When you look at the state of our world and culture today, it’s as mess. There isn’t any other way to put it. People are divided over any and every topic to the point that churches have been influenced by the culture war. Between wars, rumors of wars, economic troubles and a slew of other alarming issues, it’s almost easier to put blinders on and just focus on your daily tasks.

With that being said, there has been unusual amount of ‘God’ situations happening back to back. Pastor Samuel Rodriguez sat down with Charisma magazine for an interview about what he calls “a synergy of all these elements coming together.”

In recent months we saw a football player collapse on the field and football teams rallying together on national television to pray for healing. Posts circulated across social media with people in all walks of life praying. An ESPN host went viral for stopping a broadcast to pray live on air.

Next, we had a group of students gather for a routine chapel service which led to a nationwide revival with thousands traveling from around the world to experience the presence of God.

Then you have the “Jesus Revolution” movie hitting theaters and blowing the box offices out of the water.

“God is making a miracles out of a mess. We are about to see financial, physical, emotional, relational, geographical, generational, even national, we’re about to see America’s mess, become God’s miracle,” Rodriguez says. In his new book “Your Mess, God’s Miracle” he talks about John 9 where Jesus engages in one of the most controversial methodologies of manifesting a miracle. Spitting on the ground in the dirt and rubbing it on a blind mans eyes.

God literally made a mess and out of that mess a miracle was birthed. Full of zeal, Rodriguez says, “He spits on the ground. Who does that?”

Looking at the mess America is entangled in, it’s clear we are need of a miracle. Thankfully, we serve a God who always shows up at just the right time with the perfect answer to our problems. Surprisingly, Rodriguez has had pushback from a sector of Christians who feel like believing for a miracle is waste of time.

Sadly many people believe because we are in the last days we are wasting our time. It’s going to get darker, and people aren’t going to get saved. I’m sure that’s exactly what people thought during the Black Plague, when the Mayan calendar ended, the Holocaust or when ‘Christian numerologist’ David Meade used the geometry of the pyramids of Giza to calculate the world would end back in 2017.

The world didn’t end, and until Jesus comes back there is always room for more miracles.

“There’s a last day promise that cannot be denied. He said I will definitively pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. This is that my friend. We are hearing reports all around the country, that churches are literally increasing not only back to pre COVID numbers, some of them are exceeding pre-COVID numbers,” Rodriguez says.

God can and will make a miracle out of every single mess. Rodriguez encourages Christians that even a generational mess can be God’s generational miracle. Tune it to the full interview here.

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Chris Rock is an award-winning comedian and an actor, but in one of is recent stand-up performances his callous humor appears to come right out of a skit from the liberal program Saturday Night Live, of which he is an alum.

During a recent Netflix special, Rock compared paying for an abortion to hiring a hitman, akin to something Pope Francis said in an interview last summer. Known for controversy, Rock tackled an issue that many celebrities won’t touch.

At times, however, it’s difficult to determine whether Rock’s comments are sincere or tongue-in-cheek.

“There’s a part of me that’s pro-life,” Rock said on his special, “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage.” Using his comedy, he did remind the audience that abortion is “killing a baby.” However …

“I believe women should have the right to kill babies,” Rock sad. “That’s right, I’m on your side. I believe you should have the right to kill as many babies as you want. Kill them all., I don’t give a [expletive]. But let’s not get twisted; it is killing a baby.”

So, is it just a joke, or is it liberal apathy?

“Whenever I pay for an abortion, I request a dead baby,” Rock said. “Sometimes I call up a doctor like a hitman: Is it done?’

Make no mistake about it, Rock assured his audience that he is “absolutely pro-choice” because “I want my daughters to live in a world where they have complete control of their bodies.”

But again, Rock went on what many might interpret as a comedic rant, one that might not be so humorous for the pro-life community.

“I think women should have the right to kill a baby until he’s four years old,” Rock said. “I think you should be able to kill a baby until you get that first report card.”

In an interview last year, Pope Francis said:

“I ask, ‘Is it licit, is it right, to eliminate a human life to solve a problem?’ the pontiff asked. “It’s a human life—that’s science. The moral question is whether it is right to take a human life to solve a problem. Indeed, is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem?”

Last August in a stand-up routine, Rock mocked the practice of abortion by saying, “A safe abortion is an abortion where only one person dies.”

It was a comment that says made the audience a little uncomfortable.

Abortion is the number one killer of human life in the United States, but it is not recognized as such. Nearly 1 million unborn babies are killed in abortions every year, and, in the past 50 years, more than 63 million unborn babies have been aborted. {eoa}

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The Asbury revival has garnered the attention of many. As a result, some pastors and young leaders are looking at this phenomenon as the norm and primary goal of their ministry.

However, we must look at revival as a means to an end, not the end itself.

Historically, charismatics have been “all in” on revival. To them, this term is an all-encompassing word that means a mighty move of God in the church that spills over into the community and wins the lost.

However, we should distinguish between a revival, which has to do with bringing life back to a dead church, and an awakening, which has to do with a massive movement of winning the lost in the surrounding communities of churches.

Of course, we should all believe in revivals leading to significant awakenings of sinners. However, there are many churches and pastors who have no strategy except to wait for a revival.

When I read the New Testament, this differs from the apostles’ focus. The word “revival” is not used once in the New Testament, even though the need for it in the context of bringing life back to a dead church is implied in several places.

In the book of Revelation, Jesus told the church of Ephesus to come back to their first love. He tells the church of Sardis to wake up and strengthen the things that remain that are about to die. He rebuked the Laodicea church for being lukewarm and admonished them to let Him back in the church (Rev. 2:1-7; 3:1-2; 3:14-20).

The following are six reasons why we should not put all our focus on revival.

1. Praying for revival implies your church is dead. The focus in the New Testament is not on revival, but on building healthy churches that nurture sheep that reproduce other sheep. Congregations like this continue to grow and expand organically without a revival. Consequently, a pastor whose primary focus is praying for revival in their church is implying that their congregation is dead or dying (which may be the case in many churches).

However, if their church is healthy, praying for a revival in their congregation would be like calling 911 for an EMT person to come and conduct CPR to bring someone back to life whose heart and health are fully functional. Healthy churches should focus on continuing to nurture the flock to present every member complete in Christ (Col. 1:28).

2. God cannot bring more people into your church beyond your capacity to shepherd them. In Deuteronomy 7:22, God told Moses that He could not give the children of Israel all of the promised lands at once lest the wild animals become unmanageable. Hence, the principle is God will never give you more than you can manage. If God answered most prayers for revival and awakening, it would possibly wreak havoc in many churches that cannot shepherd the needs of these newly saved people.

3. A primary focus of the New Testament is on making disciples, not on revival. Both Jesus and the apostle Paul put their primary focus on disciple making (Matt. 28:19-20, Acts 14:21-28). Many pastors focus on revival but fail to create an infrastructure conducive to making disciples. So what would happen if many people came into their church, but there was no process to mature these new converts?

The unfortunate result would be a lot of spiritual babies being born again who would not be properly disciplined, resulting in many of them falling away.

4. A primary focus in the New Testament is building strong families. According to the guidelines of the apostle Paul, a person is not qualified to be a spiritual leader unless they can manage their household (1 Tim. 3:5). The reason for this is that the church is a family of families, which is why Paul referred to her as the household of faith (1 Tim. 3:15). Thus, the true gauge of influential congregations is not merely the size of the church, but how strong the marriages and families are in the congregation.

5. A primary focus of the Scriptures is to live productive lives that benefit others. Some pastors and believers get discouraged because they’ve never experienced what they deem to be a great revival. This causes them to think that they failed or believe that the favor of God is not upon them. Thus, they only see God in the miraculous, not the mundane. However, the church’s goal should be to nurture economically productive Christians that love their fellow Christians and become a blessing to the unchurched community (Gal. 6:10; 1 Thess. 4:9-12; Titus 2:14; Titus 3:9). This is one legitimate measure of success.

6. Great outpourings of the Spirit are expressed differently based on the context. Our church has seen incredible outpourings of the Spirit throughout the years (including a great move of the Spirit that started several weeks before Asbury). However, we have people with children, waiting for them in our Sunday school, who have extensive work and family obligations. We must dismiss our services at a certain point, even amid a great outpouring. We could not go on for weeks the way the students in a seminary like Asbury could (who likely are single, with no other significant family obligations in life, which enables them to linger in the presence of God for days at a time).

This doesn’t mean that the outpouring in our church is any less intense than in Asbury. It just means that the Spirit expects people to bring what they receive in the church to their homes and impart it to their children, friends, neighbors and co-workers. For this reason, it is probably God who often initiates spiritual outpourings leading to awakenings amongst single people in colleges. As a result, they can impact other college campuses so that revival and awakening can spread like wildfire to the nation and beyond!

We are beginning a major Jesus revolution that will sweep in this Gen Z demographic. {eoa}

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Dr. Joseph Mattera is an internationally-known author, consultant and theologian whose mission is to influence leaders who influence culture. He is the founding pastor of Resurrection Church, and leads several organizations, including The U.S. Coalition of Apostolic Leaders and Christ Covenant Coalition. Dr. Mattera is the author of 13 bestselling books, including his latest “The Purpose, Power and Process of Prophetic Ministry,” and is renowned for applying Scripture to contemporary culture.

First lady Jill Biden has been slammed across social media for awarding a biological man an award meant for women on International Women’s Day. The intent of the award is to honor international women who have made a difference in the world to build a brighter future for all people.

A barrage of posts are circulating online with women of all ages infuriated that biological men now believe they are better at being a woman than those who have experienced the triumphs and struggles of womanhood in our world today.

One Twitter user posted, “International Women’s Day: Not just for women anymore.”

International Women’s Day: Not just for women anymore.

— Andrea Katherine (@AndreaKatSTL) March 8, 2023

Another frustrated woman saying “women have officially been cancelled.”

Women have officially been cancelled. This is embarrassing, stupid and crazy. These people don’t work for America, Joe and Jill were placed in the WH to do Satan’s bidding. No words!

— AMABLACKPATRIOT (@DrShayPhD) March 9, 2023

I believe, as a woman myself, that there are an innumerable amount of bold, courageous and inspiring women throughout history who represent what it truly means to be a Spirit-filled unashamed woman of God. Let alone the rich history of women’s rights in our country.

Let me be clear, this article isn’t meant to bash those who identify as transgender. Taking the bait of Satan and perpetuating hate is never the answer.

In a world that is riddled with slavery, little children in labor camps and young girls forced into prostitution to this day, there are women who deserved to be honored for the work they are doing to bring freedom to the captives.

Here are some of the women throughout history who, if they were here today, deserve to be honored for the boldness and bravery.

On July 13, 1848 on a hot summer day in upstate New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton gathered together with some of her girlfriends for some tea. They sat around a table talking about the staunch differences between men and women’s rights during that time.

Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law. They weren’t allowed to vote or own property. Husbands had the legal power and responsibility over their wives and could imprison or beat them with impunity. Divorce and child custody laws favored men over women and most jobs didn’t allow women. If they allowed women employees, they were paid a fraction of what men were paid.

Those harsh realities fueled Stanton and her courageous friends to hold the world’s first Women’s Right Convention which was the start of a movement that led to the freedoms women hold in our country today. Women in America are now mothers and CEO’s of companies. Women can own property, vote and have the opportunity to fulfill their wildest dreams. Little did Stanton know at that time, their tea talk would change the world.

In the Bible there are numerous women who deserved to be honored. Miriam, the first female prophetess. Deborah was a prophetess and the only female judge. Queen Esther used her position of influence to save the Jewish people who were on the verge of being annihilated. She risked her life for them.

Throughout history we’ve also seen people like Amy Carmichael, who at 28 years old traveled to India from Ireland as a missionary. Shocked and deeply disturbed by the 5 and 6-year-old girls being forced into marriage and prostitution, she started to rescue them one by one. She became known as “mother” to more than 1,000 little girls. Amy ministered to the sinners and sufferers in India for 50 years without one single furlough.

Then you have Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom, the Dutch sisters who helped Jews escape the Holocaust. After hiding the Jews in their home they were discovered by the Nazi’s and thrown into concentration camps. Betsie died in the camps, but Corrie was released through a “clerical error” one week before everyone her age was sent to the gas chambers.

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland. In 1849 she escaped to freedom and through the leading of the Holy Spirit directing and guiding her, she made 13 trips helping 300 slaves to freedom. Tubman later was a strong advocate for women’s right to vote.

Today, I choose not to become part of a cultural and political war, bashing Jill Biden. I simply choose to honor the women who have come before me that have deeply influenced my life and beliefs. They are the women I aspire to be.

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Near the end of the film “Jesus Revolution,” Pastor Chuck Smith gives his young disciple Greg Laurie the keys to a church and challenges him to launch a new congregation. When Laurie expresses his lack of confidence, Smith says: “God has a long history of using flawed people.”

Those words certainly apply to the Jesus Movement, the spiritual revival that started in California when a long-haired hippie named Lonnie Frisbee showed up on Smith’s doorstep in 1968. The movement brought hundreds of thousands of people to Christ during the 1970s. “Jesus Revolution” portrays Frisbee’s early days as an evangelist, but there wasn’t enough screen time to unpack his complicated life.

“Jesus Revolution” captures Frisbee’s humor, his passion for the gospel and his love for his disciples. We see him baptizing new converts in the Pacific Ocean, preaching on a college campus and sharing his testimony on a Kathryn Kuhlman TV show. But there are hints of a darker side: His relationship with his wife gets testy, he has conflicts with Smith after the pastor corrects him about his youthful arrogance and Frisbee eventually parts ways with Smith.

I’m glad the film didn’t delve into all of Frisbee’s problems. Movies can only give us a limited view of reality. But the truth is that Frisbee was a tormented soul who suffered unimaginable rejection and abuse—and in the end his brokenness ended his life prematurely.

After the initial outbreak of revival at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, Frisbee went through a divorce, fell into sexual sin, was ostracized by several ministries and then eventually repented and returned to the Lord. But somewhere along the way he contracted HIV. He died from AIDS in 1993.

Greg Laurie, whose conversion story is the basis for “Jesus Revolution,” praises Frisbee for playing a key role in the movement—but he also grieves over his tragic failure. “Lonnie messed up,” Laurie said in a recent interview about the film. “We show [in the movie] that Lonnie had his struggles. We show Lonnie was flawed. Everyone in the film was flawed.”

To discover the untold story of Frisbee’s darker years we can turn to one of his best friends, John Ruttkay, who met Frisbee in 1979 and was discipled by him. Ruttkay recently posted a detailed, 59-minute video in which he describes the years after Frisbee was at Calvary Chapel.

Ruttkay shares portions of Frisbee’s autobiography, “Not by Might, Nor by Power,” along with more than a decade of first-hand memories of ministering with him. Frisbee wrote of his early years: “As a child I was starving for affection. My natural father beat me, and left. My step-father raised me in cruel rejection.” Then, Frisbee said, a male babysitter molested him when he was eight. Frisbee called the babysitter “a dark evangelist sent by demonic forces to ruin my life.”

The inner torment plunged Frisbee into the drug scene in San Francisco, as well as the gay underground. But then he found Jesus and immediately began allowing the Holy Spirit to use him during the early years of the Jesus Movement. Yet because there was little counseling available for victims of abuse in those days, Frisbee began to spiral downward.

To make matters worse, Frisbee began to develop a root of bitterness. He felt rejected by Chuck Smith, then by some pastors in Florida and then by more pastors when he returned to California to help launch the Vineyard movement.

Even Ruttkay lost contact with Frisbee briefly in the early 1990s. Then, in 1992, Frisbee tracked him down and admitted to his friend that he had contracted HIV. He was emaciated and going blind. Yet Frisbee told Ruttkay he had repented for his sins and that he had gone to various people to ask for forgiveness.

Frisbee’s struggle created a quandary for Christian leaders in those days. They couldn’t just excuse his behavior, but they didn’t know how to help him—so Frisbee felt like an outcast. Yet he never justified his actions.

Frisbee wrote in his book: “God is clear in the Bible that the wages of sin is death … I am totally forgiven by my Lord, but I am also paying the consequences of my sin even right now.”

Frisbee was also outspoken at the end of his life about homosexuality. He wrote: “Some not only embrace the lifestyle, but actively, willingly and creatively attempt to promote the gay agenda, therefore becoming dark evangelists. … Every pedophile in the world is a dark evangelist. … Right now Satan is attempting to sell homosexuality to the whole world, not just America. He wants to destroy Christianity, the family unit and really to destroy mankind.”

Yet Frisbee ended his comments on a merciful note: “I’m saying all this without wanting to condemn anyone, but to speak the truth in love. I am saying: Turn to Jesus, because He is the only One who can deliver you.”

Those are some of Frisbee’s last words.

Frisbee’s funeral was held 30 years ago, on March 18, 1993, at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. He was only 43. Ruttkay says that he, his wife and Chuck Smith all compared Frisbee to the biblical character Samson during their eulogies. Like Samson, Frisbee had deep character flaws and internal conflicts, yet he managed to point many people to God. Frisbee’s tormented life is both a tragedy and an inspiration to us today.

And now, through “Jesus Revolution,” this deeply flawed man’s story is reminding a new generation about a Savior who can forgive anybody. {eoa}

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J. Lee Grady was editor of Charisma for 11 years and now serves as senior contributing editor. He directs the Mordecai Project (), an international ministry that protects women and girls from gender-based violence. His latest books are “Follow Me” and “Let’s Go Deeper” (Charisma House).

This article first appeared on Curt Landry Ministries.

*Note: This is the first of a two-part series.

Spiritual disciplines are habits and patterns that you choose to come in agreement with in your walk with the Lord. Spiritual disciplines align you with the Lord, and you become spiritually and emotionally mature. Habits and patterns are not about legalism; rather, they are heart issues. How and where your heart is practicing these things is what matters and what will either produce life, growth and increased faith or ungodly burdens and distress in your heart and mind.

Second Corinthians 5:17 says that you have been made new. If you are made new, then you need to have new practices, habits and patterns to facilitate the transformation project God is doing in your life.

The Bible tells about the promises that come from creating habits and patterns and a spiritually disciplined lifestyle…

· Deliverance

· Protection

· Provision

· Prosperity

As a new creation in Yeshua Messiah, He does not leave you the way you were in your Adamic nature. He wants you to start speaking after His covenant and promises as He adjusts your heart. He will cut bone from marrow and cleanse your heart as you create habits and patterns that align with Him!

Isn’t it wonderful to be saved under the name of Jesus? His Hebrew name is Yeshua.

The blood of Jesus expunges our sins. We are saved, and we’re not going to hell. That is the greatest gift there is in salvation. For all who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, Jew and Gentile.

One New Man Creates a Place for Covenant Promises to Be Made Manifest

But the interesting thing about the calling of Curt Landry Ministries is that I am a Jewish believer in Yeshua and work primarily with non-Jews who are Gentiles as One New Man. And anytime we come together as One New Man, it creates a place for covenant promises of God to be made manifest. It fulfills Bible prophecy but also creates a spiritual warfare atmosphere where victory is revealed. Solomon said it best: “Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Eccl. 4:12).

One New Man and the 3-Fold Cord

And so when we come together as Jews and Gentiles, one in Messiah, and so that’s two, Jew and Gentile, and then you add the Holy Spirit and the God of angel armies, you bring heaven into the mix and you have kingdom of authority. You have a threefold chord that is absolutely not easily broken.

Habits and Patterns

And so, here on “Ancient Principles, Kingdom Authority,” let’s take a look at habits and patterns that help us stand in victory.

• So much spiritual warfare is won in your preparation time through habits and patterns.

So much of it has to do with the way you align. And spiritual disciplines are habits and patterns that you choose to come into agreement with in your walk with the Lord. This matures you because you choose to walk in them.

• Habits and patterns produce spiritual maturity and growth.

The fruit manifestation of spiritual discipline is the key to transformation. Furthermore, when Jesus rules your heart, His Spirit will guide you into habits and patterns that will connect you more to Him, encourage you in places and give you boundaries around people and situations when the world is bringing confusion and fear.

And often, when people hear the words “boundaries” or “guidelines,” people feel a little bit restricted. That natural rebellion that’s in all of us wants to say, “Oh, I don’t want a boundary. I don’t want to be restricted.”

But I find in spiritual warfare, when you draw close to God and resist the devil, he’ll flee. Instead of driving so close to the guardrail and likely hitting it every so often, you will avoid having your mind, will and emotions in the body shop all the time.

Are Your Habits and Patterns of the Flesh or Spirit?

Your Adamic nature is drawn to habits and patterns that satisfy and are comforted in the flesh.

But the Bible says that the flesh is at war with the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:17 says, “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.”

And that’s what Paul said in Romans 7:15, “For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.”

Spiritual warfare is having enough discipline to renew your inner self, mind, will and emotions to be in agreement with the Spirit. Or if I can say it this way, you’re sold out for God.

What Does Being Sold Out to God and the Habits and Patterns of the Spirit Look Like?

In other words, you say, “You know what? It’s smarter for me. I’ll be happier, healthier and wealthier if I actually do it God’s way versus having to have all the cleanup of not doing it God’s way.”

A Personal Example…

I like to cook. One of the things I do when planning a meal is look at the steps and plan them out in my mind. I either look at a cookbook or go from memory.

But I ask myself,

• “How can I limit the number of utensils, pots and pans to dirty?”
• “How do I make the cleanup less and still get the meal to be at the highest level of excellence?”

I don’t just randomly say, “Okay, here’s one bowl here, and there, and I’m dirtying four or five bowls or pots and pans when I could actually do it with two or three.”

That’s how spiritual warfare is.

When you have a spiritual need, you must humble yourself. You need to stop and ask the Lord and say, “Okay, I’m getting ready to, so to say, cook up this idea. How do you want me to do this, God?”

Maybe the Lord’s given you an idea for a new job, relationship, plan and exploit. Go to the Bible, and let’s look at the recipe and see how you can do this without causing the least chaos in your life. And the Lord will show you. He will give you His strength and His mind to create an obedient heart.

Just ask Him right now.

• “Father God, give me a heart of obedience. Give me a heart of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding so that when I start into these things, and be transformed in the process.”

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Curt Landry, founder of Curt Landry Ministries, and his wife, Christie, travel extensively, preaching and teaching about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Together, their passion is to empower families to live and leave Kingdom legacies and understand their own personal heritage.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday taking away Disney World’s autonomy by ending the Reedy Creek Improvement District. “Today, the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” DeSantis declared.

That autonomy Disney held has allowed them to grant liquor licenses to themselves, create their own fire departments, transportation and emergency services on top of numerous other perks. Now, DeSantis will be appointing a new board to help in the decision-making process on the 27,000 acres Disney owns.

The Florida governor signing that bill fulfills a prophecy Amanda Grace originally heard from God on March 27th, 2021. God spoke to her two years ago that Disney would lose their crown, or in other words, lose the control and autonomy they have been operating in for the last 56 years.

When you look at the state of our world and culture today, it’s as mess. There isn’t any other way to put it. People are divided over any and every topic to the point that churches have been influenced by the culture war. Between wars, rumors of wars, economic troubles and a slew of other alarming issues, it’s almost easier to put blinders on and just focus on your daily tasks.

With that being said, there has been unusual amount of ‘God’ situations happening back to back. Pastor Samuel Rodriguez sat down with Charisma magazine for an interview about what he calls “a synergy of all these elements coming together.”

In recent months we saw a football player collapse on the field and football teams rallying together on national television to pray for healing. Posts circulated across social media with people in all walks of life praying. An ESPN host went viral for stopping a broadcast to pray live on air.

Next, we had a group of students gather for a routine chapel service which led to a nationwide revival with thousands traveling from around the world to experience the presence of God.

Then you have the “Jesus Revolution” movie hitting theaters and blowing the box offices out of the water.

“God is making a miracles out of a mess. We are about to see financial, physical, emotional, relational, geographical, generational, even national, we’re about to see America’s mess, become God’s miracle,” Rodriguez says. In his new book “Your Mess, God’s Miracle” he talks about John 9 where Jesus engages in one of the most controversial methodologies of manifesting a miracle. Spitting on the ground in the dirt and rubbing it on a blind mans eyes.

God literally made a mess and out of that mess a miracle was birthed. Full of zeal, Rodriguez says, “He spits on the ground. Who does that?”

Looking at the mess America is entangled in, it’s clear we are need of a miracle. Thankfully, we serve a God who always shows up at just the right time with the perfect answer to our problems. Surprisingly, Rodriguez has had pushback from a sector of Christians who feel like believing for a miracle is waste of time.

Sadly many people believe because we are in the last days we are wasting our time. It’s going to get darker, and people aren’t going to get saved. I’m sure that’s exactly what people thought during the Black Plague, when the Mayan calendar ended, the Holocaust or when ‘Christian numerologist’ David Meade used the geometry of the pyramids of Giza to calculate the world would end back in 2017.

The world didn’t end, and until Jesus comes back there is always room for more miracles.

“There’s a last day promise that cannot be denied. He said I will definitively pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. This is that my friend. We are hearing reports all around the country, that churches are literally increasing not only back to pre COVID numbers, some of them are exceeding pre-COVID numbers,” Rodriguez says.

God can and will make a miracle out of every single mess. Rodriguez encourages Christians that even a generational mess can be God’s generational miracle. Tune it to the full interview here.

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Here’s a quick summary of the top stories on :

God Used Lonnie Frisbee Powerfully Despite His Flaws

Near the end of the film “Jesus Revolution,” Pastor Chuck Smith gives his young disciple Greg Laurie the keys to a church and challenges him to launch a new congregation. When Laurie expresses his lack of confidence, Smith says: “God has a long history of using flawed people.”

Those words certainly apply to the Jesus Movement, the spiritual revival that started in California when a long-haired hippie named Lonnie Frisbee showed up on Smith’s doorstep in 1968. The movement brought hundreds of thousands of people to Christ during the 1970s. “Jesus Revolution” portrays Frisbee’s early days as an evangelist, but there wasn’t enough screen time to unpack his complicated life.

Amanda Grace: The Tie Between Purim and Disney Being Decrowned

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday taking away Disney World’s autonomy by ending the Reedy Creek Improvement District. “Today, the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” DeSantis declared.

That autonomy Disney held has allowed them to grant liquor licenses to themselves, create their own fire departments, transportation and emergency services on top of numerous other perks. Now, DeSantis will be appointing a new board to help in the decision-making process on the 27,000 acres Disney owns.

The Florida governor signing that bill fulfills a prophecy Amanda Grace originally heard from God on March 27th, 2021. God spoke to her two years ago that Disney would lose their crown, or in other words, lose the control and autonomy they have been operating in for the last 56 years.

The High Calling of Christian Husbands

Husbands have a high calling given to them by God to lead and guide their family in the way of truth. Those very characteristics that God wove into men are being attacked in our culture today. Men were designed to lead and set the tone for the spiritual climate within their household and that requires the characteristics of a leader.

Suzette, the Marriage Warrior, has worked with crisis couples who have found themselves in the deepest pits of darkness. One key element she uses, is empowering the husbands as the leader, to take control over the problems plaguing their marriage. Those same characteristics of leadership are being attacked today.

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Cindy Jacobs is a prophet the body of Christ can count on for accuracy. And many of her prophetic words are used for encouragement for the saints, something that is sorely needed in this uncertain time of chaos and confusion in America.

Jacobs says, “In this season, coming out of the pandemic, there has been a lot of fragmentation in society. And the Lord would say to you, ‘Be aware of where the enemy has tried to cause fragmentation,’ meaning hurt or trauma. There are things that Satan has sent your way to impede your success, to impede your future, to impede you from going ahead in life.

“But the Lord would say, ‘Go back and deal with the trauma and let Me show you where Satan has come in. Don’t let relationships fragment because you let them.'”

Satan comes in to hurt families, to hurt people who have been in covenant and people who have loved each other. That spirit that has been on society is trying to come into families, churches and even into us as individuals.”

But always believe that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

Jacobs, one of the leaders of Generals International, believes the Lord is saying, “Even now, know this: I am coming with my precious Holy Spirit to put you back together.”

The Holy Spirit, Jacobs says, wants believers know that, even if you are wounded, don’t let that incident or incidents victimize you, because you are not a victim. You are an overcomer.

The Lord says, “I am going to break the old cycles that brought you back to poverty, and that brought you back to sickness and discomfort, that took you into a place where you began to have anxiety and panic attacks. I am trying to heal you and I have the capacity for you to be healed.”

As a believer, you can be restored emotionally, mentally and physically. According to Psalm 23, “Surely goodness and mercy will follow you all of the day of your life and you will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

That’s a great promise, isn’t it? {eoa}

Watch Cindy’s prophetic message here.

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Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.