There is no safer place on earth to hide than in the manifest presence of Christ. Even King David knew this spiritual reality. In fact, God may actually orchestrate seasons in our life when we face personal enemies in order to motivate us to seek His manifest presence more intentionally.  Read More

We have all heard the statement, “Don’t just stand there, do something”. Often, however, God says, “Don’t just do something, stand there”. Face it, God’s kingdom is often counter intuitive.  Read More

Every child of God can hear the voice of God. It’s simple! When we initially respond to the Holy Spirit and cry out, “Daddy! Papa! Father!”, it is God’s Spirit talking to our human spirit, convincing us that we are His child. If you want to learn to consistently hear God’s voice, this is where you start. This is Hearing 101.  Read More

No one seeks for God. This is a foundational reality that is essential to fully realize—our internal ability to desire God and to seek after God is broken beyond repair. Only God can fix it. Our only hope is a sovereign, prevenient work of grace that God Himself will reach inside our chest cavity and stir in us a desire to seek after God. If the Lord Jesus has already done this miraculous work in you, praise Him. If He has not done it in your spouse or loved one, seek Him for it.  Read More

There is no better way to start the day than by being awakened by the voice of God speaking in your ear. Sometimes minutes before your alarm goes off, and sometimes in the middle of the night, God will awaken you to pray. Rather than being annoyed by God’s wake up calls, if you train yourself to obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit, those moments will be the most precious, the most inspirational, the most creative, and the most productive moments in your day.  Read More

On this date, November 1, in the Year of our Lord 1934, Billy Graham received Christ as His Savior. He was 16 years of age. In his biography, Just As I Am, Billy Graham described the night he came to Christ in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Read More

On this day, October 31, in the year of Lord 1904, the manifest presence of Christ was poured out on Evan Roberts and the seventeen young adults who stayed with him to pray in Moriah Chapel in New Qua, Wales (where he would later be buried at the age of seventy-three.) He had shared his burden for revival and asked all seventeen to confess Christ as Savior. In the next two hours, every student had prayed to receive Christ. They decided to meet every night that week, and one of the prayer services lasted until 6:00 A.M. the next morning.  Read More

When you pray Your kingdom come you have authority to pray down righteousness, peace, and joy not only on yourself, but on your family, church family, and community. Think about it. What a high calling and privilege!  Read More

When you pray Your kingdom come, you are praying the power of God to be expressed in signs and wonders. It is all too easy to talk about the kingdom, but talk is cheap. Your children want more than words; they want to see power.  Read More

When you pray Your kingdom come you are praying for salvation. Is it not a great blessing to know that you have authority to pray for the salvation of your loved ones? It is part of your nobility as a son or daughter of the King to be able to effectively pray for the salvation of family members and friends. Don’t ever stop. Pray confidently. Pray consistently. Pray until you get the answer. Your loved ones are counting on you -- your God is counting on you.  Read More

As you pray Your kingdom come, whether you know it or not, you are inviting God to shake up the spiritual realm around you. You are inviting the kingdom of Christ to evict and overthrow the kingdom of darkness.  Read More

The more you pray the kingdom the more your strength of spirit will increase. You will be praying with greater and greater passion and intensity because those who pray the kingdom receive the kingdom. The seekers become the receivers. In fact, you can’t become a seeker of the kingdom until the kingdom comes on you. When the kingdom comes forcefully on you, it will come forcefully through you in prayer.  Read More

God wants to not only teach you what to look for in order to recognize His kingdom, He wants you to pray with your eyes open so that you know how to recognize the kingdom when it comes.  Read More

It is essential to have an accurate view of Christ when you pray. We celebrate the baby Jesus leading up to Christmas. We celebrate the crucified Jesus every time we take communion. We celebrate the resurrection of Christ every Easter. Today, however, it is essential when you pray to realize that Jesus is not a baby in a manger, nor a mangled body hanging on a tree, nor simply One who rose from the dead; Christ is the ascended, exalted, and glorified Christ. He was a baby for only a year, He was crucified for only a few hours, He was risen and walked the earth for forty days, but He has been ascended, exalted, and glorified for two thousand years!  Read More

When the Apostle John saw the risen, ascended, glorified, exalted Christ, he saw Him standing in the middle of seven flame holders. The Greek word used here is LUXNOS, which represented a freestanding piece of furniture that held oil and was continuously lit as a flame holder. This means that the church exists for one primary purpose: to hold out the flame of the manifest presence of Christ.  Read More

No one knew Jesus better than the Apostle John who was called the beloved disciple. John laid his head against Jesus’ chest. He had been invited into Jesus’ closest circle of friends, and when His mother stood at the foot of the cross watching Jesus die, the Lord said to John, Here is your mother. You could say John was Jesus’ BFF, and yet, when he now encounters the manifest presence of the exalted, glorified, ascended Christ, he falls at His feet as though dead. Paralyzed. Comatose. Incinerated in the flaming presence of the exalted Christ.  Read More

The Holy Spirit loves to draw attention to Jesus. The Apostle John was a political prisoner of Rome on the island of Patmos when he was conspicuously re-filled with the Holy Spirit. Within moments he encountered the manifest presence of Christ in a way he had never encountered Him before.  Read More

Every encounter with the manifest presence of Christ thrusts you more forcefully on mission with God. When the Apostle John was utterly ravaged by encountering the glorified, ascended, exalted Christ and was reduced to a heap of ashes in true, on-your-face worship, Jesus didn’t leave him there on the floor. He placed His hand on John’s shoulder, restored his dignity, and gave him his new assignment. Write, therefore, the things that you have seen.   Read More

Fear is often the natural response when you encounter the manifest presence of Christ because you are encountering the unknown. Even the Apostle John, who arguably knew Christ better than any person on earth, feared for his life when he encountered the ascended, exalted, and glorified Christ. Too often, our worship is too tame, predictable, and non-threatening. God wants your Christ-encountering worship to sometimes shake you to the core.  Read More

Imagine feeling the hand of God on your shoulder, or on your forehead. Most of us will never experience that sensation, but the Apostle John did. You can know, however, the reality of what God’s hand transmitted to John.  Read More

You always want to be battle-ready to face the day. Since both your authority and your identity are in Christ, you can confidently put on your battle-ready armor right now. Father God, I put on the belt of truth; Jesus is the Truth...  Read More

Every morning when you get out of bed, no matter what else you will face that day, your two most significant battles are these: 1) Will you praise the Lord? 2) Will you encounter the steadfast love of God? If you can win these two battles, you can win every other issue you face.  Read More

Every promise God gives to us in the Bible is a means by which He intends us to encounter His manifest presence and to actually become partakers of the divine nature. This verse identifies an entire category of scripture that are called promises. These promises are even identified as very great and precious. The more you believe them, trust in them, cash in on them, and use them to encounter God’s manifest presence and to become partakers of the divine nature, the more great and precious they will become to you.  Read More

When King David was in crisis mode following his lapse in judgment and moral failure, he took firm hold of the attributes of God in prayer—His steadfast love and abundant mercy.   Read More