To be able to walk in this supernatural realm of signs, wonders and miracles, the first and foremost thing is to have an ongoing, close, intimate relationship with the Father, on a consistent basis. Everything we do, especially signs and wonders, stems from this. Second, God has given all of us the same portion of faith, but we all have to start using it and building it up for it to become effective. Start praying for impossible-looking situations and see how these things can start happening in situations that you get involved with.

Summary: There are several things that factor into walking in signs and wonders, which are some of the elements of Trinity’s Spiritual DNA. These are: The Kingdom of God, Relationship with the Father, Grace, Family & Relationships, and being equipping for the work of the ministry. God intended for all for us to move in signs and wonders, but we have to shake off our unbelief and reluctance in order start taking steps to seeing these things happen. The only thing that keeps us from moving in the supernatural is our own thinking. Show Notes: One of the key factors in preventing signs and wonders from occurring is unbelief and hardness of heart. That’s why Jesus, after His resurrection, appeared to the 11 and rebuked them for not believing those who told them that He had risen. We are called to operate in the supernatural realm, not under our own power, but under the power of God, by the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Signs, wonders and miracles are not limited to someone who is healed of a deadly disease or raised from the dead. It could be something as simple as God working out an impossible looking situation in someone’s marriage, or with other relationships. Quotes: In Mark 16:17 it says, “These signs will follow those who have believed”. The acid test is not whether you say you believe. The acid test is if you can look back last week, last month, last year, and see if there are signs and wonders in where you have been, because we are the people who carry those signs and wonders. As believers, we have been hardwired for signs and wonders. We’re made for the supernatural realm. Supernatural signs, wonders, and miracles are woven into the fabric of the creation story from the beginning, and were intended to be part of every Kingdom believer’s life forever. References: Matthew 22: 37-39 Ephesians 4:11-12 Mark 16: 14-18 Genesis 1:1 Takeaways: Signs and wonders are happening every day, but we have to be looking with spiritual eyes to see them occurring. When you start talking about signs and wonders, so many people start thinking about the big occurrences, like people jumping up out of wheelchairs and things like that. Most of the time, it’s the little things that God is doing, that seem to go unnoticed by most.

Summary: Without a close, intimate relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together, your chances of walking in a ministry are next to none. With the help of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be desiring and walking in the anointing and gifts that God has given to us. All of us can, and should, be getting fed to go out and communicate the good news with everyone that the Lord leads us to connect with. Walking in a ministry is very simple if you drop the fear and intimidation of connecting with and touching people out of your heart and spirit. Show Notes: Our main objective here at Trinity is not just to feed people, but to equip them to process the information, so that they are able to communicate it to the people they come in contact with. That way the word becomes perpetual. “Teach these things to faithful people, who will teach others also”. Ministry is so much more simple than people make it out to be. It can come at a restaurant with a friend, or out of the golf course, where something is brought up and you are able to talk from your position on what you have learned. The most important thing about doing ministry is having a close relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together. The five fold ministries talked about in Ephesians 4 are to be equipping the rest of the body for the work of the ministry. God didn’t establish them to “do all the doing”. Quotes: People come to church with the main idea of getting fed, but to do nothing with it is a futile effort, in my opinion. They are not thinking about giving that away to somebody else. You are carrying more than you realize you are. And, you’re not going to realize how much you carry unless you’re in a situation, in real relationships, where this stuff comes out. Ministry is not something we do, ministry is someone that you are. All we’re doing is being able to tell our story, based on where we are in the Lord, and how we’ve grown up in the Lord. You’re called to the work of the ministry. That means putting one foot in front of the other. Keeping obedient to God, and listening to what God is saying to you. So, start to find out your place in the body by finding an area of need in your church and step in and start to helping out. References: Ephesians 4:1-16 Luke 15 2 Timothy 2:2 Takeaways: God’s true church will never be what it is supposed to be until everyone in the body of Christ starts to wake up and starts walking in the anointing and gifts that God has already given to each of us. The Lord has given us all strengths in Him to walk out if we will just stop sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.    

This is a special edition of the podcast about Charlie Kirk moving a generation to the father.  Our thoughts about his death and what happens now.  

Being desperate for your time with the Lord, not just to hear his voice but to become aware of and rest in His presence, is the first step in being equipped for the work of the ministry. Your connection with the Father opens doors for you to pray for and encourage people. That’s what gives you the heart to touch people to see them freed up to have a real walk with the Lord.

Jesus bumped heads with religious tradition every day of His earthly life. He came almost begging people to drop their traditions so that they could see Him for who He really was, but they couldn’t do it, especially the religious leaders of that day. The same traditions that held people back then are holding people back now from what God wants to do and accomplish in their lives. This is why the five-fold ministries, mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, are so important, to help pull people out of the traditional church age and into a true walk with God, where everyone is encouraged to have a personal walk with the Father and to do His will.

Summary: Everyone comes to church to get fed in some way, but we aren’t supposed to get fed and do nothing with it. We should go to church to get fed and equipped to take that word out and engage in ministry to others. God has a ministry for all of us to engage in, not just a few who have some title. It’s old Bible Belt thinking that says God raised up just a few who are supposed to do all of the ministry. Show Notes: The whole concept of equipping people for the work of the ministry has been left to the wayside in many church circles, especially in the Bible Belt, because we have this mentality that the guy who is up front is the one to do all the ministry. Coming to church is like taking a time-out in a basketball game. There, the coach (church leader) equips you to go back on the floor and play the game. The church is not the end game, but its the place we go to get instructed on how to go out into the world and play the game. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers were given to equip us for the ministry, not for them to do it all. Your profession can either be a job to you, or it can be your ministry. It’s not all the money you can make, but it should be about all the people you can touch. God’s real plan for all of us is not to have some title, but to get out and be all you can be to the whole body of Christ. Titles are way over-rated. Quotes: When we get people to break through in their thinking about ministry, then the church really takes on a whole life of its own, and people start to find their place, their gifting, and their anointing. To find out if you have that kind of anointing on you, it’s just to keep walking out your call day by day, spending time with the Father and paying attention to the open doors that God gives you to go through. To find your calling, it’s just by obedience, faith and consistency in walking this life out with the Lord. References: Ephesians 4:11-14 Takeaways: It’s not for just a few people with titles to go out and do all the ministry. God’s plan is for all of us to be equipped in our calling to go out and be a blessing to the body of Christ and the world, with the anointing that He has given us.  

Do you want a church where everyone remains an infant in the Lord, not mature enough or prepared to be a real asset in God’s Kingdom? Equipping the saints for the work of the ministry should be the focus of every church, to help their people grow out of infancy and into maturity in their spirits. For the many churches that don’t emphasize this principle, their people are held back from becoming what God wants them to be. The final result is a church full of immature people who expect their pastor and a few others to do all the teaching and ministering.

Both of Andy’s books are full of real kingdom tips that you can use in your everyday life. These tips are simple to understand and are very encouraging, especially for people who have a hard time reading and enjoying what they are reading.

Our prayer time with the Father should always be two-sided. There’s a time to talk with Him, to petition Him with certain things, but there’s also spending some quiet time where you give the Father a chance to talk and commune with you. That’s why it’s so important to go to the Father with much gratitude, and with no agenda.

As God’s people, we should all be hearing God’s voice, and not just a select few. God wants to speak to all of us. You can develop a sense of hearing Him on the run, but it is much better if you take the time to sit down, quiet your spirit, eliminate the distractions, and just listen for Him to speak to you. Even more important than that is to just learn how to enjoy God’s presence through all of this. If you make this a priority, God will start to talk to you in some way.

The greatest thing you can ever do is to get into a place where you can truly feel and enjoy God’s presence. The problem is that we seldom can get there, because of the effort and time that it takes and the ability to get past the distractions that try to get you off track. God is always speaking, but we have to make it a real priority to get to the place where we can hear Him.

Recently the Lord gave Andy Taylor a prophecy, not only for Trinity Fellowship, but for the whole kingdom. It came the first week of November, right after the election. The Lord told him that this is a time of unparalleled favor, but not a time to relax. This is a time to take advantage of the favor of the Lord, and the test for us as Kingdom people is to keep the focus and redeem the time. If it is in your heart, do it!

There are many people who think that God no longer speaks or communicates to His people. That is not true. There is nothing in the scriptures that tells us that He no longer talks to us. As our heavenly Father, He wants desperately to talk to us. The biggest challenge for us is to actually take the time to get quiet, get past the distractions, and listen for Him to speak to us. He communicates to us though the elements, through numbers, through colors, and a multitude of other ways. One of the most prominent ways is through a still, small voice.

This controversy over grace needs to change. Without a real experience with grace, it’s very hard to grasp the depth of love that our Father has for us. We don’t have to work for it, or do anything to earn it. Just as the Bible says that God is love, God is also grace, a depth of which goes beyond words.

There are many Christians who question true grace, because they think there is not enough restraint to keep “grace people” from going off the rails. Actually, it works just the oppositely. When you have a real experience with God’s grace, you want to start doing the things that please the Father. If you experience grace like the prodigal son did, you won’t want to go out and sin more, you will sin much less.

Grace is a subject where quite a bit of controversy can exist. This podcast helps to bring clarity concerning this subject. Those people who oppose grace think that grace people use their liberty to go out and do what they want. If you really start experiencing grace, and come into a revelation of true grace, you will start sinning less, never more. That’s because with true grace comes a love and acceptance from the Father, which makes you want stay close to Him, where sin separates you from Him.

Summary: Grace is God’s supernatural ability to do everything or anything in your life that needs to be done, to help you be like Jesus and to perfectly live out the life He has purposed for you. There’s no way to earn God’s grace. Grace is a gift from Him. All we have to do is receive it and cooperate with Him, to become all that He wants for us. God is the potter, and we are the clay. All we have to do is allow Him to shape us and mold us into what He wants us to be. Show Notes: The old covenant was governed by law. But when Jesus came and shed His blood for us, He created a new covenant, which is governed by grace. So many have been taught that they have to work their way into the favor of God. That’s not grace at all. Christ’s blood has already washed us, sanctified us and justified us. He has already done it for us. You don’t have to work your way into, or earn God’s favor. All we really have to do is just cooperate with Him. If you have a thorn in your flesh, like Paul had in his, would you rather have God fix it on the spot, or with the grace of God, would you endure that thorn to see another side of God that you couldn’t have seen had you not gone through the trial that you went through? And, to see another side of yourself that you would have never seen before? For most people that have had to go through one of these trials, they would choose to endure, to have what they gained through it. Quotes: Grace must be experienced before you can even start the process of understanding it. It’s the grace of God that sustains us, our entire life and existence. Everything that needs to be done, God has done it for us. When you start to get a revelation of that, God begins to show us and open our eyes, our spirit and soul to those things. Most people in the Bible Belt, on any given Sunday, are hearing a mixture of law and grace. What I say is, if you’re preaching or teaching a mixture of law and grace, you’re not preaching grace at all. References: II Corinthians 12:9 Takeaways: God’s grace is truly sufficient for us, and without it, there is no way we can be shaped or molded into what He wants for us. Trusting in God and receiving His grace, like Paul did, works something in us that we could never come into any other way.    

Grace is such a vast subject that no one can really get a hold of it. More than anything, it is the Goodness of God. By grace, Jesus shed His blood for our sins- past, present and future, so that we can have a relationship to the Father, just like He does . That doesn’t mean that our sins go unchecked- there are still consequences to our actions, but grace covers them so that we can still relate freely to our Father. One of the greatest risks for all of us is the sin of pride. For anyone who is “going after it”, pride will be an issue at some point, so we need to try to keep one another “in check.”

Most Christians feel like God gives grace to them mainly when they are in trouble. In truth, grace is always available to us, but it doesn’t always come in just to bail us out of negative circumstances. The true purpose of grace is to help grow us into mature sons and daughters of God.