Dear Prayer Team,

I am leaving a day early tomorrow to start our 5 week Asia revival mission. I REALLY NEED YOUR DAILY PRAYERS as I believe this will be one of the most significant, yet also most intense revival speaking tours I have had in 4 years. I will be preaching and training thousands of church pastors and student leaders to encounter the love of God in order to release the power of the Holy Spirit on their college campuses, cities and nation.

I will be preaching and ministering with a team of co-workers at 8 major leadership/revival conferences and miracle crusades in Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia between July 30-September 3rd 2007.

Please pray specifically for the following…

1. Traveling mercy and grace as I will be traveling in and out of different Asian countries and even flying back in the middle of the trip to the California for 48 hours to officiate my best friends wedding!

2. Physical Stamina & Good Health as I usually will lose my voice after 2 full revival conferences. Pray for wisdom to preach without losing my voice. I will preach anywhere from 2-4 times a day. Also, pray for good health as this will be a marathon of non-stop ministry for 40 days straight.  Read more...

Good is the enemy of best. I find this more and more true as each day goes by. How many times I take the presence of God for granted. Success can be a great deception. You begin to mistake the blessings of God for God Himself. You trade your intimacy with God, your raw passion, your honest desire to seek and know Him for the lesser pleasures. God blesses us with material, relational, financial, physical blessings and there is no shame in it. It is for our enjoyment. Yet, how many times do we mistake the the second blessings given by God in this life as the primary blessing. We get so pre-occupied with “good things” that we forget the “best thing.” These good things are not necessarily bad, but in comparison to His presence can they even be deemed good?  Read more...

Whew what a trip! I was able to spend the last few days with the family in the Bay Area, I’ll be heading back on my way down to LA tomorrow. It’s been quite a road trip to say the least. Praying, fasting and seeking God’s face with over 80,000 in Nashville for revival, got to listen to some live “blues” at the BB King, then on down to Kansas City IHOP and getting caught up in another prophetic whirlwind which I will explain in later blog posts, then back to the Bay Area and spent the last two days loving on mom, getting her a pedicure, some bomb sushi and just seeing God remain faithful to my family in the midst of all our challenges. God is good. He really is and I am thankful.

Well, I got two FAT Fuller seminary papers to write up before I leave for Korea, HK, Taiwan and Malaysia on July 28, so please pray God gives me grace to continually do the impossible. It’s weird, but I feel a new sense of hope, love and freedom to be who God created me to be. I’m realizing more and more that I don’t have to do anything for God, but really, I’ve decided that “I want to” and that makes all the difference.  Read more...

Hey friends,

I just got word yesterday from our publisher that the first print run of my new book “The Blueprint” has been sold out before the book has even been released through pre-orders online. Initially they printed out 15,000 copies which sold out and will not be able to print out a second run till Aug-Sept. Pray they can get it done sooner.

Some of you may have tried to order the book on www.amazon.com and received a message saying it will not be available till Sept 9th, 2007 because of lack of inventory. We do have some good news that Amazon.com received a new inventory and you can still order what is in stock at amazon.com at the moment and receive it in July. If there are no more books in stock at the site, you can still order copies of “The Blueprint” at the below sites…..

www.barnesandnoble.com (click here)

www.christianbook.com (click here)

www.bordersstores.com (click here)  Read more...