{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Kingdom First with Pedro Adao", "home_page_url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/", "feed_url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/feed.json", "description": "The Kingdom First newsletter — weekly Kingdom wealth, faith, and AI insight from Pedro Adao and guests.", "items": [ { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/desk-of-ramie-what-just-happened-in-the-market/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/desk-of-ramie-what-just-happened-in-the-market/", "title": "Desk Of Ramie: What Just Happened In The Market?", "summary": "What happened in the stock market this week? The S&P 500 fell nearly 5% before recovering to close down less than 0.25% for the week, with small caps and the broader market leading the rebound — a healthy sign for a bull market. Consumer inflation came in at 4.2% annually (mostly energy-driven), while core inflation beat expectations. The Producer Price Index, however, surprised to the upside, signaling potential cost pressures ahead.\n\n", "content_text": "Last week we finally saw a more meaningful pullback in the market. The S&P 500 dropped about 5%... and then nearly erased the entire move by Friday. We closed down less than a quarter of a percent from where we opened Monday morning. The index found support right above 7,200 and bounced. What caught my attention was what led the recovery. It wasn't just the usual mega-cap stocks. The broader market and small caps actually led the way. That is what we want to see in a healthy bull market. What the Economic Data Is Telling Us This was a heavy week for economic data. A few things worth knowing. Inflation at the consumer level came in at 4.2% annually, the highest reading since April 2023. That headline sounds alarming. But almost all of that heat came from energy prices, which jumped 23.5% year over year. Core inflation, which strips out food and energy, actually came in below expectations. On the other side, the Producer Price Index, which measures what businesses are paying before costs reach consumers, came in well above expectations. That's worth watching going into the weeks ahead. The University of Michigan's one year inflation outlook came in at 4.6%. Below forecast, but still the kind of number that keeps investors humble about declaring victory on prices. Our technical indicators across trend, structure and momentum remain aligned and our positioning stays fully invested. Curious what it looks like to have this kind of clarity in your corner? The Fortress Financial team offers a complimentary call with no pressure and no obligation... just a straightforward conversation about where you stand. Click here to schedule your complimentary call.", "date_published": "2026-06-19T23:15:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-25T23:44:09.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/does-god-speak-to-you-through-your-dreams-part-1/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/does-god-speak-to-you-through-your-dreams-part-1/", "title": "Does God Speak To You Through Your Dreams? (Part 1)", "summary": "Does God speak through dreams? Yes — and Suzette Adao explains how. God uses dreams as symbolic messages to counsel, warn, and reposition us before critical moments arrive. When you wake with a vivid dream, write it down, note the details, and ask the Holy Spirit — not Google — to be your interpreter. Dreams are one of God's primary tools for sealing instruction into us while we sleep (Job 33:15-18).", "content_text": "I am a dreamer. I wake up almost every morning with at least one dream still fresh, still sitting with me. Some of them are obviously just... noise. But then there are other dreams where I know that God is speaking to me. Those dreams just feel different, they stick with you more. I had one of those recently. In the dream, I was in a hospital, very pregnant, full term. And then the doctor comes in and says the baby is breech…in the wrong position. I remember in the dream just praying, \"No, Lord, this needs to come out.\" I actually felt the baby shift and felt the discomfort of that repositioning happening right there in the dream.  Then I woke up, and instantly, I was like. \"Lord, okay, I see you. We're talking about this…” Because at my age, the baby factory is very much closed. So dreams are, more often than not, metaphorical or symbolic, not literal.  That's kind of how it works with God. He gives you something that gets your attention so you can sit with it and ask him questions to get understanding. So when I dream about being pregnant, I know God is not talking about a literal baby. He is talking about something new being formed in me, that is almost ready to come out. The question I sat with that morning was, \"Lord, what am I about to birth, and am I coming at it the wrong way?\" After praying through it, He showed me. There was something I was ready to do, something I had been building toward, but I was approaching it from the wrong angle.  It still could have happened the other way. But it wouldn't have come out right. It would have needed a lot more fixing after the fact. He was letting me know now, and giving me the chance to reposition before the moment arrived. That is what dreams from God do…they show you things you need to know. They’re not random. They’re not just your brain doing weird things at 2 a.m.  Dreams are one of the biggest ways God speaks to us. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword. Job 33:15-18 He uses dreams to seal instruction into us while we sleep, to counsel us, warn us, and show us things we cannot yet see in our waking hours. And He does it in a fun way…like a mystery or a puzzle, because He actually wants to go on the journey with you. Not spell it all out and have you respond like an automated human…but he makes it like a game, that you explore and discover the meaning together with him. So what do you do with your dreams? How do you capture them and go on the journey with God to discover their meaning? Here's what I'd encourage you to do. Start paying attention. If you keep having the same dream, there is a reason. Ask God. If you wake up with a vivid image that stays with you, don't just shake it off and go make coffee. Capture it by writing it down, or sending yourself a text or voice memo. Note the details, what was the main focus, who was there, what colors, what animals, what was happening? Then sit with the Holy Spirit and ask Him what it means. Open your Bible. Think about what the dream is saying from a metaphorical or symbolic perspective. Let Holy Spirit be your dream interpreter, not Google, not your best friend. God is always communicating with us, we just have to be paying attention, and be willing to go on the journey with him to understand what he is saying. If you want a community where you can bring your God dreams, your life dreams, your questions, and even your \"okay God what does THAT mean\" moments...and actually work through them with people who get it... Come join us in Kingdom Seekers. We'd love to have you.", "date_published": "2026-06-19T23:15:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-25T23:43:10.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Suzette Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/articles/your-values-might-be-betraying-you/", "title": "Your Values Might Be Betraying You", "summary": "Why are your values keeping you stuck? According to Pedro Adao, not all values are redemptive values. When a good value like loyalty is held without Kingdom context, it can become a form of fear that traps people in the wrong job, church, or relationship. The fix: ask God to reveal any unredeemed values, reframe them through Kingdom principles, and align your decision-making with peace, wisdom, and purpose.", "content_text": "“Pedro, I’m stuck.” No you’re not stuck. You just refuse to make a decision. If you’re like many of the people I’ve coached, there’s probably at least one decision that you refuse to make. You know you need to make it. You know it’s important…but you’re still procrastinating and that's why you’re stuck. Most people think they don’t have enough information, or need more time to make a good decision. So they end up overthinking and get caught in mental loops and analysis paralysis.  Is this God? Is this me? Should I do this? Should I do that? What’s the wise thing to do here? The other day in our Kingdom Seekers mentorship community, I broke down my best thoughts on a fully redemptive Kingdom aligned decision making process…I laid out a framework that is rooted in wisdom, kingdom principles, peace, love, and trust. In that training conversation, I shared what God has shown me are the biggest lies/reasons that believers stay stuck.  Wrong Values In the Kingdom, our values and core belief system play a huge role in our ability to make good decisions. If our values are wrong or misaligned, then our decisions will be off too. So it’s wise to take some time to sit with the Lord, ask some questions, and get really clear on what your core values and convictions are. As I’ve been walking through this personally…I realized something. Not all values are helpful. A good value doesn’t mean it’s a redemptive value.  In fact, holding too tightly to a value that is not redemptive may actually be betraying you, betraying God and betraying the Kingdom you are seeking.  A great example of this is LOYALTY. Is loyalty a Kingdom value? Yes, generally. But when someone holds loyalty so tightly that they become “loyal to a fault,” it is no longer Kingdom. It’s loyalty that’s been hijacked and perverted by the enemy to keep them stuck.  I’ve seen people stay at a job too long, at a church too long, or in a relationship too long…all in the name of “loyalty.” That’s not loyalty, that’s usually fear keeping them in bondage. So when looking at the value of loyalty through the Kingdom lens, the question is not just, “Am I loyal?” The better questions are… “Loyal to whom? Loyal to what? And to what end?” Wrong values, misaligned values, and unredemptive values all lead to poor decision making. If you want to make fully redemptive and Kingdom aligned decisions, then start with clear, redemptive values. Take a few minutes right now to ask God: “What unredeemed values am I holding onto that are betraying me and keeping me stuck in an old season? How can I bring them into alignment with the Kingdom?” Then let me know what God shows you…I have a feeling many of us are dealing with some of the same things. By the way...holding wrong values was just one of the lies we exposed in the Kingdom Seekers mentorship. We go after things like this every week, if you want to be in the room with us…the door is open. Join us here.", "date_published": "2026-06-19T23:15:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-25T23:43:28.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Principles" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/encountering-the-mystical-realm-of-god/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/encountering-the-mystical-realm-of-god/", "title": "Encountering the Mystical Realm of God", "summary": "There are many ways God speaks to us — through creation, through imagination, through dreams. But what about the mystical realm, where you experience the spirit world with your natural senses? Dano opens the biblical foundation for visions, open visions, and trances — and why this realm is real and available to every believer.", "content_text": "There are many ways God speaks to us. He speaks through the created world around us, through pictures in our imagination, through dreams in the night…to name just a few. The Bible is filled with examples of God speaking to people through supernatural spiritual experiences. And recently in Kingdom Seekers we've started exploring some of these, especially those happening in the mystical realm of God. What Is The Mystical Realm? It's the realm where you experience the spirit world with your natural senses. In mystical seeing, your eyes are open, and you're seeing the physical world, with the spirit world overlaid on top of it. I want you to know: this realm is real and available to you. Joel 2:28 promises us: \"In the last days, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. The young will see visions, the old will dream, dreams.\" Visions are part of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They are part of the prophetic package. And mystical seeing is part of that. What Is The Biblical Foundation? In 2 Kings 6, Elisha and his servant Gehazi woke up surrounded by an enemy army. Gehazi was terrified. Elisha was not. He said, \"Don't be afraid. Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.\" Elisha was actually seeing into the spirit world with his natural eyes. He prayed for his servant: \"Open his eyes, Lord, that he may see.\" And then the Lord opened the servant's eyes, and he saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. The heavenly host is always a majority. There are more angels with you than demons against you in any scenario. Just like Elisha prayed for Gehazi's eyes to be opened to the spirit realm, you can pray and ask God to open your eyes too. Just remember to stay focused on the light more than the darkness. Three Ways You Can See Into The Mystical Realm In 1 Corinthians 12:10, Paul lists \"the discerning of spirits\" as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This is the ability to see the spiritual forces underlying a situation — when we see an angel, a demon, or into the human spirit for what is in operation there. An open vision is where you are seeing in the natural but then something like a movie screen comes down or opens up in front of you, and you begin to see both the natural and the spirit at the same time — the overlay of one reality on top of another. My first open vision happened when I was 17. I was driving home across a long bridge, singing in tongues, already in the spirit. All of a sudden the top of my car disappeared, like it just faded away. I could still see the road and the bridge, but then the top of the bridge disappeared and I saw these clouds just rolling. They looked metallic, like silver and gold and bronze, burnished and on fire. It was just glorious. A trance state is when your physical eyes are open, but you are absorbed in the heavenly reality. The biblical word for trance comes from the Greek word ekstasis and means to be absorbed into another reality. You've probably experienced something similar and don't even realize it. Have you ever been in a conversation, eyes open…but your thoughts are somewhere else? And the person talking to you says, \"Hey, where did you go?\" That's a similar state. Who Is This For And How Do We Steward It? All three of these mystical encounters are possible for any believer. It's not more spiritual to see an angel than to see what God is doing through the natural realm. It is not a better way of seeing; it's just a different way of seeing. All these are very real things and the way we stay healthy with them is staying teachable, staying humble, receiving counsel and input, and then guarding against the counterfeits. Submit what you're seeing, sensing, and perceiving to a spiritual community; be careful not to stay isolated in these experiences. Remember, with any God experience, our goal should always be to love, to serve, and to point everything back to the Lord and give the glory to Jesus.", "date_published": "2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dan McCollam" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/", "title": "The Most Audacious Thing a Christian Can Do", "summary": "Religion has wired us to treat audacity like a character flaw. But what if it's not? What if there's a redemptive component to it that we can use to advance the Kingdom? Pedro unpacks why believing you are made in the image of God is the most audacious — and necessary — thing a Christian can do.", "content_text": "I came across a podcast last week, with a high-performance psychologist who works with billionaires, the super successful tech founders and the ultra-wealthy. I was intrigued so I listened to it. About half way through I was starting to get a little annoyed, because up to that point it had been mostly cliches…nothing really useful. But then, she said something that gave me the payoff... She said, \"One thing I've observed about the ultra-successful is that they are audacious...\" Boom, that's the word I've been looking for… Audacity. Most of the time you hear it as a complaint, something used to describe a negative trait or a critique. \"I can't believe their audacity… Who do they think they are?\" We've been wired to treat audacity like a character flaw. But what if it's not? What if there's a redemptive component to it that we can use to advance the Kingdom… What Does Audacity Look Like in the Kingdom? I think the Kingdom way to look at audacity is to see it as being bold, willing to take risks, living courageously, solving problems innovatively and confidently…not being reckless but being certain. Think about what a Kingdom Entrepreneur functioning from that kind of redemptive audacity could accomplish… So why aren't more of us doing it? It's because of the lies we've been told by religion. Since 2018, I've been helping and serving thousands of good, smart, Bible-believing people who love Jesus. And, I can tell you, a lot of us have struggled with this… We're told that we're supposed to be meek and humble. And that is true, we are. But... Humble doesn't mean being small. Humble doesn't mean staying irrelevant. Humble doesn't mean not being bold. If we actually believe what Genesis 1:26 says... that we were made in the image and likeness of God and that we were created to rule…then maybe being audacious would be easy. Because, someone who was created to rule, reign and have dominion… someone who believes they were made in God's image… That person would not be afraid to be audacious. So the question becomes…do we really, and I mean really believe we are made in the image of God? I've been a believer for 23 years, and I can tell you this honestly, I don't know that I have fully believed I was made in the image of God. I don't have a perfect revelation of that even though I know what the Bible says. If I really believed it, then there are things I would be thinking or doing differently… Knowing something and actually believing it are two very different things. This is probably why so many Christians have embarrassingly little fruit from what they say they believe. We have intellectual knowledge of what the Word says, but those verses have not transformed us from the inside out. Until we actually believe them at a cellular level, they cannot produce fruit. Because in the Kingdom, you can only reproduce what you are. The Invitation To actually believe you were made in the image and likeness of God is not a normal belief for most Christians… It requires an audacious perspective. Religion has robbed us of Kingdom audacity by telling us we have to think small, play small, and be small...it's not holiness. It's not righteousness. It's not humility. Real humility is actually owning your awesomeness and believing that you and I were made in the image of God. It tears me up to see so many amazing people…people who have been beaten up and beaten down, not just by the world, but by religion, convinced that playing small is somehow holy. It's not. And it's time to stop calling it that. So this is the question I'm challenging myself with, and I'm asking you to consider too… What does it look like to be fully surrendered, fully yielded to God, and still carry an audaciousness that allows you to dream, believe, and pursue things that just are not normal for most people? What would it take for you to live like you really believe you are created in the image and likeness of God himself? That's the invitation this week…start living an audacious Kingdom life.", "date_published": "2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Entrepreneurship" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/what-just-happened-in-the-market/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-6-the-most-audacious-thing-a-christian-can-do/articles/what-just-happened-in-the-market/", "title": "What Just Happened In The Market?", "summary": "For nine straight weeks, the stock market kept hitting record highs — something that's only happened four times in the last 40 years. Last Friday, that streak ended with one of the sharpest single-day drops since April 2025. Here's what happened, and what to watch next.", "content_text": "For nine straight weeks, the stock market kept hitting record highs, something that's only happened four times in the last 40 years. Last Friday, that streak ended with one of the sharpest single-day drops since April 2025. Two things happened at once: a major tech company missed Wall Street's sky-high expectations, triggering a panic that rippled through the entire sector. Then a surprisingly strong jobs report poured fuel on the fire, because in today's market, good economic news isn't always good news for stocks. The result? A dramatic Friday that had a lot of investors wondering what comes next. The full picture is more nuanced than the headlines suggest. Ramie's analysis points to some very specific levels the market needs to hold, and whether it does or doesn't will tell us a lot about where we're headed over the next few weeks. If you want the unfiltered breakdown, the actual numbers, the key levels to watch, and what Ramie is doing about it…that's exactly what Fortress clients get every week. Curious what it looks like to have that kind of clarity in your corner? Reach out to schedule a complimentary call with the Fortress Team.", "date_published": "2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/do-you-know-gods-love-language/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/do-you-know-gods-love-language/", "title": "Do You Know God's Love Language?", "summary": "I have a confession. For the last five years, I have not made a habit of picking up my physical Bible. A couple of weeks ago I was feeling 'off' and like I had hit a wall. I asked the Lord, 'What do I do, God?' The first thing he told me was, 'Pick up the book. Get into my Word.'", "content_text": "I have a confession. For the last five years, I have not made a habit of picking up my physical Bible. I know. It's sad. I go on the Bible app on my phone and read. I look up scriptures. I reference things. But just sitting down and reading the actual book? I haven't done that like I should. So a couple of weeks ago I was feeling \"off\" and like I had hit a wall. I knew I needed to try something different to snap out of it. I asked the Lord, \"What do I do, God?\" The first thing he told me was, \"Pick up the book. Get into my Word.\" I knew what he was saying… I had to find a new routine, a new way of connecting with him for this season of my life. I knew that when I did, a lot of things would begin to open up for me again…motivation, direction, clarity. I heard and I obeyed. I picked up the actual book and started with Matthew. I asked God to highlight things for me that he wanted me to see…And, one thing just kept standing out as I read. Over and over, he kept showing me verses about doing things in private. Doing things in and from the secret place. We've all heard that, right? But as I kept reading and kept seeing this theme, I started asking the Lord what he was trying to show me. And that's what God has been showing me. God has a love language…and it's quality time. It's us being intentional about going into our secret place with him. Just to spend time with him. Giving him our undivided attention. No distractions. No interruptions. Just us being with him at that moment to share life with him. That's what it means to be in the secret place. As I was thinking about this secret place relationship more, the Holy Spirit reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in a long time. One time, during one of the hardest seasons of my life, I went into my closet, shut the door, and said... \"Lord, I don't even know where to start.\" He said, \"Say nothing.\" I sat there silently and cried. That day in the closet, my tears became my words. I didn't even know what I needed, but he knew. He just knew… We don't always need words, we don't always need to be praying. Often, the peace comes, the answers come, and the trust grows when we just sit quietly in his presence. What is your secret place? Where do you go to just be with God? Mine has changed with every season of life. During that hard season, it was the closet. A couple years ago, it was the beach. During the years I was driving my kids everywhere, it was my car. Those quiet minutes between drop-off and home were the only time I had. What worked for me in my 30s is not going to work for me in my 50s. Seasons change and the way God speaks to us also changes. God is inviting us into finding the secret place for this current season, right now. So if you feel like you're not hearing Him, maybe it's not that He's gone quiet. Maybe you just need to change your position. Get out of the rut. Try something new. Change your secret place. Pick up the Bible (the actual book). Sit quietly in his presence with no prayer agenda. Here's my challenge to you this week... Find your secret place and protect it. Write it down in your calendar. Make the decision that you're going to show up for that quality time with God. Not just when it's convenient, but on purpose. God's not asking for perfect prayers or long hours. He just wants quality time with you. He's waiting for you in the secret place. — Suzette Adao, Kingdom Seekers, May 27, 2026", "date_published": "2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Suzette Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/market-update-9-weeks-of-gains/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/market-update-9-weeks-of-gains/", "title": "Market Update: 9 Weeks of Gains", "summary": "The stock market just wrapped up its 9th consecutive week of gains, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting fresh record highs. If you've been sitting on the sidelines wondering whether now is the right time to pay attention to your investments — the answer is yes.", "content_text": "The stock market just wrapped up its 9th consecutive week of gains, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting fresh record highs. If you've been sitting on the sidelines wondering whether now is the right time to pay attention to your investment…the answer is yes. The AI revolution isn't slowing down. In fact, it's accelerating in ways that are surprising even seasoned investors. One company in particular made headlines with numbers so extraordinary that most people had to read them twice. The ripple effects are spreading across entire industries, far beyond what most people expect when they think of \"tech stocks.\" At the same time, inflation is still running well above the Fed's target, and interest rate cuts aren't coming anytime soon. That creates a tricky environment — one where knowing what to own and when matters more than ever. Ramie and the Fortress Financial team are watching several key levels closely that will signal whether this rally has more room to run or if a pullback is around the corner. The opportunity is real. So is the risk. The question is…do you have the right team in your corner helping you navigate it? — Ramie Khalil, Fortress Financial Newsletter, June 1, 2026", "date_published": "2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/this-could-be-stopping-you-from-reaching-your-kingdom-potential/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-5-is-your-need-for-certainty-costing-you/articles/this-could-be-stopping-you-from-reaching-your-kingdom-potential/", "title": "This Could Be Stopping You From Reaching Your Kingdom Potential", "summary": "After eight years of serving people in the entrepreneurship space, I've found a few common struggles that hold people back. And I am convinced that one of the greatest barriers people face is the need for certainty. The greater your need for certainty, the more difficult it will be to lay hold of your Kingdom potential.", "content_text": "After eight years of serving people in the entrepreneurship space, I've found a few common struggles that hold people back from reaching their full Kingdom potential. And, I am convinced that one of the greatest barriers people face is the need for certainty. Think about the assignment God has given you. Or the new one he has been speaking to you about lately. Are you taking consistent action to move things forward with it? Or is there something holding you back? Fear, confusion, uncertainty? If we're being honest, a lot of us get stuck here, because new assignments almost always come with mystery. Most people would say, \"Yeah Pedro, I know I am supposed to be okay with mystery...but if I am being honest, what I really want is certainty. I want to know for sure that this is going to have a good outcome.\" I get it. But, the truth is... The greater your need for certainty, the more difficult it will be to lay hold of your Kingdom potential. That need creates unnecessary mental warfare, struggle, and suffering. You will be a lot slower to say \"yes\" and delay obedience for what God is inviting you into. I've seen how this mindset can cause people to be more prone to making bad decisions out of fear…and how it keeps them stuck in an endless cycle of waiting, seeking clarity, and being confused. When really they just need to get out of their own way. So how do you do that? How do you get out of your own way so you can step fully into your Kingdom assignment? It starts by doing some inner game work and renewing your mind to a few basic Kingdom concepts. #1. Embrace Mystery As An Adventure Kingdom people embrace mystery and see it as an adventure. Being able to do this really comes down to one thing...how much do you actually trust God? If we trust God and believe Him to be a good Father, then we'll trust His plans, His ways, and His methods. Even when we don't understand them. Even when we don't like them. Trust allows you to know that no matter how things end up, it's going to work out for your good because God wastes nothing and he always \"828's\" everything. (Romans 8:28) All things work for the good… Can you see how this kind of Kingdom thinking makes it so much easier to step out and take action, even in the face of uncertainty? #2. Accept That You Might Not Have A Map Sometimes God invites you into something so unique that no one has ever done it before. There's no blueprint or map to follow. You may not know where to start or how to do it. You may not feel connected to the right people. You'll have moments where it feels like you're out there alone, walking on water. That's not a very comfortable place to be, but learn to be okay with it, because… Your biggest advantage in the Kingdom is knowing how to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Big assignments often require being uncertain, uncomfortable and charting the way inside of new territory. So, the longer you can withstand mystery and sit in that in-between space, the more God can trust you with bigger assignments. #3. Be Willing To Take The Next Best Step Once you've said \"yes\" to the assignment, you have to do something to activate it and create momentum behind it. It's hard to steer a parked car…but once you start moving and the wheels are in motion, steering becomes a lot easier. That's how it is with our assignments — God can steer you in the right direction a lot easier if you are already moving. The objection I hear most from people not yet in momentum is that they don't always know what to do first or where to start. Let me help you make this easier. Most of the time there is at least one obvious next step to take. That's your step. Buy the domain. Make the phone call. Outline the book. Make the social media post. Whatever the first and most obvious, simple next step is for you…do it today. You don't have to wait for more certainty, more clarity, more confirmation… You don't always need a full blueprint or a full strategy. Start where you are with what you do know. Take care of the low hanging fruit first. Trust that as you move forward, more clarity and more certainty will come. In the Kingdom, clarity doesn't come before movement. It comes when you move...as you move. Here's how you lock this in. Ask yourself, honestly… Where in my life right now is God inviting me into an assignment I don't yet fully understand or have the full blueprint for? What would I say \"yes\" to right now if I truly believed Romans 8:28 applied to this assignment? What is the most obvious next step that I've been putting off? And when will I do it? — Pedro Adao, 4:14 Reset, May 18, 2026", "date_published": "2026-06-03T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Entrepreneurship" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/markets-at-record-highs-what-to-watch/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/markets-at-record-highs-what-to-watch/", "title": "Markets at Record Highs — Here's What to Watch This Week", "summary": "The markets kept climbing last week, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting record highs. This week is a shorter trading week, but don't let that fool you — the economic calendar is packed with major data that could shape the Federal Reserve's thinking heading into the June FOMC meeting.", "content_text": "The markets kept climbing last week, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting record highs. This week is a shorter trading week, but don't let that fool you — the economic calendar is packed with major data that could shape the Federal Reserve's thinking heading into the June FOMC meeting. Here's what I'm watching on the S&P 500: the index is in a strong uptrend with positive structure and momentum. We had a minor pullback last week, but the S&P pushed through the previous ceiling at 7,500. The key level to hold is support at 7,340 on any pullback. A break above 7,550 opens the door to new record highs. The Nasdaq picture looks similar. Short-term support sits at 28,557, with new record highs up at 30,379. The big question this week is how the incoming economic data lands and what signal it sends to the Fed about their path forward in June. Stay positioned. Stay informed. The market doesn't slow down just because the week is short. — Ramie Khalil, Fortress Financial Newsletter, May 27, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/the-biggest-risk-ai-poses-for-people-of-faith/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/the-biggest-risk-ai-poses-for-people-of-faith/", "title": "The Biggest Risk AI Poses for People of Faith", "summary": "The biggest risk with AI right now is how easy it could be for people to fall into the trap of turning to AI for things they should be going to God for. That's spiritual laziness — and I don't want to see Kingdom people getting lazy by making AI their default source of truth.", "content_text": "I saw this trend going around on social media where people are asking ChatGPT to draw a sketch style caricature of them — one that captures your personality, your work, your vibe, based on everything you've talked about with it. This trend can tell you something about yourself…based on your chat history, how you interact with it, the things you search and what you've worked on. Just like your calendar and your spending habits can tell you something about yourself…but it can't tell you everything. The biggest risk with this right now is how easy it could be for people to fall into the trap of turning to AI for things they should be going to God for. That's spiritual laziness, and I don't want to see Kingdom people getting lazy, by making AI their default source of truth or using it as a shortcut to spiritual growth. God is the one and only source of truth…and AI can not replace God. What else do we call it when people choose to go to another source, rather than God? Idolatry. Anytime we position someone or something ahead of God, or surrender his place in our life to something else. That is idolatry. It's no different than the children of Israel looking to a golden calf for guidance instead of going to the real God who delivered them from Egypt. You can read it in Exodus 32. Moses goes up the mountain. He was only gone for 40 days, and during that time they panicked, demanded that Aaron build a golden calf so that \"god\" would be present with them. Moses came back down the mountain and found them worshipping this golden statue of an animal. 40 days. That's all it took for them to build this false god to replace the real God… They wanted something convenient, something they could see, something they could touch and control. That was a bad decision on their part…and if you remember, it didn't turn out very well for them. Back to AI… As Kingdom people how do we handle this? There are redemptive ways we can use AI and leverage it to help us expand the Kingdom. But we have to be very careful and discerning with how we do it… We use it as a tool to do things better, faster, more efficiently, while remembering it's not a replacement. Not a replacement for God, and not a replacement for human creativity and brilliance. The best questions we can ask as Kingdom people are… How do we leverage AI as this incredible tool that it is and use it in the most redemptive way possible to help us expand the Kingdom and bring people closer to the real God? How can we guard ourselves from allowing AI to become the \"golden calf\" of our generation? Just don't take it as a source of truth for your identity. Keep God your main source of truth about your identity and who you are… How are you using AI as a tool in a way that's actually drawing you closer to God, not pulling you away? — Pedro Adao, Kingdom Perspective on AI, May 26, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Perspective (Trends)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/why-the-primary-purpose-of-wealth-may-surprise-you/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/why-the-primary-purpose-of-wealth-may-surprise-you/", "title": "Why The Primary Purpose of Wealth May Surprise You", "summary": "The Primary Purpose of Wealth Is To Be Spent. Think about it — say you want to leave an inheritance to your children's children like Proverbs recommends. Why? Is it so they never get to touch or enjoy it? Until you spend wealth it's just sitting there as potential.", "content_text": "A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the Michael Jackson movie, and many of you seemed to really enjoy it…so here's another powerful insight from the movie. The Primary Purpose of Wealth Is To Be Spent. Think about it…say you want to leave an inheritance to your children's children like Proverbs recommends. Why? Why do you want to leave that money to the people you love? Is it so they never get to touch or enjoy it? Until you spend wealth it's just sitting there as potential. And potential is great but not if it's never realized. Money that doesn't eventually get spent is wasted. The problem is we have been conditioned by religion and scarcity that spending is bad and we need to \"watch\" our spending…don't spend too much…that we should optimize for ways to spend less. If spending less is the goal then death is the best case scenario…no need to spend any money when we are dead. Optimizing for spending less is too often followed by you becoming less and doing less…is that the life you want? Is that the abundant life Jesus is offering in John 10:10? You can't expand the Kingdom without spending money. You can't create impact without spending money. If you want to pay for someone's college, you have to spend money on their college. If you want to give to the poor, you are spending money on the poor. Tithing? Spending. Generosity? Spending. Philanthropy? Still spending. The category changes. The reality doesn't. We've made spending evil because most people have a spending problem and wastefully spend money they don't have on things they really don't need. And when something gets abused, the religious response is to call the whole thing bad. Overcorrect. Make a rule. Build a wall around it. Throw the baby out with the bathwater. That entire frame is not biblical. It is not wisdom, it's fear dressed up as discipline. So how should we think about spending? Is there a redemptive kingdom way to think about spending? Of course there is… I call it value spending. What is value spending? It's not about spending more or less. It's not permission to be reckless. It's about spending intentionally, on the things that actually matter to you or others…things that maximize value, represent wisdom and good stewardship, given the situation. Value spending is what made it possible for Mary to take a jar of perfume worth an entire year's income…and without hesitation break that jar and \"waste\" the entire bottle anointing the feet of Jesus. A whole year's wages spent in less than one hour on one person. Mary wasn't reckless. She was a good steward. She was a value spender who knew exactly what that moment was worth, and she spent accordingly. In fact Jesus said that every time the Gospel is preached this story would be told. That's value spending. And if that was not enough proof — let me prove to you that God himself is a value spender. What is the wealthiest thing in existence? God. And the fullness of God and that wealth, at one point in time, walked the earth in the person of Jesus. And what did God do with Jesus? Spent Jesus's life and blood for us. God spent his one and only son buying us back. He didn't hide him in a safe. He didn't put him behind a glass box, he sent him into the world to spend his life and spill his blood for us. God now has billions more sons and daughters back because he was willing to spend his one and only begotten son. God's spending led to the redemption of the human race and a massive multiplication. God protects, he creates, and God spends. If God spent the most valuable thing in existence, his Son, then spending is not the problem. The problem is spending without thought, without intention, without understanding what something is actually worth and how or what it is multiplying. This is a good conversation for you to have with the Holy Spirit: Lord, where am I being too tight? When and where should I be more open-handed? Lord, where am I spending too liberally? Where should I be spending less? Lord, what's one intentional, high-value spend that is worth the cost, but I have been too afraid to make? — Pedro Adao, Kingdom Wealth Club, May 22, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Wealth" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/youve-got-a-friend-in-god/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-4-the-biggest-risk-of-ai-right-now/articles/youve-got-a-friend-in-god/", "title": "You've Got a Friend in God", "summary": "This week I was on a walk and saw a tiny little snail trying to cross a huge country road. It was already more than halfway across. So we stopped, picked it up, and carried it safely to the other side. Immediately I felt the Holy Spirit whisper: 'That's what I'm doing for My people right now.'", "content_text": "This week I was on a walk and saw a tiny little snail trying to cross a huge country road. It was already more than halfway across, which honestly amazed me because you know that little thing had probably been moving forever just to get that far. Cars and trucks fly down that road, so a wrong move at the wrong time and it could've been crushed instantly. So we stopped, picked it up, and carried it safely to the other side. Immediately I felt the Holy Spirit whisper: \"That's what I'm doing for My people right now.\" Some of you have been doing your best to move forward. Slowly healing. Slowly rebuilding. Slowly obeying. Slowly trying again after disappointment, heartbreak, exhaustion, or delay. And maybe you've felt vulnerable while doing it. God is saying: Supernatural help is here. Not because you've failed. Not because God is disappointed in you. But… because there are seasons where God steps in and helps carry us through what would've crushed us otherwise. As I was thinking about this story, I started thinking about the song from Toy Story: \"You've Got A Friend In Me.\" And I felt the Lord say, \"My people know Me as Savior, King, and Judge but many don't know Me as Friend.\" That hit me deeply. As a parent, something beautiful happens when your children become adults. You don't stop being their parent, but the relationship deepens into friendship. My grown children are some of my best friends. We laugh together, talk about life together, and genuinely enjoy one another. And I felt the Lord say: \"That's what I want with My people.\" Not robotic religion. Not fearful performance. Friendship. Some of you have only related to God through fear, pressure, or striving. But Jesus said, \"I no longer call you servants… I have called you friends.\" Friendship changes everything. When you know God as a friend, correction feels like protection instead of punishment. Prayer becomes conversation instead of performance and suddenly you realize you were never meant to cross every hard road alone. Sometimes miracles look like fire from Heaven. And sometimes miracles look like someone stopping long enough to see you and help carry your load. God is sending supernatural help, strength, wisdom, provision, and divine friendships into people's lives right now. You are not forgotten. You are not abandoned. And you do not have to cross this season alone. You've got a friend in God. — Jackie Dorman", "date_published": "2026-05-27T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Jackie Dorman" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/the-market-did-something-interesting/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/the-market-did-something-interesting/", "title": "The Market Did Something Interesting Last Week", "summary": "Last week was a mix of new highs followed by closing lows. The Dow crossed 50,000 for the first time since February. The S&P 500 pushed above 7,500 for the first time in its history. By Friday's close, those gains had largely reversed. Moves like this are to be expected when markets get too extended.", "content_text": "Last week was a mix of new highs followed by closing lows. The Dow crossed 50,000 for the first time since February. The S&P 500 pushed above 7,500 for the first time in its history. The Nasdaq touched a new all-time intraday high of 26,707. By Friday's close, those gains had largely reversed — the S&P shed 1.22%, the Nasdaq slid 1.53%, and all indices finished essentially flat for the week. Moves like this are to be expected when markets get too extended. After six consecutive weeks of moving higher, the momentum was starting to lose some steam. The overall trend and structure are still positive, but a pullback was warranted. For the S&P 500, the key level to watch is 7,200 as support if the market continues to pull back. While the Nasdaq's key floor to watch in the short term is 27,596. On the fundamental side, inflation data was the bigger story. Producer prices came in at +1.4% for the month, nearly three times the consensus estimate and the largest monthly gain since March 2022. Annual PPI is running at +6.0%. The culprit, in large part, is $100-plus oil. Energy is the circulatory system of the global economy — when it gets expensive, the infection spreads. These are not transitory footnotes. They are structural warnings worth paying attention to. — Ramie Khalil, Excerpt from the Fortress Financial Market Update, May 18, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-20T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/", "title": "The Sin Almost Every Christian Ignores", "summary": "After serving hundreds of thousands of Christians since 2018, I am convinced that complacency is one of the enemy's favorite weapons. It's subtle, doesn't feel like an obvious ambush, and can easily be misidentified and overspiritualized as rest.", "content_text": "After serving hundreds of thousands of Christians since 2018 I am convinced that complacency is one of the enemy's favorite weapons… It's subtle, doesn't feel like an obvious ambush, and can easily be misidentified and overspiritualized as rest. Short Prayer Prompt: \"Holy Spirit, have I grown complacent in any area of my life?\" No blame. No Shame. No condemnation. But there's probably a good chance the Holy Spirit came back with a quick yes. As I did this earlier in the week, it was revealed to me right away an area where I have become complacent. So I made some decisions. Decision to take intentional action in an area that I left to chance. There is nothing complacent about life in the Kingdom. Complacency is deceptive and wants to keep you living in the land of comfort and familiarity. Tradition and routine. And once complacency has set in, it can be very hard to identify, and even harder to remove. What if complacency is a spirit? Proverbs talks about slothfulness and laziness as spirits…so why wouldn't complacency also be a spirit that comes with lies that allow it a safe place to take up residence in our souls? Complacency Symptom #1: A Loss of Gratitude Complacency often begins when we start taking something for granted. What usually happens next is that we tend to focus on the negative aspects of this situation rather than the positives. Focusing on the negative lowers enthusiasm, lowers energy and reduces inspiration…you begin to have fewer ideas, take less action, and end up in a downward spiral. So how do we get out of this spiral of complacency? Get grateful. Gratitude is maintaining an attitude and habit of celebration of things you already have. This is hard for a lot of people, especially high achievers who are always looking ahead to the next goal or achievement. However, celebration is absolutely a part of life in the Kingdom. So even if you're a high achiever, you're going to need to learn how to celebrate the wins (big and small), stay grateful, and don't forget to have fun. The kingdom is fun. Religion sucks. The world's system leads to bondage and misery. But the Kingdom is fun! Complacency Symptom #2: A Lack of Clear Vision Another reason we can end up complacent is that we don't have clarity or a compelling vision of the future. If there is no compelling vision, goal, or outcome that excites you, it's very easy for complacency to creep in. Who would run fast if they didn't know where they were going? Maybe you have a vision, but you've forgotten it or lost touch with what you're doing and, maybe more importantly, why you started doing this in the first place. This is where discipline can have value. Discipline helps you keep doing the things that are good for you and that move you forward... even when you don't feel like it. Complacency Is Probably Going to Happen…So When It Does, Skip The Pity Party. Accept that it's a normal part of life. There will be ruts. There will be days when the excitement and enthusiasm just aren't there. Those moments are not to be ignored, but serve as an invitation to slow down a little and ask, \"Hey Lord, what do you want me to see here? Is there anything you want me to understand or learn about this?\" Think of this like a Formula 1 pitstop. It would not be very smart to pull into the pit and then leave without new tires and a full tank of gas. God is the best pit crew manager there ever was, so take advantage of that and ask him for what you need. Get your tires changed, refuel and then get moving again. Comfortable or Kingdom? You can stay comfortable and stay complacent. It's a choice…but not a very Kingdom one. Or you can choose Kingdom life. Return to gratitude. Celebrate the wins. Find clarity and passion for the vision again. Then show up like your assignment matters...because it does. Lock In The Lesson: What's a win you have not yet celebrated? When's the last time you felt genuinely excited and clear about something you are doing or a goal you are pursuing? What would the next 90 days look like if you decided complacency was no longer an option? — Pedro Adao, Kingdom Seekers, May 18, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-20T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Principles" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/what-if-the-pieces-still-matter/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-3-the-sin-almost-every-christian-ignores/articles/what-if-the-pieces-still-matter/", "title": "What If The Pieces Still Matter?", "summary": "While we were in Hawaii, I spent a lot of time collecting shells. The first shell I found was beautiful — whole, large, complete. But for the next couple of hours, almost everything I found was broken pieces. And as always, in full transparency… I was getting frustrated.", "content_text": "While we were in Hawaii, I (Holli) spent a lot of time collecting shells. The first shell I found was beautiful. Whole. Large. Complete. And after that I was excited… After finding that shell right away, I thought the rest of the day was going to be full of treasures just like it… But for the next couple of hours, almost everything I found was broken pieces. Tiny fragments. Worn edges. Pieces with holes. Pieces that looked incomplete. And as always, in full transparency… I was getting frustrated!! I remember walking the beach talking to the Lord about it. And I felt Him begin showing me something much deeper than shells (as He always is willing to do). He reminded me that many of us spend our lives thinking wholeness is something we are trying to earn, achieve, or finally arrive at someday. But what if wholeness was already placed inside of us from the beginning? And what if the \"pieces\" we gather through life are actually the wisdom, revelation, healing, relationships, courage, strategy, skills, and experiences needed for the next steps of our assignment? Then another thought hit me. None of them were wasted. And honestly, even the broken pieces still brought beauty, curiosity, and adventure to the experience. I was still excited to find them, pick them up, study them, and add them to my collection. Some had unique colors. Some had intricate patterns. Some were tiny reminders that there had once been something whole attached to them. And immediately I started thinking about convergence. How many things in our lives have we dismissed because they felt random, unfinished, insignificant, painful, disconnected, or small? The hard seasons. The unexpected detours. The skills we picked up along the way. The conversations. The disappointments. The relationships. The risks we took. The seasons that felt fragmented. But what if God wastes nothing? What if the pieces matter because eventually they come together into something fuller than we could see while we were collecting them? Then something happened that marked me. My stepsister walked up and handed me the exact shell I had secretly been hoping to find. It was perfect. And I immediately noticed hesitation rise up in me because she found it…not me. But right there on the beach, I felt the Lord whisper something so simple and so deep: \"Part of walking in wholeness is learning to receive.\" Receive help. Receive kindness. Receive provision. Receive wisdom. Receive partnership. Receive what Heaven sends your way. What made the moment even more meaningful was that my stepsister isn't a Christian, and yet I was able to plant seeds and tell her that I genuinely felt like the Lord used her generosity to bless me in that moment. I really believe there are moments where Heaven feels especially close. Moments where God is reminding us that He is actively moving, speaking, arranging, helping, and partnering with us more than we realize. Not everything supernatural has to look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like peace...timing....provision. Sometimes it looks like a sunset that reminds you how near God feels. Sometimes it looks like someone handing you the exact shell you needed. And maybe right now, God is helping you recognize that the pieces of your life still matter too. Maybe nothing has been wasted. Maybe convergence is happening even now. So let me ask you this: What \"piece\" of your journey have you been dismissing that God may actually want to use? And where might God be inviting you to stop striving…and start receiving? — Holli Peel, What If The Pieces Still Matter?", "date_published": "2026-05-20T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Holli Peel" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/ai-is-here-but-is-it-kingdom/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/ai-is-here-but-is-it-kingdom/", "title": "AI Is Here, Ready or Not — But Is It Kingdom?", "summary": "AI is not a trend or some temporary fad. This technology is here to stay, and it's only going to get more powerful and prominent. But almost nobody is talking about it from a Kingdom perspective — so I thought I would.", "content_text": "AI is a very hot topic right now… everyone's talking about it, but almost nobody is talking about it from a Kingdom perspective...so I thought I would. We are in a major moment of technological advancement. AI is not a trend or some temporary fad. This technology is here to stay, and it's only going to get more powerful and prominent. AI is going to work its way through the entire job market, labor market, and every single part of how we live. The implications this will have on the rest of the economy are completely unknown. Some assets, products, and services will get much better and actually cheaper because of AI....while others may get significantly more expensive. We are at the very, very beginning of this, and while many people are either panicking or pretending this isn't happening, there is another group that is preparing and prospering. What if we allowed this whole AI thing to be this simple... Lord, how can I use AI to create more value, serve more people, solve more problems, and ultimately have greater kingdom impact? Personally, my team and I are actively working on something that I am so excited about...Something that I can't wait to share with you...that's going to solve a very very big problem for millions of people. A problem so big, I didn't think any one person or company could ever fix it. And yet, because of AI, I now believe that this problem that impacts close to 100 million Americans can be solved... I believe God wants to use me to do it...and because of the hard work of my team and I, we are less than a few weeks away from launching it. I'm using AI to expand the Kingdom way, way bigger than I ever could have done without it. As far as I'm concerned, that's the most redemptive way to think about AI and the moment we find ourselves in. So why not right now take a few minutes and talk to God... \"Lord, is there a redemptive use of AI for the assignments you have for me? How can I leverage this to make a greater impact with my Kingdom assignment?\" Ask Him. He might say no. But He might show you something you couldn't have imagined possible. — Pedro Adao, 4:14 Reset, May 4, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Perspective (Trends)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/prophetic-word-gods-timing-and-the-414-reset/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/prophetic-word-gods-timing-and-the-414-reset/", "title": "Prophetic Word: God's Timing & The 4:14 Reset", "summary": "When I was flying back home from our February in-person event, both of my flights were 30–40 minutes ahead of schedule. On the second flight, I heard God say, 'The wind is in your favor.' I knew this wasn't about the tailwinds or the flight — it was a prophetic word for our community.", "content_text": "When I (Krista) was flying back home from our February in-person event, both of my flights were 30-40 minutes ahead of schedule arriving. On the second flight, I heard God say, \"The wind is in your favor.\" I knew this wasn't about the tailwinds or the flight...it was a prophetic word for our community and for the season of acceleration we are in right now. The 4:14 moment Pedro has been talking about. That 4:14 moment is here, is now. As I've been studying the prophetic timeline we are in on the Hebraic calendar right now...I noticed we are in the season between Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost). The 49 days between these two is called \"The Counting of the Omer\" which in Hebrew tradition is looked at as a time of spiritual transformation...leaving the lower spiritual identity of Egypt (slavery, bondage, lack, labels) and crossing into the higher spiritual identity of Pentecost (freedom, clarity, equipped and empowered). That was the journey that happened in the wilderness. They stepped out of Egypt free, but they had to walk through a period of spiritual transformation to prepare them for where God wanted to take them (the promised land, abundant living). Taking it back to where I started this... \"The Wind is in our favor\" and there is acceleration on this \"4:14 moment.\" Fast-forward to the New Testament version of this... Jesus shared the last supper with his disciples on Passover. Then came the Cross (freedom). Then the Resurrection (new life, new identity). Then the Ascension where he gave them the instruction to \"Go into all the world...make disciples...teach them the kingdom.\" (Their assignment was clarified.) What happened next? Pentecost. Before he left, Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to come and give them power...power to fulfill the Kingdom assignment he gave them. At Pentecost (Acts 2) the Holy Spirit came SUDDENLY, as a mighty rushing WIND, and they saw FIRE (power) rest upon them. Pentecost is on May 24th this year... and the prophetic word for this season is this: God is bringing a sudden wind that is blowing in your favor, to embolden and empower you to fulfill your Kingdom assignment. But you can't get to Pentecost without the Passover. You can't have the power without the transformation. The Counting of the Omer (the time period we are in right now) is that transformational period. NOW is the 4:14 moment to shed old identity, release labels that do not define you, receive clarity for your Kingdom assignment so you can carry it out with the wind of God in your favor. — Krista Abbott, The Wind Is Shifting, May 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Krista Abbott" } ], "tags": [ "Prophetic Insight" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/the-market-is-speaking/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/the-market-is-speaking/", "title": "The Market Is Speaking. Here's What It's Saying.", "summary": "Last week was one of the biggest weeks of the year for the stock market. Between major earnings reports, the Federal Reserve weighing in on interest rates, and fresh economic data, there was a lot happening at once. The short version: the market liked what it heard.", "content_text": "Last week was one of the biggest weeks of the year for the stock market. Between major company earnings reports, the Federal Reserve weighing in on interest rates, and fresh data on the overall economy, there was a lot happening at once. The short version: the market liked what it heard. Stocks pushed to new record highs, erasing losses from earlier in the year. The companies that have reported earnings so far have largely come in stronger than expected, and the Fed struck a tone that felt more reassuring than alarming. Confidence is doing a lot of the heavy lifting right now, and the technical gauges I watch remain firmly in place. That said, when markets run this strong, a modest pullback is normal. Not a crisis. Just the market pausing before its next move. The key levels to watch are support at 7,058 on the S&P 500 and resistance around 7,300. Ramie and the team remain fully invested and steady. — Ramie Khalil, Fortress Financial Market Update, May 4, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/what-if-work-is-worship/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-2-god-ai-and-you/articles/what-if-work-is-worship/", "title": "What If Work…Is Worship?", "summary": "I'm going to say something that might start a war inside you. What if everything you were ever taught about work is wrong? Not slightly off. Not missing a nuance. Wrong at the root.", "content_text": "I'm going to say something that might start a war inside you...and may have a little \"Gangsta P\" attached to it. What if everything you were ever taught about work is wrong? Not slightly off. Not missing a nuance. Wrong at the root. Here's what happened on a recent Kingdom Seekers call.... Before I said anything, I asked my community to just be honest with me: \"Tell me what work actually means to you.\" The chat exploded. Pain. Struggle. A loss of freedom. Exhausting. Not fun. Just a paycheck. One member said work was the opposite of freedom. She'd been carrying that belief so long that she built a workaround. She stopped calling it work and started calling it \"play.\" It relieved the pressure, she said. Helped her write three books in a year. So I asked her two questions. Are you making the money you want to make? Are you helping the number of people you want to help? Her answers... No and No. For ten years...making work play, being productive...but not getting the result she wanted. Instead of going to God and asking what He actually believes about work, she built a new label on top of a broken belief. The reframe didn't fix the root. It just gave the lie a different name and made it \"fun\". Here's what no one ever told us: work as God designed it was never supposed to feel like pain. Before the fall, God commissioned Adam and Eve to work and tend the garden. Was it exhausting? A loss of freedom? Not fun? None of those things. Not one. That only showed up after the fall. That's the curse. And here's the good news you may never have fully received: we're no longer under the curse. Jesus took all of it on the cross. We got born again. We have the right to be called sons and daughters of God again...back in right relationship with God. Pre-fall....back to God's original design for work... So what is work, as God originally designed it? Work is worship. Work is holy. Work is righteous. It is an act of worship and service unto God. And since God doesn't need anything from you, the way you serve Him is by serving the people He loves. Every person you help, every problem you solve, every gift you bring...that's worship. Jesus said it plainly: \"I didn't come to be served. I came to serve.\" Then He said something you'll almost never hear preached: \"My Father is always working, and so am I.\" (John 5:17) Think about that. The most free person who ever walked this planet described himself as always working. Because when you work from your identity and from being settled in who God says you are...you don't work toward rest. You work from rest. The enemy runs a two-sided deception on this. On one side: you are your work...identity collapsed into hustle, until there's nothing left but the grind. On the other side: work is bad and should be avoided. The enemy doesn't care which one he gets you on. He just needs you on one of them. Because either way, you never discover the truth. The truth is: it is unthinkable to be a citizen of the Kingdom and not work. You don't have to change jobs. You just have to change what you believe about the hours you're already in. The real question isn't how to make work feel less like work. The real question is: What do I actually believe about work… and does God agree with it? — Pedro Adao, Kingdom Seekers, May 4, 2026", "date_published": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Principles" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/the-engine-runs-but-listen-for-the-knock/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/the-engine-runs-but-listen-for-the-knock/", "title": "The Engine Runs, But Listen for the Knock", "summary": "In the short term, the market is a voting machine — reactive, emotional, swayed by headlines. In the long term, it is a weighing machine — patient, fundamental, indifferent to noise. This past week was a lesson in exactly that.", "content_text": "There is an old saying that in the short term, the market is a voting machine…reactive, emotional, swayed by headlines. In the long term, it is a weighing machine…patient, fundamental, indifferent to noise. This past week was a lesson in exactly that. Against a backdrop of geopolitical tension and persistent inflation, the American market chose to weigh rather than vote. The S&P 500 finished the week higher, carried largely by a story of industrial renewal. Intel's resurgence reminding us that AI is not a single company's monopoly, but an ecosystem, and ecosystems need infrastructure at every layer. Yet beneath the constructive surface, quieter signals deserve attention. The consumer, still bruised by the cost of living, is spending more out of necessity than confidence. Sentiment surveys reflect that unease. And the bond market, rarely wrong about the direction of things, is gently repricing the expectation that higher rates may be with us longer than hoped. The week ahead carries real weight. The Federal Reserve's interest rate decision under Chair Powell on the 29th. A flood of earnings from the Mag-7 tech titans. Critical reports from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Berkshire Hathaway. And the ongoing Iran conflict as backdrop to all of it. The structure of this market remains sound. Whether the momentum holds will depend less on the headlines than on what the numbers, quietly, have to say. — Ramie Khalil, Fortress Financial", "date_published": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Ramie Khalil" } ], "tags": [ "From Ramie's Desk (Trading)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/the-order-youre-getting-wrong/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/the-order-youre-getting-wrong/", "title": "The Order You're Getting Wrong", "summary": "Most of us organize our lives like this: work hard enough (doing), accumulate enough (having), and eventually become the person you want to be (being). This is completely opposite to kingdom living — and it's the foundational error underneath every place you feel stuck.", "content_text": "Let me ask you something. What are you working on right now? Not spiritually. Practically. What are you doing right now to get to the thing you want to have or the place you want to be? Most of us, if we're honest, organize our lives like this: work hard enough (doing), accumulate enough (having), and eventually become the person you want to be (being). This is what we've been taught and modeled from birth, and yet it's completely opposite to kingdom living. And it's not a small mistake. It's the foundational error underneath every place you feel stuck. The Kingdom doesn't work that way. Kingdom life works best when we operate from a place of Being. Then Doing and Ultimately Having. Who you are becoming determines what you'll do. What you do shapes what you'll eventually have. Try to run that sequence in reverse, try to do your way into a new identity… and you'll be exhausted, while still feeling like something's off because something is off. A bird doesn't flap its wings and hope that makes it a bird someday. A bird is a bird. And being a bird is what makes flying natural. Here's the uncomfortable part… Being requires something most of us are afraid to give. It requires 100%. Because God doesn't talk to the version of you that has it together. He doesn't address the curated presentation. He only speaks to the real you. And the real question isn't what do I need to do differently? The real question is: What Do I Need To Believe Different? Who does God say I am...and How Can I Get Myself To Believe That?", "date_published": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Principles" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/what-michael-jackson-decided/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/what-michael-jackson-decided/", "title": "What Michael Jackson Decided That Most People Never Will", "summary": "A night at the movies turned into a two-day download. There's a line in the Michael Jackson biopic that hit me right in the chest — and I've been sitting with it ever since. Michael Jackson didn't stumble into greatness. He made a decision to go all in on exactly who God created him to be.", "content_text": "A night at the movies turned into a two-day download. And a question I can't stop asking myself. Okay, I have to tell you about my weekend. It was Suzette's birthday, so we did what she wanted…lunch, then the movies with the whole family. She picked the Michael Jackson biopic. I'm not gonna pretend I was out here the biggest MJ fan. But how do you not love Michael Jackson? The artistry, the performer, the sheer level of excellence he operated at. So we go… But then something happened in that theater that I didn't expect. There's a line in the movie. I'm not gonna spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet. But when he said it… I felt it. Like, boom. Right in the chest. I started thinking, what if I made that same decision? What would that change for me? And I've been sitting with it for a few days. I can't shake it. Michael Jackson didn't stumble into greatness. He made a decision… probably multiple decisions over many years…to go all in on exactly who God created him to be. He identified the gift, and he maximized it without apology. He didn't shrink. He didn't ask permission. He didn't spend his life managing other people's comfort levels about how big he was becoming. He decided to be fully, completely, unapologetically himself. Here's the Kingdom perspective most people miss on a story like this: God doesn't create average. He doesn't make people and go, \"eh, this one's just kind of a placeholder.\" Every person reading this was made with a specific gift, a specific voice, a specific assignment…that the world has never seen before and will never see again once you're gone. The world loses something every single day that you decide not to fully be who God created you to be. Think about what the world would have lost if Michael Jackson had played small. If he'd listened to everyone who told him he was too much, too weird, too intense. We'd have never had Thriller. The moonwalk… The soundtrack of a generation would have never existed…gone. Now let me ask you something. What's your Thriller? What is the thing that God put in you that only you can bring to the earth? The gift, the message, the unique assignment…the thing your family needs, the thing the world is waiting for? And the harder question: are you actually going all in on it? Or are you managing it down to a size that feels safe, acceptable, and unlikely to raise eyebrows? Because here's what I see all the time in the Kingdom. People who are incredibly gifted. People who have a real word, a real anointing, a real calling. And they have been taught, by religion, by fear, by bad theology…to decrease. To shrink. To play small in the name of humility. But that's not humility. That's false and it is fundamentally disobedience dressed up in vague spiritual language. Real humility is saying, \"God, you made me. You put this in me. I trust you enough to let it out.\" Real humility is maximizing the gift, not burying the talent in the ground and calling it wisdom. You can't expand the Kingdom by shrinking yourself. God chose to extend His Kingdom through you…and you can't do that on mute. So I'm asking you today…not as an assignment, but as a real question I want you to sit with and think about… What gift has God put in you that you've been managing down? And, what would it look like to go all in on that? Not for fame, not for money…but because that's actually what faithfulness looks like for you? MJ wasn't great because he chased greatness. He was great because he went all in on the specific thing God wired into him, and he kept going even when it cost him. Even when it was lonely. Even when people didn't understand him. That's the model. Not the fame. The full surrender to the gift. The world is still talking about Michael Jackson decades later because he made a decision most people never make. What happens when you make yours?", "date_published": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Perspective (Trends)" ] }, { "id": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/your-past-doesnt-define-your-financial-future/", "url": "https://kingdomfirst.com/issues/issue-1-the-order-youre-getting-wrong/articles/your-past-doesnt-define-your-financial-future/", "title": "Your Past Doesn't Define Your Financial Future", "summary": "The account isn't the problem. You've done what you were supposed to do — saved, been responsible, built the retirement account. And yet something is still frozen. Here's what I want you to see: that's not a financial problem. That's an identity problem wearing a financial costume.", "content_text": "The account isn't the problem. You've done what you were supposed to do. You saved. You were responsible. You have the retirement account, the 401k, the numbers that should make you feel secure. And yet something is still frozen. You hesitate before making a move. You second-guess every advisor. You sit with the account open and feel…nothing that resembles peace. Just a low-grade fear that won't name itself. Here's what I want you to see. That's not a financial problem. That's an identity problem wearing a financial costume. The enemy doesn't attack your portfolio. He attacks your identity. He takes the wound, the divorce, the financial betrayal, the parent who made you feel uncertain around money…and he uses those experiences to insert lies. The lie always starts with I am _____ and ends with something that keeps you small… I am not capable of handling this. I am the kind of person who makes wrong decisions. I am too old. I missed the window. These aren't financial assessments. These are identity lines. And as long as you're making financial decisions from inside those lines, the strategy doesn't matter. You'll keep pulling back from the very authority God has already given you. You cannot become a good steward by accident. Here is the question I want you to sit with this week…not about your investments, not about your advisor, not about the market, but about your wealth identity… Who am I becoming in the domain of wealth? Not what am I doing. Not what am I having. Who am I becoming? Because being informs doing. Always in that order. Never reversed. When you answer that question from your true identity and from who God says you are, not from the wound, not from the lie…then the decisions start to look different. The paralysis starts to break. You don't move recklessly. You move as someone who has been entrusted. That's a different kind of steward. That's who you really are, and who you're becoming. YOUR NEEDLE-MOVING ACTION Write down one financial decision you've been avoiding. Then ask yourself honestly: am I avoiding this because it's actually unwise, or because I'm still living out of an identity that doesn't belong to me anymore?", "date_published": "2026-04-30T12:00:00.000Z", "date_modified": "2026-06-16T18:59:04.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pedro Adao" } ], "tags": [ "Kingdom Wealth" ] } ] }