SPARK: Igniting Faith, Family, and Revival
Spark is a faith-filled podcast igniting revival in families, communities, and hearts around the world. Hosted by Maria Termotto-Horwitz, each episode blends powerful testimonies, prophetic teaching, biblical wisdom, and real-life stories of God’s transforming power.
From breaking generational curses to walking in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Maria equips you to live boldly for Christ, lead your family into deeper faith, and impact the world with the Gospel. You’ll hear inspiring personal stories, guest interviews, and prayers for healing, deliverance, and activation.
Whether you’re a new believer, a seasoned follower of Jesus, or somewhere in between, Spark will encourage you to live on fire for God — every day, in every area of life. Revival starts here.
SPARK: Igniting Faith, Family, and Revival
6 A.M. on the Water: Fresh Revelation from the Cruise Ship
Recorded at sunrise aboard a cruise ship, this 22-minute Facebook Live captures the raw, unfiltered download God placed on my heart the moment I set foot on board. In the stillness of the early morning, with the ocean stretching endlessly around me, the Holy Spirit spoke words of encouragement, direction, and joy. Join me as I share fresh revelation, testify to God’s goodness, and invite you to step into the deep waters of faith—right where He’s calling you.
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Good morning! It is a beautiful morning. We are aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean and it is 5.35 a.m. I've already done a 35-minute tour of the boat so far and I'm on this track that goes around the entire ship. for walking or running. But you know what the Bible says, only the wicked run when no man chases him. So I shall walk and not grow weary. I shall run and not faint, says another verse. But I hope everyone is having a blessed, a beautiful, an awe-inspiring, a fantastic day. And all right, let's go inside for a little bit. Let's see what we can find. It is so nice to tour a ship when the rest of the passengers are asleep, because then you have the entire establishment to yourself, except for a few coffee drinkers here and there. But let me show you this lovely place real quick. Let me turn the camera around. So many fun things. That's a giant cowboy hat. Look at this. So many fun things to do and to see. And this place is crawling during the day. So it's nice to take a nice walk without the hustle and bustle of daily life. And I'm so excited for all that's in store for us. This last week has been just fantastic. Back to the brim with miracles. The miracles we have seen this week. The lives changed. The expectations just blown out of the water. Far exceeded. We just experienced a lot of goodness this week. And the other week in church I had a vision with my arms in the air. Both arms like a martini glass. And I just imagined all of God's blessings being poured out. And that our cup is overflowing and that everyone near us is getting the overflow. So I just pray the overflow on you watching this. May everything you put your hand to prosper. May you find the joy in the Lord. And I am a firm believer that three chapters a day keeps the devil away. That if we're not getting in the word and that we don't know the word by heart. then the devil can just steer us this way and that with all sorts of temptations and anxieties and fears i just had an experience where a good friend gave up their fear gave up their anxious thoughts and truly saw the miracles that god has been wanting to pour into them but couldn't because they were just Holding on to their fear and anxiety. But once you surrender that to God, once you surrender your anxious heart. Oh, okay. Walking through a casino. Okay, here we go. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for the Lord is with me. His rod and staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me, and the presence of my enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days. So we're just doing the nighttime or morning walk. Oh wow, look where we are now. We are in an art exhibit. Wow, look at this. This is fancy. So much to see, so much to do. There's some really cool art here. So I've come to the realization that the entire human experience can be mapped onto the Bible, that there's no human experience you or I can have that is not already talked about some way, somehow in the Bible. So when people say that there's no, there's no manual for life, you can just like hold up the Bible and be like, this is the manual. This is the instruction booklet right here. You see this, this, this is it. And not only for you, but for anything your friends or family members can or might experience. You also can map everything they're going through in the Bible. So it's quite amazing, actually. So, I mean, just personally, anytime. someone comes and shares their issues and problems, I just map it right on and say, oh thee of little faith, if you have faith but the size of a mustard seed, you can tell this mountain to uproot itself and cast itself in the sea and all things shall be possible to him that believes. Look where we are now. Wow. That is very cool. May no bad shows be performed on this stage. May this stage be a place where community comes together, where laughter dwells and where everyone leaves feeling refreshed and rejuvenated and ready to go back into their daily lives because a cruise is truly a time where you can come apart and rest a while from the cares and worries of life. It's like what Jesus said, come apart and rest a while, for they had no time to eat. All right, number three, let's go down. So wow, I mean, this week alone, we did quite a bit of events. And honestly, normally, all right, boarding area, main dining room. Oh, so this is where the main dining room is. I was wondering... Normally, if I hosted five events in one week, honestly, that sounds actually very funny to even say that I hosted five events in one week. If I would have hosted one event last week, I would have been reasonably stressed, but I tell you what, it must be a new spiritual gift to host events because not only did it not Take any mind space or anxious thought space or fear space or burdensome space. But every event, all five, were quite enjoyable. I'll just go down the list. Well, the first one, we hosted Mustard Seed Collective Bible Study. And that was lovely on Tuesday at 8 a.m. And... Don't really consider that an event, but you know what? It is an event because we're studying the word of God. So there you go. So on Wednesday, we hosted our first large-scale ladies spa day. I'm going up the stairs. This is tiresome. All those who are weary and heavy laden, come to me and I will give you rest, says the Lord. Oh, here's Vitality at Sea Spa. This is what I haven't seen yet. The Vitality Cafe. I'm actually getting a massage at 7 a.m. So we got another hour 20 until I need to be here. That's going to be wonderful. It's so important to take care of yourself. People lose money. People don't spend money for wellness. And then they get older. And they realize that all their money they're wasting on trying to get healthy again. It's just, it's just very silly. Okay. Mama needs to get back in shape, okay? You know, I used to be a fitness instructor. A boot camp instructor. So that's what I did full-time before becoming a full-time realtor. It's definitely time to get back into it. I don't know if you know, but if you don't, we are preparing to launch. Oh, there's a med spa. There you are. We are preparing to launch Calvary Fitness, which is a faith-based gym. We're launching it in our garage. And we're gonna have Bible verses on the walls playing hype Christian music. And starting at small, inviting the neighbors, and eventually when it takes root and flourishes and grows, then we will move it into the commercial space that our neighborhood is currently building. So we have about a year to a year and a half to get everything ready. And it will be quite lovely. That was, hey, good morning. Good morning. That was a dream that got put on my heart about 12 years ago, or longer, 13 years ago. So it's nice to see these dreams, you know, grow on roots. All right, so on Wednesday we did an amazing women's spa day. Everyone was, we had 15 women and two teenage daughters. And all the women left feeling rejuvenated, restored, celebrated, loved on. And it was just the most spectacular, spectacular gathering of women, of business professionals, of friends. And I can't wait to do it again. We all felt like we were right out of the Book of Esther. and we were being pampered on in preparation to see our king. And we had massages and facials and the cold plunge, the sauna, the hydro bed, the sun deck. One of our friends went and got tacos for everybody. It was the best. It was the best. And then that evening, we kicked back off. Spark, which is a inspiring gathering of Christian business leaders. And we had networking at our house and there was connections made and partnerships formed and ideas sparked. And that will be a monthly networking group. I started it before COVID. on Palm Beach Island. And then during COVID, we did some Zoom calls. And then right after COVID, I joined a BNI networking group. So then I didn't have much need to continue Spark. But now that I officially retired after four years in BNI, I was like, we need to kick Spark back off. And my girlfriends and I have been doing small scale spark, but that was just with our girl group of friends. So now we opened it to all business professionals and I'm so excited to see how God grows that. Wow, there's so many stairs in this boat. So we're on a cruise and we have so much to look forward to for our family, both relationally and spiritually on this cruise with our whole family. So this is going to be one of the best trips ever. And then Friday night, I went to this glory conference that the prophet Natalie put on in Fort Lauderdale. And let me tell you, our black sisters in Christ, they know how to worship the Lord. Tell ya, white church is gonna feel really boring now after that. That was spectacular. Wow, that was spectacular. And then Saturday at 12, we hosted our first, well, I've done these in the past, but this is my first collaboration with other businesses. I'm doing a princess tea party, okay? We had Elsa, Aurora. I was dressed as Queen Esther. And we had Ariel and Jasmine. So five adult princesses. We had a life-size Cinderella carriage. And not only were the little girls' dreams achieved, But all the moms were just so happy. And it was such a lovely day celebrating all of God's princesses. Hi, Terry. And then that night, on Saturday night, we had our first home church at our house since we moved into our new home. And we have been doing home church for the last two and a half years at our other home. So this was a very special one where we... kicked it back off in the new place, and we anointed the home. So after the live worship, music, which was amazing, everybody took holy oil and anointed all the doorposts and the doors throughout the whole house. And we prayed over a few, and it was just a lovely time of fellowship, of prayer, of worship. And that was... The night before, we took off on our lovely cruise yesterday. And I woke up bright and early this morning and did a tour of the entire ship, which was lovely. I got my steps in. And on this cruise, my husband and myself and Genesee and Gideon, we all planned to be rebaptized. Gideon would be baptized for the first time. And then... Josh's mom is getting re-baptized and maybe a family member or two will also be getting baptized. So this will be a cruise full of miracles. So pray for us that our Horwitz family revival will be amazing because revival starts with family. And God loves when we come together with our family for his glory. So thank you for hanging out with me on this tour around the cruise boat. I'm now outside and there's so much more to see. There's a whole kid area here. It's definitely the way I would recommend to see the boat come at night because you can see the entire thing in a faster time frame without the hustle and bustle. And let's just praise the Lord, you know. Oh, one event that I have coming up that I'd like to invite you all to. August 3rd, which is coming up rather quickly. That is my mother's 55th birthday. She was born in 1970. And she passed in 2005. And... It has been 20 years since she passed on to her best life ever in heaven. And it's the day of our blessed life ever. I'm sorry, our blessed beginning book launch. Blessed life ever is the other book we have with 848 of the first five verses in order. Genesis to Revelation, rewritten in first person so that you can really... Internalize the word of God. So the verse, Joshua 1.9, where it says, Be strong and courageous in the Lord. Do not fear. Do not be dismayed. For the Lord your God is with you whithersoever you go. It is rewritten to say, I am strong and courageous in the Lord. I do not fear and I am not dismayed. For the Lord my God is with me whithersoever I go. And then my personal favorite, Proverbs 3, 5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not upon your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths. That is rewritten to say, I trust in the Lord with all my heart and I lean not upon my own understanding. In all of my ways I acknowledge him and he directs my paths. So it is a... It is a lovely reminder that we need to not only read, not only memorize, but internalize all of God's blessings and promises and to declare them over our life, over our children's lives, and to remember that we are so loved that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, But God comes, Jesus comes, that we may have life and have it more abundantly. And when those intrusive thoughts come into your head, the ones that tell you you're not good enough, you're not smart enough, you don't know what you're saying, you can't do this, you can say, by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, my name is written in the book of life of the Lamb, I take you, evil thought, and I throw you down, stamp upon you, and I send you to where... to Jesus' feet, to wherever he sends you. So that's a powerful, powerful way to deal with those annoying thoughts, because we all have them. I mean, my annoying thought for many years was because my mother committed suicide, maybe I would grow up and do the same. And that's a terrible thought. It really, really messes with you. I don't recommend you doing that one. so when i realized that no just because that happened to her doesn't mean it happens to me i can be whoever i want to be for the glory of god and it made all the difference in the world all the difference in the world and so Blessed Beginnings book launch is going to be on August 3rd. You are invited. Please message for details. It's on a lovely five-acre farm in Palm City. I just got to Central Park on the cruise boat. And, oh, Jenna, see Gideon and Josh are sleeping right up there. So there's going to be chickens and goats and photo ops. It's gorgeous. This gorgeous photo op van. It's going to be so fun to take pictures with. We'll have a professional photographer, of course. There's a rose garden. There's a Cinderella carriage. There's a man cave. There's so much to do on this property. And we are launching the Blessed Beginning book. And that book is wisdom for wisdom during pregnancy and pregnancy. early parenting. So it's good for any mother who just found out she's pregnant or for an aspiring mom or for a mom with young children. It is all the wisdom I can muster together with the help of God for what I've learned in conceiving and growing a baby and delivering and raising two young ones and I would definitely recommend giving it to every mom because this information made all the difference and would make all the difference for someone who's fearful or anxious or unaware really because we're all first-timers here until we're not. So it has been a lovely time walking with you around this entire cruise boat and Just want to say, may the Lord bless you and keep you. May he shine his face upon you and be gracious to you. May he look upon you kindly and give you peace. We are made for such a time as this. No matter who you are, what you're dealing with, know that God sees you. He loves you. He's there for you. You got this and God's got you and there is nothing to fear. And if you need a listening ear, I am here. Have a blessed and prosperous day. Heaven is our home. We're just out here recruiting.
