This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick, Lead Pastor/Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA, on December 7, 2025. 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. 

Anything that is valuable is costly. Think about it: anything in this world, physical to spiritual, is costly; it's not cheap. This is how it is in the spirit. For the great things that God does, there is a cost. For the great things He wants to do in your life, there is a cost. For the great things He wants to do in this church, in this move of God, in revival, there is a cost. And to summarize what the cost is, it’s surrender, which is sacrifice. To surrender to God means to give up your life for Jesus. It means to hand over everything to Him. That is the definition of sacrifice. 

The cost to receive the great things that God wants to do through you and the great blessings He wants to pour out on your life, because He loves you and for His glory, this cost looks like anything that causes you to have to deny yourself. Anything that is a sacrifice. Anything that is not easy or comfortable. Because denying yourself is not comfortable or easy; it is a sacrifice. So anything that is putting God and His work, His people, first, that’s the cost. The cost looks like your time, your resources, your abilities, your giftings, to use them for God rather than for your benefits. The cost looks like giving up your reputation, your ego, having people think well of  you—you give it to God. Part of the cost is also your finances. 

As we give all of these things, God transforms us and He uses us as His vessels. Through all of these things, He is able to use us as vessels to do His work on this earth. He cannot use us as vessels without us offering all of these things, without all these aspects of the cost. The cost is a lot. The cost is whatever costs you, whatever is a sacrifice, whatever is something that you have to deny yourself. 

The Bible says that whenever you sow, you reap. To have a beautiful harvest of fruit trees, of flowers, of vineyards, you have to sow; there’s no other way it will come to be. You have to sow. If you want a massive garden, you have to throw many seeds into the ground, not just a few. 

The Bible says, “When you sow sparingly you’ll reap sparingly, but when you sow generously, you will reap generously.” So as you are sowing in all of these different areas—this is a principle of God—you are truly investing into the future; you are creating your future with God, co-creating your future with God. You are partnering with God to bring about His will, His plans, His works that are not currently here on this earth. 

This revival that we are experiencing now came from sowing seeds, for example. It came from a seed sown first by my spiritual father, Prophet GeorDavie, traveling across the world from Tanzania, East Africa, on his own expense, to minister and release this prophecy that God sent him to do: “Revival is now for America, and it is going to spread from LA across the whole nation and across the whole world. It is no longer the time to pray for revival; revival is now!” God used him to sow this powerful seed in the spirit and I caught that seed; that seed was planted in me and that seed had to grow in me. I received it, by the grace of God. In obedience, I believed it, I kept it alive, and I kept speaking it. So as I kept speaking it, the seed was growing. The seed of revival had not sprouted out yet, but it was existing as a seed; it had to grow. It took years—it took four and a half years until we saw it burst out of the ground, but it happened. Revival broke out. 

That revival that broke out in 2021 has since grown to where we are experiencing it today now as we go glory to glory. It started with a seed. It started with a seed from a vessel. It started as Prophet GeorDavie’s obedience to plant that seed. 

Then God called me to plant seeds: to keep on speaking, “Revival is now!” and start the work of God. That was such a sacrifice for me because public speaking was my biggest fear and weakness, so seeds were planted through that. What we are experiencing now didn’t just appear; it came about from seed after seed planted years ago. Glory to God. 

Whenever you sow, every single day  one day you will see a harvest, and you’ll think, “Whoa! Where did this come from?” It came from all of those seeds sown, and it was now the harvest time. 

The harvest we experience, the increase we experience, the promise fulfilled, the blessings, the harvest of revival—they come from all these collective seeds that we are sowing everyday. But when the time comes when God wants to do a specific lifting, taking you, taking us, to a higher elevation, spiritually, where He can do more, where more people will be reached, where the good news can be spread farther—when that time comes, when God wants to bring that lifting, there’s another cost. 

It was uncomfortable for me sowing these seeds day after day, showing up to church and preaching even when it was uncomfortable and continually speaking “Revival is now!” even when our church grew smaller year by year for four years. That was uncomfortable, but it wasn’t extremely uncomfortable. It was a cost, but when God wanted to bring elevation to this ministry and to my life personally, all of a sudden God would call me to sacrifice more, where it got more uncomfortable. Before every season of elevation, I noticed that there was a different kind of cost, a bigger kind of cost, that would come. 

First, I prepared the conference where Prophet GeorDavie prophesied that “Revival is now.” I didn’t know he was going to prophesy that, but I was expectant; I was so excited for the people to encounter God’s power through him as God moved through him. I knew that God was going to move mightily, but I didn't know that he was going to release this powerful prophecy that was an answer to my prayer and many of your prayers, to many thousands of people’s prayers around the world. I didn’t know he was going to prophesy this word that would change the course of my life, that would become the direction of my purpose, my life and my assignment that, “Revival is Now.” 

I prepared this conference, not knowing that there was this great elevation in the spirit coming—maybe not in the physical, but in the spirit—that would lead to the physical elevation in the future. At that time, I needed my parents' help financially to live in LA and to begin ministry. I had just begun ministry, and we weren’t currently paying for a venue because we were on Mulholland Drive, on a mountain top. I went to Guitar Center and purchased a piano, a portable speaker, a music stand, a microphone, and a microphone stand, just so we could start having our first church services, which started out as worship services. I didn’t have any money; I was depending fully on my parents. I was sharing a two-bedroom apartment with three people, I was sharing one room, paying $500/month for rent, sharing one room with another girl, and I was depending on my parents, as I only had a part-time job. And so they were helping me financially and I went to Guitar Center without any of my own money, so I signed up for a credit card, and this is how it started. I had to make this sacrifice and get a piano and these essential things to have worship nights on a mountain top.

So that’s how it started, and then when the conference came a few months later, we would have to get a venue. By the grace of God, I found a pretty inexpensive venue at Pan Pacific Park. It was just a gym space but it still cost a couple thousand dollars. I didn't have that, so I asked my parents, because I didn't know what else to do, and they graciously supported me. They graciously gave, but that was a stretching because I didn't feel like it was easy to ask my parents. That was a big stretching for me. This was the first time I started to see this: there was an elevation coming, and God was bringing this stretching, this greater cost and sacrifice. When this word, “Revival is now!” was released for my life and for us, it was like it appeared on a GPS as a suggested place to go, and I could click on it. I could now put it in the GPS, like heaven on earth appeared in the spiritual GPS, and I could click on it and go where I’m supposed to go with my life. That was a great elevation that God brought and that sacrifice, that cost, was worth it.

Then, four-and-a-half years after receiving that prophecy,suddenly, revival broke out. Suddenly, videos of people being delivered went viral, and we saw God start casting out demons and healing the sick. But before that happened, it was about four years of ministering and the church becoming smaller and smaller with every year; not seeing God move in power much, and not seeing healing or deliverance at all. But I hung onto this word that “Revival is now!” and that God would move in power to do many miracles.

I remember that day when the first demon was cast out, in March 2021. I drove to the park with so much expectancy, like never before, because I knew there were a few people traveling from across the country just to be at our church service of twenty-something people. I knew this principle of hunger, and I thought, “Wow, we are going to see God move like never before; I’m so excited.” I pulled up, and that excitement turned into concern, because for the very first time, that amphitheater where we would have church was packed with an event. I knew it was spiritual, and I had to fight in the spirit for us to be able to have church that day. 

It was a social gathering that had already finished, and they were just hanging out. So I pleaded with the organizer and said, “Please, can you just move on to the lawn area so we can have our church service? We have people traveling to come.” And by the grace of God they finally agreed but it was a fight, there was a cost to have church that day. I never fought so hard just to have a church service, but it was that day that the first demon was cast out at 5F Church. And that video of that person’s deliverance went viral. What God did there led to where we are now. That was one of the walls of Jericho moments of revival breaking out, and deliverance kept taking place every Sunday from there. People kept traveling, and by two months later, the amphitheater was overflowing. 

So God was ready to bring that elevation, but He allowed this gathering to take place in the amphitheater. He could have stopped that gathering from taking place. He could have put a different idea in their mind, to have the event at another place. But He allowed that gathering to take place so that I could pay the price, so that I could make a greater sacrifice for the elevation that was about to come. 

This is the principle of God: with elevation comes a cost, and this is for God’s perfect purposes because it makes us value it more. 

Whatever comes easily to us, we naturally do not value. We don’t fight for it, and we don’t fight to keep it if it’s not valuable. So God causes us to pay the price so that we can see the value in what He brings us, in the spiritual work He’s called us to, in the blessings that He pours upon our lives. We have to see the value for us to treat it with the proper respect, care, and value that God needs us to. The work of God, the blessings He’s given us to bless others, the blessings He’s given us so that we can shine and lead others to Him—we have to value these things. 

When revival broke out, there was so much hunger from all over the US for revival events to take place in different states and cities. So for the next year and a half, I traveled almost every single week to different cities, states, and then eventually to different nations, and God moved in mighty power. So many were healed and delivered and received the anointing. But that was quite a sacrifice because I would always come back for Sunday services. I was finding that I had to sacrifice in a way I had never sacrificed ever before. I had to sacrifice my time, my sleep, and my plans to be completely focused on traveling to do God’s work and church on Sunday. Everything was suddenly more about Jesus than ever before in a way that cost more, in a way that was more uncomfortable. I remember sometimes preaching after traveling internationally on a Saturday and feeling tired, like I wanted to rest, and not having much time to prepare for the message, but just showing up out of obedience. And God was so faithful to give me strength and to move in power no matter how I felt. But that was a different kind of cost, a greater cost, that came with this greater elevation of this revival expanding across the nation and globally. There are different costs with every area of elevation. 

My spiritual father is like my Elijah if I am like Elisha. I received impartation of anointing at his church in Tanzania, East Africa. As I started getting so many invitations to minister and to put on revival events or to minister in different churches, all of a sudden, God opened up a door in other nations. In 2022, I ministered in twelve nations, glory to God. And we saw God move so mightily and deliver, heal, and touch so many in all of those nations. The very first nation that I was invited to minister in was by a woman and her husband who were both pastors, called by God to start a church in Tanzania to minister to Hindu people. This couple reached out to me and invited me to minister at their church, in no other place but Tanzania! They didn’t even know my spiritual father, but this was God’s hand. 

This was God honoring the nation where I received the anointing. Many times, Africa is seen as coming last in today’s world; it is looked down upon and not valued. Even the people are often stereotyped and looked down upon. But God made Tanzania to be the first nation where I ministered. That was only God because that couple did not even know my spiritual father. Then, there were so many invitations: Dubai, then the Netherlands, and then nine other nations after that in 2022.

But do you know that after ministering in Tanzania, right before I was to minister in eleven more nations, I had the largest spiritual attack and persecution that I had ever faced in my life? It was early February 2022. I faced public false accusations that many people believed. Somebody recently shared with me, “It was like the trend to pick on you, to criticize you.” It was like that, like publicly. And I remember one online attack specifically, and I was shocked. I knew persecution was coming, I knew there was a cost to the anointing, but I didn’t know it was going to be like this. I didn't know it was going to be at this degree. I remember talking to my spiritual father and sharing with him about it the day that it happened, just shocked and upset and distraught, and my spiritual father shared with me, “There is a cost to elevation.” And it suddenly put me so at peace. It suddenly made everything make sense. It suddenly made me understand why God was allowing this evil thing to take place: because I had to pay the price. What God was doing was so valuable. What God was doing, where God was taking me, where God was taking us, 5F Church, was so valuable and precious, and it’s costly! So the heat of this persecution, how uncomfortable it felt, how much it hurt, the tears, that was the cost! That was the cost for that season. The cost looks different every time, but for this time, this was the cost. 

And then God opened a great door this past year where I was able to share the good news that “Revival is now!” and share about God’s power and deliverance on television. Through years of ministry, I had never gone on any kind of TV station. And suddenly, God opened up doors and it started out with a big Christian TV network. Thirty minutes after I got off that network, I got a message from someone who hosts a show on mainstream media, asking for me to come on the show. And so a couple days later, I was able to share about revival and how God is moving in power and that people can be freed, on a mainstream media channel. 

Within a day or two after, someone with influence began speaking lies about me publicly, and saying that it was their mission to take down my ministry. There was a series of videos, and then there were a couple of others who had a lot of influence and a following who started speaking lies about me as well. This time, it wasn’t my first rodeo. It hurt, but it hurt a lot less. It was so obvious that the enemy was mad, and it was also obvious that God was allowing it, because it was time to pay another cost to go higher. There’s a cost to bring this revival to the next level, to go on media, on TV, and speak about Jesus and revival! There’s a cost for that, a greater cost, not just the cost of sowing seeds that are a little bit uncomfortable. We have to pay a bigger cost to go much higher. 

So I accepted it. I said, “This is the cost. We have to pay the price. I know God will bring me through it, and I know God will bring the truth to light and vindication. He will defend me.” And He sure did, glory to God! Hallelujah! He is faithful! 

1 Corinthians 16:9 

Paul wrote, “There’s an amazing door of opportunity standing wide open for me to minister here, even though there are many who oppose and stand against me.”

We don’t go through a big open door comfortably or easily. We go through with a fight, but we have victory in this fight. We go through while paying the price and making a sacrifice. That’s how we go through this beautiful, big, open door that God has opened for us. 

Whenever God wants to bring a great blessing upon your life, to lift you for His purposes, to pour out blessings, maybe to fulfill the desires of your heart, there’s a sacrifice He will want you to make preceding that blessing He’s going to give. When He starts to lead you, when you start to feel a pull on your heart to sacrifice more for Him, to get out of your comfort zone and do more for Him, it’s a sign that He’s wanting to bless you more, that He’s wanting to bless you extraordinarily into new levels. He’s getting ready to lift you. 

1 Kings 3:4-5

This is about Solomon: “The king went to Gibeon [near Jerusalem, where the tabernacle and the bronze altar stood] to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.”

Let’s not miss this. Solomon went to offer a sacrifice. God was leading him. He was feeling the leading of God to sacrifice. He offered 1,000 burnt offerings on that altar. 

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask [Me] what I shall give you.”

‭‭At the moment He brought the sacrifice, God showed up and said “Ask Me, what shall I give you”—meaning, “I want to bless you. What do you want? I WANT to bless you right now.” It’s not like when we give something to God, He nonchalantly says, “Oh I want to bless you right now.” Solomon had a heart for God, a pure heart. He was doing the work of God, and God was ready to bless him. He wanted to lift him. God has a plan of lifting you. He knows the times and the days when He’s going to lift you, when He's going to pour out blessings. When that time comes, He will impress upon your heart and create a need where you will sacrifice more for Him! Though you’re living a life of sacrifice, He will call you to sacrifice more, as a catalyst to lift you. 

The scripture goes on to say that Solomon simply asks for wisdom. He doesn’t ask for anything else, just wisdom. God is so pleased with this answer that He says, “Because that is what you asked me for, I’m actually going to give you that and so much more! I’m going to bless you financially. I’m going to bless you with honor, with favor.” That didn’t just come because of the one good answer that Solomon gave. It came because God was seeing Solomon all throughout this time, and He was getting ready to honor him and bless him because of all those seeds he’d sown in the past and because of his heart towards the Lord and all he was doing for the Lord. Now, in His divine timing to bless him, God wanted him to sacrifice more as this catalyst. 

When we give to God, it’s not about getting something from Him. When He’s pulling us to give, we shouldn’t think, “I should give because I want to receive.” Yes, we should have that in our heart in a good way because we all need to receive from God. We should want to receive from God and not receive from the world. That’s how we receive. But we should see it as obedience: “Yes, every day I serve God. I make sacrifices every day, but right now God wants me to give more. He wants me to sacrifice more, and it’s for a reason. It’s for a purpose, and it’s for my good. When God is calling me to more, that means it’s elevation time. It’s reaping time.” Hallelujah! 

2 Samuel 24:24-25 

The context of this Scripture is that King David was going to make a sacrifice to God and buying animals for it. Araunah was saying, “You’re a king, so take this livestock for free and make your offering here” But David said to him “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was moved [to compassion] by [David’s] prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.”

Here we see again how God's hand moves upon a servant of God’s sacrifice. David understood like what I’m sharing: that sacrifice is special to God. It’s so valuable to God when we sacrifice for Him, when it’s in His leading.

David said, “No! I MUST make a sacrifice. There is a cost to receiving more from God, and I’m willing to make it. I value the miracles from God. I want to be obedient to God and make this sacrifice.” The Bible says that God was moved by his sacrifice and He then made the plague to be removed. 

Genesis 8:20-21

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. This took place when they were finally on dry land after being on the ark for a long time. The flood had ended, and land had finally appeared. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.

Noah and his family were preserved. They were the only ones who had pure hearts. In this moment, God once again was moving Noah to make this sacrifice. And what God did next was no small thing! He made a promise, “I will never wipe out humanity again!" That’s big! But the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and this MOVED His heart to make this big promise! Do you see how sacrifice is valuable to God? 

2 Corinthians 9:6 

Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap generously [and be blessed].

Sometimes we sow sparingly. We can think it’s a lot because every single day, we show up to serve God. But it’s actually not that much of a sacrifice. Just because there are a lot of lukewarm Christians in this world, we can feel like it’s a big deal to live for God. But really, that’s silly. With God, we have salvation! That’s the only way: giving our lives to Jesus. We have salvation for eternity! Only with Jesus are we free from the devil's grip. Only with Jesus do we have healing, freedom, abundant life, peace, and joy. And not just that! We don’t come out of the negatives to zero only. We go into abundance, into supernatural life, into a heaven-on-earth life! You’re foolish to not give your whole life to Jesus, actually. It’s not that noble. I honor you when you give your whole life to Jesus. We are in a spiritual war, and yes there are temptations, but the life I have, serving God, because I’m experiencing the sweetness of God, I don’t feel like it’s so heavy. We live heaven on earth, a supernatural life, and the Bible says, “My yoke is easy, my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). 

So yes, God calls us to do hard things. He calls us to go through hard things, but we have God living in us, so what’s too difficult? What’s too much of a struggle? God helps us to do everything, and He gives us a supernatural peace in the storm, in the valley. 

So you can be living a life that you may feel is very noble compared to your family or compared to most Christians, but really, you’re just sowing sparingly. You’re not sowing generously, but God wants you to reap generously! And let me tell you what, you CAN do it. You CAN sow generously. You CAN do more. You CAN serve God more. You CAN give more to God. He will provide more seed. He will provide more opportunities, new doors that He will open up for you. He will! You can do more!

The devil may be telling you can’t because he’s scared of what will happen when you sow generously. You have to be aware of that. There’s nothing holding you back from doing GREAT THINGS for God. There’s nothing holding you back from being a chosen one. Many are called, few are chosen (Matthew 22:14). 

God wants you to be a chosen one, so He can use you so mightily, in a unique and specific way. For you to be not only the fingernail if you’re a finger, but the whole entire finger. For you to take your place on the body and do your whole part. There’s more! There’s more that God wants to do through you in every way, through your weaknesses that He wants to turn into strengths, through your gifts that are mediocre at best but not excellent yet. He wants to make them excellent, supernaturally. 

There’s more that He wants to do through your seeds. There’s more that He wants you to contribute to the work of God, and He will pour out so many seeds upon your life if you will have faith and have energy and motivation to knock on doors for God to open up new doors for more provision and seeds to come through.

There are some of you who limit yourselves because in your family, people weren’t innovative or creative, or they wouldn’t go above the norm. And so your whole family, your past generations, have been in lack, never having abundant life. So you just go along with the flow. But God, by His anointing, wants to use you to go into the abundant life! He’s made you smart enough, and He’ll give you more intelligence if you’ll surrender everything to Him. He’ll help you with your weaknesses. He’ll turn them into strengths. He’ll make into you someone that people would want to hire and pay well! He’ll make you into that if you’ll believe and want to sow more for God, do more for God, more than mediocre. 

God is looking for people who want to pay the cost. There are some people to whom God wants to give a house, but to them, it seems too big. It seems like too much to do. They would have to save up so much money; they would have to figure out other sources of income; they would have to sacrifice some things, like coffee or shopping. And so they settle, and they’re content. They live somewhere small or with roommates their whole lives. But that’s where they want to be. They would rather not pay the cost for the greater things. In the spiritual realm, we have to be careful that we’re not like that. Some people, if they knew what they had to go through, would probably say, “No, I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to go through that, so I’ll do something not as powerful.” 

So I started recognizing, “Oh, this is the cost!” God wants us to be OK with the cost, with the sacrifice. We should desire it, because that means elevation is coming! We should think, “Oh, there is this open door to have this greater thing? Great! Let’s work more! Let’s sow more to get there! This door has just opened!” Rather than seeing it open and saying, “Hmm, I don’t know if I really want it. It looks like too much work.” 

Matthew 6:25-26

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about the body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet their heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Birds don’t even sow! They’re not even doing work for the kingdom. But God cares about them. God provides for them. God blesses them. Are you not of more value than them? You have so much more value. God blesses them, and you are actually sowing into the kingdom! God wants to bless you tremendously, let alone provide for your basic needs. 

Matthew 6:27-33

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” ot “What shall we wear?” For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.

All these things—meaning all of your needs—but also all of the desires of your heart that align with God’s will. And much more! Now to Him who does exceedingly beyond whatever you can ask, think, dream, imagine (Ephesians 3:20)!

Seeking first the kingdom of God means to be about the Father’s business. It means to contribute, to do your part, to partner with God in advancing His work on this earth—the preaching of the gospel, the equipping of the believers, the healing of the sick, the casting out of demons, the raising of the dead, the releasing of the fire of the Holy Spirit, the releasing of the impartation of anointing. Seeking first the kingdom of God is about doing the work of God. And “His righteousness” is about seeking after the character of Christ, relationship with God—having His heart and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. But seeking first the kingdom of God is the work of God. When you seek after it, which means contributing, serving, and sowing financially—all of these things will be added. Every seed you sow to God will never be in vain. You will see a reward in heaven and on earth. He will do it supernaturally. He will open up doors that don’t make sense. He will bring a supernatural favor, specifically upon you, and that’s how certain doors will open up. He will shock you with how He pours out these blessings upon your life as a reaping from what you have sown into the work of God. 

Test God in this. It says in Malachi, “Test me in this. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse and see that I will pour out so many blessings that there is no room for all of the blessings” (3:10). God says, “Test me in this.” He is saying, “This is a principle of mine. I promise you this.” 

What you sow, you will reap. And so much more. The reaping is not just getting back what you’ve given. It’s always more and it’s always supernatural.

After “Revival is now!” was prophesied through my spiritual father Prophet GeorDavie, God called us to start having Sunday services in a building, until Covid happened a few years later. I had a part-time job and we had just twenty people in the church, and we decreased from fifteen to ten to five to two over those four years. The offering that came in would not cover the expenses of the building. So I would ask my parents for help, because I didn’t know what else to do, and I knew God was calling us to have church every Sunday. For years, my parents graciously gave. Their seeds were needed every single week, or we wouldn’t have been able to pay the rent. 

When revival broke out in March 2021, it was the first time in almost four years that they didn’t have to contribute financially to the work of God. When they first time to visit me after revival broke out, I had an apartment that had one spare room as my office, so I put an air mattress in it and I was able to host them. Recently, I got a bed for them when they visit, in a guest room. Now, when they visit, I can bless them financially. It astounds me because there were years when it was the opposite. For years and years, I couldn't bless them financially with anything. 

I share this testimony for you to see how they have reaped upon sowing into the work of God. The greatest blessing of course is for them to see thousands, millions encountering Jesus’ love and power and being healed and delivered. That’s the greatest reward. That’s the greatest joy, I know, for them. 

Even myself, ever since I started serving God in this work, in this anointing, I’ve sacrificed, I’ve sown so much financially. I’ve sown most of the seeds I receive to the work of God, so that events can take place. And I’ve seen God increase and increase, and I’ve seen the power of sowing. God does not lie. There is a true reaping that takes place that’s beyond your wildest dreams. And when you sow to God, He keeps increasing you and lifting you as you sow, as you sacrifice in this way. 

Philippians 4:14-20, TPT

You’ve so graciously provided for my essential needs during this season of difficulty, For I want you to know that the Philippian church was the only church that supported me in the beginning as I went out to preach the gospel. You were the only church that sowed into me financially, and when I was in Thessalonica, you supported me for well over a year. I mention this not because I’m requesting a gift, but so that the fruit of your generosity may bring you an abundant reward. I now have all I need, more than enough. I’m abundantly satisfied! For I’ve received the gift you sent by Epaphroditus and viewed it as a sweet sacrifice, perfumed with the fragrance of your faithfulness, which is so pleasing to God! I am convinced that my God will fully satisfy every need you have, for I have seen the abundant riches of glory revealed to me through the Anointed One, Jesus Christ. And God our Father will receive all the glory and honor throughout the eternity of eternities. Amen.

Paul is saying, “Because you have given financially, I pray you will receive an abundant reward. And I know you will receive abundantly, because I have. I have given my life. I have given my all for Jesus. I have sowed and sowed and sacrificed, and I have seen Jesus bless me and pour out so much abundant life upon me, so I know you will receive the same, as you have sought first the kingdom of God, too!” 

This is what God is speaking to you now. He is calling you to seek first His kingdom on a greater level. He is calling you to make a greater sacrifice, to pay a greater cost, because He wants to lift you personally and He wants to lift this move of God, this church. There is a cost to this elevation.

I was shocked to hear the price of the stadium for São Paulo, Brazil. I have done many events, so I’ve gotten to know the costs of venues around the world. In places like Europe, Australia, America, Canada, those regions are usually around the same price and they’re the highest. In other places, like South Africa and the Philippines, the cost was less. We hosted an event in an arena in the Philippines and it was not as much as you would think an arena would be. For Brazil, I wasn’t seeing it as a European venue or a North American venue. The moment I heard the price, at first I wondered if we were being scammed. We’re not! But I was shocked! At first, I had a feeling of dread. And then God reminded me, “Do you remember? Every time there has been elevation, there has been a great cost. And it’s coming in different ways.” 

I shared with you my story. The cost didn’t look the same every time. It’s a different part of you that you have to give up; a different part of you that you have to sacrifice, every time. All of a sudden, this made perfect sense. This makes perfect sense in the spirit, because I know the spiritual ways; I know the kingdom ways of God. This elevation that God is bringing is massive! God has opened up a great door and there is opposition, a new battle, new obstacles, just like Paul said. But God has opened up a MASSIVE door. Thousands and thousands have registered, more than we’ve ever seen. Ever! For any event! Glory to God! This is something to celebrate, because it’s like the day of Pentecost versus Jesus’ hometown. In Jesus’ hometown, hardly any miracles could happen. There was little hunger. But on the day of Pentecost, there was massive hunger and expectancy! And God moved like never before. It’s like that. That’s why we’re so excited and expectant for God to move in Brazil like we’ve never seen, because the hunger and the expectancy is like we have never seen. Hallelujah!

I know that what God will do at Revival is Now São Paulo will have effects across the whole world. God will use this event to open up the eyes of many—eyes that have been closed, eyes that have not seen that this revival is a genuine move of God, eyes that have not been seeing because they’ve been hindered by the religious spirit. Those eyes will see. God will do new kinds of wonders at this event that we haven’t seen before. People’s eyes will open up globally and that will lead to new doors that God will open up, through more acceptance of His move. It will lead to many more people encountering Jesus and His power. It will lead to revival spreading in more nations and cities and states. There is a big elevation coming. God is already showing us. It’s not a surprise, because He is telling us, “There’s a big cost to this elevation, and it’s worth it.”

It’s worth it. It’s worth it for what God will do in this revival, for Him to reach many more people, and it’s worth it for every single person—there are thousands in Brazil—to be delivered and healed and encounter Jesus. They are worth it! They are worth us sacrificing more. They are worth it. God loves them so much. And He is calling us to partner with Him, so that they may be touched and healed and delivered and that revival may spread in the nation of Brazil and beyond.

I hear so many testimonies of people being healed and delivered through a Sunday service while watching online or through a Revival is Now event around the world. People are watching online and being healed and delivered, and giving their lives to Jesus. It’s so powerful. Maybe you think you sow just into Sunday services for the people of Los Angeles, but there’s somebody in Japan, somebody in Hawaii, somebody in Germany, somebody in Brazil, somebody in South Africa who is being healed and delivered through the screen and is giving their life to Jesus through the screen.

God put so much attention to Los Angeles, for years. But all those seeds that were sown into Los Angeles, my parents sowing seeds into this ministry here in Los Angeles; now there are people all over the world who are being healed and delivered and saved, because of sowing into a work of God in one city. This is powerful, this work of God—every event that we do; it’s all connected, this is all God’s move. So it has this domino effect. 

I want you, as part of the revival army, to have a heart for this move of God in general, for God’s move. Right now God has this plan: He is getting ready to move in Brazil like never before, and He knows the doors that will open up for His whole revival globally because of what He does in Brazil. And He knows each person by name, thousands upon thousands. He knows each of them by name, and He knows what He is going to release to each of them: healing and deliverance, salvation, fire of the Holy Spirit. He has this plan for all of them. And He knows also that there’s someone in China, someone in Korea, someone in Austria, someone in Finland, someone in Canada, someone in New Zealand, someone in Argentina who will be delivered and healed and receive a touch from Him through the screen as He moves in São Paulo. God knows this! He is getting ready to move in Brazil, and He has this heart for His Brazilian people. But He also has this heart for the person in Japan and for the person in Finland.

I am sharing more of God’s vision. God wants you to grab the greater vision, to know that when you sow into São Paulo, Brazil, for example, you are sowing into revival spreading in your city, in your nation. There will be a reaping from that. And you are sowing into your own spiritual life. There will be a reward and reaping in your own personal life. 

Romans 12:1

So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to Him, an offering that is only for God and pleasing to Him. Considering what He has done it is only right that you should worship Him in this way.

I want to mention the biggest reason that God calls us to sacrifice more: every time we sacrifice more, we are transformed. Our calling in this life is to be selfless. Our calling in this life is to be a servant of God, not a servant of ourselves, not a servant of our desires. That is our calling, to be a servant of God, to lay down our lives completely. That doesn’t come by just a prayer to God, by saying, “I surrender everything, God.” It comes by being obedient to sacrifice, and sacrifice more, in each season God is calling you to sacrifice more. 

Money has no hold on me, glory to God! But that has come from sacrificing money. It has come from giving it to God and giving it to God and giving it to God again. I’m so grateful that money has no hold on me and I can be free to be a pure vessel for God in every way, including giving finances.

Also, I don’t care what people think about me. Lies can be spoken about me—I don’t care! It doesn’t feel good, but I don’t care. I fear God and not people, truly! But that didn’t happen just randomly. It happened from going through persecution, that greater cost. I had to lay down my ego and I had to make the choice to think, “People are lying about me, and I have to choose to not care and not defend myself and just keep my eyes on Jesus and fear Him alone.”

Before all of these seasons of elevation in my life, God called me to sacrifice something different. And every time I sacrificed something different, it led me to be more selfless. It led me to be more surrendered. It led me to be more like Jesus. That’s the big reason why God calls us to sacrifice more when He brings the elevation. To handle the elevation, we need to be more like Him than we currently are.

It’s better to give than to receive (Acts 20:35). When you lose your life, then you will find it (Matthew 16:25). When we sacrifice, we find a heaven-on-earth life: reaping, abundant life, transformation, our purpose on this earth fulfilled, because God can now use us.