Category: General

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Every subculture operates with its own nomenclature. Nomenclature is a system or set of terms or symbols special to a particular discipline or art, but subcultures produce their own collection. Listen to prophets who bring their own nomenclature into their communication. I do, but I avoid the creation of a subculture like a plague. I […]

Subcultures mar, distort, and limit the full expression and desired, ultimate condition of God’s kingdom on Earth. Thus, while we can, with certainty, say God isn’t destroying the cultures of nations He founds, desires, and redeems, we can also say that cultures in restoration suffer from subcultural divisions foreign to God’s intended outcome. That is, […]

The Spirit of Fear Paul reveals the spirit of fear to us in his letter to Timothy. It is the spirit of cowardice. While phobos is the common Greek word for fear and a deadly foe, the spirit of cowardice contrasts with power, love, and a healthy mind. For God has not furnished or bestowed […]

Elijah threw his mantle on Elisha to prophesy that he would become one of his inheritors, operate by shared spiritual experience in his anointing, and begin preparation for leadership. The double portion was a guaranteed thing at that point. When the mantle fell upon Elisha, the young prophet-in-process experienced something of Elijah’s spirit and power. […]