by John Garfield | March 15, 2020 | Blog, Courts & Council, Greatest Hits
The little-known secrets of the seer gift that anyone can develop. Give yourself permission to use your imagination to start seeing, then discern what you get. Rinse and repeat until you “experience knowing” the scenes are real and interactive....
by John Garfield | March 7, 2020 | Blog, Kingly Mindset
Transformation from the Heart – No matter how hard we try; we can’t make ourselves be someone else. Incentives, discipline, and accountability won’t cure your personality and calling. There’s nothing wrong with your design! God likes you the way He created you....
by John Garfield | February 22, 2020 | Kingly Mindset
Businesses, organizations, and marketing all have hierarchies that are not necessarily people friendly or value-oriented. The mindset is to make the sale in a belief that there isn’t time in the business model to build a relationship. They leave us behind because they...
by John Garfield | February 16, 2020 | Blog, Creativity
Have you ever been to a conference where a nervous speaker so missed his audience that it was painful? Have you ever been that speaker? The fear of public speaking ranks higher than the fear of heights, rattlesnakes, divorce, pulling your wisdom teeth, and death. The...
by John Garfield | January 10, 2020 | Blog, Initiative, Kingly Mindset
Anti-favor – The best place to start a discussion on God’s favor is to understand the pain of living out of His favor. It’s worse than not having His positive intervention in our lives. It feels like the world is against us, and nothing works. Our health, finances,...
by John Garfield | December 28, 2019 | Blog, Kingly Mindset
The image of success is often painted with a thin veneer of never failing. When we fail, shame sets in and the accusation is, “Successful people don’t fail, but success is not for you; you are a failure.” I lost the family nest egg in a bad investment seven years ago....
by John Garfield | October 27, 2019 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits
People who tell stories engage us. Leaders who tell us our story move us. We lead people into their greatness when we connect them with their own story – it’s a prophetic process – that you can do. People, organizations, corporations, and nations that are great are...
by John Garfield | September 28, 2019 | Blog, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
My personal purpose in life flows from the desires God wrote in my heart and the activities that naturally result. Fruit always flows from our hearts – good and bad. The following is a list of symptoms of not having a purpose, then a list of fruit when we do have...
by John Garfield | September 22, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Dreams
We usually translate communion as remembering the sacrifice of Jesus’ blood in the context of our personal forgiveness. We think of the drinking unworthily as coming to communion carrying unforgiveness against other people. We check this box by extending forgiveness...
by John Garfield | September 8, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Kingly Mindset
Plastic smiles – We all know the rules, and we all know how to put on a happy face when the rules get broken. We also know what our hopes and dreams look like and we know how to hide the pain of their demise under the same happy face. The happy face looks about...
by John Garfield | September 2, 2019 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits
People have problems – Some are a bit self-inflicted, but resistant to change because they are there for a reason. And, people occasionally like those reasons more than they like your help. For example, wounded hearts try to lighten the pain with...
by John Garfield | August 25, 2019 | Blog, Discipleship, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
The language of our hearts is pictures, scenes, movies, and images. That’s why dreams are never just words. When we want to change our hearts, a new movie script is required to exchange for the old. That translates to an experience. We don’t learn from more...
by John Garfield | August 18, 2019 | Blog, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset, Wealth
The business side of our life on earth is part of our spiritual resume. God is transitioning us to the sons all creation has been anticipating. We have seats in heaven and see what Father is doing so we can bring heaven to earth and solve real problems in the here and...
by John Garfield | July 28, 2019 | Blog, Dreams, Kingly Mindset
Have you ever spent a lot of time and energy in a big initiative only to find out it was a blind alley, a bad investment, or a waste of time? Or, have you missed the big picture and your time and energy produced something unprofitable; then felt like an “unprofitable...
by John Garfield | July 7, 2019 | Blog, Courts & Council, Initiative
We’ve heard a lot over the last few years that our identity is in Christ i.e., that we know who we are by understanding what Jesus did for us and can do through us. It’s all good, but few have a practical grasp on what that means. Most people interpret Christ in me as...