DayStar Interview A Success
Posted by Scott Johnson
Just to report on our recent television interview on Daystar television. It was indeed perfect timing that we were there on that peculiar day. The shootings that took place in two ministries in the Colorado area had just taken place two days prior. In fact, the location where the Daystar television studio was just two blocks away from the Youth With a Mission center where people had been shot and killed.
Because of the nature of my interview being about my recent book - Breaking The Cycle of Defeat, I was asked to speak about this crisis and some of the reasons for something of this nature to take place. It was without a doubt a moment that was inspired by God.
Debra joined me on the set and was able to share as well from her perspective and background. For those of you who don’t know, Debra is on the board of directors for Aglow International here in the Colorado area, she also teaches a monthly Bible study for women. Aglow International is a ministry organization that has primarily reached out to women around the world.
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Richard Paul Evans Congratulates Scott Johnson
Posted by Scott Johnson
You might recognize Richard Paul Evans, he is the best selling author of The Christmas Box. He has since written 11 consecutive New York Times bestsellers and has had two of his books produced into Hallmark movie’s.
We were able to get a picture together While Richard was visiting here in the Denver area. We had the pleasure of meeting him a year prior to this as well.
Marriage, Codependency And God
Posted by Scott Johnson
Did you realize that the first book of the Bible talks about codependency? I don’t if you realize it or not by now but the Bible has a lot to say regarding human behavior and psychology.
For instance on the issue of codependency, God told Adam and Eve that the results of their decision to move toward a self-reliant life-style would be devastating.
God intended for Adam and Eve, to choose His Spirit (tree of life) as the source of life and wisdom, rather than their own experience of good and evil. Fear, separation, mistrust, blame and a myriad of other emotions and attitudes were now a part of Adam and Eve’s world. They scurried to cover themselves, to hide from the presence of God.
Previous to the Fall both Adam and Eve found their completeness in God alone. He was the source of all that was good!
After the Fall, both Adam and Eve were affected. To the woman, God said, “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for [to] your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gen. 3:16).
In this passage we find the root of all dysfunctional behavior in women toward men, and where their heart is the most vulnerable to deception. Today we have a new word for it. We call it “codependence.” God identified it at the beginning of time and called it the “desire” of the woman.
Another way of looking at what God was saying would be, “The desire of your heart is turning away from Me to your husband and he will rule over you.”
God was telling Eve that man would rule her as a consequence of her turning away from God to him. It was her choice. Had Eve’s desire remained upon God, He would have ruled her, which is a privilege God wants to retain for Himself for all His children.
What a colossal disappointment when this self-centered dream is not realized, when the woman’s husband is not able to “fill up the grand canyon” inside of her. Ultimately, hurt and disillusionment will set in, followed by anger and then bitterness. A great chasm will develop between them. If one of the partners does not begin to understand God’s plan and viewpoint for marriage, they will both become locked into a death spiral in their relating pattern. This empty marriage, devoid of intimacy, may not result in a legal divorce but the emotional divorce may be just as devastating and destructive to the family. It will take divine surgery to rectify it.
When Satan moved to derail the man and woman, he struck directly at the center of their identity — their maleness and femaleness. It’s noteworthy that before Adam and Eve hid themselves from each other they covered the parts of themselves that identified them as male and female. They became driven by their own wills. Who they were and how they were designed to function now became confused, twisted, deceptive, hidden and self-serving.
What is the answer in all of this?
First, we must face the fact that our self-worth comes from the value placed on us by a loving God through Jesus Christ and what He provided for us.
Secondly, we must understand that the results of our co-dependent ways are a end result of not finding our fulfillment through God’s answer to humanity.
When we return to the true source, we can then love and be loved effectively in our marriage and break out of our codependent ways.
How Many Footprints Are In Your Sand?
Posted by Scott Johnson
Although a beautiful poem of hope in times of despair, “Footprints in the Sand” needs to be written to the non-believer rather then the believer!
Somehow as believers in Christ, we have come to believe that our life’s journey is meant to be lived out of our own strength, to the best of our ability and when we finally become exhausted, tired and weak the Lord finally picks us up and carries us the rest of the way. The truth of the matter is that I was never meant to walk the sand beaches of life with two sets of footprints. There should have been only one set of footprints and those are the prints of His feet in mine.
Jesus Himself told us, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:5-7).
Jesus did not simply say that He was here to show us the way or to reveal the truth and the path to life. The words, “the way, the truth, and the life” were self-descriptive words of declaration about who He was to all humanity.
I am the way
I am truth
I am life
If behavior is the end result of our self-laden attempts to meet our own needs then surely the root of all sin is self-sufficiency. It is when we, out of our own strength say we have no need of God, that we can instead do it on our own.
Keep in mind what Paul told us in Ephesians 2; that our lives were lived this way because we were born into a world which lives out of a corrupt and sensual nature, obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind. He in essence was saying that the human race drank the bitter waters that life had to offer us out of necessity. We learned to live and act the way we did because there was no other way.
Scott Johnson
GettingFreeLivingFree.org
DayStar Television Interview
Posted by Scott Johnson
I want to invite you to tune into a very special interview coming
this Thursday morning local Daystar Television Network.
Debra and I have the opportunity to spend 20 minutes on the Denver
Celebration show program at 10 AM. We will be talking about
my new book Breaking The Cycle of Defeat. I will also be addressing
recent news events regarding the shootings that just took place this last
Sunday at YWAM here in Arvada, Colorado and New Life church in
Colorado Springs.
Don’t miss this exciting program and yes, I do invite you to forward
this e-mail to others here in the greater Denver area.
DAYSTAR
Thurs. Dec. 13th from 10am – 11:30am
Channel 19 on Comcast
Channel 41 UHF
Full Gospel Business Men’s Luncheon
Posted by Scott Johnson
Today I had the opportunity to share with the local chapter meeting of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International in the Denver Tech area. Alan King head that particular chapter up. It was encouraging to get responses after sharing many of the testimonials in our own lives as well as some of the disappointments we have had to deal with.
I think being transparent is important when sharing with others. It let’s people know that others around them deal with many of the same issues as they do and that can meet them right where they are at in their lives no matter what.
Scott Johnson
Welcome All!
Posted by Scott Johnson
Well, this is the first post on my new blog site. This site will give me an opportunity to share with you all this going on here at www.GettingFreeLivingFree.org as well as the newly published book at www.BreakingTheCycleofDefeat.com.
I will have to opportunity to share about our up coming schedule of events as we move forward. I will have an article section which not only will carry parts of my new book but other writings of interest.
Until next time,
Scott Johnson