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TDA The David Alliance Garth Heckman What’s the best fighting advice you have ever been given… mine?… Avoid confrontation at all costs even if it means running away. Better to be out of breath and look foolish then out of breath because your dead.  the second best piece of advice Practice responding to an attack more than practicing how to attack back   We have been talking about hagah - or focus,...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman  The 10-Minute Hagah Protocol Phase 1: The Setup & Intercept (Minutes 0–2) Before you can fill your mind, you have to cut off the digital firehose. This phase applies the "cognitive friction" principle to lower your brain's baseline stimulation. Step 1: Leave your phone in a completely separate room. Sit at a clean desk or chair with ze...

Garth Heckman TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com The David Alliance  To understand how to train your mind using these two approaches, we have to look at their fundamental mechanics. While modern secular mindfulness and Biblical meditation (Hagah) both aim to quiet a scattered mind, they achieve it through completely opposite movements: one focuses on emptying, while the other focuses on filling. Here is how...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@gmail.com Garth Heckman The digital world is explicitly engineered to capture and fragment our attention. Dr. Gloria Mark, a leading informatics researcher at the University of California, Irvine, tracked digital behavior and found that the average attention span on a single screen has plummeted from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to just 47 seconds today. When your focus br...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman   Here are ten things most people don't know about the real Colonel Sanders: 1. He was not a military colonel The title "Colonel" was strictly honorary. It was bestowed upon him twice by the Governor of Kentucky—first in 1935 and again in 1950—as a recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. He took the title seriously, though,...

Garth Heckman The David Alliance  TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com   th grade… lets make a snowman… just a huge snowball… we push it up a large hill… lets roll it down and see how fast it can go… Im going to let it roll over me at the bottom… BIG MISTAKE. IT PICKED UP MOMENTUM, SUCKING UP EVERY PIECE OF SNOW IN ITS PATH… FASTER, BIGGER, FASTER, BIGGER….        Introduction: God Has Always Been Moving Mome...

TDA The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com   Corinthians 1:27-29: "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."     Right after using these three words,...

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com The David Alliance Garth Heckman Common Patterns Across Preparation for the ultimate purpose. OR AS I LIKE TO THINK OF IT WHAT THESE WAVES PRODUCE AS MY FREQUNCY - Obscurity and delay built character: Long "preparation seasons" stripped self-reliance and taught waiting on God. - Suffering produced empathy and reliance: - Skills and context were strategic: God repurposed th...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@gmal.com Garth Heckman So what am I talking about today?  But we get our gifting, our passions our talents and our purpose all confused. What is what? Gifting is a natural ability. Athletics, singing, math, Art Passion is something we love doing. Performing, creating, teaching, playing Talents are typically something we have practiced to achieve.  And sometimes th...

Garth Heckman TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com The David Alliance  Can opener What is it? How do I use it? Where do I use it? Why do I use it?      My Natural gifts are leadership, communication,          (Preached when I was 14, spoke for Mayor Pawlenty, spoke infant of 20K- never nervous) My physical gifting is balance, strength, I could skate, ski, snowboard great for a husky kid My Spiritual gifting i...

Garth Heckman The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Gravity  -  You can’t beat it. Client lost 265 pounds… Box jump 2 inches… to 20 inches.   You can’t beat gravity… but you can improve.   Eph. 3 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide an...

Garth Heckman The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Gravity  -  You can’t beat it. Client lost 265 pounds… Box jump 2 inches… to 20 inches.   You can’t beat gravity… but you can improve.   Eph. 3 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide an...

TDAgiantslayer@Gmail.com   The David Alliance Garth Heckman Just because cancer sucks doesn’t mean your life has to.  I have talked openly about my cancer journey before… 3 cancers started in my Colon, spread through my Lymphatic then liver cancer… they said I’d be dead in 2 years with liver cancer. But even though I made it I was left with a brain tumor and an enlarged heart… plus severe neuropat...

TDAgiantslayer@Gmail.com   The David Alliance Garth Heckman Just because cancer sucks doesn’t mean your life has to.  I have talked openly about my cancer journey before… 3 cancers started in my Colon, spread through my Lymphatic then liver cancer… they said I’d be dead in 2 years with liver cancer. But even though I made it I was left with a brain tumor and an enlarged heart… plus severe neuropat...

TDAgiantslayer@Gmail.com   The David Alliance Garth Heckman Just because cancer sucks doesn’t mean your life has to.  I have talked openly about my cancer journey before… 3 cancers started in my Colon, spread through my Lymphatic then liver cancer… they said I’d be dead in 2 years with liver cancer. But even though I made it I was left with a brain tumor and an enlarged heart… plus severe neuropat...

TDAgiantslayer@Gmail.com   The David Alliance Garth Heckman Books available here:  https://garthheckman.mysamcart.com/the-faith-based-cancer-manual/#   I have talked openly about my cancer journey before… 3 cancers started in my Colon, spread through my Lymphatic then liver cancer… they said I’d be dead in 2 years with liver cancer. But even though I made it I was left with a brain tumor and an en...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman VERY FAMILIAR STORY -   *TIED TO MY NOTES TODAY   THE BUILD UP and DEMISE OF ISRAEL    THE PEOPLE WANTED A MAN OVER GOD (They wanted a King)… Here is an old quote: when more than one votes… you can assure its the wrong decision. It wasn’t a King that was truly the problem -  BUT RATHER following a man, that was the problem. It was the peopl...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman    Bears and Lions can’t call you out. They can’t mock you, cast verbal jabs and doubt at you.      Historical Context His defiance of Israel's armies was also a taunt against their God. Your problems, issues, fears, is a taunt against God!   Goliath's relys on human technology, political position and physical power.   David invokes God's c...

TDAgiantslayer@Gmail.com The David Alliance  Garth Heckman The battle of David and Goliath was never really about David and Goliath. It was the culmination of Israel's spiritual decline under Saul, and the first visible sign that God had already been at work preparing a different kind of leader — one after His own heart.       1 Samuel 17 41 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer a...

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com   The David Alliance Garth Heckman VERY FAMILIAR STORY -   *TIED TO MY NOTES TODAY   THE BUILD UP and DEMISE OF ISRAEL    THE PEOPLE WANTED A MAN OVER GOD (They wanted a King)… Here is an old quote: when more than one votes… you can assure its the wrong decision. It wasn’t a King that was truly the problem -  BUT RATHER following a man, that was the problem. It was the peo...

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The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman Are you able to ask for directions? Why do men get made fun of for not asking for directions… I have never had a problem with asking for directions… but I guess some men do. Hmmmm weird, but anyway there is a myth out there called    The Myth of the Maverick Gentlemen, let’s be honest about something. For most of us, asking for help doesn’t...

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com   Garth Heckman Driving with Kim in the car when we were first married. I pulled a gun on a guy in a corvette!  I was on my way to Youth Group - I was the youth pastor.   Judges 6  11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bot...

Garth Heckman The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com   #The brotherhood manifesto #TripleCsurvivor  Taking up your cross" is often viewed through a lens of submission, but when analyzed through the mechanics of character and endurance, it reveals itself as a high-level feat of internal power. Here are three talking points on why this act represents the ultimate expression of strength: 1. The...