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Motivation | Enlightenment | Transcendence | Renewal | Outreach | Networking

Publisher

Jim Swilley

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Oct 2016

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

467 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   ‘PEACE, BE STILL!: Healing the Nervous System and Opting Out of the Stress Zone’ pt I

   Bishop Jim’s insightful messages help others find THEIR METRON through M~otivation E~nlightenment T~ranscendence R~enewal O~utreach and N~etworking Learn more: www.bishinthenow.com (http://www.bishinthenow.com) Follow Jim Swilley on Youtube to see the videos live Sundays at 11:11 am – https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow (https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow) What if the storm you need to calm isn’t happening around you, but within you? In this opening message of his new Metron Live series, Bishop Jim Swilley explores the connection between spirituality, mindset, emotional health, and the nervous system. Building on last month’s teachings about mindset, he examines how anxiety, prolonged stress, and our fight-or-flight responses shape our everyday experiences. Through the story of Jesus calming the storm, personal experiences with caregiving, financial responsibilities, and life’s uncertainties, Bishop Jim challenges us to discover a peace that doesn’t depend on perfect circumstances. Sometimes the greatest transformation isn’t changing what’s happening around us, but changing how we respond to it. Main Takeaways 1. Peace Begins Within, Not Around You Mark 4:35–41 When Jesus slept through the storm, He demonstrated an internal peace that wasn’t dependent on external conditions. Rather than fighting or fleeing the storm, He remained confident in His destination. We can learn to experience peace even when circumstances remain uncertain. 2. Your Nervous System Influences Your Reality 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Our reactions aren’t exclusively mental or spiritual. They’re physiological, too. Bishop Jim explains how the nervous system processes stress and why seemingly minor situations can sometimes trigger overwhelming emotional responses. Understanding these patterns can help us respond more intentionally. 3. You May Still Be Living in Survival Mode Psalm 46:10 Prolonged stress can leave the nervous system on high alert even after the original threat has passed. Through stories about caring for his parents and managing major responsibilities, Bishop Jim illustrates how emotional burdens can become physical tension. Learning to be still means allowing both mind and body to experience rest. 4. Renewing Your Mind Changes Your Responses Romans 12:2 Bishop Jim connects the biblical principle of renewing the mind with neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to adapt and change. Personal growth often becomes evident when we encounter familiar challenges but respond with greater calm, confidence, and understanding. 5. Not Every Concern Deserves Your Anxiety Philippians 4:6–8; 1 Peter 5:7 There’s a difference between reasonable caution and unnecessary worry. Using examples from everyday life, Bishop Jim reminds us that being responsible doesn’t require being constantly anxious. We can acknowledge genuine concerns without allowing fear to dominate our thoughts. 6. Recognize How Much You’ve Already Overcome Psalm 27:1 Sometimes we’re so focused on current challenges that we forget everything we’ve already successfully navigated. Bishop Jim encourages us to recognize our resilience, acknowledge our growth, and remember that we’ve figured out difficult situations before. 7. Abundant Life Is Meant to Be Enjoyed John 10:10 Life isn’t supposed to be an endless cycle of responsibility, stress, and sacrifice. Whether it’s taking a vacation, enjoying something you’ve worked for, or simply allowing yourself to rest, Bishop Jim reminds us that enjoying life is part of living abundantly. Featured Quote “He wasn’t saying peace be still to the storm. He was saying peace be still to in here.” — Bishop Jim Swilley Final Thought Peace isn’t the absence of challenges. It’s learning to remain grounded while navigating them. You don’t have to eliminate every storm to experience stillness, and you don’t have to live in survival mode simply because you’ve become good at surviving. Peace, be still.

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   4 Oct 2026

   ‘IF YOUR EYE IS SINGLE: How Mindset and the Power of Your Thoughts Continually Shape and Re-shape Your Reality’ IV

   Bishop Jim’s insightful messages help others find THEIR METRON through M~otivation E~nlightenment T~ranscendence R~enewal O~utreach and N~etworking Learn more: www.bishinthenow.com (http://www.bishinthenow.com) Follow Jim Swilley on Youtube to see the videos live Sundays at 11:11 am – https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow (https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow) In this concluding message of Metron’s mindset series, Bishop Jim Swilley reframes being “born again” as something deeper than adopting a religious belief: it is a return to the original way we were created to see ourselves, other people, and the world. Using the analogy of the settings on a phone, Bishop Jim explains that many of our automatic reactions are produced by mental settings accumulated through family, religion, fear, trauma, survival, culture, and experience. Some of those settings once protected or taught us something important, but others have become obsolete and continue triggering reactions long after they are useful. Spiritual transformation, then, involves becoming conscious of those settings and intentionally changing them. Drawing from Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, the message presents being born again as recovering our “factory settings”—learning again to see without inherited prejudice, unnecessary fear, resentment, or limitation. Bishop Jim closes the series by identifying four settings that can reshape how we experience life: gratitude, understanding, forgiveness, and humor. Pasted text Main Takeaways Your mindset functions like the settings on your phone. Certain circumstances trigger predictable responses because of settings established in your mind. You may not have consciously chosen every setting, and some may have developed in survival mode, but becoming aware of them gives you the opportunity to change them. This connects strongly with Romans 12:2: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Being born again can be understood as returning to your original spiritual settings. Bishop Jim interprets Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:3–6 not primarily as a formula for getting into heaven, but as a transformation in how we see the Kingdom of God. The emphasis is on returning to what he calls the “original creation”—before fear, prejudice, exclusion, and other learned filters distorted our vision. Some settings were inherited rather than consciously chosen. Family patterns, cultural assumptions, religious traditions, painful experiences, and survival responses can become automatic mental programming. Bishop Jim connects this with generational patterns: unresolved fear in one generation can become the worldview handed to the next. Not everything you learned needs to be discarded. Wisdom does not mean becoming naïve. Some experiences teach necessary lessons about safety, responsibility, boundaries, and trust. Jesus’ instruction to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16) provides the balance: recover childlike openness without abandoning mature discernment. Gratitude is the first setting. Instead of continually dividing experiences into good and bad, Bishop Jim encourages viewing life through gratitude—even recognizing that painful experiences can teach, shape, and mature us. This echoes Romans 8:28 and the biblical emphasis on giving thanks in all circumstances. Understanding is the second setting. Replace “Why is this happening to me?” with “What is this showing me?” Pain, repetition, and recurring patterns can contain information. If something continually repeats, examine the mental setting producing or interpreting that experience. Forgiveness is the third setting. Forgiveness does not require pretending something was acceptable or restoring trust where trust is no longer appropriate. It means refusing to continually rehearse an injury and emotionally relive it. Forgiveness interrupts the cycle that keeps an old experience active in the present. Humor is the fourth setting. Learning to laugh—particularly at ourselves—helps loosen the grip of fear, ego, and excessive seriousness. Bishop Jim connects this with remembering laughter in his own family and rediscovering dimensions of people that difficult final seasons can sometimes obscure. Transformation requires examining the hidden settings. Bishop Jim invokes Psalm 19:12, “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults,” as an invitation to examine subconscious patterns we may not even realize are operating. A “single eye” produces a life filled with light. The series ultimately returns to Matthew 6:22: “If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” Change the lens through which life is interpreted, and the experience of life itself begins to change. Four Settings to Keep Gratitude → Understanding → Forgiveness → Humor Rather than allowing fear, resentment, inherited assumptions, or old survival mechanisms to remain the default, Bishop Jim proposes deliberately making these four perspectives the settings through which we process life. Quote from Bishop Jim Swilley “You go through life and you collect these different settings that are obsolete now, and they’re not serving you.” — Bishop Jim Swilley That statement captures the central idea of the message: spiritual growth isn’t necessarily about becoming someone entirely new. Sometimes it is about identifying what has accumulated over the years, keeping the wisdom, deleting what is obsolete, and returning to the clearer vision that was there before fear taught us how to see.

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   26 Sept 2026

   ‘IF YOUR EYE IS SINGLE: How Mindset and the Power of Your Thoughts Continually Shape and Re-shape Your Reality’ III

   Bishop Jim’s insightful messages help others find THEIR METRON through M~otivation E~nlightenment T~ranscendence R~enewal O~utreach and N~etworking Learn more: www.bishinthenow.com (http://www.bishinthenow.com) Follow Jim Swilley on Youtube to see the videos live Sundays at 11:11 am – https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow (https://www.youtube.com/bishinthenow) In Part 3 of “If Your Eye Is Single,” Bishop Jim Swilley continues exploring mindset as the internal “setting” through which we interpret our lives. His central argument is that many things traditionally understood as spiritual warfare, strongholds, demons, and adversaries can also be understood as patterns of thought that oppose our purpose and distort our perception. Rather than arguing with an unhealthy setting, we can recognize it, change it, and consciously choose a different response. Through Scripture, personal stories, and unconventional interpretations of biblical imagery, Bishop Jim emphasizes that transformation happens when we stop surrendering authority to inherited beliefs, fear, past experiences, or negative thinking and begin examining the mental settings through which we interpret reality. Difficulty may still come, but our response determines what that difficulty produces in us. Main Takeaways Your mindset functions like a setting. Bishop Jim compares mindset to the settings on a phone, computer, car, or thermostat. When the setting produces the wrong result, arguing with it accomplishes nothing; the setting itself has to change. You are not obligated to believe everything you think. Some thoughts are temporary, while others have become deeply established because of childhood experiences, religious teaching, relationships, trauma, or repeated reinforcement. Recognizing that a thought exists does not require accepting it as truth. Strongholds can be understood as entrenched patterns of thought. Bishop Jim connects Paul’s language about spiritual warfare with Paul’s instruction about “casting down imaginations” and bringing thoughts into obedience. 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 becomes a major framework for understanding the battle as something occurring within perception and thought. Scripture can reveal truth beyond strict literalism. Much of the message explores biblical stories symbolically rather than exclusively historically. Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Pharaoh, the Red Sea, Daniel’s Prince of Persia, and other images become ways of discussing consciousness, fear, ego, adversity, transformation, and spiritual awakening. Adversarial thoughts can become your “devil.” Bishop Jim points to the basic idea of an adversary and applies it internally: a thought that continually works against your purpose can function as an adversarial force within your life. This reframes spiritual warfare as recognizing and confronting thoughts that continually undermine who you are becoming. Pressure can reveal abilities you did not know you possessed. Moses standing between Pharaoh and the Red Sea becomes an image of those moments when the only way forward is through. Sometimes we discover what we can do precisely because circumstances leave us no alternative. Stop asking only, “Why is this happening to me?” A more transformative question is: What can this teach me? How can this make me stronger? Bishop Jim uses his upcoming shoulder replacement and current pain as an example of deliberately changing the meaning attached to a difficult experience. Eventually, you have to take ownership of your response. What happened to you may genuinely have been caused by someone else. But continuing to surrender control of your present life to that event keeps the old setting active. We cannot necessarily control what happens, but we have significant influence over how we respond. Feelings do not have to be denied to change your mindset. Bishop Jim specifically acknowledges allowing himself to feel disappointment, pain, or frustration rather than suppressing it. The goal is not pretending something is good; it is refusing to remain mentally trapped there. Repentance can mean changing your thinking. In this framework, repentance becomes the recognition that a way of thinking is no longer producing life and choosing another way to perceive the situation. Key Scriptures Matthew 6:22–23 — “If your eye be single…” The foundational text of the series. Bishop Jim interprets the “single” or healthy eye in terms of healthy perception: when perception changes, what we experience becomes filled with light. Romans 15:4 — Scripture was written for instruction so that through endurance and its encouragement we might maintain hope. 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 — The weapons of our warfare are not carnal; they pull down strongholds, cast down imaginations, and bring thoughts into obedience. This is one of the clearest biblical connections to the message’s emphasis on mindset. Daniel 10 — The Prince of Persia becomes an image Bishop Jim uses for entrenched thoughts that seem to delay or resist truths already known within the spirit. Exodus 14 — Moses and the Red Sea illustrate the capacity that can emerge when circumstances force us beyond what we previously believed we could do. Psalm 112:7 — The person whose heart is established is not afraid of bad news. Psalm 138:8 — “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.” Bishop Jim describes this as one of the truths that became deeply established in his own thinking. Romans 8:28 — “All things work together for good…” The message emphasizes developing a mindset capable of looking for transformation even within difficulty. Romans 12:2 — “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” This captures the larger theme of changing the internal settings through which life is perceived. Philippians 4:7 — The “peace that passes understanding” illustrates an inner experience that can transcend the apparent logic of circumstances. John 16:33 — “In the world you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Quote from Bishop Jim Swilley “You’re not obligated to believe everything you think.” — Bishop Jim Swilley That line captures the heart of this installment: thoughts can be examined rather than automatically obeyed. A mindset may have been established years ago and remained silently active—like an alarm setting waiting until 3:00 a.m. to reveal itself. Becoming conscious of the setting gives us the opportunity to change it. Another line that strongly captures the closing movement of the message is: “I’m going to start declaring the end from the beginning. I’m going to prophesy my own resurrection.” — Bishop Jim Swilley The message ultimately moves from examining inherited beliefs to consciously choosing expectation: I will get through this. I will learn from this. I will become stronger. This circumstance does not get to write the ending of my story.

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