Jerry Flowers Podcast

In Matthew 23, Jesus was criticizing the Pharisees when He said, "everything they do is done for people to see." They love attention, they love views and they love going viral. That's the infection - viral infection! And the danger is when we are a people who love attention, we'll mismanage pastures.

What God wants you to go through and what you choose to go through are not the same! Being offended is a choice, not a requirement.

Being hard on yourself and calling it perfectionism is really self manipulation, because the fruit of that behavior is anxiety, overthinking, stress, burnout, and depression. Those aren't fruits of the Spirit and the gift God has given you never requires your peace of mind!

While your hands aren't stronger than Pharaoh's, God's are. God is waiting for you to put it down, so He can pick it up.

Avoidance is a survival skill that is learned in an unsafe environment. When brought into a safe environment, the new space then starts to look like the one God brought us out of. There are five ways to change your behavior, but in order to do that, we must first address the fact that we are avoiding something.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and evidence is for the purpose of being persuaded. This is why so many people are disenchanted with Christianity because we claim to have this evidence, but with the way we treat people, it's not evident. Our love for God and His people should be evident, not mysterious.

There are a lot of things we can get wrong, but the two most important things we should get right are God's will for our lives and our eternal placement!

Most of us when we hear the word "naked," we think of the human body, whether male or female, being uncovered, stripped, indecent exposure; void of the appropriate covering. This seems to be an adequate estimation; however, there is a spiritual correlation that must be considered when we ask the question: "Why are you naked?"

An apology isn’t enough. What you deserve is changed behavior! Let's unpack the many questions we have regarding broken trust and how it can be recovered.

God is raising up a generation of kingdom men who will take their rightful position, in Jesus name! Featuring Jerry Flowers, Issac Curry, Will Jackson, Ezekiel Azonwu and Gabriel McKnight.

We have placed a period where God wants to place His comma. He is The Author and Finisher of our faith, but is it possible that you've given the pen to something or someone else in your life? It's time to fire whoever owns the pen!

Your process of dealing with conflict in your relationships could be why you haven't experienced the needed healing in your life. It's critical that we know the difference between an apology and accountability. An apology must be connected to curiosity and changed behavior.

It's the nature of a fire to go out and if the enemy can't take you out, he will wear you out! So how do we prevent spiritual burnout?

It's going to be hard to make destiny decisions when you haven't made a peace treaty with your past!

Nobody welcomes storms, and yet, whether we welcome them or not, they show up. Since we can be assured that storms will come, wouldn’t it be wise for us to prepare?

It’s possible that our mind is so crowded with worry, so crowded with fear, and so crowded with lies, that a word from God has to stand in the long line of our overthinking.

Every follower of Jesus needs community, but it must be one that's healthy and on fire for the things of God! Authentic Christian fellowship comes with heat, which is necessary in order to melt the frostbite of our struggles.

Many of us sabotage and walk away from potentially thriving relationships simply because we've never seen what it looks like up close to choose love without forcing love. While there are others who walk away from relationships because that's how we've been taught to cope with conflict.

At the end of the day, we have this choice when it comes to overcoming the lies of insecurity: choose what you believe, affirm what you believe and unlearn what you have believed.

Let us be people that experience what biblical love truly looks like, so that once we enter into relationships we do not repeat what should've been repaired.

Everything changes when Godly men are in position!

Before the start of Jesus' earthly ministry, He was first affirmed by The Father. We must be people who meditate on the thoughts of God, rather than the opinions of man.

You can't keep the lungs of your walk with Jesus cancer-free if you don't have spiritual insight on how to identify secondhand smoke.

Passion without vulnerability, empathy, commitment and honor is simply infatuation. The words, "I love you," will not be enough to sustain a relationship or marriage. Love is an action that must be lived out, not just spoken.

The role of The Holy Spirit was never to spark your faith. He was purposed to engulf your faith because proximity determines temperature. Let it burn!

The quality of your heart and the health of your soul affects too many people for you to ignore when the limp remains.

Perhaps God is not holding you back. What if this isn't punishment or the devil but rather a season where God is trying to give your faith some flames?

Last year was the last year that I didn't steward the currency of my time well. You know how much money is in your bank account, but you don't know how much time is left on your clock. The greatest contributor to our spiritual laziness is we think we have more time!

For some, it takes a certain dispensation of time for us to truly see what needs to end in our lives. Time will tell!

It isn't time that's setting you back, but rather when we fail to put our trust in God’s timing. Time isn't our biggest hinderance when it comes to time-management, It's our inability to discern time wasters!

Sometimes pain and purpose are married, which means you can't birth anything without pain. What if God is trying to see if He can trust you with that disappointment?

The enemy waits for the right time to get us to fall for his traps and temptation but God always sends warnings when we're being sneaky and on our way to a trap. Notice the timing!

The enemy wants to get us at the wrong tables, feeding on entrees from the wrong place with the ultimate goal being for us to waste our time. It's critical that we know that Jesus came to overturn every table that would cause for us to miss our appointment!

One of the first ordinances of the Kingdom for earth revolved around timing. "Let there be light... greater lights by day and lesser lights by night." God is saying there is a time for the sun to shine and there's a time for the moon to shine. If this is true then one of the warfare strategies of the enemy is to get us to waste time.

It is unfortunate that in many religious gatherings, many have come to expect a "Yes" from God, but what do you do when God says, "no?" God wants us to know His voice so that we conform to His character, not the culture.

Satan comes only to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came so that we would have life and have it more abundantly! How can we live the abundant life if we keep engaging in the self sabotaging behavior Jesus died to save us from?

It's going to be hard to walk in your calling, if you can't hear the voice of The One Who is calling you.

The enemy operates with a demonic math equation. He wants to add voices ➕ to subtract clarity ➖, so he can multiply confusion ✖️, causing division between your will and The Holy Spirit ➗, which equals = uncertainty!

It's dangerous when you're trying to give birth when the wrong voice is in your ear. Even Jesus, The King Of Glory, was intentional with who was around Him during moments of vulnerability.

One of the worst types of illnesses that you can receive is a projection infection, which causes for you to believe a narrative that was authored by someone else's wounds.

Don't stay stuck — get up, pick up your pallet and walk! We have to be willing to go through this process in order to no longer be rooted in our sin.

Are you truly healed, or are you simply isolated from all of your past triggers? Often times, we heal just enough to be able to identify our trauma, but not to the degree to be rid of the pain the trauma has caused in our lives.

The greatest threat to your life and relationships is unwanted people in private places where they don't belong. You can't control the voices that try to influence you externally, but you can for those you invite into in your bedroom.

It's possible for you to lose yourself when the relationship or a season ends. DON'T LOSE YOU!

We are the bride of Christ. One of the last postures Jesus had before His crucifixion was on His knees washing His bride’s feet. He was in a proposal position.

Often times we stay subscribed to things out of comfort, convenience, familiarity or even fear. If we truly desire growth, we must first understand that new growth cannot happen unless you're willing to cut what is no longer beneficial to you.

If we don't understand the significance of grace, we'll fail to grasp the authority we have to war in the spirit, and most importantly that we are heirs of the Father.

When you've grown up in a combat zone, warfare becomes familiar to such a degree that peace causes skepticism. In the same way, normalized dysfunction has conditioned us to the point where we have confused what happiness truly is. It isn't until our eyes have been opened that we're able to see hazardous roads have become our normal.

This message addresses the need for us to be able to identify bad theology and false teaching. Eloquent speech and charisma mixed with heresy has deceived many, so in order to avoid deception we must be students of truth!

What do you do when God says the answer is no? There's so much teaching about when God is saying yes, but what about the under teaching when God is saying this is not yours, this is not your door, this is not your season or this is not your time? This word is designed to help us identify a no from God.

Your healing matters. Whatever is not dealt with in this season, will show up in the front row of your emotions in the next season.

We're lost in a forest of regrets, what if's, and where am I's, but Jesus says, "unless you become like little children!" Who you were before all of this was the original form of who God called you to be. If we can get back to this place of nakedness, we will be free from shame.

How many of us are mislabeling patterns as "compatibility" or our "personality"? The shadow of every problem is a pattern, and we're bound to repeat what we cannot see as broken. Mistakes hurt you, but patterns break you!

The enemy attempts to deceive us through discussion to ultimately affect the sobriety of our decisions, therefore we must be able to hear from God personally. This can seem difficult at times, not because God isn't speaking, but due to the lies that have already been spoken to us first which are suffocating our ability to decipher truth from lies.

It can become all too convenient for us to blame the enemy for us being chronically distracted. Often times, distractions are simply ways for us to cope with the hard things which we would rather not address in the moment.

God is not obligated to support or endorse what He has not confirmed. Confirmation flows from The Word of God and for what He has cosmically created for us to occupy!

As Christians, we should never apologize for having boundaries. Boundaries are the investment we make to ensure that toxicity doesn’t vandalize our peace.

If you do not know the voice of God in devotion, you will not know the voice of God in direction.

What happens when the void outweighs your values? When God creates a void, it's for development not punishment.

We must be aware of our own self-sabotaging routines that are eclipsing what God desires to do in our lives.

How can you love your neighbor as yourself, if you don't even love yourself?

There's somewhere that God is wanting to send you, but you don't get to determine His mode of transportation. When your storm is on schedule, it's vital that you marry your purpose, but remember to date the process!

Rejection is a wound and a spirit that can be passed down and if we don't deal with our fear of rejection, we are bound to mishandle our purpose.

What God desired for this amazing series to do, is for it to put our witness in the gym and rid us of false advertisement. If you claim to be a lover of Jesus, then you should be able to extend that love to your neighbor.

Exhaustion, many times, is tied to us not knowing what isn't our problem to fix. Heartbreak is imminent when you’re trying to cure what only an encounter with Jesus can heal.

People that are hard to deal with are the perfect training facility to strengthen the heart of a Christian. In order to be an effective witness for Christ, we must be people of love and maturity.

The enemy has waged an assault against your thoughts, because if he can have an impact on what you're thinking, he can seize control of your peace.

The agenda of sexual perversion is to produce darkness within the soul, which then becomes normalized by culture. Yes who The Son has set free is free indeed, but to truly experience transformation we must undergo a soul renewal and possess biblical strategies to win the war with lust.

How we steward our current wounds will affect how we see tomorrow. Ultimately, our goal should be to turn our wounds into wisdom, rather than paranoia. I pray that this session will be an investment into your soul care, because the health of your heart and condition of your soul affects too many people.

Lust and love look just alike until it’s time to sacrifice, to hold no record of wrongs or to be inconvenienced. Believe it or not, your spiritual growth is directly tied to winning the war against lust and protecting your spirit.

What if the most dangerous person in a narcissistic relationship is the person who is holding up the mirror?

The heart is limited on displaying The Father's love when it hasn't been healed from father wounds.

Anybody out there plagued by thinking the worst case scenario? Yeah I’ve been there, the treadmill of negative thinking will exhaust you by keeping you in the same place. Same fear, same anxiety, same perspective!

You cannot hold a record of wrong against anyone and display the love of Jesus towards them at the same time. This is going to be problematic for those of us who like to keep receipts!

If we don't know how to heal from the kiss of Judas, we'll allow that betrayal to hand us paranoia and chronic suspicion!

When you embrace a belief that feeds a pattern in your life which keeps you repeating unhealthy and unhelpful cycles, you enable heart hustles.

The DNA of an authentic follower of Jesus os not found in how well we preach, sing during praise & worship or speak in tongues, but in how well we love and treat one another.

If we closely examine our lives, many of us will discover that our thinking is one of the main culprits for our suffering and joylessness. God has an incredible plan for your life, but it's possible for us to think ourselves out of experiencing it.

The only way we can be influential in changing the current state of our families is by returning to God's original purpose for the family.

Scars are real. Betrayal is real. The pain of unfulfilled expectations is real. Abandonment is real. Being alone is real. Disappointments are real; but no scar can keep us from the Will of God.

The longer we stay in a crippled place the more we will see ourselves at the level of our scars. Until living a life of purpose becomes more important to us than sulking in our sorrows, fulfilling our own personal passions and private agendas, we will forever make unwise choices that keep us in a place of recovery.

Don't Wake Love Before It's Time | Therapy Thursday | Jerry Flowers by Jerry Flowers Ministries

We delved into the story of the woman with an infirmity for 18 years in Luke 13:10-17. Like the woman, the enemy wants us to keep looking down on our troubles and dirt so that we become numb to the power of the Gospel. As we continue to bring ourselves to Church and the community of Christ, Jesus sees us, calls us and looses us. Our worship, prayer and devotion set things straight in our life and our legacy.

It's critical that we gain the necessary wisdom and discernment to ensure that yesterday will no longer rob our today and tomorrow.

If you want to experience joy, peace, and a love no greater than Jesus laying down His life for us, then you have to give him full custody.

Rushing can be the doorway that leads you into needing another 4 years of therapy. It's our obsession with instant that's strangling our discernment which causes us to go a speed that we can't avoid traps.

Crucial to our emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual health is the quality of our relationships. It's critical that we deal with the trap of toxic relationships if we strive to improve the quality of our lives.

The devil does not always look like a roaring lion. Sometimes he presents himself as cute and harmless, just like a fox. A fox is anything that would cause our relationship with Jesus to dwindle. Don't overlook the small things because it's these things that can do the most damage to our spiritual growth and development.

We must come to the realization that the closure we think we need may never happen. Sometimes desiring closure leads to prolonged grief. God doesn't just order our stops, He also orders our severing.

A changed world starts with kingdom men being in position in the home. God is raising up more kingdom men in the earth who will do what it takes to not only see change but to be the change. It does come at a cost though.

The devil does not always look like a roaring lion. Sometimes he presents himself as cute and harmless, just like a fox. A fox is anything that would cause our relationship with Jesus to dwindle. Don't overlook the small things because it's these things that can do the most damage to our spiritual growth and development.

Many times the fear of failure is worse than failure itself. We must redefine what we consider as failure and understand that God has not given us the spirit of fear.

You can't guard your heart with all diligence and not be aware of your trigger. To lack discernment of your trigger is to place yourself unknowingly in environments that are triggering. If you can trace it, you can unlearn it.

The acronym for the word trap is Tricks Right At Pivots. This series is designed to get us to move with freedom and to move with discernment while in transition from here to there.

Many times we ask God for an increase, for a bigger platform, for our 'next' but if we can be honest, we don't know how to steward our next. This message is designed to help us understand why God blesses us and how to steward the blessing when He sends it.

I Didn't Ask For This | Therapy Thursday | Jerry Flowers by Jerry Flowers Ministries

Your life moves in the direction of your most dominant thought, because as a man thinketh so is he. What is required for us to be able to be positioned to receive our next, is a higher level of focus.

There's something on the inside of you that hell wants and the Kingdom needs but you can't birth it without rain - without testing. If you want fruit, a breakthrough, or growth, you're going to need to enjoy the rain!

It’s possible that our mind is so crowded with worry, so crowded with fear, and so crowded with lies, that a word from God has to stand in the long line of our overthinking