The podcast episode titled “Stop Working on Yourself!” featuring Fr. Boniface Hicks discusses the idea of shifting focus from excessive self-improvement to a more balanced approach that includes spiritual growth and acceptance. Fr. Hicks emphasizes the importance of recognizing one’s inherent worth and the value of rest and prayer in daily life . He suggests that while self-improvement can be beneficial, it should not become an obsession that leads to burnout or diminishes one’s sense of self-worth . The episode encourages listeners to find a healthy balance between personal development and spiritual well-being.

• “Stop Working on Yourself!” This phrase, especially in the context of a spiritual leader like Fr. Boniface Hicks, likely refers to a specific theological or spiritual teaching. It’s not a literal command to cease all self-improvement, but rather an exhortation to shift focus from self-reliance to reliance on God’s grace, or to understand that true spiritual growth comes from God’s work in us, not solely our own efforts.
• “w/ Fr. Boniface Hicks”: To accurately discuss Fr. Boniface Hicks’s views on this topic, I would need access to specific sermons, books, or talks where he addresses it. I don’t have direct, real-time access to specific audio or video content, nor can I browse a private database of his teachings.
• “according to the KJV verses table”: There isn’t a “KJV verses table” that directly correlates to the phrase “Stop Working on Yourself!” The King James Version (KJV) is a translation of the Bible, and while it contains verses relevant to spiritual growth, humility, and reliance on God, it doesn’t have a pre-existing table or index for this specific modern-day phrase.

What I can do:

1. Search for Fr. Boniface Hicks’s teachings on “working on oneself” or “self-improvement”: If you’d like, I can search for publicly available information about his perspectives on spiritual growth, self-reliance, and God’s grace. This would involve looking for articles, transcripts, or summaries of his talks.
2. Provide KJV verses related to spiritual growth, reliance on God, and humility: I can provide you with relevant verses from the KJV that touch upon these themes, which might be the underlying concept of what Fr. Boniface Hicks is discussing.

What does Fr. Boniface Hicks say about self-reliance in the spiritual life?

Fr. Boniface Hicks, as a Benedictine monk and spiritual director, emphasizes a spiritual life rooted in reliance on God’s grace and love, rather than solely on self-reliance. While he acknowledges the importance of personal effort and integration in spiritual formation, his teachings consistently point to a profound dependence on God.

Here are some key themes that emerge from his approach, contrasting with a purely self-reliant perspective:

• Encountering Christ’s Love and Grace: Fr. Boniface highlights that authentic spiritual renewal flows from a “heart-to-heart encounter with Christ’s love.” This suggests that spiritual growth is not merely a matter of self-improvement through personal will, but a transformative process initiated and sustained by God’s love and grace.
• Humility and Poverty of Spirit: He often speaks of the need to “open our hearts to our deepest need” and “get in touch with our own poverty.” This humility, recognizing our limitations and dependence, is presented as the optimal state for receiving God’s gifts and love. The “hungry man that enjoys food the most” or the “poor man who loves to have even a dollar to his name” illustrate this idea, implying that it’s in acknowledging our spiritual need that we are most open to receiving from God.
• Vulnerability and Trust in God: In discussing parenting, he uses an analogy of a father desiring vulnerability from his children, emphasizing that there’s nothing they could tell him that would make them unlovable. This extends to our relationship with God, suggesting that we are called to be vulnerable and trust that God’s love is unconditional, even in our weaknesses and failings. Hiding our struggles or believing we are unlovable if we don’t “fix” ourselves through self-reliance is counterproductive to spiritual growth.
• God’s Work, Not Just Our Own: The Catholic perspective, which Fr. Boniface embodies, generally distinguishes between “achieving perfection” and “receiving perfection.” While personal effort is involved, true perfection and sanctification are seen as gifts received from Christ, particularly through the sacraments and grace, not something solely accomplished by individual mastery of skills or self-help techniques. Over-obsession with one’s own healing and recovery, to the exclusion of seeking God’s glory, can lead to self-absorption rather than genuine spiritual growth.
• Accepting the Human Condition: He suggests that true healing and fulfillment come not from striving to rid ourselves of all weakness, trauma, and pain, but from accepting our human condition and drawing nearer to what we see within ourselves with God’s help. This underscores that reliance on God is essential even in our efforts to address our struggles.

In essence, Fr. Boniface Hicks promotes a spiritual life where self-reliance is not the primary driver. Instead, it’s about cultivating a deep relationship with God, characterized by humility, vulnerability, and a receptivity to His transforming grace, understanding that true spiritual growth is ultimately God’s work in us.

Can you find KJV verses that talk about God’s role in our sanctification, rather than just our own efforts?

Here are some KJV verses that emphasize God’s role in our sanctification:

God as the Sanctifier:

• 1 Thessalonians 5:23: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
  • This verse is a direct prayer to God to perform the act of sanctification.
• Hebrews 10:10: “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
  • Here, our sanctification is attributed to Christ’s singular sacrifice, emphasizing God’s provision.
• Hebrews 13:12: “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.”
  • Again, the sanctifying agent is Jesus’ blood, a work of God.
• Exodus 31:13: “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.”
  • This Old Testament verse clearly states God as the one who sanctifies His people.
• Leviticus 20:8: “And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.”

Sanctification as a Work of the Spirit:

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13: “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:”
  • This highlights the Holy Spirit’s essential role in the process.
• 1 Peter 1:2: “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”
• 1 Corinthians 6:11: “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
  • This verse groups sanctification with washing and justification, all seen as actions performed by God through the Spirit.

God Initiates and Completes the Work:

• Philippians 1:6: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”
  • This classic verse clearly states that God is the one who starts and finishes the work of transformation within believers.
• Philippians 2:13: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
  • God empowers both our desire to obey and our ability to act righteously.

Christ as our Sanctification:

• 1 Corinthians 1:30: “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:”
  • This verse declares Christ Himself as our sanctification, a gift from God.

These verses demonstrate that while believers are called to participate in holiness (e.g., “be ye holy; for I am holy” – 1 Peter 1:16), the underlying power and initiation of sanctification fundamentally rest with God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s His work in and through us.

As You seek understanding and clarity in your life you should always turn to your Heavenly Father for Guidance

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• Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
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• Spiritual Order – In The Family and Church
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This is a major important point about forgiveness

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. -MATTHEW 5:24 KJV

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

I would start out by saying what Jesus Christ would want us to do? Pray and how should we pray? The Lord’s Prayer, and how often should we pray? Continually. Why do we use the Lord’s Prayer and not some other? The Lord’s Prayer covers all the areas that is important for our spiritual being.

When we pray the Lords prayer we ask to forgive our enemies, let God’s will be done, the kingdom to come. By praying the Lord’s prayer we let go of many thoughts we have in our head and give them back to God so we can have things revealed to us.

We must overcome resentment in our heart, and in a past video I shared about Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about how resentment can destroy us and we become our own very worst enemy and Jordan goes on to say that we must talk to people what we have resentment toward to overcome that resentment. Other people who lived in the past who talked about this is Jesus Christ and someone who is living now who talks about this daily is Brother Augustine, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. Charles Stanley, Rev. John Piper and Pastor Paul Washer.

Women are looking for a fathers love

Women are looking for a fathers love. Its important that men understand women are looking for a fathers love and not get screwed. Woman more than anything are looking for a strong spiritual man to lead the future (the family). I think in many YouTube videos on biblical teachings, how young women are being hurt by men that are just looking to get laid instead of doing right and being in Christ and setting a good example of a strong man. We must be in Christ, hate no one, love all, forgave theses we resent, love what is right and support people who are walking with God.

Women need their fathers in their lives to be strong man to be good examples and not BETA men or weak examples of what a man should be. Its important that a man leads the way as Christ leads men, we as man need to fellow Jesus Christ to keep society from going to HELL.

Every day you can see or people watch how some men and women our living in hell without the right spiritual order then you will continue your hellish way according to 2 Peter. You can also find it in Romans. God will give you over to a reprobate mind.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. – Romans 1:28 (KJV)

In Romans 1, Paul refers to something known as a reprobate mind. If you’re not familiar with the term reprobate, the literal definition in the Greek is failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit.

Spiritual Order – In The Family and Church

God the father

Jesus Christ

Father (Men over women)

Mother (Women over children)

Here is Book, Chapter and Verse from the Kings James Version 1 Corinthian 11:2-16, But the main message is in 1 Corinthian 11:3: “³ But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”

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How God Commands Us To Forgive Those Who We Have Resentment Toward.

All of us are tested everyday by our personal internal struggle coming from resentment of what happened earlier in our lives as children typically what our mother did to us, telling how our fathers were not good enough or driving us away from our fathers when we were children. We most go to the people that we have resentment against and forgive them. By forgiving our mothers or whoever we have resentment against, God will forgive us and we can return to the heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It was said if you don’t love everyone then you love no one. People today live like the Old Testament people did. We must forgive and love everyone as God Commanded us to do according to Matthew 22:34-40.

After Reading The Passage I would Recommend Doing A Silent Prayer

Its is said: Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 King James Version (KJV)

Jesus is an example of a Fathers loves

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