Living Inside Out with John Peek
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Living Inside Out with John Peek
Identity, Power, And Boundaries
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Power without maturity breaks things. We explore how identity is forged from the inside out by aligning spirit, mind, emotions, and body—and why true growth starts when you treat the Holy Spirit like a person you host, not a force you use. John lays out the Seven M’s—ministry, marriage, mentoring, media, martial arts, muscle, and money—as a practical map for shaping character under pressure.
We get specific. On the mat, isolation drills teach form before force: slips and fades before footwork, distance before combos, clinch control before flashy finishes. With blades and firearms, the principle tightens—identify the primary threat, manage distance, scale force lawfully, and disengage when you can. Realistic simulation training, from Krav Maga scenarios to CO2 recoil systems, builds confidence the right way: constrained variables, high feedback, steady reps. The same pattern governs the inner life. Scripture memory functions as pre-programmed responses when stress spikes. Forgiveness repairs the heart; confession breaks strongholds. Lies lose ground when truth has a voice inside you.
We also talk about restraint as a gift. The Spirit apportions power as an earnest, guarding us from self-destruction while guiding us toward sanctification—a metamorphosis that is honest about pain and hopeful about purpose. Relationships become laboratories for integrity and boundaries. Media becomes a gate we guard. Money becomes stewardship, not status. Across each M, the work is the same: submit to wise limits, train consistently, and let maturity unlock more capacity.
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SPEAKER_02:Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio. I'm your host, John Peake. Thanks for joining us today. We've got a great show. We're going to talk about identity. We're going to talk about spiritual identity, mental, emotional, and physical identity. So let's talk a little bit about the fundamental foundation of what Living Inside Out is. Living Inside Out is clearly a mentoring movement. It's a design to level up in all the right ways. So I have seven of those categories I call my seven M's. So ministry, marriage, mentoring, media, martial arts, muscle, and money. And many people are already leveling up in most of those areas. Many of us also are not leveling up in the most important areas, or perhaps with enough depth in these specific areas. So let's talk a little bit about identity spiritually. So as a believer and follower and disciple of Jesus Christ, it's different than just saying you're a Christian, because Christian can mean a lot of different things. In the martial art world, saying you train in martial arts could mean a lot of different things. For example, if I say I do MMA, well, that's very distinct, a mixture of stand-up striking, side clinch wrestling, and dirty boxing, and then grappling on the ground. If I say I do karate or taekwondo, well, that puts me in a specific genre. If I say I do, you know, modern Arnis, the Filipino martial art, or Chinese kung fu, again, a very specific area of expertise. But as you broaden that out and think about what we need in the real world, living every day, we need a combination of skills. So mixed martial arts would give you the combination of skills, but not from a competitive standpoint in a ring with rules, a referee, and no weapons. So a mixed martial art world would be more how we deal with things spiritually. The weapons that come against us spiritually can be very dynamic and very diverse. Physically in the real world, very similar. Empty hand, knife, gun, improvised weapons, a lot of deception. The idea of striking or being struck, wrestling or having to wrestle back is foreign to many of us. Others grew up doing that and have an understanding, uh, but still need professional training to bring it into a real-world modern understanding of combat and physical protection. And so at DefendFit, we try to bring that to you. Now, along the way, the other category is the mental emotional state that we are in, both just walking through life, and then when we get stressed in relationships and business, there's a mental emotional stress that comes along with that. And then when we are being compromised spiritually, we open all kinds of portals and areas for us to be attacked further and giving legal rights for that attack. It gets complicated because many of us simply were not taught about the spiritual dynamic of life. Even in Christianity, a lot of times the spiritual dynamics are only partially taught and not given enough credence on the power of the Holy Spirit and what that manifestation is capable of, right? We have three manifestations of the Holy Spirit, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit itself, the Word became flesh, and that's Jesus Christ. So we think about things in a multidimensional way most of the time, but then we become narrow-minded in certain areas of our life and limit our ability to take in knowledge. Even in terms of my redneck brothers and sisters in business uh of the petrochemical industry, a lot of times guys would say, I don't need to learn hand-hand combat or martial arts, I've got a gun. You know, others would not ever want to carry a gun, and they're like, you know, I need to learn something. I don't know what. So there's just like not a real good handle on the path forward through this dynamics of living. So when I think about ministry, I think about what that looks like in a practical way, much like I think of martial arts in a practical application, so that we keep it simple, smart, but not too simple. As Einstein said, make it as simple as possible, not simpler. But because of the dynamic of our learning and hearing phrases like keep it simple, stupid, keep it simple, smart means more to me. And then instead of saying not simpler like Einstein did, saying make it as simple as possible really it seems more practical. So when let's talk about the Holy Spirit, you know, the Holy Spirit is a distinct person within the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, possessing a personality, emotions, and will. It highlights how scripture describes the Holy Spirit performing actions only a person can do, such as speaking, teaching, guiding, and making decisions. The term ruach, R-U-A-K, in Hebrew scriptures is explained to mean breath of life with intention and purpose. Let me say that again. Ruach in Hebrew means the breath of life with intention and purpose. So this signifies a purpose, signifies a consciousness of being in creation. Seven names and functions of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's called the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Life, the Spirit of Adoption, the Spirit of Grace, Spirit of Glendorf and Comforter. In Hebrew, the word comforter is is said as parakletos. So that really means in Greek it refers to a defense attorney who advocates on one's behalf. So when I think about my seven M's, I think about those seven different names. Ministry, all about our faith and what that means. Really, it's more about our calling, our identity, our purpose in life. When I think about marriage, I think about not just marriage, although that is the second most important relationship. It's a covenant before God, but it's about every relationship. We have to be very careful to protect ourselves against bad relationships and being that bad person in other people's relationships. So taking a good look in the mirror first and foremost, and then guarding in the right way, not eliminating, we can't eliminate every bad relationship, but we have to learn to create boundaries, a good defensive strategy. And then we have to have a good offensive strategy as well in relationships, and that is to nurture high-quality relationships that hopefully we bring to the table the same thing, a high-quality character, integrity, truth, authenticity, without being arrogant, but still being confident in what we do know and taking ownership of that, and still striving to continue growing. Now, the Holy Spirit indwells personally in every believer. Despite the physical impossibility of a single being occupying millions of bodies simultaneously, this omnipresent allows him, the Holy Spirit, to intercede for every believer, carrying their emotional, spiritual, and physical pain and translating their groanings into perfect petitions according to God's will. Oftentimes in training, we have groanings physically because this training's hard. When we're doing physical training, stressing our muscles, our lungs, our heart, it's causing us to grow. And so those that kind of pressure done within certain boundaries to prevent injury can be really good for us. And in fact, it's mandatory for us to grow, to go through some trials and tribulations and suffering physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me put an emphasis on the Holy Spirit feeling grieved. So sin grieves the Holy Spirit and causes the Holy Spirit to feel a deep emotional pain. So the Holy Spirit is limited in its power and sanctification. And let me say, tell you what that means. So the Holy Spirit possesses unlimited power capable of creating universes and resurrecting the dead. But he voluntarily restricts his power in us, in believers. This limited access is described as an earnest or a guaranteed advance of a future complete payment, implying that the fullness of his power is yet to come. Power is distributed proportionally to one's maturity, preventing self-destruction. I find that very interesting because unlimited power would we would harm ourselves. So training here this past week, I've been limiting what the students are doing. So I think of it as isolation training. So for example, today we had some sparring training, and one of the first things I did was put a person in a position where they had to not move their feet. So they set up in a fighting stance, they can't move forward or backwards. And the other person is only going to work on head movement, what we call slipping and fading. Not even any bobs and weaves, and no level changes because in real world you could catch a knee. So not bending over to duck underneath the strike, but just simply slipping left, right, fading backwards, creating distance. And that's all I allowed them to do for a certain time period. And you could keep your distance since the other person can't move forward. You could stay back and do your slips and fades and head movement, keeping your hands in just a certain precise point. So they're up, but they're not used, you're not using your hands to block or defend. Your head movement and your proximity is doing that. So when they strike and I'm too far away, I'm not really building real confidence yet, but I'm starting the process of understanding where I'm at. So creating boundaries. And then I ease in as I get more and more confident. I call that playing with fire. And I tell the person to they have gloves on, so it's got a little cushion and aim at the top of the hairline. So if they do get hit as they step in closer and closer, it's not the end of the world. They're not going to get a busted nose or a torn retina. And it's awesome to see how people will gain confidence in their ability to move their body in ways that they can't be hit. Talk about a confidence booster. If you could tell somebody, here's 20 bucks, here's some boxing gloves, try to hit me, and all they're doing is swing in the air because you've got such a great understanding of a fighter IQ. You can manage the distance, you can manage your ability to be deceptive on where you're going to be when. And so you're constantly right in that sweet spot of range where you can have the reactionary distance to move and continue moving your head and feet and body all at the same time. It's uh it's a beautiful thing to see, and it's so popular, in fact. That's why we have mixed martial arts and boxing matches, and we get to see some of the high-level elite athletes do that. We see it on the football field, we see it in basketball, we see it in at some level we see it in uh all sports to some degree where we have phenomenal athletes demonstrating their prowess and understanding their physical IQ. Well, we need the same thing spiritually, and so this is one of the reasons that power is distributed proportionally through the Holy Spirit according to one's maturity, preventing self-destruction. So the word talks about an unpardonable sin. So this is defined as the conscious and deliberate attribution of the Holy Spirit's work to Satan. And it's a sign of total heart hardening. And so this the restrainer of evil is the Holy Spirit and it actively restrains the full manifestations of evil in the world like a dam containing an ocean of wickedness. So we want to understand that at some point this restraint will be removed, and it's going to lead to unprecedented levels of human wickedness and apoc apocalyptical events. So true believers, the word of God tells us will be removed before this period of time. It's what we call the tribulation. As the Holy Spirit cannot simultaneously dwell in believers and remove his global restraint of evil, this is how we understand that we will be removed. And there's a process we call sanctification, where the Holy Spirit executes a process which uh the molecular structure is transformed, transforming the human nature, akin to a caterpillar's uh like metamorphosis in a butterfly. This process is painful and involves dissolving the old nature to rebuild something new. So this sanctification process is inevitable for true believers. The speed of the process is depending on one's voluntary cooperation or resistance and rebellion. Every failure and trial is seen as a step in the transformative process. Just like when we're training physically, we might get hit, we might get demoralized, we might feel like we're not getting it, and so there's this period of struggle and strain that makes us stronger, which is really good for us. So we'll be right back with more explaining how this works on Living Inside Out Radio. We'll be right back.
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SPEAKER_02:Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio, and we're talking about identity. Well, let's talk about the identity spiritually just for a moment here. And now let's talk about most believers use the Holy Spirit, but few actually relate to him. So if a person, if the spirit is a person and not a force, everything changes. So the Living Inside Out is a transformation movement, a place where transformation starts with who lives inside of you. So the identity of the Holy Spirit is a person with will, emotion, intention that lives inside of us. He speaks, teaches, guides, and decides. So the seven names of the spirit of truth, for example, is it governs our mindset. The spirit of adoption heals identity wounds. The comforter is our defense attorney, not an emotional blanket. In terms of the seven M's, the integration there for ministry is you don't represent God, you host him. In terms of marriage, conflict changes when your advocate, the Holy Spirit, lives inside both of you. The mindset is lies lose power when truth has a voice inside of you. So do you treat the Holy Spirit like a power or like a person? Let's just pray this real quick. Holy Spirit, I acknowledge you not as help, but as Lord. See, that transforms. Thank you, Jesus. That transforms the possibilities when you think of it the Holy Spirit as your Lord. There's a certain power that comes with restraint. Based on our maturity, you know, whether it's physically in our muscle or martial arts experience or with our money, we have to have restraint. We have to have boundaries. When I'm talking about my crov program, and I'm thinking empty hand knife gun threats, you know, some of the things I previously learned on empty hand threats are striking prevention, being able to move, being able to manage the distance, having reaction time, managing that reactionary distance, and then being able to counter as well. On the crov side, bringing in empty hand, not just empty hand, but weapons, knives and guns, it really changes everything. So talk about boundaries. So if I saw a knife come out, I want a boundary like be to be gone. Like I'm just removing myself from that situation completely. And I would say the same thing really about empty hand and gun as well. You know, preventing it from happening is a much better solution than trying to stop it once it's you know started. So we need to have like a method of thinking. And so the Holy Spirit gives us a down payment, an earnest, a guarantee. And he is intercedes in our life and gives us proportional power, not unlimited power. God gives us just enough power not to destroy ourselves. Power with maturity, I'm sorry, power without maturity is dangerous spiritually and practically. So often the times in every class that I teach, I teach you how to be a good bad guy on the mat. And that is being safe, performing these uh attacks and defenses in proportionality to my ability to perform them safely, both for myself and the other person. Well, the Holy Spirit does the same thing. The same spirit that raised Christ lives in believers. Power is given as an earnest, a down payment, and maturity determines our capacity. But when we do things wrong, just like when we do things wrong on the mat, we might feel pain or we will feel pain or discomfort, whether it's physically working out or if it's doing the martial arts. So what spiritually the same thing happens. The Spirit carries pains, groanings, and unspoken burdens. He feels grief when we sin, not disappointment, wounding. Our physical discipline mirrors our spiritual capacity, form before force. God doesn't limit our blessings, he limits immaturity, and our growth requires submission to this process, not shortcuts. Here's a practical challenge. Where am I asking for power without preparation? Strength with restraint. Living inside out, whether it's ministry or marriage, mentoring, media, martial arts, muscle, or money, any one of those categories, we have to have this balance of maturity in each category so we can operate to the fullest of our ability with all the gifts that that we've been given. And we've been given many gifts in this great country. And so we may have liberty, but we often we also have to have the restraint and create boundaries. Some liberties in some areas of life, for somebody to take liberty in this area could lead to alcoholism or drug abuse. For others, it could lead to overeating. And on and on it goes. Many times we struggle with wants, material wants. And you're not happy until you get this thing. And then once you have that thing, it gets old quickly and it decays. It's not going to last forever. But the spiritual investment is going to last forever. And the physical ability to manage your body also will pay great dividends for our mental emotional capacity. Oftentimes the sp the Holy Spirit is called the restrainer. Well, it also brings rest as part of that restraining. And it call it brings rebuilding. So this idea of protecting ourselves, especially around the category of media, is very important. What we see through our eyes and hear through our ears will manifest in our heart and create a metamorphosis. Sometimes we take in things that are good that are focused on building our mission, the desires that God's put in our hearts, and we've yielded to those and created discipline around them, or just our reflex that we haven't taken control of and we go down the wrong road. So it's super important that we understand some score our some core scriptural ideas around the Holy Spirit being the restrainer of evil evil, bringing sanctification and creating a metamorphosis. So the world isn't getting darker because God is weaker. It's because restraint is temporary. There's needs to be a frame of urgency right now because the world's changing. I believe time is short before the return of the Holy Spirit, before Jesus comes back for his second coming. And we need to think about building the kingdom. And that kingdom starts within, looking right in the mirror. The Holy Spirit holds back an ocean of wickedness. Removal of a restraint would equal chaos. And true believers are going to be removed before the tribulation. So let us play a part in that and make heaven crowded. Let us try to bring as many as we can with us in our walk. So our walk needs to have integrity, authenticity. We need to be surrendered to the Holy Spirit, but can and continually growing in our relationship moment by moment. One of my pastor. Actually, asked somebody in front of me how they were doing. How are you doing with you and your best friend? And uh like, what does that mean? What are you talking about, my best friend? The Holy Spirit. How are you and the Holy Spirit doing? And this is a fairly new believer. And they were like not thinking of the Holy Spirit as their best friend, not realizing that they were being they're going through this metamorphosis from like a caterpillar to a butterfly. And the old nature is now dissolved. It's not polished. There's still a lot of things that need to come uh that need to happen in our growth process, but the new creature is real. And so we need to feed that and not put the Holy Spirit through so much pain. Our transformation isn't about pain, it's and it's not about punishment, but we will feel pain. We will feel when we grieve the Holy Spirit. Just like when we are on the mat training or wherever we are in life and we suffer a setbacks, we feel that pain. And it is tied to our identity. One of the best things we can do is to strengthen our identity through the seven M's, those seven specific categories that create our identity. And everything you do that builds you up strengthens your identity. And when you are compromised and your identity perhaps is being exposed, is not where you thought it was, that's okay. You just simply acknowledge it, do something about it, have a plan to recover. If it's sinfulness, you you simply confess that sin and move forward. If it's um treating somebody poorly in a relationship, you just simply ask forgiveness, and it's you can't control whether they forgive you or not, but you can change your behavior so that they you don't have to continue asking for forgiveness. And then create good boundaries so you're not uh constantly exposed to damage as well. In media, we don't echo darkness, we restrain it with light. Our mission is we are sanctified people that change culture by present, not by protest. Sometimes we can speak the truth and it sounds like protest, but if we're speaking the truth in love, we we can demonstrate that sanctified nature that the Holy Spirit brings to us. No different than on the mat when we are working together and partnering, we feed our opponent, our partner, our training partner for success. Yes, we can we can tag them here and there, or we can show them this didn't work because this we're doing a lot of headlock this past two weeks, side headlock high and low. We have all these different um solutions based on how things are going in the moment. Side headlock high, I uh we work through that process by identifying the primary threat, which is the initial off balance and maybe getting hit in the back of the neck, you know, as they enter the headlock with their arm wrapped around our neck. And then we step into it and we see the punch coming because we're stepping and looking and blocking and locking their arms in place with the bear hug. And now we can strike to the spine, for example. It's very exposed and our backhands free, and then we can try to finish it with what I call the shot put, or it's like a strike to the face and the in the back of the neck, and it it ends up in a takedown. But if we were pulled down low, we wouldn't have that availability. We wouldn't be able to push them backwards and do a takedown, so we have to grab their leg and take off running, and it ends up in a in a single leg takedown, and and they're gonna try to pull us to the ground, and so we have to have the understanding of keep our feet moving and and frame off of that, so we don't let them take us to the ground, but we have a backup plan. If we got taken to the ground, we switched to our grappling script skills and we post out so we maintain positional control in the top position, understanding you know what's going on and training and isolation training. So we're just working on sometimes a ground movement or a stand-up movement or striking movement. We're just working on defense against knife or gun. And so we were working through those headlocks and giving the variations, and that's very similar to the spirit world and the mental emotional world, because we are spirit, mind, and body people, and we have to acknowledge those three areas of life and train in those three areas of life. And it brings such strength and power to our identity as we as men and women and of all ages. Just because a person's older doesn't mean their identity's strong. In fact, it could be just a pattern of weak identity, and it manifests in arrogance, pride, unwillingness to yield, know it all, you know, or weak and and willy-nilly and can't make a decision. There's all kinds of ways we can be compromised on each side of that perfect balance. And the perfect balance is a process. You really never arrive, but as we get older, we should be operating at a much higher place, you know, and your your character integrity is strengthened for that. And because of that, the confidence that comes with training in these seven areas is like nothing else. There's no shortcuts. You have to do the work spiritually, you have to do the work mentally, emotionally, and you have to do the work physically. Most people don't train in martial arts and muscle. Some people exercise, many don't. Just take a look around. Very rare for people to do martial arts, even though the mixed martial arts world is popular, most people are spectators. And I would say in life, there's a lot of spectators in life as well. Nothing wrong with watching and learning, but at some point you need to be practicing that and doing. So we thank you for joining us in this segment of Living Inside Out as we continue to shine a light on the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical connection through the 7Ms. Don't go away. We'll be right back as we bring in the next dynamic of the 7M's. Stay with us.
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SPEAKER_02:Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio, where we're talking about the 7M's and every failure is material God uses to rebuild us. Sanctification is inevitable. Resistance only makes it harder. So let the Spirit finish what he started. If you train on the mat, let the process take its place. So we were doing a lot of uh side headlocks and knife disarms this week. So I have a process of thinking that I give you. Just like the Word of God gives you a process of thinking. On the mat, when it's a physical aspect of hand-hand combat, I teach you to identify the primary threat, strike, clinch, and finish. And sometimes there can be a little bit of disconnect on what exactly is the primary threat, like a headlock. A lot of people think, you know, it's about getting hit. And well it is, but not where you think necessarily. If you've ever seen the video of Nolan Ryan throwing a wild pitch and hitting the batter, and the batter charging him, and Nolan Ryan putting him in a headlock and smacking him in the face about 20 times in a row, and then both benches clear and big giant gang fight on the baseball field. You know, we don't think about what that was like. How would I defend that? You know, we're just as a spectator watching that. But my little mind thinks about how would I stop that? Because I've been put in a headlock before, and I put other people in a headlock in real fights, especially growing up. You know, it's just something we did and had to do because of the nature of the world we grew up in. And so we need to have a plan. And so I want to have a call to action for you to do the training that's required, both spiritually and mentally, emotionally, and physically, and you'll be better for it. When God lives inside you, every M of my seven M's gets aligned from muscle to money to your mission in life. Let me talk about the need for training. So there's a confidence that comes from being able to physically defend yourself. For example, we did knife to the neck, like a HOSA situation, both on the right side of the neck on the and the left side of the neck. And I call that inside and outside. And if you want to know why, we'll come to class. I'll show you exactly why. It's better if you can see it. But we have to identify that primary threat, which is the angle that the knife's at. It's not just the knife. A lot of people will respond when I ask, what's the primary threat here with this knife to the neck? And they'll say, The knife. Yeah, okay, the knife. But which side of the neck is it on? And do we realize that? Because many times in class, when we get people sped up and they're having to solve problems quicker, they'll push the knife right into their neck. So they didn't really acquire the primary threat. It's important to require the primary threat so that you don't do the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong time. And so after that, you have this idea of striking and clinching. And then the idea with the knife would be to control that knife, so the clinch while you strike, and then now control it so you can strike with the knife, perhaps. And then you can overlap and they'll basically be using that knife against themselves as they resist, and then you can find a way to finish it. Sometimes that's a stabbing them with the knife, sometimes that's maybe an arm bar to break their elbow, sometimes that could be a knife disarm, sometimes it's not a knife disarm. You simply disconnect after you've incapacitated them. Then you might have to go to another level of fighting back. And so that could involve a firearm, it could involve pepper spray, it could be running fast. Uh so you have options, but the options have to be pre-programmed. Without the pre-programming, there's no telling what you'll do. You'll fall to the level of your lack of training. But we want you to fall to the level of your training, which is exactly why we train. We also train spiritually by going to church, getting under a great pastor, having that relationship build as well with your fellow believers, but specifically building with the Holy Spirit. The relationship with you and the Holy Spirit is the key to success, not your relationship with the pastor, and certainly not relationship with other believers. That's not the key. The key is your relationship with the Holy Spirit, yielding, surrendering, and growing, transforming. The Word of God says in Romans 12, 2, to be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you can prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Powerful man, the word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and bone and marrow, and is a revealer of the intents of the heart. That's Hebrews 4 12. So having those scripture memory verses is the way that I can respond automatically according to the Holy Spirit. Without the scriptures memorized, I will often default to my flesh or what's maybe my experiences in life. Sometimes that can be good, sometimes not so good, and sometimes terrible. So we have to control our anger, we have to control our mind, we have to understand when somebody's doing something that we feel hurt or disrespected, talked down to, many times it has nothing to do with us. We take it personal, but it's has everything to do with them and they're experiencing this stage of life for them or what they've experienced in the past. So hurt people, hurt people. So we need to recover from that. So on the ministry side, the recovery process involves allowing Jesus to do what he said he came to do. And what did Jesus say he came to do? Well, in Hebrews 4 12, Jesus reads from Isaiah 61, and he qu he reads the exact words that Jesus came or is coming now as he started his ministry at 33 years old. I come to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free. The recovery of sight to the blind, that's spiritual blindness, and to free the captives, those that have strongholds. Now, we are responsible for both sides of that. And what am I talking about? I'm talking about the brokenness. We were responsible for going through the process of healing our broken heart. And really that the fundamental basis for that is to give forgiveness to those that hurt you. As hard as that may sound, and not even possible truly on your own, but the Holy Spirit can empower you to forgive others in the name of Jesus. Go through your mind to every single person that ever hurts you and forgive forgiveness to them in the name of Jesus. And then the other side of that recovery is strongholds. Now, this is sin that we've purposely and and intentionally done to ourselves through our eyes and ears or done to others. And so we simply have to give forgiveness. Ask for forgiveness. Please forgive me, Lord. Please forgive me to the person that you hurt. And it starts with asking forgiveness for the Lord from the Lord. And so that's first John 1 9, that if we ask forgiveness, God and His righteous and justice will cleanse us from all sin. And so it's just some very fundamental understanding of the Word of God. And the Word says that my people, God's people, perish and suffer from a lack of understanding. Well, the same thing could be said in our relationships, to people that are in authority over us, to the things we watch and don't watch, that's hindering our growth and causing problems, to physical confrontation and struggles with our health because we aren't exercising and maintaining muscle, or certainly around money where we may have too much of a focus or not being responsible and having the right kind of focus on our finances. So it's so important for us to grow in these kind of areas. And this is why I'm speaking to you about living inside out, covering the seven most important categories of life, ministry, your belief system, not just getting salvation from being a follower of Jesus Christ, but starting to understand the different types of prayer, starting to understand why it's important to give your testimony to others and to show by your actions, not just your words, that transformation. So have an integrity in your walk, looking in the mirror first before you point fingers. Many times the problems that are coming to us and involving in our life are things that we've created or we've enabled at the minimum. So it's important to look at that in an authentic way, in a way that we can reflect back and say, what part did I have in that? And how can I prevent from continuing down that path or letting others enabling others and letting them do things they shouldn't? So the call to action is really about training. Train spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. The other aspect of training on the physical side, when I think about defend fit and our ability to defend ourselves, is we covered the physical aspect of strengthening our body, we cover the hand-to-hand combat, and now you think about the firearm training. So the firearm training oftentimes is an area where there's some sensitivity required on my behalf when people come in to train physically or in hand-to-hand combat, they're not looking for firearm training. And because we have such a multidimensional culture here in the Houston area, it's a it's very much a mixing pot of different cultures. And so even though I'm sensitive to their maybe resistance to training with firearms, that doesn't mean I won't give them the truth of their need. Part of my job as an educator and teacher is to give it to them in the right way at the right time. And so sometimes I'll wait for firearm talk and then sometimes I'll I'll mention it up front and see what their response is. Now I have a baseline of where I'm at in terms of my ability to bring a positive influence. We have the Second Amendment in our Constitution for a reason. The Second Amendment allows us to carry a firearm, and I believe we should. I believe we should have the ability to use a firearm safely and under high stress conditions. So one of the things that we're doing in our firearm program is we're using what's called a cool fire trainer. And what we do is we bring our real gun in, or we can provide you a limited number of guns, but we take the barrel out and we put a new barrel in from cool fire trainer that acts as a uh capacity tank of high pressure air, CO2. And then we put a new compensation for spring which allows the gun to reciprocate and basically chamber and resetting the trigger. So when you put this thing together and put an air, uh, you know, fill it up with CO2, and then you put a laser on the front, this allows you to shoot your gun, have it reciprocate so you're managing recoil, and it's also resetting the trigger so you get to learn your trigger, the sensitivity, the range of motion for it. And then there's a laser that's actually giving you feedback of where you're hitting when you fire that that uh simulation of the cool-fire trainer. So very much very different than firing live fire ammo because it doesn't cost you very much money to pull the trigger on a CO2 simulator called the cool-fire trainer versus going to the range, taking the time to get there, paying the fee to shoot, actually shooting ammo that costs money, and then afterwards getting back home, going through the process of cleaning your gun, and then preparing for what's, you know, the next time you train. The cool-fire trainers allow you to train in a simulation environment anywhere. We do it in the mat on the mat, and we uh we have targets around the room, and we also have shoot house walls, which these are movable structures that create a wall, a room, a doorway, a corner, all these different ways where we could actually go through the intelligence gathering of being a defender of our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with a firearm, with a simulation firearm that's going to give you the ability to feel the real, the realism of your own gun. It is, does have recoil, but it's limited in its recoil effect. It's not the same as a real gun, but it's not, it's more than an airsoft pistol, but a lot more than just pulling the trigger on your own firearm with no bullets. So the dry fire training, we call it. And then the range walls aspect bring in a really great realism because now I'm having to go through a doorway that there could be somebody in that room that wants to harm me. And I might have to do room-to-room searches, or I might have to go to hand-to-hand combat first before I can get to my gun. And so we're bringing all these scenarios in to allow you to experience the decision making involved around your physical ability, your mental emotional ability to solve problems under pressure, and then the firearm aspect, creating more pressure, more knowledge that's needed. And just the aspect of working with a mechanical device like that for many people is a revelation. So we'll teach you step by step, piece by piece, just like a great church will teach you step by step and piece by piece what it means to be a disciple and follower of Jesus, not just a Christian. Just like going to the range doesn't make you a gunner fighter, going to church doesn't make you a Christian. It's your ability to manifest that knowledge and apply it in your everyday life consistently, repeatedly, under pressure, under stress. Not that you won't make mistakes and fail, but that you have the ability to recognize those mistakes and failures and correct them little by little as you go through. So living inside out is about transforming your life from the inside out. So thanks for being here today. We want to continue to help you grow. So if you enjoyed the show, go on to our uh Spotify or Apple Podcast and you know send that link to other people, share it, talk about it. If you know anybody that would like to sponsor our show, we are looking for advertisers as well. So we thank you for being here today. We hope you enjoyed Living Inside Out. Stay tuned for our next show. God bless.
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