we have had a significant move of God start to rumble this month.

The things Beccy and I have seen around the world for the past decade. We have always seen healing s and the supernatural, but things are ramping up again.

Church members have started to gather every afternoon to pray.

Worship is some of the most wonderful and refreshing i have ever felt, it reminds me of our early days back in Australia

People are getting saved/right with God in all our services.

People are laying hands on the sick and seeing them healed, seeing people saved and touched through out the week

This is what I have always longed for.

To equip and release our people to do great mighty things in His name

So the three things i would ask for pray for…

1) wisdom to steward this move

2) souls to be saved and the religious to get right with God

3) supernatural signs and wonders to confirm the word where it is reached/shared by whomever does the preaching/sharing

Thankyou…

Peace and Grace

In the great persecutions of the early church, 10 in total over a period of some 200 years, at its high, 140,000 died a month around the world.

These people never had their lives taken from them, but they gave their lives for something.

The result was a revolution, of such proportions that it toppled the Roman Empire…viva la revolution

Tertullian (160-225 AD)

Good governors you may torment afflict and vex us your wickedness tries our innocency and therefore God permits us to suffer it but your cruelty is to no purpose it is but a stronger invitation to bring others to our sect.

The oftener we are mowed down the faster we spring up again, the blood of Christians is the seed of the church.

Many of your philosophers have exhorted their hearers to patience under death and sufferings as Cicero in his Tusculans, Seneca, Diogenes, Pyrrhon and Callinicus but they could never make so many proselytes by all their fine discourses as the Christians by their actions.

That very obstinacy you charge upon us serves to instruct others.

For who beholding such things will not be moved to enquire what is the truth from which they proceeded and when he has found it will not embrace it and having embraced it will not desire to suffer for it.

Therefore we give thanks for your sentence knowing that the judgments of men do not agree with that of God fir when we are condemned by you we are absolved by God.

We live on average 30 000 days.

Of those we sleep 10 000 days.

Q: If you knew you had 500 days left to live - what would you give yourself to?

How would you spend it so that after you a legacy would continue?

Now get past the….I would sell everything and… stuff. Because that would last 30 days and you would be hungry and miserable.

But how would you spend your time to ensure that you left a lasting impact?

“The reason some folks don’t believe in missions (/evangelism) is that the brand of religion they have isn’t worth propagating.”

“No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.”

What we have is worth propagating.

Propagate:

To cause to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.

To spread a report from person to person.

To increase in extent.

Synonyms: spread, broadcast, circulate.

Bring OUR living Jesus…to this dying world, is a statment that is more than the motto of our church, it is the reason for THE church.

One question though….is YOUR Jesus living?

Mark 3:14-15 Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons

The Mandate has never changed, our interpretations have.
Our commitment to it has.
Our willingness to perform it has.
But the mandate has never changed.

Your career/calling/occupation is not a context within which the gospel must fit, but rather the gospel MUST BE your context. It is not a suggestion, it is a command.

Jesus chose the 12 and said: Do this.
He chose them and empowered them to: Do this.

It hasn’t changed

Just because you sit in a board room, have meeting with clients, or serve in a cafe, it doesnt exclude you from the mandate of being a follower of Christ and the obligation/responsibility to preach and be a carrier of Divine Deliverance.

Some would call this fanaticism, I would say “Dear God, that we would have some fanatics and not pathetics”!

The urgency and willingness of our witness is directly proportional to the urgency and passion we have for the lost souls of those that surround us.

But…. Matt 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces”. Seems to indicate to me that we should be selective in our audience.

In fact Jesus says here, it appears to me, that a foolish selection for the presentation of the priceless gospel will lead us into a confrontation.

So what is the balance? How does one passionately present a living Jesus to a dying world, allowing everyone at any time an opportunity to be save, yet follow His guidelines to not waste our time?

What a time for the church to introduce people without hope and a future to one who is THE hope and the future.

This Christ that we know.

Our obligation is to bring a living Jesus to a dying world - the glory of presenting this Christ that we know.

Think of the power of the opportunity.

People are scared, hopeless and fearfully facing the future…but then there is us.
The church of the living God.
A light on a hill.
A bright future for tomorrow.

It is God’s Sovereignty that guarentees healing and the miraculous.

And our faith that activates it.

So what is the disconnect?

Why do we as a generation long for the miraculous yet don’t see it anywhere near as often as we would like to?

How can we present an uncompromising Savior to a dying world through a compromised witness?

We can’t.

The challenge I have had with the so-called “seeker sensitive” deal, is that people don’t appear to be sensitive to the greatest need that mankind has.

We are all sinners and have fallen short of God and are in desperate need of salvation and redemption.

Compromising the truth and sugar coating the price never seemed to make sense to me.

I have never met any one turned off of Christianity by Christ; I have met a whole bunch turned off of Christ by religion.

What an unbelieving world finds unbelievable is that Christians acknowledge Jesus with their lips but deny Him with their life.

Is it possible for lack of gratitude to stem the tide of God’s blessing?

Here on two simple tests:

(a) Does it come from outside of you?

Do you sometimes as soon as you wake in the morning have thoughts that come to you even before you are fully awake?

You have not been thinking them. You may never have thought them before and yet here they are in you head.

If happens while you read the bible, or even while you pray. I have had people tell me that some times it is during worship that they struggle the most.

This to the is a sign that it is a temptation, not a sin. I have not actively encaged in it. It, the devil, has tried to actively encage with me. It is on external thing.

(b) The second test is simply this…. Do you hate it?

Do you detest these thoughts, these ideas, these fantasy’s or do you embrace and cultivate them in your mind.

One you run from.
One you run to.

Being tempted to sin does not prove by any means that we are not Christians.
The Christian is not perfect in this life.

The Christian strives to imitate holiness, but knows that this side of glory perfection is quite simply out of the question.
The Christian realizes that the body is not yet redeemed.

And it in fact will not be redeemed until our Lord returns and we are resurrected from the dead.

Therefore as long as we are in this life and in this world then will always be this element of conflict, this fight against temptation and sin.