This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on August 17, 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.   

 God only allows things to happen when He intends it for good. The bible says - and God kept speaking this Scripture to me today over and over again - that man makes their plans, man makes his plans, woman makes her plans, people make their plans, but the Lord directs our steps!

The Lord has directed our steps today. I know that for one, the reason why we are here today is, people are going to be baptized today that need to be baptized today. There are people that God knows, it’s there time - today is the day! And it is going to be so powerful. It is going to be so miraculous what happens, when you go in the water - those of you that are going to be baptized. It’s time to shed your past self, the way the devil has been hunting you with your past, the way these bombarding thoughts have been coming up of your past - they are going to be left in the water! All these residual ways that have been creeping back in your life, in your mind - they are going to be in the water and gone and dead. The old you is going to be dead today! And you are going to rise with Christ! A new creation! New life! That’s why God calls us to be baptized in the water because this is a prophetic symbol of what happens in the spirit, when you give your life to Jesus. The bible says that you are crucified, co-crucified with Christ. And when you come out of the water, that’s symbolic of you being co-risen with Jesus.

That’s for one. And another thing God told me today, as I was in the car on the way here, the Holy Spirit spoke this to me, He said, “Today I wanted you to visit the stones, the memorial stones!” The memorial stones of where revival broke out. 

Revival broke out outside!

(Looking at the speaker) This is so powerful! Glory to God! You know, the Holy Spirit gave us this plan just an hour ago. Steve and Weston, they went to guitar center and purchased this (pointing at the speaker) and this (pointing at the microphone) and do you know that this is the exact speaker that I purchased at the guitar center back in 2021, when we went out in the park? It’s back at Jeanntal’s place, she stored it in her garage, but that’s too far to drive, so we got a new one.

God has been speaking so much about the Joshua generation, how we are the Joshua generation, how we are going into the promised land. We already stepped into the promised land of revival, but we are bringing revival all over the world in this generation! Global revival! End-time revival! We are the Joshua generation! 

It was in Joshua’s time, where God parted the waters for them and He commanded them to set down memorial stones as a remembrance of that miracle that God did there. God calls us to do that in the spirit today - to set memorial stones, to remember. If we don’t do this, we’ll forget. If we don’t set something to remember, we’ll forget. We’ll take for granted what God has done for us. We won’t value what God has done for us. And we won’t remember how faithful He is, what He did in the past.

Remember, last Sunday I shared with you, “You have to remember what God has done for you! You have to remember or you won’t make it into the promised land!” So the Lord was speaking to me today, that part of the reason why this is how the Holy Spirit led us today, is, when we are outside, whenever we are meeting outside, this is our time of returning to the memorial stones of remembrance. Remembering what God did, how revival broke out!

For those of you that don’t know the story, God had spoken that Revival is Now for America and it was going to spread across the world. It was going to start in LA and it was going to spread across the US and across the whole world. This was through my spiritual father Prophet GeorDavie in 2017. He prophesied this. God had called me to start Five-Fold Church a little bit before this. I started Five-Fold Church a few months before and we started out on a mountain top, outside, so we began outside and that is when, I believe, I got this (pointing to the speaker). Not this exact one, this is the new one today, but this same exact Bose speaker. A couple months later we had church inside, we were renting a space. We were in a gym area, Senior Activity Center at Pan Pacific Park. That’s where we were most of the time. We were at different places, but we were there for a couple years, having church every Sunday. And we got smaller each year! From 20, to 15 to 10 to 5, down to just two of us, Jeanntal and I, in 2020 when Covid hit - at times just the two of us. We decreased for about four years, but I knew that God had spoken, Revival is Now! I knew that that word was true! But it looked like the opposite! It looked like the opposite of revival breaking out!

But we kept declaring, “REVIVAL IS NOW!”

Jeanntal and I wrote that song in the summer, July 4th of 2019. We wrote “Revival is Now”, when our church had just five to seven people in it, coming each Sunday. 

We would sing that song all the time. Kept believing that God’s word must come to pass!

And of course you picture what it is going to look like. You make plans in your mind of how revival is going to break out. And I remember, when I found the venue we were having church at, in the Pan Pacific Park - it was an auditorium gym space - I remember when I went in there, at the time we had 15 to 10 people, but I said, “This is perfect, because revival is going to break out. We are going to need a massive venue! This gym is going to be perfect. It’s massive.”

Every week we would set up more chairs than we needed - three times as many chairs many times - like 30 chairs. And we would set down the connection cards, the offering envelopes, and then we’d pick them all up again at the end of service, most of them. Because it was just a handful of people that would come. Sometimes those empty chairs would yell at us, it felt like. But we kept believing! We kept believing God’s word, that His word would not fail and that we would see it come to pass.

I pictured that this gym was going to be filled one day. And you know, that never happened. But it happened in a much better way, this revival breaking out. It happened in a much better way!

What happened was, in 2020 Covid hit, so we could no longer rent the gym auditorium space we were having church in. We could no longer rent it, they wouldn’t allow us to have church there and it was like, “Oh no, what will we do? We can’t have church anymore?” Well, the Lord spoke to me, “I’m moving outside the box now. Take my church outside!” So we went outside, with this Bose speaker and the same simple set-up. And we had church service, twice a week most of the time, Fridays and Sundays. And do you know that, instantly, I was filled with such more joy in the park than in the building, because all the sudden, people who were going for jogs or just walking in the park, would come and sit down. Then I would pray for them and the Lord would speak to them through a prophetic word. They would start crying. They would be touched. And I was so full of joy, because that would happen at our church before, when we were in the building, but only once a month one new person would come. And they would be touched by God. You would see them be touched by God, but usually they wouldn’t come back. And it was like once a month, we would be so blessed to see the Holy Spirit moving in power, with someone new coming for example.

As I’ve explained before, the wind, earthquake and fire moments are not supposed to be all the time. The Holy Spirit was moving, but we weren’t seeing the manifest power of God every week. At this point, we hadn’t even seen deliverance or healing yet. But when we were in the park, sometimes 10 people would come, sometimes 20 people would come and I remember, there was just this BREAKTHROUGH, as soon as we were going out in the park. For years, we were decreasing every week. Now we were seeing people come! They didn’t return usually, but it would be 10 people, 20 people, 25 people. And each time people would be touched so mightily by God through prophetic words. And I just remember so vividly, going for a hike one time and just praising God, “Thank you Lord! Thank you for bringing people! Thank you that people are being touched by your power! Thank you Jesus!” 

I mean, this was such breakthrough, even though it seemed like going outside was like going backwards - but we experienced revival like we hadn’t before. We were experiencing more people coming. We were experiencing the power of God moving more immediately. I remember that season, I was so full of joy. And it was the first time I felt such contentment in that deep wilderness place - when we followed the Holy Spirit in such an unconventional way, uncomfortable way, humbling way, outside of the box way. That’s when there was this breakthrough. 

Even before revival broke out in 2021, and I don’t share this part much, but I’m sharing this with you now. I’m saying, when you follow the Holy Spirit, it’s uncomfortable sometimes - because you have your plans, and you want these plans to happen and they seem like good plans. Many times we go by logic, but God is usually not in logic. But we have these plans and we pray for them, we ask God, “God, I believe, you will do this!” What we ask and believe in, we will receive, the bible says, which is true. But sometimes God is just God and confounds us with a better plan than what we have.

Man makes his plans, but the Lord directs our steps.

And as you grow in the wisdom of the Lord, truly you are making wise decisions. The plans you have are good, they’re not bad. It’s not like, oh they are inside of the box and safe. I don’t mean that. As you grow in the wisdom of the Lord, you can make really good plans that are godly and good. But sometimes God is just God and wants to show that He is God, wants to confound us, wants to humble us and wants to confound the world. Not just us, not just humbling us, but confounding the world. Like how revival broke out in the park. That is just for the glory of God. Even how videos started to go so viral, I believe, part of it is because it was so shocking. It was so shocking, “How can this be? We rarely see deliverance today and the power of God move today in the church, but we’re seeing it now in the park with this little set-up?” It’s so shocking! It makes people be drawn even more, like THIS HAS TO BE GOD, you know? So that is sometimes why God’s plans don’t really make sense to us and are not what we had planned for, not what we would have thought would be best - the highest standard of excellence for God and predictable. That’s why.

God brought us here to remember what He has done. Every time I minister outside - we have had baptism services here before - I can’t help but go back in my mind to that place where God made those walls of Jericho come down that I had been believing in for many years, and made revival to break out. These are our memorial stones, remembering what He has done. Thank you, Jesus! Today is a day where God wanted us to remember what He has done, how far He has taken us, how far this revival has grown, and to remember that HE IS LORD. He is our leader! Holy Spirit is our leader!

Going back to this story. I wanted to share that it’s so important that you follow God when He takes you out of the box, to follow Him when He has different plans than the plans you made, because this, spiritually, even is a breakthrough for you. I was actually reflecting on it recently. I remember in 2020, when the rest of the world was depressed, there was this breakthrough for me! Before, every year I was thinking like, “Oh, I hope revival breaks out this year!” Every January 1st, I wanted it to the depths of my heart to the point that it was uncomfortable and it was almost discontentment. You know, when you want the promises of God so bad? But God calls us to be content still. He wants us to be hungry, but we have to be content still. We cannot just be hungry. And so I remember, every year for about three years, I was just hungry and not the most content. I wasn’t depressed, praise God, I kept trusting and believing God and kept humbling myself and that kept me in the place of being content, but it wasn’t full contentment. The hunger was overpowering the contentment lots of times. But when 2020 hit, there was breakthrough and I felt so content all the sudden. I felt like, “Whenever revival breaks out, that’s cool!” For the first time, I felt okay with God’s plans, even if it is going to take longer. You know how it is hard for you to really verbalize that? In your mind, you’re like, “I just want God’s will!” But I finally got to that place where I was like, “Yes, Lord! Even if it’s several years, that’s okay! I’m okay with it! Let your will be done!” I felt that deep in my heart for the first time in 2020, when we had gone down to two people, with this simple set-up, outside. And I was meditating on it recently, actually. The past week I think, in preparation for this message, I do believe now. I was meditating, “Why was I so content all the sudden? Why? What happened?” And this is what it was. It was the Holy Spirit - whenever He moves outside of the box, there’s a great grace there! There’s a great grace, whenever you’re in God’s will!

When it’s time to shift, it is exciting. When God says, ”Go here, go a different way”, it means, you are closer to the promised land. You are going there for a good reason, not just because, not just because God is like, “Go here, just for no reason.” There is a purpose! It’s a new level, it’s even reward!

You think about Joseph, when he was thrown into prison, it was because they believed that he was making sexual advances on Potiphar’s wife. So people believed the false accusations and threw him in jail. But that was his place of breakthrough! That was his place! In the jail was where he needed to be positioned, where God would make the promise be fulfilled. Because he interpreted the dreams of people who were in the prison with him and then one of the guys, he interpreted the dreams to, it was true, it happened. Then all the sudden God gave Pharaoh this disturbing dream that disturbed him so much, he was restless, he needed to have his dream interpreted. And the guy that had his dreams interpreted in prison, he’s like, “Well, I know somebody who really hears from God. God’s grace is on his life. You need him! You need God moving through him, the anointing on his life.” And so he said, “Okay!” He pulls him out of the prison, Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dream and he interprets it as true. Pharaoh could tell it was God speaking through him. And that led him to see the grace on his life, the anointing, the wisdom, that was going to benefit and bless Pharaoh. So Pharaoh then promotes him to the very highest position besides Pharaoh - which was the dream, the promise, that God gave Joseph years ago. 

You see, it was outside of the box. It was not what Joseph would have planned to see the dream come to pass and it was uncomfortable. It wasn’t fun to be in the prison. Sometimes the will of God is not fun-it was not fun. But that was his place of breakthrough, that was the place the promise was fulfilled. So the Lord was speaking to me, He spoke to me how by me being flexible and following Him outside of the box, in this place that was humbling, in this place that felt like we were going backwards, just by me following Him there, it was an immediate breakthrough for me personally, even before revival broke out. It was a supernatural breakthrough of peace, of joy, that just supernaturally happened by following God in His will outside of the box. That’s the grace of God’s will. 

The Israelites, they followed the cloud. God was in the cloud by day and a pillar of fire at night. So imagine, during the day, not only are they getting perfect direction, they don’t have to worry or fret, ”Are we in God’s will or not?” Not only that, but they were sheltered from the heat of the sun with that cloud. There was this great blessing beyond being in the perfect will of God and the direction, there was a grace, a blessing upon their lives with that cloud sheltering them from the sun and at night time the pillar of fire. It would have been cold at night in the desert, but that fire would have kept them warm, not only did it guide them but it kept them warm. 

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

His ways are better. His ways are higher. You know we grow in the Lord and we become more like Him; we have the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit is within us. But there is still that separation of creation and God. God always wants us to stay humble. So we’re never going to have the exact mind of God, we will always need to depend on Him and seek Him. 

So yes He transforms us so we are naturally just walking with the Holy Spirit but sometimes He will BOOM confound us and say, “Surprise, we’re going to the beach today. People are going to get baptized today in fire and in the water. Surprise!” Hallelujah! I’m so expectant for what God is going to do today. It’s a reward, it’s uncomfortable to go outside of the box, so He gives you a reward, more of His Spirit, more blessing. I’ve seen Him do this every time. It was the spring of 2021, we had been having church in the park from July 31, 2020, (so it’s about the anniversary of when we started having services outside,) until March 21, 2021. That was the period of having church outside before the first demon was cast out. So, the first demon that was cast out at Five-Fold Church was with a simple set up like this outside in the park, with just a few people, and that woman was set free by God’s power, and a video of her deliverance went massively viral immediately and people started flocking, people started traveling pretty much every single week since then to come and encounter God’s power and to experience revival. 

A couple months after that, May 30, 2021, we went from 80 people the previous week, we kept growing from that first deliverance, from 20 something people March 21, 2021 we grew to 80 mid-May, two months later, and the next week 300 people came. The amphitheater was literally overflowing, when that September 2020, there was just one person I was preaching to, and they left in the middle of the service on a 100 degree day and look what God did in that short amount of time. And this revival has kept growing since then, we’ve had people traveling every single week from around the country and around the world since that summer, every single week to be here and encounter God’s power and to experience revival.

But this great promise was fulfilled in the most unlikely place. I never in a million years would have guessed that is where the promise would be fulfilled and revival would break out, in the park with such a simple set up. I would never imagine in a million years that people would take us as a church seriously enough to get on flights, to get on a plane, and travel from all over the world. I never would have imagined that because I never heard of that. And so God confounded me, He confounded all of us by moving outside of the box in a humbling way like Jesus when there was no room for Him in the inn. They said, “There’s no room for you here.” But He was born in a manger and God allowed that to happen, God allowed that as an example that He can do anything. It doesn’t matter, you can be in the manger and salvation will come. You can be in the most unlikely places and salvation came, our savior came in the most humble and lowly of places. And so in the most humble and lowly places God moves today still. 

This is what humbles us as well. The more that God humbles Me, the more that I go through obstacles and I get humbling in that, I find that I am less entitled. Because as I go through uncomfortable situations, as I go through rejection, as I go through waiting and continuing to believe in the promise of God - and this is today too - promises that haven’t come to pass yet, the more I have to make that choice-you can go one way or the other-you can either get bitter and resent God and give up, or you can just simply keep on obeying God, keep having the childlike faith. Two options.  And by the grace of God, I chose the second option. And I‘ve kept choosing. Nothing matters but obedience. Nothing matters but obedience. I must obey God. His timing is perfect. I trust Him, and the more that you do it, it builds faith in you, it builds patience, it builds your Christlike character, it builds the fruits of the spirit, that’s why things don’t happen fast. God needs things to build in you. 

So, every time things have not gone how I thought they should, how I’d like for them to, and I said, “Oh I really thought this would happen, why didn’t this happen?” God had something else in mind, He had a different timeline planned but it humbled me. It made me see God’s ways are best, I just have to trust Him. Things haven’t happened yet, well God’s timing’s best, it’s just not God’s timing yet, it’s simple as that. 

So it is beautiful to follow the Holy Spirit when He goes outside of your plans, it is beautiful, because it produces the most precious thing in you ever, the heart of Christ, the fruits of the Holy Spirit, humility. 

It says in John 3:8 as the wind is blowing right now. 

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

This is our life with the Holy Spirit and we must remember this because sometimes there will be seasons where it’s like, God’s saying to do one thing, “Go here. Go here.” We are going on this straight line and it can be for months, it can be for years that this is the direction of God. And you can get so used to that and you can forget that God is like the wind, and God might make a sharp left or a sharp right suddenly. He’s like the wind, and He’s the God of suddenlies where He changes everything in one instant. That is our God. So, you gotta remember that in order to follow the Holy Spirit, you have to be flexible, you have to adapt, you have to be ready for Him to do something suddenly, for Him to change your life completely in one second, for the past season to just be gone all of a sudden before you had a chance to be prepared for that season to pass. You have to be prepared to do something you don’t want to do, do something uncomfortable, do something not fun. You have to be ready. You have to have that spirit of readiness and be flexible; this is where God’s grace comes, this is the only place God’s grace comes. God’s grace is only in His will. 

If you want the blessings of God’s will, you have to be flexible, you have to go in the valleys when He says go in the valleys. You have to be ok with that in your heart. These are the people God can use most powerfully are those who will let go of their plans and be flexible and go wherever God wants them to go. 

Following the Holy Spirit, me following the Holy Spirit, how it’s looked for me many times, is like God will say, “Don’t go through this door because it’s not mine,” when it seems like a good door, you know, man’s doors. ”You don’t need to make connections here and connections here that could lead to doors opening because that’s not my door opening up ahead there don’t make connections there.” It looks like don’t appease people, “What you do is going to offend them. The way you minister is going to offend them. The way you preach is going to offend them. The way you pray for people, the way you cast out demons, is going to offend them. The way you honor people, the way you honor and give honor where honor is deserved, the way you honor your spiritual father. The way you preach, the new wine, it’s gonna offend a lot of people and it's going to cause a lot of people to close doors in your face. But I want you to only follow Me and I will open up doors that no man can shut.” And those are the doors that I want to go through and they’re going to take longer sometimes, they do take longer sometimes, but it’s so worth it. Because God’s doors come with supernatural grace that the world can never give you, they come with a supernatural joy the world can never give you, and they come with the anointing. 

This is one of the big keys of how I’ve seen the anointing move by the grace of God in my life, in this ministry, is by strictly following God’s ways only. Which means saying no to man’s logic ways, pleasing people ways, conventional ways, comfortable ways, things that make sense ways. It means saying NO to those and it means waiting on God. It means having to be patient, but it is so worth it! This is God’s calling for all of you. 

This revival has so much grace of God on it because we are following the leading of the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t matter what kind of persecution comes, it doesn’t matter what anybody says, nobody can stop this revival. Nobody can stop this move. But, it’s only when we stay in God’s will; it’s only when we let Him be Lord, Lord of this revival, leader of this revival, master of this revival. As long as we will do that we are walking in the supernatural grace of God where there is victory, after victory, after victory. Hallelujah.

This is part of how we are the light of the world also, is when we follow God’s will because people start to see it in your life. This is how the supernatural grace and favor is seen upon your life. People, they see something different about you, they see favor on your life that they don’t have. It’s because you are following the Holy Spirit, you are strict to follow the Holy Spirit and there’s a supernatural flow of grace flowing always. 

As a revival army, this is muscles that God is building in you all the time. Today, He’s building in you flexible, adaptable, muscles, stretching you so that you are ready to go, to make a quick turn when He says make a quick turn, to do the splits when He says to do the splits, to do a ballet move, that you will able, you won’t be lagging, you won’t be left behind, you won’t be saying “owe, this hurts so much”. You are agile! You’re ready! You’re ready to pivot, wherever God goes, wherever God takes us. This is the muscles, it’s not just for a leader, this is an army! This is how revival expands, is through His army. 

He is building these muscles in you. If you ever find a time where there's disappointment, maybe you’re praying for something and it didn’t happen, you need to understand this, the Bible says that whatever you ask for and believe in your heart that it will happen, it will come to pass. God will do it. But remember at the same time, we make plans but God directs our steps. Remember at the same time, God’s ways are higher than our ways. There are going to be many things that you pray for that are going to be prompted by the Holy Spirit, that God absolutely wants to happen this exact way. Maybe you’re finding an obstacle, you’re finding stagnancy and you pray, you ask God and you declare breakthrough, you declare provision, you declare this specific door to open for example, and that’s what is speaking and that happens, it happens exactly. But there will be other times where God’s like “Time to confound you, time to humble you. You’re going to make your plan and you’re going to think it’s a good one and there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s not like it’s ungodly, but I’m going to confound you. It’s stretching time. It’s time for you to go flexible with me, I’m going to catch you off guard.”

You need to know that when you’re in surrender to God, whatever you ask for, you will receive when it’s God's will. WHEN it’s God’s will. But, sometimes things won’t happen because it’s not His timing or He has a different way that He wants to bring it. It’s important to not get disappointed in those times. It’s important that you have that mature understanding, not “God why didn’t you answer my prayer?”. 

He didn’t let you down, He had something better planned, or if you haven’t seen it come through yet, you need to know immediately, God’s ways are higher. He has something BETTER than this great plan that I had and prayed for. He has something BETTER! 

Sometimes it’s that, it’s just not the timing yet and God's building something in you that’s so precious that you need, you need for later to fulfill your purpose. And that’s that scripture, it says, all things work out for good for those who are called according to His purpose. ALL things work out for good. So, God allows some things to happen and you don’t understand why but He has a plan how He’s working this out. Perhaps it’s that it’s part of your refining fire. Perhaps it’s that He’s building patience, building faith. He’s building flexible muscles in you, perhaps. Perhaps it’s something you don’t even realize. Perhaps it’s something like this, that God has this special plan that when people become baptized today, He’s going to do something so supernatural in that, that He needed to do in the water, through the baptism instead of in the church. Or perhaps as we are in this season of acceptance, perhaps there is a harvest on the beach right now and people are going to come and start hearing the word and become saved. Perhaps God loves somebody so much who is at the beach for a beach day to go swimming, that He brought the church TO THEM. Perhaps there’s going to be many divine appointments here. You have flyers, you’re going to evangelize to people after the service and people are going to be saved, healed, and delivered as God moves through you as a vessel, perhaps. Perhaps. 

This is the mind we must have, the mind of childlike trust, God’s ways are best. I don’t have to understand what His ways are right now in this moment, but I trust! He’s in control. 

Something that I’ve learned that’s so important is whenever you’re feeling stressed because of something not working out right, the doors not opening, times running out, how are you going to pay for the bill, whatever it is, stop stressing! What you’re doing when you’re stressing is forgetting that God sees, that God loves you, that God has a plan, way better than yours, that God cares more about you being able to pay your bill more than you do, or whatever it is. He cares about whatever you need more than you do! He loves you more than you love yourself! Nobody can love you, even yourself, the way that God loves you. Whenever you’re stressing, you’re forgetting God sees and loves you and has a plan! 

You should make this practice, the next time you start stressing, the next time you start worrying, the next time you start feeling like you want to cry because you’re worried and the pressure of something not happening, you’re not seeing happening yet, RENEW YOUR MIND IMMEDIATELY, I’m forgetting that God loves me and that God sees, and that God’s in control and He has a plan. I’m forgetting that God is my provider. 

Start confessing, God I trust you. I thank you God that your ways are better than mine and you’re providing for me right now. I thank you Lord that your hand is upon my life right now. I thank you God that you care about this situation more than I do. I thank you God, I worship you, I trust you. The plans you have for me are good. Plans to give me hope and a future. 

This is one of the most powerful things you can do that will please God, is to catch yourself the moment you start to stress, renew your mind with this and start confessing the truth and praising God. It pleases God when you do that. 

We don’t need to stress. That’s why God says, why do you worry even for a day? Why do you worry even for a second? You’re wasting time. What does it add to your life? 

I pray you get this in your mind, that any second you are worrying, you are wasting time. Any second you are stressing, you are wasting time. You could be at peace. You could be having joy. You can be worshipping God, enjoying life because God's in control of your life. Period. Simple. Be childlike children of God. Be childlike. 

What the devil intended for evil, God intended for good, even when it seems like such evil things are happening, even when you’re getting persecution, you’re being treated unjustly, people are falsely accusing you, whatever it is, God SEES IT. And He has a plan through it. In His time, victory is coming, vindication is coming, breakthrough is coming, and the promise WILL be fulfilled no matter what. 

Our God is so good. He’s so powerful. I think one of the biggest things that believers are missing is remembering just how powerful He is in your personal life, just how in control He is, and just how good His plans are for you. 

I pray that you will, I pray maybe you can see me as a testimony, Five-Fold Church even, the things that we’ve went through, the things that we’ve gone through. But, I’m in awe of God's faithfulness, week after week, month after month, year after year, I look back and I stand in awe. I pray your eyes will open up today, of the faithfulness of God. His ways won't make sense to you lots of times, I’m telling you they won’t make sense. But they don’t need to make sense. You’re called to be childlike and just trust. I pray you will trust God more than ever. You will be adventurous with the Holy Spirit. You would be adventurous, like running to the beach in your church clothes. This is a practice here for you, this is a flexible training here, stretching, the gym, we’re going to the gym. You know, church is about being equipped. You better be making sure every single day you have your gym clothes on in the spiritual realm. Get ready to work your muscles every time you go to church, every time to listen to the word of God. You’re not there to relax on the couch when you come to church, when you listen to the word of God. Be ready to be active in the spirit. Be ready to be stretched, get uncomfortable a little bit, sweat. Your muscles might be sore a little bit after but that’s good. Amen? It means you’re getting stronger. Hallelujah.