My name is Michael Chriswell. I help broken people to know and experience God through Biblical teaching and transparent personal insights from my own journey of faith and finding life to the full in Jesus Christ.

December 15th, 2024, was the 12th Anniversary of RelentlessHeart.com. Throughout those years, the Lord had me helping broken and hurting Christians to know and experience God through Biblical teaching, discipleship, and transparent personal insights from my own journey of living by faith, and finding life to the full in Jesus Christ.

Below, you will find samples of what the Lord has done and purposed in this unique ministry, which He raised up, to warn, to teach, to bless, to correct, and to strengthen a few of His children, perhaps even you, for such a time as this.

No one is more surprised that God chose me, or this ministry, than me.

This ministry was birthed in the fires of much pain and suffering (Trusting God in the Storm), and then came even more suffering as He called me to lay down my life for others, transparently sharing all of the private, raw, and dramatic spiritual experiences I had, including my weaknesses and sins along the way, as I learned to walk with the Living God, by faith (Trusting God in the Wilderness).

By God’s design, there is an element of the prophetic, both the foretelling and the forth-telling aspects of prophesy.  God often told me of things that would come to pass in my life, and they did.  He also chose, five times, to connect my sudden passionate warnings in messages, to disasters, plague, and war which followed in a Biblically significant, and precise period of time, down to the very day.  

There has also been the forth-telling aspect of prophesy in this ministry, where God has used both my life experiences (two previous unfaithful spouses), and my messages, to paint vibrant pictures of His heart on matters.

This ministry has been charged with all the dramatic action of the ongoing spiritual war between the seed of Satan and the seed of Jesus Christ, which was first orchestrated by God Himself, in the Garden of Eden.

I have endeavored to love and hear and follow God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength, but it has not been done with perfection or without painful mystery.  In 2021, I publicly stated that if my 2nd unfaithful spouse did not return to me and Christ, I should be considered a false prophet.  She never returned and I faced painful consequences and public backlash.  God later vindicated my heart, by showing me I had now shared in the same painful experience He had where He spoke of His unfaithful wife Israel, in Jer 3:7, “I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.”

I have faced a tremendous amount of persecution, mostly from other professing Christian’s, who not truly born again, cannot stand the self-denying, cross carrying, world hating, faith walking, narrow path Christianity which I live, and which Jesus demanded.  Many of them followed for years only waiting for my foot to slip, so they could justify holding on to their counterfeit Christianity.

Therefore, what Austin Sparks wrote, long before I was even born, stands very true in this ministry.  

“There has never been anything wholly of God but the strategy of the Evil One has been to fasten on to it some implication, some insinuation, some interpretation, or some suggestion that would make it questionable or perhaps even "dangerous." He even did this with the Lord Jesus Himself. He did it with Paul all through his life.... A good thing can be made its own enemy, by being either confused, or taken out of its true meaning.” - Austin Sparks

This ministry demonstrates the need for the perseverance and patient endurance which Jesus Christ said all true believers must have to be an overcomer. Despite all the attacks from Satan trying to totally destroy and discredit this ministry, I have, by His grace, persevered for 15 years, proving “If God be for us, who can be against us.”  

The Lord has wonderfully and miraculously vindicated His testimony and work in this ministry, with what I still believe is an unprecedented display of His control of the timing of each event in my life, including even my 2nd spouse not coming back.  

No one is more surprised that God chose me or this ministry, than me.  Nevertheless, God’s choice proves that He still chooses the weak and foolish things of this world, to shame the wise and strong.  

If you are weak, this ministry is for you, and so is God!  If you are a “strong”, world loving “Christian” you may be curious and stimulated for a time, by all the dramatic action in my story, but soon you will hate this ministry, and you may even feel tempted to join hands with Satan and the thousands before you over the past 14 years, at trying to discredit it, so you don’t walk away feeling condemned by its message.

For the rest of you, welcome, and may the peace and grace of Jesus Christ be yours in abundance!

- Michael & Lisa Chriswell