1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,480 Australia. I just felt to share this even 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,680 just out of what Eliza had shared with us this morning. 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,960 If you don't know that you need something from God, then there's 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,400 no expectation for you to, you know, for him to do it in you. 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,480 Like, does that make sense? Like if I come here thinking 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,120 that of I have everything that I need, then where is the 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,000 opportunity for God to give us something that when that is 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,800 needed? And I think Eliza sort of 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,560 touched on that. It's like sometimes you just 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,320 don't know. Often times I would say that we 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,840 come in here or we live our lives just oblivious to our 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,400 needs, the things that God's wanting to do in US and through 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,560 US. And so I say all that just to 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,800 lift our expectation this morning that God is going to 16 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,519 speak, that God is going to highlight things that he wants 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,360 to deal with us in our hearts mainly. 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,280 Well, pretty much in our hearts. The way that you live comes out 19 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,200 of what's in your heart, right? So there's some heart surgery 20 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,520 that God needs to do in all of us and he's going to do that 21 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:17,920 this morning. Should you be willing? 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,480 I hope we are willing. And I was just reminded of this 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,480 scripture here. Paul writes in in Acts, Acts 20. 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,800 He says, so now brethren, I commend you to God and to the 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,520 word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you 26 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,760 an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 27 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:47,040 And so as Justin brings the Word of God, God's Word, what God 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:54,040 says, the truth as the Word is sown into our hearts, let's be 29 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,920 expected that God is going to do a work in here and lead us, lead 30 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,920 us as individuals, but as the church into the inheritance that 31 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,760 he has for us with all the Saints. 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,360 Amen. Excellent. 33 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,000 Come, Justin, I'm just going to pray, Lord, we just lift up this 34 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,040 man. Lord, we thank you that he's 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,640 spent time preparing. God, we thank you that your Holy 36 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:21,800 Spirit dwells in him, Lord. And we just pray, Lord, that 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:27,400 even right now, Lord, that you would lead him in his words, in 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,440 direction, in whatever it is that you're wanting to do. 39 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,600 Lord, we thank you that you've prepared him to stand here and 40 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,400 share your word, Lord. But I pray that wherever you 41 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,560 want to lead him, I pray that I know that he will follow you. 42 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,080 I just pray that you would lead in the direction that you would 43 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,960 have him go. And Lord, I pray for us as 44 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,680 people in this place, good, good soil in our hearts. 45 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,680 Lord, I pray you prepare us even right now in this moment, Lord, 46 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,880 that we would be able to take on so, so much seed from your word 47 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,800 and it would bring forth a huge harvest, hundredfold harvest in 48 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,640 US and through US in Jesus mighty name, Amen. 49 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:08,800 Amen. Good day, guys. 50 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:13,800 OK, so this morning is kind of Week 3. 51 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,920 Of and A and a. Recap of our time in South 52 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:22,120 Africa and it was actually it was a really good time and I 53 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,200 went back and listened if you remember the week before we 54 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,640 left, we got some of the guys that were going we got them up 55 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,440 here and we said, what do you believe God could do? 56 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,280 And I went back and I, I don't know if you've had the 57 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,560 opportunity to go back and listen to those words and then 58 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,880 listen to what people. Preached afterwards and to hear 59 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,560 how God did actually do what we prayed that he would do. 60 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,960 And one of the one of the strong themes that people prayed for. 61 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,080 In that time, was it? Just we would get a. 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,960 Sense of God at work in our togetherness around the. 63 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,000 Globe and I want to kick off this morning just by giving some 64 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,160 updates of what God is doing around the globe. 65 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,800 And so we spent six weeks praying into different 66 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,040 continents around the world. At our prayer meetings, we 67 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,360 prayed over each continent, and I had the privilege of meeting 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,600 people from every continent except for Asia, which is kind 69 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,440 of surprising because Asia has, like, you know, 2/3 of the 70 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,959 world's population. But I want to just give you some 71 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,080 some. Feedback from what God is. 72 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,600 Actually doing because I think when we pray and we say God show 73 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,440 us what you're doing around the world, and then we meet people 74 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,600 and we hear stories of what God is doing, it encourages us that 75 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,520 God is at work, right? So there was this couple that I 76 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,920 met called Dennis and Vanessa. They relocated from South Africa 77 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,680 into Spain in our togetherness as new Covenant ministries. 78 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,080 It's the first church to be planted into Spain. 79 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:55,120 Europe is very, they would say, very liberal in some of its its 80 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,080 kind of ways, particularly around things like gender 81 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,280 ideology and stuff like that. And so they're planting in a 82 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:02,480 hard land. In. 83 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,680 Spain and they were saying stories that they were weeping 84 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,280 at the airport, knowing it was God's. 85 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,680 Purpose, but knowing the challenge. 86 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,480 Ahead and they gave stories as I was chatting with them. 87 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:18,680 Of just God really at work. They said that there was one guy 88 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,360 who came to their church who came to be baptized and said 89 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,480 awesome, we'll go down to the beach in the public. 90 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,000 And we're going to. Baptize you and Dennis just felt 91 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,080 the call of God just to say hey, is there anyone else that wants 92 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,640 to give your life to Christ and. Get baptized here and the entire 93 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,680 gentleman's family gets saved and baptized that night on the 94 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,960 beach. God is at work in Europe. 95 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,920 Hey, we heard from guys in. France, how they've just. 96 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,240 God has provided a building for this church that has been 97 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,480 meeting at like kind of nomadic for a while, and God is at. 98 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,680 Work in Europe. I met a couple called Mike and 99 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,200 Julia. They are part of a church in 100 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,840 Charlotte in North Carolina in the US. 101 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,040 Just had the privilege just pick them up for a Sunday morning 102 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,160 church meeting and we drove there and so we got chatting. 103 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,520 They had a 2 year old daughter, very similar age to my kids. 104 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,080 So I just asked them like where are you from? 105 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,520 What's the church like and stuff now? 106 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,000 Part of a church that didn't relate or partner with New 107 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,320 Covenant Ministries International. 108 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,080 And in their words, things weren't going great. 109 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,160 The church was really unhealthy. There was a lot of kind of 110 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,800 division in the church and stuff like that. 111 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,440 And through a leadership change, the church started partnering 112 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,360 with New Covenant. Ministries started. 113 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,600 Partnering with an Apostolic team and team guys started 114 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,360 coming in and rebuilding foundations and they reflecting 115 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,200 on they've been along for this whole journey. 116 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,240 And they said, man, the church is in such a healthier place 117 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,760 because of what has. Happened and. 118 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,240 What God has been doing in our church and in our togetherness. 119 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:44,680 And do you believe? God is at. 120 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,000 Work in the United States. God is at work in North America. 121 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,120 He's he's doing something with the churches. 122 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,920 He's strengthening churches all throughout the world. 123 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,880 We obviously we went over there and we met Bruce and Myra who 124 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,520 have ministered here and lead Lighthouse to the nation's 125 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,480 church and they have two campuses in South Africa. 126 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,040 And we got to talk with some of their leaders who are just 127 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,200 feeling the call of God to go into other nations and to 128 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,720 relocate to places like Zimbabwe, to relocate to places 129 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,680 like Sudan. To go right. 130 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,160 Through to Zambia. God is a work in Africa. 131 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,640 Do you believe that? Like we're praying for Africa, 132 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,960 and here are stories of real people on the ground doing 133 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,920 things for God, making things. Count for God and so. 134 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,360 I also got to chat with guys from South America, actually got 135 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:37,120 to minister alongside a young guy called Daniel who leads a 136 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,080 church in Columbia, which is north of South America. 137 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,320 And the the short story is his father led the church and his 138 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,440 father passed away suddenly. And so the leadership team went, 139 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,160 well, we don't know who's going to lead. 140 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,080 We pray about it. And they pointed to him and 141 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,240 said, we think you're the guy you lead. 142 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,000 He's got. I've not been on the. 143 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,400 Pastoral team before I. Don't know what I'm doing and 144 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,480 yet God has appointed. Him to lead the church and I 145 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,840 just say man, God does mighty. Things with inexperienced people 146 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,600 like he just raises people up and says OK you're going to lead 147 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,360 my people like he called reminded of the Daniel the 148 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,000 David, the shepherd boy right. Inexperience had never LED a 149 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,920 Kingdom and God said I'm anointing you at a young. 150 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,560 Age to lead. My people and lead. 151 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,400 This great nation of Israel. And he he had been through 152 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,440 training grounds. And then God said I point you. 153 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,600 To to do this. And I just, I reflected on that 154 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,920 Daniel, this young guy is about my age being thrown to church 155 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,320 and said here, lead us please, because we see the call of God. 156 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,039 And God is at work in him, and God is at work throughout the 157 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,080 churches in Columbia. And we caught up. 158 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,320 It's funny, we travelled halfway around the world. 159 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,120 And caught up with a whole bunch of Aussies, surely? 160 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,960 There's a better way that we could do it, like in shopping 161 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,320 centres. I'm like, hey, you're an Aussie. 162 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,240 This is why can't we catch up in our own country. 163 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,200 But it gave us an opportunity outside of our. 164 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,920 Context to say, hey, what is God doing? 165 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,640 And we caught up with guys who are over in Sydney Glorious 166 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,280 Gospel Church. They are celebrating 35 years 167 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,920 today, 35 years as a base church. 168 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,640 In Sydney. And over the past three years, 169 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,200 they've planted three other. Churches. 170 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:13,280 God really stirred their heart. And said we need to. 171 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,280 Get back to what God has called us to do, which is. 172 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,640 To plant churches. And they're opening up and 173 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,080 breaking ground in Sydney. They're seeing these churches 174 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,360 thrive, like people are coming to know Christ in the north, in 175 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,840 the West, in their central campus and the new church plant, 176 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,800 Eden Church. Which is turning 1 today. 177 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,640 God is at. Work God is at. 178 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,160 Work in our nation do you believe that right we we shared 179 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,800 a scripture just before we left in Ephesians 310 that just said 180 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,400 that God's intent was the now through the. 181 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,440 Church, the manifold wisdom of God would be made known. 182 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,800 Do you believe that around the world God is busy planting, 183 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,800 strengthening, enlarging churches so that he can reveal 184 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,760 his manifold wisdom to the world? 185 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,800 Like, I know that we can pray and we say, you know, 186 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,440 governments need to change and these things need. 187 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,520 To change, but ultimately. God's plan is through. 188 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,280 The church. And one of the things that we 189 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,000 prayed for as we go, that we would get a. 190 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,760 Picture of what? God. 191 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,840 Was doing through. His church around the world and 192 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,840 man, I want you to be encouraged that God is at work in his 193 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,120 church throughout the world he's. 194 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,400 Breaking open nations. He's seeing people saved. 195 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,280 He's he's establishing base. Churches that can actually reach 196 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,520 other parts of the nations. Of the world, isn't that. 197 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,400 Cool, isn't that amazing? This. 198 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,600 Is why we go to. These things it's not, not. 199 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,480 Just, you know, teaching is great, but it's actually that we 200 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,960 can see and we can hear and we can get alongside people and say 201 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,280 what is God doing in the nations? 202 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,080 Of the world. And that in US we can carry. 203 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,440 Something and be enlarged in what God wants to do. 204 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,360 Is that cool? So let's just quickly pray. 205 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,520 Father, we thank you for what you're doing around the world. 206 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,160 We thank you for what the opportunity to travel to South 207 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,080 Africa to meet with people from different nations and to hear of 208 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,640 how you are establishing lampstands in every nation of 209 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,080 this world. You are planting lampstands in 210 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,920 every continent that shine light in a in a dark and broken world 211 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,160 and that you are busy building your church. 212 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:17,440 And we thank you God that you are a global God as much as you 213 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,280 are a personal God here this morning. 214 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,840 You are a global God at work through countless lamp stands, 215 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,600 bringing glory to your son, bringing glory to your name. 216 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,360 And we thank you for the work you're. 217 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:37,080 Doing in Jesus name, everybody said Amen, Amen, Amen, right. 218 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,880 I want to bring us back to another. 219 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:45,280 Word that was shared just. Before just before we left and 220 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,480 kind of it brings a bit of a kind of the broad strokes that I 221 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,080 think were shared through the global equip and just some of 222 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,240 the stuff I've felt in God for us as a people on the back of 223 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,280 that word. You know, you guys believe that 224 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,400 God speaks prophetically, right? He speaks through His words, and 225 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,200 the prophetic words will always back this up, and this will 226 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,200 always back up what God says. But God also speaks through 227 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,040 people. Around our seasons and around. 228 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,840 What he wants to do? In and through US. 229 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,080 And so we need to have ears to listen to what God is saying. 230 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,600 That's first thing. Second thing, we know that God. 231 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaks in our hearts, right? The God isn't so much. 232 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,000 Concerned with information up. Here as he is. 233 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,320 Concerned with revelation in here. 234 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,280 Yeah, and that's what brings. About our transformation and 235 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,640 what God really wants to do. You get that, Cool. 236 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,480 And so I want to. I've got. 237 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:36,400 I've got. This. 238 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,040 And I know it's not very big I. Had hoped that I could. 239 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:41,120 Have something a little bit bigger? 240 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,240 It's a toy cylinder. Foam thing for the recording. 241 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,680 That Dan, just before we left, you kind of stood up and we 242 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,400 asked him what did you feel God wants to do for our church? 243 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,240 And he said, I feel like it's a baton relay. 244 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:57,960 He said. I feel like we're standing there 245 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,240 and God has got a baton for us waiting. 246 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,720 To actually take hold of what he wants to do. 247 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,920 Through. Us as a people and. 248 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,800 Maybe this happened for you, maybe it didn't, but in my 249 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,440 spirit I went. I feel like that's a word. 250 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,120 For us, I feel like. God is wanting to say something 251 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,280 through that. And Dan went on and he said more 252 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,480 than the baton relay, more than that God is giving. 253 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,960 Something into our hand. For us to run to, he says we've 254 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,120 got to get in position, he said. There's no point if God is 255 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,840 wanting to hand us a baton. Just standing there looking at 256 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,920 the sky, Dan was like, we've got to be in position to actually. 257 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,640 Carry what he's passing on to US. 258 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,240 And what he? Wants us to carry. 259 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:43,320 And I want to talk this morning just a little bit about position 260 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,000 yourself is kind of my title, Position yourself. 261 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,160 As we say, it's no point in me standing staring at the sky if 262 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,040 God is trying to give me something to carry. 263 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,760 And advance his Kingdom. I have to actually get in 264 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,360 position. If you watch the baton relay in 265 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,760 the Olympics, you won't find them all standing there and just 266 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,240 kind of glancing up and having a good. 267 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,520 Chat to the guy next to them as that baton is coming closer. 268 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,440 They're getting ready. To take hold of it and run with 269 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,840 what God is called and in Habakkuk. 270 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,680 Two, I think it's Habakkuk. Two, it says, you know. 271 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,720 Write down this vision that he who. 272 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,200 Picks it up, may run with it right? 273 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,480 And so there's a. There's a context there that 274 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,080 when we. Catch God's vision. 275 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,040 Catch. What God wants to do, He's 276 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,200 expecting us to run. He's not. 277 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,600 Expecting us to kind of take a slow pace or anything like that. 278 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,560 He's saying, man, I've called you to run with what I've called 279 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,960 what I've called you to do I. Haven't called you to stroll? 280 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,440 I haven't. Called you to meander. 281 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,880 I've called you to run hard after the things of the Kingdom. 282 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,320 So God has called us to run hard. 283 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,960 Amen. And so I've got 6 things that I 284 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,320 feel the things that we must. Kind of catch. 285 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:58,120 Or take hold of or things that we must that help us position 286 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,960 ourselves. To carry what God wants to do. 287 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,880 Right. As I mentioned before, God 288 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,560 speaks through revelation more than He does information so that 289 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,000 we can actually carry what He wants to do. 290 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,800 And I want to just give you 6 things, six kind of areas of 291 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,920 revelation that we need to carry. 292 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,040 In our hearts. In order to run with what God 293 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,760 has for you as an individual. In order to run with what God 294 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,160 has for us as a people here, in order for us to run with what 295 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,960 God has in our togetherness across the city and across the 296 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,520 globe, there are things we need. To catch in here. 297 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,840 There are things we need to. Hold deep within us. 298 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,440 And be utterly convinced of, because if we're not convinced 299 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,240 of them and God goes to give us that baton, it's likely we're 300 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,800 going to fumble with it or we're not going to be in position. 301 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,560 We're going to have a slow start. 302 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,440 Like, I'm sure you've seen it in the Olympics when somebody's not 303 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,160 quite ready for that baton. And it just, it sets them behind 304 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,360 a little bit. But I feel like God is saying, 305 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:59,680 hey, position yourself, position yourself and I will give you 306 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,560 something to carry and to run into all that I've called you to 307 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,040 carry. And so there's six things that I 308 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,000 feel we need to carry. Inside of us and to position our 309 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,760 hearts for what He is. Doing and for what he. 310 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,120 Wants to do into our. Future and the first one is this 311 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,640 and these were kind of broad strokes from the global 312 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,840 equipment as well. The first one is that we need to 313 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,760 carry. In In Our Hearts, a revelation 314 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,160 of the Person of God. We need to know Him. 315 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,520 That's the slogan of New Covenant. 316 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,600 Ministries International is to know. 317 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,480 Christ. And to make him known. 318 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,040 And last week, Hillary shared from John 17. 319 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,600 Three. The word it says. 320 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,760 This is eternal. Life that you may know him and 321 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,840 the one whom he has sent. We must catch a revelation of 322 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,640 who God is and what He is like in our hearts because that that 323 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,840 is where everything stems from, like our revelation of Jesus is. 324 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,640 We'll determine how we. Respond to what he wants to do. 325 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,840 And so we need to. Catch in US a revelation of the 326 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,680 Person of God. We need to know Him. 327 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:01,880 Know what he's like. Know. 328 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,840 What he likes know what he doesn't like? 329 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,319 So we need to catch. In here a revelation of the 330 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:11,240 person. Of God, the second thing I feel 331 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,839 we need to. Catch a revelation of in our 332 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:14,720 hearts. Is we need to know. 333 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,440 The plan of God. The plan of God on the earth. 334 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,359 As we already spoke out of Ephesians and in. 335 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:27,040 Hebrews 1 and in Colossians. Chapter 2 it talks about the 336 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,760 plan of God and it says this says Jesus is the plan like. 337 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,360 Effectively in Hebrews chapter 1 it says you know in the past God 338 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,240 spoke through his prophets. But now he's. 339 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,720 Spoken to us through his. Son and in. 340 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,680 Colossians, chapter one or two. It says. 341 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,760 That he is the first. Born. 342 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,080 He is the head. He is the. 343 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:49,440 Ultimate He is the 1, and in Ephesians 19 to 10 it says that 344 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,080 this was God's purpose that He would reveal. 345 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,800 We'll actually put that Scripture up if we can be 346 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,520 Ephesians. Chapter One, Nine to 10. 347 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,680 I think it's really cool. Or if you've got your Bibles 348 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:04,960 too, I'd encourage you to open those up. 349 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,320 So He made known to us the mystery of His will, His plan. 350 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,360 Remember, we're talking about catching the revelation of His 351 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:13,280 plan in our. Hearts. 352 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,640 He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His 353 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,440 good pleasure which He purposed. In Christ. 354 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,280 Next verse to put into effect when the times will have reached 355 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,440 the fulfilment to bring all things in heaven and on earth 356 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,160 together under one head even. Christ. 357 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,480 God's plan was Jesus. God's plan from right from the 358 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,720 beginning when man. Fell God. 359 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,440 Promised. Hey, there's a chosen. 360 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,400 Seed that's going to come and he's going to crush Satan. 361 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,720 And then he promised Abraham, through your seed the nations 362 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,760 will be blessed. And then we see the Passover 363 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,600 lamb, and we see these revelations of Christ right up 364 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,360 into the cross. And then here we are on the 365 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,280 other side of the cross and we're just pointing back and 366 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,640 say, look. At what Jesus has done. 367 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,000 And look at what he is doing in the earth. 368 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,760 God's. Plan is Jesus, God's plan is the 369 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,280 extension of. The King and his Kingdom 370 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,120 throughout the earth. We need to catch that. 371 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,640 That this, this isn't about his plan is not good preaching. 372 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,560 His plan is not good music as much as those stuff is. 373 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,440 Great. His plan is that Jesus would be 374 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,000 proclaimed in the nations. His plan is that Jesus would be 375 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,920 revealed, that Jesus is the ultimate reconciler. 376 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,640 When we were in South Africa, I got. 377 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,720 Asked at a lunchtime. To go preach at a church that. 378 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,360 Evening we had. Sessions all afternoon. 379 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,320 I had no idea when I would prep. But as I was. 380 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:44,440 Walking. I was chatting with Dan. 381 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,680 He's like, what are you going to preach on? 382 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,040 And I'm like. I have no clue man. 383 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,320 Like I've got like this 15 minute. 384 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,400 Walk back to the meeting. To figure out. 385 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,280 What I'm going to preach on and I. 386 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,960 Felt just as we were walking I felt God say man there's. 387 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,080 Like just preach Jesus. And I was like. 388 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,320 Really. That's so cliche. 389 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,840 That's cliche, right? We're like everyone's talking 390 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,480 about Jesus. Why can't can't I speak 391 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,560 something like really cool around leadership and he's like 392 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,160 just speak Jesus. And just for me personally, it 393 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,960 was a revelation. That actually Jesus is enough. 394 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:16,680 Why? Because Jesus is God's. 395 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,920 Plan right and we. Need good teaching on 396 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,360 leadership, and we need good teaching on godliness, and we 397 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,400 need good teaching on all of those kinds of things. 398 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,520 But ultimately, we need to preach Jesus. 399 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:30,440 We need to show Jesus God is in the business of promoting his 400 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,040 Son, of lifting up his Son, because as the Bible says. 401 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,520 As I am lifted up, Jesus said, as I am lifted up, so I will 402 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,400 draw all men unto myself. And so that's why we praise, 403 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,840 that's why we preach, that's why we gather is so that ultimately 404 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,920 we can lift him up and say, look at him. 405 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,600 Don't look at us, look at him. We need to catch in our hearts 406 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,720 the plan of God is that Jesus would be lifted up. 407 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,640 Is that cool? So that we need to catch in our 408 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:58,560 hearts. The person of. 409 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,280 God, the plan of God, Dudley shared with us a couple of weeks 410 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,360 ago. Just around God. 411 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,840 'S heart for the Church is to be a prophetic Apostolic Church, 412 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,600 and so I just. Kind of phrase it a little bit 413 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,400 differently. Hope you don't mind that we need 414 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,440 to catch the. Prophetic Apostolic mandate of 415 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,640 God. That we need to understand the 416 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,520 prophetic that God. Is a speaking God and the 417 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,440 Apostolic that God is a sending God. 418 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,720 We need to understand and catch in our hearts that God. 419 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,800 Wants to speak to us. God wants to speak to you as an 420 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,840 individual. He is a communicating God. 421 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,920 He is a speaking God. He wants to direct us through 422 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,000 his Word, through the. Prophetic. 423 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,200 He wants to speak into us, He wants to speak through us to 424 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,360 encourage other people, but God. Also wants to send us. 425 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,600 He wants to send us not just to the nations, but he does want to 426 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,600 send us to. The nations. 427 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,440 He wants to send us to our next door neighbor. 428 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,480 He wants to send. Us to our workplace God. 429 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,760 Has called us. On mission with him and we need 430 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,920 to. Catch in our hearts the this 431 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,160 mandate from God is that He is both a speaking God and He is a. 432 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,480 Sending God, and he has sent us, and he has sent you. 433 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,680 Very reason we are here is because. 434 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,600 He is a sending God. And we see that even in Jesus, 435 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:16,920 for God to love the world that he. 436 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,760 Gave or he sent his. Only son, right? 437 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,600 Right. God is a sending God. 438 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,840 And then Jesus comes. He says now you go and make 439 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,640 disciples of all nations. God is a sending God. 440 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,040 And so we need to know first of all the Person of God. 441 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,440 We need to know the plan of God. We need to catch in our. 442 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,600 Hearts his. His. 443 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,360 Mandate the prophetic. Apostolic mandate of God. 444 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:48,240 Right, we need to also. Understand and catch in our 445 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,280 hearts the eternal purpose of God. 446 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,000 We need to know His purpose and. So the difference between the 447 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,840 plan and the purpose are just two words that simply mean very 448 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,880 similar. But we need to know God's plan 449 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,880 on the earth, but we also need to know his purpose for 450 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,840 eternity. And one of the guys at the 451 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,640 Global Equip, he said this and I love the phrase He's going. 452 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,920 We need to remember that this thing doesn't end with a war. 453 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,320 The last chapter of the Bible is not ending with a war. 454 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,000 It's ending with a wedding. We need to remember that. 455 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,600 Everything that God is doing. Here is targeted at one day the 456 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:31,040 wedding feast of the Lamb, and when I catch in my heart what 457 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,800 God's eternal purpose is, I look at this and I go. 458 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,760 God is preparing a bride for himself. 459 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:40,520 God is ultimately he's preparing me. 460 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,440 Not just for here and now, but he's preparing me for that day 461 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,200 and so when he's working. On me, when he's working through 462 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,520 me, I keep my eyes. On eternity and I've caught His 463 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,200 eternal plan and purpose is that He is preparing a bride for 464 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,160 himself When you look at the person next to you. 465 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,240 You realize that God? Is working in them for that day. 466 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,480 He's working in them, yes, to have an impact. 467 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,600 Here and now, but He's also working in them for the eternal 468 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,040 purpose of God, which is that He is preparing a people for 469 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,240 Himself. So we need to. 470 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,880 Understand and catch in our hearts as we as we position 471 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,040 ourself, we position ourself with the eternal purpose of God 472 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,400 in our hearts that this is all coming towards a wedding day. 473 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,640 And when I, as I say, when I catch that, I understand 474 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,360 everything that he is doing, the seasons, the the work that he 475 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,640 is. Doing in me the work that. 476 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,360 He's doing through me is ultimately preparing me for that 477 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:46,120 day because in in Ephesians chapter 6, I think it says it's 478 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:51,800 talks about that he is preparing a radiant and spotless bride, a 479 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,080 radiant and spotless bride. Every work he's doing is to make 480 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,720 us radiant and spotless for that day. 481 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,240 And I need to catch in my heart the eternal purpose of God. 482 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,720 So we've got the Person of God, the plan of God, the prophetic 483 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,920 Apostolic mandate of God, the purpose of God in preparing a 484 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,200 bride. Two more. 485 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,840 We need to. Catch in our hearts the pattern 486 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,840 of God. We need to catch, we need to 487 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,840 carry in here to position ourselves for what God wants to. 488 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,600 God wants to do in and through me. 489 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,480 I need to know his. Pattern and what I. 490 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,920 In simplicity I mean. His his word, but it's. 491 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,080 Bigger than that, we need to know the pattern of God for my 492 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,000 life. As a dad, I need to know the. 493 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,880 Pattern of. God for raising my children. 494 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,840 As a husband, I need to know the pattern of God. 495 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,120 Of how a husband treats his wife. 496 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,480 As a church leader, I need to know and carry in my heart God. 497 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,240 What is your pattern for your church? 498 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,680 How do you want this thing to work? 499 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,520 It's not a formula. It's not like I can do 2 songs 500 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,480 and you know, have a Holy Spirit keyboard underneath and people 501 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,840 are going to raise their hand to give their life. 502 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,840 It's it's not a formula. It's a. 503 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,400 Pattern. It's a way that God has designed 504 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,880 it to work, and it doesn't make a lot of sense. 505 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,160 We were chatting as an eldership team on Thursday, trying to 506 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,560 unpack the scriptures, and they're like, but in this case 507 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,800 it's true. And in that case it's true. 508 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,160 And we're like. But it's a. 509 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,160 Pattern of God, not a formula of God. 510 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,040 But we need to have it in here. We need to understand first of 511 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,400 all that. God has a pattern. 512 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,680 God has a pattern for our. Life Did you know that God has a 513 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,120 pattern for. How we are to conduct our life, 514 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,120 every area of our life. The Word of God talks about 515 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,840 every area it talks. About our money. 516 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:39,960 It talks about the way we. Treat each other. 517 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,200 It talks about my words. It talks. 518 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,080 About the way I treat other people and my wife. 519 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,760 It talks about how I raise my kids the word of God. 520 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,160 Has a pattern for every area of my life and I need to carry in 521 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,480 my heart his pattern. Not my ideas, not my thinking, 522 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,040 not. Not. 523 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,080 What I just think is best but his way and as I do. 524 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,080 That I'm positioning myself ready to carry. 525 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:06,720 Everything that what God wants to do. 526 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,600 So we need to carry. In us the pattern of God for 527 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:21,520 every area of our life. Finally, number six, we need to 528 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:27,280 carry in us the power of God. We can. 529 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,880 Do all of this, but we must understand that God is a 530 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,320 powerful working God. In Acts chapter 1, when Jesus 531 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,800 was about to be ascended, he said, wait in Jerusalem, the 532 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,520 Holy Spirit will come upon you and you'll be powered to be 533 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,440 witnesses, right? To a cloth with power. 534 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,040 From on high we understand that God. 535 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,920 We need to understand the power of God. 536 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,640 The reason that's so important is because we can, we can pray. 537 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,600 We've spoke in our prayer meeting this morning around. 538 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,520 Just even the power of prayer, right when I catch in here, and 539 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,760 I understand that, the power of prayer. 540 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,720 That it's not about my words. It's not. 541 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,160 About the way I pray, it's actually about his power. 542 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,840 And we see throughout the early church that it was both. 543 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,000 The word of God came. But it also came with power, and 544 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,040 it was the power of God to save it. 545 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,840 Was the power of God to heal. It was the power of God that set 546 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,840 people free. It was the power of God to open 547 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,760 prison doors that wasn't man's elaborate plans or efforts. 548 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,880 This was the. Power of God at work. 549 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:37,200 And Romans 116 Paul says I'm not ashamed of the gospel. 550 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,280 For it is the very power of God unto salvation, right? 551 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,880 We need to understand that this gospel carries power. 552 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,600 When we preach, when we speak. When we live our lives in such a 553 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,640 way, we rest on the power of God. 554 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,520 Paul again. He writes in one. 555 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,080 Corinthians and says I didn't. Come. 556 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,520 With eloquent words or wise tales. 557 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,200 But I came rest. That your. 558 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,440 Faith might rest on the power of Christ, not on my eloquent 559 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,680 preaching. We need to catch in our hearts 560 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,120 that we need to rest on the power of God in our life. 561 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,880 And so we we have 6 things that I believe we can help us be 562 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,880 positioned to. Carry what God wants to do. 563 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,320 And that's what God wants to do. Here in this. 564 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,920 Place, but also what God wants to do through you. 565 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,040 And so the first one again is the person of God. 566 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,680 We have to carry a revelation of who? 567 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,640 God is in our hearts what he is like, what he likes, what he 568 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,360 doesn't like, that we need to know who He is personally, that 569 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,360 that word know is not just head knowledge, it's a. 570 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,800 Revelation. We need to. 571 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,920 Know the Person of God. We need to know His plan. 572 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,000 His ultimate plan is Jesus. Reconciling everything under 573 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,080 Jesus. Jesus is His is his plan. 574 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,800 We need to know. The prophetic Apostolic mandate 575 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,600 of God that he is. Both wanting to speak through us 576 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,720 and to us. But he's also wanting to send us 577 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,160 that we are on. Mission with him. 578 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,840 Co labourers with what he wants to do in the earth. 579 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,880 We. Need to understand his eternal 580 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,200 purpose that. Everything we do here. 581 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,040 Isn't just for here and now, it's ultimately preparing a 582 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,880 bride for Christ. We need to understand that He 583 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,360 has a pattern for every area. We need to carry in our hearts 584 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,560 the pattern of God. Study the scriptures. 585 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,360 Find his pattern, find his ways. How we? 586 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,280 Meant to administrate our lives. God has a pattern and we carry 587 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,200 in here. And lastly, we rest on the power 588 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,920 of God. We understand in here that God 589 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,360 is a powerful God and that he brings liberation, he brings 590 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,480 freedom, that he's the one that saves, that this gospel, this 591 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,000 message that we carry is a powerful gospel. 592 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,360 And that's what we shared. Right at the beginning where 593 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,560 people are going into different nations and planning churches, 594 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920 not because it's. They're great, but because they 595 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,960 understand that God's powerful and that God can change a 596 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,840 nation. And so can I encourage you this 597 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,920 morning, My encouragement is position yourself position. 598 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,800 Yourself look at these. 6 areas and say God, what do I need a 599 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,480 greater revelation of? What area do I need a greater 600 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,680 revelation of because I want. To be one of those people that 601 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,000 win that as you give me what you want to, what you want me to. 602 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,640 Do I'm able to run? That I'm able to run with 603 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,280 everything we want to be as a church. 604 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,320 We want to be a people that as God gives us what he does, and 605 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,680 as he continues to move in our midst, we want to be a. 606 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,520 People that run with everything that he's called us to carry, is 607 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,240 that true? Amen. 608 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,560 Father, we thank you for what you're wanting to do in and 609 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,680 through us as a people. And so we pray, Lord, you will 610 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,680 give us greater revelation, stir our hearts in Jesus name for a 611 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,880 greater revelation that we would position ourselves for 612 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,880 everything you want to do, you through US, in US and beyond us, 613 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,160 we thank you. For this in Jesus name, Amen. 614 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,040 Awesome. Thank you, Justin for that word. 615 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,680 Sitting there there was just this feeling. 616 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,120 The goal was just like these six points. 617 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,960 We've heard them over and over and over again if we've been in 618 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,360 the church for a while, but we need to hear it again. 619 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,760 There are something in those six points each and of us are going 620 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,400 Yep, God, I need more of that. I need more revelation of that. 621 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,840 And as I was sitting there, I just felt this passage where we 622 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,920 it's a well known passage at Matthew 77 says ask and you 623 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,520 shall have seek and you shall find. 624 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,080 Knock and the door will open, right. 625 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,560 That's what we're doing here. If we don't have the purpose in 626 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,480 our in our vision, we don't have the plan in our vision, we don't 627 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,280 have the understanding of the power in our vision. 628 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,280 Ask, seek, knock on that door, which is always Jesus. 629 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,280 It always comes back to having a revelation of Jesus coming back 630 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,560 to the word. It's Jesus, it's his word. 631 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,360 He is revealing things that we don't understand. 632 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,600 Jesus can only reveal it. We can't reveal it, right? 633 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120 So I don't know if you wanted to stand with me right now. 634 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,160 There's an opportunity to respond to him. 635 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,480 There's six points, but one might be more highlighted to you 636 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,280 or a couple. But let's just take this moment 637 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,560 to seek God and ask in our hearts. 638 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,960 Lord reveal. We knock on the door again. 639 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:39,000 Lord, He says, when you seek you with our whole heart, we will 640 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,680 find what we ask and we find you. 641 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,880 So Jesus today, why don't you do that real those things that we 642 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,960 need to hear again, those things that be stirred up again, your 643 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:57,720 prophetic Apostolic mandate, your plan, your purpose, your 644 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,520 power, the person what you like and don't like. 645 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:07,280 Come and do that work now. And Lord, as we go from this 646 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,760 place, keep us reminded, keep in the forefront of our mind these 647 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,000 things, the power of the gospel, these things that we can walk 648 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,719 out, that we can continue to this week to ask and seek for 649 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,040 fresh revelation so that we can walk in all that you've called 650 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,560 us to do. That we we'll be able to be 651 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,440 ready and positioned for the batten, that you're ready for 652 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:33,560 our lives, the pattern for our lives that would reveal you to 653 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,840 those that are seeking and hurting and lost. 654 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,840 Lord, let's position ourselves, Lord, this week for the purpose 655 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:45,080 You have the plan that you were set in motion for us to reveal 656 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,920 You to the world. We pray these things in your 657 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:54,480 Son's name, Amen. Thank you for joining us for 658 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,920 today's message. For more information about The 659 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,240 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 660 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,520 AU. Have a blessed day.