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--2026 Gatherings
On Judgment day when Jesus states, “ Depart from me, I never knew you ” — may be a big surprise for many
This New Testament gathering in the four gospels was carefully crafted to go beyond the present day entertainment with its crowd driven influences. Beyond the formalities that comes with its share of busyness and controls. It’s about tapping into the original design leaving all the charismatic theatrics behind, along with the digital platforming and the business branding that comes with it. It’s about heavenly Father's original intentions when releasing Holy Spirit to give continuance to His Sons Ministry as it was meant to be !
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
The Four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are four personal diaries, with all four being first hand accounts on what a mobilized gathering needs to look like. When Jesus, on the cross proclaimed that, " It is Finished ", He was also referring to the fact that the Bride now has everything she needs to prepare herself, — everything !
These four books reveal what a completed ministry looks like as modeled by Jesus himself. Upon His departure, according to Jesus, there is no need for additional adjustments. What He left behind for His disciples was the total and complete package when it comes to giving continuance to His ministry. Pentecost now shows up and launches that completed package into a whole new expression as it sends it out powerfully into the world with its various languages. The disciples, in the Book of Acts, now hit the harvest field with a dynamic restoration plan that Jesus modeled.
With boots on the ground, — this Ekklesia, this gathering is now running on all cylinders with a whole new identity that is vastly different from the institutional expressions they were so accustom to. They’ve transitioned over from visiting Solomon’s Temple, having walls, — to now walking as living temples, having no walls. Backed by a whole new fuel system called the Kingdom of Heaven.
Book of Acts Model
When reading the Book of Acts, I’m seeing the unfolding of what was always meant to be, — the family of God reborn and reestablished as to Gods original design. This Book of Acts demonstrated a birthing of a simple Christianity, an illuminated lifestyle, powerfully activated for the first time since the downfall at the Garden of Eden. A relational, expressive movement, vulnerable in so many ways, having neither money, nor influence, courageously winning a pagan world for Jesus.
This was a gathering of ordinary men and women joined in a fellowship as never before seen, being flexible, vigorous, and fully united as they truly honored and served one another. They knew that the will of the Father is to simply believe in the One whom the Father has sent. They knew first hand that the One sent, came fully empowered to express the Father's Kingdom here on earth through a whole new priesthood that was beyond the temple walls
I cannot help but be moved when reading about the original expression of an Ekklesia, a gathering, a church, as it was always meant to be. Two worlds clashing as the invisible impacting the visible, where heavenly Father is once again walking with His sons and daughters as it was in the garden. Uncomplicated, unvarnished, and with simplicity they moved in a way that seemed so unfamiliar when compared to what we see today. It was these ones that experienced first hand how powerful the name of Jesus has become as the Kingdom of Heaven invaded their world with an expression of a whole new world.
Jesus became the Fathers signet seal of approval for the continuation of His ministry, as Holy Spirit now directs born again believers to fully engage with the Father's business. Jesus modeled a whole new priesthood, going from an institutionalism filled with formalities and rituals, to something relational and personal. A priesthood fueled by the Kingdom of Heaven that comes with a ministry which includes the apostolic, the prophetic, the pastorial, the teacher, and the evangelist. As Jesus only tended to the Fathers business while modeling all these different ministries, so will these ones, ignited by the Holy Spirit, give continuance to the Father's business, through these different Spirit filled ministries.
Coming into Alignment
Their 3.5 years of engagement with Jesus had them birthing out a powerful restoration ministry bringing the misalignment back into alignment. With singleness of heart, and with a readiness to believe, Holy Spirit found what He was searching for. A fellowship of men and women so united in love, so innocent in faith, that He could easily work through them with a minimum of hindrances, restructuring stone temples back into being living temples, — a restoration of a relationship as it was always meant to be. And the name of Jesus played a big part when birthing that New Testament ministry.
And it was in keeping with that ministry where God shifted every Book of Acts event to their advantage. What was defined as ministry during those 3.5 years was never meant to be restructured. Without walls and without revisions, they found themselves advancing with the expression of the Kingdom here on earth. It was a powerful time back then, and it was designed to be just as powerful for us today.
But the adversary has been busy for over 2000 years trying to compromise that identity creating a new standard, altering the flow of the gospel, bringing back the walls, fracturing gatherings with all kinds of denominations and religions, minimizing it down to what it has become today.
Altering Kingdom Expression
The original manuscripts with its present day reinterpretations have seriously altered the expression of the Kingdom, as a top heavy governance descales the early model of ministry, — where everyone at one time played a part in the ministry. Today, hundreds of religions and denominations, along with over 50 different bible interpretations have created all kinds of revisions.
To publish a new translation of the bible, copy write laws states that its content needs to be altered at least ten percent to receive a new copy write before any new bible can be published, — now times that by fifty, and you have various interpretations to the original manuscripts, fueling the many existing models of denominations and religions that we have today, creating a challenge of what moving forward looks like.
And a gathering coming together today usually comes blended with its share of translations within a single gathering, — which can be problematic. When moving forward with multiple models of denominational interpretations along with its many bible translations within the one gathering makes it a challenge for a gathering to go the distance without being compromised. Those various models, with their multi belief systems, all in one room, will eventually compete when moving forward.
The reason is that you have different interpretations of what the ministry of the apostle and the prophet looks like within the one group. You have different interpretations on how prophecy should flow within the one group. And you have different interpretations on how Holy Spirit should minister within the one group. And then there’s the big one called governance, — how does a group operate when it starts to make some serious headway.
The Battle of Distortions
When birthing a gathering, distortions will arise as those distortions battle for position within the one gathering. With the many models in the room, the room will be challenged, affecting its direction, altering relationships, and eventually redirecting the momentum, as it triggers off reactions designed to destabilize, — shifting a gathering away from God’s original intentions.
You’ll have evangelists calling themselves apostles, pastors manhandling the prophetic, prophets trying to control the room, — and that’s just the beginning as the environment within starts to erode towards the false, turning it into a religious mess.
With multiple models in the room, the intelligence of the adversary is to use it to his advantage, and eventually disrupt the process where he blows up the room, or ends up owning the room. His strategy is that we fill our meetings with knowledge and entertainment, — creating a charismatic environment, but never cultivating the needed character that will allow us go the distance with the Holy Spirit.
A gathering jumping on the right model of ministry will lead a group into its true identity where vision becomes clearer, giving them the ability to overcome all the distractions. Holy Spirits job is to keep the room united restraining them from entering into all the compromises. The adversary’s job is to divide the room and create a false belief within a gathering as it misaligns the room, — watering down the gospel narrative, minimizing the flame, as it restricts the creative expression of the Kingdom to the point where the Kingdom of God rarely comes, and where the will of God is barely done.
North American Compromise
When you think about it, — in North America, the knowledge, and equipping that came out from our endless gatherings, conferences, apostolic alliances, along with all our prophetic councils, never advanced the Bride of Christ to where she needs to be. Our families and neighborhoods are more fragmented, and the Bride of Christ is more fragile than ever before. And in the midst of some of our revivals, there seems to be a misalignment in what it is that we are doing, as our charismatic entertainment never gave continuance to the Book of Acts as in accordance to heavenly Fathers original design when sending His Son. Signs, wonders, healings, and deliverances, were at a minimum, when in fact, for these latter days, by prophetic design, we were meant to walk in a greater measure of that expression.
During the past 25 years I was part of five large home groups that powerfully flowed in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and in the ministries of the Holy Spirit. But four of those groups ended up in a divisiveness where everyone was scattered. At the same time I was also active with five different churches, in three different cities, who were all caught up in revival. All five overflowed to capacity. But three ended up closing their doors never to reopen. The other two were completely minimized, becoming part of the ordinary once again. Spiritual warfare was totally misunderstood, mishandled, and misdirected. And to this day it is still being mishandled.
Jesus, came to breakup the ordinary and revolutionize us into the extraordinary. With the adversary coming on the scene, his plan was to minimize the extraordinary and any Kingdom advancement that comes with it. He has mastered the ability to bend the atmosphere to his advantage. He has over 2000 years of experience.
What we found out much later, was how misaligned we were with the model that came with the original revelation of that ministry. We never tapped into the fact that the Jesus ministry, strategic by design, came with a model that would allow us to go the distance with the Fathers business. The adversary seeing the misalignment within our models gave him license to create all kinds of distractions, redirecting us with a charismatic busyness, hindering us from going all the way.
The New Framework
This new framework with the new standard of busyness, was to restrict us, and have us compliant with a religious intelligence and charismatic platforming that came with it, steering us away from being relational with the Holy Spirit. Instead of growtime, it became showtime. Our lack of discernment allowed increased deception, cultivating all types of misdirection.
This intellectual form of maturity, through religious ministries, produced a spiritual immaturity that diminished our perception and our insight, where the platforming of the gospel plays a big part in what we now call mainstream religion. This religious contamination comes in to reshape a gathering as it reshapes the mind. Many times this contamination carries a spiritual manipulation, creating an erosion where everything eventually falls apart.
Heavenly Fathers business has everything to do with restoring, renewing, reviving, reestablishing, and releasing, as He restructures everything back to the way it was always meant to be. The adversary’s business is to turn it all into a charismatic theatre, where in the compromise, we entertainment ourselves with the prophetic and the worship. It’s this form of self governance where it reshapes our environment with something that looks like the Holy Spirit but is far from it. And many are the false alliances that have convinced themselves that they are being directed by the Holy Spirit.
Embracing the Original Pattern
It’s vital in 2026 that gatherings embrace the original pattern of the Jesus ministry and what a gathering was truly meant to look like. Our faith needs to support that. To go the distance, — everyone needs get on the same page as early as possible. Round table discussions with all its exploratory questions need to be part of our gatherings if we plan to expose the hidden that resides with its polite and divisive language, — all fueled a piety that’s filled with false humility.
In 2026, God is securing direction, both personally and corporately, and He is deeply intentional when it comes to empowering the Bride. This new season comes with a new mindset, — that comes with fresh oil. Alignment, timing, and relational obedience, has a way of allowing the oil to flow continually.
We are presently standing at the appointed time. Our calling has been amplified to model up with what Jesus exemplified. Our authority comes with our alignment and with our obedience. A relational driven obedience carries power. Authority is strengthened when there is obedience. And Gods grace, connected with the timing of that obedience, — unleashes the divine backing needed for a gathering to go the distance.
A New Momentum
Presently we are being mobilized into a season of precision and realignment, — it’s a time of extraction from the ordinary and from the familiar that we are so accustomed to. As clarity comes on the scene, distortion starts to dissolve, and the lies that are in constant need of up keeping are dismantled. The extraordinary now has the potential to go the distance.
God is creating a momentum where accuracy is important, where the divine communication of today is an invitation for that repositioning where we engage with a more accurate ministry. Holy Spirit is steering us into a season of targeted clarity, an activation where bending the atmosphere towards the Fathers business becomes a reality. But we need to recalibrate ourselves towards the Fathers original intentions when He strategically released His Son Jesus with the original pattern for ministry, and the divine powers that came with that original ministry.
In 2026 there needs to be a convergence between what Jesus and His disciples modeled, — to what it is that we are doing today. Jesus being the living word released a living model for ministry. Born again Spirit filled vessels now get an opportunity to glorify the Father as they tend to the Fathers business by way of that living ministry.
With timing and obedience lining up with the original ministry model, — it’ll give continuance to the Book of Acts as thy Kingdom come unleashes those unfamiliar levels of the Fathers will as it was always meant to be. With that alignment, — an incredible journey for 2026 begins.
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Philippians 3:12-14
“ I press on that I may hold that which Jesus has laid hold for me.”
( We need to hold on to what Jesus modeled. )
Ephesians 3:12-14
“ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
( In other words, there is only one model of ministry. )
John 17: 21
Jesus prayed, “ Father make them one as we are one, that they may be one with us.”
( This refers to one Bride, one Ministry, one Model, one way of Moving Forward. )
John 14:6
Jesus said, “ I Am the way, the truth and the life, there is no other way to the Father.”
( What Jesus modeled, what He exemplified, is the only way of being restored back to the Father. )
John 15:26
Jesus said, “ But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.”
( The releasing of Holy Spirit is to give continuance to what Jesus modeled. Heavenly Father came up with the model, Jesus walked out that model, Holy Spirit is presently giving continuance to that model. The Three are truly One. They are totally in sync. There is no variance. We need to be in sync with them. )
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