Catfishing God doesn’t work. You can’t deceive God. The only way to get to heaven is to do the will of God the Father. “This is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes In Him will have eternal life” (John 6:40). Works or being good won’t get you into heaven. You will have eternal life only by faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone. “For by grace are you saved through faith and it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should brag about it” (Eph 2:8-9). Faith and works cancel each other. Do not give Satan an opportunity to impugn God’s name by being a deceiver. You can’t catfish God. Rebound, using 1 John 1:9, will cleanse you from your hidden sin.
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Spiritual renewal occurs when Christians seek to learn God’s Word. A national spiritual renewal must start with you. Revival brings unbelievers to Christ—but renewal brings believers back to the Word of God. In part two of the series, Rick Hughes challenges listeners to pursue genuine fellowship with God through recovery from sin, the filling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to Scripture.
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You are saved if you have believed in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Jesus Christ said, “No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again” (John 3:3). When you believe in who He is and receive Him as your Savior you are born again. Believe is not something you do over and over. You make a volitional decision to believe in Jesus Christ and you are saved. Once saved, always saved. You can’t lose your salvation. “Whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The moment you place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior you enter into a permanent, eternal relationship with God and His royal family. “God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11-13).
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Nowhere in Scripture are we told to have human mentors to guide us through the devil’s world. Your mentor is God the Holy Spirit. You need to learn the mechanics of the spiritual life and the iron for this to happen is a well-qualified pastor plus the filling of the Holy Spirit, not a fellow Christian. Our Lord prophesied the mentorship of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16-17, “I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” The Holy Spirit, your mentor, will sharpen you with Scripture through a well-qualified pastor.
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Your power source to stand firm in the angelic conflict is the filling of the Holy Spirit so the Lord can work in and through your life and God’s Word in your soul. “Be steadfast and immovable and abounding in the work of the Lord” (1 Cor 15:58). The work of the Lord is your spiritual gift, what God expects you to do in the body of Christ. Your spiritual gift becomes operational through spiritual growth. Nothing is more serious than the condition of your spiritual life as it relates to your post in the local body of Christ. “Be on guard, stand firm in the faith” (1 Cor 16:13-14). This is what God expects of you. “Stand fast in the Lord” (Phil 4:1) means to obey Him and stay strong even in adversity. Your mission is to light up the world with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. God expects you to stand firm, be strong, be immovable and don’t give in to the devices of Satan.
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Our country's sands are shifting, requiring you to orient and adjust spiritually. You need objective optimism these days and it comes from having wisdom, knowledge, discretion and understanding as taught in God’s Word. “How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and gains understanding” (Prov 3:13-15). It’s time for you to be spiritually cognitively independent, to stand on your own. Learning and applying God’s Word in your life has to be your top priority. The Lord told His disciples and us, “These things I have spoken to you that you should not be made to stumble” (John 16:1). In the days ahead, you’re going to have opportunities to glorify God as you’ve never had before. Don’t miss the big picture of why God equips you and leaves you here on earth. You have a great responsibility to re-present Jesus Christ by means of word and deed.
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Wisdom comes from the instruction of God’s Word designed to be taught by a pastor and learned through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Solomon told his son “You will die from lack of instruction” (Prov 5:23) We are to live by God’s instruction. The Word of God is designed to give you a wonderful, fulfilling life. This is how to not make bad decisions—get divine wisdom from Biblical instruction. “Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you may gain wisdom in the future” (Prov 19:20). God’s instruction includes His establishment of the divine institutions of the individual with volitional freedom, marriage, family and nationalism. Adherence to these divine institutions is how the human race is preserved and perpetuated. Diversion from these divine institutions will bring about the downfall of any nation, including America.
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God’s 10 problem-solving devices are divine resources you need to use during your time on earth. By using the faith-rest drill, (the third problem-solving device), it is possible to have peace and a relaxed mental attitude during conflict. This is how God intends for you to live. “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You” (Is 26:3). When someone is facing personal difficulty you can offer intercessory prayer and help them recall relevant promises that will act as comfort in times of testing. Scripture has a calming effect on Christians. “Likewise the Holy Spirit also helps in our weaknesses for we do not know what we should pray as we ought to pray but the Spirit Himself makes intercessions for us” (Rom 8:26).
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Spiritual revival and renewal require individual sustained spiritual growth. In this episode, Rick Hughes teaches that national revival starts with individual believers learning, applying, and living God’s Word daily. Using Jonah’s story and biblical examples, Rick explains that true revival isn’t political—it’s spiritual renewal rooted in prayer, humility, and accurate understanding of God’s plan.
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Putting garbage into your mind will result in garbage coming out of your heart. In a hardhearted person, the thinking skills in the mentality of the soul become dull. Many in this country are dull to hearing God’s Word. This is negative volition. “They scarred their heart from the vanity of their mind” (Eph 4:18). They operate on arrogance skills and believe "my way" is better than God’s way. There are a lot of hardened hearts in America. Proverbs 18:2 calls a hardhearted person a fool, “A fool has no delight in understanding but in expressing his own heart.” Anyone who rejects God is a fool. The way to soften a hardened heart is through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. He convicts. Often it may take a tragedy, disaster or death.
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Evil represents the genius of Satan in relation to the human race. Satan is trying to replace God’s plan of grace. If you link anything to grace it cancels out grace. Evil can be a system or a deed. “The tongue can no man tame. It is unruly and evil, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8). All sin is evil but all evil is not necessarily a sin. The mentality of the soul is the battleground. If Satan can influence your thoughts, he can control you. Recovering from the evil of human viewpoint thinking and the distortion of God’s Word in your soul takes consistent studying, learning, growing, and applying the Word of God. the Bible warns us not to be influenced by evil. “Beloved, do not be imitators of the evil, but of the good” (3 John 1:11). You need to be able to recognize evil and this takes advancing to spiritual maturity.
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Tying current events with Bible prophecy is speculation. What you see happening in America is the downfall of a client nation but not necessarily an indication of the return of Christ. According to the Bible, the next prophetic event is the Rapture. “We who are still alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thes 4:13-18). There is a seven-year period called the Tribulation between the Rapture and the Second Advent when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth for His Millennial Reign. The Tribulation will be horrific and during this time evil will spread without restraint. During the Tribulation is when the mark of the beast will be a temptation but you don’t need to be concerned with this because if you’re a Christian you won’t be in the Tribulation. The Judgment Seat of Christ occurs during the Tribulation when all your human good will be burned up because anything you’ve done in carnality is unacceptable to God. The battle of Armageddon ends the Tribulation. Satan is defeated. Redeem your time wisely. Grow spiritually. Learn the mechanics of the Christian life.
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God’s primary will is that everyone believes in His Son and has everlasting life. “Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). It’s not God’s will that anyone spends eternity in the Lake of Fire but He has no choice for anyone who rejects His Son and the forgiveness He offers. Divine guidance and executing God’s will are private matters between you and God. The filling of the Holy Spirit empowers you but the Word of God takes you on the journey. To understand God’s will for your life you must be taught God’s Word by a well-qualified pastor and learn it. This is called Biblical inculcation which is perception, metabolization and application. Perception, you hear it. Metabolization, you believe it and store it in your soul. Application, you use it. There are three categories of God’s will: directive, permissive and overruling. When you understand God's directive will through learning His Word, you will know where He wants you to be, what He wants you to think, and what He wants you to do. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight” (Prov 3:5-7).
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If you die today, will you go to heaven? You can answer Yes, with certainty, if you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:11-13). Our Lord clarifies that the way to have eternal life is to believe in Him. You are sealed by God the Holy Spirit when you are saved and no one can take you out of God the Father’s hand. You also have the indwelling of Christ. Jesus Christ lives in you! Once you accept Christ as your Savior the next step is to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). You must be advancing to spiritual maturity to have an impact for Jesus Christ.
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Today, the American temperament is Impatient, irrational, irreverent, insolent, inconsiderate, ignorant and inconsistent. We are at a crossroads in America. God mandates us to deal with all people using His problem-solving devices of personal love for God and impersonal love for all mankind. “Let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). We are to use a relaxed mental attitude with all people and re-present Christ. “Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with any partiality” (James 2:1-4). Impersonal love is loving others based on your character, not theirs. When you are treated unfairly by others you must have the spiritual strength to put it in the Lord’s hands using virtue love. Impersonal love accepts and tolerates people as they are, not as you want them to be. God didn’t send us to straighten people out. Motivational virtue comes from your love for God. Functional virtue is using impersonal love for others. God’s given us His policies, problem-solving devices, instructions, principles, and doctrines all in written form in the Scripture so we should have no doubt about what to do. “I am looking for people that know Me and understand Me” (Jeremiah 9:24).
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Rejoice, pray, give thanks, and never quench God’s Spirit. Paul’s closing words to the Thessalonians offer timeless principles for every believer. Rick Hughes unpacks four divine mandates that sustain spiritual stability—rejoicing in every circumstance, praying consistently, giving thanks in all things, and keeping the Holy Spirit’s power active. These truths form the framework for peace, gratitude, and effectiveness in the Christian life based on thinking, not emotion.
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Your body will age but your soul is forever young. Your spiritual life is lived in your soul. Your soul, and what’s in it, is what goes to heaven. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). As you get older there is a change in the arena of contention inside your mind from fleshly desires to now battling aging attacks on your mentality such as frustration, bitterness, doubt, and insecurity. Only a strong spiritual life will keep you encouraged and focused as your body deteriorates. The challenge as you get older is to keep the lanes of thinking open so you can recall the Word of God you have learned and stored in your soul. God wants you to put His Word in your mind now because this divine wisdom will sustain you and give you understanding, discernment, and discretion as you get older. “For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul then discretion will protect you and understanding will guard you” (Prov 2:10-11). To live right you must think right. You have to work even harder as you get older to keep your soul’s mentality in shape, to keep your soul in shape. “With your Word in my soul, You will guide me and then afterward take me up to glory” (Ps 73:24).
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America is under attack by satanic forces. This attack is against the divine institutions of freedom-volition, marriage, family and nationalism. The siege includes replacing divine viewpoint thinking with human viewpoint thinking. A divine viewpoint must be learned from Scripture. You don’t inherit it. Therefore, it is critical you are committed to obeying God’s mandate “Grown in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18). America is under siege. The ultimate objective of Satan is to eventually shut down client nation America and limit the impact we have across the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. What can you do about it? Learn to think divine viewpoint and grow to spiritual maturity.
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Expect suffering and testing in your life. This is part of the process to advance to spiritual maturity. “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience” (James 1:2-4). God allows trials in your life to develop your patience and test your dedication to Him. You will go through infirmity and distress. Why? On behalf of Christ. “For to you it has been given on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake" (Phil 1:29). This is how you grow spiritually. Don’t pray for suffering to be removed. This is a means for God to bless you. If God doesn’t remove the suffering, He intends for you to bear it. Self-induced suffering may be unbearable but there is always a way out. Use rebound and get back to God’s plan. When you are undergoing suffering and evidence testing see it as an opportunity to glorify God to the maximum and use it! One of the greatest things you can ever experience is glorifying God to the maximum under evidence testing.
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I fought. I finished. I kept the faith. These are Paul’s final words. “I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I fought a good fight. I finished the race. I kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:6-7). Paul contended with an adversary his entire life. His ministry was one tremendous test after another. Like Paul, the moment you accept Christ as your Savior you step into the arena of contention called the angelic conflict. To prevail you need to learn and use God’s 10 problem-solving devices. Advancing to #10 Occupation with Jesus Christ is a significant accomplishment. This is you reflecting Jesus Christ through your life. “I want to carry out the mission that I received from Christ, the mission of testifying to the good news of God’s grace” (Acts 20:24). Embrace the sacrifice that God asks of you. If you are a winner believer, you are God’s trophy of grace.
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