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Frustration is not random. It is not merely emotional, circumstantial, or psychological—it is revelatory. In Fixing Frustrations – Part One, Pastor Mike Darnell reveals that frustration increases when the windows of Heaven are open and the systems of the earth are shaken. What many call chaos is often God exposing and dismantling systems that were never designed to replace His Kingdom.

This message establishes that God is not trying to stabilize earthly systems—He is frustrating them. Economic systems, political systems, religious constructs, family structures, and personal strategies collapse when they operate apart from God’s laws, ordinances, and covenant. When Heaven descends, whatever was made by man is shaken so that what is from God may remain.

Pastor Mike teaches that everyone experiences frustration, but unmanaged frustration produces anger, compromise, rebellion, crime, and destructive decisions. Frustration misunderstood will push people to turn back to old systems, old methods, and survival-based thinking. But frustration rightly understood becomes a signal that alignment is required.

Rather than attempting to fix every personal frustration, we must identify what frustrates God—anything that keeps His Word from bearing fruit. The Kingdom does not remove responsibility; it restores dominion. Elevation comes not through competition or self-preservation, but through service, faithfulness, and solving the right problems for the right people.

This foundational message calls believers out of wishful thinking and into Kingdom maturity. Stop defending what God is shaking. Stop trying to live under systems He never authorized. Serve God’s agenda.

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You cannot understand Kingdom restoration without understanding how the Kingdom actually functions. Isaiah 60 is not poetic encouragement; it is governmental instruction. In this finale of the Seeking A King Series, Pastor Mike Darnell reveals that restoration does not begin with effort, endurance, or survival—it begins with light, understanding, and alignment.

The chapter opens with a command, not a promise: “Arise and shine.” This establishes responsibility. The King has already come as Light, but the manifestation of that Light on the earth depends on whether God’s people are positioned to reflect it. Light is truth, intelligence, and revelation from God.

When this Light is active, it produces attraction. Nations come. Kings respond. Resources move. Restoration flows. But this movement is not automatic. Pastor Mike makes clear that the gates mentioned in the passage must remain open continually so that what Heaven has authorized can pass into the earth. These gates are not external systems or circumstances—they are the mind.

A Kingdom mind remains open. An earthly-trained mind opens and closes without awareness. It is important to understand that the Kingdom has already been given. Power has already been supplied. What is missing is the ability to convert it. We do not have a power problem. The issue is conversion. Kingdom power must be converted into Kingdom light, and that conversion is disrupted when earthly knowledge, cultural reasoning, or false sources of guidance govern the mind. When the light becomes dim, access is restricted—not by God, but by a carnal mind and misalignment.

Kingdom life is now. Abundance, provision, influence, and favor are not future rewards—they are present realities meant to flow through a prepared people. God does not release restoration into disorder.

This is why God has given us clear instructions. Repentance is foundational and key to being bright. Repentance is not emotional regret; it is reprogramming of the mind. It is the willingness to reject earthly intelligence in favor of Kingdom truth. From repentance comes order. From order comes structure. And from structure comes multiplication. Scripture declares that the Lord hastens things in their time—not according to desire, but according to readiness.

Pastor Mike also emphasizes that Kingdom life is not survival-focused and longevity is not the mission. The believer is not called to endure the earth, but to have dominion and represent Heaven within it. When the mind is renewed to Kingdom intelligence, clarity replaces confusion, resistance diminishes, and restoration begins to flow without striving.

Seeking a King is not an emotional pursuit or passive waiting—it is disciplined alignment with Kingdom order. When the King is understood, and His intelligence governs the mind, the light becomes bright. And when the light is bright, it not only draws people, it also draws provision, influence, access, and resources. Scripture shows that nations come carrying what they have accumulated, not because they were forced, but because the brightness of the light brought them in.

Restoration flows to clarity. Resources respond to alignment. What has been held outside the gate begins to move when the gate remains open. This is how the Kingdom advances.

Listen to Seeking A King: Part Three.

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You cannot read the story of Christmas intellectually and expect to understand it. You have to let the Holy Spirit speak to you. Scripture tells us in Luke chapter two that Mary brought forth her firstborn Son, wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for Him in the inn. That single phrase matters more than we realize.

In Scripture, the inn was not just a building. It was a household. And in the Kingdom, a household is a system. There was no room for Jesus in their system. There was no space for what He carried, how He would move, or what He was sent to accomplish. Everything Jesus came to do could not be done inside that system.

Yet even outside the system, He was still King.

He still had His benefits.
He still had provision.
He still fulfilled His assignment.
He still paid the price.
And He still rose again.

Jesus entered the earth in an unassuming way, outside the system, to show us something powerful: as long as you are in Him, you share what He shares. Mankind keeps marveling at what they built, waiting for a Savior to come through human effort. But salvation does not arrive through what people make. It comes by the Spirit.

Jesus was not born by human systems. Not by man-made activity. Not in a house that would have made natural sense. Even His birth bypassed the system. The virgin birth alone tells you this was never going to be something humanity could take credit for.

Jesus came outside the box so you could learn how to live outside of it too.

You have more in common with Jesus than you think. He came by the Spirit. He lived by the Spirit. He fulfilled His assignment by the Spirit. He was raised by the Spirit.

And when you make the confession that He is your Lord and Savior, you are pulled into that same Spirit-led life. Nothing a human being can give you compares to what you receive in that moment. It does not just change your eternity. It changes your every day.

Stop worrying about the wrong things.
Christmas is the reminder that everything you are looking for came through a baby in a manger, outside of the world’s system.

Understand: at some point in life, everything you lean on will fail or will not be enough. Jobs, systems, people, structures — they will all reach their limit. And when they do, you must know how to reach above them and say, I know where my help comes from.

That is why Christmas matters. Not because of presents as we know them, but because of everything that comes with seeking the King. Jesus came outside the system so you could live beyond it.

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People are always seeking something: power, purpose, provision, plans, protection, position, personhood (identity),and peoplehood (community). This is not a flaw in humanity; it is our design. God built us with a seeking mechanism. We seek by nature because we were created for something greater. No matter how high we climb or how much we acquire, something within us continues to search.

But here is the tension: most people are not seeking a King; they are seeking what a King can do outside of the King Himself, unaware that this kind of pursuit is futile.

This message confronts the human tendency to invent systems in the absence of Kingdom order. When people do not submit to a King, they create substitutes—false power, false purpose, false provision, false plans, and more. These inventions may work temporarily, but they always come with sorrow. What humanity calls progress is often just survival without dominion.

Christmas is not the invention of hope—it is the advent of a King. God did not invent something new; He revealed what already existed. Jesus did not come to offer improvement; He came to reestablish government. The Kingdom does not eliminate responsibility—it restores dominion.

Seeking A King: Part One calls believers to stop inventing solutions and start seeking authority. Power flows from the King. Purpose is defined by the King. Provision belongs to the King and follows purpose. Protection is given by the King. When you find the King, you don’t just find answers—you find true life.

You must understand what the Christmas story is really about and what that means for you.
Listen now to Seeking A King: Part One.

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Have you ever felt like you were doing the right things—growing, learning, obeying—yet the pressure feels heavier instead of lighter? Like, resistance increases just as you believe something is about to shift? Have you noticed battles appearing at critical moments?

In Part Six of It’s About Time, Pastor Mike Darnell reveals that these moments are not setbacks—they are signals. A due season is not triggered by calendar dates, hype, or “next year” declarations. It is activated when eternal Kingdom seed meets a prepared soul. Until the soil changes, nothing truly comes forth.

Everything in your life grows from what has been planted—and what has been tolerated. Pressure before breakthrough is not punishment; it is proof that something is coming due. This is why giants appear at moments of transition. What was ignored when it was small returned later demanding confrontation.

You don’t have a timing problem.
You don’t have a calendar problem.
You have a soil problem.

The seed does not determine when a promise manifests—the soil does. A Kingdom promise cannot activate through a carnal or unprepared mind. The Kingdom does not remove responsibility; it restores dominion. God is not waiting to bless you; He is waiting for alignment. When the mind is renewed, the soil updated, and made compatible with Heaven, manifestation accelerates, and resistance loses its leverage.

This message calls believers out of wishful thinking and into maturity. Stop waiting on “someday.” Stop mixing Kingdom truth with carnal-based systems. Prepare the soil. Plant deliberately. Train for promise and for battle. Let what God has already spoken finally come due.

Listen now to It’s About Time: Part Six.
What’s due is closer than you think—if the soil is ready.

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In Part Five of It’s About Time, Pastor Mike Darnell introduces a transformative principle: Kingdom Joint Ventures—the divine partnership where you participate with God’s agenda and God releases Kingdom-level results. He explains that applying the Kingdom is not theory or mysticism; it is simple: understand the principle, walk in it, and go all in.

Jesus shows that entering the Kingdom requires a different perception than the world’s systems. Many believers delay breakthrough because they misunderstand Kingdom timing, Kingdom life, and what it means to truly partner with God. Pastor Mike reveals that biblical “seasons” are not emotional highs and lows but appointments, alignments, assemblies, and moments of divine access. He breaks down the definition and the process so you can immediately implement it in your own life:

• Revelation
• Connection
• Perception
• Access

This is the process by which believers participate in Kingdom Joint Ventures: God supplies revelation, you align through partnership, and access opens to the all things are possible realm.

Understand that whenever you give, serve, support, or sacrifice for the cause of Christ and the gospel, you have not lost anything—you have invested into a Kingdom venture that yields a hundredfold return in this lifetime. Kingdom partnership carries Kingdom expectation. You should anticipate increase, alignment, opportunity, and spiritual authority because you are connected to God’s mission, not merely good deeds.

Part Five also emphasizes the essential role of the assembly. The church is not optional; it is the appointed place where revelation flows, perception sharpens, connections form, and doors open. The assembly is a Kingdom season—a divine meeting where heaven’s timing intersects with your life. When you prioritize God’s house, you align with the very structure through which He releases the Kingdom on earth.

Learn how Kingdom Joint Ventures work, how the Kingdom functions, and how to position yourself to receive the promises and love the life God intended for His people.
Listen now to It’s About Time: Part Five.

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