A Shift to the Grassroots
July at The Equipping Station — and what we'll talk about on the 4th
I didn’t plan a theme for July.
I rarely do. I sit down, I write what’s in front of me that week, and I don’t go looking for a thread. Then I read the month back and there it is, running underneath everything like a wire I didn’t know I’d laid.
Here it is: God moved the action off the stage.
Off the platform. Off the program. Out of the building and into the hands of ordinary people having ordinary conversations in ordinary places. That’s the whole month, in one line.
Tag, you’re it.
Below is July, post by post, with a question from each one. Not rhetorical questions. Real ones, the kind I want answered out loud on the 4th.
July 5 — You’re It! The New Grassroots Move of God
I opened the month with a question I’ve been chewing on for a while. Are we standing at the edge of the greatest move of God in history?
I think we are. But it won’t look like the ones we’ve read about.
The revivals we tell stories about had names attached. A handful of people, a tent, a stadium, a stage. This one works differently. This one is a groundswell. The invitation went out wider this time, and it came all the way down to you.
I talked about multiplication instead of addition. Mentor five people well, and the math gets away from you in the best possible way. I brought out the umbrella — what is yours actually covering? What’s the message you’re carrying into everyday conversation, whether you’ve ever named it or not?
And I said what I’ve been saying for years. Put down the ten-step program. Lean into the divine appointments at the coffee shop, the grocery store, the school pickup line. Ephesians 4. Everyone gets to play.
For the Zoom: Who are your five? And if you can’t name them yet — what’s actually stopping you? Time, fear, or not feeling qualified?
July 12 — Unexpected Intersections: Cultivating Spiritual Awareness
I leaned on the phrase “divine appointment” hard in Episode 2. So I went back and unpacked it.
These aren’t coincidences. They’re arranged. And the traffic runs both directions — you are not the only one being used in that moment.
I took us out to the desert road with Philip and the Ethiopian official, because that story is the whole pattern. No program. No building. No calendar invite. One man made available and one man with a question.
I’m convinced the next great awakening gets carried on exactly that. One road crossing another road.
Which means the skill to develop isn’t boldness. It’s awareness. Introvert, extrovert — doesn’t matter. The question is whether you’re paying enough attention to notice.
For the Zoom: Tell us about a divine appointment you almost missed. What nearly made you walk past it?
July 19 — This Is Taking Shape!
This one was personal, and I’ll say it plain. I was lying awake on a Wednesday night telling the Father I didn’t have a burning purpose for being on Substack.
I’d started the page out of simple obedience. One step at a time. But I wasn’t about to fake a passionless project.
Thursday morning, a friend told me out of nowhere that he’d seen me in front of a screen with hundreds of people asking questions about my journey in the prophetic.
I sat with that. Then I heard it, inside: So you ask last night and receive an answer today. Is that not soon enough?
I took a walk. That’s what I do. And on that walk I heard the name — The Equipping Station. A conversation that afternoon confirmed how it lined up with who I actually am.
That’s why this page has a new name. Forty-five years of global ministry, handed over in conversation instead of lecture.
For the Zoom: How long do you normally wait between asking God something and expecting the answer? And what does that gap say about what you believe about Him?
July 26 — Finding 3D Connection in a 1D World
I closed the month by looking up a word.
One-dimensional: defined by a single coordinate point; lacking both width and depth.
Lacking width and depth. That’s how the digital spaces feel to me most days, and I said so.
I also said I have zero interest in being That Guy — the one who tells you it was better back in his day. I’m not anti-social media. I’m sitting here writing on it.
But for forty-plus years, connection came built in. People drifted to the front after every event. There was the seatmate on the flight. The local leaders hosting me in a city I’d never seen.
Now I’m a 71-year-old ambivert relearning how to make a friend.
So I asked you, and I’m still asking. How are you actually meeting people these days?
For the Zoom: Where in your week does real, three-dimensional connection already happen? And could that ordinary place be the road God plans to send somebody down?
So here’s what I’m asking of you
If July said one thing, it’s this. The shift is to the grassroots, and grassroots means you.
Not a bigger platform. Not a better program. Not waiting on somebody more qualified to get sent.
Just you. Awake, available, in the ordinary places you already go.
That’s not a small ask, because you can’t do it from behind a screen. It takes width and depth. It takes being in a room with somebody.
So this week, do one thing. Pick one person and move it one dimension deeper. Turn the comment into a phone call. Turn the phone call into coffee.
Don’t bring a formula. Don’t polish yourself up first. Don’t wait until you feel ready.
Then come tell us what happened.
The Equipping Station — Prophetic Q&A
Tuesday, August 4 · 4:30 PM Pacific · Zoom
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Bring the question you didn’t want to put in a comment section. That’s the one I want.
See you there,
Byron
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