Greetings Jesus Fam! Happy Saturday!
Sorry for the lateness of this report, but it has been a very busy week. On Thursday afternoon, Sofiya, Natalie and I completed our last scheduled mission trip of 2025. And wow what a year it has been!
Our destination was the State Capitol in Tallahassee.
As 2024 was winding down, I was seeking the Lord as to where He wanted us to go in 2025, and I got a strong sense that He wanted me to go to Tallahassee on the anniversary of the defeat of the radical pro-abortion bill Amendment 4. He told me that while I was there, I was to create an “altar of remembrance.”
What I realized shortly before we left for the trip was that we would also be there on the 7-year anniversary of Ron Desantis’ miracle victory in his first election. He won by the narrowest margin in the history of the state and defeated a Marxist candidate whom many Democrats believed would be the next Obama. Several years later, that same man was caught in a Miami hotel room high on meth with his gay lover, all the more proving that the Sonshine state had truly dodged a bullet.
Desantis went on to lead a total transformation of the state of Florida, taking it from purple to dark red. In fact, when he was elected, there were 300,000 more registered democrats in Florida than republicans, and now there are 1.4 million more registered republicans than democrats. We also just won the award for #1 state in America for protecting religious liberty.
Here’s a recap of some of the other highlights of this 7-year statewide transformation- Team Jesus Update July 17th, 2025 – Awaken Florida
I didn’t know how everything was going to go down once I got there, but on Thursday morning I felt like the first thing we should do is visit the Capitol and do a walkthrough. I had never seen the inside before, so I was excited.
One of the first things that caught my attention was the newly installed statue of George Washington in the rotunda. Being that he is an absolute hero of mine and of the nation, I had to take a pic with that.
On the first floor I also saw Ron Desantis’ office. Unfortunately, he and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins were not in, but it was still very cool to see.
Then, as we kept walking around on the first floor, we found a Chapel that they call the “Heritage Chapel.”
I came to find out that Florida is one of only 6 states in the country that has a Chapel inside the Capitol building. We went inside and worshipped and prayed for a while and it was really powerful. I’m glad Sofiya took this picture too because it shows the plaques on the wall which depict various monumental moments in Florida’s Christian history. This is why they call it the Heritage Chapel, because it displays the Christian heritage of the State.
What else was fascinating was that inside the Chapel, there is a structure that literally looks like the incense altar from the Temple:
How wild that God would tell me to create an altar of remembrance and then surprise me by having me do it in a room inside the Capitol building that has both an altar and plaques of remembrance? I love the way God works!
After this we toured the rest of the building, and we saw the senate floor:
And the 22nd floor observatory deck (that many call the Isaiah 22 floor), where we prayed and worshipped also:
We then went to the lower lobby and saw paintings depicting monumental moments leading up to the Revolutionary War and pictures and bios of all of the signers of the Declaration. Here’s a short video:
Then, before we left the grounds, I wanted to blow my shofar and declare the Jubilee year promise of Liberty over the land. Wouldn’t you know it, right there in the courtyard was the perfect place to do it- right next to a replica of the Liberty Bell, that has the Jubilee verse of Leviticus 25:10 inscribed on it.
Pretty cool that it was also right near this sign:
So many confirmations! We will definitely be going back in the near future, especially as we get closer to next years’ Governor’s race.
Last week in the 941 was powerful too. One of the highlights was seeing Billy Graham’s grandson lead a crusade at the Sarasota Fairgrounds. Thousands of people came, and it was great to see a handful of Team Jesus there too!
At the end, Will gave an altar call and MANY people responded, including one young man that I invited whom I met recently at Siesta. Here’s a video of the big moment.
Super cool that this crusade also came right on the heels of national news reports confirming that statistically speaking, our nation is in Revival:
The next night was Reformation Day (which to others is Halloween) and although we had relatively small crowds at the Bayfront, it was still a really sweet night. We even had a dance team from a local Messianic Synagogue called Etz Chaim come and do a dance routine.
The highlight of the night for me was sharing the gospel with two Muslim women in full garb. I asked them if they knew about Jesus and they told me that they believed Islam and Christianity were the same. I gently pressed them by asking them what the Quaran says about Jesus’ death and resurrection and then they acknowledged that the Bible contradicts the Quaran. I told them that it was true that Jesus had been resurrected and that it was the proof that He is God. I also gently told them that the Quaran denies that because it teaches people to worship a different “god”. I also told her about how Muslims all across the middle east are encountering Jesus in dreams and visions and I prophesied over them that they would encounter Him that way also. Praise God, they were actually really nice and open, and they even took a Gospel tract.
This is them after they walked away.
What an opportunity! Please join me in praying that Jesus would encounter them like He is encountering millions of Muslims across the world.
On Saturday, I got word that Ken, the one who I brought to the crusade- wanted to get baptized that day. I first met him at Siesta a few weeks ago and he has really grown a lot in his faith since then.
We went to Chris and Geraldine’s house to do the baptism, and it was a powerful moment.
Since I was still recovering from the Key West trip (recap coming soon) I asked the crew if they could take over the retirement home later that day so I could rest before Riverwalk. I got word that it was a powerful service.
That night at the Riverwalk, I spent much of the initial time discipling a woman named Theresa who came to Christ (along with her children) at the outreach about a year ago. Then, after preaching the Gospel, these two young men came and prayed to receive Jesus, as did several children and a woman in her 30’s. Here are the two young men.
We had a great night at Siesta too. It was a little short because of the time change but a number of people stopped for prayer, several prayed to receive Christ, and two guys even came right up as I was preaching and prayed with me. It was also cool to have our new friend Kaylee with us, whom we met at Bayfront on Friday.
She is on fire for Jesus, and ministered to a number of people.
She also shared with me a powerful testimony of how she was a student at Lee University in 2023 and she went to the Asbury Revival on the 4th day. She then went back to her school and gathered a group together to begin praying for revival to hit Lee, and then it did!
Here’s an article about that revival- ‘The Spirit of God Is Moving’: Revival at Lee University Passes 70 Hours of ‘Salvation, Deliverance, Healing’ | CBN News
Hopefully having her on Team Jesus is a sign that revival is about to hit the 941! Let’s believe!
See you soon on the mission fields!
CV