The Burning Witnesses Podcast

This is a Q&A taken from a Session that Michael Dow spoke in for a Discipleship School in the Orlando area. It's a real and vulnerable interaction. Some of the topics that created interactions are: Grace isn’t always a feeling you wait on, it’s the strength you lean on when you decide to stick with your commitments. The idea is simple but freeing — build a history with God so you have leverage...

In this episode Michael explores the moment God adds burden to a life, moving people from mere information to intimate partnership with His heart. The speaker reflects on priesthood, devotion, and how fasting, worship, prayer, and Scripture form a defense against the world’s influence. Using biblical examples and revival history, the message invites listeners to rediscover the wells dug by previou...

In this episode, Michael explores the life of Daniel as a model for private devotion that shapes public authority. Through stories of prayer, fasting, angelic response, and long-term faithfulness, it encourages listeners to pursue purity, persistence, and surrendered leadership in dark times. This message is for those who desire God's influence in private to help them live powerful lives in public...

On Pentecost, while preaching at Community Worship Center in Tyrone, PA, Michael examines Acts 2 and 4, showing how the Holy Spirit’s outpouring empowers believers to be bold witnesses in their cities. He traces the movement from prayer and unity to being filled with the Spirit, speaking God’s word with confidence, and living as visible evidence of Jesus’ resurrection. The episode urges listeners...

In this message, Michael opens with gratitude for God’s transformative mercy and digs into Matthew 28:18–20 to explore the Great Commission as a call for radical, everyday discipleship. Topics include the ministry of reconciliation, the church as a prophetic signpost of the age to come, and how God brokers healing, deliverance, and new life through believers. This is a call to every believer to ur...

In this message, Michael challenges listeners to pursue the daily discipline of priesthood: knowing God personally and representing Him in everyday contexts. Topics include the three “groans” Paul describes (creation, our flesh, and the Spirit), the danger of loving gifts more than God, the difference between anointing and showmanship, and practical calls to devotion, discipleship, and faithful st...

The message contrasts two biblical figures (Elijah in 1 Kings 19 and Esther in Esther 4) to explore fear versus faith, purpose versus potential, and the importance of yielding to God’s voice. This message also emphasizes practical spiritual disciplines—fasting, prayer, and willingness to serve—and urges listeners to surrender themselves to God and His influence on their lives. Key takeaways: God r...

This message is a warm invitation to dig deeper into prayer the way Daniel did. It’s all about building a friendship with God in private so your life can carry power and clarity in public. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the noise and pressure around you, this message reminds you to climb the watchtower, stay faithful in the small rhythms, and pray what heaven wants to pray. Simple, humbling, a...

If you’ve ever felt like something inside you is calling for more, this message is for you. It’s a raw, honest invitation to let God stir a hunger in your heart that changes everything, not just the surface stuff. No pressure, just a simple ask: what if you chose Jesus as your everything and let that love reshape your life? Turn your attention, be brave, and see what He wants to do — it might just...

This message is a gentle, honest invite to let God turn your devotional life from duty into power. It’s about trading boring routines for real devotion that breaks the chains of religiosity, worldly distractions, and pride. If you’re tired of surface-level faith, this is a nudge to say yes to fasting, worship, prayer and Scripture in ways that actually protect and empower your life. No perfection...

In this compelling episode, Michael Dow explores the profound call of 1 Peter 2:9, reminding believers that they are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. He unpacks the idea that consecration is not merely about personal restriction, but a divine empowerment—a spiritual weapon that positions us to reflect God’s glory in a world desperate for His light. Michael challenges listene...

This episode kicks off the Until All Have Heard Conference with a powerful message from Michael Dow called “He’s Worth It.” From the very start, Michael reminds us that everything we do — our worship, our service, our sacrifices — only make sense when we see the unmatched worth of Jesus. It’s a heartfelt reminder that no matter where we are in our faith journey, Jesus remains the reason and the re...

Dive into an inspiring sermon from Michael Dow as he transforms the bold theme "Rebels into Representatives" into a meaningful message for modern believers. Recorded live at the Kingdom Movement Church's Holy Spirit Conference in Vancouver, WA, Michael unpacks how those who once stood defiantly on the margins are now empowered to lead with authority and purpose. In this compelling episode, you’ll...

We live in the reality of the resurrection and the One who is alive from the dead and ascended on high, is head over a body and Lord over a people. He has purchased this people with is own blood (Revelation 5) He has given us the down payment of the Spirit which has empowered us to be witnesses in the earth. Will you rely on the power of the Spirit to be representative of Jesus where he has plante...

This message is about bearing God's burden in the place of priesthood in our daily lives. God's intentions toward every believer if for them to live individually as a priest and to enjoy the realities and power of priesthood and to see our lives joined into a spiritual family, a church, that are cultivating ongoing life together in priestly rhythms. May God have a people who live before Him as pri...

In Ephesians 5, Paul charges the church to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. This is not just an individual pursuit but a collective calling—that a people, together, would discover what is pleasing to God and live their lives as a royal priesthood under His leadership. This means that our faith is not passive; it requires active pursuit. We are called to be on a continuous journey of discovery,...

God is knitting the hearts and lives of His people together, creating a Temple that will produce a Testimony to the world and the rulers and powers of the air. Our lives are intended to give off a witness to the rest of the world what it looks like to live free from the influence of the world and be ruled over by God. It will be believable to the world because they will see it in the Church!

There are only two types of people. It is not good people and bad people, but DEAD people and ALIVE people. We are either DEAD in our sin or ALIVE in Christ! Listen as Michael preaches from Ephesians 2 and shares his own testimony of encountering Jesus and being made alive in Christ. Instantly delivered from a lifestyle of drugs, promiscuity, and anger and made into a new creation in Christ.

Is your life being lived as a demonstration of joy, hope, and purpose? How do you define success? We should find our significance, value, and joy in Jesus. Doing all things unto the Lord. Doing the significant unseen things as an offering of devotion to God. We often times measure our success by the things we do for God and not our every day and ordinary devotion to Him and satisfaction in Him.  

Listen as Michael ministers from Matthew 26 at Community Worship Center in Tyrone, PA

Listen as Michael ministers at Evangel Temple in Jacksonville, FL. When we relate to God well then He can transform us and align us to Himself and His purposes.

The commissioning of the Church? We are called to reach neighbors and nations. However, that is to be experienced and lived from a life of being deeply satisfied in God. God is extraordinary in our ordinary!