The Peace of Venezuela

 Now that the communist tyrant has been removed, we pray for the peace and prosperity of Venezuela.  Under the satanic communist maduro regime 80%+ of the population lived in poverty.  Thats what the enemy wants for people, poverty, slavery, depression and despair.  Our Lord has plans for us to provide a hope and a future.  We pray that hope and future over Venezuela today.  We pray that the light and life of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ sweep that nation from east to west and north to south.

We pray that the other communist nations of the world, their governments will fall-opening the door to peace and prosperity alongside the good news of the gospel.  Our Lord's Will be done on this earth, just as it is in Heaven:

Matt 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Remember to pray out loud today.  Speak the change we want to see into this world today.  Give thanks out loud for the things we are asking for as though they are all already ours.  We are raising/improving our game this year.  There is alot that needs to be done and we are doing our part by laying the spiritual foundation for change.  We are praying in the great spiritual awakening of 2026 as well as repentance and revival in the Church.  We are praying and believing the Lord will pour out His Spirit across America from one shore to the other, and from north to south.  Our Lord has given us a vision and mission, a hope and a future.  He wants us, He insists on us playing a part in it all.  We are declaring war on apathy and complacency in 2026.

This year we bring our "A game" to the fight.  We are not doing it alone.  We stand in agreement with the Lord God our King and with each other.  We stand in agreement with each other and we stand in the gap for this nation.  Our Lord has not finished His work here yet which is why the Church remains on the earth today (His Body).  We do not know (nobody does) when the Lord will return unexpectedly but we are preparing (not predicting) for His return by doing what it is He sent us to do.

When He returns it will be a surprise because He intends for it to be a surprise:

Luke 12:40

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

our job is to be watching and ready so when He does show up we can leave with Him like the wise virgins of Matt 25 who brought extra oil for their lamps in preparation (not prediction) to wait.  While we remain on the earth we have work to do.  This is a note of encouragement to do your job, up your game, and fight the good fight of faith today.  Let us bring a higher level of faith, hope and love to this world than it has seen before.

We can do this.  We will do this. 💕

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

China, Iran, Venezuela

 China, Iran, Venezuela-all three started 2026 with some big problems.  Both Iran and Venezuela have been Chinese proxies to wage war against us.  China has seen major protests to start the new year as has Iran and Venezuela just had there dictator removed.  Major problems for communism is good news for the good news (the gospel).  The communist countries need to be cracked open which means communism removed.  Why?

Matt 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

North Korea for example has less than 1% gospel penetration because it is a hard core left wing communist dictatorship.  1% is not going to work which means the communist dictatorship has to go.  

Why are we talking about this today?  Communism getting sidelined and eliminated is a major prayer target.  We have been praying for this and continue to pray for this as long as the Spirit of the Lord leads in that direction.  We mention this to encourage the Church to pray.  Our prayers make stuff happen.  Standing in agreement makes stuff happen.

We are proceeding into 2026 in faith, hope and love.  We are believing for the great awakening of 2026 which is a spiritual revolution that will precede the reclamation of our freedom from the globalist satanist tyrants.  At the same time we are praying, believing and working toward repentance and revival within the Church.  There is alot going on at the same time here and not alot of time to get it done.  So, today matters.  Getting down on your knees today before the King of Kings-matters.

Let's begin or continue a habit of speaking out loud what we are asking for, and give thanks over it out loud with our mouths as if we have already received what we ask for in prayer per Mark 11:24.  Our prayers, spoken into this world have the power of life and death:

Prov 18:21The tongue has the power of life and death,

and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Ps 34

1I will bless the Lord at all times
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

There is power in the spoken word which means we have to be careful what comes out of our mouths (see prov 18 again).  This idea of speaking out blessing, praise, prayer and thanks is one more avenue of us upping our game in 2026.  The big challenges facing this world require the best versions of ourselves , centered in His Will.  We are leaving no stone unturned, working on 1% incremental improvement daily.  We are at war with complacency.  This is the path or roadway to the hope and future planned for us by our Lord and King.  

This year we reformat our minds with faith, hope and love.  We redirect our minds back to this kind of thinking any time our minds drift off someplace else:

Phil 4

4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5Let your reasonableness^d be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9What you have learned^e and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

1 Th 5

16Rejoice always, 17pray continually, 18give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

This ^^^ can be somewhat easy when things are going well but its not so easy when we are facing trials and tribulations of all kinds.  And those challenges are inevitable as we were promised in this world we will face troubles.  So how do we do this as a matter of practice?  We embrace a process that redirects our thoughts after trial/tribulation triggers back to Phil 4 and 1 Th 5.  Its okay to acknowledge the problems we face exist, however we are response-able (responsibility) or able to choose our response to what we face in life.  As a matter of process we choose to respond with faith, hope, love and rejoicing.  Its a simple concept but not always easy to implement.  This is part of raising our game, leveling ourselves up into the highest/best versions of ourselves.

Our prayers have consquences, so do our words.  We are like our Lord in this world which means our words have power similar to His.  We have been called to finish strong.  Nobody has any idea exactly how much time we have left on this earth but if we suspect the Lord could be arriving soon for His unexpected visit, we want to be found at the top of our game-doing those things that please Him.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Prayers Answered in 2026

 Overnight, the premier communist country in our hemisphere had its president captured.  Venezuela has been a communist, oppressive regime.  Communism is anti-Christian and anti-human.  Now that the communist president has been removed we pray for a free, open Venezuela where the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ can travel freely.  We pray daily for the end of communist oppression across the world.

We pray for the great spiritual awakening across America in 2026 with repentance and revival in the Church.  We pray that the Spirit of the Lord is poured out across this nation from east to west and north to south.  We bind, rebuke and restrain the satanic blindness that is over the people so they can see with their eyes and understand with their hearts how wicked, terrible, hypocritical and ugly the evil is-turn and be saved.  The spiritual foundation for more time on earth must be laid first.  No house can be laid on a rotten foundation.

There was a spiritual awakening before the first American revolution and there must be a spiritual awakening before the second one.  America must once again shed the shackles of the globalist satanic tyrants who wish to enslave humanity under a one world demonic system.  The spiritual revolution must come first.

In order for us to do what needs to be done in prayer and otherwise, we must up our game.  We must level up into the best versions of ourselves possible this year-centered in His Will.  We must do what we were created to do.  We must put faith, hope and love on as a heads up display.  We must take up our cross, die to this world but live in and through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We offer ourselves body, soul, spirit, present, future and past to our Lord as living sacrifices.  We yield our will to His Will then we step aside to allow Him to shine through us into this world.

A dying world is looking for hope.  Hope can and will be found in Jesus Christ, through Whom this world was made and saved.  In addition to faith, hope and love we need to reformat our minds to redirect to this kind of thinking throughout the day-every day:

Phil 4:8

4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

In a world where the media pours toxic sludge onto the minds, hearts and spirits of the masses 24/7, we must counter with the above faith, hope, love and Phil 4:8.  "They" want us demoralized and depressed.  The Lord on the other hand wants to provide us with a hope and a future.  That starts from the inside out with each individual.  We are praying as if we have already received it-that the leftist democrat tyrants will lose seats in both the house and senate in the midterms 2026.

We believe we have already received what we have asked for in prayer per Mark 11:24. We give thanks for what we have received, and we protect it with our faith.

2026 has started out with a bang, literally and necessarily as there is much to be done and little time to do it all.  November 2026 and the mid terms will be here in the blink of an eye which means we must press daily on those things we are believing for.  We must continue to exert pressure on the enemy 24/7, 365 from every direction possible.  The alternative is slavery, oppression and death.  That's what the enemy is offering humanity.  So how about-NO.

Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Upping our game in 2026 will require some renewing and transformation in our minds in closer harmony with the Word of God which is the Will of God.  We all need to get down on our knees today and get right, stay right with our Lord and King.  We must align ourselves with Him and each other in agreement of Will and Purpose.  We agree with Him first, then with each other by extension down the same path.  We are putting all the tools together now as we walk into the future.  We stand in agreement, we put to use the keys of the Kingdom we have been given by binding and loosing:

Matt 16:19

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

This year we also up our game by praying for our enemies daily.  Some high level defections from the enemy camp are anticipated and welcomed.  We are bringing our A game to 2026, that is what we have been prepared for.  We are to finish strong, and finishing starts today.  While all of this is going on, we remember to be watchful in prayer for the unexpected return of the Lord.  The stage is set, the Lord could come back at any time now.  He said it would be unexpected so it will be unexpected.  

For now, though we remain on the earth with a Biblical mandate to restrain the rot, decay and darkness.  Thats what salt and light do.  Our goal is to be found doing our job in a watchful state of readiness when our Lord returns for us.  And we are not just doing our job; we are doing it at the highest level possible for the great God we serve and the Kingdom that is our inheritance in Him.  

Matt 5:48

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

This right here ^^^ is our call to elevate our game, to level up into the highest/best versions of ourselves.  It requires us to be getting better every single day.  The high level challenges in the world require the high level versions of ourselves-our best.  Thats the goal, thats the path forward, that is the mission and vision set before us.  He has a hope and a future planned for us but we do not get there with our feet kicked up on the table in apathy and complacency.  We must declare war on complacency daily.

Thats enough for today.  Be encouraged, the Lord is working.  We must be relentless.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

New Year 2025/2026

 This writer is glad to see 2025 in the books, now we lean into 2026.  The Lord has given us a mission and vision for this year.  We are to continue to pray over all of the prayer targets.  We are to continue to watch for the unexpected arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.  And the new arrivals to the game are praying in a great spiritual awakening from east to west, north to south across America then the world.  We add to that repentance and revival in the Church.  Last is how we do all this, and it is in faith, hope and love.

How do we finish strong?  In faith, hope and love.  That's how we do business as Christians.  It is our calling card and what will draw outsiders to the faith.  There is plenty of hate to go around in and through the other religions of the world.  Our God is love, re-read 1 John 14.  In addition to leveling ourselves up into the highest/best versions of ourselves, centered in our Lord's Will-thats all 100% meaningless without love (re-read 1 Cor 13).

The way we transform the world around us is by starting with ourselves.  We need to step aside, and let our Lord shine through us.  We yield these vessels made of clay to our Creator.  We offer ourselves as living sacrifices to Him every day.  This world needs more Jesus, we are the delivery vehicles.

There are plenty of fear peddling "prophets" out there because fear "sells."  We have not been called to that.  We are to proceed forward in faith, hope and love.  Yes, we are aware of what the enemy wants to do and as we become aware of more we pray that down under restraint as well as everything else they are trying to do.  We are aware of it but not fixated on it.  We spend our time broadcasting faith, hope and love which is what this world needs (desperately).

Phil 4:8

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Let us pray with each other and for each other for the best new year ever.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Merry Christmas 2025

 This time of year we remember the love our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ has for us.  Our Lord Father sent His only Son our Lord Jesus Christ to die for us.  An important distinction here is our Lord Jesus Christ did not die for some faceless, nameless mob.  He died for you personally.  The Lord God has abilities mortals do not have.  A day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.  What that means is time is relative to Him.  What does that mean in the context of Him dying for us?  It means on that day that He died for us time slowed down and was like a thousand years.  Why?  What for?  Being God, He was able to see each and every one of us by name.  He saw every wicked, terrible, evil thing each of us would ever do, and then-only then in love and mercy He decided to die for us.  Think about that.

In love and mercy our Lord died for us so that we will live for Him.

We have talked extensively about leveling up into the highest/best version of ourselves.  The very top level is where faith, hope and love live.  We have been called up to the mountain top.  Our Lord would have us living, eating, breathing faith, hope and love at all times, in every circumstance.  That means, yes-especially when times get tough and we face adversity.

As we move into 2026, the road ahead is one of awakening, repentance and revival.  The road ahead has signposts along the way that say "faith," hope," and "love."  Thats how we know we are headed in the right direction is those signposts.  We travel along the road ahead in the center of our Lord's Will for our lives.  We travel while continually pressing upward on our talents, skills and abilities.  We live in a never ending process of improvement for the sake of our great King and the Kingdom we all belong to.

We are being called higher in every way imaginable.  One day we will literally be taken higher, snatched out of this world by our Lord.  Until then, we climb the mountain-higher and higher every day.  Held out before us is a hope and a future.  Yes, this world is headed for trouble but they are to see the light of our faces and our countenance radiating the light and life of our Lord Jesus Christ so they can ask us "how do I get some of that?"  An ark of safety has been provided for us.  Nobody in the history of the Church, not one single soul up through this very day ever went through "the" tribulation and neither will those today who watch and pray for the escape promised to us.

While we remain here we have a job to do.  We hold out life and light to a dying world.  We step aside and let our Lord shine through us.  We offer ourselves to our Lord as living sacrifices day by day so the world can see our Lord in us, and through our jars of clay.  

Our Lord would have us encouraged today.  He loved us enough to die for us by name.  His Will for us is to finish strong.  So let us run this race with endurance while we are still here on the face of the earth.  Lets finish in faith, hope, and love.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 💕

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

318 Days Till Midterms

 2 more days of Hanukkah 2025, and 318 days until the midterm elections.  The fall of each year seems like a great time for the Lord to return unexpectedly, but He reserves the right to come back at any time on any day.  We are not talking about the "second coming" but rather the unexpected return of the Lord that is so secret that not even our Lord Jesus Christ knows when it will take place.

Matt 24:36

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

If the Lord Father wants it to be a surprise to everyone, you can bet its going to be a surprise.  That said, we are still in the prime time window for this year over the next two or so days.  What happens after that?  We continue to watch in prayer.  We continue our readiness through service and preparation for His return.  We can do this, and we will do this for as long as it takes or until the Lord God "graduates" us off this earth.  While we are here we continue to do our job.  We have been empowered with a unique set of talents, skills and abilities to serve our King on this earth.  We are to level that skill set up into its highest, best form.

The most important thing is love.  And these three remain: faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love.  This is how we finish.  Faith is super important as is hope but love sits at the top.  We bind everything else together with it.  Love is the glue that holds everything together.  It is also the final ingredient in our recipe for success.  It is at the beginning and end of everything we do.  Love is the dividing line between us and those who hate us.  We love and pray for our enemies, "they" hate.  We see this with the purple haired fanatics on the left screaming at the world with the veins popping out of their necks full of hate.  They call it love but their "love" is really hate.

Nobody gets into Heaven without love.  Our God told us He is love:

1 John 4

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We are to align, and agree with Him in that ^^^ love.  If the Lord tarries we are headed into the midterms 2026.  This servant believes the Lord has provided a roadmap for the journey ahead.  We are to pray for the great spiritual awakening of 2026 and repentance and revival within the Church.  This lays the spiritual groundwork for further restraint of the enemy until the time of Jacob's trouble.

Yes, everything the Lord said would happen, will happen.  The million dollar question is not "if" its "when?"  We know according to the book of Ecclesiastes there is a time and a season for everything.  For now, we sit at another cross roads.  The stage is set for the Lord to come back at any moment while at the same time He holds out the possibility of more Restraint over the enemy so more souls can be saved in this age of grace.  We must be ready for whatever.  We are ready to stay and ready to go at a moments notice.  We maintain this watchfulness and readiness through intention and preparation in prayer.

This servant is praying for you and with you and your families.  Please pray for your servant (this writer) David and his family as well.  We have been given a vision and a mission that does provide a hope and a future:

Jer 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Prov 29:18

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Christmas and New Years are close at hand and this servant prays that you and your family are blessed with the best holiday season ever. 🙏 💕

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Clear Minded Prayer

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 

Sober: 1. not drunk 2. marked by sedate or gravely or earnestly thoughtful character or demeanor

The Lord would have us in our right mind, gravely, earnestly thoughtful in our minds so we can pray.  Why?  Prayer calls in the calvary.  Prayer changes things, alters things.  We have to be able to think thoughtfully, deeply and carefully so we can call in what we need.  This ^^^ brings us back to the roads set before us leading into 2026.  This servant believes there are 3 distinct possibilities before us:  1.  The rapture/harpazo of the Church, 2. The great awakening of the population, and repentance/revival in the Church, and 3. the alternative to #2. which you can imagine is not good.

While we are here on this earth we are to be active participants in the restraint on the spirit of anti-Christ that is our Biblical mandate per Matt 5:

13“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

14“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

and 2 Thess 2:7

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

Salt restrains rot and decay and light restrains darkness.  We do this together with Him, in Him, and through Him as He lives in us.  Therefore it is no mystery that when Holy Spirit filled individuals around the world (the Church) are pulled out of the earth-restraint is removed.  Today, the Church is on the earth which means we have a job to do.

The Lord God has provided a mission and a vision for the immediate term future out to the mid-term elections.  This vision and mission is not about politics as much as it is about the Church doing its job on earth.  One of the big ticket items on the prayer target list is eradicating communism from the face of the earth.  Venezuela is a communist nation, who under the Trump administration is under pressure.  China is another and they have pressure coming down on them as well.  North Korea we dont read about much but their communist dictatorship must be cracked open like a clam shell.  Why?

Matt 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

North Korea has about 1% of its population exposed to the gospel because open evangelism is impossible.  Now, re-read Matt 24:14 and tell me who wins, the Word of Almighty God or the communists in North Korea?  Its not just North Korea, its all of the communist nations and the fall of communism is just one of many prayer targets we are to engage daily in prayer.

When hitting a boulder with a hammer, initially it seems like nothing will ever happen but under the surface microfractures are being formed which when developed will crumble the entire rock.  Just because initially we see no apparent results does not mean "nothing is happening."

leads to this:

Eph 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

The enemy has been on a rampage for decades but this servants understanding is now is the time of counter-attack.  We know that we are in the midst of a large scale war that our Lord and Kingdom win in the end, however in between there are battles that go back and forth.  The answer to "why?" and "why now?" have not been provided explicitly to this servant however we can figure out some of it based on what the Lord already told us (like Matt 24 vs. Communism and North Korea).  

There is no time to kick our heels up on the table in apathy and complacency.  There is alot of work to be done with the short time we have left before our Lord returns.  How long that time is, only the Father knows.  What we know is there is alot of work to be done and we have been given everything we need to do that work.  We have also been instructed in how to do that work.  We are to do it with excellence, as the highest/best versions of ourselves.  We are to bring our "A-game" to this fight.  And we do it all standing hand in Hand with Him and each other.  He never told us to do it all alone.

Its kind of exciting to think about the possibilities ahead.  Our eyes and focus need to be on our Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the solution to our problems-one way or another.  Most if not all of the answers to the prayer targets will require miracles which again means the Lord has to do the heavy lifting.  While that is true, we have to do our part.  He expects us to learn and grow as we do this stuff together.  Tackling big problems is our basic training for an eternity with Him.

He has provided us with a hope and a future:

Jer 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

We just have to put one foot in front of the other and walk into it with Him.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace