Dr. Don

What God Intended All Along For approximately 15 years after Pentecost, no non-Jew was born of the spirit. The idea never entered anyone’s mind, it appears. The possibility seemed such a non-starter that God had to whack Simon Peter upside the head during a trance and rebuke his thinking to get him to consider preaching […]

Honor and Rebuke Honor and rebuke occupy the same coin. The word translated “rebuke” is epitimao, and it means 1) honor buy 2) restrain. Rebuke is a technical term for the authority exerted to cast out demons or to restrain demonic activities and the spiritual and natural conditions they produce. Rebuke is a relational term […]

“Before Yahweh’s intense accountability” The technical phrase, “Yahweh’s Yome,” is common in several prophetic communications to speak of the culmination of Providence, God involved in nations and individual lives, reaching a time of accountability for God’s intentions, commands, promises, and rewards. We know Jesus arrived to hold Israel accountable, so John called them to repentance […]

Understanding the Fruit of Alignment While we look back at more than 350,000 receiving personal restoration and healing ministry, we also understand that healing a kingdom ministry requires more than the individual healing of its constituent parts. Ruthanne and I once invested in a costly appliance. It had tremendous functionality, with bells and whistles designed […]

Paul gets to Ephesus in the highest point of apostolic expertise and experience. After leading the most significant move of God and transformational kingdom culture influence in history, up to that moment, Paul writes to the entire kingdom. We have the epistle as he addressed it to the Ephesians in particular, but the epistle was […]

As we restore fathering and inheritance motifs to kingdom culture, more than merely mentioning them, relabeling the present relational dynamics, and putting a trendy name on the worn-out structures of church growthism, we continuously discover thematic meaning in the Message that we cause us to rethink our conclusions. That is, revaluing fathering opens our minds […]

The vessels of incense are not empty when you contribute your intercession. Instead, you finish filling them up, so they overflow into history. Oversight leaders carry these vessels in one hand and harps in the other hand. “So I looked, and there, surrounded by Throne, Animals, and Elders, was a Lamb, slaughtered but standing tall. […]

“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces enduring submission, and enduring submission produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s agape has been distributed into our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.” Romans 5:3-5 Shed abroad, poured out, distributed […]

Wells Full of Water When a penetrating rain falls, it reaches the deepest places. It contributes to the hidden river or aquifer beneath from which we all draw water. The wells sustain both the people of production and the production itself. The rains invest life in life-giving investments. Recall the born of the water and […]

Providence means God is involved in history. Inspiration means God is involved in writing, preserving, and guaranteeing the Bible so that inspiration to read the Bible becomes available through reading, preaching, teaching, mediating, prophesying, worshiping, praying, singing, and hearing–inspiration breathed in continues breathing! The Greek Language is God’s Choice When we say that common Greek […]