Remnant people of God, welcome.
I want to take just a few minutes and talk about something I believe God is dropping into my heart for you and for me in this hour.
The other day I was listening to a podcast, and like many of you, I have a few trusted voices that I listen to. I’m very selective about that, and I believe you should be too, because we are living in a time of great deception. In an hour like this, we cannot afford to casually open our ears to just anything. We need discernment. We need wisdom. We need the Holy Spirit guiding what we receive and who we allow to speak into our life.
And as I was listening, I felt something rise up in my spirit.
I believe God is raising up a bold remnant of people who have strong faith—people who are willing to step fully into the things of God, willing to move forward courageously, and unwilling to bow to the pressure of the crowd, culture, or the noise happening around them. God is looking for men and women who will march headlong into His purposes with courage, obedience, and unwavering devotion to Jesus.
He is raising up watchmen.
He is raising up watchmen on the wall—prophetic watchmen who will do their part to pray into existence the plans and purposes of God. And I believe many of you need to be stepping into that right now.
But here is what I felt specifically in my heart: there are many people right now who feel confused about their call, their mantle, their purpose, or their assignment—whatever word you would use to describe it. You are crying out in prayer, “God, would You just show me? Show me what to do. Show me where to go. Show me how You want me to speak. Open the door. Open the window.”
Your heart’s cry is, “Lord, I do not want to do this thing on my own. I want to be obedient to Jesus. I want to follow the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit.”
And for some of you, that has left you feeling almost deadlocked. You don’t want to move ahead in your own strength. You don’t want to get outside the will of God. And because of that, this lack of clarity has made you feel stuck.
But let me say this first: that is actually a very powerful place to be.
Why? Because when your heart genuinely desires obedience, God honors that. He sees you.
Friend, God sees you today.
He sees your desire to obey Him. He sees your longing to follow His lead. He sees your hunger to let the Holy Spirit guide you purposefully into the things you are supposed to do for the kingdom of God.
And let me encourage you with this: there is a specific call for your life.
There is an open door for you.
There is a future and a plan that the Lord is putting in place even now.
For some, that calling may be in a hidden place. It may be a hidden place of prayer, where you are an intercessor praying into existence the plans and purposes of God. People may never know your name. They may never see what you do. But what you do in the Spirit is vital. It is necessary. It is kingdom work. It matters deeply to the heart of God.
Others are prophetic watchmen who not only pray into existence the plan of God, but who will also be given doors on personal and corporate levels to boldly declare and speak the word of the Lord—to friends, to family, to communities, in pulpits, through videos, podcasts, social media, YouTube, and all kinds of platforms.
So what do you do in a season like this?
You keep pressing in.
You keep pressing into the things of God. You keep seeking His heart. You keep obeying what you already know to do. Don’t let yourself become overly distracted by what you don’t yet understand. Don’t let yourself be paralyzed by what you don’t yet know. Lean hard into what you do know, because the Lord is about to move in your life.
And this is one of the main reasons I wanted to share this message.
I feel like the Lord is saying that He is in the process of marking people for Jesus right now.
You may not fully realize it, but in this place where you’ve been calling it confusion, it may not really be confusion at all. It may simply be a lack of clarity because your appointed time has not yet fully arrived. But while you wait, God is not absent. He is marking you.
He is setting you apart.
He is sealing you by His Spirit.
He is placing His oil on your life.
He is anointing you for the things He is calling you to do.
I feel this deeply in my spirit: God is raising up John the Baptists in this hour—voices who prepare the way of the Lord. He is raising up Elijahs—powerful prophetic voices who will speak into the narrative of this generation and call people back to God. Some of these voices will have broad visibility. Others will operate quietly but powerfully in families, churches, friendships, and communities. They will confront darkness, expose false authority, and help bring people into freedom.
I also believe God is raising up Hezekiahs.
I’ve talked about this before, but I believe it again strongly right now. Hezekiah was a king through whom God brought revival and reformation. The Bible speaks of him in a remarkable way. Though he made mistakes near the end of his life, God still used him mightily to bring sweeping change.
And friend, that is what I want you to understand: some people will be used on a national level, yes. But many others will be used in places that seem smaller to the world—your family, your marriage, your children, your church, your school, your community, your region, your state.
And those places matter.
God has John the Baptists, Elijahs, Hezekiahs, Esthers, and Deborahs on many different levels, all making kingdom impact in the areas where He has placed them.
So again, what you have been calling confusion may simply be this: you are being marked.
You are being sealed by the Holy Spirit.
You are being prepared under the oil of God.
Some of you have lived for years under the weight of a promise, under the weight of a prophetic word, under the weight of a deep inner sense that God has a destiny for your life—and yet you have not seen it come to pass.
Friend, do not give up.
Remnant person of God, do not give up.
Men and women of God, do not give up.
You are a warrior. God has called you. And in this season, He is marking you as He develops character in your life, as He forms things in the unseen realm, and as He builds His kingdom within you so that you can carry the weight and responsibility of what is coming next.
And please hear me: you cannot compare your calling with someone else’s.
You cannot compare your visibility, your timing, your platform, or your assignment with another person. There will be many people operating in similar roles in this hour. There will be many who carry a John the Baptist-type call, many who prepare the way of the Lord, many who sound a similar trumpet. Some may be more visible. Some may be less visible. But all are necessary.
You do not need to compare yourself.
You simply need to wait on the Lord to open your door.
Wait on Him to open your window.
And while you wait, know this: God is for you.
I said this in an episode a long time ago, but let me say it again here:
To have a voice, you’ve got to be a voice.
There have been times even in my own life where I began to draw back because I didn’t sense that God was doing something in the moment. But God is not asking us to wait for a feeling before we obey. He is asking us to obey what He has already said.
So many times we wait for the sense of something, while God is looking for obedience.
And simple obedience to the things of God often brings a fresh awareness of His presence.
So yes, to have a voice, you’ve got to be a voice.
You’ve got to be willing to stand up.
You’ve got to be willing to use your voice.
You’ve got to be willing to use whatever influence God has placed in your hands.
You’ve got to be willing to use whatever medium He gives you.
You’ve got to be willing to walk through any door He opens.
Ultimately, it means giving Jesus your absolute, unreserved yes.
And that is what I do not want you to miss: you are being marked in this hour for destiny and purpose.
I believe you are on the verge of stepping into a moment where time begins to catch up with what God has been doing in your life. Suddenly, things are going to begin to open. Suddenly, you are going to see the Lord begin to move in ways you could not have orchestrated yourself. Suddenly, the things your heart has longed for and the things you have sensed God preparing you for are going to begin to come into view.
This present season of seeming confusion, lack of clarity, or even limited discernment will dissipate as God opens things for you that you could never open on your own.
That is why you must have strong faith.
That is why I talk to the remnant.
That is why my wife and I talk about strong faith.
That is why at our church we talk about revival.
Because all of this is connected to what the Lord is doing right now. He is raising up a remnant across the earth.
And I remember when God first began to deal with my heart about this message of the remnant being raised up. I remember where I was when He spoke it to me. I remember wondering, “Lord, what am I supposed to do with that?” And over time, we’ve preached messages, recorded podcasts, created videos, written articles, and kept sounding that message.
And at one point I asked the Lord what was happening with it all.
He spoke to my heart so clearly: “I’ve got people all across the earth right now hearing that same call.”
Friend, I want you to know you are not alone.
You may feel like you are in a season of limited clarity. You may feel like you are in process, waiting, hidden, stretched, or uncertain. But there are people all across the earth in that same place right now. You are not forgotten. You are not disqualified. You are not behind.
You are being prepared.
You are being readied.
You are being cleaned.
You are being fitted with the character and nature of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is stirring gifts in you—some that may have been there all along, lying dormant until now.
He is getting you ready for the things of God.
Do not take that lightly.
Pray into it.
And if this resonates with you, then begin to pray specifically:
“Lord, give me clarity.
Lord, give me purpose.
Lord, help me lean into the marking of Jesus on my life.”
Jesus is marking His remnant for what He is about to do in their lives and for the doors and windows He is about to open.
So let me encourage you: stay faithful in the process. Stay obedient in the hidden place. Stay ready in the waiting. And trust that when the time comes, God will open what no man can shut.
