Abundant Life Ministries NY

11/16/2025

THE GREATEST (and easiest) 50TH BIRTHDAY GIFT YOU COULD GIVE ME:
…please watch this video…
I’m asking you to pray for me.

Not a casual prayer. Not a quick thought. I’m asking for hundreds…maybe thousands…of voices calling on God for one thing:

That I would be overwhelmed by the love of God in a way that marks and transforms the rest of my life in ways beyond all comprehension..

For me, when the love of God became real (really real) everything else became small. This has been an ever increasing experience of a pervasive love and security bigger than I ever thought imaginable. And an ever decrease (if not disappearance) of long held strongholds.
Fear losing its grip. Pride breaking. Insecurity melting. Opposition, attack, trial and suffering shrinking in weight and value of previous negative effects. More and more is an ever increasing surety of actual belonging to the King of the universe, and not just belonging, but being “Beloved.”

Hitting age 50, I’m asking for and increasing awareness of His holiness and personal love for me: the same love that chased me down when I was His enemy and a vicious persecutor of His Church.

I don’t want stuff. I don’t want a memorable vacation, money or fancy meals. I want a fresh awakening in my heart. I want to know His love… not just theologically, not just in sermons I preach, but in the deep places only the Spirit can touch. Areas that continue to reveal themselves as still in tremendous need of His power, grace and awakening to His love.

Scripture says:
Perfect love drives out all fear.
Only the Spirit opens the eyes of our hearts.
Christ roots us in a love so immensely beyond understanding that only by the Holy Spirit can we begin to comprehend it.
The Holy Spirit pours love into our hearts like a flood that drowns all doubt, fear and despair.
And the prayers of God’s people carry more power and threat to the minions of darkness than any pastor’s pulpit.
So here’s my bold request:

Pray that I would be rooted and grounded in His love in a way that changes me in ways I never thought possible.
Pray that every place still restless or insecure would be filled with His presence.
Pray that I would carry the kind of confidence that only comes from knowing I’m fully His, fully Beloved… nothing to prove, nothing to earn, nothing to fear.
Pray that I would step into the next decade as a beloved son, with an abundantly increasing awareness of His crazy love for me.

This is the greatest birthday gift you could give me. If you REALLY want to bless me, you can pray ALL THIS FOR YOURSELF.😃

Thank you for walking with me. Thank you for praying. And thank you for helping me chase after the only things that truly satisfy, the love of God Himself, the identity that only comes through Christ, the incredible awareness of fully being-loved’ in the Beloved, and JOY of glorifying God and enjoying Him forever.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:18-19 ESV

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,
that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, Ephesians 1:16-20, ESV

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19, ESV

…and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5 ESV

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.”
James 5:16-17 ESV

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10 ESV

11/10/2025

🔥 THE MOMENT YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS, YOU STOPPED BEING A VICTIM.
⚔️ YOU BECAME A SOLDIER—MARKED, EQUIPPED, AND NOTICED BY HELL ITSELF.

💥 Your life didn’t get harder because God left you.
It got harder because the enemy finally had a reason to stop you.

Before Christ, you were harmless to hell.
But now—you carry the Spirit of the Living God.
You walk with authority, clothed in righteousness, armed with truth.
You are not weak. Not abandoned. You are dangerous.

🔥 That’s why resistance comes.
🔥 That’s why battles rise.
Not because you’re failing… but because you’re advancing.

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💧 But listen—
Some of us are fighting with dry hearts.
We’ve learned to talk about God’s love, but we’ve stopped feeling it.
We’ve traded living water for broken cisterns — approval, performance, religious effort, distraction.
We’re doing the work of soldiers…
but running on the emptiness of orphans.

📖 “Come, everyone who thirsts! Come to the waters!” (Isaiah 55:1)
This thirst isn’t a flaw — it’s a summons.
God invites you to press in until His love floods your heart again.

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🚫 Don’t mask your thirst.
🚫 Don’t numb it.
🔥 Lean into it. Pursue Him. Cry out until Heaven answers.

The same God who loved you while you were His enemy
now calls you His beloved child —
and He will pour His love into your heart through the Holy Spirit.

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⚔️ You were not saved to survive.
🔥 You were saved to stand, fight, and overflow.

So rise up, soldier of God.
Let your thirst drive you to your knees,
and your knees drive you to His presence.
That’s where victory begins.

🩸 “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
— Romans 5:5

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11/02/2025

⚔️ Make no mistake:
When you chose to follow Jesus, you stopped being a victim in spiritual warfare and became a soldier in it.

Your life didn’t get harder because God withdrew His blessings…
💥 It got harder because the enemy finally had a reason to oppose you!

Before you met Christ, you weren’t a threat.
You ran toward sin. You glorified self.
You played right into the enemy’s plan.

But the moment you were redeemed,
you became dangerous.

🔥 Now you carry the Spirit of God inside you.
🎯 Now your life has purpose.
🛡️ Now you’re armed with truth, righteousness, and authority.

And that’s when hell takes notice.

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💭 Right now—
are you on the battlefield?
⚔️ In the trenches?
😔 Or captured as a POW —
with your soul saved for eternity,
but living under oppression and captivity in this life?

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“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you,
as though something strange were happening to you.” —1 Peter 4:12 (ESV)

10/20/2025

10/20/2025

THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION OF THE SOUL

We’ve been taught the universe doesn’t revolve around us…
but many of us still live as if it does.

We orbit our comfort, our goals, our pain—
and expect God to stay close enough to bless them.

But true transformation begins when the center shifts.
When God becomes the fixed point—
and everything in our lives begins to revolve around Him.

Freedom begins when we shift the center.
When Jesus becomes not part of your orbit—
but the center of your universe.

When we worship God only for what He might do for us—
for gifts, authority, blessings, or simply escape from hell—
we miss the fullness of His presence that’s available now.

And when we hide our deepest pain,
refusing to let the Lord enter it and rewrite our story,
we become like special forces soldiers captured on the battlefield,
but trapped in a spiritual POW camp—
souls redeemed for eternity… yet still bound in this life. Jesus paid the price to not only save your soul, but for your FULL DELIVERANCE and FREEDOM NOW!

10/18/2025

Can’t wait to worship with you tomorrow!
THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION OF THE HEART:::
We’ve been taught that the universe doesn’t revolve around us… but many of us still live as if it does.
We orbit our comfort, our plans, our goals… and expect God to stay close enough to bless them. But true transformation begins when the center shifts. When He becomes the fixed point, and everything in our lives begins to revolve around Him.
That’s the Copernican Revolution of the Heart.

The deepest work of God in us is not behavior modification, but reorientation that breeds relationship.
David cried out, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from You.”
That’s not the prayer of a man seeking refuge in crisis, that’s the declaration of someone who has already surrendered the right to self.

Until God is your portion and cup, you’ll keep chasing pleasure and calling it peace. You’ll keep seeking approval and calling it love. You’ll keep demanding control and calling it faith.
But when God becomes the center, when your orbit shifts, joy is no longer circumstantial.
Even while being hunted and homeless in the cave, David could say, “I have set the Lord always before me… therefore my heart is glad.”
That’s not denial, that’s divine alignment.

Every true awakening begins here: when we stop asking God to make our lives work, and start asking, “Father, how can my life reveal You?”
That’s when pain becomes sacred.
That’s when loss becomes fertile ground for intimacy.
That’s when self-love becomes redeemed, no longer an idol, but a reflection of His image within you.
And this is where the cross leads us.
The Father turned His face away so that you could turn yours toward Him. The Son bore our shame so that your heart could finally rest secure.
His wounds paid your ransom — not to make life comfortable, but to make your soul alive.

This is the revolution we all need.
From self at the center to Christ at the center. From orbiting pleasure to orbiting Presence. From religion to relationship. From belief to surrender.
“It was my sin that held Him there…” But love — love kept Him through it.
The question now is: who sits at the center of your universe?

10/17/2025

Our debt: PAID IN FULL!
Every sin, every failure, every burden, completely covered by Jesus.
Nothing left owed. Nothing left to earn.

Because of the cross, not only have our souls been saved for enternity, but we may receive deliverance NOW, set free completely!
Here! Now! In THIS life— set free to walk in relationship with Him, in His power and authority.

“Oh praise the One who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead.”

That’s not just a lyric. It’s the reality for those who fully chose freedom in Christ.

10/11/2025

Come Holy Spirit, come.

10/05/2025

🌟The Identity You Can’t Earn🌟

Every human who has ever lived longs to be approved, accepted, validated, and loved.
We try to earn it through relationships, achievements, moral goodness, or community approval. Yet no amount of success, no spouse’s smile, no parent’s blessing, no child’s affection can ever fill that God-sized hole inside us.

The Christian identity is the only identity that is received—not achieved.

📖 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

09/14/2025

🚨 Stop Waiting for Charlie Kirk! 🚨
Supernatural Evangelism Pt. 4

The enemy wants you paralyzed by feelings of weakness: “I’m not smart enough. I’ll mess it up. I don’t have the right words.” But God says otherwise:

➡️ “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses.” (Acts 1:8)
➡️ “My power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

So many of us sit back thinking, “I could never do what they do. I’m not bold enough, smart enough, or gifted enough.” We wait for the “Charlie Kirk’s” of the world to speak up for us.

Here’s the truth: Satan wants you focused on your inadequacies so you’ll never open your mouth. Yet Jesus has already sent you and empowered you. The Spirit doesn’t make you timid — He fills you with power, love, and self-discipline. (2 Tim. 1:6–7)

Evangelism isn’t about being impressive — it’s about being obedient. It’s about caring enough to risk an awkward moment, a misunderstanding, or even rejection so someone else can find the Bread of Life.

💡 Question: Do you care enough to put comfort aside for your God, His gospel, and the lost lambs He loves?