Episodes

The Church needs to regain a grip of discerning whether or not God is speaking to us or whether we are speaking to ourselves. Prophetic Ministry among Charismatics needs a mini-reformation. We need to clean up things a bit. We cannot afford to go on speaking prophetically in the name of Jesus…only to find out that we were communicating our own ideas, imaginations, feelings and thoughts. God is speaking for sure, but it seems that He is not being heard over the constant chatter we ourselves are c...

So, a brand-new year is upon us once again. How are you feeling after the back-to-back intensity of 2020 and 2021? Maybe 2022 will be easier. Maybe this will be the year of your breakthrough. Maybe things will finally start going your way. But what if it isn’t like that at all? What if there is more waiting? More warring? If so, then you will need to listen intently to this episode of Mavericks and Misfits as we gain extreme motivation and determination from an unlikely source. Sometimes, when G...

Nobody signed up to become weaker this year. Nobody loves staring in a spiritual mirror and being unable to deny what is lacking in our own personal walk with Jesus. Nobody naturally rejoices in the things which seemingly hold them back from victory, power and breakthrough. No, we all prefer to be strong. We do not like becoming dependent. We all hate to lose. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff spotlights the testimonies of Peter, John the Baptizer and Paul in the arena of how each ma...

In America, Christmas time is almost exclusively sentimental. We meet. We greet. We eat. We spend. We give. We receive. Decorations are pretty and the Christmas songs are sweet. Only among Christians is the actual meaning behind this holiday kept in focus. Sadly, for most in America, Christmas has lost its biblical substance and prophetic edge. Yet, when we read the words of the Apostle Paul in Galatians 4, the enormity of God’s prophetic pop behind the incarnation of the Son of God can stun us....

In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff shares his personal testimony of his battle with cancer from late 2019 into late 2020. Why didn’t God heal him via a miracle? Is the fact that God healed him through medicine a cop-out? Jeff wrestled with these issues and the expectation from others about how he and his family should handle the approach t fight this dreaded disease. For a few days during the fight, it did not seem worth it. In the end, Jeff prevailed and learned some incredible things...

God has never been in actual fight. He has been opposed, but in the sense of a fight including an uncertainty of outcome, God knows nothing of the sort. In the Old Testament, a frequent foe of Israel was the Philistines. These barbarian pagans had adopted as their national deity a demonic god called Dagon. In a season wherein God was chastising Israel for sin, He allowed the Philistines to win a victory that resulted in them thinking that Dagon was more powerful than Yahweh. In an incredibly sho...

What kind of love are you releasing? It is not enough for us to assume that we are loving Christians - we need to work to discern at the specific type of love which comes off from us in our daily walks. From a simple verse in First Peter, we can discover that being saved is intended to being connected to a stream of love coming off from our lives. This is not a mushy-gushy love. It is a love that bleeds. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff testifies about his end-of-the-year prayer pri...

Where is the line drawn between a true Christian who occasionally battles a particular sin versus a religiously Christianized person who is bound in their habitual sin? One is born again, one isn’t. Both think that they are. Yet, the Scripture speaks plainly about our victory over sin being one of the clearest evidences of true salvation. What should we make of those who profess Jesus as Lord, but continue to live in unbroken patterns of sin? In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff walks u...

Do you still believe that God can set you completely free? Many Christians are okay with trudging their way through life, only believing in powerful victory at the point in which they enter Heaven. Is that really what Jesus died for – a grind on earth until we die? No! God the Spirit lives in us, in part, to manifest victory, breakthrough and growing freedom while we are alive on earth. We are not salves to our flesh. The devil has no true authority over us. Because we are declared free in Chris...

Any honest Christian will admit that somewhere along the line they have encountered a stubborn issue in their lives in which it is/was difficult to experience lasting victory. We have weaknesses that are unique to us. Some of us struggle in one particular area even though we have total breakthrough in a hundred other areas. What are we to make of the occasional reality that a certain sin recurs in our lives? Words, attitudes and actions that do not align with God’s Word and ways have to go – but...

We sing about it. We pray for it. We fast toward it. Prophets promise it. Teachers document what it looks like from past occurrences. Pastors strategize to lead their flocks into it. EVEYRONE WANTS REVIVAL! Or do we? In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff explains what true revival from Heaven will look like when it hits the Church. Without pulling any punches, he calls us to check our presumptions at the door and to go far beyond our thimble-sized ideas of what revival will actually lo...

Most everyone in the prophetic community believes that a great revival will come before Jesus returns to the earth. Among those who believe so, there is a large number of voices that believe we are getting very close. What Christian would not want to see true Holy Spirit revival cover the earth like the waters of the sea? God is greatly glorified in revival, and we all want it. But, in Heaven’s throneroom, there is no such thing as cheap revival. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff off...

What does an unknown radio host from the late 1970’s have in common with two ancient tribes of the people of Israel? It might be faint, but there is a connecting line between them. Here is a hint: God does not desire any of His children to live out their lives in safe, cozy and comfortable isolation. The place of promise is offered to those who refuse to settle and join in the risk-taking commitment to inherit the very best God has for us as a community of believers. In this episode of Maverick...

None of us wants to fail. We are super dependent upon God’s grace to be applied when we do stumble in our words, thoughts and actions. It is awesome to rest in the fact that when we sin, God’s grace will abound above our sin and get between us and the ultimate penalty. Yet, there is a clear understanding from Scripture that we often reap what we sow. It disheartens many Jesus-followers when they learn that sometimes there are unavoidable consequences for our actions. Moses learned that a long ti...

Sometimes strong people experience shaken faith. If you have never had your faith rattled for even a short time, then you likely are not attempting to do much for the glory of God in your life. When we consider that God is always stretching our faith to enlarge our trust-muscle, we should not be surprised that we frequently find ourselves in over our heads. Add to this the reality of intense spiritual warfare from the enemy, plus the inherent weaknesses of our flesh, then it is reasonable to con...

There are some intensely bold statements in the bible about the effective power of our prayers. God’s Word calls Christians to pray consistently with the expectation of Him answering our prayers and creating shifts according to what we are praying. There is no mistaking that prayer is one of the most vital tools and gifts that exists in the Church. Why then do our prayers sometimes go unanswered? What are we to make of those undeniable moments when something we have been praying into fails to co...

Many who come from a denominational version of Christianity were caught off guard the first time they witnessed someone falling out in a Charismatic worship gathering. Because of their lack of exposure to such things, they found themselves confused when they observed someone falling to the ground and remaining there, presumably under the weight of the presence of the Lord. Even among those who have been reared in Charismatic/Pentecostal representations of Christianity there are some who have won...

The Church needs to go on record and declare that there is a desperate need for more God-sent prophets today who speak the true word of the Lord. Our generation is being pulled with deception from multiple directions each and every day. Holy Spirit-guided prophets gain the attention of the people and refocus them on what God has said and is still saying. This present generation needs an authoritative, clear prophetic voice. But there is an alarming trend of unaccountable prophets who seem to ha...

Jesus foretold the growing number of pestilences (pandemics) that will hit the planet at the end of the age. The last twenty years has clearly initiated the beginning of the fulfillment of His prophecy. Multiple pestilences will continue to spread across the planet as we near the Second Coming. Governments across the globe will have to respond to the growing health crisis. Medical teams will research, respond and facilitate approaches for howe to contain or eliminate the diseases and viruses tha...

This crazy culture is full of dark deception and frenzied with audacious lies. From the media, the government, the elites in Hollywood and the power-gripping cabals scattered across the globe, it’s a constant sewage-stream of lies. Jesus Christ came to set us free from all inward deception, and within that spiritual freedom, He also wants us to live in an outward freedom. There is no way to escape the clear principle found in Scripture that God values our freedom. Of course, there is that most f...

We have all heard the term religious spirit. We typically think of someone who is critical, judgmental, sanctimonious, and possibly controlling. Nobody wants to be that person and, frankly, nobody wants to be around that person. Sometimes, people make the mistake that any talk of consecration, sanctification, obedience, and holiness is nothing more than the communication of a person with a religious spirit. They could not be farther from the truth. God is calling His people to a devotion-fueled ...

The go-to passage for those who believe that a truly born again Christian can fall away from the faith is typically Hebrews 6:4-6. But does this passage actually teach that? If so, how does it get reconciled with the enormous amount of other bible passages that teach the opposite? On a surface reading, it is easy to conclude with trembling that Hebrews 6:4-6 warns us that we must hold ourselves in the faith. Yet, when we look at the surrounding verses and previous chapters in Hebrews, we can dis...

In this final of four episodes on the topic of the great falling away at the end of the age, we take time to consider whether or not the idea that truly saved people can ever become lost is consistent with the character of God. In each of these episodes, we have submitted dozens of passages of Scripture that clearly teach that part of genuine saving faith is the element of enduring unto the end. In this final episode, we learn that our Bible reveals a Father, Son and Spirit commitment to fully d...

In this third episode on the topic of the great falling away at the end of the age, we give our ear to the words of the Apostle John and the words of Jesus Christ. Both Jesus and John spoke specifically about the issue of whether or not a genuinely converted believer can commit apostasy or renounce the faith. Surprisingly, what they teach is not complicated to understand, yet many seem to gloss over the unquestionable words of the Savior and His apostle on this topic. We cannot afford to do so a...