Tell The Truth Podcast

The process of weaning helps us to become mature. If you refuse to be weaned it is a sign that you're still in babyhood. Baby Christians are not useful to God or His work. Being weaned from the old life into the new life showcases to God that you're becoming Christlike. Because the new creation life is not familiar to us coming into Christ, we must learn Christ (the unfamiliar) through the process...

The process of weaning comes with forsaking all. If you are not willing to forsake all so that Jesus can become your only source you can't become like Christ. Our first encounter with weaning comes when we pursue God. You cannot come after Jesus if you aren't willing to leave behind your old life so you can cleave to His. If you haven't been weaned from the old life your Christian life will be a m...

Weaned: to be detached from a source of dependence. In the wilderness we will encounter the process of weaning. God uses the wilderness as the perfect place to detach us from every source outside of Himself. Our dependence is defined by how much or little we completely trust in God. The purpose of weaning is to humble you, suffer you to hungry, then feed you. God only feeds His children from His o...

The wilderness is a place where God fills us. Sometimes a wilderness comes and we don't even know our own capacity to get through it. Every wilderness comes because of what God has already filled you with to handle it. As we engage and endure, we are able to become the men and women God wants us to be. The wilderness is meant to bring forth more of a hunger for God. If after a dry situation, you'r...

When our trust is in the Lord even in the wilderness, we will be fruitful. It is in completely relying on God that will allow our leaves to never wither and fear to never reach us. How we trust in God will determine how we successful we are in the wilderness. The desert could be a testing ground for your personal reliance on God. Many believe they trust God for everything until they get into a dry...

God used the wilderness to bring forth three important characteristics in the heart of the children of Israel. He wanted them to be humble before Him. He would not accept a life that was arrogant or prideful. He wanted a heart that was proven. God tested their hearts so to see if they would really trust Him. He will do the same with us in the wilderness. He lastly wanted them to see & know the...

Dating back to Genesis we see that God created man from the dust of the ground. This was a wilderness place. Every man that God is going to form must yield to the tool of a wilderness. It was after the man was formed that God saw him fit to be put into the garden. We are not ready for our personal garden until God has used the wilderness to make our lives. It was in Midian, a desert, that God prep...

One of the biggest benefits of the wilderness is that God wants to transform it into a fruitful field. Wells are only built in dry places. An oasis is not valuable in the crowded city. It takes an impossible situation that allows God to begin to work for us. When it is covered with grace God effortlessly turns something dry into something productive for the kingdom. No desert is too dry for God to...

Are there benefits to being in a dry place? If Jesus went through the wilderness and overcame then so must we. How can something good possibly come out of a desert? God uses wilderness type experiences to make us. If we are going to become God's heirs, then we must actively enlist ourselves to the tests of the enemy. When we do this the characteristics of Christ can come forth. As we follow Jesus,...

Can a dry place be beneficial? We see that after Jesus came out of the wilderness He was able to accomplish His purpose. He healed, casted out devils, and produced fishers of men. Jesus fulfilled every aspect of God's will. We also see that after the wilderness Jesus received power. Without power Jesus wouldn't have been able to complete God's plan. Jesus knew that being God's Son wasn't enough to...

Jesus promised the Samaritan woman that whoever drinks from the water He gives will have eternal life and a well springing within them. This well is our inner capacity to hide the Word of God in our hearts. The desert is where we increase our capacity for God's Word. This capacity is a deep understanding of the Word. It is how the Word has changed and transformed us. When this is shared with other...

To be a usable vessel in God's hands we must go through wilderness-type situations. These trials are dry, unpleasant, and sometimes lack relief. We see how God used Jesus's time in the wilderness to finish the making process. Likewise, our wilderness needs to complete God's process resulting in ultimate usefulness. The wilderness is used to develop our identity in Christ. "If thou art the Son of G...

Our responsibility as vessels of change is to heal the land. Every person in darkness is spiritually wounded. God wants to use us to bring healing to them as we share the gospel of Christ. For this to manifest we must first be healed. Becoming a new cruse includes spiritual and physical healing. When Jesus healed people, He made them whole. The goal of healing is to be made complete. Without heali...

What is your prayer life like? Do you pray for your city, family and friends? As a vessel that God wants to use, we care called to not be lazy, careless children of God. We in turn must pray. God sees a nonexistent prayer life as lazy. If we want to create change, we have to go to the Father and ask Him. God will not intervene except His children cry out for His Spirit to be released. What will be...

God doesn't use people He uses containers. If you aren't willing to be made into a usable container then you simply can't be used. God does not use ready-made man to impact or change the land. He uses vessels that He has hand-crafted Himself. God is looking to make us pure containers, full of righteousness. If we are impure, we will only squander God's plan for our lives and others'. Every Christi...

If the source of your life is bad, then your life can only produce evil. A life whose source isn't God cannot produce a godly life. This dynamic is connected to the principle of reproduction. A life can only reproduce the life it currently carries. If we want to cause change in our environment, then we must bear the correct source. If coming out of us is a contaminated Jesus, then we can only give...

Where God wants to make change is first in us. If God doesn't do something in your inside, innermost being, inner man than He cannot use you as a vessel of change. Change of life starts in the inner man. God wants to do this by equipping us with His salt. The salt of Christ protects you from all unrighteousness. Because there is no sin in Christ, the seed of God keeps us from sinning. God's salt a...

All that God wants to do in this time of revival is based on a newness. If we are going to be new, then the old obsolete life must be evacuated. God doesn't see the old as useful or valuable. If God were to put the newness of His spirit into an old life both the vessel and God's impartation will be wasted. Being a new cruse is not an option to be vessels of change it is a requirement. If you are n...

As we've come to a critical point in our study of The Life of Change, we must make a decision: Are you a servant or a citizen? As a new believer in Christ now you are to be God's servant, attending to His every need. Only servants are given assignments in the kingdom. We see Jesus when He needed something he asked a disciple to do it. Without becoming a disciple, a believer will stay a child and f...

What better life to live than one that hosts power and indestructibility. The life that Jesus came to give us is this exact life. The life of change is not a powerless life with no authority or control. In fact, it holds the key to every solution to every problem on earth. We also see that this life is one of resurrection. If a person has not shared in the death of Christ to self, then they are un...

Our impact on another's life will only be as efficient and effective as our knowledge of God's Son in us. Many have ceased in their pursuit to know Christ in a deeper manner, leaving them to be of little use in the kingdom. Jesus called twelve, that they could be with Him, not to do errands for Him. Our primary pursuit should be knowing Christ. For how can we share Him if we do not know Him? The r...

Jesus tells his disciples that they are to be the salt of the earth. Salt is an important ingredient in being a vessel of change. Salt sanitizes and purifies whatever it comes into contact with. Sugar, on the other hand, brings decay and unwanted sin to a believer's life. We must be the salt if we want to make an impact on our communities. Thank you for joining us for this episode. Here at Remnant...

The first call to being a vessel of change is to become a new cruse or container. To be made new God has to remake you into a vessel that is different from who you are now. For God to use us to bring change we must first be emptied of all the old life. We must bring ourselves so that God can produce a change in us that we then can influence a change into others. Have you been made new? The second...

What's wrong with our world? We lack people who carry the life of change. The reason our society is in constant decline is because the life of Christ is not multiplying out those who call themselves Christians. Our mandate is to make many disciples; to be fruitful and multiply. This multiplication of Christ back in the days of old caused the whole world to turn upside down. Many back then turned t...

As we are on our journey to growing in maturity we must know the role of the Holy Spirit. In our base verse in Titus, it talks about how the Holy Spirit renews us. Transforming us from the old into the new is the first aspect of the Holy Spirit. If we are not made new, then we are still of the old life. Becoming increasing newer in Christ is the direction we need to grow. If we don't grow in that...