Are you increasingly disheartened over the spiritual condition of the church? Are you fervently contending for God to revive His bride? Please keep interceding for revival—we need your prayers—but we also need a hunger in prayer for a spirit of repentance...
Fire is identifiable. It's difficult to conceal. You don't have to advertise a fire. When there is a house fire, the local news channel just shows up. People come out of nowhere to watch it burn. They'll even stare at the aftermath of a fire—the ash and shell of...
When you think of the past 18 months, what word comes to mind?Painful. Refining. Crazy. Sifting. Disappointing. Challenging. Frustrating. Lonely. Pruning. Turbulent. Draining. Shaking. Unraveling. Heartbreaking. Surprising. Chaotic. Uncomfortable. Confusing....
Questions that beg answers:When God forgives me for my sins, will I still suffer consequences?Will the consequences be thrown into the sea of forgetfulness along with my sins?Could my sins cause future generations to suffer?Could one careless sin lead to lifelong...
Will Ford is a revivalist, a leader in the prayer movement and a reconciler of races. His end goal is that of the Lord's—redemption. Ford travels the globe with his family's heirloom, a prayer kettle, passed down from his enslaved ancestors. He uses it as a...
You watch them make destructive choices with agonizing consequences. You reach a point where you no longer know what to say, do or pray anymore. You feel helpless when you see them getting worse and not better. You're all too familiar with the pain of loving a...
God always endeavors to prepare His people—if we are listening. He is sounding an alarm to wake up the body of Christ to the work of sifting, cleansing and purifying He wants to do to ready us for whatever is on the horizon. Recently, during a month-long...
It was a midweek prayer meeting I will never forget. The people of my church were crying out to God for revival; the desperation for revival was palpably heard in the prayers of the people in that room. One of the people in attendance, a gentleman who regularly...
Christians have lost the fear of the Lord. They have become casual, or even flippant, about the things of God. This must change!On these episodes of Fire Starter on the Charisma Podcast Network, I interview John Bevere about his life's message: the fear of the Lord....
I greatly admire Jeremiah Johnson. I love that he exhibits holy boldness, the courage of Christ and that God can entrust Him with hard messages that others perhaps are unwilling to deliver. He is a genuine prophet of God. I also truly admire his humility and...
We are on the precipice of revival! The revival will be greater than we have ever seen before. It will surpass the First Great Awakening, the Azusa Street Revival and the Brownsville Revival.I spoke with my friend, John Bates, on recent episodes of Fire Starter on the...
Did you know that because you are a follower of Christ, God's face is perpetually turned toward you with unconditional love, joy and delight?You are God's favorite. I am God's favorite. Jesus loves us as much as the Father loves Him (John 15:9).But how do we seek His...
What an hour to be alive!Although we are in an intense battle between good versus evil, this is the greatest, most exciting season of the church. We are about to enter a season of harvest through a revival like the world has ever seen!At the end of every year, I ask...
Joe Oden is saved—radically saved.As a teenager, he was a drug dealer and addict. One night after a bad reaction to LSD, Oden was channel surfing and happened upon a television evangelist. He felt the evangelist looking straight at him through the television as...