Thoughtful Thursdays from 2023

Today, Zachary provides a “Behind the Scenes” look into his life and how things have been changing requiring him to take a bit of a break from Blogcasting Work.

When we pray God looks at our hearts and sees the truth of our condition. Humility is rewarded while boastfulness and pride are not. Prayer is for the sake of communication between you and God, not to prop ourselves up in the sight of man.

When business takes over and we let it crowd out the importance of taking a rest it will cause us to become fatigued and lose the ability to endure as we ought to. It is by surrendering our many worries, thoughts, desires, stressors, and burdens to Jesus that we become able to have a peace that lasts and goes beyond our understanding.

Living a life on mission requires many things to be fruitful for the kingdom of God but they all flow from maintaining a relationship with Him. A relationship resulting in us developing humility, strength, and the ability to trust Jesus at all times because we know who He truly is.

Today, Zachary shares the following thought about cancel culture.
Satan doesn’t have the power over what we think or say but what he can do is intimidate and ultimately demoralize us into self-cancellation. The reason for this is to take us out of the battle completely.

Scriptures for the Thought; 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2, John 3:19, 2nd Corinthians 10:5, Romans 8:37, and 2nd Timothy 1:7.

Our source of strength as Christians is our restored relationship with God. But this relationship will only provide us with that strength if we maintain it.
Scriptures for today: Psalms 91 and 121, John 15:4-6, 1st Peter 2:1-3

We need to be careful about where we source our information from when it comes to things in life but especially when it comes to scripture. The TV show “The Chosen” has had a massive success but due to how it has taken a vast amount of artistic liberty in how characters are portrayed along with adding new events to the story of Jesus’ time on earth a vast amount of Christians who don’t watch it are either skeptical or concerned. This is a good thing because it reminds us to remember that shows shouldn’t be seen as the source we go to but rather the real scriptures.

Reading through the gospels we see that there have been two times when Jesus needed clear out the temple. Both of these instances reveal just how much God cares for us to live holy lives since our bodies are the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. They also reveal the great passion He pursues this purpose for our lives. When we encounter these times we have two options before us. We can either quench the Holy Spirit which parallels the elders who plotted to kill Jesus or we can be humble and accept the chastisement which lets us be transformed into restored holiness. For he cleansed the temple for the purpose of restoring the holiness which was meant to exist in it.

Masters are made through yielding to temptations and the more we yield the stronger they become. There is but one way to be freed of this and that is to restore God’s position as the Master over our lives in all areas of it. And freedom from sin does not have to be limited to the individual but can expand throughout the nation as it returns to the position of submission to God.

Today’s blogcast covers how it is easy to try and do things our own way when God’s way doesn’t make sense to us. This comes because trust in Him is being grown through the time we are going through. Sometimes it’s rough but to endure to the end we have to be humble and admit that we don’t know it all and never will.

Today we get a look at something that Zachary has been reading, “The Spiritual Man” by Watchman Nee published in 1968. A book that deals with the issue of man having two natures the one which we are born with, that of sinful flesh, and the one which comes from God’s spirit as a result of accepting Christ Crucified and Resurrected as Lord.

Today Zachary looks at verses from 2nd Timothy and Romans to provide guidance on how to deal with intimidation as a Christian.

The book of Jude is the Second to Last book of the Bible and it is focused on dealing with the issue of false teachers. Giving ways to identify them and how we are to respond when they arise. Join Zachary as he dives into this book looking at the original Greek meaning for a few of the words used by Jude in his letter to the church.

Today Zachary does something different. Instead of expounding on a biblical teaching he works through a question to the end result. Asking how does believing in a god who is omniscient, omnipotent, and who actively cares about the world events impact society.

Today Zachary covers the topic of knowing your place in your local church and how sometimes your desire for more is not to get more but maybe to give more.

Today Zachary brings up the example of the Jews in Berea who diligently “Bible Checked” Paul and Silas and how they are an important one to follow in our current day and age where there are so many voices trying to influence our ways of thinking.

Today, in recognition of Saint Valentine’s Day, Zachary decides to share a bit about his personal life. And how he went through a journey in his life to grow and become the man he is with the woman he loves. Get ready for a heart warming story along with encouragement both to the love birds and the single souls listening to this.

Today Zachary shares a bit about when he prepares the Thursday Thoughts and why it sometimes feels hard for him to do. While also sharing why he is so passionate about making sure there is a thought ready each week.

In today’s episode Zachary gives some thoughts on the nature of absolutes. Specifically the ones we find expressed in scriptures and explains their purpose for us in life.

Continuing from last week’s topic of why Christians should fast Zachary covers a few highlights of what can result from seeking God diligently in a time of fasting and prayer.

This Week Zachary begins to tackle the topic of Prayer and Fasting for the purpose of explaining why Christians will spend time in prayer and fasting.

In 1st Peter Chapter 5 the church is told to be vigilant and sober because our enemy the Devil is described as a roaring lion seeking for who he may devour. But what exactly does this mean and how does it apply to our lives. Is there a spiritual aspect of sobriety that we don’t really think about? All these things and more will be covered into today’s episode as Zachary digs into the analogy that Peter uses and shares a story from his personal life where it actually came into practice.