"The Year Of The Altar:" Update #1

The headlines feel louder than ever—public unrest, court collisions, global tensions, and scandal on sacred ground—yet the deeper story is an invitation: come to the altar and get anchored. We unpack a prophetic update for a year marked by surrender and stability, calling us to trade outrage for presence and to hear God’s voice in the whirlwind. Rather than choosing sides in a culture that thrives on division, we choose the way of Jesus: gentleness, compassion, and a holy fear that keeps our hearts clean while institutions shake.

We explore what it means to carry an excellent spirit in Babylon, drawing from Daniel’s witness under pressure and the furnace that refines rather than destroys. As corruption is exposed—from politics to pulpits—we resist triumphalism and embrace intercession, remembering that judgment awakens but love transforms. You’ll hear practical ways to contend in peace when setbacks bite at the edge of breakthrough, how to stay on the altar when finances, health, or relationships wobble, and why rest is a strategy, not an escape.

There’s a surprising image woven through this word: snow. In Job’s language, snow becomes a sign of cleansing and hidden treasures. We talk about using forced pauses and shutdowns to re-center families around Scripture, help kids hear God for themselves, and cultivate listening prayer that anchors our days. If your soul craves clarity, you’ll find a roadmap here: surrender fully, anchor deeply, and steward promises with humility as God prepares you for what’s next.

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Transcript

Prayer As Peace And Posture

Contending Amid Public Upheaval

Gentleness At The Center

Excellent Spirit In Babylon

Exposure, Jezebel, And Humility

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Glory to the Lord. I pray that you are nestled into his heart. I'm here to give an update, a prophetic update the year of the altar. And the Lord has been increasingly putting on my part to be more communicative in this year. Um just about what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to me and y'all know in part. So I'm by no means anybody's expert or or getting the whole picture, but I'll just share what I know because I believe the Lord wants us to know the times and the seasons so that we would know what to do. Um so in case this is your first time uh hearing this, this is the year of the altar. There's so many reasons for that. Um mainly it's the Spirit of the Lord, as I began to seek him months ago, began to show me this scriptures. Um and that this is gonna be a time where he's calling us to greater measures of prayer, greater measures of uh and and that makes some people feel like, oh wow, more prayer. So let me put it this way greater measures of recognizing the beauty of Jesus Christ. That's the wonder that he's calling us into. He sets a table before us in the presence of our enemies in a valley. So as the world is going here, there, and everywhere. Hallelujah. God is calling you to peace, he's calling you to his feet, he's calling you to sit and be silent. Prayer is actually not hard, it's just about our schedules, right? And that's really why I'm here. So um it's the year of the altar, and uh on our on our Facebook page, uh not Facebook, on our website, faithfireworldwide.com, you can go to the word that says the year of the altar and read it. But there are a couple of things that have happened. I mean, here we are, we just stepped into the second month, and the first month of the year already has just confirmed what God spoke into this ministry. And I talked about how during this year of the altar, it was going to be a year of contending, a year of prayer and intercession and warring for what God is wanting to bring into the earth. And that's because so much rebellion is in the land. And so for us as believers, we're supposed to fight in the spirit so that the things we see in the natural, we can handle them in the spirit. We call on the angels, we call on the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit directs the angels in perfect concert with the will of the Lord. So here we are in uh the second month, and we've got thousands of people in the streets of Minneapolis and the upheaval over ice and the tactics of ice. Whether you agree with those tactics or not, the point is that it doesn't matter what we think. God is allowing this because he's calling us to prayer. Um and so this year, the altar, when we see these things, we need to be yearning for God's heart over a matter. Um, and his heart is not for us to have strife over these things, it's for us to seek him together. And we don't do that in our culture because uh the Lord is not the king of this land, all right? Satan is, all right. So we're we're still under Satan's Babylonian government, right? In the natural realm. And so those of us in the kingdom are meant to be building his kingdom bit by bit through spiritual walking, spiritual matter, spiritual principles, uh, obedience to God. So we have that, and um I'm reading the word that I released about the year of the anchor, anchor, and it says, Rebellion will be exposed in government and the church. And so we have let's just say it, the rule of law is not, it is not active in the land right now. And the problem is many of us who are in the faith don't see it. I was in a conversation recently, someone was criticizing Democrats, and I'm like, that's not the heart of the Lord. The heart of the Lord is to ask him, what should my thoughts be? He's asking people to be redeemed. He's calling for he's yearning for people to get saved, he's yearning for people to see who the real governor is. And when we point our finger, man, we've missed it. And that's why we need to be at the altar. It's at the altar where I learn God's heart. That he is balanced, that he is unbiased, that he reigns on the just and the unjust. Because he wants the unjust to come to repentance. He wants his goodness and his mercies to bring them to repentance. God doesn't change things by judgment, he awakens believers through judgment. He doesn't change the world through judgment, he awakens believers and the world transforms by how we love the world through compassion, gentleness, understanding, listening, and faith working through love. At the center of the menorah in the holy place where the lampstand is, the lampstand had nine nine uh flutes or nine um places for the oil, and in the center is uh goodness. Because there are nine fruit, there are nine aspects of the fruit of the spirit love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. At the center is actually gentleness, right? It's the fifth aspect love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness. That fifth thing, gentleness is at the center of God's heart. It's how He gets us to listen when we're out of step. And if we have not caught that compassion, you know, the word for womb in the Hebrew is the same word for compassion. God births things, he creates things in wombs that are going to come forth through his love and compassion. It's the compassion and the gentleness of God that brings things into fruition. So as we see these things swirling around, we need to be at the altar seeking God's heart of compassion and his gentleness and his love, where so many people are trying to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. The way God fights is he sits down and he prays. The way God fights is he he laughs, you know. The Bible says, rest patiently in the Lord. Rest in the Lord, wait patiently. That's Psalm 37. Psalm 37 begins by saying, Do not fret yourself because of evildoers. He's saying, Don't do that, just wait on the Lord and rest patiently in him. When we step out of that rest in patience, we cannot trust our thoughts. So in this year of the altar, as you're seeing rebellion, don't try to take a side, go to God. The other thing I had here in this word, um, the Lord is seeking those who will have an excellent spirit in Babylon. So, how did God do that? He turned up the furnace seven times hotter. So we're gonna see vast rebellion in the land, and this is the furnace in which those of us who are to be the excellent spirit in the land, like Daniel, in the midst of Babylon, are supposed to be more discerning of the one who looks like the Son of God who's in the furnace with us. The furnace was there for them to become acquainted with the Lord, not just to be a testimony. We want to be acquainted with the Lord, better acquainted with the Lord. And so the challenge becomes am I submitted to that process? He wants you to have an excellent spirit. That means he wants you to have the spirit of Jesus. Don't get caught up. I also wrote in the prophetic word that the Lord will seek to cleanse the church of the Jezebel infection. Jezebel was a false prophetess. She was carnal, sensual, devilish. She was subtly controlling the kingdom that God had created for the benefit of his people through prophecy. And we just saw in the last couple of weeks exposure of a ministry. And I'm not getting into the how a certain church responded. I think that's taking the eyes off the ball to a degree. I think there's valid things there. But I think the main thing is how long someone was allowed to be so sexually deviant and perverse and injurious because of their gift. And God promised that this, that this year, that that Jezebel spirit would, that Jezebel infection would be judged. And it's being judged. And so for those of us who are paying attention, we are supposed to take on the attitude that Paul writes about, where you take heed lest you fall. The goal is not to point your finger at him and say, hey, I knew it already. I knew, I knew, I knew. No, it's just, oh wow, God's serious. God's serious. He wants us to have an excellent spirit. I also wrote that rebellion would be exposed in the church. And that's somewhat of the response to this prophetic um revelation that's that's still coming forth. I saw a new thing mentioned today. I don't really dig into these, just to be honest. Uh I want to be aware of what's happening, but I don't want to dig in too much because that's where my flesh and our flesh can get tempted to judge people. But um the church is not walking with God if we're not properly restoring people gently who are caught in sin. Um, when we are not doing the same when we are speaking into what we think someone should have done. Are we doing things publicly when we should be doing things privately? Like there are just a lot of things at work right now. I also wrote that vast corruption will be exposed. Have you heard about the last dump of the Epstein files? And see, I need you to hear me. The media can't say everything that's in the files because they'll get sued. And you don't necessarily need to read all the files and believe everything you see. But what you need to understand is God is exposing vast corruption. Some of the most powerful people on the planet, the richest people on the planet, were going to an island. One of the richest person on the planet, was in communication with Epstein about what was going on on the island and interested in being a part of it. I'm not putting my name any names out there because I don't want blowback from the demonic, but my point is take heed lest you fall. God is seeking to cleanse. He wants us to be more humble. He doesn't want us to get more proud when we see other people going through. He wants us to say, oh wow, God, I need to fear God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. The spirit of Jesus is the spirit of the fear of the Lord. Holiness comes through having a very healthy fear of God, a healthy respect, devotion, adoration, and commitment to obey the goodness that is in our Lord. And I wrote, not only will vast corruption be exposed, but consequences will be doled out. There are going to be people that are going to say, no, the stuff that's in there about me is not true. Oh, it's uncorroborated. Oh, and this goes to the White House. Take heed lest you fall. And I went on to write the word of the Lord where it says, But those who heed the voice of the Lord will find him and be cleansed and cling to him. Will you run to Jesus in this season? And pray for those who are being exposed to run to Jesus instead of saying, oh, ha ha ha, and wagging your finger at them like they did at Jesus. Oh, don't act like the people that saw Jesus on the cross. When you see someone on the cross, will you weep for them? Like the women who followed the Lord. This is a season for greater intimacy. I went on to write, the Lord is looking for those who will truly seek him. This is the year of the bride and her bridegroom. The altar is a place where we are established, perfected, in a furnace. What happened at the altar? Things were set on fire. God wants you to put everything on the altar. When they brought a sacrifice, the Bible says they put the whole thing on the altar. That thing's body, everything. Put your whole body on the cross this year. Find time to pray and sit and listen. Do more listening than talking this year. Which is why I'm going to make this post uh pretty short. I'm almost done. I want to give you a concept. The Spirit of the Lord just shared with me about the weather. All right. So, so this is also the year of the anchor. All right. So the Hebrew calendar speaks to how this is a year of the anchor. The Hebrew calendar uh switched over to the year 5786 in September of last year. And I spoke on this. So it's the year of the altar as well as it's the year of the anchor. The altar is where you're going to be anchored. But in this anchoring, what's going to happen? I prophesied there will be storms, right? We've got a lot of rebellion. This is a storm, a lot of clashes going on. We've got a lot of Supreme Court cases. You know, we've got a whole lot of stuff that's being done in the White House that's going before the Supreme Court. They're battling on what law really means. What does the law really say? There's a lot of collisions in the earth and wars in many nations, right? We've got our own military engaged now in Venezuela, right? We're bombing people in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean who are uh purportedly drug smugglers. We got all this war going on. And then there's the war in the hearts of men and women where we've got people doing chakras and stones and witchcraft is rampant, and people saying they have no religion at all is growing like we've never seen in this nation. And it's a war for the hearts of men and women. And so are we anchored, those of us who are seeking God, to pray and be part of God's redemptive work? The Bible says that we can hear God speak out of a whirlwind. This is when Job heard the Lord. It says twice in scripture that the Lord spoke from the whirlwind. Are we like Jesus with our heads on a pillow in the middle of a storm? Are we laying before the Lord in peace? The world's going crazy, but we're sitting there and we're at perfect peace and we're just enjoying fellowship with the Spirit of God and we're hearing his voice and we're being comforted. This is a year of comfort for you. It's a year of contending for God's promises, but it's also a year of comfort. So we're supposed to be at the altar contending and being anchored while the world's going crazy. What does the contending look like? It looks like you peacefully seeking God's desire for your life first. What promises has God promised you that you haven't seen? Ecclesiastes chapter 10 talks about when you break through a wall, you'll get bitten by a serpent. So in this year of contending, when things start happening, your health, your finances, you lose your job, people start acting strange all of a sudden. Yeah, you start having weird dreams and visions, you start discerning things are not going your way. Hey, lean in because you're about to have a breakthrough and the serpent's biting you, the serpent being the enemy, Satan and his imps are coming after you to try to what? Get you to turn back and not be committed. Stay on the altar. Let the Lord burn it out of you, those fears, those reluctances, that hesitation. He wants you more committed. He wants you to have an excellent spirit. This is the update I have. And so with the snowstorm, with those of us who are dealing with that, this Lord's speaking to me about what it says in Job 38. It says that he cleansed himself with the snow water. So when so many people are just sitting down to eat and rising up to play, sitting down to eat, rising up to play, that's what they did when they made the golden calf and they created their own God. They said, Everything's fine. It was Moses who came down and said, Who is on the Lord's side? And then he told the Levites to kill everyone who had been infected. God is judging those who are only wanting to sit down to eat and rise up to play and saying, Oh, I'm a Christian. No, no, no. It's not about fun, it's about fearing God and being part of God's kingdom building. The Bible says that your name in Hebrew means build. The word man means build. The word daughter means build. The word son means build. It means champion. Victory is yours, but you have to apprehend it at the altar and by being anchored in this season. We are in a breakthrough year because next year being 2027 is a year where the number seven is what many people know is a number of completion and fullness. So God's preparing us into this excellent spirit so that when the breakthroughs happen in 2027, things that you've had on the altar for decades, you'll be ready to steward it and be a good manager and not be a wicked servant who hides what you've been given, but you will apply yourself to it to bring forth harvest into the Lord's bosom. So seek God. You're seeing, I mean, the Epstein father's example, you're seeing all this. But it's in the snow that we get cleansed. Sit at his feet, all these shutdowns. You can't go to work, you can't do what you used to do. Spend more time with the Lord at the altar and be anchored and begin to listen to his voice so he can cleanse you of fear, cleanse you of pride, cleanse you of misdirection, cleanse you of the cardinality that comes so easy in our world because we have so much materialism. He's going to break you of materialism. He wants to bring you into commitment to the kingdom, boldness before the throne, having greater understanding of spiritual principles, matters, and secrets. He wants you to be at the altar in this season. And it talks about have you seen the treasures of the snow? That's in Job. There are secret things God wants to reveal to you. If you apply yourself to prayer while you don't have to go to work or where your kids don't have to go to school, are you helping them hear God? How are they getting employed? They might not like it, but have you just put on a word for them to listen to? How can we lean into God as we're at the altar? It's time for me to go, but I want to pray because I'm going to release you, but also we'll be coming up with more updates so that I'll be putting into context and putting into brackets what we're seeing in the natural and how it relates to these words over the year of being the year of the altar and the year of the anchor. And I pray that this gives you insight onto how God wants you to respond. Lord, we thank you for the altar. It's a place where we put our whole heart and we put our hands to the plow and we surrender again and again. God, I pray we stay there so that your fire can fall on us and you can purify us. You are a consuming fire. You are a jealous God. You want all our heart, all our mind. You want us to be less social media driven, less entertainment driven, and more driven to hearing your voice. Do it now, God, we ask in the name of Jesus, by any means necessary in your church for her perfection, so that her light will shine on a hill and not be hidden. In Jesus' name. Amen. I love you, praise you. Please share this. Please like this. Please get this to whoever. In this season, I feel like I should say that more. Also give into this ministry if you feel the leading or the prompting of God. We want to be more responsive in this season to the whispers of God. He whispers, he speaks these things in our spirit. There's a reason why we don't need to hear his audible voice because faith is not active there. If there's a faith being activated in you to give into this ministry, I invite you to do so. I'm not going to tell you how much to give. We're raising$100,000 this year. That's the goal. I've been invited to South Korea. Kazakhstan, Israel, and Argentina. The hope is to maybe even go to other places if the Lord allows. But the goal is to go wherever God has called us. And these things require fundraising. I'm going to Kazakhstan March 10th. And so if that's in your spirit to give, that's where that money would go. And I need a few thousand dollars to get there. Amen. And then when I'm away, I'm not able to work. And so it helps also our finances when I'm not here not to be impacted in a negative way. And so I have suffered through disobedience in a financial way because I've not obeyed the Lord and just said, hey, give people an opportunity to sow. Give people an opportunity to receive a blessing for what they sow. So you can give at FaithfireWorldwide.com. You can also give at Linktree slash Faithfire. That has all the myriad ways that you can give. We are on PayPal and the like, but uh Linktree slash Faithfire will give you all those links. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He lift his countenance upon you and give you peace. Shalom to you until we see each other again. I love you. Bye now.