I saw a video of Tony Robbin’s speaking with a lady and she’s explaining that her husband has disappointed her and she looks back and yells calling him a horrible name. 👀 She was saying that while he was in the room. When She looks back at Tony he calmly asks her, “which of the six needs were you trying to fill by that remark?” She pauses, thinks, and says “significance” It’s unfortunate because later as they are speaking this angry woman who is disrespecting her husband infront of a huge crowd of people admits that she was abused by her father. That her mother was a villain in her life and now we see this picture more clearly, she’s taking out her pain from her childhood on a man, that may not be innocent but is indeed now becoming a target of rage that his wife is taking out on him because of her internal trauma, not his external actions. She went to the podium claiming she was a victim of her husband but the truth was she had become the attacker because she never wanted to be a victim again. Tony Robbin’s lists these six core needs we all have as: - Certainty: The need for safety, security, stability, and comfort. - Variety: The need for the unknown, change, and new stimuli to feel alive. - Significance: The need to feel important, unique, special, or needed. - Connection/Love: The need for a strong feeling of closeness or union with someone or something. - Growth: An expansion of capacity, capability, or understanding. - Contribution: A sense of service and focus on helping, giving to, and supporting others.  Key Concepts Top Needs Drive Life: Everyone has all six needs, but places different values on them. The top two needs dictate a person's decision-making and direction in life. Positive vs. Negative Meeting: These needs can be met in positive, neutral, or negative ways (e.g., gaining significance through achievement vs. destructive behavior). Internal Conflict: Tension arises between conflicting needs, such as the need for stability (certainty) vs. the desire for adventure (variety).

“When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭9‬:‭9‬ ‭KJV‬‬ Did anybody notice that Moses did a forty day dry fast 👀 There is a realm in fasting where you don’t decide to fast, God just removes your hunger. It’s pretty supernatural. It’s almost effortless because you don’t want to eat anyway. 🤔 I’m learning more and more this is how the Christian life was intended to be lived. Not by your own strength but through His Spirit. If you’re asking, “but How? I’m always hungry” I would remind you of our last call. Prayer was never intended to be you talking to God. It’s supposed to be His Spirit speaking with Him. That can be in your Native language, Tongues, Tears, groaning or another form of prayer. Evangelism is not me running up to everyone to tell them about Jesus, it’s me discerning who God is already touching and then simply reading the Harvest. Finances, Relationships, your Career, whatever… Should work the same way. Not by striving but by resting in His Spirit will you find success. There’s a better way.

In today's chapter reading, we see a couple of examples of "gas lighting". I was not able to address this topic in part one of my take away revelations from today's bible reading plan. However, it was too juicy to leave on the table. So, here goes.... there is a testimony at the end. Gas lighting can come from enemies who are trying to use psychological warfare in an attempt to make you embrace their attack. Gas lighting can also come from those who bring attacks but who are "supposed" to be your friends and allies. In today's reading, we have an example of each type of gas lighting along with an example in each case of accurately discerning what was occurring. 1) The first example comes from an enemy in Judges 11:12-27. 2) The second example in Judges 12:1-3, is what I would call friendly fire" because it comes from one with whom you are supposed to be in allegiance (a friend or co-worker). 3) There is also a third example of gas lighting in yesterday's reading in Judges 8:1-3 from "friendly fire". TESTIMONY... Several years ago, I had a court case and one of my key witnesses was a victim of gas lighting. She was a seasoned believer so I shared Judges 12:1-3 with her and explained that it was a scriptural picture of what she was experiencing. Her job required her to investigate elder abuse and she had been assigned to a pending complaint. The individuals being investigated had the audacity to gas light her (try to make her feel guilty for doing her job) based upon the fact that she had some type of prior personal history with them even though it was a very slight prior personal history. She was also experiencing a conflict of interest based upon the prior personal history with the individuals she was assigned to investigate - It would have been wise for her to ask her supervisor to reassign her based upon the potential for a conflict of interest - an investigator needs to be completely impartial and unbiased. This would have spared her this gas lighting situation.