An Encounter With the Angel of the Lord: Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez's Testimony
Updated: Oct 3
The short answer: Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez met the Lord in a radical encounter at age 15. Years later, as a pastor hungry for more of God, he obeyed an instruction to separate himself for three days in the mountains of Virginia, where the angel of the Lord visited him in 2019 and placed the prophetic mantle on his life, warning him it would cost him everything. In this interview with Pastor Chris and Josh, he teaches that true prophetic ministry flows from intimacy with God, is formed through consecration in the wilderness, and calls this generation to absolute surrender. Pastor Chris also shares his teaching on discerning the season of Messiah’s return.
Meet Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez
Pastor Chris and Josh welcome Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez, an apostolic and prophetic voice who ministers from Baltimore, Maryland, and reaches people across the nations through social media. He describes his life and ministry in three words: intensity, fervency and urgency. Anyone who has watched him preach, he says, knows it.
A father wound and an encounter at 15
Sergio grew up in church but, as he puts it, had not grown up in Christ. His parents served in many areas of ministry. Around the ages of 11 and 12, serious struggles in his parents’ marriage led to separation and divorce. He still loves and honors them both, but it wounded him deeply. Like many children raised in church, he connected his relationship with his earthly father to his relationship with his heavenly Father. A fracture in the natural became a fracture in the spirit. He felt abandoned and forgotten by God and began to question whether any of it was real.
In one of the darkest seasons of his life, away from church and wanting to do his own thing, the love of God reached him. His mother, in tears, invited him to a service. He knew he was at a crossroads, and he believes the Holy Spirit was using her that day.
At a service of about 450 to 500 people in Annandale, Virginia, he hid in the back corner of the last row. As the guest minister preached with fire, it felt like a tunnel: everyone else faded away and the message was for him alone. Then the preacher pointed to the back corner and said he could not hide. Sergio turned to look behind him and saw only a wall. With every step toward the altar, he felt his strength leave and the weight of God’s glory rest on him. He fell under the power of God, weeping, and experienced deliverance and healing. The minister quietly spoke the word of the Lord into his ear, revealing his calling. He doesn’t know how long he lay there, but at 15 his life was never the same.
He immediately began preaching, living on prayer, fasting and the Word. He is honest that he has not walked with the Lord perfectly, but says that from 15 on he has walked with Him faithfully.
Sergio notes how the one-on-one encounters in the Gospels still edify the whole body: blind Bartimaeus crying out to Yeshua (Mark 10:46–52), the woman with the issue of blood, and Mary breaking her alabaster jar, of whom Yeshua said, “Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her” (Mark 14:9). God is able to meet each person individually even in a crowded room.
From evangelist to pastor to prophet
Sergio did not begin as a prophet. He was ordained as an evangelist at 19, preaching on street corners, in neighborhoods and in other nations. At 22 he married and began pastoring with his wife. At the time of recording, they were celebrating 14 years of marriage and 19 years together, with three daughters.
He had been exposed to the supernatural early. Before his father’s season away from fellowship, God used him powerfully in deliverance, and as a child Sergio saw demons manifest and words of knowledge operate in meetings. But over his years as a pastor, something shifted. His knowledge grew as he studied Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic and Bible history in seminary, while the fire he had as a young evangelist dwindled. He followed the seeker-friendly models of the time and preached well-structured sermons, yet people stayed bound by drugs, depression, anxiety and torment.
He reminds listeners of Paul’s words that God made us “ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6). Word without Spirit, or Spirit without Word, falls short. It takes both.
His frustration turned into desperation, and desperation, when met with faith, became hunger. From January to May of 2019 he sought God like Jacob wrestling for a new name. He compares himself to Amos: “I was no prophet, nor was I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheepbreeder and a tender of sycamore fruit” (Amos 7:14). He was simply a pastor in the field.
Three days in the mountains of Virginia
After about four months of seeking, the Lord gave him an instruction like Abraham’s: go to a specific place in the mountains of Virginia and separate yourself for about three days, and I will meet you there. He was not praying to become a prophet or seeking a title. He just wanted more of God than he had known even at 15.
During that time of prayer and fasting, the angel of the Lord visited him and revealed the prophetic office over his life. The Lord told him, “You are my prophet,” and warned him that it would cost him everything. Sergio said yes. He shares this encounter in the opening of his first book, Spiritual Portals. And the warning came true: it has cost him everything. Yet he says he would say yes again every time, because in that yes he has seen God’s power, glory, revival, healing, miracles and transformation.
Pastor Chris discerned that Sergio operates as a seer, feeler and intercessor, which Sergio confirmed. He also distinguishes the office of the prophet from the gift of prophecy and the spirit of prophecy, which he has grown in over the years. Today he trains prophetic voices in his ministry, raising them up not to perform with charisma but to point people back to the heart of the Father, especially as false and counterfeit voices rise in these last days.
Intimacy before demonstration
Josh shares that as a newer believer, filling himself with Bible studies every day, he realized he had been losing his quiet time with the Lord. Pastor Chris adds a warning from years in ministry: leaders can get so busy caring for people that they lose their secret place, and when they do, the anointing decreases even though the gifts remain (Romans 11:29 says “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”).
Sergio calls this a “prophetic pause” the body of Christ needs. Many want the signs and wonders of the book of Acts without living as the early church lived. He points out that Acts opens by addressing Theophilus, whose name joins theos, God, and philos, love: a lover of God. To be introduced to the demonstration of God’s power, you must first be a lover of God. You can prophesy from gifting, but that is performance. Yeshua warned:
“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:22–23)
That “knowing” is not information; it is intimacy, the same Hebrew word (yada) used when “Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived” (Genesis 4:1). Ministry that flows from the presence of God comes only from the secret place.
Pressed like olives: consecration in the wilderness
Pastor Chris offers the analogy of the olive: it must be pressed for the oil to come out, and kings, and ultimately Messiah, were anointed with that oil. How much more must we be pressed for our oil to flow? He teaches that without consecration there is no prophetic anointing, and that God prepares prophetic people in the desert, often through pain and suffering.
Sergio agrees. No great man or woman of God fulfilled their destiny without being processed in the wilderness; Yeshua Himself spent forty days fasting in the wilderness before His ministry (Matthew 4:1–2). Nothing lives in a desert, and that is the point: ego, pride and flesh must die so God’s fire can rise. He compares it to a restaurant kitchen. He would never eat where the kitchen is cold, because food that hasn’t been cooked can harm you. Many in the body of Christ are being harmed by receiving from vessels that were never processed in the fire.
The end times and the rapture
Asked about the end times and the rapture, Sergio says that although the word rapture isn’t in Scripture, the principle of being caught up, the harpazo, is. His position is to live with both in mind: fully engaged in our earthly assignment to make disciples of all nations, while keeping eternity in view. No one knows the hour, so we must be ready at any moment, without compromise, because the Lord is preparing a mature, blameless bride.
Pastor Chris shares part of his own journey. After about six years in Christianity, including serving as a pastor, he met a Messianic rabbi, a Nazarene from Israel who believed in Yeshua as Messiah, who discipled him for five years. He opened up the Hebrew context of Scripture, the biblical calendar, the feasts and the Sabbath that Yeshua and the disciples kept, and how much changed under Constantine around the Council of Nicaea in 325.
Pastor Chris teaches that while we do not know the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36), we can know the season. Yeshua rebuked those who could read the sky but not the times:
“and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” (Matthew 16:3)
He teaches that Daniel points to Messiah coming at the change of the millennium, the year 6000. At the time of recording, the Jewish calendar was moving from 5785 to 5786. Pastor Chris teaches that the rabbinic chronology in the Seder Olam removed about 210 years, and that restoring them places us around the year 5995, roughly five years from the year 6000. He stresses that this is not conspiracy, and that it is about recognizing the season, not setting the day or hour.
The word for this generation: absolute surrender
Pastor Chris asks Sergio what the Spirit is saying to believers today. His answer: absolute surrender.
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’” (Matthew 16:24)
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
Many believers are lukewarm because they seek the blessings and disregard the Blesser. Sergio notes that when Yeshua said “you shall be witnesses to Me” (Acts 1:8), the Greek word is martys, the root of our word martyr. A true witness is willing to give everything. Yeshua didn’t come to establish a religion but a kingdom, and a kingdom has one King.
Josh asks whether denying yourself means denying fleshly desires. Sergio explains that we are spirit, soul (mind, will, intellect and emotions) and body, and that God intends to sanctify all three: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Before Christ, the flesh and its five senses lead. In Christ we become a new creation, and as the spirit rises, the Spirit leads and the flesh follows. Pastor Chris adds that in surrender the order is restored: spirit in front, soul in the middle, body behind.
Finally, Sergio teaches that doing must flow from being. “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19): you become before you can do. We are human beings, not human doings. “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).
Unity and the five-fold ministry
Sergio says he has never seen the body of Christ so divided, and believes we must stand united. He compares the five-fold ministry of Ephesians 4 to a hand: apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. With only one or two fingers, we never see the full hand of God.
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:11–12)
Pastor Chris agrees: a pastor without a prophet tends to preach only grace, and every office is needed together. Believers may hold different views on the timing of the rapture, but what matters is that the body comes together to evangelize, equip and send people out to the nations.
Prophet Sergio’s first book, Spiritual Portals, was released on October 7, 2025, through Amazon and major book retailers. He describes it as a scriptural, Spirit-filled spiritual warfare manual focused on intimacy with God and discernment in the last days. His website and social media channels can be found under his name, Sergio Nazir Chavez.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez?
An apostolic and prophetic minister based in Baltimore, Maryland, who trains prophetic voices and ministers to people across the nations. He is the author of Spiritual Portals.
How did he come to the Lord?
At 15, at a service in Annandale, Virginia, a minister called him out of the back corner. He fell under the power of God and experienced deliverance, healing and his calling.
How did he become a prophet?
After years as an evangelist and pastor, he sought God for months in 2019. The Lord sent him to the mountains of Virginia for three days, where the angel of the Lord revealed the prophetic office over his life.
What did the angel of the Lord tell him?
That he was God’s prophet and that the calling would cost him everything. He said yes, and he says it has cost him everything and has been worth it.
Why is intimacy with God essential for prophetic ministry?
Gifts can operate without intimacy, but that is performance. Yeshua said “I never knew you” to some who prophesied in His name (Matthew 7:22–23); true ministry flows from knowing Him.
What does Theophilus mean?
It combines theos (God) and philos (love): a lover of God. Sergio teaches that Acts is addressed to lovers of God.
Why does God take prophets through the wilderness?
Pastor Chris and Sergio teach that consecration is preparation: the wilderness kills ego, pride and flesh so God’s fire and oil can flow, as with Yeshua’s forty days.
What is Pastor Chris’s teaching on the year 6000?
He teaches that Daniel points to Messiah at the change of the millennium, and that restoring roughly 210 years missing from the Seder Olam places us near the year 6000. It is about recognizing the season, not setting a date.
What is the Lord saying to this generation, according to Sergio?
Absolute surrender: deny yourself, take up your cross, seek first the kingdom, and let the Spirit lead instead of the flesh.
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