Affliction Shall Not Rise A Second Time
Dwelling Place Anaheim
Affliction doesn’t get to forecast your future. In this message, Alan unpacks the words of Nahum 1:9: “Affliction shall not rise a second time.” He explores the difference between affliction that is permitted for preparation and affliction that seeks to oppress and dominate—and what changes when God speaks not just a promise, but a judicial decree that settles a matter. Drawing from the lives of Joseph, Mordecai, the Exodus story, and the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, this teaching addresses recurring cycles—old pain resurfacing,...
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Fresh Permission, Fresh Perspective, Fresh Position
Dwelling Place Anaheim
Something is stirring in the house. Something is shifting in the house. The season has changed — not because we’ve been striving, but because God is speaking. In this message, Fresh Permission, Fresh Perspective, and Fresh Position, James unpacks what changes when heaven releases a word that turns a moment into movement. Fresh permission is being restored — you’re allowed to believe again, dream again, ask again, move again. What felt closed is opening. What was delayed is moving. What was silent is singing. And as God shifts the season, He also shifts the way we see — fresh...
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Elevation | Song of Fulfilment
Dwelling Place Anaheim
Alan continues our series called Elevation with a bold reminder that true promotion is never self-made — it is God-ordained. Anchored in Psalm 75, this message declares that exaltation does not come from the east or the west, from striving or systems, but from the Lord alone: “He puts down one and exalts another.” When the Judge releases His verdict, no resistance can overturn what heaven has decided. Returning to Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel, Alan reveals what happens when prayer finally meets provision — when petition becomes possession and the long night of intercession gives way to...
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Elevation: Divine Closure & Divine Promotion
Dwelling Place Anaheim
In our new series, Elevation, Alan opens with a call to recognize what God is doing in hidden places — and how divine delays are often the very thing preparing us for divine elevation. Drawing from the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel, this message reframes seasons of limitation, frustration, and unanswered prayer not as rejection, but as divine closure — moments when God lovingly shuts something in so that He can release something greater in due time. What looks like delay is often God building capacity, protecting calling, and storing up force for the moment He says, “Now.” Alan reveals...
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Positioned To Possess Your Inheritance
Dwelling Place Anaheim
As we start the new year, Alan speaks into a defining moment of realignment and preparation — a season where God is not calling us to strive harder, but to be repositioned under what He is already pouring out. Drawing from Obadiah 1:19 and the Psalms, this message reframes inheritance not as something we chase, but something we are positioned to receive. This teaching explores how every promise from God carries a repositioning — shifting us from survival into stewardship, from comparison into calling, and from old boundaries into new territories of responsibility and influence. As...
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Governing Peace
Dwelling Place Anaheim
In Governing Peace, James reflects on the promise of peace at the heart of the Christmas story — not a shallow calm or seasonal feeling, but a peace that rules in the middle of disruption. Through the nativity, the words of Isaiah, and the life of Jesus, we are invited to see peace not as something we achieve, but as Someone we receive. This message reframes peace as the loving government of Christ over our hearts, minds, and lives. From personal testimony to moments of Scripture where storms rage and fear rises, we discover that peace does not wait for circumstances to improve — it enters...
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Guest Speaker: Andy Byrd
Dwelling Place Anaheim
We're so excited to welcome Andy Byrd this week. Andy and his wife Holly are committed to community, Christ-centered living, revival, and cultural reformation. Andy is part of the leadership of University of the Nations, YWAM Kona and is committed to the nations, with a heart to raise up generations with a burning heart for God and for others. Together, they’ve helped birth “Fire and Fragrance Ministries and the “Circuit Riders” movement which helps train and release missionaries.
info_outlineIn this message, Alan unpacks the words of Nahum 1:9: “Affliction shall not rise a second time.” He explores the difference between affliction that is permitted for preparation and affliction that seeks to oppress and dominate—and what changes when God speaks not just a promise, but a judicial decree that settles a matter.
Drawing from the lives of Joseph, Mordecai, the Exodus story, and the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, this teaching addresses recurring cycles—old pain resurfacing, fear of regression, emotional bracing, and the sense that past struggles might return. Instead, it points to a shift into established favor, where affliction loses jurisdiction, joy is restored, and the future is no longer shaped by what once ruled.
Affliction ends. Favor remains. And God establishes His people for what comes next.