The Kingdom Mandate Podcast

What if some of the greatest obstacles to your growth are not the things you do not know, but the things you are already convinced are true? In Part 9 of our Teachability series, Apostle Bardwell examines what happens when spiritual growth requires more than receiving new information and demands the humility to reconsider what we have carried for years. Beliefs inherited from family, church culture, denominations, respected leaders, personal experiences, and tradition can become so familiar that we stop examining whether they are actually consistent with Scripture. Familiarity does not establish truth, sincerity does not guarantee accuracy, and longevity does not make an interpretation infallible.This episode challenges us to bring our theology, traditions, experiences, cultural assumptions, ministry practices, and even our understanding of God back under the authority of His Word. Unlearning is not about questioning everything until nothing remains certain. It is about allowing Scripture to preserve what is true, refine what is incomplete, and remove what is wrong. A genuinely teachable believer must possess both the courage to learn and the humility to unlearn, because if Jesus is truly Lord, nothing we believe is entitled to remain untouched simply because we have always believed it.

What if the room is not always the problem? In Part 8 of our Teachability series, Apostle Bardwell examines the danger of believing we have outgrown every environment, every leader, every teacher, and every community around us while failing to recognize that our own growth may have slowed. There are legitimate seasons of transition, but there is also a dangerous form of pride that makes us increasingly difficult to teach, quick to dismiss familiar truth, impatient with developing people, and convinced that everyone around us has become too shallow for what we carry.This episode challenges us to examine whether our increased knowledge has produced increased humility, obedience, patience, accountability, and Christlike character. We look at the difference between genuine transition and spiritual superiority, deeper revelation and novelty addiction, maturity and contempt, healthy discernment and constant criticism, and being called forward versus simply becoming dissatisfied. God may change the room, but He never removes the requirement that we remain disciples. The question is not only whether you have outgrown where you are. The deeper question is whether you are still growing yourself.

What if the greatest damage caused by offense is not simply what it does to your relationships, but what it does to your ability to receive truth? In Part 7 of our Teachability series, Apostle Bardwell examines how unresolved offense can change the way we hear, interpret, trust, discern, and receive correction. A wound that is never healed can become a lens through which every future relationship is judged, causing correction to sound like control, disagreement to feel like dishonor, boundaries to feel like rejection, and healthy accountability to feel like an attack.This episode confronts the danger of allowing yesterday’s wounds to interfere with tomorrow’s development. We examine the difference between wisdom and suspicion, guarding your heart and hardening your heart, forgiveness and restored trust, conviction and mistreatment, and healthy boundaries and bitterness. You may have been genuinely wounded, betrayed, misunderstood, or mishandled, but what happened to you cannot be permitted to become the governing authority over what God is still doing within you. The question is not only whether you have been offended. The deeper question is whether offense has changed your ability to hear truth, receive correction, remain connected, and continue growing in Christ.

Can you truly be teachable if no one has permission to speak into your life? In Part 6 of our Teachability series, Apostle Bardwell examines the biblical relationship between spiritual authority and a teachable heart. God designed His Body relationally, using leaders, teachers, mentors, spiritual fathers, spiritual mothers, and mature believers as instruments of instruction, correction, counsel, development, and protection. Yet every expression of human authority must remain submitted to Jesus Christ and accountable to the Word of God.This episode challenges both those who lead and those who are led. Believers must learn to receive counsel and correction without surrendering biblical discernment, while leaders must exercise authority without domination and remain teachable themselves. Healthy spiritual authority does not create dependence upon a person. It develops mature believers who are increasingly dependent upon Christ. The question is not simply whether you can submit to authority, but whether your heart remains humble enough to receive, discerning enough to test, and submitted enough to keep growing in Christ.

God speaks, but our interpretation of what we believe we heard must still remain submitted to Scripture, discernment, wise counsel, and humility. In Part 5 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts the danger of using the phrase “God told me” as a way to end necessary conversations, silence accountability, justify personal decisions, or place our conclusions beyond examination. Drawing from John 10:27, 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21, 1 John 4:1, Proverbs 11:14, and other biblical passages, this episode establishes an essential distinction: God is infallible, but our hearing, interpretation, motives, timing, and application are not.Apostle Bardwell examines how desire, fear, offense, ambition, trauma, impatience, personal preference, confirmation bias, and spiritual pride can influence what we interpret as divine direction. This teaching addresses prophetic accountability, communal discernment, the danger of manipulating others with spiritual language, the need to test revelation, and the importance of allowing Scripture to remain the final measuring line for every dream, vision, impression, prophecy, or spiritual experience. Through examples involving David, Samuel, Paul, Acts 15, prophetic ministry, and other biblical accounts, this episode demonstrates that genuine spiritual confidence does not fear examination and that wise counsel can confirm, clarify, restrain, or correct what we believe God has spoken.This episode ultimately challenges believers and leaders to examine whether spiritual language has ever become protection for personal conclusions. Apostle Bardwell calls listeners to become people who can hear God boldly while remaining humble enough to admit when they may have misunderstood Him. The goal is not fear of revelation but greater sobriety in handling it, refusing to attach divine authority to personal preference or ego. As the first week of Teachability concludes, the message is clear: if God truly spoke, His word can withstand Scripture, discernment, testing, counsel, and time, and if we misunderstood, humility must give us permission to adjust. True teachability allows us to know His voice while never ceasing to remain students before Him.

Giftedness is not the same thing as maturity. In Part 4 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts the dangerous assumption that being anointed, influential, experienced, prophetic, apostolic, effective, or publicly successful automatically means a person is spiritually mature in every area. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 13:1-2, Romans 12:3, Luke 6:40, Philippians 3:12, and other passages, this episode establishes that God can genuinely use a vessel while still developing, correcting, and refining that vessel. Spiritual gifts are evidence of God’s grace, but they must never become substitutes for humility, character, holiness, accountability, and continued transformation.Apostle Bardwell examines how gifting can create affirmation, influence can create insulation, success can create overconfidence, and spiritual authority can make correction increasingly difficult if humility is not intentionally guarded. Through biblical examples such as Apollos receiving greater accuracy, Peter being confronted by Paul, David receiving Abigail’s intervention, Moses receiving administrative counsel from Jethro, and prophetic ministry being subject to biblical evaluation, this teaching demonstrates that no level of calling or supernatural experience places a believer beyond instruction. The greater the platform, influence, or responsibility becomes, the more necessary it is to remain surrounded by people who can celebrate the gift while still speaking truth to the vessel.This episode ultimately challenges gifted believers and leaders to examine whether what God has placed in them has made them more humble or more difficult to reach. Can someone less experienced teach you something? Can your methods be questioned without your identity feeling threatened? Can you admit that visible fruit does not mean every area of your character is fully developed? Apostle Bardwell reminds listeners that God’s ultimate objective is not merely to use us, but to form Christ within us. Being teachable does not diminish the gift; it protects the gift, strengthens the vessel, preserves the assignment, and keeps what God does through us submitted to what He still desires to do in us.

How do you respond when truth confronts something in you that needs to change? In Part 3 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell examines correction as one of the clearest indicators of the true condition of the heart. Encouragement can make almost anyone feel receptive, but correction exposes whether humility, pride, insecurity, offense, fear, or self-protection is actually governing us. Drawing from Proverbs 9:8-9, Proverbs 15:31-32, James 1:19-20, Hebrews 12:11, and other biblical passages, this episode establishes that the issue is not merely whether correction comes, but what our response to it reveals.Apostle Bardwell addresses the many ways believers can resist correction, including anger, withdrawal, blame shifting, retaliation, defensiveness, offense, self-justification, fixation on tone or timing, and verbal agreement without meaningful change. This episode also distinguishes biblical correction from condemnation, manipulation, humiliation, personal preference, and ungodly control. Through examples such as David’s confrontation by Nathan, the teaching demonstrates that genuine teachability does not require accepting every accusation as true, but it does require every correction to receive honest examination under Scripture, prayer, wisdom, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.At the heart of this episode is a call to surrender our need to protect our image and allow truth to produce transformation. Apostle Bardwell challenges believers and leaders to ask whether people feel safe telling them the truth, whether they can admit wrongdoing without immediately defending themselves, and whether correction actually produces changed behavior. The mature believer is not someone who never needs correction, but someone who can be trained by it, discern what is true, reject what is false, repent where necessary, and continue becoming more like Christ. Our response when truth confronts us often reveals far more about our maturity than our response when people affirm or applaud us.

Pride does not always announce itself through arrogance, boasting, or an obvious sense of superiority. Sometimes it hides behind experience, knowledge, gifting, seniority, spiritual language, success, personal convictions, and the constant need to defend ourselves. In Part 2 of the Teachability series, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell exposes how pride can quietly make believers and leaders resistant to the very correction God intends to use for their growth. The issue is not simply whether we allow people to speak to us, but whether our hearts remain humble enough to seriously examine what has been said when truth challenges our behavior, methods, motives, or conclusions.Throughout this episode, Apostle Bardwell examines the many ways pride manifests itself in our response to instruction, including defensiveness, excessive explanation, blame shifting, comparison, insecurity, spiritual independence, resistance to questions, selective correction, and the need to always be right. Drawing from Proverbs 12:15, James 4:6, Proverbs 27:6, David’s confrontation by Nathan, and other biblical examples, this teaching demonstrates that correction can be an expression of God’s mercy rather than an attack upon our identity. Genuine humility does not require believers to deny their gifting, authority, experience, or calling; it requires them to refuse to use those things as shields against accountability and continued transformation.This episode challenges believers, especially those carrying spiritual leadership, to ask difficult questions about how they respond when truth reaches an uncomfortable place. Can you admit that you were wrong without immediately defending your intentions? Can someone question your methods without automatically becoming your enemy? Can you receive truth from an unexpected messenger? Can success coexist with correction, authority with accountability, and strong conviction with genuine humility? Apostle Bardwell establishes a sobering principle for every disciple: the greatest danger is not discovering that we were wrong, but becoming so prideful that we can no longer be shown where we are wrong. Teachability requires loving truth more than protecting our image and remaining humble enough for God to keep correcting, refining, and developing us.

In Part 1 of this powerful series on Teachability, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts the difference between hearing truth and possessing a heart that still allows truth to correct, challenge, and transform you. Through Scripture, this episode examines how knowledge, experience, gifting, leadership, familiarity, and spiritual success can quietly become barriers to continued growth when humility is lost.Apostle Bardwell challenges believers and leaders to examine whether Scripture can still change their minds, whether correction can be received without defensiveness, and whether God can use unexpected people and uncomfortable circumstances to expose blind spots. Biblical maturity does not place us beyond instruction; it should make us increasingly receptive to the refining work of God through His Word and the Holy Spirit.Before addressing pride, offense, spiritual authority, accountability, gifting, and the other enemies of teachability throughout this series, Apostle Bardwell establishes the question everything else rests upon, Can God still teach me? No matter how long we have walked with Christ, how much we know, or how much responsibility we carry, the heart of a genuine disciple must always remain humble, correctable, and teachable.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell brings the Inherited Views Of God series to its central purpose: moving beyond inherited assumptions, religious familiarity, and accumulated information into a genuine knowledge of the Father as He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. Christianity is not merely about knowing facts concerning God. It is a life of continual relationship, communion, revelation, and transformation.This teaching confronts the danger of becoming familiar with Christian language, doctrine, and spiritual activity while losing the hunger to know God Himself. Drawing from John 17:3, Philippians 3:10, Exodus 33, John 15, and other biblical foundations, Apostle Bardwell shows that mature believers never graduate from the pursuit of God. Like Moses crying, “shew me thy glory,” and Paul declaring, “that I may know him,” genuine revelation should always produce a deeper hunger for the presence, character, wisdom, holiness, mercy, and government of God.The episode also emphasizes that Jesus Christ remains the perfect revelation of the Father and therefore the standard by which every inherited belief must be measured. Family traditions, religious systems, personal experiences, cultural assumptions, and long-held interpretations must all remain submitted beneath the authority of Scripture. The goal is not simply to identify distorted perceptions, but to allow the Holy Spirit to continually refine our understanding until the way we see God increasingly agrees with the way He has revealed Himself.Ultimately, this teaching turns the focus toward representation and legacy. Every believer is an ambassador of Christ, and someone is forming conclusions about God by observing the way we live, obey, forgive, endure, worship, and handle His Word. The challenge of Inherited Views Of God is therefore not merely to correct what we received, but to ensure that what we pass forward is a clearer and more faithful revelation of the Father. The more accurately we know Him, the more faithfully we can represent His Kingdom and help the generations following us know Him for themselves.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell addresses what happens after inherited views of God have been identified. Recognition alone is not enough. When the Word of God exposes an inaccurate perception, religious assumption, or generational misrepresentation, revelation demands a response. Believers are called not merely to understand where distorted thinking came from, but to submit it to Scripture and allow the Holy Spirit to replace it with truth.This teaching draws an important distinction between generational influence and generational destiny. Family history, religious culture, and previous generations can strongly shape the way a person understands God, but they do not have the authority to determine that believer’s future. Ezekiel 18 reveals the responsibility every person carries before God, while the life of Josiah demonstrates what happens when revealed truth becomes greater than inherited practice. Spiritual history may explain certain patterns, but it cannot become an excuse for refusing correction once the Word of God brings clarity.Apostle Bardwell also confronts the danger of reacting against previous generations instead of being governed by Scripture. Breaking generational misrepresentation does not mean rejecting everything that came before us. It means testing what we inherited, preserving what is biblical, surrendering what is not, and refusing to allow tradition, pain, culture, or personal opinion to outrank the authority of God’s Word. The Kingdom is not built on reaction. It is built on revelation.The episode ultimately shifts the focus from the inheritance we received to the inheritance we are creating. Every believer is leaving a theological legacy through the way they pray, obey, handle correction, endure adversity, honor Scripture, and represent the character of Christ. The challenge is not simply to break inaccurate patterns for ourselves, but to ensure that those who follow us receive a clearer revelation of the Father. Our greatest legacy is not a name, ministry, or tradition, but a life that faithfully reflects the holiness, mercy, truth, faithfulness, and government of God.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell examines the invisible lenses that influence how believers read Scripture and understand the character of God. Although Christians may approach the same Bible with sincere hearts, they do not always approach it without assumptions. Family history, religious tradition, personal experiences, disappointments, cultural influences, and long-held expectations can quietly shape the way the Word of God is interpreted.Using the teachings of Jesus, the road to Emmaus, the Pharisees, Hebrews 4:12, and other biblical foundations, this episode exposes how inherited interpretations can become so familiar that they are mistaken for truth itself. The problem is not the authority or clarity of Scripture, but the possibility that our understanding has been filtered through conclusions we formed long before we learned to rightly divide the Word. Some believers emphasize judgment while overlooking mercy, while others emphasize love while neglecting holiness, repentance, and divine government. In either case, an incomplete lens can produce an incomplete understanding of the Father.This teaching calls believers beyond simply asking Scripture to confirm what they already believe. Instead, we must approach the Word with enough humility to allow the Holy Spirit to confront our assumptions, expose our theological blind spots, and correct interpretations that have been shaped more by inheritance than revelation. Spiritual maturity is not demonstrated by becoming increasingly resistant to correction, but by remaining teachable enough for God to continually refine the way we see Him.Inherited Views Of God challenges every believer to consider whether they are reading Scripture to defend established conclusions or genuinely allowing Scripture to form those conclusions. The Father lovingly corrects our understanding because He desires to be known accurately. As inherited lenses are removed, believers are able to see His holiness, mercy, authority, compassion, faithfulness, and government with greater clarity, leading to deeper worship, stronger obedience, and a more faithful representation of Jesus Christ.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell continues Inherited Views Of God by examining one of the earliest and most influential places our understanding of God is formed: the family. Long before children can study Scripture for themselves, they are already learning about authority, trust, correction, forgiveness, love, worship, obedience, and the character of God through what they repeatedly observe within the home.Families pass down far more than traditions, personalities, and memories. They also transmit ways of thinking and interpreting life. A home where approval must constantly be earned can unintentionally produce a performance-based understanding of God. Inconsistent authority can influence how someone perceives the faithfulness and government of God. Religious activity without genuine relationship can teach a person to view God as an obligation rather than Someone to know. Over time, repeated experiences can become invisible theological lenses through which believers interpret both Scripture and their relationship with the Father.This teaching also confronts the tension between honoring previous generations and examining what they passed down. Biblical honor does not require unquestioningly preserving every inherited belief. Using Scripture and the example of Josiah, Apostle Bardwell establishes that every generation carries a responsibility to test its inheritance against the Word of God, retaining what is true while surrendering what does not accurately reveal God's character. The answer is neither blindly preserving tradition nor reacting against it, because the Kingdom of God must be governed by revelation rather than tradition or reaction.Inherited Views Of God challenges parents, leaders, mentors, and believers alike to consider what their lives are teaching others about the Father. The goal is not condemnation of our families or previous generations, but greater biblical clarity. Every believer must eventually examine what they received, submit it to Scripture, and determine what should continue into the next generation. We may not have chosen the spiritual inheritance we received, but through the renewing work of the Holy Spirit, we can determine whether we preserve it, correct it, or replace it with a clearer revelation of God through His Word.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts a question every believer must eventually face: Is the God I believe in truly the God revealed in Scripture, or am I relating to a version of God shaped by what I inherited?Long before most people are capable of studying Scripture for themselves, impressions about God are already being formed through family, church culture, spiritual leadership, personal experiences, traditions, and even seasons of pain. Over time, these impressions can become deeply rooted theological assumptions that influence how we understand God's love, holiness, authority, correction, mercy, faithfulness, and government. What feels biblical may sometimes be an inherited lens that has never actually been examined beneath the authority of the Word of God.Through a strong biblical foundation, Apostle Bardwell establishes Jesus Christ as the definitive revelation of the Father while examining how distorted perceptions of God's character affect prayer, obedience, worship, submission, trust, and spiritual maturity. This teaching addresses the danger of allowing experience to become doctrine, the power of religious tradition to shape our interpretation of Scripture, and the necessity of allowing the Holy Spirit to confront beliefs we may have sincerely held for years. An inaccurate view of God will eventually produce an inaccurate response to Him, which makes knowing Him according to His own revelation essential to genuine discipleship.Inherited Views of God is a call to humility, examination, and renewed revelation. Rather than automatically defending what we have inherited from family, religious culture, tradition, or personal experience, believers are challenged to bring every assumption beneath the authority of Scripture. The question is deeply personal: If everything you inherited about God were stripped away, would the God remaining be the Father revealed through Jesus Christ? This teaching invites believers to surrender distorted perceptions, allow the Holy Spirit to renew their understanding, and pursue an increasingly accurate knowledge of God through His Word.

In this concluding episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast series Inherited Traditions, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell brings the entire week into focus by revealing the central issue beneath inherited traditions, inherited thinking, inherited fear, and inherited performance. At the heart of every one of these issues is a question of government. Every life is governed by something, every heart has a throne, and every throne has a king. This broadcast challenges believers to move beyond simply examining what they believe and begin asking what is actually governing those beliefs, decisions, reactions, and desires.This teaching establishes that salvation is not merely forgiveness from sin. It is a transfer of government. Through Jesus Christ, those who repent and believe are delivered from the authority of darkness and brought beneath the righteous rule of the King. The Christian life is therefore not about adding Jesus to an already established life. It is about surrendering the entire life to His authority. Our priorities, desires, understanding, relationships, decisions, and responses must increasingly come beneath the government of Jesus Christ.Apostle Bardwell also confronts the difference between possessing biblical information and actually living in submission to biblical truth. Spiritual maturity cannot be measured only by years in church, knowledge of Scripture, ministry experience, or religious activity. The true evidence of maturity is found in how completely Christ governs the life. When His government is established within the heart, correction produces humility, disappointment produces trust, uncertainty produces dependence, and obedience becomes the visible evidence that the throne truly belongs to Jesus.This final broadcast is a call to Inherited Freedom, the freedom that comes when every tradition, mindset, fear, and pattern of performance that did not originate with the King is surrendered beneath His authority. Lasting transformation is not produced by simply trying harder. It is produced through continual surrender to the Holy Spirit and increasing submission to the Word of God. The ultimate question of this series is not how much truth we have heard, but how much authority Jesus Christ possesses within us. Traditions may be inherited, but the Kingdom must be chosen, and every day presents another opportunity to declare through our lives that Jesus Christ alone sits upon the throne.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell continues the Inherited Traditions series with a powerful examination of Inherited Performance. Many believers sincerely love God, serve faithfully, pray consistently, study Scripture, and remain active in ministry, yet beneath that commitment is often an exhausting belief that they must continually prove themselves to God. Their spiritual life becomes a cycle of measuring, striving, and wondering whether they have prayed enough, served enough, sacrificed enough, or done enough to remain pleasing to the Father.This broadcast exposes how performance can be inherited through family environments where approval was connected to achievement and through religious systems where acceptance seemed dependent upon spiritual consistency. Over time, believers can begin approaching God as though His love rises and falls according to their activity. Instead of resting in what Christ has accomplished, they spend their lives attempting to accomplish enough for Christ. Fellowship becomes obligation, peace becomes pressure, and relationship becomes an endless spiritual evaluation.Apostle Bardwell carefully establishes that freedom from performance does not mean freedom from obedience. Jesus Christ still calls His people to holiness, faithfulness, sacrifice, self denial, and complete submission to His authority. The difference is found in motivation. We do not obey in order to become accepted. We obey because through Christ we have been accepted. We do not pursue holiness to earn a place in God's family. We pursue holiness because we belong to Him. Prayer, worship, service, and obedience are meant to flow from relationship with the Father rather than fear that we have not done enough.Inherited Performance calls believers out of exhausting striving and into the freedom of living from the finished work of Jesus Christ. Grace does not weaken obedience. Grace establishes the proper foundation for it. When identity becomes rooted in Christ, obedience begins flowing from love, service becomes worship, faithfulness becomes gratitude, and failure no longer causes the repentant believer to hide from the Father. This teaching challenges every listener to examine the motivation behind their spiritual life and discover what it means to serve the King from acceptance, confidence, gratitude, and wholehearted surrender.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell continues the Inherited Traditions series with a penetrating examination of Inherited Fear, the fears believers can carry into their relationship with God without realizing where those fears originated. Many sincerely love Christ, pray, study Scripture, and desire to obey Him, yet remain governed by the fear of disappointing God, missing His will, making the wrong decision, or never doing enough. This broadcast exposes the sobering reality that many of those fears were never revealed by God at all. They were inherited through family experiences, religious culture, painful circumstances, and distorted representations of spiritual authority.At the heart of this teaching is the truth that our perception of God determines how we relate to Him. When the Father is perceived as harsh, unpredictable, perpetually disappointed, or impossible to please, believers may approach Him with anxiety rather than confidence. Apostle Bardwell examines how fear can turn prayer into performance, correction into condemnation, waiting into perceived rejection, and spiritual disciplines into attempts to earn an acceptance that Christ has already secured.This broadcast also makes an essential distinction between inherited fear and the biblical fear of the Lord. Inherited fear causes believers to hide from God, question His heart, and live under torment. The fear of the Lord produces reverence, worship, humility, obedience, and deeper surrender. Through the biblical examples of Adam, Isaiah, Moses, Peter, and others, this episode demonstrates that encountering God's holiness does not drive the humble away from Him. It brings them into greater revelation of both His majesty and His mercy.Inherited Fear is ultimately a call to allow Jesus Christ and the written Word of God to redefine our understanding of the Father. We are not invited into casual familiarity that disregards His holiness, nor are we called to live terrified of rejection. Through Christ, believers are brought into a covenant relationship where reverence and confidence exist together. We approach the Father boldly because of Jesus while still bowing before Him because He is King. This teaching challenges every believer to surrender distorted perceptions, reject Christianity governed by fear, and learn to walk beneath the righteous, holy, and loving government of God.

In this episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell continues the Inherited Traditions series by moving beneath outward religious practices and confronting the thought patterns those traditions produce. The central question is no longer simply, What have I inherited? but, How has what I inherited shaped the way I think? Long before many believers ever learned how to study Scripture for themselves, their understanding of God, church, authority, obedience, success, failure, and spiritual maturity was already being formed by family, religious culture, personal experience, and repeated assumptions.This broadcast exposes the danger of inherited thinking—beliefs that have become so familiar that we no longer recognize them as inherited at all. Like looking through tinted lenses for so long that the distortion feels normal, believers can unknowingly read the Word of God through conclusions that were formed before Scripture was ever allowed to examine them. The result is a Christian life where assumptions, fears, denominational perspectives, and personal experiences can quietly influence how truth is interpreted.Drawing from Romans 12 and 2 Corinthians 10, this teaching emphasizes that genuine Kingdom transformation requires the renewing of the mind and the bringing of every thought into obedience to Christ. Strongholds are not merely outward behaviors; they can become fortified patterns of thought that resist correction and filter every new truth through an already-established conclusion. The Holy Spirit therefore does more than change behavior—He dismantles faulty foundations and establishes biblical conviction in their place.This episode is a call to humility, teachability, and continual surrender. Are you willing to allow the Holy Spirit to challenge what you have always believed? Can Jesus correct your theology, your perceptions, and even conclusions you have carried for years? Inherited Thinking calls every disciple to become a lifelong student of the Word, allowing the mind of Christ to govern every belief, decision, response, and desire until our thinking increasingly reflects the government of Jesus Christ.

In this opening episode of The Kingdom Mandate Podcast series Inherited Traditions, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts one of the most subtle dangers facing believers: allowing inherited customs, assumptions, and religious practices to carry greater authority than the written Word of God. This teaching is not an attack on previous generations, but a call to honor what was faithful while having the humility to examine everything we have received in the light of Scripture.Jesus warned that human tradition can become so deeply embedded in religious life that it makes the Word of God ineffective in those who refuse to be corrected by it. In this broadcast, Apostle Bardwell challenges believers to identify the difference between genuine biblical conviction and beliefs that have simply been absorbed through family, church culture, denominational history, or repeated religious practice.You will be challenged to ask difficult but necessary questions: Why do I believe what I believe? Can I establish it from Scripture? Am I willing to surrender a familiar tradition if the Word of God exposes it as error? This episode calls the Body of Christ back to humility, teachability, careful examination of Scripture, and complete submission to the government of Jesus Christ.Inherited Traditions begins a five-part journey designed not merely to give information, but to provoke holy examination. Traditions may be inherited, but truth must be personally embraced. The Word of God must remain the highest authority over every belief, practice, conviction, and decision in the life of a disciple of Jesus Christ.

In the concluding episode of Biblical Cravings, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell brings the entire series together by revealing that the Father’s presence, voice, Word, and authority were never intended to function as separate spiritual ideas. They form a divine progression that shapes the life of a mature disciple. Relationship precedes responsibility, intimacy produces sensitivity, sensitivity leads us into the truth of Scripture, and Scripture brings us beneath the government of Jesus Christ. This final episode challenges believers to examine not merely what they have learned throughout the series, but whether their deepest spiritual appetites have actually changed.Living a Life Governed by Biblical Cravings moves the listener from revelation into daily practice. Through the examples of Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, the apostles, and ultimately Jesus Himself, the teaching demonstrates that spiritual maturity is cultivated through consistent communion and obedience rather than occasional moments of inspiration. Believers are challenged to begin their days in the Father’s presence, seek His voice before making decisions, measure every instruction by the authority of Scripture, and continually surrender their plans, ambitions, relationships, and responsibilities beneath the Lordship of Christ.This episode also examines the lasting fruit produced when these cravings become the normal rhythm of a believer’s life. Priorities begin to change, discernment becomes sharper, obedience becomes more joyful, and dependence upon Christ replaces spiritual independence. Rather than attempting to live according to the shifting appetites of the world, disciples learn to set their affection upon things above and allow the Holy Spirit to reshape what they desire. The goal is not simply greater biblical knowledge, but the formation of Christ within the believer until His character, wisdom, and government become increasingly evident in everyday life.This episode issues a personal challenge. Has this series changed what you crave? The measure of its impact is not how many truths were heard, but whether there is now a deeper hunger for the Father’s presence, a greater sensitivity to His voice, a stronger love for His Word, and a more willing surrender to His authority. Living a Life Governed by Biblical Cravings closes the series with a call to carry these four spiritual appetites into every day ahead, allowing them to become a lifelong pattern of seeking Him, hearing Him, obeying Him, and joyfully living beneath the perfect government of Jesus Christ.

In the fourth part of Biblical Cravings, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell confronts one of the most fundamental questions in the Christian life. Who truly governs you? After exploring the Father’s presence, voice, and solutions, this episode brings those truths to their necessary conclusion, the Lordship and authority of Jesus Christ. Scripture does not present salvation merely as forgiveness from sin, but as a transfer of government in which the believer no longer belongs to himself. To confess Jesus as Lord is to acknowledge His ownership, His authority, and His right to have the final word over every area of life.Craving the Father’s Authority exposes self-government as one of humanity’s oldest spiritual battles. From Lucifer’s rebellion to the serpent’s temptation in Eden, the desire to independently determine what is right has always stood in opposition to the government of God. Jesus answers that rebellion with the call to deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Him. This episode explains that biblical self-denial is much deeper than giving up temporary pleasures. It is surrendering our perceived right to rule ourselves and willingly submitting our desires, opinions, plans, ambitions, and understanding to the authority of Christ.The teaching also reveals that surrender to God is not bondage but freedom. Believers were never designed to carry the weight of governing their lives independently of their Creator. Through Abraham’s obedience, Peter’s step of faith, Christ’s submission in Gethsemane, and Paul’s declaration that he had been crucified with Christ, listeners are challenged to trust the wisdom of the Father even when His instructions exceed human understanding. True peace is not produced by controlling every outcome. It comes from knowing that the government rests upon Christ’s shoulders and that the King can be trusted with what we cannot control.Ultimately, Craving the Father’s Authority calls believers to move beyond verbally acknowledging Jesus as Lord and begin practically living beneath His government. His authority must shape our decisions, relationships, finances, ministry, priorities, correction, and daily obedience. Every decision becomes an opportunity to reveal who occupies the throne of the heart. This episode challenges the Church to stop asking God merely to bless what we have chosen and instead develop a genuine craving to surrender everything to what He has chosen, because Kingdom living begins when Christ is not simply admired as King but willingly obeyed as Lord.

In the third part of Biblical Cravings, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell leads believers into a deeper examination of where the Father’s answers are found. After establishing the necessity of craving God’s presence and hearing His voice, this episode turns attention to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. Many believers ask God for direction while neglecting the Word He has already given, yet the Bible reveals the Father’s wisdom, character, government, correction, and instruction for righteous living.This episode challenges listeners to move beyond merely reading Scripture for information and begin approaching the Word for transformation. Through passages from Joshua, Psalms, James, Hebrews, and the teachings of Jesus, Apostle Bardwell explains that the Word of God functions as spiritual nourishment, a mirror, a sword, and a foundation. It exposes motives, corrects thinking, renews the mind, strengthens faith, and reveals areas of life that must come into alignment with the will of God. Biblical meditation is presented not as emptying the mind, but as filling the heart and mind with truth until that truth begins governing everyday decisions.Craving the Father’s Solutions also confronts the danger of possessing biblical knowledge without biblical obedience. Jesus made clear that the wise person is not merely the one who hears His sayings, but the one who hears and does them. The difference between spiritual stability and collapse is often not access to truth, but submission to truth. This episode calls believers to stop using Scripture merely to confirm what they already believe and instead allow the Word to confront their preferences, expose self-deception, correct disobedience, and establish Christ’s authority over every area of life.Ultimately, this episode calls the Church to develop a genuine appetite for Heaven’s wisdom above the opinions, philosophies, and solutions of the world. The Father has not left His children without direction. His Word remains a lamp to our feet, a light to our path, and the unchanging standard by which every thought, decision, relationship, and circumstance must be judged. As believers learn to crave the Father’s solutions, they become disciples who do not merely carry the Bible, but allow the truth of Scripture to carry, govern, correct, strengthen, and transform them.

In the second part of Biblical Cravings, Apostle Bardwell builds upon the foundation of craving the Father’s presence by confronting the believer with the necessity of also craving the Father’s voice. True intimacy with God is not one-sided. Prayer is not merely the place where believers speak to God, but also the place where they learn to listen. Through the words of Jesus in John 10, this episode establishes that hearing the Shepherd is not reserved for prophets or a spiritually elite few, but is part of the normal relationship every disciple is called to cultivate with Christ.Throughout Scripture, God consistently reveals Himself as a God who speaks. From Abraham and Moses to Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the disciples, lives were redirected because men and women heard the voice of God and responded in obedience. This episode examines the challenge of hearing the Father in a generation crowded with competing voices, constant noise, personal opinions, cultural influence, and emotional pressure. Listeners are challenged to develop the surrendered posture of Samuel, who responded, “Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth,” recognizing that divine direction requires humility, stillness, and a willingness to place God’s wisdom above our own understanding.The teaching also addresses the necessity of biblical discernment. Not every thought, impression, emotional conviction, or spiritual experience should automatically be attributed to God. The Father’s voice will never contradict His written Word, justify sin, exalt pride, or lead His children away from holiness and obedience. By grounding themselves deeply in Scripture, believers become increasingly familiar with the character, wisdom, and ways of God, enabling them to distinguish the voice of the Shepherd from their own desires and the countless other voices seeking influence over their lives.Craving the Father’s Voice ultimately calls believers beyond simply asking God for direction and into a lifestyle of listening and obedience. The episode challenges listeners to obey what God has already revealed before demanding additional instruction, to seek His counsel before relying upon human reasoning, and to trust Him even when His direction requires faith before complete understanding. As our hunger for the Father’s voice deepens, prayer becomes more than presenting requests; it becomes communion with the One whose wisdom is higher than ours, whose Word is trustworthy, and whose voice faithfully directs the path of every surrendered child who is willing to hear and obey.

In Part 1 of Biblical Cravings, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell challenges believers to examine what their hearts truly hunger for. Every life is governed by an appetite, and what we continually crave will eventually shape our priorities, decisions, and spiritual direction. This episode establishes a foundational truth for the series: God is concerned not only with what we do, but with what we desire, because our actions ultimately flow from the affections of our hearts.Through the biblical examples of David and Mary, Apostle Bardwell explores the difference between merely doing things for God and genuinely desiring to be with God. David's longing to dwell in the presence of the Lord and Mary's decision to sit at the feet of Jesus reveal a hunger that places fellowship with God above activity, responsibility, and accomplishment. The account of Mary and Martha especially confronts the danger of becoming so occupied with serving Christ that we neglect communion with Christ.This episode also addresses the distractions and competing appetites that can gradually weaken a believer's hunger for God's presence. In a generation surrounded by sermons, worship, Christian media, ministry activity, and endless information, believers can consume spiritual content without cultivating spiritual intimacy. Apostle Bardwell calls listeners back to the secret place, emphasizing that genuine fruitfulness flows from abiding in Christ and that public ministry can never replace private fellowship with the Father.Craving the Father's Presence ultimately calls every listener to make the presence of God a daily dwelling place rather than an occasional destination. Through intentional prayer, worship, stillness, Scripture, and consistent fellowship with the Father, spiritual hunger can be strengthened and restored. This opening episode of Biblical Cravings invites believers to examine what they truly crave and to pursue the one thing that must remain above everything else: knowing, seeking, and dwelling in the presence of the Father.

Victory over the flesh is not maintained by willpower. It is sustained through a life that remains continually surrendered to the government of the Holy Spirit. Once the throne has been returned to Jesus Christ, the believer must learn to abide in Him so that self never quietly regains control.In this concluding episode of The Flesh Takeover series, Apostle Bardwell teaches how to remain firmly established beneath the government of Christ through daily dependence, continual surrender, immediate obedience, prayer, the Word of God, and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Discover the practical disciplines that strengthen spiritual maturity, protect the heart from drifting back into self rule, and cultivate a life where Christ is continually formed within His people.This episode brings the entire series to its biblical conclusion by revealing that the Christian life is not about striving harder but abiding deeper. As the government of Christ is established more fully within the believer, the fruit of the Spirit becomes the natural evidence of His reign, and the influence of the flesh steadily loses its power.If your desire is to live as a citizen of God's Kingdom with Jesus Christ firmly established upon the throne of your heart, this message will equip and encourage you to walk daily beneath His perfect government.

Recognizing the flesh is only the beginning. Lasting transformation takes place when self is removed from the throne and Jesus Christ is restored to His rightful place as King. The Christian life is not about improving the flesh. It is about crucifying it and living under the government of Christ.In Part 4 of The Flesh Takeover series, Apostle Bardwell explores what it truly means to deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and return every area of your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.Discover why the flesh cannot be managed, why surrender must become a daily lifestyle, and how obedience, humility, and dependence upon the Holy Spirit dismantle self rule and establish the government of the Kingdom.This episode reveals that the cross is more than the place where Christ died for us. It is the place where our self government comes to an end and the life of Christ begins to be revealed through us. Every act of surrender becomes another step toward genuine freedom, lasting peace, and spiritual maturity.If you desire to move beyond merely recognizing the flesh and begin walking in the victory Christ has already secured, this message will challenge you to return the throne completely to the King.

The greatest danger of the flesh is not simply that it gains access. It is that it quietly establishes occupation until self rule begins to feel normal. What once produced conviction becomes tolerated, and what once grieved the heart gradually becomes accepted.In this portion of The Flesh Takeover series, Apostle Bardwell exposes the practical signs that reveal when the flesh has taken control of a believer's life. Discover how diminished spiritual sensitivity, resistance to correction, dependence upon feelings, self protection, comparison, pride, and prayerlessness reveal a heart that has gradually drifted from the government of Jesus Christ.This episode is a call to honest self examination through the light of God's Word. Rather than producing condemnation, it invites believers into deeper repentance, renewed surrender, and restored fellowship with the Lord. Wherever the Holy Spirit exposes occupied territory, He also extends the invitation for Christ's government to be fully established once again. If every life has a throne, then every believer must continually ask who is truly governing the heart.

The flesh is never satisfied with influence. Its ultimate objective is control. Once self gains access to the heart, it begins seeking the throne that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.In this part of The Flesh Takeover series, Apostle Bardwell uncovers how self rule quietly replaces wholehearted submission to the Lord. Discover why partial obedience is still rebellion, how the flesh disguises itself through independence and religious activity, and why many believers unknowingly live beneath the government of self while professing allegiance to Christ.This episode reveals that the greatest battle is not simply between right and wrong. It is the battle over who will govern your life. Will Christ remain upon the throne, or will self continue making the final decisions?If you desire to move beyond outward religion into genuine surrender, this message will challenge you to examine the government of your own heart and return every area of your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The greatest battles in the life of a believer rarely begin with open rebellion. They begin with subtle compromise. Before the flesh occupies the throne, it quietly seeks access to the areas of our lives that have not been fully surrendered to the government of Jesus Christ.In this opening episode of The Flesh Takeover series, Apostle Bardwell exposes how self rule begins, why the flesh is more than sinful behavior, and how every believer faces the continual battle between the government of the Spirit and the government of self. This episode reveals the enemy's strategy, uncovers the hidden dangers of independence from God, and calls believers back to wholehearted surrender beneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ.If every life has a throne and every throne has a king, the question is not whether you are being governed but who is governing you.Join us as we begin this five part journey exposing the flesh and establishing the government of Christ.

The Christian life was never intended to be lived through human strength, personal wisdom, or natural ability. From the moment of salvation, God calls every believer to yield completely to the leadership, power, and government of Holy Spirit. Living under His influence is not an optional pursuit for the spiritually mature. It is the divine requirement for everyone who belongs to Jesus Christ.In this broadcast, Apostle Bardwell teaches from Ephesians 5:18, where the Apostle Paul declares, "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit." Through this powerful command, you will discover that God is calling His people to live under a different influence. Just as wine controls the one who yields to it, Holy Spirit is to govern the thoughts, decisions, desires, and conduct of every believer. This is not a one time experience but a continual life of surrender to His leadership.This message will challenge you to move beyond emotional experiences and religious routine into a life of continual submission to the voice of Holy Spirit. Learn why so many believers acknowledge His presence while resisting His government, why partial surrender produces inconsistent spiritual growth, and how a life under the influence of Holy Spirit becomes a visible demonstration of the Kingdom of God. The evidence of His influence is not merely spiritual gifts or outward manifestations, but a life that increasingly reflects the character, authority, and obedience of Jesus Christ.If you desire to walk in greater intimacy with God and become a faithful witness of His Kingdom, this broadcast will call you to examine who is truly governing your life. Join Apostle Bardwell as he opens Ephesians 5:18 and reveals why living under the influence of Holy Spirit is not merely a privilege for the believer, but a divine requirement for everyone who belongs to Jesus Christ.

The greatest obstacle to the manifestation of Christ is not the world around us but the self within us. The Kingdom of God is not advanced through the strength of human ambition, natural ability, or personal recognition. It is revealed through lives that have been crucified with Christ and fully surrendered to His government.In this episode, Apostle Jason T. Bardwell examines the biblical necessity of dying to self so that the life of Jesus Christ may be clearly seen through every thought, decision, and action. Discover why God continually leads His servants through seasons of breaking, why self must decrease for Christ to increase, and how the cross remains the pathway to true spiritual authority and lasting fruitfulness.This message is a call to embrace the daily work of the cross, to lay down personal agendas, selfish desires, and independent living, and to allow the Holy Spirit to conform you into the image of Jesus Christ. God is not merely interested in improving your flesh. He is committed to revealing His Son through your life.If you desire to become a vessel through whom Christ is genuinely manifested, this episode will challenge your perspective, deepen your surrender, and remind you that the death of self is never God's rejection of you. It is His preparation for the revelation of Christ within you.

Reverence is far more than an outward expression of respect. It is the inward government that determines how a person responds to the authority of God. When reverence is absent, self inevitably occupies the throne of the heart. When reverence is present, obedience becomes the natural response of a life that recognizes the Lordship of Jesus Christ.In this episode, Apostle Bardwell exposes the difference between religious activity and genuine fear of the Lord. Discover why so many believers desire God's blessings while resisting His government, why familiarity with holy things often produces spiritual complacency, and how a restored reverence for God's presence transforms every area of life.This message is a call back to the fear of the Lord, not as terror, but as holy honor, humble submission, and complete surrender to the King. If the government of God is ever to be established in our lives, it must first be established within our hearts.If you desire to move beyond emotional Christianity into genuine Kingdom government, this episode will challenge your thinking, confront misplaced priorities, and equip you to place Christ back upon the throne of your heart where He alone belongs. Reverence is not merely an emotion. Reverence is the government of the heart.

One of the greatest deceptions of our generation is the distortion of the Father's love. Many have embraced a version of God's love that excuses sin, rejects correction, and elevates comfort above holiness. Yet the love revealed throughout Scripture is not passive, permissive, or indifferent. It is a holy love that transforms, corrects, disciplines, and conforms believers into the image of Jesus Christ.This teaching confronts the counterfeit message that presents God's love as unconditional approval rather than unconditional pursuit. It exposes how the enemy has twisted the Father's heart into a false gospel that celebrates rebellion, dismisses repentance, and removes the fear of the Lord from the lives of many professing believers. The Father's love never competes with His righteousness, justice, or holiness. Instead, every attribute of God works together in perfect harmony.Through the Word of God, this message reveals what it truly means to be loved by the Father. His love calls us out of darkness, convicts us of sin, disciplines us as sons, and refuses to leave us unchanged. If your understanding of God's love has been shaped more by culture than by Scripture, this teaching will challenge long-held assumptions and restore a biblical vision of the Father's heart. The goal is not merely to feel loved by God, but to be transformed by His love into a people who reflect His holiness, walk in obedience, and faithfully represent His Kingdom.

There is a vast difference between someone who merely occupies a place and someone who has been established in covenant relationship. Scripture reveals that many desire the benefits of sonship while rejecting the process that produces sons. A bastard seeks inheritance without submission, position without discipline, and recognition without relationship. A son understands that identity is forged through obedience, correction, and faithful submission to the Father's will.This teaching exposes the spirit of independence that has infiltrated many believers and challenges the false idea that spiritual maturity can exist apart from accountability. Drawing from the Word of God, this message examines the biblical distinctions between a bastard and a son, revealing why God's correction is not rejection but evidence of His love and acceptance. Those whom the Father receives, He chastens, shapes, and prepares for greater responsibility.If you have ever questioned why God permits seasons of correction, pruning, or testing, this teaching will provide biblical clarity and call you into a deeper understanding of true spiritual sonship. The Kingdom of God is not advanced by spiritual orphans or self-appointed individuals, but by sons who have embraced the Father's government, yielded to His discipline, and carry His nature. This is a call to leave behind spiritual independence and enter into the maturity, inheritance, and authority reserved for genuine sons of God.

Apostle Jason T. Bardwell of Weight Of The Well Ministries breaks down for you the purpose behind this new podcast.Learn more about The Kingdom Mandate Podcast by visiting our website at www.weightofthewellministries.org.