God is raising up a generation of people who understand that ministry is not something that happens just within the walls of a church.

I’ve always had a weakness for cars. They are like one of my love languages. When we lived in Alabama years ago, I would take my car to a place every week to get it cleaned, and the guys there did a beautiful job. The young man who owned the shop knew I was a pastor and ministry leader. He would tell me often, “God has called me to be a pastor. I’m eventually going to sell the business and go to Bible college and seminary. I have a lot of prophetic words over my life. Will you pray for me? I want to be faithful.” For months, he told me this, and I began to get to know him.

One day the Holy Spirit spoke to me and taught me something I had to share with this young man. So the next time I saw him, I said, “You are a pastor. Let me pray for you now, and I’ll ordain you.” He had tears in his eyes. He had never thought of his employees as his church members. Every car his company washed was touched with the presence of God inside and out. He didn’t realize he had more lost people coming through his business every day than any church does. 

He was meeting and influencing people with the kingdom as a business owner. He was a pastor in the marketplace. Many people have dreams of doing something unusual and influential in the marketplace but don’t realize that it qualifies as ministry. If you have those kinds of dreams, they may be pointing to your destiny, so too are the things you weep over when you watch the news or hear someone’s story.

If you could do anything without any fear of failure, what would you do? A special sensitivity to injustice, immorality, poverty, conflict, certain needs or problems, or anything else may tell you a lot about what you are called to do.

As you can see, pastors aren’t just in the four walls of a designated church building, they are in car dealerships, tech companies, grocery stores and the film industry. If you can name it, I guarantee you, there is someone who doesn’t know how loved they are. Maybe Abba has called you as a marketplace pastor. Are you ready to say “Yes” to the call?

The process for my daughter to receive a car from me took time. She was a daughter of blessing, but it took time for her to become a daughter of inheritance. What’s the difference? A blessing is something the father has paid for. He feeds his children, buys them what they need, and takes care of everything for them. There’s a season for that. As a child matures, the father’s gifts become less about blessing and more about the family wealth. Is she mature enough to steward what I have worked for over the years? Does she take responsibility? Will she use what she has been given for a greater purpose—to expand it, multiply it, or invest it—rather than simply spend it? That’s how a child becomes a son or daughter of inheritance.

We see this with Jesus and his natural parents. He didn’t just learn how to be a carpenter; He became a master craftsman. He mastered His father’s skills. His heavenly Father translated that responsibility a much different and much more significant inheritance than his family was about to give Him, but Jesus had demonstrated in both realms that He could be entrusted. He would be faithful to steward the supernatural and inherit the kingdom.

It is interesting in Luke 15 that the father of the rebellious and religious sons treated them as sons of inheritance before they had shown the necessary maturity. He said, “All that I have is yours,” while they were still acting like orphans. It’s normal as a child to value a father for what he can do for you, but sons and daughters eventually grow out of that. They realize they are being given access to something someone else paid for, and they learn to honor it and value it. They take what fathers and mothers have worked hard for and then build on it.

We have to go through a process of maturity so that we will handle the inheritance we receive in a way that helps us and does not hurt us. That is why the Father can say, “All that I have is yours,” and it still is not in your hands yet. It is yours—to inherit, but perhaps not yet to possess. You must learn to value what you receive so you can steward it well. Whatever you know how to steward, you know how to multiply. Whatever you multiply, you have authority over. The parable of the seeds and the soils teaches us to see not just a seed but a 30-fold, 60-fold, or 100- fold harvest. We can’t just ask for what someone else has without going through what they have been through. You may be able to access their inheritance, but that only comes as you honor the relational elements they have experienced.

Your Father does not want your blessings to take you away from the One who blesses you.

I’ve seen many people tap into the inheritance of a spiritual father and move in that power and fruitfulness for a while, then decide that they don’t need that mentor or father anymore. They don’t realize that one of the reasons they were able to access the blessing was by being under that person. When we know how to honor inheritance and take responsibility for it, we can build off what others have paid a price for. We take one generation’s successes and invest them in the next generation.

What inheritance has the Father revealed to you? How can you continue to faithfully steward what Jesus has paid for?

The idea of loving our enemies is hard for a lot of people to swallow. But even those who are the most skeptical of Jesus’ claims and the most critical of Jesus’ teaching have to admit—He took His own medicine. He took it without resisting the spoon, without complaining about the test and without adding the slightest bit of sugary sentimentality to help the medicine go down. 

Follow the narrative of Jesus’ last 24 hours, and see how He took it. What you see and hear is the best visual aid to the Sermon on the Mount you could ever find. Look and listen…and you will fall even more in love with Him than you are now.

Judas. Jesus chose him as one of the 12 and all the while knowing that one day he would betray Him. For three and a half years Jesus walked with him, talked with him, ate with him, ministered with him. He befriended one who would turn into an enemy when Jesus most needed a friend. That final night in the upper room, Jesus washed Judas feet, just as He had done for the other disciples. He dined with the man who would soon turn the tables on Him. He spoke kindly to him, never once berating him for his betrayal. And He fed part of the Passover meal to him with His own hands, dismissing Judas in hushed tones so as not to publicly humiliate him in front of the other disciples (see John 13:21-30)

Peter. Jesus warned him ahead of time about his defection. To soften the blow: Jesus explained to Peter that it wasn’t all his fault, that Satan had a hand in it, too. For this man who would deny not only his friendship with Jesus but even his acquaintance with Him, Jesus prayed. He prayed, and He told Peter, essentially, not to let the failure destroy him, that He still loved him, still believed in him, still thought he was the right man for the job (see Luke 22:31-32). And after Jesus rose from the dead, He sought out Peter, especially Peter, because Peter especially needed to be found and brought home to the Savior’s loving arms (see John 21:15-19).

Malchus. He was the high priest’s servant who accompanied the soldiers when they arrested Jesus in the garden. In a rash move to defend Jesus, Peter drew his sword and cut off a portion of the servant’s ear. Jesus’ response?

Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:52-53)

What an incredible restraint of the angelic arsenal He had at His disposal. On His way to the Cross, Jesus wouldn’t allow so much as a sword to slice on His behalf.  

(see Luke 22:51).

The other disciples. Outmanned and out-armed, they deserted Jesus at His most desperate hour. His response? He didn’t call them cowards; instead, He covered for them, explaining that their actions were simply a fulfillment of prophecy: Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered ” (Matthew 26:31).

The religious leaders who tried Him. They accused Jesus falsely and gathered witnesses to testify against Him, again falsely. They hit Him. His response? He didn’t defend Himself, and He didn’t denigrate them. Not returning insult for insult, or injury for injury, He took the fist, silently, bravely, and with a bold resignation that befits a king (see Mark 14:53-65).

The Roman soldiers. Brutal men, they mocked Jesus, draping His shoulders with a purple cape, thrusting a thorny crown into His scalp, and humiliating Him as they took turns beating Him. His response? Again, He took the blows, turned the other cheek, and did not resist the evil that propped Him up and pummeled Him (see Mark 15:16-20).

The crowd that surrounded Him at the Cross. They taunted Jesus, quoting Scriptures to Him, daring Him to prove Himself King, if indeed He was one. His response? He bore the daggers of ridicule, the spears of sarcasm. And He didn’t throw them back. He took it all, and He took it with the nobility of a true king (see Mark 15:29-32).

The soldiers at the Cross. The ones who hammered the nails into His hands, His feet. The ones who raised the Cross into place. And the ones hunched over a pair of dice, gambling for His cloak. His response? For-giveness. And not only that, listen to His plea bargain on their behalf.

“Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do’ (Luke 23:34). In other words, Jesus is telling the Father that if the soldiers could only see Him for who He really was, if they knew that He was indeed a king, indeed the Son of God, they would never have done this. Remarkable, when you think about it. Jesus not only forgives His enemies, He defends them.

The two thieves. When you compare the parallel accounts, you discover that both thieves cursed Jesus (see Mark 15:32; Luke 23:39-40). Never once did Jesus curse back. Instead, He gave a blessing to the one who asked to be remembered. The blessing? The man had just asked that Jesus remember Him when He got to His Kingdom. That’s all. And Jesus gave him Paradise. Paradise! In a few hours of witnessing Jesus’ response to His enemies, one of those enemies was transformed into a friend, and remained a friend forever (see Luke 23:42-43).

We are told that when Peter denied Jesus for the third time, a rooster crowed, reminding him of Jesus’ words earlier that night. He turned and saw Jesus looking at him. What he saw were not the eyes of an enemy but the eyes of a friend. And when their eyes met, we are told that Peter went away, weeping bitterly (see Luke 22:60-62). The next day Peter likely approached the Cross, but from afar. He saw Jesus’ enemies, teeth bared like a pack of wolves that had cornered its prey. He heard the insults, the taunts, the mocking, the cursing. And he saw Jesus’ response to them, heard His words and the tone in which the words were spoken. Here is how the example of Jesus impacted him, inspiring his words to fellow believers who were undergoing persecution by their enemies:

For what credit is it that if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps; ‘Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth”, who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. (1 Peter 2:20-23).

What Peter saw and heard that day, though it was from a distance as he stood on the periphery, cloaked in anonymity, changed him forever. How could it not? How could anyone not be changed if he or she only knew the story–the whole story of just how much we are loved? (Excerpt from Seeing Through Heaven’s Eyes)

What is the Holy Spirit saying to you today about loving your enemies? Did names or situations come to your mind? This is just an act of His love. I encourage you to lean into the heart of God and let His love wash over you, over your perspective. And then, watch how He will love through you. Now is your time for an upgrade in love.

If I took everyone on a journey into eternity past, you would meet the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself was the very Lion of the tribe of Judah, He ruled and reigned together with the Father and the Spirit. But, when the Father sent His only begotten Son in that specific place of sonship, we see revealed in Jesus, the Lion and the Lamb. 

When we look at lions, we see that they are the ‘king of the jungle’. They rule and are hardly ever the prey. Lambs, they require guidance. They are humble, quiet creatures and can fall prey to lions and wolves. Jesus revealed through His life that the identity we rest in, must come from the Lamb’s heart so that our authority can be in the Lion. 

The world around Him, including the disciples, was looking for the Lion. Palm Sunday was a good example. Our Jewish brothers and sisters wanted somebody to rule and to reign over them. They had endured years of oppression under Roman rule. So, naturally when Jesus was revealed, out of the abundance of their hearts they spoke, “Hosanna in the highest” (Matthew 21:9) but the same one they cried to become their king ended up being the same one they asked to be crucified. They wanted a lion, but Jesus showed a different way. He did not defend Himself. Isaiah prophesied this about Jesus “He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that is before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7) In order to truly free them, He had to show them a different way. Jesus chose to lay His life down in obedience to the Father. This was the one who taught with authority that was given to Him by God. He was the Son of God, the darling of heaven, the Creator – yet, He humbled Himself and He came as the Lamb – to take away our sins. He was slaughtered for us. He paints a sobering picture. It was in the laying down of His life that Jesus overcame the world. There is no greater love than this. It’s displayed in the Lamb.

This is the upside Kingdom. It was so opposite to the way they operated and how we continue to operate today. The people desired peace, they believed it would come through an earthly king. As His body was laid in the tomb lifeless, they didn’t know that a Sunday moment of victory was coming with a Resurrection. They didn’t understand that there had to be a Friday. They didn’t know there had to be a sacrificial Lamb to take away the sins of the world. They didn’t understand that their King was to come to them riding a donkey’s colt, but that He would also suffer.  Jesus’ own disciples struggled to receive this. When Jesus revealed that He must suffer many things and be rejected and killed, Peter rebuked Jesus and the Lord’s response to him was “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” and follows up by clarifying for the disciples that the way of Jesus, the Lamb is to lose one’s life, not to seek to save it. (Mark 8)

Jesus gained His authority by becoming obedient until the point of death. He is the original “roaring Lamb”. His roar came in His humility and His yes to Papa God. The Father has drawn me to focus on the next mission force as the roaring lambs. If we are going to show the world a God that looks like Jesus, it’s going to be important for us to learn how to behold the Lamb and recognize His values. Looking at the Beatitudes, all of those are characteristics of the “upside down kingdom”. So, if you are looking at each of them, you see Him: “blessed are the poor in Spirit”; it’s the Lamb’s nature, each one of those are characteristics of the Lamb and then it shows the Lion on the other side–the byproduct–the Kingdom belongs to them! It’s important for us now, in this next season even as we are looking into the future, looking at all the challenges that we have in our country, from the war on the identity to all of the polarization, the tendency we have as believers is to try to be lions and try to roar but we actually cause people to scatter because it doesn’t come from the Lamb’s heart. The priority is to recognize this: who Jesus is to you is who Jesus will be through you. If all you see is the Lion when you look at Jesus and you cannot see the Lamb, then that is the Jesus you will represent to the world.

I want to challenge myself and all of us to fall in love with the Lamb; to fall in love with His humility because that’s how you tap into His ability. Fall in love with vulnerability. The Lamb is vulnerable. It looks like He’s weak, but it’s called strength; it’s the strength of weakness. When you are tapping into that, you access something called grace.  Jesus said, ‘I can only do what I see my Father doing.’ ‘I only say what I hear my Father saying.’ It is the identity of the Lamb that is totally living in dependence, not independence. He prioritized this relationship. Out of that, now He has authority. He says, ‘All authority has been given now to me’ because of that Lamb posture and then out of that, we see the Lion’s authority emerging. So, Jesus is the Lion that became a Lamb so that we could become lambs that are becoming lions. And when we roar people will gather and not scatter because it’s an authority that is flowing from humility.

I am so excited about this journey as we are going to learn more about the ‘roaring lambs’. In you, there is a lamb and in you there is a lion. That’s the Christ in you that will be the hope of glory to the people around you. (Colossians 1:27) 

You have authority over what you weep over. Are you broken over what’s broken? Remember, you have authority over what you love. It’s going to be so important for us to capture that the Lamb feels the pain and the brokenness that’s around Him and when we get broken over what’s broken, we tap into intercession. When we step into this we’re entering a place where we can represent God before people and people before God. It’s called the ministry of reconciliation and that belongs to the ambassadors of love. It starts with the Lamb’s nature. 

Some people in leadership are not afraid of the Lion, but they just don’t know what to do when it comes to the Lamb. It’s time for us to arise and shine for our light has come. It’s in the Lamb that the Light shines, so that you can roar as a lion in this beautiful season of transformation. You change the spiritual climate when your internal climate has been changed by the Lamb. 

What are you broken over? In what ways is Father drawing you to become like Jesus?

In order to explore ‘kingdom alignment’, I will build on my 3 Chairs illustration. If you’re unfamiliar with my 3 chairs message, you’ll want to read my previous blog here in which I discussed a worldview of humanity using this illustration!

When we discuss bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth in Chair 1, we are not learning how to take mountains and get dominion. That may be a byproduct, but we really should be known as people whose only agenda is to bless with the blessings of heaven. When we go in as sons and daughters, we are entrusted with inheritance. We learn the rhythm of love, power, and wisdom– the lamb, the lion, and the eagle. The kingdom alignment that comes with that sets us up for the kingdom assignment we have been given.

What does heaven on earth look like in the seven spheres of society? If you’re a schoolteacher, it means you can wake up in the morning thanking God for Mondays because you’re going into a classroom setting where you can represent the Father. You carry heaven’s environment into that place.

Instead of seeing an ADHD problem in a student, you may see a destiny of creativity. Instead of seeing students who are bored, you see students who are primed to discover the thing that captures their heart. Instead of focusing on a child’s restless or rebellious tendencies, you see an opportunity to bring shalom. You don’t treat them based on their history but on their destiny.

If you’re a nurse, you wake up realizing you have a unique opportunity to minister to people at difficult times in their lives. If you’re an accountant, you can see the opportunity to demonstrate heaven’s integrity as you handle earth’s resources. One of my spiritual sons in our family realized he was a Chair I police officer. He goes into the secret place as a son and gets insights from the Father, then helps make connections between where drugs are coming from and going, how the enemy is strategizing in certain cities, and prevents many bad things from happening. People are amazed. We have story after story of this kind of thing happening with businessmen, neuroscientists, teachers, government workers, and more. They are lambs, lions, and eagles in every area of society.

Sons and daughters in the Kingdom family become agents of the Father’s blessings from Chair 1, which always asks, “How can I be a blessing?” When we carry the Kingdom culture of heaven within us, it impacts the culture around us. With the fellowship of the Trinity as our prototype we can help bring heaven to earth in every circumstance. It’s all about living as a son or daughter of glory, always with a servant’s towel over your arm. From this place of influence with God you will change the atmosphere in your spheres of influence. A spirit of sonship and servanthood raises your stock and gives you a platform to represent God’s heart while raising the stock of everyone in the family.

The enemy is constantly trying to keep believers in Chair 2 because he knows that in Chair 1 we can see the Father’s face, hear His voice, feel His love, experience His presence, and live in His pleasure. From this place, we carry these blessings into the world and draw people back to the Father. Are you experiencing kingdom alignment? How can you engage with the Father everyday to maintain this posture? 

Papa God is waiting in the secret place to source you with all that you need to walk into your kingdom assignment, but first, He wants you. 

The story of Daniel, and how his heart was burdened for a pagan king, is one example of how sons and daughters walk out their destiny. Because we know that the mission of our Father is a family mission, we do not stand against the world in judgement. We are for the world. Our hearts are invested in those we love, honor, and serve. We are always asking the question, “How can I be a blessing?” because we know it’s the heart of our Father to bless– and because, in our alignment with Him, He has put the desire to bless into our hearts as well. 

If you really want to know how to bring honor and glory to God in this world, become an agent of the Father’s blessing. 

We are carriers of the Dove’s habitation and we live from heaven to earth. 

The rest of the world is living from earth toward heaven, hoping to get some of heaven’s blessings and resources into their lives. 

We are already in the Father’s house; He has already said, “All that I have is yours.” 

We are agents who bring those resources and solutions into every area of our world. We carry the atmosphere of heaven – the love and honor we have experienced in the Father’s living room–  for others around us to experience.

We can’t impart what we don’t have. Daniel and his friends understood who they were and who they belonged to. The culture within them shaped the culture around them. 

Culture changers know who they are, whose they are, what they have, and what they are called to do – to be a chosen nation and a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9.)

They also know what is happening in this world and look for opportunities to bless and carry shalom into restless, anxious, and even dark places. 

As priests, we re-present God before the people and the people before God. As sons and daughters of the King, we carry keys of the kingdom to bind and loose and prophesy the King’s decrees. Those are all intercessory roles, and they flow from the intimacy we have with the Father. From that intimacy, we take on the responsibility of ruling and reigning with Him. Our place of habitation becomes a kingdom culture, and our culture brings the blessings of love, honor and covenant. The increase of the kingdom and the government of shalom are going to be on the shoulders of the Son (Isaiah 9:7) – and the sons and daughters. 

The kingdom culture is first and foremost a family culture – not an institutional culture, not an organizational agenda, and not a religious movement. If the fellowship of the Father, Son, and Spirit in heaven is the prototype for earth, as we saw in Eden, then heaven’s environment on earth is going to look like that fellowship. We will still honor people we disagree with, love those who are not yet receptive to our love, and bless those who might expect us to  curse them. That’s what the prayer “On earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10) is all about. We do this together with the Father, Son and Spirit. It’s a journey together as a family. 

Together in the family of heaven you are called to shift culture. You only have authority over what you weep over, so I want to challenge you to position yourself to receive the Lord’s heart in the areas of culture He has put on your heart. What does He say about these spaces and these people? And then, I want you to ask the Father, what is He doing and how you can bless what He’s doing. It’s a wonderful thing to be entrusted by Papa God.

One of my favorite ways to illustrate humanity’s worldview is to put three chairs on a stage to represent three kinds of people. When I am teaching on this, I set up three chairs on the stage and say that out of the seven-plus billion people in the world, every single one of them is living his or her life from one of these chairs. Chair 1 is about the kingdom of God, Chair 2 is the kingdom of self, and Chair 3 is the kingdom of the world. 

CHAIR 1 – ROOTED IN SONSHIP

In Chair 1, you realize the kingdom is not about the things of this world, so your focus is never on problems but always on kingdom opportunities.

Christians are in Chairs 1 and 2. If you are living in either of those chairs, you are saved. But there are many differences between Chair 1 and Chair 2. Most Christians live from Chair 2, even if they have visited Chair 1 at times. Chair 1 is a beautiful place to be. Those who live from that place are rooted in the spirit of sonship, which we talk about quite a bit in this book. Chair I is about experiencing God’s pleasure without ever having to perform. In fact, you already have an A + on your report card before you ever go out and do something. In Chair 1 you live from a place of total rest. The Dove, the Holy Spirit, comes to rest on you; you become His habitation. You can hear the Father’s voice as a son or daughter and trust that He is able to guide you. You know you belong,  so you can believe God’s promises and then behave as He has called you to do —  you learn to put “be” “ have” and “do” in the right order. You know who you are and then you live from your inheritance and walk out your destiny too. You aren’t trying to get from earth to heaven but also want to bring heaven to earth. You can live as a river overflowing righteousness peace, and joy in the Spirit (Romans 14:17), overwhelmed with the things of God, because that is the atmosphere of the kingdom.

CHAIR 2 – THE KINGDOM OF SELF

In Chair 2, you have a tendency to live for God rather than living from God because you have become rooted in the orphan spirit rather than a spirit of sonship.

Chair 2 is the kingdom of self. Most people don’t think Chair 2 describes their worldview because they don’t recognize the subtle differences. We have all been Chair 2 Christians at times, and we can easily slip from Chair I into Chair 2 thinking at any point in our lives. But over time, we learn to see the difference. You are always under pressure to perform because it’s what you do that makes you who you are. You experience the Holy Spirit’s visitation but not His habitation as the Dove resting on you. Instead of confidently hearing God’s voice, you try to discern His will while fearing you might be misled by self or the devil. Instead of being a son or daughter in order to have and then do, Chair 2 believers are trying to believe the right way in order to behave the right way in order to belong. You try to live from inheritance and destiny so you can know who you are rather than the other way around. You’re alway trying to become something because you don’t know or have forgotten your true identity. You’re trying to get to heaven rather than trying to bring heaven to earth. 

 Chair 2 Christians often talk about how bad things are getting and how God’s judgment is coming on this problem or that city. They are like the disciples who wanted to call down judgment on a Samaritan town that did not receive Jesus (Luke 9:54). Jesus rebuked them because He came to bring life not destroy it. Those in Chairs 2 are both afraid of the world and influenced by it because the perspective is that if you don’t separate from the world, you will be corrupted by it. If you touch a leper, literally or figuratively, you become unclean. Everything in Chair 2 is rooted in fear, even when it is disguised in the vocabulary of love.

I am convinced that much of the church is living from Chair 2 and doing ministry from that perspective – not motivated by love but by fear. They serve not because of their significance as sons and daughters in the kingdom but in order to become someone significant in the kingdom. They work not from God but for Him. Hundreds of thousands of churches are filled with Chair 2 people who know about the Father but don’t actually find their identity in Him or make their home in His living room. They function as spiritual orphanages.

The Chair 2 perspective is always thinking about self. Why didn’t I get blessed the way that other person did? Lord, what are You going to do for me? Once when Lenny LeBlanc and I were ministering together, I adapted his beautiful worship song “There Is None Like You” into a Chair 2 version:  “There Is None Like Me”! That’s the focus of a Chair 2 position. I’ve had people tell me they came to hear me speak but didn’t like having to sit through two hours of worship. “That’s okay,” I say. “It wasn’t for you. It was for Him.” An orphan spirit says, “I didn’t get what I needed! Where is it!?” For many of us, Chair 2 has become normal, but it is actually abnormal in the kingdom. Jesus is normal. In the kingdom, anything that does not look like Him is not.

CHAIR 3 – LOST

If you are living in Chair 3, you are lost. That is the world system apart from Jesus, outside of the kingdom of God. It includes 1.6 billion Muslims, more than a billion Hindus, and nearly half a billion Buddhists, as well as atheists, agnostics, and every other non-Christian. Every one of these people are looking for love, security, value, significance, and purpose. It’s in our DNA as human beings. But they aren’t able to find these things, whether they are looking in religion, money, accomplishments, or anything else. I believe the biggest god in the world right now is money, regardless of the religion of the people seeking it. Whatever people serve, that’s what they worship. – Excerpt from Called to Reign

Which chair are you sitting in? What are some of the things that are keeping you from the rest of the Father? Jesus maintained His rest in His identity and you can reign in life with Him from this place. This is your privilege as a son or daughter of God. Don’t wait, receive this invitation from Papa God today.

Paul and Ahlmira (my spiritual son and daughter) have seen world-changing love in their ministry and their family of believers. One woman named Mira, who was a part of their church in the Philippines in her college days, returned years later with her husband and a high school-aged daughter. Ahlmira told her, “You are home,” and it hit Mira like a rhema word from God for the moment. She embraced the family atmosphere.

Then she extended the family atmosphere to many others, especially the women she was discipling in her ministry group. She made it feel like Papa God’s living room. The group grew in love and started noticing anyone God would highlight to them.

Mira traveled more than an hour to visit the mother of one of her group’s members, and the mother was so touched and felt so valued that she invited them to start a gathering in her town to help kids in the area.

Every month they would gather, first with a few children, then with twenty or thirty, with many of them bringing their mothers with them. Mira’s group would teach Bible lessons, provide some food, and pray for the sick. People were healed. Love overflowed with acts of kindness and generosity, and power flowed with it.

When one of Mira’s group member’s sisters was jailed for drug use, the group began visiting her and bringing her food. This gathering grew too, and many other inmates got to hear testimonies and Bible teachings. The warden eventually asked Mira to formalize their work as a recognized jail ministry and help conduct some programs for inmates. Some inmates who have since been released have joined Bible study groups and spread love to their communities.

What Mira received, she gave. And what others received from her, they gave. And the waves of love continue, transforming lives, families, neighborhoods, communities, and even distant places.

Do It Again

God has given me a holy ambition to see the light of Love shining in the darkest nations. This testimony is a perfect example of what is happening right now in Cuba and what God wants to do all around the world. The love of Jesus is spreading throughout homes, and Jesus is being glorified. These Lighthouses of Love are beacons of light rising in their communities to care for whoever comes to the family table. Love is moving out in order to draw people in so that they can taste Heaven on Earth. 

At Global Mission Awareness, we are supporting these Lighthouses to see the Father receive many sons and daughters returning home. We have a goal to establish 1,000 Lighthouses of Love across Cuba, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Would you join us in investing in love, the one thing that changes everything? We have been invited by the Father to ensure that people get to experience a God that looks like Jesus, and we have said “YES!”

Please pray and consider partnering with the GMA Lighthouses of Love Movement. You can donate by clicking here.