I remember so vividly the precise moment the revelation that I was a son of God exploded in my spirit. Doctrinally, I had always embraced and espoused it, but this was something far different. No longer would it be just religious rhetoric or a mere doctrinal position to me, but a living, dynamic understanding that would change the whole inner fabric of my life and the entire course of my ministry.

It happened during a time of earnest prayer. I had just returned home from Bible School and was seeking the Lord for direction. As the Spirit of God began to breathe His prayer through me, I found myself crying out over and over again, “Abba Father”. As this heavenly cry grew in intensity within me, I was led to open my bible to the book of Galatians for spiritual illumination. It was as if the scripture just burst out of the pages of the book as I read it:

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Gal 4:4-7)”

What love and assurance filled my soul! What confidence was born in me as I realized my true identity with the Father! It was as if God had poured out a warm anointing oil on the top of my head that ran down to the soles of my feet. I was a son of God and this divine fact would be eternally emblazoned on my heart. This moment of divine revelation would be the turning point in my life and ministry. It was then that I entered into a deeper relationship with Christ and a greater dimension of power and effectiveness.

It was literally this revelation, made real to my heart, that thrust me into a new dynamic of ministry. My capacity for compassion seemed to take on greater p ...

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A well-known theologian once coined the phrase ‘mindless Christianity.’ Although it is a bitter pill to swallow, we must admit that the body of Christ suffers from this very condition! There are just too many aimless Christians exerting vain religious energy without a sense of divine purpose. Like Sampson of old grinding at the millstone, they go around and around in circles, void of vision and groping in darkness. The writer of Proverbs places his finger on the pulse of this problem when he warns us that,  “Where there is no vision, the people perish: (Pro 29:18)” Consequently, we continue to see believers in the Church victimized by the prevailing spirit of this world and perishing as the torch of true Christian witness becomes a smoldering ember.

We stubbornly go on with business as usual in our churches while the contradiction between what should be and what is stares us in the face. Like the proverbial ostrich who buries his head in the sand, many pretend all is well and refuse to admit this problem really exists. Yet the price of our spiritual ignorance is mounting and is becoming far too great to be tolerated any longer.

Thank God, there is a remedy. We can get back on course, but to do so, the Body of Christ must apprehend a clear vision of God's intention for the Church. Unless we get back ‘in the know,’ we will never get back ‘into the flow’ of divine reality. A revelation of God's purpose directly from the Holy Spirit is required.

Isaiah the prophet underscores the magnitude of the challenge we face when he writes,  “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him. (Isa 64:4 )” God has predestined a glorious future for mankind, but, according to this verse, a prevailing blindness afflicts him. From the very beginning of time, men have been simply unable to pe ...

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