Month: February 2026

All over the world people attend church. One common thing I have noticed in churches all over the world is that people do not have a problem coming in late, missing worship, getting up to go to the bathroom, leaving early, talking to neighbors, or playing games on their phones.

One of the gifts I have is observation and those observations reveal patterns. It is not an American pattern, it is an around the world pattern I have observed. It happens every Sunday and I have always wondered how the protocol for a movie is a higher standard for people than the protocol in church?

I sit through movies in the theatre with people, all over the world and the protocol is the same. People come in, for the most part before the actually movie starts. There is a rare occasion someone enters while the movie is playing. Phones are off, no one moves, no one talks and we are all focused on the movie, little to no distractions.

Things that make me wonder what is more attention grabbing in a movie than is happening in church? Or is it revealing our values more than what is being portrayed in front of us? If we value being entertained, we will focus and not be distracted, but if we value God, worship, and HIs word, we are listening intently, absorbing continually and evaluating ourselves continuallly.

Just something to think about.

I was in worship yesterday and as we were singing the Lord spoke to me and said, “I alone am on the throne!” I then saw in the spirit a throne and God alone was on the throne. No one else was on the throne with Him. He sat alone on the throne. My eyes were fixated on Him on the throne, all alone. No competition, no comparison, no equal, no rival, nothing but Him alone.

When we value Him, we will see Him; when we see Him, we will value Him more and more. Once you see Him, there is nothing that will entertain you, distract you, or catch your attention again, because He is so beautiful everything else is a cheap imitation. He alone is on the throne. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

What material are you made of? At the core of who you were created to be in your mother’s womb, you are made of gold. A metal that can withstand the fire. A tested, tried and true metal. When you are born of metal that is made for fire, fire refines you and it defines you.

We as people are invited to call the gold out in others. The challenge is there is a lot of flesh covering up the gold. When flesh faces the fire the smell of burning flesh is undesirable to anyone who has ever smelled it before. Yet the burning of flesh is for the revealing of gold.

1 Peter 4 speaks of fiery trials, saying, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.” Flesh is burning so gold can be revealed.

The Lord is so good to us, He is always seeking to bring the gold out of us. Everyone at the core is made of gold. Revelation 1 describes the eyes of Jesus, “were like blazing fire.” The fire in HIs eyes is calling out the gold inside of you.

The Lord is inviting HIs church to stop resisting the fire of God. We love the fire of God in revival, thinking it is for better or longer services, but the fire of God is for refining and defining who we are. He knows who we are, we don’t know who we are.

Malachi 3:2-3 says, “For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness.” God is refining and defining leaders right now, but it is not going to stop there, it is only starting there.

We all are kings and priests, and to whom much is given, much is required. We can’t call ourselves Christians and not be refined. The fire of God has been lit, the leaders are being refined and defined, but this fire always has been and always will be Hebrews 12:28, “our God is an all consuming fire.” We are made for the fire, so submitting to it is a blessing, He is calling the gold out of you. Stop resisting the fire. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org