Life Around "The Fire"

Have you ever experienced the "joy" of a slip/trip and fall?I have.Just recently...I had an accident (slip/trip and fall) and landed with all my weight on my TKR (total knee replacement).Boom!!!Fortunately nothing broke and no hardware was damaged.However, I have a very swollen knee and a severely bruised ego.I will be out of commission for the next few days.However, We're providing a brief intro in this episode on our next topic: "Focus: Collectively Beholding And Becoming More And More Like Yeshua/Jesus."Let's keep one another in prayer as we continue on this journey of collectively becoming more and more like Him in all aspects of our lives.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Let's be truthful about the lives we live and the experiences we have in living them.Being truthful and original is the meaning of holiness.God is full of Truth and He is Uniquely Origonal.He is Holy.In fact, one of His names is, "Holy"."Hallowed/Holy be Thy Name.""Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD God Almighty."We are able to be holy/truthful/original like Him because of  the blood of Jesus.Free from being a phony, liar, or pretender.We can now be holy because His blood makes us holy.The Holy Presence of God is what I want to see manifest in my life and in the life of the gatherings I'm a part of.Doing things and trying to make them feel or sound like God has never been an interest of mine.Like sex, religion can be a big seeler.I'm not interested in buying or marketing either of those things.I'm interested in real/holy intimacy.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

I need to be reminded periodically that I can sound critical when I get impatient.Folks, I realize that I have begun to sound a bit critical on some of the previous podcast episodes.I apologize for that and ask for your forgiveness.I was wrong to let impatience and frustration with much of modern day organized evangelicalism and the "religious right (and left)" world get the best of me.My focus needs to remain on the heart of our Father.His Kingdom has and is going to come and the things that are pleasing to Him have and will be done in the Earth as it is in Heaven.Yeshua/Jesus prayed for it, other have prayed for it  and we are praying for it to come to pass.God has, is, and will completely answer those prayers.In the meantime, I need to grow in patient endurance and long-suffering.Two very important components of Agape/Love.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

The intentional pursuit of God and the fullness of His Presence is a deep passion of mine.I want to experience and know Him in every way and on every level possible.I want to host His glory and see His Name glorified throughout the Earth.I'm hanging out with other people who want the same thing.This is the part of our journey so far ...Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Fear, not hate, is the opposite of love.Hatred comes out of fear.The same goes for envy, strife, pride, adultery, murder, stealing, etc.How much of what God has provided for us to experience has been held back by us being afraid ... not so much the fear of God, but, the fear of man?We are going to be addressing that issue along with a few other germain ideas in this episode.So, tune in, turn on, and drop on by ...Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

There are a few times in each generation when a Rhema Word given by God comes with an international impact and anointing.What you will be listening to in this podcast episode is one of those Rhema Words.Our guest, Tracy Perez, has been given the green light by God to unpack some things that are very relevant and necessary to be heard and recieved.You will want to listen and find out exactly what is meant by that statement.We are living at a time in world history when major shifts (political, economic, cultural, and spiritual) are taking place across the nations.We are in the midst of a reformation.God is in the process of doing some things that no human being has ever to experienced or witnessed."Get ready, get ready", says the LORD of Hosts.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

What if all of the things you secretly and openly thought about became visible and came to pass?What would that world look like?Everything Yeshua/Jesus secretly and openly thought about is becoming visible and will come to pass?What is that world ultimately going to look like?We have the opportunity of being in covenant with Him now and participate in seeing what's on His heart develope into the desires that are on our hearts as well.Becoming unified with others in the way Yeshua/Jesus envisioned is part of what is happening in an ever increasing way across the nations.Loving our enemies and praying for them is part of us becoming one with Father as He is one with the Father ... only God's Love and Life can accomplish something like that throughout the nations.However, it's happening as we speak!Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Loving on the level God loves requires something more than self-effort.Being good is different than being like God.We are called into living life from a new anf higher realm ... the Kingdom of God.Jesus taught and still teaches His followers to walk like He walks and in so doing love like He loves.God's love is eternal and is the highest charactweriatic and quality of His Life.Let's let Him teach us how He is acccomplishing and establishing His love in those of us who are born-again into His Kingdom Life.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

You are in store for some paradigm shifting insights.God has ways of finding us and restoring us regardless of how lost we are or how far we have fallen. God also has dimensions of His Presence, places, and depths of His love that he is interested in providing to us. However, we have certain limitations.  He has actually placed them there as ways for us to grow and gauge our level of relationship with Him and with each other. We have those certain limitations but we have the capacity to grow. How we grow and what we grow into is important. He wants us to expand our capacity to experience Him and His love. He is zealous for us and deeply in love with you and me. He wants the best for us and He is the Best. He doesn't want us settling for second best. In these next several episodes we are going to be looking at how He has designed certain ways for us to grow in experiencing His love and His Presence/Glory in the process of us becoming one with him and with each other.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Being a group of good, hardworking people is a good thing.But God has not called us to just be good and to work hard.He has called us to be like Himself... the same way Yeshua/Jesus lived and modeled that Life for us.The only way walk in that and to be united in that, demonstrating that quality of Life is to be in a covenant relationship with Him and with one another.It's more than us trying to be hardworking, good people.In Him we are new species... a new breed... a new creation.Beyond self-help.Beyond collective-soul groups, cults, or covens.Covenant people ... The Body of Christ.That's the focus of this podcast series.This is what nature itself has been groaning to see.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

God answeres prayer.God has been , is, and will completely answer the prayer Jesus/Yeshua prayed as John recorded it in chapter 17 of his Gospel.We are living in the day and the hour in which there is an escalation of spiritual activity going on concerning that prayer.The Body of Christ around the nations is being called upon and given revelation  how to experience true unity like Jesus/Yeshua prayed for.It will take place.Once it is complete He will be coming back to Earth and "set up shop" for a thousand years.After that ... The End of the old heavens and old earth and on with the New Heavens and New Earth.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Far too many people feel stuck in the rut of daily life.The pressures of the cultures we live in can at times drain us from the dynamic, creative, joy of living.We have the abilty designed within us to change problems linked to being caught in the sameold, same old problems and turn our thoughts into a solutions.Neuroplasticity is a realty that provides a source of real encouragement to those of us willing to take the time to apply ourselves to the processes of change.That's a sifnificant part of what we are focusing in on in this podcast series.The other aspect is how this affects us as groups of people both large and small.The abilty to experience healthy relationships with one another... without being phony or religious.We hope this will be a source of encouragement to you as you continue to grow up before you grow old.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Years ago "science" taught us that our brains formed our minds. Our minds, in turn, formed our thoughts and our thoughts formed our perceptions and feelings which made up our reality. However, research has now shown that our brains, without the life found in the blood, contain no personality... nothing more than gelatinous, powerless, computers. The power of the brain is the life that is found in the blood. Our brains don't have personality without the power of life.They can be programmed and reprogrammed, changed, many times over depending on the condition of the soul/mind. The power needed to turn the computer on is found in the soul. The condition of the soul is based upon the type and quality of the inner core/spirit which provides the quality behind the juice/soul/mind which provides the type of dynamic power to begin the process of programming and exhibiting persona to the brain which is the control center for the rest of the body.The process of these unique life forms that have undergone a Divine Impartation of God's Eternal Life into their born-again spirit is the focus of this podcast series.Becoming One New Man (a collective number of people made up from every tongue, tribe, and nation) is an accomplishment that can only be produced by the power of God's very own Spirit.Our part in co-operating with God in this process is known as santification or divine neuroplasticity.This is Part 4 ...Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Two farmers were standing at the barbed wire fence seperating their property. The younger farmer looked at the older farmers beautiful farmland with its bailed hay fields and corn crops and said "God sure has been good to you. Look at all that beautiful land." The oldtimer smiled with a stem of hayseed coming out from the corner of his mouth and looked the young man square in the eyes and said, "You should have seen it when it was just His."The moral of the story is: God is all powerful and the Earth is His and His creation. But we have a part to play in developing what we are privileged to be responsible for.God will be God and He will do what is He said He will do.We are His creation and it's our privilege and responsibilty to do our part.We don't want to try and reverse the roles.We don't play God and try to do His part and expect Him to do our part.This applies to us renewing our minds (neuroplasticity).It takes both external (God) and internal (self-discipline) stimuli to develop the highest level of change in our experiences of life.That's the focus of this episode.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

We are all capable of being changed and helping one another experience changes in life.Change is important but not always easy or even welcomed.We are all mostly creatures of habit.Routine and dependabilty provide a type of security and peace for us.However, some habits are not healthy.Some habits (routines) are not only time bandits they are harmful and deadly.Neuroplasticity is the ability we have been created with in order for us to change in those areas.Some of our perceptions of reality can actually produce prejudice, division, and even violence among ourselves as humans.The magnified manifest presence of God is the biggest way that we become subject to major neuroplasticity (among other things).We are going to be unpacking this important aspect of our lives as  we continue to focus upon us growing up before we grow old.Stay tuned and see where this whole thing winds up!Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

What does neuroplasticity have anything to do with God?What does God have to do with neuroplasticity?Who does God think He is?What is neuroplasticity?What does any of this have to do with Divine/God-Like Unity and His Presence?Finally, who cares?We plan on address ingand answering those questions along with a few others in this series we've entitled: God's Purposes Behind Neuroplasticity ... Hosting His Magnified, Manifest Presence.Bon Apetit!Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

What we think, what we say, and what we do impact not only our individual lives but the lives of those around us.What and who we are joined to matters greatly.What causes you to be joined together with other people, places, and powers?What in the world does me praying have anything to do with how you live  your life or how we live together?It's absolutely true that prayer goes on all the time whether we call it "prayer' or not.It's really how we pray and who we pray to that matters most. We're going to be unpacking this issue of prayer for the next few episodes.So, stay tuned and hopefully we'll all grow up even more in this vital area of community life.Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Unity can take on the culture provided for by the power of human beings, demonic entities, or God.It's often easier to believe a lie that we've heard a thousand times than it is to believe the truth we've only heard once.We can become conditioned to living a sub-standard lifestyle because we can't believe that there's anything better or different for us.God is revealing His Life giving, Light bearing Truth to us concerning how we can live in unity with Him and with one another.Living in the Light of God's Truth is the highest of form of Life and Love that is available.Why settle for for second best when God has provided the best for us?The action it takes ion our behalf is in us believing how He has provided that relationship Life eternally for us.The rest will unfold...Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

This wraps up our series on Neuroplasticity and how that affects our relationship with God and with each another.The basis behind everything we do here at "Life  Around The Fire" is found in relationship (with God and with each another).The changes that take place as a result of how we think have significant impact on how we relate in all aspects of our life.In this episode we leave you with some healthy and helpful things to "think" about.Shalom to you and your home!Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.

Who really takes the time to think about their thoughts?Don't they all just seem to happen without thinking too hard to have any of them?However, our thoughts are very powerful things.They affect the way we live our lives.What are we doing about controlling our thought life?What can we be doing about improving our thought life?Why bother to care, unless...Support the showLoving Yeshua/Jesus, Loving people... Come as you are and you will be loved! Feel free to check out our wesite by typing in lifearounsthefire.com or Life Around The Fire ... We think you'll find some beneficial stuff to look at and apply to your life. Shalom to you and your home.