SIGHTS, SOUNDS, & STORIES 💥

In the last post,  "BUT THE CRAFTSMEN,"  we started to unpack Zechariah's prophetic vision of the craftsmen coming to terrify and throw down the demonic… ultimately releasing revival fire and the glory of God over a people and a whole place (Zechariah 1:18-21 and 2:1-5).  We’re in a war. Not against humans, but against the (already defeated) powers of hell. Spiritual fights require spiritual strategies. God often has some pretty unusual battle plans. In this season, I believe that He is raising up an army of creatives — especially artists — to dismantle the darkness with the weapon of creativity!  I once heard Brooke Ligertwood share a true story about the country of Colombia and a man maned Jose Miguel Sokoloff. It goes something like this…  Since 1964, there has been civil war in Colombia. The country has one of the longest standing guerrilla forces in the world. For over 50 years, a rebel group called the “FARC guerrillas” have been in opposit...

You have been called and chosen for such a time as this! Can I be honest? Sometimes that statement sounds a little cliché to me. As someone who has grown up in church, I have heard those words (originating in Esther 4:14) many, many times. But here’s the thing: We cannot become so familiar with a phrase that we miss what God is saying through it. Our job is to be so in tune with Holy Spirit so that we recognize the season we’re in and partner with Him in what He is doing on the earth. We are to be like the sons of Issachar who “understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take” (1 Chronicles 12:32, NLT).  God is unchanging, yet always doing a new thing – do you perceive it?! (Isaiah 43:19). There are moments when our eternal God breaths on something in our earthly time and space, creating an opportunity for more of Heaven’s Kingdom to manifest itself in the world. In other words, God intentionally highlights something He wants to use in a specific ...