If you are going to do something commit! Make a decision to do what you are passionate about. Don't half step. Commit! Quitters are uncommitted and build strongholds of settling for less. The pattern of quitting is a cancer to productivity. Don't allow this stronghold to dominate your life. I see so many today live life without a strong desire to accomplish their goals and dreams. Quitters have patterns of quitting and this is a cancel to many who have given themselves permission to quit often. Find quit wins this week for you to do. Here is a easy win. 1. Make your Bed! _ Really - First thing in the morning it is a quit tasks accomplished. 2. Sunday Evening this of what you want to accomplish this upcoming week that will allow something to move you towards your goals for the week. 3. Goals for the Day, Week, Month, Quarter, year, 3 years will help you move forward if you set dates to the goals. Go All the Way! Commit to something. In the comments below posts your goals for the week. Post when you done it! post the word DONE!

We walk into church expecting Heaven, and forget it’s still full of humanity. You expected Jesus… but you got people who fall short, misjudge, gossip, fail, and sometimes wound deeper than the world ever did. That doesn’t make what happened okay… But it does make it real. Because the church was never meant to be a place where perfect people gather, it’s where imperfect people are supposed to be transformed. The problem is… not everyone surrenders. Some just sit. Some perform. Some pretend. Some hurt others while claiming His name. And that confusion? That disconnect? That’s where a lot of the pain lives. But don’t confuse people with Jesus. He didn’t wound you. He didn’t betray you. He didn’t overlook you. People did. And if you walk away from Him because of them… you’re letting broken vessels block your access to the only One who heals. Stay honest about the hurt, but be careful not to place human failure on a perfect Savior. Because Jesus is still everything people failed to be.

To admit powerlessness is not to admit defeat; it is to recognize the true nature of the struggle. For the Christian, this powerlessness is rooted in the biblical reality of the sinful nature (the flesh). Key Scripture: "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." (Romans 7:18, NIV) The Apostle Paul articulates the internal conflict that defines addiction and compulsion: knowing what is right, desiring to do it, yet repeatedly failing to carry it out. This verse speaks directly to the cycle of striving and relapse. Step 1 is the declaration that our willpower is insufficient to conquer the spiritual and physical grip of the addiction.

Discussion on Condemnation vs. Conviction: The focus of the current teaching was Romans 8, emphasizing that "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus". Condemnation is defined as the legal voice of "guilt and shame," which makes individuals feel inadequate or defined forever by their mistakes, often resulting in them feeling "labeled". Conviction: In contrast, conviction is described as a that feeling of conviction that comes from the Holy Spirit, which gently encourages correction and restoration after a person slips into sin. The enemy's design is condemnation, aiming to "crush and isolate," while God's conviction is rooted in loving kindness and intended to pick a person up and restore them. Question: Which of these dominate your life? Condemnation or Conviction? Write in the comments below your personal experience with each and why you feel that the dominate forces is active more than the other. This exercise will help you be thinking about the dominate force active in you daily, weekly and so on.

Overcoming Condemnation!