Heckel Ministries

Heckel Ministries Heckel Ministries of South Dakota, founded by Justin & Elly Heckel, inspires authentic encounters with God.

With 20+ years of ministry, they equip churches, families & communities to recognize His presence in every moment of life.

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06/17/2026

If you went on sabbatical and the Lord came to take over your church physically for three months, name one thing that would be different when you got back.

“I DID NOT COME WITH WISE OR PERSUASIVE WORDS.” -Apostle PaulBut do you know what I hear from most ministry help today a...
06/16/2026

“I DID NOT COME WITH WISE OR PERSUASIVE WORDS.” -Apostle Paul

But do you know what I hear from most ministry help today and even what people say they enjoy from ministers…

“Here is how you draw 200+ people.”

“How to give better sermons.”

But Paul was saying this, “I wanted you and I to know that I didn’t persuade you, but the truth did.” The truth doesn’t need to yell or make things flowery. If I tell you that flame will burn your hand, you’ll know when you get close to the flame that I am right.

The problem we run into is that people say, “I’m not giving them things to itch their ears. I’m telling the truth. So what’s your problem?”

Because it wasn’t the truth that hit many of them, it was your charisma. It was the mannerisms you chose to give them. A way that they can’t speak to people in everyday without people wondering if they are off their rockers or full of themselves.

Or you chose to speak to them with verbiage that says, “You’re gonna need years of study before you’re adequate to teach this stuff.”

In either situation, being wise or persuasive is telling most people that they don’t carry the same Holy Spirit as you because they can’t see their everyday life in you.

You’ve made those who are convinced believe it is more about being here and listening to you or some other “man of God” than carrying the God of man wherever they are.

And the big problem is, you can tell very little which ones are convinced by the truth and which are convinced by you until issues hit.

The truth exists even in silence, it doesn’t need to yell or be brash in order to be heard. And it existed long before we came up with grandiose, wise words to describe it.

The sign of the truth capturing people is not that they have to keep running back to hear you, it’s that through you they learned to hear the truth wherever they go. They have learned to carry it in the everyday, even in unfavorable circumstances.

So did you convince them? Or did the truth set them free? They may look alike in many ways, but they have very different outcomes.

06/14/2026

Join us this morning as Pastor Justin Heckel brings the message The Bride of Christ and the Wedding Feast. If you have any prayer requests, please put them in the comments. We would love to pray for you.

06/07/2026

Join us today as we worship and have the Message: Embracing the God of Mystery

Embracing the God of Mystery
06/06/2026

Embracing the God of Mystery

06/04/2026

Part of the call of apostles is that they see the beauty and and increase of the Kingdom God is releasing through His people. Apostles want to draw that out and protect it.

You see in Acts as the Apostles position men to take care of the widows and commission others for ministry.

Paul also tells Timothy how to recognize leaders, and he calls out leaders who are operating from selfish motives and warns against false teachers coming in when he leaves.

06/01/2026

Our heart is to see more laborers rise up, rise up with less red tape and stress, and to be effective.

Something that I often see hinder ministers, preaching or teaching out of their experiences and desires rather than the need of the person in front of them and how Jesus wants to encounter them in it.

So we can pull any number of ways scripture has been taught wrong, people have misused ministry, etc. There is a place for addressing weaknesses in the Body, but we must be aware that it isn’t even a problem for everyone.

For example, if you are going after the lost and discipling them, they simply want to see the promises of Jesus come into reality. They have zero clue about our Christian Soap Operas we have going on. For them, simply know what you know the Bible teaches and teach that. Meet their needs as Christ working through you. But you don’t always need to bring up where it has been wrong.

Now, if you are dealing with people who have been disconnected from the Body and it is largely because of issues of teaching or misuse of ministry, that can be a place to acknowledge that the Church has not always gotten things right.

Likewise, people coming out of seminary, a new believer is probably not caring at all about the name of John Calvin or what the Hebrew really means.

We must stay in a place of effectiveness. Not merely preaching from our own interests but being a conduit between God and the one in front of us.

05/31/2026

Join us this morning as Emily Fatur brings us a word from our overseeing church in Oklahoma City.

THE EARLY CHURCH DIDNT HAVE “WORSHIP GATHERINGS”, LETS TALK ABOUT IT…The early Church never mentions doing things like g...
05/26/2026

THE EARLY CHURCH DIDNT HAVE “WORSHIP GATHERINGS”, LETS TALK ABOUT IT…

The early Church never mentions doing things like getting together to simply get worked up and sing some good songs together.

It never even talks about that as being worship.

We hear about offering ourselves as living acts of worship.

A place where we do get some kind of picture like this is the temple worship, and specifically David’s Tabernacle worship where they set up paid musicians and prayer leaders for 24/7 worship unto the Lord.

We have gotten way off from this where we love to have “worship” nights.

But the thing is this, when we boil it down to simply coming together to sing some songs, and we make this the highlight of “ministry” times, we are really saying, “The times I love are where I get to come in, feel like I’m part of the Body without actually engaging with much of the Body, where we done have edification or encouragement, no accountability given to each other, and the we leave patting ourselves on the back.”

This is one of the reasons the role of worship leader needs to be steered back to being a minister first. I really don’t care if you’re a musician if you cannot minister, if chains are not broken, if the glory of God is not evident.

Our worship times should involve just as much ministry as any other time: prophetic words, releasing of scripture, prayer, healings, breakthroughs, impartation, accountability. It should drive people to worship everywhere and in everything they do.

The different venue and setting may cause it to vary in method, but the pieces of ministry should be evident, not simply music.

We have learned how to make good sounds, but the question is does Heaven think the same thing? Is there anointing that breaks yokes and plows up hard ground, or is it simply pretty? Does it give us an easy way to say it was an amazing time without the actual fruit? Would outsiders say, “yeah it sounded good,” or would they say, “you could feel God all over that place and you guys are different!”?

We aren’t here to play games. The Kingdom isn’t a matter of mere words, but of power.

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