What does it mean for the Christian to know God? Far beyond the biblical data, knowing God is personal, intimate, and transformational. Bible data cannot produce this on its own. To know God is also to experience His power through the Holy Spirit. The spiritual union between the Christian and God produces different spiritual experiences in us, depending on how we rely on the Holy Spirit. In the end, His power in us and through us results in the believers overcoming suffering, trials, testings, and spiritual attack. These are outcomes which proceed from healthy spiritual DNA.

Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is walk away. This message challenges us to reconsider our understanding of biblical relationships and confronts the uncomfortable truth that not every connection is meant to be maintained. Scripture actually gives us permission—and sometimes commands us—to separate from people who consistently breed controversy, quarrels, and division. Paul describes these individuals as 'puffed up with conceit' yet 'understanding nothing,' a dangerous combination of arrogance and ignorance. We're called to be kind, teachable, and gentle in our corrections, but when someone repeatedly demonstrates an unhealthy craving for controversy and refuses godly counsel, continuing to engage with such a person becomes a waste of the precious time and energy God has given us for kingdom work. This isn't about being unloving—it's about being wise stewards of our relationships and recognizing that some people attract followers who produce nothing but friction? Sometimes, Holy Spirit leads us to the brave task to unfriend and unfollow those who refuse to change.

As a new year arrives, people everywhere are leaning into “something more” in their lives. What might that look like for Jesus-followers? This message begins a multi-focus mini series on the Christian’s most crucial “must haves” for their faith journeys. The emphasis is less about doing and far more about believing, understanding, knowing, and experiencing. God’s greatness and glory is what transforms our lives from year to year - what does it look like for you to be growing in your experience of these two things? The Apostle Paul prayed an immeasurably valuable prayer in his little letter to the Colossians, and this prayer is the recipe for greater revelation and increase in the lives of all of us who follow Jesus Christ.

Jeff Lyle releases a beginning of the year prophetic word for God’s people to exchange their grip of control for the groan of the Spirit. Hinger, thirst, a recommitment to highest priorities all characterize this strong urging from Jeff that was released at the North Georgia Revival on the first Sunday of 2026. 

An ancient prophetic message serves our modern generation well if we will take a close look at it. God’s people had wandered, failed God, and lost their way. Yet, the God of covenant was still a God of compassion and mercy, offering His wayward people a strong second chance at hope and victory. When God is releasing the opportunity for an individual, a family, a church, a city, or even a nation to be restored, He almost always raises up an individual or small remnant of believers, inviting them to step into their destinies. Haggai’s message to a man named Zerubbabel sounds much like the message God is releasing to His children today. What if He is calling you to take your place, stepping up and stepping in to your fuller purpose? Listen closely and discern if this is your time, if this is the hour of your own dispatch into the plans of God.

Whether we are aware of it or not, the scriptures teach that every single Christian is in the midst of a very real and dangerous war. When God saves the repentant sinner, that newly redeemed saint is immediately drafted into the army of God. There is a cosmic battle taking place between the forces of Hell and the Kingdom of God. Many believers never embrace this reality, and therefore hinder the advance of the Kingdom in their generation. They also suffer unnecessary losses because they do not prepare for the battle into which they are daily thrust. This message exposes the organized strategy of Satan and his demons as they wage war on the Church of the living God. Because of their relentless warfare, the Christian must take up his/her battle gear, learn how to stand against the enemy, and then put that enemy to flight. Touching on core issues as the Christian's identity, authority and power in battle, this message gives a clarion call for all believers to stop engaging in friendly fire against each other, and to begin to release spiritual fire toward an enemy that God decrees has already been defeated.

None of us can take an ounce of credit for our salvation. The doorway into eternal life is framed with timbers of humility. It has been famously said that we bring nothing into our salvation except the sin which made it necessary. For those who will humble themselves and receive the gift of eternal life, there begins a beautiful transformation which results in all the glory going to One. This Truth Shot helps us become refreshed in how helpless we were apart from Jesus, how truly dead we were in our sins, and then how gloriously ALIVE we have been made through the beautiful Gospel of God’s love, grace, and mercy.

Too many voices seem inclined to hijack God’s communication to declare to us, “THIS IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW!” The truth is that God is actually saying many things to His people, and there is not a singular Word that he is presently releasing that stands as the lone Word of the hour. We need a touch of wisdom from Heaven to discern the many things which the Lord is speaking to His Church in this hour. Among those communications from Heaven is a clear call to individuals, families, churches, and even cities to awaken and understand that God is offering the church an outpouring, rescue, and revival. Jesus’ ancient words over Jerusalem carry the exact same spirit of what He is speaking to His people today. If we fail to respond, it will not fare well for us in this present season. If we collectively answer it in faith, commitment, and consecration, there will be an opportunity to steward His outpouring of glory.

One of the most challenging dilemmas for Christians who strongly believe in God as our Healer is when the healing or miracle we are believing for has not yet arrived. Even more difficult is when the healing did not come and the person we prayed for passed away. For too long, Charismatic Christians have awkwardly avoided this issue of how we are to respond when healing has not come. Extreme responses like bitterness toward God or blaming others for not having enough faith are tragic. This episode of Truth Shots walks us through some considerations for believers in how they respond when healing has not yet come.

Most Christians understand the concept of Heavenly crowns and eternal rewards. But how many of us have ever sought understanding from the Bible about what those rewards actually are? From a famous parable of Jesus, we gain some insights about how Heavenly rewards might play out in eternity? There is also the possibility that the rewards we have earned thus far might not become ours in the end. Yes, we can lose our rewards by failing to finish well. This message reveals one of the most common ways believers can lose their rewards.