Blue Tapp / Join Hands With Heaven Podcast

“If the living knew what the dead know, they would all give their lives to Christ” Wow! This even got Lara tearing up🥹 This is so profound!📌

Every serious believer has prayed for God to kill their flesh. When we pray that prayer, we expect an anesthetic or a kill switch. We imagine a painless transaction where God quietly turns down the volume on our worst impulses, leaving our pride and self-image undisturbed. Instead, He answers with a mirror and a scalpel. We often approach God believing we already know where the flesh is weak. We identify it only by its loud, embarrassing symptoms: an unexpected temper, a secret spiral, or a compulsive habit. We point to the visible stain and assume we’ve diagnosed the disease. But those symptoms are often merely the tip of an iceberg. Beneath them lies a massive stronghold of entitlement, self-preservation, and an obsession with being sovereign over our own lives. Before the flesh can be put to death, its true perimeter has to be mapped. And mapping it means total, humiliating exposure. The mirror is the word of God, and James warns that the man who glances into it and walks away forgets what he saw (James 1:23-24). When this prayer is answered, He doesn't let us walk away. C.S. Lewis described this bargain in Mere Christianity. As a boy with a toothache, he knew that asking his mother for aspirin meant being taken to the dentist the next morning, he couldn't get the one without the other. We go to God begging for painkillers just to sleep through the night, and like the dentist, He refuses to stop at comfort. He goes straight for the root, refusing to leave the rot inside us. When that divine surgery begins, the flesh never lies down and dies with dignity. Starved of oxygen, it thrashes like a cornered animal, manufacturing sudden panic, defensiveness, and desperate cravings. When God sends the help you asked for, a spouse asking an honest question, a mentor seeing through your facade, an accountability partner refusing to flatter you; your dying ego perceives executioners where God sent allies. To protect itself from crucifixion, the flesh bites whatever hand is closest. Many friendships and marriages become collateral damage simply because an exposed ego is swinging wildly in the dark. So what must our posture be when the exposure hits, the ground gives way, and we begin to spiral? Our natural instinct is to negotiate our way off the table: "Lord, make it stop. Put the mask back on. Give me relief." But true mortification requires that you stop defending what God has marked for death. Paul says it is by the Spirit that we put to death the deeds of the body (Romans 8:13), which means the scalpel is in His hand and our only assignment is to stop wrestling Him for it. Heroic willpower has no part here; the posture is trembling, defenseless stillness. It is the agonizing willingness to agree with God’s verdict about who you actually are apart from Him. When exposure makes you dizzy with shame and the urge to lash out rises, you stop bargaining for an exit. The plea nust shift from relief to endurance: the grace to stay still while the rot is cut out, the restraint not to strike the people God sent to steady you, and the resolve not to crawl off the table until the work is finished. If you asked God to kill your flesh and you suddenly feel unmasked, disoriented, and weaker than you have ever been, do not mistake exposure for abandonment, or confrontation with your weakness for defeat. The prayer did not fail. God just took you at your word, and He loves you too much to patch up the very self you asked Him to crucify.

So I did a thing. I really hope you all like it. Wear headphones🕊️ Worthy Is The Lamb: A Book of Revelation Short Film

It is pretty funny how a very cryptic trailer for season 7 of the Chosen comes out, and suddenly, a show written by an Evangelical Christian, an Anabaptist and a Methodist are suddenly adding "Mormon" content to the show. It's crazy. Rumors are rumors and they are often times false witnesses. One of the 10 commandments forbids bearing a false witness. In Proverbs we read, "He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips." Christ warned, "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof..." Matt. 12:36. Saints are admonished not to be tattlers and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. See 1 Tim. 5:11–14. The Chosen is clean entertainment, not enlightenment. If you want enlightenment, read your scriptures daily. The three writers are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There is much presented in the Chosen that's put there to entertain you, and it wasn't put there by any leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.