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著者： Larry Shankle | StrongFaith.co
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  • Ep. 22 — Marked By The Holy Spirit

    Ep. 22 — Marked By The Holy Spirit
    2026/03/06
    Remnant people of God, welcome.I want to take just a few minutes and talk about something I believe God is dropping into my heart for you and for me in this hour.The other day I was listening to a podcast, and like many of you, I have a few trusted voices that I listen to. I’m very selective about that, and I believe you should be too, because we are living in a time of great deception. In an hour like this, we cannot afford to casually open our ears to just anything. We need discernment. We need wisdom. We need the Holy Spirit guiding what we receive and who we allow to speak into our life.And as I was listening, I felt something rise up in my spirit.I believe God is raising up a bold remnant of people who have strong faith—people who are willing to step fully into the things of God, willing to move forward courageously, and unwilling to bow to the pressure of the crowd, culture, or the noise happening around them. God is looking for men and women who will march headlong into His purposes with courage, obedience, and unwavering devotion to Jesus.He is raising up watchmen.He is raising up watchmen on the wall—prophetic watchmen who will do their part to pray into existence the plans and purposes of God. And I believe many of you need to be stepping into that right now.But here is what I felt specifically in my heart: there are many people right now who feel confused about their call, their mantle, their purpose, or their assignment—whatever word you would use to describe it. You are crying out in prayer, “God, would You just show me? Show me what to do. Show me where to go. Show me how You want me to speak. Open the door. Open the window.”Your heart’s cry is, “Lord, I do not want to do this thing on my own. I want to be obedient to Jesus. I want to follow the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.”And for some of you, that has left you feeling almost deadlocked. You don’t want to move ahead in your own strength. You don’t want to get outside the will of God. And because of that, this lack of clarity has made you feel stuck.But let me say this first: that is actually a very powerful place to be.Why? Because when your heart genuinely desires obedience, God honors that. He sees you.Friend, God sees you today.He sees your desire to obey Him. He sees your longing to follow His lead. He sees your hunger to let the Holy Spirit guide you purposefully into the things you are supposed to do for the kingdom of God.And let me encourage you with this: there is a specific call for your life.There is an open door for you.There is a future and a plan that the Lord is putting in place even now.For some, that calling may be in a hidden place. It may be a hidden place of prayer, where you are an intercessor praying into existence the plans and purposes of God. People may never know your name. They may never see what you do. But what you do in the Spirit is vital. It is necessary. It is kingdom work. It matters deeply to the heart of God.Others are prophetic watchmen who not only pray into existence the plan of God, but who will also be given doors on personal and corporate levels to boldly declare and speak the word of the Lord—to friends, to family, to communities, in pulpits, through videos, podcasts, social media, YouTube, and all kinds of platforms.So what do you do in a season like this?You keep pressing in.You keep pressing into the things of God. You keep seeking His heart. You keep obeying what you already know to do. Don’t let yourself become overly distracted by what you don’t yet understand. Don’t let yourself be paralyzed by what you don’t yet know. Lean hard into what you do know, because the Lord is about to move in your life.And this is one of the main reasons I wanted to share this message.I feel like the Lord is saying that He is in the process of marking people for Jesus right now.You may not fully realize it, but in this place where you’ve been calling it confusion, it may not really be confusion at all. It may simply be a lack of clarity because your appointed time has not yet fully arrived. But while you wait, God is not absent. He is marking you.He is setting you apart.He is sealing you by His Spirit.He is placing His oil on your life.He is anointing you for the things He is calling you to do.I feel this deeply in my spirit: God is raising up John the Baptists in this hour—voices who prepare the way of the Lord. He is raising up Elijahs—powerful prophetic voices who will speak into the narrative of this generation and call people back to God. Some of these voices will have broad visibility. Others will operate quietly but powerfully in families, churches, friendships, and communities. They will confront darkness, expose false authority, and help bring people into freedom.I also believe God is raising up Hezekiahs.I’ve talked about this before, but I believe it again strongly right now. Hezekiah was a king through whom God brought revival and reformation. The...
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    15 分
  • Fear Won’t Steal My Assignment

    Fear Won’t Steal My Assignment
    2026/02/18
    People of God, I want to take just a moment and pour something into you—because I feel like the Lord is dropping this into my heart right now.I literally just walked out of a prayer moment, and I can’t shake this sense that a message needs to be released. In this present moment where we live, it seems like the enemy of our soul will do anything he can to knock us off course—to cause us to veer off track—anything to keep us from fulfilling the plan of God for our lives.But I want to encourage you: don’t fall for it.He’ll try tactics of fear. He’ll try intimidation. He’ll try to confuse you, wear you down, and make you second-guess what God has said. But friend, you don’t have to live in fear and intimidation—because greater is He that lives in you than he that’s in the world. The God on the inside of you is so much greater.And I’m telling you… right now is a prime time.Men of God, women of God, remnant people of God—this is the moment to pick up the mantle God has placed on your life. This is the hour to be a voice. To be a watchman on the wall. To be a prayer warrior—somebody who prays into existence the plans and purposes of God.The Lord has been bringing this back to my heart over and over: we are to be people of prayer, first and foremost. Above everything else, we’re to seek His face. We are called to co-labor with God—to bring into existence what His heart desires.And I know some of you are dealing with fear. You’re afraid. You lack clarity. You don’t know what to do. But let me reassure you: if God has given you a word, you keep pressing into that word. You keep doing what He’s called you to do—what He’s planted in your heart.For some of you, God has called you to pray over your cities and your towns. And you need to do it with relentlessness. You need to do it with a heart that refuses to back down or give up.Because every time the enemy tells you, “What you’re doing doesn’t matter,” you need to answer that lie with truth: it does matter.Your prayers matter in the Kingdom of God.You’ve got to be willing to be a voice and press out, instead of listening to the enemy. I was thinking about Elijah—how he ran at Jezebel’s taunting words. You know the story. He ends up in a cave, discouraged, despairing, wishing life could be different.And praise the Lord, God met him in that still small voice.But here’s what I was thinking… what if there was more for Elijah than what Elijah ended up doing?Right after that moment, God speaks and tells him to go anoint the next prophet—Elisha. Elijah obeyed, yes. And we know Elijah ended up in heaven. We know Jesus spoke with Elijah at the Transfiguration. I truly believe he’s probably one of the two witnesses in the book of Revelation.So hear me: I’m not knocking Elijah at all.What I’m saying is this: what if there was more potential on the earth that he could’ve walked in… but fear and intimidation pulled him back from it?That’s my opinion. I don’t think the Bible says that anywhere. But it’s a thought that grips me—because it connects directly to you and me.Friend, we live in a pivotal moment. You live in a pivotal moment. And you may not consider yourself on the level of Elijah, but I’m telling you: your prayer matters.Your call from God matters.Your obedience matters.You listening to His voice and doing what He says—that matters so much in the Kingdom of God. And we don’t want to throw away our potential because of fear or intimidation—because of the things the enemy whispers to our mind.No. We want our hearts in tune with heaven.We want to listen to the sound of heaven.And we want to be the kind of remnant warriors who say, “I’m not leaving anything on the table.”* No, I’m going to pray for my community until my community sees revival.* I’m going to pray for my family until my children and grandchildren are saved.* I’m going to pray for my spouse until my spouse is saved.* I’m going to pray for my church and the leadership of my church.* I’m going to pray a protective hedge around my church.* I’m going to plead the blood of Jesus over my church and its leaders—because they need it right now.* I’m going to plead the blood of Jesus over my town.One of the things my wife and I have grown accustomed to doing is taking prayer drives around our community. We love it. God prompted our hearts to do it.But I’ll be honest—when we first started, I felt silly.I thought, “Is somebody going to see me driving around here, raising one hand, praying?” Then I began to realize something: the One who is inside of me is so much greater than every enemy planted in my town.So what do I have to do?I have to pray over this ground.I have to claim it for the Kingdom of God.I have to declare that everywhere my car drives belongs to Jesus and the Kingdom.I have to declare that men and women in my town are going to be saved and experience the presence of God and the revival ...
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    16 分
  • We Owe the Next Generation an Encounter With God

    We Owe the Next Generation an Encounter With God
    2025/11/29
    There is a cry rising in my spirit in this hour:It’s time to wake up.It’s time to rise up.It’s time to encounter the living God again.Not just for ourselves—but for the next generation.Recently I heard Pastor Russell Johnson say, “We owe the next generation an encounter with the living God.” When I heard those words, something leaped inside of me. I found myself saying out loud, “Yes, Jesus. That’s what we need.”Those words have not left me.They have pushed a question deep into my heart that I can’t shake:What am I doing—personally—to make room for an encounter with the living God so the next generation can encounter Him too?That’s what this whole conversation is about.We Owe Them More Than StoriesI grew up around the move of the Holy Spirit—Pentecostal roots, the gifts of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit, healings, the presence of God. None of that was strange to me.As a teenager, when Jesus saved me at fourteen, I had a burning hunger for His presence. I used to read old books I found from my great-grandmother—testimonies of miracles, healing, evangelistic crusades where people were saved, delivered, filled with the Holy Spirit. Those stories stoked the fire in my heart.But somewhere along the way, something shifted in the wider church.We went from powerful moves of God—salvations, healings, mass repentance, deliverance—to… almost silence. Not because God stopped moving, but because many stopped pursuing what it takes to live in continual encounter.A generation stopped tending the fire.We stopped putting wood on the altar:* Sacrificial prayer* Costly obedience* Persistent hunger for God’s presenceAnd when you stop feeding the fire, the embers begin to die.We cannot do that to the generation coming behind us.They don’t just need our sermons, our nice church services, or our Christian culture.They need a living example of what it looks like when a man or woman truly encounters God.The Secret of Encounter: Travail and ObedienceJohn Hyde—known as “Praying Hyde”—once said:“The secret of revival is travailing prayer.”I believe that.If we want a genuine encounter with God, it ultimately comes down to this simple question:Am I willing to pour my guts out in prayer before God?Not a token prayer.Not “Now I lay me down to sleep” prayer.But the kind of prayer that consumes you.Prayer that lays your life on the altar as a living sacrifice—holy and acceptable to God. Prayer that refuses to be conformed to this world but is transformed by the renewing of the mind. Prayer that positions you to discern and live out the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.And true prayer always leads somewhere:* To obedience* To surrender* To humility* To a pre-decided “Yes, Lord”Not “Yes” after I hear the assignment.“Yes” before I even know what it will cost.That is where encounters are born.Seek First the Kingdom—For RealJesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God…”It sounds simple, but it cuts deep.Seeking the Kingdom first means:* Asking, “Lord, what are You doing right now?”* Letting His priorities rearrange my priorities* Saying, “Use my life to speak to this generation. Let me be a voice, not just an observer.”People are hungry for truth.They are starving for the real thing.The truth sets people free—but someone has to speak it.So I have to ask myself—and I invite you to ask with me:* Am I seeking God first, or fitting Him in?* Am I seeking what He wants above what I want?* Am I willing to say, “Here is my yes. Use me however You want”?Because Jesus also said:“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst… for they will be filled.”Not might be.Will be.The real issue is not, “Will God fill me?”The real issue is, “Am I actually hungry enough to pursue Him?”Stop Comparing Your Walk—Start ObeyingOne of the enemy’s favorite tactics is comparison.“I don’t pray like them.”“I can’t get up as early as them.”“I’m not as bold, as smart, as deep, as spiritual…”I’ve been there.I’ve looked at men and women I respect—intercessors, revivalists, pastors—and thought, I could never do what they do. Social media amplifies this. We see highlight reels of other people’s devotion and feel disqualified in our own.One day, God confronted that in my heart.In prayer, I sensed Him say:“I don’t want to have someone else’s relationship with you. I want to have My relationship with you.”That changed me.I can never be Lou Engle.I can never be Lester Sumrall or Smith Wigglesworth.And I’m not called to be.But I can be fully mine—fully His.I can be a man who walks in obedience with the exact measure God has placed on my plate.Whatever God puts on your plate—that’s what He’s asking you to steward.Don’t disqualify yourself because you don’t pray exactly like someone else, fast like someone else, or serve like someone else. Start where you are. Be obedient with what you can do right now.God isn’t ...
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    27 分
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