John Wasserman Podcast

Pentecost was a day of the disciples being drunk with extreme joy brought on by the realization that what Jesus had preached was true and that the shackles of religion had been lifted – bringing to them an awesome, full, strong salvation. Salvation used to be preached in the recent past as consisting out of a time-consuming process of accepting Jesus as your saviour, then when you have proven the...

The arena of God’s activity is in the inner man or the spirit of a person – where we get filled with all the fulness of God – and this fulness is God’s heart’s desire. What happened in Babel was an anti-type of what happened on the day of Pentecost. In Babel, a fleshly human city devoid of Spirit, God brought a dispersion of the Babilonians through different languages and on the day of Pentecost h...

Jesus existed before He did on earth and his ascension shows that He still exists afterwards. There were three glories – the glory as the Son of God before the incarnation, the glory as God manifested in the flesh and the glory of Son of God in a glorified body after the resurrection. The ascension of Jesus is confrontational to many because its meaning is that Jesus is Lord over everything. The a...

In the forty days preceding Pentecost, Jesus was transitioning His disciples from a having a spiritual instead of a physical relationship with him. On the day of Pentecost, the responsibility for the extension of God’s Kingdom was transferred onto the disciples. He promised that He will be in them, that they would be empowered by Him He would be alongside them, and work with them. The same is also...

The number 40 speaks of testing, probation, a generation, a time of provision for prosperity, as well as preparation for a new era. Jesus started his ministry with 40 days of personal preparation in the wilderness and the 40 days before the day of Pentecost was preparation for the Church who came forth out of the travail of Jesus’ sufferings. This makes us the offspring or generation of Jesus. Jes...

God is speaking and acting at all times and we have been designed to hear God’s voice. If we do not, the wrong voices are drowning out His voice. We have the Holy Spirit residing in us and whatever He does, thinks, or speaks; it is precisely what the Father is doing, thinking, or speaking. Because of the Holy Spirit, we can see hidden things and know the mind of Christ. Whereas Abel’s blood spoke...

In the Old Testament, the priests and leaders of Israel inquired from the Lord by using the Urim and the Thummim which were on the High Priest’s breastplate, the Ephod. However, it became problematic in that instead of having a relationship with God and hearing His voice, they only relied only on the Thummim which eventually became an idol to the Children of Israel. They would also experience at t...

Through Christ, God’s hand has turned from being against sinners to being opened towards us in blessing. Under the Law the transference of people’s sins and punishment upon the animal being offered took place by the laying on of hands. Jesus became our sin offering, our scapegoat, having our sins laid upon him, and He took our punishment on the cross. The heavens and earth were originally realms w...

Throughout his ministry, Jesus’ awareness of his eventual death and resurrection became ever greater. He realised that it had all been orchestrated by the Father in His wisdom and Jesus had to make the decision to willingly yield to God’s will. This would make Jesus the wisdom of God, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Jesus’ resurrection was proving the fact that God’s power was immense...

God’s gift to us is eternal life in Christ Jesus, a quality of life, a life more abundantly, which begins at our re-birth and continues into eternity. This abundant life should be manifested in every conceivable area of our lives, but so many of us live below par Christian lives. Human beings are complicated and hard to understand. People who are close to- and loved by us can have a powerfully pos...

It is really important that in our walk with God we do so with a certainty or an assurance, which results in boldness and steadfastness. This certainty and assurance is knowing that your sins are forgiven and that you are righteous. You need to educate your conscience to really understand that when you do sin and repent, you are forgiven, your sin is removed, and God has no remembrance of it. This...

The Holy Spirit constantly leads us into applied truth resulting in holiness and righteousness. Walking with God means obediently walking the high road – His way, not in the way of the world where people are influenced and ruled over by the spirit of the age, a spirit of disobedience. We need to walk with sensitivity towards God, lest we become dull of spirit and prone to the influence of the worl...

God has got a destiny, plan, and purpose for each of His children, individually as well as corporately. This walk towards our destiny is accomplished by walking in the Spirit, being piloted and captained by Him. The Holy Spirit speaks and He has emotions. He often influences and leads us through feelings and it is essential that we learn to discern between our own fleshly feelings and those of the...

A walk with God is made up out of steps – daily steps which add up to a journey, a walk with and before God – a walk under his leadership and authority, being obedient and accountable to Him. Although our individual paths and way of walking may differ, we all have the same destination and goal which is perfection and maturity, the full stature and measure of Christ. God is walking with us and at t...

Before Israel could possess the land of Canaan, God’s requirement of them was that they would be willing to enter with faith, face warfare, and be courageous. In the same way, for us to enter into the future God has purposed for us, it is essential to walk in His paths which involve timing and trust. God’s promises include His provision and presence. Let us embrace and own the new season, standing...

Our journey with God has two components – a responsibility and a calling. We need to answer to both. Many are called but few are chosen – why is that? It all comes down to our response to the call. We need to take full responsibility for that which we have agreed to. Even when we do not understand many of the things happening to us because of the choice which we have made to follow God, we must ne...

Although Jesus is the pattern by which we know God, He also had to get to know and grow in this knowledge of his Heavenly Father. Living out God’s principles through the fruit of the Holy Spirit makes us become like Him – his image on the earth, reflected back to Him. The Holy Spirit has nine gifts, but the last one mentioned, that is self-control, is the one that enables the first eight. God want...

Today is the time for harvest, the time for every unfulfilled prophecy and dream to come to pass, negating the effect that the pandemic has had on the Church of Jesus Christ as well as the world. This is the time for a quickening (life) to take place. The essence of life is increase and growth. Increase is a principle of God and that is His will for each one of us. The river running through the Ga...

The people that know their God shall be strong and do great exploits. They shall be able to stand strong and resist all evil. Through our faith, we can conquer the kingdom of darkness and every evil circumstance in our lives. God is wonderful and totally worthy of us loving Him and wanting to know Him better. We are made powerful and confident by His present presence – in us and with us. We are gr...

There is a difference between knowing about God and knowing Him. The first is merely information and the second is an intimate relationship. This relationship gives power, but God also wants us to have character. Getting to know God will have as a result that we get to know ourselves. Knowing who we are in Christ enables us to handle the adversarial things in life. When God’s light highlights some...

God wants us to know Him and it is of prime importance for us to continually broaden our intimate knowledge of who He is. The whole reason why He sent Jesus was to reveal, unveil, and disclose the mystery of who He was. He wants us to know him as God in all of his omniscience, power, wisdom knowledge, etc., but more specifically He wants us to know Him as our Father. Knowing God is essentially a g...

The river is going to flow in 2022. Change is coming – are you prepared? These are words that came from two well-known prophets for the year 2022. Change is constant in life, but some changes are life-changing, like what we have experienced in the last two years. The chaos in the world was caused by people, but the Bible calls those who are acting as if there is no God to whom they will be held ac...

God had to send Jesus because it was the only way for us to be saved. God is the god of all of mankind, but the Father of those who have been born of Him by accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour. Jesus came for our salvation because God loved us so greatly. Jesus, being God incarnate, appeared to destroy the works of the devil, which is sin, by His birth, death, and resurrection. He could take a...

There is a subtle difference between waiting on the Lord and waiting for the Lord. In waiting for the Lord we need to be strong, confident, and very courageous. We need to prepare ourselves for 2022 with this attitude. There are godly promises, actions, interventions, and experiences of the power of God which are laid up for us in 2022. We often fear the future because of past experiences. God is...

When we experience a triggered response linked to our past lives we need to remind ourselves of our righteousness in Christ and that we have been cleansed. This assists us to grow in our faith. The sacraments of Baptism and Communion serve as a visible reminder of- and a connection to God’s grace towards us through the cross of Christ. Communion is to be partaken of as an act of faith while medita...