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Years ago, I found myself entangled in the web of others’ problems, leading to emotional exhaustion. It was a lesson in boundaries that shaped my understanding of how to support those we love without losing ourselves. This episode takes inspiration from the wisdom of my father-in-law, Dr. Donald Ray Luce, as we unpack commandments five through ten of the Ten Commandments for Long Life. With insights drawn from biblical scriptures like Galatians, 2 Peter, and James, we explore the art of balancing empathy with the importance of protecting our own peace. Discover how to offer a helping hand without carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Listening is more than just hearing words—it’s about patience and understanding. Through the tales of Jeremiah and Elijah, we uncover the beauty of waiting for divine direction. This episode emphasizes the value of being still to truly connect with God’s presence, highlighting how a patient heart can lead to a life filled with divine wisdom. Reflecting on a life well-lived, we honor my father-in-law’s unwavering faith and his legacy of righteousness. Join us as we share invaluable lessons on faith, generosity, and combating fear with grace, all while drawing inspiration from a life dedicated to God.

Where to dive in:

(0:00:00) – Ten Commandments of Long Life (9 Minutes)

This chapter continues our exploration of the Ten Commandments for Long Life, focusing on commandments five through ten, as shared by my father-in-law, Dr. Donald Ray Luce, a dedicated minister whose life and wisdom we celebrate. We delve into Commandment Six, which emphasizes the importance of not borrowing other people’s problems, encouraging us to offer support and empathy without becoming overwhelmed. Through biblical references from Galatians, 2 Peter, and James, I highlight the importance of helping others while maintaining our boundaries, trusting in God’s ability to deliver the godly from temptation, and the power of fervent prayer. This guidance is intended to enrich your life with wisdom and strength, promoting a prosperous and blessed existence.

(0:09:33) – Power of God’s Blessings (8 Minutes)

This chapter introduces the book “You Don’t Need Money, You Just Need God,” which offers guidance on achieving miraculous provision through faith, especially during challenging economic times. I emphasize the importance of gratitude, noting how it aligns us with God’s blessings and transforms our perspective from lack to abundance. By acknowledging even the smallest blessings, we maintain a faith-filled mindset, confident that God’s plans for us are prosperous and free of sorrow. I share personal stories, including a poignant moment with my granddaughter, to illustrate the peace and joy that come from understanding God’s goodness, even in times of grief. Through this chapter, I aim to inspire listeners to trust in God’s provision and embrace a life rich in spirit and gratitude.

(0:17:41) – The Art of Listening and Waiting (15 Minutes)

This chapter emphasizes the importance of being a good listener, highlighting the difference between listening to respond and listening to truly hear and understand others. We explore the significance of waiting patiently for God’s guidance, as illustrated by biblical stories of Jeremiah and the prophet Elijah. By choosing to wait for God’s answers rather than rushing into decisions, we can cultivate a life aligned with divine wisdom. Listening with the heart is crucial, as faith resides there, and being still, as described in Psalm 46:10, allows us to recognize God’s presence. The chapter encourages embracing the discipline of listening for God’s still small voice amidst life’s chaos, fostering peace and faithfulness in our spiritual journey.

(0:32:52) – Lessons From a Life Well-Lived (1 Minutes)

This chapter offers a heartfelt reflection on the life and lessons of my beloved father-in-law, who exemplified a life of righteousness and unwavering faith. I share how he lived with mountain-moving faith, consistently taking his worries to the Lord and choosing to do right even when challenges arose. His generosity and ability to combat fear with faith serve as an inspiring testament to the power of living a life dedicated to obedience to God. By recounting these cherished memories, I hope to impart the wisdom he left us, with the prayer that it becomes a blessing in your life, just as it was in his. Thank you for joining me in honoring his legacy.

About your host: Jaime Luce’s testimony has daunting personal mountains and treacherous financial valleys. She was trapped in day-to-day stress and couldn’t see a way forward. But how she started is not how she finished! And she wants you to know God has a plan for your life too, no matter how tough it seems. Today, Jaime has been married to the love of her life for almost three decades, owns two companies, and has become an author and podcaster. God’s way is always the blessed way!

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0:00:00 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jamie Luce Podcast. Thanks for joining me today. Today is part two of Make this your Ten Commandments for Long Life. This is the beautiful gift that was given to our family at my father-in-law’s funeral, and he had written down a message because he was a minister for so many years. He had written these down and passed them on to our nephew, who is also a minister in Ohio, and told him these might make for a good message someday, and he read them at the funeral and we realized then that my father-in-law, dr Luce Donald Ray Luce was actually preaching his own funeral and, wow, did it speak to our hearts so profoundly, and I just wanted to be able to share these beautiful truths with you from a life well lived, a man of God who truly served the Lord his entire, from the time he was a young man and came to know the Lord. For the rest of his life he strove so diligently to grow in the Lord, to be a pleasing servant to the Lord, gave, in every possible way, his whole life to just serving the Lord, and he did it so well, and we learned so many beautiful things from him and the things that he taught us, and so I just pray that these are a blessing to you. Today we’ll be going over commandments five through 10. If you missed last week, you’ll want one through five. I promise it’ll be worth your time to jot them down and make them your own, to take these words of wisdom for a life that brings prosperity and blessing. Psalm 10, verse 7, says the memory of the righteous is a blessing. The wise of heart will receive commandments. I actually read that verse before deciding to record this message and bring some honor to my father-in-law and his memory, as well as to pass on the wisdom that he left us. I want you to share this with the people that if they want 10 commandments for a long life.

He passed away at the age of 90, and he lived fully. He drove himself everywhere, he worked every day. He didn’t wear glasses. At the end he had had LASIK surgery and didn’t even need his glasses. I mean, he was a remarkable man who took care of a five-acre property. Man who took care of a five-acre property. He was an amazing man and served at his church faithfully every week. The things that he could pass on to us are not just wisdom, but they are truly the Bible. It’s godly wisdom, it’s strength for how to deal practically with life. These were. They’re kind of cute and humorous the way he wrote these commandments and I think you’re going to enjoy this today. So, like I said, if you didn’t, if you missed last week, please go back and listen to that for the first five Today. I hope you enjoy five through 10. And here we go.

Commandment number six thou shalt not borrow other people’s problems. They can take better care of them than you can. This is so true. You can be concerned for people and the things that they go through. You can have empathy and concern. You can be there as a source of encouragement for them, but don’t be overly concerned. To where it pulls you down, to where you begin carrying others’ burdens.

The Bible says to bear one another’s burdens, but let’s read what that means. Galatians 6, one to five. Galatians 6, one to five Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye, which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted. So what? I want to continue reading. But what is he saying? You are to help them, but when you help them, you are to consider while you help them, so that you do not also get entangled in that same temptation, into that same problem. Don’t allow that problem to drag you down and to take you under Bear.

Ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ, meaning, where you can come and bear them up in encouragement, where you can bear them up or even meet a need, praise God. But do not allow that thing to overtake you. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. If you think you are powerful enough to wipe those worries away, you better be careful. You have to be careful. You are thinking more highly of yourself than you ought. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. He’s saying you do your part of your own work. Yes, we encourage one another, we bear up with someone, but we do not carry their burdens. It is impossible for us to do that and it and you can’t allow it to overtake you. He’s saying you do the hard work on you. Each one of us has to be responsible for himself and we can rejoice in that when there is overcoming, for every man shall bear his own burden. So good.

Now let’s look at 2 Peter 2.9. 2 Peter 2.9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. He’s saying God knows how to deliver people. God knows how to do this and he knows how to deliver people from problems and he knows how to deliver the guilty into the thing that is, the justice of the thing that they are doing. God is capable, we are not.

And finally, james 5, 6, 5, 16 says confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. We can go to one another, confess with one another, be healed by that confession one to another, but at the same time he’s saying the fervent prayer that we pray is what brings us this availing much, that fervent prayer. It’s referencing the sixth commandment, I’m sorry, the fifth commandment. So we need to be facing our problems one at a time. We need not to take them to bed with us. We need to pray and have that window of relationship with the Lord. It’s not a window, it’s a wide open chasm. But anyway, okay, let’s look at commandment number seven.

Thou shalt, oh gosh, I love this one Thou shalt not try to relive yesterday, for, good or ill, it is gone. Concentrate on what is happening in your life today. We’ve sort of talked about this in an earlier commandment, but I want to read from Philippians 3.13, which says brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. And Hebrews 11, 1, that says now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, which means these are things in front of us that we are hoping for, not behind us, the evidence of things not seen. I can’t be living and walking in faith if I’m trying to deal with yesterday, if I’m trying to relive the past, if I’m trying to somehow undo what’s been done yesterday. It’s impossible. It’s impossible. We only have today. Do it right today. You can never go wrong doing right. Let’s do today right. Let’s change the course today. Let’s not keep crossing that same old bridge. If we crossed it, we crossed it. Let’s walk. Let’s walk on this path forward. Let’s do what God is calling us to. Let’s hope for the thing that is out in front of us.

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Okay, commandment number eight Thou shalt count thy blessings. Never overlook the small ones, for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one. God’s blessings are real being able to breathe, waking up in our right mind. Thank God for what you have. Thank God for what you have. I can’t tell you how important this is, and you have probably heard other people say this, but it is so, absolutely true.

I cannot be in a right, faith-filled frame of mind if I do not have a heart full of gratitude. When I have gratitude, when I am thankful, it changes my literal position. It turns me toward God, looking toward him, knowing that he hears and answers prayer and that he has a good plan for my life. And I am going in that direction. If I am in an attitude that has no gratitude, I am not facing God. I’m not seeing what he’s done, I am not valuing what he’s given me. I am looking at lack. I am not looking at what I have. This changes when you change this perspective in your heart, when you are able to see the blessings of God. It helps you to remain in a very faith-filled place, to know if he did it, then he’ll do it again. If he did it for so-and-so, he’ll do it for me, because he’s no respecter of persons. I don’t have to fear tomorrow because he’s taking care of me this far. God is faithful, he is just, he is good, he has a plan that prospers me. If I will do according to his word, then I will walk in that prosperity.

The blessing I want to read this to you from the Bible Proverbs 16, 7. Proverbs 16, 7. When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Praise God, that’s so true. And Proverbs 10, 22.

The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it. Don’t you want that that? The blessing of the Lord? It maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it. Don’t you want that? That? The blessing of the Lord? When it comes to you, it makes you feel rich, and I’m not even talking about money. When you are rich inside, when you have received the blessing of God. Maybe it will make you rich monetarily, but it will make you rich in your spirit, and he adds no sorrow to what he gives you. It’s not. God doesn’t give you things that are bittersweet.

Um, let me give you an example. My father-in-law passing. That was everything about his life and knowing how good God was to him, knowing his personality, knowing that he would not have wanted to suffer long, and and all the things that God actually kept him from and protected him from and gave him a prosperous life, literally up until the day he left this earth prosperous in every way, even in. He didn’t even know the things that were wrong in his body because he continued to go forward doing what God had called him to do every day working on the Friday before that Monday, having a procedure done, literally working up to the last workday of the week, intending to work the next day, and doing it with the strength that God has provided him to do it with. It’s an amazing thing that he understood and lived and knew and we have the same ability to have this, to know for ourselves as well that God blessed him and he didn’t add sorrow to him in his blessing.

Now we sorrow. There is a time to grieve. That’s the part of life, that’s God’s word. But when it comes to his life and there’s no sorrow there, that is not just because we’ve lost him. We rejoice in his life. We rejoice in every good thing. We are grateful for him and his life and everything surrounding his life, even how God chose his last day. We are grateful in all of that and we understand that it’s not actually bittersweet. We say bittersweet what we mean is there’s a part, the natural part, of us grieves, but it’s not bitter. What God has given us. It is not distasteful. What God has given us. It is good what God has given us and we rejoice in that.

You know, my granddaughter happened to be here. She’s only three years old and she was here when we got the phone call that things were not looking good and my husband was in the chair weeping over this news and my granddaughter came in and she said why is grandpa crying, crying? Why is he sad? And I said well, because his daddy, your great grandpa, is getting ready to go be with Jesus. And she said he’s going to go be with Jesus. And I said yes. And she said and we’re all going to go be with Jesus someday. I said yes, and she said then why is he sad? That was the most profound, powerful statement from my little three-year-old out of the mouths of babes. Then why is he sad? She understood the simple truth, childlike faith. Well, if he’s going to be with Jesus, that’s good, right, and don’t? We want to be with Jesus? Yes, then we aren’t sad. So we grieve, of course, the loss, the maturity of life and our loss. That we understand as adults. But she was right, there’s nothing bitter about that. God did not give us sorrow with the blessing of his life. He gave us blessing only, and he’ll do the same for you.

And then, last verse, for this is Deuteronomy 28 1 to 3. Deuteronomy 28 did I read? Read that right. 28. Oh, 1 to 13. Excuse me, where is it? Did I forget to write that down? Oh, my goodness, guys, I don’t have that. Okay, you’re going to have to read that one on your own. You’re going to have to read that one on your own. You’re going to have to read that one on your own. So write it down.

Deuteronomy 28,. 1 to 13, 13 verses, but that is all. The whole passage is on the blessing of the Lord. When you do it God’s ways, when you are faithful to do it the way that God has commanded you to do it, to actually follow his commandments, all of the blessings that come on your life are found there. So I’ll let you read that on your own.

Commandment number nine thou shalt be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own. It is very hard to learn something new when you are doing all the talking Boy, that’s so good. It reminds me of another quote that I’ve heard, that and this is a powerful truth we have to learn to listen to hear, not listen to respond. Most people listen to respond. They’re not actually listening to hear, which means I’m listening because I already have a rebuttal in mind that I plan on saying. So I’m just waiting for you to finish talking. I’m not actually listening to you. I’m not actually letting what you say challenge me or teach me or offer me new information. I’m actually positioning myself that I don’t value what you have to say. I’m in pride. I think what I have to say is more important and only what I say is valuable, and so I’m going to dismiss what you’ve said by not even really listening and simply rebut what you’re saying.

Most people listen to give an argument, they listen to give a rebuttal, they listen to refute, but they don’t really listen to hear. They listen to refute, but they don’t really listen to hear. Listen with your heart or your spirit. Let’s look at Isaiah 40, 31. But they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. What does he mean by waiting? I’m waiting to hear what the Lord has to say.

There’s a passage and I might actually do a whole teaching on this in Jeremiah. But when Jeremiah is confronted by the children of Israel who want him to go to God and get an answer for their life, because they’ve been taken into exile and they’re saying whatever God says, we’ll do. And Jeremiah says no, you’re lying, you’re not going to do whatever God says, this is what you do and you’re going to continue to do what you want to do. They were actually asking but not to hear an answer, and they were guilty of this very thing. But what’s an interesting passage in there is it says that Jeremiah did go to the Lord on their behalf and ask the question. It also says that he didn’t get an answer for seven days, and I would venture to say that most people do not wait patiently upon the Lord. They say I asked and if they don’t get their Burger King answer, have it my way. And right now, right away, then I’m not waiting. I’m going to make a decision without the Lord telling me what I need to do and how I need to do it. It’s a very dangerous position to take and this would be a really great growth point.

Going into a new year, we’re finishing up 2024. We’re going in 2025 and there’s going to be a new president. There’s a whole lot of things that are brand new, a new season coming around the corner here, and one thing that we could really do to help our walk with the Lord is to make the discipline of from this this year. I’m going to do my best that, when I come to the Lord and ask a question, I do not make a decision until I hear an answer from him, even if that means I sit uncomfortably because people are putting pressure on me for an answer or I myself am impatient and not wanting to wait for an answer, regardless of what seems to be the urgency of the matter, that I am determined that I’m going to do what God wants, which means I have to wait for his answer. It would your life would radically look different, radically look different, if we learn this discipline, this commandment.

Uh, let’s look at Romans 10, 10, which says for with the heart man believeth. You believe with your heart. So he says listen with your heart. Why? Because it’s in your heart where your faith is, it’s in your heart where you believe. So you have to choose what you’re going to be having faith for and believing for. You have to be in control of that. You have to um. There’s a verse that says um, oh, what’s the word it uses, such a good word? Um, I’m, I’m forgetting the word, but it means that I am like, I govern myself, like I am in control and I govern myself, and we need to do that. But that’s the fruit of the spirit. That’s why listen with your heart or your spirit.

Let’s look at Psalm 46, 10, that says be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the brethren, the brethren, I will be exalted in the earth. Praise God, remember that God will be faithful when I am waiting on him, when I am assured in my stance that, even if I have to wait for an answer, that God will be faithful. That will bring me the peace that we talked about. That God will be faithful, that will bring me the peace that we talked about. That will guard my heart and my mind when I know that God’s ways are right, that God’s ways lead to deliverance, that God’s ways are fruitful and they produce the result that’s necessary for our blessing. If I know that, and I am confident in that, then I will act accordingly to that.

All right, let’s look at 1 Kings 19, 12. And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a still small voice. Now the whole passage is when, um, the prophet is desperate in the cave and he needs a word from the Lord, and there’s a great earthquake and there’s thunders, and and there’s fire and there’s all these things, and he says, but God was not in those things, but God was in the still small voice. And if we, you, it takes patience to wait through all the noise and to get alone with God, to do like we talked about earlier and pray, to get into that place of personal communication with God and and to shut out all the other noise so that I can hear the direction of that still small voice, it’s a still small voice that brings peace. It’s a still small voice that leads the enemy screams loud and obnoxiously and he pushes and he’s urgent and he says if you don’t hurry and makes you afraid if you don’t hurry and make a decision, everything’s going to fall apart. And he puts all the pressure on and he’s just intimidating and constantly pressuring and roaring at you. But God doesn’t lead like that. He doesn’t lead with all the chaos and the loudness and the obnoxiousness. He doesn’t put pressure on you because he’s outside of time and he says wait for my still small voice. And it’s there that you not only get the answer, you get the direction, but the peace of God surrounds you and you aren’t in confusion anymore and you aren’t under the pressure anymore and you aren’t under the influence of all the clamor of everything that’s outside of you. Let that voice of the Spirit speak to you. Let the Holy Spirit speak. Listen for the still small voice.

And finally, commandment number 10. Thou shalt not become bogged down by frustration, for 90% of it is rooted in self-pity, and it will only interfere with positive action. Let me read that again Thou shalt not become bogged down by frustration, for 90% of it is rooted in self-pity. Are you hearing that Frustration is rooted in self-pity? You are frustrated because you are having pity on yourself that things aren’t going the way you want them to go, and it will only interfere with positive action.

The prodigal son’s action words were I will arise, remember when he finds himself in the pig pen, luke 15, verses 17 and 18 said and when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. Those were the frustrating words of self-pity. But listen to what he decided to do here. He didn’t sit in that self-pity, but listen to what he decided to do here. He didn’t sit in that self-pity and say I’m going to stay here. Woe is me, it’s too late. I left, I took my inheritance. There’s nothing left for me. I’ve wrecked and burned the relationships behind me. What did he say? Instead, I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. He goes on to say and I’m not worthy to even be your son, I just want to be like a servant. But what does the father do? The father rewards those right words of action, those positive action steps, and he says are you kidding me? You’re my son. He throws a robe on him, a ring on him, sandals on his feet and, you know, kills the cat and fat or fat and calf and has a celebration like no other.

We have to understand, folks, that this is imperative to having right thinking, to walking with the mindset. Well, like we read earlier the other commandment to have a sound mind. In order for me to have and walk and decide, make decisions with a sound mind, I have to be someone who can do that from a position of faith, which is the positive action I will take. I have to remove myself from self-pity. I mentioned this to my husband not long ago. I was frustrated about something like people get like this is talking about, and it was totally self-pity and I knew it. And I told my husband I want you to ignore anything that I say right now. I don’t want to, I don’t want to talk about this, I don’t want to indulge myself. I recognize there is self-pity in my heart and I am trying to process that out. I want to be in a position of faith. I was working on this very thing. So, boy, these hit home. I know that you have seen yourself in at least one of these, if not most of these.

I have a measure of mountain moving faith. Each of us has been given a measure of faith, and he, my father-in-law, called it a measure of faith that moves mountain, mountain moving faith. I have a measure of faith that made the sun stand still when Joshua was. If each of us has faith and we each have a measure, then we can see oh, I should have looked that scripture up for you too. Anyway, a measure of faith To each man. We are given a measure of faith. That measure if we think about all the wonderful things of faith that have happened, that the great fathers of faith have accomplished and done. This is what he’s talking about.

Jesus talked about mountain moving faith. Joshua needed the son to stand still. Declare over yourself, take action in your spirit. Say to yourself, not in self-pity but in faith, say I have a measure of faith that made the son stand still. I have a measure of faith that is mountain moving faith. I have a measure of faith to see the eyes of the blind open and the deaf ears to be open and the lame to walk again. We know that by his stripes we are healed. So I have a measure of faith of healing.

Let’s look at Romans 12, three. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith and 1 Peter 2.24, who, his own self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. So Jesus has bore our sin that we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed. We don’t have to even worry that the sickness that we bear is because of the sin that we committed. That scripture is letting us know that Jesus took in his own body, our sin, and it is by the simple fact that he took it and bore it for us that we get to claim that by his stripes we are healed.

Don’t stay in self-pity. The song says that God raised us up to stand on mountains. He raised us up to walk on stormy seas. We are strong when we are on his shoulders. He can make us more than we could be. God has made us. Jesus said he would make us fishers of men and women.

I can’t be a witness if I’m in self-pity. I need to be a witness because I have been removed from that self-pity and frustration and I have moved to action. In faith. Let’s look at 2 Corinthians 5.21. In faith, let’s look at 2 Corinthians 5.21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And finally, proverbs 16.32. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. Now, why is he talking about anger here? Because frustration usually leads to anger. And he that ruleth his spirit, then he that takes a city. Let me read that scripture again he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rules his spirit is better than he that takes a city. We need to have a positive action replacing our self-pity and frustration.

I love these Ten Commandments. I believe that these are life because they’re rooted in Scripture. Life and strength to those who would follow and heed them. The memory of the righteous is a blessing. The wise of heart will receive commandments.

My hope and prayer for you today is that you can take the lessons that my wonderful father-in-law has jotted down for his own life, but also for ours, that these were things he learned over a life lived well.

He lived a really good, righteous life. He worked hard to obey God, regardless of what fought him and what stood in his way. I can truly say of him that he was a man who had a measure of mountain-moving faith. I could say that he was a man who learned to take his worries to the Lord. He was a man who would never go wrong. Doing right, generous to a fault, fighting fear by standing in faith. All of these things I watched him do by standing in faith. All of these things I watched him do, and if I saw them make a difference in his life, I know for sure that they can make a difference in yours. Thank you for taking the time today to let me reminisce a little and to share a little of his wisdom that he passed on to us. I pray it was a blessing to you. We’ll see you next time. Bye-bye.