The political spirit is the world’s system of leadership, getting power and exercising power. It is opposed to God’s system of honor. The political system functions through works of flesh, not operations of spirit. Luke 22:24-30 Influence leverage vs inspirational influence Confidence by competition vs boldness by dependence Claiming rights for authority vs submissive surrender […]
Category: General
Faithfulness Expands Authority
Faith has consequences. Our behavior and beliefs answer to one another. If we fail to act out the consequences of what we believe, we must ultimately deny or redefine our faith. Faithfulness speaks of our “fulfillment-of-faith,” of behavior and lifestyle that prioritizing life by arranging the highest and lowest and everything else in between. We […]
Discipling and Fathering
Discipling is Jesus’ growth, and maturity strategy for personal and kingdom leadership. Discipling matures ordinary Christians into ministering leaders. Discipling is not a temporary or paranthentical aspect of spiritual growth; it is a pattern of relationship that matures as the people involved mature. In other words, we are always being discipled and discipling if we […]
Leadership Functions in the Body
The spiritual Body is the ecclesia. The ecclesia is a spiritual Body. The two terms denote different ways of looking at how they operate. They are both spiritual because they are both kingdom. The kingdom is spiritual. Beginning with this understanding helps us avoid taking the analogies too far or attempting to make them too […]
Dominated by Purpose
God wants to dominate your life with His purpose. God wants to dominate your home with His purpose. God wants to dominate your city with His purpose. God wants to dominate your region with His purpose. God wants to dominate your nation with His purpose. God wants to dominate your generation with His purpose so […]
Aligning With Kingdom Purpose
Alignment with Your Fathers God set things up so that He would be your Father. God set things up so you would have a natural father. God set things up so you would have spiritual fathers. So, you have, at least, three fathers, and God set things up that way. You didn’t have anything to […]
False Expectations and Grieving a Phantom
The atmosphere of narcissism moves the center to self much like ancient errors that Earth was the center. We live with a foggy mirror in our hands that reflects ourselves when we are narcissistic. It is foggy with false expectation. Paul says we should see Jesus in the foggy mirror, that beholding His Glory transforms […]
A Prophetic Vision for North Florida
Isaiah 45:8 – “Distil, O heavens, and pour out your righteousness (norms of heavenly behavior). Let the earth open wide so both rescue that restores and heavenly norms can sprout up. I, the LORD, created them these norms and their restoration.” ra’aph and nazal, distil and pour out. The sense of “distill” is that the humidity turns into […]
Let’s Review our Prophetic Protocols Basics
We need to go back to basics with prophetic protocols. Really! We have to revisit the simplest aspects of revelatory experience. A season of maturing must come, and we must begin a proper dialogue of how prophetic ministry functions. We need to get a basic discussion going about the intentions of God in revelation, the […]
Falling into the Trap of Offense
The use of Jesus’ term, a Greek word that Jesus and writers of the Gospels and Paul used in an unique way, has received a narrow treatment of meaning. The spectrum of meaning and application has been narrowed, in fact, so much that we have lost some of the unique meaning that Jesus assigned to […]