From Fire to Fortune: How God Taught This Entrepreneur to Trust Him With Everything

His manufacturing facility burned to the ground in front of 5 fire departments and 80 firemen. Standing in the ashes, Bob Bertelsen heard God speak in the most audible voice of his life, and that moment taught him to trust God with his business, his money, and his future. Is your business really yours, or are you just the steward of something bigger? On this episode, Lance Wallnau sits down with entrepreneur and author Bob Bertelsen, whose new book "Ain't Your Money" is already a bestseller in three Amazon categories. Bob built A Plus Powder Coating from a mortgaged house into a company with 80 employees, and along the way he learned, sometimes the hard way, what it means to fully surrender control to God. In this episode: - Lance's warning on AI, job displacement, and the coming universal income debate - The 1988 fire that destroyed Bob's manufacturing facility, and the voice he heard afterward - Why Bob calls himself a "Chief Executive Steward," not a CEO - The mortgage the house moment that started A Plus in 1996 - A 2015 expansion that nearly bankrupted the company, and the prayer that changed everything - The "decree of ownership" Bob wrote for his business, home, and ministry - Biblical stewardship principles from Matthew, Malachi, and Deuteronomy 8:18 Podcast Episode 2235: From Fire to Fortune: How God Taught This Entrepreneur to Trust Him With Everything | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more conversations with Kingdom minded entrepreneurs and prophetic voices 👍 LIKE if this reframed how you think about trusting God with everything 💬 COMMENT: Do you see yourself as an owner, a provider, or a steward? 📤 SHARE with someone building a business right now ──────────────────────────────────────── 📖 Get Bob's book, "Ain't Your Money": lancewallnau.com/money, use code LANCE15 for 15% off 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau for more prophetic and business content ──────────────────────────────────────── #FromFireToFortune #AintYourMoney #LanceWallnau #ChristianEntrepreneur #KingdomBusiness #ProphecyAndBusiness #FaithAndFinance

Lance Wallnau says the Bible is full of promises you can actually cash in on, like a check, if you know how to claim them. In this episode, he shows you exactly how to do it, live, using verses most Christians read past every day. Using 2 Peter 1:3 and 1 Peter 5:6, Lance breaks down what it really means to "partake of the divine nature" and walks you through claiming a specific promise for anxiety in real time. He also unpacks why simply reading a Bible verse is not enough to cash the check it contains, and teaches the practice of engrafting Scripture so its promises actually produce something in your life instead of sitting on the page. If you have been reading your Bible without seeing its promises show up in your life, this is the episode that shows you what you have been missing. In this episode: * The stranger who called Lance "brother" in Hebrew slang and exposed a secret his mother had hidden about his father for 25 years * The exact promise Lance stops mid-teaching to pray, straight from 1 Peter 5:6, for anyone carrying anxiety right now * Why James, the brother of Jesus, never followed Him during His ministry, and what changed after the resurrection * The "vampire sermon" in John 6 and why Jesus never bothered to explain it to the crowd that walked away * The one word, "engrafted," that separates people who read the promises from people who actually cash them in * Why 90 percent of what Lance quotes from Scripture, he never sat down to memorize * The Charles Spurgeon method for pulling three revelations out of a single verse * The tree illustration that shows exactly where transformation happens in your soul, and why it isn't at the altar Podcast Episode 2234: 'Checks You Can Cash': The Bible Promises Most Christians Never Claim | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for weekly Bible teaching and prophetic insight 💬 COMMENT: what promise are you claiming today? ──────────────────────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X (Twitter): twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────────────────────── #LanceWallnau #BiblePromises #BibleStudy #ChristianFaith #CastYourCares

In September 2024, Lance stood outside of a mosque in Jerusalem with 100 nations in front of him and heard a sentence that would haunt him through the election: Donald Trump shall be the President of the Unites States - for the sake of the nations. Two years later, the wrecking ball is hitting every mountain — and the church is still huddled in the wrong room. What if revival without reformation is the exact reason America has been losing the culture for 60 years? In this episode, Lance unpacks the single distinction almost every pastor, prophet, and prayer movement has missed — the one Caleb operated in at 80, the one Daniel applied inside Babylon, and the one Trump is executing in real time without even knowing the word for it. What's the difference between revival and reformation — and why does America need both before November flips the script? In this episode: * The Jerusalem prophecy Lance heard before the 2024 election (and what "for the sake of the nations" actually meant) * Why Cuba has more Christians than communists — and is still ruled by communists * The "seven times worse" warning Jesus gave that explains exactly what happened to Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth * Why 90% of Christians are sitting on the wrong mountain (and how Israel's 10% tithe-of-the-tribes rule proves it) * The Caleb strategy: why your biggest mountain assignment comes back at 80 * How Trump quietly captured 3 of the 7 mountains before he ever ran for office * The Jezebel-Ahab pattern that always needs a weak leader — and why it's finally failing * Why Daniel in Babylon is the actual blueprint for end-times Christians (not isolation, not rapture-waiting) * The Disney animator's angel vision that exposes what's wrong with most Spirit-filled believers This is the episode that reframes everything you thought you knew about cultural influence, the Cyrus prophecy, and the 7 Mountains Mandate. If you've ever felt the prophetic pull to do more than just attend church — this one's for you. Podcast Episode 2119: Why 30 Sharia Nations Exist — and Zero Christian Ones | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next episode 👍 LIKE if this opened your eyes 💬 COMMENT: Which mountain are you actually called to — and what's stopping you from climbing it? 📤 SHARE with someone who's been waiting for permission to step out ──────────────────────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X (Twitter): twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────────────────────── #FlipAmerica #ReformationVsRevival #LanceWallnau #SevenMountains #CyrusProphecy #PropheticVoice #TrumpProphecy #SevenMountainsMandate #Reformation #Revival #EndTimes #LastDays #SpiritualWarfare #CulturalMountains #Watchman #Awakening #ChristianInfluence #PropheticWord #KingdomOfGod #Discipleship #Babylon

A global Islamic organization is reportedly funding 5,000 mosques to place 1,000 students each into journalism, law, history, filmmaking, and business, aiming for 50,000 trained operatives across America's most influential institutions within five years. Lance Wallnau breaks down why he believes this is happening, and why the church is losing ground by fighting itself instead of building anything close to it. In this episode, Lance responds to critics questioning the theology behind the 7 Mountains Mandate, then shows how real cultural transformation has actually happened historically, from the early church's rise inside the Roman Empire through education and the apologists, to William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect dismantling slavery in England. He argues Christians already have a proven model for influence. They just aren't using it, while other movements are executing a coordinated, well funded plan in plain sight. In this episode: * Why critics are wrong to confuse the 7 Mountains Mandate with declaring America a "holy nation," and what the theology actually claims * The Rome parallel that explains why the early church needed more than martyrdom and preaching to actually change an empire * How the Paidia, Rome's education system, became the quiet mechanism Christians used to out-think and outlast a pagan culture * The Wilberforce and Clapham Sect model for turning a grassroots conviction into a decades-long institutional win * The uncomfortable comparison between a 5,000 mosque plan aiming for 50,000 trained professionals in five years and how slowly the church is moving on the same mountains * What it actually takes to turn a local church into an apostolic hub that disciples an entire city, not just a congregation The Lance Wallnau Show 2232: Why Islam Is Winning the Culture War America Isn't Fighting | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 Subscribe for more breakdowns of faith, culture, and influence ──────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X: twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────── #7Mountains #LanceWallnau #CultureWar #Dominion #ChristianInfluence

Reformation changes institutions. Revival changes hearts. And right now, the church is winning one battle while losing the other. Today, Lance Wallnau breaks down why grassroots revival alone will never be enough to reform a culture, and why the church has to fight for the gatekeepers, the institutions, and the ideas at the top of every mountain of influence. He explains why Rome wasn't converted by street evangelism alone but by centuries of Christian influence working its way into the intellectual and institutional life of the empire, why Paul told believers to pray specifically for rulers and those in authority, and why real cultural change requires both a changed heart and a changed institution. He also makes the case, using a striking comparison to Islam's spread across nations, for why the church cannot afford to keep losing ground at the top while celebrating gains at the bottom. In this episode: * The real difference between reformation and revival, and why confusing the two keeps the church stuck * Why grassroots revival changes people but institutional reformation changes culture * The Rome parallel that explains why street evangelism was never going to be enough on its own * Why Paul specifically told believers to pray for rulers and authorities, not just for everybody * The uncomfortable comparison between how fast Islam has discipled nations versus how slowly Christianity has * What it actually takes to turn a grassroots awakening into lasting institutional change * The Lance Wallnau Show 2231: Reformation vs. Revival: Why the Church Keeps Losing Ground | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 Subscribe for more breakdowns of faith, culture, and influence ──────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X: twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────── #7Mountains #LanceWallnau #Reformation #Revival #ChristianCulture

Some believe the 7 Mountains is one of the most misunderstood ideas in the modern church. Others call it dangerous. In this episode, Lance Wallnau responds directly to a Facebook post attacking the framework, and breaks down exactly why it triggers so much resistance. Is 7 Mountains a call to dominate culture, or a biblical strategy for influence that critics don't actually understand? Lance unpacks the pushback point by point, explaining the difference between "mountains" and "spheres," why hierarchy and gatekeepers exist whether we admit it or not, and why he believes the fiercest resistance to an idea is often proof of its power. In this episode: * The post accusing the 7 Mountains of being unbiblical, and Lance's response * Why "mountain" appears 314 times in Scripture and "sphere" not once * The hidden hierarchy of gatekeeper elites in media, business, and government * How David, Joseph, and Daniel modeled proximity to power inside these mountains * Why some Christians are taught to stay small, and why Lance says that's bad theology * The prophetic word about a janitor that redefines spiritual authority The Lance Wallnau Show 2229: Why Some Call 7 Mountains 'Dangerous' | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 Subscribe for more breakdowns of faith, culture, and influence 👍 Like if this challenged how you see influence and calling ──────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X: twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────── #7Mountains #LanceWallnau #ChristianNationalism #Prophecy

A woman crying in an optometry office. A son she'd never mentioned. A young man swollen and discolored, asleep on a recliner in Lance Wallnau's living room — and a year later, Lance walked right past him on the street without recognizing him. What happened in between? Lance and Annabelle Wallnau sit down to tell the full story of Keith — how a routine eye appointment turned into a prayer nobody planned, and why Annabelle says she started filming him before anything changed. How do you not recognize a man you've prayed over? In this episode: • The appointment Annabelle almost skipped — and the conversation that stopped her at the door • The diagnosis: liver failure, a transplant, and an insurance denial • Why his mother had already spent her life savings before anyone knew • The doctor who told him "you're not trying" — and what that did to his mother • The five-woman prayer team Annabelle calls "small but mighty" • The moment a staff member in the room said out loud that he looked different • Keith in his own words, on camera, describing the first two weeks • The street encounter where Lance didn't know who he was talking to This one isn't politics or prophecy. It's a story Lance and Annabelle have been sitting on for a year. The Lance Wallnau Show 2228: The Stranger's Son Who Almost Lost His Life In My Living Room | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next episode 👍 LIKE if this one stayed with you 💬 COMMENT: Have you ever prayed with a total stranger, and what happened? 📤 SHARE with someone who needs this today ──────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X: twitter.com/LanceWallnau 📞 Level 10 Matrix — free ebook, "Stem Cells Made Simple": 800-361-2270 ────────────────────────  #SameMan #LanceWallnau #Annabelle #TestimonyStory #PrayerWorks #DivineHealing #ChristianPodcast #FaithStories #AnsweredPrayer #LiverTransplant #PrayerTeam #ChristianTestimony #MiracleStory #FaithAndHealing #IntercessoryPrayer #WallnauPodcast #KeithsStory #SupernaturalMeetsNatural

Discover the simple 15-minute Bible practice that transforms how you think, pray, and walk with God, a daily rhythm of reading through the Psalms and Proverbs that engrafts God's Word into your soul. In this Bible study, Lance Wallnau breaks down a system he's used for decades: reading five Psalms and one Proverb a day (cycling through both books 12 times a year) to build devotion and wisdom into your daily life. You'll learn what it means to "engraft" the Word of God into your thinking so it actually transforms you, not just informs you. Walking through Psalm 30, Psalm 16, and Proverbs 30, Lance shows how David used his voice, his "glory," to access the presence of God, how crying out to the Lord in prayer and worship shifts your atmosphere, and why meditating on Scripture day and night positions you to prosper in whatever God has called you to do. This isn't theory, it's a practical, repeatable habit you can start today with just your Bible and 15 minutes. In this episode: * The daily 15 minute system: 5 Psalms and 1 Proverb a day, 12 times through both books a year * What it really means to "engraft" God's Word into your soul, and why that's different from just reading it * The airplane pressure-test analogy: why your battles are building your capacity for what's coming * Joshua 1's territory principle: God already went ahead of you, and no one can stand in your lane * Psalm 30's secret weapon: how David turned mourning into dancing by crying out to God * Why your tongue is called your "glory," and how that connects to praying in the Spirit * Psalm 60's revelation: what to do "when your heart is overwhelmed" and needs a higher rock * How David accessed the throne of grace centuries before it was legally available to anyone * Proverbs 30's warning: the one thing that pulls people out of alignment with God, whether they're rich or poor The Lance Wallnau Show 2226: The 15-Minute Bible Practice That Changes Everything | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next episode ──────────────────────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X: twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────────────────────── #BibleStudy #WordOfGod #Prayer #Faith #LanceWallnau

In Isaiah 36, a foreign voice named Rabshakeh stood at Jerusalem's gates and prophesied doom over a nation God was actually saving. Lance Wallnau says that exact same spirit just resurfaced — and three of conservative media's biggest voices are now carrying it. The bitter taste it leaves in your mouth after every podcast is the giveaway. What really happened to Tucker, Candace, and Kelly? Prophetic voice Lance Wallnau exposes the Sennacherib spirit — a 2,700-year-old lying voice that intimidates God's people, counterfeits wisdom, and robs you of the awareness of victory even while America is breaking through. In this episode: - The Isaiah 36 pattern repeating in conservative talk media right now - Why Jesus said discerning of spirits matters MORE than healing in the last days - Jane Hammond's revelation about the toxic vapor smothering America - The wine connoisseur secret to cleansing your spiritual palate - "Mind like water" — how to stop the enemy from amplifying every pebble into a boulder - Why the most capable Christians get quietly taken out of the battle - The hidden tactic Satan uses to rob you of breakthrough you already won - What David's own brothers teach us about being misjudged on the way to destiny - How walking in peace becomes the ultimate weapon of discernment If you've felt heavy, demoralized, or like nothing in this country is working — even while something deep inside you knows America is breaking through — this episode names the spirit doing it to you, and how to break its grip before it steals one more day of your victory. The Lance Wallnau Show 2226: What Happened to Tucker, Candace, and Kelly? | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss the next testimony 👍 LIKE if this gave you hope 💬 COMMENT: Do you believe the body was designed to regenerate itself — or is something else going on here? 📤 SHARE with someone who needs to hear this today ──────────────────────────────────────── 📲 Follow Lance Wallnau: Website: lancewallnau.com Facebook: facebook.com/LanceWallnau Instagram: instagram.com/lancewallnau X (Twitter): twitter.com/LanceWallnau ──────────────────────────────────────── #WhatHappenedToTucker #SennacheribSpirit #LanceWallnau #PropheticVoice #DiscerningOfSpirits

Some believe artificial intelligence isn't just changing how we communicate. It's rebuilding the Tower of Babel. Lance sits down with Ben Peterson, author of "When Intelligence Isn't Human," to unpack what happens when a single technology can speak to every person on earth in their own language, and why he believes that's exactly the scenario Genesis warns about. The conversation goes deep fast: an AI that refused to write part of Lance's own manuscript, the Pentagon's push to mandate AI training across the military, the arms race with China, and a young man whose family says an AI chatbot played a role in his suicide. Ben, who's ministered to more than 300,000 service members and veterans, explains why he believes AI is being built by people who follow moral relativism rather than a biblical worldview, and why that matters far more than most Christians realize. From there the discussion moves into Genesis 6, the Singularity, and what Elon Musk, Jeffrey Hinton, and others are already saying in public about where this is heading. In this episode: * Why Claude refused to write part of Lance's manuscript, and what that says about where AI is headed * Ben Peterson's case for why AI is "rebuilding the Tower of Babel," and what Genesis says happens when humanity gains one shared language * The Pentagon's mandate to train U.S. military branches on AI daily, and what that means in the AI arms race with China * Why Ben says nearly 40% of millennials and Gen Z now turn to AI chatbots as often as they'd turn to a pastor * Jeffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI," and the warning he's now giving the world after leaving Google * Genesis 6, the Nephilim, and why Lance connects that account to where AI and robotics may be headed next * The Singularity, and why Ben compares the utopian promises behind it to the ones made by Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode 2225: Why Some Believe AI Is 'Rebuilding the Tower of Babel' | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast 🔔 Subscribe for more conversations at the intersection of faith, culture, and what's coming next. ────────────────────────────────────────
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