John Wasserman Podcast

If we want more from God in revival, we need to calculate the cost thereof, enlarge our hearts and decide whether we want to live in the way God requires of us. Receiving God’s grace towards further spiritual growth in vain is when you refuse to listen to Him and compromise on His principles, principles like not being separate in actions, conduct, and lifestyle from the world, being unequally yoke...

Every revival throughout history started with prayer. We need to soak ourselves in the new move of the Spirit, by repenting, praying, worshiping, and hungering for God. All these activities create in us a readiness to usher in the glory of God. We are all here for one reason, which is to reveal the Kingdom of God. When revival starts, it is like a flooding river which, when it starts moving, often...

Let us look at the meaning of the word “revival”. Reviving something means that it has lived before. The world outside of Christianity cannot be revived, because it has not been alive before. Revival is only for the Body of Christ. The people of the world however, are the beneficiaries of the benefits which Christians gain from revival. We should actually not need revival, but it is a sad fact tha...

Society has been changed by the pandemic but God is still the same. It is still God’s purpose to pour out His revival fire upon us. We, as the Body of Christ, should align ourselves with this purpose and run with fire, becoming a great army to meet the needs of those who do not know God. The Body of Christ can only be revived in the measure by which each individual member grabs a hold of- and expe...

There is a spirit or state of heart which facilitates a revival move of God. This spirit firstly consists of a deep need and willingness to be used by God and secondly a godly generosity. God is richly, lavishly, extravagantly, and abundantly generous as is evident from the gift of His only Son towards the full salvation of the whole world. God generously gave the Holy Spirit. He blesses the just...

Something is stirring in the atmosphere. God is bringing to many a re-visioning, reviving, and a re-stirring of dreams and visions which have been lost. God is our father who loves us and is completely willing to come to our aid. To not miss out on what God is doing we should stay focused on- and yielded to God and not be distracted by giving in to reactions originating from the flesh. It is impor...

Over the centuries, the theme of revival was fire – in the Bible God is referred to as a consuming fire. Fire reveals God in action, for example when He consumed the sacrifice in the times of the Old Testament. Fire is a manifestation of God’s glory, nature, and presence. The fire of God ignites but does not consume. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, we are acceptable sacrifices as w...

At the time of the book of Habakkuk, Israel was going into exile. This was judgment executed upon them for their disobedience and sins. Habakkuk was enquiring from God how that He could use a nation more evil to judge the evil in Israel. God’s reply was that any nation which He uses to execute His judgment and who then oversteps his boundaries, will be judged as well. The same is true today. All c...

During the last two years, the Church of Jesus Christ has been under direct assault from the enemy. Even though there had been a lot of restrictions placed upon the Church through the various levels of lockdown, God will take revenge for the negative effects (for instance upon the economy of His people) which the lockdowns have had on the Church. Though the enemy had a negative outcome in mind, th...

God’s presence upon and around us should be our highest priority, passion, and pursuit. His presence positions us to hear God’s voice more clearly, and there we experience a fulness of joy. During corporate worship, we are lifting God up and we become aware of His majestic presence in our midst, His train filling His temple. When we are in God’s presence, we see how big He is. This realization bri...

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit was God coming and revealing His presence in the new temple, the Church. We are enabled by the Holy Spirit to continue in the acts and teachings which Jesus had begun. God’s intention is for every believer to be a Spirit-led priest, in other words, a Kingdom of Priests. Even as God manifested His presence in the Old Testament through clouds, wind, and fire, His Ch...

In order to redeem the time, we acquire knowledge, understanding, and wisdom which please God and bring the favour of God and man. Living like this is living a wise and effective life. This lifestyle manifests the righteousness of God and serves as a conviction to the world around us. We should absolutely not compromise, because our compromise waters down the message we convey and gives justificat...

As we look around at what is happening in the world, it appears as if we are in a state of war. However, we should not allow this to have us withdraw from people and especially from church attendance, thus robbing ourselves from the uplifting fellowship aspect of being part of the Body of Christ. We need to live by- think, operate and talk faith and love instead of the meaningless things being dis...

There are too many Christians living only in and by the grace of God and not progressing to where they also experience His favour. God’s favour is conditional. In order to gain God’s favour, we go through a process of growing in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, knowledge giving understanding, understanding evolving in wisdom for life followed by pleasing God. In other words, the m...

God has got a purpose, destiny, and mandate for every Christian to live effective and productive lives – thus redeeming time – and for this, we need the grace and favour of both God and man. Grace is a gift, and we all have unique grace gifts or ministries to function as part of the Body of Christ. Grace can also mean extra general blessing or mercy which enables us to do God’s will at times when...

Our lives have been redeemed by Jesus. By living a life pleasing unto God, worthy of this redemption, we are enabled to redeem the time. This is a life lived in accordance to the Word and the Spirit’s wisdom, knowledge, and understanding as well as in the fear of the Lord. Living like this will result in a fruitful and efficient life, continually growing in the knowledge of God. In this growth, we...

Time is not only money but also a lot of other things, for instance, spiritual enrichment. At the present time, there is a spiritual enrichment taking place in the Church worldwide, because due to lockdowns everywhere Christians have more time to spend with the Lord. Where Paul talks about redeeming the time in Ephesians 5:16, he uses the same word as that which is used to describe our redemption...

There are essential Word-based attributes which we need as a foundation or bedrock of our belief system before we can have a quick-responding and expanding faith. The first thing which we need in our foundation is a correct revelation of who God is, who we are, and a world-view based on God’s perspective. When we understand who God is, that He is totally reliable, unchangeable, truthful and that H...

Since everything in our Christian walk is based upon our faith, it is necessary that God refines and purifies this faith so that we can obtain the redemption and salvation of our souls unto the full image of Jesus Christ. Jesus, as our High Priest, is praying for us that our faith will not fail in a time of the enemy’s attacks, because our faith determines an opposite result from that which the en...

Trials that we go through is not a sign of God’s anger, disappointment, or judgment but rather a sign of His confidence in us as his sons, to overcome and end up refined by the process, while our faith grows and remains steadfast in God’s sovereignty and goodness towards us. In order to keep the right perspective during these times, it is imperative to have a vigorous, focused prayer life instead...

Trials should have a response of pure joy in us because we envision the eventual outcome, which is that we will experience the glory of having our faith and characters tested, purified, and complete. God is allowing us to face hard times as a way to prepare, train, teach and disciple us to live, increase, enter and possess. This means that He loves us and is treating us as sons. He is bringing us...

Our faith is that which is central in our Christian walk as well as in all that is happening around us with this pandemic. This trial has come to prove the genuineness of our faith. How we respond in this time proves to God and to ourselves, how much we have grown in the precious faith which has initially been gifted to us by God. Throughout every trial, we need to persistently hold on to the word...

The present Covid-19 pandemic is a trial, the testing of our faith because this also affects believers. According to the Apostle James, we need to adopt a mental approach of pure joy and faith towards our trials, afflictions and persecutions, instead of despondency. Jesus said to be exceedingly glad in these circumstances. The correct responses to trials produce that which brings forth joy – a ref...

Every human is born with folly in their hearts with the attitude of a child, but often this seed has come to maturity in adults, resulting in people lacking in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. The grace of God is free and undeserved, but favour is earned. God’s favour is attracted by our growth in the wisdom of God. Jesus grew in wisdom through His obedience. Wisdom is seeking God and gaining...

Each one of us has been enabled through the Holy Spirit to bring revival to a whole city, but we need to have the person of the Holy Spirit as a high priority in our lives. We need to be conscious of-, develop a relationship with-, speak about-, move in- and do what the Holy Spirit instructs us to do. God wants to visit us, but we need to move away from being susceptible to consumerism or an attit...