Way of Fire Interview Session Plan
Date Created: October 10, 2025
Purpose: Structured interview sessions with Apostle Delmar Coward Jr. for "The Way of Fire" book chapters
Format: 30-minute focused conversations per session
Session 1: Foundation - Daily Spiritual Disciplines
Chapter Focus: "Living on Fire Daily" - The rhythm of kingdom life
Core Questions:
- What is the importance of daily Bible study and daily declarations?
- Walk me through your morning faith declarations - how do you word them as "words of power"?
- Why do you have scripture "snacks" every 30 minutes throughout the day on Google Calendar?
- Why is it valuable to be "chewing on verses" so consistently?
- How can people translate these truths to their own context and life situation?
Follow-up Areas:
- Practical implementation for beginners
- How to make declarations personal and powerful
- The difference between religious routine and living discipline
Session 2: Prayer and Communication with God
Chapter Focus: "The Language of Fire" - How to pray with power
Core Questions:
- What is prayer? What's the true purpose of it?
- Are there different kinds of prayers? What are they?
- What do most people get wrong when they pray?
- Why is it wrong to pray like you're begging?
- What does it mean to pray through declaration of what's already written?
- Why does God love it when you know His word and speak it back to Him?
- How does God speak to people? How does God speak to you?
Follow-up Areas:
- Examples of powerful vs. powerless prayers
- How to hear God's voice clearly
- Moving from petition to declaration
Session 3: Israel and God's Covenant People
Chapter Focus: "Letter to Christians Who Don't Support Israel"
Core Questions:
- What do you say to Christians who have deep suspicion and hatred toward Jewish people?
- What about Christians who don't care about the descendants of Abraham?
- What about those who want to pull funding and diplomatic support from Israel?
- What do you say to Christians who think Jerusalem isn't important for believers?
- How should we think about Jews who deny Christ? Are all Christians called to minister to them?
Follow-up Areas:
- Biblical foundation for supporting Israel
- The spiritual significance of Jerusalem
- Balancing love for Jewish people with evangelism
Session 4: Authority - Earthly and Spiritual Power
Chapter Focus: "Render Unto Caesar" - Navigating earthly and heavenly authority
Core Questions:
- How should Christians interact with earthly authority like judges, mayors, governors, presidents?
- Can you explain "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" - is that still relevant?
- What's the importance of police departments really believing "In God We Trust"?
- What's the role of police officers and earthly judges in God's plan?
- What's the importance of Christian leadership in business, hospitals, medical systems?
- How can you be a good Christian leader in secular positions?
Follow-up Areas:
- When to obey vs. when to resist earthly authority
- Christian influence in government and institutions
- Spiritual authority vs. positional authority
Session 5: Health, Body, and Physical Stewardship
Chapter Focus: "Your Body is the Temple" - God's design for physical health
Core Questions:
- What is the body? Why does it matter?
- How should you take care of your body? Why does it matter to take care of your health?
- What does God say about sickness?
- What does God say about food and drink?
- What does God say about drunkenness and control of your body?
- Are there foods you can and cannot eat according to God's design?
Follow-up Areas:
- Healing vs. prevention
- Fasting and spiritual discipline through the body
- The connection between physical and spiritual health
Session 6: Technology and the Modern World
Chapter Focus: "Fire in the Digital Age" - Christians and technology
Core Questions:
- How should Christians think about technology?
- Why is it important that Christians are involved in shaping technology?
- How should Christians use technology? When is technology bad?
- What do you say to people who purely demonize technology?
- How should we think about the "mark of the beast" with technology?
- Why does the Internet open up new possibilities for uncorrupted relationships with God?
Follow-up Areas:
- Social media ministry vs. digital idolatry
- Using technology for kingdom advancement
- Discerning harmful vs. helpful technology
Session 7: Eternal Realities - Heaven, Hell, and Other Religions
Chapter Focus: "Letters to the Lost" - Addressing different spiritual paths
Core Questions:
- What are your thoughts about heaven and hell? Describe them.
- Why should people care about the reality of heaven and hell?
- What should people tell their friends about eternal life vs. eternal separation?
- What do you think about New Age spirituality? Why is it wrong?
- What are the origins of Islam according to the Bible?
- What do you think about Hinduism and Buddhism?
- How can people in these religions find the truth?
Follow-up Areas:
- Evangelizing to different religious backgrounds
- Common spiritual deceptions
- The uniqueness of Christ among world religions
Session 8: The Power of Words - Speaking Life and Death
Chapter Focus: "Fire from Your Mouth" - The authority of the tongue
Core Questions:
- What does it mean that "life and death are in the power of the tongue"?
- How do words create reality? How do they activate faith?
- What's the difference between speaking life vs. speaking death?
- Why did you say "The power of life and death is not in the virus. It's in my mouth"?
- How do declarations work differently than regular prayer or conversation?
- What are examples of words that bring life vs. words that bring death?
- How should Christians speak about their circumstances, health, finances, relationships?
- What does it mean to "call those things that are not as though they are"?
Follow-up Areas:
- Practical examples of life-giving vs. death-dealing speech
- How to break negative word patterns and curses
- Teaching others to speak with kingdom authority
- The connection between God's word and our words
Session 9: Gifts, Callings, and the Holy Spirit
Chapter Focus: "Baptized in Fire" - Operating in spiritual gifts
Core Questions:
- What should people think about gifts of the Holy Spirit, tongues, holy fire?
- What is fire? What does it mean to live "on fire"?
- What do you think about callings? How do you discern your calling?
- What kinds of gifts do people have? Give examples from people you're close with.
- What are all the gifts that you have? Give examples of when and how they show up.
- What does it mean to be "bivocational"? How has your life been bivocational?
Follow-up Areas:
- Developing and stewarding spiritual gifts
- Balancing ministry calling with secular work
- Signs of authentic vs. counterfeit spiritual gifts
Session 10: Spiritual Warfare and Satan's Kingdom
Chapter Focus: "Defeating the Enemy" - Understanding and overcoming evil
Core Questions:
- What is Satan? How does he manifest in this world?
- What is his relationship with different industries like the music industry?
- How does he influence or possess different people?
- What do we do about his army of devils?
- What is the importance of receiving good spiritual covering?
- What makes a good spiritual coverer? What makes a good pastor vs. not good?
Follow-up Areas:
- Recognizing demonic influence in culture
- Deliverance ministry principles
- Protecting yourself and your family spiritually
Session 11: Money, Wealth, and Recompense
Chapter Focus: "Kingdom Economics" - God's financial principles
Core Questions:
- How should believers think about money?
- Does God want every believer to be wealthy? How wealthy?
- Is wealth part of people's callings, or not necessarily?
- What happens when you've been injured or wronged? How does God's legal system work?
- What is recompense? How do people get rectified?
- What does it mean to live by faith instead of worry and fear about provision?
Follow-up Areas:
- Tithing and giving principles
- Business as ministry
- Trusting God for provision vs. presumption
Session 12: Character and Relationships
Chapter Focus: "The Heart on Fire" - Character formation and love
Core Questions:
- What is love? How has the world changed the definition of love?
- How has Satan changed love? What does love have to do with truth?
- What does it mean to be faithful in the sense of keeping your word?
- Why is it so hard for people to be faithful? Why is faithfulness valuable?
- What does God say about the desires of your heart?
- What's the importance of family? What does God say about husbands and wives?
- What does God say about fear? How do you avoid having fear in your life?
Follow-up Areas:
- Marriage and family as ministry
- Dealing with anger biblically
- Building godly character traits
Session 13: Your Personal Journey and Legacy
Chapter Focus: "The Making of an Apostle" - Apostle's testimony and vision
Core Questions:
- Who are you, Apostle? How were you raised?
- What shaped your path to being so on fire and all-in on God?
- What's the importance of being very guarded about who and what influences you?
- Why is it so important to be thoughtful about who can influence your worldview?
- How can people get covering under you? How can they connect with you?
- How can people receive your teachings and stay plugged in?
- How can someone actually make fire their lifestyle - godliness their lifestyle?
- Why are we here? What's our ultimate purpose?
Follow-up Areas:
- Building the Encounter Church network
- Mentorship and spiritual fathering
- The future of revival and awakening
Additional Sessions (Bonus/Expansion Topics):
Session 14: Controversial Topics and Hard Questions
Chapter Focus: "Letters to the Confused" - Addressing difficult issues
Core Questions:
- What is your message to the LGBT community?
- What do you think about pastors who say LGBT is not a sin?
- What do you think about the word "proud" in relation to identity?
- What does God say about racism? What do you think about race as a black man?
- What about pastors who talk all the time about race, seeming to put race over God?
- What do you think about idolatry in general?
Session 15: Worship, Baptism, and Church Life
Chapter Focus: "The Fire of Worship" - Corporate spiritual life
Core Questions:
- What's the importance of worship? What's the importance of music in all this?
- What's the evidence that God wants to be praised?
- What do you think about baptisms - Holy Spirit, fire, and water baptisms?
- How should we think about religious institutions and denominations?
- Can your teaching apply within denominations? Why or why not?
- What do you think about faith and works? Does God call us to do good works?
Implementation Strategy:
Pre-Interview Preparation:
- Send Apostle the specific session questions 24-48 hours in advance
- Let him pray and meditate on the topics
- Encourage him to gather any relevant testimonies or examples
During Interview:
- Start with brief prayer for wisdom and anointing
- Focus on one main theme per session
- Ask for specific examples and testimonies
- Get practical application advice
- End with key scripture references
Post-Interview Processing:
- Transcribe within 24 hours while fresh
- Identify the strongest quotes and testimonies
- Determine chapter format (letter, story, teaching, etc.)
- Create draft chapter outline
- Schedule follow-up if needed for clarification
Chapter Development:
- Each session becomes 1-2 chapters depending on content depth
- Mix formats: some as letters, some as teachings, some as testimonies
- Include practical application sections
- Add relevant scripture references throughout
- Create memorable frameworks (like "Seven Laws of Fire")
This structure gives you approximately 12-14 focused interview sessions that will provide rich material for a comprehensive "Way of Fire" book covering all major aspects of kingdom living and apostolic ministry.