JonKingsley

02/19/2026

Over a decade ago I was watching some "prophet" on TV. He said the Lord told him that His Bride was filthy & most Christians would go to hell. I believed him.

I thought to myself, "Well if most of the church was going to hell, then I must be one of the doomed because I was FAR from perfect, and struggled against sin. I thought "What else can be done to save us??" My heart broke for the church & I began weeping uncontrollably.

I told Jesus, “I may have to spend eternity in Hell, but while I am on this Earth I will lay at your feet and cling to You in love."

I laid myself prostrate & imagined myself at the feet of Jesus and continued to weep & weep & weep, because I would be forever separated from the One I loved and this hurt me more than the terror of the everlasting flames.

🔥 At that very moment God suddenly put me into a deep sleep, and immediately I entered a dream-vision.

I was standing before the Judgment seat of God Almighty. Court was in session and I was the one being judged.

The Almighty God was the Judge of all things in Heaven and on Earth. My case was before Him and He would be making a decision.

I was all alone as I stood there before His colossal judgment seat.

~THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN~

I already knew I was guilty, but to make matters WORSE, Satan suddenly appeared and stood at a short distance from me. He pointed a long evil finger at me and pointed at all my filthy sins. He drew God's attention to my sins. He accused me before the Father.

~I WORE MY SIN LIKE FILTHY GARMENTS~

I looked down at my body to see what the devil was pointing to, and saw that I was actually wearing my sins like clothes.

Every sin I ever committed was exposed in open shame upon my body... written on me like garments. I was clad in my sins and I was wearing them like filthy rags. I was filthy before the righteous and holy God of all Creation.

~MY CONDEMNATION WAS JUST~

I was devastated and in anguish of heart knowing my judgment which I deserved. In truth, the devil didn’t even have to lie in order to get me condemned. All he had to do was point at my sins which were listed on my body. Just one of those sins was enough to condemn me for all eternity and separate me forever from God. And here I was covered all over with my own filthy sins. I knew there was no hope for me…

~MY ADVOCATE SUDDENLY APPEARED!~

BUT THEN SUDDENLY, JESUS CHRIST APPEARED & stood between me and the Accuser and He spoke to God His Father the Judge on my behalf.

Jesus said to His Father, “She is covered in MY blood, therefore NO accusation can stick to her or come against her!”

I looked down at myself again and instead of seeing my sins I saw the blood of Jesus.

I was suddenly covered all over in the wet, liquid, red, shed blood of Jesus Christ, which He had already shed on the Cross. I could not see my sins, because they were beneath the shed blood of Jesus Christ, hidden forever. I was saved.

~OVERCOMING BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB~

Then the devil got mad & desperate & started throwing accusations at me. They came out of his long POINTING FINGER, but now they hit the BLOOD OF JESUS and fell to the ground at my feet.

He was defeated by the blood of the Lamb.

~JUSTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS~

When the Father/Judge looked at me, He no longer saw my sin, but the shed blood of His beloved Son covering me. He saw the Blood of the Lamb, thus His judgement passed over me. The Father slammed down His gavel and declared loudly, "THIS CASE WAS CLOSED AT THE CROSS!!" Then He threw out my case!

The LORD saw that this case was ALREADY CLOSED and had been closed at the CROSS. The price for my justification and freedom had already been paid by the shed blood of Jesus. I was justified by the blood of the Lamb. He saved me from eternal Hell.

I woke feeling like I was born again AGAIN.

📖 I John 2:1-2
My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may NOT sin. But if anyone sins, WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST the righteous. [And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

📖 Exodus 12:13
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”

📖 Job 33:14–16
“For God may speak in one way, or in another… In a DREAM, in a VISION OF THE NIGHT, when DEEP SLEEP falls upon men…”

📖 Ecclesiastes 12:14
“For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing.”

📖 Revelation 12:10
“For the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.”

📖 Isaiah 64:6
“But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags.”

📖 Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.”

📖 Romans 5:9
“Having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

📖 Isaiah 53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

📖 Romans 8:34
“It is Christ who died… who also makes intercession for us.”

📖 Hebrews 7:25
“Jesus always lives to make intercession for them.”

📖 Romans 3:19
“That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”

📖 Romans 8:1
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”

📖 Romans 8:33–34
“Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.”

📖 Colossians 2:14
“Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us… He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”

📖 Hebrews 9:14
“How much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse your conscience from dead works.”

📖 John 19:30
“It is finished.” (Greek: tetelestai -- paid in full)

📖 Hebrews 10:12–14
“By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

📖 Isaiah 53:5–6
“The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him.”

📖 1 Corinthians 5:7
“For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.”

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02/09/2026

Let’s settle something history already settled. You can debate theology. You can debate doctrine. But denying that Jesus of Nazareth walked this earth is not really a faith debate. It is a historical one. And historically speaking, Jesus is one of the most documented figures of the ancient world. Not just in the Bible. Outside of it.

Non Christian historians wrote about Jesus without trying to promote Christianity.

Tacitus was a Roman historian who wrote about Christus being executed under Pontius Pilate during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. Tacitus was not a believer. He actually viewed Christians negatively. Yet he still documented that Jesus was a real historical figure who was crucified.

Josephus was a Jewish historian who referenced James as the brother of Jesus who is called Christ. That is powerful because it is coming from a Jewish historical perspective, not Christian preaching.

Pliny the Younger wrote about early Christians worshipping Jesus as God. This shows that very early followers were not treating Jesus like just a teacher. They were treating Him as divine.

None of these men were trying to build Christianity. They were recording what they observed in their world.

Archaeology also lines up with the Gospel record. Evidence confirming Pontius Pilate as a real Roman governor was discovered. Evidence connected to Caiaphas the high priest was discovered. Even Nazareth, which critics once claimed was made up, has been confirmed as a real first century town.

The manuscript evidence for the New Testament is stronger than most ancient historical writings. The time gap between when events happened and when they were written down is much smaller than most ancient documents historians trust every day. Yet people rarely question those documents. They only question Scripture because of what it claims.

The Gospels were written close enough to the events that eyewitnesses were still alive. If Jesus was not real, the movement would have been crushed quickly. Instead, Christianity spread under intense persecution. People were beaten, imprisoned, and killed and still refused to deny what they said they saw. People might die for something they believe is true. They rarely die for something they know is a lie.

Then you have the prophetic layer. The Old Testament described details about the Messiah long before Jesus was born. Details about where He would be born. How He would suffer. How He would be rejected. How He would be pierced. These were written centuries before the crucifixion.

Serious historians are not really debating whether Jesus existed. The real debate is who He was. Because Jesus did not present Himself as just a good teacher. He claimed authority to forgive sins. He claimed unity with God. He predicted His death and resurrection.

You can reject church culture.
You can reject organized religion.
You can reject Christian doctrine.

But rejecting that Jesus lived requires ignoring Roman records, Jewish historians, archaeology, manuscript history, and early eyewitness testimony.

That is not blind faith. That is historical reality.

The real question was never whether Jesus existed.

The real question has always been what will you do with the fact that He did.

Credits: Winfield

01/13/2026

I stopped being shocked by fallen Christian leaders when I was 17 years old.

Let me tell you why.

I went to a gospel quartet concert here in Birmingham. It was phenomenal. They sang. They danced. They shouted. They cried. One of the singers got so “full of the Holy Ghost” they had to carry him out.

For me, it was a powerful spiritual moment.

After the concert, I stopped to get gas. While I’m standing at the pump, a car pulls up. Music blasting so loud you could hear it down the street.

It wasn’t gospel.

It was secular blues. The kind of music we were taught you don’t listen to—and you definitely don’t blast it for the whole block to hear.

The man jumped out of the car.

It was him. The same singer they just carried out of the building 30 minutes earlier.

He marched into the gas station and came out with a beer in his hand and another one in a paper bag.

This man just finished singing about Jesus. Just finished performing like heaven had touched him. They just finished carrying him off the stage.

And now he’s standing at a gas pump with a beer, blasting blues music like none of it ever happened.

I was 17.

And that was the day I learned:

the stage is not the soul.

I’m telling you this because another Christian artist just fell.

Michael Tait—the voice of DC Talk, the lead singer of Newsboys, the man behind “Jesus Freak” and “God’s Not Dead”—confessed to 20 years of co***ne abuse, alcoholism, and sexually assaulting men.

Twenty years.

While he was on stage singing about the power of God, he was living in destruction behind the scenes.

His own words: “I was not the same person on stage Sunday night that I was at home on Monday.”

And everyone is shocked. Devastated. Questioning their faith.

But I’m not shocked.

Not because I don’t care—I do.

Not because it doesn’t bother me—it does.

But because I stopped putting people on pedestals a long time ago.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

1. Gifting is not godliness.

Someone can be anointed to sing and broken in their soul at the same time.

Talent will take you places that character can’t keep you.

The gift will function even when the person is falling apart. That’s why it’s called a GIFT—it’s not something they earned. It’s something God gave.

But the gift operating doesn’t mean the life is in order.

“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name… and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you.’” — Matthew 7:22-23

You can minister to thousands and be a stranger to God.

2. Nobody starts off planning to fall.

I don’t believe Michael Tait woke up one day and said, “I’m going to be a Christian who does co***ne. I’m going to be a worship leader who assaults people.”

It doesn’t start like that.

It starts with depression and no one to talk to.

It starts with peer pressure and wanting to fit in.

It starts with one compromise that leads to another.

It starts with success that outpaces accountability.

And before you know it, you’re living two lives—and you don’t know how to stop.

“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.”

— 1 Corinthians 10:12

The fall doesn’t happen all at once. It happens one hidden decision at a time.

3. People go back to what’s familiar.

When someone gets delivered but never gets discipled, they’re one bad season away from returning to what they know.

Deliverance without discipline doesn’t last.

Freedom without structure doesn’t hold.

You can have a genuine encounter with God and still end up back in bo***ge if nobody teaches you how to walk it out.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” — Matthew 12:43-45

An empty house is a vulnerable house.

4. The industry protects the profitable.

They called Michael Tait’s behavior “Nashville’s worst-kept secret.”

Fifty people knew. The investigation took two and a half years. This wasn’t hidden—it was ignored.

Because he was too big. Too connected. Too profitable.

And the people who could have held him accountable chose to look the other way.

That’s not just a Michael Tait problem. That’s an industry problem. That’s a church problem.

We protect platforms and neglect people.

We celebrate the gift and ignore the cracks.

And then we act shocked when it all falls apart.

5. Your faith was never supposed to be built on a person.

If Michael Tait’s fall shakes your faith, your faith was built on the wrong foundation.

He didn’t die for you. Jesus did.

He didn’t save you. Jesus did.

He was just a man with a microphone and a gift.

The song “God’s Not Dead” is still true—even if the man who sang it was spiritually dying while he performed it.

The message outlives the messenger.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

— Hebrews 13:8

Men will fail you. God won’t.

So what do we do now?

We stop being shocked.

Not because we stop caring—but because we stop being naive.

We hold leaders accountable BEFORE they fall, not just after.

We build systems of accountability instead of pedestals of celebrity.

We remember that everyone on a stage is still human—still fighting battles, still capable of falling, still in need of grace AND truth.

We protect our own hearts by keeping our faith anchored in Christ and not in personalities.

And when someone does fall, we grieve—but we don’t lose our footing.

Because our footing was never supposed to be on them in the first place.

I learned that at a gas station in Birmingham, AL when I was 17.

The man who carried on like heaven had touched him was buying beer 30 minutes later.

And my faith didn’t shake.

Because my faith wasn’t in him.

It was in the God he was singing about.

And that God is still on the throne—no matter who falls off the stage.

Credit: L. White

12/25/2025

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Adullam Media

12/05/2025

09/20/2025

When you decide to shake the devil,,,,
he'll hug you.

Don't give him any chance at all!

09/19/2025

I once saw a "so called" ministry that wrote on their signpost; "Motto: All about Jesus!"

That's how you identify a confused minister pioneering a confused ministry.

No defined "mandate," their end is doom!

09/19/2025

Get close to Jesus.

Find purpose.

Draft your vision.

Maintain your intimacy with Jesus.

It'll be a tough journey, but you'll be proud of yourself one day.

08/12/2025

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.



© Ravenhill

08/10/2025

And thou shalt call his name JESUS:

for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21

08/09/2025

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

© Leonard Ravenhill

08/08/2025

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us!

Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

© Leonard Ravenhill