Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Reviving Faith: Keith Nix on Trials & God’s Fulfilled Word
About this episode
Pastor Keith Nix of Lift Church in Sevierville, Tennessee joins Philip Cameron for a conversation about prophetic fulfillment, national hope, and the urgent call for the church to rise. In 2020, during the height of the pandemic, Keith received two striking words from the Lord — first, that God would place a "divine pause" on the enemy's agenda, and second, a prophetic declaration he heard as it left his own lips: "After insurrection, resurrection." Years before the word "insurrection" entered the national conversation, Keith was proclaiming that God would follow that moment with a resurrection of hope, truth, humility, and common sense across America. Drawing on Romans 15:13 — "God is the God of hope" — Keith reminds believers that hope cannot be extinguished as long as God exists, calling hope and faith "siblings." He cautions the church not to mistake political momentum for spiritual assignment: "This is a time for the church of Jesus Christ to get to work like never before." Keith also introduces his new book, Losing Jesus in Church, a practical guide built around the story of Mary and Joseph losing — and finding — Jesus in the temple, offering eight steps to help believers reconnect with Christ. Find it at keithnix.net. Visit Lift Church online at theliftchurch.tv.
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Quotes worth sharing
“The Lord spoke to me as clearly as you are hearing my voice. And he said, that's your son. My dad was with me. I said, dad, look at that boy. He's a bonny boy. I says, no, I says, way more — God wants me to adopt. So I went down and I picked him up, covered in his own waste. And I said, I don't know who you are, where you came from, but I promise you I will not stop until I get you.”
“After insurrection, resurrection. So I declared it. I heard it as I declared it. And the word of the Lord was, after insurrection, resurrection. God began to deal with me, and I began just to proclaim, after insurrection, God's going to do something and bring a resurrection to our nation. A resurrection of hope. A resurrection of truth.”
“The thing about hope — see, the devil's always after our hope. If he can get your hope, then hope deferred makes the heart sick. But when the desire comes — see, hope is like one of those trick candles on a birthday cake. You blow it, it keeps popping back up. And because Romans 15:13 says God is the God of hope, that means as long as God exists, hope exists.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Keith Nix of Lift Church in Sevierville, Tennessee shares two prophetic words he received in July 2020: that God would place a divine pause on the enemy's plans (drawn from John's account of Jesus in the garden), and a spontaneous declaration — "after insurrection, resurrection" — spoken before the term "insurrection" had entered public discourse. Keith traces how both words found fulfillment in subsequent national events and calls the church to seize the current moment with urgency rather than complacency. He also discusses his new book, Losing Jesus in Church, which uses the story of Mary and Joseph to offer eight practical steps for believers who have grown disillusioned with the church.
- Divine Pause Prophecy from John's Gospel
- "After Insurrection, Resurrection" Declared
- Prophecy Meets National Events
- Hope, Faith, and Romans 15:13
- Church's Responsibility in a New Political Season
- Losing Jesus in Church — Book Overview
- Eight Steps to Reconnect with Jesus
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Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us. We have got a tremendous program today, a great friend of ours and a great man of God. You don't meet many great men of God in your life, but this is one of them. And he's got a church in Sevierville in Tennessee.
Philip:If ever you're going to Gatlinburg in that area, if you've never been there, you need to go there. It's one of the most beautiful parts of the nation, right in the middle and the heart of Tennessee on the east part. And he's got a church there called the Lift in Sevierville. You don't know it yet, but you're about to meet a new friend, and he's got a word from the Lord for you today. His church partners with us in our mission work in Moldova, and we're just so grateful for him.
Philip:So many years ago, my dad called me and I was living in America. He was in Scotland. They'd been watching the unfolding of the Berlin Wall falling in East Germany, falling in Czechoslovakia, all being shaken free of communism. And then he called me one day and he says, our babies are dying. And I says, what are you talking about? And he was talking about a country called Romania, and in the orphanage system there, young children were starving to death. They would go to an orphanage with one syringe and they would inject all the kids with vitamins or whatever, and they spread AIDS through all the orphanages. It was unbelievable.
Philip:And he called me up one day and he says, our babies are dying. I says, dad, that's sad. I'll send a hundred dollars to the Red Cross. But he kept calling me back. And one day he called me up, he said, I'm going. If I die on the way — he was recovered from cancer surgery — he said, if I die on the way, it's your fault. And that was how I was brought, kicking and screaming, into this world I now live in.
Philip:I walked into this orphanage in Timișoara, Romania, went up the stairs, salon number five. There were 30 kids in the room, and all the cribs were end to end, so they were rocking because they'd never been cuddled by a mom. And their cribs were crashing like this against each other. And right in the middle of all this insanity, a wee face was looking at me.
Philip:He was up on his tiptoes, looking down where I was at. And the Lord spoke to me as clearly as you are hearing my voice. And he said, that's your son. My dad was with me. I said, dad, look at that boy. He's a bonny boy. I says, no, I says, way more — God wants me to adopt. So I went down and I picked him up, covered in his own waste. And I said, I don't know who you are, where you came from, but I promise you I will not stop until I get you.
Philip:And it took me a year to adopt him. And that year I discovered they had no toilets. So I had a whole bunch of new toilets put in the place. Once I put the toilets in, I flew some plumbers from Scotland to put the toilets in. And in the morning — we worked all night to put the toilets in place — and in the morning we discovered there were no pipes outside, there were no drain pipes. So I had to put in drain pipes. And then the beds were painted with lead paint, and I had to replace the beds, and the roof leaked. And by the time I adopted Andrew, I was hooked in caring for kids. And that was 35 years ago.
Philip:And in the last quarter century, we've been in a country called Moldova, the poorest country in Europe. It's like Africa in Europe, Africa with minus 30 degree weather. And we discovered that when a girl or a boy turns 16 in that country, in the orphanage system, they put them on the streets and traffickers get them. And they reckon up to 400,000 of their kids have been trafficked in the last decades. And I've got two daughters of my own. I just couldn't bear it.
Philip:So we now have a ministry in Moldova and also in Ukraine where we take kids from the orphanages or from desperately poor situations — they are the most vulnerable kids for trafficking — and we take them to an amazing place called Vatra Village. They come to Vatra Village, which sits on the largest lake in the country. It was built originally for rich people. And then that lake was covered in algae, and they put chlorine in the lake to kill the algae, and they killed everything else. All these projects along the side of the lake, including that place right there called Vatra Village. And we bought it, finished the house that had never been finished.
Philip:And we take young girls and young boys from orphanages that are at risk, being told every day — rejected by their parents, told by the teachers and the workers in the orphanages — you're nothing, you're garbage, you'll never be anything. And they come to Vatra Village and we tell them, if you are born, God has a plan. And the most crazy things happen — they become sons and daughters.
Philip:In fact, my wife just came back two days ago with my daughter, having been there for Christmas time. And they got a curtain and they all signed this curtain, and someone painted a picture of Chrissy, and it was just amazing stuff. And we got a video just a few hours ago of my wife Chrissy in Moldova with our kids having their Christmas before they went out and had Christmases with so many orphans. Watch this. I think it'll be a blessing.
Philip:Thank you. If you could see the sorrow and pain represented in that room, the abject brokenness — by a mom saying I don't want you, a dad an alcoholic beating them or abusing them — and they come to us absolutely derelict. They come with a little bag of their whole worldly possessions, being told all their life, you are garbage, you're nothing. Your mother doesn't want you, your father doesn't want you.
Philip:And they come to us and we say, if you are born, God has a plan. You are not a mistake. You are made in God's heart before the foundation of the earth. And to watch grace work in a heart is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. To watch love and kindness break through all the hardness and allow them to begin to stand up — the first thing we do is we give them stuff to go out into the villages, poverty stricken beyond what you can imagine. And they knock on widows' doors and bring hope and laughter, and they clean the widows' houses and they dig their gardens for vegetables in the spring.
Philip:And we found a place where we can buy a great big bag of chopped wood, and we deliver a whole load of wood for them and literally save their lives from being frozen. And by doing so, you are putting an eternal change in their lives. All you've just seen just now has been done for a dollar a day. It's the greatest deal I've ever seen. A dollar a day won't change your life, but I'll promise you, every face you've watched — every one of those girls you've just watched — to a trafficker is worth $300,000 a year. One girl will make a trafficker $300,000 a year.
Philip:I think if they're worth $300,000 to a trafficker, they're worth a dollar to you and a dollar to the church. And if you could help us, we just need — we're growing. We've just bought two new houses and a great big barn we're gonna turn into a youth camp, and a five acre orchard that we're gonna have youth camps all through the summertime, run by these very same kids. And we need 300 new sponsors. Do the math. It's a terrifying amount of money. And God has been so faithful, he's never failed us yet.
Philip:If you give a dollar a day, you can send it real simple — Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. And whatever the Lord tells you to do, if you'd like to give a dollar a day or a one-time gift, we're gonna be buying these houses. The buying and the fixing up of the houses and the barn and the whole area is about a $600,000 challenge that we are about to begin this year. And I'm excited to see how God meets this need.
Philip:You can also give by going to Daily Faith, www.dailyfaith.tv — there's a giving page there. Just whatever you point towards, that's where it's gonna go. And also you can go to our 800 number, 833-DAILY-FAITH, that's 833-324-5932. Or just dial 833-DAILY-FAITH, and someone will pick up the phone. A real life person will pick up the phone.
Philip:Be a part of something bigger than yourself. It's a new year. You are asking God to do new things in your life. Why don't you start this year by saying, I want to cast my bread upon the water. I want to sow my seed out the way, 'cause God's gonna multiply and bring it back on the waves back into my life. Your family can be saved this year by giving and saying, this is for others to be saved. So please pray about that.
Philip:As I said, this guest is a friend more than a guest. Keith is a pastor. Keith Nix is a pastor of a church called the Lift Church in Sevierville. And he's got a prophetic ministry. He's gifted and he's got a fabulous wife as well. And we are so delighted to have him with us in the studio right here at Daily Faith. Keith, thank you so much for coming today. It is a delight and a pleasure to have you with us.
Keith Nix:It's my honor. It's our honor at the Lift Church to be able to partner with Orphan's Hands and what you're doing. And seeing the videos and the smiles —
Philip:It's crazy, isn't it? Because you said if you could see the pain in the room, but watching the video, you just see the joy in the room. So thank you. Thank you all for what you're doing.
Keith Nix:When you have the power — like God's given us the power to take these kids and transform their lives — it is, beyond a shadow of doubt, one of the greatest things I've ever done.
Philip:And you watch them. There is a girl that they call Nana. And they found her one day in this house. They went to help her mom who was bedridden, and this little girl was sitting at the bottom of the bed. And they began to talk to her and they discovered she was a genius.
Keith Nix:A genius. Wow.
Philip:Nowhere to go, sitting, looking after her bedridden mom. We spent six years putting that girl through school to become a doctor. And we sponsored her mom as well. So we paid for her mom to live and paid for her to go to university. And she's now a doctor. And that's the power of someone giving a dollar a day.
Keith Nix:It's amazing.
Philip:We are living in ridiculous days, Keith. I mean, crazy days. The last 48 hours has just been crazy. As a pastor, as a prophet, God's begun to show you stuff, and he gave you a word that you didn't understand, but you're seeing it fulfilled even now, right?
Keith Nix:Yeah. In 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic, in July, the Lord spoke two words to me. First, he said to me early one morning — he said, from John's writing where they come for Jesus in the garden. Jesus says, I am he. Who have you come seeking? Jesus of Nazareth. They say, I am He. And when he says that, the Bible says they fall backwards to the ground. And then they get back up and they arrest him.
Divine Pause Prophecy from John's Gospel
Keith Nix:Well, the Lord asked me one morning, he said, do you remember that passage? I said, yes, sir. He said, I'm about to do that. The plans that the enemy has — I'm about to put a divine pause on what the enemy wants to do. And he won't be able to fulfill all his agenda. Eventually things will happen. But for now, God said, I'm gonna put a pause on it.
Keith Nix:Well, that happened. He spoke that to me in July of 2020. And so I was expecting it immediately. I shared with our church on a Sunday morning, I shared that word. And we were excited, 'cause we felt, you know, it's gonna happen right now. This thing's gonna be over. Well, that wasn't the timing of God. God didn't give me a time. He just said, I'm gonna put a pause on the plans of the devil.
Keith Nix:Well, in that service, when I shared that, at the end of the service the power of God was just so gracious and heavy among us. And in our second service, in fact, we went long even after what would've been the dismissal, people just lingering. And I heard a word from the Lord, and I actually heard it as it came out of my mouth. It wasn't a word God spoke to my head.
"After Insurrection, Resurrection" Declared
Philip:So you prophesied.
Keith Nix:I prophesied. I spoke this word and my head heard it, I registered it. And the word — part of the word was — after insurrection, resurrection.
Philip:Wow.
Keith Nix:So I declared it. I heard it as I declared it. And after the service, I talked to our leadership team and I said, what do you think that means? Because I'd asked the Lord, what does this mean? Because in 2020, the term insurrection wasn't a term that we had been using at all.
Philip:Until January 6th.
Keith Nix:Until January 6th of '21. Then what happened was labeled by media, by others — it was labeled an insurrection.
Philip:And did it register in your mind when the word insurrection came?
Keith Nix:It took a few months. But gradually it's like, oh yeah, insurrection. And the word of the Lord was, after insurrection, resurrection. So I began to share with our church, and then in a couple of other places, I began to share that word. And God began to deal with me, and I began just to proclaim, after insurrection, God's going to do something and bring a resurrection to our nation. A resurrection of hope. A resurrection of truth.
Keith Nix:You know, there was a season where there's been a lot of hopelessness even over the church. Just the spirit of despair. We have been in la-la land for the last four years, just crying out, saying, what's going on? I mean, among myself and in myself, like, Lord, I thought you said there was a divine pause coming. But it looked like the strategy to take away our freedom, the strategy to bring us all under a one world government — it looked like that strategy was moving forward with great leaps.
Hope, Faith, and Romans 15:13
Keith Nix:But the Lord said, I'm gonna bring a resurrection of hope. And the thing about hope — see, the devil's always after our hope. If he can get your hope, then hope deferred makes the heart sick. But when the desire comes — see, hope is like one of those trick candles on a birthday cake. You blow it, it keeps popping back up. And because Romans 15:13 says God is the God of hope, that means as long as God exists, hope exists. I often say that hope and faith are siblings. Hope and faith are tied together.
Philip:And I know that when the whole thing happened with Trump, I personally believe that that election was rigged. And I was distraught. And then the insurrection thing came, and how they twisted all of that. It was only rectified last night when you released the hostages that had been taken captive by our own government. But when I saw that, and I'd had all the prophecies about, you know, Trump's going to get back in power, it's gonna be bigger and wider and higher — and when it happened, I thought, oh my Lord, what's happened?
Philip:And looking back now, in 2020, with hindsight, you're looking back and you're thinking, oh my goodness. The Lord allowed the pause. Biden was the pause. That darkness was the pause. And then to make a whole nation so sick of that nonsense — all the marriage stuff and the genderism and all that nonsense that this country has been lost in.
Philip:And suddenly we've gone from him getting in — he's not a legitimate president, as Hillary Clinton said — and suddenly he's now won the house, he won the Senate, he won the presidency, and he won the popular vote. So there's none of the arguments that there were the last time. And he's going to do more in the next four years, I believe, than he would've done in eight years.
Keith Nix:And I think we discover too that he's a different man. On many levels.
Philip:Did you see that? I saw a much more humble spirit in him.
Keith Nix:One of the things the Lord spoke to me was a resurrection of humility is coming. Not just to him, but to the church. And then hopefully to our nation. A realization that we need God. And the other thing that I began to declare was a resurrection of common sense.
Keith Nix:And I was thrilled yesterday when I heard the President use that in his inaugural address. He said, we're coming back to common sense. Because in 2020, they had us wear a mask as you walked in, and then we knew it wasn't working.
Philip:It was fake. Now we know.
Keith Nix:Now we know. They knew it was fake, but it never made sense. Wear the mask as you walk through the restaurant, and when you get to your table you can take it off — as if any disease is not gonna go beyond the space of the table. And then the gender thing. A man can think himself a woman. A woman can think herself a woman. There are 73 different genders.
Philip:There's 73. It's a confusing world.
Keith Nix:It's confusing. And once again, when I saw the President yesterday saying it is the official stance of this government that there are two genders, male and female, I thought, yes, common sense has recovered. We're coming back to common sense. And truth.
Philip:I spoke then about the J-Sixers. Of course there were, no doubt, some bad actors there that day.
Keith Nix:Sure. There are those bad actors. But most of those people that were arrested and convicted were just — if I had been in Washington, DC with my sons and people were going into the Capitol, I would've walked into the Capitol without a thought of insurrection.
Philip:Especially when you feel welcomed to walk in.
Keith Nix:Right. Curiosity. I would've thought, wow, the door's open — let's take a walk around the place. And they're taking your picture, and you were having your door knocked six months later. And it was the largest manhunt in American history. But truth is prevailing. Truth is coming out. And so is the resurrection of truth. Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.
Philip:So you're prophesying over us today that we've come through the insurrection and we are now into the resurrection phase.
Church's Responsibility in a New Political Season
Keith Nix:I believe it's a resurrection of our nation. Now, look, President Trump is not King David. He's not God. He's not David. He's not the priest of America. Jesus is priest. President Trump is commander in chief. And I wanna say to the church — 'cause what I think it means for the church is that we've been given a space. The church has to step up and to see Jesus manifest in our world.
Keith Nix:So we cannot expect the President to do what the president's not assigned to do, whomever that president is. The church has got to rise up. And this is not a time to back up. It's not a time to rest on our laurels. It's not a time to go to sleep and go on vacation. This is a time for the church of Jesus Christ to get to work like never before.
Philip:I've been in America 55 years. I came to America, I've been here a long time. And this is the first time — if I had to get something to the President, I know enough guys that know the President that I could call them and talk to them. And I believe that there's an accessibility and there's an openness to the gospel that's never been there before. I watched Franklin Graham pray yesterday. I was shouting. And then the black brother pray — my gracious me. I'm thinking, I feel the Holy Ghost.
Philip:You've written a book that's coming out that I think is absolutely important. Now listen, if you love your pastor, you need to get this book. It's called Losing Jesus in Church. I have got four kids, three of them are in the ministry, work with me, committed to what we do. I've got one daughter that went to a Bible school and came back to our family bitter, hating the church, hating Jesus. And you've written this book. Tell us, give us a synopsis of what God's shown you about losing Jesus in church.
Losing Jesus in Church — Book Overview
Keith Nix:Well, it's a small book that I felt like I needed — good, quick to read. And I felt like I needed to write it because of just what you're talking about. And I used the story of Joseph and Mary. They lost Jesus in the church, and where did they find him? In the church. And so with all the problems the church has, Jesus is in the church. And so there are eight steps in the book to help people to not lose him and to find him, to come back to him.
Philip:I've been preaching for 55 years and I've watched people get so discouraged and so broken and so disillusioned in the church. And to have an answer — if I were a pastor, listen to me, I'd order 20 to 50 of these books and give them out to your church. Because it's so easy to get your heart broken, because you go to church defenseless, you go there with your heart open. And sometimes the devil can take that as a way to get to you.
Eight Steps to Reconnect with Jesus
Philip:And if we've got a picture of that book — and we put that on the screen — here it is. It's called Losing Jesus in Church. And you need to get that. You can get it from keithnix.net. Keith Nix.net. A great name, an easy name, easy to remember. Keithnix.net. And get some for your folk in the church.
Keith Nix:Thank you. Thank you.
Philip:Oh, wonderful. Listen, we want you to come back here. You're just across the mountains.
Keith Nix:Yeah, not far. It was a quick ride up.
Philip:And if you are watching and you are anywhere near the Sevierville area, if you go in there anytime in the summertime, if you're there for a Sunday, drop in past the Lift Church. They are my friends and you will be blessed. And their website is theliftchurch.tv. And by doing so, you can be a part of their fellowship for a Sunday. And even though you're going on vacation, you won't backslide — you'll be in a good church on a Sunday morning.
Philip:And you can also check out Pastor Keith on social media — facebook.com/keithnix.tv — and it's up on your screen. And right now, Keith, thank you so much for being with us today.
Keith Nix:Thank you, sir. We appreciate you.
Philip:We appreciate you all. We just honor you for your work and what you do and your partnership with us in the ministry.
Keith Nix:It's our honor and we love you.
Philip:You are part of our miracle. It takes place here at Daily Faith. And if you could, in the next few minutes, just pray and say, Lord, is this something I should join myself to? Can I be a part of something bigger than me in this mission work, rescuing these kids that have no hope outside of Jesus? And you are the anchor that can throw them a lifeline to save them from despair. We love you so much. Thank you for watching Daily Faith. And once again, if you're ever in the Sevierville area, I want you to go and see my friend Keith Nix, and he'll be a blessing to you. Thank you for watching Daily Faith today. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
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Common questions
What was the prophecy Keith Nix gave in 2020, and what does he think it means now?
In July 2020, Keith received two things from the Lord: first, that God would put a 'divine pause' on the enemy's plans — just as Jesus caused the soldiers to fall backward in the garden before they arrested him. Second, during a church service he prophesied the phrase 'after insurrection, resurrection.' He says it took a few months to register, but once January 6, 2021 was labeled an insurrection by the media, the word clicked. He now believes the nation has moved into a resurrection phase — a resurrection of hope, truth, humility, and common sense.
Why did Keith feel like the prophecy hadn't come true for four years?
Keith admits that after sharing the word with his church in 2020, he expected it to happen immediately. Instead, the following four years felt like the enemy's agenda — eroding freedoms, pushing toward a one-world government — was actually advancing. He says there was a heavy spirit of despair even over the church, and he wrestled personally with wondering whether God's word would come to pass. He now looks back and sees that period as the 'pause' God described, not a failure of the prophecy.
What does Keith say the church's role is now that Trump is back in office?
Keith is clear that President Trump is not a priest or a king — he's a commander in chief. He says the political shift has given the church a window of opportunity, but the church itself has to step up and do the work. In his words, 'This is not a time to back up, rest on our laurels, or go on vacation — this is a time for the church of Jesus Christ to get to work like never before.'
What is Keith Nix's book 'Losing Jesus in Church' about?
It's a short, quick-read book built around the story of Mary and Joseph losing Jesus — and finding him again — in the temple. Keith uses that story as a framework for eight practical steps to help people who have become discouraged or disillusioned with church to reconnect with Jesus. His core point is that even though the church has real problems, Jesus is still found in the church, and the book is meant to help people not walk away from him because of those wounds.
How does Keith describe the significance of Trump using the phrase 'common sense' in his inaugural address?
Keith had been declaring a 'resurrection of common sense' as part of his prophetic word, so hearing the President use that exact phrase in the inaugural address felt like direct confirmation to him. He pointed to mask mandates and the 73-gender framework as examples of policies that defied common sense, and said hearing the President declare that the government officially recognizes only two genders was a sign that truth and common sense are being restored.
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