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What Happens When Heaven Lays Its Weight Upon Flesh I have become convinced that one true touch of the glory of God can do what years of human striving could never accomplish. When God’s glory touches a human being, something eternal enters something fragile. Heaven lays its weight upon dust. The holy presence of God comes upon weakness, brokenness, fear, shame, limitation, and human inability — and suddenly the person begins to change. Not because they tried harder. Not beca

The Throne Within Who Is Really Ruling Your Life? I have carried a burden in my spirit concerning the kingdom of God, because I believe many people speak about the kingdom but have never truly entered the reality of it. We have preached about heaven. We have sung about eternity. We have comforted ourselves with the hope of streets of gold, gates of pearl, and a place where sorrow will finally end. And all of that is true. There is a future glory. There is a coming fullness. T

When Culture Tries to Disciple the Church There is a burden in my heart that I cannot easily shake. It is the growing realization that much of the modern Church is no longer asking, “Lord, what do You require?” but instead asking, “What will culture allow?” That question alone reveals how far we have drifted. Somewhere along the way, many believers began to measure Christianity by the temperature of society instead of by the fire of God’s Word. We began asking how much truth

I will be honest with you. When I first felt led to speak on this subject, my first reaction was, “Lord, do I really need to say this again?” Because most of us have heard it before. Be careful with your words. Speak life, not death. Do not tear people down. Be slow to speak. Season your words with grace. We know the verses. We have heard the sermons. Some of us have even preached them. And yet, look around. Look at our homes. Look at marriages. Look at families. Look at chur

Spiritual warfare often begins quietly. Not with noise, not with obvious confrontation, and not always with something dramatic that instantly reveals itself. It often begins with a shift — a heaviness in the atmosphere, a sudden loss of peace, an unusual pressure in the mind, a strain in relationships, or a wave of discouragement that seems stronger than the situation itself. Something changes, and although we may not understand it at first, the Holy Spirit begins to make us

The Lord woke me in the middle of the night last night with this message burning in my spirit. I did not go looking for this word. I did not sit down trying to create something dramatic. I was awakened with a holy weight, and the more I lay there, the more I felt that this message was not simply for others. It was first for me. It came as a question. Do we deeply love Christ? I have called it “deep love,” but is this not the kind of love the Lord requires — a love that is not

I have learned that one of the hardest prayers a person will ever pray is not, “Lord, bless me.” It is not, “Lord, use me.” It is not even, “Lord, change my circumstances.” One of the hardest prayers is, “Lord, I surrender.” Because surrender sounds beautiful when we sing about it, but it becomes costly when God touches the thing we have been gripping with both hands. It sounds spiritual when we are standing in a worship service, surrounded by music and atmosphere, but it bec

Love is one of the most misunderstood realities in the Kingdom of God. The world looks at love and often sees weakness. It sees patience and calls it passivity. It sees forgiveness and calls it foolishness. It sees mercy and thinks someone has no backbone. It sees restraint and assumes fear. It sees a believer refusing to retaliate, refusing to answer insult with insult, refusing to repay evil with evil, and it concludes that person does not know how to defend themselves. But

There are moments in ministry when the atmosphere shifts before anyone fully understands what is happening. Worship may be flowing, the Word may be going forth, people may be responding to the presence of God, and then suddenly something begins to resist. A cry breaks out. A body trembles. A person begins yelling, screaming, shaking, or reacting in a way that does not seem natural to the moment. I have seen this many times. And I have learned that when darkness speaks, the Ch

For a number of years now, I have carried in my prophetic notes a word given over Canada by the American prophet Chuck Pierce during one of our prophetic conference gatherings through Frontline Worship Centre. I have returned to it more than once, not as something to sensationalize, but as something to weigh, pray into, and discern before the Lord. Some words are not meant to be skimmed and shelved. They linger. They trouble us in the holy sense. They call us back to unfini

Are You Ready for What God Is About to Release? There are moments in the presence of God that do not simply touch you; they mark you. They do not pass over your life like a breeze and disappear by morning. They enter the deep places. They settle into your spirit. They become a burning coal in the inner man, something you carry long after the atmosphere has lifted, long after the room has emptied, long after the ordinary routines of life have resumed. I have had moments with t

This Is How You Love God I have discovered that loving God is one of the most spoken-about realities in Christianity, and yet it can be one of the least understood in the ordinary rhythms of daily life. We say it easily. We sing it often. We preach it, confess it, quote it, and write it in cards and messages. “I love God.” “I love the Lord.” “I love Jesus.” And yet, if I am honest, there have been times in my walk with God when those words came out of my mouth more easily tha

I have had to ask myself a question that cannot be answered casually: Am I truly walking on God’s path, or have I simply taken my own path and attached His name to it? That question cuts deeper than most of us want to admit. It is easy to attend church, quote Scripture, speak Christian language, post Bible verses, and still be moving in the direction of our own will. It is possible to believe in God and yet resist following Him. It is possible to admire Jesus and still avoid

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” — Jeremiah 1:5 There are verses in Scripture that comfort us, and then there are verses that confront us. Jeremiah 1:5 does both. It comforts me because it tells me I was never forgotten. It confronts me because it tells me I was never my own. Before I had a name, God had a purpose. Before I had a voice, God had an assignment. Before I had a memory,

The Spirit of Lack vs. The Abundance of the Kingdom There are moments in the Kingdom of God where the Holy Spirit will confront not our actions first, but our way of seeing. Because long before a man walks in bondage externally, he has already accepted limitation internally. And one of the greatest battles I have discovered in my walk with Christ is not merely the battle between righteousness and sin, but the battle between abundance and lack — between Heaven’s perspective an

Psalm 91 is not merely a chapter to be quoted in a crisis. It is a dwelling place. For years, I have carried this Psalm close to my spirit. I have prayed it, declared it, preached it, meditated on it, and applied it virtually every day of my life. I have encouraged those in the church not only to know Psalm 91, not only to memorize its promises, and not only to quote it when fear rises, but to live out of it every single day. Because Psalm 91 is probably one of the most criti

This morning I sat over breakfast with a dear friend of mine, Dr. Rudy — a natural general practitioner of medicine, yet also a deeply anointed man of God. And as we spoke together, our conversation quickly turned toward the things of God, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the rivers of living water that Jesus promised would flow from the lives of those who truly believe. And while we sat there talking, I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit quietly settling around us. I

The atmosphere changes when Heaven begins to press against the ordinary routines of human life. There are times when the presence of God moves so deeply and so unmistakably that even those standing in the room realize they are witnessing something beyond human effort, beyond emotionalism, and beyond religious performance. You can preach about revival. You can teach on awakening. You can quote history, theology, and doctrine. But when Heaven begins to invade the earth in a tan

There is a deception rising upon the earth that does not initially appear dark, evil, or dangerous. In fact, much of it appears spiritual, compassionate, intellectual, balanced, modern, and even Christian. That is what makes it deadly. Satan has never needed to destroy truth by force alone. More often, he corrupts it by mixture. From the beginning in the Garden of Eden, the enemy did not arrive denying God entirely. He arrived twisting what God had already spoken. The first s

A strange thing begins happening when the Lord starts drawing a person toward a mantle. Life may still look ordinary outwardly. You may still wake up in the same house, go to the same job, sit in the same church services, speak to the same people, and move through the same daily routines. Nothing may appear dramatically different on the surface. And yet inwardly, something begins shifting so deeply that you quietly realize you can no longer belong to yourself in the same way