Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. Good morning.
We missed you guys last week. So we were up in Balaclava,
which is great, visiting Josh and Rosie Bench who were here
back in July and their church, Lighthouse Church.
And so that was absolutely amazing.
We loved being with them. It was a bit of a tumultuous
time with our children and sickness and injuries and all
stuff like that. But we had a great time
nonetheless. And certainly on the Sunday
morning when I was standing there, like I don't think you
could wipe the smile and joy off my face.
Like just to be to travel an hour and a half north and it
looks different, looks different to what we're what we are like
here. But it carries the same DNA and
it's just so beautiful for me. Like whether we travel near or
far, then we can go into a church and even though it looks
different, we sense the same DNA.
Like my children, they look very different, even though they
carry the same DNA. And when, when something of your
DNA connects with some somebody else and kind of going, we share
the same DNA, we share the same values.
We share this. My kids, although they are quite
different, are very similar. And there's a bond that says,
Hey, we're, we're siblings in this, like we share something.
And so when I'm there, I'm, I'm sharing this.
I could, we had an opportunity to share a couple of things.
I'm just like, it was just so good to be in a church that
carries the same DNA. And so my encouragement, I
guess, is to you guys, if you find yourself travelling around
within our state or even across our country, some of us are
going to the global equipment in a couple of weeks.
Like see if you can find a church with the same DNA, Like,
because there is something that will happen inside of you when
you, when you're there that you'll kind of go, man, like I'm
filled with joy because I found, I found some, some DNA.
And so for me, it was such a great time.
I really desperately want to do it again.
I'm super excited. Next week, I won't be here
again. So I'm here and then off again
to the global equip. There's a few of us that are
going. So what we're going to do this
morning is I'm going to share for a little bit, but we're
actually going to then bring the kids back in and just ask those
people, what are they actually expecting God to do for the
global equip? Because I think it's cool that
we actually all stirred in our faith, right?
Whether we are going or not, there's something that God wants
to do, right? God has something not just for
those who are travelling, but for those who are staying over
the next couple of weeks. We're actually what I would call
out to be in Ephesians 4, gift is going to be ministering here
while we're travelling as well. And so we're all going to be
receiving something of a translocal Apostolic ministry
input into our context as individuals and as a local
church and globally. And I believe God really wants
to do something in that time. And that's what I want to kind
of talk around this morning is kind of going, what could God do
over the next couple of weeks? Like as people are travelling
and stuff, some of our meetings are going to be cancelled just
due to numbers. But what could God do if as, as
people of this local congregation or as people are
gathering in South Africa, what could God do in the next two
weeks? And so if you turn with your
Bibles, we're going to be reading from the NIV this
morning. I have one verse, I tried to
find others and there are others, but I just, I couldn't
move on from this verse. So I really want to focus here
in the book of Ephesians. Ephesians tends to have a bit of
a theme all the way through it and that's the theme is a broad
theme of the church. But Ephesians chapter 3 and
verse 10, I believe it's going to come up on the screen as
well. His intent, God's intent was
that now everyone say now, now, now that now this book was
written 2000 years ago, but that now is still now, right?
It means exactly the same in the old Greek that it means in
English means a Now His intent was that 2000 years ago now his
intent was that also now through the church, the manifold wisdom
of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in
the heavenly realms. The manifold wisdom of God
through the church. So God's intent, his intention,
his plan, his, his idea is that through the church, the manifold
wisdom of God should be made known.
The manifold wisdom of God. If you consider that like that's
not like man's wisdom making a good decision.
This is everything of who God is.
Like it's manifold, it's multifaceted, it's it's
multidimensional, it's incomprehensible.
This is his character, this is his nature, this is his purposes
and his plans. And God says, my intention is
through the church, I'm going to reveal that to the world.
My intention, my plan from the very beginning, it actually goes
on in in verse 11, we won't read it, but he actually goes on and
goes, this is according to the eternal purpose of God.
So from the very beginning to the very end, God's intention is
that through the church, the manifold wisdom of God, his
character, his nature, his plans, his purposes, who he is,
what he is like what he is up to in the earth.
His intention was that all of that would be revealed through
the church. Doesn't that excite you about
the purposes and plans for the church?
Like if you consider that and you're like, that's what we are
saved into, right? We, we talk about some of the
stuff that we are saved from. And we'd spoke about that over
the last couple of weeks about that we are saved out of hell
and, and darkness and stuff like that.
We're obviously we're saved into heaven, but we're also saved
into this thing called the church.
And when you get saved into the church, you get this God's
intention. The minute you were saved and
added into the church, his intent was that you would reveal
the purposes and plans of God, his character, his nature.
You would put that on display for the world around here.
Doesn't that excite you for the mission of the church?
Doesn't excite you for the future of the church?
And so my, my headline question that I want you to consider all
the way through over the next few weeks, because I'm, I'm
actually believing God could do something really significant
over the next two weeks. As people are travelling, as
we've got global equipments, we get ministry here as well.
Like what would happen if a church or if we as a people
called God's intention, not just his attention, but his
intention. What would happen if we caught
his intention for us in this next season?
And I want to talk just a little bit around what what what is the
church look like? Because I think sometimes we can
go, yeah, that's great for the the way church or that's great
for different things. But in Scripture we actually we
kind of see four different expressions of church.
And the reason I want to highlight this is because kind
of all four are relevant and all four God's intentions stays the
same. OK Are you following?
Yeah. Yeah.
Cool. And so for the first, the first
one, which is probably the most obvious, this is talking about
God's big global church, right? But the first expression that we
see is the individuals and families that God adds into his
global church. As I said earlier, the minute
you are saved, you're part of his capital C church.
You are added into the family of God.
And so if you can now place that Scripture as an individual
intention of God over your life, an individual intention over
you, individually over your family, God's intent was that
through the church, individuals and families, he would reveal
the manifold wisdom of God. What could God do if in the next
two weeks he revealed to every single individual and family in
this place his intention for their life and for their season?
What could God do if you say God show us your intention and we
caught it, not just we shot, He showed it.
But what if? What would happen if we all as
individuals and families caught God's intention for our life?
Tell you what, this place would look radically different if we
all caught the intention of God as an individual's and his
families. Like that would change.
Probably the way that I govern my family and lead my family
will probably change some of the ways I approach things like work
and whatever. If I said, hey, God, what is
your intention for me coming out of the next couple of weeks?
What is your intention for my family?
What do you want us to do? And so the first expression, I
think that the relevance of this statement is as the individuals
and families. And so I'd encourage you over
the next few weeks, can you pray individual family?
What is it that God, what's his intention for us in this season?
All right, the next expression we see in the the Scriptures is
like local congregations or what local, what we would call local
churches, like groups of people gathering together, right?
So we've got one here. As I say, we call them local
churches. They're more like congregations,
like what would happen if it's a congregation we call God's
intention for us as a congregation for the next
season. What does God want to do with
the way church in the next season and all of us committed
and saying, hey God, what is your intent for us?
And let's catch it because I don't want to miss that.
If his intent was that through us, he would reveal the manifold
wisdom of God. I'll be like God, show us what
that looks like for our next season.
Show us what that looks like coming out with all of this
input and all of this stuff. Show us what you want us to do
as as a group, as a congregation, as a lampstand in
this area. What is it you want to do, not
just for me, but for us? And so we've got those two
expressions. The third expression, which I
think just lifts our eyes a little bit, we kind of go micro
to kind of the macro expression, right?
So the next expression we see in the Scripture is the Church of a
city or a region. So Paul writes and he says to
the church in Galatia, which is a region, or to the church in
Ephesus, that's the city, to the church in Rome, right?
We have churches that we partnership partner with across
the city. And there's other churches in
this city as well, right? What would happen, What could
God do if the churches in this city all caught God's intention
for the next season? What could God do?
Even just the four churches that partner with NCMI, what could
God do? He turned the world upside down
with 12 men, 1111 men. What could God do with four
local congregations or with the hundreds of churches, hundreds
of congregations meeting across our city?
What could God do if we all caught his intention for our
city in this next season? So I'm praying, hey, God, reveal
to us what you want to do in our city and in our state, in our
region, because he he's he has an intention.
We just read it. God's intent.
So God, I want to catch your intent, right?
And the fourth expression that we see is this, this expression
of what we would probably call translocal ministry or Apostolic
ministry, which we see in Acts chapter 13 to 15, two chapters
there at the beginning of Acts 13, that the prophets and
teachers are together and the Spirit comes and tells them, set
apart Paul and Barnabas for the work of that I've called them to
and they pray for them and they send them out with a purpose.
And that is to visit various local congregations, various
cities and actually reveal to them God's intention.
And so the word translocal literally means across or
between the local, like transatlantic going across the
Atlantic. And so there NCMI, which is a
group that we partner with New Covenant Ministries
International, there are other teams doing a similar work, but
this is a trans local team. And it's an expression of God's
church. Because not only is God's
intention as an individual or family or not only is God's
intention at a local congregation level, not only is
his intention just for a city or a region, but he has an intent
for the church global and he has an intent.
And I'm wondering what could God do as thousands of people gather
together with a trans local team?
What could God do if we as individuals, as local
congregations, as churches of cities and regions, and as a
whole team, what could God do? If we say God, we want to catch
your intention. I was watching a video this week
and I'd encourage you to go watch it.
And And to to me me it's it's exciting exciting. he's just
kind of saying man what what regions could be opened up there
is we prayed in our premier a couple of weeks ago around
Europe and just noticed that the entire pretty well the West of
Europe is untouched by the new covenant ministries translocal
team they were they didn't know EE sorry no W was fine the east
my apologies clearly my wife is the person of directions Clearly
my wife is the person of directions the east of Europe.
So towards Ukraine towards no, no, that kind of agent.
Yeah, that kind of thing. Holland through that area like
we went to the NCI map couldn't find any churches that partner
with the trans local team that we partner with.
There are definitely churches there, but what could God do if
we caught God's intention for that region and there are other
nations around the world that are unreached with the gospel?
What could God do if all of us said God, would you reveal to us
and would we catch your intention for the church, for
the church global, for the Trans local team, like all of us
should carry a heart to say, you know, we partner with this team
and partnership means that we are invested in what they're
invested in, right? It's not like the team do their
thing and we do our thing and every now and then we high 5 on
the way through. We're we're part of that, right?
Partnership is about the work together, but it's also about
the reward together. The nations that are broken up,
broken into by new covenant ministries are our inheritance,
right? When we when we read scriptures
and say ask of me and I'll give the nations as your inheritance,
there's a reality that not all of us can go to all nations.
There's 190 something nations in the world.
I doubt whether in our small congregation we've covered them
all, but that's why we partner because of their inheritance is
our inheritance. Their reward is our reward.
And so as we gather over the next few weeks as individuals,
as a local congregation, as a church in our region and
globally, I wonder if we could just ponder and say, Hey God,
what is it you want to do? What is it you want to do over
the next few weeks? And what could happen if even
just we caught His intention? Not just for our lives, not just
for our congregation, not just for our region, but for the
nations of the world. What could God do?
We put that scripture back up. Ephesians 310.
His intent. This is his intent.
What would happen if we caught his intent?
His intent was that now, now through the church, through the
individuals, through the local congregations, through the
regional church, through the global church.
His intent was that now, through the Church, the manifold,
multifaceted wisdom of God, his character, his nature, who he
is, what he's like, what he is up to, all of that through the
Church will be made known to rulers and authorities in the
heavenly realms. What a future, what a plan.
Are you not excited to be part of the church?
This is one of the greatest times to be alive because of
this Scripture is so true now as it was back then.
His intent is that now through us, through the His church,
global and local, the manifold wisdom of God will be made
known. Can you say Amen?
Amen. Awesome.
We're going to message the kids, but why don't we pray We'll get
them back in just because we want to ask some people around
this question as well. Why don't we pray?
And yeah, we'll bring them back. Father, we, we marvel at your
intention, and it's so much bigger than we could ever dream
or imagine. And your plans for your church
are so much better than our plans for your church.
And after all, it's your church, not ours.
Your intent is that through your church, you would reveal
yourself to the world. And so we say thank you and we
say have your way, Lord, over the next few weeks as we are
gathering and we are receiving input here locally, as we are
receiving input globally as well.
We pray that your intention would not just be revealed, but
would be caught by those by all of us.
That we would catch your intention for us as individuals
and as families, for your intention for us as the way
church, your intention for our city, and your intention for the
nations of the world. Lord, give us a capacity to
catch what you want to do and to run with it in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. Welcome back, kids.
So the reason we brought the kids in is because a couple of
the kids are actually going to Global Equip as well, right?
And and this is trying to catch something of God's intention,
right? Something of what God wants to
do. Hey, shout out from the front.
So we're going to, we're going to ask these guys.
I'm going to maybe we've got a roaming mic.
We'll we'll make this work. But I want to some things that
God could do and I want you just to consider some of this as
these guys share, I've asked prepped them.
So I hope they're prepped. This is some of the stuff that I
just wrote down that I think God could do.
What could happen? Remember my question, what could
happen if we all caught God's intention?
And these are some of the things that I said that I wrote down,
that what could happen? What could happen is that people
could be encouraged, courage could be put in right?
People could be excited for God's plans and purposes.
Unbelievingly now as we're here, hopefully this morning you're a
bit more excited about what God wants to do.
We could be enlarged and expanded in our capacity, we
could be emboldened, we could be envisioned, and God could
expediate what he wants to do. Expediate.
Here's a thesaurus I learnt alliteration from the best
expediate. But just ponder that.
Though I actually did write that when one in like so God could
encourage, he could excite, he could enlarge, he could
embolden, he could envision, he could equip.
I didn't say that first time and he could expediate.
In other words, things that usually take a long time could
take a really short time if we gave ourselves and thank God, we
want to catch your intention. Things that usually take years
could take months and even days if we say God, let us catch your
intention in this global time, this local time.
I'll rattle those off if I can see some people taking notes.
Encourage, embolden, enlarge, envision, excite, equip, and
expedite. God could do something amazing.
So I'm going to. So for those who don't know, for
those who are going, so it's Dana, Chantel, Dave, Hilary and
their kids. So we're going to actually hear
from Levi, I assume. I hope we're going to hear from
Levi. Yeah, yeah.
Awesome. Eden's going to share.
And then I'm travelling as well. So you've kind of heard mine,
but you guys want to rock, paper, scissors.
Who's going to go first? I want your wife to come up as
well because that's cool to like you guys are travelling together
and we've just spoken that God could speak individually.
Yeah, yeah. So what do you, what do you kind
of believe in God could do in you guys individually and as as
a family over the next little bit?
Kind of touched on some of them already, but like just enlarging
our vision to what we're connected with.
Like it's been now eight years with NCMI for me previously
before that, but in this last season, 8 years and I haven't
seen much of the global aspect. I've seen the kind of national
aspect. And I'm I'm just excited to see,
I've seen some of the leaders come through in the lodging
times and they've input into my life and it's been amazing.
But I just want to see the the bigness of what we're, we're
involved with. And I believe that's what God's
going to do in me. And then from that that I can
actually start to bring with me. Am I answering the same
question? Pretty much the same.
I think it's just this being outside of the bubble that we've
always seen, known and just getting to experience different
people's stories and testimonies and just opening up myself to
what God can do in and through me as a black daughter of
Christ, Me as a wife, me as a mother, me as a friend in not
just my own little space that I have here in Adelaide, but like
opening that up and letting other people in and being able
to speak into other people's lives that is over the world.
Really. It's just this incredible thing
that you always hear of and now you know, through the grace of
God we're going to get to experience it for ourselves.
And what do you guys, do you guys have any feels on like what
do you believe that God could do with us?
Like we're obviously there's some of us travelling, some of
us staying and receiving input here.
What do you, what do you feeling God could do and shift in us as
a people? I had that word readiness just
to be ready for the next thing. But like kind of when like you
have that marathon runner with a baton, there's all this baton
coming. There's this thing that God's
trying to do and we're ready. We're not, we're not just
standing there looking around kind of like, oh, when's it
going to happen? We're in position.
So I feel like God's positioning us for the next thing, whether I
don't know what that next thing can look like, to be honest.
But there's this We are positioning our hearts ready to
receive that button. Awesome.
I think for me, I'm have an expectation that it's going to
spark something inside of all of us, that the nations are open to
us. And for us, you know, sort of
recently been birthed with Dave going to the Philippines this
year. And that's just such a small,
it's a big part, but it's like just the start.
And I'm sort of have this heart that it's not just going to be
David or Hillary or Justin and Bianca.
Like it can be each and every one of us, and what that looks
like is up to us individually. But like we're going so that we
can come back and sort of fan into flame.
This thing of God has called each of us to go into the
nations and into our city and into our neighborhoods.
So let's start. Which is kind of what we've been
preaching on this last season anyway, but there's just going
to be this like a catalyst I'm expecting to happen, yeah.
Awesome. And probably the last two if you
can do them combined. What are you expecting God could
do? There's obviously 4 churches in
this city, but there's a whole bunch in Australia and it's the
Apostolic team as well. Everyone's coming together.
What do you think God could do? What do you what do you believe
in God could could stir up? We've had the privilege to go to
a couple of the churches in Australia this year and just to
hear their stories and to hear the heart behind how they
planted out. We went to a new plant church,
but also we talked about how did you see one out and did
different locations? And I'm my heart stirred as
people from those churches would actually get an understanding of
what God's got for them and the regions they're in that they
might even open up and plant. And I think even even in this
city, we've seen now the way plan out of Kingdom life.
But there's more there's more people that have got the call in
their hearts, maybe not understanding what it is in
here. But I know that they're going to
get a revelation of, Hey, God's actually got this.
And this week God kind of gave me a podcast to listen to, which
is an old archive NCMI talking about bi vocational church
planners. And I went, why did that come
up? God, he said there are people
that are disqualifying themselves to planning a church
because I have to work at the same time.
They may be in the marketplace, but God said, I'll actually want
you to break open this region and open this marketplace for
the church. So that's what I had on my
heart. What was the question?
Just sort of he's like, what a different route of all things.
I thought maybe I got the quest. Do I, do I hear the question
right? No.
So what is it? The God you you've feeling that
God could do in our city, our nation, and globally.
I see this as a greater step into the unity that God has
called for us in this city. As churches, I see us that
there's different people going from different churches and
we're going with the same heart and we'll come back to our
different churches and bring something similar back for us
all to be united and to fight for and to press on into.
And I think that extends to, you know, the different regions
around Australia and just that greater connection, that greater
unity, that greater like I'm standing with you, praying with
you, fighting with you, and for you to press on into the great
things of the Kingdom. Awesome.
Cool. Thank you guys.
Yeah, give them a round of applause.
Sure. I'm hoping like the the reason
for them sharing isn't just so we can kind of go, that's
awesome. You go Dan and Chantel and
that's that's so that we could kind of go, man, we're going to
stand with you and we're going to catch something of what God
wants to do. And we're going to pray for that
as well. So Dave, Hilary, Levi, Liam and
Eden, wherever she is, these guys are bold, right?
Are there these guys are bold taking their entire family or
stupid? We're bold.
Yeah. I feel like there's a little bit
of ridiculousness if you're going to plant a church anyway.
So we'll go with that. Like, man, it's an entire
family. But what an opportunity not just
for them, but for their kids, right.
As we we shared earlier, like what could God's intention is
not just that an individual, but it's sort of family.
What could God do with a family? What could God do with a family
who goes and catches his intention together as a unit?
So I'll let you guys decide who's going to go first with
what you believe in God to do. Yeah, through you guys and you
as a family are. You going to ask us all the
questions or do you want me just to like, Yeah.
You can kind of do the whole thing like.
All right, cool. So obviously, I mean, for us, it
was never a question of whether Dave was going or not.
I was pregnant, you know, when we sort of started talking about
it. So the assumption that was
originally that I wouldn't go with the kids and the newborn
because that's crazy, right. But I've I've felt really
strongly to go since last since the Australian equipped last
year. And my reasons are mainly
personal in that I just feel like my perspective of what God
can do through his church has just been so limited to what
I've seen in Australia and in the churches I've been in.
And I'm really hungry just to step out and say God at work
through the greater body and his Spirit working through the
greater body. And without the limitations of
my expectations or what I've known or whatever, I just really
want to catch more of what's possible.
And I know that it's, it's far beyond even what we'll see at
the equip, but I just want to broaden my perspective.
And then for us as a family and for the kids, I just, I really
wanted to show them the bigness and how exciting it is and how
many amazing friends we can make across the world and how God can
can work through them and use them no matter their age.
And, and yeah, just the boldness of doing something crazy and
really hard. Like, I have no doubt that it's
going to be full of it's family challenges, but I'm just
trusting that there's a grace for it and that we're all going
to be grown and that the boys will just be so excited for what
they're a part of and the friendships that they can make
and, and what they've got ahead of them.
Yeah, so cool. What are you excited about?
Liam having my birthday. Liam's going to have his
birthday. Where are we?
Actually, he's he's pretty excited about that.
What about you, Levi? Making new friends So good.
Awesome. Cool.
Yeah, like we're we're excited like we're.
It's hard when it's, how do you like, it's hard to be excited
about something that you know is going to be difficult.
But, but we are, but we are excited.
We are genuinely excited. We decided to go not because it
was easier, but because it was important for our family.
You know, like if we, we say a lot of things as the church, we
talk about generations, we talk about a bunch of stuff and then,
well, taking the kids is too hard or just go on our own.
We just, we have to live out what we claim to believe and
what we say. And so we want to be about the
generations. We want to see our kids raised
up beyond ourselves and carry this thing after we're long
gone. So that starts with us, You
know, as leaders, we we want to example to to us as a church
that we we do things that are difficult because it's again,
it's the it's what we're called to do.
It's what we need to do. It's it's yeah.
So personally, like I'm, you know, I'm pretty honest with you
guys. I need to grow up like I need to
be a better husband. I need to be a better father.
I need to be a better leader in the church.
I need to be, I need to be a better person.
You know, I need to serve the Lord better.
You know, like I got some growing up today.
I'm content with where God's got me, but I'm not content with
where I would like to be in terms of serving him and
displaying him. He's so good.
Like he is so perfect and and I want to be like him And, you
know, we got a long way to go. So we want to grow as a family.
We want to grow in our marriage. We want to bring something back.
The other thing that I'm really excited about is the adventure
of this. You know, I'm going with with
these guys and with Justin, you know, and the anchor into the
future. Like we're, we're doing this as
a team and there's such a sense of excitement in that to go on
an adventure with, with God and to grow together and to, to grow
as a team, to lead this church and to come back stronger and to
come back knowing each other better and, and being able to
work better with one another and these sort of things.
This is super important for us as a church.
So I'm hoping that, you know, that I'm, I'm expecting that
we're going to, we're going to see God do a work in us as, as
leaders as we come back. And, and obviously, when I think
about what God, you know, what we could expect for God to do
beyond ourselves into the city and into the nations.
It's just, it's just growth, isn't it?
Like we want to see fruit. We want to see the gospel go
out. We want to see the churches
grow. We want to see unity.
I was thinking about where it says that, you know, that they
will know that you're my disciples by the way that you
love one another. I think that us as a as a church
around the world and in this city, and I think we do a poor
representation of what love is sometimes in terms of unity and
working together. I think that we're quite often
doing our own thing and, you know, forgetting the fact that
the church down the road is the body as well.
So, yeah, just a greater display of God's love and, and that we
would be, you know, successful. You know, we want to be
successful and not in, in, you know, in a worldly sense.
We want this church and, and the churches of this city and beyond
to be fruitful to count for the Lord that, that the Lord would
look at us and say that there is success there.
So, yeah, all of those things. I'm sort of, I'm, I'm going fast
because I know that our kids are wanting to have lunch or
something. But yeah, that's OK.
Yeah, that's cool. Cool.
Thank you. Kind of give them a bit of a
before we kind of move on. I'm going to throw it to the
floor. As we've been talking, I'm sure
as some of you, I'm sure you've been praying and stuff and you
probably had probably not this exact question, maybe a
variation of what? What is it that God could do?
What are you praying into? So I'm going to give an
opportunity to the floor. Does anyone want to share
something? If you're like men, I believe in
God could do this. Can you throw that there for a
recording? Just for a recording because we
are recording this. That'd be awesome.
When Chantelle touched on the Philippines, when David did go
over there and I would I believe God revealed about like this was
just the beginnings. And because that is our close
nation to God and it's I just sort of wanted to encourage
these guys. Maybe they can make a connection
with some of those countries that are close by because I just
see that that's a there's gonna be more doors opening.
So this year as a global and I'll be praying for you guys as
your way, you know, and obviously anywhere in the world,
but you know what I mean. It's just that that is an area
that a door has opened into and it'd be really good to see what
other doors God can use through this equip to open up more doors
into into the Asian area. Awesome.
Yep. And just also, you know, if
there's any particular prayer points, you know, that anyone
wants, you know? That mate, you know, obviously
we can always big chat, you know, you can chat on the the
WhatsApp, you know, and just share as things are going along.
Which would be really good. So we know what how to be
prayed. Awesome.
Good, Michael. Hey mate, just picking up on
what? You said before.
About expedite, just had a. Look and a.
Couple of things are really I'm looking at is helps us to
facilitate his word, not only the word that's spoken to us,
but the word that we speak to others through his voice and
I've put in my. Notes here for myself and Karen
to. Says what is God's?
Intention for me and Karen in our next season.
Praying to this. And listen and catch his
intentions. Is what you said not only going
to help us to facilitate things in our life, but in others as
well and help us to grow in the word of God, not in the the word
of Satan, because that is more important in our life than
anything else. So I really want to thank you
for that expedite. That was a fantastic word.
Anyone else like this? This is ours, Eliza.
To all of you who are going at the beginning, when we first
came in and God said to me, it's time.
And so I went, time for what? I'm excited, you know, I know
I'm excited, but the excitement is being gathered together as a
family and that's how it should be.
And so I said to him, time for what?
Well, whose time? It's your time.
It's your guy's time to now go where he is going to send you.
And it's our time to be able to pray for you so that when yous
come back, yous will be able to share with us all of what you're
experiencing. And what we are going to pray
for is what the answers are going to be when yous come back.
And so listening to you, Justin, in the way that you preached.
And God has got covenants in his word to be able for yous to take
with you and also for us to be able to pray into.
And the covenant he gave me was in the beginning I created the
heavens and the earth. So now the beginning is for yous
to go across and find out what God has for you to bring back to
us so that we can then have a covenant together to be able to
walk in that and go in that. And the the biggest thing of all
is having unity. And that is the biggest thing of
all that we can have is to be able to unite together, walk
together and be able to do this together.
And yeah. And so I hope that's encouraging
for yous because it's going to be encouraging for us who are
left behind to be able to pray over yous and see what God does.
And he is going to do something because it's time.
Yeah. Anyone else?
As I'll quickly go, do you have something?
I had this this morning. It's Ephesians 1 and it was
verse 18 that really stood. Out and it said I.
Pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, in
order that you may know the hope of which you have called, which
He has called you, and the riches of the glorious
inheritance in the Saints. And as we were talking.
About the global equipment, we are part of that inheritance and
I just thought that was really what highlighted in this that
the heart, our hearts will be enlightened also in the fact
that you guys are going and we're going to be here and we're
all going to receive from God. Yeah, I.
Just wanted to quickly add, like each of you that are going, it's
not by accident that you're going like you're going because
somebody else that's going need something from you.
So actually what you guys can go to encourage like, yes, we're a
small little local congregation here and there's other churches
that will be there that are like huge, but God's got something
for you guys to take with you to give to those nations and to
give to those churches, whether it's at the equipped, whether
it's on the flight on the way there, whatever it like God's
got something for you guys. And then for us as well.
Like these guys won't be with us, but I'm actually expecting
that God will open up ways for us to be used in ways that we
haven't noticed before. Maybe just because we're used to
other people doing it or or but God will actually in US, grow us
into to see things differently and to be used in a different
way that we might not have been used before.
Amen. Amen.
God has great things for us as a people.
God has great things for us as individuals, families, He has
great stuff for us as a church, great stuff for our nation,
great stuff in our togetherness, right?
He has a high intention and then I want to be people that catch
that intention. Amen.
Do you have? Talk a bit about the
practicalities. Oh.
Yes. So we'll were you going?
To cover that or no? No, we can land.
Then we'll talk practicals. Is that cool?
Then we'll land it from there. So I just want us all if we can
like and we'll maybe we can quickly pray for these guys that
are going, but I wanted to pray for us as well.
All right, this as much as we are going and there's some
saying, as I said, we have input here.
There's something for us to catch that God, we would catch
his intention all of us. So Father, we thank you for
those that are going. We thank you for these next few
weeks. We thank you for your plans,
your purposes. We pray your protection upon Dan
and Chantelle, your protection upon the pounders as they fly
out, your as even Bianca. Pray that you would give us all
something as we travel to actually impart into another
nation. Father, those we we were sharing
around divine connections. You would bring those divine
connections as we spoke about enlarging an expediation.
We pray God, you would do these things.
We commit these things. We don't think they're just our
ideas of what you want to do, but they are part of your idea
of what you want to do. And so we want to say yes, Lord,
come and do these things in us, through us, in Jesus name, Amen.
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