Anthony Earl Ministries, Chicago, IL (2026)

10/18/2026

The Scribbling Scribe ✍🏾

LORD, HEAL MY HEART, THAT I MAY DO YOUR WORK.

Last night, I had a dream that left an indelible impression upon my heart. I awakened with a renewed conviction that personal brokenness is essential to fulfilling the divine mandate of God for our generation.

Dr. Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision, once prayed: “Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.”

These words profoundly express the sentiments of my own heart. In the dream, I remember weeping and petitioning our God with these words: “Lord, heal my heart, that I may do Your work.”

As I reflected upon this encounter, I realized that there is a brokenness God desires to heal and a brokenness He desires us to carry.

He heals the wounds that distort our vision, compromise our love, and hinder our obedience. Yet He also cultivates within us a heart that remains tender toward the suffering of humanity, the injustices of our world, and the things that grieve His own heart.

Perhaps one of the greatest dangers facing our generation is not the absence of gifting, revelation, influence, or opportunity, but the possibility of possessing all these things while losing our capacity to be moved by what moves the heart of God.

We can become proficient in the work of God while becoming increasingly disconnected from the heart of God.

Our generation does not merely need more gifted leaders. We need men and women whose hearts have been transformed by the very Christ they proclaim.

Brokenness is not weakness. When surrendered to God, it becomes the sacred place where compassion is awakened, pride is dismantled, motives are purified, and our lives become available for His redemptive purposes.

The Psalmist declared, “A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalm 51:17

I am increasingly convinced that the measure of our success in this generation cannot simply be what we build, how far we reach, or how many follow us. It must also be measured by how faithfully our lives reflect the heart and character of Christ.

May we never become so consumed with fulfilling our assignments that we neglect the condition of the hearts through which those assignments must flow.

And so, I return to the cry that arose from within me in the dream: “Lord, heal my heart, that I may do Your work.”

Not merely with greater power, but with greater purity. Not merely with greater influence, but with greater compassion.
Not merely to accomplish something significant for God, but to faithfully reveal His heart to a generation desperately in need of Him.

Lord, break our hearts with what breaks Yours, and heal within us everything that prevents us from loving as You love. ❤️

10/15/2026

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I believe this so strongly, my friends. Each of us is presented with opportunities to realize dreams we have carried in our hearts for years.

I have come to discover that life’s obstacles are not always meant to stop us. Sometimes they become the very instruments that help us make the necessary adjustments as we move toward what we deeply desire.

Long ago, I dreamed of seeing the world. Today, I have traveled to places I once only imagined and encountered extraordinary people whose lives have enriched my own.

Looking back, I realize that many of the things I once perceived as disappointments were actually preparing me, positioning me, and aligning me for what was ahead. What I thought were setbacks were often part of the journey toward the fulfillment of my dream.

And here I am, living what I once only dreamed about.

So I want to encourage you today: Keep dreaming. Keep believing. Keep moving forward, regardless of what life serves you.

Don’t allow the difficulties of one season to convince you that the dreams in your heart are beyond your reach.

Sometimes the road you never would have chosen becomes the very road that takes you where you always dreamed of going.

Your story is still unfolding, and some of its most beautiful chapters may still be ahead of you.

10/12/2026

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THE POWER OF A DREAM: DON’T SURRENDER YOUR HOPE!

There are countless people who have struggled to believe in the power of a dream. Yet, I believe that within every human heart resides the capacity to envision a future beyond the limitations of present circumstances.

We have all carried dreams. Some have materialized almost instantaneously, while others have required years of waiting, wrestling, sacrifice, and perseverance. Still, there are those dreams that seem so distant, so improbable, and so far beyond our reach that we quietly begin to question whether they will ever become our reality.

I have come to understand something profound through the journey of my own life: The passage of time does not necessarily diminish the possibility of a dream becoming reality.

Sometimes, what appears to be a delay is actually a season of formation. We are being enlarged, strengthened, and prepared to possess what we once only had the capacity to imagine.

My encouragement today is especially for those who have grown weary of believing. Those who have endured disappointment after disappointment. Those whose circumstances have seemingly contradicted everything they once envisioned. Those who have quietly buried their dreams beneath the weight of life’s struggles.

I exhort you: DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR HOPE!

Hope is not a passive emotion. It is a powerful force that enables us to see beyond our present limitations and remain anchored to the possibilities of tomorrow.

The Scriptures declare:
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 (NKJV)

I can testify personally to the sustaining power of hope.

I am living some of the most extraordinary days of my life, not because my journey has been absent of adversity, but because I refused to allow adversity to become the final authority over my future.

I have endured seasons of tremendous struggle. I have encountered disappointments, experienced setbacks, and walked through circumstances that appeared determined to extinguish the dreams within me.

But I kept believing. I kept moving. I kept hoping. And today, I am witnessing realities that once existed only as dreams within my heart.

I am living my best life, not because everything has been perfect, but because I discovered that my most difficult seasons did not have the authority to cancel my future.

So, to the dreamer who has stopped dreaming, I say: DREAM AGAIN!

To the one who has stopped believing, BELIEVE AGAIN!

To the one who has surrendered to disappointment, RISE AGAIN!

Your present circumstances are not the complete narrative of your existence. There are still chapters to be written, territories to be occupied, relationships to be discovered, and extraordinary possibilities awaiting your participation.

Remember the words of the prophet Habakkuk:
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time… Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come.” Habakkuk 2:3 (NKJV)

Not every dream unfolds according to our timetable, and not every aspiration will manifest exactly as we first imagined. Yet, we must never underestimate what God can accomplish through a life that remains surrendered, expectant, and willing to persevere.

Your dream may have been delayed, but your capacity to hope does not have to die.
Do not allow yesterday’s disappointments to rob you of tomorrow’s possibilities.

Keep your heart alive. Keep your expectations anchored in God. Keep advancing toward the future He is unfolding before you.

I am living proof that the struggles of yesterday do not have to determine the possibilities of tomorrow.

And I declare to you today: There is still more life to live, more ground to occupy, and more of God’s goodness to discover!

Keep dreaming. Keep believing. Keep hoping. Your Story is still being written!

10/10/2026

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We are living in a defining moment in the unfolding purposes of God. The Lord is calling His Church beyond the celebration of spiritual experiences into the responsible stewardship of divine revelation. This is not merely a season of receiving fresh insight, but a season of becoming the corporate expression of what heaven has revealed.

Isaiah 2 declares that in the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established above the mountains and exalted above the hills, and the nations shall flow unto it.

This prophetic vision speaks of more than religious prominence. It reveals a people so established in the nature, wisdom, righteousness, and government of Christ that the nations are drawn to the authenticity of His presence and the excellence of His ways.

But we must understand that we cannot establish in the earth what we have refused to surrender to within ourselves.

The government of Christ must first occupy the territory of our hearts.

We must confront the ambitions, contradictions, inherited limitations, and competing influences that have been permitted to coexist with divine intention.

Israel entered the territory of promise but failed to completely displace what God had commanded them to remove. What they tolerated eventually became a source of compromise, conflict, and generational struggle.

We must not repeat that failure. What one generation refuses to confront, the next generation may be forced to contend with.

This is a moment for the restoration of authentic apostolic life, not merely the recognition of apostolic titles or the multiplication of religious structures, but the recovery of Christ’s nature, doctrine, authority, and mission within His Church.

It is also a moment for the restoration of genuine spiritual fatherhood and sonship, where divine life is transmitted, generations are established, and relationships are governed by covenantal love rather than personal ambition.

We need both the wisdom of restraint and the courage of unrestraint.

May divine restraint preserve us from premature movement, unauthorized advancement, and the presumption of moving beyond God’s timing.

Yet may holy unrestraint deliver us from fear, hesitation, religious confinement, and the limitations of yesterday’s understanding.

May restraint forbid us from moving ahead of God, while unrestraint forbid us from remaining behind Him.

There are territories of divine intention that will never be occupied by those who insist upon remaining within the boundaries of what is familiar.

God is calling us into greater dimensions of obedience, maturity, responsibility, and kingdom representation.

Our hands must be strengthened for the work before us. Our discernment must be sharpened. Our relationships must be purified. Our understanding must mature, and our obedience must become the evidence of the revelation we profess to possess.

We cannot continue gathering around profound truths while remaining unchanged by their demands.

Revelation without transformation eventually becomes information without manifestation.

Therefore, let us emerge from this season with renewed resolve.

Let the instructions we have received become the architecture of our obedience.

Let our homes, churches, communities, institutions, and regions become territories in which the wisdom and government of Christ are increasingly visible.

Let us raise generations who will not merely inherit our language but embody the substance of our faith.

Let us move beyond maintaining what has been established into faithfully advancing what God has entrusted to our stewardship.

And above all, may our hearts become territories wholly surrendered to and fully occupied by the government of Christ, until nothing remains within us that resists His lordship, contradicts His nature, or obstructs the fulfillment of His eternal purposes.

The measure of this season will not be determined by the profundity of what we have heard, but by the faithfulness with which we obey, the territories we transform, and the generations we establish.

May the nations increasingly discover, through our collective obedience and corporate expression, the mountain of the Lord’s house, established, exalted, and radiating the wisdom and glory of our God.

Let us not merely speak of the mountain. Let us become a people through whom its reality is made visible.

Let us not merely announce His government. Let us embody its order.

Let us not merely celebrate revelation. Let us assume responsibility for its manifestation.

Arise and occupy what heaven has assigned. Establish what God has revealed. Displace what contradicts His government. Strengthen the apostolic household. Prepare the generations.

And let the nations behold, not the prominence of our ministries, but the supremacy of our Christ.

“Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD … and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.”
Isaiah 2:3 (KJV)

10/01/2026

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THE WISDOM, AUTHORITY, AND
COMMISSION TO GO

This morning, I’m off again to the nations, something I have been privileged to do for more than 35 years. As I prepared to leave, this thought came to mind, and I felt compelled to share it with you.

Have you ever really considered what Jesus is declaring in Matthew 28:18–20?
Or have we become so familiar with the passage that we simply glance over it, as we sometimes do with familiar Scriptures, without stopping long enough to discover the wisdom concealed within the text?

Whenever we read the words of Jesus, we must remember His declaration that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them. Therefore, His words are not disconnected from what came before Him. In Christ, the wisdom, promises, patterns, and prophetic expectations of Scripture find their fulfillment.

Consider what Moses told Israel:
“Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding…”
Deuteronomy 4:6

Moses teaches us that the Word of God is not merely information to be studied. It is wisdom for living.

Now listen again to Jesus:
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.” Matthew 28:18

He begins the Great Commission with authority. Before He tells them to go, He establishes the authority under which they are being sent.

Then He says:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…”

We are not sent into the world possessing some independent authority of our own. We are sent under His authority, representing His Kingdom, proclaiming His message, and demonstrating through our lives what submission to His reign looks like.

Mark records another dimension of this commission:
“And these signs shall follow them that believe…” Mark 16:17

Whatever discussion one may have concerning the manuscript history of Mark’s longer ending, the reality expressed in the passage is certainly not foreign to the remainder of the New Testament. The book of Acts demonstrates it.

Believers proclaimed Christ with boldness. They cast out unclean spirits. The sick were healed. Spiritual gifts operated among them. Signs and wonders accompanied the advancement of the Gospel. Paul himself testified that his ministry among the nations occurred “by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God” (Romans 15:19). And these testimonies did not simply disappear from Christian consciousness when the book of Acts ended.

Early Christian writings contain accounts of healing, deliverance, prophetic activity, and manifestations of the Spirit continuing within Christian communities.

So when Jesus declares, “All authority…has been given to Me,” and then commands, “Go,” He is not sending powerless representatives into the nations.

The authority remains His, but we have been commissioned to function under it. This distinction is essential. We do not possess autonomous Kingdom authority. We exercise delegated authority because we have been sent by the One to whom all authority belongs.

We do not chase signs. We follow Christ. We obey His commission. We proclaim His Kingdom. We minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. And we expect the life and power of Christ to become visible through a believing and obedient people.

But where does He send us? To all nations.
The Greek word translated “nations” is ethnē, referring to peoples, nations, and ethnic groups. Therefore, going to the nations does not always require an airplane, a passport, or crossing an ocean.

The nations may already be living across the street from you. They may work beside you. Their children may attend school with your children. They may live in your neighborhood or worship in your city.
So perhaps we should ask ourselves a difficult question: Why have we been conditioned to remain almost exclusively within our own people groups?

The Kingdom calls us beyond what is familiar. Your life becomes part of the witness of your faith when you intentionally engage people who may not look like you, sound like you, come from your culture, or share your history.

The Great Commission confronts our tendency toward cultural isolation.
Jesus did not say, “Make disciples of those who are like you.”

He said:
“Make disciples of all nations.”

But verse 20 is where I really want to land:
“Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

Notice that Jesus did not merely command us to gather converts. He commanded us to make disciples and teach them how to obey.

This takes us right back to Moses.
Moses declared that God’s instruction was Israel’s wisdom and understanding.
Jesus, who fulfills the Law and the Prophets and in whom are hidden the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, now commissions His disciples to teach the nations how to live according to everything He commanded. This is much more than acquiring biblical information.

Scripture teaches us how to live under the government of God. Christ reveals how redeemed humanity is to walk under the authority, wisdom, and dominion of His Kingdom.

Therefore, study the Scriptures not simply looking for another sermon.
Study them for wisdom. Study them to understand the ways of God. Study them until His Word reshapes how you think.
How you speak. How you forgive. How you love. How you lead. How you serve.
How you treat people who are different from you. How you exercise the authority entrusted to you. And how you represent Christ among the nations.

There is wisdom from above available to us.
As that wisdom becomes embodied in our lives, we learn how to walk faithfully under the authority and dominion of the Kingdom.

Then Jesus closes this extraordinary commission with one of the greatest promises ever given to those who are sent:
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Think about that.

The One who possesses all authority in heaven and earth promises His abiding presence to those He commissions.
We are sent under His authority. We are instructed by His wisdom. We are empowered by His Spirit. We are commissioned to the nations. We are commanded to make disciples.

And we never go alone.
After more than 35 years of traveling among the nations, I remain convinced that there is still so much for us to discover about what Jesus actually meant when He simply said: GO.

The authority is His. The commission is ours. The power is of the Spirit. The nations are the field.

The Scriptures are our wisdom. And Christ receives all the glory. Go. Teach. Disciple. Demonstrate.

The nations are closer than you think.

09/30/2026

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YOUR WEEPING IS COMING TO AN END

To those who have struggled in your faith walk, stay the course.

The battle is an ongoing one, but you will persevere. Faith was never a promise that we would avoid warfare, disappointment, contradiction, or seasons we did not choose. It is the confidence that none of these things can separate us from the intention of our Father.

The key is death to self.

There are places in God we cannot enter while insisting on preserving our own way, defending every misunderstanding, answering every accusation, or controlling every outcome. Sometimes spiritual maturity looks like silence.

Place a guard at your mouth.

Not everything deserves a response. Not every battle requires your voice. Not every misunderstanding requires your explanation. There are seasons when restraint is evidence that God has done a deeper work within us.

And stay connected. Isolation can distort perspective. We were never designed to walk this journey alone.

Even the unwanted encounters have something to teach us. The betrayal. The disappointment. The delay. The rejection. The season when heaven seemed silent. Somehow, our Father takes what we would have never chosen and works it into His process of forming us.

Why?

Because He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion. Philippians 1:6

He is both Author and Finisher.

You may have endured trauma. You may have cried privately while serving publicly. You may have wondered whether the promises spoken over your life would ever become visible.

But turn your face toward the rising of the sun. Your weeping is coming to an end.

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5

Your story will not end with what wounded you. Your testimony will include what our Father produced through it.

One day your family, your children, your children’s children, and those who watched you endure will recognize the grace that sustained you.

So stay steady. Guard your heart. Guard your mouth. Stay connected. Die to self.
Keep believing. Keep becoming.

Finish strong, dear one. The Author is still writing. And what He authored, He is faithful to complete.

09/29/2026

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The Power of Repentance, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Scripture tells us that the Word of God is our wisdom. Moses declared concerning the commandments of God, “Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding” (Deuteronomy 4:6).

How profoundly true this becomes the longer we walk with God. The more I study His Word, the more I discover that Scripture does not merely give us information about God. It teaches us how to live wisely before Him and with one another.

If you lack wisdom, begin the journey of searching the Scriptures. James writes, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God” (James 1:5). Ask Him, but also open His Word. Our pursuit of knowing God cannot be separated from our pursuit of knowing what He has spoken. His Word illuminates our path, corrects our thinking, searches our hearts, and teaches us His ways.

Today, I received a call from an old friend. It was a call of repentance.

The details of the offense are unimportant. What arrested my attention was something far more significant: the power of remission.

Jesus said, “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained” (John 20:23).

There is something weighty about this principle. When someone acknowledges an offense and seeks reconciliation, we are confronted with a choice. We can release the offense, or we can continue carrying it. One choice opens the door toward liberty and restoration. The other can imprison both the offender and the offended in something Christ desires to redeem.

Forgiveness does not declare that the offense was insignificant. Neither does forgiveness eliminate wisdom, accountability, boundaries, or necessary consequences. Forgiveness simply refuses to allow yesterday’s offense to become tomorrow’s bo***ge.

Jesus warned us, “With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Matthew 7:2).

That should sober all of us.

We must be careful about the measure we use with others because one day we will desperately need mercy measured back to us.

Repentance and forgiveness are therefore two extraordinary gifts of grace. Repentance gives the offender an opportunity to turn. Forgiveness gives the offended an opportunity to release. And reconciliation, when possible and healthy, demonstrates the redemptive power of Christ between two people who refuse to remain imprisoned by the past.

If you have offended someone, go to them. Humble yourself. Acknowledge what you have done. Repent without justification, manipulation, or qualification. Jesus taught that reconciliation with our brother is so important that we should address the broken relationship rather than pretending everything is well while continuing our religious activity (Matthew 5:23-24).

And if someone comes to you genuinely seeking forgiveness, remember how extravagantly you have been forgiven.

Paul writes, “Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32).

Release them. Release the offense. Release yourself from the exhausting responsibility of keeping an account God is calling you to surrender.

Do not allow bitterness to establish a stronghold where grace desires to build an altar. This is one of the great challenges of Christian maturity: learning how to repent quickly, forgive freely, judge soberly, and pursue reconciliation faithfully.

We cannot move powerfully forward in Christ while continually dragging the chains of yesterday’s offenses behind us.

Where repentance is necessary, repent.
Where forgiveness is required, forgive.
Where reconciliation is possible, pursue it.
Where wisdom requires boundaries, establish them without bitterness.

Then move forward.

“Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark” (Philippians 3:13-14).

There are some things you cannot carry into your next season.

Some chains are broken when we are forgiven. Others are broken when we choose to forgive.

Let us dismantle every form of bo***ge and walk forward in the liberty Christ purchased for us.

Repent. Release. Reconcile. And keep moving forward in Christ.

09/23/2026

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YOUR GIFT MUST GROW WITH YOUR CHARACTER.

One of the great challenges of emerging leaders in the Kingdom is learning how to function powerfully without becoming offended by process. You may genuinely be gifted. You may clearly hear God. You may possess wisdom beyond your years. You may even recognize something that others have not yet discerned. But gifting does not exempt us from order.

There are times when spiritual leaders establish guardrails, not because they are attempting to suppress gifts, but because they are responsible for protecting people and stewarding the environments entrusted to them.

Immaturity says, “If I’m gifted, I should be allowed to function.” Maturity asks, “How can I function effectively while honoring the house, the people, and the responsibility entrusted to leadership?” That distinction matters.

If you are asked to submit something before releasing it, submit it without offense. If you are asked to wait, learn how to wait without withdrawing. If your gift is examined, don’t immediately interpret examination as rejection.

Sometimes what feels like restriction is actually the testing of the heart.
David was anointed long before he was enthroned. Joseph carried dreams long before he carried governmental authority. The disciples were called before they were commissioned.

God develops the vessel along with the gift. And to those who are already mature and seasoned: your maturity should make you easier to work with, not harder. Wisdom understands timing, environment, authority, relationships, and responsibility.

Never allow offense to contaminate what God has spent years developing within you.
Ecclesiastes 10:1 reminds us that a few flies can spoil precious perfume. Don’t allow one moment, one correction, one misunderstanding, or one leader’s decision to spoil the fragrance of a lifetime of formation.

Be bold without becoming rebellious. Be submitted without becoming timid. Be gifted without becoming arrogant. Be discerning without becoming suspicious. Be powerful and remain teachable.

Your gift may open the door, but your character, wisdom, humility, and ability to honor others will determine how effectively you function once you enter the room.
The Kingdom needs your gift. Make sure your character is strong enough to carry it.

09/20/2026

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HAVE WE FORGOTTEN HOW TO FAST?

There are some things that will never be developed in us through convenience.

We live in a generation that celebrates abundance, access, comfort, and immediacy. Yet throughout Scripture, God repeatedly called His people into seasons of fasting, repentance, prayer, and consecration.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, stands as one of the most solemn days on Israel’s biblical calendar. Leviticus 16:30 declares:

“For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.”

For those of us who follow Christ, our atonement is not accomplished through our fasting. Jesus Christ has completed the work of redemption. Yet fasting remains a powerful spiritual discipline that reminds the flesh that it does not have the authority to govern the spirit.

Jesus did not say, “If you fast.” He said, “When you fast.” Matthew 6:16.

Perhaps the Church needs to rediscover the power of WHEN. When you fast. When you pray. When you withdraw from the noise. When you deny yourself something legitimate because you are hungry for something greater.

Fasting is not a hunger strike designed to manipulate God. It is not spiritual theatrics. It is not an attempt to earn His favor.

Fasting is an intentional act of consecration. It quiets appetites. It exposes dependencies. It confronts distractions. It disciplines the flesh. It creates space for prayer.

And it reminds us that “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Some of us do not need another conference. We do not need another podcast. We do not need another prophetic word. We may simply need to turn down the plate, turn off the noise, humble ourselves, and seek God again.

There are seasons when addition is not the answer. Subtraction is.

Less noise. Less consumption. Less distraction. Less indulgence.

More prayer. More Scripture. More listening. More surrender. More of Him.

May this sacred season remind us of a spiritual discipline that must never become antiquated.

The fast still matters. Not because fasting changes God. But because, in His presence, fasting can profoundly change us.

If you sense God calling you into a deeper encounter through fasting, I wrote Fasting Encounter to help believers rediscover this ancient spiritual discipline and pursue God with greater intentionality.

Order directly from my website:
https://anthonyearl.org/fasting-encounter

Available on Amazon: Fasting Encounter⁠

Perhaps it is time for another encounter.

Anthony Earl Ministries

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