Darin Shipley

This year has been amazing already and God is showing Himself strong. I have been speaking a lot at churches about the covenant relationship that Jesus initiated with us. The feedback has been tremendous and so many people have told me that they have gained a whole new understanding of the relationship that Christ has offered for us to have with Him. It has been real fun watching as people begin to understand the extent of what Christ really did. 

I’ve been able to do a couple of repeating worship nights for a couple of churches. We have had some very powerful times in the presence of God, and it is amazing what God is doing during worship time. God’s people across the Country are coming together in worship and The Holy Spirit is responding to the people of God seeking Him with all their hearts. 

I just recently returned from a three-day weekend of ministry in a lodge in the San Juan Forrest, in the mountains of Colorado. I went there to speak to a group of about 30 young adults, who were all there to draw near to God. It was truly an upper room kind of experience. I spoke four times during the three days.  Although I didn’t speak very long, the services went very long. The first service started at 7pm, but ended up going until about 3 am. No one was trying to drag it out. Every time we thought we were finished, God would do something else amazing and it would continue. There were several people healed during worship when no one was even praying for healing. There were demons cast out, and people filled with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I believe everyone there encountered Christ in a powerful way.

I very much look forward to the rest of the year. I can’t wait to see what happens next. God is moving across the Earth and responding to the hunger of His people. What an amazing time to be alive!

I was in my mid-teens and was discovering that my love for making music was going to be a life-long pursuit. I could carry a tune and sing a bit of harmony, but I knew I didn’t have a voice for singing lead. I was a background singer at best and that’s all I would ever be. I knew this and it was confirmed through others. I began to ask God for a voice to lead. I committed to always use it for His glory. Weeks into that prayer I was in my car singing to the radio and out of nowhere my voice began to sound fuller. I began to experiment and I was able to control vibrato and the understanding of using dynamics began to fill my mind. I could no longer sing the way I had before even if I tried. Realizing I was experiencing a miracle I had to park my car and just worshiped an gave thanks. You may be thinking that I just described puberty. You're thoughts make me laugh. That's not what was happening here.  This was a miracle that happened all at once.  I still have a lot of limitations that few other singers seem to have, but there was no doubt that God had answered my prayer. More than 20 years later I’m still using what I have to glorify a miracle working God. I’ve seen many more miracles since then. He continues to amaze me. The Bible says the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophesy. That means when I give my testimony, it prophesies that your miracle can happen too. So be it!

Annually I set goals and I constantly refer to them and ask myself “what have I done this week to help me achieve this goal?” Jesus set us a goal to obtain and I’m finding myself refer to it regularly to ask “what have I done this week to reach this goal?” Mat. 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” 

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I don’t think we are supposed to give much attention to spiritual warfare. I believe we go to battle spiritually, but I believe it looks different than many are teaching. I believe it’s about learning to let God be the one fighting because the battle belongs to Him, (according to His Word). Scripture also says “it’s not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord.” David said “you prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” I think our job is to dine with our Father and stare across the table at Him while He unleashes all the furry of Heaven on our behalf. Our focus is to be hanging out with Him, not shouting at the devil. The devil is an empty suit when our focus is on the eyes across the table.

I’m about to lead worship with my amazing daughter for The Eternity Project at the Sand Springs Triangle! No setlist, just worship, can’t wait!

I’ve been serving God my whole life. Still every few years I stop and realize He’s bigger than I thought He was, He loves more than I thought He did. He’s been working even when I didn’t realize it. My realization of how good He is continues to be expanded exponentially, and then I realize He’s still not finished

This morning I’m listening to the song “Homecoming”. I begin to rejoice and meditate on all He’s done for us. Then the Holy Spirit reminds me “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him”. Friends, we don’t even know the half of it yet.

Often we know what God’s Word says and how it goes against the culture. Going against the culture of the day is hard and brings a lot of persecution. For this reason we rationalize and try to find a “biblical” excuse or explanation to embrace the evil desires of our culture (sin). Rationalization is the devil’s sugar that helps the medicine go down when you know the medicine is nasty. The problem here is the medicine is merely a placebo and does nothing good for you. It only robs you of truth and leaves you in a bottomless pit of self reliance and out of unity with Yahweh.

There are a lot of ways our lights can shine for Christ, but this will for sure make you stand out! 

“Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ.” 

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:23-24‬ ‭NLT‬‬