This message was shared by Apostle Kathryn Krick Lead Pastor/ Apostle of 5F Church in Los Angeles, CA on August 3, 2025. Below is a word for word transcription of the message as if Apostle Kathryn is writing this to you. To watch the full video, scroll to the bottom of this post. We pray this teaching blesses you and equips you to walk as a powerful vessel of God.   

I am going to be sharing about being on the winning team, which is on God’s team. When you are on the winning team, you are on God’s side. I’m going to be sharing what it is like to be on the winning team on God’s side and how to get there, how to be on the winning team.

I first want to talk about different types of Christians in the body of Christ today. There are different types of Christians. There should only be one type of Christian and that is one who is fully surrendered to Jesus and is really aligning themselves with God’s principles, with God’s way. Not surrendering your own way, surrendering to God according to religion, according to religious doctrine, what you think is the right way to surrender - but humbling yourself so that God can open up your eyes to see what surrender really means, to see what laying your life down and becoming a disciple really looks like. You have to seek God to find Him. You have to seek Him with all of your heart in order for your eyes to open up to see really what God means in His word, the true revelation of His word.

One type of Christian that we see today are lukewarm Christians. We get this word from how it says in revelation, God says, because you are not hot or cold, you are lukewarm, I will spit you out. So the word lukewarm means, not on fire, not surrendered. It means, living a double life. It means, living the Christian way sometimes but living your way other times. A lukewarm Christian has doors opened up to the devil. They have given a foothold to the devil in certain areas of their life. So when a person is lukewarm, not only is this not pleasing to God, not only is this a path where it is not certain if you’ll go to heaven - that’s the narrow road, where we can have confidence of where we are going, when we are surrendered and walking on the narrow road - so not only is it that you don’t have that certainty and that’s a dangerous place to be, but also, when a person is a lukewarm Christian, they are giving access to the devil. They are opening up doors to the enemy and what that looks like is giving authority to the enemy for him to have his way in their life. When you surrender to God, you are closing doors to the devil, you are not giving the devil access. You are saying No to temptations, you are saying No to the devil’s lies, you are saying No to the devil’s portion that he is trying to inflict on your life. You are instead saying Yes fully to God. You are saying Yes to believing in God and believing in His word. You are saying Yes to His word, where it says, by His stripes we are healed. You are prescribing yourself, subscribing yourself to that doctrine. You are saying, “This is my truth, that I must be healed, that I must be free. I won’t accept the devil’s portion on my life. I stand on the word of God. I reject the devil’s lies. And I will do the necessary to receive freedom and healing, if I need that”, which means surrendering to God, which means renouncing. It means positioning yourself where God’s power is, so God’s power can come upon you and deliver you and heal you. And it means being planted, so you are receiving spiritual protection over your life and also being equipped to have victory over the devil and have your eyes opened up spiritually so the devil can never deceive you. That’s a surrendered life. So a lukewarm life is when you are giving authority to the enemy by having these doors opened up. It’s like you are agreeing with the enemy’s portion on your life and what he wants for your life in some areas. That’s the action of living lukewarm. That’s the action of having those doors opened up. 

When a person is living a lukewarm Christian life, they are missing out on the hand of God upon their lives. They are missing out on accessing the supernatural power of God. They are missing out on the miraculous life that a Christian is intended to have. They are missing out on abundant life. And the big reason of this is because they are giving access to the enemy. You can’t have it both ways. If that is you, you are choosing the enemy’s portion. You receive abundant life, you receive miracles, you receive the supernatural life, when you stand firmly on God’s side. When you surrender to God, that is when you receive that. 

Another type of Christian that we see is a Christian that has most or all doors shut to the enemy. They are living on the outside what looks like a great, beautiful Christian life. They are not doing the sins that we consider the main sins, like drinking and doing drugs and sleeping around and swearing and living impure sexual lifestyles and stealing and lying and cheating. They are not doing any of those things. They are going to church regularly, they are reading the bible, they are praying. They are treating people with kindness. They are serving in the church. They’re doing all of these things. They are praying, having a relationship with God - BUT they are not accepting God’s move. They are not accepting revival. They are not accepting God’s anointing. They are not accepting of God doing a new thing. They want to stay with the status quo. They want to stay in tradition. They want to stay where it’s comfortable, where most Christians are, where things are popular, where there is no controversy, where there is no drama because of persecution. That’s where they want to be. So on the outside it looks like they are a great Christian and they are not opening up doors to the devil. 

This type of Christian, because they are not opening up all these doors to the devil, for the most part they probably aren’t experiencing any bondage. For the most part they have peace most of the time. They have Jesus in their hearts, Holy Spirit in their life. They have a pretty good life. But they are not experiencing a miraculous life. They have peace and joy, but not abundant peace and abundant joy. They don’t experience this wild favor, like the testimonies we heard. They don’t experience that. So when they share with someone about their life with Christ, they don’t describe any miracles. They just describe that now they have peace and their life is pretty good and they know where they are going when they die and they have a friend in Jesus. But there’s no testimony of the miraculous happening, there’s no testimony of the mighty hand of God coming upon their lives. And there’s not a lot of fruit in their lives where people are being saved, healed and delivered as God moves through them. 

This is the status of a lot of Christians today. And some of these Christians, by the way, do have bondage and that is due to generational curses; or it is due to abuse that maybe occurred when they were children, or in their life before they were a believer, they opened up a lot of doors. So some of these believers are in church today and they have all doors shut to the devil, but they have bondage, because they need the anointing to come upon them to destroy the yokes. The anointing is the POWER OF GOD that moves through vessels. But there’s both. If we go to churches today, where the anointing is not spoken about and the power of God is not demonstrated, like most churches that we see today, you’ll see a big mix of those believers. You’ll see lukewarm but you’ll also see people who are serious about living the Christian life but not open to the power of God or not hungry for the power of God. Some of those Christians they won’t have bondage because they are keeping doors shut to the enemy and other people, though they are not opening doors to the enemy, they have bondage from the past that needs to be dealt with, that needs the anointing to come upon their lives. That’s another type of Christian that we see today.

Then we have the Christian Pharisees, which is conflicting. Polar opposites. They call themselves Christians but they are really Pharisees. They say they are on God’s team, but they are literally on the devil’s team. On the outside they may look like they are thriving, they may look like God is with them, on the outside, but on the inside this isn’t the case. Because you can’t be against God and see God’s favor upon your life and see God’s hand upon your life. That can’t work. It doesn’t work that way. And these Pharisees that came against Jesus, they were 100% on the devil’s team. They were saying they were on God’s team. Many of them may have believed they were really on God’s team. But in reality they were on the devil’s team. They were being influenced by the devil and they were carrying out the devil’s work to try to keep people away from Jesus, from receiving from Jesus and being disciples, to falsely accuse Jesus, to crucify Jesus and persecute Him. There’s always been Pharisees ever since the Pharisees in the times of Jesus. And before the Pharisees in the times of Jesus there were Pharisees in the Old Testament that would come against the servants of God, like Jezebel for example. But these Pharisees of today, they can be those Christians that look like really great Christians on the outside. They are in the church always, they are preaching very good. They are talking about how much they love God. They seem to be doing lots of good works and they are so passionate about God, it seems. They passionately speak about false prophets and protecting people from being deceived and all of this. It can look on the outside like they have this fire for Jesus and this great love for people, but in reality they are on the devil’s team. There’s no God’s hand upon them, bringing miracles upon their life when they are on the devil’s team. 

When you think about Saul; Saul was acting like a Pharisee, trying to kill the anointed servant of God, David. When you look at Saul, once he lets jealousy enter his heart, it says that a demonic spirit entered him and he would be tormented by these demonic spirits. It would make him have serious mental problems. He opened a door to the devil through being influenced by the jealousy lies. It’s like he said ”Yes” to the devil, “I will accept jealousy and I will now hate David, the servant of God, anointed king. And I will now even try to kill him, get him killed.” He is now carrying out the devil’s works. 

If you imagine being in that time - remember Saul was king and he was even anointed by a true prophet, Samuel - so imagine being in that time and you are seeing, he is an anointed servant of God, but now he is on this mission to kill David. You are seeing that there’s armies backing Saul up. It wasn’t just Saul trying to take out David, it’s not like everyone said, “No, David is anointed, we won’t go and try to kill David with you, Saul.” No, they did what Saul said to do. He was king. And it's been so many years. It's been many years that Saul is on the hunt for David. He is hunting him, trying to kill him, with armies behind Saul. Years are going by. So just imagine, if you are a person back then in that time, seeing this going on, you could wrongly think or wonder if God was with Saul, because he is not being struck down. God literally allowed Saul to keep hunting David for all these years. He let him keep doing that. So what I’m saying is, as a bystander back then you might be confused. You don’t see Saul having repercussions. And you are not seeing the inside of him that is tormented by demonic spirits. On the outside, he is still king. For years. On the outside he has armies backing him up. On the outside, poor David is hiding in caves. I thought God is supposed to be with him?! 

But now we know that God was with him, but He wanted him to go through this refining fire! And at the proper time, in God’s perfect timing, God would bring David victory. He would make Saul to be stopped and the promise would be fulfilled. David would be placed as king, which was God’s call for his life. Nothing could stop that. He was given that victory! 

God wasn’t missing anything through the time David was being hunted. He was allowing this for David’s refining fire so that he could be prepared for this great calling. That was his preparation. Character was being built. His faith was being built through this, through going through these trials. That’s what the refining fire does. It’s what brings gold. It takes out the impurities.

But as a bystander it can maybe look like what Saul is doing isn’t so bad. Maybe God is still with him? But God wasn’t with him. The anointing left him and He even sent a demonic spirit to him. Pharisees have serious repercussions and what you sow, you will reap. God wants them to turn to Him and repent and He will make them like Paul who used to be Saul and remove their past. So there is that hope, hallelujah. But what I just want to say is, don’t think that if a person doesn’t choose to repent, that they just get away with it. What you sow, you reap. And don’t be fooled if it looks like there aren’t repercussions, just because you don’t see God strike them down. God has so much mercy. He gives people years and years and years to repent. And His ways are so different than ours. 

He is a God of justice, don’t be mistaken. He is the God of justice. But His justice looks different than what we think justice looks like. His justice looks like staying with us in the caves, sticking beside us, not letting us perish, allowing us to go through refining fire - it’s for our good! He is leading us into the wilderness like Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. That doesn’t sound like fun. That was not fun but that’s where the Holy Spirit led Jesus for His good. To be tested. To be refined. As an example for us. That we must go through this refining, through this wilderness, be tempted, be tested by the devil. Justice looks different. The justice that we are thinking of, it does come. It does come! But later than we want it, usually. But this justice also looks like proving Himself through us by our fruits, and people pure in heart seeing those fruits and seeing that God is with you. And this justice and God being with you, looks like miracles continuing to pour upon your life. Abundance of peace, abundance of joy, whether it’s the mountain top or the valley. And God being able to use you mightily, like how Joseph even was used mightily by God in the prison, as God used him to interpret dreams to the people who were in prison with him. So whether you are in the valley or the mountain top, the glory of God can still be revealed through you and God can still do miracles through you. The hand of God is still upon your life. And He will rescue you from every attack of the devil. 

So that’s what is going on in the inside that many people don’t see. That’s what is going on in the inside. That’s the truth. God’s hand is with you in the mountain tops or the valleys. Hallelujah. But God’s hand is not with the Pharisees. They are not experiencing the miraculous life and they are actually reaping. They are reaping bondage. An don’t be fooled when it looks like people are prospering. The devil gives rewards too. But the blessings of God come without sorrow. And the “rewards from the devil” come with sorrow. That looks like demonic spirits, bondage; that can look like, every single day flooded with guilt and condemnation; it can look like a life where there is no protection of God, so anything bad can happen and it not be turned around for good because you are not serving God. It’s a life of hell on earth. Even if it’s not shown on the outside, do not be fooled by Pharisees of today. That is not someone you want to align with. You don’t want to follow their example. God’s hand will not be with you. 

That’s how not to be on the winning team. Now I want to talk about how to be on the winning team. When you stand firmly with God, stand firmly, and you surrender your life to Jesus truly, which means accepting His move, which means accepting the cost, accepting persecution that goes along with surrendering to God, the mighty hand of God will be upon your life every day. And He will bring you victory upon victory, an overwhelming victory, every day in every situation. You will experience a life of miracles, a supernatural life, every day. Supernatural favor, that doesn’t make sense. 

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

“Be on guard; stand firm in your faith [in God, respecting His precepts and keeping your doctrine sound]. Act like [mature] men and be courageous; be strong. Let everything you do be done in love, motivated and inspired by God’s love for us.”

So, respecting His precepts, a synonym I looked up online for precepts is principles. So, God’s way of moving, God’s ways, not being a Christian in whatever way you want, but truly respecting and following His principles, like His new wine principles that have been so lost in the body of Christ that He is restoring now. Such as His principle of how He releases miracles and moves in power, which is by His anointing He puts in vessels. And also a principle of how to receive anointing through impartation, not just any old way, but impartation like we see Elijah released to Elisha, Paul released to Timothy, Moses released to Joshua. His principles of sowing and reaping, both financially and sowing in different areas. His principles of the power of life and death is in the tongue so be very serious about only speaking positive, or else you're opening up doors to the enemy in your life. His principles of being planted in one church, a church where God’s power is moving, and a church that God is truly calling you specifically to be planted in, because that’s where you will be equipped to have victory over the enemy, and to be a powerful vessel of God. That’s where you’ll receive impartation, that’s where you’ll receive a protection in the spiritual realm, that’s where you will receive the anointing to destroy any yoke whenever you need it, receive miracles when you need it. 

So, I just briefly mentioned some of the principles, new wine principles that are, by and large, not being taught in the body of Christ today, but are so foundational for every believer. This is a big part of surrender to Jesus, and this is how we stand firmly with God, on His side, and this is when you will see abundant life come upon your life, this is when you will see the miraculous come upon your life, the favor come upon your life. This is where God can entrust you with anointing because you are actually respecting His precepts, respecting His principles as this verse says, “Respecting His precepts and keeping your doctrine sound. Act like [mature] men (and women), and be courageous; be strong.” If you didn’t see last Sunday’s message, watch it. Remember last Sunday how I shared one of the most important ways of obedience, meaning of obedience to God, is to be mature, to be spiritually mature-that is a choice-to take seriously the teachings, these principles that are released to you, and apply them, actually apply them in your life. So it says here, “Act like mature men (and women),” so that’s a choice, that’s an action you must do! Be mature! And be courageous! Be strong! You don't have to wait for the feelings of courage, you don’t have to wait for the feelings of strength, you can actually be courageous and be strong right now. Everyday it’s up to you, because God lives in you. So when you choose to do something He backs you up. When you choose to do what He is calling you to do, He gives you the strength and the ability to do it. You are not without the Holy Spirit calling out to God to come and give you strength, He’s in you, BE STRONG, BE MATURE, APPLY THE PRINCIPLES and you will be amazed at how the power of God gives you the strength, gives you the ability, to do all that He is asking you to do. To do hard things, that aren’t hard with God.

“Let everything you do be done in love, motivated and inspired by God’s love for us.” So this scripture, the first verse, (1 Corinthians 16:13), it’s saying, stand firm, stand firm in your faith, respect His principles, act mature, be courageous and strong, do everything in love. This is a great summary of what it means to be on God’s side, to stand firm with God. To really be on God’s side, be on His team, where you see His mighty hand move upon your life, you have to stand firm, not wimpy, not swayed back and forth, not just one toe in, not stand beside the will of God, but you have to stand firm directly in God’s will, not caring what other people think, not being moving and shaken when persecution comes, when the devil attacks, standing firm.

So, now I want to give you some examples of what being a real surrendered Christian, real disciple, looks like, one who stands firm with God, and I want you to see what happens in their life when they stand firm. So, we are going to 2 Chronicles 20:17, 24. The word of God is coming to the leader of people of God right now, Jehoshaphat. There is a massive army coming against them. Massive. Way bigger than them in the physical. The word of God comes forth

2 Chronicles 20:17, 24-25 AMP

“You need not fight in this battle, take your positions, stand and witness the salvation of the Lord who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.” When [the men of] Judah came to the lookout tower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies lying on the ground, and no one had escaped. When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including equipment, garments, and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry away; so much that they spent three days gathering the spoil.

So this is what it looks like to stand firmly with God. 

Massive armies are coming against you, but God’s eye is on you, and His hand is upon you, and He is on your side and He brings you, He himself, God Himself, brings you the victory. 

It says you don't even have to fight them, God will fight them, and God brought them an overwhelming victory. So this is the mighty hand of God that comes upon your life when you stand with God. 

Now these people that experienced this mighty hand of God, God’s people, they were in God’s army, they were an army, they were being about the Father’s business. They were not just living however they wanted, being lazy, but they were active, actively in God’s army. This is when we see God’s mighty hand come upon them. So, to stand firm with God, to really stand with God, means to love His people, to be about His business, to take your place in the revival army, not be a bystander and just watch, but to stand in that army. That’s when you get to experience the mighty hand of God, bringing you victory.

Ok, now we are going to see the example of Joshua, Joshua 6:1. Now we have another group of God’s people, they were an army as well, and they were on a mission. God was taking them into the promised land, not just so that they could frolic and have fun and enjoy the food and the sunshine. But He was bringing them there for a purpose, He was bringing them there to fulfill His mission, His assignment that He had for them. He was calling them to do the work of God, and this work of God would continue up until now and keeps on going. This is the history of the work of God, this is our lineage. So, they were an army of God once again, and it says,

Joshua 6:1-2 AMP

Now Jericho [a fortified city with high walls] was tightly closed because [of the people’s fear] of the sons of Israel; no one went out or came in, The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty warriors.”

So after this, then God instructs them on what to do, of how to see the victory, how to see God’s victory. So He instructed them to walk around the walls of Jericho several times for several days and after the last time that he called them to march around the walls of Jericho, God made the walls to come down. So, they weren’t doing anything with such force, what they were doing was very simple, marching around, yelling, shouting, playing the trumpet. They aren’t doing anything too crazy, too wild, they are just simply obeying God, and keeping on going obeying God, not putting their logic into it, their mind into it so much, but just simply like a child obeying what God has spoken, keeping on going, not stopping short, and then they experience God’s mighty hand come and bring them victory. And now God says, “I have given (you),” oh, that’s powerful! “I have given (you),” it’s already done! This is before, this is when they are outside of the walls, they weren’t even trying to chip away at the blocks yet or anything. They weren’t trying to throw weapons, bombs or something in the devils camp, they’re just simply children of God who are standing firm with God, obeying Him day by day, and all of a sudden God says, ”I’ve given you this land. This is how you will see the victory come that I’ve already given you, you just do a simple thing of obeying, and I will give it to you, I have given it to you!” You see how powerful it is to stand firm with God in His army! Revival army! Wow!

Now we are going to the example of David, 1 Samuel 17:46. So, David was about his Father’s business as well. He was commanding armies, he was doing the work of God, he was not just chilling, hanging out, worshipping God with his harp alone, he was doing the work of God commanding the armies, worshipping God, and worshipping Him also with the works. So, there are many battles that David had where he was coming against enemies, the people of God were coming against armies, and God would just give them victory after victory after victory. But before we get to that, we are going to go backward to before he was king, and this scripture is when he defeated Goliath. God called him to defeat Goliath and it says,

1 Samuel 17:46-50

“Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!’ As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.

So we see in this scripture, we see that it’s God bringing this victory once again. So, when David obeys with the slingshot and the stone, it was God’s power in him, moving in his arm, pulling it back just the right amount, aiming it just the right way. It was the power of God upon that stone, gliding it into the air, to hit it at the perfect spot that would knock Goliath down dead. Look how powerful it is when you stand firm with God, the victory God brings you. 

So then we see now, David becomes king later on, and now he is having many battles and God is bringing him victory every time. Here is one example, 

2 Samuel 8:13-14

So David became even more famous when he returned from destroying 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He placed army garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. In fact, the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

I’m going to read that again. In fact, the Lord MADE DAVID VICTORIOUS everywhere he went.

Now we are going to look at the example of Elisha, 2 Kings 6:15-17

In this story, Elisha’s servant comes and he finds this huge army that’s way bigger than Elisha’s army, their army, the army of God, in the physical and he’s really concerned, he’s worried. And it says: 

2 Kings 6:15-17 

When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. “Oh, sir, what will we do now?” the young man cried to Elisha. “Don’t be afraid!” Elisha told him. “For there are more on our side than on theirs!” Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.

In other words, there was an angelic army, God's army, in the spiritual realm that was so much bigger than that physical army coming against them and God gave them victory. God gave Elisha victory. 

All of these examples in the word of God, these are just some. There are many more but time and time again, we find these servants of God who are truly surrendered to God, who are about the Father’s business, who are standing in God’s revival army, God brings them victory every time. God's hand moves and defeats the enemies for them, every time. 

In the Bible, in these examples in the Bible in the Old Testament that I shared with you, these are physical armies, physical army of God having victory over the physical armies coming against them, their enemies, but it was a spiritual battle. 

Now today, it’s the same thing, there is God’s revival army. You are God's revival army. We are God's revival army and there are enemies. There’s the enemy of Pharisees. That’s the main enemies against the work of God that try to come against the revival army, that try to come against God but we have a spiritual army backing us up. We have angel armies backing us up that are more powerful than the demonic armies that are with the Pharisees, the enemies, our enemies. On top of there being an angelic army, we have in general, the MIGHTY HAND OF GOD that sends out the angel army, that backs us up, that moves miraculously, to defeat our enemies every single time. 

The enemies back then, the armies would come, the enemy armies, they would come physically trying to kill people of God, trying to kill the servants of God, like in the case of David, Saul trying to kill David, but today, you can’t get away with that. You can’t get away with just killing people, you’ll go to prison. Seriously, that’s like the difference because times change like that but people are the same, the hatred that the Pharisees have for the people of God, they army of God. They try to kill in different ways, they try to kill through words. They try to kill through exposed videos. They try to kill through social media and all these different ways they try to kill the work, the servants of God, the work of God. They try to kill emotionally in their hearts. They try to kill the actual church, the services, the move of God. It’s so much similar that we see in the Old Testament, the war, the war going on. The war was physical and spiritual back then and it is physical and spiritual today. They physically use words today instead of bullets. They physically upload videos today instead of, back then it probably wouldn’t have been bullets yet, you know what I mean, their weapons that they were using, their bows and arrows and everything. 

The same principle applies of God's army always having victory because you’re on God’s side. If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be successful against us? Nobody. It’s not possible. Nobody can defeat God. No demonic power can defeat God. No exposed video going viral can defeat God. No gross, made up lie, false accusation can defeat God. Nothing can defeat God. Nothing. 

In these examples I give, it’s looking scary, these armies look really big, their weapons look really big, Saul and his army have a big army, it’s David just running in the caves. It looks scary but God's army was so much more massive than their enemies and God's hand came through every time. God didn’t miss a day of battle. It’s not like God was sleeping one day and the devil won. That never happened, never will happen! God's mighty hand will bring victory every single day for His army, for people who are standing with Him in His army, ALWAYS! 

Romans 8:35 

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 

I want to highlight this, does it mean He no longer loves us if we are persecuted? Does it mean the devil is winning if we are persecuted? Does it mean we should be in despair and start worrying and start doubting and maybe give up if we are persecuted? Does it mean the enemies winning if we’re persecuted? Does it mean those who persecute us, Pharisees, are winning if we are persecuted? No! 

As the scriptures say, Romans 8:36 

As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.

We are being slaughtered. Words of death are sent to us in the forms of persecution, servants of God especially. Every day there are negative words whether seen or unseen by the servant of God, sent by Pharisees, by enemies. We are slaughtered like sheep, meaning we are put on the chopping block but God preserves us and we have joy and we have peace and we have victory but people are trying to pick on us, trying to bring us down but they are defeated! But this is the meaning, as it says we are slaughtered. It doesn’t mean we are literally slaughtered, do you see what I mean? It means people are coming against us every day. 

Romans 8:37 

No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

But despite, NO, despite all these things, it says no! Does it mean He no longer loves us if we are persecuted? NO, it says! Despite all these things, despite all persecution, despite all exposed videos, despite all negative words, despite all hatred in hearts of people who are jealous and prideful, despite ALL these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Not just victory, the Bible says overwhelming victory! Overwhelming victory! Woo! Is ours! Is ours! Say, “it’s mine!” Say, “Victory is mine! Victory is mine!” Victory is ours despite everything, no matter what! It’s ours, through Christ who loved us. 

Psalms 112:1-10 

Praise the Lord! How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in obeying his commands. Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed. They themselves will be wealthy, and their good deeds will last forever. Light shines in the darkness for the godly. They are generous, compassionate, and righteous. Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. Such people will not be overcome by evil. Those who are righteous will be long remembered. They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly. They share freely and give generously to those in need. Their good deeds will be remembered forever. They will have influence and honor. The wicked will see this and be infuriated. They will grind their teeth in anger; they will slink away, their hopes thwarted.

This means that the wicked will be frustrated because God will always give you overwhelming victory! This is why we should face our foes with courage. What does it say? Triumphantly. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly. 

In other words. Why would you get down? Be discouraged? Be afraid when persecution comes your way? When people falsely accuse you and lie about you? When people think wrongly about you? When people try to stop YOU and what God has called YOU to do. Why would you fear? Why would you be discouraged? The Bible says that we children of God should face our foes triumphantly. To have fear in the face of persecution, in the face of attack, to have discouragement, to have doubt, to get down, that’s to be cowardly. I mean, that’s to not know or have revelation or remember the God who is on your side, fighting every battle for you, coming with His mighty hand every single time. 

God has taught me this and I pray you learn from my example. I pray even those of you who have been around for some years and have seen me go through some persecution, or maybe if you haven’t been around for a few years but you’ve heard about it, I pray that you can learn. And believe me when I say that there is no need to let the devil get to you, get to your heart whenever persecution comes, whenever someone is trying to stop you, whenever someone's trying to question your faith and trying to stop you from doing what God has called you to do. There’s no reason to fear. There’s no reason to be sad. There’s no reason to doubt. There’s no reason to think maybe they’re winning, maybe the devils winning. You’re believing a lie if you’re doing those things. I’m telling you. You should face your enemies, you should face the devil, you should face persecution triumphantly, every time like how David said, “I’ll fight him! No problem! God who is with me when I’m fighting the animals, the bears, the lions, He’s going to be with me now too! This Goliath is much bigger but I know that He’s going to be with me again even though this enemy is bigger!” And you see David facing Goliath triumphantly. 

God wants you to have this attitude, this confidence of a victor that you are. 

I’ve gone through persecution that I never would’ve dreamed of. I’ve gone through attacks of the devil using people doing evil things, speaking evil things against me, making up lies. I could never imagine people would be capable of doing this, any person let alone someone who calls themself a Christian, a pastor, a minister. I could never imagine this! I’ve been through that time and time again but I have never seen God let me down. I have seen Him bring me victory every time. I have seen Him fight every battle for me. This is years now, this is eight years now I'm talking, eight years I’ve seen God bring victory upon victory for my life. I’ve seen God bring victory after victory for 5F Church and for this move, for this revival. He’s never failed me yet! He’s never failed us yet and He never will! Never! 

I pray you will grasp this revelation so you can live this life of a victor. 

We are not reaching for victory, trying to get victory, it’s not a question on this earth, even though you have a good record as a runner, you don’t really know if you’ll win the race or not. We know we will win because God is on our side! It’s not like on the earth you have a chance of losing. Maybe you’re the best athlete but you could still get an injury. It’s not like that with God! God can’t get an injury. God can’t miss it. He can’t miss! That’s who’s on your team! Leading your team! This is the winning team of Jesus Christ! 

Victory is ours! Victory is ours! Victory is ours! In Jesus Christ, victory is ours. Hallelujah! 

When you’re feeling the heat of persecution, when you’re in a valley, never again think you’re being punished. Never again think the devil is winning. This is different when you’re in the anointing, you’re not in bondage anymore. Was David punished as he was being chased by Saul, was he being punished by God for making a mistake or something? NO! Was Joseph being punished when he was thrown in the pit, when he was then thrown in the prison? NO! God allowed this as a beautiful, precious, necessary, refining fire process for him to become, for David to become as well, the leaders that God intended them to be. 

If you want to be great for God, you have to go through hard things. It’s a joy to go through hard things for the sake of Jesus, for the sake of Him being able to use you how He wants to save and heal and deliver His people. So, it’s a JOY to go through hard things. Jesus says, it says with the joy set before Him, He endured the cross. This should be your attitude if you go through valleys if you go through persecution, this is what I need. God knows I need this. 

There’s a perspective that God wants you to be shifted in your mind. He wants you to understand how you always have victory. He wants you to really grasp that. He doesn’t want you to think you are being punished sometimes when you are in the wilderness. He doesn’t want you to be so confused, when it seems like the promise is delaying - but God never delays in His promise, it’s His perfect timing. He doesn’t want you to be confused, like, “Don’t I deserve the promise by now yet? I don’t understand why it’s not here yet.” He doesn’t want you to be even confused. He wants you to rest, knowing His timing is perfect, knowing His ways are perfect, knowing that you don’t know the big picture. God does. It’s not just about you. It’s not just about you being happy in the promised land and frolicking and enjoying the food and sunshine. You are going to the promised land for a greater purpose. It’s for God’s people. There’s some mysteries you don’t understand as to why things aren’t happening yet. So, rest and live victoriously. Live triumphantly in the waiting. 

The victory is coming and you are already living in it every day with Jesus.

Now think about this: Caleb and Joshua - I don’t know if some of you know this, but it took the Israelites about one to one and a half years to first get to Canaan, the promised land. It should only have taken eleven days, but it took them about one to one and a half years to first get to Canaan, the first time. The first time they reached Canaan, only after a year/a year and a half, God gave them an opportunity to conquer the promised land. He sent spies in there to spy out the land and to see how powerful the enemies were. Caleb and Joshua were among these spies. They came back and there is supposed to be only one right answer that they should have had, which was a good report, saying, “We’ll be able to conquer the enemies”, because God already told them, “I have given you this land”. They already know the stories of the past of how God would always come through. They just saw all of the miracles and signs and wonders and the splitting of the sea. So what are these armies compared to their God?

But all of the spies, except for two, Joshua and Caleb, said, “Oh, they are too big and scary. We are not going to be able to defeat them. We better not even try, because we are going to just die.”

This was a lack of faith. God saw, these people were not ready to go into the promised land. Their faith hadn’t been built up enough yet. They wouldn’t be able to do what God had called them to do when they got in the promised land. They had to be prepared more. They weren’t ready yet. He gave them a chance. But they weren’t ready yet. Except for Joshua and Caleb. They would have been ready. 

So then God sentences them to 40 years in the wilderness for them to get ready, for them to be prepared. And after 40 years, Joshua and Caleb were the only ones that made it from the original group that went into the wilderness. Now it’s a new generation. God was preparing this new generation, making sure that they were ready this time. Then Joshua led them into the promised land.

Now think about this. Can you put yourselves in Joshua and Caleb’s shoes? Can you imagine? You are fully surrendered to God. You are being obedient to follow His principles, to believe His word, to be people of strong faith. And now God has brought you to the promised land. You are ready to walk in your promised land. And God says, “You are ready. But the rest aren’t. I need you to all go together. So you have to wait for 40 years.”

Have you ever thought about that?

What’s impressive about their character is, we don’t see them complaining. We see them being faithful, continue to be faithful to God, wait on God, be patient. And that would be hard to understand, hard to grasp. But they surrendered their understanding to God and just simply trusted God like a child. “I know God is good. God’s ways are higher than mine, so I’ll just obey and not complain and be patient and stand on the word of God that WE WILL ENTER THE PROMISED LAND IN GOD’S PERFECT TIMING.”

Joshua 14:10

Now as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive, this is Caleb speaking.

Now as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well as He promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise - even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old.

Him and Joshua were in their 40s when they went to Canaan the first time. And so then they were 85 and Joshua was in the 70s when they finally got to enter the promised land. But you can hear in their voices in the Scripture, that they weren’t bitter. They had a pure heart before God, they trusted in Him. 

God spoke to me through this Scripture. He spoke to me, it was so powerful, just showing me the promises of revival. It’s not about one person. It’s not about five people. It’s not about 100 people. It’s not about 500 people entering the promised land. 

This promised land of revival expanding all over the world, it’s a much bigger picture than many people realize, than many of you realize. Because in this revival God is transforming His whole body. He is transforming and purifying His whole body. This revival is not just supposed to be about one church, just having their own revival and move. What God is doing is so much bigger. Day by day, step by step, person by person, He is bringing transformation and purification into the whole body of Christ. He is restoring His anointing. He is restoring His new wine ways. It’s massive what God is doing. And this is really humbling because me, you, many of you, may be like Joshua and Caleb - ready to run to stadiums and these big promises that God has spoken of this revival. We may be ready. But others are not yet. So we have to go with God’s timing.

This was true for me even four years ago in 2021, when revival broke out - I really thought that this revival was going to break out years before that, when I first received this prophetic word. And maybe there was an opportunity for it, just like there was an opportunity for the Israelites to go into the promised land after a year/ a year and a half, but instead it took 40. But it wasn’t about me. This revival wasn’t about me. It was about the whole body of Christ being a part of this revival!

Even prophetic words can be this way. Prophetic words can be like, “It’s happening SOON!”, and maybe God does want it to happen in a year but it has to be more years because it depends on if people are ready or not, if they will obey or not. So sometimes these prophetic words that you hear, it is the zeal and excitement of God to do things fast, but it’s up to people to go in His pace. It’s not that the prophecy didn’t come to pass yet; it’s not that the prophecy was delivered wrong - but things can change if people aren’t ready yet. But God is so good and patient. You know, those Israelites, they did make it into the promised land. It just took longer. But they did make it there. This is how it was with this revival. I really thought it was going to break out sooner, but it still broke out! Four and a half years later. There’s the number four again.

There’s more promises of this revival of massive ways God is going to move through the media, move in stadiums - massive promises God has given me, God has given 5F Church, God has given this move of God, this revival, where we have just seen a little bit of what is in store. But God is moving so perfectly in His timing, in His ways that are beyond our understanding. This is the importance of us remembering, the promises are not about us! It’s about God’s people! So when you find yourself getting so obsessed with the promise, “Why isn’t it here yet?”, you are probably thinking about yourself too much. The promise isn’t about yourself. It’s about other people. It’s about God. It’s about the body of Christ.

We are the Joshua generation! 

We are the Joshua generation, entering the promised land of revival!

God spoke this specifically to me, He said, “Today I want my people to celebrate the victories that I have brought them. The victories I have brought them in this revival, I want them to celebrate!” He wants us to celebrate today! He has brought so many victories to us and He is going to continue to bring so many victories. 

I was so amazed in Sweden, because we started the 5F Church small groups just a few months ago and I am just in awe of God, of the victories He has brought through these small groups, of the expansion of this revival that He has brought through these small groups. It’s so powerful, in such a short amount of time. And I celebrate God! I celebrate what He is doing, spreading this revival in other nations and states, hallelujah! We have 40 small groups around the US and around the world. 18 of these small groups are in other nations around the world. In Sweden I was seeing two of the leaders of the small group and also other small group leaders in Finland and Norway. They were on the stage sharing the announcements and just standing as leaders in God’s revival army for their nation, for Scandinavia, for the Nordic. I met with these small groups and I’m in awe of how God is equipping and building His church, His revival in all of these different nations. 

The Lord was showing me, these small group leaders and many of you here, those who serve at 5F Church, you are like Joshua and Caleb! There are many around you, there are many believers around you - churches that you came from, family, friends of the past - who did not have that spirit. There’s a Scripture that says that Joshua and Caleb had a different spirit. It literally says the word “a different spirit”. And they reported the good report. They had a spirit of humility, childlikeness and faith and obedience. YOU HAVE THAT SPIRIT!

Others don’t have that spirit. They call themselves Christians. They are Christians of these different categories that I shared. They don’t have that spirit, but you have that spirit and you are like Joshua and Caleb in this Joshua generation we are in! 

Look at this: First of all, Moses was used mightily by God to be a leader for Joshua and Caleb. He led the way, transforming them to be like God and to follow God and to believe in God and to receive impartation. He did his job. And then their job, Joshua and Caleb’s job, was then to be an example for that new generation that would then enter the promised land! Look how powerful one person, Moses, is, even if it’s just two people that bore fruit from him. And then those two people were an example for millions of Israelites. People followed their example and God saw, they were ready now, they were transformed, they could go into the promised land!

God spoke this to me, that those of you that are here, those of you that are serving, those of you who are small group leaders, those across the world, who have said YES to Jesus, you are in this revival army - you are like Joshua and Caleb!

What you are doing is SO POWERFUL! People are following your example whether you know it or not! You are the light in the darkness! You are carrying the torch of revival and many will come and believe in Jesus, will come and be a part of this revival, because of your example. Hallelujah!

God was giving me this picture. When you think about it, it feels really depressing that there’s millions of Israelites and only two make it. Only two can be faithful to God. Ugh! It’s kind of depressing to think about, right?! This is how it can be in revival. “How come there’s so much rejection? How come people don’t get it? How come people don’t see?” You feel like such a minority, especially among your family and friends.

Joshua and Caleb. You’re like Joshua and Caleb.

But SO MANY PEOPLE entered the promised land because of Joshua and Caleb’s example. It changed! The tide turned! Drastically! Because they obeyed God! And this is what we are going to see in this revival. The tides are turning! It’s happening! We are entering the promised land of revival! We are already there, but we’ll enter the promised land of revival being accepted all over the world in the body of Christ, not being hindered or held back! Hallelujah!

MARCH ON, JOSHUA GENERATION! March on! God is using you powerfully! 

You will make history like Joshua and Caleb made history! This is the end time revival. This revival will never end. And you will be known as the Joshua generation.

Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus!

God, we thank you for all these victories you have brought us.

We have a slide here and I want us to celebrate what God has done so far.

These are nations and cities where Revival is Now events or Conferences have been in the past four years. Just four years!

19 nations!

Look, it’s all over the world!

This is despite so much persecution. So many schemes of the devil, using people, speaking nonsense. False accusations. Making their videos. This is after people were trying to stop these events from happening in all different ways. I’m not going to reveal all the ways. I don’t want to give anybody ideas. Someday I will share with you. But all these different ways people have tried, have made great efforts - not great, but they took a lot of effort - to stop these events from happening, to stop us from having church.

And look what God has done! Nothing could stop these events from going forth! Not a single one did the devil win.

In every single event so many people have been saved, healed, delivered, encountered the love of Jesus, received impartation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, were set on fire - every single one! Every single one!

SO MUCH VICTORY! 

We have people planted from 162 nations. Even someone in Palestine became part of 5F Church this week.

This is overwhelming victory! We can’t count the victories!

We can’t count the battles, there’s been so many. And we can’t count the victories. 

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD! How great is our God! Thank you Jesus!

If you are not already, I want to encourage you: Come to the winning team! Stand firmly on God’s side! This is where you’ll see His mighty hand come upon your life - favor upon favor - and live a life of miracles every day. This is where you will be used powerfully by God and fulfill your purpose on this earth.

Come, be a part of the revival army. It’s time! Amen.