By Paul Watson It’s funny how often we use comfort as a metric for God’s will. We say things like, “If God is in it, the doors will open,” or “If it’s hard, maybe it’s not the right timing,” as if the Almighty funnels His guidance through ease and convenience. But lately, God has been waking me up in the early hours of the morning — far earlier than I’d like — to remind me of something very different. Not with booming revelations, but with gentle, persistent instruction. And one night, He...

When I first met Rebecca, she was fighting to stay alive. Not spiritually—physically. Years of exposure to mold and environmental toxins had sent her immune system into chaos. Her body reacted to normal things: food, smells, even the air in her home. A simple change could trigger a severe allergic episode. She lived in a world so small it was almost claustrophobic—one house, one air filter, one safe set of routines. Rebecca is about my height, but at that time she weighed barely a hundred...

Sometimes the courage to share the gospel doesn’t come from a pulpit. Sometimes it comes from a playground. Mark told us this story during one of our prayer gatherings. A single mom in his church reached out to him and a few other pastors because of something that had happened to her son, John. John is a quiet fifth-grader. He doesn’t always fit in with the other kids. While many of his classmates spend recess running around the field or glued to their phones, John had started using that...