Belonging House Fellowship

Christ John Otto is the founder of Belonging House, an international fellowship of artists and creative people. The House of Artisans is our Sunday online worshipping congregation. We are a community called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth.

The Call is an Act of Creation 01/26/2026

The Call is an Act of Creation This word "call" in Greek, Kaleo, appears 148 times in the New Testament. It is the greek word used for the Hebrew word "cara." This word first appears at the beginning of Genesis when God speaks and he calls the light day and the dark night. In the Bible, and especially in the Gospels, the word "call" has an intrinsic meaning. The call defines a person and calls them out of one reality and into another. So Jesus calls fishermen, and in the call itself is the power for those men to leave their nets, leave their family legacy, leave their place in society, and follow Jesus. And in the call is another reality. The call defines you. So Jesus calls them and says, from now on you will be fishers of men. Notice what Jesus does here. He does not say You were once fishermen, and now I am going to make you Christian accountants. No. The call of God transforms what they are, their natural gifts and abilities, into something much higher. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39880310

Illusion and Reality: Baptism in the Holy Spirit 01/18/2026

Illusion and Reality: Baptism in the Holy Spirit God is always calling us out of our illusions and into Kingdom reality. The religious worldly mind calls us backward into the realm of the past. And that realm of the past will then cause us to live in unreality. God is present future. He is always talking about now and calling us into future. This is why, when we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and then we move into his reality. This is why you feel free. You are back in sync with God. Sadly, many people conjure up and relive the past over and over again and they are living and being defined by things that are gone. This is the illusion that God has not forgiven. The religious mind thinks God forgives us but we still have to do something to make it happen. This is not reality. In today's gospel, Jesus comes to John and John declares that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And then John says this, my ministry is for a season. My ministry and my baptism is only here to point the way to someone else, and this one is here. And then John gives us the point. The one coming after me will baptize you in the Holy Spirit. You will not be baptized in water, but in the Holy Spirit. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39776975

You Can Become a Whole Person 01/12/2026

You Can Become a Whole Person Today we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord and I want to talk about a few BIG ideas that will lay out the next season of teaching. In John chapter three one of the leaders of the sanhedrin, Nicodemus comes to Jesus secretly at night. And Nicodemus makes an observation to Jesus, no one could do the signs that you do unless God is with him. And the Jesus replies, No one can enter the Kingdom of heaven unless he is born again. And then Jesus explains that unless you are born by water and the Holy Spirit you are not in the Kingdom. Flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit. The Kingdom of God is not a kingdom of talk, but a kingdom of power. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39698705

You Are Sacred Space 01/05/2026

You Are Sacred Space You are the light. Light is only useful in dark places. And you cannot be sacred space unless you learn to listen to the Lord, and do what he tells you. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39616345

Christmas is the Miracle 12/25/2025

Christmas is the Miracle God delights in you. God is coming to earth, not as conqueror or warrior. God is coming to earth in peace with love, delight, and favor. Heaven is invading earth and it is an invasion of favor. Christmas is the miracle. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39533125

Faith and Reality 12/21/2025

Faith and Reality This is why when we make scriptural declarations we see so much happen in people's lives. When we declare scriptural truth, even if that truth is not yet reality for us, we begin to see movement from our broken reality into God's reality. The incarnation is everything. Jesus came into a broken world and said I am salvation I am God with you. I am close and I can bring the life and love of God into your broken reality and bring salvation. That word salvation means healing, wholeness, shalom, transformation and blessing. And so we declare salvation over situations. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at Find out more at https://belonging.house /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39489065

Fulfillment: How to receive the answer to your prayer. 12/15/2025

Fulfillment: How to receive the answer to your prayer. What do you do when the fulfilment comes and it is not what you expected? There is a back side to the forerunner calling and we need to talk about it. God is fulfilling promises right now in our community, and it is important to understand a core piece of God's fulfillment. Most people miss the day of their visitation and the day of the fulfillment because they are expecting one thing and God does another. God fulfills the word and the promise but it does not look like what we expected. And when this happens people either get disappointed or offended. __ You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39412150

Prepare the Way for the Lord 12/07/2025

Prepare the Way for the Lord In Scripture there is really only one forerunner, John the Baptist. His message can be broken down into four parts: 1.Prepare the Way for the coming of the Lord. 2. Change your thinking. 3. Produce works that show you have changed. 4. He must increase and I must decrease: when he comes turn to him and be filled with the Holy Spirit. ______ You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39315815

What is and What will be: Processing the Prophetic 11/30/2025

What is and What will be: Processing the Prophetic The prophetic word is the end from the beginning. If God gives you a word, He is telling you how things are going to work out. It is designed to give you prophetic hope. Hope keeps you going. A lot of people live in what is or what was. They live in what their eyes tell them about now, or the illusion of their experience in the past. And out of this, they get trapped in a poverty mindset with no possibilities or options. The Lord lives in what is and what will be. #Advent #BelongingHouse #Prophetic #ListentoGod You can find out more at You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39213955

Settle it in your mind today. 11/17/2025

Settle it in your mind today. Patience is saying to Jesus, you are the most patient person in the Universe. I need you to manifest your patience through me today. Settle it in your mind today. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/39059815

The Harlot and the Glory 11/10/2025

The Harlot and the Glory We are not living in ordinary times, but rather, a great time of shifting and transition. I have been going over the words we received on our listening day. I want to end this teaching today with a few practical thoughts for all of us going forward, but before I do that, let's talk about some big thoughts. I was asked a few days ago about the glory and how we carry the glory. And this related to something Bob Jones said before he died, that the glory of God was going to return to the church, and that the glory would accompany the great "end time" billion soul harvest, this harvest the described as the "House. Related to this is the opposition those who are called to carry the glory would face. This opposition is described in Revelation as the "Harlot." --- You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com x /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38971870

Blessed with the Resources of Heaven 11/03/2025

Blessed with the Resources of Heaven Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you are the Son of God and the only way to God, that you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. That on the cross you were made a curse with every curse that is due to me, that I might be redeemed from the curse and enter into the blessing. Lord, I confess any sins committed by me or by my ancestors. I ask your forgiveness. I also forgive every other person whoever harmed me or wronged me. I forgive them as I would have God forgive me. I also forgive myself. I renounce all contact with the occult in any form and I commit myself to get rid of any ‘contact objects.’ And now Lord, having received by faith your forgiveness, with the authority I have as a child of God, I now release myself and those under my authority from any curse over our lives. Right now, in the name of Jesus, I declare release. I claim it and I receive it by faith. In the name of Jesus. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38891665

Pride, Jezebel, and Leviathan: Spiritual Warfare for Artists 10/27/2025

Pride, Jezebel, and Leviathan: Spiritual Warfare for Artists The most powerful thing you can do in spiritual warfare is to look at Jesus. And as you ignore the demonic that is feeding on your attention and your rebellion, the demonic realm begins to get starved for attention and just goes away. The most powerful thing you can do is not lose the plot. This is humility. ---- You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38791795

Do Not Touch the Glory 10/19/2025

Do Not Touch the Glory When I began our series on spiritual warfare for artists, I stated that everything we do in discipleship is spiritual war. Your life of prayer, your practice of listening to God, your choice to do what God asks of you, and your regular rhythm as an artist and creative person is just like the daily physical training of a marine. ---- You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38636720

Witchcraft and Power Over People: Spiritual Warfare for Artists 10/06/2025

Witchcraft and Power Over People: Spiritual Warfare for Artists You can listen to an in depth understanding of witchcraft here: Derek Prince has a foundational message on this topic here: https://youtu.be/fjeeInjMoJc?si=OFn8wqyXr2YFboOa You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38479640

Rest Pray Fast: Spiritual Warfare for Artists 09/29/2025

Rest Pray Fast: Spiritual Warfare for Artists You are dealing with spiritual forces who are outside of time. They will outwork you and they will outsmart you if you try to fight them using a carnal understanding. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38392465

Know Your Self: Spiritual Warfare for Artists 09/22/2025

Know Your Self: Spiritual Warfare for Artists This is part three in the series: Clash of Kingdoms. This week we look at the nature of the spiritual forces of evil. I promise you will never look at a fish the same way again. Acts 19:11-20 You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38304930

Know Your Enemy 09/15/2025

Know Your Enemy This is part two in the series: Clash of Kingdoms. This week we look at the nature of the spiritual forces of evil. I promise you will never look at a fish the same way again. Ephesians 6:10-20 You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38224615

Clash of Kingdoms 09/07/2025

Clash of Kingdoms The first in a series on Spiritual Warfare for Artists. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/38121590

Jesus: Master Artisan 08/25/2025

Jesus: Master Artisan Jesus is the Master Artisan. He is the Author of Beauty. He is more than a carpenter, and is the Creator incarnate. /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37947050

Nineteen 08/17/2025

Nineteen This week is a celebration of thanksgiving. We have been doing this Belonging House adventure for nineteen years. There are some amazing things about this story, and how so many of the things that I did in the beginning became part of our DNA and part of our life together. We began praying in tongues together for fifteen minutes in my living room in Akron, Ohio. We celebrated holy communion together daily. We sat and listened to God together. We ate together. And all of this happened before we "formed" an organization. /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37855705

Bezalel: Image of God 08/12/2025

Bezalel: Image of God God is calling the artist and creative person to build the Kingdom of God on the earth. In this teaching, Christ John Otto shares how Bezalel is a new Adam carrying out the original directions to Adam as the Image of God. Exodus 31:15 /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37771175

An Army of Imagination 08/04/2025

An Army of Imagination Part two on the Big ideas for artists. This week the Charashim from Zechariah 1:15-2:5. /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37666370

Your Art is Spiritual Warfare 07/28/2025

Your Art is Spiritual Warfare The first in a series on Big Ideas for Artists. Why you have power in the unseen realm as an artist or creative person. #incarnation #Artists #icon /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37574675

Jesus is Already Happy 07/21/2025

Jesus is Already Happy How do you respond to Jesus? Our desire is to respond with a Kingdom grid. The Father is always calling, always wooing. And there is a promise in scripture that very few people understand: If you draw near to me I will draw near to You. A lot of people think that scripture says: If I repent hard enough, do the right stuff and serve God until he approves then I will have permission to come close but God may or may not be interested. Jesus said, Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For my yoke is easy, my burden is light. ---- Christ John Otto leads Belonging House International, a fellowship called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth. His most recent book is Artists at a Shift in Time, https://a.co/d/3hPEiHT The heart of Belonging House is our Friday email. You can subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at We encourage artists to make the Belonging House commitment: https://belonginghouse.substack.com/p/our-commitment You can support us at You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37481275

Are You Running Ahead of the Pack? 07/14/2025

Are You Running Ahead of the Pack? God calls some people to do things that do not make sense to the conventional order to push the direction. And honestly, if you look at history the people God choose are either a bit crazy or deeply broken. God chooses the people who are in desperate situations because they are desperate for God. Christ John Otto leads Belonging House International, a fellowship called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth. His most recent book is Artists at a Shift in Time, https://a.co/d/3hPEiHT The heart of Belonging House is our Friday email. You can subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at We encourage artists to make the Belonging House commitment: https://belonginghouse.substack.com/p/our-commitment You can support us at You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37396185

Iran, Islam, and a Glorious Church: a prophetic conversation. 07/11/2025

Iran, Islam, and a Glorious Church: a prophetic conversation. A few weeks ago we sat down with some of our community to review prophetic words. We talked in depth about geo-political shifts, how God is using Islam to reignite his church, and glory that is beginning to return to the Body of Christ. Christ John Otto leads Belonging House International, a fellowship called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth. His most recent book is Artists at a Shift in Time, https://a.co/d/3hPEiHT The heart of Belonging House is our Friday email. You can subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at We encourage artists to make the Belonging House commitment: https://belonginghouse.substack.com/p/our-commitment You can support us at You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37372015

Freedom for the Forerunner 07/07/2025

Freedom for the Forerunner Christ John Otto leads Belonging House International, a fellowship called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth. The heart of Belonging House is our Friday email. You can subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at We encourage artists to make the Belonging House commitment: https://belonginghouse.substack.com/p/our-commitment You can support us at You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37305385

To Be Radical in Radical Times 06/30/2025

To Be Radical in Radical Times Luke 9:58 Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has no where to lay his head. Luke 9:23 If any man would come after me, let him take up his cross daily, and follow me. --- Today we are going to end this talk with a few prayers. First, I want to break off of you any ways people have made false declarations over you. Some of you have aligned your hearts with these lies and so we may have to renounce them as well. There are many artists who listen to my teaching who have been cursed by their churches. So we are going to break that off. There are many of you who feel like God has called you to do radical things but there is resistance, both inward and outward, to keep you "normal" and to stop you from walking in obedience. We are going to break that off and we are going to pray for you. Some of you may need to turn from this and I am going to ask you to indicate to everyone here your desire to change direction and align with Jesus. And then we are going to go after all the false religious teaching that has kept some of you bound in poverty, lack, sickness, and death. ---- Christ John Otto leads Belonging House International, a fellowship called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth. The heart of Belonging House is our Friday email. You can subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at We encourage artists to make the Belonging House commitment: https://belonginghouse.substack.com/p/our-commitment You can support us at You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37216860

How to Receive Holy Communion 06/23/2025

How to Receive Holy Communion This day we remember the Body and Blood. The Body was offered, it was blessed and dedicated, it was broken, and it was give to us. As a young person in the Episcopal church I was taught a deceptively simple rhyme crafted by Queen Elizabeth I: Twas God the Word that spake it. He took the Bread and brake it. And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it. God the Word made flesh took bread, gave thanks and declared over it a new reality, and in the breaking of that bread, the reality was released to us, and we can receive it. ----- You can get the Belonging House Friday Email at https://mailchi.mp/44964233320d/friday-email-signup Christ John Otto writes at https://christjohnotto.substack.com You can support us at https://buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto You can view Belonging House Books here: /episode/index/show/belonginghouse/id/37110510

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