Faith Through The Fire

Shame Is Why You Can't Hear God's Voice You haven't stopped hearing God because He stopped speaking. You stopped listening because shame convinced you that you were too dirty for Him to even want to. That's the lie. And it's the first thing the devil attacks — not your behavior, but your access. If he can make you believe you're disqualified, you stay in the dark. You stay out of your purpose. You...

What if the very thing people have been using against you is the exact thing Jesus calls you blessed for? Buddy opens the Sermon on the Mount today — Matthew 5:10–12 — and breaks down rejection in a way that's hard to unhear. Most people spend their whole life trying to be understood, accepted, celebrated. But Jesus never promised that. He said blessed are you when you don't conform to the pattern...

You keep asking God what your purpose is. The answer has been in 2 Timothy 2:21 the whole time — and it's simpler than you think. Buddy opens 2 Timothy 2:19–21 today — Paul writing to his mentee Timothy — and breaks down the one thing that determines whether God can use you as an instrument for special purposes or not. It's not your gifting. It's not your calling. It's not how long you've been wal...

We baptized 17 people. A man with brain damage who hadn't slept more than four hours a night slept through the whole night after. And I almost missed all of it because I believed I wasn't good enough for community. Buddy comes back from VousCon Miami — five days with 75 people from around the world, demons manifesting and being prayed through, physical healing, and the most transformative week of...

My dad just went to prison again a few weeks ago. And I still honor him. Here's why — and why it's the heaviest thing you'll ever do in the kingdom. Buddy opens Romans 12 today and flips the way you understand honor completely. Most people read "honor one another above yourselves" as a nice sentiment — a call to be polite, to get along, to treat people well when they deserve it. Buddy breaks down...

You've been told "many are called, few are chosen" — and quietly wondered if you're one of the few. You're not reading that right. Buddy opens 1 Corinthians 12 today and goes directly at the lie that some believers are more chosen, more gifted, more important to God than others. It's a lie that keeps men on the sidelines of their own purpose — watching people like Buddy, or the most famous Christi...

You keep trying to do this alone. But God didn't design you to make it that way. Most men pull away when things get hard. They isolate. They think they can white-knuckle their way through the spiritual life without anyone watching, without anyone knowing where they really are. Buddy opens Hebrews 10 today and shows why that's not just a bad strategy — it's a misunderstanding of what the blood of J...

Satan knows your name. But he calls you by your filth. And Jesus has been answering that accusation since before the cross. Most men think the enemy's greatest weapon is temptation. Buddy opens Zechariah 3 today and reveals something older and heavier — the adversary's real strategy is accusation. He's not just trying to get you to sin. He's standing in the courtroom pointing at everything you've...

Most people carry a version of God in their head that is quietly angry at them.. Not angry at the world in general. Specifically at them. At their sin cycles. Their repeated failures. The prayers they stopped praying because they felt too dirty to finish them. The assumption underneath everything that God's patience with them personally is running thin. Zechariah 1 reveals something that completel...

You've been telling yourself God is silent.. That He's not moving. That your prayers aren't being heard. That maybe this season is just something you have to push through on your own — get stronger, stay consistent, figure it out. But Daniel 10 reveals something completely different. Daniel — a man who survived the lion's den, who witnessed Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walk out of a furnace untou...

People say Jesus never directly called himself God.. It's one of the most common arguments used to question who Jesus actually was. And most Christians don't know how to answer it. But here's what those people haven't read. Daniel 7. A vision given to Daniel while God's people were in exile — surrounded by beastly kingdoms, pagan pressure, and foreign rulers. The scene shifts suddenly from four be...

Most people pray for the fire to go out.. The trial that won't end. The season that won't lift. The pressure that keeps coming. And the prayer is always the same — God please just make it stop. But Daniel 3 shows something nobody prays for but everyone needs. Three men thrown into a furnace heated seven times hotter than normal. Bound hand and foot. Thrown in by the most powerful king in the world...

Isaiah walked into the throne room of God.. Not in a dream. Not a metaphor. A vision so real that the train of God's robe filled the entire temple. Six-winged creatures surrounding the throne crying holy, holy, holy — covering their faces because even the seraphim couldn't look directly at what was there. And Isaiah's first response wasn't worship. It was collapse. "I am ruined. I am a man of uncl...

Most people follow a Jesus they've made comfortable.. Gentle. Safe. Always merciful. A Jesus who would never make you uncomfortable, never confront what you're doing, never draw a sword. But that's not the full nature of Christ. 1 Chronicles 21 is the passage most churches never touch. Because it's terrifying. David sinned — he trusted in his own military numbers instead of God's power. And the co...

Samson never prayed for strength.. Not once. The strongest man in the Bible — the man who killed a lion with his bare hands, who toppled a building with his arms — never asked God for what everyone remembers him for. Because he didn't have to. Before Samson was born, Jesus showed up to his unnamed, barren mother and spoke over him. Not his strength — his consecration. His set-apartness. His dedica...

Gideon wasn't praying when Jesus found him.. He wasn't leading. He wasn't fighting. He wasn't believing for breakthrough. He was hiding in a winepress — underground, afraid, from the weakest clan, the least in his family — doing the bare minimum just to survive what was chasing him. And Jesus showed up and called him mighty warrior. Not after he had it together. Not after he dealt with his fear. N...

You've been quoting the verse.. "Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you." You've said it. You've prayed it. You've tried to apply it. And the devil hasn't fled. Here's why. James 4:7 is one of the most quoted verses in the Bible. And almost nobody reads what comes before it. Because what comes before it changes everything about how you understand it. James 4:1-3 opens with war....

Most people approach God with one question.."Are you on my side?"It's the same question Joshua asked when he looked up and saw a man standing outside Jericho with a drawn sword. "Are you for us or for our enemies?" And the answer stopped everything. Neither. Not for you. Not against you. The Commander of the Lord's Army didn't show up to join Joshua's battle plan. He showed up to take command of i...

Israel crossed the Red Sea. They were free.. Four hundred years of slavery — over. The chains were gone. The water came down. Pharaoh's army was destroyed. By every measure they had been completely delivered. And three days later they were complaining about going back to Egypt. That's not just an ancient story. That's every man who has been delivered from addiction, lust, toxic relationships, or a...

Moses spent 40 years running.. He killed a man. Fled everything he knew. Built a whole new life in the wilderness. A wife. A family. A flock. By the time God showed up at that burning bush, Moses was 80 years old. And God still showed up. That's what Exodus 3 is showing you. Not just the story of Moses — the story of everyone who has ever run from what God placed inside them. The people who grew u...

You've been asking God to remove the struggle.. Take away the temptation. Stop the pattern. Make the fight easier. And it hasn't gone away. And somewhere in the back of your mind you've started wondering — does God even hear me? He heard you every single time. He just had a different answer than the one you were asking for. Genesis 32 is one of the most misread stories in the entire Bible. Jacob w...

You've been trying to give God enough..More discipline. More sacrifice. More effort. Negotiating with him — if I give this up, if I commit to this, if I stop doing that — maybe then he'll be satisfied. Maybe then he'll finally show up. But Genesis 22 reveals something that most Christians completely miss when they read the story of Abraham and Isaac. God never wanted the sacrifice. He already prov...

But he was already there. Already moving. Already pursuing broken people long before Bethlehem. Long before the manger. Long before anyone knew his name. Genesis 16 is one of the most overlooked passages in all of scripture. And when you see who Jesus was pursuing in the Old Testament — and why — everything you thought you knew about when God started coming after you changes completely. Hagar wasn...

Your whole life you've been trying to heal by becoming more loved.. By the right person. The right relationship. The right amount of success. The right version of yourself that finally feels worthy enough. And it never works. Because you can't heal from a wound with the same thing that caused it. 1 John 4:7-8 carries the most important revelation Buddy has ever encountered. Not that God loves you...

For years Buddy prayed for purpose. Begged God to reveal his calling. Worked harder. Tried to be more disciplined. More worthy.. And the whole time God was saying — stop praying for what I already put inside you. 2 Timothy 1:9 breaks open the most exhausting lie most Christians believe. That your calling is something you earn. That your identity is something you perform for. T hat if you just do e...