Dr. Mike "REV" Napier

11/10/2025

⚔️ THE WARFARE IS REAL. ⚔️

This ain’t the hour to be soft. It’s 11am and hell doesn’t taken a lunch break.

Verse & Devotion:”Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.” — 1 Corinthians 16:13 (KJV)

The enemy’s working overtime. So must we.

You weren’t called to comfort, you were called to combat.Paul didn’t say “be nice.” He said be strong.He didn’t say “blend in.” He said stand fast.He didn’t say “play it safe.” He said quit you like men.

That means act like a warrior.Speak like a prophet.Walk like a son of the King.

Courage isn’t optional, it’s commanded. Strength isn’t a personality trait, it’s a spiritual discipline.So rise up. Shake off the passivity.You’ve got the Spirit of the Living God inside you.You’re not just surviving this day, you’re advancing the Kingdom.

Prayer:Father, I refuse to shrink back. Fill me with holy boldness. Let me speak truth, walk in strength, and stand fast in the faith. Make me a man of war in the Spirit and a shepherd of peace in the field. In Jesus’ name, amen.

11/08/2025

Stand Firm, Hold Fast, and Preach Biblical Truth.

10/31/2025

Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

It flat-out breaks my heart and rails my soul to see what’s happening in our churches. We’re in a crisis, not of attendance, but of courage.

Churches all over this land are hunting for a pastor, but they ain’t lookin’ for a true, God-called man. They're lookin' for a "nice" man. A tame man. A corporate yes-man with a soft handshake and a weaker spine, who knows how to keep the budget in the black and the pews full of comfortable, unchallenged people.

They want a man who won't ruffle a single feather, who'll preach 20-minute sermons on "5 Ways to Be Happy" but won't ever dare touch on sin, repentance, or the blood of Christ. They want somebody to scratch their "itching ears" (2 Timothy 4:3 KJV), not somebody who will "preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort" (2 Timothy 4:2 KJV).

They're not looking for a shepherd. They're looking for a hireling. They're looking for a lap dog, not a sheepdog who will fight the wolf at the door!

Listen to me: The biblical standard for a man of God ain't "niceness." It's holiness. It's guts.

* You reckon Elijah was "nice" when he called down fire on Mount Carmel and mocked the prophets of Baal?
* You think John the Baptist was "polite" when he looked the Pharisees in the eye and called them a "generation of vipers" (Matthew 3:7 KJV)?
* You think the Apostle Paul was "safe" when he withstood Peter "to the face, because he was to be blamed" (Galatians 2:11 KJV)?
* And our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Great Shepherd, did He "placate" the moneychangers? No! He braided a whip of cords and drove them out of His Father's house! (John 2:15 KJV)
We’ve traded the Lion of Judah for a housecat, and we wonder why the Church has no power.
Here’s the hard truth: A church that hires a man with no backbone is a church that's already dead on its feet. It's a spineless church, a lukewarm church (Revelation 3:16 KJV), and it's ripe for compromise. It will bend its knee to the culture every single time.
My prayer to God is twofold:
* That God would light a fire in the belly of some men, men who fear God more than they fear the opinions of the congregation. Men who would rather be right with God than "successful" in the eyes of the world.
* That God would give churches the spiritual eyes to see the difference between a man-pleaser and a God-fearing shepherd.

We don't need any more boot-lickers in the pulpit. We need men with grit, men with a spine of steel, men who will stand on the whole counsel of God's Word (KJV) and cry aloud, "Thus saith the LORD!"
May God have mercy and send us real men.

— Dr. Michael Napier

10/31/2025

10/25/2025

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18

WHEN THE SUN RISES — PRAY
WHEN THE STORM RAGES — PRAY
UNTIL THE TRUMPET SOUNDS — PRAY

IN VICTORY — PRAY
IN VALLEYS — PRAY
IN EVERY BREATH — PRAY

10/23/2025

⏰Verse & Devotion:”The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.” — Romans 13:12 (NKJV)

Devotion:It is 7am. The sun is rising, but the battle has already begun. The night is not just behind us, it is beneath us. The shadows that once whispered now flee at the sound of truth. And the Spirit says: Put on the armour of light.

This is not a call to comfort, it is a call to combat. The church must not dress for safety, but for war. We do not wear robes of ease—we wear armor forged in righteousness. The hour is urgent. The enemy is bold. But the remnant must be bolder.

Cast off the works of darkness, not just the obvious sins, but the subtle compromises. The quiet pride. The tolerated falsehood. The hidden bitterness. These are not garments, they are chains. And the Spirit says: Strip them off.

Put on the armour of light, not just truth, but visible truth. Not just holiness, but radiant holiness. Let your life preach before your lips do. Let your pulpit blaze before your sermon begins. Let your presence convict before your words are spoken.

The day is at hand. The harvest is near. The time for sleep is over. Rise, preacher. Rise, remnant. Rise, church. And let the light not just shine, but strike.

🛐 Prayer:Lord, I rise into Your light. Strip me of every shadow. Clothe me in Your armor. Let me walk as a son of the day, not a servant of the night. Let my pulpit burn with truth, and my heart beat with holiness. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

10/22/2025

⏰ Verse & Devotion:
“Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” — 1 Corinthians 15:34 (KJV)

Devotion:
It is 11am. The sun is high, but the church sleeps low. Paul’s words are not gentle—they are a trumpet blast. Awake. Not to comfort. Not to culture. But to righteousness. This is not a call to stir, it is a call to stand.

We are not called to manage sin, we are called to forsake it. Not to explain away compromise, but to expose it. The shame Paul speaks of is not emotional, it is spiritual. It is the shame of a church that has grown fluent in programs but illiterate in the knowledge of God.

The hour demands clarity. Not cleverness. Not charisma. But conviction. The remnant must rise, not with soft speech, but with sacred fire. We must awaken not just to truth, but to righteousness, the kind that confronts, cleanses, and commissions.
There are souls who do not know God, not because He is hidden, but because we have grown silent. The pulpit must thunder again. The pew must tremble again. The preacher must weep again. And the church must awake.

🛡 How We Must Respond:
• Repent deeply—not just of sin, but of sleep.
• Preach boldly—not just sermons, but salvation.
• Live righteously—not just in public, but in private.
• Awaken others—not with noise, but with truth.

🛐 Prayer:
Lord, awaken me. Shake me from slumber. Strip away every compromise and clothe me in righteousness. Let me not be found asleep at the hour of harvest. Let my life preach louder than my words. Let my pulpit burn with truth and my heart break for the lost. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

10/18/2025

“When the Room Is Empty”

Verse & Devotion:
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” — Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)

Devotion:
When the room is empty and the echoes fade,
And no one sees the tears my soul has made,
When the pulpit’s go cold and the pews are bare,
And they wonder if the Shepherd’s still there.
I remember this:
I am not forgotten in the hush of night,
Not abandoned in the absence of light.
The One who called me by name at fifteen
Still walks the valley, though He’s rarely seen.
He saw the heartache, the scars, the silent pain,
He wept with me in the hospital rain.
He stood by my bed when breath was thin,
And whispered, “Son, your fight is not at the end.”
So now I preach with paint, with verse, and fire,
I shepherd bold through loss and mire.
And though the crowd may never come,
The angels lean in when the work is done.
So I write again, though the world feels still,
I speak truth with trembling, holy will.
For loneliness is not my end,
It’s the furnace where prophets ascend.
And I recall Elijah, weary and worn,
Who thought himself utterly, hopelessly torn.
Yet under the juniper, God drew near,
Not in the fire, the quake, or the sear,
But in the whisper, soft and low,
A still small voice that only the broken know.
So I will not despise this hidden place,
For here I learn the weight of grace.
Here the Man of Sorrows walks with me,
Who bore my griefs at Calvary.
And though the night feels long and deep,
For The Shepherd does not sleep.

Prayer:
Lord, when silence surrounds me and I feel unseen, remind me of Your promise that You will never leave nor forsake me. Let my loneliness become the altar where Your presence burns brightest. Teach me, as You taught Elijah, to hear Your whisper in the stillness. Strengthen me to keep writing, preaching, and shepherding boldly, until the day I see You face to face. Amen.

10/17/2025

A Divine Solution for a Desperate Heart Condition A Word to Meditate On:

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26 KJV

Have you ever felt stuck? Have you tried to change a habit, improve your character, or draw closer to God, only to feel like you’re hitting a wall? The Bible has a powerful diagnosis for this struggle: the “heart of stone.”

A heart of stone isn’t just imperfect; it’s unresponsive. It’s a spiritual condition that no amount of self-help, good intentions, or religious effort can ultimately fix. It’s a problem that goes deeper than our actions—it’s at the very core of who we are.

But what if the solution wasn’t about trying harder? What if God’s answer to our desperate condition was not a list of rules, but a divine operation?

The prophet Ezekiel records a breathtaking promise from God—not to repair our brokenness, but to replace it entirely. It is a promise of radical, supernatural change that only He can perform.

Reflection for the Week:
• In what areas of your life do you feel the resistance of a “heart of stone”?
• What would it mean to stop trying to fix your heart and instead receive a new one from God?

Join us this Sunday at Living by faith Church for the sermon, “The Divine Heart Transplant,” as we explore God’s incredible solution for our deepest need.

10/16/2025

🔥 Verse & Devotion:
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” — 2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV)

Devotion:
We live in an era of convenient convictions and casual Christianity. The marketplace of faith is flooded with doctrines of comfort, promising blessing without burden, salvation without self-scrutiny. But the Apostle Paul issues a jarring command: "Examine yourselves." This is not an invitation to introspection for introspection's sake; it is a divine subpoena. It demands a rigorous, unflinching audit of the soul, to determine if the very life of Christ genuinely resides within.

The terrifying implication? That some among us, sitting in pews, uttering prayers, and carrying Bibles, might be "reprobates",disqualified, disapproved, ultimately found wanting. This isn't about losing salvation; it's about whether it was ever truly possessed. We have preached a gospel so broad, so inclusive, that it has lost its sharp, exclusive edge. We have forgotten that genuine faith always bears fruit, that true repentance leads to a transformed life, and that a dead Christ cannot dwell in a living temple.

This is not a call to doubt God's faithfulness, but to confront our own. Are we merely performing religion, or are we possessing Christ? Is our righteousness an outward veneer, or an inward, consuming fire? The acid test is simple: do you "know yourself"? Do you see the Spirit warring against the flesh, the old man being mortified, the new man rising? If Christ is truly in you, there will be evidence, not perfection, but profound, undeniable transformation.