Conrad Rocks | Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural Faith & Kingdom Living

The wind is whipping off the lake in Mississippi, and even though it is September (when I originally podcasted this in 2015), there is a distinct chill in the air that tells me autumn is clawing its way into the deep South. I am standing here, completely alone, in a little sanctuary I found where the only other living souls are the fish occasionally breaking the surface of the water with a silver flash. I love places like this. If there were people here, I probably wouldn’t be. I am here to storm heaven. I am here because I have been far too busy lately with "Martha stuff"—those endless personal tasks and logistical hurdles that demand our attention and try to choke out our spiritual life. Have you ever felt like you were running on empty? You are doing all the "Christian things," you are checking the boxes, but the anointing feels distant, and your prayers feel like they are bouncing off a brass ceiling. This is the pain of living in the soul and the flesh rather ...

I was praying for people last week. Not in some big, organized prayer line at a conference - just throughout the day, one person here, another there. You know how it goes. You run into someone at the store, they share something heavy, and suddenly you've got your hand on their shoulder in the parking lot asking the Lord to move. But something kept happening that day. Over and over, the Lord kept showing me the same thing about each person I prayed for: they were not reaching their full potential in Jesus Christ. There was this one lady in particular. I'm standing there praying for her, and the sense of potential energy coming off of her was almost overwhelming. I could feel it. She had so much stored up inside - gifts, callings, words God had spoken over her life - and none of it was being released. Think about that for a second. In physics, there's potential energy, which is energy that hasn't been spent yet. Then there's kinetic energy, where you're actually u...

Have you ever told a lie with good intentions? Maybe you stretched the truth to protect someone, or maybe you bent the facts to spare another person's feelings. If you have, you are not alone. But here is the question that shook me to my core this morning: what does God actually think about that? I woke up this morning with a stirring in my spirit. I did not have a plan for what to talk about today on Coffee with Conrad. I did not have a bullet point list or a carefully crafted outline waiting in my notebook. What I had was a prayer and an open heart. I started seeking the Lord, asking Him to show me what He wanted me to share with you today. And you know what He did? He gave me three examples from the Bible of people who lied with good intentions. Now stay with me here because this may blow you away. When the Spirit Led Me to Lying As I was praying, the phrase "lying with good intentions" came into my mind, and I started following it like a thread. The Spirit and the Wor...

  Imagine you are walking down a dark, narrow alleyway in the sixteenth century. There are no streetlights here. There are no security cameras watching from the corners. You are in Antwerp, or maybe a damp, foggy river port in London, and the only light comes from the moon reflecting off the wet cobblestones. The air smells of cold wood smoke, unwashed wool, and the brackish, heavy scent of the river. You are absolutely terrified. Your heart is hammering against your ribs because you are hiding something—something that, in the eyes of the law, is far worse than a weapon or a state secret. It’s a book. A small, simple, leather-bound book tucked into the lining of your coat. And here is the part that is so hard for us to wrap our heads around today: if the authorities find this book on you, you aren’t just getting a fine. You aren't just going to jail for a few months. No, if we are talking about the era of the 1520s and 30s, you are going to be tied to a post in the middle of the ...