This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church, in Los Angeles on April 19, 2026. 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.  

We are in revival right now. Revival has come! Revival broke out in 2021 in Los Angeles, and it’s spread across the world to where people have been watching all over the world since 2021. And whenever God lifts His servants and starts moving in power through a ministry, the devil never sits idly by. This angers the devil more than anything—when the power of God is moving through vessels, people are being healed and delivered, and there is anointed spiritual meaty teaching that reveals the devil’s disgusting schemes—and the works of the devil are being destroyed. There’s nothing the devil hates more than when people are equipped to be free to have abundant life, to have peace in their mind, and to walk in their purpose as powerful vessels of God. 

In the Book of Acts, we see the church as God intended it to be, with the five-fold ministry: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. We see God anointing them, moving in power through them to heal and deliver people, releasing the fire of the Holy Spirit, baptizing in fire, and equipping the people for works of service. We see the five-fold ministry equipping people to no longer be babies in Christ, but to be mature and to know the schemes of the devil, to be able to stomp on the devil every day and walk in victory. That’s what the devil hates more than anything. 

This is what’s happening now in revival. It’s not just a revival of more people saying the sinner’s prayer and filling the church and hearing a message about Jesus and worship. But in this revival, God is restoring everything we see in the Acts church: the five-fold ministry, the power of God that heals and delivers, spiritual revelation, and prophetic eyesight to see the devil’s schemes. Five-fold ministers can equip the people of God so that they can walk in victory over the devil and have abundant life. That’s what is happening in this revival, and this makes the devil angrier than anything. 

So we have seen persecution upon persecution and the devil yapping in people’s ears with ridiculous lies such as, “Oh, they worship her; they bow down.” These are stupid lies from the pit of hell, false accusations that take clips of things and twist them without context, coming with a judgmental, accusatory, hateful, divided spirit, as so-called brothers and sisters in Christ. They are workers of the devil to divide, to try to stop the work of God, to try to keep the status quo, and to keep making their money. That’s the truth.

We’ve seen persecution each year since 2021, and today in 2026 we’re seeing it again. Do you know, though, that the devil is defeated? He’s completely defeated. He can’t hold back revival! He can’t stop God’s plans for revival. He cannot stop thousands, millions, billions of people from being delivered, healed, their eyes opening up, and receiving the teachings they need to have victory over the devil and walk in their purpose. He can’t stop it!

There are times, though, just like we see throughout the Bible, that God can allow the devil to attack in certain areas and hinder revival from growing. God can allow the devil to hinder in some areas for a time, but that time comes to an end! We see how Job was blessed, how he experienced abundant life—he was the most blessed person in those times. But then God allowed the enemy to attack him. The devil took everything from him—livestock, family, health, money—and then there came a time when the devil’s time was up, and he rose again, higher than before. The Bible says that he was blessed much more in his latter days than the former (Job 42:12).

And we also see this with David: he first rose up when God lifted him and anointed him. He defeated Goliath and he was given so much favor. He was put in the king’s court to be used by God by His anointing when he played the harp, casting demons out of Saul. He was placed in this position of leadership. He was a master warrior, and he was so good at bringing victory for the Israelites. He was rising for the glory of God. God lifted him. But then God allowed the enemy to attack and test him. This was all a testing, a refining fire. 

God allows that for a reason because it refines us. It makes us more like him. It stretches our faith. It makes us have more of the character of Christ. We need that process. We need that refining, and that’s why He allows the devil to do this. We see how the devil was allowed by God to attack David through Saul, as Saul was trying to kill him. But it was temporary, and it came to an end. Then we see David rise again! We see him raised higher and step into his promise as king. That’s our God!

Then we see Joseph. He rose, and he was the most favored son of all of Jacob’s sons. He was blessed and favored. But then we see that God allowed the enemy to attack, and He used it as a refining fire once again, as Joseph’s brothers threw him in a pit to die, then he was sold to slavery, and then he was thrown in prison after a woman falsely accused him of trying to sleep with her. But then we see that period came to an end, and he rose again! He rose into what was promised to him: to be in the highest position of all the land besides the king. That’s our God!

Now we see Jesus: He had His ministry and He was ministering to thousands of people. It was revival. Revival was taking place powerfully through Him—so many being delivered and healed and saved and hearing the gospel, the word of God, the new wine. But then, the Father allowed the enemy to attack. Pharisees came with their false accusations, got Jesus arrested, tortured, hung on a cross to die, and crucified. But then on the third day, He rose again! And He rose way higher than ever before! It’s not just that the devil is allowed to attack for a time and then things are restored. God lifts you higher! There’s great reward! 

Jesus rose again, but also He rose through His disciples. The devil was trying to stop His ministry, and Jesus didn’t do His ministry as a physical person anymore, but the same exact Jesus did His ministry through hundreds, and then thousands, and then millions, and then billions!

Jesus had His ministry, and that was revival. Wouldn’t you have liked to have been in the times of Jesus, experiencing revival? Remember the story of the loaves and fishes (Matthew 14:13-21)? There were thousands of people! But in Jesus’ time, there were no airplanes, no Instagram Live or TikTok Live or Facebook Live or YouTube Live. There was no algorithm or For You Page, where videos go viral in half a second and reach millions of people. Jesus was limited in the amount of people He could reach and the amount of people who could hear His word and experience the power of God through Him. 

Do you know the sizes of the different cities and regions that Jesus ministered in? If you combine all the cities that Jesus ministered in, the population size would be equivalent to one small city, such as the size of Santa Clara, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; or Boulder, Colorado. When Jesus was on this earth, it was revival—it was shocking revival. But then, on the day of Pentecost, hundreds received the Holy Spirit. Now Jesus was working through hundreds at one time, and three thousand came to faith in Jesus in one day (Acts 2:41). And today, there have been billions of Christians.

I want you to understand the ways of God: He blesses His children; He lifts His children; He anoints His children; and He does miracles through His children, just like He did through Jesus. But the devil gets so angry and tries everything in his power to stop it. God allows there to be a hindrance, for a time. Then, in God’s perfect timing, when the refining fire process has been completed in us, the devil’s time is up. And there’s nothing the devil can do about it! The devil thought he had won when Jesus was on the cross, but this was the catalyst for billions to come to faith in Jesus. This is our God! 

When you are going through the refining fire, there isn’t just an end to the refining fire—there isn’t just a victory. There’s a great victory that you can’t even comprehend: reward, lifting, rising again, much higher, and keeping on rising and going glory to glory.

In this revival, the same is true: persecution has hindered people. Many of you have family and friends who don’t believe that revival is truly now, who believe the lies of the enemy. The Pharisee called Jesus a false prophet. They said Jesus was using demonic powers to cast out demons. They accused Him of being a heretic and of going against Scripture. They do the same thing today; the devil uses people in the same way today. 

In the times of Jesus, people believed those lies. When Jesus spoke “You must drink my blood and eat my body to be saved (John 6:53),” the Bible says that many left Him because that word creeped them out. But it shouldn’t creep you out. You should know the fruits that you see in Jesus, and when there’s a word that you don’t understand, you shouldn’t let the devil falsely accuse the Jesus that you know and in whom you’ve seen nothing but good fruits. You should humble yourself and say, “Lord teach me. I need to humble myself so I can learn something new,” instead of being prideful and judgmental and having a hateful spirit to judge and accuse for no reason.

In the times of Jesus, the devil was able to hinder some people, for a time. There were even people helping to put Jesus on the cross, and then the Bible says that their eyes opened up and they said, “Truly this is the son of God” (Matthew 27:54). The devil's time of blinding people was up. 

So you may be getting more revelation about the great massive vision that God has given for this revival army, for 5F Church, which I explained in Catching the Vision.  It’s just a matter of God’s timing. It’s coming. The greater rising is coming. The ways in which the devil has hindered people from seeing, especially in America and in LA, it’s coming to an end. And we’re going to see God rise again! Let God arise and His enemies be scattered! 

We have to be ready to rise because this is a catalyst for revival to go to the next level—to rise so high. We have to want it, to be hungry, and to know who we are in Christ. That’s how it happens. I’ve seen God obliterate the devil’s schemes to stop revival in the past. When I started the church in 2017, we started as a little worship night outside. Then we were in a building, and we had about twenty people in the first year. Then we decreased to fifteen the next year and then ten the next year and then five the next year. And then Covid hit and many times it was just two of us. That didn’t happen randomly. It wasn’t like people came to church and then said, “God is leading me to move somewhere” or “I got a job in this other state so I’m so sad to leave. I really want to be here.” No, it was nothing like that. It was like the devil took every ’s like every person that left, the devil took them. The devil lied to them. The devil was at work to try to stop revival before it even broke out because the devil knows who the true prophets are. He knows what the true anointing is. He heard Prophet Dr. GeorDavie, my spiritual father prophesy my calling and that Revival is Now, and that it will start in LA, spread across the US, and spread across the whole world. The devil heard that. He didn’t just sit by. He was at work. And that first year when we went from twenty people to fifteen people, there was someone who made up a ridiculous, disgusting lie, that breaks your heart, about my spiritual father. It breaks your heart because you know it’s a lie and it’s about someone who is the opposite of this. This person spread this lie and people believed the devil’s lies and they left with the person. And it didn’t stop there. This same person called the place we were renting at Pan Pacific Park, the senior activity center, and made up a completely different lie that was an even more disgusting, wicked, gross lie. The manager then asked me about it, and I told her, “This is a lie.” And she believed me, glory to God. God helped her to see the truth and to see that we’re good people, and this can’t be true. And so she allowed us to keep renting there. 

That was the beginning. But every time we decreased, you could just see it was the devil pulling people away with his lies, and the devil trying to discourage me, trying to discourage us through the decrease. But after four and a half years of waiting on the Lord and pondering on the promises, I saw that God’s Word, His promises, are yes and amen, and this must come to pass. In the spring of 2021, I saw this prophecy—that Revival is Now—come to pass. And I saw the devil’s lies, attacks, and attempts to hold back revival be completely obliterated! Overnight, thousands of people began encountering God’s power through the screen and being healed and delivered. Within two months, we grew from 20 to 300. Revival broke out beyond our wildest dreams, with mass deliverance happening everywhere, people being touched by God, and baptisms of the Holy Spirit. It exploded globally from that day: May 30, 2021. That’s our God! He’s crushed the devil before my eyes! 

We go through seasons where it’s that similar pattern and we think, “The devil is hindering people.” Just wait. The devil’s about to be obliterated again! We will see God arise. It’s coming! Revival is Now America! Los Angeles! It’s time to wake up. It’s time for the devil to be defeated in LA and in America. Eyes will open soon I declare, in Jesus’ name

One of the false accusations that came was when I knelt down and put a seed on the altar at my spiritual father’s church. That was one of the things that was taken out of context, among other things, and put on exposed videos online. That was the first attempt of the devil to try to discredit this move of God and to try to hold back revival, in September 2021. That was where the devil began with his disgusting schemes. Ever since, I’ve seen the devil come so disgustingly with these lies, and people believing the lies. Ever since that day in September 2021, when that first lie went out to the world, I’ve been sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the devil to be obliterated. It’s not fair, and our God is a just God. It’s not fair for thousands, maybe millions, to be deceived by the devil’s wicked lies. And the devil’s done that. But our God is a just God, so you know it’s only a matter of time until God comes in supernatural ways that we can’t even really imagine, that will astound us and open the eyes of thousands! 

There are huge promises for this revival. We haven’t seen anything yet. So when I see the devil come, just like he did before, pulling people away with his lies and trying to hold back revival, I think, “God, what are you going to do? I know you’re going to do something big again.” We’re going to see this victory. We’re going to see our God vindicate. I’ve had this expectancy in my heart, and this is the first key, the catalyst for revival: hunger. I’ve been hungry for the devil to be defeated and the promises to come to pass, for revival to expand so massively beyond what we’ve seen. I’ve kept that hunger in my heart. God needs us to be hungry. 

Acts 2:1-8, 10-12, 40-41

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?

And then it mentions all of the different nations, different areas. 

Visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

And then moving forward to verse 40: 

With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Look at this! The devil thought he had won with his stupid lies about Jesus, about the power of God, about the revival that was taking place. But Jesus had this plan that He was going to get His believers in one place together, and He was going to move upon their hunger. And He was going to give them the promise of the Holy Spirit, the fire of the Holy Spirit. He had this plan that He was going to pour Himself out upon them, and that was going to be the catalyst for God rising again, for revival increasing to 3,000 in one day, and continuing to increase. So this day of Pentecost, when the people needed to have hunger and unity and come together in one place—that was the catalyst for revival expanding rapidly and God arising again. And this is how it is today. 

The Ignite Conference coming up on May 22 and 23 is a divine appointment—a day of Pentecost moment. I have shared that if you’re planted at 5F Church, you can’t miss this. And if you’re anybody in this world, you shouldn’t want to miss this either! Because I know God is going to move in such an extraordinary way. He moves so powerfully every single Sunday, as we know, but I knew He is going to move in a day of Pentecost, extraordinary way. This is what God spoke to me, and what my spiritual father had prophesied, so I’ve been telling you for the past two annual conferences: “It’s going to be like the day of Pentecost!” And it was! Glory to God. God even went over our expectations. 

Wouldn’t you know, this year's conference lands on Pentecost Sunday weekend, which is basically the third day of the conference. Because everyone who is in town fills in this place. I did not plan that. It was the only date available for the springtime, and I just found out a couple weeks ago that it’s Pentecost weekend! And this conference is called Ignite. God will be pouring out His fire in greater levels than we’ve experienced. Many of you have been set on fire already, but this is going to be something different. Just like the disciples were with Jesus in person, but then it was another level on the day of Pentecost, when the fire of the Holy Spirit baptized them and came into their lives.

We’re going to receive from God like never before at this year's conference. And so there’s a preparation happening right now because we need to be hungry to receive. On the day of Pentecost, the people were hungry. They were in one place, with hunger. They were not there nonchalantly. They were ready. They recognized the seasons and the times. We recognize the seasons and times now. The devil’s time is up, and revival is about to expand like never before. It will expand so greatly, and the devil will be obliterated, just like on the day of Pentecost. 

God used the people’s hunger to fill them with fire. So then when they went out, that fire came out of them and touched those three thousand lives, and those three thousand lives came to Jesus because of the fire that the people received as they gathered together in one place with hunger and in unity. And this Ignite Conference is going to ignite the world on fire for Jesus through you, through this revival army, through the fire you receive—where people will see Jesus in you and they won’t be able to deny it. Their eyes were shut, but now they will see Jesus in you, because now there will be a greater level of Jesus in you, a greater fire in you that obliterates the lies of the devil, the old wine Pharisee lies of the devil. The fire of Jesus in you will defeat the lies of the devil that people have been believing, in LA, in America, and in the world. 

So how do we have this hunger? First, by positioning yourself where the fire is flowing. So the fire hits you. Be consistent. Sometimes maybe you don't feel hungry, and you think, “I want to have hunger. I know I need to be hungry to receive.” The Bible says, “God fills the hungry with good things.”

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. 

Sometimes you might not naturally feel hunger and you might think, “I want to be filled with good things. I want to be satisfied. But I don't feel hungry. How do I get hungry?” Hunger is not a feeling. Anything in the Kingdom of God is not about a feeling, because feelings are fickle and the devil can come in the mind and send thoughts and that can affect your feelings. Even if you're having victory and rejecting the lies, sometimes it can have an effect on your feelings. So that’s why we don’t go by feelings. God doesn’t go by feelings. He doesn’t judge faith by feelings of faith. That’s not how He judges it. He judges your hunger by the choices you make and the actions you make. “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:14). To have faith, there must be works. To have faith, go to work following the word of God. As you truly follow the word of God, as you take that action to follow the word of God, your feelings will catch up and hunger will come. You don’t have to sit around and wait and hope to have hunger. It’s a choice. Hunger will come when you take these actions that I’m going to share with you.

Sacrifice: to hunger is to get out of your comfort zone. To be hungry is not comfortable. Think about it physically: when you’re hungry, you’re uncomfortable. So you have to get out of your comfort zone if you really want to be hungry for God. Sometimes that’s choosing not to care what people think and to go to church anyway, to go to the conference anyway. Sometimes it’s traveling when that’s a sacrifice for you—when it's twenty hours or when it’s a real financial sacrifice for you. 

When I have received the most from God, the biggest catalyst in my life for such change in my life has been when I traveled to receive from God through my spiritual father in Tanzania, East Africa. I received impartation of anointing in Tanzania, East Africa, at his church. When I traveled there, I didn’t have much financially. I was in a season, for years, when I would cry because of the lack of finances and not knowing how I would make ends meet, while our church was dwindling. It was during that season that I went to Tanzania to receive impartation. We had had the church for eight months, and we had not seen any manifest power of God yet. I would teach, but I wouldn’t really see the manifest power of God. I would pray for people, and I think I saw a couple of people in tears, but I hadn’t seen the manifest power of God like we’re seeing today.   

I made the sacrifice and I went to Tanzania. It’s more than a 24-hour trip, and when I went there, Prophet GeorDavie anointed me and poured oil upon my head. I fell back with God’s power, and I was never the same. I got on the plane and I was more spiritual than ever before. I just wanted to talk with God, pray, and read the Bible. I hungered for God’s power to move in LA. That’s all I wanted to do, and when I read the Bible, I got revelation that I never had before. I was so shocked, and I thought, “Whoa! I am so different! I’ve been changed immediately, by receiving this anointing.” And I’ve never been the same since that day.

I came back that Sunday and I was so hungry for the power of God to move. The impartation put a great hunger in me, and that week at church, God’s power moved for the first time. It was Jeanntal’s mom. I touched her hand, and she fell back with God’s power. Then I started praying for people, and the prophetic anointing came upon me for the first time, and I knew things about people like I had never experienced before. And the anointing kept moving like that ever since that day. That all happened after I made the sacrifice: I chose to be hungry, and I made the sacrifice to travel to receive the anointing for my divine appointment, day of Pentecost, personal moment. And that led to revival spreading. My hunger and my sacrifice to go there led to revival spreading in America and the world. 

That’s what God wants to do through you! It’s the same thing; I’m not different. I went first, paving the way, but now God is ready to do this in Norway, for you in the Philippines, in Korea, in England, in the UK, in South Africa, all over Europe, all over the Middle East, all over Asia, all over Africa, South America, Central America, all of North America, Australia, New Zealand, the islands, and beyond. God wants to do the same thing through you, but you have to hunger and make a sacrifice to come and receive, to have your day of Pentecost moment.

One of the most life-changing moments I had was also going to Tanzania at a later time. I saw my spiritual father minister to the people, and he cast out demon after demon. I saw mass deliverance for the first time. And these demons left the people so fast. I saw demons speaking through people, and it opened up my eyes to see how much at work the devil was, how evil the devil is and how at work he was in people’s lives. And that immediately gave me, supernaturally, this compassion and love for people that I never had before, because my eyes could see in the spirit just how evil the devil was and how at work he was in people’s lives. I could see that they were victims who needed to be set free, by the power of God, instead of seeing them as enemies and mean people that do wrong to us. 

My eyes also opened up to the love of God like I’d never experienced before. That’s when the revelation came to me: God is really so loving, and He really does want to heal and deliver all of His people. It’s just that He has a way that He does it. He doesn’t just heal and deliver people straight from heaven, usually, but He chooses to use vessels. And not just any vessel. I knew my spiritual father, and I had never seen anyone so Christlike in my life. He was so humble. And so it clicked for me in this moment: “So few people are pure and humble, so God can’t put His anointing in them. But here is someone. I’ve never seen someone so pure, so humble, so Christlike, and so, God can put His anointing in him. This is what God wants to do in all believers. If all believers were like my spiritual father, pure and humble, so Christlike, trustworthy by God, all believers could walk in the power of God like my spiritual father, and all the demons would leave people as soon as they encountered these believers around the world. The world would look so different.” 

My eyes opened up that day that it’s our fault, not God’s fault, that people aren’t healed and delivered. As believers, we have to humble ourselves. God is waiting. He says, “If my people will humble themselves, pray, and seek my face, I will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14). If my people will humble themselves! I had never seen God like that before. I saw: “This is His love. He really wants to heal and deliver everybody. How amazing is our God?” It hit me. 

How many Christians and other people don’t see God as that loving? Or they see Him as kind of loving, but they are so confused why so many people are oppressed and sick. So that confusion just hinders them from really grasping God’s love. That was gone from me, and I thought, “God, you are so amazing! You’re so amazing!” And I became speechless for the first time in my life. It was like I went to heaven for the first time and saw Jesus face-to-face, and the fear of God was so intense I couldn’t speak. It felt so wrong to speak. I was that moved by the fear of God, by how amazing God is, by how great His love is. That’s what happened when I made the sacrifice to go and receive more. Do you think that was worth it? Yes! And if you see me as being loving and able to love people today and be selfless and put others before myself, it’s only because of that moment. It’s only because I made the sacrifice, when God said this is your day of Pentecost moment. That’s why it happened. 

I’m full of so much expectancy, like never before, for what God is about to do in May at the Ignite Conference. Like these two life-changing moments that I described to you just now, I believe with all my heart that you will have those kind of life-changing moments and revelations, where your eyes open up and where you receive from God something you’ve never received before. 

The first action to have hunger, so you can receive so powerfully from God and be the catalyst for revival to spread through you in your community and city and nation, is to make the action of sacrifice. 

We all have different ways that God calls us to sacrifice. At last year’s conference, we had people travel from 52 nations and 40 states. They all made a sacrifice to travel. For some of you, it might only be a five-minute drive. So you don’t make a sacrifice in that way, but God still wants you to receive through sacrifice. And this principle applies, not only to the day of Pentecost moments that God sets, but this applies every Sunday, every livestream, every time God wants to release more upon you. This principle of hunger applies. So sacrifice; get out of your comfort zone. For those of you in LA, one of the ways you can make this sacrifice is by contributing to God’s Kingdom, by sowing into God’s work and into the conference, making a way for so many more people to receive and be healed and delivered. God counts that sacrifice as hunger, where He can fill you with more.