Dear Friends,

I believe most of us would agree that we live in uncertain times. The economy is out of control, our President got us involved in a war we did not want. Gas prices, food and rent are so costly it is difficult for many of our citizens to afford them. The dream of owning a home someday is “An impossible dream,” for most young people today. The cost of health insurance is totally out of reach for much of our citizenry. Our elected officials appear to be doing nothing to change things. The Republicans doggedly follow along with whatever the President wants to do and the Democrats come across weak and ineffective to bring about any change. Admittedly this is my take as I see it and though you may disagree with me there are many of us that are concerned about what the next two years will bring.

You may be asking why would I begin a newsletter with such controversial statements? Because I want to make the point that no matter what is going on around us in the present or coming in the future we are assured by Scripture that we are under God’s protection and care and do not need to worry about what is happening around us. In Matthew 6:25-34 it is written, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?”

It then goes on assure us that God knows we need these things and he will meet all our needs just as he does for the rest of his creation. What is most important to God is found in vs. 33-34. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

When I first began this journey thirty-one years ago I did worry about all those things mentioned above as I did not know where the money would come from to support what I was doing. But as I’ve experienced life and come to understand that my role in this is to trust God and stand on his word, he has brought me to a place that no matter what is going on around me my needs and my family’s needs are met. God has not only supplied what we needed but has abundantly blessed us beyond what we can even imagine.

I believe that a large part of this is due to following his mandate to, “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.” To me this means that the most important thing I can do is spread the good news about the kingdom of God. I can do this by how I live my life, by the integrity with which I speak, the love with which I treat people, and the generosity that I share with others.

If this is a difficult scripture for you to understand or live out, you might begin by examining what is important to you, may be the material things you have, the social circle you run with or the important friends you know. I can assure that none of these matter to God. When he says in scripture, “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness…” that is what matters to him.

I continue to thank you for your unwavering support these many years and your faithful prayers and encouragement as I try to follow what I discern the Lord is doing with Wholeness Ministries.

God bless,

Mike

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Dear Friends,

This last Sunday I was sitting in church and the Pastor gave this message that caught my attention and inspired me. It was the story of Caleb in the Old Testament. He and Joshua and ten others were sent into the promised land to spy it out. When they returned to report ten of them said they could not go in and take the land because they could not defeat the giants that lived there. Caleb who was forty said they could go in and should definitely do it.

“In response the Lord said, “Not a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.” Deut.1:35-36

What was fascinating to me was here is Caleb forty-five years later, an old man of eighty-five now reminding Joshua that Moses promised him this land.

In Joshua 14:10-12 it says; “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. Now give me the hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there, and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

The message that applies to us is that we are never to old to stop dreaming. Have you stopped dreaming and expecting that God can use you in the future?

It was inspiring to me as I had been for some time doing ministry as I have done it for many years, not really thinking about the future and dreaming about what could be. This message inspired me to start to dream again and begin to think of what I wanted the future to look like and how that might be accomplished. Admittedly I am still in the process and do not have a definitive direction yet. But I am excited about the future and where I would like to see Wholeness Ministries be in this journey God has us on in the years to come.

I continue to thank you for your unwavering support these many years and your faithful prayers and encouragement as I try to follow what I discern the Lord is doing with Wholeness Ministries.

God bless,

Mike

WHY NOT WASTE TIME WITH GOD

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WHY NOT WASTE TIME WITH GOD: MOVING BEYOND A SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD TO LIVE IN INTIMACY WITH HIM

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This book will help you understand that, but only if you apply it will it help you live it. Everything in this world fights against time alone with God. Everything in God longs for time alone with us. Why would you possibly choose to be influenced by the former?

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Dear Friends,

In the nineteenth century, the atheist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche reproached a group of Christians. “You make me sick!” When their spokesman asked why, Nietzsche replied, “Because you redeemed don’t look like you’re redeemed!”

That’s a curious response isn’t it? And yet, must we not stop and examine how the unbelieving view us as we live out our life of faith? Countless times I have been around believers whose countenance is such that though they may be happy and joyful inside, they haven’t notified their face because they look as if they have been sucking on lemons. I have heard people say, “If that’s what being a Christian is like I don’t want to be one!”

Perhaps part of the problem lies in our understanding of who we are and what we possess. Consider this, “Are you spiritually rich or spiritually poor?” Brennan Manning makes the statement that if we consider ourselves spiritually rich we begin to make demands on God for things that we think we deserve, often leading to anger and frustration. If we presume that life owes us the best and nothing but the best, then reality rarely lives up to our expectations. What logically follows is that we take for granted everything that comes our way and bear ourselves with the swagger of the executive who knows what is up and has all under control.

“To be spiritually poor is to realize that everything is a gift. Salvation, mercy, grace, provision, protection, all that comes from the hand of God is a gift. That He would love us is, in itself, irrational and unreasonable. The spiritually poor experience genuine gratitude and appreciate the slightest gift. The rich in spirit devote considerable time to thinking about what they don’t have; the poor get right down to enjoying and celebrating what they do have.”

As we stand before God with open hands, not clinging to anything, our life becomes a life of humble, joyful thanksgiving. When we begin to let go of our self-sufficiency and realize what it means to be the Beloved and that He is more than sufficient, we disappear into what Thomas Merton calls, “the tremendous poverty that is the adoration of God.”
I suspect that then the redeemed will look like they’re redeemed.

Inner Healing Workshop at New Life
I recently completed a Saturday workshop at New Life on Inner Healing. This was a teaching designed to equip the prayer teams to recognize when someone needed deep level healing and help connect them with a team that could walk them through that healing. There were about forty participants in this workshop eager to learn.

Phoenix, AZ May 8-10
I’m off to Phoenix, AZ this Friday, May 8, 2026 to do a weekend of ministry and training with a group of prayer ministers. Pray for our time together, Thank you.

God bless,

Mike

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Dear Friends,

This headline may be familiar to you because some twenty years ago I used this headline in an article I wrote for our newsletter. I re-wrote the article to update it so it reflected what I believe is going on in our world today and I felt it important to re-emphasize the calling we have from our Lord to go out into our world and do what he did.

In the Gospels we are commanded to preach the good news of the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. When we bring in the Kingdom of God human brokenness in all its forms is healed. The disabled jump to their feet, the deaf hear, the blind see, the dead show up for dinner. The strong message is that we are to bring in the Kingdom of God by doing exactly what Jesus did when He was here on earth.

I have come to the place in this journey where my expectations are so high when I pray for someone that I am surprised when they are not healed. Let me be quick to point out that while there are many I pray for who are healed, there are also those who are not healed. But that doesn’t stop me from praying and expecting healing. My encouragement to you would be that when you pray for people to be healed, pray expecting them to be healed. Don’t pray hoping something will happen but pray expecting something to happen. My experience has demonstrated to me that this attitude change can make a difference in what happens.

We live in a broken world where doctors can treat much of our sickness and disease. And that is often who we turn to first when sickness strikes. I have found that much of the time rather than seek prayer first, we seek medical help and if that doesn’t work then we try prayer. To me that is tragic! Should not prayer for healing be the first thought that comes to us?

Why do you suppose we seek medical care as our first response? I believe in part it is because we have easy access to medical care. If we show up at most any hospital emergency room they are required by law to treat us. But in many countries people do not have access to hospitals, doctors or medical care and so prayer for them is their only hope.

Also, what I have observed in my journey as I’ve prayed for people is that they often focus on what has not happened rather than on what has happened. I’ve conducted several healing conferences, workshops on healing, etc. Often during these workshops as part of the training and equipping we pray for the sick. If we pray for ten people and nine of them are healed the focus often turns to the one who was not healed. I always say, “I do not have an answer about the one who was not healed because I am not God. But why not rejoice and give thanks for the nine who were healed!”

We are living in an age where most of the denominational churches are shrinking in influence, power and numbers, especially among the young. Why is that? I believe it is because the young people are desperate for something that works, something that is applicable to them that is real and gives them answers for what they are facing. I have found that when you show them the power of the Holy Spirit and they see or experience His healing both physically and emotionally, they want to be involved. So, let’s don’t hand out crutches, let’s be bold and take the risk and do what we’re told to do; Go Heal The Sick!

Thank you for your faithful prayers and support. We rely on your faithfulness and continue operate aggressively in bringing healing and wholeness to a hurting world.

God bless,

Mike

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Dear Friends,

I read a fascinating article recently that got me to thinking about this question. I fear this question is the unspoken thinking of many churchgoers. The assumption is; “I go to the right church, I believe the right things, I’m a good person. Of course, I expect to receive God’s blessing.” That blessing includes salvation, relationship, and eventually heaven. The thinking is that the rewards of heaven are equally dispensed to all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer referred to this as Cheap Grace. “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, and without discipleship.”

In an article by Steve Gallagher (Founder of Pure Life Ministries) he states; “Since righteous living and sacrificial love are not expected of God’s people and since everyone receives the same benefits of salvation, there is no reason to press in to know God; no reason to strive against one’s lower nature, no reason to reject worldly enticements, no reason to do much of anything except to show up for church on Sundays. Is it any wonder then that the church has lost her power and her fire?”

It would be well to remember that God’s grace was purchased at incalculable cost to himself. “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.” (1Peter 1:18-19)

Is it possible that we can believe that it is okay to presume God’s grace and blessing are owed to us simply because we are believers? That there is no reason to “work out your salvation.” What about the doctrine that Jesus Christ will render to every person rewards in accordance with their deeds? “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” (2 Corinthians 9:6)

It would be well to remember that there is a cost involved in this journey as a follower of Christ. We are not entitled to anything! Our salvation is not just a one-time decision we make to become a believer but is just the beginning of a life-long journey that requires working it out or walking it out in every area of our lives. It includes righteous living and sacrificial love. Spending the time and energy necessary to foster a deep abiding relationship with God. Developing a daily life of prayer and significant time in God’s word so that it affects how we live our lives as examples to this world of God’s grace and the salvation that He offers to all.

Far from assuming we are owed something it would be good to remember that; “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.” (Rev. 22:12)

Thank you for your prayers and support.

God bless,

Mike

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