Category: General

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 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 […]

Note “I’m offering this insight as part of the apostolic and prophetic mix of revelation God is providing Florida for the fall of 2014. It culminates a process I discern occurring for more than a decade and I would locate us in the first year of its fulfillment. I offer it with a sense that […]

God wants everybody but He never starts with everybody. He starts with a remnant and remnant start with leaders. More specifically, He starts with Remnant leaders. Remnant leaders function as forerunners. To identify the next season properly, we must identify the forerunner anointing preparing the Lord a people who will be ready to respond when […]

The Discipling Norm While the term, “disciple,” is coupled with “knowing,” and the two terms speak to the concept of leadership development in the kingdom of God, Jesus is more interested in the level of commitment to which His disciples than mere instruction. Discipling is more about learning a lifestyle through shared spiritual experience than […]

The SpiritFirst life begins with being born by the Spirit. Natural man gives birth to natural. Spirit man gives birth to spirit. In each case, the Creator is the Creator of natural and spirit life. The spiritual womb is dormant and unknown until the conception by Holy Spirit of spirit provides spirit life in a […]

Because leadership involves the leader with other people, the level of SpiritFirst leadership in which a leader can function depends upon the spiritual maturity of the people the leader is leading, not just the spiritual maturity of the leader. That is, in order to mature in spiritual leadership, the leader must mature the people, not […]

When I hear people use the phrases “I’m under attack” or “I’m in a battle,” I usually make an assumption about what they mean different from their viewpoint. I assume they mean that God has assigned them to fulfill a purpose and they’ve run into some of God’s enemies when what they usually mean is […]

The “controlling leader” labels may be valid for many leaders who hold people in bondage to their own agendas. Millions of believers are held captive by controlling leaders. Such a condition if foreign to the kingdom – God is never a controlling leader. He is a Father, and the kingdom is a spiritual family. The […]

In order to move the Body into a reset of its foundations, reclaiming apostolic and prophetic foundations, we may have been guilty of “dumbing down” certain aspects of these kingdom leadership functions. Coming out of a season of in which our definition of “church” was “the accumulation of believers,” we have approached this reset in […]