R3 Ministries

R3 Ministries R3 Ministries
"Redeem, Revive, Reform"
We preach Jesus, ignite revival, and serve with love. Join the movement! đŸŒđŸ”„đŸ™

From outreach to healing to global impact—we exist to see lives transformed by the love and power of God. I'm a follower of Jesus, a husband, and the founder of R3 Ministries. God has given me a passion to reach the lost, serve the broken, and ignite revival in hearts, homes, and churches. Every day is an opportunity to love deeply, serve boldly, and walk humbly with God. Whether preaching the Gos

pel, praying for the hurting, or lifting others up, it's my life’s mission to be the hands and feet of Jesus! I am committed to seeing Redemption, Revival, and Reformation in the lives of others through the love and power of Jesus Christ!

🌿 Hidden PlacesSometimes you stumble onto hidden gems that feel as if they were put there on purpose.Recently, my wife, ...
05/16/2026

🌿 Hidden Places

Sometimes you stumble onto hidden gems that feel as if they were put there on purpose.

Recently, my wife, Claudette, and I were out driving and exploring when I noticed a set of old wooden stairs tucked into the side of a green hillside. You could barely see them at first, but the way the light was touching the grass and trees made it feel like something out of a fairy tale. I asked her to pull over, and we followed those weathered steps up the hill, not really knowing what was waiting on the other side.

When we crested the top of that pretty green rolling hill, this small outdoor chapel opened up in front of us, weathered wooden benches, a simple podium, trees all around, a cross standing quietly off to the side, and the majestic mountains resting behind it like they had been listening for years.

I stood there and started imagining what it must have been like. No microphones, stage lights, livestream, social media, or big production. Maybe just a handful of people gathered under the trees, listening to someone preach the Word of God with every last drop they had to give. And honestly, it moved me deeply, because not every assignment from God looks big in the eyes of people. Some callings are hidden, quiet, costly, and unseen, but that does not make them small.

We live in a time where it is easy to measure impact by crowds, numbers, money, attention, and opportunity. But some of the people Heaven honors most are people the world may never know by name. Men and women who showed up faithfully, loved deeply, prayed through hard seasons, preached when it cost them something, served without needing a platform, and kept their hand to the plow when applause was absent, provision was thin, and doors were not opening.

That kind of heart and faithfulness truly matters to God.

Do not despise what He has placed in your hands just because it looks small right now. Remember when Jesus took a few loaves and a few fish, gave thanks, and multiplied what looked like it would never be enough. The little thing becomes mighty when it is surrendered to Him. The hidden place becomes holy when you meet Him there. The small beginning becomes sacred when love keeps saying yes.

Standing in that little outdoor chapel reminded me that ministry is not about being seen. It is about being faithful. It is about loving God and loving people enough to do the hard things even when there is no benefit in it for you, no applause waiting on the other side, and no one there to tell you how much it matters.

But it does matter.

God sees the hidden yes. He hears the prayers no one else hears, remembers the work no one thanks you for, and knows the dreams that feel buried, delayed, or forgotten. Do not grow weary in doing good. There is a season for roots, and there is a season for fruit. There is a season where God hides you, shapes you, teaches you, and deepens something in you that could never be formed under the spotlight.

That little place on the hill felt like a reminder from God.

Stay faithful with what is in your hand. Stay thankful for the little He has given you. Keep building, stone by stone, step by step, prayer by prayer. The hidden place is not wasted when God is forming you there.

Heaven sees.

And when the time is right, what He planted in secret will bloom in the open.

05/11/2026

đŸ”„ Rivers of Revival

Jesus Christ is still alive and active, breaking chains, restoring lives, and filling dry places with rivers of His living water. People are tired of the heaviness, the emptiness, the distraction, and dead religion that talks about God but carries no real power or encounter. It is time to become hungry for the presence of God again.

Once you truly taste and see the goodness and power of God, it stirs a deeper hunger for Him. Let the upper room not be the ceiling we look back at, but the floor we stand on as we go from glory to glory. True revival is needed, not another room full of noise without the presence of God. Let the rivers of His glory flow freely in and through your life!

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:38 NKJV





R3 Mnistries
Redeem, Revive, Reform

Anthony Gough

đŸ”„ God promised that power would come upon you when you receive His Spirit. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the d...
05/05/2026

đŸ”„ God promised that power would come upon you when you receive His Spirit. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead now lives in you and gives life to you and to those around you. This is resurrection power, and it was never meant to stay small or hidden. It was meant to be revealed through your life.







Anthony Gough

05/04/2026

🌊 Just Keep Moving

Movement does more than most people realize, supporting the nervous system, improving circulation, and driving the lymphatic system, which helps move waste and keeps the body flowing and functioning the way it was designed to.

When life takes you into the darkest places, where everything feels heavy, your body feels shut down, and it feels like you’re standing at the edge of collapse, you’re often brought to a place where the only thing left is deciding whether you’re going to live or die.

That decision to live is part of where The Return came from, and it’s why this way of living has been built over the last four years through pain, discipline, healing, obedience, and the grace of God.

You don’t wait for perfect conditions, and you don’t need to do something big to begin, because even the smallest movement still counts and still moves something forward.

If all you can do is move your fingers, wiggle your toes, or take one steady breath, start there, because nothing is too small and it builds over time, whether you feel it yet or not.

So breathe, stand up when you can, move what you can, and remind yourself that you’re still here, and there is still hope for life, for healing, and for freedom.

Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Just Keep Moving!






Anthony Gough

Love Was Never Meant to be HeavyMaybe some of you have been trying to follow God, but you feel heavy, exhausted, and lik...
05/02/2026

Love Was Never Meant to be Heavy

Maybe some of you have been trying to follow God, but you feel heavy, exhausted, and like you’re still not getting anywhere. It’s not because you don’t care enough, and it’s definitely not because you haven’t been trying.

Many of us learned to start from the outside without even realizing it, as if outward behavior and appearance were the most important things. We place weight on ourselves to perform, fix everything, clean ourselves up, and meet expectations that were never meant to be carried that way.

Jesus spoke directly to this when He warned about cleaning the outside of the cup while the inside remained untouched, because God has always been after something deeper than appearance (Matthew 23:25–26, NKJV).

Over time, that way of living turns into pressure and distance, with a quiet exhaustion that seems to follow us.

And it’s into that exact place that Jesus speaks, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NKJV), not as another religious weight or burden to carry, but as an invitation into deeper intimacy.

This was never meant to be about performance or religion. It has always been about coming to Him, coming to the One who is love, and learning to abide in Him by faith (John 15:4–5, NKJV). As we come and remain in Him, what feels heavy begins to lift, and what once felt forced begins to flow.

He draws us into the love of the Father until something real begins to change within us, and that change begins to move and flow outward through the way we live, respond, forgive, serve, and love people.

Love gives birth to obedience, and obedience becomes the visible expression of that love in everyday life.

When Jesus talks about obedience, He isn’t pointing people toward carrying something cold and heavy, but drawing them into something relational and alive when He says, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15, NKJV), and then He shows what those commandments look like when He says, “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12, NKJV). He continues by showing that this love is sacrificial, saying, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13, NKJV).

This is not a list to manage, but a way to live, a life that grows from abiding in His love.

John brings it back to the same center when he writes, “This is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another” (1 John 3:23, NKJV).

That is why repentance, forgiveness, endurance, purity, prayer, surrender, and serving others do not stand on their own as separate requirements. They all grow from the same root, which is the love of God working itself out through a transformed life.

Even 1 Corinthians 13 is not something we are meant to perform or measure ourselves against, but a picture of what begins to take shape in us when the love of God is actually alive within us.

Your relationship with God was never about trying harder or holding everything together, but about receiving His love and learning to live from it.

And when that love is truly received, obedience is no longer something we have to force or carry. It begins to grow quietly and naturally, like fruit on a tree rooted in the right place. A branch doesn’t strain to produce fruit, and a grape doesn’t try to become what it already is; it simply remains connected, and what is alive at the root expresses itself over time, maturing into something beautiful, steady, nourishing, and life-giving to others.

📾 Image captured by Anthony Gough

04/28/2026

🌿 The Return
Water That Comes Alive

I recently drove up into the mountains just outside of Springville and came across a natural spring coming straight out of the hillside.

You can sense the difference in water like that before it ever touches your lips.

It hasn’t been stripped down or overly processed, and it hasn’t been sitting in plastic. It’s been moving through the earth, slowly filtered through layers of rock and soil, picking up minerals along the way like calcium, magnesium, and potassium, elements the body uses for normal function.

Water without minerals, like purified or distilled water, contains fewer electrolytes and may not support hydration the same way as water that contains naturally occurring minerals. When minerals are present, especially alongside sodium, they help support fluid balance and cellular function, which is why we’ve been talking about adding mineral salt and being intentional with hydration.

Minerals go deeper than most people realize.

They sit at the foundation of how the body actually functions, playing a role in hydration, nerve signaling, muscle function, and overall cellular activity, and a lot of people today are running lower than they think.

When you slow down and really think about it, it’s pretty amazing.

We were formed from the dust of the earth, and God breathed life into it, and even now, the body still depends on elements found in the earth to function the way it was designed to.

As water moves through the ground, it is naturally filtered and can dissolve minerals from surrounding rock, which contributes to its mineral content. The pH of spring water can vary depending on the source, but many natural waters fall near neutral and sometimes slightly alkaline.

That doesn’t mean every source is automatically safe, and it’s always wise to know where your water is coming from, but it does point back to something simple.

Your body was designed to work with what God already placed in creation.

If you’ve been feeling tired, dry, off, or not quite like yourself anymore, slow down today, hydrate intentionally, and make sure you’re giving your body the minerals it actually needs.

John 4:13–14 (NKJV)
“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.’”



🌿 The ReturnAt the EdgeI know I’ve been sharing about hydration, sunlight, grounding, breathing, movement, food, cold wa...
04/28/2026

🌿 The Return
At the Edge

I know I’ve been sharing about hydration, sunlight, grounding, breathing, movement, food, cold water, and learning how to return to God.

But most people don’t know where any of this actually came from.

This didn’t come from a trend, a podcast, or something I thought sounded good.

This came from years of life-threatening injuries, brain trauma, severe heavy metal toxicity, PTSD, deep trauma, addiction, and physical decline that pushed me into places I never imagined I would have to walk through, to the point where I didn’t know if I could keep living much longer and was genuinely concerned for my life.

There were moments where everything in me felt like it was shutting down, like my body was collapsing in slow motion, and I could feel how fragile it all had become, as if it was only a matter of time before something gave out completely. I was unable to operate like a normal functioning person, losing strength, losing capacity, and watching my ability to function slip away while most people around me still had no idea how serious it really was.

It reached a point where this was no longer about improving.

It was life or death, and in that place I turned to God differently, not casually, not out of habit, but from a place of complete surrender, asking Him to lead me, to show me how to come back, and to use every part of what I was going through if it could one day help someone else.

And He answered.

Not all at once, not in comfort, and not in a way I could control, but step by step. Through obedience, prayer, fasting, discipline, patience, and trust when nothing made sense, He began leading me back to the things most people overlook, the simple, the natural, the things already placed in creation.

Water. Breath. Sunlight. Food. Stillness. Grounding. Movement. Cold. Prayer. His presence.

But this was never just about health.

This was about God restoring a man who had been broken down so deeply that only He fully understood the weight of it, rebuilding what felt utterly broken and crushed, bringing life back into places that felt like they were fading out.

What I share now came from that place, from fighting to rebuild when I felt like I was at the edge of death, learning how to calm and heal a system that felt utterly broken and crushed, support a body that was struggling to survive, quiet a mind that would not rest, and return to the presence of God when everything in me felt shattered.

And through that process, what began as survival started turning into healing, and healing started turning into something far bigger than me.

This was not something I figured out on my own.

There were moments where the direction, the structure, and what would later become this protocol came through what I can only describe as a supernatural leading from God, guiding me into alignment step by step, showing me how to work with what He had already placed in the body and in creation.

What came out of that place wasn’t just survival.

It became a calling to help pull people out of places of deep suffering, to help restore what feels broken, to help people come back from the edge, and to be part of seeing lives healed, restored, and even saved through the power of God moving through real, practical ways.

That is where The Return came from.

This book carries that process, that protocol, and that path back, not as theory, not as content, and not as something put together to sound good, but something forged in suffering, obedience, faith, and the mercy of God.

I will share more over time.

But for now, I want you to know this.

If you’ve been feeling broken, heavy, overwhelmed, disconnected, sick, exhausted, or not like yourself anymore, you are not crazy, and you are not alone.

There is a way back.

And I believe with everything in me that God still heals, restores, delivers, and brings people back to life.















04/24/2026

🌿 The Return
Peace Under Pressure

Cold water has a way of helping you re-center, recalibrate, and reset.

It draws you back into the present moment by stepping into something real that God already placed in creation.

There’s a moment at the edge where everything in you wants to stay warm, stay safe, and stay where it feels familiar. Then you step in, and the cold hits all at once. Your breath shortens, your chest tightens, and there’s a real urge to pull back out. It can feel overwhelming, like your body is sounding an alarm, pushing you toward fight or flight, telling you to run, escape, and get out.

If you stay, breathe, surrender, and fix your eyes on Jesus instead of panic, something begins to shift.

This time of year, the water coming down from the mountains sits somewhere in the mid 40s. That initial shock is real, but it’s also where the shift begins. What most people don’t realize is that many of the benefits start within just the first couple minutes of being fully in. It doesn’t take long, just a willingness to stay, surrender, and allow your body to settle.

Cold water can help train your brain and nervous system to respond differently under pressure. Instead of letting fear take over, you begin to regulate, settle, and return to a place of steadiness while intensity is still present. Over time, that carries into everyday life, where stress does not grip you as quickly, anxiety does not lead as easily, and your body learns a new pattern of presence and trust. In that process, inflammation begins to calm, and natural waves of dopamine and serotonin rise as the body settles into a more regulated state.

Out here, it becomes more than a physical reset. It becomes a place of surrender, a quiet return to God in the middle of sensation and pressure. Life will get hard, there will be testings and trials, but He will never leave you nor forsake you within it, and He will keep those whose minds are stayed on Him in perfect peace.

Get outside today, find a quiet place, and slow down long enough to spend time with God. Let creation remind you that peace is not found by avoiding pressure, but by learning to remain with Him in it.

Carry the peace with you.

Isaiah 26:3 NKJV
“You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.”

🌿 The ReturnGrounding, Signal, and RegulationIt is still not too late to step outside and put your feet in the dirt or t...
04/23/2026

🌿 The Return
Grounding, Signal, and Regulation

It is still not too late to step outside and put your feet in the dirt or the grass, giving your body a few minutes to reconnect and return to the present moment.

Most people move through the day carrying more tension than they realize, and the nervous system quietly holds onto that load as stress, stimulation, and constant input begin to build. It does not always feel obvious, but it shows up as restlessness, tightness, and a mind that has a harder time settling.

Grounding begins to shift that in a way that is both simple and rooted in how the body actually works.

The surface of the earth carries a natural negative electrical charge, and when your skin makes direct contact with it, electrons can move into the body and begin to help balance that internal electrical environment. Research has shown shifts in cortisol patterns, reductions in inflammation markers, and improved nervous system regulation with consistent grounding.

As that internal environment stabilizes, the body has a chance to settle. Signals move more clearly, tension begins to release, and a sense of calm can return without being forced.

Even ten minutes can make a difference, especially when combined with natural light, fresh air, and steady breathing, all working together to bring the body back toward a more regulated baseline.

There is also something deeper happening here.

Standing there, aware of the ground beneath you and the space around you, your attention begins to quiet, and as that attention turns toward the Lord, you begin to return to the One who created it all.

Jesus is not separate from this. He is the author of life, the One who designed your body, the earth beneath your feet, and the very breath in your lungs, and when you come back into His presence, what begins in the body continues into the mind and settles into the heart.

This is what it is really about.

This is part of the return.

If you have a few minutes, step outside, take your shoes off, and let your body reconnect, then pay attention to what shifts and let me know what you notice.

Psalm 46:10 (NKJV)
“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”



Anthony Gough

04/22/2026

🌿 The Return
Breath, Movement, and Alignment

Take a deep breath.

Let it come in slowly, and let it go just as gently, allowing your body to settle into this moment without rushing past it.

Out here, standing barefoot in the sun, with the sound of the river moving and everything around me alive and in motion, there is a different kind of awareness that begins to come back. The noise quiets down, the body softens, and something inside starts to realign without effort.

This is not just about getting outside. It is about returning to how we were designed to live.

When you step into an environment like this, your nervous system begins to respond to what it sees and hears. The steady flow of the river, the rhythm of the wind, and the natural movement of everything around you carry a kind of order your body recognizes, and over time that begins to settle your internal state, bringing you out of tension and back toward a more regulated and peaceful place.

At the same time, movement begins to play its role.

These lymphatic exercises may look simple, but they are doing something important beneath the surface. The lymphatic system does not have a pump like the heart, it relies on movement, breath, and muscle activation to circulate and clear waste from the body, and when you move intentionally, you are helping that system flow the way it was designed to.

As breath deepens, movement increases, and your environment supports you, the body begins to shift. Circulation improves, tension starts to release, and the nervous system begins to move out of that constant reactive state and toward regulation.

There is also something deeper happening here.

Spending time alone with God, being present, and giving your attention to Him instead of the noise of everything else brings a different kind of alignment. As your focus shifts, your thoughts settle, your breathing changes, and your body begins to follow.

This is where physical and spiritual begin to meet.

Your body is responding to light, sound, movement, and breath, while at the same time your heart and mind are being brought back into a place of peace.

This is part of the return.

Not forcing anything, and not striving for anything, but simply stepping back into what was already designed to restore you.

I go deeper into this in my book The Return, where I walk through how these simple rhythms, from breath to movement to time with God, begin to bring the body and mind back into alignment.

“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
Isaiah 30:15 NKJV

If you get the chance today, step outside, move your body, breathe deeply, and take a few moments to be still before the Lord.

Pay attention to how you feel afterward, and if you do, leave me a comment and let me know what you notice.

📍 Tule Creek, Springville, California



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