Taste and See Policy

 Introduction

As minister I am learning to focus very heavily on applying the truths of God word to my life and talking about the benefits of his word from experience rather than speaking in platitudes. A heavy weight lies on the life of leader because he is often required to do things daily the some people may never do once. So alas this my intention to dine on what I intend to serve.

Hebrews Beyond the Veil - The Best Help - Kingdom Key (pp26-27)

Be Free Indeed

John 8:35-36
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ephesians 1:5 - 2:17

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

What things of this world hold you bound? 

The lusts of eye , flesh and the pride of life. I have learned why it is called lust, those things have certain appeal and if one is captured with these things on can easily be enamored with them. This becomes perfect ground for the enemy to work because he looks to use the things that have allure, appeal and appeasement in the immediate. I am attracted to those things that draw me away from God and health and peace....I bound in my own flesh.

How might these Scripture passages lead you to find freedom? 

By believing on the word of God specifically in those areas it create the same dynamic of possibility. Whereas the enemy is empowered to use those things I have fed. The Lord Jesus can empower me to overcome those desires that exalt themselves against Him. The reception of God's word in that deep place would not only open the inside but it would from inside teach me to overcome.

What does it mean to be in Jesus? 

I have both a theological and philosophical answer to that question. On the one hand being in Christ is a position afford to us by WORK of Jesus, namely Calvary. One hunt through various scriptures in the new testament and switch out Calvary for Christ. The obvious caveat in the instances where it takes about Him specifically." And He is the head of church...." " He was in the beginning...". His person and his work. John stays closer the person while Paul seems to deal more with the work and rightly so. I think the one passage of scripture that clearly says what I am trying to say is Rom3:21-26 in the explanation of Christ and both the propiation(process) and proitatory ( sacrifice). One is typically done by a differ person but Paul they are done by the same...His Body is the sacrifice.

In much short phrasing to be in Christ is to be in communion with Him, to be connected on the deepest level possible. To stand before God as his own without consciousness of mine own past and or saturated in the blood of the Holy One. To share in the eternal perpetual communion of YAHWEH

What effect should this have on your daily walk of faith?

Centered properly the daily awareness of the fact that we stand before God in Christ should keep our faith robust and strong.

Taste and See Day Two

 Kingdom Extra - pp27 - 28

James 1:2-4, 12-16

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a]whenever you face trials of many kinds,
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 

14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 

15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.  

16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 

Sermonette ( James 1:12) - Something to Gain - Our walk with God is not without reward for our faithfulness , neither is without recourse for our disobedience. Be found like Peter says Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: - 2 Peter 1:10. Don’t make his sacrifice for no reason.  Heb 6:1-6.

What temptation do you most struggle with in your walk of faith?

Porn.

How has this struggle affected your life?

In many cases the it has stole times, intimacy and spiritual vitality. The constant back and forth this brings is demoralizing and painful.

How can the insights offered in the above article help you withstand temptation?

It’ll take some digging to full explain how i can experience what the writer is talking about. But if i use my understand of the moment. I have to identify when my heard is led to the place of sinning against God. Learning to turn into the resources God has given in my relationship with life and depending upon relationship who are uppward facing is teaching me the value of fellowship, prayer and doctrine and communion.

Temptation exposes us in areas often in space that are the weakest and the honest response before God as it pertains to this area or any area and bolster our faith in God.

Holiday Quandry.

Thanksgiving Week

Monday/Tuesday ( Visit to Great Grands)

Wednesday/Thursday ( Swap Dinners and Thanksgiving)

Traveling Contingency 

All Dinners and Visit and Make Wednesday the travel day.

Christmas Week

Another Day....

 

TO TAKE AWAY

• Why do you think God places us on earth to await our home in heaven?
• It’s part of God’s design for us. The Lord is all together good as it concerns my well being and my life and plan for me. It’s fascinating to consider the ideas surrounding my life as choice of his rather than leading us to his side when we get saved.
• When you envision the bigger perspective for your life, what plans do you think God has in store for you?
• I am happy to say that I don’t know. Sometimes I do want to know but I do know what it involves...I know it involves my passions, family and my dreams and so daily I lay down these things at his feet so he can show me. I like to think that maybe on day I’ll have gain financial independence so that I can serve Him how I please.
• What impact does setting your heart and hope on heaven have on the way you live today? In what way does your life show that your hope is in heaven?
• I have down played heaven as my home for heaven on earth as a goal. So I have never really considered what heaven being my home could mean. I think I am more concerned about my departure and what I leave hear. I guess I need to study out what that means for me.

Prayer

Here again is another day for me to get it right. I find myself in a weird state before you because I know I have sinned. But I am still grateful that you chose to give me another chance. No way I can repay but to give you this moment...my now is yours. Lord Jesus open my eyes to the plans you have for me. Show me the purpose you have for me as I purpose to do your will.

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TruWorship Meeting

 1. Check-In

2. Review of Expectation

3. My Ask(s) -  As the leader of this group my responsibility is mainly focused on ensuring that we are in tune with the pastors vision for the praise a worship team and generally that we are on the same page.

   I cannot fire and or relieve anyone on this call. That is not my role and I am fortunate enough not to have to make that call. Therefore since I cannot remove you the most I will ever require is what is expected of you by the pastor. My asks are not additions to the expectations they are actions steps to accomplish our weekly goal in praise and worship.

First Asks - Keep One Point of Contact per week before service.

Second Ask - Pick a rehearsal date.

In each of the 3 times that we met I spoke to us regarding opt-in into the moment and the time.

I cannot measure your level of commitment I am going to press you to do that for yourself. I have to do the same daily as it pertains to the needs of this ministry and if we cannot manage to become consistent and opt in we wont accomplish our weekly goal. Which in turn is going to create a problem for the pastor which is our primary function, if he has to do our part, who does his part?

We are complimentary ministry and us being successful ensure that he does not have to work hard to bring forth the word.

Meeting Order - (15 Min Meeting) 

1. Check In

2. Review Expectations - See Attached Document

3. Address Concerns

- Attendance

- Communication - Use the GroupMe Chat (Escalation - Text > Phone > Vmail,  Next Up)

4. Feedback

5. Confirmation (Rehearsal Dates / Pre - Post Service)

Standard of Process - Legacy Cleaning.

 The earmark of success for any business is a standardized process that can be replicated and trained. If we clean to our own standards there will invariably difference of objective cleanliness which is the different between maintaining account for good reputation and losing one for perceived lack. Therefore we have adopted a simple cleaning process that if maintained as it is taught will not only increase your effectiveness as you clean, but decrease the amount of time takes to clean.

This standard of process instruction manual is meant to give you a basic manner of cleaning that if applied to any account your are assigned to you will meet the standard required by the account.

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Clean And Survey.....  Most often you will have more than a few thing that need to be clean at one time. Establish a basic line through the account that allow you to see all the work that needs to be done. Ideally you can start with task very simplistic like wiping down surface with visible stains. Which ever task you select the idea is get through the entire account and or area with the task completed while at the same time identifying what other thing may be needed to complete the cleaning for said account. Trash removal is the most common as you collect and check trash can you will see areas that need to wiped, vacuum and or sanitized.

NOTE; You are not cleaning a building you are cleaning up after people.

Once you have established a pattern of work with this account you can get feel for what works best for each account. Those adjustments should streamline your work the best suite the need of the client.

Clean And Check.....Your work can be categorized in waves and this being the second wave is when the bulk of your cleaning should be performed. If you have completed the first wave effectively then you should now have sense of what work and how long the work should take to complete. The element of surveying is not out of the conversation as you dive in keep your eyes open to simple things...streaks, vacuum debris, missed trash cans. These things happen but if you are cleaning to standard you will catch before the client does.

Check......It is advisable that you do a final walk through to make sure everything is cleaned to standard. Going the extra mile is important to making a long lasting impression. 

CLEAN IN and CHECK OUT. 

PAIN

 PAIN in PAIN

Practicing

Applications

Intentionally

Now

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Purpose, Adversity, Integrity, NonConformance.

This notion of PAIN is huge in the context of life because we understand that God has a habit of using pain to form into us what he want us to be.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. PS 119:71

2 Corinthian 4 Most Notably - For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; Verse 17.

2 Count it all joy, my brothers,[a] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1: 2- 4

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2 Tim 2:3

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10

2 Corinthian 12: 7 - 10 Most Notably - Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Verse 10.

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. Luke 8:31 -32

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 1 Corinth 11:23 -25

9 and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death, - Phil 3:9-10

Litter all of the scripture is this consistent notion of suffering, brokenness, testing, trials, tribulation, adversity. PAIN PAIN PAIN. No way to escape it PAIN PAIN PAIN. And as we grow close to God in our love relationship with Him there is then this learning that can only seem to take place while pain is present. We then have the responsibility to investigate all the areas of pain in our lives.

Pain usually arise out of the three areas.

1.  An indication that something is being done wrong (learning pain)

2. An indication something is changing fast than you can adjust (growing pain)

3. An indicating you are attempting to change something  on purpose  ( working pain)

There is an all elusive most powerful type of pain that none of us like to address and this is genuine suffering as of result of something value lost, hurt or destroyed. This pain comes as of about the result of fallen world and fallen man. The pain is the most senseless which usually includes, unexpected deaths, killings, sicknesses like cancer and so on..... This pain is not to be understood but to be endured ( weeping may endure for a night) and once you have overcome this pain you can empathize more easily with others.

The wisdom of these types of pain is that the LORD uses them ALL to bring us to where he desires for us to be. Its his way.

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The implementation of PAIN is used with with another acronym.

Practicing Applications Intentionally Now.

Lesson come out of these different kinds of pain and the effect of the those lesson learned can immediate if we actively apply what we have learned to the area we learned it in. Our focus in investigating our pains is not for the purpose to eliminate the pain because we will never be free of it but is to understand why it is present and learn and apply the lesson the pain came to teach.

An example of learning from pain is back pain...the worse kind of pain there is sometimes. In most cases back pain comes because of poor posture. I can remember back to the time where I was child when my mother and father almost regular said....sit up in your chair, dont slouch its bad for your back. Here I am 32 years old suffering chronic back pain because of posture. The lesson the pain brought me was posture makes a difference when I am pain when I force myself to sit properly its mildly painful but soon the back pain goes away.

THE PURPOSE OF INVESTITGATING IS TO CHANGE.

So then in our implementation acronym

Practicing Applications Intentionally Now

We are taking immediate actions based of what our Purpose, Adversity , Integrity and Nonconformance has taught and brought us to.

Import to note that sometimes this process will give us experiences and teach us lesson but it is all ultimate about what become about how we live not so much about what we know. 

ITS NOT ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE BUT ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE.

The principle of one plays a huge role in this process. If we be honest alot of time it is our own ambition that walks us to some pain. " Eyes bigger than your belly" God is keen on having us to bridle our passions before him and keep a keen on his desire. In most cases this is where the suffering begins.

And when He had called the people unto Him with His disciples also, He said unto them, “Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Lukes iteration of this phrase adds the word daily which indicates a practice.

A Word of Faith as it concern P.A.I.N

The Acronym PAIN

Purpose  - Obedience to the word of the Lord.

Adversity - Challenges that come because of the word that reveal the true state of our heart.

Integrity - When we act honestly as it concerns the revelation of our heart

Nonconformance - How we fit better into the plan God has for our life as a result and or misfit the world.

The Lord revealed to me in the small devotional that I had this morning that an important and essential element of faith is its activity.

Faith full grown is pointed and actively engaging God as it concerns the area for which it exists.

Its argued that a faith that is not actively believing God for his promises is not faith but rather hope in a human sense. And as a result this human faith called hope is not enough for us to live. The standard of life in christ. (Life in Christ). The just shall live by faith.

The regards of PAIN simply means that what God bring us to as a result is no more than a simple commitment to see that we actively engage our issues that bring us PAIN. The great revelation is that God use suffering, trials, testing, temptation and infirmities to do his work in us. Although he can comfort in those times of seemly senseless PAIN he would rather use it to teach us.

Besides if we are suffer it with no discrimination then better it the hand of almighty God who loves us and is seeking our good then to be otherwise outer unnecessary experience. Better brokenness be useful in the hand of God and perfect peace in the world system. Better suffering in the hand of God then tranquility and solace in the world system. 

Prayer

The manner of faith require I have now. You have opened my eyes to the position that I must take before you. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. These are your word and either I believe it or I dont. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. The contrast for asking believing and asking in faith is certain assurance that comes from the person I am asking.

So then I am trapped between just believing that you can and know you can until it that I put in perspective who I am speaking to as it concern my life. Until that I also put into perspective that you require me to behave in faith and in order for me to do that you must already be speaking and because you are provider I already have what I need to get through this. So then Lord Jesus I praise you for what you have procured for me and i received this day the daily bread you have prepared. I dare not insult your ability to provide be asking you to give, then exercise my faith in this manner to know that you saw me in the garden and came secured what I would need to live a full life in you. Your grace SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO amazing.

Day Again.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

The NEW definition of day is he moment with the truth of God's word enters your heart.  The Lord faithfully woke me up this morning and he said something to me that kind of scared me a little but not really.

" The path of ascension has been set. All that is left is to make the sacrifice."

The Holy Spirit told me a long time ago that walking with Me costs and walking on the level of depth and desire that you want costs even more so.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

He is calling for a sacrifice in the form of my life, something of value that will cost my time and my energy.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.

Prayer

Lord this is my prayer on this day. I am coming to you asking for cleansing of my heart. My sin is ever before me of lust and pornography, of lying and stealing. In my heart I know your truth but there is also deceit and rather than run from you. I choose to come you my father. My father hear me as i pray to you. You offered me righteouness of Christ by your sacrifice at the cross of Calvary. Here I am I am accept your provision...what you gave for me to have. I am yours and I commend my body to your according your word and I ask you heal me.