GOD's Next

True Repentance and the Freedom of Truth This is why it's an "unseen" Gospel, although everyone in church can simply open their bibles and read it. Information is easy to have, but not revelation. Revelation is when you hear God speak His Word straight from His mouth and receive the grace to obey it. Revelation radically transforms, and repentance must precede revelation. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash .  Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings. [Proverbs 1.22-23]  I thought I had revelation in my early years of ministry in 1980. I taught and preached in church equipped with the study tools provided by man and his study systems. In 1999, the Lord showed me all I had was head knowledge---things taught me by church men and thinkers, not by God. And He stressed how I needed to genuinely repent to start getting His supernatural revelation. Repentance is more than a ritual, more than a word uttered in pr...

Since 1980 when I was born again in my college days, I've always wondered what the real work of God is. With so many church denominations and ministries doing a lot of busy-Martha moves here and there, and sometimes ending up competing against each other, you step back and cannot but wonder what's really going on. Are we continuing what Jesus started or are we inventing our own?  Photo above by 2H Media on Unsplash . Paul’s exhortation in 1 Corinthians 15:58 —“give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord”—is not a call to busyness in church programs, but to a deeper, spiritual ministry rooted in Christ Himself. One that transforms people radically as a genuine spiritual new born in Christ. “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 18] When Jesus defined the real “work of God” in John 6:29 as bel...