The FLOT Line Show

Grow up spiritually and be the man or woman God intends for you to be. There is only one way to do it. Stay filled with the Holy Spirit and take in God’s Word every day. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2). This is the only thing that will save America. When you neglect God’s Word, when you substitute entertainment for learning, you are pl...

To interpret contemporary history is to be able to apply a maximum amount of the Word of God to the situation. To be on the right side of history you need to know and apply God’s Word or you won’t understand what’s going on around you. You’ll be discouraged and confused. God allows certain people to get into power, either for your blessing and prosperity or for discipline. If you look at the spiri...

You were born with a sin nature. All humans are born with a sin nature. “For by one man [Adam] sin came into the world and death by sin and now death has passed on all for all have sinned” (Rom 5:12). This is why you need to be born again by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior. Your new birth gives you the ministry of the Holy Spirit. This is the only way you can control your sin nature which tr...

Don’t blame God for your grief. Ask what God has for you. Miracles do not save you. No miracle performed by our Lord was eternal except the miracle of the cross. The miracle of forgiveness is eternal when you believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as your Savior. Suffering is designed for blessing and to accelerate our spiritual growth. It’s amazing, the more we suffer, the closer we get to God....

Learning God’s problem-solving devices and using them as a FLOT LIne in your soul are the coping skills you need to deal with the arena of contention all around you. You prevail in the devil’s world by learning the promises of God, believing them, and applying them in your life. “Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the strategy of the devil, picking up the shield of faith” (Eph 6:11-1...

The will of God will never lead you to where the grace of God cannot protect you. God will show you His will through His Word, through the circumstances and through the Holy Spirit. This is divine guidance, Ps 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you with My eye.” God’s will doesn’t include you carrying despair or the sort of grief that is an unbearable l...

Divine guidance is the communication of God’s will for you through His Word. God speaks to you through the Bible. Get under a qualified pastor. Listen to the teaching of God’s Word. Be patient and God will reveal His will to you. Divine guidance and the execution of the will of God is a private matter between you and God. Paul said, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil 4:1...

You need a light to guide you and this is learning God’s Word, the mind of Christ. You need a compass to know the way and this is using the ministry of the Holy Spirit, your mentor. “Do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Eph 5:17). This is a mandate from God. Here are the principles for following divine guidance. The 3 A’s. Align your life with His will. Abort your own pla...

God’s plan might not coincide with your plans. Your thoughts center around security while His purpose for your life is much greater and beyond your expectations. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Is 55:8-9). Here are your orders. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In al...

Understanding God’s directive will is essential to living the Christian way of life. God wants you to grow to spiritual maturity “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). LAG is a way to remember this. Learn. Apply, Glorify God. God’s system, the protocol plan of God, must be learned. The right thing must be done in the right way. If you don’t learn t...

Christianity requires that the right thing must be done in the right way. This is God’s protocol plan. God has rules for practicing your Christianity. For example, taking communion with unconfessed sin in your life, out of fellowship with God, is compromising the righteousness of God and you put yourself under extreme divine discipline. “Because of this many are weak, many are sick and many are de...

You need to learn to execute God’s protocol plan during your time on Earth. The key to this is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and under control of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18). “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Once you learn how to maintain fellowship with God by means of rebound, you need to “Grow in t...

You have a destiny for your time on Earth and for eternity. The Bible tells us we are to live for, and be occupied with, the Lord Jesus Christ. The key for you to be the person God intends for you to be is to quit living for yourself and start living for Jesus Christ. “For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). "Who having not seen, you love. Though now you do not see Him and yet...

You have been given a certain amount of time on Earth. Only God knows the time, the manner and the place of your departure. Your mission during your time on Earth is to shine the light of the Gospel, to re-present Jesus Christ to those in darkness. “I am the Light of the world and he who follows Me shall no longer walk in darkness but will have the Light of life” (John 8:12). You must be ready to...

Our mission in our time on earth (TOE) is to serve our Master’s interest. We are to redeem our TOE wisely. “Walk circumspectly, not as a fool but be wise and redeem our time because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16). The key is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and thus being controlled by the Holy Spirit. This is a requirement to perceive and apply the Word of God. “That the Father of glory may...

Your time on Earth is very short. God wants you to redeem your time wisely by learning and following His protocol plan and doing the right thing in the right way. To try and live the Christian life apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit and within the protocol plan is a waste of time. “See that you walk circumspectly. Do not walk like a fool but as a wise man redeeming your time because the day...

The Bible makes it clear we are to put on Christ. Occupation with Christ is thinking as He thought and living as He lived. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh nor fulfill its lust” (Rom 13:14). “Acquire the mind of Christ” (1 For 2:16). Humility is a learned trait and necessary for being occupied with Christ. “He humbled Himself” (Phil 2:5). Jesus Christ thought divin...

The Christian life is meant to be lived stress-free. You can have a life free of stress if you learn and use the problem-solving device Sharing the Happiness of God. Personal love for God is your motivational virtue. “If we love Him, we will obey Him and His mandates are not hard” (1 John 5:3). God’s happiness, perfect happiness, is always related to the grace policy of God. “I will rejoice and be...

There’s no reason for you to ever be unhappy. God gives you everything you need to have His happiness. “I have taught you these things that My happiness might be in you and that your happiness might be fulfilled” (John 15:11). The key to happiness is learning and applying God’s Word. “Happy is the one who finds wisdom and obtains understanding” (Prov 3:13). Wisdom is the knowledge of God’s Word in...

God loves you. You love others not based on who they are or what they do but based on who you are. That’s exactly what God did with you. When you have a personal love for God, you can have impersonal love for others. It’s an amazing problem-solving device. The plan of God is for you to love others. This means you have a relaxed mental attitude toward others. Your love for others is not based on th...

Personal love for God is the highest motivational virtue in your life. This is what motivates you to obey God. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all of thy soul and with all of thy mind. This is the first and the great mandate” (Matt 22:37-38). If you are prejudiced, you are not loving God because the people you hate are people Jesus died for. “God so loved the world that...

God has given you a personal sense of destiny for time and eternity. “We according to His promise look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness” (2 Pet 3:13). The time He has given you is priceless. You are here to shine the light, to re-present Jesus Christ so when people see you, they see Christ. You are the light in a dark world. Having a personal sense of destiny is having...

Without understanding the Word of God, you can’t orient to God’s plan for your life. You need God’s Word for direction and motivation to live your life for the glory of God. “If you love Me you will obey Me” (John 14:15). God mandates you to study His Word under the ministry of a qualified pastor-teacher and grow spiritually. Just as you eat food and your body metabolizes it for energy—so does lea...

Grace orientation is being aligned with God’s grace policy. God depends on who and what God is, not us. God does all the work. We are saved by grace. “For by grace you are saved through faith, it is a gift of God” (Eph 2:8). Religion counterfeits the grace of God. The only way to get peace in your soul is to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior” (2 Pet 3:18). While Jesus Ch...

Adversity is inevitable but stress is optional. If you have developed a FLOT line in your soul you can live a life free of stress. Problem-solving device number one is rebound—how you deal with the problem of sin. You name your sin to God the Father per 1 John 1:9. Problem-solving device number two, the filling of the Holy Spirit, and using the truth of the Word of God is how you worship God. “The...