Category: General

The Sacrifice of Destiny: Passion for God’s Purpose

When we read the story of Jesus and His disciples, we observe personal passion in conflict with Divine purpose. Jesus calls the disciples to join in His assignment, but they continue to measure their involvement in His assignment in terms of “what’s in it for me?” This is the Judas spirit in action, a spiritual […]

Father’s Harvest Seasons: Judgments that Process Fruit

The Seasons of the Father I wrote a chapter in The Spirit and Power of Elijah about the Father’s times and seasons to emphasize how prophetic leadership prepares the Lord a people. Every kingdom leader leads prophetically. “Prophetic leadership accurately anticipates what is coming next and prepares the Lord a people ready to respond when […]

Apostolic Shepherding, Part 1, People as Sheep

First, let us discuss the list in Ephesians 4:11, and the combination of shepherds and teachers in this instance. Some have ventured to combine teaching and shepherding into a single function, to declare the “fourfold ministry.” We know that this is not Paul’s intention, to combine teacher and shepherd into one singular function, because Paul […]

How Good a “Christian” is Jesus?

The term “christian” can more properly be “adherent to some form of christianism.” The term has little to do with its actual origins or meaning. Christianism refers to a religious point of view separate from and in contrast to other religious world views and philosophies. It does not refer to the personal transformational process of […]

Overcoming the Dominant Spiritual Condition of Your Assignment

God makes kingdom leaders aware of dominant spiritual conditions in their assigned areas in ways that I call “shared spiritual experience.” In an intercessory context, you experience the spiritual condition so that you can fully recognize and understand it by personal experience. In this way, leaders can discern the difference between the influence of principalities […]

Spiritual Warfare is Always Positive

Spiritual warfare may be properly defined as “positively pursuing God’s purpose with His power, principles, and protocols.”That long definition can be summed up with the terms “positive” and “purpose.” The warfare arrives when the purpose of God runs into the positions of the enemy. That is, any warfare that pursues the enemy takes on a […]