What is a Healthy Family Walk?

The Healthy Family Walk is the walk that allows families to walk as a united front to dispel the attacks of the immoral society that seek to invade their homes.  It is about spiritual leaders passing on godly values to the next generation.  The Healthy Family Walk is a walkathon in support of a larger initiative to fortify families and bring them together so that they are powerful and productive.  Proceeds from the Healthy Family Walk will be used to help support Jesus is Alpha and Omega Ministries’ (JAOM) Healthy Family Initiative, which seeks to pass on the values necessary to build powerful families that build strong communities.

Who Participates?

Men, women, and children are encouraged to participate as family teams, sponsors, volunteers, and walkers.  Whether they walk as individuals or as part of a team, walkers are encouraged to ask friends, family, business associates, and others to sponsor them by making a donation to Jesus is Alpha and Omega Ministries.  Others are encouraged to volunteer their time to register walkers, staff checkpoints, and offer refreshments.

Teams represent families, churches, companies, unions, schools, associations, clubs, and can range from five members or more. 

Why Join the Healthy Family Walk?

The year 2012 will mark the inaugural year that Christians from all walks of life will come together in a spirit of unity to fortify families through JAOM’s Healthy Family Walk.  We believe that more than a hundred families will participate in this “first of its kind” family walkathon.

When you and your team participate in the Healthy Family Walk, you will not only be contributing to history, but you will also become a co-laborer in Christ.  The Healthy Family Initiative of JAOM needs your team’s assistance to help fortify families that have been fractured and divided by opposing worldviews, depression, and lack of godly empowerment.  Participating means that you are aware of the spiritual decay that is devastating our families and seek to join a united front to defeat it.

How do I give?
If you choose to walk as an individual, the registration fee is $100, attainable through as many pledges as necessary. Teams, whether they be families, co-workers, friends, or colleagues, are in groups of a minimum of 5, and may register at $500. Individuals raising over $200 will qualify for a free t-shirt, where teams of 10, 15, or 20 that raise $2,000, $3,000, or $4,000 respectively as collectives will qualify for special prizes. To qualify for these prizes, your pledges must be received no later than, Sunday, May 13, 2012. Alternatively, you may simply donate toward the cost of the Healthy Family Walk or our Healthy Family Initiative. All monies toward the Healthy Family Walk itself are due by Friday, May 25, 2012

In America, there is a highly advanced attack on the family.  Divorce rates are at an all-time high and many children are growing up in single-parent households where the dysfunction is so profound that many alternative family models are being sought.  Other attacks, such as violence in schools, drug abuse, sexual immorality, homosexuality, and economic hardship only make the problem more profound.  While there are many questions and problems, the solution appears to be much more difficult to comprehend.  Only the knowledge of and connection to Jesus Christ can provide all the appropriate answers to these questions which cause emotional anguish to so many people. Therefore, it is imperative that we convey this message to a dying world.

There are many noble causes that raise thousands or millions of dollars that never tackle the root of an issue.  Please prayerfully consider teaming up with JAOM’s Healthy Family Walk to make an impact in the lives of family members both in time and for eternity.

Teaming up with JAOM’s Healthy Family Walk is an excellent way to help reverse the attack on American families!  Please make the prayerful consideration to walk to unify families against these immoral times for the Kingdom of God!

Check out this video about what the Healthy Family Walk can do for you and your family!

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It’s about perspective.

A temporal, human perspective wants what it wants immediately, and lacks the patience necessary to be able to navigate circumstances that may not unfold for them immediately. A spiritually mature perspective operates out of eternity…understanding that they have the primary responsibility to connect with and listen to God for daily directionality. Remember, to God, “A day is like 1000 years, and 1000 years like a day” (2 Peter 3:8). We must remove ourselves from a “24-hour mentality” when dealing with God and submit to His Perspective.

But how?

Simply put, we must plug into the mentality that we cannot allow our hearts to be troubled, but to believe in both God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ, as Christ has prepared places for us in His House (John 14:1). We know this because once we are saved, everything that is stored up in Heaven reserved for us is already given (every spiritual blessing, Ephesians 1:3).

We have a conflict, however, when demonic hosts enter our minds and disrupted in dealing with God and following His Commandments. We subconsciously plug into what these demonic hosts have to say, because we do not discern all principalities appropriately to obey Christ (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). This lapse in judgment is partially due to paradigms (preconceived ideas) in our business. We must become solid…in that NO other spiritual idea can move us away from God, regardless of its source. Dismissing paradigms is difficult, as the false sense of security they create is STILL a sense of security. However, we must do this to grow spiritually, understand the fullness of our eternal destiny, and operate out of God’s Eternal Mindset. This is how we can remain in the Ephesians 1:3 mentality, and not fall into the flesh due to worry.

The key, again, to this, is listening to God, as His Voice is, among other things, the essence of foreknowledge. We must connect to the Spirit to capacitate our supernatural intellect, as opposed to just being “religified sheeple”. We must remain engaged with God and avoid even the acknowledgement of deception.

Everyone sins (Romans 3:23), and everyone struggles with sin (Galatians 5:17). But how do we get over it? Calling out the Lord to come to us is a traditional way of looking at it, but it runs much deeper than this, which is a gross misrepresentation.

God wants uninterrupted fellowship with us so we can expect Him to be there (He is there). The Lord is continually with us so we must be ready to make the changes in mentality that bring us closer to Him accordingly, as changing the mentality will ultimately lead to changes in behavior patterns.

We want to be able to do this as our behavior patterns and all things we do and say will be judged when we leave. There is only one death, followed by a judgment by Christ (Hebrews 9:27). Once we are at this judgment seat of Christ, all things done will receive recompense for all done in the body, whether good or bad (2 Corinthians 5:10).

But what happens at the judgment seat? How will it happen? We will be judged in 5 areas: personal, family, career, church, and community (Colossians 3:1-4:6). And within these five areas we will be judged by three things: our mouth, motive, and deeds.

First, our motives must line up with God…all that we do must be for the sole purpose of giving God Glory (1 Corinthians 10:31). And the judgment in these things will come when God discloses the purposes of our hearts at the judgment seat (1 Corinthians 4:5). Matthew 6:33 tells us that we must seek first the Kingdom, but we rather would hold on to our sin and compartmentalize God in certain parts of our business. However, once we are sealed with the Holy Spirit that allows God access to every part of our being and every act we commit, good or bad. The judgment seat may not send us to Hell when we are sealed with the Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), but the purpose of having the right mentality and motive to please God and advance His Kingdom is to have something to present to Him at the judgment seat that does just that. In order to have that, we must constantly fight sin, which disrupts our connection with God, to stay empowered by Him.

We will also be judged by our words (mouth). Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:36), and a tree will judged by its fruits (Matthew 12:33-35). When dealing with others, we must deal with them in love, restoring them in a spirit of gentleness (Galatians 6:1), and telling them the truth about what’s going on in their business in love (Ephesians 4:15). We must be spiritual (spiritually matured) to do this, as the Spirit will guide us to those God wants us to give reproof or insight to and also capacitate us to say it the way He wants it said. (John 5:19-20) Otherwise we operate out of the flesh and at best are ineffective in empowering others, but more often than not, we damage those around our further.

We will also be judged by our deeds. The things we build up in the Spirit, like fine metals, will withstand the test of fire at the judgement seat. Conversely, the works of the flesh will burn up but the builder himself will be saved (1 Corinthians 3:10-15; Ephesians 1:13-14). God must empower us in Love to bring us what He wants in the manner that He wants. Those who operate out of Love (in the Spirit, Galatians 5:16, 22-23) are in line with God, and know Him well, for God is Love.

If the Body of Christ is to be successful in achieving the will of God we must be spiritually developed.  Spiritual maturity is a key component in our objectives because only a mature believer is capable of comprehending the deeper, broader things of God. Spiritual health is a very important aspect of maturity because a spiritually healthy believer has the capacity to respond to the pressures of living a supernatural life.

There are many pressures taxing those who seek to follow Christ.  One major pressure is being holy (powerful and productive) in the midst of an immoral culture.  Another is trusting the Lord before and beyond financial security (Matthew 6:24).  Pressures of life cause dysfunction in the lives of those who know God, those who do not know God, and between those who know God and those who do not.

A Look A Spiritual Health
Spiritual health is characterized by each believer in Christ being able to receive supernatural power that enables them to function to the full capacity of their calling as they were designed by God.  Ephesians 1:3, Ephesians 2:10,  Colossians 3:15-4:6

The supernatural power must reach the following areas of the inner man (spirit and soul) of the believer if they are to become a healthy believer.

• The mind (the power of God energizes the logic and decision making through wisdom, knowledge and understanding). Proverbs 1:20 – 3:20, Philippians 2:5-11

• The will (the power God energizes the believers desire to obey God) Psalms 1
• The emotions (the power of God energizes the feelings thus allowing the believer to connect to how God feels) Ephesians 4:30 – 5:2

• The nature (the power of God energizes the moral values and the Fruit of the Spirit). Galatians 5:22-23
• The Talents and Gifts (the power energizes the purpose and value of both natural and spiritual gifts of the believer). Ephesians 4:6-13
• The walk (the power of God energizes the ministry to others through the gifts). Ephesians 4:1-5:18

We must use Biblical Reasoning to understand who we are under God and receive empowerment to do battle against our flesh (Galatians 5:16-17, Ephesians 5:18). In order to reason Biblically we must apply Scripture to our thinking with the following concepts:

(1) Think on these things that are pure/honorable/commendable/worthy of praise/etc. (Philippians 4:8)

(2) We have the mind of Christ so that we may discern all things. (1 Corinthians 2:15-16)

(3) Have the same mind Christ had when dealing with others. (Philippians 2:5)

(4) Hold steadfast onto that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

(5) Purpose of holding onto Scripture…all is sacred for teaching and reproof. (2 Timothy 3:15-17)

(6) Take all thoughts captive to obey Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-6)

(7) Keep pressing toward the mark given to us in Christ. (Philippians 3:11-16)

(8) Be strong in the Lord in His Mighty Power…as we go do battle in the invisible arena. (Ephesians 6:10)

The overall strategy of Jesus is Alpha and Omega Ministries is to: first, is to engage the culture by developing powerful and effective believers who become powerful and effective families that will stand up for God’s original intentions for time and eternity in the work place and the community.  We seek to do this by attacking destructive behavior patterns crippling society today into a sense of entitlement and self-pleasure, as these principalities are influencing the Christian church and removing Christ as the cornerstone of the Christian Church (Psalm 118:22, Matthew 16:18, Matthew 21:42-43).  We intend to do this by fortifying individuals, families, and communities.

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.  - 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)

This is the approach quite often used by Jesus when he was engaged by opposition. For instance, when He is asked is it lawful to pay taxes unto Caesar? Jesus apologetically responded, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”  The apostles used this approach as well. An example of this is in Acts 17 when Paul reasons to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers on idol-redden Mars Hill, saying, if God made you, than how can you be making gods with your own hands? To this end we employ the method of teaching people to think through, re-affirm, and memorize scripture that teaches what they believe as Christians, so that when they encounter opposition to their faith, they will be ready with an answer.

We have learned that a good defense is also an effective offense, and it is the most practical way for the average person to become both confident and active in sharing his or her faith. Christian apologetics builds personal confidence, motivation, and security. It is the sentiment of the writer of Hebrews, saying, “by this time you ought to be teachers (Hebrews 5:12).” Our single goal is to see individual Christians actively communicating what they believe and why they believe it on a regular basis.