Your Happy Hour - [Special Episode] The Stack Series ~ Celebrating the book: "Arise!" ft. Todd Zevotek

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

Welcome to The Stack Series! ✨ We’re spotlighting the books we love and can’t stop recommending on the Your Happy Hour podcast, now in a whole new series!The Stack Series features new books and emerging authors sharing their stories, inspirations, and journeys with us. In this special episode, we celebrate the launch of a new book into the world! “Arise!” written by, or rather channeled by Todd Zevotek - an author and spiritual healer who joined us to share his journey of becoming an author and the spiritual experiences that led to the creation of the book. It's more than just writing, it’s about answering a calling, embracing abundance, and inviting us all to live our Feels Life! Todd shares his profound spiritual encounters, visions and divine guidance and how he has been shaped by the ministry and healing practices that he does still today - alternative therapies involving the power of faith. We also covered the importance of surrendering to divine guidance, being a vessel for divine love and healing, and how his work transcends traditional beliefs and boundaries - to touch lives globally. Check out Todd’s work here: abundantlifepathways.com🎧 Stay tuned for stories that inspire, uplift, and spark your abundant life!The Stack Series is produced by swartkat.co - captured via riverside.fm & shared via rss.com.

Alrighty, a really welcome to all of you, all of you to all of you to all of you to, a really big welcome to all of you to all of you to. the feels podcast. These are our field sessions, very special episodes. And every week on the feels podcast, your happy hour, we have a segment called The Stack. And the Stack is all about your reading list. It's getting everyone reading out there. It's book recommendations. But today, I have a very special stack guest. And it's someone who is just long, his new book. A big welcome to the Fields Podcast, your happy hour to you, Todd. It's really, really special to have you here. It's good to meet you. Thank you, Nicole.

So tell me a little bit about this journey of becoming an author. You've had a crazy journey already, as it is, as a human. But tell me a little bit about, yeah, how did this all start? how did you end up publishing a rise into the world? Well, you know, first of all, you said I just released this. I released this many years ago. God showed me this in some of it in 1999, actually this moment. And so he told me to write it as a herald for all to see, but he has his time.

It's documented many years before. He showed me a vision where I was. I was prophesying to people through the TV, but the vision ended, the TV was a computer screen. And I said, wow, what is this? Is it like tell a vision, spiritual language? No, it wasn't symbolic. It was literal, but we didn't have the technology, you know, that we do now. So it's just so wonderful to be able to connect with you like this and to touch people through the new technology that we have.

But the way it all started was God called me from my sleep like he called the prophet Samuel. First Samuel chapter 3 in the Bible happened to me almost identically. Although I wasn't in Eli's house, I was in my aunt's house. So, yeah, it was quite a thunderous event. I could tell you nonstop for probably the next few days. But I'll let you form a little of your questions you wanted to ask. thank you for sharing that I think that the universe comes to us

in weird and wonderful ways and probably least when we expected you know and there's that kind of nudge inside to do something and so you followed that nudge and you got writing what was the process like

of writing this book how did it feel for you well it was a little more than a nudge I went to sleep and he called in a still small voice like the Bible talks about the Holy Spirit and I'm kind of snuggling up to this voice because it's so peaceful and beautiful and then I realized oh wow

it's just me here you know but I didn't respond and then the voice turned to a thunder that like shook the house and I was like oh wow okay my my natural mind is trying to figure this out you know I know it's god but my natural mind shifted back into gear and okay the house exploded next door you know that the neighbors left the gas on and the fire department's on the street but I got up and there's there's not a creature stirring not even a mouse and oh wow okay well I better not screw this up because this is God, you know, and so I went back to bed, and then he called again.

And my aunt had got up, and she's like three in the morning, you know, she's like, Todd, God spoke to the Prophet Samuel like this look. And so I read in the Bible how he told Samuel, you know, what was going to happen. And so when he called again, I did what Samuel did. I said, speak, Lord, fear servant is listening. And he says, and da-da-ashambara-da-as, and I go, whoa, what is this? He's speaking to me in tongues. I knew what this must be, but I had never really experienced it before.

But I thought my hair were standing up. And once I came back down the earth a little bit, he told me, behold, I'll do something in your days that you wouldn't believe if it were told you. Write these things as a herald for all to see. I was like, oh, wow, I can't mess this up. I mean, I'm going to get vaporizing, but I'm messing. and stuff, you know, and so I'm just trying to search for what I, what I, what I, what I, what I, what I, what I, he wants me to write. And well, then this became the book because I saw a prophet Habakkuk in the

Bible. God told him to write these things and make him plain on tablets. So, wow, this is what I'm supposed to do. So I've got a pen to my hand and I'm, all right, Lord, what do you want me to write? Nothing. What do you want me to write? Oh, no. I didn't hear it. I'm screwed. I didn't hear what he said. I'm in trouble, you know. Well, I tried to go back to sleep. I really couldn't. And the next morning, I was starting my internship as a massage therapist. And during my first treatment, I felt his presence again. And he guided my hands. He told me there was something wrong with this lady and kind of her roots at home. and he guided my hands and I just laid them down where he told me and I just felt the

harmony come into her and she was healed and then that that just started a cascade of events from there that the book really chronicles some of the things that actually happened now that he told me years ago but it documents all the events in my ministry I just I just started getting on the street, I mean, I read Mark 16 where the Bible says these signs of fathers who believe, you know, and my name will cast up the image. You know, Jesus basically said,

you know, get out there and do it. So I just started telling people about him. And if they had something wrong with them, I was kind of like a, well, behind the years kid, you know, I was so excited. It's like, oh, Jesus can heal that, and I would lay hands on him and he would.

And then other times he'd give me a word where, like, when I would speak the command, it would happen and say wow he's making me look real good and like I can't even go to the grocery store anymore you know people want me to pray for him so I kind of started to hide for a little while

and learned to be led by his voice rather than led by a sense of pressure that I had to do it and well so here we are today now he might just give me one word when I walk into a church meeting or I walk into a venue and then the rest comes as a stream. I really have to trust him

because I used to know the end from the beginning before I started. Now it might be one word like, come here a minute, you're going to be speaking. Oh, well, okay. Thanks, Lord. You got me again. I think it's really beautiful

that you've surrendered to the process, not just of being able to share kind of what comes to you because I think that's hard enough like as humans we are so controlling of who we are how the world sees us our environments and to let go and you know let that stream of consciousness and channeling kind of come through you is really something but then also to surrender to be able to write the book because it takes you know a lot of people don't get a product out like that, you know, and it takes really a lot of times. It's a lot of determination to do that. So how long did it take you to write this? And what was the process like? I kind of wrote it with

fear and trembling. Like I said, I knew this was God speaking. And that's kind of how he trains, well, he really does. He trains prophetic ministers on the waves, not in the boat. You know, this idea that we can go to school and learn this and start a church or something is why we see such weakness and not much supernatural fruit like is documented in the Bible. It's a process where you learn that he's got your back. You know, he caused you to do things you obviously can't do, you know, and I tell people, I just had someone ask me, well, so how do you refer to yourself? I don't want to, you know, I don't know how to call you. And I says, well, I says, really, I'm a delivery boy. I can't do any of this

and I know full well for a long time it felt like it was me until I began to walk into some situations where I was about as unprepared as I could possibly be and by God's grace he still did it because he didn't want someone's need to be affected by my weakness

effect if I believe it says as far as perfected in our weakness so I've learned to just rest in him and let him do it and help people not to see me like, ooh, the big guru or something. It's really Jesus. That's such an interesting topic that of rasting.

I think we spoke about this last time as well, but like learning to rest in the knowing is quite a, quite an interesting one. And I wanted to ask you a little bit about that, like the knowing. you mentioned last time like the knowing versus the knowing about what is that thank you thank you I didn't want to miss that thank you that's probably the essence of the revelation in the book as you know I got killed in a car accident in

1991 I'm not even supposed to be here you know and I though I grew up in church I didn't knowing. I knew about him. I knew the right things to say. I knew the routine we went through. My parents raised me right. I was a mischievous young guy, but, you know, I really tried to do what was right in God's eyes, even as clumpily as I did it. But when I was dying, I wasn't going the right way. And I'm thankful I at least knew enough to know who to call on when I was dying because this isn't supposed to happen. I was a Christian, right? Well, yeah, maybe a name only, but I really didn't know him, and I just knew about him. And so when I just called out,

and wow, I stopped falling into this darkness, and then he lifted me up, and of course the rest is in the story. But after being with him, I realized I can know him, not just know about him, and not like he's a distant principle. He's real, and he's as present here as he is in heaven. So after that, I kind of got back into my old life a little bit and God had to grab me by the back of the neck.

He does that a lot because I get going in my zeal. But I visited a different church fellowship where the pastor was really challenged by my ministry. He was kind of plain white potatoes and he really just had some theology. He didn't know like I'm talking about. on. So that was challenging. But the folks in his fellowship, they really sing to God from their heart. It wasn't like stale old hymns where la la, God is good. They're reading along in an old hymnal. They had the words on the screen, kind of like a video screen, so my hands were free to reach out to God. And when I was singing to him, I felt him. The Bible says that God inhabits the praises of

people. It's like, wow. Like, I inhabit my house. You're inhabiting me. This is awesome. This is why I can feel you like I felt you when I was in heaven. And so, like, as a schoolboy, they just fell in love with a new girlfriend, you know, I would rush home every night and just go in my room and close my door because I always wanted to be with him, you know, and I'd sing to him until his presence with calm. And that's about all I did for a long time because it's just next to nothing could compare to his presence. And I realized, wow, this is how I get kidding to feel you like I did when I was taken up. And well, then the miracles just started overflowing me after that. It was like that community and I began to really know him and I could feel him with

me. And it was kind of like, I don't know if you've ever done any ballroom dancing, but in martial arts, it's actually something that I was led to do because it really helps you sense the move of your opponent. Seems crazy a dancer and a fighter, right? But I began to feel God through that intimacy where I could sense where he was going or where I got off track. I think a lot of us experienced that. Like, we did something wrong and our conscience tells us we know it. But on the other hand, what about the good part of that? You know, we're feeling his joy and his excitement over what he's got prepared for us or what's right around the corner or what the other person's going through and how he wants to speak to that. And so that's how I practice

like learning the lead of my dance partner. And then every moment, every new adventure was like something I could do with him and have his perspective on it, which brought hope to a lot of people and it still does. That's really amazing. Gosh, you've really walked an incredible journey, Todd. I've recently started kind of tapping into more of meditation, as most people would call it, but just sitting with yourself, being able to kind of connect with your higher self and, yeah, being in that presence. I think what you mentioning makes me think a lot about human performance versus

like spiritual presence, you know, and it's such an interesting thing, being able to let that energy flow. I know that's something that you talk about the ministry and we spoke about manifestation a little bit last time, but how does that work for you? What is ministry to you? Because a lot of people kind of look at that and it's like a religious concept down there, you know, but what is that for you? Yeah. Well, very simply, it's following him. You know, Jesus said when the multitudes were following him, he said, I tell you the truth, the son do nothing of himself but only what he sees the father doing and the father loves the son so he shows him what he's doing so the son can join him in like manner that's really a holy reverent thing in

like manner i don't ever want to say anything he didn't say i don't ever want to do it in a way that he did because then i'm out on the plank and oh no i'm like out on stage and nothing's happening because i didn't follow what he wanted you again i'm a delivery boy so i I have to be sensitive to how he wants to say it. And he actually said me once, he says, Todd, I didn't say, I didn't say that. Oh, yeah, right. You said it like this, and I thought, okay, well, yeah, this is kind of the idea. Well, it wasn't the idea.

The specific word for this person was really significant. And so you can't kind of put your own spin out of it. You know, it's coming through my spirit, not through like a psychic connection of my higher self. It's a hard wire thing through my heart, and I got to reverently follow that. I was in a church fellowship at the beach here in Florida. I say here, because I know this publisher is in that region. But the church started laughing, started giggling, okay,

as I'm prophesying to this pastor. And he starts crying, you know, and he's trying to hold back the tears. And he says, Todd, there's no way you could. have known that he says they're giggling because they know i've been praying for this for a very long time and well god showed me that it's you you don't need to pray for it you already got it you know and i said no they're giggling because they know you already are this and you can't see it in yourself you know it was just really beautiful but the words that i used were actually words that he asked god in prayer

that no one he said there's no way you could have known that and uh it it wasn't like relayed through a channel psychic information, only him and God had ever heard it. And it was very, very healing to him and encouraging. So I handle that stuff very, I'm kind of too intense. God had to get me in some situations where I was totally off my game and not fasting and praying. You know, I was like, I walked out of situations from overseas where I was exhausted. I didn't want to even see anybody i just want to go to a little cafe and hide you know get a cup of coffee so i could get ready for my day and while i walk in another ministry encounter um i walk in and i see her and i don't want to see her i mean this woman is really messed up and i can hardly stand up you know i i'm kind

of being selfish because all i can think about is a cup of coffee you know all the people waiting for me i'm not ready for a plague got delayed and one thing turned into another worse but I couldn't ignore her because I felt God's love for her and so the next thing I know I just say she's making me coffee I says you're really hurting aren't she?

And she's kind of like wow somebody cares you know and next thing I know my hands laying on the side of the head and I said in the name of Jesus I command this pain to be gone a headache be gone then the flow started

and God spoke some things about her life and she's just stunned staring at me. It's like, no mazol or no pain in Spanish, no more pain. And I just smile at her. I said, Jesus wants you to know he loves you, you know. And that turned into a prayer for God to take the cares off her shoulders that she was living under and all the worries. And it was just really beautiful.

I didn't want to do that little. alone you'll be able to in that moment. But when you see that again and again and again, you realize if I can just obey and let him do it through me, not only someone else change, but I'm charged for like the next week. So it's hard for me to contain it. You opened a bottle of, like, of new wine here,

and I'm bursting just trying to keep with your questions. But, yeah, I want to make time for your reaction. I just love the reaction your heart and in your beautiful smile. It's just neat to be able to share this with you. It's so special. Thank you for sharing all these stories and, yeah, just life experiences. You know, I think we forget that life is magical and that there is really just this divine power that's out there.

And I often speak about this on the podcast that we forget how divinely powerful we are. you know for me we these spirits having a human experience and we get so like bogged down by the human experience you know but it can be so light and beautiful and i love that you embracing that and i i wanted to kind of touch on that aspect a little bit because your work that you do is so much further than just being a writer now but an author but also in the ministry you like you said you you work with people in terms of alternative therapies, and your website is called Abundant Pathways. Fundate Life Pathways, yes. Funded Life Pathways.

And to me, that's such a beautiful kind of slogan for life. But I'm curious to you, what is abundance? Like, what does that look like? And what is it that you kind of help people with through that just to let the audience know a little bit? Yeah. Jesus said I come that they might have life and you might have life more abundantly

it's not about the stuff my clinic is in a very wealthy place and it was really hard for me because we're blessed here we kind of got everything except for the most important

thing I don't see his presence, you know, in so many of the churches and the religious circles, it's kind of like everyone's a Christian, but no one's a Christian. I mean, they have the knowledge in their culture, but not the knowing that I want to share. And so trying to tell people that trying to give them something they think they already have is pretty challenging, you know, because I think they got it, you know, but it's like,

wait a minute, we're not seeing these results, you know, and I thought, Lord, well, what happened when I came here? You know, it's like a lot of this stopped. But then I saw two really great miracles here that were just awesome. Actually, people came from out of the area. Here, I have people fly in from Florida for me to care for them, you don't fly back, so it's ours, you know, flight, you know, so I'm not limited to just here. And now by the, by the video, I'm, I saw a guy take a tumor off a guy's neck in New York here a couple years ago through the screen. I just commanded it, you know, so, so though I'm still doing, well, everything is ministry that I do. I realize when I follow his voice, and I belittled the clinic for so long, but this was God's tool for reaching this community.

I mean, people come again and again with problems that natural and alternative. medicine can't even fix, you know, and I see it fixed. So I had to really relax in that because I just felt more like I made a wrong turn, you know. Jesus, I asked him, you know, and he said, Todd, this happened to me. He said, it's not all about your faith. You remember the scripture where he could do a few miracles there because of their unbelief. I said, right, yeah, well, if it happened to you, why should not be frustrated it happens to me? You know, I get it. You know, but then I had a lady come from Charlotte, actually, a neighboring city. She said, Todd, I don't want to be presumptuous about your ministry, she said, but

I don't want you to treat me. I want you to lay hands on me. Of course, everybody would love that. Just poof, you know, they don't need to pay for treatment or nothing. Well, I go out of business real quick. My accountant told me about that. She says, Todd, you're getting too good at this. People are getting healed too fast. I said, I can't do what you're suggesting. I just take care of and they'll tell their friends. and now I've got, I'm busy than one on paper hanger, you know, I got to think about not taking, you know, maybe some new people for a while. But this lady came and so for the first time in many years, I finally saw someone faith to receive it. She said, would you the hands on me? She said that the orthopedic found a cyst on my spine and degeneration, and that's why the pain

came back when you treated me. It was gone immediately, but it came back. And he said, he said, said it's because there's a cyst growing there and I said well of course it's entrapping the nerve you know we got to get rid of that sucker and she says no but she said I'm being sent to a neurological surgeon a neurosurgeon to remove this and I know about your ministry I want him to find no cyst would you lay hands on me and I said well this guy's going to dog if you wants a steak of course I would you know I can feel the holy spirit was ready to go you know All right. Well, so I don't want to launch him in this. I want to follow his voice. And so I began to take authority over the cysts. I just laid my hand in our command to be gone in Jesus' name.

And then the Holy Spirit just took over, and he led me to speak to some things. I didn't know where they are. We didn't even know where there. Of course, the x-ray showed up, but I hadn't seen any of that or the MRIs. And God showed me that it's a lot worse than she thinks. It's not just a cyst, but her spine is deteriorated. And that's not a healing. That's a healing. a creative miracle that needs to happen. So she came back to couple. I knew what happened because I felt the power hitter, you know, and I've gotten pretty acquainted with that.

When I know the Holy Spirit really shows up, it's not just an energy thing. And her pain was gone, of course. And she came back. She says, Todd, she goes, you should have seen it. She goes, the neurologist says, wow, man, I don't know why the orthopedist sent you here. there's no cyst and he said you're spying the degeneration isn't even i don't understand this and she says well that's what i told him that you know you laid hands of me and jesus healed me he didn't know what to do with it but he said obviously because i got the old scans and the new

scans is not there and so i just follow his voice and let him do it although i have i have Christians come again and again telling me, Todd, you know, this is a ministry, just your clinic's work as a ministry. We get results that no other doctor's been able to get from your treatments and you need to stop belittling this because it's very powerful just what you do in the clinic. There's a point in my book where God speaks to that too. I'm going to give it to you the best as it came to me. How much different would our world be if every doctor, if every mechanic, if every surgeon was immersed in the presence of God before they went to work under your hood?

You know, we have to realize that God can empower all of our jobs. Like, I got a person on a woman at the post office recently, A little, I think I'll over a bit of it. She always started crying. I'm attending at the mail counter, you know. Seems like pretty simple everyday stuff, you know, but she's precious. She just, I watch people that come in that are anxious about their package while I'm standing in line to mail medicines or things. And she's just so sweet.

The love she gives people and making sure she knows that the thing's going to get there, their precious cargo is going to get there, okay, you know. And just God wanted to tell her that she's doing a beautiful ministry right there, you know, with her presence and his love and her heart. She just attends for people with their mail, you know. So I had to accept that, yeah, this is pretty special what I do, even though it's not like calling down miracles all the time. It's extremely special, Todd. And I think it's, like you said, it's a testament to the fact that, and I think we spoke about this a little bit last time. too that you know we all have that ability to to be this divine but you've you've allowed yourself

that space to do that and what I really find interesting is how you've also kind of incorporated different worlds because it must be really interesting to be in the medical field but I know you've also traveled and brought in kind of like western and eastern modalities altogether and you mentioned to me last time that because you found him there, you found him in those modalities, and I love that. And I want to know a little bit more about that and what it's like to kind of merge these worlds between science and spirituality, people separate those two. Maybe they're not different, you know, but what is that for you?

I mean, it's such a merging of worlds coming together in one holistic thing. for me it seemed like it had to be a distraction from the devil I mean I'm a man of God right I mean I could just I could just take authority over this this is stupid Jesus you don't need medicine this is ridiculous I mean just give me the word you don't know what I'll speak it

well for people that got faith to receive it yeah but ones that don't he doesn't want to leave him hang I got people coming in here that would never go to a church because they were hurt by religious people but God

will speak to him and they'll do stuff I had a lady jump up and kiss me it was really because her pain she's just she has been under this pain

for years and every doctor specialist on her on the country you know and they're just trying to help her realize she's got to live

with it you know and I put a couple needles in her hand and the problem in her sciatic is gone You know, or I had a MD column, he says, Todd, you know, my patient said, all he did was stick needles in their ankle.

I says, yeah, the carpal tunnel's gone. He said, yeah, but you did something else. I said, no, I didn't. He said, you know, there's no nerve there. I said, no, you know, there's no nerve there. I know there's some proprioceptive reflexes, you know, that they got to show me how to use that the patient wasn't lying to you. I did exactly what they told you. You just can't figure that out.

He's like, wow. He said, yeah, Todd, it's really. gone, you know. We needed to do surgery to release that nerve, but it's gone. I said, right. I said, I just follow him, you know, so whether I follow him in my clinic or I follow him on the street,

I'm still being led by his voice. I see I don't know. You asked me, and the publisher wants me to answer this question, are there any things that were hard for you to

to write? Yeah, plenty, especially when I know the people that I want to invite me to minister are going to be really mad about me exposing them, you know, or things that I know they just can't believe. I had a local pastor here. He said to me, he says, wow, Todd, some people might not be able to believe that. It says, well, you don't believe it either, but I can prove I was here and then I was there, you know, and there's documented what I was that had to have happened.

you know and uh that stuff we ought to have faith it's even in his bible that he preaches i mean i've experienced most of what the prophets in the bible experienced and uh all i can do was share god told me to share and trust him with the details you know um but i see like these little spotlights on people sometimes you know in the clinic and as i trained interns in the past I learned to stop saying that because I was the only one in the room that could see it I didn't realize that until a couple of them really started to think I was nuts

you know but I had one one young man he's going to be great he was really sensitive he could sense when it was happening even though he couldn't see what I'd see so I just kind of my whole life is about following him like I said it's like having a new girlfriend

I always want to be with her you know I always want to be sensitive to his voice presence so I kind of didn't live on earth for a long time coming coming here and being having my clinic ministry I thought was going to be a stop on the map for a couple years but I've been here 23 years now and it's kind of more like my mainstay and I just go where I'm sent you know for what God wants to do special but so many people would tell me that what I do here is very special so I just have to follow his voice and I just obey and sometimes I can explain what happened medically. And sometimes I can only explain that because they obeyed, God

just did it supernaturally. Ah, one of God's Old Testament names El Shaddai. It means the God who is not limited by natural law. That's why I so boldly share these things that aren't naturally possible. because just out of obedience, he does it. It makes my job a lot easier. It makes me look really good, but I got to constantly remind people it's him. It's him. It's not me.

I don't want to feel like I'm a performer on stage because I can't do this. And what do you feel? I mean, you treat a lot of people and there's obviously things that we do to get to a point where we need to be treated. you know there's energy that's built up the things that go wrong in our bodies and i i believe that things are psychosomatic from from my own experience i really feel i haven't seen a doctor in many

years only because i learned how to practice self-acceptance and self-love and it's been a journey but i i feel like there's this energy bubble around us like you experience way to kind of put your hands, what happens to us that this energy gets stuck and that we kind of need things to be treated? Is that something that's kind of come clear to you or that's been kind of said to you in some way? Well, I understand all of that, although I don't do energy work per se. I know how to use it. I know how to work with it. This is God literally doing it through me, kind of like he's taking my

hands, like, that's kind of crude, but I think of like the clean room. My dad was an engineer and groomed me that way, so I know all that science, but then I departed it because my heart was really, you know, in healing. But I think of like reaching through the glove into a clean room

and it's like you're doing stuff in that room, but really it's your hands from outside of it's doing it through me um he doesn't even need my hands i just need to speak it again the man that was the cancer slump came off um his neck when i i just spoke it i just commanded to go so the the energy part is there just like there's energy with magnets um when you have opposite poles you have a field okay and so i know according to physics i know how to use that It's a glorious thing that the Chinese figured it out.

It is so interesting, I'm talking to a French girl today because the rascal that mistranslated this Meridian thing was a Frenchman, Morant, Solé dee, Morant. Yeah. And he actually said in his second book, I just used the word meridian because I couldn't think of a better word. But actually, the true translation is Vessel. So I tell my MDs and the osteopaths, this is great because they kind of bridge a little bit of both sides like I do.

I've studied with all of them. I've studied both sides of the defense and I can explain it both ways. But what we call Meridian, although we can use that to maybe identify a magnetic line of flux or a zone or an active space of resonance, it's really reverberating from a nerve or a blood vessel. And so these terms are true, they give us, they're not accurate,

you know, but they have some truth to them, you know, so you can have some effect using either theory, either philosophy. But with me, it's, so much far beyond that, it's just letting God do it, resting in him. I know how to influence that energy, but I really, more often than not, I just step back, and I let God do it because he sees things that we don't even know are there. And now you talk about energy, you know, and learn self-love and things like this. Well, that helps to relax you because you're not

all tense about what you're not accepting. But if that helps you cause you up to bad habits that are really robbing me from God, oh, I just love myself, that's okay, gosh, I had one lady. She's 300 pounds overweight, and she's doing this self-love thing. I'm like, oh, for goodness sake, I said, honey, you don't need to be a Dunkin' Donuts. You know, you really need to change this. You know, and her dog, oh, my gosh, the dog's about two steps wearing from a heart attack because she loves him so much she's giving him everything he wants you know that's not love you

know that's an addiction um so for a while that that self-love that helps you relax with that releases tension from your body but it really kind of tells you that you're all right in your your sin or in in a low-low way of living where you can surrender that to jesus is like proof it just goes and then you see yourself the way he sees you and you don't got to manage this anymore. It's just not there. He transcends all of that. And that life, he started.

When you see in Genesis where God made the man out of clay, so to speak, and then breathe into him the breath of life, the Chinese called that chi, and it's kind of, it's true. but they also identify chi of plants, chi of animals that are different. We're not all the same. And that's an important thing to understand too, although the holistic living and some of the fruits

of seeing that life in nature or that life in our bodies gave birth to all of the, even some of the new age stuff that kind of can get unclean, because we think we're, I just had a lady come in, a big guru, and she's talking, wow, you get the revelation directly, you know, in other words, she gets it from her angels, but sometimes angels are coming as shining lights, they're not really angels, you know, so that's not all clean. So I don't think it has to be contradictory, but if you don't have the revelation,

the one who created it all, sometimes you can really get off track. Yeah, it's so interesting. cocaine is his truth right but cocaine's not really working for him when you see that gosh he's sold his whole family is all their you know their basic needs to keep up with his loving himself so i really didn't deep i know and and they maybe start some nerves but yeah there's so much greater out there for us um to know god loves you just the way that you you are but he loves you too much to leave you that way is a power powerful enabler to surrender to him.

Yeah, he's not up there. It's so interesting to me because beyond the step of kind of self-love and acceptance that I went through, I had to learn discipline, accountability, surrender, all those things after that. And it's exactly what you're talking about now is that you actually can't step into a place of peace and, you know, kind of not even the pursuit of peace, but just feel like. just being like you say resting if you don't go through those things because it's so easy to fall into the space of what people talk about these days like you know just love yourself and all of that so i think it's really important that you mentioned that and it's we have to take

accountability for being human and on this earth and it's so so important a part of the journey so I'm curious how your book has changed your daily life, or has it just been kind of a continuation of it for you? Or has it changed something for you and how you live your life on a daily basis? Yeah, for a while, I couldn't even go in the grocery store, you know, without people want me to pray for them, you know? So that was kind of challenging. and then not having some quiet family time. God really needed to move me a few times, you know, so I could get that, get away from the paparazzi, so speak.

I don't ever want to do that. I want to be there for them, but I can't do it. You know, and so there's a saying in pastoral circles, there's a difference between one who was sent and one who went. I charge off in a lot of going because I saw stuff, and God didn't send me, so he wasn't backing me up, you know. And so I don't ever want people pushing on me like a lever that they're going to get the prize that comes out, you know, because I'm the man of God. Well, I'm just a delivery boy. And so I hesitate to share that sometimes until God speaks.

And then it's like we're in a different realm when he speaks, and then the space is created. so I think in that way it's caused me to be a little more reserved but on other hand like you can see I can't contain it I can't and and people come in it's funny they're sitting across from me while I'm diagnosing them and and I can tell when I've done it again because their eyes get real big and I had a patient who I've treated for years now so she's experienced this a lot she says hey that's me I said oh sorry I said I didn't know that that story Jesus was speaking right now because I hadn't you know slept last night or whatever

you know I was really off my game so I've been a little more metered in how I share when I share sometimes but sometimes he just pulls those blinders those you know guide rails off and I'm exploding on people that I know I don't want to hear it you know but but then after there's usually a real piece that comes over them and they're just kind of left thinking I had a lady call me just out the blue she says Todd I just read your book awesome it's just awesome I felt like someone was sitting with me when I was reading I says yeah I know who that is you know and the other thing is she says I used to change your diapers for God's sakes I'm not sure I'm all right with this and it was a lady that as a kid

really actually kind of took care of me in the neighborhood and they didn't, I wouldn't, they went to kind of what some people would call it church but it really wasn't kosher so to speak and it was just some religious routine to help people feel more comfortable that they were

doing good things so God would accept them and so it was really powerful to me that God touched her like that and now she really knows the difference and do you remember the last time we spoke God gave me the vision of the machete Yes I remember

Giving it to me right now So I want to share it Please do I don't think this is in the book But At one part along my journey As I was healing I got into martial arts

Because it was so much better for coordination than the bodybuilding weight training I used to do. You know, I kind of, I was conquering the world, you know, in the flesh, so I thought until it killed me, you know. So this seemed really silly, this yield and overcome idea. I was kind of the one, I grew squat and take over things, you know, as a fighter. And, well, the kung fu wasn't that way. It's more like yield and overcome.

You just kind of move and get out of the way. And this one guy, he's a triple gold crown champion from Ireland. He wanted to dance with me, and I thought, okay, surely he can't hit me if he's only going to use his feet, you know, but he hit me before I even saw him move, and he would just yield and move out of the way and then hit me as I went by, you know, and so I thought, this is pretty neat stuff, and the coordination can really help me with some of the injuries I had, and there was, this is here again, the dance partner thing, you know, so I, um, I was involved. that for a while and he wanted me to know something because he recognized my spirit immediately. He says, Todd, he said this is not like the typical

Kung Fu school where you kind of gain power by coming under the master the guru. I said, yeah, I can't have any part of that. You know, I'm under Jesus. I don't want to deal with some little hireling, you know, that really doesn't have the power that I know is there.

I mean, there's no question who's the man. You know, when you're in heaven, And there's no even inkling of a moment to think, oh, is this the Buddha? Is this some entity? Is this, no, this is the man. And everything in all creation knows it when you have that consciousness. It's kind of like Isaiah said, what was me? I'm screwed.

You know, this is going to vaporize me until he turned to me and he said it's okay. And his love just, oh, it just totally took me in an ecstasy. You know, and I just totally relaxed. So he said, I want you to see our dojo, it would be our Arguan in Chinese. There's typically a big picture of the master because he's the ones that's worshipped in this belief that as you reverence him, you're going to get his power. But if I could clean that up, what it really is as you respect him, you're going to learn from him and get his ability. But that's turned into a new agey thing that's really not true. But when I walked into their Gwon, the master was Jesus.

And under him was the lineage of the Kung Fu masters. And it was just really precious. There was a whole different spirit about that whole school. So this is how the machete came about. He, the senior instructor was really a beautiful Christian brother. And he told me how it empowers his, his fighting. and the sense he can get about an opponent before they're going to strike, you know, and he just isn't there, he moves, and he's really, it's devastating.

It looks like so gentle of a dance, but kind of like watching Stephen Seagall, and then he just turns it on you, you know. But he came back from this flea market that he had encountered, you know, while he was traveling with this machete. and the weapons master said oh wow tim it kind of looked like something from the carnival you know it kind of had a valour case um in it and there was these emeralds and and you know like play stones you know like a kid would have from disney world getting something and the weapons master said well I'm going to clean it up you know because it was all tarnished and he says oh Tim

he said how much did you pay for this is he eight dollars you know it's a carnival thing he says 10 he said this is real silver he says this blade this is this is real metals he says this gold and this he said and these rubies are real

these are not plastic in this case and this emerald is a real emerald wow what we count is trash you know, God sees as another man's treasure just when he cleans it up. I said, the Bible would say a lot. Just think about that. Imagine that.

And the Lord reminded me of a scripture verse when he spoke to the apostle, Peter. He was showing him the sheet coming down from heaven with food in it. Well, Peter, he's not got any food, you know, and he's going to starve. And God is providing him food through animals that aren't clean for a Jew to eat. and God said to him, you know, don't call unclean what God has cleansed, what God has, you know, made holy. That really prepared me to minister to some people that, like I said, weren't culture, so to speak, like this lady. And God has revealed his love through this book that touches people while they're reading so that they turn to him and that they're not, hindered by where they've been

or you know what they've done I was definitely not a quieter boy I mean I was changing faster cars faster girls and more money till it killed me I just thanked I knew who to call on when I was dying but imagine that we were far more valuable than all that

the jewels in that machete case and he is ready to forgive us the moment that we just ask and his blood is the ultimate she you know that that overcomes all of our lack and all of our weakness and I that's helped me relax a lot

because I don't got to do it I I get the privilege of filling his love for people that I'm going to minister to you and I don't have to perform because I know if they're just willing to receive it his power is going to be perfected to my weakness and he's just going to overrule all my goofups I can tell you story and you'll see them documented in the book

of things where I walked into things where I really wasn't the choir boy and God did it although I have a real intensity about me that I know a prophet named John Paul Jackson. I remember when he met me, he went to give me a hug and he just stepped back. He says, wow, the zeal this man has for your kingdom. And then he just fell on my next to pray, and Lord, don't let him kill him because he's really ruffling photos. And, you know, he's just

walking in his zeal. I just do that. I was so intense. I was like a heat sensing missile. I want to be on. I mean, I'm fasting all the time until I really didn't have skin on my bones because I want to be totally available to Christ to use me. but at times it started getting in the way that's wonderful for preparation but there's a point where that's good but we also have to relax

into the human part of it where just let God be God and through our desire that he already knows to please him that he's just power of perfected in our weakness it's I warned you I'm kind of like a shaking-up Coke bottle

and you're not that's great It's great. I love it. I love it. And I, you know, I'm reminded a lot of what you're saying. I've learned through my dog. And I know it sounds like a weird comparison. But to me, she's unconditional love in a little furry being, you know. And she's taught me how to look at people, not judge. She loves everyone. Doesn't matter who they are, what they look like. And she receives love very openly. And so, well, I'm getting emotional. But it's that to me. You know, what you're saying is, is being that vessel, being open to giving and receiving. It's not that we have to change ourselves. It's not that we have to be anything other than what we are, that we came here to be in a way. And I sense that that's the message of your book, you know, kind of, I'm curious that the title is called Arise.

Where did that come from? what do you feel people should take from it yeah god told me this morning uh the answer to one of the questions that he showed me you were going to ask like that so i want to share that um i know it's part of another question that that the publisher wants to deal with but um it's actually our end of day's prophecy from the bible actually contains this um god told me that the new wine that's coming, the old wine skin can't even begin to hold it. It's going to burst that old wine skin of an audience and a preacher. It's going to overflow it to a degree that it's unstoppable. And ministries can begin to embrace it and allow room for all of his

children, the minister, or just be overcome by the current of this flood that's coming, you know. The church is going to rise. The church was never a building in a steeple. An Old Testament times before Christ came to reveal themselves and the church was birthed. There was just the teachers of the religious law, but when Christ came, it changed all of that. And, then you began to see that his followers met house to house you know and and if they they met in a um in like a a hall or a meeting center or even a you know a synagogue it it was every member functioning it was kind of like a barbecue i got a cute guy in my book i call pastor joe he's a redneck pastor from louisiana i love him um and god did so much in his meetings when i would

minister there amongst everybody. I have kids that aren't even old enough to read bringing messages in my meetings. And so there needs to be room like that space again. The Bible says, how is it when you come together that one has a Psalm, one has a hymn, one has a prophecy, one has a prayer, let all be done in order that all may be edified. You know, so this new anointing and it's not new it's just a new awakening to what's been flowing within us as we follow the Holy Spirit

to give what God wants to produce, okay, abundant life pathways, the abundant life thrown through the vine where the vine and he's the branches, when we yield to that flow, the fruit we're supposed to be shows up on the branches, whether it's a grape or a pear, and

we're pretty deficient if we're only eating apples all the time, you know? God has a whole orchard of beautiful fruits. And when we're just an audience and a preacher, only one person is allowed to speak, when you get robbed of all of that, you know? I want to share one story with you where I want to tell you about Cajun Joe. I just got too much to share, so thanks for allowing more time.

You said you wanted to do that. But I think even better, I had a ministry I was I was leading in New York, not in your neighbor or your broadcast or upstate and I typically just lead people into God's presence and then follow him because I don't want to try and do something out of a sense of religious duty or some prescripted thing because then that's what man's idea of it, not what God wants to do necessarily, you know, so at any moment, moment, even if I had something planned or something, I thought God wanted me to teach, I healed,

because every time I've healed, I've seen a miracle. And the times I didn't haunted me forever. I think I told you about the lady on the roadside. I didn't stop for it because I had to be at a meeting to minister, and I thought I'd come back and minister to her, but she wasn't there when I came back and it haunted me. Did she commit suicide? You know, what happened? I'll never passing again. So I was bringing people into God's presence and they had really picked up the ammo just from me modeling it. It's quite a glorious testament to God's presence because I had I had Baptist, Methodist, Lutherans, Pentecostal people and half of those denominations don't even believe God does this today but they're seeing it and you know they're telling their pastors wow you know

I know you teach that, but Jenny was at Todd's meeting last week, and she's healed. What do you mean God doesn't do this today, you know? And so I was bringing them into God's presence, and they've learned that we don't say anything until his presence come. And, well, he's settling over our meeting. And, I mean, some of these people are afraid because they can't even move their eyeballs. you know he came so strong you know and I can't even move on like oh I know he's going to do something

so I'm kind of looking around the room and he's not giving me nothing he's not saying anything and I'm like Lord you got to say these people are getting scared you know and they've seen a lot of weird stuff already you know and they trust me because they see

the fruit but I had a lady came and God told me that she was really struggling with hearing him and she was condemning herself as a good Catholic girl, God was calling her and telling her that she was going to have a child. And, you know, this is what she would name. And she didn't hear the name. So she's freaking out.

She's like, Todd, she goes, I'm, God's going to be mad at me. You know, I don't, I didn't hear him. And then I don't know what's going to happen now. And I says, no, that's all right. He knows that you want to obey him, you know. he knows you hurt him. His power is perfected in her weakness. Let's just wait for him to show us what he wants to do.

So then he comes into the meeting and I'm the man of God and I can't even move. So what am I going to do? You know, what am I going to say? But I know better than to start trying to explain away God because I got to wait for him, you know. Well, this little girl during worship had moved outside of our circle and was drawing with her coloring book. And some of the other kids were there. they, during worship time, God just takes them into their own little zone so they're not distracting. And she gets up and she starts coming into the living when she's walking around our circle.

And I'm like, oh boy, you know, I don't let it interrupt something, but wait a minute. Jesus said, let all the little children come to me so I said, I couldn't watch this. And she taps the lady on the shoulder and she goes, Mrs. B Jesus told me to tell you this and it was a coloring book with a picture of Mary and

baby Jesus and it said now we no one had talked about this no one knew of her called to me and us no one and we hadn't shared nothing we just got into his presence and it was a caption of Mary

with baby Jesus and it said behold you will have a son and he will name him dot dot dot in ellipsis no name she shrieked and started crying and it explained there was not a dry eye in that place you know and i laid hands on her um to pray for her healing in that moment she's got three children then and her gynecologist told her after the first one he said i don't care what god did i know you got this baby you know but But you don't have reproductive organs. You cannot have more children.

Well, God said that I'm going to have more. And he said, man, you can't get your eggs to your uterus. There's no way, you know. And so once you told me that, of course, I'm my neighbor. Who's you going to believe this faithless doctor or what God said, you know, and I prophesied to you. And the Lord grabbed me by the back of the neck. He says, wait a minute, killer.

He said, I've got more involved in this. I'm going to show this faithless doctor my power. this is a miracle, not a healing. I'm going to bring two more children to this room that this doctor knows can't produce or she's got them all now. And we got now faith to believe him for more. It was her husband

who had the lump removed from his neck when I commanded to happen through a video conference call. And his mother-in-law had her hand on the lump when I came in, she felt it shrinking under her hands. So he just keeps building our faith. If we will allow space for all of us to be a part, and faith comes by hearing that word of God and not by something we muster up.

So if we'd stop listening to just sermons and make space for him to move through all of us, we would see him more and have faith to receive more. I really love that. I think that's something I probably needed to hear today, so thank you, is really the letting go of trying to pressure yourself so much to have all this courage and rather just listening and being quiet and letting it kind of come to you. And I have that often when I songwrite, you know, I'm a singer-songwriter and so songs will drop into my mind from nowhere.

And so I've been shown that there's a channel, that there's a source, you know, but we're very quick to can't part mentalize one part of our lives versus another part of our lives, for example. But thank you for that. I'm really grateful that you wrote this book, that you sat down and kind of put it all on paper. And also that you were able to take this time to share this with us today on the field space. Feels is everything about this, being a human, being a working professional, you know, building and celebrating community. It's, it's really everything that we stand for. So I'm really privileged to have this conversation with you on this podcast. And I know that through this, like you said,

this power of the internet, people are going to be able to hear your story. And I really, I'm looking forward to also digging into your book a little bit more. And I want to know, is the second one on the way? Have you felt any more inspiration or? Well, yeah, I've been a little challenged with how to go with it because the inspiration just comes. And what I've realized is that from here, I just follow the inspiration. I don't necessarily have to put it in another book because it's kind of challenging knowing where to stop and where to start. So the prophecies are on my website that keep coming. Some of the healing testimonies are there at abundant life pathways.

and I think through that platform it's just going to begin to be a stream where they'll happen like this they'll happen through meetings the man with a lump they called this family called me and it's just tied you know you we know you can't be here

with us or you can't travel to be with us but you know that they're sending him for surgery because the doctor is concerned about this cancer's lung and we know you can't be with us, but why don't we do a virtual meeting? Remember that vision God gave you years ago? Do you think that's maybe Zoom? I said, wow, I said, that's why I saw the net over continents and why John Paul said, Todd, please don't settle for second best. Lord, don't let them settle for second best because this is not just people groups. This isn't like church groups.

This is like people groups like entire nations, you know, peoples, you know, French people, Spanish people, Germans, you know, so on. And I'm like, wow, gosh, I could, I could afford to barely afford to get to the next state. I mean, how am I going to get to different continents? Well, God does that with me now. And so when they ask, can we do a virtual meeting? I said, yeah. So we got into worship. and I just like to lay hands on people, you know, so I, it felt clumsy to me.

It felt impersonal, you know, I want to touch them, you know, make them feel God's love. And the Lord said me, okay, do you remember when I did this with Elijah, you know, they had sent for Elijah to come, for his servant's sick, you know, he's dying, you know, we want you to come and lay hands on him and he'll live, you know, and I said to them, do you all remember that scripture? He says, yeah, well, of course. I says, well, I'll be his mouth. Who's going to be his hands?

And this little lady got up immediately. She got the revelation, and she's moving to lay her hands on this lump. And I kept granted it to be gone in Jesus' name. And she said, she felt it shrinking on her hands, but she couldn't believe it. But she didn't want her doubt to hinder things, you know, so she just stayed there. and let me continue. But later when the doctor told her that there's gone, and she says, yeah, I thought so.

I was afraid my doubting would hinder this, you know. So I didn't want to say anything, but yeah, I felt it stricking under my hand, you know. So I think that the next book is going to be written through my life like the first one was. When he gives me specific prophecy, sometimes I'll send them in an email the people or I'll call people and I speak them, but I do that on air now like we're doing. And I have some trainings that I'm inviting people into where we'll do live like this, that will be worldwide. And documenting those, I think, will become another book.

Oh, and that's very exciting. We'll definitely be sharing all your contacts and how people can find you and reach out to you and visit your website. be able to be part of you the trainings, I'm definitely in for that as well. But yeah, thank you. Thank you for sharing all of that. And yeah, thank you for coming onto this podcast and sharing so openly, honestly, being

a channel of abundant life and unconditional love for us to be inspired. And yeah, just really, really excited to see what comes next and invite everyone to reach out to you in some way. So thank you so much, Tom. You're welcome. It's my pleasure. God bless you to call.