Jesse Duplantis
Jan 23, 2025
What is your passion as a mom?
I constantly say to myself, “Is there not a cause?” I do it even when my body is tired or finances are threatening to dry up. Why? Because God saved me from a hellish life when I was 24 years old— and I know what it is like to live without God, even if you are financially successful doing it.
I know what it’s like to be rich and I know what it’s like to be poor—and while rich is better, both are equally miserable places without God. I thought “success” was just money. I was so disappointed when I realized money couldn’t make me happy. It just made me more comfortable in my misery.
I’m passionate about my ministry because I’m passionate about seeing people saved, lifted up, and at peace with God and themselves—so that they can go and do what God made them to do in the first place!
Thinking about the state of the world, the state of humanity, and knowing that God can change everything for others like He changed everything for me so long ago, is one way I keep my passion alive.
I don’t sit around being depressed by the state of the world. I don’t deny it’s bad. I choose instead to refuse to be distracted from the cause. I keep my cause at the forefront of my mind—because I know what could be and can be if only people would receive the Lord and begin to retrain their minds with His Word so that they produce the fruit of His Spirit.
The fruit of His Spirit is Galatians 5:22-23—it is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control. If every person in the world had that producing and flowing in their life, nobody would break the law or harm anyone intentionally—they’d be too focused on living a good life and making life better for those around them.
It’s my joy and my job to take as many to Heaven with me as I can, and to help as many as I can to be successful—from the spirit first all the way to whatever dream God has put on their heart to pursue. I believe in success, God’s way! Because without Him, anything masquerading as success is fleeting, temporary, and amounts to zero in the end.
The reason I started this ministry is because of the cause of Christ. My vision is the Great Commission that Jesus gave to His disciples: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). Saving and salvaging people by bringing the redemption and restoration of Christ into their lives is the cause—and it’s too great a cause to give up.