Jay Haizlip

Pastor | Skateboarder | Founder of Alliance Ministries | As seen on Preachers of L.A. 🛹✝️

[Jay Haizlip @jayhaizlip]

The two ideologies doing the most damage in this country right now are radical Islamism and communism, and underneath they're the same thing: both demand an allegiance that belongs to Jesus alone.

Christians were never called to retreat from that. Salt preserves what it touches.

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Flattery has always bothered me because it's a kind of deception that's difficult to call out without sounding ungrateful for the compliment. But a man who only ever receives flattery eventually loses his ability to hear the truth, and that's dangerous for anyone in leadership.

Proverbs 26:28 says a flattering mouth works ruin. I believe that. I've watched it happen. Give the people around you honest, respectful feedback. That's what genuine love looks like in practice.

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Somewhere along the way we got the message that what you need is a bigger audience, more reach, more visibility. I've watched people chase platform their whole lives and end up spiritually hollow. What actually produces lasting fruit is roots, the kind that go down into the Word and prayer and genuine obedience over years.

The platform, if God wants you to have it, tends to follow that. Pursuing it the other way around doesn't tend to end well.

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Back in the 90s, I preached that a day would come when the older generation would be treated as disposable once they were no longer seen as useful or beneficial.

That spirit is here.

When a culture loses the fear of God, it stops honoring life. The Church must stand for the unborn, the elderly, the weak, and the vulnerable.

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Father Larry Holland, a Catholic priest in Canada, was offered euthanasia twice after being hospitalized with a broken hip.

He was not terminally ill. Despite knowing that he was a priest and opposed to euthanasia, hospital staff suggested ending his life.

Today it’s “voluntary“ euthanasia. Tomorrow, forced. We must stop both.

[Jay Haizlip @jayhaizlip]

Back in the 90s, I preached that a day would come when the older generation would be treated as disposable once they were no longer seen as useful or beneficial.

That spirit is here.

When a culture loses the fear of God, it stops honoring life. The Church must stand for the unborn, the elderly, the weak, and the vulnerable.

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Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps them and teaches them will be called great.

Matthew 5:19. Think carefully about what you're teaching people, and not just from the platform. From the way you actually live.

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The early church had no buildings, no marketing teams, no production budgets.

What they had was the Holy Spirit and an absolute inability to stop talking about what they had witnessed firsthand. We have built everything they didn't have and in many ways accomplished less. I think about that more than I probably should.

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We don't go to church. We ARE the church, and the building is just the address. The body of believers is what Christ died for and what the Holy Spirit lives in, and He goes wherever His people go.

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@Aficionajoe Thank you! God's done more than I ever could've dreamed. 🙏

[Jay Haizlip @jayhaizlip]

I was born in Gadsden, Alabama. I got into cocaine at 15, living in Newport Beach. By 19, I was a professional skateboarder on magazine covers. By 21, I was in a prison cell.
By 28, I was sitting on the edge of a bed back in Gadsden at nine in the morning, completely broken and absolutely out of options. I finally stopped trying to fix myself and asked God for help. That was 1990.
Everything after that has been different. God doesn't just forgive you for where you've been. He rebuilds the whole thing into something He can use.

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My testimony is out today. The most of my story I've ever shared in one place. From addiction to an encounter with Jesus that changed everything. If God could reach me, He can reach anyone you're praying for. Watch it and send it to someone who needs hope: https://t.co/ja7rmwuXFk

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I've watched people spend years asking God for more anointing, more presence, more power, while holding onto things He's been asking them to release for months.

What I've found consistently is that the authority people are hungry for tends to show up on the other side of surrender rather than on the other side of striving.

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A woman came up to me after worship and told me she hadn't been inside a church in years. She said she walked in angry.

By the time the first song ended, she was weeping and she couldn't explain why. I've watched this happen hundreds of times over the years and it still catches me off guard every time.

Nobody in that room did that. God showed up, which is what He tends to do when people give Him access.

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@SheltonSon47438 Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you. 🙏

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Something I want to say to pastors and preachers right now, and I say it as someone who stood behind a pulpit for 25 years:

The day you start shaping your message around who might be upset by it, you've started moving from shepherd to entertainer. The congregation doesn't need a comfortable word. They need the one God actually gave you. That's why He called you to it in the first place.

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@Dusty_Adams Thank you, my friend. I’m still telling people how Jesus met me and pulled me out. Grateful you’ve been connected all these years.

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I've been to the funerals of men I knew who died in their addiction, men who weren't fundamentally different from me, who ran out of time before they found a way out.

I walked out of that same thing in 1990 and I have never gone back, and the only honest explanation I have is Jesus. I know exactly how that sounds to someone who hasn't experienced it firsthand. I said the same thing before it happened to me.

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The enemy doesn't waste energy on things that are already harmless.

If you've been under sustained attack this season, in your relationships, your faith, your family, I'd encourage you to sit with what that might actually mean about the calling on your life.

You are probably more of a threat to darkness than you've given yourself credit for.

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Tomorrow is July and I'm going into it with more expectation than I've had in a long time. Something is happening in the body of Christ right now that you can feel if you're paying attention. People are getting hungry again. I want to feed that hunger. Let's go.