CHAPTER 8: INTEGRATION 2024
How do I integrate all these chapters into my life, or even in a day? How do I integrate the Bible and all the scriptures into a game plan for the day? Good questions. First, as you might imagine, that needs to be my priority. And I do it everyday, to the best of what I know, the Holy Spirit fills in the rest. Somedays are rockin’, some days not so much.
Psalm 119:2-3
“Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in his paths. ”
Let’s define the word. Integrate, to integrate: Combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.
Original Blueprint, FreeFall, Line-up and Wait, Black Forest, God’s Word-Your Primary Weapon, Acceptance, and now Chapter 8, Integration. That’s a lot. Read ‘em, listen to them, understand the scriptures, refer to the Bible, inspire others with your testimony,
Luke 11:34-43
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Lamp of the Body
34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness. 35 Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness. 36 If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”[b]
All of it together, just scratches the surface. In God however, in Faith good things multiply quickly. Remember that…
James 2:14-22
English Standard Version
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Integrate? When somebody needs help, like impossible help, how can I help if I have little or no committed knowledge of the Word and the experience of using it? If I come to church to listen and rest, rather than learn, and re-load for the upcoming battle that will surely come. How can I have works without experience in the Word and the direction of the Holy Spirit? Well, folks, I gotta try, I gotta try to read the book everyday, pray about everything and then with all my strength slam into the list and be grateful for the health that allows me to do so, by His grace and mercy.
Romans 8:28
New International Version
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
All things known, all things experienced, all things learned, all things prepared in prayer, by the Book, for God, with God, in God.
Ephesians 4:6 New International Version
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Without integration, there is separation of church and state in my head, and heart. No good. Madalyn Murray O’Hair took on the Supreme Court to get prayer out of schools. How’s that working out for our prison system? Full house, business is good in the prison systems. We’ve lost our way. What way is that?
Deuteronomy 10:12
New King James Version
12 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Luke 16:10
New Living Translation
10 “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.
Without integration of the points in Chapter 8, without prayer in the schools, without the teaching of God in American colleges, where might I find myself?
Matthew 12:30-31
Amplified Bible
The Unpardonable Sin
30 He who is not with Me [once and for all on My side] is against Me; and he who does not [unequivocally] gather with Me scatters.
Search the Bible for answers everyday, read these 50 chapters, at least one a week? Know the truth. At work, we try and fail, good days and bad days, cash deals, taxes, anger, frustration, do the job correctly, remember there is a God and you are not Him, do life, integrate God. God will come someday, perhaps soon, everybody hears that but we’ve heard it so much it doesn’t quite have the punch it should, right? Don’t let that happen to you, rekindle the fear in your heart — to be ready, prepared, walking as best as one can with the Lord, flawed as we all are, still giving hell a run for the prize. Be sure, scripture has never been wrong historically .., good to remember when you read this verse.
Matthew 24:40-44
New King James Version
40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what [a]hour your Lord is coming.
Those who run the short game, bamboozling with schemes and nonsense, some even in the name of the Lord, well, that is the quintessential short game.
Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.
Ephesians 5:16-17
English Standard Version (ESV)
16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
I always say, “you only have a few minutes left in this life, what are you going to do with yours?” Integrate? Or disintegrate, or incinerate?” Your choice, free will. The world is losing common sense, disintegrating — a frightening reality of people turning away from God’s word, God, and all knowledge and wisdom coming from his Word. Common sense is not so common and stupid isn’t just expensive, it’s deadly.
Matthew 7:14
New International Version
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Proverbs 1:24-27
New International Version (NIV)
25 since you disregard all my advice
and do not accept my rebuke,
26 I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you;
I will mock when calamity overtakes you—
Lots of people say, “I don’t like your God.” Look, this is the only God there is. Fighting that reality is dumb. Others say, well, I think God is this way or that way. He isn’t this way or that way, He is what He says He is, but more importantly to all of us, He says what I am, especially when I’m confused, best to not be confused about God.
Revelation 3:16-18
Worldwide English (New Testament)
16 So I will spit you out of my mouth, because you are only warm and not hot or cold. 17 You say, `I am rich and have many things. I need nothing.’ You do not know that you are in trouble and need help. You are poor. You are blind. And you have no clothes to wear.
How scary life can be, will be, hereafter be, it’s overwhelming. Only as I broke it down in my notes, studying, understanding, praying, and yes, Chapter 8, integrating — only then did I begin to understand the power of God and the length of eternity.
Integration – I got a great example. Chocolate milk. Chocolate into milk, 27 stirs, viola! Chocolate milk is good, Integration. 25 stirs, there’s lumps, 28 stirs, waste of time. 27 perfect, all good. One drop of cyanide poisoning into the glass, one tiny little drop – you die. Sin is like that? Yes, mistakes are like that. Even the most devout Believer can fail the moment. It’s just one little drink, or one little this or that. Dis-Integration. Such a failure, …catastrophic.
Deuteronomy 6:5-8
New International Version
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Jesus, the blood on the cross, life, salvation, sanctification.., do you know what it all means? Justification? What does is mean, Abraham was made righteous? Do you know what those words mean? Do you truly know what Critical Profit means, diminishing returns, tax liability, the difference between margin and profit, cash and accrual. It’s funny how we decide what is important to investigate, and what is not. How much information we think we need or we don’t need. Everybody wants to be a big shot, with little or no time to prepare. Keep in mind, there is only one Big Shot.
Matthew 27:51-54
New King James Version
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.54 So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
God saves me from the poison I do to myself, if I let Him. Operative phrase: “If I let Him.” Is it possible to teach or share, integrate, fellowship without believing all of it entirely? Let’s investigate that for a moment in closing.
Romans 10:15
New International Version
15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Romans 10:14
New International Version
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Not believing is just that, not believing. Believing some of it and not all of it, is just not believing, not profitable in the Lord Jesus Christ, is just that .., “not profitable for all eternity.” There are no non-believers in Hell, kids. They all believe, completely and fully. It’s unfortunately too late. I pray that is never you or I. Integrate the truth, fight for it, yearn desperately for the Word and His will in all matters. Find the time, make the time, do the work…
Romans 10:13
New International Version
13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Why would they call? To be convinced of their need of Him.
How Do they Call? By responding to Him when He calls.
Who is that they are to call upon? The one and only True Savior.
Who are those who will call?
Those who exercise “believe” unto faith. Amen. Amen.
