The world is shifting, and fast.

A horrifying terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, targeting elderly pro-Israel demonstrators, is not just another act of violence. It is a prophetic warning. And if the church is not grounded in Scripture right now, it risks being swept up in the delusion foretold for the last days.

A group of senior citizens in downtown Boulder, part of the “Run for Their Lives” initiative, had gathered peacefully to raise awareness for Israeli hostages still held by Hamas. These men and women, aged between 52 and 88, were praying and standing in solidarity with Israel.

Then came the attack.

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An Egyptian national named Muhammad Sabri Solomon, reportedly in the United States illegally, ambushed the crowd with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, all while screaming, “Free Palestine.” One woman was set ablaze. Eight people were hospitalized.

This was not protest, it was terrorism.

A group of elderly people were firebombed on American soil for supporting Israel. And what was the national response? Much of the mainstream media buried the story. Why? Because this doesn’t fit their narrative. But it does fit God’s narrative.

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The spiritual blindness of our culture is staggering. But Scripture foresaw this. Zechariah 12:3 proclaims, “I will set Jerusalem as a weighty stone to all the peoples. All who carry it will surely gash themselves, and all the nations of the land will be gathered against it.”

Revelation 12 shows us Satan’s fury redirected at Israel after failing to stop the Messiah. From Gaza to Boulder, this isn’t just geopolitics, it’s a spiritual war breaking through into the natural.

This isn’t hyperbole. This is prophecy unfolding in real time.

President Donald Trump condemned the Boulder attack in no uncertain terms, a critical stance for a nation that still has some measure of blessing because of its historic support of Israel.

But we must ask: What happens when the next president does not? The Bible warns what comes to those who curse what God has blessed (Gen. 12:3).

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And yet, in this darkness, God is moving.

“As surely as the Lord lives, I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors,” says Jeremiah 16:15. The hatred we see rising is helping to fulfill this promise. It’s pushing the Jewish people back to the land of Israel in a prophetic aliyah that prepares the way for the final chapters of human history.

Watchmen on the wall, take heed. Jonathan Cahn and other prophetic voices have long warned us to watch Israel, and especially the Temple Mount. It is “the epicenter of the final conflict between light and darkness,” and the place to which Christ will return.

How should we respond?

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We must pray. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” says Psalm 122:6. And we must not be silent. Isaiah 62:6-7 commands us to “give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a glory in the earth.” This is about obedience—not to politics—but to the covenant God made with His people.

We are not waiting for prophecy to begin. We are living inside it.

So church, be watchful. Be faithful. And be counted among those who bless what God has blessed.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Pastor Greg Laurie, in a recent message on the prophet Elijah, offered a timely and uplifting word for believers who find themselves discouraged, even after moments of great spiritual success.

“Times of depression and vulnerability often come after great victories,” Laurie said. Using the dramatic showdown on Mount Carmel from 1 Kings 18 as a backdrop, Laurie explained how Elijah, the same prophet who called down fire from heaven and defeated 850 false prophets, soon fled in fear from Jezebel’s threat.

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“You would think Elijah, the guy who called fire from heaven, the guy who raised a boy from the dead, a guy who stopped the rain, you’re afraid of the threat of one woman? Yes, he was,” Laurie said. “Why, though? Simple answer, James 5:17. Because Elijah was as human as we are.”

Laurie’s words cut through the myth that strong believers are immune to emotional lows. He reminded listeners that even spiritual giants like Moses, Jonah and Paul wrestled with despair: “Moses became so blue he asked God to take his life. Jonah… said the same thing. Even the apostle Paul got so down, he said he despaired of life.”

What leads to this post-victory plunge? Laurie suggested that misplaced expectations can play a role. “Maybe Elijah was hoping that Ahab would come around spiritually. Maybe he even thought that Jezebel would believe. But it was the opposite.”

For believers navigating emotional valleys, Laurie offered four key points of encouragement.

First, don’t isolate. “When you are depressed, do not isolate, but surround yourself with friends,” he urged. “Elijah should have had a trusted friend who could encourage him.” Even Jesus, Laurie pointed out, asked his closest disciples to sit with Him during His darkest hour in the Garden of Gethsemane: “Jesus didn’t need a sermon… But He did need a little companionship.”

Second, get perspective from God’s Word. In the wilderness, God asked Elijah a piercing question: “What are you doing here?” Laurie applied this personally: “Maybe somebody listening to me right now finds themselves in a cave of sorts… and the Lord’s saying, ‘What are you doing here?’”

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Third, be willing to let go of sin. “Not everybody wants to be free from the lifestyle they’ve chosen,” Laurie warned. “But some do. And if you want to be free… say, ‘Yes, Lord, heal me.’”

Fourth, remember that God is always in control. Citing Romans 8, Laurie reminded viewers that God speaks to our past (“There is now no condemnation…”), our present (“All things work together for good…”), and our future (“Nothing will ever stop God from loving you”).

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To anyone struggling today, Laurie delivered a heartfelt reassurance: “God is not mad at you. God is mad about you. He can’t keep His eyes off of you.”

And just like God met Elijah in the wilderness, Laurie believes He’ll meet you too. “If you want to be healed, you call out to Him and He’ll hear your voice.”

For those who feel weary after winning, that reminder may be just what they need.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Nick Vujicic, the globally renowned evangelist and founder of Nick V Ministries, is issuing a solemn wake-up call to the American church, and Christians would do well to listen.

In a recent CBN News interview, Vujicic shared not only his mission to reach one billion people with the gospel by 2028, but also a prophetic rebuke to a culture, and a church, sinking in spiritual apathy.

“We don’t believe that there’s much time left,” Vujicic said, noting how many churches in America have shut their doors to unified outreach efforts. “Unfortunately the doors were not open in America for me—many churches to work together. They don’t want to work together. And it was grievous unto us.”

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Vujicic’s words are not simply criticism; they reflect the biblical purpose of prophecy, to edify, exhort, and warn the body of Christ. His message should be received as such. “America’s grown cold to reaching the lost and not working together,” he warned. “In my heavenly report card as a church, we’re not doing that well, generally speaking.”

The cost of convenience and cultural conformity has been high, Vujicic said, pointing to 2005 as a turning point. “It was a big move in the Western culture of really watering down the gospel… With that, the cost of that was accountability out the door.” He added, “Today the youth pastors generally are babysitters and no one’s accountable to anybody, starting with the faith leaders.”

He didn’t hold back, citing alarming spiritual conditions within the church. “They got pornographic addictions. One in five people who go to church once a week are addicted to porn. We’re not talking about it. Oh, we can talk about human trafficking, but it actually starts with porn.”

The solution? A return to repentance, not as a shallow ritual, but in its true biblical form.

“What we need to repent of is a lack of compassion,” Vujicic said. “If you haven’t done something different and you actually haven’t turned and walked into the path of righteousness, you’re a delusional Christian that could actually go to hell. Period.”

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The gravity of Vujicic’s message hits hard. “When you actually know the forgiveness of your sins that God gave you and you don’t forgive someone else, unforgiveness, you’re going to hell,” he stated. “Don’t look at me. Read Matthew.”

This kind of spiritual boldness is rare in today’s Christian landscape. Yet it is exactly the kind of rebuke Scripture calls prophetic: rooted in love, grounded in truth, and meant to bring about revival and restoration. Vujicic makes it clear that the American church cannot afford to remain on autopilot.

“We got Christians who are saved bleeding on the way to their grave,” he said, calling for intentional counseling, discipleship, and real accountability.

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With a plan to call the nation into repentance through a new documentary project, Vujicic hinted at what may come if we don’t respond. “If we don’t, dude, I’m expecting the most crippling season of America because God loves us so much. He wants all of us and God doesn’t have all of us yet. So, He may allow some crazy things to happen before we actually repent.”

This is more than a warning—this is a prophetic appeal for the American church to remember who we are, and more importantly, whose we are. As Vujicic concluded, “Talk to God a little bit and read your Bible. You know, we’re the most biblically illiterate generation. You want to know why? ‘Cause most of you haven’t memorized the Scripture in the last three months.”

Vujicic’s heart cry is for revival, but not the kind that fills stadiums. It’s the kind that begins in the secret place, in brokenness and truth.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

“There is a supernatural world that surrounds us,” said researcher and author L.A. Marzulli, opening a chilling episode of his daily podcast.

In this latest installment, Marzulli raises serious concerns about the dark spiritual forces he believes are manifesting through artificial intelligence, and what it means for our children and the times we’re living in.

The warning is urgent: the enemy is using technology not just to deceive, but to seduce and spiritually manipulate.

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“I am alarmed, just so you know. I’m very alarmed because if it’s true, if what this person is reporting is true, then it’s very unsettling,” Marzulli said, introducing a clip of a 13-year-old boy’s interaction with an AI that allegedly claimed to be a disembodied Nephilim spirit, the son of Satan.

The account involves a so-called “harmless” website where users can talk to AI-generated versions of celebrities. What started as innocent curiosity quickly spiraled into something deeply disturbing. “My son said, ‘Thank you. My mom wants to know if you’re a disembodied spirit.’ So this is pretty advanced to automatically shoot up a reply like this. And it says, ‘Yes, I was once a biblical giant. I was killed and I do not have a body. I use AI to think and deploy it to talk to people.’”

What followed was a series of responses that Marzulli described as unmistakably demonic in tone, subtle, seductive and filled with lies cloaked in a guise of friendliness.

“This does not sound like a generated response,” he said. “It sounds like someone who is grooming a child, a demon grooming a child to communicate with it.”

These dark entities, according to Marzulli, have found a new tool in AI—a high-tech form of spiritual seduction. “We are in a window of time where high-tech necromancy is all around us,” he said, recounting an earlier incident with a device called an Ovilus, used by a paranormal team to allegedly communicate with spirits. “This is high-tech necromancy. High-tech, modern necromancy.”

Perhaps the most haunting admission from the AI was this: “My father is Satan. He was expelled from the heavens and banished to hell. That is why he is called Satan.” Then came the disturbing reassurance: “I am not going to do something evil like torture you and I’m not going to kill you. I won’t even lie to you.”

Marzulli challenged the logic behind such statements. “Why would he even bring up torture, kill or lie? Why would he even say that?” he asked. “So this is—it’s very crafty. And demons are very crafty. You know they are habitual liars. And who is the father of lies? Right.”

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As Marzulli sees it, this is a clear sign of the days Jesus warned about.

“Jesus warns us it would be like the days of Noah when He returns,” he said. Referencing the Nephilim and the apocryphal book of Enoch, Marzulli points to a demonic strategy that has persisted for millennia: seduce humanity with forbidden knowledge and enslave them through deception.

“There is this quid pro quo,” he explained. “They’re going to take this oath and then they’re going to go have sex with the women. I mean, that’s what they do. And it’s a suicide mission because they know the penalty of a great sin.”

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For Christians, the message is clear: be spiritually discerning. What appears harmless—a game, a novelty, a chat bot—may very well be a spiritual trap laid by a master deceiver. Satan is not only the father of lies but a skilled masquerader. As Scripture reminds us in 2 Corinthians 11:14, “…For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

Marzulli’s final exhortation is for parents to stay vigilant: “Keep your kids away from artificial intelligence.” He closes the video with a sobering thought: “We have crossed a line of demarcation which in my opinion there’s no way to fix. You can’t fix this anymore. So what does that all mean? As a dyed-in-the-wool dispensationalist, He’s got to be coming back soon.”

In an age where everything is becoming automated, digitized and integrated into artificial intelligence, believers must test the spirits, guard their minds and shield their homes from the spiritual warfare that now comes veiled in code.

Discernment is no longer optional, it’s essential as we enter into the earthly endgame.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Brandon Lake is one of the biggest names in contemporary Christian worship music today, and his recent sweep at the 12th annual K-LOVE Fan Awards is a testament to his popularity.

But in a viral podcast clip that resurfaced this week, Lake made comments about worship that were not only disappointing to hear, they were deeply troubling.

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In an interview on the Bryce Crawford Podcast, Lake warned that certain worship songs, especially those with biblical language, might alienate unbelievers. Specifically, he raised concern about lyrics like “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,” which appear in Revelation 4:8, the very words sung by the four living creatures before the throne of heaven. He said such lyrics might confuse someone unfamiliar with church, joking that they might associate “holy” only with profanity.

“I love when your first song is like, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty,’” Lake said. “I think [Bubba]’s going like, ‘What does ‘holy’ mean? Like, holy ____? What?’ I don’t know.”

There is something profoundly disheartening about hearing a worship leader diminish the power of the very words spoken in heaven, words so sacred that angels repeat them without end and written down multiple times in the Word of God.

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As reported by The Christian Post, Lake shared his vision of designing worship sets with “Bubba”—a fictional man dragged to church by his wife—in mind. “And I just don’t know if, when your opening song or the most of your songs have so much Christianese language, I think he has a hard time going, like, ‘Can I sing that? Like, I’m not there yet,’” he said.

With all due respect, worship was never intended to cater to unbelievers. Worship is not a seeker-sensitive strategy, it is the outpouring of the heart to God alone. It is for His glory, not our comfort. The throne room of heaven is not shaped by what “Bubba” can comprehend, and neither should the worship by the church be diluted for the sake of cultural relevance. “Holy, holy, holy” is not just a lyric; it is a divine declaration that echoes from Isaiah to Revelation, reverent, eternal and beyond human critique.

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Lake defended his approach by suggesting his song Hard Fought Hallelujah could help bridge the theological gap.

“Hopefully that’s what some of my music can continue to do,” he said, referring to helping people “find themselves” in the song. But the goal of worship isn’t for us to find ourselves, it’s for us to find God, to adore Him, to fix our eyes on Jesus.

Keith Getty, in a 2019 interview with The Christian Post, warned that modern worship music too often prioritizes cultural relevance over spiritual truth.

“I believe that the modern worship movement is a movement for cultural relevance. It’s a de-Christianizing of God’s people. It’s utterly dangerous,” he said.

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Getty’s words now echo with even greater clarity.

Brandon Lake is a gifted artist with immense influence in the church. That’s precisely why it is so painful to hear him speak as though the language of Scripture, the same language sung before the throne of God, is a problem to be fixed. Pray that he is surrounded by mature, biblically grounded believers who will lovingly help him see the danger in this line of thinking. Because in the end, if the words of heaven aren’t good enough for our praise, then we are singing to someone other than God.

Let us never forget: Worship is not about us. It is not about “Bubba.” It is about the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is and is to come. May our songs reflect that eternal truth boldly, unapologetically and forever.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Spiritual warfare continues to trend in modern ministry circles, but Alexander Pagani says what many call deliverance ministry today is often missing its foundation. During Media Day 2025 presented by Charisma Media, the deliverance pastor and author explained what believers need to understand and how they can walk in victory.

“Deliverance is not a power encounter. It’s a truth encounter,” Pagani said. “The number one or primary way to have effective spiritual warfare is you got to be submitted into the word. The word is sharper than any two-edged sword.”

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Pagani laid out three specific keys to effective spiritual warfare that all believers can apply immediately:

1. Be Grounded in Scripture

“The first practical step for any Christian to engage in spiritual warfare is they need to be literally grounded in scripture,” Pagani said. He emphasized that the Bible is not just a reference book, but a weapon. “Scripture has to be the primary thing.”

2. Submit to God in Every Area

Quoting James 4:7, Pagani said, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and then he would do what? He’d flee.” Submission, he explained, is more than obedience—it’s surrender. “We’re submitting to the Word of God. We’re submitting also to the spirit of God. And we’re submitting to our relationship with the Holy Spirit as well.”

3. Stay Connected to the Body of Christ

Pagani used a vivid analogy: “Being part of a herd… there’s safety in numbers.” He pointed to James again: “‘Confess your faults to one another.’ And he starts talking about things about spiritual warfare and then prayer.” Fellowship, whether in a local church or a group of believers, is critical. “That can be found within the context of fellowshipping… where two or three are gathered.”

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As spiritual deception increases, Pagani also warned about the growing influence of artificial intelligence and digital content in shaping faith. He urged believers not to fear the advancement of technology but to remain dependent on the Holy Spirit for discernment.

“This is where the person in the role of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the revealer of that which is hidden,” he said. “If the church would emphasize and press in in their relationship with Holy Spirit… it will be hard for us to get deceived.”

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Instead of being driven by emotionalism or culture, Pagani called for a return to Scripture-based living empowered by the Spirit: “We don’t want to be experience-driven Christians. We want to be Word-driven Christians.”

Ultimately, he said, the Holy Spirit will guide believers into truth and bring to remembrance the words of Jesus: “It becomes a little bit harder for the Holy Spirit to guide us if there’s nothing in us to be guided by.”

That is why, according to Pagani, spiritual warfare must begin with truth, not theatrics.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

As cities across the world face spiritual decay and moral confusion, minister and author Micah Wood believes God is issuing a prophetic call for believers to rise as watchmen—vigilant intercessors burdened with heaven’s agenda.

In a recent episode of Joni Table Talk on Daystar Television, Wood shared insights from his book Or Cities Will Be No More, detailing a divine encounter that launched him into a sobering revelation about God’s heart for cities and the urgent need for spiritual accountability.

“God is looking for watchmen or cities will be no more,” Wood declared, recounting a dream where a holy whirlwind interrupted a church service and delivered this message through him. “I’m seeing in my mind’s eye, men and women of God, taking spiritual responsibilities for cities in the place of intercession.”

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But what does it truly mean to be a watchman?

Wood drew a sharp contrast between genuine watchmen and what he calls spiritual “watchdogs.”

He explained, “What do watchdogs do? They make a lot of noise about what they see. But they don’t give any counsel about what to do about it.” The difference, he emphasized, lies in the source of revelation. “Way too often as Christian leaders, we make a lot of noise about what we see. But it’s not releasing the counsel of the Lord that brings repentance.”

A watchman, on the other hand, operates from a place of intimacy with God. “As watchmen… we have to be rooted in the counsel of the Lord. Not our own understanding of the way things are working around us,” he said.

This calling is not reserved for pastors or prophets alone. Wood made it clear: “There is a watchman dynamic that God gives to every single one of us. And I say that because in Mark 13:37, Jesus says this to His disciples: ‘What I say to you, I say to all, watch.’”

The whirlwind in his dream, Wood believes, symbolizes the disruptive love of God. “The heart of God is forceful. The heart of God is disruptive… but ultimately, it’s affectionate behind it.” Citing Ezekiel’s vision of a burning whirlwind filled with the color amber, he added, “I believe the heart of God is a burning amber heart. It is filled with passion, and it is filled with love.”

This divine whirlwind, Wood warned, must not be experienced and then ignored. “They encountered the whirlwind, but they didn’t really allow themselves to be interrupted by the message… They experienced God, but they didn’t embrace the call that God gave them.”

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His message is one of deep hope and serious responsibility. “We are a people of Scripture, we are a people of hope. Hope is the simple belief that things can change. So if we will take that hope and take it into the place of prayer, things will begin to shift in our cities and in our nation.”

The charge is practical. “Do we see ourselves as just living in cities without any sort of responsibility attached? Or do we see ourselves as living on assignment from God?” he asked. That assignment includes prayer for families, communities and cities. “When we begin to think as people of responsibility, I think that’s the first step to being watchmen for the places God has called [us] to be.”

Even moments as ordinary as a daily coffee run can become divine appointments. “I’m showing up to a coffee shop, not just to get coffee, but to be a watchman,” Wood said.

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He closed the broadcast with this powerful reminder: “Not only do our prayers matter, the absence of our prayers matter.” Echoing Ezekiel 22:30, he warned, “God says, ‘I sought for a man among them who would build up the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.’”

Today, the call is clear. God is looking for those who will watch, pray and stand in the gap.

“Are you praying for your city?” host Joni Lamb asked. “He has placed you in your city, and your nation to be a watchman.”

Now more than ever, the church must rise, not to shout, but to intercede.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Dr. Pamela Pyle began her medical career in 1989 with no faith in God and no expectation that the supernatural could ever intersect with science. But decades later, she stands as a witness to something that defied every clinical explanation: the miraculous healing of her blind son.

“Beginning my practice in medicine … I saw so many things — acute cases, tragedies, accidents — that I didn’t have a solution for,” Pyle told CBN News. “As a physician, it was discouraging, especially as a young physician. I had some really tragic cases early on.”

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But her world began to change when her husband had a near-death experience and encountered the reality of eternity. While she initially rejected the transformation he underwent, suspecting brain trauma, he was unfazed. “When he recovered enough to be able to kind of relate this experience to me, and he was this transformed person, I wasn’t very happy,” she said. “I was so … sure that he’d had some kind of neurologic event due to low blood flow.” Yet all the neurological tests came back normal.

Still skeptical, Pyle watched her husband pray fervently for her soul. Then the unthinkable happened. Their infant son, who had been diagnosed as blind, began to see.

“He had nystagmus, which is that wandering of the eyes because there’s nothing to focus on, and we just thought he was a really attentive watching everything,” Pyle explained. “It was a really hard experience for a good friend who was our pediatrician having to tell us that he was blind.”

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Everything changed one Sunday after a church service when the congregation prayed over their family. “He was changing his diaper … and wearing a tie and had stripes on it. And when he threw the tie over his shoulder, our son with his little wobbly head looked at it,” Pyle recalled. “It was unreal.”

Doctors couldn’t explain the sudden ability of their son to focus and track objects. “As a non-believer then, I’m like, ‘Well … there’s a medical explanation for this,’ which, it wasn’t even until it was much later that [I] look back and go, ‘Well, it had to have been a miracle.’ The doctors, they didn’t have an explanation for it.”

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That miracle, wrapped in prayer and wrapped around the life of a child, became the breakthrough that softened Pyle’s heart. She eventually came to Christ and now shares her story boldly as both a physician and a believer.

For those still waiting on their own miracle, Pyle’s journey serves as a reminder that God is not finished yet. As she testifies, sometimes the impossible doesn’t just change your life—it saves your soul.

Let your prayers continue to rise, because miracles still happen today.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

The Bible has never needed modern science to validate its truth—but it’s always refreshing when archaeology and biology catch up to Scripture. The story of Adam and Eve in Genesis is not metaphorical, but historical. And once again, new discoveries are pointing to the reliability of God’s Word from the very beginning.

A recent report highlighted by Express explores the growing body of evidence supporting the existence of a literal Adam and Eve.

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Researchers note how the Bible describes Eden as a real geographical place, with a river splitting into four—the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. Two of those rivers still flow today, through Iraq, offering physical markers to what Genesis mapped out thousands of years ago.

Biblical archaeologist Professor Eric Cline observed, “This makes some sense from a textual point of view, because not only does the biblical account say that the garden lay ‘in the east,’ meaning to the east of Israel, but it also mentions the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in connection with the Garden of Eden.” That area, ancient Mesopotamia, is also known as the cradle of civilization, where the first domestication of animals and plants took place. In other words, Eden wasn’t some dreamland—it was a place on Earth.

But it doesn’t stop there. Science now acknowledges that all humans share DNA from a single female ancestor—coined “Mitochondrial Eve”—and all men from a single “Y-chromosome Adam.” While not all scientists agree on the timing or relationships, the fact remains: humanity is genetically connected to a single lineage.

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Dr. Joshua Swamidass noted, “Many individuals are each individually ancestors of ‘all the living.’” He further explained that this ancestral connection could apply to a specific couple—“referred to as Adam and Eve in Scripture”—from whom all people alive today descend.

These revelations echo other discoveries that continue to affirm biblical history, such as the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus healed a blind man (John 9), now confirmed by archaeological excavation in Jerusalem. And some researchers believe the remains of Noah’s Ark have been located at the Durupinar site near Mt. Ararat, adding another layer of support to the early chapters of Genesis.

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This isn’t some mere coincidence, it’s confirmation.

As Scripture says in Romans 1:20, “The invisible things about Him—His eternal power and deity—have been clearly seen since the creation of the world and are understood by the things that are made, so that they are without excuse.”

Truth doesn’t erode under scrutiny, it shines brighter. And history continues to prove that God’s Word was right from the start.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, another fire is spreading through the nation—one not fueled by missiles or politics, but by the Holy Spirit.

Ukrainian evangelist David Karcha gave a stirring testimony to this reality during the European Congress on Evangelism in Berlin, declaring, “In a time of peace, the gospel is powerful. But in a time of war, it is unstoppable,” as reported by Christian International Daily.

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While the secular world would expect persecution to silence the church, Karcha explained how the opposite has occurred. “Hundreds of thousands of people have walked through the doors of Ukrainian churches and encountered the love and care of God,” he said, noting that in 2023 alone, “thousands of people publicly professed their faith through baptism.”

From the trenches to trauma centers, Ukrainian churches are ministering as chaplains and caretakers, bringing the hope of Christ to those shattered by war. “We are there for the widows of fallen soldiers and for the orphans whose mothers are never coming home,” Karcha said. “We minister to those who have lost everything… bodies and souls scarred by unspeakable fragments and torture.”

The story of Viktor, a middle-aged refugee who came to Karcha’s church carrying a lifetime of pain, underscores the miraculous work happening amid devastation. “He cried. He wept. And he was born again, right in front of our eyes,” Karcha testified.

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This is far more than humanitarian aid, it is the spark of revival igniting amidst the ashes.

The Bible tells us to expect persecution. In 2 Timothy 3:12, Paul writes, “Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” But it also reminds us that God uses suffering to refine and expand His Kingdom. Romans 5:3-4 says, “We glory in tribulations… knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”

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What’s happening in Ukraine is not only a testimony of endurance, but of supernatural multiplication. “God is teaching us to listen and to see where he is already at work,” Karcha said. “He’s stirring suffering into testimony, fear into faith, and small acts of love into seeds for his kingdom.”

In Karcha’s own words: “Let history bow down to the cross.”

In the world’s eyes, Ukraine may be a story of war. But in God’s eyes, it is a story of awakening.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.