When God says, Come, it is not only an invitation, it is an activation. When God says Come, it activates within you not only the ability to come into his manifest presence, but the desire to come.  Read More

God never created anyone with the ability to hear His voice on their own; and he never created anyone unable to hear His voice with his help. The ability to hear from God is given by the activation of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit can activate your hearing just as well as anyone else.  Read More

When God says, Behold! He is not only giving a command, He is giving a wake up call that activates in you the ability to see something you have never seen before.  Read More

The greatest hindrance to overcoming a lukewarm heart and a lukewarm church is the thought that you will never conquer a lukewarm spirit. This thought is a lie, and it must be defeated.  Read More

When God says, "Be zealous", He is certainly not giving you an assignment that you can fulfill all by yourself. Zeal is not something you can pump up or manufacture. Zeal in you comes from zeal in Christ, and the only way for you to have it, is to receive it from Christ. And that is a promise.  Read More

At the heart of revival is encountering the manifest presence of Christ, and every encounter involves a form of eating, or partaking, of His presence.  Read More

Every time God says, "I will", it is a promise. One of the greatest "I will" promises God ever made, He made to the lukewarm church in desperate need of revival. The heart of revival is the returning of God's manifest presence.  Read More

Habakkuk 2:14 is a promise— that one day the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea will fill the earth. Today the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, but very few of us recognize his glory. One day soon, however, the earth will be filled with the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of the Lord.  Read More

Revival-prayer flows from a healthy heart— a heart that longs to encounter the manifest presence of Christ. Healthy hearts have been crying out for revival for thousands of years. In one way or another all prayer leads toward the vortex of encountering God’s manifesting presence.  Read More

Hope is a righteous stronghold; hopelessness is an unrighteous stronghold. Hope is an authentic stronghold; hopelessness is an illusion. Both are powerful, but hope is invincible.  Read More

The God of hope wants to deliver you from hopelessness today. Hopelessness has been called the greatest enemy of revival. You will never ask for revival, let alone receive revival, if you are hopeless.  Read More

When God told you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, he gave you both a command and a promise. Jesus never asks anyone to do something without making it possible.  Read More

The reason the church is not in a perpetual state of revival is because we are content to live without it. The reason we are content to live without revival is because we are not convinced that God promises us revival. This is absolutely tragic.  Read More

Every name of God is a promise. When Jesus said, before Abraham was, I AM, he categorically put himself in a league all by himself. He was not simply identifying himself as one among many religious leaders. He was not putting himself on par with Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, or Abraham. He wasn’t simply calling himself a son of God like you and I are sons of God. Jesus was saying he is God— equal with God— equal with the one who identified himself to Moses as, I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14).   Read More

Everyone faces stress, weariness, depletion. When Jesus says, I am the true vine, he offers himself as the open-access, never-ending, internal-battery-recharging presence to continually replenish your life. The only requirement is intimacy with Him.  Read More

When Jesus said, I am the life, he not only gives us an accurate revelation of himself, he gives an accurate revelation of what is really going on inside you. Jesus is life and he is life-giving.  Read More

We live in a world of ambiguity— a culture that accepts expedient lies, situational ethics, blatant deception, when the ends seem to justify the means. Into such a world of ambiguity black-and-white Jesus stands up and boldly proclaims I am the truth.  Read More

When Jesus said, I am the way, he made you a promise. His name is not only a promise, it is activating— Jesus wants to be your waymaker. Jesus is specifically promising you that he is your waymaker to the Father— “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).  Read More

When Jesus said, I am the resurrection, he promised that he, and he alone, can bring life back to dead things. And he does. Just as Jesus brought life back to Lazarus’ three-day-dead body, he can bring life back to dead things for you.  Read More

Don’t underestimate the value of non-stop access to the best pastor you could imagine. How often have you thought, “If only there was someone I could talk with right now about this situation.”   Read More

When Christ identifies himself by name, he intends to not only identify himself, but to activate faith and obedience in you. Every name of God is a promise, and the seven I AM statements are strategic.  Read More

The seven I AM statements of Jesus are seven promises. God intends you to use these seven strategic statements to activate a faith-response in you, that activates an impartation-response in God.  Read More

Every name of God is a promise of God because every name of God is rooted in his unchangeable character.  Read More

The words forever and ever are never used casually. Not everything is eternal; in fact, in reality, very few things are eternal.  Read More