John Wasserman Podcast

There are many things in the world which we feel are out of our control, but we cannot change the world, we can only change our world. And for that we are deeply dependent upon God, who is for us. When we change, it brings change to communities around us. God wants us, as the Body of Christ, to be even more functional in the specific task which each member has. We need to encourage, support, and p...

We are not approaching an end of the world spelling disaster, the anti-Christ, doom, and gloom – which is the fear based, and non-apostolic theology being preached today. On the contrary, we are moving towards where the Church is fully transformed into the image of Christ, in other words, towards glory. When the disciples questioned Jesus about the signs of the times, the end of the world and when...

God expects from us more than just going to church, His call to all believers is to go up to a higher place where He can use us in an ever-greater measure. As much as He calls us to a higher place, He also calls us to growth, growth through the Word. We need direction through a fresh word from God every day. Our growth in God is determined by us, by the measure with which we love God, walk in the...

Everything has to stay afire in the Kingdom. Fire was used throughout the Bible both in judgement and blessing. People are attracted to a person who is on fire for God, and who is filled with the peace and joy that comes from continuous worship. God also uses fire to draw a man of God into doing his will, as He did with Moses and the burning bush. The fire of God is also a protection for the child...

We are alive now and on the threshold of a time period where there is a shift taking place in the Church. We are in the time of a ‘stealth pregnancy’ where we do not even realize that something is being birthed inside of us. It is a time when the Church will turn a little bit wild and weird, and the glory of God will come to rest upon us. The end result will be that the kingdoms of this world will...

To enable us to see the new things that God is doing and to deliver us from being a facsimile of the past, God has to deal with our fear, envy and borrowed culture and we have to be willing to let go of- and unlearn the old and embrace the new, becoming completely flexible. What could the new look like? Imagine sweeping news of the Spirit, empty hospitals, governments invaded by the power and king...

We should never get satisfied with the level on which we are but rather encourage ourselves to rise while constantly aligning ourselves with God, his promises, and his word. We are in heavenly places from where, by faith and through the Holy Spirit, we pull the supernatural into the natural, being a reflection of God in the earth. When we are in alignment with God, creation will work for- and not...

To rise means to stand up, moving to a higher position. The first place where we have to rise up, is on the inside – from a place of negativity where a yoke from the enemy is pressing down on us, deciding that enough is enough and casting it off. We can, at any time, rise up into the glory which is over us by again refreshing the revelation and understanding of who we are, that we are inseparably...

Being fruitful has everything to do with our relationships with God and others around us. To be ever more fruitful, God requires from us circumcision of the heart and to stop being stiff-necked. The closer we move towards God, our options regarding allowable acts are reduced or sacrificed. In every relationship there are sacrifices or a cutting away of that which is unnecessary for the sake of the...

It is essential to accept the high position which Jesus had attained for us on the cross, because a Christian walking around with a sense of condemnation, guilt and inferiority cannot have spiritually sensitised senses. When natural hunger is replaced by an intense hunger and thirst after God, praying and searching for him will result in life-changing meetings with him, more of him. We can be led...

We need to know more about how the Holy Spirit leads us as far as the specifics of our lives are concerned. The primary way of being led is through a Word from the Bible being personalised by the Holy Spirit to the individual, and all other ways can be regarded as secondary. One of these secondary ways is to be led by the conscience – one of our primary senses or faculties. The conscience is a per...

The correct, and in context, interpretation of Romans 8:14 which says that they who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God, is that it is referring to those who are being led out of being under the Law, a natural life, into living a righteous holy life, to being sons of God. However, sons of God are led by the Spirit. We have received, even as we have physical senses and emotions to lead...

There were five notable miracles performed throughout the gospels by Jesus. Healing leprosy, the blind, the deaf, the mute, and the cripples. These were symbols of his gospel – the cancer of sin eating away at our lives was healed, (leprosy). He opened our eyes enabling us to see (blindness). He opened our ears, enabling us to hear his voice and be saved (deafness). He healed our inability to walk...

We have been freed from the curse of the Law which was a yoke of slavery unto sin and death, by the grace which came through faith in the sacrifice of Christ. Faith working through love comes from hearing the word of Christ, it is a gift from God. The measure by which we are living a life of love for God and one another is the expression or indication of our faith in Jesus. The grace which we have...

Human beings are often prophetically depicted in the Bible as trees. God, as the one who is the gardener and who created the garden, desires fruitfulness from us, as is his right. God is constantly attending to our lives, pruning us, to attain this fruitfulness, because He loves us. The Church is constantly being ministered to through the various Holy Spirit giftings and love, to come to an end-pr...

In I Corinthians 12 Paul spends the entire chapter describing the make-up of the giftings to the Church and their function in the Body of Christ, instructing that each one must be satisfied with their place in the Body of Christ and their spiritual make-up, the way God had created them. He then says to earnestly covet the best gift and the question is, why did he say that? Paul is saying that it i...

When Jesus rose from the dead, He divested himself of his abilities and invested them as gifts in His Body, the Church. There are firstly the Governmental gifts also known as the five-fold ministry, and then the Body gifts which are prophecy, serving, teaching, encouragement, giving, administration (leadership), and mercy. All of us can and should do these things, but some people flow in certain g...

At the time when Moses had the encounter with God at the burning bush, he was just an ordinary person about to encounter an extra-ordinary God. The fire which did not consume the bush, was the sign of the holiness of God. It is God’s heart’s desire to reveal himself in and through us. As we encounter God and in the fire of God’s holiness, our old identities, lifestyles, rhythms, and routines die....

When we get born again, we move from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. When God created all of creation, He saw that it was good. However, He had an end goal in mind, the Shabbat, or rest, through having a progressive relationship with Him. Israel entered Canaan, but not the rest of God, although they were being carefully taught by God through the Ten Commandments to have a relation...

Salvation is the entrance to the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is wrought in the individual through a process called sanctification. When Jesus ascended, He gave us the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, who is exactly like Him. The Holy Spirit is to be forever with us (alongside us) as our helper, in us as our transformer, and upon us, empowering us for witnessing and ministering. God speaks to us and...

We read a description in the book of Ezekiel of a river of life coming from underneath the throne of God and flowing forth, reaching different depths and places. This is a picture of the Holy Spirit who will never leave or forsake us and be with us always. The source of the river, or the Spirit, is the throne of God, and the altar – the place of Jesus’ sacrifice. The river has force, size, and pow...

When the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost, the disciples were enabled by Him to speak in various tongues or languages, a language which was and still is today, unique to every person. Speaking in tongues is an essential part of our Christian walk. The Spirit comes into our spirit causing rebirth or quickening into a new dimension and gives the unique language, but we are the ones...

The Old Testament is full of symbolism pointing to the day of Pentecost. The main purpose for the Day of Pentecost was not only that we would speak in tongues, but mainly to empower every single believer to be a witness (or martyr) for Jesus. This implies that there is a certain death to self when it comes to witnessing. We are to witness through both our lives and our words. The gift of tongues i...

It is almost as if the things in the world have become the norm and accepted by Christians, but we are encouraged to get up to the place where we will be dictating to the world how God expects us to live. The works of the flesh and our sinful nature with which we are dealing are lust, greed, pride, envy, sloth, and wrath, these are all displeasing to God. Being in the flesh is being part of the wo...

Why is it that so many Christians do not live a victorious resurrected life, living a life which is without power? Four reasons: number one, we live fleshly lives because we get what we want, when and how we want it despite of what God says. Number two, we are not convinced of the goodness of God, since God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. Number three, we do not believe tha...