F. Dean Hackett - Foundational

In Ephesians 6:10-18, we are given the armor of God, the clothes that every Christian should wear if he or she wishes to walk in continual victory over the enemy. The first piece of armor we're told to put on is the belt of truth. On Roman armor, the belt is what held everything together. It is also what held the sword. The sword of the Spirit - the Word of God Jesus said that if we are His disciples, we will know the truth and the truth will make us free. Truth (the Word of God is the final truth) is what makes us free! So, I have a question for you. Are you wearing the right clothes to go into this spiritual battle we're in right now? If you're not wearing the right clothes, you will be caught unprepared to fight the way we need to fight in the ever-increasing heat of persecution that is coming our way. That is what I talk about in today's podcast. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

We don't know a lot about Jabez, because there are only a couple of verses that talk about Jabez; but we do know that his mother had a very difficult delivery with him, with a lot of pain. Jabez means "He will cause pain". That must have caused some interesting times for him as a child; but he didn't allow the meaning of his name to dictate his life and future. And his prayer reflects his pursuit to live a life that pleased God. There is so much we can learn from his prayer, and that is what I share in today's podcast; how you can use the prayer of Jabez as a template your own prayer life to help you move from a place of pain to a place of victory in Christ Jesus! ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

All throughout God's Word, we read that God hears and answers our prayers; but there are times when we pray for something, even for a long time, and we don't seem to receive an answer. Why is that? Mark 11:24 says: "Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." Many times, we pray for a need, but throughout the day our self-talk and conversation reveals that we don't have faith that God will answer our prayer. We have prayed for the need that morning, and then turned around and began whining about our problem. It's not the real religious-sounding prayer that's heard by Almighty God, it's the passionate prayer of a faith-filled heart that is heard. God wants us to pray faith-filled prayers! He wants us to believe that He hears and that He will answer. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

The church all over the world is under attack in four ways. 🔵 Government and governmental entities 🔵 Marginalizing the church 🔵 Declaring the church is not essential 🔵 Creating mandates that have closed down the church The world continues to threaten to cancel the church while the enemy causes a great lethargy to descend on those content to do church at home while slowly leading them towards a deconstruction of faith and becoming a "done-er". We're one generation from the church losing everything. This was what happened with the halfway covenant. The church no longer required an authentic conversion to Jesus Christ; they let people become members and receive communion. Then, the next generation of preachers were in the pulpit and had never been born-again or experienced the move of the Holy Spirit. They preached from their intellect, not from personal experience. So what did God design the church to look like? ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

In church history, we read about how whole communities and cities were completely transformed by spiritual awakenings; so much so, that bars were completely closed, police stations had no work, and jails were empty. How does that happen? Even more so, how can we see that kind of transformation today in our own communities? Do the principles that apply to this kind of transformation apply also to our homes and families? There are people who take seriously the principles of interdiction, but they don't just believe it in their head but faithfully and diligently apply those principles actively. There are three principles that have to be in place for this kind of transformation through interdiction in prayer. 🙏 Truly believe in your heart that God answers prayer 🙏 Persevere until God's visitation and habitation 🙏 Pray passionate, unrelenting, united prayer for the powers and strongholds of darkness to be broken and banished ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Jesus disciples came to Jesus and asked Him, "Teach us to pray the way John taught his disciples to pray". Prayer is not caught, it's taught. We often think that when someone receives Jesus Christ as their Savior, they will automatically learn how to pray. But just the same way we teach our children how to speak, we have to teach new believers how to pray. So, Jesus responded to them by giving them three things: 🔵 A prayer model 🔵 Assurance to be persistent in prayer 🔵 Confidence in prayer Jesus wanted them to know that prayer works; and He wants you to know that prayer works. In today's podcast I share with you the prayer model that Jesus gave His disciples. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Looking at our world today, there is violence all around us. Political corruption is crippling our nation. Woke philosophies are defiling our young people. Perversion is stealing their innocence. Marriages are falling apart. People are struggling financially while our economy is toppling. Prayer is the only thing that's going to change this. God gave us a promise: "...if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 God is saying this to America again. We are not without hope; but my people must pray! "Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. "James 5:13-18 ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

The church all over the world is under attack in four ways. 🔵 Government and governmental entities 🔵 Marginalizing the church 🔵 Declaring the church is not essential 🔵 Creating mandates that have closed down the church The world continues to threaten to cancel the church while the enemy causes a great lethargy to descend on those content to do church at home while slowly leading them towards a deconstruction of faith and becoming a "done-er". We're one generation from the church losing everything. This was what happened with the halfway covenant. The church no longer required an authentic conversion to Jesus Christ; they let people become members and receive communion. Then, the next generation of preachers were in the pulpit and had never been born-again or experienced the move of the Holy Spirit. They preached from their intellect, not from personal experience. So what did God design the church to look like? ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Every demographic in our culture today faces significant challenges in living out their life as an authentic disciple of Jesus Christ. 🔵 Truth is relative. 🔵 Christianity is taught as an evil, violent, and hateful religion. 🔵 A high percentage of those who attend church regularly, even they believe that there are many ways to get to heaven. 🔵 Sexual intimacy is expected during dating - even on the first date. 🔵 Boys and men dress up as girls while girls and women behave as boys. 🔵 LGBTQ+ is not just acceptable behavior, but is taught that a person is born this way 🔵 It is being taught that a person's biological sex does not have to align with a person's sexual preference If you take a stand for truth against any of these systems or beliefs, you are marginalized, you may lose opportunities for a career advancement, or you may even be put in jail. How is a disciple of Jesus Christ to live in such times? There is a great necessity for every believer if we are to stand against the rising tide of deception and distortion in our culture, and advance the kingdom of God in our communities and our nation. To find out what this necessity is, listen to today's podcast. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Are you living the blessed life, or are you living mired in discouragement, disillusionment, and asking God why He allows bad things and suffering to happen to good people? God wants to take all of the painful experiences and disappointments in our life and turn them into gold and silver. He promised us in Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." The key to living the blessed life and consistently being victorious in painful moments, has to do with learning to walk with Holy Spirit and fellowship with Him in a deep personal way. Learning to fellowship to Holy Spirit. In today's podcast we learn how to begin fellowshipping with Holy Spirit so we can live the blessed life and walk in consistent victory even in the painful moments of life. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Living the blessed life doesn't mean you live a care-free life. It doesn't mean that you have to live in a perfect environment for the blessings of God to flow in your life. Look at the apostles and all of the persecution and trials they endured. One of the things that prevents Jesus' disciples from living the blessed life is in our thinking, our reasoning, our ideology, our worldview, our self-talk, and our tongue. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2 We need to get our mind lined up right, we have to get our thinking and ways to line up with God's thinking and God's ways. God wants to take it even deeper than that, He wants to go where you psychologist, psychiatrist, medicine and reach through shock therapy and other therapies. Renewing the mind can go there, it can go to the subconscious where it has been damaged through PTSD and other traumas that has made you a victim and cause you to live in fear and depression. God's Word can renew your subconscious so that instead of living out of a damaged subconscious mind you are living in victory through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.” Explore the podcast

Authentic discipleship is living our life after the pattern of the Lord Jesus Christ. This includes patterning after Him: Our attitude Our behavior Our conduct Our worldview But this doesn't happen in our own strength and by the grit of our own teeth. If we could change ourselves, we would have by now. We have a spirit so we can be in relationship with Almighty God. We are a trinity. Although we are a trinity, we discover we have a problem. We are made in the image of Almighty God but the sin nature has broken that relationship. That's why it says in Isaiah 53:1, "Your sin has separated you from Me." The sin natures damages this, because with the sin nature, our spirit is dead. We're not in relationship with Almighty God. And our soul is broken, we are self-willed. We want to live by our own desires and ambitions. So, knowing this about mankind, how do we live by a Holy Spirit dynamic? That is what we discover in today's podcast. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Can a person stop their addiction? Can a person stop being bitter and resentful? Can a person stop being depressed? If they could, they would have by now; because surely they have tried many times. So where is the hope for us, when we feel that everything that was good and hopeful inside of us is dead? What hope do we have of living the abundant life Jesus Christ has promised to us? Can God bring back to life what is dead in us right now? ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

As Jesus disciples, we not only pattern our life after Him, but we also do the same works He did because God wants disciples to make a difference in this world. Have you noticed that when Jesus chose His disciples, He didn't go to the Sanhedrin? He didn't choose His disciples among the Pharisees or the Sadducees? This was one of the reasons they were so angry with Him. He had gathered around Himself ordinary people and sent them out with the power to do what He did. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You may think that you are just a homemaker... Just a contractor Just a rancher Just a teacher But Jesus delights in taking ordinary people and enabling them to do extraordinary things for Him and His kingdom by giving them His power and authority to do the works that Jesus did, and greater works. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

When we read in the Gospels about Jesus' disciples leaving everything to follow Him, it doesn't mean that they just causally followed behind Him. It means that they walked in His footsteps, observed how He behaved and responded to different situations, and then patterned their lives after Him. The Greek word for disciples means "a disciplined one". It means one who has learned to discipline themselves to daily fulfilling their spiritual disciplines of reading the Word and prayer; like Job to controlling their eyes to not look at immorality. There is a call to being a disciple, but there is also a cost. And that is what I'm sharing with you in today's podcast. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

God has a dream for your life and he wants you to fulfill that dream; but you can only fulfill His dream when you do it God's way, not your own way. When you try to fulfill God's dream your own way, you will not live the blessed life. You need to learn to lay down your own way and live life God's way because He's designed your life perfectly for you. It's sadly uncommon for Jesus' disciples to live less than God has for them because they allow the enemy to steal God's dream for their life through tragedy and trauma in their life. But we don't have to let the enemy steal God's dream. He has promised to turn all things for our good and to make all things new in our life. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

God promised us in Ephesians 1 that He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. He wants us to live the blessed life! But in every one of the scriptures of promised blessing there is a condition. Living the blessed life is a matter of the heart. You don't get it just because you crave it. There is something we often fail to understand when we're not walking in the blessing. We tend to get angry and wonder why if God is a good God he allows things to happen to us. But if we're not walking in the blessing we need to realize that each scripture that gives a promised blessing comes with a condition that deals with the condition of the heart. Failing to guard our heart and mind puts up a barrier between us and God's blessing. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

As we look at what has happened in our culture around the world over the past 2 1/2 years through the lens of biblical prophecy regarding the end times, we understand that we are living in the last of the last days. How can the church understand the times and seasons we are living in and what should her response be? There are three things the church needs to do in order to be the Church that God ordained to advance the kingdom of God in a culture of darkness, death, destruction, immorality, and distortion. That is what I'm sharing with you in today's podcast. This sermon was recorded toward the end of 2020, and while I deal mainly with how the church has responded in the face of the pandemic, the principles in this message apply to what we're seeing right now and the messages I've been sharing on @foundationaluwithdr.deanha9549 regarding God's great reset. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Do you believe God's Word to the degree that you would stake your very life upon it? Do you believe it to the degree that it is the very governor of your life, your decision making, your standard of what is true or not true. Do you run to the Word of God before you run to your favorite news channel or website, before you listen to your favorite political commentator? Many Christians know more about what Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Mark Levin know about politics than what the Word of God says. But they are not infallible. God's Word, His report, is infallible and is relevant for all generations. God wants to bring hope to you and to this generation that is on a bullet train of self-destruction, and He wants to bring it through the church. The only hope for us and our culture is found in the Word of God, but Jesus' disciples must know the Word, believe the Word, and stake their very lives on the Word to be able to carry this hope to the lost. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Are you living the blessed life each and every day? Or are you living under a curse, barely getting through your day, frustrated, angry, dissatisfied, and battling against the addictions and desires those in our culture who do not know God battle against? God wants more for you! He wants you to begin living the blessed life today, so that you live victorious over sin and addiction. It is through a blessed and victorious church that God will redeem our fallen culture. He wants break generational curses over you and your family. He wants give you the strength to live in this cursed world in victory and joy. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Our culture is at a point where we've bought the narrative that truth is relative. If truth is relative, then a lie can be truth and truth a lie. This is a slippery slope where truth moves to deception, deception to distortion, and distortion to delusion. Our nation has moved from enlightenment to relativism, then to post-modernism, and finally to post-Christianity. We're rapidly headed for anti-Christianity. But there is an even greater danger. When this distortion and delusion is embraced by the Church in a culture, and instead of preaching the truth they embrace and teach the lie, where does culture go for truth, hope and salvation. This is what Jude was writing about in verse 3. Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. - Jude 3 God has ordained the Church to be a great guardian of the faith, but when she fails to guard the truth culture loses all hope and salvation. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

I am concerned that many people are not aware, or are not concerned, with the fact that we are in a great spiritual war. The Bible teaches that there are two kingdoms at war against one another on Planet Earth: God's Kingdom filled with love, joy peace, goodness, and life, and the kingdom of darkness filled with lies, deception, distortion, hate, violence, wickedness, every form of evil, and death. Two opposing kingdoms at war on earth. We have weapons of war, but not kind of weapons we use in a physical war but spiritual weapons mighty through God. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:10-12 Our culture is calling evil good and good evil. We are living in a time of great deception and distortion; and in the midst of all of this evil there must be those who stand up who know truth, who will stand by the truth, and live by the truth. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

The culture of deception, distortion and delusion is creeping into the church, and is distorting the preaching of the Word of God. Jesus' disciples must learn to stand fast - strong as an unmovable rock. We have to be committed to the Word of God in our heart. What does it means to stand fast? Paul wrote to Timothy, who was also struggling with similar battles as we are facing today. If we are not strongly committed in our heart to the Word of God, we will grow confused by the narratives the world is feeding us, and many in the church are caving into right now. There are three things we need to remember as we choose to stand and refuse to give into fear, uncertainty, anxiety and doubt. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

The Bible talks about a woke church, but our culture of delusion has coopted this idea of being woke and distorted it's meaning. God wants to awaken the church because His return is coming nearer. While our culture and political arenas are filled with paganism, we have a church that is asleep. We have a form of godliness, our music is professional. We have celebrity worship leaders. We have celebrity pastors on TV, but the church is anemic with a form but no power. And we must turn away from this! We must turn away from the Laodicean, anemic spirit in the church today. We must rise up, awaken, and put on strength - strength that only comes from the power of the Holy Spirit. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”

Have you ever had a time in your life when you knew you had to hear from God? You needed specific direction, and you knew that you needed to hear a word of wisdom from God. In order to really hear his voice, we have to turn off all of the things that keep us distracted: our TV, our phone, our devices. We need the silence to hear His voice. But many times, instead of waiting on the Lord to clearly hear His voice, we make quick decisions that seem logical to us. We act on it, and the result of that decision becomes a curse instead of a blessing, because we failed to stop and wait for the voice of the Lord giving us a confirmation of His will. As believers and disciples of Christ, we are supposed to do life with Jesus, not just add Him on to whatever we are doing. Even better is when we do life through Jesus But in order for us to do life through Jesus, we have to learn how to hear His voice. ************************************* 📕 Grab my newest book Willing - Doing Whatever It Takes: https://amzn.to/32jQEcH 📖 Get my FREE READ THE BIBLE CHALLENGE here: http://bit.ly/2CnmWEa 👨‍🏫 Find out more about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: http://bit.ly/2COrAvR 📲 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/fdeanh/ Dean has been a pastor for over 40 years, ministering in 48 of the 50 states and across Canada and Europe; and over the years. He has watched a subtle shift in the church as political correctness and humanism have crept in and overtaken the pulpit. Dean is passionate about laying a solid, godly foundation for many generations. And that is why he began Foundational. Dean wants to offer article and resources to pastors, church leaders and lay ministers that will help them effectively lead their congregations to a deeper level of discipleship in Jesus Christ; empowering them to lay a strong foundation in their families for many generations. F. Dean Hackett (Founder of F. Dean Hackett-Foundational) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”