John Wasserman Podcast

The sons of Issachar understood the time and therefore knew how to act. There was a call to invest in this conference by prayer, attending, and preparing an offering. The theme of the conference has been confirmed repeatedly and it is about something being in the heart of God for this moment, this time that we are in. The question is, what is it that this moment in time so special? Looking at time...

The Holy Spirit is at work within us, freeing us progressively from sinful traits, developing in us a Christ-like character. The Holy Spirit is a minister to us. He bears witness with our spirits, assuring us that we are sons and heirs, co-heirs with Jesus Christ of God, after he had initially convicted us of sin, righteousness and judgment. The Holy Spirit witnesses to our spirits by giving us a...

The Holy Spirit is at work within us, freeing us progressively from sinful traits, developing in us a Christ-like character. The Holy Spirit is a minister to us. He bears witness with our spirits, assuring us that we are sons and heirs, co-heirs with Jesus Christ of God, after he had initially convicted us of sin, righteousness and judgment. The Holy Spirit witnesses to our spirits by giving us a...

We, as the people of God, have an end-goal, which is total holiness. We have promises from God and because of that, as well as our reverence for Him, we need on to move on to that hight calling of holiness by cleansing ourselves of all unrighteousness. There is no better way to increase the holiness of the Church as a whole, than for the increase in each individual’s holiness. It is the responsibi...

The Apostle Paul said in the book of Romans that we become more mature sons of God when we are led by- and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit leads us to understand God in the same way Jesus does, enabling us to say, “my Father”. The Spirit is the guarantee of our future glory and victory in every area. It is impossible for us to fail, since there is intercession going on for o...

The primary role of the Holy Spirit is not to make life easy, but to form Christ in us, to attain to everything that is available to us in Christ. The Holy Spirit gives us an inward assurance of salvation, indwells us to bring change inside and out, illuminates the mysteries of God, empowers us to bear witness, guides us, intercedes for us, distributes gifts in the Body unto its edification, is gr...

All the fulness of the Godhead is inside of us in the person of the Holy Spirit and we have not even scratched the surface of the depths of this mystery within us. The Holy Spirit fills, teaches, reminds, guides and leads us. The Holy Spirit is also searching the deep things of God. These deep things have been destined for our glory (those who love God) from before time began and are now revealed...

Paul encouraged the Churches to imitate him and walk in the way he did, which would result in obtaining the rest of God. That statement seemed to be arrogant, but how did Paul get to the place where he could say this? We should be able to make the same statement, that when people look at us, they should desire to imitate us, as we walk out our salvation in a practical manner. It all starts with wh...

It is important that we pursue the understanding of, as well as having a relationship with the extra-ordinary Holy Spirit who was given to us as an incredible gift, since He is essential to us in the process of being transformed into the image of Christ. We need constant re-filling of the Spirit to win the race for this world and see the Kingdom of God extended. The Holy Spirit guides or leads us...

How and why we choose to say ‘yes’ to God continuously is the result of who we believe in and are connected to, and who our source of life is. It is God’s presence and unfailing faithfulness that sustains us. God wants us to be whole-heartedly and consistently connected to him, fully functional and healed. Faithfulness means to remain being loyal and steadfast. It is important to know why we love...

Christians are extraordinary, because of the extraordinary Holy Spirit indwelling us. The Word says that as Christ is in heaven, so are we now in this world. This is what we are growing into, by the power of the Holy Spirit within. Transformation is all about a relationship, more about training that trying. Continuing to look at the verbs describing the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, the ne...

Because of the indwelling Holy Spirit, we are extraordinary and supernatural beings, born from above. There are verbs in the Bible which describe the actions of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. The first one is that the Holy Spirit fills us. This infilling is continuous, so that we can contain more of his life-giving presence. Filled people are under the control, authority and influence...

God needs men who are manifesting what He had designed them to be. That means being decisive, strong, bold, courageous, reflecting the image of God, and able to make solid decisions and live by them. They are to be able to move mountains in society as well as their families, while serving God wholeheartedly, and being completely focused on God’s kingdom. In the Bible mountains were always symbolic...

The Holy Spirit plays a pivotal part in us coming to salvation and thereafter in the assurance of our salvation. Part of the process of Christ being formed in us is that the Holy Spirit helps us to put to death the misdeeds of the flesh. He also provides the grace and power to resist temptation, ungodliness and unrighteousness. His help to successfully resist temptation, results in us having autho...

The Holy Spirit plays a pivotal part in us coming to salvation and thereafter in the assurance of our salvation. Part of the process of Christ being formed in us is that the Holy Spirit helps us to put to death the misdeeds of the flesh. He also provides the grace and power to resist temptation, ungodliness and unrighteousness. His help to successfully resist temptation, results in us having autho...

The Church needs revival to remove from her everything worldly and carnal, and return her to purity and holiness. We live in a sin-infested world where we see that people are lovers of themselves. This love is contrary to the Biblical instruction to firstly love God and then your neighbour as well as yourself, and this self-love results in attitudes of being opiniated, self-centred, immoral, uneth...

We as the human race, is the reason why God created the earth. We are to rule and reign and have dominion over it, that is our God-given mandate. The heavens are the Lord’s, and the earth He gave to man on which to establish his Kingdom, in partnership with him. It is time that the state of the world changes, brought about by Christians who understand their mandate and that they have power and aut...

In the Book of Revelation the Bride or City is portrayed as being holy, but what does it mean to be holy? God’s holiness is infinite, how can we, being finite, contain the infinite? Holiness is purity, separation, otherness; being different, extra-ordinary or uncommon. It is a great mystery and when we are in the presence of God, experiencing his unlimited, unfathomable, strange holiness, plus his...

Our concern for our spiritual growth should be greater than that for our retirement benefits, or our desire for learning and studying. The responsibility for growth is ours, God has provided all that we need for this in that He sent Jesus to die for us, giving us everything pertaining to life and godliness. The Bible is our rule for what we believe and how we live. The Bible is more than ink on pa...

Society is geared towards the idea that a person is valued and loved according to what they can do, and that is seen as what a person is worth. However, there is a big difference between the worth of a person and being worthy, in the spiritual sense of the word. When we look at the life of Moses, when God commissioned him to go and deliver Israel, the real reason (despite his many excuses) for not...

The sunflower is known for its ability to follow the sun and we are the same, but we are sons-flowers who keep our eyes fixed on the Lord Jesus. Serving Jesus is not just to reach perfection in heaven but should affect the quality of our daily lives. The quality of our lives depends on staying vulnerable to the Holy Spirit. Vulnerability, or being open and honest, is not a weakness, but rather a s...

If we were to look back at the way we were before we got saved and compare it to who we are at present, we realize that God has been at work with a transformation within, in other words, Christ is being formed within us. We have been changed to being more loving, patient, generous, caring, and being able to live in faith – all of that because we are filled with the Holy Spirit, and this change is...

Prayer is one of the highest forms of humbling yourself before God, because it is an admission of your total submission to, dependence and reliance upon, and trust in him. This attitude is a necessity in the process of Christ being formed in us. In the history of Israel, we saw that king Asa called out to the Lord for help when an overwhelming enemy came against them, acknowledging that they were...

It might not sound as if surrendering is a good thing, but there is a great blessing in surrendering our lives to God. Our problem, which originated from the fall of mankind, is being too independent, opinionated, and stubborn. However, there is a freedom that comes from surrendering to your commanding officer, the Lord Jesus Christ. As Christians, we do not have the liberty to do what is pleasing...

This is the time wherein the Holy Spirit is lovingly ministering to us to bring us to a place of truth about ourselves, resulting in transformation as well as the formation of Christ within us. When a person is born again, his standing before God is one of righteousness, but there needs to be a change in behavioural patterns of brokenness left over from the old life until we portray Christ in ever...