This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA, on September 21, 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. 

I’m sharing a message today called “A Faith That Refuses to Quit,” and that’s, by the grace of God, been my story. 

God has graciously given me a faith that refuses to quit. Many know my story, maybe some of you do not though. There was a process. There was a journey to get to where we are now, where we have people planted from 165 nations around the world at 5F Church. To get to the place now, where God has brought revival events to 19 nations now, where He has healed, delivered, saved, and set on fire thousands of people around the world. Glory to God! Where God is moving in power and doing so many shocking miracles through the screen and here in person. It’s been a journey to get to the place where we have 46 small groups and small group leaders with precious hearts, that have been equipped, that have grown, and are ready to be leaders and spread this revival where they are at. 

It’s been a journey to get to the place where we have a theater in downtown LA that’s full, glory to God. It’s been a journey for me to feel comfortable in my own skin as an apostle, to be who God has called me to be. It’s been a journey. It was a journey of years where it looked like the opposite of all this. It looked like the opposite of growth, the opposite of miracles happening everywhere and testimonies everywhere, the opposite of feeling blessed in my calling and comfortable. 

We were decreasing in numbers at the church for years. God called me to start the church nine months after receiving the prophecy. It started as worship nights on a mountaintop, and we decreased from twenty in the first year, to fifteen the next year, to ten the next year, to five the next year, then COVID hit–the cherry on top. And we couldn't have services inside anymore, so we had to go outside. Sometimes there were just the two of us, Jeanntal and I, at times. There was once a time, where I was ministering after four years of feeling like going backwards, the church decreasing and we were there in one hundred degree weather, being obedient to God despite the weather. We had to have church outside, it was September. One person showed up and they left in the middle of the message. 

There were a lot of trying times, trials upon trials to get here. It didn’t happen overnight. There was a process. There was a journey. And there was a choice to be made to not give up, but to instead persevere and endure because believing God and obeying God is the most important thing in this world. And so there had to be that choice, I had to make that choice to keep going day after day, week after week, year after year.  

On top of the church not growing, but getting smaller and smaller every year, it was prophesied over me that “God was going to use me mightily and do shocking miracles through me”. Despite the church decreasing year after year I saw God move in the anointing. People would be baptized in the Holy Spirit. People would be touched by prophetic words. But, there was hardly any testimonies of miracles, of healings, of deliverances. But God spoke to me the prophetic word that was spoken to me by my spiritual father, “God is going to do many shocking miracles through you” and years later I only heard two testimonies of a healing of any kind taking place, after ministering multiple times a week for four years. 

My spiritual father prophesied in 2017, “Revival is Now for America. It’s going to start in LA, it’s going to spread across the whole nation, and it’s going to spread across the whole world.” He prophesied that a year after I received the prophecy that I was called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ. And so I’m expecting to see revival break out like he spoke, like he prophesied, and it looked like the opposite. 

On top of that, public speaking was my biggest fear and weakness, and I had no idea how to preach. I would see other people have this revelation, I’m going to Bible studies and people would have this revelation. I wouldn’t have anything to say, really. I was in awe of how ministers and pastors had this revelation, and on top of that they had fire to preach, like, “Oh, you guys need to hear this word of God!” I was in awe of that, that did not happen to me, naturally. I naturally didn't feel like I was receiving revelation of the word of God, and I naturally didn't have a fire to preach. I had a fire for people to encounter Jesus, but not through me. I wanted to lead them to where people are being touched by God, at churches where people are being touched by God, which were few. 

And so, I preached out of obedience, for years, and it wasn’t until revival broke out in 2021 that I finally found I could be comfortable in my own skin to be an apostle. It is finally where I didn’t feel insecure as I preached. Four years of it being uncomfortable, of it feeling like I’m going backwards. Four years of feeling disappointment, not in God, but in the expectations I had set up. That was the journey to get here. 

It was a journey of years, but you know what? Every story in the Bible, every hero of faith that we have in the Bible, they went through this same kind of journey, didn’t they? They went through this same kind of journey of being very uncomfortable, of having to choose God’s will instead of their own, of having to go through trial after trial, like they never experienced until they stepped into their calling. People trying to kill them sometimes, people making up lies about them sometimes, people doing everything in their might to stop them from being who God called them to be. These are the stories we have in the Bible. But, we see that they chose to believe in God, trust God, and they chose to keep obeying Him, and that obedience led to perseverance. That obedience led to perseverance and endurance, which led them to overcome, see the victories of God, see the promises fulfilled in God’s perfect timing. And when that happens, we see blessings, we see miracles, we see awe and wonder, the goodness of God, the faithfulness of God, revealed in a way that shocks us to this day when we read their stories. 

It amazes me reading the story in the Bible of David, how he was hunted for many years by Saul because of jealousy. He was not just hunting him to put him in prison, he was hunting him to kill him. Saul had armies that were trying to find David in caves, trying to find him to kill him, and God allowed this to happen for years. But he chose to keep trusting God, trusting the prophecy that Prophet Samuel prophesied to him about his calling, that he would become an anointed king to do the Lord’s work. 

He kept trusting God even though it was hard, even though it was uncomfortable. And in God’s perfect timing, as years passed, after he endured, God started bringing people alongside David. God started bringing soldiers, warriors to stand with David. God started bringing thousands of people there to stand beside David. And that’s what led him to be king, because an army got behind him and they could see spiritually the truth: David was truly anointed king, and they wanted God’s will to be done, and David had a pure heart that could lead them well. He was a man after God’s heart. (Acts 13:22, 1 Samuel 13:14) And so God supernaturally brought many people, many warriors. Many thousands of warriors just came and stood with David and fought with David until there was victory, until the day that God placed David as king and it was over. The hiding in caves was over one day in God’s perfect timing. The running away, hiding, the waiting, it was over, it passed. And we see the goodness of God, the faithfulness of God to bring about that promise in David’s life. 

It leaves me in awe and wonder to read that Bible story today. How about you? It fills me with faith, it fills me with just awe of our God, of how great He is, of how faithful He is to move mountains, to do wonders, to make sure His promises are fulfilled, defeating every giant, every enemy that comes in the way. 

Romans 5:3-5 AMP

[with joy] let us exult (exult means triumphant elation or jubilation) in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardships (distress, pressure, trouble,) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation]. Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us, because God’s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

This says that we should have joy when we go through hard things, when we go through trials. What? But that’s the opposite of how you feel. What? How does this make sense? Whenever you share with somebody things you’re going through, they do the opposite of joy, they have pity. “Oh I’m sorry, we’ll pray for that to go away.” Sometimes God wants it there. Sometimes we are supposed to have joy for this trial and tribulation. 

People could have pity on me, just being faithful, just being obedient, receiving the prophecy. Four years later the church dwindles down to two people. People could feel sorry for me. People could think, “what is going on?” Trying to figure this out, “this doesn’t make sense, how could God not bless her and bring increase because she’s being faithful.” 

That’s the natural reaction when you see trials and tribulations, “That’s not God, we have to pray for this to go away.” But we are supposed to have joy in sufferings and hardships. And it tells us why: have joy because the hardship, the distress, the pressure, the trouble produces patient endurance. It forms in you the ability to have patience and to endure. And that quality is needed to have spiritual maturity, the character of Christ. To be patient. To persevere. To be strong. To keep trusting in God and keep obeying Him and keep doing what He’s telling you to do no matter what. That character in you is needed. 

How does that character come? It comes from sufferings and hardships, the distress, pressure, and trouble. That produces the patient endurance which is that spiritual maturity and proven character. And as you have this spiritual maturity now, because you have gone through these hard things, it produces hope. 

It makes you more spiritual to have more hope. Because as you keep obeying God through the hardships, you find that He still blesses you. He’s still with you. He still gives you peace. He still gives you joy. And as you obey God always, it opens up your spiritual eyes more. You will experience more of God’s presence. You will experience more of God’s nearness when you obey God.

The pure in heart shall see God. (Matthew 5:8) So as you obey God, that means there’s purity in your heart that is leading you to obey. That purity of obeying God no matter what, time and time again, makes you see God more, and makes your spiritual eyes open up more. And when that happens hope grows, faith grows. And we need hope to see the promises of God fulfilled. 

So number one, how to not give up but persevere always, is to renew your mind that when you face hardships and sufferings, you need to renew your mind that if you are truly surrendered to God, being obedient to God, God is allowing this. He’s allowing this because it’s going to produce patient endurance in you that you need. 

God wants you to be a leader. It was the leaders, the world changers, that made it in the Bible. There’s a lot of people back then that would go to church, a lot of people that believed in God from Old Testament to New Testament times, but only some stories are included. Leaders. Leaders of the faith. People that would obey God and go through the hard things and come out on the other side to reveal how mighty our God is. How mighty, faithful, triumphant, and victorious our God is. 

That’s what happens when you read every Bible story: You stand in awe! When you read from beginning to end of every Bible character, you stand in awe of God’s mighty power, the victory, His faithfulness. That’s what you get through the Bible. Right? When you read the Bible stories, you read the story and you’re like, “Whoa. God is so much more powerful than the devil.” Look at the devil trying to use Saul, look at the devil trying to use the Pharisees, look at the devil trying to use Goliath, look at the devil trying to use Joseph’s brothers, and the woman that accused Joseph of trying to sleep with her. You see God come through and bring them victory despite this intense evil coming towards them. Every time you see God bring victory, vindication. You see, the promises are fulfilled every time. 

When you read the Bible, your faith increases, but it increases because you are looking at what God has done in a real person's life, when they have chosen to obey God and surrender their life to Him. 

That’s what makes the Bible so powerful. It’s living! These are real people who lived, like you are living today. And you are going through trials today, but those people went through trials back then in their day. And God saw them through. God helped them overcome and brought them victory every time. That’s why your faith is increased. Most of the times that your faith is going to be increased when you read the Bible, is when you are reading stories of real people, that were not angels, but human beings like you and me. That’s the power of a life laid down to Jesus. That’s the power of being a leader for Jesus. That’s the power of obeying God even through the hard things. You keep obeying Him. He transforms you to be a leader who can lead to many people’s lives coming to Jesus and having faith in Jesus and not giving up and being able to fulfill their purpose on this earth, because you are a modern day Bible story.

So, we have JOY now. There is not a single believers’ life in the past, present time, including you and in the future, who is exempt from going through hardships and suffering. There’s not a single believer who has ever been and who ever will be exempt from fighting in the spiritual realm, from coming up against attacks from the devil. And no matter what, in the past, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the most anointed ones were the biggest threat to the devil and so therefore he tried to take them down. He put his biggest efforts towards the most anointed ones from Old Testament to New Testament. That continues to be the same today and will continue to be the same when we are long gone and in heaven with Jesus. Nobody is exempt. No anointed servant of God is exempt from going through trials and attacks from the devil that God allows to form patient endurance, to mold our character, to refine us to be more like Him, to be these examples for many people in the world of how good our God is, how faithful our God is, how mighty our God is, how victorious our God is. That’s how it is in life.

We should read the Bible and you should have your eyes opened up. This is how it works. This is the life we live in: The devil attacks and God allows some of the attacks as a refining fire. But many people don’t see things that way. They just see it one-sided. The devil is attacking, (whining), “Ohhh, God, take away these attacks. What’s happening? Woe is me!”, when you are supposed to be rejoicing. God is allowing it.

I’m telling you, I say this a lot, but this is one of the most powerful things you can know that will create so much peace in you and strength and joy. When you are truly surrendered to God, obedient to God, anything bad that’s happening in life, any suffering, any hardship, any trouble, God is allowing it for your good.

If people are not surrendered and they open up doors, that’s different. The devil is attacking unnecessarily. Now you are having so many attacks, that you are not even able to experience peace and joy. Where when you are keeping doors shut to the devil, attacks come from time to time, God allows those attacks for your good, but there is grace upon you to have peace and joy and to not be taken down by the storms. You won’t be slowed down by the storms, but you’ll be able to keep going and be strong for the Lord. You will keep doing the work of God and keep your peace and joy.

You have to renew your mind, whenever you are going through hard things, that God is building you to be a leader that can lead many to Jesus. In order for you to be a leader that can lead many to Jesus, you have to overcome trials. You have to be stretched. That’s the only way you can really be a leader and really be effective in the kingdom of God to lead many to Jesus.

This is what I had in my heart through those hard times, through those years: God gave me the grace to give me this understanding that I am sharing with you now. I would renew my mind of the story of Joseph and how it felt like he was going backwards, but he was getting closer and closer to the promised land. That was the reality, when he was thrown in the pit, when he was sold into slavery, when he went into prison. That looks like he is going backwards. Not just staying stagnant, instead of going closer to the promised land, but it looks like he is going backwards. So, I would renew my mind with that story in the Bible all the time. I would renew my mind with this truth: “This is going to be a powerful testimony some day that is going to bless a lot of people. It is going to increase faith in a lot of people. It is going to lead a lot of people to Jesus. It is going to open their eyes to see how faithful our God is.” 

So, what would help me persevere is, I would renew my mind to that truth: “I want people to see how good God is. I want people to see how faithful God is. I want people to see how victorious God is.”, that you don’t have to be afraid of the devil, that you don’t have to be afraid of Goliaths coming up against you. If you want that, then you shouldn't be complaining about trials. You shouldn’t be complaining about a Goliath that comes before you, because you need to come up against Goliath and overcome for people to see the goodness and faithfulness and victory of God through your life. 

You can say, “God is good! I’m blessed!”, and a person can be like, “Yeah, amen. I’m encouraged 1%.” But when you tell someone what you have been through, when you show someone where God has brought you from, the enemies that came up against you and how God brought you victory every time, that person’s eyes will open up in the spiritual realm and their faith will be increased 100%. That’s the effect you can have. 

Do you want to have a greater effect and lead more people to Jesus, so that people can see just how good and faithful our God is?

Hebrews 10:35

So, do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you. Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that He has promised.

This is why you need to never give up, because then you won’t receive the promises and you won’t please God. This is why you need to persevere, so you can be in God’s will and you will see the promises fulfilled. Simple.

People have asked me before, “Did you ever think about giving up?” And I told them, “No.”

That thought never even crossed my mind. I never had a temptation. I never wanted to. I never was like, ”Oh, I want to do this, but I can’t. I want to give up. I want to start doing my music again, but I can’t.” It was not even that. You know, when the angel appeared to Mary and told her, “You are called to carry the Messiah”, she said, “I am a servant of the Lord. Let God’s will be done in my life.” Let God’s will be done. Very simple. Servant-hearted. So humble. Like, “I don’t have a say in this. I want God’s will to be done.” Simple. There’s no alternative. There’s no other option. 

By God’s grace He helped me to have that kind of heart. That’s a big key of how I never gave up. To me that was never an option, that was never an alternative. That was hell. To not be in God’s will, to not be pleasing Him, that’s hell. That’s hell on earth and it could lead to hell in eternity. But just even to take a step out of God’s will once in a while, because it feels more comfortable, wasn’t an option for me. And I would never even utter words, like, “I really don’t like to preach. I really feel like I’m a bad preacher. I really don’t want to go to church and preach today. I really don’t know how this is going to work. This doesn’t seem to be working. We are getting smaller and smaller each year.” I would feel these things but I wouldn't utter words like this even to one person, not even to my parents. I wouldn't say it to my spiritual father as a way for him to encourage me. No! I knew that would be speaking words of death over myself. I knew that would be displeasing to God, because I knew that wasn’t true. What I mean is, God called me to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ. God said, these things will happen. That’s that!

If I feel like I’m not good enough, I’m believing a lie of the devil. I know that’s not true. I feel it, but I know it’s not true. I knew this. So I knew, if I confessed things like this, it is opening the door to the devil and it is speaking lies and it is disrespectful to God, because I know better! 

That’s why I never even had thoughts about giving up, even in the really hard times. Even when we dwindled down to two people and one person left in the middle of the message. I never even had that thought, because the door was shut. That’s the power of your words! If I had started complaining even a little bit, even to just one person, even to just my parents, the devil would hear it. The devil hears you speaking on his frequency. When you speak negative words, it’s like a radio. Now these words can be heard. He can’t be spying on you, he is not omnipresent. But when you go to his frequency, he can hear it and then send specific attacks, knowing exactly how to attack you.

I’m not exaggerating. I literally never complained or spoke doubt or spoke, “I wish I could just not do this. I wish this wasn’t my calling.” I never spoke that! So, a thought never even came to my mind that said, “Give up.” To me it was non-negotiable. There was no other option. “I must be in God’s will!” 

In the valleys, in the wilderness, in the trials, that’s God’s will. We want the mountain top time, but it’s valley time sometimes. And in the valley time, that’s God’s will. There is no other place to be!

It shouldn’t exist in your mind. You should have that fear of God in your heart that you literally cannot go anywhere else but God’s will. Absolutely not! That’s like stepping into hell! It’s like putting your foot in the fire of hell. You should have that fear of God, that seriousness in your heart. And it’s the truth, because you are dabbling if you do that. If you step out of God’s will, you are opening up doors to the devil.

But in God’s will is peace, joy, and abundant life. Through all those trials I went through, I never had depression. I never had anxiety. I never had suicidal thoughts. I had nothing but peace and joy. I was in discomfort and there was suffering, as it talks about. But I had peace and joy through the suffering. Because Jesus gives you supernatural peace that doesn’t make sense if you go through really hard things. It doesn’t feel good. Like stubbing your toe doesn’t feel good, but you still have peace. The pain goes away after a second. That’s how it is with God, rather than being in agonizing pain every second. That’s our suffering through Christ, it’s like stubbing your toe. It stings at first, but you keep your eyes on Jesus and that pain goes away. Fast.

James 1:12

God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Something I want you to know is: The blessings and rewards that God is ready to pour upon your life, after you endure, after you overcome these trials, are so great. They are beyond what you can imagine. They are greater than your wildest dreams. And not just the blessings and the rewards. Not just doors opening up and certain blessings and desires of your heart happening, but the blessing and reward of unexplainable peace and joy. That’s the greatest reward that comes. The more you obey God and overcome hard things, He makes you more like Him. The more you become like Him, the more full of peace and joy you are. 

When Jesus appeared to my spiritual father, he saw Jesus’ face. He saw Him from His waist up. And he said that He smiled as if everything was perfect in the world. Jesus did. The smile of Jesus was a joy he had never seen. That means the more we are obeying Jesus through hard things, the more like Him we become which means the more joy we will have and the more peace. And then, when other trials arise, it’s a whole different ball game. That’s what I have experienced. I am so much more relaxed, peaceful and joyful when trials come now, than I was a few years ago. But that’s the reward of persevering through the hard things. 

So, if you ever have a temptation to quit, know that the comfort and good feeling of quitting, that you think you’ll have, is not worth it. Know that the blessings and the rewards coming are so much greater than the comfort and happiness you think you’ll feel, when you quit and instead go after your desires and your dreams. The blessings and rewards are so great. God does not forget what you have gone through, what you have done for Him. He does not forget a second of it and He will reward you for all of it, GREATLY, in heaven AND on this earth. Hallelujah! 

There’s a principle of sacrifice. Anything great comes with sacrifice. It doesn’t come cheaply. 

I would speak to my spiritual father often. I would receive through him mightily. But, the first time that I saw God move in power through me at our church service years ago, and it never stopped since that day, it kept growing: the first time that happened was the Sunday after I traveled all the way to Tanzania to go to his church and I received impartation. 

God purposely does things this way where He leads us to make a sacrifice to get the greater things. Sacrifice in our obedience, our surrender, in every way. That includes waiting, persevering through hard things and making that kind of sacrifice, sowing financially in every way, that’s a sacrifice, your obedience and surrender to God. 

So, the great blessings now that God is pouring out in this revival, in my life, it has come because there was a cost. There is a cost to the anointing. These hardships, this suffering for years, was the cost I had to pay for this power of God to be moving like it is. You should know, you should count the cost and not expect things to come cheaply like through a microwave. You need to see the great promises of God that He's given you as valuable and treat it as such. 

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

I laid down the pursuit of my career, money, I put everything, my treasure, my life, my time, into what God called me to do, into this calling. As I did that, supernaturally, that became my treasure. Where you put your heart, your treasure will be. Now I can see the great value. I see the sneaky ways of the devil, how he uses people, how he has used Pharisees and stuff, and I received so much wisdom. My spiritual father has given me so much wisdom in just doing our part to not reveal God’s plans so the devil can try to come in and use people and hijack it. 

I have to walk in this wisdom with the devil’s strategies and plans, knowing them, knowing what he's trying to do and not giving him too much information, things like this. And I have so much care, so much seriousness to do everything I can to be perfectly in God’s will so that God can bring victory every time, the devil cannot get any inch. 

The way I handle situations, the way I shepherd and care for people, I do it with such seriousness, putting my heart into it. It’s not casual. The work of God is not casual. It’s VERY serious. We cannot be out of order. We must be loving to one another. We must be united. The work of God has to go forth. I have to minister no matter how I feel, no matter if I’m tired or what have you. The work of God must go forth and everything else comes second. I must deny myself. This seriousness has come from putting my heart to the work of God by sacrificing, going through hard things. That seriousness, that passion for God’s work, for God’s people, that doesn’t come automatically. That’s just not born in somebody. It comes through going through these hard things and choosing to continually give everything; sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice time, sacrifice your dreams, sacrifice your desires, sacrifice your feelings, sacrifice your money, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice it all. When you do that, God builds this heart in you, this passion, fire, seriousness for Jesus, for His people, for His kingdom. 

If you see that in me, if you see this seriousness, if you see this fire, passion, that’s how it happened. That’s why we should be joyful when we go through hardships, when God’s asking us to sacrifice, when God’s asking us to pay the cost of being a leader in the faith. 

Galatians 6:9 

So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.

At just the right time, in God’s perfect timing. 

You know, for years, for 4.5 years, every year that New Years would come, I would think to myself (speaking in a low, monotone voice), “I really hope this is the year that the promises come to pass. I really hope this is the year”. Instead of being like (cheerfully), “I don’t know if this is the year!”(Again in a low, monotone voice) “Uh, I really hope this is the year”. 

But now I look back and I’m so grateful that I waited as long as I did, that I waited 4.5 years, because I had no idea how many people needed my testimony. I have heard many of your testimonies of how my story, the God story in my life, has helped you so much, how it has helped your faith increase and how it has helped you trust God more. Glory to God! 

I had no idea. I knew it was going to help people. That’s what encouraged me when I was going through these hard things, but I had no idea the extent of how people needed it. 

So, I look back and I’m like, “What if this story was different? What if it was only one year of waiting?” It wouldn’t carry as much weight and power, would it? Or what if the church kept growing every year, maybe only by a few people instead of decreasing? It wouldn’t carry much power. It wouldn’t carry as much weight. It wouldn’t be as much of a Bible come alive story like David and Joseph and Jesus and the disciples, right? So now, when I share my testimony, my favorite parts to share are the long waiting and the decreasing in number. 

Every time I share my story, I have to say, “We started at twenty, then we went to fifteen, then we went to ten, then we went to five”, because I know they’ll be like, “Woah!” I know it’s shocking! I know it’ll help people. I know it’ll really encourage people, because most people haven’t experienced that kind of decrease. So what about their life? Now they can believe, “God will come through for me too”. 

Part of my favorite story is saying that, just because I know the weight of it is going to help people. I always make sure I share that part. I love sharing about that woman that left in the middle of the sermon because I just know it’s going to encourage somebody to not give up. Thank God that happened! Thank God that hard thing happened. I get so excited to share, “On my 30th birthday, January 1st, the video went viral and that was the walls of Jericho moment”. I get excited, because it shows the sovereignty of God. It shows how He had every detail mapped out. It shows that He was not late. It shows that all the world logically would say that “you’re doing something wrong, something’s not working”, but it shows that God was right on time. It shows that there was no need for me to stress or worry or wonder, “Do I need to do something different? Am I doing something wrong? Am I not doing things good enough? Am I not preaching good enough? Is that why this is happening?” It shows that God’s timing is perfect and is a longer timeline than yours usually. But He has a reason for doing it when He does it, for releasing the promise when He has it planned. 

We don’t see it in the past. We don't see it in the moment but we see it when we look back. 30 was the age that so many people in the Bible began what God called them to do. David became king at age 30. Joseph came to his position, finally the dream was fulfilled, at age 30. Jesus was age 30 when He started His ministry. Those promises were fulfilled in their lives at age 30 and they began what God called them to do, to minister, to do the work, at age 30. And so it was on my 30th birthday and it just shows, “Look how intentional God is! How perfect His timing is!” 

So now, I am so peaceful. I am so peaceful in the waiting. I mean, I’m in waiting again. Most of us will be in waiting in some area of our lives, because there’s always more promises to come. I'm waiting right now for other aspects in this revival, in my personal life, desires of my heart, promises that I’m waiting for God to fulfill still. I’m in waiting. I have no idea when it’s coming because that’s what God does so that He can build our faith. He doesn’t reveal everything. But I’m so peaceful. I’m so peaceful now. I’m so peaceful. Now my faith is built good. Now I have another testimony to share of more years, waiting for this when I thought it was going to come way sooner. “Yes! I see what God’s doing. Alright God you can keep going if you need to”. This is so different from back before I knew how perfect God’s ways were. When I was like (low, monotone voice), “Let it be this year please”. 

So, I want to share with you and I want you to see, this as a real life Bible come alive example today. I want your faith to be lifted because God wants you to rest and have peace and have joy in the waiting, in the turbulent times, in the storms. You can have this. There’s no need to worry. There’s no need to be impatient. There’s definitely no need to rush God. It’s a waste of time and it’s stupid. It doesn’t make sense and it’s a waste of time. Rest. Enjoy life with Jesus. Be a brighter light, because you have more peace and joy as you rest. 

I’m telling you, God knows what He’s doing. If you are in this revival, God sees you and He has things planned for you. He’s going to reveal certain things at His perfect timing for your life, just like He did for me. My spiritual father Prophet GeorDavie walks in this mighty anointing and God told Him that there would be an Elisha, like someone he would pass down the anointing, like Elijah to Elisha. And God told him this many years before it happened. And even though he’s a prophet, and it’s so shocking the details that prophets see for the sake of ministry for other people, but what’s so powerful about this is that God doesn’t reveal everything to everyone, even prophets for their own personal life, because He wants them to walk in faith too. And for them to be able to encourage people like me someday, with what they persevered, how they kept their faith. 

And so, he went to America several times for several years, wondering who this person was. Looking. Wondering. Because God told him, “This is going to happen. There is going to be someone”. So he literally ministered in America. He ministered in Minnesota. He ministered in Oakland. He ministered in Minnesota several times, for years. Wondering. And then one day in 2016, God told him, “You’re going to find the person this time, this trip, this time you minister”. He didn’t reveal the details until he saw me. And when he saw me, he said it was like a movie, like he could see the future, he knew. Glory to God! 

You see, at that time when God told him that, I was not even surrendered to God yet. I was in college. I was being lukewarm in some areas. But God had this plan. He had this plan where He was going to put in my heart, “move to LA.” I thought it was for acting. God used it. God had this plan, “I’m going to get her to go to this conference on September 18, 2016”. And I never struggled to get anywhere so much in my life. My GPS took me to three different places, it was supernatural, demonic supernatural. But I kept persevering, and didn't give up. And God got me there. 

In the same way, God sees you. He knows what He’s going to speak to you about your life, about your calling for example. He has already planned the day, just like He had it planned for me. He had that day planned out in His book years ago. September 18, 2016, He had that planned. He had it planned, “I’m going to send my prophet from Tanzania, East Africa, to LA”. He moved things. I had other things going on in my life at that time. He made a relationship end so that my calendar was clear and I was in need of seeking God, because I was so disappointed like never before. He made SURE that happened and my calendar was clear and I was in the position to seek God, so I would make it there. 

I’m telling you, you are no different than me. God sees you and He knows the exact plan for your life. He knows the exact day that He’s going to release a prophecy, it may be, or He’s going to release a word to you to catapult you into a certain calling of your life. He knows the day He’s going to bring the promises you’ve been waiting for all your life. He knows the day. He knows the day you’ll have your first child. He knows the day. He has it planned. And when you surrender to God, He’s going to get you there. He’s going to get you there. You don’t have to worry about a thing. He’s going to get you there. I’m telling you, I’ve seen Him do it in my life and He loves YOU and He cares about YOU and He has these great plans for YOU as He did for me. Hallelujah!