Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, definitely for children of
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Speaker 1: with your host, a man formerly in the world of
Speaker 1: stand up comedy and acting, now turned an evangelist for Christ.
Speaker 2: Here he is your host, my host, our host KD.
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Speaker 2: Break edition. We're getting back into our faith breaks. It's
Speaker 2: about a fifteen minute show where we take something out
Speaker 2: of the Bible and just give you a little morsel
Speaker 2: that you can carry throughout your day, week and month,
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about a word that we don't like to hear. Discipline.
Speaker 2: Discipline is a word we don't like. We don't like
Speaker 2: to be disciplined at time. We don't like to be
Speaker 2: told what to do well let's pump the brakes on
Speaker 2: what discipline really means. Are you disciplined in your relationship?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it happy. Are you disciplined with
Speaker 2: your friends? Do you live up to their expectations or
Speaker 2: maybe even yours? And what I mean by that is
Speaker 2: are you a really good friend to them? Are you disciplined?
Speaker 2: Maybe at your gym you show up on a Monday, Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Friday and you're getting that body into shape. Are you
Speaker 2: disciplined with your mind getting into different things like reading
Speaker 2: or playing games that really help your mind. Are you
Speaker 2: disciplined in your relationship? I paused on that one. I'll
Speaker 2: say it again. Are you disciplined in your relationship? But
Speaker 2: are you really disciplined in your relationship with Christ? Now
Speaker 2: you may not have that relationship and you don't know
Speaker 2: how to develop discipline just yet, And that's okay. Stick
Speaker 2: around you See, discipline with Christ is a tough one.
Speaker 2: I wake up in the morning and I'm told before
Speaker 2: my feet heat the ground, I should pray to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: We hear that as Christian followers, and sometimes we don't
Speaker 2: do that because the alarm goes off. We jump into
Speaker 2: the shower, we brush our teeth. We go on to work.
Speaker 2: We barely have enough time to kiss our children, our
Speaker 2: wife as we go out the door. Ouch. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine how different your life would be, or that day
Speaker 2: would be, if you start it off with some than
Speaker 2: positive By the way, the cross looks like a positive
Speaker 2: symbol if you start off with Christ and say, Lord,
Speaker 2: just thank you for wakening today. I don't know why
Speaker 2: you woke me. I don't know why I'm here, but
Speaker 2: thank you for a new breath and my lungs. Amen.
Speaker 2: That's it. And then you jump into the shower, and
Speaker 2: that shower feels different when you brush your teeth, it's
Speaker 2: a little different. You go downstairs, you kiss the wife,
Speaker 2: you hug the kids and say, hey, I don't have
Speaker 2: a lot of time today, but let's make time for
Speaker 2: each time each other when I get home, and it's
Speaker 2: a different atmosphere, right, the power of positivity. Well, it's
Speaker 2: funny how the cross is a positive symbol. So why
Speaker 2: not start our day that way and be disciplined with it.
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, Oh Katie, we can't all
Speaker 2: be like you. You sound like you're holier than now.
Speaker 2: Time out, Time out. It's March madness. Well it's actually April.
Speaker 2: We just passed March madness. But I'm gonna call a
Speaker 2: t o here. Okay, I'm not really good when it
Speaker 2: comes to being dis blended God at times. Oh how
Speaker 2: dare you, Katie? You know, you get on the air
Speaker 2: and you speak of God, and you read of the
Speaker 2: Bible and you pray with us, and how dare you? Listen?
Speaker 2: We have a phrase around here. It's not even our phrase.
Speaker 2: It's from the Book of Romans. We all stumble and
Speaker 2: fall short of the glory of God daily. And that's okay,
Speaker 2: because we stumble so we can continue to come to Him.
Speaker 2: All right. Maybe in your day, you had a flat tire,
Speaker 2: Maybe you got to work late. Maybe your paycheck wasn't
Speaker 2: as much as you thought it was going to be.
Speaker 2: What's the first reaction you have? You're angry, You're upset?
Speaker 2: Why me? How about Lord? Thank you for keeping me safe.
Speaker 2: I got this flat tire because apparently there might have
Speaker 2: been an accident on the road up the road that
Speaker 2: I could have gotten into. You made me late to
Speaker 2: work for a certain reason. Thank you for the less
Speaker 2: money in my paycheck, because I would have wasted on
Speaker 2: something that was useless anyway, if you change that mindset
Speaker 2: through Christ and be disciplined with Him, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a different light coming into your life. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: reading in this book called Disciplines of a Godly Man,
Speaker 2: and there's a great series right now, Disciplines of a
Speaker 2: Godly Woman, Disciplines of a Godly Family, so on and
Speaker 2: so forth. But there's some great antidotes and nuggets from
Speaker 2: this book that I'm reading. I want to share with
Speaker 2: you today, and I want to start with my own testimony.
Speaker 2: I'm not great with the discipline of Christ. I don't
Speaker 2: wake up every morning before my feet hit the ground
Speaker 2: and say God, thank you for another day. I may
Speaker 2: say it once I get up, go to the bathroom,
Speaker 2: brush my teeth, go down, maybe have a cup of coffee,
Speaker 2: say hello to my kids and family, and then I
Speaker 2: go have devoted time with him. Maybe you don't have
Speaker 2: a lot of time to devote, right, you're just bing
Speaker 2: bang booming out the doors. Well, listen while you're in
Speaker 2: the car, put on some worship music. Hey, don't put
Speaker 2: anything on at all before you put the key in
Speaker 2: the ignition. Lord, thank you for another breath. Allow me
Speaker 2: to have a good day. Allow me all. I want
Speaker 2: to honor you throughout that day. Amen. That's simple. If
Speaker 2: we did this every day and we're disciplined, that light
Speaker 2: comes right into our life and then people are saying, hey,
Speaker 2: there's something different about you, and then God will bring
Speaker 2: blessings upon us. Now keep in mind, we don't do
Speaker 2: these things to get things. We give back to God
Speaker 2: because what He's already done so much for us by
Speaker 2: dying on the cross, giving his only begotten son, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: You see, what if that was your friend, what if
Speaker 2: that was your mother, father, child that was on that cross,
Speaker 2: You think a little differently about that person giving their
Speaker 2: life for you, right, will start changing your outlook on
Speaker 2: life and realizing this person was sin to take away
Speaker 2: your sins by being nailed to the cross. I do
Speaker 2: that daily and things are different for me in the morning.
Speaker 2: But like I said, there's some days I don't always
Speaker 2: get disciplined. Happened to me the other day. I came downstairs,
Speaker 2: I was getting ready to get my coffee, gave my
Speaker 2: wife a kiss. She had a lot of things going
Speaker 2: on in her life, chaotic life at the moment, and
Speaker 2: our business is just booming. So she had a lot
Speaker 2: to do with that. We're trying to get the kids
Speaker 2: ready and I come down and I said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go take a bath and I'm going to
Speaker 2: start my day and if there's anything you need, let
Speaker 2: me know. And she jumped right on me. And that's
Speaker 2: because it looked like I was inconsiderate to her, right,
Speaker 2: which I was. But if I had gotten up and
Speaker 2: started my day a different way, that atmosphere would have changed.
Speaker 2: And so she went to work with an attitude. I
Speaker 2: started to have an attitude. I kind of barked at
Speaker 2: the kids a little bit, but then when the dust settled,
Speaker 2: the smoke cleared, I sat down for ten minutes. And
Speaker 2: this was on a Sunday before we went to church.
Speaker 2: I sat down, I open up the Bible, and God's
Speaker 2: amazing because he led me to a section in Luke
Speaker 2: where Mary is singing praises to the Lord and the
Speaker 2: word grace popped out to me and He's telling me,
Speaker 2: you need to show your wife grace, show your kids
Speaker 2: a little more grace. And when I prayed to him
Speaker 2: and I did that, atmosphere changed. Going to church was different,
Speaker 2: The rest of the day was different. Things were better
Speaker 2: for her. It was amazing because I remained disciplined. Now
Speaker 2: you can remain disciplined working out your job, maybe disciplined
Speaker 2: with your kids and wife. Why can't you be disciplined
Speaker 2: with God? You see? Even Michael Jordan stumbled, Thomas Edison stumbled,
Speaker 2: but they remained disciplined in what they did and became
Speaker 2: great in their respective fields. What does the Bible say
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 1: Katie?
Speaker 2: Well, first Timody, I call him first Timody. You know,
Speaker 2: Timothy krocket. I'm kidding. See, I stumbled. I fell short
Speaker 2: of the glory of God. One Timothy four, verse seven says,
Speaker 2: train yourself for Godliness. Yes, train yourselves, exercise, work out?
Speaker 2: How do you do this? Opening the Bible, reading, praying,
Speaker 2: train yourself, go to small groups. Get into a church
Speaker 2: that has some cool groups you can go attend. I
Speaker 2: have a men's group right now where we do different
Speaker 2: activities every two weeks together and share life together. I
Speaker 2: know that sounds corny to you non believers. It's okay,
Speaker 2: But guess what, it's not corny because what we're doing
Speaker 2: is we're training ourselves for Godliness. And when we do that,
Speaker 2: we're able to discipline ourselves and dig deeper into Christ,
Speaker 2: and the whole purpose of this all is to build
Speaker 2: a bigger, deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Now, in this
Speaker 2: book Disciplines for Godliness, it says the call to train
Speaker 2: ourselves for godliness also suggests directing all of our energy
Speaker 2: toward that goal. That's what you do, right, You direct
Speaker 2: yourself toward a goal. You say, Yep, I'm going to
Speaker 2: work out. I'm going to get those glutes ready. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get this ready. I want to look good here.
Speaker 2: I want to get into that dress. I want to
Speaker 2: get into that swimsuit. And you direct yourself toward that goal.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine if you direct yourself toward God every
Speaker 2: day by getting into the Bible and praying and reading
Speaker 2: and getting into church. Woo, your world just is blown
Speaker 2: away with amazingness that is brought to you in part
Speaker 2: by our Lord Jesus Christ. It's amazing. It goes on
Speaker 2: to say as well in First Corinthians Chapter nine, Versus
Speaker 2: twenty five through twenty seven, it says, I discipline my
Speaker 2: body and keep it under control. You see what we've
Speaker 2: got to develop now, guys, is a spiritual sweat. This
Speaker 2: is what they say. I love this. In the book
Speaker 2: Spiritual Sweat. You gross. I thought the Holy Spool Spirit
Speaker 2: was just spirit. Well, you can have Holy Spirit or
Speaker 2: that stinky teen spirit, as Nirvana used to say, That's
Speaker 2: what I like to say, But I'd rather have that
Speaker 2: spiritual sweat. And we must get rid of every incumbents
Speaker 2: in every association, habit and tendency that impedes Godliness. We
Speaker 2: need to get rid of this so we can replace
Speaker 2: it with good things. Right, watch things that are weighing
Speaker 2: you down. Basically, what's weighing you down is TV taking
Speaker 2: away from you, is your hobbies taking away from you. Now,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with having hobbies, but when you're devoting
Speaker 2: more time to that when you could be giving it
Speaker 2: to God, that's taking you away from that. But we've
Speaker 2: got to develop that spiritual sweat like you develop sweat
Speaker 2: in the gym. This will bring you discipline for Godliness.
Speaker 2: And this is an amazing feeling because you're able then
Speaker 2: to share it with others. That light is being shined
Speaker 2: in your life and you start to see doors open
Speaker 2: that have never opened before. So today, what I say
Speaker 2: to you is get in discipline with Christ, whether it's
Speaker 2: waking up in the morning for the first time ever
Speaker 2: and saying, Lord, thank you for waking me up. First
Speaker 2: time turning on kay Love in your car or a truck,
Speaker 2: first time going to church, first time opening a Bible,
Speaker 2: Develop that spiritual sweat today, develop that spiritual discipline for Godliness,
Speaker 2: and watch your world just come together. It's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2: And I want you guys to feel the same way
Speaker 2: that I do. Every time I see somebody struggling, I
Speaker 2: realize that they're not near God because I know when
Speaker 2: I stumble or I'm not disciplined, I I'm furthest from God.
Speaker 2: Maybe you've never met God, maybe you've never known God,
Speaker 2: and this is your opportunity to know him. All I'm
Speaker 2: asking right now, if you want to get to know
Speaker 2: God right now, just close your eyes, open up your poems,
Speaker 2: and repeat after me. It's nothing crazy. But if you're
Speaker 2: looking for a change in your life today, to develop
Speaker 2: discipline in a relationship with Him so it can overflow
Speaker 2: to others and overflow in your life, this is your
Speaker 2: moment and repeat, Dear God, I come to you in
Speaker 2: the precious name of Jesus. I thank you for another day.
Speaker 2: I didn't really believe in you, but now I believe
Speaker 2: in you. I believe that you were a man, that
Speaker 2: you rose, and that you died for our sins. Dear Lord,
Speaker 2: I ask for you to come into my life and
Speaker 2: make me yours. Dear Lord, allow me to have you
Speaker 2: as my personal Lord and savior. Take over my life
Speaker 2: and make me new weekend, Dear Lord, I love you.
Speaker 2: I need you. Please lead and cultivate my life, and
Speaker 2: I pray it depression name of Jesus. Amen, Well, welcome,
Speaker 2: You're now a part of the Kingdom. What's next? Open
Speaker 2: the Bible, start reading, maybe Book of Proverbs, maybe starting
Speaker 2: the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John develop a
Speaker 2: personal relation to today, to the form of prayer and reading.
Speaker 2: Find a good church, find a good group of people.
Speaker 2: Change your life, develop spiritual sweat out of kind of
Speaker 2: discipling your life toward God. It's amazing. And also go
Speaker 2: check out those books Disciplines for a Godly Life. It's amazing. Guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to a Faith Break edition and
Speaker 2: we'll see you guys next week. God bless y'all and
Speaker 2: take care.