Category: General

At some point we accepted the idea that shepherding is the preeminent leadership role of “church.” In doing so, we misread the word as a title instead of a function, and we further eroded leadership by assuming that “sheep” is the preeminent behavior of the remainder of the Body. We lost the need for apostles, […]

I heard twenty-five or thirty ‘trumpet’ words from intercessors before I heard one prophetic word from a prophet. If I put fifty or sixty seasoned intercessors into a room and have them pray in tongues for an hour, they will come back and report what they heard in the spirit with the same level of […]

God’s concern for the prophetic is both maturity and authenticity. The first principle might be summed up in the phrase, “The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.” The second principle might be summed up in the phrase, “Many false prophets will arise to distract and draw away God’s people.” God’s perspective on […]

When establishing a prophetic atmosphere in which revelation becomes more easily heard or seen, we always begin with intercession. We begin with aggressive, intense, and prolonged seasons of praying in the Spirit. We pray in the Spirit for one hour, intensely. Even though some people cannot sustain praying in the Spirit more than ten or […]

Comparable words, apostello and pempein, “to send,” reveal two fundamentals concepts: “being sent to originate and being sent to finish what was started.” Especially for John, the idea of being sent links Jesus to the Father as His Representative. The words are common in natural life, of course, but take on a special meaning when […]

Honor releases anointing. Dishonor always limits us from receiving what Jesus has sent us. Honor releases what Jesus sends through leaders. Dishonor limits what He sends us. We often demand Jesus give us directly what He has designed for us to receive through leaders. We dishonor His leadership when we dishonor His strategy for leadership. […]

September 22, 2015 The setting of the dream reminded me of scenes I’ve seen in Colorado Springs and Israel’s Mount Carmel, and we were in a valley-like setting that seemed to combine The Valley of the Gods in Colorado Springs and the view from Mount Carmel. I had the clear-cut impression that the place where […]

Moderns embrace liberalism to the point of socialism, hate capitalism, because we erased “kingdom of God” from our definitions of church, allowing a redefining of Message that makes what Jesus did and said mean something entirely foreign to the Bible. You might not realize that your denomination or distinctive church doctrine does not believe in […]

Implementation of kingdom blueprint construction is the authentic proactive apostolic and prophetic leadership we need. We invest nearly all our energies in preemptive strikes to avoid the enemy’s devices, so we are constantly distracted from our purpose while celebrating our security.

Why did Paul begin his discussion of God’s weaponry with a clear statement of whom we do not wrestle with? Could we discover in this statement, “We wrestle not with flesh and blood,” a first step to victorious warfare? Or, do we find here a statement that draw strong contrast with the methods, machinery, manpower, […]