1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,480 Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,280 take hold of. So we hope this message inspires 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,560 you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,720 perspective for your day. Enjoy something. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:27,320 I do know that Anne and I, what we call the sunum bonum, it's 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,640 Latin for you. I know little Hebrew. 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,560 He owns a fish and chip shop near our place. 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,560 But I know a little bit of Latin. 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:41,840 The word sunum bonum means the ultimate, the supreme and the 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,720 cause of God in our marriage is Jesus Christ. 12 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:52,960 It's a, it's a sunum bonum, Jesus Christ and his cause, 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,160 Jesus Christ and these calls and I want to talk about the cause 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,440 today. This is a scripture I've got for 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,720 my year. I don't know if you've got a 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,280 script a few a year, but every year we have a, a scripture or a 17 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,880 saying. Last year it was God had to be 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,880 new and it had to be interesting. 19 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,040 Whatever we do, it had to be new. 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,480 Like as you get older, I'm 74 and as you get older, you know, 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,800 the same old, same old. That's not good enough for old 22 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,200 people. If you're old person the other 23 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,680 day, it's not good enough. You must Ah, Dan, I've worked 50 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,760 years my 2 day. No, it's not, Not while you 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,120 breathe, breath. You might get old, but the call 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,480 of God doesn't. The call of God doesn't. 27 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,120 It's a lie. You've never been more. 28 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,920 You've never been more knowledgeable. 29 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,080 You've never been had so much experience. 30 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,600 You've never had so much wisdom as what you've got now. 31 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,280 And if you're older, you should be doing bigger miracles than 32 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,600 you've ever done. You should be getting people 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:50,920 saved. It's not good enough. 34 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,520 So I'm retired. We're we're reforming what 35 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,200 retirement means. Why not? 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,800 We're pioneers in this area. But there's a couple here still 37 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,200 in the Kingdom of God, still still serving in the Kingdom. 38 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,759 And so today I wanna read through, I wanna read here from 39 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:10,840 Hebrews chapter 12, verse one to three. 40 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,120 And this is my scripture for the I don't know what you've got. 41 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,360 If you've read your Bible this week, say oh Amen. 42 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:23,640 If you didn't just say Oh my, read your Bible study the word 43 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:26,360 of God and says he is there for when you see. 44 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,840 Therefore in the Bible, you gotta see what is there for and 45 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,400 it's therefore because something went before and in Chapter 11, 46 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,880 it talks about all the great men and women of God who who grabbed 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,600 a hold of the cause of God. People like Abraham, Sarah at 48 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,040 the age of 90, he has a kid at the age of 90, full mate. 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,160 What a thing to think about. That's a miracle itself. 50 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,760 But then talks about Caleb talks about Joshua, he talks about 51 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,960 Isaiah, get this about Isaiah. They put him in between two 52 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,800 slabs of timber and sword him in half from top to bottom. 53 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,440 But he wouldn't let go of the cause. 54 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:02,960 And he talked about all these great people of God and and it 55 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,560 comes near the writer of Hebrews. 56 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,280 This is therefore, since we're surrounded by such a great cloud 57 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,640 of witnesses. You're you're not by yourself. 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,800 You're never alone. You might feel alone in your 59 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,120 workplace, you might feel alone in your in your neighborhood, 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,800 you might feel alone in the situation you are, but you would 61 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,880 never. You are surrounded by such a 62 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,560 great cloud of witnesses. And let us lay aside every 63 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,360 weight, every sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us 64 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,760 run with endurance the race that God has set before us. 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,440 You've got to race, so you've got to race. 66 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,800 I'm still around at this age because God's still got to race 67 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,720 for me. He's still got something there 68 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,480 for me. And let us run the race. 69 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,840 Let us run with endurance the race that has set before us, 70 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,600 looking unto Jesus, the author, the finisher or the the master 71 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,600 architect or the designer, the author, the finisher, the 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,640 perfector of our faith. I don't know about you, but I'm 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,960 still feeling that Jesus is perfecting me. 74 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,520 I still feel he's taking me into situations. 75 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,360 I was talking to a young guy this morning. 76 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,960 He said he's going grade 12 this year and I said how do you feel 77 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,240 about going to grade 12? He said I'm a bit nervous. 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,920 I said, mate, if it's not nervous, it's not worth doing. 79 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:21,920 In some of the situations and I go into, I'm spitlessly scared, 80 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,080 but it only means I'm going to see the power of God work. 81 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,440 You might go in and you might manifest a bit like me, but I'll 82 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,800 tell you what, when you're at that edge there, you're going to 83 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,680 see great things happen because you've never walked this journey 84 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,120 before. And I don't want to go back to 85 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,240 the same journey as I went last year. 86 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,560 I want to go somewhere new. I want to see New Horizons. 87 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,960 I want to see new miracles. I want to see more salvations. 88 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,520 I can't say I did it last year or I worked for 50 years and, 89 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,320 oh, that's it for me, mate. It's time for me, you know? 90 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:57,600 What are you doing this year, love? 91 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,760 Nothing. But you did that all last year. 92 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,280 Yeah. I didn't finish it yet. 93 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Don't want to be like that. God's got a whole world out 94 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,120 there that needs to be touched by me, by you, the author who 95 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:17,080 for the joy that is set before us endured the cross, despising 96 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:24,520 shame and sat down at the right hand of the Father, the joy, the 97 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:29,000 joy. Last night I got a text message 98 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,560 from a young guy who came out of our church in Atherton and and 99 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,000 I've trained up 7 senior pastors in our ministry walk and one of 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,440 them last night text me and he's got a church, City Bridge 101 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,000 Church, just South of Brisbane Inc Church. 102 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,560 Borndly, how you going aboard? Great, great. 103 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,360 You've got a fire on your belly. Great. 104 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,640 How long you been there, boy? 26 years, 26 years preaching. 105 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,480 You didn't think that'd bring joy to us? 106 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,320 For the joy, for the joy. If you see, The thing is, is you 107 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,280 see a lot of Christians got no joy in their life. 108 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,680 They think, you know, that joy is just having this nice little 109 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,120 time with Jesus. No, the joy is when you see 110 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,000 people touched by God through your ministry. 111 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,240 And Pastor Graham Melanie's, their role here in this church 112 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,680 is to train you and I equip you and I to do the work of the 113 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:29,680 ministry, to lay hands on the sin, to see them recover. 114 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,920 So 2026, what's it going to look like for you? 115 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,680 Is this a year where your faith comes alive? 116 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,600 Is this a year where you go to another level in God? 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,200 Is this a year where I enter into the world of miracles? 118 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:51,680 Oh, friends, you see miracles when you see legs grow, when you 119 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:58,040 see broken marriages restored, when you see the lost and the 120 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,000 broken and the orphan. Find a home in church and home 121 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,400 with Jesus. The joy that it brings. 122 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,080 I feel sad to many Christians because I never, ever entered 123 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:12,240 into that joy. They think it's this couple's 124 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,680 job or couples like us who've got a fire in our valley. 125 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,560 But the joy is for you. So what's 2026 going to bring 126 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,760 the salvations of souls. Maybe it's your next door 127 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,520 neighbor, maybe it's meeting your next door neighbor, having 128 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,080 a BBQ with them when then I go away. 129 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,080 We used to have a cat. When we go away, we'd get our 130 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,520 neighbors would fight over who was going to look after the cat. 131 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,040 And I didn't realize why until I came back and found they said to 132 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,480 us, well, we just come, we just sit in your home because there's 133 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:53,040 something about your home. So you can touch the world just 134 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,560 by bringing, building a good marriage, just by building a 135 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,440 presence of God in your home and then inviting your neighbors 136 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,720 into it, having a BBQ. So you just don't know. 137 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,560 Is this a year? Maybe this is a year. 138 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,040 You might say, Dan, I just don't want another year like last 139 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,040 year. Maybe last year was a tough year 140 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:15,400 for you be many of us here who had a tough year last year, but 141 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,520 the Bible saying here, put it aside all those weights, put 142 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,840 them aside, put them aside and I so this year could be a year you 143 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,160 look back on like in Isaiah chapter 6, verse one where 144 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:33,520 Isaiah said it was the year that King Uzziah died that I saw the 145 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:38,200 Lord and maybe 2026 is going to be the year where you can sit 146 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,559 back and say 2026 was the year that I saw the Lord and I saw 147 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,280 the Lord working through my life. 148 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,840 I saw the Lord when I laid hands on someone, he actually healed 149 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,320 them. I mean, I'm still dumbfound. 150 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,080 I'm still dumbfound and and I some year ago we were in Beijing 151 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,080 and we was just doing the touristy thing. 152 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,680 We're up on the Great Wall having walking around the Great 153 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:08,200 Wall and, and there was this young and Italian every time we 154 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,440 travel, I said, and I'm multilingual, you know, 155 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,960 multilingual Monjourno, you know, and then I start talking 156 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,080 Italian. And Neil, is this a young 157 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,520 couple, not a young couple, a 35 year old. 158 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,720 And we got talking, you know, the Bible says out of the heart, 159 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,080 the mouth speaks within within 5 minutes. 160 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,640 This young couple, they just don't poured their heart out. 161 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:32,640 We didn't say who we were poured their heart out. 162 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,640 See, the world's in need. This young couple said, you 163 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,680 know, we've been trying for years to have a baby. 164 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,600 We just can't have a baby. We've tried everything. 165 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,040 We just can't have a baby. And with that whole mouthpiece 166 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,360 here says, Oh, well, we're Christians. 167 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,680 We pray for quite a few couples who can't have babies and they 168 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:54,640 have babies. How about we pray for you? 169 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,680 These people didn't know God. So we prayed for them, didn't we 170 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:02,560 love? And we gave them our e-mail 171 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:03,800 account and said, now what? We want you. 172 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,680 The dealer says, we'll pray for you. 173 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,960 But when you have come pregnant, we want an e-mail from you. 174 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,320 And they said, well, we've been trying for years. 175 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,480 Yeah, well, I know that just now. 176 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,200 Here's our e-mail. I want to hear from you. 177 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,480 Two months later, we got this e-mail saying, ha, ha, we're 178 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,800 having a baby. You think we weren't surprised? 179 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,320 Give it a go, you mug, you might win. 180 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:28,880 That's what Clark Carly used to always say to us. 181 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,600 Give it a mug. Go, you mug. 182 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,400 You never know, you might win. But see, if you don't pray for 183 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,280 them, the answer's always the same. 184 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,800 But if you do pray for them, you never know what would happen. 185 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,760 And it says, lay aside. Those weights that hold you from 186 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,920 last year, lay them aside, you might say, well, Dan, I've been 187 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,440 a Christian for 50 years, mate. I've heard it all. 188 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,080 Are you? And I would say to you, you 189 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,120 haven't been a Christian for 50 years. 190 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,200 You've been for Christian one year, but you've done it 50 191 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:02,840 times. Is this all right? 192 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,280 One year, 50 times. How boring. 193 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,200 How boring. Oh, have you ever prayed for 194 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,080 anybody? No, why not? 195 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,840 Oh well, you ever lifted your hands in church? 196 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:30,520 Oh, I could if I wanted to. Has the alcohol gone? 197 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,480 Oh, I could give it up anytime. Give it up today. 198 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,720 Then. See, this could be the year 199 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:39,040 where you see the Lord. This could be the year where you 200 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,120 say, I didn't realize that God could move through me, but I've 201 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,720 got this problem. We got that problem, mate. 202 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,280 You want to see the problems I've got? 203 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,040 If I went to confession today, we'd be in there all week. 204 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,120 Sin, that sin, that sin, that sin. 205 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,400 But God still loves you and He still works through you. 206 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,280 We're not going to get through this message. 207 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,320 Put aside every burden, young people, What are the burdens 208 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,680 you're carrying? The burden of trying to get a 209 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:06,360 career. We understand that. 210 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,760 What about the burden of trying to find a a wife or a husband? 211 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:16,840 Oh, that's that's a heavy I got I got 8 grandkids, 6 of them 212 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,200 girls pop. We just want to find ourselves a 213 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,640 good man. All of them in church except 214 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,240 one. The birds. 215 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,200 Put aside the birds. What am I going to do? 216 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,600 I'm nervous, I'm scared. They're burdens, the birds past 217 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,280 disappointments. But I prayed for people who 218 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,720 never got. I've given money away to people. 219 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,280 I've been conned. Well, get over it. 220 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,960 I've given Whitby hurt. But see, if you let the hurt 221 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,600 stop you, you never do anything for God. 222 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:52,880 Is that right? It says here in the Scriptures 223 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:58,280 that Jesus despising the shame, He despising the shame. 224 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,120 How do you think I felt going into the mining industry? 225 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,280 The Rev. The Rev. But lies were touched. 226 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,760 Lives were touched. People would laugh at me and 227 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:13,760 scoff at me. Well, that's all right. 228 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,680 They chuckle for how tall I am, too. 229 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,280 They always should have messed here. 230 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:21,920 They're gonna Chuck off you anyway. 231 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,480 Who cares? Friends, The year 2026. 232 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,720 What's it gonna mean for us? Put them aside. 233 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,040 Growing old. You might be an elderly person, 234 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:33,480 he said. Dear. 235 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,320 No, you know, made the sickness in my life. 236 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,080 Look, I've been the last 414 years, not with a sickness, but 237 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,680 plagued with sicknesses. Got to put them aside, not just 238 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:52,320 once, not twice, played with them, put them aside, put them 239 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:57,360 aside because there's a call and there's a cause and there's a 240 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,200 lost generation. And if you're in hospital, talk 241 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,000 to the woman doctor about Jesus. What an opportunity. 242 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,560 But Jesus, I've got to serve you. 243 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,600 You know, when I first got saved, my Christian walk was all 244 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,560 about me. Now, I don't know about you 245 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,200 guys, but I had a lot of things to fix up. 246 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,440 And if you talk to my wife, I've probably still got a few. 247 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,960 I had some addictions. Alcohol plagued my life. 248 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,400 How do I overcome that swearing, mate? 249 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,000 You know, I just took the swearing out of my day. 250 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,960 I'd save 1/2 hour out of every day in my conversations. 251 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,520 There was so much of it there. Who's been there by three of us. 252 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,040 Oh my. Through my behold. 253 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,760 I had a whole heap of issues. We had a marriage to get back. 254 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,800 Anne was walking out on me. She'd had enough of me. 255 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,000 Mate. I was a workaholic. 256 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,960 I'd built and owned my own home. By the time I was 24, I was a 257 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:07,840 workaholic. 80 nowadays were nothing, 6-7 day weeks, you 258 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,840 know, she was walking out. I had a marriage to get back on 259 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,560 deck. I had a life. 260 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,920 I, I had mental health issues like you'd never believed. 261 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,360 Depression plagued my life. It was all about me fixing my 262 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,440 life up, developing a prayer life, learning how to read the 263 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,120 Bible. I mean going to church, let 264 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,000 alone tithing. I mean, I was used to putting to 265 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,200 Bob at the time on the plate, you know, tithing. 266 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,960 I had all of these issues to fix up and what we did, we enjoy 267 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:40,320 internship to Dan and Anne. This young couple messed up 268 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,640 still trying to get his act together and look holy. 269 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,240 Couldn't string 2 words together unless a profanity come out. 270 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,680 We interned in internship, it was called Bible college. 271 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,520 You know, did two years of it. You know that two years if 272 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,480 you're in a place where I mean, you need to get your butt into 273 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,040 going to say that you need to get along to internship, you 274 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,840 need to learn the ways of God. And in that our pastor, Kevin 275 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,840 Dales, he'd sent us our door knock and he he would go and do 276 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,720 outreach meetings and he he taught us that it wasn't just 277 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:18,720 about me, God, church, my mum. I was a Roman Catholic, six kids 278 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,280 in our family. And one thing we learned was it 279 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:26,800 wasn't about me and it's not about you. 280 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,800 And you give your life to Jesus. Jesus wants to put you on a 281 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,160 journey of miracles. He wants to take you on a 282 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,640 journey that's beyond your furthest expectation. 283 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,880 We never knew what God would do with us when we weren't along 284 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,800 That time. I remember saying to my pastor, 285 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,120 pastor, I'll fix your windows up because I did 20 years of 286 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,520 engineering. I'll do this and that, but don't 287 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,760 never ask me to preach. What did he do? 288 00:16:53,800 --> 00:17:00,040 He just didn't listen. He put us on a journey and a 289 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:07,200 journey was the cause of God and we grew and we developed and, 290 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,520 and, and, but the time came when I realized that if I didn't 291 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:16,200 embrace the call of God and the cause of Christ, my faith, the 292 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:21,760 one that Christ designed of saving souls and seeing miracles 293 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:26,119 and life transformed, If I didn't do that, my life would 294 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,280 become introverted. My faith would become stale. 295 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,120 It would become all about me. I wouldn't learn. 296 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,720 I wouldn't have had to hear the cry of the poor. 297 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,200 I have a critical heart to those who are less off. 298 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:45,920 Oh well, if you worked hard, you'd have a job and you'd have 299 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,320 a house. You know how we can get 300 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,480 self-righteous? I knew that would happen to me 301 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,680 very quickly, very, very quickly. 302 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,920 And today, if your faith all revolves around you, I'm sorry. 303 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,640 It's just going to get boring. And if you're happy with that, 304 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,000 we're going to have a prayer meeting later. 305 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,520 We'll pray for you because the adventures in God are far 306 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,120 greater than you could ever expect. 307 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,160 The joy that comes over your life is just amazing. 308 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,600 My boss said to me one time I when I was a chaplain, I, I work 309 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,080 for Australia's biggest logistic company. 310 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,560 We had our own aeroplanes, our own ships, our own trucks. 311 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,040 We had mining happening also. And I remember I was in Saint 312 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,280 Kilda Rd. at our head office up at level 12 in Saint Kilda Road 313 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,840 and we were doing a par, what they call APAR. 314 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,760 It's a performance review. We had to do them every six 315 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,000 months to be able to justify why we should be employed as a 316 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,360 chaplain. And my boss said to me in front 317 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:51,440 of everybody, oh, Dan, what do you want to do with your life? 318 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,400 Pastor Graham, this is true. What do you want to do with your 319 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,600 life? And I and I, I looked at Ruth. 320 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:04,280 We were talking yesterday on the phone, and I looked at Ruth. 321 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,000 I said, Ruth, I want to change the world. 322 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,840 And she looked at me, Henry. And you can see this patronizing 323 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,640 smile come on her face. And she, you want to change the 324 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:17,840 world? And I said, yeah, I do. 325 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,080 How are you going to do that? Then I said, easy, Ruth, just 326 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,720 one person at a time. Just one person. 327 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,400 That's all you've got to do. That's all you got to do. 328 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,640 When you go to work, say hello to someone, ask me for a cup of 329 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,840 coffee, just one person at a time. 330 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,680 So I tell this story. I, I train mental health first 331 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:47,520 aid people in industry and I go into workplaces and train and I 332 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,160 told a story because see, today you can pick up a lot of 333 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,720 knowledge. You can pick up revelation and 334 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,080 the training I do, the people can pick up a lot of know how. 335 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,160 But I said the most important thing you're going to pick up 336 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,840 today is not knowledge is not knowledge. 337 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,640 So I told a story. A man was walking through life 338 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,960 one day as all of us, and that man ended up falling in a rut 339 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:16,600 like most of us have been. And that rut could be a broken 340 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,400 marriage. It could be depression. 341 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,920 Could Do you realize, do we have 10 people sitting across here? 342 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:28,240 Do you realize statistics tell us today that 20%, one people in 343 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,560 five is suffering and anyone here is suffering from a form of 344 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:37,360 mental illness That means there's two people in every row. 345 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,360 Two people. One thing I know about mental is 346 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:49,680 a very lonely way to go. Do you remember 13.6% of boys, 347 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,680 young boys today in Australia are registered with the NDIS. 348 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,080 They told me there's not a need out there, it's everywhere. 349 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,720 This man was walking through life and he fell in this rut and 350 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,400 he's yelling out like most people help. 351 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,840 Can somebody please hear my voice, can help me? 352 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,560 And time would go by and you'd keep yelling out. 353 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,280 Can anyone help me? Please help me. 354 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:18,880 I'm in a rut. I'm stuck. 355 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,400 I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And this is what the world is 356 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,040 saying. Please help me. 357 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:29,040 I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And they know they're stuck. 358 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,160 They know they're stuck. But they don't know how to get 359 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,520 out of the rut. And one day this Christian guy 360 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,560 walks around and he hears his voice, Help, Please, someone 361 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,360 help me. So he jumps in the rut with this 362 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:45,760 guy. And the guy in the rut said, 363 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,040 well, you'd be a bright spark, wouldn't you? 364 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:53,560 Now both of us are in the rut. And the Christian guy said, 365 00:21:53,560 --> 00:22:00,640 yeah, I know, but I've been in the rut and I know the way out 366 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:07,200 and we can walk out together. And I try to teach them in 367 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,960 industry. I tell them I'm a pastor. 368 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,680 I said you've got to get a heart for people because if you get a 369 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,200 don't have a heart for people, everything else I'm going to say 370 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,560 from here is not worth a cinch to you. 371 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:25,400 This is the cause of Christ in Luke chapter 4, Jesus said, for 372 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,360 the spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me 373 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,320 to preach the gospel to the poor. 374 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,080 He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim 375 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,200 liberty to the captives, to open the prison to those who are 376 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,160 bound to the recovery of sight, to those who are blind, and to 377 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,280 preach that this is the acceptable year of the Lord. 378 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,240 And friends, today, 2026 is an acceptable year for you and I to 379 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,120 say, today I want to stand up with Christ. 380 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:57,760 Today I'm in a rut. And today I want to give my life 381 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,200 to Jesus Christ because I've tried everything else. 382 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,120 Do you realize that hell has a theme song that everyone in hell 383 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:14,600 sings and it's called I Did it My Way and I did it my way for 384 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,840 33 years? And man with all the hope I 385 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,640 wanted was taking me nowhere to one night full of alcohol. 386 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,360 My wife was walking out drunk, walked out the backyard of 387 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:29,240 Marillion Harbor and said, Jesus, come into my life, be my 388 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,280 Lord and say forgive my sins because I give my life to you. 389 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,240 I've been in the rut, been in the rut. 390 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:50,320 Maybe there's people here today. You're in a rut, you're stuck, 391 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,520 you're stuck. You don't know the way out, 392 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,520 you're hurting, you're broken. You've tried this, you've tried. 393 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,120 I've tried everything to counsellors. 394 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:10,760 My I was on medication in grade 4 at school, deep rut for a lot 395 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,520 of years to one night I said, Jesus, come into my life. 396 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:21,840 If that's you today, come on. If that's you today, how would 397 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,680 you just slip your head up and say, Dan, I want to accept 398 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,720 Jesus. Come on, cross this all the 399 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:26,440 time. How many? 400 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,880 There's one down there. Thank you. 401 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,640 Is there another one? Come on. 402 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,040 There's got to be. There's no one. 403 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,120 Come on. Is there any more? 404 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,840 You know, you need to get you're in a rut, mate. 405 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,760 You're stuck. You're stuck. 406 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,440 I said to Jesus that day. Jesus, mate, I'm going to be a 407 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,640 liability to you. But if you ever accept me, 408 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,560 accept the consequences they accept to me, I'll do anything 409 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,400 for you. That's you today. 410 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,280 Is there another person here I get to? 411 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,560 Is there another person? Come on. 412 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,000 Oh, thank you. Thank you, man. 413 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,240 This is the best thing you've done. 414 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,800 The best thing you've done. God can change your life today. 415 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,640 You'll change your life. You'll come in and it'll be 416 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,400 slow. I tell people, they come to me. 417 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,360 The addicts come to me. I said it'll work. 418 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:11,880 You just got to give me 12 months. 419 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,120 You just got to give me 12 months. 420 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,240 If we walk together, 12 months. Songs, you're honest with peace. 421 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Songs, you're honest with God. Doesn't matter. 422 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,160 God's seen it all. He's seen it all. 423 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,760 That's all right. He'd buy you out, lock stock and 424 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,800 barrel, pay your debts. It'll take you on. 425 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,440 So if that's you today, if you're very, how about we all 426 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,960 pray this prayer together? Come on all together as a 427 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,360 church. Let's help these new people. 428 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,120 Dear Jesus, I asked you to come into my life today. 429 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:49,920 I asked you to forgive my sins. I ask you to set me free and I 430 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,360 ask you to give me a new life in Jesus name. 431 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,200 Amen. Now, if you've prayed that 432 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,640 prayer, there's some people we'll see you outside. 433 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,080 I'm not finished yet. Don't. 434 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,440 Did I say something to everyone's name? 435 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,320 It's about the cause is about what you carry. 436 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,680 It's about what you carry. I carry the Kingdom of God in 437 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,280 me. The Kingdom of God is 438 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,920 righteousness, is joy, it's peace and it's power and the 439 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,240 Holy Ghost, it's what you're carrying. 440 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,480 Anne and I, we were two year ago, we were on, you know, those 441 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,160 long boats you have in Europe, you go up to the rivers. 442 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:35,920 We're going up one again this year. 443 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,760 But like a couple of year ago we were on one going up the up the 444 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,200 Rhine River and we're just doing our thing as a couple. 445 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:49,000 But always knowing, always knowing that you carry the 446 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,760 Kingdom. You are a representative of the 447 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,600 Kingdom, no matter whether you're on holidays where you 448 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,960 are. And and we were sitting at this 449 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,880 table and this Catholic couple beside us and me being an old 450 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,400 Catholic, see the it's on the cross and said grace. 451 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,560 And of course, I couldn't help myself and my hands under the 452 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,640 table cringing. Oh, you're Catholics. 453 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,760 Hey. Good. 454 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,480 Yeah. Yeah. 455 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,840 You're a Catholic. Yeah, I was, but I'm not. 456 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,040 Now. I'm a pastor. 457 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:23,040 Now stir it all up. Little did we know there's 458 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,080 people in the table beside us because those boats, they're 459 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,320 only 150 long. You have 150 people. 460 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,840 Everything's spirit is squashy. And we know there's people in 461 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,080 the table next to us. They heard it. 462 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,120 So we finished our meal, hopped up next with this couple next to 463 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,280 us. They come over, said, oh, we 464 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,960 heard that you're Christians, do you mind if we have a meal with 465 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:45,840 you? Because we would. 466 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,760 We just need to talk to someone. Oh yeah, not a problem, haven't 467 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,560 we? Then the word got around the 468 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:57,080 boat. The word got around the bunch. 469 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,680 The next man, Anne, Anne's a lady with the the diary. 470 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:06,240 She, she's my managing director. The war of the Minister of War 471 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,040 Finance isn't every good idea. And so she's almost filming 472 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,240 there. People are lining up. 473 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,800 People are lining up. Can we have a meal with you? 474 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,800 And we had a broken lady come, people come. 475 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,040 And I thought, geez, this is a good gig. 476 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,720 We could get on to say permanent. 477 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,600 As pastors travel the world with them, friend, the world is 478 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,360 crying out and the world needs you. 479 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:40,720 The world needs you. But not only that, the Christ in 480 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:47,240 you, the Christ in you needs to see miracles through you. 481 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:54,600 The Christ in you is crying out for you and I to take this 482 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,800 gospel message to a broken world. 483 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:02,040 This is the cause of Christ. The Christ in you hungers. 484 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:09,160 The Christ in you hungers to see revival throw through you, the 485 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:14,040 Christ in you and I and wants to see you and I move in the gifts 486 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:20,000 and the power of the Holy Ghost. Young people, you're starting 487 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,720 your life. You're starting your journey. 488 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,840 You're many years ahead of you and God's not saying don't go to 489 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,000 uni, not saying don't get a degree in medicine and actual 490 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,880 fact he's saying do that. But when you're in the operating 491 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,960 field, you pray of your hands and Lord, these hands are 492 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,360 anointed. The school teachers here, you've 493 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:48,880 got a whole generation. Our daughter, amazing woman of 494 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,800 God, this is how it works. She is in a school head of 495 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,240 curriculum. And they had a right in one of 496 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,000 the school rooms. A little 7 year old just went 497 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,280 ballistic, throwing chairs, tables, Everything Everywhere. 498 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,840 The teacher and the teachers help. 499 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,880 They just got out. The principal, he got out and 500 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:20,760 they called Renee when I went into this room, she stood in 501 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:26,520 front of this the classroom, this kids going ballistic and 502 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,360 she just started to sing a hum Sorry, Amazing Grace. 503 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:36,280 That's all she did just hummed Amazing Grace and the anointing 504 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,880 flowed from her. And next month, this kids put 505 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,600 everything down, sitting down in a chair, Quiet. 506 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,480 You carry that. Come on. 507 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,960 There's there's no you must say, Dan, I'm not smart. 508 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,040 Well, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer either. 509 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,240 But one thing I do know, you haven't got to know much. 510 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,120 You you just got to know that you carry the gift of God over 511 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,600 your life and that you are the salt of the earth. 512 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,320 You are the light unto the world. 513 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,160 You do have the answer, it's just within you. 514 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,400 And maybe your starting point today is giving your life to 515 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,120 Jesus. That was my starting point. 516 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,200 Maybe your next point is going up and seeing Pastor Graham 517 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:19,120 Mountain. So you know what? 518 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,240 After this morning, I need to get into internship because I 519 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,160 need to understand the Word of God. 520 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,200 I need to understand what? I need to know how to share my 521 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,160 faith. I need to know how to say my 522 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,000 testimony. I need to know how to do it so 523 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,720 that God can use me in a bigger and a greater way. 524 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,160 We didn't start off growing good. 525 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,680 We started off getting our marriage together. 526 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,640 About five years after that, we were pastoring a church. 527 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,280 After that we were pastoring. Why? 528 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,560 Because it became the sunum bonum. 529 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,800 And if I had a problem and would say to me, would you best go and 530 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,000 talk to Jesus about that mate. Jesus. 531 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,560 Ever tried to fight with Jesus? I know times. 532 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,600 Goodbye. I fought with Jesus one day. 533 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,760 I've had a couple of spouts with him, a mate. 534 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,320 I've been punched to the ground a few times in my life and I 535 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,520 know Jesus. It's harder. 536 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,640 A few year back I got quite ill and had to retire from local 537 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:32,360 church pastoring and I got a gig as a consultant in the mining 538 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,560 industry. And I was fighting with God and 539 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,440 I was annoyed with God because I believe that. 540 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,560 I believe that ministries were positioned. 541 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,160 I was a senior pastor and that was going to be that for life. 542 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,360 But then God wanted to move me. See, some of us, some of the 543 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,760 burdens we carry are our careers. 544 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,080 The average person today is going to have six careers in 545 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,800 their work time. Did you realize that I'm a life 546 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,640 coach, career coach, 6 careers, we hold them and. 547 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,520 And I didn't realize that God wanted to make me more effective 548 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,960 in different areas. And so I was a consultant in the 549 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,400 mining and they'd shift me around from mine to mine in New 550 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:18,280 South Wales and Queensland. And one day I was standing in 551 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,560 the master room where we have a toolbox before we go 552 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,800 underground, and I was all dressed up to go underground and 553 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,440 fighting with God. God, you could have your 554 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:29,640 ministry. I don't want to talk to you, 555 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,400 bro. And he spoke to me in my heart. 556 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,640 And there was three guys sitting on the chair across the way. 557 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,840 You need to go and talk to those three guys. 558 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,520 I said no, I can do that. Some of us today were saying no, 559 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:50,640 the same as I was, but the voice persisted 3 times. 560 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,760 The third times, you know? Have you ever been there? 561 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:57,680 Yeah. OK. 562 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,320 It's like talking to your eyes. Yeah, OK, That's what you want. 563 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,520 So I did it with a bad attitude. And if I go across with all of 564 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,679 these, walking through all these miners, I realized that miners 565 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,040 don't die. They just smell like they did, 566 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,600 you know? Oh, mate. 567 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,400 But anyway, I get to the other side and there's three guys 568 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,880 sitting on this bench and they're talking stuff and just 569 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,840 stuff. Next minute two of the guys 570 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,199 hopped up and walked away and there was one guy left there. 571 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:25,840 I thought, oh geez, this is going to be great, what I'm 572 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,400 going to talk about now, John. That only upped their feet and 573 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,520 went down to the drifty ready to go underground. 574 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:37,080 And this guy looked at me and he said, do you know who I am? 575 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,040 And with my very graceful attitude, I didn't swear, OK? 576 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:46,400 I said no mate, I don't really know who you are. 577 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:53,960 He said I'm your nephew. I'm your nephew. 578 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,560 With that, he hopped up in front of all of these miners. 579 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,320 Now, miners don't cry in front of their horse. 580 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,040 I mean, they don't do this intimate stuff. 581 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,720 With that, he just hugged me and hugged me and hugged me and 582 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,960 hugged me. See, I didn't realize just 583 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,160 before that a month before that his mother and father had 584 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:19,960 disowned him. He had no one but see, this is 585 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,560 the cause of Christ. And this has gone back some 586 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,520 years now. Christmas time this year. 587 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,920 He, he, he rings me up. Now we talk for hours on the 588 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:37,400 phone about Jesus and he lives in Mackay, teaches at the 589 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,880 university there. Smart young guy. 590 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,160 You see, he had no one. When you come across those 591 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,920 people every day of the week, they get no one. 592 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,280 You're the light, you see, You are the salt of the earth. 593 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:03,760 This is the cause of Christ. This is don't, Jesus said don't 594 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:08,600 be afraid of their faces. I've seen my face, some of the 595 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,480 photos of my face before I saved it. 596 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,200 It looked like the back of a bus. 597 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,960 I'm telling you, it didn't look real pretty because I was 598 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,520 carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. 599 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,640 And the people you meet are the same. 600 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,720 Some of them are rich, some of them have got power, some of 601 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:29,600 them have got authority. But they're still in a rut and 602 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,200 they're crying out for you and I. 603 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,320 You can do it. You know, Victoria, on the 604 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,840 workplace, there's men there. Every day you meet them. 605 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,840 Driving down to Brisbane, praying. 606 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,440 Father, he got open the door today. 607 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,240 Just one. That's all I want. 608 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,880 I just want one. How do you change the world? 609 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,320 Just one person. Eli, you're here today for a 610 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,960 reason. Just one. 611 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,600 Just one. Just one. 612 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,040 Don't be afraid of them. Just one. 613 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,320 Because you have the truth. You don't have a truth. 614 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,880 You have the truth. So this morning we're going to 615 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,200 stand. And if that's you today, say, 616 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,520 Dan, I want my 2026 to be the one where I see miracles. 617 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,520 I want 2026 to be the one where I embrace the cause. 618 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,120 I want 2026. I want to pay the price. 619 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,440 I'm going to cast off the burdens and I'm going to grab a 620 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,320 hold of this. I'm going to run with endurance. 621 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,360 This race. I'm going to run with endurance. 622 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,040 I'm going to put off disappointments. 623 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,960 I'm going to put off whatever it may be, and I'm going to grab 624 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:33,720 it. Going to stand. 625 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:35,720 And if that's you, I want you to come to the front today. 626 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,720 Come on, come on, come on, you slackos. 627 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,400 If you're a slacker, wives, if your husband's a slacker, give 628 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,120 him a kick. Tell him to come to the front. 629 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,600 No, just if. If that's you today. 630 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,720 Thank you, Sir. In fact, come on. 631 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,840 In fact, Jesus will take you on an adventure that you never, 632 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,400 ever dreamt possible. Or will you fail? 633 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,400 Yeah, you will. But you're failing now. 634 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,880 Better to fail for Jesus. Will you pray for people and 635 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,360 every one of them get healed? No, unfortunately. 636 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,600 Will everybody accept your testimony? 637 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,360 No, unfortunately they won't. But I'll tell you what, You only 638 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,560 need one. You only need one. 639 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,880 And you've changed the world. That's all you need there. 640 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:21,960 That's all you need. You only need the 1. 641 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:24,160 You only need the one. Come on. 642 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,880 Those guys down there in Melbourne and they're buffets, 643 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,280 aren't they? But they need Jesus. 644 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,560 They're good buffets. They need Jesus, don't they? 645 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,760 They need steam. He's going to carry a message. 646 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,360 God's touched your life. He's touched it for a reason, 647 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,160 not just to make you feel better about yourself. 648 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,320 He's touched it for a reason because there's a heap of people 649 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,200 out there. He wants to use you to touch. 650 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:56,560 That's why he's done it, Thomas. He's going to use you. 651 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,600 Pull your shoulders back. Come on. 652 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,360 Stand up straight. Pull your shoulders back. 653 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,120 Why? Because you're a representative 654 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,120 of the Kingdom of God. And your words do mean things. 655 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,840 Your words do have power. Your words do have freedom. 656 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,240 Your words do have liberty. They do. 657 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,960 They do. Come on, Gordon, you're not in 658 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,240 your job traveling over Australia and New Zealand for 659 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,040 nothing. You are a traveling evangelist 660 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,680 disguised and somebody selling medical equipment. 661 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,960 That's what you are. You are a travelling evangelist. 662 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,160 You carry the Kingdom of God within you. 663 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,960 And God wants to he. He wants you to start laying 664 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,280 hands on people. He wants you to see you start 665 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,120 seeing miracles. Come on, it's a time to fast. 666 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,560 It's a time to say come on, come on you young people, you've 667 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,760 never been up dry gullies before. 668 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,200 Isn't that a blessing? Hey, your whole life is fresh in 669 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:00,000 you say God today with my education, Lord, I want to be 670 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,360 able to change the world just one at a time. 671 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:09,440 Come on Father, today of every person out here this morning, 672 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:13,200 Lord, I pray you stir the gift of God within them. 673 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,280 Lord, to stir the gift of God to stir the power of God over their 674 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,840 lives. Lord, let them be a beacon. 675 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,880 Lord, let them be the light. God over. 676 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,960 Jess. Oh, Jess. 677 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,840 Jess. God wants to open your eyes to 678 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,760 what's out there. New Horizons. 679 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,400 It's got to be new. It's got to be interesting. 680 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:42,800 It's got to be miraculous. Father, today over this couple. 681 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:48,000 Come on YouTube. You've been married for a lot of 682 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:53,600 years. Oh jeez, a lot of years and 683 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,080 God's going to use that testimony to get around young 684 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:01,320 people, to be able to get around people who are broken, who don't 685 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,080 know how to do marriage, who don't know how to do 686 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,640 relationship. God today over their lives, 687 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,240 Lord, let the anointing, let the anointing and the power of God 688 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,920 rest upon them, rest upon them, rest upon them. 689 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,000 Come on, you got to start getting more radical, girl. 690 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:27,320 You too get too brim and proper. Get too brim and proper. 691 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,000 Start dancing on the tables. God put a song in your heart. 692 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,280 Come on, come on as you go. As a school chaplain, you got to 693 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,120 take something to those young people. 694 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,000 They're going to touch their hearts and their lives with the 695 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,360 Kingdom of Godfather. Let these hands be hands of 696 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,880 miracles today. Let it be hands of miracles 697 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,760 today. Holy Ghost over these hand 698 00:41:52,760 --> 00:42:00,120 miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles. 699 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,720 Oh, you're going to speak a word and cease. 700 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:10,200 And to him who is weary and you're going to hear specific 701 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:16,920 words and people are going to go home after you've preached 702 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,360 Pastor Melanie and they're going to say there's something she 703 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,640 said today. And it's going to be 1 phrase. 704 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,880 It's going to be 1 phrase. And the power that God's going 705 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,040 to put on that one phrase is going to change people's whole 706 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:39,720 paradigm of life, to set people on new directions. 707 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,040 Father, let it rest upon a life today. 708 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,960 Come on, Henry, you're a brickie. 709 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,880 You know what it is to build a house 1 brick at a time. 710 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,360 You know what it is to lift the weight of the brick. 711 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,320 You've learned endurance. You've learned endurance. 712 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,480 You've never been as smart. You've never been as 713 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,200 knowledgeable. You've never been as wise. 714 00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,840 Don't hide it. Don't hide it. 715 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,720 Speak it out. Speak it out with power. 716 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,840 Speak it out with power in Jesus name. 717 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,360 Gordon and Rachel, it's time for you to cut the past off. 718 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,040 Go on, Rachel, time to cut the past off. 719 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,680 God and Rachel, there's some relationships you need to cut. 720 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,160 You need to cut. They're not healthy for you. 721 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,360 They're going to stop you from growing up. 722 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,880 They're going to stop you from maturing. 723 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,000 You need to step out of that world. 724 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,520 You need to step into the world of maturity. 725 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,200 You need to take the load of the anointing, the load of the 726 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,360 Kingdom, the cause of God and go out with authority and power in 727 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,840 Jesus name. Come on, give me your hand. 728 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,160 Come on this week you need to lay start laying hands on 729 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:56,240 people. It's going to sound stupid and 730 00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:59,840 there's some are not going to get touched, but by G you get 731 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,000 one in every 50. That's worth it, worth it. 732 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,800 Endurance father over these hands. 733 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,920 Let them be healing hands, healing hands today thought in 734 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:16,360 the name of Jesus, Jesus name. Well, we better close this 735 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,360 meeting. We've gone over time Victoria of 736 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,400 you. And so as you're looking at 737 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:29,080 retirement, don't get the definition from the Oxford 738 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:33,280 dictionary. Get it from Hebrews 11. 739 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,360 What does, what does retirement mean? 740 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,040 People say to me, oh, you're retired? 741 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,360 And everyone laughs. Oh what? 742 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,640 No, it still starts his day. It's 3:00 in the morning. 743 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:44,680 Wait, you're retired? Why? 744 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,640 Because I've got things to do, place to go, people. 745 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,120 See. So he's going to read, he's 746 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,960 going to be re firing you. Re firing you. 747 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,680 He's going to be re firing you. So put the old off. 748 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:04,160 He's kept you alive this long for a reason. 749 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,080 The days ahead of you are far greater than the days have past 750 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,880 you that have gone past. They've gone past past John. 751 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,560 Forget the dyslexia. Forget it. 752 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:23,200 I got it too. It's been my power, mate. 753 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:28,200 It's been my power. I may not read a lot of the 754 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,520 Bible, but I tell you what, I might read one verse a month, 755 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,120 but that one verse a month changes the world. 756 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,320 Don't get hung up on it. Don't get hung up on it. 757 00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:42,080 Get hung up on the call and the purposes and the power of God. 758 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,480 Come on, there's a whole new world waiting for you. 759 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,920 But you got to be prepared to change, and it takes energy to 760 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,880 change. I'm an engineer, I know takes 761 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,840 energy to change water into steam takes energy. 762 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:00,520 It's going to take you energy, but you got to prepare to do 763 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,880 some things differently. Oh no, the old. 764 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,680 No, the old thing's got you where you are today, and that's 765 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,280 good. That's not going to work for 766 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,080 tomorrow. Some new ideas, new stuff, new 767 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,360 stuff, new stuff, new stuff. Father, touch their lives, touch 768 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,800 their lives, touch their lives. Touch the schools. 769 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,160 I see you guys starting Bible studies in your schools. 770 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,600 I see you guys starting Bible studies. 771 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,920 I see you guys starting in the universe. 772 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:33,360 I see you starting stuff in university, the strawberry 773 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,120 grower. Your days are growing 774 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,800 strawberries are over, but your days for growing people are not. 775 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,720 Make your voice heard. There's some good stuff in 776 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:51,160 there. You need to open up that voice 777 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,720 and let it out. You need to let it out. 778 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,640 You need to have confidence in yourself. 779 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:57,920 You're more than a strawberry grower. 780 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,040 Jesus said to the disciples, Come follow me and I'll make you 781 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,400 fishermen of men. And that's what he wants to make 782 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,760 you, a fisherman of bed. Got good stuff in you, but don't 783 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,040 put it under a bushel, don't hide it, don't hide it, Don't 784 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,680 hide it, don't hide it, don't hide it. 785 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,440 And those guys in that government job, they need a move 786 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,880 of God. They're style, they're boring 787 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,360 and they're stuck. And he's got you in that job for 788 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,240 a reason. Don't get him cranky with you 789 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:30,680 because you're not doing your job. 790 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,960 You've got to take the call of God into that workplace. 791 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,200 Father, today we thank you for this meeting. 792 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,440 We pray this great awakening Lord would brood in our hearts 793 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,480 tonight. It would brood in every soul 794 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:54,000 that would wake us up during the night and stir our hearts afresh 795 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,600 to see a greater move. A greater move. 796 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:03,680 Father Day, let this message, let it be your word that births 797 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,960 as in the day of creation. Lord it be the author and the 798 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:12,560 finisher of our year, our perfector of our year, this year 799 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,280 in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. 800 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:17,560 Amen. Amen. 801 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:24,800 Can you come down here for a moment, Holy Ghost? 802 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,360 I just want to do this quickly before we close, and I want to 803 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,360 do it here and now because it's important for the whole church 804 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:41,040 to hear. So Graham Mountain, you can just 805 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,040 stand really close together and hold your hands. 806 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,960 I want us as a church to just extend your hand towards this 807 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:53,720 couple. Now I know somewhere on your 808 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:58,960 calendar you have a commissioning somewhere there, 809 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,720 whatever that is. As I was praying this morning, 810 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:06,600 God said to me that it's not a matter of commissioning people, 811 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:14,440 but He's decided to recommission this church and He's putting His 812 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,120 stamp upon it like He's never put it on before. 813 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,360 It's a corporate recommissioning of this place. 814 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:28,200 He's putting His grace upon this place in a greater measure than 815 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:33,920 it's ever been before. And I don't feel to share too 816 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,400 much more. And then I I just want God to 817 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,400 unfold that as time goes forward. 818 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:45,440 But he says prepare your hearts because over this house is going 819 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:51,720 to come an outpouring of grace because of his cause and his 820 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,880 commissioning. So let us all pray for what God 821 00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:00,880 wants to do in 2026, because He's begun a good work. 822 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,560 Father, Father, let the anointing the Eunice the grace. 823 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,200 Lord another level in the spirit. 824 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,640 Father, over their lives, over the ministry of this church, 825 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,920 over Pastor Graham, over Pastor Melanie. 826 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,960 Lord, today a new authority. Lord, a new authority, a new 827 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,440 word. Father, today as we team beside 828 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,160 them and come alongside, Father, Lord over this church. 829 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,440 Lord, today we pray, let that grace a grace for growth and 830 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,720 grace for enlargement, a grace for maturity. 831 00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,800 Father, today let a new level of the Holy Ghost rest upon them 832 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,960 and upon their church. Today in this church. 833 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:49,040 Lord in this church and bribey Lord, in the name of Jesus let 834 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:55,240 it rest growth increase Jesus name.