All Posts - Jon Cressey

Here’s all the posts. Over 20 years of writing about prophecy, the church, the Spirit, and the Scriptures that hold it all together. Some posts are short. Some go deep. All of it is honest. Start anywhere. Enjoy.

Hineni

Here I am.Hineni! While reading through Genesis, I noticed a phrase that appeared numerous times. I wondered if, in the Hebrew, it constituted a one-word answer.My attention was first drawn

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Grounded in Community

Helping prophetic individuals thrive within the family of God. Mentoring people, including prophetic-gifted people, is a delicate task. Those with prophetic gifting often carry a weight of divine revelation (and

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Rooting the Prophetic in God’s Word

Prophetic ministry is not called to discover hidden, secret meanings of Scripture!The emphasis in this section on mentoring is mentoring with prophetic people in mind. It’s not just about helping

How long? How long! How long…

That lamentable wait for God to breakthroughThe opening chapter of Habakkuk is not just a prophetic rant; it’s a raw, unfiltered cry of the human heart. It's that "Oh God!?"

Focus on grace

Watch out for the stalker of passive legalism, However you go about mentoring, especially within the Church, it is paramount to centre our guidance on grace rather than legalism. Grace

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Obscurity

When you are the last one to be picked for the reserve team...There’s something deeply formative about seasons of obscurity in prophetic ministry. Those seasons strip away the noise, peel

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Listen

Have you ever noticed how much power there is in the act of listening? Not just hearing, not just waiting for your turn to speak, but truly listening—the kind of

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Some First Steps of Mentoring

Helping another person become fully themselves in Christ.Guiding Without ControllingMentoring is an important work. It involves stepping into someone else’s story—not to rewrite it, but to walk alongside them as

Choose your master

“No one can serve two masters,” Jesus says in Matthew 6:24. “You cannot serve God and money.” It’s not a suggestion, it’s a simple truth. Try serving both, and your

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But We See Jesus

Seeing beyond visual range The air force has a term they call "BVR," which refers to seeing a target miles away—"beyond visual range." It's a useful concept as we stumble

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What We Cannot See

Why Romans 8 might be a verse for 2025As a new Christian, I was taught to memorise scriptures, the first being John 3:16–17. Once that was locked in, there was

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Inability, obscurity, and promise

Another delve into the life of Samson I wrote about Samson recently. It's a well-known story, but I think there's still a little more to unpack. In fact, it probably

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