October 25, 2026
“Refiner’s fire, my heart’s one desire is…”
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Please click on the title to download our next Nugget, Father Recruits And Refines You To Fully Use You. In this Nugget we encourage those who are purposely dying to themselves so that our Lord Jesus rules your life. And. weigh these two biblical truths about our Lord Jesus: 💠His all-sufficiency in your life, and 💠His rule of your life are key parts of you being fully used for Father’s purposes. This Nugget explores the refinement process that often precedes you being entrusted with greater responsibility by our Father for His glory. Refinement is often misunderstood because it frequently creates tremendous discomfort and inconvenience in your life. Some erroneously believe, “God wouldn’t bring this into my life!” But we declare from lifelong experience, “Yes He does!!!” Often the refining fires go on for longer than we think we can endure. But our Lord is faithful, and He has promised to be with us IN every trial and hardship we’re called to go through. If you are genuinely born again, then how you go through refinement yourself or how you can encourage someone else who is enduring refinement is a biblical responsibility which you need to clearly take hold of.
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalms 51:7).
Beginning on page 37 of our article, The Gospel of the Covenant is the Pilgrimage to Salvation we emphasize two key points: “Suffering Is the Spirit’s Agency for Change” and “Grumbling Impedes Your Spiritual Growth”. Please read these for yourself and discuss them with those who are close to you in your faith walk. We note in this article and in other materials we’ve produced over the years that our Father uses suffering for His purposes: ➣to refine His children for His future use in our doing His will. God’s Word assures us that before our Lord Jesus became the perfect, once-for-all-time sacrifice for our sins, He “learned obedience through what He suffered” (Hebrews 5:8). And if you are genuinely born again, the same depth of deference to our Father and His purposes as Jesus displayed requires your immediate obedience without hesitation. Through Father’s ongoing refinement process, He works in you so that you want to please Him and to take action to fulfill His good purpose (see Philippians 2:13).
It’s through His refining in your life, you discover how really all-sufficient our Lord Jesus has been to you in your daily life. You may be among the many whose faith walk has been built on “Christian props” of religious practices and rituals that make you feel good about your spiritual life. However, all too often these practices and rituals and traditions displace the centrality of Jesus as your Lord, the only One through Whom your prayers come to our Father. So if you're suffering or going through anything else that's discomforting or agitating in your life, it's important to realize that our Father demands that His Son be all-sufficient for you before He can use you for greater responsibility.
As you’ll discover in this Nugget, over the course of a decade we ministered to several thousand individuals at a rural retreat center. Father used those experiences to prepare us through refining fires for the responsibility He has entrusted to us for the past 30 years: to share the truths of the Hebraic foundations through whatever means He has set before us. Our response has been to obey His Spirit in recording and sending out everything His Spirit has given us for the collective called-out ones of Christ. The work of His Spirit has been to draw people all around the world to these truths, prepare their hearts to receive them, and to equip them to live them out in a way that brings the same hope and encouragement to others.
➣As the perfect loving Father, our heavenly Father also uses suffering to discipline or chastise His children when we tolerate sin in our lives. His Word makes plain that His goal is for His children to turn away from whatever has been separating them from Him, and eagerly return to Him for a restored love relationship of obedient trust:
•“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it ” (Hebrews 12:11).
•“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent” (Revelation 3:19).
We’d be remiss if we didn’t remind you of a vital facet of your individual and collective journey in Christ. If you and your fellowship family don't have a primary goal of increasing Christ-likeness by His Spirit’s transforming work in you, then you’ll experience sin becoming more and more tolerated in your midst. It doesn’t matter what attitudes or actions are considered acceptable by the world system. To our Father, anything that’s unChrist-like in people who say they belong to Jesus is an insult to His holy reputation.
You might be surprised that the most common tolerated sin we’ve encountered in our years of seminars around the country is the sin of bitterness. It can be displayed either subtly by someone expressing resentment against another who they think wronged them, or as blatant as speaking disparagingly about others who haven’t personally wronged them — a “third-party offense”. Slander can be a cover for unresolved bitterness which you are hiding in your heart from everyone but Him Who sees and knows what’s there.
Finally, living under the rule of our Lord Jesus is a life of divine privilege: testifying to the reality of our Lord Jesus in your own life. This wonderful freedom is given only to the genuine followers of Jesus who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit. If you are genuine, then you’re able and eager to publicly share about the divine interactions you have with our Lord Jesus. Through His Spirit you’re available to bring glory to your Father because of your ‘new birth-right’ to serve our Father’s purposes. Come before Father every time you go to the store, to the park, to an appointment — and ask Him to set before you someone who’ll see the love of Jesus in your eyes and hear His compassion in your words. You might even ask that person if they have a specific need you can pray for right at that moment —and then do it! We love doing this!!!
Mike & Sue
PS You may want to internalize these lyrics to express your own heart purpose:
Refiner’s fire
My heart’s one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You, Lord.
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You, my Master
Ready to do Your will.
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold and precious silver
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold, pure gold.
October 10, 2026
Truth Is Confirmed Only By “The Spirit Of Truth”
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
After almost three months of exhausting and futile endeavor, we’re finally able to upload our Nuggets and other materials to our website. A heartfelt thank you to those of you who regularly remembered us in your prayers and to those who sent the emails that encouraged us to persevere and press on. Please click on the title to download our next Nugget, The Genuine Act In Mutual Accord Possessing Divine Power! Serving our Lord Jesus in mutual accord and being empowered by the spiritual gifts that are apportioned by the Holy Spirit are emphasized in Scripture. But both of these biblical commands are essentially ignored or even denied throughout nominal Christianity. We believe this is why the Holy Spirit inspired us to write this forthright Nugget concerning these biblical truths — to counter the demonic deception which permeates so much of Christendom.
“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10).
Over the decades we have encountered other prophetic voices who are attempting to expose and confront the spiritual powerlessness of nominal Christianity. If you’re reading what we send, then all we ask is that you take to heart the command in God’s Word, “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies” (1Thessalonians 5:19,20; see also John 16:13). Our intent isn’t to be Christian writers or teachers. Rather, we are a couple who seek to hear the voice of our Lord’s Spirit during our prayer walks because He reveals to us what He wants us to produce to encourage, strengthen, admonish or warn you (2Peter 1:21). We just ask that you seek to confirm what you receive by means of the same Spirit. Concerning the current condition of Christianity in the US, we want to share some excerpts from an article written some 40 years ago by Paul Cain, a prophetic servant of our Lord, entitled, “The Anointing vs. Respectability”. We think you’ll find these insightful:
• Those who want respectability with men will usually end up doing that which is detestable in the sight of God to get it.
• Thomas Aquinas was once walking with a parish priest who called Thomas’ attention to a great cathedral, saying “Just look at that! We can no longer say ‘silver and gold have we none.’” Thomas’ reply was filled with remorse. “Neither can we say, ‘In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’”
• Our job on earth is not to gain the respect of the world but to save men from the world.
• Joining ourselves to the ways of the world is spiritual adultery, as James says in 4:4, calling men “you adulteresses!” We must repent of our adultery with the world. Seeking the friendship of the world puts us in jeopardy of making ourselves enemies of God.
• God’s wisdom is not of this world and cannot be understood from the world’s perspective. We cannot understand His wisdom when we are dominated by the cares and worries of the world.
• Jesus was misunderstood, His apostles were misunderstood ,as has been every prophet or messenger to bring revival to the church.
• God has not called us to be successful; He has called us to be obedient.
• It is embarrassing and awkward when you cannot defend yourself. When you know that you are right about something, but God does not allow you to defend yourself because He has a higher purpose. It is better to wait for eternity to vindicate us than insist upon it in this life.
• Jesus went about to DO and to TEACH (Acts 1:1). He did the works of God before He taught about them. If we had the same practice, there would be more working and less teaching. But the teaching that was done would accomplish far more than it seems to be doing now.
As Billy Graham said, if the Holy Spirit were withdrawn from the earth tonight, ninety percent of the church’s activity would go right on uninterrupted as though nothing had happened.
(Several years ago we wrote about our friend preaching in England in the 1980s. He asked the congregation this question: “If Jesus Christ were dead, how long would you keep on doing what you’re doing here?” The people were convicted as they realized and admitted that everything would go on just as it had. The institution provided all that they needed or wanted to fulfill their social and religious needs).
• William Boothe, founder of the Salvation Army, once prophesied that the time would come when there would be Christianity without Christ, salvation without the blood, and religion without the Holy Ghost. How close are we to this condition?
The prophetic ministry is nothing more and nothing less than hearing God.
As you read these excerpts, we hope that if you’re living to please our Lord and bring glory to our heavenly Father, you won’t yearn to join others who are satisfied to sit passively in pews each week and then go on their merry way unconcerned for the salvation of others. As the Bible warns us, “they have the appearance of godliness, but deny its power. Avoid such people” (2Timothy 3:5).
“If [we]were trying to please people, we would not be servants of Christ” (Galatians 1:10).
If you have left nominal Christianity, or are prayerfully considering it, we realize there is a social cost to pay. You’ve enjoyed being in proximity to others who get together for weekly services and enjoyable programs and activities. But religious institutionalism can appear “successful” even when the vitality of Jesus isn’t real in your collective midst. That’s what is so deceptive about it. You think you’re pleasing God for all your activity and what you accomplish. Yet beneath the programs and entertainment lies a spiritual emptiness that few will admit. Religious institutionalism deceives you into feeling good about yourself even if our Lord Jesus isn’t evident.
During the years we have shared the Hebraic foundations, a number of people have asked us for advice after they’d left nominal Christianity and its social support system. We would encourage them with “Vertical” suggestions along the line of:
“Don’t do anything until you have discovered the total sufficiency of our Lord Jesus.”
“Find out where you can bring our heavenly Father the greatest glory.”
“Discover where the Holy Spirit wants your spiritual gifts to be used.”
Regrettably, we’ve observed that many couldn’t overcome their human desire for the social support of nominal Christianity even if walking in obedient trust in Jesus as Lord of their lives was absent from the organization system. Some returned to the pew. Others, even without discovering the all-sufficiency of our Lord Jesus for themselves and their family, would join or even start a house church or home group just for social support. Spiritually they devolved into being what David Wilkerson called “middle grounders” — neither ‘here nor there.’ We once called them “almost Christians.” And our Lord Jesus condemns the “lukewarm” who are as attached to the world system and its ways as they are to their religious practices: “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:16).
We realize that this email may appear overly critical. But after having observed the lukewarmness of nominal Christianity for almost 50 years, we wanted to offer some insight to encourage those of you who are willing to pay the social cost to be true to our Lord Jesus. The life in Christ that’s love-grounded in obedient trust is willing to forfeit anything that takes away from it. How worthy He is in His all-sufficiency!
Mike & Sue
P.S. We know that what our heavenly Father recruited us to share of the Hebraic restoration is costly to embrace. This way of life stands against everything in self-appeasing nominal Christianity which you may have been part of. Some of you are unwilling to believe that our Father would allow theological lies to be tolerated on such a widespread basis over so many centuries. But what are centuries to an eternal God Whose purposes no one can fathom? We’ve written previously that the Bible remained hidden in Hebrew, Greek and Latin for over 1,100 years, languages understood only by the very few scholarly ecclesiastics. Religious authorities forbade it to be translated into common languages on penalty of death. For all those years God allowed His Word to be kept from everyday people. But now that you have the Bible in your language, make sure you live it!
September 23, 2026
May others experience the Light of Christ through you!
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Please download our latest Nugget, Would Our Lord Jesus Commend You As His Ambassador? by clicking on the title. In this Nugget we write about the key role YOU have if you’re genuinely born again in living as our Lord’s ambassador. This service of loving and obedient trust is one of the core identifiers of being genuinely born again. Yet fewer and fewer ambassadors of our Lord Jesus are letting themselves be used this way by the indwelling Spirit as this nation has become increasingly immoral and gullible and fixated on meeting daily survival needs. This is NOT the time to step back in silence when a desperate world is cascading toward destruction!
The darker it gets in this nation, the more the genuine should be shining the light of our Lord Jesus into the hearts of those living in darkness. Examine your own heart and motives and values to see if YOU are hamstringing your own availability for the Spirit’s use by holding onto unconfessed sin. If you need to, repent. If you’re free of known sin, ask Him to help you see others around you through the eyes of Jesus — and take action as He prompts you! Please heed the urgent call that’s given to YOU if you’re genuine: “Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1,2).
We who are genuinely born again in the Spirit must continue to be transformed by Him, becoming more like our Lord Jesus both in character and in fulfilling Father’s purposes. No matter how morally darkened this society and the political arena are becoming, if you are genuine you must follow in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus as His ambassador until you see Him face to face. Pierce your heart with this self-evaluation: Are YOU burdened for unbelievers with the same burden our Lord Jesus had for them when He hung on the cross on their behalf? If your heart is NOT concerned about the destiny of the lost for whom Jesus died and rose again, then all your self-appraisal about your Christian practices is meaningless — until you’re fulfilling your role as His loving and obedient ambassador on this planet. Your heart responding to His heart’s priorities evidences that He is real to you as your Lord.
Be on guard about those who are hijacking the “Hebraic Restoration”
Over 30 years ago our heavenly Father commanded us to call what He is restoring, “the Hebraic Restoration”. In using this specific term, He was directing us back to the first Hebrew, Abraham, the man He called His friend (James 2:23), and to the trust based relationship which undergirded the obedience of Abraham. Everything which Father is restoring is found in the Bible. All of it is relationship-based with His children living in covenant union with Him through His Son Jesus by the indwelling Holy Spirit with the goal of fulfilling His purposes for His glory. A number of “counterfeits” have sprung up over the decades since that time, though. For example, if someone is telling you that the Hebraic restoration is based on a particular religious form or ritual, even involving a specified way of praying or worshipping, then they are today’s “circumcision group” which Paul confronted during his ministry (see Galatians 2:12; 5:6; 6:13; Titus 1:10; also Philippians 3:3).
Thirty years ago the circumcision group was more commonly known as “the Jewish roots movement”. Many within this movement insisted that participants embrace traditional Jewish form and ritual as the only acceptable way of relating to God. Some went so far as declaring that participants should learn Hebrew, conjecturing that Hebrew is the language that’s spoken in heaven. Sadly, in recent years this group has hijacked the word “Hebraic” as a cover for the same theological bewitching (Galatians 3:1) that Paul challenged.
Restoring the biblically-Hebraic, love-grounded obedient trust which our Lord Jesus role-modeled and perfectly fulfilled is the message which our heavenly Father has given us to share with you over the course of these three decades. Please, ask Him if what we're sharing is true. If so, then respond accordingly.
Mike & Sue
(Ephesians 3:14-21)
