Regional? So, why “regional Ecclesia?” While a great deal of discussion has been given to city church, and some pretty definitive statements made about what the Bible recognizes as a “Ecclesia,” we return to the same premise: What does that word mean in the mouth of the person speaking it or writing it? Because the […]

Simon Peter walked on water until he was distracted by the wind and waves. The wind and waves are potential, the vast ocean of possibility from which obedience and submission carves eternal purpose. Prioritize your Passion, Preparation, and Positioning The greatest enemy of purpose is potential. Every temptation of Jesus was a test to substitute […]

Character and Glory “God passed by and declared His Name.” The many names for God all reveal facets of His character and can be manifested as aspects of His Glory. Glory is a manifestation of some aspect of His character. Obviously, Glory does not manifest all His Glory; Glory manifests on purpose, and whatever aspect […]

The battle of culture is the battle of the kingdom conquest. Kingdom come. Kingdom culture. Kingdom conquest. We advance kingdom through leadership. Leadership is influence we can measure by impact. Kingdom leadership is kingdom influence. Kingdom is spiritual, so we know kingdom leadership is spiritual leadership and kingdom influence is spiritual influence. Nothing can be […]

Jesus says, “Lazarus, come out!” And, the dead man got up and came out of the tomb. The only Person present to release the resuscitation is the Intercessor who submits to the process of pregnancy and gives birth to a purpose. The boldness to call a dead man to life when no one else has even […]

When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he wept because there remained nothing more to conquer, and he set about to put a mark of Greek culture on every conquered land. To bring cultural influence into those nation states, he called an “apostolos” to his court and authorized him with an assignment. The apostle would […]

Once you stop seeking potential and focus upon purpose, the filtering system of your revelation process will reach greater purity. The nebulous context of potential will leave you pursuing delusions more than destiny. The prophetic process requires interpretation, and the framework of the prophetic is purpose. The context of potential works against purity of perception […]

I stood at the bedside of my son who the doctors said wouldn’t make it three more days. I had a ticket to Brasil in my jacket pocket and a promise that if I did in that nation what God asked me to do, He would save my three sons and their wives, as He […]

Spiritual gates obviously open and close becoming strategic to what enters and exits. A way through, or to and from, can be opened or closed. We must seek to discern this more than exhaustively research it. It is a metaphoric way of explaining, “How Thing Really Work in the Spirit.” Gates to our lives are […]

“I will build by Ecclesia and the strategically positioned authorities of Hades will be displaced by its expansion.” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 16) The gates are the points of confrontation with the prevailing spiritual condition. The enemy will be happy for intercessors to browbeat anywhere else because it produces moral victories instead of transformation. The […]