1 00:00:09,850 --> 00:00:12,890 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,890 --> 00:00:14,370 Australia. Good morning. 3 00:00:14,890 --> 00:00:17,570 We missed you guys last week. So we were up in Balaclava, 4 00:00:18,050 --> 00:00:20,730 which is great, visiting Josh and Rosie Bench who were here 5 00:00:20,730 --> 00:00:24,130 back in July and their church, Lighthouse Church. 6 00:00:25,410 --> 00:00:27,610 And so that was absolutely amazing. 7 00:00:28,010 --> 00:00:30,370 We loved being with them. It was a bit of a tumultuous 8 00:00:30,370 --> 00:00:33,400 time with our children and sickness and injuries and all 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,720 stuff like that. But we had a great time 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,360 nonetheless. And certainly on the Sunday 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,200 morning when I was standing there, like I don't think you 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,080 could wipe the smile and joy off my face. 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:48,560 Like just to be to travel an hour and a half north and it 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,880 looks different, looks different to what we're what we are like 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,360 here. But it carries the same DNA and 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,760 it's just so beautiful for me. Like whether we travel near or 17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,120 far, then we can go into a church and even though it looks 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,800 different, we sense the same DNA. 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,960 Like my children, they look very different, even though they 20 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,040 carry the same DNA. And when, when something of your 21 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,200 DNA connects with some somebody else and kind of going, we share 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,040 the same DNA, we share the same values. 23 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,480 We share this. My kids, although they are quite 24 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,480 different, are very similar. And there's a bond that says, 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,600 Hey, we're, we're siblings in this, like we share something. 26 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:26,400 And so when I'm there, I'm, I'm sharing this. 27 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,880 I could, we had an opportunity to share a couple of things. 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,760 I'm just like, it was just so good to be in a church that 29 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,760 carries the same DNA. And so my encouragement, I 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,640 guess, is to you guys, if you find yourself travelling around 31 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,640 within our state or even across our country, some of us are 32 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,840 going to the global equipment in a couple of weeks. 33 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,240 Like see if you can find a church with the same DNA, Like, 34 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,840 because there is something that will happen inside of you when 35 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,680 you, when you're there that you'll kind of go, man, like I'm 36 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,640 filled with joy because I found, I found some, some DNA. 37 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,240 And so for me, it was such a great time. 38 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,160 I really desperately want to do it again. 39 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,760 I'm super excited. Next week, I won't be here 40 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,480 again. So I'm here and then off again 41 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,480 to the global equip. There's a few of us that are 42 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,680 going. So what we're going to do this 43 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,440 morning is I'm going to share for a little bit, but we're 44 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,360 actually going to then bring the kids back in and just ask those 45 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,600 people, what are they actually expecting God to do for the 46 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,240 global equip? Because I think it's cool that 47 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,920 we actually all stirred in our faith, right? 48 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,000 Whether we are going or not, there's something that God wants 49 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,800 to do, right? God has something not just for 50 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,960 those who are travelling, but for those who are staying over 51 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,760 the next couple of weeks. We're actually what I would call 52 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,120 out to be in Ephesians 4, gift is going to be ministering here 53 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,880 while we're travelling as well. And so we're all going to be 54 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,320 receiving something of a translocal Apostolic ministry 55 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,320 input into our context as individuals and as a local 56 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,560 church and globally. And I believe God really wants 57 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,440 to do something in that time. And that's what I want to kind 58 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,080 of talk around this morning is kind of going, what could God do 59 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,640 over the next couple of weeks? Like as people are travelling 60 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:08,080 and stuff, some of our meetings are going to be cancelled just 61 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:14,440 due to numbers. But what could God do if as, as 62 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,840 people of this local congregation or as people are 63 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,880 gathering in South Africa, what could God do in the next two 64 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,320 weeks? And so if you turn with your 65 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,360 Bibles, we're going to be reading from the NIV this 66 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,280 morning. I have one verse, I tried to 67 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,760 find others and there are others, but I just, I couldn't 68 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,240 move on from this verse. So I really want to focus here 69 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,080 in the book of Ephesians. Ephesians tends to have a bit of 70 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,960 a theme all the way through it and that's the theme is a broad 71 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,720 theme of the church. But Ephesians chapter 3 and 72 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,240 verse 10, I believe it's going to come up on the screen as 73 00:03:54,240 --> 00:04:01,240 well. His intent, God's intent was 74 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,280 that now everyone say now, now, now that now this book was 75 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,040 written 2000 years ago, but that now is still now, right? 76 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,440 It means exactly the same in the old Greek that it means in 77 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:19,279 English means a Now His intent was that 2000 years ago now his 78 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:26,960 intent was that also now through the church, the manifold wisdom 79 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:31,360 of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in 80 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,800 the heavenly realms. The manifold wisdom of God 81 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,040 through the church. So God's intent, his intention, 82 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:46,560 his plan, his, his idea is that through the church, the manifold 83 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,520 wisdom of God should be made known. 84 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,920 The manifold wisdom of God. If you consider that like that's 85 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,480 not like man's wisdom making a good decision. 86 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,240 This is everything of who God is. 87 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,080 Like it's manifold, it's multifaceted, it's it's 88 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,240 multidimensional, it's incomprehensible. 89 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,600 This is his character, this is his nature, this is his purposes 90 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,720 and his plans. And God says, my intention is 91 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:14,800 through the church, I'm going to reveal that to the world. 92 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,720 My intention, my plan from the very beginning, it actually goes 93 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,320 on in in verse 11, we won't read it, but he actually goes on and 94 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,200 goes, this is according to the eternal purpose of God. 95 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,760 So from the very beginning to the very end, God's intention is 96 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,800 that through the church, the manifold wisdom of God, his 97 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,160 character, his nature, his plans, his purposes, who he is, 98 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,600 what he is like what he is up to in the earth. 99 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,880 His intention was that all of that would be revealed through 100 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,040 the church. Doesn't that excite you about 101 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,520 the purposes and plans for the church? 102 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,280 Like if you consider that and you're like, that's what we are 103 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,920 saved into, right? We, we talk about some of the 104 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,360 stuff that we are saved from. And we'd spoke about that over 105 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,000 the last couple of weeks about that we are saved out of hell 106 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,400 and, and darkness and stuff like that. 107 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,280 We're obviously we're saved into heaven, but we're also saved 108 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,560 into this thing called the church. 109 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:13,680 And when you get saved into the church, you get this God's 110 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,440 intention. The minute you were saved and 111 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,760 added into the church, his intent was that you would reveal 112 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,320 the purposes and plans of God, his character, his nature. 113 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,880 You would put that on display for the world around here. 114 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,440 Doesn't that excite you for the mission of the church? 115 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,760 Doesn't excite you for the future of the church? 116 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:36,120 And so my, my headline question that I want you to consider all 117 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,160 the way through over the next few weeks, because I'm, I'm 118 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,480 actually believing God could do something really significant 119 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,240 over the next two weeks. As people are travelling, as 120 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,880 we've got global equipments, we get ministry here as well. 121 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:52,200 Like what would happen if a church or if we as a people 122 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,000 called God's intention, not just his attention, but his 123 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,480 intention. What would happen if we caught 124 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,200 his intention for us in this next season? 125 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,760 And I want to talk just a little bit around what what what is the 126 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,560 church look like? Because I think sometimes we can 127 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,280 go, yeah, that's great for the the way church or that's great 128 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,200 for different things. But in Scripture we actually we 129 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,960 kind of see four different expressions of church. 130 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,080 And the reason I want to highlight this is because kind 131 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,240 of all four are relevant and all four God's intentions stays the 132 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,200 same. OK Are you following? 133 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:36,600 Yeah. Yeah. 134 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,080 Cool. And so for the first, the first 135 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,240 one, which is probably the most obvious, this is talking about 136 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,960 God's big global church, right? But the first expression that we 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,640 see is the individuals and families that God adds into his 138 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,120 global church. As I said earlier, the minute 139 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,040 you are saved, you're part of his capital C church. 140 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,840 You are added into the family of God. 141 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:04,120 And so if you can now place that Scripture as an individual 142 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:09,480 intention of God over your life, an individual intention over 143 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:14,920 you, individually over your family, God's intent was that 144 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:19,200 through the church, individuals and families, he would reveal 145 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:25,240 the manifold wisdom of God. What could God do if in the next 146 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,520 two weeks he revealed to every single individual and family in 147 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,880 this place his intention for their life and for their season? 148 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:42,440 What could God do if you say God show us your intention and we 149 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,400 caught it, not just we shot, He showed it. 150 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,320 But what if? What would happen if we all as 151 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,560 individuals and families caught God's intention for our life? 152 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,040 Tell you what, this place would look radically different if we 153 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,280 all caught the intention of God as an individual's and his 154 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,480 families. Like that would change. 155 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,280 Probably the way that I govern my family and lead my family 156 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,360 will probably change some of the ways I approach things like work 157 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,880 and whatever. If I said, hey, God, what is 158 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,560 your intention for me coming out of the next couple of weeks? 159 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,160 What is your intention for my family? 160 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,680 What do you want us to do? And so the first expression, I 161 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:25,320 think that the relevance of this statement is as the individuals 162 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,560 and families. And so I'd encourage you over 163 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,320 the next few weeks, can you pray individual family? 164 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,000 What is it that God, what's his intention for us in this season? 165 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:42,480 All right, the next expression we see in the the Scriptures is 166 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,120 like local congregations or what local, what we would call local 167 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,080 churches, like groups of people gathering together, right? 168 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,720 So we've got one here. As I say, we call them local 169 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,880 churches. They're more like congregations, 170 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:02,360 like what would happen if it's a congregation we call God's 171 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,200 intention for us as a congregation for the next 172 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,080 season. What does God want to do with 173 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,600 the way church in the next season and all of us committed 174 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,080 and saying, hey God, what is your intent for us? 175 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,680 And let's catch it because I don't want to miss that. 176 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,720 If his intent was that through us, he would reveal the manifold 177 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,640 wisdom of God. I'll be like God, show us what 178 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,720 that looks like for our next season. 179 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,720 Show us what that looks like coming out with all of this 180 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,280 input and all of this stuff. Show us what you want us to do 181 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,000 as as a group, as a congregation, as a lampstand in 182 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,680 this area. What is it you want to do, not 183 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:48,960 just for me, but for us? And so we've got those two 184 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,720 expressions. The third expression, which I 185 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,120 think just lifts our eyes a little bit, we kind of go micro 186 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,840 to kind of the macro expression, right? 187 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,160 So the next expression we see in the Scripture is the Church of a 188 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,800 city or a region. So Paul writes and he says to 189 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,720 the church in Galatia, which is a region, or to the church in 190 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,040 Ephesus, that's the city, to the church in Rome, right? 191 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,160 We have churches that we partnership partner with across 192 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,160 the city. And there's other churches in 193 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,840 this city as well, right? What would happen, What could 194 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:29,360 God do if the churches in this city all caught God's intention 195 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:36,640 for the next season? What could God do? 196 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:42,560 Even just the four churches that partner with NCMI, what could 197 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,120 God do? He turned the world upside down 198 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:52,000 with 12 men, 1111 men. What could God do with four 199 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:57,280 local congregations or with the hundreds of churches, hundreds 200 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,240 of congregations meeting across our city? 201 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:05,320 What could God do if we all caught his intention for our 202 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:12,560 city in this next season? So I'm praying, hey, God, reveal 203 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:17,400 to us what you want to do in our city and in our state, in our 204 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,000 region, because he he's he has an intention. 205 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:23,000 We just read it. God's intent. 206 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,720 So God, I want to catch your intent, right? 207 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,200 And the fourth expression that we see is this, this expression 208 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,720 of what we would probably call translocal ministry or Apostolic 209 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,880 ministry, which we see in Acts chapter 13 to 15, two chapters 210 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,440 there at the beginning of Acts 13, that the prophets and 211 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,200 teachers are together and the Spirit comes and tells them, set 212 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,320 apart Paul and Barnabas for the work of that I've called them to 213 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,320 and they pray for them and they send them out with a purpose. 214 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,480 And that is to visit various local congregations, various 215 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,000 cities and actually reveal to them God's intention. 216 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,040 And so the word translocal literally means across or 217 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,240 between the local, like transatlantic going across the 218 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,960 Atlantic. And so there NCMI, which is a 219 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,840 group that we partner with New Covenant Ministries 220 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:23,280 International, there are other teams doing a similar work, but 221 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,560 this is a trans local team. And it's an expression of God's 222 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:29,600 church. Because not only is God's 223 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,600 intention as an individual or family or not only is God's 224 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,240 intention at a local congregation level, not only is 225 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,080 his intention just for a city or a region, but he has an intent 226 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,520 for the church global and he has an intent. 227 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:49,080 And I'm wondering what could God do as thousands of people gather 228 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,520 together with a trans local team? 229 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:58,640 What could God do if we as individuals, as local 230 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,080 congregations, as churches of cities and regions, and as a 231 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,920 whole team, what could God do? If we say God, we want to catch 232 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,800 your intention. I was watching a video this week 233 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,200 and I'd encourage you to go watch it. 234 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:23,720 And And to to me me it's it's exciting exciting. he's just 235 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:28,120 kind of saying man what what regions could be opened up there 236 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,000 is we prayed in our premier a couple of weeks ago around 237 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,680 Europe and just noticed that the entire pretty well the West of 238 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,520 Europe is untouched by the new covenant ministries translocal 239 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:44,840 team they were they didn't know EE sorry no W was fine the east 240 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,560 my apologies clearly my wife is the person of directions Clearly 241 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,240 my wife is the person of directions the east of Europe. 242 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,880 So towards Ukraine towards no, no, that kind of agent. 243 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,040 Yeah, that kind of thing. Holland through that area like 244 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,160 we went to the NCI map couldn't find any churches that partner 245 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,880 with the trans local team that we partner with. 246 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,840 There are definitely churches there, but what could God do if 247 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,000 we caught God's intention for that region and there are other 248 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,120 nations around the world that are unreached with the gospel? 249 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:27,480 What could God do if all of us said God, would you reveal to us 250 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:33,200 and would we catch your intention for the church, for 251 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,960 the church global, for the Trans local team, like all of us 252 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,160 should carry a heart to say, you know, we partner with this team 253 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,400 and partnership means that we are invested in what they're 254 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,440 invested in, right? It's not like the team do their 255 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,040 thing and we do our thing and every now and then we high 5 on 256 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,800 the way through. We're we're part of that, right? 257 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,360 Partnership is about the work together, but it's also about 258 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,240 the reward together. The nations that are broken up, 259 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,160 broken into by new covenant ministries are our inheritance, 260 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,760 right? When we when we read scriptures 261 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,560 and say ask of me and I'll give the nations as your inheritance, 262 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,800 there's a reality that not all of us can go to all nations. 263 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,640 There's 190 something nations in the world. 264 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,520 I doubt whether in our small congregation we've covered them 265 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,320 all, but that's why we partner because of their inheritance is 266 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,400 our inheritance. Their reward is our reward. 267 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,760 And so as we gather over the next few weeks as individuals, 268 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,200 as a local congregation, as a church in our region and 269 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:43,880 globally, I wonder if we could just ponder and say, Hey God, 270 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:50,600 what is it you want to do? What is it you want to do over 271 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,240 the next few weeks? And what could happen if even 272 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:02,320 just we caught His intention? Not just for our lives, not just 273 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,240 for our congregation, not just for our region, but for the 274 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,560 nations of the world. What could God do? 275 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,040 We put that scripture back up. Ephesians 310. 276 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:21,119 His intent. This is his intent. 277 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,680 What would happen if we caught his intent? 278 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:33,880 His intent was that now, now through the church, through the 279 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,680 individuals, through the local congregations, through the 280 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,600 regional church, through the global church. 281 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:48,480 His intent was that now, through the Church, the manifold, 282 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:55,440 multifaceted wisdom of God, his character, his nature, who he 283 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:01,480 is, what he's like, what he is up to, all of that through the 284 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:07,160 Church will be made known to rulers and authorities in the 285 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:13,080 heavenly realms. What a future, what a plan. 286 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,680 Are you not excited to be part of the church? 287 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,800 This is one of the greatest times to be alive because of 288 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,120 this Scripture is so true now as it was back then. 289 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,920 His intent is that now through us, through the His church, 290 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,200 global and local, the manifold wisdom of God will be made 291 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,320 known. Can you say Amen? 292 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,560 Amen. Awesome. 293 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,680 We're going to message the kids, but why don't we pray We'll get 294 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,000 them back in just because we want to ask some people around 295 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,360 this question as well. Why don't we pray? 296 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:56,040 And yeah, we'll bring them back. Father, we, we marvel at your 297 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:00,320 intention, and it's so much bigger than we could ever dream 298 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,440 or imagine. And your plans for your church 299 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,040 are so much better than our plans for your church. 300 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:09,160 And after all, it's your church, not ours. 301 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,240 Your intent is that through your church, you would reveal 302 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:21,360 yourself to the world. And so we say thank you and we 303 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:26,120 say have your way, Lord, over the next few weeks as we are 304 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:30,000 gathering and we are receiving input here locally, as we are 305 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,040 receiving input globally as well. 306 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,200 We pray that your intention would not just be revealed, but 307 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,600 would be caught by those by all of us. 308 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,160 That we would catch your intention for us as individuals 309 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,680 and as families, for your intention for us as the way 310 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,240 church, your intention for our city, and your intention for the 311 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:58,160 nations of the world. Lord, give us a capacity to 312 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:06,040 catch what you want to do and to run with it in Jesus name, Amen. 313 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,480 Amen. Welcome back, kids. 314 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,640 So the reason we brought the kids in is because a couple of 315 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,760 the kids are actually going to Global Equip as well, right? 316 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:25,200 And and this is trying to catch something of God's intention, 317 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:28,000 right? Something of what God wants to 318 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,800 do. Hey, shout out from the front. 319 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,400 So we're going to, we're going to ask these guys. 320 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,840 I'm going to maybe we've got a roaming mic. 321 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,040 We'll we'll make this work. But I want to some things that 322 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,800 God could do and I want you just to consider some of this as 323 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,400 these guys share, I've asked prepped them. 324 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,280 So I hope they're prepped. This is some of the stuff that I 325 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,200 just wrote down that I think God could do. 326 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,600 What could happen? Remember my question, what could 327 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,320 happen if we all caught God's intention? 328 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,320 And these are some of the things that I said that I wrote down, 329 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,640 that what could happen? What could happen is that people 330 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,920 could be encouraged, courage could be put in right? 331 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,400 People could be excited for God's plans and purposes. 332 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,840 Unbelievingly now as we're here, hopefully this morning you're a 333 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,000 bit more excited about what God wants to do. 334 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:35,520 We could be enlarged and expanded in our capacity, we 335 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:44,160 could be emboldened, we could be envisioned, and God could 336 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:49,840 expediate what he wants to do. Expediate. 337 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,880 Here's a thesaurus I learnt alliteration from the best 338 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,640 expediate. But just ponder that. 339 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,320 Though I actually did write that when one in like so God could 340 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:08,640 encourage, he could excite, he could enlarge, he could 341 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,200 embolden, he could envision, he could equip. 342 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,920 I didn't say that first time and he could expediate. 343 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,520 In other words, things that usually take a long time could 344 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:26,200 take a really short time if we gave ourselves and thank God, we 345 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,360 want to catch your intention. Things that usually take years 346 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,320 could take months and even days if we say God, let us catch your 347 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,800 intention in this global time, this local time. 348 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,240 I'll rattle those off if I can see some people taking notes. 349 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:54,760 Encourage, embolden, enlarge, envision, excite, equip, and 350 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,120 expedite. God could do something amazing. 351 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,960 So I'm going to. So for those who don't know, for 352 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:07,040 those who are going, so it's Dana, Chantel, Dave, Hilary and 353 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,280 their kids. So we're going to actually hear 354 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,120 from Levi, I assume. I hope we're going to hear from 355 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:11,760 Levi. Yeah, yeah. 356 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,440 Awesome. Eden's going to share. 357 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,320 And then I'm travelling as well. So you've kind of heard mine, 358 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,960 but you guys want to rock, paper, scissors. 359 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,080 Who's going to go first? I want your wife to come up as 360 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,760 well because that's cool to like you guys are travelling together 361 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,840 and we've just spoken that God could speak individually. 362 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,600 Yeah, yeah. So what do you, what do you kind 363 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:41,200 of believe in God could do in you guys individually and as as 364 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,320 a family over the next little bit? 365 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,760 Kind of touched on some of them already, but like just enlarging 366 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,440 our vision to what we're connected with. 367 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,800 Like it's been now eight years with NCMI for me previously 368 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,880 before that, but in this last season, 8 years and I haven't 369 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,560 seen much of the global aspect. I've seen the kind of national 370 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,520 aspect. And I'm I'm just excited to see, 371 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,720 I've seen some of the leaders come through in the lodging 372 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,720 times and they've input into my life and it's been amazing. 373 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:15,480 But I just want to see the the bigness of what we're, we're 374 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,520 involved with. And I believe that's what God's 375 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,720 going to do in me. And then from that that I can 376 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:28,920 actually start to bring with me. Am I answering the same 377 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,640 question? Pretty much the same. 378 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:37,600 I think it's just this being outside of the bubble that we've 379 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:44,680 always seen, known and just getting to experience different 380 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:52,160 people's stories and testimonies and just opening up myself to 381 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:59,720 what God can do in and through me as a black daughter of 382 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:05,880 Christ, Me as a wife, me as a mother, me as a friend in not 383 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:11,240 just my own little space that I have here in Adelaide, but like 384 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,240 opening that up and letting other people in and being able 385 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,800 to speak into other people's lives that is over the world. 386 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,960 Really. It's just this incredible thing 387 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,720 that you always hear of and now you know, through the grace of 388 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,320 God we're going to get to experience it for ourselves. 389 00:25:34,810 --> 00:25:38,690 And what do you guys, do you guys have any feels on like what 390 00:25:38,690 --> 00:25:41,370 do you believe that God could do with us? 391 00:25:41,370 --> 00:25:44,450 Like we're obviously there's some of us travelling, some of 392 00:25:44,450 --> 00:25:46,570 us staying and receiving input here. 393 00:25:47,970 --> 00:25:51,970 What do you, what do you feeling God could do and shift in us as 394 00:25:51,970 --> 00:25:57,400 a people? I had that word readiness just 395 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:03,200 to be ready for the next thing. But like kind of when like you 396 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,120 have that marathon runner with a baton, there's all this baton 397 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,000 coming. There's this thing that God's 398 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,280 trying to do and we're ready. We're not, we're not just 399 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,400 standing there looking around kind of like, oh, when's it 400 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,760 going to happen? We're in position. 401 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,040 So I feel like God's positioning us for the next thing, whether I 402 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,520 don't know what that next thing can look like, to be honest. 403 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,960 But there's this We are positioning our hearts ready to 404 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,160 receive that button. Awesome. 405 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:39,080 I think for me, I'm have an expectation that it's going to 406 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:47,120 spark something inside of all of us, that the nations are open to 407 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,400 us. And for us, you know, sort of 408 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,120 recently been birthed with Dave going to the Philippines this 409 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,400 year. And that's just such a small, 410 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,880 it's a big part, but it's like just the start. 411 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,520 And I'm sort of have this heart that it's not just going to be 412 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,640 David or Hillary or Justin and Bianca. 413 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:18,240 Like it can be each and every one of us, and what that looks 414 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:26,160 like is up to us individually. But like we're going so that we 415 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,760 can come back and sort of fan into flame. 416 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,120 This thing of God has called each of us to go into the 417 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,160 nations and into our city and into our neighborhoods. 418 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,720 So let's start. Which is kind of what we've been 419 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,480 preaching on this last season anyway, but there's just going 420 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:53,040 to be this like a catalyst I'm expecting to happen, yeah. 421 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,240 Awesome. And probably the last two if you 422 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,600 can do them combined. What are you expecting God could 423 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,880 do? There's obviously 4 churches in 424 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:07,200 this city, but there's a whole bunch in Australia and it's the 425 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,080 Apostolic team as well. Everyone's coming together. 426 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,520 What do you think God could do? What do you what do you believe 427 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,040 in God could could stir up? We've had the privilege to go to 428 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,040 a couple of the churches in Australia this year and just to 429 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,280 hear their stories and to hear the heart behind how they 430 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,560 planted out. We went to a new plant church, 431 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,920 but also we talked about how did you see one out and did 432 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,240 different locations? And I'm my heart stirred as 433 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:39,240 people from those churches would actually get an understanding of 434 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,720 what God's got for them and the regions they're in that they 435 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,800 might even open up and plant. And I think even even in this 436 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,280 city, we've seen now the way plan out of Kingdom life. 437 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,280 But there's more there's more people that have got the call in 438 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,080 their hearts, maybe not understanding what it is in 439 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,560 here. But I know that they're going to 440 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,360 get a revelation of, Hey, God's actually got this. 441 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,360 And this week God kind of gave me a podcast to listen to, which 442 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,320 is an old archive NCMI talking about bi vocational church 443 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,600 planners. And I went, why did that come 444 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,600 up? God, he said there are people 445 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,800 that are disqualifying themselves to planning a church 446 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,720 because I have to work at the same time. 447 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,880 They may be in the marketplace, but God said, I'll actually want 448 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,840 you to break open this region and open this marketplace for 449 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,400 the church. So that's what I had on my 450 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,840 heart. What was the question? 451 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,560 Just sort of he's like, what a different route of all things. 452 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,040 I thought maybe I got the quest. Do I, do I hear the question 453 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:41,480 right? No. 454 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,360 So what is it? The God you you've feeling that 455 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,000 God could do in our city, our nation, and globally. 456 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:58,960 I see this as a greater step into the unity that God has 457 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:07,640 called for us in this city. As churches, I see us that 458 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,880 there's different people going from different churches and 459 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,440 we're going with the same heart and we'll come back to our 460 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:18,560 different churches and bring something similar back for us 461 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:25,040 all to be united and to fight for and to press on into. 462 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,520 And I think that extends to, you know, the different regions 463 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,640 around Australia and just that greater connection, that greater 464 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,960 unity, that greater like I'm standing with you, praying with 465 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,080 you, fighting with you, and for you to press on into the great 466 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,880 things of the Kingdom. Awesome. 467 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,560 Cool. Thank you guys. 468 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,080 Yeah, give them a round of applause. 469 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:52,080 Sure. I'm hoping like the the reason 470 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,200 for them sharing isn't just so we can kind of go, that's 471 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,880 awesome. You go Dan and Chantel and 472 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,000 that's that's so that we could kind of go, man, we're going to 473 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,080 stand with you and we're going to catch something of what God 474 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,800 wants to do. And we're going to pray for that 475 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:09,200 as well. So Dave, Hilary, Levi, Liam and 476 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,680 Eden, wherever she is, these guys are bold, right? 477 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,400 Are there these guys are bold taking their entire family or 478 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,920 stupid? We're bold. 479 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,960 Yeah. I feel like there's a little bit 480 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,880 of ridiculousness if you're going to plant a church anyway. 481 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,880 So we'll go with that. Like, man, it's an entire 482 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,120 family. But what an opportunity not just 483 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,240 for them, but for their kids, right. 484 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,800 As we we shared earlier, like what could God's intention is 485 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,800 not just that an individual, but it's sort of family. 486 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:46,160 What could God do with a family? What could God do with a family 487 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,480 who goes and catches his intention together as a unit? 488 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,200 So I'll let you guys decide who's going to go first with 489 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,400 what you believe in God to do. Yeah, through you guys and you 490 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,880 as a family are. You going to ask us all the 491 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,800 questions or do you want me just to like, Yeah. 492 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,680 You can kind of do the whole thing like. 493 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,280 All right, cool. So obviously, I mean, for us, it 494 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,520 was never a question of whether Dave was going or not. 495 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,840 I was pregnant, you know, when we sort of started talking about 496 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,200 it. So the assumption that was 497 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,000 originally that I wouldn't go with the kids and the newborn 498 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:33,360 because that's crazy, right. But I've I've felt really 499 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,240 strongly to go since last since the Australian equipped last 500 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,000 year. And my reasons are mainly 501 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,960 personal in that I just feel like my perspective of what God 502 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,640 can do through his church has just been so limited to what 503 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,560 I've seen in Australia and in the churches I've been in. 504 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:59,680 And I'm really hungry just to step out and say God at work 505 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,880 through the greater body and his Spirit working through the 506 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,280 greater body. And without the limitations of 507 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,600 my expectations or what I've known or whatever, I just really 508 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:15,240 want to catch more of what's possible. 509 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,920 And I know that it's, it's far beyond even what we'll see at 510 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,520 the equip, but I just want to broaden my perspective. 511 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,080 And then for us as a family and for the kids, I just, I really 512 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,600 wanted to show them the bigness and how exciting it is and how 513 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,640 many amazing friends we can make across the world and how God can 514 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,760 can work through them and use them no matter their age. 515 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:45,200 And, and yeah, just the boldness of doing something crazy and 516 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,600 really hard. Like, I have no doubt that it's 517 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,480 going to be full of it's family challenges, but I'm just 518 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,360 trusting that there's a grace for it and that we're all going 519 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,960 to be grown and that the boys will just be so excited for what 520 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,040 they're a part of and the friendships that they can make 521 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,560 and, and what they've got ahead of them. 522 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,840 Yeah, so cool. What are you excited about? 523 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,960 Liam having my birthday. Liam's going to have his 524 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:15,920 birthday. Where are we? 525 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,800 Actually, he's he's pretty excited about that. 526 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:25,280 What about you, Levi? Making new friends So good. 527 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,520 Awesome. Cool. 528 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,360 Yeah, like we're we're excited like we're. 529 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,239 It's hard when it's, how do you like, it's hard to be excited 530 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,080 about something that you know is going to be difficult. 531 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,880 But, but we are, but we are excited. 532 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,440 We are genuinely excited. We decided to go not because it 533 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,639 was easier, but because it was important for our family. 534 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,360 You know, like if we, we say a lot of things as the church, we 535 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,840 talk about generations, we talk about a bunch of stuff and then, 536 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,440 well, taking the kids is too hard or just go on our own. 537 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,440 We just, we have to live out what we claim to believe and 538 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,640 what we say. And so we want to be about the 539 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,800 generations. We want to see our kids raised 540 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,560 up beyond ourselves and carry this thing after we're long 541 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,600 gone. So that starts with us, You 542 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:21,080 know, as leaders, we we want to example to to us as a church 543 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,320 that we we do things that are difficult because it's again, 544 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,120 it's the it's what we're called to do. 545 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,320 It's what we need to do. It's it's yeah. 546 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,840 So personally, like I'm, you know, I'm pretty honest with you 547 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,680 guys. I need to grow up like I need to 548 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,000 be a better husband. I need to be a better father. 549 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,440 I need to be a better leader in the church. 550 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,680 I need to be, I need to be a better person. 551 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,800 You know, I need to serve the Lord better. 552 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,760 You know, like I got some growing up today. 553 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:52,360 I'm content with where God's got me, but I'm not content with 554 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,960 where I would like to be in terms of serving him and 555 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,360 displaying him. He's so good. 556 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,120 Like he is so perfect and and I want to be like him And, you 557 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,120 know, we got a long way to go. So we want to grow as a family. 558 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,040 We want to grow in our marriage. We want to bring something back. 559 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,440 The other thing that I'm really excited about is the adventure 560 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,760 of this. You know, I'm going with with 561 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,720 these guys and with Justin, you know, and the anchor into the 562 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,560 future. Like we're, we're doing this as 563 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,280 a team and there's such a sense of excitement in that to go on 564 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:33,640 an adventure with, with God and to grow together and to, to grow 565 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,120 as a team, to lead this church and to come back stronger and to 566 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,720 come back knowing each other better and, and being able to 567 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:43,080 work better with one another and these sort of things. 568 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,280 This is super important for us as a church. 569 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,280 So I'm hoping that, you know, that I'm, I'm expecting that 570 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,200 we're going to, we're going to see God do a work in us as, as 571 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,600 leaders as we come back. And, and obviously, when I think 572 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,360 about what God, you know, what we could expect for God to do 573 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,160 beyond ourselves into the city and into the nations. 574 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,960 It's just, it's just growth, isn't it? 575 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,080 Like we want to see fruit. We want to see the gospel go 576 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,560 out. We want to see the churches 577 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,520 grow. We want to see unity. 578 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,520 I was thinking about where it says that, you know, that they 579 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,040 will know that you're my disciples by the way that you 580 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,640 love one another. I think that us as a as a church 581 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,840 around the world and in this city, and I think we do a poor 582 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,520 representation of what love is sometimes in terms of unity and 583 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,200 working together. I think that we're quite often 584 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,760 doing our own thing and, you know, forgetting the fact that 585 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,760 the church down the road is the body as well. 586 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:41,680 So, yeah, just a greater display of God's love and, and that we 587 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,840 would be, you know, successful. You know, we want to be 588 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:52,160 successful and not in, in, you know, in a worldly sense. 589 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,320 We want this church and, and the churches of this city and beyond 590 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,680 to be fruitful to count for the Lord that, that the Lord would 591 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,760 look at us and say that there is success there. 592 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,720 So, yeah, all of those things. I'm sort of, I'm, I'm going fast 593 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,240 because I know that our kids are wanting to have lunch or 594 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,720 something. But yeah, that's OK. 595 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:13,880 Yeah, that's cool. Cool. 596 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,800 Thank you. Kind of give them a bit of a 597 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,240 before we kind of move on. I'm going to throw it to the 598 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:29,960 floor. As we've been talking, I'm sure 599 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,760 as some of you, I'm sure you've been praying and stuff and you 600 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,960 probably had probably not this exact question, maybe a 601 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,880 variation of what? What is it that God could do? 602 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,400 What are you praying into? So I'm going to give an 603 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:46,400 opportunity to the floor. Does anyone want to share 604 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,960 something? If you're like men, I believe in 605 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:55,440 God could do this. Can you throw that there for a 606 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,200 recording? Just for a recording because we 607 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,840 are recording this. That'd be awesome. 608 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:06,240 When Chantelle touched on the Philippines, when David did go 609 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,160 over there and I would I believe God revealed about like this was 610 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,880 just the beginnings. And because that is our close 611 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:21,520 nation to God and it's I just sort of wanted to encourage 612 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,240 these guys. Maybe they can make a connection 613 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:27,680 with some of those countries that are close by because I just 614 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:32,520 see that that's a there's gonna be more doors opening. 615 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,800 So this year as a global and I'll be praying for you guys as 616 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,560 your way, you know, and obviously anywhere in the world, 617 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,120 but you know what I mean. It's just that that is an area 618 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:47,200 that a door has opened into and it'd be really good to see what 619 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,440 other doors God can use through this equip to open up more doors 620 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:57,120 into into the Asian area. Awesome. 621 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,240 Yep. And just also, you know, if 622 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,680 there's any particular prayer points, you know, that anyone 623 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,880 wants, you know? That mate, you know, obviously 624 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,480 we can always big chat, you know, you can chat on the the 625 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,240 WhatsApp, you know, and just share as things are going along. 626 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,000 Which would be really good. So we know what how to be 627 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,400 prayed. Awesome. 628 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,440 Good, Michael. Hey mate, just picking up on 629 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,120 what? You said before. 630 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:25,720 About expedite, just had a. Look and a. 631 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,480 Couple of things are really I'm looking at is helps us to 632 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:36,120 facilitate his word, not only the word that's spoken to us, 633 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,520 but the word that we speak to others through his voice and 634 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,840 I've put in my. Notes here for myself and Karen 635 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,240 to. Says what is God's? 636 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:52,160 Intention for me and Karen in our next season. 637 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,240 Praying to this. And listen and catch his 638 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:59,240 intentions. Is what you said not only going 639 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:05,360 to help us to facilitate things in our life, but in others as 640 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:10,240 well and help us to grow in the word of God, not in the the word 641 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:15,640 of Satan, because that is more important in our life than 642 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,240 anything else. So I really want to thank you 643 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:23,320 for that expedite. That was a fantastic word. 644 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,440 Anyone else like this? This is ours, Eliza. 645 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:37,280 To all of you who are going at the beginning, when we first 646 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,840 came in and God said to me, it's time. 647 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:50,680 And so I went, time for what? I'm excited, you know, I know 648 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:57,680 I'm excited, but the excitement is being gathered together as a 649 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,920 family and that's how it should be. 650 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,720 And so I said to him, time for what? 651 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,440 Well, whose time? It's your time. 652 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:14,400 It's your guy's time to now go where he is going to send you. 653 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:20,720 And it's our time to be able to pray for you so that when yous 654 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:26,600 come back, yous will be able to share with us all of what you're 655 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,680 experiencing. And what we are going to pray 656 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:35,960 for is what the answers are going to be when yous come back. 657 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:42,000 And so listening to you, Justin, in the way that you preached. 658 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:49,320 And God has got covenants in his word to be able for yous to take 659 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,240 with you and also for us to be able to pray into. 660 00:42:54,040 --> 00:43:00,360 And the covenant he gave me was in the beginning I created the 661 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:05,160 heavens and the earth. So now the beginning is for yous 662 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:12,040 to go across and find out what God has for you to bring back to 663 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:17,320 us so that we can then have a covenant together to be able to 664 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:23,040 walk in that and go in that. And the the biggest thing of all 665 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,840 is having unity. And that is the biggest thing of 666 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,080 all that we can have is to be able to unite together, walk 667 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,920 together and be able to do this together. 668 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:41,120 And yeah. And so I hope that's encouraging 669 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,680 for yous because it's going to be encouraging for us who are 670 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:48,960 left behind to be able to pray over yous and see what God does. 671 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,720 And he is going to do something because it's time. 672 00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:53,280 Yeah. Anyone else? 673 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,120 As I'll quickly go, do you have something? 674 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:06,800 I had this this morning. It's Ephesians 1 and it was 675 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,000 verse 18 that really stood. Out and it said I. 676 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,760 Pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, in 677 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,880 order that you may know the hope of which you have called, which 678 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,000 He has called you, and the riches of the glorious 679 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,840 inheritance in the Saints. And as we were talking. 680 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,720 About the global equipment, we are part of that inheritance and 681 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:31,120 I just thought that was really what highlighted in this that 682 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,960 the heart, our hearts will be enlightened also in the fact 683 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,840 that you guys are going and we're going to be here and we're 684 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,800 all going to receive from God. Yeah, I. 685 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,280 Just wanted to quickly add, like each of you that are going, it's 686 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,360 not by accident that you're going like you're going because 687 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,880 somebody else that's going need something from you. 688 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,440 So actually what you guys can go to encourage like, yes, we're a 689 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,760 small little local congregation here and there's other churches 690 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,600 that will be there that are like huge, but God's got something 691 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,880 for you guys to take with you to give to those nations and to 692 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,640 give to those churches, whether it's at the equipped, whether 693 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,360 it's on the flight on the way there, whatever it like God's 694 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,320 got something for you guys. And then for us as well. 695 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,160 Like these guys won't be with us, but I'm actually expecting 696 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,440 that God will open up ways for us to be used in ways that we 697 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,040 haven't noticed before. Maybe just because we're used to 698 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,200 other people doing it or or but God will actually in US, grow us 699 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,080 into to see things differently and to be used in a different 700 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,360 way that we might not have been used before. 701 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,760 Amen. Amen. 702 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,640 God has great things for us as a people. 703 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:48,000 God has great things for us as individuals, families, He has 704 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,800 great stuff for us as a church, great stuff for our nation, 705 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,360 great stuff in our togetherness, right? 706 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,480 He has a high intention and then I want to be people that catch 707 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,080 that intention. Amen. 708 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,840 Do you have? Talk a bit about the 709 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,160 practicalities. Oh. 710 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,560 Yes. So we'll were you going? 711 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,840 To cover that or no? No, we can land. 712 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,880 Then we'll talk practicals. Is that cool? 713 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:15,040 Then we'll land it from there. So I just want us all if we can 714 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,360 like and we'll maybe we can quickly pray for these guys that 715 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,160 are going, but I wanted to pray for us as well. 716 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,040 All right, this as much as we are going and there's some 717 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,200 saying, as I said, we have input here. 718 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,360 There's something for us to catch that God, we would catch 719 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:35,120 his intention all of us. So Father, we thank you for 720 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,160 those that are going. We thank you for these next few 721 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,760 weeks. We thank you for your plans, 722 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,080 your purposes. We pray your protection upon Dan 723 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,440 and Chantelle, your protection upon the pounders as they fly 724 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:51,240 out, your as even Bianca. Pray that you would give us all 725 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,840 something as we travel to actually impart into another 726 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,360 nation. Father, those we we were sharing 727 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,640 around divine connections. You would bring those divine 728 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,680 connections as we spoke about enlarging an expediation. 729 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,920 We pray God, you would do these things. 730 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,880 We commit these things. We don't think they're just our 731 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,520 ideas of what you want to do, but they are part of your idea 732 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,920 of what you want to do. And so we want to say yes, Lord, 733 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:21,000 come and do these things in us, through us, in Jesus name, Amen. 734 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,920 Thank you for joining us for today's message. 735 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,800 For more information about The Way Church, please visit 736 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,600 ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot AU. 737 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:32,080 Have a blessed day.