“Mommy, I want to go spend the night with Grandma.”

It seemed like an innocent request as well as an unusual one from a not quite 3-year-old little girl.

“Why? Why do you want to do that?” her mother, Sharon Buss, president of Global Outpouring, founded as End-Time Handmaidens by Dr. Gwen Shaw, asked her. Was her daughter ready to spend an entire night away from home?

The child’s grandparents, parents of Sharon’s husband, Phillip, lived nearby, “just on the other side of the mountain from us,” Sharon tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. “That had never happened before. … But she was adamant, so I thought, OK, let it go. So she went home with Grandma and Grandpa.”

That night, a devastating fire broke out in the ministry’s headquarters. Because the fire had started under a propane tank, the danger of explosion was great. The Busses ended up evacuating everyone in the valley, including the many in attendance at their International School of Ministry.

The fact that their daughter had gone home with her grandparents kept her safe. And it also left both Sharon and Philip free to deal with the emergency and save others’ lives as well.

“We had taken Sister Gwen and a load of people up to Philip’s parents’ house,” Sharon says. “And of course, our daughter was there, and I was so happy to see her safe and not have to be worried about it.”

To hear more about the miracle God did that night as well as other amazing stories of the Holy Spirit’s work through the Busses’ ministry, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here. And be sure to subscribe to both Greenelines and the Global Outpouring podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network for more stories of God’s supernatural work. {eoa}

Kimberly Jones, aka Real Talk Kim, knows about being stuck. She had to restart her life at age 38 when her 17-year marriage ended. And even in the past year, she’s endured multiple personal trials, including the death of her beloved father. But this Spirit-filled, faith-talking pastor and bestselling author refuses to get stuck in her pain.

“If I ask people on my Zoom or I ask people at a conference, ‘How many of you feel stuck?’ probably 80% of the people put up their hand,” Jones tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. Jones teaches people the raw, unburnished truth about how much God loves them and how they need to take responsibility for their own issues. As her most recent book puts it, we need to Shut Hell Up.

Through her trials, God has given Jones powerful, practical answers. “People just need to realize that every single thing in their life is going to be greater than what’s behind them,” she says. “So often, we can’t get to the blessings of God because we’re mad at our ex. We’re mad at the pastor who didn’t use us. We’re mad because our venture didn’t happen. We’re mad because people didn’t support our books. And so before we know it, we’re stuck. And we’re only stuck because we stopped moving. … as long as you ain’t dead, God ain’t done.”

“For a majority of my life, I beat myself up,” Jones says. “From the time I was in kindergarten, when I could start recognizing the difference between smart people, dumb people and kids who have to go out to a special ed class, I would just always beat myself up. … I just became like a victim in my own story. And then I found myself jumping ahead of God, creating my own storms and being mad at God when it rained.”

But Jones says one powerful moment with the Lord helped her move forward. Forced to move back home with her parents when her marriage ended, she says, “I was devastated. And I remember lying in bed one night, and … I remember God spoke to me, probably the first time I ever heard Him so clearly. He said, ‘I can’t take your pain away from you. You’ve got to get up and walk away from it.’

“And that taught me something,” Jones adds. “You’ve got to get up, and you’ve got to move forward. You can’t wait for somebody to do it for you.”

For more from Real Talk Kim on how to Shut Hell Up (including exciting news about her new 7-week e-course, which includes personal interaction in video format), listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here, and be sure to subscribe to Greenelines so you don’t miss the challenging, inspiring content from Dr. Steve Greene and his guests. {eoa).

Discouragement. Depression. Even suicide. More and more studies reveal that people are responding in dark and dangerous ways to the stressors we face on every side. Even believers have fallen prey to what psychologists now call “pandemic fatigue,” and turning on the news or viewing it online often does little to move us out of a negative mindset.

“Discouragement is a powerful drug,” says Dr. Doug Stringer. And the author, speaker and president of Somebody Cares America/International knows what that means. In 2015, he received a diagnosis of stage 4 lymphoma, an aggressive cancer. What kept him going, he says, was looking past his present circumstances and believing that God had a greater purpose than what he faced at the time.

“Right now more than ever, we need to encourage people to look past the circumstances of whatever they’re going through,” he tells Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. “We need leaders who are courageous, persevering and godly more than ever before.”

“We live in a world of great challenges, even uncertainties,” Stringer says. “And there’s constantly a flow of not just corporate but personal challenges in the midst of it all. So more than ever, we need those courageous leaders and those we can look to who have got God’s Word, who are to share the truth and love the truth more than they love themselves.

“And yet, when we are met with unexpected detours, they can become a disruption, and discouraging to us and keep us from even focusing on our destination,” he says. “So I think during these times, it’s important for all of us to remember that God has a plan and a purpose that’s greater than the temporary circumstances that might plague us.”

For more from Dr. Doug Stringer on how you can face—and help others face—challenging times with the kind of faith that will carry you through, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here. And be sure to check out Stringer’s new book, Mending the Net: Bringing Hope in a Hurting World as well as his own podcast, A Word in Season With Doug Stringer on the Charisma Podcast Network. Be sure to subscribe to A Word in Season and Greenelines for more encouraging, inspiring content. {eoa}

The events of last week have left our nation reeling. The Senate’s confirmation of Joe Biden as president-elect shocked many believers and seemed to counter the words of the many prophets who said Trump would win no matter what. Thursday’s violence at the Capitol and ensuing media madness have only seemed to escalate the divisions between us.

What do Christians do now? Prophet, author and end-times expert Michael Snyder spoke to Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines with words of both admonishment and encouragement. “What America ultimately needs more than anything else is Jesus. And that’s the only hope for our future. You know, for the past four years, people in the Christian or the evangelical world have been putting so much passion and energy into politics. But ultimately, what we need to put our passion and energy into is our relationship with God and winning souls, because that’s what really matters.

“And ultimately, the best-case scenario for a Trump presidency is that he would give the church cover to do what the church needs to do,” Snyder says. “And that’s to turn America back to God and win souls and win hearts. Because it wasn’t Trump who was going to turn America around; it was only going to be the church. We’ve got to win hearts; we’ve got to turn people back to God; we’ve got to show people the wickedness of our ways—that we can’t kill babies on an industrial scale; that we can’t have gay marriage in our country; that we can’t do all the things we’ve been doing, which we’ve talked about so frequently.

“We’ve got to turn back to God with all of our hearts and follow His ways because that’s what made America great in the first place: that we were a Christian nation, and we followed the Lord,” Snyder says. “And that’s why we’re in so much trouble today, because we’ve turned away from God.”

To hear more of Michael Snyder’s views on current events in America and how the church should respond in faith and repentance, not fear, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here. And be sure to like and subscribe to Greenelines for more inspiring, informing interviews on the Charisma Podcast Network. {eoa}

In these days of rising numbers related to the COVID-19 pandemic, prayer leader Mary Colbert wants us to remember one critical factor: God, not man, is in charge of life and death.

This truth came home to her, Mary, wife of bestselling author Dr. Don Colbert, tells Dr. Steve Greene on an episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network, when she saw His power work in a woman’s life after doctors had told her family there was no hope. The woman was a patient in her husband’s practice, Mary says, and “a God-fearing, godly woman” who had suffered a sudden brain aneurysm.

The woman’s daughter called the Colberts and begged them to come and pray over her mother in the hospital, where she had lain in a coma for seven days. Doctors were asking the family to sign papers to remove life support, Mary says. She and Don went to the hospital and prayed in the chapel, asking God, “Is this woman’s time up?”

“And we both clearly heard, ‘No,'” Mary says. They next went to her room in ICU, where, Mary says, she looked like a corpse. But the Colberts stood on what the Lord had said. “I took her hand and I said to the daughter, ‘Do you believe in the resurrection power of Jesus Christ?’

“She said, ‘Yes, I do. Of course I do,'” Mary reports.

“Well, I want you to know, your mother is still here, and she is not going to die. … Whether you unplug that machine or you don’t unplug that machine, you have no control over your mom’s days,” Mary told the woman. “He controls her days, not you, not man. He holds this woman’s life in his hands. No man can take her from Him.”

“And I said, ‘I believe those who are His, that you cannot take their life,” she adds. “‘They lay it down, but you can’t take it.’ So I told her, ‘You cannot take her life. Because if you turn that machine off, and God wants her to live, she’s going to keep breathing.'”

Colbert says she went over and laid hands on the woman and rebuked the spirit of death from her body, commanding it to leave. “And then I told her, ‘I know you’re here; do not be afraid,'” she says. “‘I know you’re still here. You’re not going to die. Just be at peace.’ I said, ‘In three days, the Lord’s going to wake you up, and you’re going to be just fine. That’s what He told me.'”

Mary says the woman’s daughter looked at her as if she had lost her mind. Listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here to hear the full story of the miracle that happened next. {eoa}

The worship wars may have ended, but the concerns continue. In recent years, a concert-driven style of worship has gained increasing popularity in charismatic and evangelical churches. In an atmosphere like this, it’s easy for the focus to shift from God to those leading worship.

Singer-songwriter and recording artist Susan Cheatham, a prophetic worship leader who serves on the staff of Katie Souza/Expected End Ministries, shared her own thoughts on worship leading and more with Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. Cheatham said that, whether she’s ministering with Souza in a prison, church or other setting, one factor is key: She’s not the leader at all.

“The thing about leading worship is knowing that the Holy Spirit is the leader,” Cheatham said. “You have your setlist; you have your plan, so to speak. But you have prayed into the service, you’ve prayed into the event or whatever you’re doing in that moment. … There’s an expectation in your spirit that the Holy Spirit is going to guide and lead you. And your confidence is in Him and not what you can do.”

Cheatham says the goal of a Spirit-filled worship leader should always be “to point people to Jesus, to point people to Christ.” In that way, she says, worship leaders can’t take their cues from those they lead. Instead, “We take our cues from the Holy Spirit, and we go with Him,” she said. “Yes, we are sensitive to what He is doing in that moment, though, with the people. We have to stay sensitive to how the Holy Spirit’s moving, how God’s speaking in that moment. And that is very key because we don’t want to keep going on and on, and the Holy Spirit just left the building. … We need to be sensitive to what He’s doing; watch what He’s doing. I do have eye-to-eye contact, because I’m the minister, and so I don’t just go off in my own world.”

Cheatham added that for worship leaders, “That’s the goal: to take them into the presence of the Lord as you go into the presence of the Lord.”

And taking people into the presence of the Lord is also what Cheatham strives to do through her book, Unlock Your Inheritance, and her television show, now available as a podcast, Arise With Susan, on the Charisma Podcast Network. She described it as a “kingdom show” and said she interviews those who are making a difference in the kingdom of God. Through the show, the testimonies of these world changers go across the globe to help those who watch and listen to “come up higher, to be healed, to be set free, to get the keys they need to be successful in their lives,” Cheatham said.

For more insight on how to let the Holy Spirit guide you as a worship leader as well as in your own walk with the Lord, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here. And be sure to check out Cheatham’s own show, Arise With Susan, on the Charisma Podcast Network. Subscribe to both this and Greenelines for more stories that will guide you to grow in the Spirit. {eoa}

“It’s cancer.”

No one wants to hear those words, especially at a young age. But when Steve Hannett heard them, he had no idea God would use His cancer to not only reveal Himself to Hannett but to bring hope and healing to thousands of others through the years. And it all began with a simple two-word prayer.

Hannett, now founding pastor of Abundant Grace Christian Church and Jesus Reigns International Inc., told Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network that at age 19, “while I was shaving, I discovered a lump in my neck. And that was initially alarming. But what began to unfold after that just got worse and worse. And I eventually was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s [Lymphoma] and found out that I had a tumor in my neck.”

Hannett, who had a Catholic background and only a nominal faith, said he didn’t even think about the idea that God could heal. “We began to go to many different doctors, go through many different types of tests.” And just before he began a course of radiation treatment with horrific side effects, Hannett had his first supernatural encounter with the one true God.

“I went to a beautiful beach late in the afternoon, almost early evening; the sun was setting,” he said. “And I saw the sky. And I described it to people like one of those ‘God skies,’ where you’re conscious that there’s a God out there somewhere. … I said, ‘Well, God, I know You’re out there.’ Then two words came to me; two words that came in the form of prayer. And I just looked up at that sky, and I said, ‘Teach me.’

“And the Bible says that David, when he cried, that God heard his cry, that God heard the depths of his pain,” Hannett explained. “And it was only a matter of weeks from that prayer that I met a Christian, a very powerful, strong, believing Christian from South Korea, who introduced me to the gospel and prayed for me that day. And the miraculous power of God penetrated my body and removed the very root of what was causing cancer. It was then I went back to the doctors; they checked my whole body. And not only was there no more sign of any cancer, but every side effect of damage done by radiation was also supernaturally gone.”

That miracle not only restored his health, Hannett said, but launched him into a lifetime ministry of helping others encounter God in supernatural ways. “I just had this sensing that everyone’s got to have the opportunity that I had, because I knew that God doesn’t love me more than anyone else. And if He did it for me, He’ll do it for everyone. And so not only did I get healed, but I think it was two or three days later, I began praying for the sick. I began telling everybody about Jesus, of course, because you don’t need to walk but 10 feet to find someone suffering.”

Hannett reveals much more about God’s supernatural power in his book, Unleashing Heaven’s Breath, and in his podcast, Be Healed. To hear more of his incredible story, listen to the entire episode of Greenelines here, and be sure to subscribe to both Greenelines and Be Healed on the Charisma Podcast Network. {eoa}

Former NFL star Miles McPherson, senior pastor of Rock Church in San Diego, California, knows about racism. As a member of what he calls a “United Nations family” with a multiracial heritage, he’s faced it all his life. “I grew up in New York,” he said. “We lived in a Black neighborhood, and I went to school in a white neighborhood for the first eight years of my schooling. I was harassed in the white neighborhood because I wasn’t Black and was harassed in my Black neighborhood because I wasn’t Black enough … Martin Luther King was killed when I was 8. And I remember thinking, What can we do?”

But God used the 2020 murder of George Floyd to help him discover a biblical key to the problem of racism, McPherson told Dr. Steve Greene on an episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. “One of the many things that went through my mind was It was a statement of insignificant value that that police officer put on George,” he said.

Our culture only gives us two options, McPherson said: “We live in an ‘us versus them’ culture, where you have to choose either for the police or against the police, for immigrants or against, for Black lives or not.”

McPherson takes what he calls a “third option” straight from Scripture. “When Joshua was going to the promised land, he said to the commander of the Lord’s army in Joshua 5, ‘Are you for us or our adversaries?’ Those are the two options he gave the Lord. And the Lord said, ‘No, I’m not for either one of you. I am the battle.’ And that’s the third option, that we honor what God has deemed as important, which is His image in every person.” This perspective also moved McPherson to write his recent book, The Third Option.

He also shared his own definition of racism from a spiritual perspective: “Racism is when you deem God’s image of someone less important than yours, which we all know is sinful. And if we can come to agreement to understand the value of every person, then we can eradicate racism.”

For more from Miles McPherson on solving the issue of racism, click here to listen to the entire episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. And be sure to subscribe to Greenelines at this link for more inspiring, informative stories. {eoa}

God always gives me a word for the year. It’s usually a word I either think I know or don’t want to spend time thinking about. This was more than true with the word He gave me for 2021. It is the word “more.”

The first thing I thought when He gave me the word was, What more, God? I don’t want more. More means I have more to do, more to handle. I’m not sure I like this word.

More Than Conquerors

Here’s the deal: God doesn’t care if I like it or not. He wants me to understand and experience what the word means. So I looked up Scripture for the word “more”. Romans 8: 37 stood out to me in a major way. In The Passion Translation it says, “Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and His demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything.”

In the verses right before this, Paul is talking about who or what can separate us from God’s love? He tells us that nothing can do that. He says, “Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love” (Rom. 8:35b). We are more than conquerors over all these things.

After the year we’ve had, this is really good to know. We don’t want more of what 2020 brought us, but if it does come, we know we are more than conquerors over whatever the new year throws at us.

The Challenge of More

When I read Proverbs 25:16, TPT, it stopped in my tracks. Of course, my lifelong battle with sugar addiction caused me to stop here, but I have read Proverbs through many times and not really read this verse. Today, though, was different.

Here’s what this verse says: “When you discover something sweet, don’t overindulge and eat more than you need, for excess in anything can make you sick of even a good thing.”

The word “more” has challenges, and this describes those challenges in a nutshell. We always want more, but more comes with difficulties of its own. I have to admit, when I finally accepted that God’s word for me this year was “more,” I was a little scared that might mean more money.

Don’t get me wrong, money is great. Money managed correctly can impact the kingdom of God in phenomenal ways. It’s just that lots of money is more (there’s that word again) than I want to try to manage.

Do We Really Want More?

I look at those I know who are making a lot more money than I am and I think, I don’t want to be that stressed or that busy. While it is true that I do like to keep myself occupied, I’ve also learned that more money does means more issues.

We always say we want more, but it comes with a price and that is the price of our souls. We can get so entangled in always wanting more that we lose sight of what is really important to us. As Mark 8:37 says, “What could be more valuable to you than your own soul?” Notice the word “more” in that sentence. There are some things more valuable than even money.

When we focus on the more that we want, such as more food, more money, more cars, more furniture, more electronics, more things to comfort us, we lose focus of what God wants for us.

All of that is wrapped up in Proverbs 25:16. When we overindulge to excess in anything the world offers, it can make us sick. Excess in anything can make us sick of even things that appear to be good. Money is good. It can do good things. Food is good. We need it to fuel our bodies. We just need to view these things through God’s eyes. And this is the great challenge of more.

Where Our Focus Should Be

Although more has its challenges, it also has its upside. If our focus is in the right place, it won’t matter what God brings to us because we will use it correctly to help expand His kingdom, not ours. If we focus on things like more of Jesus, more grace and more dreams that He has for us to accomplish, we will be headed in the right direction.

God has calmed my fears about the word “more.” Now I can’t wait to see what 2021 brings. The “more” He is whispering to me is not more calamity and chaos, but more of Him in everything I do and every day I live.

For more about what we should focus on, go here to listen to episode 61 of the Sweet Grace for Your Journey podcast, The Challenge of More.

Another more you will want to investigate is one more book of mine. It’s my new book, Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds, and it is live on Amazon in paperback and Kindle; visit this link to find it. {eoa}

Teresa Shields Parker is the author of six books and two study guides, including her No. 1 bestseller, Sweet Grace: How I Lost 250 Pounds. Her sixth book, Sweet Surrender: Breaking Strongholds, is available for preorder. She blogs at . She is also a Christian weight loss coach (check out her coaching group at Overcomers Academy) and speaker. Don’t miss her podcast, Sweet Grace for Your Journey, available on the Charisma Podcast Network.

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Dr. Bill Hamon is known as the Father of the New Prophetic Movement. And even after more than 60 years of ministry, he is still learning about God. As we close out this year of a worldwide pandemic, a tumultuous election season and unrest across the globe, Hamon has a word for believers. This dynamic word comes from the apostle Paul: “So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in hardships, in persecutions, and in distresses for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor. 12:10).

“I’ve asked hundreds of people as I’ve ministered, ‘What do you take pleasure in?'” he told Dr. Steve Greene on an episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. [They’ve said], ‘My business, sports, my family, praising God, reading the Bible’—a hundred things, but nobody has ever listed what Paul says, and I used to wonder, How can he say that?

“For 60 years, I pondered what in the world was Paul saying; what was he trying to mean? I said, ‘Either Paul needs a psychiatrist, or he’s got a revelation that most Christians don’t have today,'” Hamon said.

As he wrote his recent book, Your Highest Calling, God gave him the revelation he needed. “It knocks the why out of every ‘why’ you’ve ever had,” Hamon said. “‘Why did I go through this? Why did this happen? We prayed, we sought God and it still happened. We still went bankrupt; we still had a car accident; we still had the church split—why?'”

Hamon uses two natural laws to explain how we, like Paul, can glory in our hard times. “There’s a law of gravity that says anything heavier than air has to fall,” he said. “But all these tons of people, plane and material and luggage, it lifts it up, and it stays up and goes down. … The law of aerodynamics does not destroy the law of gravity; it supersedes it to accomplish a faster, greater purpose. And the law of gravity is still the same.”

“Your four fingers represent all your natural life—physical, financial, social, family and business, everything—your thumb represents the inward man,” Hamon said. “Paul says, ‘Though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.’ And so God’s interested in the inward man.

Pursuing our inward man is the highest calling God has placed on our lives, Hamon said. And that’s what enables us to not only survive difficult times but embrace them as God’s instruments.

To hear more of Bishop Bill Hamon’s teaching on how we can glory in our weaknesses and gain grace for our hard times, listen to the entire episode of the Greenelines podcast here. And be sure to subscribe to Greenelines at for more inspiring stories and biblical truth. {eoa}