Mark DeJesus
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3 Myths That Can Keep You From Your Breakthrough
Many times, we need to make small tweaks to make big changes. The adjustment is almost always in our thinking. Our thoughts produce our beliefs and perspectives by which we view our life, struggles and future. In working with helping people for decades, I have noticed some things people believe that keep them trapped and limited …
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Why Many Believers Find Loving Themselves Challenging
In 2004, I went through a massive transformation, and I’ve never been the same since. I’ve dedicated my life to helping people to experience healing, to experience freedom, experience transformation from the inside out: understanding the power of love to set you free, understanding the war we’re under and tending to the areas of the …
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Why You Must Confront Your Relational Fabrications
Growing up, I always remember the fun involved in putting on a costume. Dressing up as an army solider or a rough and tough cowboy was something my imagination could run wild on. As a child, there was little need for extravagant material for these costumes. A simple bandanna over my face and a wooden …
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The Challenge of Awakening a Numb or Checked-Out Heart
I want to take a few moments to share in response to a question I get quite often. I get this a lot—in group sessions I do, and also in teachings. It’s the issue of a numb, shut-down, checked-out, disconnected kind of heart. I run into this over and over again. It’s become a primary mechanism …
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Things You Need for Your Spiritual Transformation
In these days where change is needed, we have to understand God’s blueprint for becoming conquerors and overcomers. Although every story has unique bends and turns, there is an overall narration from God’s Word that we can rely on for our journey of transformation. Isaiah 61 gives us a foundational tapestry every overcomer needs. Whether …
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7 Common Roadblocks to a Life of Rest
We want rest, but we often get held back by some subtle obstacles every day. Here is what I find keeps us from entering into rest on a daily basis. 1. A hard heart. If you feel the Father leading and guiding you, incline your ear to Him. Be willing to face new areas He may be …
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7 Reasons Your Resolutions Don’t Produce Transformation
It has been studied that 47 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Only 8 percent have been found to actually achieve those resolutions. It seems today that people are very prone to talking about change, but not really stepping into it. We look at transformation sometimes as a “it would be nice” rather than an actual …
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5 Instant Things You Can Do to Feel Better When You Feel Depressed
Everybody faces times when they are discouraged, down or struggling with hopelessness. We all know that being in that state is not helpful. Remaining in a mindset that is “down” for long periods of time can lead us into more permanent states of depression and can breed all sorts of health issues. I personally know …
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Steps to Freedom From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
“I’m having an OCD fit.” “I’m a little OCD.” “I am so OCD.” Obsessive Compulsion Disorder, or, as it is often called, OCD, has now become a cultural term. What can be a diagnosed mental illness is also used to describe a fit one may be having in the mind. People can even use OCD as …
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10 Common Nutritional Mistakes and How You Can Correct Them
If you were living out some nutritional habits that were working against you, wouldn’t you want to know? Your body’s health is important, but what if you are handling your nutritional decisions the wrong way? Many people approach the subject of nutrition more from what they read in marketing than they do hard, proven facts. …
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What Loving Yourself Does Not Mean
The words “self-love” or “loving yourself” often trigger preconceived notions and perceptions that are not accurate to what loving yourself truly means. So before you come up with your conclusions and head down unnecessary rabbit trails, allow me to explain what true self-love is in its purest form by first explaining what loving yourself is …
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Reasons You May Not Be Seeing Fruit in Your Life
We are designed to produce fruit in our lives, manifesting the ways of God through changed lives and relationships that display His ways. Yet there is nothing more discouraging than feeling as though your life is not producing any fruit. If we are honest, we’ll admit that accusation and condemnation can pummel the mind, keeping …
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‘God is Good’: Bill Johnson Challenges Believers to Dig Deeper
One of the things I have felt strongly about is that in the days we live in, there will be an intensified war over the subject of the goodness of God. Those outside the church will question His goodness outright, while many within the body of Christ will question it in subtle ways. Many Christians …
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8 Requirements for Learning to Love Yourself
When we truly receive God’s love in our hearts, we step into the arena where loving ourselves is possible. The Bible reminds us that “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Father God is the initiator of love. He broadcasts who He is as love to us with an invitation to love Him …
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Warring Against the Time-Released Attacks of Iniquity
Iniquity is often time delayed, like a time-released pill would be in the person who takes a medication. The inherited iniquity will often manifest at a time in the individual’s life when it can do the most damage to the person and to those around them. For example, if a man has sin issues he …
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