Before I ever spoke about the Kingdom, I spent decades trusted with systems where failure was not an option.
I was building virtual worlds while most people were still figuring out email. My doctoral research focused on simulations and immersive environments; proving what is now obvious: people are changed by lived experience far more than by information.
I did not just study systems. I built them.
My work included early large-scale simulations and control algorithms used in national infrastructure. Some of those systems still operate today; including logistics and food-supply control environments serving the British military and the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace.
Those assignments do not go to visionaries or mystics. They go to people who are precise, accountable, and trusted under pressure.
I spent nearly 30 years inside complex systems. I know how they shape behaviour. I also know what they do to the people inside them.
I have a neurological condition called Synesthesia.
My brain cross-wires information. Signals do not stay in neat lanes. Patterns emerge early. Fault lines stand out. Practically, this means I tend to see:
Doctors call this neurology. Scripture calls it discernment. I am not interested in arguing labels. I care about accuracy.
There is an Enemy. Not a myth. Not a metaphor. Not a rival god.
The devil has no authority. None.
Authority belongs to God and is delegated to humanity. What the devil does have is power: influence, deception, and pressure.
He does not rule. He trespasses.
He is not creative; he is relentless. He uses a limited playbook that hasn’t changed since the Garden. It always boils down to two lies and three traps.
The Two Lies
The Three Traps
He uses these lies to bait you into the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
He never stops whispering. He never takes a day off. His goal is to steal, kill, and destroy. But his method is often a war of attrition. He wears down the saints until they are too exhausted to resist the lie.
Every inch of ground he occupies is ground that was surrendered; often unknowingly, through agreement with these lies.
His greatest achievement is not making people evil. It is convincing capable people that there is no adversary at all.
The pattern did not become clear by accident.
2004: I survived the Asian tsunami while diving the Burma Banks. I should not have lived.
2010: Chronic DVT. My own blood tried to stop the flow.
July 4, 2014: My heart stopped. For 4 minutes and 33 seconds, I was clinically dead.
What followed was not a vision. It was clarity.
When the noise dropped out, the illusions fell with it.
The Kingdom of God is not underneath the world. It is not a future destination or a hidden layer.
It is everywhere at once. Above, below, and within.
What Scripture calls “the world” is not a place; but a way of operating that is out of alignment with a Kingdom that is already present. The Kingdom is Primary Reality. What we experience as chaos is the result of living misaligned with it.
Alignment with the Kingdom produces measurable outcomes:
The resistance did not end with insight.
2015: Massive heart failure.
2017: Quadruple bypass.
2025: Heart failure, Cardio version and Ablation.
Today: I live with scars, limits, and a level of clarity most people never slow down long enough to earn.
Why am I still here?
Because I have the T-shirt.
I have the T-shirt for building the systems that now consume your attention.
I have the T-shirt for the stress that quietly hollows people out.
And I have the T-shirt for what happens when the screen finally goes black.
You might be thinking: Is this a game? Why the spy language?
I use this language because it is the only way to describe the reality you are already living.
You feel like you don't belong here. You feel like you are constantly "code-switching" between who you are and who the system wants you to be. You feel like the system is rigged.
That is because you are Undercover.
Scripture says we are "Ambassadors" and "Sojourners." In modern terms, that means Agents. You are operating behind enemy lines. The reason you feel the friction is not because you are broken; it is because you are resisting a system you were never meant to fit into.
This isn't a game. It's a reframe. And it's the only way to survive the mission.
I am not here to tell you to withdraw from the world. I am here to help you:
You are not powerless. You are not broken. You are living below your authority.
If you want inspiration, there are plenty of places to find it.
If you want clarity, maturity, and the recovery of dominion; this work is for you.
The question is not whether the Kingdom is here.
The question is whether we are living in agreement with it.
JOHN MICHAEL | THE KFA
Kingdom Formation Architect Broadcasting from Singapore. 🇸🇬
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