The Clearing Podcast - Where Eagles Fly

CONVERGENCE Every fresh Revival tide in history has reintroduced some forgotten insight of God’s word, some fresh aspect of the “manifold wisdom” of God that has been forgotten or ignored by Christians. This approaching Revival tide is no exception.  So: what’s the unique emphasis that God is stressing for us to re-learn just now? The […]

AN INVITATION What do people mean when they speak of “the power of God? “ Have you ever walked through a season when the power of God was on display? I believe we are going to have more and more displays of God's power in the next few years. Let's get ready! That's why I'm […]

How Slaves Were Freed This is my final video using the Second Great Awakening in England to demonstrate how prayer can lead to Revival which leads to Jesus distributing destinies which leads to the transformation of a whole society, which can lead to world transformation. Here I conclude the story of how England managed to […]

I'm interrupting my series about John Newton to give you some news about myself, a new book project that I am currently writing and my new relationship with George Otis, Jr. Always an adventure! —Doug

John Newton 3 This video continues my series tracing the track record of Holy Spirit movements as relates to the abolition of slavery. It presents the unsung hidden role of John Newton in abolishing slavery in England, through his mentoring relationship with William Wilberforce. There are many, many lessons we can gain about transformational Revival […]

In this continuing story of John Newton, I want to show you the contrast between “the Christian religion” and The Kingdom of God. Two different things. I show how God transitioned England out of a religion and into His transformational kingdom —and destined a few leaders to destroy a work of the devil (the slave […]

John Newton, the man who wrote “Amazing Grace,” led a most extraordinary life. Few people realize the key role he played in the abolition of slavery. This video offers the first half of his story in which I show that if any of us is to become a world changer, it is not because of […]

Jesus the Emancipator V This video, the fifth in a series, uncovers the part King Jesus has played in eradicating the institution of slavery in world history. Is it a mere coincidence that the two countries that fully and permanently abolished slavery were the same two countries that were enjoying a Revival tide leading to […]

In this video I compare the long and pathetic history of atheistic revolutions with the transformational track record of the Kingdom of God. Both of these options offer hope for the transformation of nations Both promise to become an avenue of freedom and Justice. But only one of these options has a positive track record […]

Jesus the Emancipator III In my writing, I try to present our Christian history as a readable story. But it is more than a story. It is fact. Stuff God did. History confirmed by historians. In this “Jesus the Emancipator” series, I convey the seldom-told history that shows Jesus Himself as the one responsible for […]

My mentor, back in 1983, explained how the Second Great Awakening produced the emancipation of slaves during the nineteenth century. Yet very few writers today seem aware of that, so I have devoted a good deal of Glory Through Time detailing how this happened. My goal is to show Jesus Himself at the center of […]

Jesus the Emancipator – 1 We fight demonic deception by telling the truth. One of the great deceptions of our time is this: “Christianity is the religion of slavery.” This lie comes from the tragedy of Christians buying and selling slaves in this country. However, at that time, the buying and selling of slaves was […]

The Power to Transform American Christianity has chosen to focus on two of the promises Jesus gave us: 1. Eternal salvation 2. Miracles and deliverance for individuals by the Holy Spirit But the Bible speaks of a third kind of promise: The transformation of nations. It is for this purpose that Jesus is coming back […]

IT’S BIGGER THAN YOU THINK Most of us know that Jesus came to save us for eternal life in heaven, so that we might live and not die. And that is the starting point for most of us in our understanding of the Gospel. And yet there is so much more to it, that you […]

WHAT ABOUT CESSATIONISM? During my research for Glory Through Time, Vol. Two, I ran into something that really surprised, even shocked me, because it was so unexpected. I discovered a powerful outpouring of a spirit of prophecy during the Scottish Reformation. I describe this in Volume Two, Chapters 1-10. I had been taught that the […]

Once again, I am inviting you not only to read my books, the Glory Through Time books; but I am inviting you to sign up for my class this fall, which begins next week on Monday the 11th, and ends the first week of December. My hope is that you will be intrigued about the […]

Greetings, Today I am announcing my entry into the world of Zooming professors. Beginning Sept. 11, 2023 I will become a professor in a new school just three years old, the River City School in Richmond, Virginia, an institute that encourages and trains Spirit-filled leaders. The founder of this school, Pastor Steve Stells is an […]

First Nations This month I am sharing with you, my friends around the world, how I became involved in praying for the First Nations of America across the continent. Many people (like Mike Bickle of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City) were called to pray toward the next Great Awakening beginning in 1983. […]

WHAT ARE REVIVALS GOOD FOR? In this video, I describe the value of transformational Revivals, a piece of our history that has been terribly neglected by most historians–and as a result, most Christians are unaware of the importance of the great outpourings of the Holy Spirit. And as a result most Christians have not prayed […]

The Sovereignty of God, Part II This video reinforces the theme of last month–that true Revival is an act of God bringing the Presence of the King to bear on the transformation of nations. It is not a church program, as the word “revival” is often used today. Let me announce, finally, the completion of […]

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD Exactly 40 years and eight days ago, my wife and I were called to begin praying daily toward the next Great Awakening. At the end of the forty years, we had a sense of “well done” from God. A week later, Revival broke out at Asbury University, and began spreading out […]

The Matrix (The Matrix) It was a mystery to me at first. As I researched the history of God’s mighty deeds, I found story after story from eyewitnesses and Revival historians going back centuries. And yet practically every one of these stories has been forgotten by the Christians of today. Hundreds of stories tossed casually […]

When Revival Doesn’t Happen We in the United States have a unique history. We live in the only country in the world that has enjoyed a steady stream of Revival tides from God during its entire history. The first of these was known as The Great Awakening because it was an outpouring of the Holy […]

PROPHETS OF OLD A major theme of my next book is that the kingdom of God advances by moves of the Spirit of God, not by worldly power. Most of us look back at the Protestant Reformation as a transition from “Catholic” doctrines and church government to “Protestant” doctrines and church government. But in my […]

Classroom of the Ages I just passed a milestone yesterday: I completed my second volume of Glory Through Time, the series that traces the movements of God’s power down through the ages. I have a sense of a major task completed, which I’ve been working on for years and years. All that’s left is to […]

Opposition! You would think that Christians would be in favor of Revival. After all, Revival tides are where King Jesus becomes wonderfully present, attracts large numbers of new Christians to Himself, writes His laws on many hearts—in short, He advances His kingdom during these seasons as at no other times. And yet, every Revival tide […]

The Presence of the King 👑 There is one feature of Revivals that makes them worth remembering and studying: During Revivals Jesus becomes present in a way that He is not present at other times. You could almost define a Revival as a season of the manifest Presence of the Lord. In this video I […]

RELIGION? OR KINGDOM? When I was a kid I had a very different idea of what Christianity is than I do now. It went like this: Long ago Jesus started the one true religion. Then He died, rose, and ascended to heaven, leaving us people to manage the religion He had started. This religion is […]

THE FIRST REVIVAL TIDE Looking at the big picture, God has been working with us Christians over the last 500 years, to wean us away from a Power-and-Might lifestyle, and teach us His By-My-Spirit ways. He started opening up this classroom in Scotland aeons ago, by introducing a whole new pattern that I call Revival […]

The Westward Flow of Revival Tides So…here's what it comes to: You can take the stories of all these Revival tides, you can sew them together, and you can tell them as a continuing narrative. That's my challenge this year and I hope to have completed it by year's end. And as you trace this […]

REVIVAL TIDES When you take the writings of the Revival historians and put them all together, you find that Revival movements have been a lot more frequent than most people realize. In reality, Revival movements have formed a kind of tidal pattern down through the centuries. The tide comes in; the tide goes out; then […]

Awakening #10 – The Importance of Revival Historians In this video I want to honor some unsung heroes. Most of you are not aware of these people. But God raised them up in my lifetime to do a certain work, and without their ministry, I could not write with confidence about the mighty deeds of […]

Awakening #9 – The Rebirth of Prophecy The basic theme of my Glory Through Time narrative is that, for the last 600 years, God has been drawing His people back to the life-in-the-Spirit, after 700 years during the Middle Ages, in which the Church opted for a Power-and-Might lifestyle. If that is true, then you […]

 Over the years, God has asked Carla and me to change our focus from “Church” to “Kingdom.” Finally He took us out of Church ministry entirely, so I could tell the narrative of His Kingdom, which has now become a two-volume story, Glory Through Time. This year, I am working on Volume Two, which […]

 Q: What's worth doing in life? A: Devote yourself to the Kingdom of God. What I have discovered in my research is this: The kingdom of God is a complete, divinely ordained strategy for the transformation of nations. It has a unique pattern taught and lived by Jesus. This king behaves differently than all […]

Awakening #7 – Where will Revival Happen? If there is going to be a major move of the Holy Spirit in the near future, where will it happen? In this teaching I answer that question with another intriguing question: Why did the American Great Awakening happen only in the Northern colonies and not in the […]

Power Sources – Awakening #6 Our country is unique, in that the founders of the United States of America had experienced the power of God in the Old Country, and they were familiar with how God works through the Holy Spirit.  They may not have possessed all the gifts of the Spirit that many do […]

The First Modern Awakening – Awakening #5 Just now, I am writing about the first modern Great Awakening, one that most of us have forgotten all about. It happened in Scotland during the latter part of the sixteenth century, and, through three waves of Revival, ended up transforming all of Scotland as a nation. This […]

Religion? Or Kingdom? – Awakening Series #4 The Bible doesn't lie. It presents a vision so radical, so superhuman, so straightforward, that it is hard to accept full strength. It's implications are earthshaking, if we have the courage to listen to this vision, surrender to it, and live by it. It will turn us into […]

The Power of Forgetfulness – Awakening #3 In this teaching, I tell the story of why I believe God asked me to be a storyteller for Him. It has to be distressing to Him that we humans, including Christians, have a propensity to forget His mighty deeds of the past, even though we have lavished […]

Researching the Presence – Awakening Series #2 Introducing my ministry: researching God’s presence, “times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.” through the last 2000 years. What can we learn from looking into these seasons of presence and power, even though they have been consistently forgotten by most Christians. In this second video in […]

 When the Last Apostle Died – Awakening Series #1 Up to now I've used my newsletter to send out stories of God's power as I have researched them out of centuries past. You can still hear these stories, my Glory Through Time teaching on my YouTube channel, my podcasting through iTunes or on my […]

What Do the Prophets Say? Part III in the series The Third Great Awakening Join me for a review of decades of prophecy about an end time great awakening. Recorded Live at The River Church Toano. January 23rd, 2021 Watch Video on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheClearingMedia Please subscribe to our TheClearingMedia YouTube channel if you […]

What Time Is It? Part II in the series The Third Great Awakening (Where are we in God's unfolding plan for the Kingdom of God?) Recorded Live at The River Church Toano. January 16th, 2021 Watch Video on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheClearingMedia Please subscribe to our TheClearingMedia YouTube channel if you like it. Thank you! […]

What is a Great Awakening? Part I in the series The Third Great Awakening Recorded Live at The River Church Toano. January 9th, 2021 Watch Video on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheClearingMedia Please subscribe to our TheClearingMedia YouTube channel if you like it. Thank you!

Vision Seven Most people think that the Book of Revelation prophesies the end of the world. In reality, it prophesies “a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness dwells” (2 Pet. 3:10). The Kingdom of God is “the renewal of all things,” when Yeshua will bring the whole earth in harmony with heaven. Yeshua […]

Jerusalem! When Jesus said to Pilate, “My Kingdom is not of this world,” He didn't mean that it was “in heaven.” He meant that it was not a “power and might kingdom,” like Rome. The prophets had all said that the King would return to the earth to rule from Jerusalem (Zion). These same prophets […]

Transformed Hearts Peter's second sermon is the most concise presentation of the timeline of the advance of the Kingdom of God on earth (Acts 3:19-21). In the present age we will experience “times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.” In the next, Jesus comes back “to restore all things.” These are two parts […]

The Second Advent. A look at I Thess. 4:16-18, which pictures five events closely associated with the return of Jesus. 1) A loud command or roar (announcing the Day of the Lord); 2) the voice of the archangel giving the command of judgment against those in rebellion against God; 3) the trumpet (shofar) call of […]

Vision Six. (Rev. 17-19) Subject: God's Judgment over the World System. In light of the inevitable destruction of the world system with all its sin industries, we should pay attention how we invest our time, carefully evaluating which works are destined to be “burned up.” The world system consists of a matrix of deceptive ideas […]

Vision Five. (Rev. 15, 16) Subject: God's Judgment over Sin. As in the time of the Exodus, God will provide refuge for His people as He judges the earth. He will keep His people in safe “Goshens” as He calls them to be a house of prayer for all nations. It is increasingly incumbent on […]