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You and your spiritual life can deliver our nation. One man with divine wisdom delivered this city, “There was found in that city a poor wise man and he, by his wisdom, delivered the entire city” (Eccl 9:14-15). Divine wisdom gives you insight and discernment. This verse applies to you today in our world of chaos and confusion. “The words of the wise heard in calm are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.” (Eccl 9:17). Your assignment, wherever you are, is to be a modern-day Noah. You are to warn of God’s coming judgment. You do this by lifting up the Lord Jesus Christ. This is your assignment from God, to re-present Jesus Christ in your field of influence. You are to be a spiritual influencer. Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross is a magnet for those who are lost. “I will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32).

The Word of God must be learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor and that authority is vested in a spiritual gift. Your spiritual life is based on understanding God—learning the principles and the provisions He's provided for you so that you can begin to replicate the thinking of Christ.

God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of The Royal Family of God. At that point, we have the personal love of God as family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”

The only solution to deliverance is your spiritual life. God can and will deliver you and the nation if you have an invisible impact that has blessing by association. The overruling will of God combined with the directive will of God provides numerous deliverances from adverse circumstances in your life.

The Psalm of Deliverance:

“The king is not saved by a mighty army and a warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory [the mechanized infantry in those days] nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength [talking about the horse]. Behold [the answer] the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His loving kindness to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help; He is our shield. For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name. Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us according as we have hoped in You.” (Psalm 33:16-22)

In this episode of The FLOT Line Show, host Rick Hughes tackles the powerful emotion of fear and how it can paralyze the Christian life. Drawing from the biblical account of Israel’s refusal to enter the Promised Land, Rick illustrates how fear leads to panic, emotional instability, and disobedience. He explains how to use God's 10 problem-solving devices—including the faith-rest drill—to stop adversity from becoming internal stress. Learn how courage, trust, and obedience to God’s Word are the antidotes to fear—and how your courage can be contagious to others.

You could have freedom in Christ Jesus, the Bible is clear about that. In John 8:31-32, Jesus was saying “to the Jews who had believed in Him, ‘If you continue in My Word then you are truly disciples of Mine then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.’” You have an opportunity to be truly free today and for the rest of your life. We’re going to talk about that here for a moment. The Bible mentions freedom in many places. For example, in Galatians 5:1, “for freedom Christ has set us free …” What did He set you free from? He set you free from the law of sin and death. You don't have to go to hell. You don't have to go to the Lake of Fire. He took your place. He died for you. He was your substitute. In Galatians 5:13, “For you were called to freedom …” by God, not only to have spiritual freedom but to have physical freedom as an American in the US of A. God designed you to have freedom in this client nation of His.

So today the greatest problem that we have, the greatest problem that man has is the problem of sin and death. That's the greatest problem. And we have to solve that. So the good news is that Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, has redeemed us out of the slave market of sin and our debt to God was paid by Him so we are free - free from the penalty of death and free from the power of sin. And if you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you, in effect, accept the offering He made on your behalf. It is a free gift from the compliments of God. If you do not receive the free gift, if you continue to just drift around in life without any purpose, without any meaning, without any destiny then you're playing with fire. And if you play with God, you might get burnt.

You cannot hide from God. You are being carefully watched and you are being watched over. You’re being watched by the world, that's for sure, and you're being watched over by God, that's for sure. “Behold the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, all those who hope for His lovingkindness.”  (Psalm 33:18)

Can you trust God? Absolutely! Would He ever lie to you? No, He would not. Our Father would never tell you a story. He loves you. He provided for you. He gave His Son for you. It’s the most wonderful gift anyone could ever receive. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

Nothing of the flesh ever pleases God. Any good deeds that are done while there’s unconfessed sin in your life—not filled with the Holy Spirit—is human good and is non-rewardable. 

Fools don't have any wisdom. Wisdom comes from Bible doctrine in your soul. When you have Bible doctrine in your soul you have wisdom or the Greek word sophia. Wisdom only comes from the knowledge that's first been learned. If you don't learn anything it's impossible to have any wisdom because what you've learned must be converted from knowledge into wisdom and then from wisdom into insight and discernment. A fool doesn't have that. “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing their own opinion.” (Proverbs 18:2)

Are you controlled by your temper—or by the Holy Spirit? In this episode of The FLOT Line Show, host Rick Hughes shares how anger can damage your spiritual life, relationships, and peace of mind. Learn how to break the chain of emotional sins with biblical tools like impersonal love, grace, and divine viewpoint thinking. Discover how to respond instead of react—and live with the peace God intends for you.

“I am the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved” (John 10:9). What a wonderful provision and promise. Because of this verse, we know that our departed loved ones who have believed in Christ are face-to-face with their Savior. Remember, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). When you die as a Christian, your body goes to the grave, your soul and your spirit go to be with the Father and await the resurrection body. Even though we cannot see heaven or begin to understand the scope of God's abode, our departed loved ones are basking right now in His glorious provisions and enjoying their new environment to the fullest.

A lot of people think you go to hell because you commit sins. That's not true. All sins—past, present, and future—were paid for on the cross. What people go to hell for is refusing to believe that Jesus Christ is the anointed Son of God.

In David's case, as a young man, he's having some stress and he's having a lot of adversity because the king is trying to kill him. How he handles it, we can compare to your life and how you're handling some of the things that you're going through today. David waited on God's justice and did not execute his own justice. 

No man is too important to be replaced by God. Romans 13:1 tells us, “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except that which God has established, and the authorities that exist are established by God.”

Our freedom and the blessing of God on our nation depend on you. As goes your spiritual life so will go the history of the United States of America.

If you let your anger get away from you, you’re under the emotional control of the soul and if you let your emotions run you, you're going to make bad decisions. Your mind is designed to think not to emote. Whenever something happens in your life that you don't understand you can react to it with anger, bitterness, and frustration or you can respond to it with faith and trust in the Lord. It's up to the justice of God to handle the issue and He will. He will expose, He will discipline, and He will handle things.

 Mental attitude sins are sins you can commit while driving your automobile, sitting in your favorite chair, or just relaxing under the shade of a tree in your yard. You can do these sins without ever lifting a finger. They’re committed in your head, committed in your thoughts, in the mentality of your mind, and as you think words. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Proverbs 23:7). 

Our job is to glorify God the Father by replicating the life of Christ and re-presenting Him. In Romans 4:20, “Yet with respect to the promise of God, he [Abraham] did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Giving glory to God is what we have to do. In 1 Peter 4:10-11, “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to who belongs all the glory and dominion forever and ever.”

God allows unforeseen circumstances that often bring frustration so we would search His Word for the answers. How do you handle unfair circumstances in your life? Do you complain? Are you full of self-pity? Or do you have complete confidence based on trusting your heavenly Father? “Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance” (James 1:2) Your afflictions are designed to test you and create within you new confidence and a new joy through spiritual growth.  A shallow soul produces shallow faith.

In this episode of The FLOT Line, Rick Hughes explores the Apostle Paul’s powerful challenge in 1 Corinthians 16:13–14: "Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love." Learn what it means to watch, stand fast, and grow in spiritual strength as you face life’s tests. A clear call to courage, commitment, and maturity in the Christian life.

The national impact of God's invisible champions sustains the client nation because it forms what we call a pivot—that core group of mature believers. If you want to be a champion for God you must be spiritually prepared—otherwise, God can’t use you. Isaiah 6:8, "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

You have to be in synchronization with God's plan. You can't run ahead of God. and you can’t get behind God. If you're going to make different tracks in this country, it’s going to take some different thinking by people who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s going to require you to master, understand and perceive the Word of God, and metabolize what you learn into wisdom. If your timing is off, you’re going to have a problem. Without the Word of God, it's inevitable you will have a life of bad timing.

What is your anchor point in your life? Is it human viewpoint or is it divine viewpoint? All decisions you make in life must be governed by the Scriptures. Human viewpoint, human thinking is not Bible doctrine. The Bible tells you to renovate the way you think. “Stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think; but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His word.” (Romans 12:3)

It’s time to recover our strength spiritually, individually, and as a nation. We must RALLY—R = reflection. There are two ways we can learn how to live the life given to us: through the school of hard knocks or through the Lord’s grace provisions. “When I leave, I will send the Holy Spirit and He will be your tutor, your mentor; He will teach you.” (John 14:16,26). A = affection. Get back to a divine appreciation of Who and what God is. L = leave the world behind and return to your first love, your love for God the Father. L = learn and apply the Word in your circumstances and you will glorify God. Y = yield yourself to God’s plan. Have a personal sense of destiny. “In God, I put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Ps 56:11).

Prayer is important. Are your prayers getting through to the throne room of God? The Bible teaches us that prayer is a privilege of those who have become the children of God (John 1:12) those who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. “My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron 7:14). If we are to survive this cataclysmic time in our history, we must appeal to God and do it effectively.

If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, your focus must be on Him, not on the pandemic. Your focus must be on His promises, not on the news and the constant never-ending scare tactics perpetrated by the devil himself.

Jesus Christ provides freedom—He will set you free. Freedom from eternal condemnation and the control of the sin nature. Freedom from organized religion and a life of worry and stress. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” (Gal 5:1). By learning Scripture, we can take advantage of these freedoms provided by God’s grace. “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). God gives us volition, the freedom to follow His plan. It’s our choice—go down the “my way highway” or “serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15).

Without faith, it's impossible to please God. The one thing that God demands from you is faith. If you are His child by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, that means if you have believed and received Christ as your Savior, what do you have to fear? Not one thing.

The devil will use your fear to make you weak. The battle to get you to live by your emotions and not think clearly—with a divine viewpoint. This is how the devil defeats you. A relationship with Jesus Christ does not remove all the storms in your life but it gives you His assurance that He will ride out the storm with you. Your faith-rest is demonstrating confidence in God's plan and provisions.

The greatest news of all time is that God loves you. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). If you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you never have to fear death.

Spiritual IQ is totally different from human IQ. Spiritual IQ is the ability to have the invisible ministry of God the Holy Spirit take the power of the living Word of God in your life and place it into your soul where it becomes wisdom. “But whoever listens to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:33)

God does discipline us. The Bible says those whom He loves, He disciplines. Revelation 3:19, “Those whom I love, I reprove [or correct] and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent.” There are two ways that God can teach us. He can teach us from instruction without pain or He can teach us from instruction with pain. It depends on how stubborn you are, and how arrogant you are, but God is going to discipline those that He loves. 

Every bit of punishment, every bit of discipline that comes to us as believers from the Supreme Court of heaven is always based on God's personal love for us. He loves you. He's not doing this to hurt you. He's doing this to deliver you, to get you to respond and recover.

“If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us.” (1 John 1:9).

The divine punishment from the integrity of God is administered with the same divine love as is His divine blessing. God loves you. He will discipline you to correct you, to deliver you, to get you to see what's going on in your life.

As a Christian, you are part of God’s royal family. You are spiritual aristocracy. “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self, which is in the likeness of God, has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth” (Eph 4:24). You have an honor code that includes impersonal love for all and reflecting the thinking of Jesus Christ. “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of His [the Lord Jesus Christ] who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9). Royal family members who progress to spiritual maturity have an invisible impact on their nation and families.

Problem-solving device number one is the rebound technique or how to confess your sin and get back in fellowship once you've broken fellowship with God. Once you quench the Holy Spirit and grieve the Holy Spirit by an act of disobedience if you go to the Father in 1 John 1:9 as the Bible says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us and even to purify us from all of our wrongdoing.” 

We have a battle. The battle is “the flesh wars against the Spirit, the Spirit wars against the flesh; they are contrary one to the other so that you cannot do the things you'd like to do” (Galatians 5:17). So when you allow the Holy Spirit to control your sin nature, that’s what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:18, “be filled with the Spirit.” You are not letting your sin nature control your life if you're filled with the Holy Spirit.

Selfishness is not an act of sacrificial love. Sacrificial love is an act of staying filled with God's Holy Spirit, living God's will (not your will) and obeying God's mandates. The love of Jesus Christ is reflected through us. His sacrificial love (servant love) is what motivates us to continue following Him. God loved us. We love Him. Christ paid for our sins. We reflect that appreciation and joy to those around us.

God expects you to have patience towards people, just as He, in love, is patient with you. When you are patient with people you are reflecting God's love.

There is always forgiveness when you come to Jesus Christ. Forgiveness is a royal pardon from the Lord Himself. When you receive Christ, you become a member of the royal family of God.

God paid for our sin with His own Son's life. That first demonstration of His love for us is grace—an indication of His love for us.

God loves you—that’s the greatest truth ever told. He demonstrates that with His compassion, patience, forgiveness, concern, and protection every moment of every day. Nothing can separate you from the love of God.

You must be spiritually born to receive eternal life. “Unless one is born of water [physical birth] and born of Spirit [born again through faith alone in Christ alone] he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). This second birth is a simple act of faith. “He who believes in Him [the Lord Jesus Christ] is not judged” (John 3:18). You will either be born twice or die twice. Unbelievers, those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, will die the second death, will be condemned to the Lake of Fire, and tormented forever.

God speaks to you through His Word. When you learn it, the Word of God will clarify your thinking, and give you absolute direction in your life so that you know what it is God wants you to do. Take your time and let the Word of God counsel you. You don't have to be in a hurry. If you do not stop and determine God's directive will for your life, then you are probably going to step out of His plan.

There are critical times when you need to keep your mouth shut so you stay out of trouble and don't get under discipline from God.

Arrogance is a complex of sins, meaning it isn't just one sin, but many sins. It is an attitude of the soul. Arrogance manifests as an unrealistic self-image—the delusion that you're smarter than God. 

“Fools make a mockery of sin, but among the righteous there is favor.” In Lamentations 3:25, “The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul that seeks Him.” (Prov 14:9)

“Don't forget my teaching, let your heart keep my mandates and they will provide length of years to your life and peace they will add to you.” (Prov 3:1-2)

Adversity is inevitable but stress is optional. Adversity is what circumstances do to you, but stress is what you do to yourself. God has a perfect plan for you and if you will learn the plan and use the plan, you won’t be anxious, worried, or afraid—you will have complete self-confidence and happiness in the plan of God.

Your soul has a consciousness and that consciousness has norms and standards. Biblical norms and standards are called wisdom. God's wisdom comes from learning His Word, which enables you to have a fulfilled life. Being spiritually brain-dead means there is no wisdom from the Word of God inside the mentality of the soul. 

The spiritual life is lived in the soul. Your words and actions reflect your soul.

Developing a mature spiritual life requires consistent, high-quality nourishment from God’s Word taught by a well-qualified pastor. No Christian can read the Bible and attain spiritual maturity on their own. The Bible is a textbook designed by God to be taught by a man with the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher. “Your word I have treasured in my heart that I may not sin against You” (Ps 119:11). Scripture is layered—the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know. When you understand God’s Word and store it in your heart, it reveals your weaknesses and strengths.

The wisdom of God is called spiritual solutions. The attainment of these solutions, or wisdom, is called spiritual growth. When you grow spiritually, you develop spiritual skills that allow you to live a spiritual life. What are those skills? (1) self-esteem, spiritual self-esteem, (2) spiritual autonomy, and eventually (3) spiritual maturity.

Faith is a legitimate way to make a decision and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ requires faith. That's why the Bible says, “For by grace through faith are you saved, not of works lest any man would brag about it”. (Ephesians 2:8-9)