Exploring the beginning of 2025 events:

The New Year often comes with new plans, ventures, and opportunities, a time to go over our hopes, dreams, and desires. It’s an opportunity to refresh things or to do a ‘reset’ if you will. It is more than just a mark on the calendar but a sign and mark of the current times. Something special happens in people’s lives around the world upon this time. As I reflect my personal goals and goals for this website, I cannot help but ponder at the news and question where we are going.

As a global community I think we all did not expect the New Year to start with plane crashes, fires and riots. There is much more news than this as there is a new story everyday but for my opening long post for the year, I will focus on these 3 topics. The world stage is being reset in the New Year but as Christians it does not have to be doom and gloom. We have a hope in Christ and power to make changes through prayer and prophesies and Rhema¹ (the Word of God for now).

 The Good News and An Unction to Pray:

Though there are losses and tragedies to discuss let us not forget our blessings and wins. God’s glory, mercies, and grace are greater than that of the enemy (Romans 5:20), and light is greater than darkness (John 1:5).  I firmly believe what God is doing in the world is always greater than what the devil is doing. The devil is seeking to devour people, to steal from the nations and destroy people’s faith … but God is the one who undoes the devil’s works through us his children and his church. God is saving people and giving hope and a promise of a full life all over the world. Many are turning to Christ, it is just under-reported. Many are finding a new hope and faith and we that are already established in God have to continue to pray. God asked us to pray because he is willing to answer. All over the world where there are wars and economic woes and the people ask: ‘Who will do something?/ Who will help us?’. Let me encourage my fellow brothers and sister in Christ that prayer is action, it’s doing something because only when things change in the spirit will they change in the physical. We should give a hand and aid to those in a weaker position than us, but first we must seek God about the situation and in prayer we must clear the air of devilish spirits that cause these things!

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With traditional news it’s always the bad news: deaths, destruction, loss, fear etc., we rarely get the good headlines and many good things do happen it’s just that good news often goes unnoticed. Peace is never reported only war and healings are not noted counted, only those who are sick in the hospitals are numbered. So never be overwhelmed by any bad news, there are good things happening out there, believe it or not. Though my website provides news and opinion pieces concerning the news I personally never allow the bad news to overwhelm me or fill my mind. I simply keep an eye on things in order to have directed and specific prayer points but I always stop myself short of falling into a rabbit hole of frustration over world events. God asked the church to watch and pray² and that’s what I do and I encourage you to do the same.

In 2025 we did usher in the year with peace: ceasefire in Gaza and hostage negotiations made possible by President Donald Trump. Despite scares of new viruses and future pandemics, no nation or city has gone back to shutdowns like during COVID time in 2020. Many countries are waking up to how non-beneficial organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) are after the USA has decided to back out. Other nations are considering exiting WHO or at least rejecting the idea that WHO would have any legal authority to make decisions that affect them. This was being framed via the International Health Regulation (IHR) (a legal treaty that is part of international law that covers WHO members, which was created as a response to ‘deadly’ epidemics). We should pray that Nations around the world will continue to chose sovereignty and freedom to determine their own policies over allowing foreign organizations, groups or elites to control them.

It is worth noting the failures of Davos gang of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Trump’s successful inauguration and his executive orders that show a move towards more truth and stability in the United States. Trump is not perfect but he is better than ever and with him in power there is more hope and room for the church to not only breathe but to freely operate. Also the rise of BRICS may turn out to be a good counter balance of power for the previously dominant Western influence, but it could also lead to bad things, or even nothing. It’s up to us to pray to steer the events of the day. Something my pastor recently said that I will not soon forget is: “They” (referring to the evil shadow governments around the world), “hate it when a leader loves his country and his people, they always seek to oppose or dispose that person”. It is true and we have to pray that such leaders aren’t destroyed so we have more champions of the people running things in the world, and not the FBI, CIA or any secret or non-secret power group.

The Church that Prays:

I am not the type of Christian who believes that God allows certain tragedies to ‘punish’ people, however, when things do go wrong, I think it’s a God-given opportunity to pray for people³, and also a chance to re-evaluate things. That’s the same way we should look at these tragedies – a chance to pray for all those families directly affected but also time to pray for wisdom and discernment and direction on certain questions, like what is really the cause of these plane crashes and how can we begin to ensure safe air-travel again? & How do I fire-proof my property? Or who can as a community can we entrust as our representatives in government, so that when emergencies like fires or hurricanes or outbreaks happen, we have sound help?

A biblical example of what I mean when I say disasters can be a God-given opportunity to pray: After Jesus left this world and passed the baton of preaching the gospel and the ministry of reconciliation on to his disciples, the book of Acts shows that James was killed by King Herod and the church must have been shocked and they mourned for their loss but they didn’t necessarily do anything. They accept the fact, but after King Herod set his sights on taking out Peter as well, the church got agitated, and when Herod had imprisoned Peter while waiting for the right time to kill him, the church suddenly ‘woke up’. They realized that they had to do something or they would loose all the great church leaders and eventually the whole church, if the King continued to be set against them. So they called for a prayer and fasting, they decided to seek the face of God and to ask for a miracle. They continued in prayer until the very man they were praying for came knocking at the door! Angels where dispatched by God (because of their prayer) to set Peter free. They got results and they got them fast! You can read further in the book of Acts, chapter 12).

Our Authority

These disasters around the world, are a wake-up call for us too. No one can convince me it was God’s plan for James to be killed, but he was killed, meaning God’s will doesn’t always come to pass. So he has us, we are the ones to ensure his will comes to pass on this earth as it is in heaven. We all have the legal right and authority to rule this world as the church and as we ask, God is ready to answer.

God gave power and authority to Adam but he lost it to the Devil who became known as the ‘Prince of this World’, but God planned for another Adam to take back power and authority of the earth again, that is the second Adam, who is Jesus the Christ. Jesus left us with the Holy Spirit and his name to use, he gave us the church his power and authority to reign and rule again!

Footnotes and References:

1. Rhema or Rhéma is a Greek word that refers to the spoken word, or live word, or what my Pastor likes to call the ‘now Word’ (a Word from God that addresses a current situation). It’s a word of power that you speak concerning a situation as opposed to Logos which is ‘the written word’ and is used to refer to the written scriptures ↩︎
2. This notion comes from the time when Jesus’s spirit was grieved which lead him to pray about the issue that grieved him. He asked his disciples to stay up and keep watch while he prayed but they dosed off to sleep and Jesus warned them: “All of you must keep awake (give strict attention, be cautious and active) and watch and pray, that you may not come into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:38-41( AMPC) ↩︎
3. John 3:2 (KJV): “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” ↩︎