Happy New Year!
Can you believe we are stepping into 2026? As we cross this threshold, I sense the Lord asking the Body of Christ a question that is not meant to condemn, but to awaken: Who are you waiting for and what are you waiting on?
This question carries a sincerity, yet it also carries weight. Because the world is in crisis, and God is still longing to make His appeal through us.
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2019, I have watched the world unravel. The truth is, it may have always been this way but now, through technology, we are inundated with it. For the first time, the world and the Church are witnessing the same crises at the same time, in real time. War, division, injustice, broken families, weary souls. And while the world’s brokenness grieves my heart, my deepest sorrow did not come from what I saw in the world, but from what I saw within the Body of Christ. We, who are called to be set apart, to be salt and light have too often traded Kingdom identity for political alignment and religious positioning, and a Kingdom divided cannot stand. When our allegiance drifts from Christ to culture, we lose our witness and the very authority we were meant to carry as the answer the world is waiting for.
I found myself frustrated, confused, lost, judgmental, angry, and at times, even helpless. Not because God had changed but because somewhere along the way, we did.
By the mercy of God, He met me on my own road to Damascus. The light of heaven had to shine on my heart again-bright enough to knock me off my high horse. I had to be blinded so I could truly see. I had to sit still long enough to receive fresh revelation and allow God to strip away layers of tradition, expectation, and religious performance and ideologies I had unknowingly inherited.
Second Corinthians 5:16–20 arrested my heart. It reminded me that although generations change, cultures shift, methods evolve, denominations rise and fall, and technology reshapes how we gather, worship, teach, and minister—God has not changed and Jesus Christ is still the same yesterday, today, and forever.
From the beginning, God’s desire was never religion, it was relationship. His heart was for us to reflect Him in the earth, to walk with him, to commune with him, to exercise dominion and authority as His sons and daughters. And when there was a breach in the garden, His purpose did not change.
Jesus did not come to take us to heaven—He came to restore the Kingdom of heaven back into us.
Yet here we are, still striving, performing, and still trying to earn what was already restored. Yes, if we are honest, we are still chasing traditions, religious ideals, and systems that promise fulfillment but leave us thirsty and exhausted.
The truth is this: the Kingdom of Heaven is not something we are waiting to enter—it is something we are called to release. Jesus restored our identity, He restored our relationship with the Father, He restored our authority, He restored our dominion, and yes—He is reconciling all things: you, me, everyone, even creation itself.
Paul understood that although he was a scholar in the written word of God, He didn’t have the Living Word—and they are one! He realized he had been persecuting the very people God was trying to restore. And in that revelation, Paul declared that we can no longer regard anyone according to the flesh, not even Christ Himself.
Now that we have His Spirit, we are called to see through His eyes, to love with His heart, speak with His authority, and carry the message of reconciliation, not as spectators, but as ambassadors. God did not merely assign us this ministry—He entrusted us with it and gave us His authority to carry it out.
Yes, the world is in crisis, but we are not without hope.
We carry the Good News.
Where there is darkness, we are the light.
Where there is pain, we are ministers of healing.
Where there is bondage, we proclaim freedom.
Where there is lack, we release the resources of heaven.
Every step we take in obedience, every truth we declare in love, every life we touch with compassion the Kingdom of Heaven is released on earth through us!
Beloved, we have wandered trying to become something we already are. Religion keeps us striving but the Kingdom rests in us—fulfilled, alive, and active.
So, I ask again as an invitation:
Who are you waiting for? He lives within you!
What are you waiting on? You already have access!
The world is not waiting on another program, sermon, or system.
It is waiting on the sons and daughters of God to arise.
And the time… is NOW.
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