Three Spiritual Invitations for 2025

Kia ora Paid-Subscriber friends,

Thank you so much for supporting my writing here on Substack, I’m truly blown away by it because it’s meant that I’ve been able to make a shift this year toward more frequent writing and publishing, enabling me to continue to use this space to help build God’s house of prayer in our time.

I’ve felt this year, more than ever, Christ’s longing for the burning heart of his bride. For a deeper, greater knowing of our souls, and for a charismatic renewal that takes us deeper into love and the historical expression of communion that has been absent from so much of our mainstream christian consciousness. Not just in an ethereal way, but in a tangible, devotional and transformational one.

So, thank you for helping me respond here to what I feel that longing is in a meaningful way.

As the year closes out, I wanted to share with you three impressions that have been growing in me in prayer for the year ahead. Three invitations I feel God is giving to the church that have really been burning in me, especially as I’ve travelled and heard from others.

But first a little context…

Another Season-Turning Dream

On Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) September 10th last year, I woke from an important dream. In it I was standing in the desert, bright lit and beautiful,