Month: January 2026

What are you leaning on? Where we lean reveals where we find our confidence, where we put our trust. If where we lean changes, we feel shaky, nervous, unsettled. What are you leaning on?

Some of the places and people we lean on are stable for a season, but when they change, we feel unstable. If you lean on a President or Prime Minister, a Pastor or Apostle, if they do something other than what you expect, it shakes you.

If you lean on numbers, which many many many people do, if those numbers dip below where you feel safe, it makes you feel unstable. This can be stock market numbers, paycheck numbers, bank account numbers, members numbers, so many numbers we as people lean on.

King David shifted his confidence from covenant to numbers and it was detrimental for him. In 2 Samuel 24, King David took a census and this census brought judgment from the Lord. Why? Because the census was a David initiated not God commanded census. The census revealed numbers David wanted to know in order to have confidence in a battle God called him to fight.

Joab warned David not to take the census, but he took it anyway. This census shifted confidence from covenant to numbers and God was not happy.

We live in a world of numbers. Job numbers, stock market numbers, portfolio numbers, credit numbers, membership numbers, bank account numbers. There are numbers everywhere, but the Lord is saying, don’t shift your trust from covenant to numbers or it will make you shaky, unstable, insecure.

Numbers fluctuate, covenant remains constant, consistent. Lean on the truth that you are in a covenant relationship with God, so if numbers fluctuate you may see it but it does not alter your confidence, for covenant is continual, numbers are temporal. Www.apostolicresoucecenter.org

I have a strong sense in the spirit that some have given up on the waiting at the crossroads. Some have come to a crossroads moment in their life and some paused, but the Lord is saying you did not wait, you did not watch, you did not listen.

Proverbs 8 says, “Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud.”

After reading this, immediately I heard in my spirit Jeremiah 6:16, “This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”

Some have not asked for wisdom at the crossroads, they just did their own thing. Others asked for wisdom, but did not get an answer quick enough. As I heard this in the spirit, the Lord showed me Saul who was told to wait for Samuel to do the evening sacrifice, but when he didn’t show up in the time Saul thought he should, he proceeded without him. (1 Samuel 15).

Friends, impatience is a high price to pay. Our own opinions, plans, goals and thoughts are a high price to pay, when we are at a crossroads moment. We must ask for wisdom, we must wait for wisdom’s answer, we must not proceed prematurely, even when the waiting is very uncomfortable.

I sense in the spirit people are dealing with the consequences of their impatience or their own decisions. These consequences are not an attack, they are the result of not waiting on the Lord, doing your own thing.

We have entered a new season in the earth and we must remain 15 steps behind the ark, for we have not gone this way before. (Joshua 3). Slow down, be still, wait on the Lord, lean into Him, the consequences are not worth the rush. Trust the Lord. Ask for wisdom. Listen carefully and obey quickly. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We have heard the phrase, “in the shadow”. When something or someone is in the shadow of something else, that means the person or thing is blocking our ability to see the sun, so it is casting a shadow. When we live in the shadow we cannot see the sun, only the shadow.

Babylon is a system of government that has cast a shadow and blocked many people’s ability to see the Son. The Son has been building a kingdom that cannot be shaken since He rose from the dead. This kingdom has been in the shadow of Babylon and its ruling system. This is why many can’t see the kingdom, because Babylon is blocking the Son.

However, the Son does not stop shining, does not stop building, does not stop advancing, just because Babylon and its system has blocked its view. It continues to be built in the shadow. Noah built an ark in the shadow of a wicked system during his day. He did not stop building just because it was in the shadow.

Jesus walked the earth in the shadow of a larger than life religious system of control. He did not cease to build people, display miracles, and defy the system, just because He was walking in the shadow of a Roman governmental system.

Building does not stop just because it is being built in the shadow of an existing system. Psalm 37:38 says, “Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.” When the structure creating the shadow is removed, you will see clearly what was being built.

Hope is confident expectation. Hope keeps us building even in the shadow, when others can’t see what is being built. The wicked systems are being destroyed, Babylon is falling, and when the larger than life system falls, all will see the kingdom that has been continually being built. They saw the ark in Noah’s day, they saw the miracles in Jesus’ day and they will see the kingdom on earth in our day. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There is no scarcity in the kingdom of God. When the world is fearing a stock market crash, the four horses of the apocalypse or some other gloom and doom outcome, the sun is shining bright in the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God is a place of abundance in every way. To see the kingdom all you have to do is go outside on a rainy day and think about how many rain drops are falling, just where you are, let alone all over the world. It is an abundance of rain.

Have you ever sat on the beach and looked at the amount of water in that one body of water you are looking at, not even realizing that is only one of the many bodies of water on earth. There is an abundance of water there, but also an abundance of sea creatures below the surface.

Have you ever sat outside on a clear night and looked up at the sky. I did this the other morning and the Lord reminded me, these are the same stars Abraham looked up and saw when he was promised descendants more numerous than the stars. There is an abudance of light even in the night sky.

Psalm 36 says, “How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.” Abundance reveals the love of God in a way that overwhelms us.

Many of us know lack, scarcity, survival mode, the grind, work ethic and earning, but when the Lord changes the season from earning to receiving, from striving to inheriting, the love of God releases an abundance that is incomprehensible. You don’t deserve it, you didn’t earn it, but you can receive it. Abundance communicates love in a way many have not experienced, but are about to. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

A splash of color adds life, vigor, joy, to any room. In a world that is loving black and white, beige and brown, a splash of color adds value to a room. People are like that splash of color, they add value to the room.

Yesterday in church a friend shared how he and his wife are doing after spending their first 90 days living in Uruguay. Before service we spoke and he said, it already feels like home there. Then we he got up to speak in front of the church, he said, I could show you the soccer complex we are building and ask for funding, but what really matters is the people not the building.

He went on to speak of two men who have captured his heart since being in Uruguay. He said, when I tell them about our church, I do not show them a picture of the barn we meet in, I tell them about the people who have shaped us and formed us. The room was in tears. People add value, people are the splash of color.

God loves color as well. Exodus 24:9-10 says, “Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.” The Hebrew word is Sapir where we get the word sapphire from. People are the valuable jewels in our lives that add a splash of color.

While pondering these thoughts, I thanked the Lord for being my sole provider and as I said these words, the Holy Spirit showed me the words soul provider. I said sole provider, but the Holy Spirit said soul provider. God is our sole and soul provider and He gives us people as the pop of color for our soul. I am thankful for the sapphires, diamonds, rubies, emeralds in my life. They truly add a pop of color. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When something works we as people like to copy the pattern of success in order to be successful continually. The challenge is, this may work in business, church growth, marriage counseling or raising children, but it does not work in the kingdom of God.

God is a Creator, which means He is creative and very rarely does the same thing twice. People have noted throughout the centuries how Jesus used a variety of ways to heal people. To one he spit on the ground and made mud; to another He spoke a word; to another He allowed them to touch the hem of His garment. Creativity is the way of God.

The same is true in warfare. If we are successful in one way of warfare, we want to employ that same way every time. The challenge is our doing the same thing over and over again is not working and we know it but do not want to admit it.

When God was dealing with Pharaoh, He used 10 plagues; when God was dealing with the Amalekites, He used the raised arms of Moses; when God was dealing with the giants in the land of Canaan, He used hornets. Three different wars, three different methods. God is creative.

Exodus 23:27-28 says, “I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.”

If you are looking for plagues or raised arms to win the battle of the promised land, you will not be successful, because God is not used those methods in this land, He is using hornets to drive out the enemy. Knowing what God is using, when and where is critical for success in the kingdom.

May we be ones who listen, learn and follow the ways of God, for obedience to His voice is the only way to be successful in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Safety biblically is not found in size, but in obedience.

Reading Exodus 16 this morning, verse 36 caught my attention. “An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.” I read this verse and thought, why is this even being mentioned, what is the point of a verse like this? Then because it is a verse about a tenth, I thought it had something to do with tithing, for the context is God commanding Aaron to put an Omer of manna in a jar to keep for generations to come. Things that make you go hmmmm.

On the surface I have overlooked this passage, but today, it was a well to dig, a hole to mine, a treasure to hunt. What I learned about this simple verse which seems so insignificant, is actually very profound.

An omer was the daily provision God decided the Israelites needed as they traveled through the wilderness. It was Jesus saying in Matthew 6, give us this day, our daily bread. An omer of manna was their daily sufficiency. However, their disobedience to only collect an omer a day per person, ended up turning into maggots the next day because they disobeyed.

Fear of running out, fear of lack, is a trust issue not a monetary one. Proverbs 30:7-9 says, “Two things I ask of you, LORD; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.”

The omer is a part of the ephah, if the omer is daily provision, the ephah represents absolute sufficiency. God determines what is enough for us, but as we trust the enough of the omer, we gain access to the ephah or sufficiency.

What we need is only a portion of what He has for us, but we must trust Him with the omer, if we are going to access the ephah. Our faith grows best within God defined limits. Trust His boundaries around you, for He is always wanting to extend them. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Doing life together is a partnership. As we learn to do life with God, we must know His part and know our part. The most effective relationships work when we know and do our part and allow the other person to know and do their part.

To do life together takes trust. The more you trust someone the easier it is to do life with them. The reason being is because you know they will do what they say they will do and they know you will do what you say you will do. There is no manipulation, control, fear, anxiety, or deception. Trust is the key to doing life with others.

As we walk with God, He is truth, He is light, He is hope, He is joy, He is life, He is authentic in the truest sense of the word. Trusting God should be the easiest thing we can do, but you can’t trust who you don’t know.

From Genesis 1 until now, God has wanted to walk with us, He trusts us, wants to do life with us, but we have a role to play in this relationship. Psalm 32:1-2 lays out this relationship perfectly. “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.”

God forgives our transgressions, covers our sins and does not count them against us. This is His role in this relationship. Our role is to live with no deceit in our spirit. We have been really good at letting God play His role in our lives, being forgiven, but we have not been good at letting the truth set us free from deceit.

Deceit is what has kept us from doing life with God and others. Deceit is the enemy of all relationships. If we do not love truth, no matter what lie that means we must address, we will not be able to do life with God or others, for our role is to have a spirit in which there is no deceit.

No wonder Paul said in Romans 12:2 do not be conformed, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We must not go another day with the deceit in our spirit that is hindering our ability to do life with God and with others. Truth is the only way, not my truth or your truth, but God’s truth that sets us free. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Immediately upon awaking this morning the Holy Spirit said, “It is time to be circumcised again.” I knew this was a quote from Joshua 5:2 “At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.” Now the question was is this personal or national and as I read the story in which the verse comes from, I knew this was a command for national circumcision.

We have crossed over into a New Year, Israel had crossed over into a new land. Upon arrival in the new, the Lord called for circumcision again. But why? Haven’t we been through enough? Can’t we get to possessing what has been promised? The answer is yes, so we must be circumcised again as a nation.

The wilderness period is over. We are in the new land God has for us. Circumcision in Joshua 5 is tied to promise realized, it is about rolling away the reproach of Egypt, it is about establishing and reconstituting our covenant identity as a nation. We cannot possess the promise until we are marked by circumcision again.

We need this nationally, because all those decades in Egypt/Babylon gave us a slave identity; unfulfilled promises or hope deferred that made our heart sick; and gave us a dependence on Babylon mentality, which caused us to live in survival mode. These things God wants to roll off of us.

Egypt trained us to survive not inherit. Being circumcised again is giving us a new identity so we can begin again. This circumcision is preparing us to possess all that God has for us. We must be circumcised again as a nation.

Once we establish our national identity, we will walk in national authority and then be able to access our national inheritance. This circumcision again is happening to many many nations around the world, not just one, but many. God is preparing nations to inherit what He has promised them.

Our new learning curve is to move from survival to inheriting and this shift will be massive, so it starts with circumcision, which will roll back the reproach of Egypt so we can enjoy this Psalm 126 year where we are like those who dream! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org