The Time Is Now — Tonight Confirmed Everything
By Kevin Pilger
Some nights you go to church and come home feeling good. And then there are nights you come home knowing something just changed.
Tonight was that kind of night. Gabby and I went to Sunday evening prayer at A Glorious Church and honestly — before anyone even said anything — you could already sense His presence in the room. It was tangible. Like He was hovering there, just waiting for us to step into it. That's how you know it's Him.
He Wasn't Holding Out. He Was Getting Us Ready.
Pastor Jonathan opened in John 16:12. Jesus — just hours before the cross — looks at the people He loves and says something that should stop all of us in our tracks: "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now."
Think about that. Jesus had things He wanted to say — and couldn't. Not because He didn't trust them. But because they weren't ready yet. He wasn't shutting them out. He was setting them up.
"However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth."
John 16:13
All of it. Not some of it. The Holy Spirit — who hears from God the same way Jesus heard from God — would come and tell us everything Jesus couldn't say yet. That gap between what God wants us to know and what we're ready to receive? He fills it.
Pastor Jonathan took us from there into Acts 1 and then Acts 2. The upper room. Everyone in one accord. People from every nation already in Jerusalem — like God set up the crowd before the moment ever came. And then it happened. Wind. Fire. Tongues. Peter standing up in front of everyone and connecting something the prophet Joel wrote hundreds of years earlier to what was happening right in front of their eyes — not because he figured it out, but because He just dropped it in him.
Something that used to be future just became right now. That's what He does. He takes what God said and makes it real in your actual life today.
What Happened in That Room Tonight
At some point the teaching turned into prayer and the prayer turned into something I honestly don't have great words for.
I was praying in the Spirit — in tongues — and things started coming up that I didn't plan or think up. Words about the time we're living in right now. About obedience. About nations. About people getting on the same page with God and saying what He's saying — because what the church says in this season actually matters more than most of us realize.
Things came out of my mouth tonight that didn't come from my head. That's not something to be spooked by — that's exactly what He promised in John 16:13. He speaks what He hears from the Father. And when you yield to Him, He'll do it through you too.
And here's the thing I can't get away from: God has been saying this for a while now. The same message keeps showing up — in Scripture, in prayer, in words spoken over our lives and over this ministry. The time is now. Things have already shifted. This isn't something to get ready for someday. It's happening. And He's asking all of us to move.
Then one word came up tonight that hit me in a way it always does. Obey.
Honestly it's not the first time He's brought me back to that word. He's been dealing with me about it. And tonight it showed up again — soft and simple — and someone added what I needed to hear: obedience isn't a scary word. It's actually a freeing word. It means you don't have to carry the weight of figuring everything out. You just do what God said. He already knows where it's going.
I received it. Again.
What We're Taking Home
Near the end of the night Pastor Candace said something I'm still thinking about: "He's really pleased with what you've done — and He's asking you to go further."
You don't ask more from someone you've given up on. When God asks you to go further it's because He saw what you did with what He already gave you — and He's saying, I trust you with more. That's not a heavy thing. That's actually one of the best things He could say.
Gabby and I walked out the same way we walked in — together. But we left that room more sure than when we came in.
Everything we've been feeling about KTRM, about the nations, about going from the table to the world — we didn't come up with any of that on our own. We heard something from God. We said yes. And tonight in a room full of people just pressing in together, He said it again — through different voices, in different ways, but the same message: The time is now. Obey. Go.
We're not going back. We're going further. And we couldn't be more all in.
"However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth."
John 16:13
From the Table to the Nations — there's a seat for you here, and a world waiting out there.