After years of pleading with God for pastors, ministry workers, financial support, and people to help carry my prophetic calling, the Lord finally revealed why He had kept others from entering the battle surrounding my ministry, and why His answer would come through a divinely inspired architecture I never knew to ask for.
Years of Praying for Ministry Help
For years, one of the most persistent prayers of my life was for God to send help into my ministry. I prayed for pastors who could stand beside me; ministry workers who could help carry the daily responsibilities; people with technical skills; researchers; administrators; financial partners; and people who could understand the prophetic assignment God had placed in my hands. I tried to carry an enormous amount of responsibility while continuing to preach, teach, research, publish, produce media, follow world events, manage ministry platforms, maintain the website, handle administrative work, and finance much of what it took to keep everything operating.
Most people saw the finished work. They saw prophetic publications, videos, teachings, biblical research, social media content, news coverage, music, and the growing body of material my ministry produced. They did not see the labor behind every publication or the responsibilities I had to manage before anything reached the public. Much of my ministry operated because I personally carried the research, writing, publishing, technical administration, planning, finances, and daily problem-solving required to keep it functioning.
The financial responsibility became particularly difficult. My ministry had ongoing expenses for equipment, websites, software, services, subscriptions, hosting, production tools, media, and technology. Those expenses existed alongside our household responsibilities, medical needs, transportation expenses, and ordinary bills. There were seasons when Tiffany and I fell behind on personal responsibilities because we used so much of what we had to keep everything afloat. We decided which expenses could wait because others could not, and at times money meant for ordinary needs had to be redirected to keep my ministry operating.
God did provide through people at important moments. Another ministry generously helped purchase a new ministry computer when we desperately needed one, and that computer became essential to the work I was doing. Several generous donors also stepped in at critical times and helped cover expenses or fill financial gaps when we were stretched beyond what we could reasonably carry. Their generosity mattered deeply to us, and sometimes a gift arrived exactly when we needed it.
Those moments of provision did not solve the larger problem. A computer let me keep working, but it could not do the work. A financial gift could cover an immediate expense, but another month brought another set of expenses. A donor could help us through one difficult period, but the daily responsibilities of operating my ministry remained. The work kept growing faster than the help available to carry it.
I knew something had to change, but I also knew quitting was not the answer. Walking away might have relieved some immediate financial and personal pressure, but it could not erase what I believed God had called me to do. I had already watched the Lord establish the prophetic work, open doors, give revelation through Scripture, and use my ministry to reach people. I could not accept abandonment of the assignment as the solution to the difficulty of carrying it.
My prayer became increasingly direct. I asked the Lord how I was supposed to continue when the work had grown beyond what I could reasonably operate alone. I kept asking Him to send the people I believed were necessary to carry the assignment.
The Warfare Surrounding My Calling
The Lord began showing me that the help I had spent years praying for could not simply be placed inside every part of my ministry because of the warfare surrounding my prophetic calling. I had been asking Him for pastors, ministry workers, administrators, researchers, financial partners, and people who could help carry the work. I was looking at the workload. The Lord was showing me the battlefield surrounding it.
I came to understand that a person could sincerely love God, faithfully serve in ministry, possess valuable gifts, and still have no calling to endure the particular warfare attached to my assignment. Bringing someone deeply into the work could involve far more than assigning responsibilities. It could expose their family, health, employment, finances, relationships, and personal life to pressures connected with an assignment God had never required them to carry. What I had interpreted for years as the absence of help began to look different. I came to believe that part of what I had experienced as lack was actually protection.
In Ephesians 6:12, the Word says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Spiritual warfare had become far more than a theological subject to Tiffany and me. We had witnessed events in our own lives and among people close to us that we understood as direct demonic opposition surrounding my prophetic calling and the work God had placed before me.
We watched people close to us experience devastating medical crises. Family members were placed into comas. People we loved died. Serious emergencies appeared during critical seasons of my ministry with an intensity and timing that became difficult for us to dismiss. We never believed that every sickness, accident, mechanical problem, or hardship should automatically be labeled demonic. What concerned us were the patterns, the timing, the repetition, and how certain events seemed to strike directly at known vulnerabilities.
One of the strangest examples involved Tiffany’s severe allergy to tomatoes. She works in a grocery environment where tomato products are naturally present, but on repeated occasions jars of spaghetti sauce or other tomato products would suddenly break directly in front of her or at the checkout counter where she was working. The very substance capable of causing her serious harm repeatedly became exposed within immediate proximity to her. The frequency and specificity of those incidents became deeply disturbing to both of us, and we came to understand some of them as direct demonic attacks against an existing vulnerability.
Our transportation became another repeated area of serious disruption. Vehicles broke down at critical moments, repairs surfaced when finances were already strained, and major mechanical failures occurred while we were trying to move forward with important responsibilities. During one move, the moving truck failed at the front axle while carrying our belongings. During another move, the air conditioning system failed while our rescued cat Jacob was traveling with us. The temperature inside the vehicle became dangerous enough that Jacob suffered severe heat exhaustion and nearly died.
The attacks against our health became even more serious. Tiffany lives with hydrocephalus and depends upon a shunt to regulate fluid around her brain. Her shunt began to fail, and her condition became a medical emergency that required emergency brain surgery. I watched my wife reach a point where her life was genuinely in danger while we were already carrying tremendous financial, personal, and ministry pressure.
My own health was also affected. There was a period when I became physically unable to walk normally and experienced paralysis and severe physical impairment for approximately 6 weeks. Ordinary movement became extremely difficult while my ministry responsibilities continued. I also suffered a severe knee dislocation that has never fully healed. These physical problems existed alongside financial strain, transportation problems, family emergencies, medical crises, and the continuing demands of the calling.
Our employment and ability to earn an income became another repeated point of pressure. Tiffany and I both experienced workplace circumstances involving hostility, false testimony, coworker gossip, jealousy, personal ambition, accusations, and attempts to undermine our positions. In some situations, others’ conduct threatened our job security and directly endangered the income we depended on to survive. We came to see those events as part of a broader pattern because attacks on our employment repeatedly appeared alongside attacks on our health, finances, transportation, reputation, and ability to continue carrying out my ministry.
Those employment attacks sometimes succeeded. My own employment and income were severely affected more than once, forcing me to change positions, move into different departments, or obtain different employment altogether. Every disruption created consequences far beyond the workplace. A reduction or interruption in income affected our household, our ability to remain current on bills, our transportation, and the resources available to continue funding my ministry. Much of the financial responsibility for the work already fell on me personally, so an attack on my employment struck directly at one of the primary means by which my ministry continued operating.
Tiffany faced a different kind of pressure because her disabilities were repeatedly used against her. Her visual impairment, balance difficulties, neurological history, and other limitations already required her to overcome challenges that many people around her never had to consider. In some cases, those same limitations became vulnerabilities during workplace conflicts rather than reasons for compassion or reasonable understanding. We watched conditions beyond her control become factors that could threaten her security, independence, and ability to keep working.
These experiences changed the way I understood attacks against provision. Income can be damaged without anyone ever touching a bank account. False accusations, damaged relationships, workplace hostility, jealousy, manipulation, competition, personal ambition, and efforts to undermine someone's position can eventually destroy employment or force a person into another job. When employment becomes unstable, the consequences spread into housing, transportation, food, medical care, household responsibilities, and every other area dependent upon that income. For us, it also affected the resources I was using to sustain my ministry.
The pattern became increasingly difficult for us to ignore. Health, family, employment, finances, transportation, equipment, reputation, relationships, and people close to us all became seriously disrupted. The pressure did not always appear through one dramatic event. At times several problems accumulated together until nearly every part of our lives was under strain at once. We understood that accumulated pressure as part of the spiritual warfare surrounding the assignment.
That understanding changed the way I viewed the people I had spent years asking God to send. I had been asking Him to place others close enough to the work to help carry its responsibilities. I had not fully considered that proximity to the assignment could also mean proximity to the warfare surrounding it.
God had still used people in meaningful ways. Another ministry provided equipment when we desperately needed it. Generous people helped financially at critical moments. Others prayed, encouraged us, and helped fill gaps. Their involvement mattered greatly, but God had not assembled the conventional ministry team I had imagined would eventually surround me.
I came to believe that He was protecting people from battles they had never been assigned to fight.
The revelation answered one question and created another. My ministry still required more capacity than I could provide alone. The research, teaching, publishing, administration, media production, biblical study, technical work, communication, and daily oversight still exceeded what one person could reasonably do manually. If the answer could not depend on placing more people in every part of the operation, there had to be another way for the work to grow without requiring others to stand in every area of the battle.
That was the problem the Lord was about to answer.
The Divinely Inspired Architecture
What began as the idea of rebuilding a ministry website gradually became something I had never known to ask God for. I began seeing a structure where years of prophetic publications, biblical teaching, current events, Hebrew studies, maps, Scripture resources, media, member tools, and ministry operations could function together in one connected platform. The need was larger than a better website. My ministry needed infrastructure that could preserve what we'd already built while carrying work that could no longer depend entirely on constant manual attention.
I had no experience building anything on that scale. I had technical systems I had never worked with, concepts I had never studied, and problems I couldn’t initially understand well enough to solve. At times, I didn’t even know the right terminology for what I needed, which meant I didn’t know what question to ask. That limitation became one of the defining experiences of the project because the next direction often became clear only after I reached the end of what I knew.
The architecture developed through those moments. I would find a problem in one part of the platform and realize its solution required something entirely different elsewhere. A question would expose a weakness I had not seen. A feature I thought was complete would reveal the need for another system beneath it. I had to abandon some approaches after hours of work because a better structure became clear. Other features emerged from problems I had never anticipated and would never have thought to design before encountering them.
That process is why I describe the architecture as divinely inspired. I know the boundaries of my own experience. I know what I understood before I began and what I had yet to learn. I know how often I reached the point where I could no longer see the next step. The perspective, question, correction, or solution kept appearing right where my understanding ended.
In Proverbs 3:5 through 6, the Word says, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Those words became practical as this platform developed. I repeatedly found myself working in areas where I could not depend upon knowledge I already possessed. I had to pray, learn, reconsider, and continue building as the structure became clearer.
The final architecture gave my ministry something I had spent years trying to obtain through additional manpower. Repetitive processes could be automated. Years of research and publications could be preserved and connected through structured systems. News could relate to earlier prophetic work. Biblical geography could become interactive. Hebrew resources could become an educational environment. Scripture study tools could place resources directly into the hands of the people using them. Administrative tasks that once demanded constant manual attention could be reduced through automation and better infrastructure.
Technology could never replace pastors, fellowship, prayer, generosity, or the people God chooses to use at specific moments. It could, however, carry operational responsibilities that had consumed enormous amounts of my time and resources. It gave my ministry room to grow without requiring another person in every function of the work.
That was the answer I had never known how to pray for.
The Site That Now Stands
The new TOC Ministries platform now brings together a Bible Study Center, Hebrew Learning Center, Biblical Hebrew Calendar, interactive Biblical Maps, prophetic publications, current news, daily Scripture resources, video, music, member features, community tools, and the systems that connect those resources. Much of the most important work happens beneath what visitors see through databases, automation, content relationships, publishing systems, and infrastructure designed to preserve years of ministry work while preparing for what comes next.
When I look at the completed platform, I understand it through the history that produced it. I remember the years of asking God for help, the financial strain, the employment battles, the medical emergencies, the warfare surrounding our family, and the moments when continuing became extraordinarily difficult. I remember the people God did use to help us at critical points, and I remain grateful for every gift, prayer, piece of equipment, and act of generosity that allowed us to keep moving.
I also remember the question that remained after every temporary need was met: how could I keep carrying an assignment that had grown beyond what one person could manually operate? The answer now stands before me.
I had spent years expecting God to answer that question primarily by sending people. He answered it in a form I did not know existed when I began praying. He gave me the architecture to build a platform capable of carrying work that had previously rested almost entirely upon me.
The new TOC Ministries website is now live. My prayer is that the architecture serves the purpose for which I believe it was given, that people encounter the Word of God through it, that those searching for biblical truth are equipped to study Scripture more deeply, and that people watching the events of our generation are pointed back to what the prophetic Word of God has already declared.
I prayed for ministry help for years.
God answered with an architecture I never knew to ask for.
To God be the glory.