This week, we celebrate the life and legacy of Doug Addison. He passed peacefully as he headed home to be with his Savior and Best Friend, Jesus, on January 26, 2026. Continue reading for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—A Lifetime of Giving: Prophetic Insight, Love and Laughter!
Doug was a gifted prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher who equipped and encouraged thousands to step into their God-given destiny. He was a faithful servant of the Lord, a trusted friend and a source of hope and encouragement to many. He will be deeply missed by all whose lives he touched and the countless people he impacted around the world.
We are grateful for the incredible life he lived. Doug carried a heart for God and a passion to help others hear His voice, and that legacy continues on through every life he touched. While this loss is truly heartbreaking, we also find comfort in knowing that Doug is now fully restored—dancing on streets of gold in the presence of the Lord whom he loved so dearly.
Words on a page cannot convey the love and admiration Doug’s friends had for him and the amazing call on his life. Following are a few of these friends’ favorite memories of him. Keep reading, because one of Doug’s stand-up comedy routines is included as well as snippets of Spirit Connection podcasts aired over the years that changed so many lives. Check out the final podcast here. Your heart will be touched and his comedy routine will add laughter to your day. It’s the perfect way to remember him.
James Goll
Well, hi, this is James Goll with God Encounters Ministries and I’ve had the privilege of knowing Doug Addison for a long time. He came to some of the early conferences when I was in Kansas City. I think that he listened to one of my cassette tapes. Yes, cassettes! It goes back that long. It was a message of mine on “Restoring the Fire on the Altar.” And while it was prophetic encounters, it was really more of a teaching on prayer. Doug apparently listened to this over and over and over.
I didn’t know who he was at that time. He was one of the many faces that came from California to Kansas City and I was one of the prophetic people. But Doug persisted and we became friends. Over the years, I became one of Doug’s primary lifelines. I helped him get connected with Harvest International Ministries, and I connected him with a few other ministry relationships.
I really valued Doug and Linda. Often, I would try to arrange a dinner or something with Doug when I would come out on my trips to California. My assistant for years (Jeffrey Thompson) and I would always look forward to Doug’s Prophetic Word each month because they were sharp, not fluffy. They were accurate words of discernment and we would lean into a Word from Doug.
I probably had Doug Addison on my Discerning Times and Seasons more than almost any other male prophetic speaker. Now, of course, I had Cindy Jacobs, Patricia King and Jane Hammond; but out of the men, I probably had Doug as much as, or more than, any other. That’s how much I valued his voice.
We had fun together too. See, we could be real serious, and then turn on a dime and laugh our heads off… and our heads back on.
Doug was obviously known as the dream interpreter. And let me tell you this, out of my 50+ years in full-time, vocational ministry, Doug Addison is the only person when on a phone call, he told me my dream, without knowing it, and then gave me the interpretation. Are you kidding me? That’s a Daniel-level type thing. He’s the only one that’s ever done it. Period. Thank you, Lord.
So, I became one of Doug’s primary sounding boards, and yes, I received a text every day. Did I know what to do with this bombardment from Doug? No. No one did. But I appreciated his persistence. This man was so tenacious. He wanted to be healed. He wanted to be delivered. Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be delivered. Well, he got delivered. He sure did.
You know, in praying about Doug’s life, I have a peculiar phrase that has come to me: He gives to His beloved even in their sleep. I know I’m going to use this verse in a very unusual way. Doug has fallen asleep and He gives to His beloved, even in his sleep. Doug is no longer tormented. He’s no longer chasing after his deliverance. He no longer has fear. He is consumed with perfect love that casts out fear.
I bless you, Linda. I bless the family. And God gives to His beloved, even in their sleep. And God is really pleased with this “Tattoo Prophet.” God bless you. This is James W. Goll, Doug Addison’s older brother. Amen. Amen. Love you all. Bye-bye.
Paul Cox
I’ve been invited to say a few words about my friendship with Doug and Linda Addison. I met Doug many, many years ago. In fact, the first time I met him was before I remember meeting him. Some time ago, he came to our house and we spent some time together, but I also had the privilege of being with him during his last ministry trip.
My friend Rob Gross and I invited him to come to Mountain View Community Church and to the Kingdom Institute for our annual apostolic meeting in Aiea, Hawaii. When I picked up Doug, it was clear that he was wrestling strongly against the oppression that had come against him and also wrestling against the medical issues that were causing him great distress, which eventually led to him going home with the Lord.
We had the privilege of spending time with him, both personally and as he came to the meetings. And we recognized that he was really in a lot of distress, so we invited him just to attend; and we wanted to bless him and Linda with a free trip to Hawaii. During that 4–5 days, we picked him up and took him home several times, and also spent time with him during our meetings.
I’ve always been impressed with Doug and his openness to being healed. Unlike anybody I’ve ever seen, he has contended for healing, and was a mighty warrior, coming against so many things that came against him during his lifetime.
I know many of you knew him as a communicator, as a wonderful prophet and a great servant of our Lord, and I have to say that I never knew him in that capacity. I had told him one day that we would serve together in a meeting, and that actually happened, I guess, in a passive way. But I knew his reputation and I was always impressed with him as a person.
Doug fought the good fight, and many of you may not be aware of the war that he was involved in, but he was absolutely victorious, and I am confident that he has gone into eternity as a wonderful servant of our Lord. He ended his service to the Lord well and was a great example of someone who contended for total healing, so that he might be fully used by the Lord.
So Linda, it’s been a great joy to know you and Doug, and I certainly speak blessings upon you as you are now grieving the loss of your husband and soulmate. It’s a great privilege for me to be able to speak highly of my friend, Doug Addison.
Meri Crouley
I’m in Israel right now and I really wish I could be at the memorial for Doug Addison. You know, I met Doug in 2010 at the GMT Studios, and when we met, there was an immediate connection with him and Linda. It was so significant, in fact, that we actually talked about doing a meeting together in April of 2011.
When we first did the meeting, it was actually a Frisbee party, where Doug Addison was involved with me in the movie about Lonnie Frisbee, called The Prodigal. The very first meeting we did was on April 9, 2011, which was actually the 105th anniversary of Azusa Street.
Doug was always a pioneer. He ended up reading people’s tattoos to give them prophetic insight. He started reaching out to the LGBT community and literally building a bridge to them. We were actually in a Hollywood nightclub for the Finger of God and the Father of Lights, the series that we were in together—praying and prophesying over people in a nightclub and on Venice Beach.
And so, I know that at this time, even as Doug just turned 67, [19]67 was the year that God ended up using a young man named Lonnie Frisbee, who was the catalyst for a movement. I believe that as Doug has transitioned into Heaven, that we are now going to see a great movement of God’s power, greater than any movement known to man.
And now that Doug is in the Cloud of Witnesses, along with great patriarchs, such as William J. Seymour, Lonnie Frisbee and many others that have gone before, we are going to see a great wave of the Spirit come forth, along with this great wave of revival and reformation that’s coming to the planet.
We miss you, Doug Addison, but we know that for such a time as this, God is releasing this wave. And on the other side, you’ll be cheering us on and praying with us that the greatest show on earth is here. Coming to you live from Israel, even as the bombs are dropping all around us, God is getting ready to drop bombs of His glory and His grace for such a time as this, as He called us to the Kingdom. God bless you all.
Doug’s Stand-Up Comedy
[MC:] Let’s welcome the powerfully positive, funny guy from the West Coast, Doug Addison!
[Doug:] I was born in the 50s, grew up in the 60s and then the 70s came around. Now my voice changes, as I do my impersonation of Doug in the 70s; but when I came to Jesus in the 70s, it was a trip. OK, let me set the stage for you.
All right, I was reading the book, The Shining. Stephen King. This is my testimony:
A car battery blew up in my face, a car caught on fire and I was all freaked out, you know, like… something knew! I was having a recurring nightmare of being chased; I knew that God was going to do something in my life, but I didn’t know what it was.
And so, I went up to the store—I don’t wanna shock anyone, this really is my story, dramatized for effect—but I went up to the store and I saw this witch that I knew from school. Did anyone know a witch from high school? You know, black hair, a mouse in their pocket and stuff like that? No, just me? Maybe it’s California.
But, I saw this witch I knew from school and she said, What’s going on? I go, Well, a car battery blew up in my face and the car caught on fire. I’m reading the book “The Shining,” and you know, I’m like… messed up. And she goes, Oh, I can help you.
So, she talks to me, listens to my things and then she finally says, You know what? I think you need Jesus. I’m like, Dude, you’re a witch! Meet Jesus?! Like, witches don’t say that! She goes, Don’t tell anybody. I actually like Jesus, I just don’t like church. Whoa, that was weird!
And so, I was living in a drug house at the time. You know what a drug house is? It’s a place you don’t want to be, but—let’s just put it this way—it’s a bad business deal. Anyway, I was living in a drug house at the time and… I actually ended up receiving Jesus Christ as my personal Savior in the basement of a drug house.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you’re taking notes, do you want to know how to mess up a drug house? Come running in the door saying, I just received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. That will mess up a drug house! So, my friends started seeing a change in my life. They’re like, Oh my goodness, you know, Doug’s changing. We want to go to church with you. I’m like, Well, I’m not sure it would work because, see, I had a revelation of Jesus. You’ve got to have a revelation of Jesus to show up at church, right? You know what I’m saying?
I didn’t want him to freak out or anything or freak the people out. But then, No, no, we want to go. So I thought, this is still the 70s, right? I’m just going to take them on potluck night, because that’ll be safe, right? So we showed up and they were all disappointed. There wasn’t any pot at all—just a bunch of munchies. But I didn’t know what to do. It was one of those churches where you don’t know when to sit or stand.
I was like in the wave—in the stands at a sports game—except I would always pop up at the wrong time in the wave! I knew that, but I went for a few weeks and I knew that I had to “catch the wave.” I didn’t know if they were gonna stand up. So, I’m looking around, I’m all nervous, not even listening to the sermon, I’m like, I just wanna make sure I stand up and do all those things that they do, right when they do them. You get that figured out, maybe you’ll be in Heaven. Maybe that’s the secret to things around here.
So, a guy gets up and he goes, If you’re new with us, you can fill out a pew card. I’m like, A pew card? I pulled this pew card out, grabbed the little golf pencil and put my name down. They had some boxes to check on there. I looked at it and it says, Would you like a visitation? CHECK! I was hoping it would be a visitation from God or an angel. Instead, some guy from the church showed up at my house with coffee breath. Kind of strange.
So, I kept trying to kind of fit in. I kept trying to find my way, and finally, this is in San Francisco, I found two other Christians at work. I came up into their little crowd they had going on there at lunchtime and I said, Well, I’m going to church now. And they said, Is he a Christian? I said, Yeah, and they said, Go check his car for a fish. You know, they ran a guy out there to see if I had a fish symbol on my car or something. You know, you had to have some kind of emblem to get into the club.
So, what church do you go to? I said, It’s a mainline, denominational church, big stuff down there. So, we’re sitting there and I’m trying to find out more about Jesus, but every time we get together at lunch, I notice they spoke in this strange language. I had never heard this language before. Later, I found out it was called Christianese. Are you familiar with it, Christianese? In other words, it’s obscure biblical references and things only Christians know, and apparently, you have to have a card and a decoder ring to figure things out. I wasn’t in the club yet.
So the guy says, Well? I sat down and they asked, Have you been saved?
I’m thinking, Well, I almost died when I was a kid. I said, No.
Have you been sanctified?
Is that like refried? ‘Cause I like refried beans.
No, have you been convicted?
Well, my criminal record shouldn’t have anything to do with finding out about Jesus. I thought I was forgiven for that, and who told you anyway? Oh, my “conviction,” my gosh!
Finally, the guy said, Have you killed the old man yet?
What? Killed the old man? [Christians mislead youth: news at 11!]
A little bit later, I sit down and another one says to me (‘cause they’re talking),
I say, What are you guys talking about?
And they said, Have you fallen on the rock yet?
Fallen on the rock?
The other one says, Just don’t let it fall on you, and they all laugh.
I’m like, whoa, I’m taking notes. Watch out for rocks! Maybe it’s rock music. Should I burn all my music? No, Doug, ‘cause later you’re gonna buy it all back on iTunes. Don’t burn it. Has this happened to anyone else?
And so, I’m really trying to find out and they said, Well, you need to go to your church, and go ask them how to get involved in a class or something. So I go, okay. I told them about checking the boxes on the pew cards. So, I go to church. You see, my family’s from the south, and I’m not talking about Southern California, either. So I really was not highly educated growing up, so I didn’t understand things, especially big words.
I went up to some guy. I go, Well, I need to find out more about how to get plugged in and stuff, and he goes, Oh, you’ll find out. It’s in the foyer [foy-yay]. But foyer, that sounds like some fancy French dessert or something, you know? I wasn’t sure. Another one says, You need to find the vestibule, it’s in the vestibule. Vestibule? That sounds like a cleansing pool experience.
Vestibule. Whoa, I couldn’t find the vestibule. I was wondering where the vestibule was. I thought it was up at the baptismal, but it was empty. So, I was poking around the church and finally some guy said, Hey buddy, you need help? It’s in the narthex. Narthex? Have you heard about a narthex? Sounds like some growth on some guy’s neck. Narthex, you know, Quasimodo is gonna come out from behind the big organ. Hey buddy, I’ll take you to the narthex right now. It’ll change your life.
Well, he took me out there to the narthex, which I found out, actually, they were all talking about the lobby. I had been there a lot and my life had never changed. And here I had been on a spiritual journey for three weeks to find the lobby. It just happened. I was thinking, Why don’t they just put it in plain English? I could have cut 3 weeks off of my Christian journey right there. Anyway…
[MC:] “Put them together for Doug Addison!”
[Doug:] Thank you.
Son of Issachar
Doug was a time and seasons prophet. Here are some excerpts from his podcasts over the years that reflect his discernment of the times and what God was saying to him.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2012
Hi, Doug Addison here. Welcome to Spirit Connection. It’s August 8, 2012, and that is 8/8. That is a significant number for those of you who understand biblical imagery and things like that. Eight is new beginnings, and I really believe that we’re in a time right now of new beginnings. I’ve been talking all year about… kind of building up to this month, about a new way to operate, that God is releasing to us a new way to operate in the Kingdom that we really do need to find this new way to grab hold of the things that God’s bringing to us.
We need to be part of the Kingdom of God. This is what God has been telling me the last few days and actually the last few months: we have to be very careful that we don’t get a worldly political view, especially of Christianity. We want a Kingdom view of what God’s doing.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2013
Doug Addison here at Spirit Connection live, and it is Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Welcome to the broadcast. You know, I had several dreams about a new sound and a new creativity coming from Heaven, and this was, instruments. One dream I saw these instruments. One was a cello, it looked like a guitar. It was half cello, half guitar, connected to a computer.
I knew this with three of these dreams, that there was a new anointing from God coming on musicians, songwriting. It’s going to open up the spiritual realm. This isn’t limited to worship right now, this is on music in general. But God wants to use this creativity to draw people to Himself also, to break open things, in the spiritual realm.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2014
I have a prophetic word for 2014, some things to talk to you about, give you an update on what we’re doing in LA and my health, and a lot of fun things.
Prayer: So Father, we thank You for all that You’re doing. Thank You for Your Goodness, and God, we ask Your Holy Spirit to flow right now, even through the internet. Yes, more through the internet because the internet was intended for much more than it’s being used for right now and that we want to take the airways. So, Father, we just declare and decree that there is a flow of the Holy Spirit happening right now.
Prayer: And so, Father, I thank You that You’re doing something new right now, and we just ask Your Holy Spirit to come and we just pray for a supernatural impartation, a supernatural blessing, a supernatural opening of the heavens, in Jesus’ name.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2015
Whenever you’re in a situation, you want to be able to hear God and not your own thoughts and your own things. So, I test myself, I put myself through training all the time, wow, what an opportunity. So, I asked God and I heard the Lord say, “Seattle,” and this is a championship, the NFC/AFC championships prior to the Super Bowl. I heard that Seattle would beat Green Bay and New England would beat Baltimore and then the New England Patriots would be in the Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks, and New England would win.
And, you know, someone asked, Well, did you actually release that publicly? No, I did not. I did with my inner core intercessors. The reason I didn’t is because some people might be immature and some people might go out and gamble or something like that. I didn’t want that to happen. I just wanted to hear God and know that I was hearing Him and that fun stuff.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2016
Passover is the time when God can give us instructions on how to get out of bad situations.
I mean, if you look at the original [Passover] in Exodus 11 and 12, God gave Moses and the Israelites a strategy on how to let that destroyer pass over their houses because the last day was plagues that were coming, that was… in other words, things that looked bad were actually used for good.
Many people have been discouraged. They’ve been saying, Why are some of the prophets saying things that are opposite than others? There’s been all this strange stuff. They’ve been discouraged. The hopelessness has set in, but hear the Word of the Lord. This is not the time to pull back. This is the time to move forward. This is the time to trust the Lord like never before because the enemy is trying to get people to reject the prophets, to reject the prophetic ministry because God’s about to move in a really, really big way.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2017
Here’s what’s going to happen. Those who’ve been on Injured Reserve [list], maybe that’s you; maybe you’ve felt like you were forgotten by God like Joseph in Genesis 41, who was in prison. Then a 24-hour turnaround… restoration happened in his life. It was like overnight. Expect to see those quick, sudden good breaks.
My favorite verse: Unrelenting disappointments leave you heart sick. But a sudden good break can turn life around. Proverbs 13:12 MSG
Watch for strategic and divine connections to start to happen. I’ve seen this happening several times in the past, which is the movement into a new season. It’s a time of realignment and as it starts to happen, it’s going to bring about those major changes in relationships, associations, locations, relocations—ultimately bringing new assignments to you as well.
Now you might not qualify for all of those, but God’s doing something right now and we can expect to see things happen.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2018
I’m really excited for what’s coming right now, and we’ve been under some heavy storms. We’ve been under warfare. The enemy of our souls has been at work, and I’ve been saying this for a while. I say these violent acts, the earthquakes and storms, and everything going on, they are not from the Lord. This is the enemy. This is Satan that’s trying to get you to believe that you’ve missed it.
He’s trying to get us distracted. But I want to tell you, God is preparing for something new right now.
I believe it’s going to be a real interesting time, in a fun way, and you know it’s time to believe and not doubt. And in the midst of some of the heaviest trials over the past month myself, I’ve actually had some of the greatest encounters with the Lord. Honestly, I’ve really had some of the greatest encounters, but at the same time, the enemy’s been in there trying to devalue those things.
So, don’t look at the storm. You want to look at what God’s doing.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2019
Jesus actually began to prophesy, back in Luke 21:26, an attack we are seeing today. One of the number one causes of death in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control is heart disease, heart attacks. Jesus prophesied this in Luke 21:26–men’s hearts failing them for fear, and the expectation of those things that are coming on the earth, that the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Now, Jesus tells us there’s a shaking coming on the earth, and it’s the fear that will cause heart attacks. It’s the fear because F-E-A-R is a four-letter word that starts with “F.” Did I just say that? Yes, I did. Fear is something that doesn’t belong. It’s a demonic force that will come in and can destroy our lives.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2020
And so, I’ll be talking this month about the coronavirus.
First of all, I just want to say, don’t be afraid about what’s going on right now in the world with the coronavirus and the enemy is trying to distract from what God wants to bring. This is a time that we need to really press in and not be afraid.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2021
This is going to be an amazing year!
Prayer: Lord, I pray that You will release this word over the world. I pray for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that they’ll be able to receive what the Spirit of the Lord is saying right now. I pray that You would release us, Lord, from the perils of the pandemic. I pray, Father, for those who have lost, those who are hurting, you can step up in the storm. The Lord says step up in the storm.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2022
But the Lord spoke to me, as well as through some apostolic and prophetic leaders around me. One of them called me and said, I want you to really consider this: do what you do best. You need to look in the camera every week and tell people it’s going to be okay, because it is. I knew what that meant is that the Lord is moving right now. We can start focusing on the storm, but I’m just going to look at the camera right now, and tell you… I’m not kidding. This is what the Lord says, that it’s going to be OK, and it is!
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2023
You can take refuge in the Lord. Psalm 16:1–Keep me safe, my God, right, for in you, I take refuge.
You know, as I have mentioned before, many times: by praying, repenting, and using Bible verses…very, very powerful. We can actually call out to the Lord for mercy, forgiveness, protection and safety. I just do that right now.
Prayer: Lord, we just ask for mercy, forgiveness, protection and safety.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2024
We are, personally, with InLight Connection, we’re battling, Linda and I. And we need your help. The battle belongs to the Lord, and we ask the Lord to move on our behalf and on your behalf right now.
A lot of people are walking through it. And as I’ve mentioned previously, we’ve been walking through difficult times, but the Lord is with us.
Doug Addison–Spirit Connection 2025
Mark 4:39–Then Jesus rose up and he rebuked the wind and the waves. And He said to the sea, “Peace be still,” to the storm, and the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Blessings,
Doug Addison & Friends
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Doug Addison was the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug was a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He was known for his Spirit Connection podcast and blog. He and his wife, Linda, have been impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries for many decades.