“Then Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name? what shall I say to them?’ God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ And He said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.’” Exodus 3:13–14

“Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.’” John 8:58

Standing before a burning bush in the wilderness, as a man who felt wholly unfit and unqualified, Moses received his answer to the question of God’s name with something that cannot be confined or improved upon.

I AM.

Not I was. Not I will be. Not I am becoming.

I AM.

It is a declaration of absolute, self-existing authority. He is not upheld by anything outside of Himself. He has no beginning. He has no end. He does not change. He simply is.

When God speaks, He is not reaching into possibility. He is speaking from fullness.

When He promises, He is not hoping to fulfill it. He already stands in the place where it is finished.

And this is where people miss Him.

We approach Him as though He is reacting to our lives. As though He is catching up to our circumstances. As though He is working things out in real time the same way we are.

He is not.

He stands outside of time, yet steps into it. He sees the end from the beginning, yet meets you in the middle of your confusion without hesitation.

He is I AM.

Which means when you stand in lack, He does not become provision. He IS provision.

When you lay in sickness, He does not attempt to bring healing. He IS healing.

When you are bound, He is not working toward freedom. He IS freedom.

We speak of Him as though He brings things. Scripture speaks of Him as though He is the thing.

Moses was not sent back to Egypt with a strategy. He was sent with a name. That name that carried enough authority to confront a nation, enough power to break chains, and enough weight to hold a man in place when everything in him wanted to flee for his life.

Tell them I AM sent you.

That name demands response. Because if He is I AM, then everything else must bow to that truth.

Your fear cannot stand beside I AM.

Your doubt cannot counsel against I AM.

Your lack cannot outlast I AM.

The problem is not that God has not revealed Himself. It is that we keep trying to measure Him by what we see instead of who He said He is.

We say we believe He is I AM, yet we live as though He is I might.

We say we trust Him, yet we speak as though everything depends on what we can hold together.

There comes a point where that has to be laid down.

I AM is not a comforting phrase. It is a truth that demands surrender.

If He is I AM, then you are not. You are not the source. You are not the sustainer. You are not the one holding it all together.

And that is where rest is found.

In coming to the end of yourself and standing before the One who simply is.

When your strength gives out, He does not begin. He was already there.

When your understanding fails, He does not figure it out. He already knows.

When everything around you feels uncertain, He has not moved an inch.

He is I AM.

So when you do not know what to pray, you can stand on that.

When you do not know how it will work, you can still rest in that.

When your body is tired and your mind is worn thin, you do not need a new plan. You need to remember who He is.

He is the I AM.

And not one word that He has ever spoken has fallen to the ground. Not once. Not ever.

So lay your head down there if you have to. Let that be what holds you when you cannot hold yourself up.

He is enough.

He always has been. He always will be.

He is the I AM

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The words he gave us for 2025:

Sabbath-
When God gave us this word, we knew this would be the year that we had to let it all go and not focus on the work, not worry about provision, and not even consider the harvest. (Exodus 20:8–11; Matthew 6:25–34) January to May, I was so sick I was on the verge of full-time wheelchair use. In May, I got a little miracle and got well. Then June came and brought with it major surgery for Daddy, July came and brought a new baby to the family, and September rolled around and brought us to our knees with Mark’s cardiac emergency and subsequent open-heart surgery along with 3 weeks in the hospital.

Six weeks later, Daddy needed a cardiac procedure and stents were placed, and at the same time my brother had to have a knee surgery due to an injury. When God told us this year was a sabbath, he meant it. He sat us out for the count, and we sat still and let him because we knew it was for our good and his glory. (Psalm 46:10; Romans 8:28)

Stewardship-
When God gave us this word, we initially thought this would be the year we needed to be extra careful to save, set aside, and put up extra. We had no idea last December when God set this word in our mouths that this would be the year that would test the storehouses of every man in our family. The year that would put our homes to the test and show us God’s hand all over our lives in ways we never considered as we obeyed words in prior years. (Luke 16:10–12; Proverbs 3:9–10)

Obedience-
When God told us in 2024 that in 2025 we needed to make it all free, we had no idea how it would ever work because the website isn’t free. It is actually very expensive because we pay a team to manage every part of it. But obedience is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22), and we knew he’d make a way, so we did it. When in September 2024 God told us to begin praying about the man that Binx would marry in 2025, there wasn’t even a man on the horizon, let alone in the picture. But God knew that in January 2025 he was going to answer the prayer we had prayed since her birth in 2005 (Matthew 7:7–11; Jeremiah 1:5), that he would bless her with a husband who led her straight to Him at every turn, who walked upright, who loved her as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25), and who would satisfy her every worldly need and provide for her as well as we always have.

Inhabited Worship-
We have always worshipped the Lord. In 2025, we came to an intimate understanding of the Scripture that says, “He inhabits the praises of his people.” (Psalm 22:3) His presence in the rooms where the end was so near, but we worshipped anyway, was undeniable. The peace that comes from the presence of God filling a space in a way that cannot be described with words was felt at every turn. He truly inhabited the praises we lifted amid the fear and tears.

On December 16, I asked you a question in my stories: Have you prayed about what God is speaking to you as His word to you in 2026?

And the entirety of the internet nearly broke its legs to get to my inbox to say things like,

“What do you mean God said,” and
“What do you mean God spoke to you,” and
many more similar things.

That’s the real topic I’m here to talk with you about today. Hearing from God. Because what many of you all have said in my inbox is terrifying.

Those words have kept me awake at night praying for you for weeks.

All through Scripture, God is speaking.

God walked and communed with Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:8)
He spoke to Noah and gave him instruction (Genesis 6:13–22)
He made promises to Abraham (Genesis 12:1–3)
To Moses he spoke through a burning bush (Exodus 3:1–12)
In the midnight hour he called out to Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1–10)
David repeatedly inquired and heard from the Lord (1 Samuel 23:2–4; 1 Samuel 30:8)
Elijah heard him after all else was quiet, in the still small voice (1 Kings 19:11–13)
Isaiah heard his voice (Isaiah 6:8)
Jeremiah God told, “I have put my word in your mouth” (Jeremiah 1:9)
Ezekiel his word came to repeatedly (Ezekiel 1:3)
Jesus himself WAS the word made flesh, and he walked among speaking to all he met (John 1:1–14)
He spoke to Paul on the road to Damascus, forbade him from traveling to Asia, and came in night vision to (Acts 9:3–6; Acts 16:6–7; Acts 18:9–10)
Ananias, a common man, just obedient, heard from God. He told him where to go and who to pray for. (Acts 9:10–17)
Philip heard from the Spirit (Acts 8:29)
Peter heard and saw (Acts 10)

JESUS himself said-
The Holy Spirit will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance in John 14 (John 14:26).
In John 16, he said the Holy Spirit will guide you in truth and will speak to you. (John 16:13)

In Acts 13, the Holy Spirit told them to set Barnabas and Paul apart (Acts 13:2).

If you’re not hearing from God and you’re a professing Christian, there is a major problem.

Romans 8 says-
As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14)

So why aren’t you hearing from God?

If we were sitting in a Sunday school room and I were your Sunday school teacher, here’s what I’d tell you.

There are typically 3 primary reasons a person does not hear from God.

1.) They never sit down or hush.
It’s pretty hard to talk to you when you’re distracted or talking yourself. Sure, you say your prayers, but it’s like sitting in Santa’s lap giving him your Christmas list, then you say in Jesus’ name, amen, and call it good. This is the truth for most people, they never listen. They never pick up the Bible and truly study it. They never chase down the words of Scripture and get intimately familiar with them. They never seek true understanding, so they never have any, and they don’t know his voice, so when he speaks they don’t even recognize it. (Psalm 46:10; Hosea 4:6)

The enemy would love for you to believe that God no longer speaks, that he is far off and not near to you, that when you speak His name there’s no power there, because if you ever understood what Jesus meant when he said, “You will do all these things AND GREATER” (John 14:12), the enemy is in trouble and he knows it. So he loves it when you never listen for God. He loves it when you ignore the prompting of the Holy Spirit because you’re so unfamiliar with God that you don’t even know it’s him.

2.) You aren’t walking right.
Yep, I said it. God speaks to those who he is in fellowship with. The only speaking you’re going to receive as you walk in rebellion is rebuke and correction. (Psalm 66:18; Hebrews 12:5–11) And you don’t like that. Those aren’t fun words, so they could not possibly be God. God is nice, right? He “loves you anyway.” He would never give you a scolding, would he? Your fairytale soft version of God is not the real one. God is loving, loving enough to rebuke and correct you, to give you the lessons you need in order to hit your knees. He will not pet you down the road to Hell. So don’t look for it. That day won’t come. If you’re in rebellion, repent, then you’ll hear from Him. (Acts 3:19)

3.) You are deceived.
You made an emotional profession of faith, but you never turned from your sin. You were given a false gospel and followed it and thought that was right. You know OF Jesus, but you don’t have an actual relationship with Him. You “believe in God” and think that’s enough. Even Satan believes in God and confesses that Jesus is the Son of God. (James 2:19)

What is the way to salvation?

Repent.
A military term, which means to turn in the opposite direction from the one you were going in (to Hell) and start marching in the 180-degree direction (towards Heaven). (Acts 3:19)

Believe-
Sold out, fully convinced, that Jesus is the Son of God, begotten of a virgin, lived sinless, died for YOUR sin and the sin of the world, and RAISED on the appointed day, and in doing so CONQUERED hell, death, and the grave. (Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4)

Confess-
That YOU are a sinner bound for Hell, lost and without hope in your own right. That no work you can do, no good intention you ever had, nothing you have ever done could or would ever be enough to warrant your salvation or fellowship with the One true, Holy, and Living God in Heaven for eternity. That the ONLY way to salvation is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his victorious resurrection. That Jesus is THE king of kings and lord of lords, the one and only Son of God who paid it all. (Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:8–9; 1 John 1:7)

Asking Jesus to save you from your sin, believing that HE IS ABLE to do so, and making him LORD of your life. (Romans 10:13)

THEN you will hear from God.

What God’s voice is NOT.

YOUR FEELINGS, HOPES, DREAMS, AND GOALS. (Jeremiah 17:9)

PROJECTING YOUR WANTS INTO GOD’S VOICE IS NOT GOD’S VOICE. (Proverbs 3:5–6)

Most often, in fact, I find that the word God sends is not comfortable. He does not call us to comfort, he calls us to holiness and HIS purpose. His word is for your good, not always your comfort, but always your good, and for HIS glory. (Hebrews 12:10–11; Romans 8:28)

If you thought you heard from God, remember it is for HIS glory. It is never for your glory and wants. If you cannot find the “so that all may know that I am the Lord” in the message, that wasn’t him, it was your feelings. (Ezekiel 36:23)

God’s voice never originates in your emotions, imaginations, or even your preferences. You may RESPOND with emotion, imagination, or wishes, but it will NEVER originate there. (2 Corinthians 10:5) Your emotions, imaginations, and wishes must be taken captive and brought into subjection to the word of God. Not the other way around.

Choosing your word.

When you choose your own word, that isn’t revelation. That is you begging God to confirm YOU to yourself and others. This is why you see so many people taking up some word that a random influencer (or false prophet) has chosen for the year that “sounds real neat” and making it their own, because it sounds good. God’s word will be revelatory and unique to you and will align perfectly to HIS character and his written word. Your word for the year won’t just happen to be the trending one. Trends don’t require revelation. (Jeremiah 23:16)

God’s word over your life and year will DISRUPT you. (Luke 9:23)

• Moses didn’t want to go to Egypt. Those people wanted him dead. (Exodus 4:10–13)
  

• Jonah wanted to skip Nineveh so bad that he ended up fish dinner. (Jonah 1:1–17)
  Ananias didn’t want to pray for Paul any more than the man in the moon. (Acts 9:13–15)

• Peter didn’t want to go to the Gentiles, are you kidding me? (Acts 10:28)

• Noah looked COMPLETELY crazy building an ark for a flood in a world it had never rained in. (Genesis 6–7)
  Abraham didn’t want to climb that mountain and sacrifice Isaac. His promised son. The one who would carry the covenant. (Genesis 22:1–14)

• The Appalachian Homestead Family was totally comfortable earning the website’s keep with their paid content. They had no want, wish, or plan to make it all free. That was scary, it felt crazy, and like a fools errand.

• Jesus himself sweated blood. You think he WANTED to die on a cross? He asked the cup to pass, yet he understood the assignment and completed it to perfection. (Luke 22:42–44)

Bottom line, if it makes you comfortable and sounds like you, it probably really is just you.

If you’re a Christian who has never heard from God, I have questions.

How many friends have you ever had you never spoke to even once?

How many real relationships are you in where you’re the ONLY one who ever reaches out or speaks a single word?

What made you think God was mute?

Scripture tells you in a million places that He speaks to his people. (John 10:27)

You are not the exception.

Now, go repent. Pray. Study. Show thyself approved. And be really still as you wait on the Lord. He WILL speak to you if you are his, you just need to listen.

Scriptures Referenced

Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Psalm 139:16
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

James 4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Exodus 20:8–11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Matthew 6:25–34
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Luke 16:10–12
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

Proverbs 3:9–10
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Matthew 7:7–11
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Psalm 22:3
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 12:1
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.

Exodus 3:4
And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

1 Samuel 3:10
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

1 Samuel 30:8
And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

1 Kings 19:12
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

Isaiah 6:8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Jeremiah 1:9
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

Ezekiel 1:3
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest.

John 1:1, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

Acts 9:4
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 16:6
They were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.

Acts 18:9
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision.

Acts 9:10
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias.

Acts 8:29
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

Acts 10:19
While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.

Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul.

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and be converted.

Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:3–4
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

James 2:19
The devils also believe, and tremble.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things.

Proverbs 3:5–6
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart.

2 Corinthians 10:5
Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Luke 9:23
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself.

Luke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.

John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

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Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him. On the left hand, where He does work, but I cannot behold Him. He hides Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him. He knows the way that I take. And when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. (Job 23:8–10)

Job did not say, “I know where I’m going.” He said, “HE knows the way that I take.” He was not leaning on his own understanding. He was casting the whole weight of his grief onto a God he could not see, but refused to stop trusting.

By the time Job says this, he has already walked through death, disease, and demonic assault. He has lost everything but the breath in his lungs. And he still says it: God knows the way that I take.

This is a declaration of belief. Job is saying, “I may be walking through a furnace, but I know that God is still in charge of the fire.”

He looks in every direction and feels no presence, hears no voice, and still doesn’t back down. He doesn’t make a plan to get out. Instead, he speaks prophetically: “When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”

You see, fire does not destroy gold, it cleans it. It purges all impurity from it so that it can shine as a mirror, reflecting its Creator.

Faith will give you the ability to walk through the fires of life, slow and steady, holding to the only thing that doesn’t burn: God.

Faith like that does not form through a life of ease. It is forged in furnaces so hot that your mind cannot comprehend the heat. You don’t get it by reading about someone else’s fire. It only comes when the bottom falls out of your own life. You get it when you keep worshipping with no music, keep praying without answers, keep pushing forward when there is no end in sight. The purest gold is made in the place where everything else melts.

Into the Fire

Job did not try to fight the fire, he surrendered to it.

“But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires, even that He does. For He performs the thing that is appointed for me.” (Job 23:13–14)

This is not easy theology.

He’s not saying God enjoys pain. He’s saying God is still God even when pain comes. That God does not bend with the wind nor at the whim of man. That what He has allowed, He will carry you through.

We love to quote Romans 8:28:

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

Job lived it. He said it while scraping his skin with broken pottery, trying to figure out where to bury his children, how he would ever rebuild a home and a life, and all while holding the fragments of a life that had passed away, and declaring, God still has this.

Job’s trust was not in his own abilities. It did not lie in all that he had accrued or could possibly obtain in the future. His trust was fully planted in the One whose name he called upon in the most grievous time of his life. He had seen the goodness of God, and he believed with every particle of his being that God still had his good in mind.

Job did not claim to understand what was happening. But he refused to curse the One who carried him through it. This is the dividing line of the saints and the spectators. The ones who keep their mouths from sinning when the smoke rises. The ones who trust the hand of the Refiner even when they can’t see it.

If you believe He appoints your blessing, then you must also know that He appoints your testing. Not one moment of it escapes His eye.

And not one ounce of it will ever be wasted.

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MY KRAUT
1 gallon spring water
1 cup canning salt
1 cup white vinegar

Bring to a rolling boil, covered, for 6 minutes. Turn off heat and let it cool to room temperature, completely. Meanwhile, shred your cabbage on a mandolin slicer (not a knife) using the flat side of the leaderboard, with the depth set to medium thickness. No julienne, no shoestrings. Knife-sliced cabbage and overly shredded cabbage bruises and turns mushy. This method gives you that signature crunch every time.

It must ferment 40 days in a cool dark place, be sure to use the weights or springs as you saw me do in the videos. CLICK HERE for a list of needed fermentation supplies.

Now, for the Kimchi

KIMCHI- Appalachian Homestead Style

Maldon Salt and Spring Water to cover

1 head of napa cabbage
1 turnip
4-5 green onions
1 7oz jar of Sambala Oelek
4 tbsp grated garlic
1.5 tbsp grated ginger
3-4 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp Honey

Cut the cabbage up as shown in the reel. Place in a large bowl, thoroughly coat with salt between every layer of the cabbage, and just cover with spring water, place a plate on top of it to hold the cabbage under the water for 1-2 hours.

Remove the cabbage from the water and rinse thoroughly 3-4 times being sure to get between each leaf.

Slice the turnip and green onions into matchsticks.

Mix the sauce (Sambala oelek, garlic, ginger, fish sauce, honey) and rub onto the cabbage being sure to get between every layer. Add the green onion and turnip and toss to coat. Cover with cling wrap and allow to sit at room temp x 3 days then taste it. If you like the tang move it into the fridge in an airtight container where it will keep for months.

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”I have set my face like flint to do the will of God and I will in no wise be put to shame.”

The first thing God gave Adam was not a wife, it was responsibility.

Genesis 2:15 says, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.”

The land belonged to God. Adam didn’t own the garden. Even the breath in Adam’s lungs was not his own, it was the breath of God. The law God gave about the tree of knowledge was not given to restrict Adam, it was to remind him that not everything was his to touch. God handed it to him and said: Serve it and guard it.

Psalm 24:1 says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”

That includes you and everything that you believe is yours in the visible and in the invisible world. Your marriage covenant, your home, your influence, and your generations. It’s all His.

Paul asks a question that the believer cannot answer without conviction: “What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?” (1 Corinthians 4:7)

The reason the body of Christ is so flippant about our responsibility is because we think we own what we’re only supposed to steward. If a man thinks it’s his money, he’ll spend it without praying. When a woman thinks her home is her own, she’ll treat it like a playhouse instead of a spiritual assignment.

That’s what happens when we forget the very first truth in Eden: you are not the owner.

And God is not a careless lender. He gives with purpose, and He expects a return.
It is the enemy that offers another view, one that tempts us to believe it’s ours to do with as we please.

When You Think You’re the Source

Satan didn’t tempt Eve with murder or adultery. He tempted her to act as if she had a right to something that wasn’t hers to touch. “Has God said…?” He made her question the boundaries God set.

But God had already said: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it… (Genesis 2:16–17)

It wasn’t about the tree, the command was about trust. Would Adam and Eve honor the lines God drew? Or would they rebel?

They chose rebellion and the fall came not just through disobedience but through a failure of stewardship.

And that failure hasn’t stopped.

We still build lives and ministries and homes and businesses like we are the ones who sustain it. Deuteronomy 8 warns us clearly. Moses looked at the people before they entered the land of promise and said this:

“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God… Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein… Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God… And say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. But you should remember the Lord your God: for it is He that gives you power to get wealth.” (Deuteronomy 8:11–18)

He gives the land. He gives the food. He gives the strength. And He gives the ability to build and work and create and rule. It all comes from Him. So when we act like the source, we become liars and thieves.

Jesus said in John 15:5, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.”

Without him, without his provision I can do nothing. Not just less than I could. Absolutely nothing.

I can’t teach without Him. I can’t parent without Him. I can’t steward my finances, time, marriage, or even our social platform without Him.

I see the Body of Christ today asking for increase, begging for more, praying for revival… but God does not entrust to us what he knows we will not manage well. So I’m here to call for repentance.

God is not going to reward unfaithfulness. He will never hand out new assignments to people who bury the old ones.

He is simply not going to multiply what we mismanage.

And if we understood the truth of stewardship, we would stop praying for increase and start repenting for waste.

God Watches How You Handle What He Gave You

Stewardship is a visible demonstration of your private theology. If you truly believe God gave you all that you have, you’ll treat it like it came from Heaven.

The prophet Malachi confronted this head on. The people were still offering sacrifices. They still showed up at the temple. They hadn’t turned to Baal. But they were offering God their leftovers.

“Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?” (Malachi 1:7–8)

God had commanded the best of the flock and instead they brought Him what they didn’t want. It was an offering that didn’t cost them anything.

“Offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.” (v. 8)

This is at the core of an unappreciative spirit: it reduces the sacred to the status of common. It lowers the standard because the fire of love for the Lord has gone out.

Jesus said in Matthew 7:6, “Do not give what is holy to dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”

He was speaking of discernment but the principle applies to God’s judgment as well: if you trample what is holy, don’t be surprised when it’s taken from you.

Stewardship is not a sermon for someone else. It starts right where you live, with you and your decisions.

Now, it’s your turn

In Scripture, the home was never just a place to eat and sleep. It was the very first sanctuary. Abraham built altars wherever he pitched his tent (Genesis 12:7–8). The Passover was kept inside the home (Exodus 12). The blood was applied to the doorposts of the home, not the synagogue.

Paul instructed Titus that older women should teach the younger to be “keepers at home” (Titus 2:5) and that doesn’t mean mopping floors, it means guardians of the house. The family table is a place of transmission. “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way…” (Deuteronomy 6:7)

The Church today confuses public performance for private holiness, but God still knows what’s happening within the confines of your home. If there is no altar in the home, the one at church becomes just a stage. If the children do not hear the Word in the house, they will not recognize His voice when they are out in the world.

Biblically, stewardship is not about maintenance. It’s about governance. Stewardship means vigilance. It means you inspect what you allow through the gates, what your children watch and read, how they speak, who shapes their beliefs. Your home is either a place where righteousness is cultivated, or where compromise is quietly tolerated.

Children are the inheritance of the Lord (Psalm 127:3). That word inheritance, nahalah in Hebrew, means possession, portion, or property entrusted. They belong to God. And He has lent them to you. Not to shape into your image, but into His. You are required to train up in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6). To shape them by the Word and not by the world.

Stewardship of children means you understand that you will one day return them to God, and you will answer for how you raised them.

But it doesn’t stop with what you can see and hold. It includes what God has said.

Stewarding the Word

The Word is one of the most sacred things God has given you, and far too many treat it like optional reading instead of daily bread.

Many in the Church today are biblically malnourished.

Stewardship of the Word means you read it every single day and you ponder it all the hours in between. You pass it down to your children. You speak it over your household. You use it to test every spirit and measure every doctrine. It becomes your first language, not just your last-minute lifeline to quote from at the first sign of trouble.

There is also another sort of Word we are called to steward: the prophetic words, the promises, the instructions God has spoken into your spirit over the years. Paul told Timothy to “war a good warfare” with the prophecies that had gone before him (1 Timothy 1:18). That means some battles are won not just by grit, but by faithfulness to the Word already given.

Jesus said in Luke 12:48, “To whom much is given, of him shall much be required.” If He has given you a promise, a dream, an assignment, then you are responsible for how you carry it. Stewarding the Word means you protect it from doubt, speak it in faith, and walk it out in obedience. Even when it looks dead, when no one else believes it but you, and yes, even when you feel like you have already messed it up too bad for it to come to fruition.

Which brings us to the final measure of stewardship: the account.

The Master Will Return for the Account

In Matthew 25, Jesus told of a master who entrusted his servants with talents. To one he gave five, to another two, to another one, each according to their ability. The master left. And when he returned, he did not judge them based on what they started with. He judged them based on what they did with it.

The one who buried the talent wasn’t praised for being cautious. He was condemned for being lazy. And the Master called him wicked.

Doing nothing with what God gave you is not safe. It is sinful. You will give an account.

God has given you breath, a home, a calling, children, a Word, time, influence, money, gifts, and authority, and one day very soon He will ask what you did with it.

This is not condemnation. It is invitation.

Return. Rebuild. Repent.

Because the Master is coming, and He’s bringing His judgment with Him.

Be found faithful.

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You Cannot Wear Two Armors

The Church has been disarmed by the enemy. But it’s much worse than that.

There is a lie that says the Holy Spirit no longer moves like He once did. This lie has dressed itself in the costume of theology and tradition, and many have accepted it without question because they’re so unversed in scripture they don’t know better. There are those who say the gifts of the Spirit have ceased. Some claim tongues are disorderly. Others insist miracles have stopped, and that prophecy ended with the apostles.

But Scripture has not changed. Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth is Mine, and I have given it to you” (Matthew 28:18). Mark 16 still declares that those who believe will cast out demons, speak with new tongues, tread on serpents without harm, and lay hands on the sick.

To deny the ongoing work of the Spirit is not cautious. It is rebellion. It is not reverence. It is unbelief. It is the fruit of a church culture that has traded the fire of Pentecost for the safety of performance.

Yet the Holy Spirit is alive and well. He is moving among God's people, healing, speaking, delivering, empowering. He is looking for those who will yield, those who will believe, those who will not quench His fire with their fear (1 Thess 5:19)

God does not force His power on the unwilling. He does not override human will. The Spirit clothes the surrendered. He empowers the humble. He does not rest upon the proud, the unrepentant, or the lukewarm.

The Gospel requires a choice. Believe the Word or believe the doctrines of men. Follow the leading of the Spirit or follow the comfort of your denomination. Embrace the whole counsel of God or cling to the verses that never confront your comfort.

There are many who honor God with their lips but their hearts are far from Him. They have learned the motions of worship but not the posture of surrender. Their mouths are full of praise but their private lives are void of holiness. They cry out for revival but resist repentance.

Submission has been traded for for style. Doctrine has been replaced with dopamine. The Spirit has been reduced to a Sunday routine.

There is a longing for flickers, not fire. Applause is preferred over authority. Entertainment is chosen over being filled.

This is the source of powerlessness. Correction has been rejected. Conviction has been silenced. The weight of the Word has been dismissed as legalism. And now the Church wonders why the enemy does not flinch. Why strongholds remain. Why revival does not come. Why children are swallowed by culture. Why churches feel hollow and homes are heavy.

You cannot walk in Kingdom authority while clinging to carnal comfort. You cannot put on the armor of God without casting off the armor of the enemy.

The Armor of the Enemy

You cannot wear both armors. If you have not been clothed with power from on high, you are still clothed in its counterfeit. If you have not put on Christ, then what you wear contains the residue of the world, the works of darkness, and the covering of a counterfeit kingdom.

There is a reason Paul said to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light (Romans 13:12). One must be removed before the other can be applied. The Spirit does not armor rebels. He clothes the submitted. He equips the surrendered.

Many in the Church today are armored. Just not by God.

They wear a Belt of Lies, yet they think they walk in discernment. John 8:44 says Satan is the father of lies, and when people lie, flatter, twist Scripture, and call their opinion truth, they are not wearing God’s Word. There is no “my truth” or “your truth.” nor is there any “newly given truth” There is only the truth—and that is found in the Bible. The Word of God. What they’re speaking is not revelation; it’s the echo of the serpent in the garden.

They wear a Breastplate of Bitterness. They are not guarded by righteousness. Their heart is guarded by offense. Ephesians 4:31 says, "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you." But they wear it like armor. They hide behind their wounds and call it wisdom. They justify their rebellion with their trauma. And their hearts remain unhealed.

Their feet are covered with Shoes That Run to Evil. Not the gospel of peace, but pursuit of influence, drama, division, and self. Isaiah 59:7 says, "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood." These are not peacemakers. These are platform-seekers. They do not walk in the Spirit. They walk in the flesh and call it ministry.

They carry a Shield of Self. Not faith. Self. They reject correction. They isolate. They "guard themselves, guard their peace" from people God sent to sharpen them. Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is destruction." What they think is discernment is often just distrust, pride, and a trauma-bond with isolation.

They wear a Helmet of Haughtiness. Proverbs 3:7 says, "Be not wise in your own eyes." Romans 12:16 commands, "Do not be proud." But their thoughts are prideful. They cannot be taught. They equate stubbornness with strength. They speak with boldness but walk in rebellion. Their mind is not renewed. It is resistant.

They wield a Sword of Death. James 3 says the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire by hell. It is full of deadly poison. Proverbs 12:18 says, "Reckless words pierce like a sword." Their mouth is not filled with the Word. It is filled with sarcasm, slander, rebellion, and destruction. Their words do not pull down strongholds. They release torment.

This is not the armor of God. It is a satanic counterfeit. It is death pretending to be discernment. It is pride pretending to be holiness. It is carnality dressed up like conviction.

And we wonder why the Church has no power.

We lay hands. We prophesy. We anoint. But all we are doing is pouring oil on chains. It will not work. The armor of God will not rest on a body still clothed in darkness.

We must strip off the counterfeit. Repent. Renounce. Lay it down. And then pick up what God has actually given.

This is not a small matter. This is war. This is life or death. And it is time we stop dressing in the enemy's armor and wondering why we are losing the fight.

Removing the Armor of the Enemy

Jesus said, "How can one enter a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). This principle is foundational in spiritual warfare. The strong man represents the demonic influence or ruling spirit that holds ground in a life, a family, or even a region. But for the Spirit-filled believer, authority has already been given to confront, bind, and dismantle.

Luke 10:19 says, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm you." This is not poetic. It is positional authority. Through the name of Jesus and the infilling of the Holy Spirit, believers are authorized to speak, bind, loose, and cast out.

To remove the armor of the enemy is to break agreement with the darkness—piece by piece. Romans 13:12 commands, "Cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light." That is not figurative language. It is instruction.

In the name of Jesus:

• Break the belt of lies. Expose and renounce every lie received, repeated, or believed. John 8:32 says, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

• Tear off the breastplate of bitterness. Forgive. Release. Let go of the offense. Ephesians 4:31 commands, "Let all bitterness... be put away from you."

• Remove the shoes that run to evil. Renounce agreement with gossip, chaos, or addiction. Isaiah 52:7 says, "How beautiful are the feet of them that bring good news."

• Shatter the shield of self. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. Proverbs 3:5–6 calls us to trust in the Lord and not lean on our own understanding.

• Cast off the helmet of haughtiness. Repent of pride and receive the mind of Christ. James 4:6 says, "God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble."

• Silence the sword of death. Renounce cursing, slander, and speaking word curses. Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue."

Every piece can be broken in prayer. Every lie can be cast down. Every stronghold can be dismantled. 2 Corinthians 10:4 reminds us, "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds."

Then comes the replacement. Do not leave the house empty (Luke 11:24–26). After removal, there must be filling.

Declare the belt of truth—let their identity be anchored in what God has said. Fasten the breastplate of righteousness—a clean heart and a right spirit. Prepare the shoes of peace—that they would walk in alignment with God's will. Lift the shield of faith—that trust would rise and silence fear. Place the helmet of salvation—that their mind be covered and renewed. And hand them the sword of the Spirit—the Word of God, living and active.

This is the work of Spirit-filled intercession and authority. This is not ritual. It is relationship. This is not hype. It is holiness. And it belongs to every believer who is washed in the blood, filled with the Spirit, and submitted to the Word.

Remove the armor of the enemy. Replace it with the armor of God. And stand firm.

Dress Up Time Is Over

The Church has played dress-up for far too long. People are walking around in spiritual costume, yet shaking with fear and praying like beggars. They’ve traded power for performance and the armor of God for the appearance of religion. And I, for one, am done watching it.

The Spirit did not come to give you chill bumps. He came to fill you with power. To baptize you in fire. To equip you with the gifts of the Spirit—not one or two, not just tongues, but all: wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, and interpretation. This is not optional. This is the weaponry of a Spirit-filled Church.

Stop begging God to do what He already gave you authority to do. Stop waiting on a word when He already gave you His Word. Stop asking for breakthrough while ignoring the gifts that equip you to break through.

Walk in full submission. Walk in full gifting. Walk in full surrender. And stop living like a spiritual orphan when you’ve been given the Spirit of adoption, power, and dominion.

This is not a call to excitement. This is a call to execution. You have been empowered to cast out, lay hands, declare truth, discern spirits, and edify the Body. So stop trembling and start walking in it.

This is war. The gifts are real. The Spirit is here. The authority has already been given.

Walk in it. Because I’m weary of watching you struggle with what you should have already had victory over, if only you had accepted the authority and walked in what God already gave you.

Stop Begging—Start Walking in Power

You cannot wear two armors. You cannot live half-surrendered and expect full victory. The enemy isn’t afraid of your church attendance. He’s afraid of your authority. And that only comes by the Spirit.

Put off the old. Cast down every piece of the enemy’s armor. Break every agreement with fear, pride, bitterness, confusion, rebellion, and dead religion. Put on Christ. Put on the whole armor of God. Not for appearance. Not for applause. But for battle.

This is your call to action. Not emotionalism. Not performance. But real submission, real authority, and real fire.

You are not powerless. You are not abandoned. You are not unequipped.

You are filled. You are called. You are armed.

So stand. And don’t back down.

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The people of God had gathered. They had a king. They had an army. They were positioned for battle. And yet, Scripture tells us, when the time came, not one sword or spear could be found in the hands of the people. Just two weapons between them: one for Saul, one for Jonathan (1 Samuel 13:22).

But long before the day of battle came, the strategy of disarmament had begun.

Adoni-Bezek: Crippled, Not Killed (Judges 1:6–7)

The tactic of disarmament in Israel's history comes not only through siege or slaughter, but also subtle mutilation. In Judges 1:6–7, we meet Adoni-Bezek, a Canaanite king who confesses, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table.”

He did not kill them. He stripped them of their ability to fight.

Without thumbs, a warrior cannot grip a sword. Without toes, he has no balance to stand or charge. These kings were not corpses on a battlefield; they were trophies beneath a foreign table. Still alive. Still crowned. Still dressed in royal garments, perhaps. But humiliated. Powerless.

And Adoni-Bezek relished it. He didn’t need to kill them. He only needed to make them incapable of fighting. He turned warriors into beggars, rulers into pets. This is a glimpse into how the enemy prefers to operate—not with immediate destruction, but with slow and strategic disabling.

Here is the lesson: the enemy doesn’t always seek to kill your faith. He seeks to make it ineffective. He wants you to still look like a believer, still attend, still serve, still be known, but to have no grip, no stance, no edge. A disarmed Christian is no threat at all to Hell.

Nahash the Ammonite: Blindness as a Bargain (1 Samuel 11:2)

Years later, Israel faced a different tactic. Nahash the Ammonite surrounded the city of Jabesh-Gilead and made them an offer: surrender, and he would make a covenant with them, but only if he could pluck out their right eyes.

It’s a strange demand until you understand ancient warfare. A soldier’s shield was carried in the left hand and typically blocked the left side of the face. The right eye was the eye used for war, the one that remained exposed and alert in battle.

To take the right eye was to destroy a man’s ability to aim, judge distance, or fight with clarity. He could still live. He could still even carry a weapon. But he would be half-blind, off balance, and ashamed. And Nahash said he wanted to bring reproach on all Israel, not through conquest, but through disfigurement.

Here is the deeper lesson: the enemy will often offer you peace, but only on terms that strip your ability to see and fight. He doesn’t just want to silence the Church. He wants to blind her, to make her ineffective in warfare, to leave her stumbling in battle, unsure of her enemy, unable to see clearly.

Nahash seems to have known what many churches have left off understanding: you don’t have to destroy the people of God if you can disable their spiritual sight. If you can offer them comfort at the cost of clarity, many will take it. They’ll agree to the sort of peace that comes with partial blindness.

This is a warning. The next generation won’t need to be silenced if they can be confused. If their spiritual eyes are dimmed, if they’re taught to trust their feelings more than Scripture, their opinions more than God’s voice, they will not stand when the pressure rises.

And reproach will fall on them.

Jonathan at Geba: One Strike, Wide Exposure (1 Samuel 13:3)

Jonathan didn’t act on impulse; he acted in alignment with God’s already-given instruction. The command to drive out the inhabitants of the land had long ago been issued (Deuteronomy 7:1–2, Joshua 23:12–13). Geba was within Benjamin’s borders, and the Philistines had no covenantal right to be there. Jonathan struck not with arrogance, but with conviction.

This was not just a political jab. It was a spiritual provocation—one act of obedience that called the entire nation into account.

When Jonathan struck the garrison, he wasn’t just engaging the enemy; he was exposing the passivity of Israel. And it worked. The Philistines responded with overwhelming force: thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops like sand on the seashore (1 Samuel 13:5).

And how did Israel respond?

They panicked. They hid. They scattered. The ones who had gathered for battle now crawled into caves and tombs and pits. Some crossed the Jordan to escape entirely.

Jonathan’s single act of faith exposed the unbelief, the unreadiness, and the utter disarmament of the whole nation. It revealed just how long Israel had been tolerating enemy occupation in the land that God had already promised them.

And this is still the case today: it often only takes one righteous action to expose the spiritual condition of the wider body.

No Blacksmiths in the Land (1 Samuel 13:19–21)

How did it come to this?

The text tells us: “Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears” (1 Samuel 13:19).

This was not a result of war. It was a result of strategy. The enemy had taken away the forge, the place where weapons were formed, and Israel had let them.

This is how you disarm a people without enslaving them. You don’t take their land. You just take their ability to defend it. You don’t need to stop them from worshiping. You just need to make sure they can’t fight.

So the Israelites adjusted. They adapted. They brought their farming tools to the Philistines to be sharpened. Imagine that: having to kneel before your enemy just to maintain your livelihood. The very thought of allowing their enemy to sharpen even their garden tools should have caused them to rebel. Yet, they did not.

What was once a people of warriors had become a people of passive dependents. Still offering sacrifices. Still speaking the language of covenant. Still occupying the land. But surrendered to the enemy.

The lesson here is urgent: when the fire of the Word dies out in a nation, the weapons of that nation will dull. When a people become content to be sharpened by their enemies, by the culture, by the trends, by the language of the age, they will lose their edge. Soon enough, their courage will fail, and eventually, their ability to fight at all.

When the Day of Battle Came (1 Samuel 13:22)

There stood the army.

They had formation. They had leadership. They had memory. They had tradition. They had language. They had songs.

But they had no swords.

Not because God had failed them. Not because they lacked access to the promises. Not because the enemy was stronger. But because they had not stayed prepared.

Because slowly, silently, they had become accustomed to living alongside what they were called to drive out. They had learned how to perform while tolerating compromise.

They had adjusted to the silence of the forge. They had grown comfortable without the clang of metal on metal, without the smell of burning coals, without the discipline of sword-making or sword-wielding.

This is what makes this passage so tragic: they were gathered for battle. They looked the part. They were numbered. They were postured. They were dressed. But they had no weapons.

The absence of the sword wasn’t a logistical failure. It was a spiritual exposure. It revealed what had been lost long before the army assembled.

And it reveals us too.

What the Sword Means Today (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12)

We are told in Ephesians that the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. And in Hebrews, that it is sharper than any double-edged blade: piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart.

This is not poetic language. This is warfare language.

The Word is not for shelf display. It is not ornamental. It is not symbolic. It is a weapon. And yet you treat it like a family heirloom: honored, admired, untouched.

The sword of the Spirit is the only offensive weapon listed in the armor of God. The rest—helmet, shield, belt, breastplate—are defensive. But the sword is how we push back darkness. It is how Jesus defeated the devil in the wilderness: "It is written..."

And yet today, most believers cannot quote five verses in context. They don’t know how to wield the sword. Some have never even held it. They rely on sermons to feed them. They rely on devotionals to interpret for them. They rely on Instagram to disciple them.

We are in a war, and most of the army has no weapon.

The blacksmiths—those who teach and rightly divide—have been marginalized. Replaced with entertainers, influencers, or motivational speakers. The forge, the place where men and women once pounded Scripture into the hearts of their children and the bones of their churches, has gone quiet.

We’ve traded sharpness for shallowness, doctrine for display, study for slogans.

And now the Church looks the part of an army but cannot endure a real fight.

The Word of God is not a suggestion. It is not one spiritual tool among many. It is the very weapon we were told to take up. And if we do not take it up, we will be like Israel on that day: standing on the battlefield with nothing in our hands.

The Church Today: Gathered, but Unarmed

We gather. We sing. We post verses. But when battle comes, when spiritual pressure increases, we tremble. We scatter. We panic.

Why? Because we were taught how to belong, but not how to battle. We were taught how to attend, but not how to endure. We have a Church that knows how to assemble but not how to advance.

Many have mistaken spiritual environments for spiritual equipment. They have mistaken energy for authority. But when the devil shows up at the door of your home, your conference memories and coffee mugs won’t defend your children. You need a sword.

Most believers today have not been trained. They have not been sharpened. They have been given watered-down truth and told it was fire. They’ve been handed motivational phrases instead of biblical commands. They’ve been entertained but not equipped.

We are raising a generation of believers who know how to sing but not how to stand, who know how to clap but not how to contend, who know how to gather but not how to guard.

And the days ahead will not spare us because we meant well. They will test what we carry. They will require what we were meant to hold. And many will find they are unarmed.

Let the Blacksmiths Arise

Let the blacksmiths arise, the teachers who do not flinch when truth cuts deep. Let them take up the hammer and the heat again. Let the Word be preached in fullness, not fragments. Let the forge burn hot with doctrine and discipleship.

Let the pulpits return to Scripture. Let homes return to Scripture. Let the small, hidden places of prayer and study rise again. Let there be fire in the mouth of the preacher and steel in the hands of the people.

Let the discipleship rooms reopen, not as hobby circles but as war rooms. Let mothers become blacksmiths for their sons. Let fathers put swords into the hands of their daughters. Let pastors, elders, evangelists, prophets, and every believer return to The Word.

Let the anvil ring again in the house of God.

Let the people of God learn to fight again—not with charisma, not with style, not with vague inspiration, but with truth that can wound and heal and drive out darkness.

Because the day of battle is not coming. It has already here.

And we will not survive it unarmed.

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Some of you are in the middle of something right now and you barely have the strength to put one foot in front of another.

You’re not at the beginning anymore, when the energy was fresh and the hope was strong. And you’re not at the end, where the breakthrough is in sight. You’re right in the thick of it: the long, wearying stretch where the burden hasn’t lifted, the answers haven’t come, and the enemy keeps whispering, “It’s not going to change. You're never going to make it. This is not going to end well.”

But that voice is a lie straight from Hell.

The Word of God says:

• Luke 10:18 — “I saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven.”

• 1 Peter 5:8 — “Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

• John 10:10 — “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.”

That’s who Satan is. He’s a thief. But he’s not in control. He has no authority over the one who has been redeemed by Christ.

• Psalm 139:16 says, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

• Hebrews 2:16 says, “Surely it is not angels He helps, but He helps the offspring of Abraham.”

• 2 Peter 2:4 reminds us that God did not spare the angels when they sinned. He cast them out. No redemption plan. No second chance.

But He made a way for you.

Before the foundation of the world, before Adam and Eve ever rebelled, God had already foreseen, foreknew, and foreplanned the redemption of His creation.

Still, when you’re in the middle, that’s easy to forget. It’s not easy to keep these truths in view when you’re in the heat of battle or caught in the slow ache of the everyday.
It’s not easy to obey the call to “not grow weary in well doing” (Galatians 6:9). You are not the first to walk through the middle and you will not be the last.

• Noah’s middle was full of hard labor, building an ark for a flood that would fall on an earth where not one raindrop had ever fallen before. He didn’t even know what rain was, but he knew the voice of God and heeded every command. Noah was mocked, scorned, and ridiculed for it for 100 years.

• Sarai’s middle looked like barrenness. She had waited decades for a child, a child that God Himself promised her, and yet her hope withered as she grew older, to the point that she gave Abram Hagar and of that union was born Ishmael… the child who was never meant to be part of the covenant.

• Joseph’s middle looked like going from being his father’s favored child to his siblings’ most hated one. From his coat of many colors to the bottom of a pit, to slavery at Potiphar’s house, to prison for false accusations. Long before he ever laid eyes on a palace and longer still before he laid eyes on his family again.

• Jochebed’s middle looked like giving birth to a son in the midst of a genocide that demanded all male Hebrew children die. It looked like risking her and her family’s life every day for three months as she hid the baby, all the while building his little ark and praying over her son. Her middle looked like setting her infant son into the Nile river and letting him go, not knowing if he would die there or somehow survive. Then it looked like raising him as a paid servant while keeping secret who she was but then having to let him go once again back into Pharaoh’s court. Jochebed’s middle looked like seeing her son in exile long before she saw him return as a deliverer.

• Moses’ middle looked like murder, exile, and then a wilderness for 40 years. Then it looked like seeing over into the Promised Land and being told he would never step foot in it.

• Ruth’s middle looked like a starving widow with not one person to provide for her and her mother-in-law, whom she had followed from her own country into a new land. Before she was gleaning fields and meeting Boaz, she was walking alongside Naomi, wondering how they’d survive if no kinsman redeemer came forward.

• Hannah’s middle looked barren. It looked like being mocked by her rival, Peninnah. It looked like praying so hard at the temple that the priest thought she was drunk as a skunk… that’s how desperate Hannah was.

• David’s middle looked like being a shepherd anointed but not enthroned. Then it looked like running for his life and hiding in caves as Saul pursued him in order to kill him. Then it looked like defiling another man’s wife and losing the child born of this union. Long before he was writing Psalms, David’s middle was wondering if he had misunderstood the prophet.

• Elijah’s middle looked like being able to call down fire from Heaven one day and fleeing for his life the next. It looked like being so exhausted that he prayed to God to just let him die. Before he was being sustained by the birds and having his nap, Elijah was having a breakdown.

• Job had perhaps one of the worst middles known to man. He lost it all. His home, his children, his health, his wealth, and most of his friends. Job sat in ashes questioning God before he sat in the glory of his restoration.

• Esther’s middle looked like hiding who she was, living in a palace under constant scrutiny, wondering if she really was born for such a time as this, as her uncle had told her. It looked like walking in to approach the king without being summoned, not knowing if this might be the very last thing she ever did. Before she was Queen Esther, she was Hadassah, niece of Mordecai, Hebrew girl with not much hope for a future at all.

• Daniel’s middle looked like a certain and painful death. Disobeying a decree that forbid worship to anyone other than the king, Daniel was thrown into a den of hungry lions for continuing to pray to God.

• Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego’s middle looked like being put into a furnace stoked to burn seven times hotter than normal. There was more present with them during their middle than just the flames, though, just ask King Nebuchadnezzar.

• Jonah’s middle looked like running from God and a trip to Whale Motel before finally submitting to the will of God and preaching to a people he hated, then going out to the desert hoping he would just go right on ahead and die there.

• Mary, mother of Jesus—her middle looked like an unwed teen pregnancy. Shame. Torment. And then it looked like watching her Son die on a cross and asking herself, I’m sure, if this was really what God had planned.

• Peter’s middle looked like denying Jesus three times.

• Paul’s middle found him shipwrecked, snake-bitten, imprisoned, stoned, beaten, and hated.
  

And then, there was Jesus.

Jesus’ middle looked like being mocked, ridiculed, and persecuted. Like being betrayed by a close friend.

Jesus’ middle looked like sweating blood in Gethsemane as He asked the Father to take this cup from Him (Luke 22:44).

Jesus’ middle looked like being welcomed by the crowds in Jerusalem with shouts of Hosanna on Sunday and being beaten, flogged, kicked, and spit on by the same crowds to the point of being unrecognizable on Friday.

Jesus’s middle looked like being welcomed with palm leaves then crowned with thorns and forced to carry a heavy cross up a mountain to an agonizing and certain death.

Jesus’s middle was having his hands and feet pierced with nails to secure him to the Cross as He was raised to hang between Heaven and earth until His death.

Jesus was 33 years old.

Jesus’ middle looked a great deal like it was actually the very end.

But it wasn’t.

WE are living in the middle right now, between His resurrection and His return (Acts 1:11, Hebrews 9:28)

Time is short and Satan knows it. That’s why he wants to break you down harder and faster than ever before.

Don’t let him.

You are in the middle of your calling, your marriage, your motherhood, your witness, your battles.

The middle is where most people give up.

At the beginning, there’s excitement.
At the end, there’s resolution.

But in the middle, the weariness sets in. That’s why Paul told us not to grow weary. He knew it would come. He felt it too. Yet, he persevered.

Some are standing in the thick of their middle and can’t see how things could ever work out for their good or God’s glory.

The enemy will do everything to convince you that there is no way through your middle. The enemy is a liar.

God is unchanging.

What He did for every one of those people in Scripture, what He has done for generation after generation of those that have called upon his name since, He can do again—for you.

Over and over and over again.

• Philippians 1:6 says, “He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.”

So today, draw the line.

Say it loudly with me:

Go back to Hell, Satan.
You cannot have my middle.
You cannot have my family.
You cannot touch my children.
You have no claim on my calling, my marriage, or my peace.
You did not start this and you will not finish it.

I plead the blood of Jesus over my family, my home, my community, and this nation.
His blood is still enough and it is a line you cannot cross.

Stay faithful in the middle.
God is still working out His plan for your life.

You say you want a man who leads. One who carries the weight of your home. One who stands between your family and the enemy. But sometimes, without meaning to, you make it hard for him to be that man.

He takes a step, and you correct him. He makes a decision, and you second-guess. He pauses to think, and you’ve already moved on without him. You don’t mean to dishonor him. You’re tired. You’ve been trying to hold it all together. You’ve prayed for him to rise up, but at the same time, you’ve left him little room to do it.

You didn’t start this out of rebellion. You stepped in when he didn’t. You spoke up when he stayed quiet. You took the lead in the places he neglected. But over time, the help turned into control. And now you’re weary. He’s withdrawn. And neither of you are walking in the roles God gave you.

Scripture says, "The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her own hands" (Proverbs 14:1). Sometimes we tear down what we say we want to build, not with malice, but with impatience, fear, or pride.

You Were Never Meant to Carry It All

There are wives doing everything: holding the schedule, making the decisions, setting the spiritual tone, raising the children, keeping the peace. You love your family. You’re doing what feels necessary. But part of why you’re so tired is because you’ve stepped into shoes that aren’t yours.

If you fill every gap, he won’t learn to. If you speak over every silence, he won’t feel the need to find his voice. If you lead every prayer, manage every detail, and never make space for him to rise, then he will not.

That isn’t because he’s unwilling. Sometimes it’s because he’s unsure and needs a moment to think. And sometimes, it’s because there’s simply no room.

You’re not being asked to pretend. You’re not being asked to approve of sin or neglect. But you are being called to trust God’s design. And part of that design is stepping back when you’ve been standing in a place He never meant for you to be.

God is not asking you to abandon the home. He’s asking you to make space for His order to take root.

There is holiness in restraint. In staying silent when your flesh wants to take over. In holding the line when every part of you is itching to fix what you think is about to fall apart. That’s where trust is tested. That’s where obedience is proven. And that’s where the Holy Spirit does what no woman’s striving ever could.

Remember Samson

Delilah didn’t wound Samson in battle. She wore him down with persistence, then cut off what made him strong. Scripture says, "She pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death" (Judges 16:16).

The enemy doesn’t need a wife to swing a sword. Just to chip away at her husband with constant discouragement, control, or spiritual superiority.

Some of us have been more like Delilah than we care to admit. Not because we hate our husbands, but because we’ve forgotten how much our words matter. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21). We think we’re just being honest, just being thorough, just trying to help. But what we’re doing is cutting.

Ask yourself gently but truthfully: are your words building him up, or wearing him down? Are you speaking life over the man you married, or handing the enemy material to work with? What you speak can either become an altar or an accusation. And the difference is what spirit you’re in.

Headship Wasn’t Man’s Idea

"But I want him to be the head. I want him to lead. I want him to be strong." Then you must trust the order God set.

This isn’t about power. It’s about posture. This isn’t about who’s better. Christ himself submitted to the Father. Headship is not a mark of superiority. It’s a weight and a responsibility.

And when you resist that order, even for what feels like a good reason, you remove yourself from a place of covering.

God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). And where confusion and chaos reign, we’d do well to look at whether we’re honoring His ways.

Look back at Sarah, who Scripture says obeyed Abraham (1 Peter 3:6). That wasn’t because he was perfect. It was because she feared the Lord. She entrusted herself not to a flawless husband, but to a faithful God. And in that quiet, yielded strength, she became the mother of nations.

What Does It Look Like to Give Him Back His Strength?

It looks like blessing him with your words even when you don’t feel like it. It looks like biting your tongue when you want to rush in. It looks like letting him take the lead, even if he falters at first. It looks like prayer in secret instead of lectures in the kitchen.

It looks like trusting God more than yourself.

It doesn’t mean approving of sin or ignoring real issues. It means trusting the Holy Spirit to do the work only He can do.

Ephesians 5:33 says, "Let the wife see that she respects her husband." Not when he earns it. Not when he performs perfectly. But because God asked it of us. Honor is a seed. You sow it in faith. And you trust God to water it.

So speak life. Speak blessing. Speak strength. Then step back and let God breathe on what you've blessed.

Give him a soft place to land. A wife who welcomes him home instead of interrogating him. A woman who isn’t trying to manage him, but to honor what God put on him. A house that feels more like peace than pressure.

Let God Do the Heavy Lifting

You’ve tried carrying it all. It’s left you weary. You’ve tried managing him like one of the kids. It’s left you disappointed. You’ve tried building a strong home in your own strength. But a house can’t stand if the foundation is not built soundly.

You don’t need to raise your voice. You don’t need to control. You don’t need to do it all. You need to submit to God by submitting to your husband. You need to bless. You need to yield.

Give him back his strength. Not because he’s earned it. But because God established this order. And when you return what God entrusted to him, you step back into your own strength, the kind that covers with prayer, speaks with wisdom, builds instead of breaks, and trusts the Lord more than the mirror.

Watch what God does with a man who has submitted to him and been honored by his helpmeet. Watch what happens when a wife lays down her pride and takes up intercession. He may not change overnight. But you will. And when the wife is in her God given role, the house starts to steady.

Let the Lord finish what He started, without your hands in the way.

And may the strength you return to your husband be the very thing that leads your whole house back to peace.

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You don’t pray for him anymore, not like you used to.
Not with tenderness. Not with hope.
You pray about him. You pray around him.
You pray as the righteous one petitioning God to deal with the foolish one you married.

You wouldn’t say it that way—because you still believe in marriage, in covenant, in submission, in faithfulness.
But somewhere in your thoughts, you’ve excused yourself from compassion.

And in its place, you’ve built a case.

You’ve collected every failure.
Not just the sins. The personality traits. The patterns. The silences.
You think you’re just noticing because what they’re doing is wrong.
But what you’re doing is studying them.
You’re meditating, and it’s not on God’s Word, but on their weaknesses.
And that kind of meditation is not holy.
It’s Hell’s catechism.

Your thoughts are not passive.
They are forming you.
And the more you behold your husband’s failures, the more bitter you become.
Not because of what they’ve done
but because of what you’ve fed.

The enemy doesn’t need you to leave.
He doesn’t need adultery.
He doesn’t need a slammed door or a custody battle or even some other moral failure.
He just needs your agreement.

And you’ve already given it to him.

When you rehearse their weaknesses.
When you fold laundry and replay what they said or didn’t say.
When you lay in bed and stack every annoyance into a silent verdict.
You are not “processing.”
You are not “discerning.”
You are agreeing—with the accuser of the brethren.

That’s what he’s always done:
accused husbands to wives,
wives to husbands,
man to God,
God to man.

And the accuser’s whispers begin to sound like your own thoughts.

Let’s Talk About it, Honestly

You didn’t invite bitterness in openly. You let it in through justified disappointment. You told yourself you were just being honest. Realistic. Guarded. And somewhere along the way, you stopped taking your pain to God and started laying it down like bricks, and building a stronghold in your own mind.

Not to protect your marriage. To protect your right to feel mistreated.

What began as grief turned into a courtroom. And you made yourself the judge, jury, and executioner. You observe. You measure. You sentence. You execute. All while saying you’re "just trying to stay faithful."

But this isn’t faithfulness. It’s rebellion dressed in noble language. And the longer you dwell there, the more distant the voice of God becomes. It is not because He has withdrawn, but because you have made agreement with another voice.

And before we go further, let me tell you this: God has not left you. He has not stopped seeing you. He understands the ache of unmet expectations. He knows the sting of being unseen and unthanked. You are not weak for having longed for more. You are not wicked for having cried over the gap between what you hoped marriage would be and what it is. You are human.

Agreement, in the spiritual realm, is no small thing. It is not passive. It is permission. To agree with the accuser is to speak his accusations as if they are discernment, to repeat his narrative as if it is truth, to sit in the seat of judgment as if it is prayer, to replay disappointment as if it is revelation.

You haven’t taken these thoughts captive. You’ve kept them company. You’ve served them tea in the quiet moments of your day. And you’ve wondered why you feel far from God. Why peace doesn’t come. Why affection has dried up. Why your heart no longer beats with tenderness toward the one you once wept over at the altar.

But bitterness is not just a feeling. It is a structure. A spiritual foothold. It is the slow and subtle transfer of trust, away from God’s healing power and toward your own internal courtroom. Bitterness begins with pain, yes, but it ends in partnership, not with God but with grievance. And no marriage can thrive when one spouse spends more time feeding their grievance than feeding their love.

You may be exhausted. You may feel alone in this fight. You may feel like no one sees what you carry. But God does. He sees the mornings you get up and try again. He sees the dinners you cook without thanks. He sees the tears you cry while doing the right thing. And He has not turned away. He has turned toward you. And He is calling you higher.

It is not holiness that makes you keep track of their failures. It is fear. It is pride. It is the desire to be proven right, even if it costs you softness, prayer, laughter, or peace. And if you do not repent, not for what they’ve done but for what you’ve agreed to in secret, then you will eventually become the thing you despise. Cold. Hard. Dismissive. Unreachable.

God is calling you back. Back to the place of clean hands and a pure heart. Back to the altar where you laid your life down in covenant. Back to the kind of thoughts that make space for mercy again.

And if you don’t know how to return, begin with this: ask God to make your mind holy. Tell Him the truth of what you’ve been thinking, even if it’s ugly. Drag every assumption, every resentment, every private verdict into the light of His presence. He already knows them anyway! Repent for what you've nursed in secret. Ask Him to restore intercession where accusation took over. Ask Him to replace contempt with compassion, not because your spouse deserves it, but because God commands it.

Open your Bible and read it out loud until your thoughts stop sounding like your own and begin to sound like God’s. Sing again, even if your voice shakes. Serve again, even if it feels one-sided. Bless again, even when it chafes against the flesh. You don’t need to feel like it. You need to obey.

And when the enemy comes whispering, don’t rehearse what they failed to be. Rehearse what Christ has already done. Tell Satan to go back to Hell where he belongs, he’s no longer welcome in your house, not the one you’ve built with bricks and mortar, and not the one that dwells in your mind.

It is not enough to stay in the marriage. You must stay clean in it. And that begins, not with your behavior, but with what you meditate on.

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This is part 3 in our series on marriage. Click here for part one. Click here for part two. We love you. We want you to thrive in your marriage, and that begins with addressing the hardest parts of your hearts. Nothing we say is said in judgment, anger, or accusation. It is said in love and with great compassion because we understand. We’ve been in those places. We just found our way through them and chose not to dwell there.