Interpreting Your Tests Perhaps David’s rejection became his open door to seeking God’s acceptance. Key thought: A kingdom leader’s greatest battles prophesy his greatest destiny. One thing is certain: the pathway of preparation for reset leaders is not peaceful, pretty, or panacea. Kingdom leaders face crucibles of intense personal pain, rejection, misunderstanding, abuse, solitude, and […]
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Personal Disciplines to Mature the Prophetic
The term “discipline” describes any process or behavior that produces maturity. Self-discipline describes process or behaviors produced by strength of will. In one sense, all discipline is self-discipline even when the discipline received comes through a leader. Submission to that leadership or “following,” applies the discipline. Discipline and punishment differ in both intention and application. Discipline […]
Opportunistic Leaders
More often than I wish to think, I encounter leaders best understood as opportunists. Opportunists profit from their immediate circumstances with little or no consideration for people, protocol, or principle affected by their inappropriate advantage. An opportunistic leader attempts to look like a visionary when they are not actually receiving vision as much as they […]
Blueprint Leaders, Take Your Places!
We need some blueprint leaders in America! We need foundational leaders in our nation! We need someone who can step up to another level and bring a kingdom schematic to the mini-movements that will produce something we can build on. While it is certain that we have blueprints leaders, the blueprints they possess for mini-movements […]
Mini-movements: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
Maturing mini-movements offer structures for simple spiritual strategies that every member of the Body can understand, practice, and perpetuate. As mini-movements form, they plant both seeds of success and failure at their inceptions. Maintaining a strategic focus upon what produces “success,” with an equal vigilance toward minimizing “failures,” challenges all leaders, and has particular bearing […]
Strategy Trumps Unity
To realize the highest unity, we often sacrifice the very reason why we seek it. Kingdom has purpose and strategy as a basis for unity. We need to pursue kingdom unity. To do so, we must being with kingdom. We see unity in the Upper Room. Unless we are careful in our thinking, we assume […]
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 […]
Revival and Riot: Spiritual and Cultural Contrast
Dr Don has been prophesying a season of Awakening in America for several years that would be marked by both revival and riot. The Awakening will bring holy riot to the kingdom and chaotic riot to the streets. Both aspects of this season are manifesting. Dr Don today: “A season of contrast has arrived. Strong […]
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 […]