Do You Have Complete Control of Your Life? | Church 8/2/26

August 2, 2026 • jhake

Man got "bitchy" at work. Emotions are death. If someone spits on you, is that a reason to be mad? Another world, not in your head. Why doesn't God give ruminating thoughts? Let go, gain control. 

Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, August 2, 2026 

🗓️ ANNOUNCEMENT: Men's Forum first Thur, Aug 6th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events 

📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Do you have 100% complete control of your life? 

📖 NEW BQ: Which changed your life, the words of God or the laws of God? 

📝 Assignment: Catch the waves of pain. 

||  See clips, links, and notes below. 

TIMESTAMPS 

  • (0:00:00) Welcome. Happy Men's History Month! 

  • (0:02:10) Man got "bitchy" at work. Was he aware? 

  • (0:13:20) He was NOT aware. Everybody crazy, no love in families. 

  • (0:24:40) Staying in prayer. Becoming NICE. No problems. 

  • (0:33:35) Is anger contagious? Emotional people are DEAD. 

  • (0:36:00) One good reason to be mad: If someone SPITS in your face? 

  • (0:50:35) I train to fight. Did CHRIST get angry when they spit on him? 

  • (0:53:10) JLP: There's another world, it's not in our head. 

  • (1:07:55) Thoughts hate God. Worship in Spirit & Truth. 

  • (1:13:45) Is spitting a threat? It hurts your ego. 

  • (1:20:50) JLP: Mental playbacks. Lazy! Christ never said… 

  • (1:25:30) Why doesn't God give ruminating thoughts for good? 

  • (1:38:00) JLP: God's voice, the Light. Why human nature is evil: Adam & Eve 

  • (1:46:35) BQ: Have complete control of your life? 

  • (1:50:45) Englishman on vacation. Man divorcing soon, hates job. BQ 

  • (1:54:45) JLP on BQ. Assignment: Catch the waves of pain. 

  • (2:01:45) New BQ, chat questions, closing 

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CHURCH NOTES 8/2/26

📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Do you have 100% complete control of your life? 

📖 NEW BQ: Which changed your life, the words of God or the laws of God? 

🗓️ Men's Forum first Thur, Aug 6th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events 

JLP notes from this past week 7/27-7/31/26 

  • Do this for yourself: Catch the waves of pain, and waves of healing will come (JLP Fri 7/31/26) 
  • Never, ever, evers: Don'ts. Do what you want. (JLP Thu 7/30/26, and one more Fri) 
  • Again: In the beginning was the Law. And the Law was God. In the heart. (JLP Wed 7/29/26) 
  • What happens to you when someone says you’re angry (or weak) (JLP Tue 7/28/26) 
  • Stop mental playbacks (Also in Church 7/26/26, and JLP Mon 7/27/26) 

01 - Welcome: Happy Men’s History Month

(0:00:00) Small talk (0:01:00) Intro (0:01:15) Welcome

(0:01:43) August is Men's History Month.

02 - Man got "bitchy" at work. Was he aware? 

(0:02:07) Shayan's mind ran crazy when he got a bad customer review, but it was for someone else.

(0:04:38) What do you say to him? Another man was "super going through it."

(0:06:05) JLP: Be aware and literally do NOTHING about it. There's nothing you can do about it, but be aware. Help will come, and He will take them away from you. Don't blame or anything — you'll only give it life. Awareness. ALL of us are unaware till we finally wake up. We don't know we're asleep, don't know we're unaware, till a little awareness comes in. That little awareness lets you know you're unconscious. Overcoming, more light coming, darkness of plans.... 

Shayan: I was aware of myself somewhat. Receptionist: New look on you. You were looking crazy?

(0:07:51) You were looking crazy? "Whatever," says Shayan. "A childish me." You were aware of yourself being crazy? "Yeah. F everybody." Your boss knew? No, it was subtle.

(0:08:44) JLP: You were just acting kind of bitchy.

(0:09:00) Alexis: Way too important to me. JLP: He didn't drop it, instead he became bitchy. 

(0:09:44) JLP: Was he watching himself being bitchy? Is that awareness when he's acting that way? Alexis: I'm going with it, yet I see it? If I wanted to fight.

(0:11:28) Alyssa: Was he aware? If he was aware, he'd stop himself. Shayan: Good points. Idk. Painful.

(0:11:54) Did you do it in front of women too? Nick: No. 

(0:12:58) Daniel: There is no you. Was he aware? Was he conscious? 

2B - He was NOT aware. Everybody crazy! 

(0:13:28) JLP: You were NOT aware. Awareness would stop you. You were unconsciously aware, knew you were being that way. "Leave me alone, I'm being myself, this is me." That wasn't your self at all. You wouldn't have been that way all day long. "Right." I can't hear you. Acting just like a little woman! In an office full of women!

Very draining. I was toast at the end of the week. JLP: Like mama drained at the end of the week being bitchy! 

(0:16:55) How did your patients go? Fine. A real mess. An UNNECESSARY mess. You were not CATCHING it. You were GOING WITH IT. My thoughts judging me for going with it. Layers. Insane. The whole world is insane. Everybody is INSANE. Everybody crazy! 

(0:18:31) JLP: Story of a woman who killed her three children.

2C - No love even in families! 

(0:20:25) JLP: Every human being has the SAME problem. Nobody likes each other! “It’s family.” (0:21:35) Family reunion, then gossip and backstabbing. Phony love. Welcome to hell! 

(0:22:14) Forgave both parents. But thoughts of hating my mother always come back. Other women just like my mother. 

(0:22:50) JLP: The Light stays with you. The Devil says it's not working. All thoughts are lies. 

Shayan talks about bright light hunched him forward. Whatever happens just watch it, let it happen, don’t call it anything. “That’s the light!” Satan will present himself as the light. (0:23:56) Because you're expecting the light! But if you had no ideas or plan, you'd know the light. Stay with it. 

03 - Staying in the Silent Prayer. Sleep in consciousness 

(0:24:30) Dolores: Staying in the silent prayer. She had a thought: Do you know you’re helpless to your identities? Do you see you have no control over this? 

(0:25:47) JLP: That's why it's good to do the Silent Prayer before you go to sleep, so you stay in consciousness. The Light will not leave you. You leave it, or Him.

3B - Easier to be kind. You'll become a kind person. 

(0:26:16) Dolores on her husband. I'm not trying to do anything. It happened but I'm not lingering. It's getting EASIER TO BE KIND. JLP: You'll become a kind person when you overcome evil. The right kind of nice. You will become a nice person.

(0:28:43) … JLP: He loves us. No troubles at all. We don’t have any troubles. 

3C - Slowing down at work. Ambitious people are crazy! 

(0:30:24) Dolores: Work week's been very busy... I enjoy being a good worker. It's OK to slow down. When I slow down, I'm clear-minded, not overwhelmed.

(0:31:59) JLP: Ambitious people are crazy! All ego, taught to be that way! 

(0:32:46) Dolores: It was common in the 80s for women to cry at work! I grew up thinking it’s OK to get overwhelmed and stressed at work. Made me believe we’re not meant to be in the workforce. JLP: The world hates us, and we hate them. 

04 - Is anger contagious? Emotions make people feel alive. But they're not. 

(0:33:31) Man: Is anger contagious? 

(0:34:15) JLP: People love emotions. Emotions make them feel alive. Emotional people are DEAD. Not alive. Emotions are NOT from GOD. Emotions are EVIL. 

4B - One good reason to be mad: If someone spit in your face? 

(0:36:00) JLP: Gimme one good reason to be mad about anything! I had to yell at Billy this morning.

(0:36:31) Gimme ONE good reason to be angry at all about anything. Daniel: Someone spit in your face? You'd get mad, but you probably did something wrong. If you did NOTHING wrong, should you be mad? I probably would be mad as hell. Disgusting.

(0:38:19) Teach you a lesson: Don't spit on me. Knock 'em out? A man: I half agree with it. (0:41:38) I'm not married to it. You're not married to who? I'm not married to the idea that God gave us emotions for a reason. Where do they come from? Can you get emotional without a thought first? 

(0:41:38) I'm not married to it. You're not married to who? I'm not married to the idea that God gave us emotions for a reason.

(0:44:29) (Delay) Moral choice? How do you know what’s moral? God gave us? Idk the Bible very well. Me either!

(0:45:45) Alexis: if someone’s spitting in my face, the person has to be crazy! I’d be just as crazy to be unhinged. Anger makes you crazy.

(0:46:49) Franky they spit on you to make you happy? (0:47:44) No power in anger. Even for a boxer. 

(0:48:37) Jesse asks about if someone spat is it a reason to be angry? Franky: I’d fake it. Idk.

4C - I train to fight. Did Jesus get angry when they spit on him? 

(0:50:38) Man: I train to fight. If someone spits in my face, I'm gonna give it to 'em. JLP: come up here

(0:51:24) Did Christ get angry when people spit in his face? They did it with pure hatred. Man: I’m not on that floor.

(0:51:54) JLP: idk what I’d do but anger is not the way to deal with it.

(0:52:33) Would you knock out an old lady?

05 - JLP: Another world. Wave of pain. Cooperating with thoughts… 

(0:53:07) JLP: I want you to know, there's another world. … a wave of pain … 

(0:55:25) JLP: Because you didn't catch it… As long as you’re reacting, you’re cooperating with thoughts. If you catch them. 

(0:56:56) JLP: I'd fall on the couch. I didn't know about thoughts. 

(0:58:57) Always know where you are and what you're doing. Without your effort, you’ll start living from that world. Christ said it is done. You won’t be part of the craziness. You will overcome the world psychologically. You’re mentally attached to the world. 

(1:00:15) A horrible mistake to remember scriptures. You think you know what you're talking about. All you're doing is talking ABOUT God. Worship Mary. The Saints. There's only ONE God. You lie to yourself. Truly another world. 

(1:01:32) Only good thing I never really did with women was not give them money. My father was cheap. 

(1:02:54) There is another world, but it's not in our head. No thoughts. The only reason you need thoughts — they come from God so you can make your meal.

(1:04:04) You have never done anything wrong or right your whole life. We were THINKING it's us. Attached to thoughts. “I feel the attack,” you say. “You did me wrong.” Nobody ever did anything to you! Nothing has ever happened to you at all. Only your false self. Your thoughts. It’s insane — that’s why everybody acts insane! 

(1:06:35) JLP continues…

5B - Thoughts hate God. Worship in Spirit & Truth. 

(1:07:56) We're all the same… There is another world. You become a doormat, don’t think about what others think, not thinking about yourself. Another world. Thoughts HATE God. You’d do a perfect job. 

(1:10:37) You're not responsible for anyone else. Only yourself, spiritually. You must worship Him in spirit and truth. You want a spiritual life. Rise above these thoughts. … MORE GREAT POINTS… 

5C - Mimi 

(1:11:30) Mimi: What are you thinking?

06 - Spit or shoe. Is spitting a threat? It hurts your ego. 

(1:13:42) Raymond: Taught about respect. I'd respond with fierce physical violence! President W. Bush someone threw a shoe at him!

(1:15:04) Spitting is a threat to your life? No, it just hurts your ego. They’re not gonna have a chance to make another move. 

(1:17:06) JLP: Remind me not to hit you! 

Franky: My father an angry man. Anger is from Satan. I grew up with that. Caused me to be afraid, it was intimidating. I wrongly believed it was a strength a man has.

(1:19:13) Man on the spitting thing: A dramatization of an idea. We dramatize thoughts, exaggerate it, get stuck emotionally, and our mind starts envisioning. How many in the room have been spit on? "I doubt it!" He says: Catch it. Thoughts are super random. 

6B - JLP: Overcoming thoughts: Catch the mental playbacks. Don't be lazy!  

(1:20:51) JLP: It's crazy. If you start catching these thoughts, you'll start not reacting with big situations. Overcoming thoughts. Being aware of these mental playbacks that play in your mind. Catch them that happen all the time in your head. 

WHY YOU LAZY? Lazy with your own life! (1:22:32) Don't be lazy about staying present! God didn’t tell you… 

6C - Christ never said… 

(1:23:24) Christ never said you must believe I was slaughtered, I died, rose again, and confess this, in order to be born again. He said to forgive and enter into the Kingdom, return to the Father. Somebody else said he said it! You’ll notice not one person who believes that Christ bled to death, etc., not one of them are saved! 

Christ said pick up your cross and follow Me. 

07 - Why doesn't God give ruminating thoughts for good? 

(1:25:28) Man: Satan gives ruminating thoughts to do wrong. Why doesn't God give you ruminating thoughts to do right? Why doesn't God give you those same mental playbacks repetitively to do right?

(1:26:04) Hake

(1:28:50) Another man: The Devil's seeking to control. God is not trying to control you.

(1:29:40) Raymond

(1:30:18) First man: It'd have been helpful if God was like: Don't do that, don't do that, don't do that.

(1:31:04) Mimi: When you're quiet and still. It's about knowing, not thoughts.

(1:32:17) Man's second time. Ruminating (a snap in the audio) 

(1:33:07) Shayan (buzzing) 

(1:34:21) One more question: What does sleeping consciously look like? 

(1:35:20) God something

(1:36:58) Man says it'd be nice. I had ruminating thoughts.

(1:37:51) Nick: We wouldn't listen!

7B - JLP: God's voiceless voice. In the Light, no choices to make. Why human nature is evil. Adam & Eve. 

(1:37:58) JLP: God's voice is a voiceless voice. When you're walking in the light, when you're present, there are no choices to make.

(1:39:30) Man: That makes sense, when you're in the light, you don't have to do anything. Just not listen to the thoughts, and by default you're in the Light. JLP: When you're driving your truck at night with lights on, you can see the road. You just live. Because now you can SEE. He is guiding you, but He doesn't guide you into bad things.

(1:41:13) Human beings' nature is no good at all. Why? Because they’re one with the Devil. … Adam & Eve… 

(1:44:16) You said dang? Human's nature was God's nature at first. … Don’t try to figure it out. It’ll be made clear. When Adam listened to eve. 

08 - BQ: Have complete control of your life? 

(1:46:32) I do have an assignment, but Vanessa wanna respond to the biblical. Is it hot in here? Vanessa: BQ — 📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Do you have 100% complete control of your life? She sings, “He’s got the whole world in his hands!” Jesse pauses. No, that’s funny! Oops, I spit. Glad you’re not there! (Points to the fighter). Funny. 

(1:47:52) Franky: NO.  

(1:48:17) One hundred percent? Alexis: No, it feels out-of-control in different ways. Take life off-track, and out-of-control. I like coffee. I don’t need one, but I’ll get one anyway. Can become a problem. That’s why you should drink Punchie’s Coffee. Do you have love? 

(1:49:24) Do you have love? Do you love anyone? "I try to." Do you? "No, I don't think so."

8B - Englishman on vacation. Man divorcing soon, hates job. BQ 

(1:50:43) Man: Can't control everything, and wouldn't want to control everything. (1:51:14) First-timer from England. I spoke to you on a call in Australia. Really good. Counseling call. Going to Boston today. 

(1:52:00) You said you shouldn't go on holiday, on vacation. I travel a lot. Am I doing wrong? No, because you're WHITE. That's what white people do! (FUNNY.) Then Jesse answers seriously.  

(1:53:17) Man: I'd try to have control of my life before I found you. (1:54:10) I think I'm getting a divorce soon, and I hate my job…

8C - JLP on BQ. Assignment: Catch the wave of pain. 

(1:54:43) JLP on BQ: Once you completely let go, you will have one hundred percent control. Let go of ALL ideas.

(1:55:01) ASSIGNMENT this week. Watch those waves of pain and catch them. And let the healing come. The healing will come, if you take the wave of pain without doing anything about it. 

(1:56:57) Catch every thought 

(1:57:26) Doc (Shayan) question… Should we go into it? What’d I say do? Why’d you ask me that? 

8D - How to ask God for help. Can pain be pleasure? 

(1:58:52) Man asks a question. (1:59:25) JLP said: God, impose on me. JLP jokes about asking God in “black” or “white” impression…. 

(2:00:50) Another man asks another question about the wave. Pain comes in many ways.... JLP: ALL PLEASURES ARE PAIN. Wanting is a pain. It’s ALL pain. 

8E - New BQ, chat questions, closing 

(2:01:42) 📖 NEW BQ: Which changed your life, the words of God or the laws of God?

(2:03:44) Hake reads Questions: Comparing human anger to God's anger is evil. Is disgusted mad? YES. 

(2:05:18) JLP: Nothing has happened to you. No reason for anger or emotions. (NOT MENTIONED: Men’s Forum) 

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📖 Biblical Question (BQ): Do you have 100% complete control of your life? 

📖 NEW BQ: Which changed your life, the words of God or the laws of God? 

🗓️ Men's Forum first Thur, Aug 6th, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events 

REMINDERS / Assignments… 

  1. 2026 Theme: Endurance (since Church 1/4/26) 
  2. 2026 Assignment: Be a doormat. (since Church 12/28/25) 
  3. Rise to the 3rd, 30th, 50th or 100th floor, out of the basement (Church 2/15/26) 
  4. Be a thought watcher. (JLP Mon 4-20-26) 
  5. Resist anger. (Church 3/29/26, Church 4/5/26) 
  6. Don't think about you at all this week. (Church 3/8/26) 
  7. Keep your mind where your body is, for one week. (After Church 3/1/26) 
  8. Next time you cry, check yourself. (Church 3/1/26) 
  9. Watch the Devil in you. (Church 2/1/26) 

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