve seen what God is like (John 14:9-10). Two quotes… Jack Frost: “Jesus came to demonstrate who the Father is and what He is like, and He does so through His words and His actions…” Jack Deere: “All too often, many of God’s children mistakingly assume that their afflictions are evidence of God’s judgment on them.”   3️⃣ This shifts our practical experience of God / our ongoing relationship with Him… … and it’s a radical overhaul of what many people (church-attending Christians, even) actually believe. Especially about causing illness and condemning people. 👇 Causing illness-- we never see this, even though expressions like, “God gave me ____________” (insert disease) or “God chose me for ______________” (insert the ailment) are popular. Others say things like, “God gave me ____________ to humble me / teach me a lesson, etc.” But, we never see this in the life of Jesus. Jesus never caused sickness- we never seen an instance of Him causing someone to be ill. The Bible tells us this: Jesus went about healing everyone (i.e., Matthew 4:23, Matthew 12:15). We’ll answer this dilemma in two episodes… in the next, we need to discuss the proper place of faith. Jesus actually used these healing miracles to confirm His identity- not call it into question (see Luke 9:2, Luke 10:9). 👇 Condemning people-- we never see an instance of it. Jesus preached grace and freedom to the woman caught in adultery- because that’s what He saw the Father doing (John 8:3f.). Jesus touched the leper rather than simply healing Him with a word- because that’s what He saw the Father doing (Mark 1:41). Jesus ate with the tax collectors and sinners- because that’s what He saw the Father doing (see Mark 2:15).   ✅ Bottom line…. Jesus is the ideal “study of God.” Or, to say it another way, Jesus is perfect theology.     _________________ Links referenced Take a deeper dive at the GY6 website: www.GY6.online  See The Healing Workshop, on-demand course = www.Jenkins.tv/THW  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Past episodes, related to this one: 🧡 Simplify (vs complexify) your faith, episode 10 = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149094235 

It’s easy to start punting the promises of God off into the future— even as far as the after-life. Especially after we’ve faced a few tough seasons, several rough / busted-up relationships, and a bunch of broken dreams… But the promises of God— though we won’t fully experience them until the future— are ALSO good for now. Let me explain… 👇 To do so, we need to discuss redemption. The word means freedom— freedom from slavery, to be exact. We don’t think about it too much in our culture, but when you go back into the Biblical times in which the word was first used (speaking of what God promised to do for the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, see Exodus 6:6, Exodus 15:13), the word means much. And, the concept of— ⛓️‍💥 rescue ⛓️‍💥 release ⛓️‍💥 restoration — it’s something we all long for.   Scripture tells us Jesus is our redeemer, the one who sets us free. Moreover, He is OBJECTIVE in His redemption— while also maintaining a subjective unique relationship with each of us. 
Here’s what I mean: when sacrifices were offered, God didn’t judge the perfection of the sacrificer, He judged the merit of the sacrifice itself. In fact, the person’s credentials were of no consequence— only the offering they made (had to be “without spot or blemish”).  Jesus redeems our whole person… … and our whole situation. In fact, He’s currently working on a cosmic redemption— at a level we can’t fathom. (Or, to say it another way, He’s been far more successful in the past than we typically think, and He’s orchestrating something much more massive than we’ve been taught to expect.) ❤️‍🔥   On a personal level… … where we are now. It’s an invitation to wholeness and healing. Something that infuses every area of our lives and then overflows into the world around us.     _________________ Links referenced Take a deeper dive at the GY6 website: www.GY6.online  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Related past episode on this topic: Go to 💜episode 16, “Soul Whole” = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149103023  And then… 💥 episode 14, “I’ve got your six” = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149101160  See also 💥 episode 15, “Through the pain… into purpose” = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149101159    Mike’s stuff Go to www.HolosHP.com  Mike’s book + audiobook = www.HolosHP.com/SAE  See his ministry at www.JuntoTribe.com  Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events 

I almost titled this talk “Spirit, Soul, and Body,” but the term “Interdependent Realization” stuck out as we prepped for the recent GY6 workshop. Here’s what you need to know about Interdependent Realization (a phrase I hijacked from my friend, Mike Sanders, who wrote the forward for GY6— see Mike’s links below)…   1️⃣ There are two unseen parts of us— and they are different. (Now, although we discuss these three areas as “different parts,” understand that they each impact one another. This is what Mike calls Interdependent Realization. The body, the soul, and the spirit don’t exist in isolation from one another.) It’s easy to distinguish the “seen” part of us (body), but differentiating between the unseen parts is a little tricky… 👇 Hebrews 4:12 shows us that are “unique,” though. In fact, the Bible helps us discern which part is soul and which part is spirit… 🧩 The spirit is the part of us that is “ONE” with Christ, as of the Cross (see Romans 6:6, 1 Corinthians 6:17, and Galatians 2:20). 🧩 The soul is the part of us that’s “in process.” It’s our mind, our thoughts, our will… (read: our personality), and is the piece of us that’s being transformed (see Romans 12:1-2, Philippians 2:12).   2️⃣ God intends to redeem ALL of you— not just your spirit. 3 John 2 is a prayer that the Apostle John offered… “May all go well with you and may you be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.” Some translations propose, “May you prosper in all things, as it goes with your soul.” John reminds us that God wants to do a work in every area of our life— even beyond the spirit, soul, and body. He wants to impact our families, our finances, our faith, our friendships… every area. 👇 Paul prayed something similar in 1 Thessalonians 5:23: “May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless…”   3️⃣ We reap the “benefits” of the “part” of us we most fully lean into… The soul is essential. God doesn’t want to eradicate it. In fact, Proverbs 11:30 suggests, “He who wins souls is wise.” The soul is that part of us that interacts with the world— with people and places and opportunities and obstacles… It receives vital information from the environment around us. But we’re not designed to be controlled by it— anymore than a thermometer is designed to control the temperature of your house (read that carefully: a thermostat sets the temperature / a thermometer just tells you what the current temperature is). Galatians 5:25 tells us to “keep in step with the spirit” (read: not the soul). This is a military marching term that speaks to walking in the cadence of the Kingdom…   🥾 So how do we do it? We go back to that term INTERDEPENDENT REALIZATION… … and we affirm that: ✅ Each of these parts of us were created by God— they’re part of a creation that was deemed “good” (see the refrain throughout Genesis 1). ✅ Each piece of the human puzzle— as is all of creation— is part of God’s current redemption project (see Acts 3:21, Isaiah 59:17-20) ✅ Everything exists in, for, and through Him (Colossians 1:16-20), including each part of who we are. To say it as Paul did, “in Him we live and move and breathe and have our being” (Acts 17:28)— spirit, soul, body… all.   _________________ Links referenced Take a deeper dive at the GY6 website: www.GY6.online  Access the Soul Wholeness video course = www.Jenkins.tv/SWV  Grab the digital bundle (eBook + audiobook) = www.Jenkins.tv/SW  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC  Mike’s stuff Go to www.HolosHP.com  Mike’s book + audiobook = www.HolosHP.com/SAE  See his ministry at www.JuntoTribe.com  Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events 

I don’t know where I first got the thought— “we seem more confident in the enemy’s ability to deceive us— and to steal, kill, and destroy— than we are about Jesus’ ability to heal and mend and restore all things.” I guarantee the concept isn’t original to me, but maybe you can relate. Maybe you’ve even— like me— found yourself on the WRONG side of that belief structure at some point. 🤔 Buried in the New Testament we find an interesting title given to Jesus. Actually, we find two of them that correspond to each other. They’re so closely related that they’re virtually inseparable. Yet, as important as they are, I bet you’ve never heard a sermon on either one: ✅ The Last Adam ✅ The Second Man We find them both in 1 Corinthians 15:45-47 (AMP, emphasis mine): Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual. The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthly-minded); the Second Man [is] the Lord from out of heaven. 👇 Here’s what they mean… As the “Last Adam” Jesus ended something Adam began— a lineage of sin and (subsequent) death. Adam was the “first man.” Everyone, everywhere on the planet knows that. He’s the first guy that ever walked on this planet. No argument about him being the first man, so let’s move on. Jesus was the “Last Adam.” Paul tells us that as the “Last Adam” Jesus ended something that Adam began.Somehow in the great scheme of it all, we can theoretically trace our lineage back to him. Given enough time and help from ancestry.com or some intensive archaeological work, we can map our family trees all root right back down to him. Physically, that is. 👇 But there’s more. Jesus wasn’t JUST the “Last Adam,” He was— IS— also the Second Man. As the “Second Man” Jesus began something new— another bloodline of humanity which is unchained from sin and hitched to radical freedom. But Paul tells us there’s another kind of life than the life we merely see in the physical realm— a spiritual one. The physical one came first, and then the spiritual one emerged (1 Corinthians 15:46). Jesus has given us a new spiritual DNA. And, as you might suspect, He’s done this because we’re included in Him like we discussed in the previous chapter. As the “Last Adam,” Jesus walked this planet as the final man born in that spiritual line of natural-born sinners. Yet, at the same time He lived as the Last Adam, He became the “Second Man” (v47). Jesus literally launched a new race of humanity— one unchained to sin yet bound to freedom! 🔥 Physically, you’re related to Adam… in the flesh. You have his physical nature. 🔥 Spiritually, though, you stand in the lineage of Jesus. You have His spiritual nature. The “us” that was born in the image of Adam was crucified, died, and was buried (see chapter 3). We arose— re-made in the image of Christ. 👇 The Bible DOES tell us clearly that sin spread to all people… through the actions of Adam. But it ALSO tells us that LIFE and FREEDOM spread through Jesus in the same way… Romans 5:12,15,19 says it like this (AMP, emphasis added): Sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned… But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow… For just as by one man’s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man’s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him). 👇 Let’s get practical. Here’s what it means for me and you: Either Jesus makes all things— or He doesn’t. And if He does, I mean, if we truly believe He does, then we really need to look at the ramifications of what that means for us… … and, even more, we need to “walk out” those beliefs… with a humble confidence that, in time, all things change. 👇 That’s the subject of this talk. 💙   _________________ Links referenced Access the LifeLift book = www.Jenkins.tv/free  Grab the Purpose book = "LifeLift lite" = https://www.jenkins.tv/purpose  Jump straight to the LifeLift course and other purpose-discovering resources = https://www.jenkins.tv/framework-purpose  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC  🦋 The talk with Rob, where we discussed KAINOS / new.   Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  ✅ Events for church + ministry leaders via LifeLift Ministries = www.LifeLift.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

The true measure of revival isn’t what happens in a moment, it’s what happens over time. The supernatural is a lifestyle. I didn’t always think that… 🤷‍♂️   However, the more I look back at the story that created LifeLift (a book of my dad’s that I rewrote several years ago)… … and the more I truly lean into God’s heart for us… … the more I see that, so often, we get caught up in emotional moments rather than looking the bigger picture of what God is doing. 💗   I might be wrong. But… … just possibly… I think I’m onto something. 🧐   So, to tell you the story of when I truly encountered the Lord, I need to take you back to the time I got “fake baptized” (I think it might have been with good intentions but, as they say, the past is the past). 🤷‍♂️ Let’s talk.     _________________ Links referenced Access the LifeLift book = www.Jenkins.tv/free  Grab the Purpose book = "LifeLift lite" = https://www.jenkins.tv/purpose  Jump straight to the LifeLift course and other purpose-discovering resources = https://www.jenkins.tv/framework-purpose  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  ✅ Events for church + ministry leaders via LifeLift Ministries = www.LifeLift.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

This is part 3 of a special series within the podcast… My friend Jennifer Davis (editor of The Alabama Baptist AND executive director of the TAB Media Group) recently hosted me on her podcast. I asked her if I could cross-post to my platforms, and she agreed… So, here’s a 1-2-3 punch on Healthy Church,” a new project I helped my Dad reboot and release. 💙 ________________     Churches organize and do “lots and lots” for things. However, in the hustle of it all, we need to make sure we’re doing the RIGHT things…   All of the— ⭐️ Programs… ⚙️ Processes (including budgeting our time & money) of how things get done… 📝 Policies & procedures (rules & operating guidelines) of how we “behave”… … should all flow into the 6 functions we see in Acts 2:42-47.   Each of these work together and FEED each other, creating a dynamic that’s unlike any other organization (remember, the church is an organism— a living entity). The six are… 1️⃣ Worship 2️⃣ Discipleship 3️⃣ Ministry 4️⃣ Evangelism 5️⃣ Fellowship 6️⃣ Prayer   _________________ Relevant links 📻 Access the FREE 2-4-6 framework / audio course = https://www.lifelift.online/246  📺 Purchase the Healthy Church mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HCMC  ⚙️ Grab the Healthy Systems mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HSMC  ⭐️ See all resources = https://www.lifelift.online/store  Upcoming events + training opportunities on this resource ✅ Events for church + ministry leaders via LifeLift Ministries = www.LifeLift.online/events  Links to TAB Media Group / The Alabama Baptist  ⭐️ Catch-all home page = https://tabmedia.group  📺 YouTube for TAB = https://www.youtube.com/@TABMediaGroup 

A reminder = my friend Jennifer Davis (editor of The Alabama Baptist AND executive director of the TAB Media Group) recently hosted me on her podcast. I asked her if I could cross-post to my platforms, and she agreed… So, here’s a 1-2-3 punch on Healthy Church,” a new project I helped my Dad reboot and release. 💙 ________________   Paul uses the analogy of a human body when talking about the church (see 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, Ephesians 4:11f.). Well, to say it a better way, he doesn’t say the church is LIKE a body, he declares the church ACTUALLY IS a body— the Body of Christ. So, let’s affirm this about human size AND about church size…   While you DO need a certain “mass” for a human to be viable, there are far more indicators as to how healthy the human is than just mere size. Think about it— 🤷‍♂️ You can have a healthy 150-pound man OR an unhealthy 150-pound man. 🤷‍♂️ You can have a healthy 300-pound man OR an unhealthy 300-pound man.   A lot depends on the KIND of weight that man has (read: the kind of size, muscle or fat) AND other indicators we don’t see… ❤️ the condition of his heart and his blood 💥 the amount of stress he has— and how he handles it 😴 the rhythm of rest, recovery, and the working hard… 🚽 the capacity he has to eliminate toxins while storing nutrients See?   The same is true with churches— with the body of Christ… The numbers DO tell some of the story, but only SOME. The numbers are one of many indicators. In this talk we walk through FOUR indicators— 🕊️ Spiritual growth = awakening to who God designed us to be and walking in relationship with Him ⚙️ Ministry involvement = discovering the unique part we play and deploying into that area of stewardship 🌎 Missions advancement = taking the energy of the church outside the four walls of the building and inviting others to experience the presence & power of the Kingdom (not the church, the Kingdom) 🔥 Outreach effectiveness = people are impacted and begin the journey of spiritual growth… (Then, they can start the process.) Bottom line: churches grow in multiple ways— especially if you want them to be healthy.   _________________ Relevant links 📻 Access the FREE 2-4-6 framework / audio course = https://www.lifelift.online/246  📺 Purchase the Healthy Church mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HCMC  ⚙️ Grab the Healthy Systems mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HSMC  ⭐️ See all resources = https://www.lifelift.online/store  Upcoming events + training opportunities on this resource ✅ Events for church + ministry leaders via LifeLift Ministries = www.LifeLift.online/events  Links to TAB Media Group / The Alabama Baptist ⭐️ Catch-all home page = https://tabmedia.group  📺 YouTube for TAB = https://www.youtube.com/@TABMediaGroup 

Heads-up = my friend Jennifer Davis (editor of The Alabama Baptist AND executive director of the TAB Media Group) recently hosted me on her podcast. I asked her if I could cross-post to my platforms, and she agreed… So, here’s a 1-2-3 punch on Healthy Church,” a new project I helped my Dad reboot and release. 💙 ________________   Jesus referenced two “greats” during His time on earth… ⭐️ The great commandment = “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength” (see Matthew 22:36-40), AND ⭐️ The great commission = “go into all the world and make disciples…” (see Matthew 28:18-20). 🤷‍♂️ It seems odd (to me) that that greatest commandment demands that people “love God”— so let’s reframe it… … it looks like (just my perspective) that one (the commission) flows FROM the other… … as an overflow of our “love connection” with God. 💥 But how do you inspire love? And how do you “create” a feeling? 🤷‍♂️ In this episode we discuss these two “greats” and their relationship to each other, as well as explore how to stoke the fire and fan the flame of both. We also dialogue about looking at the world around us from a new perspective— from a vantage point of long-term love, of working grace through the culture like yeast moving through dough (Matthew 13:33-37), and of viewing everything from the standpoint of redeemed-and-yet-to-be-redeemed as opposed to just sacred or secular (see Acts 3:20-21).   _________________ Relevant links 📻 Access the FREE 2-4-6 framework / audio course = https://www.lifelift.online/246  📺 Purchase the Healthy Church mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HCMC  ⚙️ Grab the Healthy Systems mini course = https://www.lifelift.online/HSMC  ⭐️ See all resources = https://www.lifelift.online/store  Upcoming events + training opportunities on this resource ✅ Events for church + ministry leaders via LifeLift Ministries = www.LifeLift.online/events  Links to TAB Media Group / The Alabama Baptist ⭐️ Catch-all home page = https://tabmedia.group  📺 YouTube for TAB = https://www.youtube.com/@TABMediaGroup 

In episode #24, I talked about “doing the daily work.” I also offered the example of Rob’s house flipping course AND his goal of making $1MM per year through a new venture. 💰 In that episode we discussed the importance of the lag measures AND the lead measures…. 📐 LEAD measures = the daily work you do, the actions you must track… (B/c the habits lead to the harvest— not the other way around.) ⏱️ LAG measures = the results of the work you do. If the lead measures are the CAUSES, these are the CONSEQUENCES of showing up… ⭐️   Rob shares part of his story here (the rest of it… is in his book— see the links below). He talks about— 1️⃣ PERSPECTIVE— seeing things from a new point-of-view. Face it: we ALWAYS have a specific vantage point, and that clouds everything. 2️⃣PROCESS— what we do in light of what we know…   ⚙️ By the way… A good system is simply a bridge that moves things from where they are to where you want them to be… with predictability.     _________________ Links referenced Access the GY6 book = www.GY6.online/AC  Free download of the Advance Planner = https://www.jenkins.tv/FreePlannerPDF  The Advance Planner (hardback, Advance on-demand course, and other Advance Planner-related resources— all on this page) = https://www.jenkins.tv/planners  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Rob’s resources, mentioned in this talk = His book, The Long Way (Still Gets You There) = https://www.riseuponline.info/TLW  His mini-course for house flipping = https://www.riseuponline.info/offers/joTvbzT3/checkout  Rob's next live training = www.RiseUpOnline.info/live  The Maximum Allowable Offer explained = https://www.riseuponline.info/MAX    Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

My friend Rob is the co-owner of EXIT Realty Birmingham…. … and he’s flipped over 300 houses over the past decade PLUS been part of 1,000+ successful real estate transactions (he only lost money on two of them). But things weren’t always like that… 😱   When I met him he was just then— ‼️ overcoming a drug addiction ‼️ had been homeless, living in the Target parking lot ‼️ been in and out of jail— changing cells more than you probably change your shoes 🧐   I met him when he “searched me out” and “stalked me” (in the best way possible). He was at a Christian business-leaders’ luncheon (his dad dragged him to it) when he met a pastor who mentored me who suggested he give me a call after he suggested that— since he was clean— he would like to “give back” and help others find their path forward. That led to volunteering… … which led to a staff position… … and a friendship… … and more connection and projects later. ✅ What’s the point…? Listen in…   _________________ Links referenced Access the GY6 book = www.GY6.online/AC  Free download of the Advance Planner = https://www.jenkins.tv/FreePlannerPDF  The Advance Planner (hardback, Advance on-demand course, and other Advance Planner-related resources— all on this page) = https://www.jenkins.tv/planners  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Rob’s resources, mentioned in this talk = His book, The Long Way (Still Gets You There) = https://www.riseuponline.info/TLW  His mini-course for house flipping = https://www.riseuponline.info/offers/joTvbzT3/checkout  Rob's next live training = www.RiseUpOnline.info/live    Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

One of the biggest reasons that “dreams don’t get done” is because we fail to attach the dreams to tangible actions. 💡 We look at the IDEA only rather than the IMPLEMENTATION 🧐 We leave it in our HEADS rather than moving it to our HANDS 💭 We remain DREAMERS instead of DOERS   Let’s review the 3-step process we’ve been discussing: 1️⃣ STEP 1 = DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO… 2️⃣ STEP 2 = DEFINE WHRE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW Which leads us to… 3️⃣ STEP 3 = DO THE DAILY WORK   You must get practical and proactive about making progress… 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌   You just focus on LEAD measures instead of LAG measures. It’s easy to confuse LAG measure with LEAD measures. Or, to say it another way, it’s easy to confuse the “outcome” with the elements that create the outcomes— the causes with the consequences. 🌳   Yes, a lot of it comes down to your schedule (which is why, as we discussed in step 1, you must recognize that every area of life is interconnected and impacts the others— so we need alignment). Your schedule is like a checkbook for your time, energy, and focus… Look at it, and you can tell what kind of LAG measures (read: outcomes) you’ll experience. 🤷‍♂️   John Maxwell said, “A lot of people have uphill dreams but match them to downhill habits.” 📈 And, “People don’t follow through on RENTED dreams— only dreams they OWN.” Think about it: who washes and changes the oil and rotates the tires in a rental car? 🚗   Progress is often slow— even imperceptible from day-to-day. In the same way that plants have a definite CULTIVATION time between sowing and reaping, so also do our dreams. 🌳 And the time of reaping is different depending on numerous factors— just as is the case with plants. Furthermore, in the same way you can’t crack a seed, pull up a stem, or stretch a leaf in order to produce your plant, you can’t manufacture a move of God in your dreams. A lot depends on that combo of PROVIDENCE and PATIENCE and PERSISTING… (Which is one of the reasons we don’t want to procrastinate, yet recognize the patience persistence of it all.) 💜   Do the work. Even though you can’t explain how a plant (or dream) manifests (see Mark 4:27), we DO KNOW that it “works.” We’re told not to grow weary in doing good— because we will reap a harvest (Galatians 6:9). In fact, the authors of the New Testament prayed that we would prosper in EVERY AREA of life (see 3 John 2). 🔥     _________________ Resources related to Advance Free download of the Advance Planner = https://www.jenkins.tv/FreePlannerPDF  The Advance Planner (hardback, Advance on-demand course, and other Advance Planner-related resources— all on this page) = https://www.jenkins.tv/planners  The 21-day challenge, self-study / re-charge + re-boot + re-ignite your dreams = https://www.jenkins.tv/challenge  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Rob’s resources, mentioned in this talk = His book, The Long Way (Still Gets You There) = https://www.riseuponline.info/TLW  His mini-course for house flipping = https://www.riseuponline.info/offers/joTvbzT3/checkout    Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com   

Continuing from the previous talk about looking ahead and deciding where you want your life to go— in multiple areas (each of them important)…. … we come to step 2. 👇 STEP 2 = DEFINE WHRE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW You must do this with radical clarity. For instance… 💰If you plan to get out debt, you must know what you owe, you must know what you’re spending (the bigger issue in budget is often what’s going OUT and now what’s coming IN). 📕 If you propose to write a book you must know what stories and ideas and assets and recordings and other resources you’re starting with… 📈 If you’re projecting a fundraiser or an event, you need to know the date, the location, the lead team, the business plan, the “win” for the event, and more… This is true with everything we do from losing weight to starting projects to building relationships. But… … we often avoid radical clarity, because we (wrongly) attach our identity to “where we are.” That is, we (wrongly) connect our identity to externals measurements. 💔 The truth… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Where you are isn’t who you are. Where you are isn’t where you must remain. Where you are IS where you must begin. 🔥🔥🔥   So… Go back to step #1 | DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO (in each area of life). And, DEFINE WHERE YOU ARE NOW— in each of those areas. So you can, DETERMINE THE STEPS REQUIRED— no matter how many or how few— to “reverse engineer your way back” from where you want to be to where you are now. 🛠️   In other words, reverse engineer your destination so you can build a bridge backwards that— 🏁 guarantees to take you there 🧠 gets your mind in gear 💜 grants you the gift of hope + expectation of better things to come     _________________ Resources related to Advance = Free download of the Advance Planner = https://www.jenkins.tv/FreePlannerPDF  The Advance Planner (hardback, Advance on-demand course, and other Advance Planner-related resources— all on this page) = https://www.jenkins.tv/planners  The 21-day challenge, self-study / re-charge + re-boot + re-ignite your dreams = https://www.jenkins.tv/challenge  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC    Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

Sometimes we don’t make the progress in life that we’d like to make… It might be that we hit unknown / unforeseen obstacles (or get sideswiped by trauma, trials, and tests). It might be that we don’t actually sit down and make a plan. We don’t think about where we want life to go. 🧐   We can’t account for all of the unknown variables but we CAN consider what we do. Here’s a three-step (overly simplified) roadmap forward. 🧭   STEP 1 = DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO… Many people have never looked “downrange” and thought about where they want life to go. A lot of us find ourselves overwhelmed in the moment, cruising through each day in “reactive” mode, that we don’t step aside from living IN our life that we work ON our life. Here’s part of the reason why… 💡 Many of us have never been taught to dream. We simply take life on its own terms, as it comes. If things don’t go well (or we don’t like it), we look for an alternative path. Other than that, we continue coasting. 🤔 In addition, we forget that we have MULTIPLE areas of life to consider… These include: 🏠 Family 💰 Finances 👟 Fitness 🙏 Faith ⚙️ Factory (work, what we create) 🔗 Friends (deep connections)   Each of these areas are interconnected AND impact each other accordingly. What we do in one area affects all the others…. … so goals / dreams that are made in isolation rarely last long— they get (rightly) sucked into the stream of every other area of life. In other words, ALIGNMENT is more important than extra effect and intense motivation. So… You must decide where you want to go… … and you must recognize that multiple areas MUST be pulled together in order to make long-term movement.   The promise? Psalm 37:4 = “delight yourself in the Lord, and He will grant you the desires of your heart.” When we align with His purposes for us— from deep reflection in the quiet space— we receive not just “ideas” but “revelation” that moves us forward.   And that leads us to step 2…   _________________ Resources related to Advance Free download of the Advance Planner = https://www.jenkins.tv/FreePlannerPDF  The Advance Planner (hardback, Advance on-demand course, and other Advance Planner-related resources— all on this page) = https://www.jenkins.tv/planners The 21-day challenge, self-study / re-charge + re-boot + re-ignite your dreams = https://www.jenkins.tv/challenge  One-to-one personal coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC Link to episode 5, where we discussed Advance = https://www.jenkins.tv/podcasts/podcast-version-2-0/episodes/2149079765  Upcoming events 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com 

🥊 Note: this talk is a continuation of the one-two punch we started about parenting in the previous episode 🥊   There are THREE phases of parenting… And you’ve got to pivot your roles and goals at each milestone. 📈   Here’s why knowing the three phases is helpful… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 1️⃣ If you know which stage you’re in, you know the “role” to play as you parent 2️⃣ If you know what you want them to look like as they enter the next step, you can reverse engineer those traits and instill them in your child, using the current stage to prep them for the next   It’s important to understand— ➡️ which phase you’re kid is in ➡️ the primary “role” you need to play as a parent ➡️ the importance of recognizing what’s coming next (so you can use the current phase to prepare them for the next) WHILE ALSO ➡️ being fully present in that phase and enjoying the season you’re in (even though, admittedly, each season brings it’s unique set of challenges)   In this episode we get practical about the THIRD phase (first two = previous episode). And then we tackle this reality… 👇   It seems like there’s never enough time to do the things that need to be done… … much less “go deep” in all of this parenting stuff and make sure the most important things happen. (Yes, it’s easy to feel like a failure as a parent.) 💔   So… What if we could capture significant moments each day as part of the parenting journey? What if we created “positive triggers” that just opened up strategic times of opportunity to focus on life-changing moments— big and small? And what if we acknowledge that we aren’t running a sprint… or even a marathon… but one of those ultra-marathon, triathlon, extreme-race things that just goes on and on… so the best approach is just to make incremental change, by capturing some of the small moments? 💖💖💖   Randy discuses “the flow.” Parenting becomes easier when you tap into the every day grind and add a dose of grace to strategic moments… 🛌 Bed time ⏰ Morning routine 🚌 Car pool 🍔 Meal times   In addition, you’ll learn about the possibilities that— 🧭 Directional gatherings 🔥 Experiences ⭐️ Adventures — can unlock for you and your family when dropped in small doses. Here’s the takeaway, rather than depending on the BIG moments and overlooking the small, lean into the small / everyday and supplement with the “big.”     _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com    Links to Randy’s website… 📺 The parenting mini course = www.BeRefreshed.org/MC  📳 Schedule a 25-minute “zoom-type” Discovery Call with Randy = www.BeRefreshed.org/DC  🔗 The grand parenting group (online) = https://www.berefreshed.org/GP  👉 1:1 coaching info with Randy = www.BeRefreshed.org/PC    About Randy’s podcast… Note: Find Randy’s “Be Refreshed” podcast at https://www.berefreshed.org/podcasts/be-refreshed AND/OR your fav podcast provider. Episodes which are great next steps from here = ✅ #8, about the “Three phases / three stages” of parenting = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047725  ✅ #12, about “Tools” for each of the three stages of parenting = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047730  ✅ #13, about “The Flow” = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047731 

Parenting happens by design or default. And, honestly, it’s easier— though it seems more difficult— to do it with a plan. But doing it with a plan requires a few things. 👇   I invited my friend Randy into the studio to discuss his approach to the “part art / part science” long-term process of parenting. He’s an expert, because he and his wife did it and ALMOST had an empty nest… and then found out they had another on the way.

They get a second chance to do the parenting thing all over again, implementing the adjustments we all look back and think about— “Oh, if I only knew then what I know now…” 🤷‍♂️   Parenting a toddler is different than parenting a teen. And that’s different than parenting a son or daughter who’s now a senior in college or just stepping into the full time workforce. That seems obvious. 🤦‍♂️   But how do you know what each child needs at each stage of life? And how can you not only know WHAT they need but also HOW to transfer that lesson, that bit of leadership to them? 🧐   Randy talks about the three phases of parenting…. 🔴 0- 5 years, discipline = building a foundation 🟠 6-12 years, training = developing soft skills 🟢 13+, coaching = equipping them to make good, “life” decisions   We start breaking them down in this episode, as well as discuss why you need to manage the culture moreso than just manage the schedule and the agenda…     _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 The GY6 LIVE! workshop = on the events page of the GY6 site = www.GY6.online/events  👟The “Be The One” 5K = signup to run, walk, volunteer, or just support the movement = www.BeTheOneToday.com    Links to Randy’s website… 📺 The parenting mini course = www.BeRefreshed.org/MC  📳 Schedule a 25-minute “zoom-type” Discovery Call with Randy = www.BeRefreshed.org/DC  🔗 The grand parenting group (online) = https://www.berefreshed.org/GP  👉 1:1 coaching info with Randy = www.BeRefreshed.org/PC    About Randy’s podcast… Note: Find Randy’s “Be Refreshed” podcast at https://www.berefreshed.org/podcasts/be-refreshed AND/OR your fav podcast provider. Episodes which are great next steps from here = ✅ #8, about the “Three phases / three stages” of parenting = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047725  ✅ #12, about “Tools” for each of the three stages of parenting = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047730  ✅ #13, about “The Flow” = https://berefreshed.mykajabi.com/podcasts/be-refreshed/episodes/2149047731

In the previous episode we discussed waiting / delays related to our dreams / purpose. We mentioned four things which occur… ⭐️ There are three more things that happen during our seasons of waiting (listen to our previous talk for the first four): 5️⃣ PLANS & IDEAS develop + mature. That is, the ideas become “better” and more refined. 6️⃣ PATIENCE grows— making us more complete. When we remember that God WILL fulfill the plans He’s created for us (see Ephesians 2:8-10 & Acts 13:36), we can really lean into this one, acquiring the lessons and insights we need during the wait. 7️⃣ PASSION either grows or withers… and, if it wains, it’s probably a good thing that we didn’t jump headfirst into the project or pursuit. 💥 But what do we do when the wait is— at least in some measure— our fault? Turns out, grace covers it. And, more than that, GRACE OFTEN makes that the very platform where we make a difference. 📈   History— and the Bible— is full of the stories of people who waited (and failed) and became massive “successes” in the very area of their struggle. Turns out, we’re often perfectly positioned to serve the people who find themselves walking through the same muck & mire that we once traversed. So, shame free… … lean in. And don’t waste the lessons you’ve learned during the wait— even if it was, in part, your own doing. God redeems ALL things to impact ALL people. 💜   _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “Stronger” audiobook = www.Jenkins.tv/lead  📕 Purchase the Stronger book = www.Jenkins.tv/stronger  📣 Learn more about “getting paid for what you know” with Amplify training = www.AmplifyOnline.info  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Sometimes, we find ourselves waiting… There’s a delay between what we feel God calls us to do and the actual implementation of that call. ⏰ Many times, it’s out of our control. And when it is, it might just be a matter of TIMING. ⏰   In this talk we discuss a YEARS long delay between an idea and an implementation strategy, as well as the long road it took to get there. And, we highlight four of the seven things that occur whenever there’s a delay… 👇 1️⃣ PRAYER gets answered in the right way— which is often different than how we originally made our request. 2️⃣ PEOPLE move around— some exit and some enter. Many of these shifts are necessary if God’s going to take us to the place He wants us to be. 3️⃣ PREPARATION & SKILL increase… as long as we lean into it and don’t “waste the wait.” 4️⃣ PROVISION— which includes more than just money— comes… that is, God moves some of the resources we need into our hands…   If you’ve ever waited (and we all have), lean in…   _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “Stronger” audiobook that was mentioned in this talk = www.Jenkins.tv/lead  📕 Purchase the Stronger book = www.Jenkins.tv/stronger  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Let’s talk about shame. It’s a real deal, and it impacts a lot of us… 🤷‍♂️ Whereas PTSD is primarily and soul hurt (read: emotions), Moral Injury is a primarily a spirit hurt (read: conscience. It’s important to note the differences… … because any part of us can be injured. And, the part that is injured is the part that needs to be healed. A lot of us are walking around with wounded spirits… ❤️‍🩹 The term for a wounded spirit / conscience is “Moral Injury.” Moral Injury CAN occur from the “bads we commit” AND the “goods we omit,” but life is far more nuanced that just “doing the right thing and avoiding the wrong thing.” So, in this talk, we highlight nine different ways Moral Injury occurs. Note: these examples are not meant to provide an exhaustive list— but simply to show examples. 👇   Here are the nine we discuss: 1️⃣ You do the right thing but it’s an ethical “wrong” in another environment (38:05). Example: J.T., firing his weapon, to “take out” an insurgent 2️⃣ You neglect doing something “good” or something you feel you should have done (39:32). Re: Danny’s experience in Vietnam. 3️⃣ You do something good but a bad outcome happens (40:46). The airplane he was piloting crashed. He survived but over a dozen others did not. 4️⃣ You don't do something wrong at all— but you don’t recognize the signs of something bad about to occur (42:37). Example: Chris got a promotion. He celebrated with his fire team, but got a call about 2 hours later. 5️⃣ You survived something, yet someone else was injured or killed (43:56). Example: Jonathan’s training officer delivered a warrant on one of Jonathan’s regular off days. Example: Father Ed… and survivor’s guilt 6️⃣ You’re the victim— something happens to you, yet you still feel guilt & shame (46:47). Example: She was the victim of military sexual trauma (repeated rape). 7️⃣ You try to help but you don’t succeed (48:37). Example: The fireman went the “wrong way” in the house fire. They discovered there was someone in the opposite side of the house, after the fact. Example: The tank accident 8️⃣ You think you could have helped, but you were ordered to stand down (51:21). Example: Rachel had orders to wait until law enforcement cleared the scene of the shooting, while two victims awaited her. 9️⃣ You see something that defies all moral & ethical sensibility (54:03). Example: Jackson received a call, and went to help the victim at her neighbor’s front porch.   👇 This not an exhaustive list of the ways Moral Injury can occur— it’s a list of ways that is HAS occurred.) Notice that the common denominator in each of these is NOT “fight or flight” (like PTSD). It’s “guilt and/or shame.” In other words, it’s a spiritual/conscience hurt— NOT a soul/emotional hurt.   😳 How does it impact many of us? Well… … we get raw about it towards the end.     _________________ 📺 Some of the videos referenced in this talk = — The longer video training on Moral Injury = https://www.gy6.online/blog/MI  — The “Emotional Wholeness Checklist” video = https://www.gy6.online/blog/EWC  — Rachel’s story about being ordered to stand down = https://www.gy6.online/blog/02  — Jackson’s story about the girl who was attacked by her mother with a machete = https://www.gy6.online/blog/35  _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “best of” Soul Wholeness audiobook here = https://www.jenkins.tv/best  📕 Purchase an advanced / pre-release copy of GY6 = https://www.gy6.online/AC  ⭐️ Training events related to GY6 = go to https://www.gy6.online/store  💜 Access the Freedom March / 5 week self-study to walk in emotional healing = https://www.jenkins.tv/FM  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Is emotional health / healing even Biblical? That’s the question we want to answer in this episode… ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In seminary I learned about “the law of first mention,” a precept that tells us to really comprehend something in the Biblical narrative, we need to dig deep into the first time we see the word or concept introduced. To understand redemption and the redeeming work of Jesus, and to explore everything achieved by His blood, we need to travel way back through the Old Testament to the book Exodus. The story of Israel's freedom provides incredible insight into the life Jesus offers each of us. And it was a freedom that was both comprehensive (it covered EVERY area of life) and "now" (they experienced it in real time and space-- not after they died). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The first time we see the word redemption used is in Exodus 6:6— when the Lord mentions that He will redeem His people. God tells Moses to tell all of Israel, “I will deliver you from slavery… I will redeem you” (6:6 ESV). God refers to redemption in the FUTURE tense. The second place we see the word redeem used in the Bible is Exodus 15:13 when Miriam begins singing AFTER the Children of Israel walk through the Red Sea. She celebrates, “These are the people whom You have redeemed.” Notice— The ONLY event in between the two usages is the Exodus— the experience the word redeem describes… ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Now, the New Testament tells us we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus (i.e., 1 Peter 1:18-19, Revelation 5:9, etc.). Most Christians ARE NOT surprised to hear this. We’ve heard it for as long as we've been around the Church. But… … since Jesus redeemed us by His blood, it makes sense that He redeemed us at each place He shed His blood. Pause. Rewind and review the second point. The place Jesus bled is important. That is, how and where Jesus bled actually reveals something as to the freedom(s) He grants us. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Peter says that we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus (1 Peter 1:18-19). He doesn’t say that we are redeemed “at the Cross.” Yes, it’s easy to just assume that he’s taking about the Cross. But, when we read the text we see something greater happening. Exploring this point provides our answer to the third question above— we see what Jesus redeems us to. We are redeemed by the blood that Jesus shed at the Cross— and during the events surrounding the Cross. Peter emphasizes the blood, not necessarily the location of the blood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Think about the blood of Jesus for a moment, and all of the places we see it in the Bible. He bled in seven unique places. 1️⃣ In the Garden, He prayed and sweat drops of blood. 2️⃣ As they soldiers came and arrested Him, they beat Him ruthlessly and He bled more, becoming bruised and battered even beyond recognition. 3️⃣ The Roman soldiers scourged Him, opening most of His back, exposing His internal organs... and His blood. 4️⃣ They mocked Him by placing a crown of thorns on His brow, causing more blood to flow. 5️⃣ They nailed His hands into the cross-beam, and He bled. 6️⃣ His feet became another place of bleeding. 7️⃣ Even after Jesus was confirmed to dead, a soldier pierced His side, puncturing His heart and releasing more blood. Jesus literally shed all of His blood— all of His blood for all of your redemption. This doesn't minimize the work of the Cross at all. Rather, it amplifies it. Understanding the full scope of what Jesus did for us is like plugging the victory declared from the Cross into an amplifier. Jesus bled at seven distinct places— not just one— and each place brought another degree of redemption. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ And, yes… Items #2 and #7 on the list… … well, they have a LOT to do with soul freedom.     _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “best of” Soul Wholeness audiobook here = https://www.jenkins.tv/best 📘 This content of this podcast is discussed in more detail in the eBook titled “Redemption” / get free access here = https://www.jenkins.tv/R ✅ We also talked about physical healing in episode 6. Go here to listen 📕 Purchase an advanced / pre-release copy of GY6 = https://www.gy6.online/AC  ⭐️ Training events related to GY6 = go to https://www.gy6.online/store  💜 Access the Freedom March / 5 week self-study to walk in emotional healing = https://www.jenkins.tv/FM  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

We continue in this talk where we left off in the previous… … tackling the idea that if you work through the pain in the Presence you may very well find your bigger purpose. (Note: this is a continuation of episode 14.) 💥 That led me to the GY6 project— a resource I created over the past 2 years, based on a lot of personal struggles as well as professional opportunities. And, it’s getting ready to launch. (Plus, we’re building a great team of people to help us roll it out.) ⭐️   Note: GY6 = Got your six… 👇 When the first U.S. pilots flew into war, over a century ago, they could not see behind them— only ahead of them (the 12 o’clock position) and only to the side (the 9 and 3 positions). They could not see their “6.”  But other pilots could, and they would effectively tell the man ahead of them, “I’ve got your back. I’m looking out for you. Nothing will harm you as long as I’m here. I’ve got your six.” This mantra has carried forth to other military personnel, law enforcement officers, and heroes of all kinds. The inference is the same: you’re covered. ✈️   _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “best of” Soul Wholeness audiobook here = https://www.jenkins.tv/best  📕 Purchase an advanced / pre-release copy of GY6 = https://www.gy6.online/AC  ⭐️ Training events related to GY6 = go to https://www.gy6.online/store  👟 The page for the “Be the One” 5K run / ruck = https://www.betheonetoday.com/  🎬 Crosswinds resources mentioned (re: films, etc.), are categorized at https://www.gy6.online/C  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC 

Two “streams” converged to create the GY6 project— 1️⃣ Personal struggles, and 2️⃣ Professional experience that fit the same “lane” as those struggles…   Here, we tackle the first stream— the personal struggle. And, we discuss what it was like for me to get raw about myself, truly look in the mirror, and tackle some of the deeper issues. When we get honest about our pain-points, our shortcomings, and our character issues… … we can address them. Furthermore, we can move forward in healing AND also help others— often who are walking through the same mess we’ve stumbled through.   👇 Or, to say it another way— Work through the pain, in the Presence, and walk into your purpose..   _________________ Next best steps from here… 📳 Access the free “best of” Soul Wholeness audiobook here = https://www.jenkins.tv/best  📕 Purchase an advanced / pre-release copy of GY6 = https://www.gy6.online/AC  ⭐️ Training events related to GY6 = go to https://www.gy6.online/store  👟 The page for the “Be the One” 5K run / ruck = https://www.betheonetoday.com/  🎬 Crosswinds resources mentioned (re: films, etc.), are categorized at https://www.gy6.online/C  💥 Work with me 1:1 via coaching = https://www.jenkins.tv/PC  The books referred to in this episode: The Road Back to You (Enneagram book by Ian Cron) = https://amzn.to/499NXu4  Unmasking Narcissism (Mark Ettensohn) = https://amzn.to/4hlHkqM 

This past year we began creating a 501c3 / nonprofit organization with my dad… … with the intent of platforming some of his most essential (and meaningful) ideas from the past 50+ years of ministry AND ALSO building upon that as a foundation to “more.” 👇 The project began with the Heaven Bound book and continued… 👑   In this episode we discuss how it all unfolded, we talk about some of the most current projects, and we dialogue about legacy and impact and stepping Into the wake / standing on the shoulders of others to continue learning and leading forward.   _________________ Next best steps from here… 🕊️ The LifeLift website = www.LifeLift.online  📳 The free video audiobook on Heaven = https://www.lifelift.online/1  📕 The Heaven Bound book + course = https://www.lifelift.online/HB  🚀 Resources / starting point for church & ministry leaders = https://www.lifelift.online/3 

A few years ago several projects converged and it just seemed like the right timing to pull together ALL of the processes we use to write books, create courses, host events, lead workshops, and more… … and put them all in once tidy package. The result of the effort was/is— 📘 The Amplify book 💻 The Amplify course 💰 The Amplify business that teaches people how to get paid for what they know…   So, if you’re an “idea” person and have thought about writing a book, teaching on video, or even hosting events… … so you can impart your experience and/or expertise to others… … but you aren’t sure about how to go about it… … then this talk is for you.   _________________ Next best steps from here… 📣 The Amplify website = www.AmplifyOnline.info  📳 The free video explainer on how to “start from scratch” = https://www.amplifyonline.info/scratch  💻 “How to Get Paid for What You Know” mini course = https://www.amplifyonline.info/GPMC  📒 Claim your free book, Process Over Permission, at www.AmplifyOnline.info/process 

It’s odd that we attempt to show “bless-able” we are based on our behaviors and ability to keep religious rules and regulations, because— as Gentiles (read: not Jewish)— we were never under the rules. Rather, God engaged us on RELATIONSHIP. In this talk we discuss what that means… … and how pursuing relationship not only removes the burden from us, but it’s also sometimes HARD. ‼️ Face it. Humans like to perform. We feel that if we’re not “doing” something, we don’t have value. 💔 God looks at us, though, and declares that we’re valuable because of who we are— HIS— not because of what we’ve done. Understanding— and embracing— that changes everything.     _________________ Next best steps from here… 💙The free “grace basics” audio course = https://www.jenkins.tv/grace 📘 Brandon’s book, Nailed It! = on paperback = https://amzn.to/4nttpRc OR kindle = https://amzn.to/4me8Res 🛐 Church Unlimited, where Brandon pastors = https://www.mychurchunlimited.com = Weekly sermons from Brandon ⁉️ Grace Answers= www.graceanswers.com  // Access to book purchase and Brandon's other grace-based resources. 📳 Church Unlimited App = search any app store for "Church Unlimited Alabama" to download for video content

We tend to make our relationship with God FAR MORE complex than it needs to be… … because we lean into our ability to keep rules and follow regulations more than we engage in authentic relationship. 🤔   In this talk we continue the series on GRACE, and we dialogue about the unique way in which God relates to us— — not by rules. — not by regulations. Those were all elements of the past, but they weren’t intended to carry-over into the present. ‼️ In fact, each of those elements— all of the elements of the LAW were designed to show us our need for God, our inability to “climb up” to Him, and the reality that He came down to us.       _________________ Next best steps from here… 💙The free “grace basics” audio course = https://www.jenkins.tv/grace 📘 Brandon’s book, Nailed It! = on paperback = https://amzn.to/4nttpRc OR kindle = https://amzn.to/4me8Res 🛐 Church Unlimited, where Brandon pastors = https://www.mychurchunlimited.com = Weekly sermons from Brandon ⁉️ Grace Answers= www.graceanswers.com // Access to book purchase and Brandon's other grace-based resources. 📳 Church Unlimited App = search any app store for "Church Unlimited Alabama" to download for video content

If Jesus is actually your high priest— the one whom you appeal to on behalf of your sins— then you’ve got a decision to make: You can— 1️⃣ Appeal to the Law and your self-righteousness OR— 2️⃣ Appeal to Jesus and HIS righteousness on your behalf… But… You’ve got to make a choice. 👇   Here’s why: Under the Old Testament Law, Jesus wasn’t qualified to be a priest. He’s of the tribe of Judah— not the tribe of Levi. And all of the priests (under the Law) come from the tribe of Levi (see Hebrews 7:11-8:4). So… 🥁🥁🥁   If you access Jesus, you can’t access the Law. It’s OUT. But, His gift is enacted on better promises AND a more robust gift of radical, unbalanced grace. ⭐️   In this talk, we go through a bit of intro information… … and then we bring my friend Brandon Ball in, who’s just written a book ALL ABOUT grace. The book = Nailed It! 🔨   Here’s the talk… ... where we talk about a FAR BETTER way that Jesus provides.   _________________ Next best steps from here… 💙The free “grace basics” audio course = https://www.jenkins.tv/grace  📘 Brandon’s book, Nailed It! = on paperback = https://amzn.to/4nttpRc OR kindle = https://amzn.to/4me8Res  🛐 Church Unlimited, where Brandon pastors = https://www.mychurchunlimited.com = Weekly sermons from Brandon ⁉️ Grace Answers= www.graceanswers.com  // Access to book purchase and Brandon's other grace-based resources. 📳 Church Unlimited App = search any app store for "Church Unlimited Alabama" to download for video content

In the New Testament era— just like today— people assumed they needed to choose “one leader” and follow them. But Paul said something radical— EVERY BIT OF INFO from any Christian leader is YOURS. In other words, you don’t have to pick-and-choose, such that you “align” with one “STRIPE” or version of Christianity. 💥 And then he went further… He said that EVERY BIT OF ANY TRUE INFO anywhere belongs to you as well… 👇 Because God is redeeming EVERYTHING and He intends to use ALL THINGS for His glory. ⭐️   Here’s what it means for each of us…   ___________ Next best steps… 🎧 Learn more about grace with the free audio course at www.Jenkins.tv/grace  📗 Claim your free book and find + fulfill your purpose at www.Jenkins.tv/free 

Paul says that Christ ascended to Heaven and then POURED out gifts to everyone in the “body of Christ” (read: all of His followers, past-present-and-future) so “build up” together into the full measure of Christ Himself (see Ephesians 4:11f.). In other words… 1️⃣ We’re all gifted 2️⃣ We’re all called ⭐️   The problem is that we often create a false dichotomy between who is called and who isn’t— between who does SACRED work and who does secular work. But… … as Dan Miller reminds us (in his book 40 Days to the Work You Love)— There is a Hebrew word, avodah, from which come both the words “work" and “worship." To the Hebrew man, his Thursday morning activities were just as much an expression of worship as being in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Nothing in Scripture depicts the Christian life as divided into sacred and secular parts. Rather, it shows a unified life, one of wholeness, in which everything we do is service to God, including our daily work, whatever that may be.    This isn’t just a “spiritual concept,” this idea about work being connected to a deeper purpose. Webster’s dictionary (full disclosure: I looked this up online and not from an actual Webster’s book) defines work as "bodily or mental efforts exerted to do or make something; purposeful activity.” Work is— ✅ Purposeful ✅ Meaningful ✅ Intentional Work adds value to everything around us, because work places the touch of the Creator somewhere in our world, even as it uses human instruments to do so.   In fact… 🥁🥁🥁 Colossians 3:17 tells us, “Whatever you do, do it as unto the Lord.” Whereas it’s easy to assume this simply applies to church or religious activities, this verse reminds us that any activity we do should be performed as unto the Lord. Paul, who also write this verse, clarifies the reason: “Because it is the Lord God you are serving.”   __________ Next best steps… Access the LifeLift book and live your purpose everywhere you go— www.Jenkins.tv/free  Access the free “Grace Basics” audio course = www.Jenkins.tv/grace 

  About a decade ago, I found myself struggling with my health. Bad. At 40 years old, I was overweight, out-of-shape, sluggish, and tolerated a lot of health issues that I just assumed were part of the natural aging process. Turns out, I was wrong. 👇 The first word we see in the Bible for healing is iaomai— meaning “miraculous” and “instantaneous” healing. This is how we most often envision Jesus healing. This word appears 30 times in the New Testament. (See examples in Matthew 8:13, Mark 5:29, Luke 8:47, John 12:40.) ✅ As I began losing weight— for purely cosmetic and personal reasons having nothing to do with my health— the health issues began to evaporate. Almost overnight. That’s what led me to learn about a second word we see in the Bible that we OFTEN translate as healing: therapeuo. The word means “to serve, to attend to, or to wait upon menially” and “to heal gradually over time with care” and “to teach how to be well. This word appears 40 times in the Bible- a bit more than the instant cures we usually associate with miracles. (See Matthew 4:23-24, Mark 1:34, Mark 6:13, Luke 5:15, Acts 5:16, Acts 8:7, Revelation 22:2.) 🤷‍♂️ In the Bible we see BOTH kinds of healing. Understanding why different are present matters SO MUCH, because it shows us what’s accessible to us…   👇 We have far more control over our health than we’ve been taught. We’re not victims of the genome- as if some of us got a good shake at the DNA-lottery and others of us didn’t. Science is showing, more and more, that we have far more power than we thought... And that’s the subject of this talk.   _________________ Next best steps from here… 💙The Healing Workshop (an on-demand course): https://www.jenkins.tv/THW  📘 The eBook = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/ngwEkvjP/checkout  ⛓️‍💥 This approach ALSO works for emotional wholeness. Access the Freedom March for concentrated content in this area: www.Jenkins.tv/FM 

Advance is a resource (or, set of resources) developed over a few renditions of events, workshops, interactions, and more… … to equip you to move forward from where you are to where you deeply desire to be in MULTIPLE areas of life. 🚌 It started in an odd way… … almost an after-thought to an event that was completely unrelated to what Advance became. 👇 This is the long version of the story… AND— A few tips as to how to practically navigate from where you are to where you’re designed to be. 🔥 After a long series of stories and winding tales, listen for three tips— 🥁🥁🥁 ✅ Tip 1 = Goals we set must work in the context of every area of life… Or, to say it another way, goals set in isolation from all your other obligations and opportunities just don’t last. ✅ Tip 2 = Goals are practical… We reach them by the incremental actions we do each day, many of them so small that we hardly notice them in the moment. Yet, step back months later— and years later— and you can hardly recognize where you are as compared to where you once were. ✅ Tip 3 = Success in those goals = living up to YOUR God-given potential in each area of life— not someone else’s. That means “success” looks different for each of us… … and it ALSO affirms that we can be doing stellar in some areas while we struggle in others— neither negating the other. 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌   For more info about the Advance resources— see the links below: 📆 The Advance planner = www.Jenkins.tv/planners  📓 The Advance book = https://www.jenkins.tv/AB  🚌 Take the 21 challenge / self-study to navigate forward… https://www.jenkins.tv/challenge  💻The Advance (on-demand, online) workshop = Same page as planners = www.Jenkins.tv/planners  📳 The Advance workshop on audio = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/RPLLv2yY/checkout  📳 The Advance audiobook = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/9t7TFCyf/checkout  📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD 

We’re designed to explore and grow. The problem is that as we explore, we bump into pain. 💔 As a result of pain, we create internal rules— often hidden from our conscious mind that cause us to self-protect going forward. Therein lies the problem— 👉 We “live out” of these rules (read: thought patterns), but we’re often not sure WHY we react the way we do in certain situations. 😳 In the same way muscle memory creates “automatic” behaviors physically, so also does SOUL memory. 👇   The takeaway: we may need a new set of rules. The patterns that served us well in the past might not work well going forward. In fact, they may hinder us….     +++++++++ Next best steps 🎧 Access the previous episode, Photizo — this talk builds on that 📺 Watch the (free) “Emotional Wholeness Checklist” video on the GY6 site: https://www.gy6.online/blog/EWC  💜 Purchase the SOUL WHOLENESS masterclass— https://www.jenkins.tv/SWV  📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD    Related projects... 🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development 📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea ⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project 🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders

Many times we SEE what we’ve been preconditioned to see… 👀 Two stories in the Old Testament, 40 years apart, illustrate this. 👇 Story 1– The 12 spies felt like grasshoppers compared to the giants in the promised land. Numbers 13-14 Story 2– 2 spies meet Rahab, who reveals the people of Jericho (the “giants”) have been “melting in fear” for 40 years— because they feared the children of Israel. Joshua 2 🤷‍♂️   It happens all the time to us. We we see things “incorrectly,” it causes us to— 👉 See OTHERS differently, such that we’re not able to receive from them or encourage them 👉 See OURSELVES differently, such that we’re not able to walk into our full purpose / passion 👉 See OUR SITUATION differently, such that we don’t see God’s resources and abundance around us…   Perhaps this is why so many verses in the Bible tell us to— ✅ Consider what we think and how we think (Proverbs 23:7) ✅ Recognize that God can do far more than we can think or imagine (Ephesians 3:19-20) ✅ Realize that we have the “mind” (read: imagination) of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16) ✅ See that God has a grace-empowered destiny for us (Ephesians 2:8-10).   And… … to the point of the title… Paul prays that the eyes of our heart / soul be PHOTIZO / photosynthesis (life-creating, life-giving). 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼     +++++++++ Next best steps 🪩 Discover who you are— the IDENTITY book / course— https://www.jenkins.tv/identity  📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD  A few links to projects that are running right now: 🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development 📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea ⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project 🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders

Maybe you find yourself in “liminal space,” that odd space where you haven’t quite left the past season YET you haven’t quite stepped into the next season, either. You’re in the middle, on the threshold. 🤷‍♂️   The Children of Israel learned that we often meet God in that space… the middle. For sure, we can EXTEND the stay, but we can’t “quicken” in, because there are certain things that can only be acquired in these wilderness spaces. That’s where the Israelites encountered— 💥 God’s POWER 🍞 God’s PROVISION 🔥 God’s PRESENCE   In fact, some of them became so enamored with the wilderness they chose NOT to embrace their destiny and cross into the Promised Land. When we cross over, though, we find that— 💥 God’s POWER 🍞 God’s PROVISION 🔥 God’s PRESENCE … it ALL GOES WITH US… … even if the experience of it / how we encounter it all changes.   So, pursue the PRESENCE… If you’re experiencing a divine POSTPONEMENT, embrace it. God is doing something in you, with you… If you’re experiencing self-imposed PROCRASTINATION, it may be time to make your next move…   +++++++++ Next best steps 🍎 Free “grace basics” audio course— https://www.jenkins.tv/grace  💥 The Freedom March “self-study”— https://www.jenkins.tv/FM  📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD  A few links to projects that are running right now: 🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development 📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea ⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project 🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders

A new podcast feed… … completely. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I almost didn’t do it— and paused before stepping into it— for a few reasons… 👇 1️⃣ The “sunk cost” of LOTS of episodes on the previous… … but, if you just keep pushing forward without stepping into the “new” (if / when you’re supposed to), you just find yourself serving a PROCESS rather than fulfilling your PURPOSE.   2️⃣ The straight-up question of “How much can I go ALL IN on this?” … b/c we all have naysayers and negativity that we’ve been through (some of it well-deserved) AND that causes us to wonder if we’re even qualified to do the “next best thing” which means we PLAY IT SAFE. 3️⃣ The surface one… Am I too old to start something new? But… You can’t— or shouldn’t— PAUSE the play you’re supposed to run.   About the title of this one… There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that asks the question, “When’s the best time to plant a tree?” The answer… “50 years ago.” The follow-up question goes something like this: “When’s the NEXT best time to plant the tree?” The answer… “Today.”     +++++++++ Next best steps 📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD  A few links to projects that are running right now: 🚌 Jenkins.tv | personal development 📣 AmplifyOnline.info | platform your idea ⚙️GY6.online | PTSD + Moral Injury project 🦅 LifeLift.online | pastors/ministry leaders