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1 Timothy 1:12


“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;”

King James Version (KJV)

05/26/2026

If you pray for strength…God will give you something heavy to carry!

Why does this surprise us?!??

If you want to build a strong body…do you not have to lift heavy things?

If you pray for patience…your patience will be tested!

If you pray for wisdom…you will be shown folly…

How can you understand one without seeing the other?

This is not punishment…this is your prayers being answered!

So frustrating…

My flesh wants straight answers…no BS!

But there’s no change in that..

If I’m granted those things in the moment, with nothing expected of me, I will learn nothing.

Truly walking out your faith requires skin in the game…

Otherwise, you’re just chuckin coins in a wishing well…

“God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭23‬:‭19‬ ‭NLT‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/116/num.23.19.NLT

RP





Photo credit Diary of an Outlaw

05/06/2026

Why were Christians the ones that judged him the quickest?

Shia LaBeouf sat in an interview and told a man to shut up and listen. Not because he was being arrogant. Because that’s actually what prayer is.

Stillness.

Silence.

Getting your ego out of the way long enough to hear something that isn’t you.

He described the voice of God as loving guidance. Like a coach. Like someone who sees you clearly and still speaks life over you. And when the interviewer heard his grandfather’s voice calling him what he used to call him… Shia interpreted it. You’re good. They got you.

That’s it. That’s the gospel in a moment.

And Christians were in the comments picking apart his language. Mad about the cussing. Questioning if it was even real. Acting like God can’t show up in an interview on a couch with someone who doesn’t have the vocabulary yet.

The woman with the issue of blood didn’t have the right words either. She just reached.

The church has a long history of being the most uncomfortable with the people Jesus would have pulled up a chair for. Shia wasn’t performing theology. He was just honest…

And somehow that made people more uncomfortable than comfortable.

Adam Tyler



04/18/2026

A few nights ago I had dream where I saw ministers standing behind pulpits, dressed in influence, preaching from polished platforms, speaking to crowds… but when I looked closer, their hands were covered in blood.

Not visible to the people or from the stage, but undeniable in the Spirit.

The blood was from neglect and compromise.

Souls that were never warned.
Captives that were never confronted.
Chains that were never challenged.

Sin that was dressed up, softened, and served in a way that made people comfortable, but never free.

I can’t shake this today, this dream was a warning from heaven.

There are ministers who have traded the power of God for the approval of man.

Who have diluted the message to fill seats instead of altars.

Who have learned how to gather crowds but have lost the anointing that breaks yokes.

You can build a room full of people and still leave them bound.

And the word of the Lord is, “their blood will be on your hands.”

Because a gospel that does not call people out of darkness is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

A message that never confronts sin will never produce transformation.

A word that costs nothing carries no authority to set captives free.

But I hear the Holy Spirit saying, “it’s coming down.”

Every platform that was built by flesh…
Every ministry sustained by manipulation…
Every pulpit that became a stage…
Every altar that was replaced with a brand…

It’s coming down.

God is tearing down what He did not build.

Every high place is being brought low.

Every minister who has preached to line their pockets, is being brought low.

Every leader who has used people to build their own name, is being brought low.

Every voice that compromised truth to gain followers, is being brought low.

You can gain influence and lose your soul.
You can grow a platform and grieve the Spirit.
You can become known by people and unknown by God.

And there are those who have defiled themselves just to stay relevant… watering down holiness, silencing conviction, avoiding the hard truths,
because truth doesn’t trend and conviction doesn’t always fill seats.

But heaven is not measuring your ministry by your popularity.

Heaven is measuring it by your obedience.

And the Lord is exposing it all.

He is exposing the mixture.
He is exposing the compromise.
He is exposing the motives.

Those who have blood on their hands, He is bringing it into the light.

Because it would be better to have a small room full of people who are free, than a packed building full of people still in chains.

God did not call us to be relevant, He called us to be righteous.

There is a holy fear returning to the pulpit.

There is a refining fire coming to ministries.

And what cannot stand in the fire will not remain.

This is not just judgment, this is mercy.

Because God is giving time to repent.

To the minister who knows they’ve compromised, repent.

To the one who has softened the message, repent.

To the one who has built something God never asked for, repent.

Wash your hands.
Tear down your idols.
Return to the altar.

Because the same God who tears down what is false, will rebuild what is surrendered.

Simply Jecker

~I can’t help but wonder…am I a preacher with blood on my hands??

Deep in the recesses of my soul…am I looking for a platform?

Am I looking for praise of self over praise of Christ?

Human nature is a fickle thing…

One moment you’re living for selflessness and the next you’re living for clicks….

The devil surely knows the game he plays

Pray for me…I truly need it

RP



04/10/2026

He was a thief.
He was condemned.
He was dying beside God.

And in one moment, everything changed.

His name is remembered as Saint Dismas — the “Good Thief.”

Beside him hung another criminal.

Same crime.
Same sentence.
Same cross.

Up until that moment, their lives were nearly identical.

But in the final moments…

Everything changed.

One thief mocked Jesus Christ:

“Save yourself… and us.”

Even at the edge of death, his heart remained closed.

But Dismas—

saw something different.

In the middle of agony…
In the middle of public shame…
In the middle of death…

He recognized a King.

He saw innocence.

He rebuked the other criminal:

“We are punished justly… but this man has done no evil.”

In those words, he did two things at once:

He confessed his sin.
He proclaimed Christ.

Then came the prayer that echoes through eternity:

“Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

No excuses.
No bargaining.
No time left.

Just trust.

And Jesus responded.

Not with delay.
Not with conditions.

“Today… you will be with me in Paradise.”

This is why Good Friday is called good.

Because even as the world rejected Him…

Jesus was saving.

Even from the Cross.

Even in His agony.

Every word cost Him breath.

Every sentence cost Him pain.

Yet He chose to speak mercy.

To a thief.
To a sinner.
To a man with nothing left but faith.

The criminal.
The dying man.

The first soul promised heaven from the Cross.

Saint Dismas teaches us:

It is never too late.
No life is beyond redemption.

One moment of true repentance can change eternity.

Two men hung beside Christ.

One turned away.
One turned toward.

That was the difference.

And that is still the difference.

If you feel far from God…
If your past feels heavy…
If you think you’ve waited too long…

Remember the thief who had only minutes left—
And gained eternity.

“Lord, remember me…”

And He does.

~Author Unknown



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