Author • Prophetic Teacher • Kingdom Builder
Most people know that Jesus was flogged before the crucifixion. But very few have ever asked the deeper question: why thirty-nine stripes specifically? What was accomplished by each one? Was the suffering merely the price of forgiveness, or was every wound carrying a specific weight - a specific transaction between heaven and earth?
The Christian life is not a leisurely walk. It is a march through contested territory. And the enemy who contests it is not careless. He is methodical. He is ancient. And he has been studying human weakness since the Garden of Eden. In all my years of ministry and intercession, one truth has stayed with…
We begin by understanding storms. Not minimising them. Not spiritualising them prematurely. But naming them for what they are: real, painful, disorienting forces that come in many forms, financial, relational, physical, spiritual, emotional. Then we move into the resources God has placed in our hands for enduring them. His mercy, which is not sentiment but…
Over years in ministry, I have watched a pattern repeat itself so many times it began to grieve me. A believer loses their marriage, and then they start fasting - but God had been nudging them about that relationship for months and they ignored it. A business collapses, and then they cry out for financial…
The Bible is not a book of polished saints. It is a record of wild, imperfect, sometimes embarrassing people who loved God so completely that they stopped caring what it looked like. Rahab hid enemy spies and risked her life on a God she had only heard rumours about. David stripped off his royal robes…
The Apostle Paul said we should not be ignorant of Satan's devices. That word ignorant is important. It does not mean stupidity. It means a lack of information. And in warfare, ignorance is not innocence. It is peril. For years in ministry, I have watched people lose ground not through spectacular moral failure but through…
Your storm is not wasted. Your suffering has not been overlooked. God is not confused by your situation. He was in it before you arrived, and He will be waiting on the other side. The question is not whether you will make it through. The question is who you will be when you do.