Mark DeJesus
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6 Things You Do Need When Going Through a Tough Season
Note: This is the second in a series. For the first part, click here. In times of crisis, your faith is critical and the trial is an invitation to go higher in your walk with God. Yet at the same time, healthy relationships are where you process out that upgraded level of faith. Those healthy…
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What You Do Not Need When Going Through a Tough Season
Everyone reading this has gone or will go through many different challenges that grip you to the core. Jesus said, “In this world you will have tribulation” (John 16:33, MEV). He wasn’t prophesying doom over us, but letting us know in sober awareness that we will be hit with various circumstances that will seek to…
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6 Myths That Keep Us From Healthy Conflict Resolution
If there is a class that everyone should go through, it’s how to walk through effective conflict resolution. One of the reasons today’s relationships only go so far is that we do not know how to effectively walk through conflict together. Without this skill operating, our relationships will not be honest and empowering. We will…
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Annihilating the Lying Spirit of Condemnation
A great privilege as a believer is the journey of growing with God from glory to glory. At each stage we mature and become more like Christ, while removing who we are not to be in Christ. This daily transformation journey is immersed in the power of God’s grace. Grace is God’s operating power. It is His…
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Gender Confusion: A Link to Leadership in the Home?
Note: This is the second of a two-part series. For part one, click here. If you were to survey most homes, in an in depth manner, you will find the majority of them have a dynamic where the mother is in a more active spiritual leadership role than the father is. God created a safe…
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Getting to the Heart of Same-Sex Attraction and Gender Confusion
When it comes to same-sex attraction or gender issues, Christians spend a majority of their time debating the right and wrong positions on the matter. This I understand, because oftentimes, a decline of moral standard can occur when people do nothing. Yet at the same time, there are critical things being missed within the cause…
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How to Avoid the Consequences of Judgmentalism
One of the deadly effects of bitterness is that we can end up releasing words of judgment over people that have wronged us in some way, as a retaliatory response. We forget that our words can release blessing or cursing, life or death. In today’s culture, we can even devalue the power of our words with expressions like, “I’m just…
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11 Challenges of Living Bitter-Free
When I wrote the book Bitter Free in 2015, it was not from a place of theory or book knowledge. Little did I know in 2004 when I went all-in for personal healing and transformation that I would be challenged to the core relationally. When Jesus said in the last days hatred would increase, betrayal would abound…
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3 Things Trials Reveal About Us
If you are going through a period of trials, then welcome to the league of overcomers; where it seems more and more people are going through challenging seasons. These times stretch our faith and press our endurance further than ever before. A trial has various meanings, but it often speaks of a time where our faith…
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4 Things That Hinder Transformation in People
As a passionate student of transformation, I love observing the patterns, habits and mindsets that move people into dynamic change for their life. Observing people overcome huge odds is what I live to see. Over the years, I have found some common traits that help all overcomers get victory. At the same time, there are some…
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8 Things You Need to Know About the Season You Are In
I remember back in the years of 2007–2009 and running into many people who shared what they thought I should do and where I was headed. I would hear so many words spoken regarding how amazing those years were going to be, that they would unveil tremendous fulfillment and breakthrough. These things were said to…
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How You Can Move From a Peacekeeper to a Peacemaker
There is a blessing available to peacemakers, a powerful breed of overcomers who shift the atmosphere for relational health. Their life creates an invitation for others to enter wholeness, simply because they breathe reconciliation. They are not doormats, nor are they control freaks. They walk humbly before God and magnetically attract hearts who desire to…
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7 Things You May Not Know About Pornography Addiction
Pornography addiction has been growing for decades. The advent of the internet and social media made access to forbidden images available at the touch of a button. Sexual addiction, including pornography, hits Christians and non-Christians alike. To many, porn addiction has become socially acceptable, while this struggle plagues the hearts and minds of millions of people.…
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6 Reasons Why We Try to Avoid Emotional Pain
You may already start by avoiding this article, who knows? But today, it seems there is a race to avoid pain like never before. People’s lives are busier, packed with constant activity. We crowd our lives with achievement-driven behaviors or simply immerse ourselves in distractions to avoid anything that makes us feel emotional pain. Meanwhile,…
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9 Reasons Why Praising God Does Wonders For Your Health
When in the midst of struggle, the last thing we feel like doing is praising God. Our emotions and programmed responses pull us to do the exact opposite. So often we move away from relationship with God in our pain, rather then moving closer to the power He is within us. In 2003-2004, God began…
