This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on July 27, 2025. Below is a word for word transcription of the message as if Apostle Kathryn is writing this to you. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God.   

This is the year - the prophetic word of the year is, that it’s the year of acceptance. It is the year to accept Jesus, to accept His move, to accept Him in His fullness. And God has been preparing hearts, He’s been planting seeds, that’s leading to a great harvest that is coming this year! It has begun to come this year and will continue. The harvest is ripe now, because of what God has done, because of the seeds that have been planted by many of you to many people around the world; and because of how God has been pursuing His people and preparing their hearts for this moment to receive Him. Going along with this word of the year of what God is doing this year, there has been a prophetic direction for all of you, for the revival army around the world, and that is to Arise and Shine! Because the harvest will come in, the lost will come to Jesus, when they see the light of Jesus, when they see the light of Jesus in God’s people on this earth, when they can notice this light and be drawn to it, be curious, start seeking, and then find Him.

Here at 5F Church, this is a prophetic ministry, where the messages that are preached are prophetic. It’s not a plan that we make, that I make on my own, of which messages to preach, but it’s led by the Holy Spirit according to what He is doing on this earth right now, and according to what He knows that you need to be equipped and to fulfill your purpose right now in this present time. Not what you needed last year, not what you needed five years ago, not what you’ll need next year, but what you need right now. And because it is the year of acceptance, because we must arise and shine now, there have been many prophetic messages that I’ve been sharing with you to teach you how to arise and shine; to teach you how to bring in this harvest; to teach you how to lead people to accept God in this year of acceptance. This message today is another one of these messages, where you are going to be equipped more to know your true divine assignment on this earth right now, to lead others to Jesus.

Galatians 5:13

For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another. For the whole law [concerning human relationships] is fulfilled in one precept, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, you shall have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit].”

This verse is saying, “You are free now. God in His grace has set you free. You are flourishing now, walking in abundant life. Now you have time on your hands, you have freedom, you are not held back anymore, you have energy, you have a great capacity to do so much that you didn’t before.”

Many of you were stuck in bondage and so you couldn’t even do selfish things that you wanted to do. You didn’t even have the energy to pursue after selfish ambitions. You were consumed with meditating on how oppressed you were. You were consumed with tiredness, sluggishness, stagnancy, because of this bondage, like being stuck in a prison cell. But now God has set you free! 

It’s so important, now that you are free, to understand - you have free will, but it is so important to do what God is asking you to do with this freedom He has given you. That’s what this verse is saying. “You are free now! You have energy to pursue after selfish ambitions, that you didn’t before, BUT DON’T DO THAT! Don’t use your freedom to do that. Use your freedom to love others, to serve others!”

Now is the time to love your neighbor as yourself!

Now is the time, like never before. Maybe you have been trying to do your best in that area for a while, you’ve been a believer for a while. Maybe you have been free for a while, for years. But NOW is the time, in this year where God is calling you to arise and shine, to love your neighbor like never before. 

Matthew 22:36

“Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Did you catch that? I know many of you have heard this Scripture a lot. But this Scripture really stuck out to me, verse 39, more than ever, as I was meditating on this Scripture. A second commandment is equally important. Many times when we read this verse, you may be thinking, number one is the most important, and number two is the second most important. Is that how anyone ever read that verse in the past? 

And of course it depends on the translation, but this translation right here gives this powerful revelation, that says, the second commandment is not secondary, but it’s equally as important! Equally! Love your neighbor as yourself!

John 21:15

When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”

This is when Jesus was crucified and then was resurrected and then He appeared to the disciples. He appeared to Peter right here and Peter had already gone back to fishing; to doing what His previous job was, before being a disciple of Jesus. So Jesus found him fishing, He found him pursuing what he wanted to pursue, what Peter wanted to pursue. And He said,

“Do you love me more than these?”

Meaning, “Do you love me more than this job? Do you love me more than this pursuit that you are doing? Do you love me more than the comfort you have in fishing? You don’t have the trouble of the Pharisees here when you are fishing. Do you love me more than the comfort that this joy of fishing gives you?”

“Yes, Lord,” Peter said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”

So He says, “If you love me, if you TRULY love me, if you truly love ME more than what you are pursuing right now, more than what you want to do, more than this job, then feed my lambs”, which means, feed my people, spiritually feed; spiritually care for my people. Love them! If you love me, you will love my people! And you will serve my people.

These two Scriptures that I just read, the one about the second commandment being equally as important as the first to love God with everything and this Scripture here, it’s saying that to love God equals to love people. To love God equals loving people!! 

How to love God? - Love people!

What does it mean to love God? - Love people!

How do I show God that I love Him? - Love His people!

How do I pour out my heart to Him? - Love His people!

How do I touch His heart? How do I be a man or woman after His heart? - L O V E   H I S   P E O P L E 

A lot of people tend to forget this commandment, that second commandment, the importance of loving people. And I have mentioned this before, but many people in today’s time are so focused on relationship with God, but they are not having revelation or they are forgetting about this part of God’s heart. His whole heart - that it’s for His people! So, to pray and read the bible means nothing if you are not loving people. And there is a Scripture that says, “if you do all these things, if you preach really good, if you do miracles and you have faith as massive as a mountain, but no love, no love for people, then you are a clanging cymbal.” If you are just reading the bible and praying and worshipping, but not loving people, not really loving people, you are not showing God love!! To love God is to love people. Period.

It is so important you grasp this aspect of God’s heart, as I was sharing last week, grow in the knowledge of God of His love for His people. That’s how you will be able to love God well and fulfill your purpose.

How do you love people better? Well, you need to renew your mind with the truth. You need to renew your mind, first of all, with the truth of how you needed Jesus, you were a sinner. What have you done in your past without Jesus? Do you remember that? When you see other people acting in immoral ways, with bad behavior, you need to remember that that was once you. Maybe their bad behavior is different, but that was once you in one way or another. You need to remember also, number one, that the devil is behind every kind of evil in this world. When people do bad things, they are being influenced by the devil. They don’t do bad things just on their own, because they are an evil person by nature, because they are just a bad person, bad to the bone. They do bad things because they were influenced by the devil; because there was a strategic attack sent towards them from the devil to send evil thoughts to them, to send negative emotions to them and they didn’t realize it, but they were played by the devil. He spoke to them, they listened and followed that voice. They thought, it was themselves, they thought it was just the right thing to do because this is what they feel so strongly to do. But the reality is, it was the devil. You have to remember that the devil is behind everything! You have to remember that a lot of people are not in the same place where you are right now. They have not been given that grace that you have right now. God actually wants to use YOU to release that grace upon them, to show them love, the kindness of God that will lead them to repentance. They are in this season that you were in in the past. They are just in a different season that you once were. And there were people that looked at you with eyes of love, the love of God and saw you not as the world saw you, saw you not for what you deserved, but saw you with the grace and love and compassion of Jesus. And they were vessels of God that ultimately led you into salvation, so that you will have an eternity in heaven and that you will be free of hell and torment and bondage of the devil on this earth right now.

These people that you see doing bad things, no matter the most extreme evil - maybe it’s just someone close to you that bothers you, they are annoying sometimes, they are having selfish behavior sometimes, they lash out sometimes - no matter the spectrum of evil, of actions that are not like Christ, it is being influenced by the devil. And when you can remember that and put on your new self and see people with spiritual eyes, with the eyes of God, you will get mad at the devil and not at people. You will hate the devil and not people. And then you will see clearly and remember that you once were influenced by the devil, but Jesus’ power is greater! You just needed rescuing and that rescuing happened from Jesus and a vessel that Jesus used. Then you can see people with truth, how it really is, you can see that people need rescuing from the devil’s influence, from the devil’s bondage that has been placed upon their lives. They need rescuing and you can play a part in their rescue, in their salvation. It is such a different mindset to carnally see somebody. If they do evil, you hate them, you can’t forgive them. You have bitterness towards them. You have negative thoughts towards them and you see them as a bad person, as an evil person. But when you see in the spiritual realm, you don’t see any of that. You see a person who is lost, who is in bondage, who is influenced by the devil like you once were. Maybe in a different way, but you once were like them. They need saving and you are like a lifeguard that can help save them. It’s so different. It’s such a different perspective. It’s night and day. Remember I shared last week, there is a Scripture that says, you must put on your new self. You must renew your mind with this revelation.This revelation I am sharing with you, many of you already have this revelation, but you might not be thinking about it every day. You have to put on your new self. You have to renew your mind of this truth of the spiritual realm. It should be automatic. When somebody does something bad, whether it’s to you, or you see something on the news and it’s something far away from you - it should be automatic, that you hate the devil and not the person. That you see, “Oh, this person is oppressed, they need Jesus!” “Oh, this person is deceived, they need Jesus!” And the passion should be to serve God more, to love God’s people more, knowing that you can actually make a difference for there to be less evil in the world, if you will be a vessel of Jesus, so Jesus can rescue these people.

I remember when I went to my spiritual father’s church one time in Tanzania - Prophet GeorDavie, my spiritual father - I witnessed mass deliverance for the first time. It was one of the most life changing days of my life. I saw my spiritual father walk in the authority of Christ like I had never seen in my entire life. It was like the bible came alive, because demons were manifesting everywhere like popcorn. They were speaking out of people, were yelling out of people and he just walked in this firm authority in Christ, meaning the most serious business with the devil that I have ever seen. Serious business! Not letting the devil get away with keeping these people in bondage! That’s what I saw in his face. It was such seriousness, so fierce like a lion and I saw the Lion of Judah in my spiritual father. I saw the heart of Jesus with this fierceness, meaning serious business with the devil! “You must leave this person, this precious child of God! You cannot torment them any longer.” It was just immediate, “This person needs rescuing!” BOOM BOOM BOOM! “You must go! You must go, demon! GO! GO!” And the demons would leave so quickly. And the demons would also, the demons that I saw manifest in these people, they would speak out of the people. Some of them would speak out of the people. Some of them would reveal their plans. Like there was this one demon that said out of a woman, “I am influencing her to sleep around with so many people so she will get HIV.” Like the demons spoke that was their plan, the assignment upon this woman’s life. Another demon they spoke out of a woman, “I have been trying to kill her in this way and this way and this way.” I don’t remember the details now but just describing different ways. “And now I have sent a rock in her throat.” And as my spiritual father commanded the demon to go, a pebble the size of maybe a fingernail came out of her throat, and I saw it with my two eyes. But, I had never before seen the spiritual realm exposed like this. I had never before seen how evil really the devil was. I had never before seen how busy at work the devil was tormenting people. I had never realized that, had that revelation until that moment. But my spiritual eyes opening up to see how evil the devil was gave me so much compassion for people. From that day I was changed. It was the combination of seeing how evil the devil was like never before but then I also saw how great and fierce and compassionate God is, His love is for His people. There wasn’t any hesitation, it was just my spiritual father would cast demon after demon out of person after person. Boom. Fast. With such seriousness, with such fierceness. I had never seen God’s passion and ambition and commitment to rescue his people like that in my entire life. And I remember that day, this is how my spiritual eyes opened up: Number one, as I saw God deliver person after person after person with my spiritual pfather with such ease I realized when before I had questions like, “How come bad things happen to good people?” Because of course God works out everything for the good, but then there are some things that are just even hard to understand like such horrible things where you do not even see the good at all. As believers many can have that question. That question disappeared completely from my mind that day, and it never came back again. It wasn’t even like I questioned God in that, it’s not even like I was questioning His heart. I never questioned His goodness before that time, but it’s like it was confusing. It wasn’t clear to me. But that day it became crystal clear as I saw Jesus deliver person after person after person from demonic oppression through my spiritual father, it became crystal clear that God has the power to deliver and heal everyone and he wants to heal and deliver everyone. 

He wants to heal and deliver everyone, it’s just that He has a way of moving. He is so strict to His word. He doesn’t go outside of His word, outside of His principles. What I mean is, He doesn’t bend to people’s will. People want things comfortable and easy, so they want miracles to come in an easy comfortable way, but God has His principles in which miracles come, and that’s by faith, that’s by positioning yourself where the power of God is moving, and by Him putting anointing in vessels and moving through the vessels as they walk in their authority in Christ. And the rest of His keys of the kingdom principles you can find all of those keys on my playlist on YouTube, “Receiving and Maintaining Your Deliverance,” and also in my book, Unlock Your Deliverance, I share all these different keys. But these are the two huge ones, Faith, and God moving in power through a vessel, so positioning yourself to be there to receive. 

So my eyes opened up in this moment because I had also never seen the love of Jesus and the character of Jesus like I had seen through my spiritual father. I had also never seen miracles happen the power of God move like I had seen through my spiritual father. I had never seen the Bible come alive looking like the Acts church like I did through my spiritual father and at my spiritual father’s church. So everything just clicked in that moment that day, everything just clicked. God wants to move in power and heal and deliver every person, but you have to come to Him not in your own way. You have to seek Him, not in a way that you want to seek Him, but seek Him in His way, following His principles that are in His word that require humility to have revelation of His word. It clicked to me. And from that moment on, it was so simple in my mind, the goodness of God, the love of God. God loves everybody, He wants to heal and deliver everybody. Somebody has oppression, somebody has sickness, they just need to seek Jesus, not any old way, not going to a lukewarm church and doing it in their doctrine, but really seeking after God’s heart, really humbling yourself. That is seeking God, humbling yourself, becoming like a child. I need you God. Not, “Oh I have everything figured out the Christian way.” “I need you God, I humble myself, and I seek you so show me where to go to find you. Direct my steps to where I can find you in your fullness.” 

It became so simple and clear to me that day and I’ve lived in that mentality, in that mindset, in that revelation since that day. I see people so simply, everywhere I go I see people that way. I see people like, “They need Jesus, they need his power. Oh if they’d come, if they would come with hunger, if they would come seeking Him, God would deliver and heal them like that!” And if they would just surrender their lives, and if they would just be serious about maintaining their deliverance by applying these principles from God that He has given in His word. But we need His revelation, the new wine. Then they will maintain their freedom, they will walk in abundant life! Easy, simple, black and white. So that day my love for people increased like never before, number one because I saw the love of God loving people, meaning serious business to kick the devil out of people’s lives, and that fierce compassion like a lion for people that I saw displayed through my spiritual father through the anointing. But number two seeing how evil the devil is and seeing that, whoa it is really that simple and black and white. Whatever bad behavior someone has, whatever bad thing somebody is doing, it’s because they are influenced by the devil. Now people have free will, but so many people, they do not have their spiritual eyes opened up, so they feel this strong feeling and they’re confused. They know it’s wrong but it’s like something is overtaking them, and so they do a bad thing, they sin. So many people don’t have their spiritual eyes opened up to know how real the devil is in our feelings and our emotions, how what you think and feel comes from the devil many times. It literally comes sent from the devil to try to influence you and pull you a certain direction and make you do something bad! So many people don’t know that, so of course they’re not going to be equipped to walk in victory over the devil’s scheme on their life. Of course they’re going to sin, they’re going to do a bad thing. Of course! Their eyes aren’t opened up yet, what do you expect? 

We also have to have so much grace for people because many people do not have the past that you had. If you had a bad past, if you had parents who were abusive, if you went through trauma and abuse growing up, bullying, really hard things, then generally you will probably be more apt to have compassion for people, empathy for people. But those of you that didn’t have that as your past, those of you that had more grace upon your life growing up than others, you have to make more of an intention to have compassion for people. You have to renew your mind about how the devil has been at work in people’s lives and that’s shaped them, and that’s made them who they are today. Not that they choose to be like this, that they want to be like this. 

I know my parent’s, I had the most amazing childhood, I couldn’t have asked for a better childhood, I couldn't have asked for better parents. They loved Jesus and they were Christ-like. They were and are so pure. I know that is such a big reason why I didn’t veer off, though in high school and college I lived lukewarm in some areas of my life, but I didn’t go far from God’s will. I know that it’s because of this grace of my upbringing. I remember these people who do evil things that maybe I didn’t do such evil things, their past was probably different. There were probably a lot of open doors out of their control that they didn’t open up themselves that led for the enemy to be able to influence them SO MUCH MORE than the devil was able to influence me. Of course they’re behaving this way! Of course they’re sinning like this! They need to encounter God's power and His love for their eyes to open up to be able to choose Jesus and then to be able to continually choose Jesus, to be equipped, to have victory over the devil and not let the devil influence them anymore! 

I’m sharing how to love people. You have to put on your new self and renew your mind to this spiritual realm, to this spiritual reality. If someone lashes out at you, if someone isn’t as kind to you, they could’ve had a bad day. It could’ve been a strategic attack of the devil towards them on that day. Remember that! Renew your mind of that and then you’ll be able to love them rather than giving them “what they deserve” and lashing back, eye for eye. You have to renew your mind and see in the spiritual realm. To love people means to love everybody. When God says if you love me feed me lambs, when Jesus says this, when Jesus says the second command is equally as important as the first, LOVE PEOPLE as yourself, love you neighbor as yourself, this is what your neighbor means, this is what the lambs mean, this is the meaning of the people you should love, EVERYBODY. Those who are nice to you, your friends, your church family, and your enemies, those who treat you wrongly, and strangers. We are called to love everybody. Out of the people we’re called to love, most of them we’ll never meet. They’re strangers. But, we are called to love them, not only love our friends, not only love those we know, but everybody! 

How do we love everybody? By serving God. Feeding the lambs. 

He’s speaking this to Peter, preach! That was Peter’s specific calling as an Apostle was to preach and walk in signs, wonders, and miracles, and to spiritually feed REGULARLY, his congregation, his disciples, the members of his church. 

Feeding the sheep, it looks different for everybody. It can be summarized as this: serving God, doing the work of God, contributing to the work of God. 

For example, you might not be called as an Apostle, what Peter was called to. You may not be called to be preaching sermons. We have an editing team here at Five-Fold Church and they are working so hard EVERY day. I see them with my own eyes. I’m communicating with them, hours each day to edit these videos with excellence, the sermons and short clips of the messages so that so many more people may be fed than the hundreds that are here and those watching online. So many more are fed! Those that are editing and those of you that are sharing the clips on your social media page, what are you doing? What are they doing? Feeding the sheep! 

We need excellence for God's kingdom, that’s how more people are reached. When we put out junk, who wants to watch that? 

This is how we be the light of the world! Being the light means to be of excellence and a high standard. It means to be aware of the standard of the world in today’s time. We have to make sure we have a camera that’s clear. We have to make sure we’re doing things right so it’s not losing quality when we post it. We have to care about these things so that more people will look at the video and not look away because they judge a book by its cover. People do judge a book by its cover. We have to make sure our cover is looking good! We have to do everything we can to help people stay focused. People are being pulled left and right in this world, so many things they can watch, so many videos they can watch, so many things they can be doing in the age of social media, in the age of the internet, of now AI. There’s so many more things that we can spend our time doing, our life doing. We have to raise the standard up in this area even to make sure things have excellence to attract the most amount of people, to grab their attention. 

Even to be here in this place, it’s a place of excellence. It’s a place of more excellence than when we were in the past and it matters. It’s drawing more people to come see. Not just that but to help people see, this is a place I can receive from here, this is a place I can grow here. 

There are seasons for everything. There’s some people that in their mind, they know they want to be part of a church but it needs to look like a church. If we just stay in the grass forever, we’re missing people who aren’t coming. They’re seeing it as an event but not as a church, a place they can grow, a place they can be equipped, a place they can have covering. These things matter. Having a venue like this to worship God and to preach the word that will go to millions, it matters! It costs about $15,000 to be here every week, to be in this venue, to pay for the live-streaming and camera costs and all these things that go into it, the lighting, the audio. We have someone doing the sounds so that the livestream sound’s good in a different room. Those of you that give, you are feeding the lambs. It’s not just me feeding the lambs, preaching the word. It’s everything that makes the preaching of the word and the ministry of Jesus go forth. That’s feeding the lambs, feeding the most amount of lambs. 

Acts 13:22 

But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do. 

We have another definition here of what loving God looks like. David was a man after His own heart, meaning he really loved God, wasn’t just religiously loving God with words but no actions, but his heart was after God’s. He was really loving God.

This scripture gives us a definition, more meaning of what loving God means. It says, he will do everything I want him to do. He’s a man after my own heart. This is what it means to be a man after my own heart; in other words, he WILL DO everything I want him to do. To love God is to obey God. 

It says in 2 John 1:6 

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. 

This is real love. This is real love for God, that you walk in obedience to His commands. 

We have the definition of loving God now, loving people and obeying Him. I like to say that God’s love language, the way we show love to Him the most is by obeying Him. His love language is obedience. 

I want to share with you now three main areas of obedience to God, like defining what obedience to God looks like. 

Number one: Spending time with God in the word, in prayer, talking with God daily, worshipping Him, having intimacy with Him. That’s the first aspect of obedience to God. 

The second aspect of obedience to God is being spiritually mature. That is a choice. How to be spiritually mature is to be a true disciple, not a church goer, not a Christian by name, but a DISCIPLE. A disciple is a learner, is a student, humble, childlike student. To be a disciple is to be planted at the church where God's calling you to be planted, be a spiritual son or daughter under the spiritual father or mother God’s calling you to be planted. Like how Timothy and other disciples were planted under Apostle Paul. Like how Elisha was planted under Elijah. Being a disciple of the teachings under your spiritual leader or leaders, taking the teachings to heart, applying those teachings, applying the principles. The principles are to equip you to be spiritually mature, the principles, the teaching that is released. The teaching, the equipping that’s released is to help you overcome the devils schemes, how to have victory over the devil. It opens up your spiritual eyes so that you can become spiritually mature. God wants to see you grow, He doesn’t want to see you be a baby. The devil is so tiny and dinky. He’s under our feet. But we have to be disciples to learn how to overcome him who is smaller or he won’t seem smaller, he will seem bigger than what you can handle. He will seem more powerful than you as a Christian. But when you become a true disciple then God can open up your eyes. You come with a childlike heart to hear the teachings where you are planted and you apply the principles in your life, you become this spiritual giant. A giant of faith. Eyes that are so open in the spiritual realm, understanding how the spiritual realm works. Understanding the schemes of the devil and KNOWING how to conquer the devils schemes, how to have victory every time. 

God wants to see you grow. It’s not hard to do. You have to be obedient to be a disciple. He wants to see you grow because if you don’t grow then you’re not fulfilling your calling on this earth. You are not leading others to Jesus, or at least in the capacity that you were called to, if you don’t grow. That’s why being spiritually mature, you need to see this as obedience to God and love to God. That’s why even when I pray, I am careful what I say. I don’t want to disappoint God. I know better. I don’t want to complain when I know that God is good, He’s in control, His timing’s different than mine but better and He allows everything to work for our good. We have to go through a refining fire, it’s for our good. If there’s refining fire, uncomfortable times right now, I’m in a valley right now, it’s for my good. It’s needed to fulfill the promise, to see the promise fulfilled. It’s needed to walk in my calling. It’s spiritually foolish to complain to God one word! I don’t complain to God. The closest I’ve gotten to complaining to God in the past eight years when my eyes opened up like I described to you, for example, one of the big ways my eyes opened up as I shared with you going to my spiritual fathers church, the closest I’ve come to complaining which I don’t see as complaining is go JESUS! Like, great, no, I don’t want this. I don’t want to wait longer. Really God is how I felt in my heart but it was just JESUS! That’s the closest I got to complaining truthfully and I don’t consider it complaining but I shocked myself after that. I was like woah. But I immediately said, thank you Lord, I trust you. Your ways are best, just give me the grace to handle this. Give me the grace to be patient, Lord. Help me, I need your strength. I need your strength to have contentment here. 

I’ve grasped this, to obey God is to be spiritually mature, to not be a baby, to not be a victim, to not play dumb when God in His grace has revealed you the truth! God is good! God is faithful! God's ways are best! He knows better than us! Get this in you. There’s no need to complain, no need to. It doesn’t do anything but hinder your growth. It doesn’t do anything but open up the door to the devil as he hears you speaking in his frequency of negativity in the spiritual realm. 

Get this in your mind! How to show love to God, how to be obedient to God is to grow up. Choose to be spiritually mature! Choose to walk in the truth God revealed to you! Choose to be a revival warrior! Choose to put on your armor of God!! Pick up the shield of faith! Take up the sword of the spirit! 

ACTION WORDS HERE! It’s an action! It’s an action, it’s a choice to put on the armor of God. It’s a choice to obey God, to reject the devil, to renew your mind to the truth. To speak only words of life, it’s a choice. Connect this in your head that this is obedience to God, this is showing God love. This is what God equates as love, is being spiritually mature! 

The third main area of obedience to God is loving people. So number one, your relationship with God, spending time with God is obedience. Number two, being spiritually mature. And number three, loving people. Only three, that you need to think about. But you should renew your mind with these three every day. I want to love God today. How do I love God? - Spend time with Him. Be spiritually mature, make that choice to renew your mind and walk in the truth and walk in authority over the devil. And make the choice to praise God in every circumstance and thank Him. And number three, love people. This should be in your mind every day. This should be your intention every day. There will be opportunities to do all three of these things every single day. 

And if you don’t interact with people on one day, because that can happen - maybe you work from home, maybe you live at home - how do you love people then? 

DO THE WORK OF GOD! Doing the work of God is just as important as showing love to someone one on one. Just as important! How do I do the work of God? - Use your social media, share the good news! Share the videos. There’s tons of videos you can share. You can love people every single day! With ease! Quickly!

When you make this intention to love people every day, loving people out of obedience - I know I have to love people today, so how can I love people today? - as you make that intention, the Holy Spirit will reveal to you, you will hear His voice guiding you of how to love people and how to serve Him.

This is also another important way to love people, is to renew your mind with this importance of loving people. Loving people by serving God in His work is the most urgent pressing matter in the entire world. Because you do not know whose day is their last day on this earth. 

How many people are in this world? - I don’t even know. But billions, right?! 

Eight billion?

We can google this later, how many people pass away today. They have the statistics.

7,000 an hour?! 

7,000 people an hour. So we are here and there’s going to be almost 20,000 people that will pass away while we are here. And where are they going to go? Heaven or hell? 

We all play a part on this earth. We all have a chance to help lead people to heaven, to Jesus. You are THAT important! What you do is THAT important, is THAT valuable! So we don’t know who out there in those few hours that we’re here, will pass away. But we absolutely could reach them. Right now! Even if it is time for them to go right now, if this is just God’s time for them, they could receive Jesus right now through the screen. (Looking at the camera) And I pray that you will receive Jesus right now if this is you. Give your life to Him now. Surrender to Him. Just say, “I choose you Jesus. I give my life to you, Jesus. I surrender to you, Jesus.” And you will become saved.

But when you think about the impact that we have here at Five-Fold Church, it’s a big impact. It’s not just me that has an impact. There are about two million followers and subscribers on all of the social media pages, almost one million on my YouTube page alone. And that’s just people who have chosen to hit the button Follow/ Subscribe. But there are millions out there, I don’t know the exact number, millions, there could be billions, who will see a video of 5F Church show up on their page. It’s actually wild to think about. If millions and millions are being reached through this work of God and it’s new people each day that have never seen it before; some of these people, their last day on this earth might be tomorrow. Today. Might be two days later. And Jesus could save them through us! Just in time! 

Do you see the urgency that we have a heart for souls? Because it is through us that God reaches people. That’s the MAIN way that people become saved. 

Every one of you - I believe for every one of you God used at least one person, where they were a vessel of God. Is that true for anybody? That at least one person was a vessel of God that led you, was a seed planted that led you to believe and give your life to Jesus? Raise your hand if that’s you. Yes, it’s everybody! Everybody! 

Whether you realize it or not, it’s been everybody. Maybe you don’t even remember, maybe you’re like no, that’s not me. Well you probably flipped past the channel one day, someone preaching on tv just for a second and God planted a seed through it. Somebody you didn’t know was a Christian showed you the love of God and it planted a seed, you don’t even know! But there was a light in them that led you ultimately to Jesus. 

This is eternity we’re talking about. Eternity. People will go to heaven or hell and we have the choice to lead people to heaven or hell. We have the choice! We can literally lead people to Jesus, lead people to an eternity in heaven by LOVING them, by simply loving them, by loving them by serving God. Not just life after death, but so many are in hell on earth RIGHT NOW. God doesn’t want them to be bound by the devil anymore, oppressed by demons anymore, sick. He wants to heal them and deliver them. They can receive Jesus’s power upon their life right now if you, if we, would love people, have a heart for these souls! Serve God so He can expand His work and reach more people. 

This is something you should be renewing your mind every day and renewing your mind more when you’re having a day where you’re feeling selfish. You need to renew your mind how serious and urgent this is, to save people, to be a vessel of God that can lead them into salvation and freedom and healing. 

As you’re doing the work of God, as you’re serving in whatever way, renew your mind, as I’m doing this, more people will be saved. More people will be saved! Absolutely, 100% because I am doing this. Because I’m doing this work of God, more people will be saved, will come into the kingdom, will go to heaven when they die, will no longer be living in torment on this earth! That’s powerful! 

So many of you have been missing this revelation and you’re wondering why it feels so hard to serve God! Just renew your mind! This will give you great compassion and motivation and zeal to serve God, to love people! 

Exodus 4:1-7, 10-12

But Moses protested again, “What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The Lord never appeared to you? 

Okay, some context before I go on with this scripture. God has just spoken to Moses, I’m calling you to be a mouthpiece of me. I’m calling you to lead my children out of Egypt, out of bondage and take them to the promised land. And so Moses is now saying to God: 

“What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The Lord never appeared to you’?” Then the Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied. “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back. Then the Lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand. “Perform this sign,” the Lord told him. “Then they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—really has appeared to you.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease. “Now put your hand back into your cloak,” the Lord said. So Moses put his hand back in, and when he took it out again, it was as healthy as the rest of his body. 

Verse 10:

But Moses pleaded with the Lord, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.” Then the Lord asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.”

Beginning with the first part of the scripture, Moses is basically saying, how can I do what you’ve called me to do on this earth? How can I be this mouthpiece of you and lead your people? How can I lead your people into freedom and salvation? How can I? How? Me? What can I do? I’m just little ol’ me. And I can’t even talk well. 

But God says, what is in your hand? There was a Shepherd's staff in his hand. Now, he was a Shepard. God had given him the ability, gifting, to be a Shepard. And so that same ability, that same provision of the staff that he had in his hand is what God asked Him to use in obedience to God, to throw down and God did miracles, signs upon what was in his hand. So he was a Shepard, this was an ability God gave him, as we all have different abilities, and so that Shepard’s staff represents the ability that Moses was given by God, something God had put in his hands. He used it in obedience, he offered it to God. He offered this to God and when he offered it to God, doing what God had asked him to do, it became supernatural. It became miraculous. 

So using this staff how he wanted to do it, peaceful, chill, life as a Shepard, no persecution, no resistance, NOTHING MIRACULOUS. But that same ability used for God's kingdom, to love people, to serve Him in His work, BECAME MIRACULOUS. This is how it is in the kingdom for everything that God has given you, every ability, every seed God's given you, every gifting. You can use these things in the world, you can use these things for your own selfish gain and nothing supernatural will happen. You use those same exact things now for the kingdom of God and God does miracles upon them! God leads people into salvation, leads them to be set free and healed through these things He’s given you when you use them in obedience to God. 

I want to give you some examples of this. 

Skills. Let’s talk about skills. 

I had edited one video in my life at the time of when I first received the calling from God to be an Apostle. I figured out iMovie on my own. I made a little traveling video, super basic. I was very, extremely amateur editor, just taught myself the most basic editing skills. 

Fast forward to a couple years or so after receiving the prophecy over my life and the prophecy that revival was now, my spiritual father prophesied to me and he said, the way you’re going to see this word come to pass and revival break out is by one minute videos. I see people being drawn to one minute videos so you need to put out one minute videos and keep going like how the Israelites went around the walls of Jericho until God makes the walls come down. Don’t give up. Don't stop short. 

This was a moment that God was saying, you have a staff in your hand. You have the ability, very amateur, but it’s something. You have a brain that you can teach yourself also, new silks. Use what’s in your hand! So I did. I started editing myself. Our church was very tiny, and did not have anyone else who could edit. I started editing. I started putting out videos. For years, these videos would not increase in views, following did not increase. They had just a tiny handful of views. But, a day and a half before my 30th birthday, it was December 2020, God gave me this vision to put a montage video of how He had moved in power the past year. I put out this 59 second video on TikTok and it went super viral. It reached one million views a day and a half later on my 30th birthday and there were thousands of comments where people testified of miracles they’d received while watching the video. People testifying they were healed while watching. They had COVID symptoms and they went away. They had pain, it went away. They had anxiety, they felt something left them and now they feel peace, etc. Atheists saying, I felt power touch me when I watched this. 

That video was the beginnings of the walls of Jericho coming down. That video was the beginning of this revival breaking out to where we are now. It came from God saying to me, use what’s in your hand. That was my Shepard staff. I had the prophetic direction just like Moses was given the prophetic direction specifically to do that sign with what’s in his hand, to throw it down and God would make it a sign. So I threw down the editing skills, bare minimum editing skills, and I kept going and God breathed upon it in His perfect timing and signs, wonders, and miracles happened through that obedience! If I edited videos on my own in the world, that wouldn’t have happened. But doing it for God's kingdom, loving people, made so many miracles happen, led to revival breaking out! Glory to God! 

What about your abilities? What about your giftings, your weaknesses that are just abilities? I taught more on this, on “Your Divine Assignment” from a couple weeks ago, so you can watch that video more, but, what are your abilities that God is asking you to use and He’ll do miracles through them! He’ll lead many people into salvation and be set free through them. Let God have them! Start using them! 

This is abilities, now I want to talk about influence. 

You all have influence. Even if it’s five people, ten people, that’s great influence! Some of you have much more. Some of you out in the world watching now have a huge influence God has entrusted you with, many people, many followers, thousands of followers, millions of followers. God did not give you that for you to hoard and use for your own gain, to use for you to have a good reputation. He gave you the influence for His kingdom! 

Five-Fold Church started with about 20 people in the first year. We decreased each year for four years. 20 to 15 to 10 to 5 to 2 when COVID hit. Then COVID hit, there was Jeanntal and I. Many times it was just Jeanntal and I. Then there would be a couple people that would stumble in the park. There’d be 5, there’d be 10, there’d be 20, there’d be 5, there’d be 3, there’d be 2. It varied each week. When that video went viral, people started trickling in more, week by week because word started to spread. And then the first deliverance took place because of that video going viral. This woman saw another video, in Massachusetts, she flew to LA to encounter Jesus at 5F and God delivered her from a demon and that video went viral. That led to people flocking in. It led to videos going so viral. Suddenly there were all these people, these ministers who operated in deliverance, I never even saw anyone operate in deliverance until my spiritual father, in real deliverance! I saw someone that I thought was deliverance but real deliverance until I saw my spiritual father! And so all of a sudden there’s these people who operate in deliverance, have deliverance ministries in America, I didn’t even know about, they’re reaching out to me saying, we support you! Cheering me on. I was shocked. And one of them, well before I share that, we started growing, we got to like 20 something people when that woman came that was the first demon casted out, first deliverance that Jesus did. We were 20 something then we grew each week. We had like 30 the next week then like 40 something the next week then like 50 something. About two months passed, and we grew to 80 people. That was the most we’ve ever had. Just months prior there was one person in the amphitheater in the park and they left in the middle of the sermon. And now we’ve grown to 80 and then one of the deliverance ministers that reached out in support, he invited me to be on his podcast and he had many followers! 

I did the interview on the podcast and then after, at the end of the podcast, he said to everyone watching, you all should go to this service, go to a service on Sunday, this is revival. You all should go and encounter God's power and be a part of this. You all should go, those of you that are in Southern California or beyond. He used his influence to love people, to serve God. I was so shocked at the power of influence because that Sunday, 300 people showed up and the amphitheater was overflowing. I know a big part of that was because there was this Shepard staff being used by this man of giving what God had given him to love people, really love people, not for selfish gain. Not like we’re competing, wanting to hoard people to yourself but really loving people. 

Can you stand up if you came here because of that video? 

There’s some people who are here today, that’s how they discovered and they’ve been planted ever since and they’ve been delivered and transformed, glory to God! There’s been so many people online who that’s their story too. But from there, we just kept growing. From there hundreds came. Before that day it wasn't even 100. From that day, it was hundreds always, every Sunday in person and then expanding online so much. But I share to you, the POWER OF INFLUENCE that God has given! It shocked me when someone will actually use, because it’s a choice how you use your influence. But if you will love people with your influence, really love people, if you see that people need freedom and you see freedom happening somewhere, tell the people you influence, your followers about where they can be free! That’s loving people. That’s loving God. You have your own influences on social media, you should be using it completely for God.

Another way that we can be loving people through our obedience, this is another staff in your hand, that God will ask you to use, is sharing your testimony. 

I believe that everyone of you who have shared a testimony, I believe that between one and thousands of people have come into salvation, been set free, were transformed by God’s power, because of your testimony. Because every single week, people are testifying here of miracles they have received, and many of them it’s because of videos they saw, testimonies shared. Others actually share, ”I had faith because I heard this person’s testimony.” “I came and positioned myself where God’s power is because I heard this testimony.” So that’s why I say, I believe with all my heart, that every single one of you that have shared your testimony, especially if you have shared it on social media, if you have allowed 5F Church to share it for example, you’ve reached way more than one person. But it’s not just that you’ve reached them, I mean I am telling you, you’ve contributed to between one and thousands of people, maybe millions some of you, you’ve contributed to one to thousands or millions being saved healed, set free, equipped to be who God called them to be, ISN’T THAT POWERFUL! Your testimony is your staff. God is doing such wonders through your testimony, keep sharing, keep spreading the flyers, keep sharing the books. I’m so proud of all of you revival warriors here and around the world. I’m seeing you share the flyers, share the Unlock Your Deliverance books to people all over the place, going out and talking to people, handing flyers to them. This is loving people, this is loving God, and God is using every single seed planted. I’m telling you, some of those people that you met personally, you handed them a flyer, you shared your testimony, you gave them a book, and other people you didn't see but you left it somewhere, I’m telling you, that many are saved healed and delivered, they will be, because of that act of obedience, I know with all my heart. So keep going with fire and compassion for God’s people!

The last staff that I will mention now, the staff that God is calling you to use and He will do miracles through is by serving in the work of God, and by sowing, sowing financially. 

When we were small, when our church was small, the people coming to the church, they would give, and my parents, I would ask my parents if they could give every week for threeish years. My parents gave, they gave more than anyone, every single week, for three years, because there wasn’t enough coming in, and I am so grateful to them. But, because they were used by God in this way, the people that were there at that church, including Jeanntal, Jeanntal’s parents too, those sheep were able to be fed. They were able to be touched. And what God was doing was able to grow to a point where God was ready for it to go viral and revival to break out. Because my parents and those at the church at that time faithfully gave, the work of God could keep going forth and blossom to this global revival we are seeing now. How powerful those seeds are in those small beginnings. How powerful those seeds from the people in the church at that time and my parents. How powerful those seeds were! They were laying the bricks of the foundation of this global revival. We wouldn’t be there without those seeds, without those bricks. And then about four years later revival broke out. 

Ok, so first I want to say, I counted it up, I think there has been about 156 Sunday services at 5F Church before revival broke out, around there, 156 we will say around there. So through that my parents and those people that were giving at the time, our small group of the congregation, that was a lot of Sunday’s they were sowing. But look at the power of that, look what it led to. Now, ever since then, now it has been four years since revival has broke out, and I counted there has been about 208 Sunday services where many of you, and some in the past, and those of you watching online, have sowed faithfully, and served, and have made the work of God possible for all of those Sunday’s. And all of those Sunday’s it was revival, God healed and delivered and equipped His people every single Sunday! So that staff in your hand of sowing and serving, God did many wonders upon them every single Sunday! And there has been about 150 Revival is Now events and conferences ever since 2021, about 150, around the world, and at every single one of them, so many people have been delivered, healed, given their lives to Jesus, been set on fire for Jesus, received impartation like the testimony we shared, and now they are spreading revival. Viktor, that first gentleman we saw on the testimony from Sweden, he didn’t even know Jesus. He came to a Revival is Now event, he met Jesus there, Jesus delivered him there of depression and other things, addiction, and set him on fire. Now he is walking in his calling, received impartation of anointing, and is spreading revival in Sweden and beyond. 

Look at how impactful and powerful just one Revival is Now event is. And about 140 of the 150 events, they were completely sponsored by a person, by about 140 different people. Some of them are here now, like in Redlands, some of them is our 5F family from around the world. They paid for the entire event. They paid for the travel. They paid for everything, all the many different things that go into these events. There are so many different costs, and so I didn’t do the exact math, but I counted and I realized that last year and this year’s when 5F started to host their own events by and large, we did a couple in past years, just a couple. A couple were in parks, but before then, every single one, it was people paying for it all, because they were loving people, they were wanting to see people healed and delivered in their city, in their nation - and saved. That’s 140 people each giving thousands, so that these events could take place, and many people could encounter Jesus. I just want to share how powerful that is. Isn’t that powerful! Do you see how that’s loving people?  

I think most people who are planted now, they came to either 5F Church in person or an event. That was because people loved them, loved strangers. There is 5F Church family, they have funded entire Revival is Now events. Last year, some of the Revival is Now events, they were funded completely by people who were planted in a different city that they don’t even live in, or a different nation. This is the love that God is calling you to have for His people, for people you don’t even know. God will do miracles, signs, and wonders upon what you use in your hand.

Philippians 4:8-9 NLT

8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

Paul is saying here everything you heard and saw me doing, loving people, serving them, being about the father’s business, put into practice. In this scripture it is saying to meditate on good things - pure things. Some of the things you need to be meditating on is - loving people. You need to be meditating on the salvation of souls, for people to be free. Meditate. That’s how you’ll be able to love people more, and serve God in a higher way that He is calling you to. Meditate. Renew your mind of God’s heart for His people.