Today I spoke with a young man who feels "stuck" in his transition. Transitions are like this. You do not pass until you are supposed to. They always last too long in the middle an and never long enough when you look back. He asked me, "Have there been times when you did what you were supposed to do and it did not look like you thought it should look?" There are lessons in this that I am supposed to teach him. But the hardest lesson of them all is this: who decides what it should look like? And WHEN? When God trains a man, He allows them to purchase relevance and relatability and authenticity to such a degree that they cannot be ignored in future seasons. You walk through what you're called to address - and it is not easy. One of my anointing is to show you the trustworthiness of God in a way that is irrevocable. This cannot be done with the mind. The realm of the intellect cannot keep up with the realm of the spirit. I know God is who He is not because of what I see but what I perceive. God is trustworthy whether I get my way or whether I get the opposite. God is trustworthy when it works and when it doesn't. God is trustworthy at the top and He is trustworthy at the bottom. But I did not learn this in a book. My anointing is not powered by what I have learned. You do not LEARN to walk into the river of anointing - you find it and feel it while you are drowning in the middle of the river. I am sorry that it is this way. There are many who will disagree - not because they know but because they simply do not like it. It sounds bad when you look through the lens of the intellect but in the spirit it is a wonderful gift. What better way to train than to discover RIGHT at the edge, just before you need it. If you discover your anointing any other way you will think you own it. But I did not respond this way to him, though. I just said "Yes." Then laughed. There was deep emotion, not because I said anything special, but because anointing was surfacing. The moment you shift from speaking to a person's mind to speaking to their heart - you have stepped into anointing.

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Please pray for me as I’m currently in the Coober Pedy Hospital after suffering a heart attack. I’m hooked up to a heart monitor and ECG MONITOR but the Morphine is working wonders while I’m waiting on the Royal Flying Doctor Service to come & fly me to Adelaide for further evaluation & treatment. 😔🙏✝️🙏😔

I’m hashing out details but wanted to put it on everybody’s radar that we will be launching a Bible study called “The Persecuted Church: Are you willing to count the cost?”

The other day I received revelation from the Lord, and I want to share it with y’all. I was contemplating the season I have found myself in and likened it to the Wilderness. I began reading in Exodus when Israel was on a journey toward the Promised Land. They had already been delivered from Egypt and had seen the power of God with their own eyes, so they were no longer slaves, but they had not yet reached the place He had promised to give them. They were caught in the middle of the journey, still traveling, and worn down from it. That is exactly where Amalek came against them. Deuteronomy tells us that Amalek struck Israel from behind, going after the stragglers, the ones who were faint and weary. They did not attack when everyone was strong and moving together as one. They waited until people were vulnerable and falling behind, and that is when they struck. The Lord began to speak to me and show me the revelation in this for us today. There are seasons when you are walking toward everything God has promised, and the enemy becomes especially strategic in how he comes against you. You might be tired from the road, worn out from battles you never expected to fight, or barely able to keep pace with everyone else around you. It is often in that very place of weariness that the attack comes. Amalek became more than a historical enemy in Israel's story. Throughout Scripture, this nation stood as a picture of an enemy set against God's people again and again. In Exodus 17, Moses stood on the mountain while Joshua and the Israelites fought below. As long as Moses held up the staff of God, Israel prevailed, but when his arms grew tired and dropped, Amalek began to gain ground. Eventually Moses could not hold his own arms up any longer, and Aaron and Hur came alongside him. They gave him a stone to sit on and held his arms steady until the sun went down. Israel won that battle, but Moses did not win it alone. He had people beside him who saw his weariness and were willing to carry it with him while God brought the victory.