Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
you and build your faith that it helps you have more of a God
perspective for your day. Enjoy something.
I do know that Anne and I, what we call the sunum bonum, it's
Latin for you. I know little Hebrew.
He owns a fish and chip shop near our place.
But I know a little bit of Latin.
The word sunum bonum means the ultimate, the supreme and the
cause of God in our marriage is Jesus Christ.
It's a, it's a sunum bonum, Jesus Christ and his cause,
Jesus Christ and these calls and I want to talk about the cause
today. This is a scripture I've got for
my year. I don't know if you've got a
script a few a year, but every year we have a, a scripture or a
saying. Last year it was God had to be
new and it had to be interesting.
Whatever we do, it had to be new.
Like as you get older, I'm 74 and as you get older, you know,
the same old, same old. That's not good enough for old
people. If you're old person the other
day, it's not good enough. You must Ah, Dan, I've worked 50
years my 2 day. No, it's not, Not while you
breathe, breath. You might get old, but the call
of God doesn't. The call of God doesn't.
It's a lie. You've never been more.
You've never been more knowledgeable.
You've never been had so much experience.
You've never had so much wisdom as what you've got now.
And if you're older, you should be doing bigger miracles than
you've ever done. You should be getting people
saved. It's not good enough.
So I'm retired. We're we're reforming what
retirement means. Why not?
We're pioneers in this area. But there's a couple here still
in the Kingdom of God, still still serving in the Kingdom.
And so today I wanna read through, I wanna read here from
Hebrews chapter 12, verse one to three.
And this is my scripture for the I don't know what you've got.
If you've read your Bible this week, say oh Amen.
If you didn't just say Oh my, read your Bible study the word
of God and says he is there for when you see.
Therefore in the Bible, you gotta see what is there for and
it's therefore because something went before and in Chapter 11,
it talks about all the great men and women of God who who grabbed
a hold of the cause of God. People like Abraham, Sarah at
the age of 90, he has a kid at the age of 90, full mate.
What a thing to think about. That's a miracle itself.
But then talks about Caleb talks about Joshua, he talks about
Isaiah, get this about Isaiah. They put him in between two
slabs of timber and sword him in half from top to bottom.
But he wouldn't let go of the cause.
And he talked about all these great people of God and and it
comes near the writer of Hebrews.
This is therefore, since we're surrounded by such a great cloud
of witnesses. You're you're not by yourself.
You're never alone. You might feel alone in your
workplace, you might feel alone in your in your neighborhood,
you might feel alone in the situation you are, but you would
never. You are surrounded by such a
great cloud of witnesses. And let us lay aside every
weight, every sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us
run with endurance the race that God has set before us.
You've got to race, so you've got to race.
I'm still around at this age because God's still got to race
for me. He's still got something there
for me. And let us run the race.
Let us run with endurance the race that has set before us,
looking unto Jesus, the author, the finisher or the the master
architect or the designer, the author, the finisher, the
perfector of our faith. I don't know about you, but I'm
still feeling that Jesus is perfecting me.
I still feel he's taking me into situations.
I was talking to a young guy this morning.
He said he's going grade 12 this year and I said how do you feel
about going to grade 12? He said I'm a bit nervous.
I said, mate, if it's not nervous, it's not worth doing.
In some of the situations and I go into, I'm spitlessly scared,
but it only means I'm going to see the power of God work.
You might go in and you might manifest a bit like me, but I'll
tell you what, when you're at that edge there, you're going to
see great things happen because you've never walked this journey
before. And I don't want to go back to
the same journey as I went last year.
I want to go somewhere new. I want to see New Horizons.
I want to see new miracles. I want to see more salvations.
I can't say I did it last year or I worked for 50 years and,
oh, that's it for me, mate. It's time for me, you know?
What are you doing this year, love?
Nothing. But you did that all last year.
Yeah. I didn't finish it yet.
Don't want to be like that. God's got a whole world out
there that needs to be touched by me, by you, the author who
for the joy that is set before us endured the cross, despising
shame and sat down at the right hand of the Father, the joy, the
joy. Last night I got a text message
from a young guy who came out of our church in Atherton and and
I've trained up 7 senior pastors in our ministry walk and one of
them last night text me and he's got a church, City Bridge
Church, just South of Brisbane Inc Church.
Borndly, how you going aboard? Great, great.
You've got a fire on your belly. Great.
How long you been there, boy? 26 years, 26 years preaching.
You didn't think that'd bring joy to us?
For the joy, for the joy. If you see, The thing is, is you
see a lot of Christians got no joy in their life.
They think, you know, that joy is just having this nice little
time with Jesus. No, the joy is when you see
people touched by God through your ministry.
And Pastor Graham Melanie's, their role here in this church
is to train you and I equip you and I to do the work of the
ministry, to lay hands on the sin, to see them recover.
So 2026, what's it going to look like for you?
Is this a year where your faith comes alive?
Is this a year where you go to another level in God?
Is this a year where I enter into the world of miracles?
Oh, friends, you see miracles when you see legs grow, when you
see broken marriages restored, when you see the lost and the
broken and the orphan. Find a home in church and home
with Jesus. The joy that it brings.
I feel sad to many Christians because I never, ever entered
into that joy. They think it's this couple's
job or couples like us who've got a fire in our valley.
But the joy is for you. So what's 2026 going to bring
the salvations of souls. Maybe it's your next door
neighbor, maybe it's meeting your next door neighbor, having
a BBQ with them when then I go away.
We used to have a cat. When we go away, we'd get our
neighbors would fight over who was going to look after the cat.
And I didn't realize why until I came back and found they said to
us, well, we just come, we just sit in your home because there's
something about your home. So you can touch the world just
by bringing, building a good marriage, just by building a
presence of God in your home and then inviting your neighbors
into it, having a BBQ. So you just don't know.
Is this a year? Maybe this is a year.
You might say, Dan, I just don't want another year like last
year. Maybe last year was a tough year
for you be many of us here who had a tough year last year, but
the Bible saying here, put it aside all those weights, put
them aside, put them aside and I so this year could be a year you
look back on like in Isaiah chapter 6, verse one where
Isaiah said it was the year that King Uzziah died that I saw the
Lord and maybe 2026 is going to be the year where you can sit
back and say 2026 was the year that I saw the Lord and I saw
the Lord working through my life.
I saw the Lord when I laid hands on someone, he actually healed
them. I mean, I'm still dumbfound.
I'm still dumbfound and and I some year ago we were in Beijing
and we was just doing the touristy thing.
We're up on the Great Wall having walking around the Great
Wall and, and there was this young and Italian every time we
travel, I said, and I'm multilingual, you know,
multilingual Monjourno, you know, and then I start talking
Italian. And Neil, is this a young
couple, not a young couple, a 35 year old.
And we got talking, you know, the Bible says out of the heart,
the mouth speaks within within 5 minutes.
This young couple, they just don't poured their heart out.
We didn't say who we were poured their heart out.
See, the world's in need. This young couple said, you
know, we've been trying for years to have a baby.
We just can't have a baby. We've tried everything.
We just can't have a baby. And with that whole mouthpiece
here says, Oh, well, we're Christians.
We pray for quite a few couples who can't have babies and they
have babies. How about we pray for you?
These people didn't know God. So we prayed for them, didn't we
love? And we gave them our e-mail
account and said, now what? We want you.
The dealer says, we'll pray for you.
But when you have come pregnant, we want an e-mail from you.
And they said, well, we've been trying for years.
Yeah, well, I know that just now.
Here's our e-mail. I want to hear from you.
Two months later, we got this e-mail saying, ha, ha, we're
having a baby. You think we weren't surprised?
Give it a go, you mug, you might win.
That's what Clark Carly used to always say to us.
Give it a mug. Go, you mug.
You never know, you might win. But see, if you don't pray for
them, the answer's always the same.
But if you do pray for them, you never know what would happen.
And it says, lay aside. Those weights that hold you from
last year, lay them aside, you might say, well, Dan, I've been
a Christian for 50 years, mate. I've heard it all.
Are you? And I would say to you, you
haven't been a Christian for 50 years.
You've been for Christian one year, but you've done it 50
times. Is this all right?
One year, 50 times. How boring.
Oh, have you ever prayed for
anybody? No, why not?
Oh well, you ever lifted your hands in church?
Oh, I could if I wanted to. Has the alcohol gone?
Oh, I could give it up anytime. Give it up today.
Then. See, this could be the year
where you see the Lord. This could be the year where you
say, I didn't realize that God could move through me, but I've
got this problem. We got that problem, mate.
You want to see the problems I've got?
If I went to confession today, we'd be in there all week.
Sin, that sin, that sin, that sin.
But God still loves you and He still works through you.
We're not going to get through this message.
Put aside every burden, young people, What are the burdens
you're carrying? The burden of trying to get a
career. We understand that.
What about the burden of trying to find a a wife or a husband?
Oh, that's that's a heavy I got I got 8 grandkids, 6 of them
girls pop. We just want to find ourselves a
good man. All of them in church except
one. The birds.
Put aside the birds. What am I going to do?
I'm nervous, I'm scared. They're burdens, the birds past
disappointments. But I prayed for people who
never got. I've given money away to people.
I've been conned. Well, get over it.
I've given Whitby hurt. But see, if you let the hurt
stop you, you never do anything for God.
Is that right? It says here in the Scriptures
that Jesus despising the shame, He despising the shame.
How do you think I felt going into the mining industry?
The Rev. The Rev. But lies were touched.
Lives were touched. People would laugh at me and
scoff at me. Well, that's all right.
They chuckle for how tall I am, too.
They always should have messed here.
They're gonna Chuck off you anyway.
Who cares? Friends, The year 2026.
What's it gonna mean for us? Put them aside.
Growing old. You might be an elderly person,
he said. Dear.
No, you know, made the sickness in my life.
Look, I've been the last 414 years, not with a sickness, but
plagued with sicknesses. Got to put them aside, not just
once, not twice, played with them, put them aside, put them
aside because there's a call and there's a cause and there's a
lost generation. And if you're in hospital, talk
to the woman doctor about Jesus. What an opportunity.
But Jesus, I've got to serve you.
You know, when I first got saved, my Christian walk was all
about me. Now, I don't know about you
guys, but I had a lot of things to fix up.
And if you talk to my wife, I've probably still got a few.
I had some addictions. Alcohol plagued my life.
How do I overcome that swearing, mate?
You know, I just took the swearing out of my day.
I'd save 1/2 hour out of every day in my conversations.
There was so much of it there. Who's been there by three of us.
Oh my. Through my behold.
I had a whole heap of issues. We had a marriage to get back.
Anne was walking out on me. She'd had enough of me.
Mate. I was a workaholic.
I'd built and owned my own home. By the time I was 24, I was a
workaholic. 80 nowadays were nothing, 6-7 day weeks, you
know, she was walking out. I had a marriage to get back on
deck. I had a life.
I, I had mental health issues like you'd never believed.
Depression plagued my life. It was all about me fixing my
life up, developing a prayer life, learning how to read the
Bible. I mean going to church, let
alone tithing. I mean, I was used to putting to
Bob at the time on the plate, you know, tithing.
I had all of these issues to fix up and what we did, we enjoy
internship to Dan and Anne. This young couple messed up
still trying to get his act together and look holy.
Couldn't string 2 words together unless a profanity come out.
We interned in internship, it was called Bible college.
You know, did two years of it. You know that two years if
you're in a place where I mean, you need to get your butt into
going to say that you need to get along to internship, you
need to learn the ways of God. And in that our pastor, Kevin
Dales, he'd sent us our door knock and he he would go and do
outreach meetings and he he taught us that it wasn't just
about me, God, church, my mum. I was a Roman Catholic, six kids
in our family. And one thing we learned was it
wasn't about me and it's not about you.
And you give your life to Jesus. Jesus wants to put you on a
journey of miracles. He wants to take you on a
journey that's beyond your furthest expectation.
We never knew what God would do with us when we weren't along
That time. I remember saying to my pastor,
pastor, I'll fix your windows up because I did 20 years of
engineering. I'll do this and that, but don't
never ask me to preach. What did he do?
He just didn't listen. He put us on a journey and a
journey was the cause of God and we grew and we developed and,
and, and, but the time came when I realized that if I didn't
embrace the call of God and the cause of Christ, my faith, the
one that Christ designed of saving souls and seeing miracles
and life transformed, If I didn't do that, my life would
become introverted. My faith would become stale.
It would become all about me. I wouldn't learn.
I wouldn't have had to hear the cry of the poor.
I have a critical heart to those who are less off.
Oh well, if you worked hard, you'd have a job and you'd have
a house. You know how we can get
self-righteous? I knew that would happen to me
very quickly, very, very quickly.
And today, if your faith all revolves around you, I'm sorry.
It's just going to get boring. And if you're happy with that,
we're going to have a prayer meeting later.
We'll pray for you because the adventures in God are far
greater than you could ever expect.
The joy that comes over your life is just amazing.
My boss said to me one time I when I was a chaplain, I, I work
for Australia's biggest logistic company.
We had our own aeroplanes, our own ships, our own trucks.
We had mining happening also. And I remember I was in Saint
Kilda Rd. at our head office up at level 12 in Saint Kilda Road
and we were doing a par, what they call APAR.
It's a performance review. We had to do them every six
months to be able to justify why we should be employed as a
chaplain. And my boss said to me in front
of everybody, oh, Dan, what do you want to do with your life?
Pastor Graham, this is true. What do you want to do with your
life? And I and I, I looked at Ruth.
We were talking yesterday on the phone, and I looked at Ruth.
I said, Ruth, I want to change the world.
And she looked at me, Henry. And you can see this patronizing
smile come on her face. And she, you want to change the
world? And I said, yeah, I do.
How are you going to do that? Then I said, easy, Ruth, just
one person at a time. Just one person.
That's all you've got to do. That's all you got to do.
When you go to work, say hello to someone, ask me for a cup of
coffee, just one person at a time.
So I tell this story. I, I train mental health first
aid people in industry and I go into workplaces and train and I
told a story because see, today you can pick up a lot of
knowledge. You can pick up revelation and
the training I do, the people can pick up a lot of know how.
But I said the most important thing you're going to pick up
today is not knowledge is not knowledge.
So I told a story. A man was walking through life
one day as all of us, and that man ended up falling in a rut
like most of us have been. And that rut could be a broken
marriage. It could be depression.
Could Do you realize, do we have 10 people sitting across here?
Do you realize statistics tell us today that 20%, one people in
five is suffering and anyone here is suffering from a form of
mental illness That means there's two people in every row.
Two people. One thing I know about mental is
a very lonely way to go. Do you remember 13.6% of boys,
young boys today in Australia are registered with the NDIS.
They told me there's not a need out there, it's everywhere.
This man was walking through life and he fell in this rut and
he's yelling out like most people help.
Can somebody please hear my voice, can help me?
And time would go by and you'd keep yelling out.
Can anyone help me? Please help me.
I'm in a rut. I'm stuck.
I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And this is what the world is
saying. Please help me.
I'm stuck, I'm stuck. And they know they're stuck.
They know they're stuck. But they don't know how to get
out of the rut. And one day this Christian guy
walks around and he hears his voice, Help, Please, someone
help me. So he jumps in the rut with this
guy. And the guy in the rut said,
well, you'd be a bright spark, wouldn't you?
Now both of us are in the rut. And the Christian guy said,
yeah, I know, but I've been in the rut and I know the way out
and we can walk out together. And I try to teach them in
industry. I tell them I'm a pastor.
I said you've got to get a heart for people because if you get a
don't have a heart for people, everything else I'm going to say
from here is not worth a cinch to you.
This is the cause of Christ in Luke chapter 4, Jesus said, for
the spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me
to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, to open the prison to those who are
bound to the recovery of sight, to those who are blind, and to
preach that this is the acceptable year of the Lord.
And friends, today, 2026 is an acceptable year for you and I to
say, today I want to stand up with Christ.
Today I'm in a rut. And today I want to give my life
to Jesus Christ because I've tried everything else.
Do you realize that hell has a theme song that everyone in hell
sings and it's called I Did it My Way and I did it my way for
33 years? And man with all the hope I
wanted was taking me nowhere to one night full of alcohol.
My wife was walking out drunk, walked out the backyard of
Marillion Harbor and said, Jesus, come into my life, be my
Lord and say forgive my sins because I give my life to you.
I've been in the rut, been in the rut.
Maybe there's people here today. You're in a rut, you're stuck,
you're stuck. You don't know the way out,
you're hurting, you're broken. You've tried this, you've tried.
I've tried everything to counsellors.
My I was on medication in grade 4 at school, deep rut for a lot
of years to one night I said, Jesus, come into my life.
If that's you today, come on. If that's you today, how would
you just slip your head up and say, Dan, I want to accept
Jesus. Come on, cross this all the
time. How many?
There's one down there. Thank you.
Is there another one? Come on.
There's got to be. There's no one.
Come on. Is there any more?
You know, you need to get you're in a rut, mate.
You're stuck. You're stuck.
I said to Jesus that day. Jesus, mate, I'm going to be a
liability to you. But if you ever accept me,
accept the consequences they accept to me, I'll do anything
for you. That's you today.
Is there another person here I get to?
Is there another person? Come on.
Oh, thank you. Thank you, man.
This is the best thing you've done.
The best thing you've done. God can change your life today.
You'll change your life. You'll come in and it'll be
slow. I tell people, they come to me.
The addicts come to me. I said it'll work.
You just got to give me 12 months.
If we walk together, 12 months. Songs, you're honest with peace.
Songs, you're honest with God. Doesn't matter.
God's seen it all. He's seen it all.
That's all right. He'd buy you out, lock stock and
barrel, pay your debts. It'll take you on.
So if that's you today, if you're very, how about we all
pray this prayer together? Come on all together as a
church. Let's help these new people.
Dear Jesus, I asked you to come into my life today.
I asked you to forgive my sins. I ask you to set me free and I
ask you to give me a new life in Jesus name.
Amen. Now, if you've prayed that
prayer, there's some people we'll see you outside.
I'm not finished yet. Don't.
Did I say something to everyone's name?
It's about the cause is about what you carry.
It's about what you carry. I carry the Kingdom of God in
me. The Kingdom of God is
righteousness, is joy, it's peace and it's power and the
Holy Ghost, it's what you're carrying.
Anne and I, we were two year ago, we were on, you know, those
long boats you have in Europe, you go up to the rivers.
We're going up one again this year.
But like a couple of year ago we were on one going up the up the
Rhine River and we're just doing our thing as a couple.
But always knowing, always knowing that you carry the
Kingdom. You are a representative of the
Kingdom, no matter whether you're on holidays where you
are. And and we were sitting at this
table and this Catholic couple beside us and me being an old
Catholic, see the it's on the cross and said grace.
And of course, I couldn't help myself and my hands under the
table cringing. Oh, you're Catholics.
Hey. Good.
Yeah. Yeah.
You're a Catholic. Yeah, I was, but I'm not.
Now. I'm a pastor.
Now stir it all up. Little did we know there's
people in the table beside us because those boats, they're
only 150 long. You have 150 people.
Everything's spirit is squashy. And we know there's people in
the table next to us. They heard it.
So we finished our meal, hopped up next with this couple next to
us. They come over, said, oh, we
heard that you're Christians, do you mind if we have a meal with
you? Because we would.
We just need to talk to someone. Oh yeah, not a problem, haven't
we? Then the word got around the
boat. The word got around the bunch.
The next man, Anne, Anne's a lady with the the diary.
She, she's my managing director. The war of the Minister of War
Finance isn't every good idea. And so she's almost filming
there. People are lining up.
Can we have a meal with you?
And we had a broken lady come, people come.
And I thought, geez, this is a good gig.
We could get on to say permanent.
As pastors travel the world with them, friend, the world is
crying out and the world needs you.
The world needs you. But not only that, the Christ in
you, the Christ in you needs to see miracles through you.
The Christ in you is crying out for you and I to take this
gospel message to a broken world.
This is the cause of Christ. The Christ in you hungers.
The Christ in you hungers to see revival throw through you, the
Christ in you and I and wants to see you and I move in the gifts
and the power of the Holy Ghost. Young people, you're starting
your life. You're starting your journey.
You're many years ahead of you and God's not saying don't go to
uni, not saying don't get a degree in medicine and actual
fact he's saying do that. But when you're in the operating
field, you pray of your hands and Lord, these hands are
anointed. The school teachers here, you've
got a whole generation. Our daughter, amazing woman of
God, this is how it works. She is in a school head of
curriculum. And they had a right in one of
the school rooms. A little 7 year old just went
ballistic, throwing chairs, tables, Everything Everywhere.
The teacher and the teachers help.
They just got out. The principal, he got out and
they called Renee when I went into this room, she stood in
front of this the classroom, this kids going ballistic and
she just started to sing a hum Sorry, Amazing Grace.
That's all she did just hummed Amazing Grace and the anointing
flowed from her. And next month, this kids put
everything down, sitting down in a chair, Quiet.
You carry that. Come on.
There's there's no you must say, Dan, I'm not smart.
Well, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
But one thing I do know, you haven't got to know much.
You you just got to know that you carry the gift of God over
your life and that you are the salt of the earth.
You are the light unto the world.
You do have the answer, it's just within you.
And maybe your starting point today is giving your life to
Jesus. That was my starting point.
Maybe your next point is going up and seeing Pastor Graham
Mountain. So you know what?
After this morning, I need to get into internship because I
need to understand the Word of God.
I need to understand what? I need to know how to share my
faith. I need to know how to say my
testimony. I need to know how to do it so
that God can use me in a bigger and a greater way.
We didn't start off growing good.
We started off getting our marriage together.
About five years after that, we were pastoring a church.
After that we were pastoring. Why?
Because it became the sunum bonum.
And if I had a problem and would say to me, would you best go and
talk to Jesus about that mate. Jesus.
Ever tried to fight with Jesus? I know times.
Goodbye. I fought with Jesus one day.
I've had a couple of spouts with him, a mate.
I've been punched to the ground a few times in my life and I
know Jesus. It's harder.
A few year back I got quite ill and had to retire from local
church pastoring and I got a gig as a consultant in the mining
industry. And I was fighting with God and
I was annoyed with God because I believe that.
I believe that ministries were positioned.
I was a senior pastor and that was going to be that for life.
But then God wanted to move me. See, some of us, some of the
burdens we carry are our careers.
The average person today is going to have six careers in
their work time. Did you realize that I'm a life
coach, career coach, 6 careers, we hold them and.
And I didn't realize that God wanted to make me more effective
in different areas. And so I was a consultant in the
mining and they'd shift me around from mine to mine in New
South Wales and Queensland. And one day I was standing in
the master room where we have a toolbox before we go
underground, and I was all dressed up to go underground and
fighting with God. God, you could have your
ministry. I don't want to talk to you,
bro. And he spoke to me in my heart.
And there was three guys sitting on the chair across the way.
You need to go and talk to those three guys.
I said no, I can do that. Some of us today were saying no,
the same as I was, but the voice persisted 3 times.
The third times, you know? Have you ever been there?
Yeah. OK.
It's like talking to your eyes. Yeah, OK, That's what you want.
So I did it with a bad attitude. And if I go across with all of
these, walking through all these miners, I realized that miners
don't die. They just smell like they did,
you know? Oh, mate.
But anyway, I get to the other side and there's three guys
sitting on this bench and they're talking stuff and just
stuff. Next minute two of the guys
hopped up and walked away and there was one guy left there.
I thought, oh geez, this is going to be great, what I'm
going to talk about now, John. That only upped their feet and
went down to the drifty ready to go underground.
And this guy looked at me and he said, do you know who I am?
And with my very graceful attitude, I didn't swear, OK?
I said no mate, I don't really know who you are.
He said I'm your nephew. I'm your nephew.
With that, he hopped up in front of all of these miners.
Now, miners don't cry in front of their horse.
I mean, they don't do this intimate stuff.
With that, he just hugged me and hugged me and hugged me and
hugged me. See, I didn't realize just
before that a month before that his mother and father had
disowned him. He had no one but see, this is
the cause of Christ. And this has gone back some
years now. Christmas time this year.
He, he, he rings me up. Now we talk for hours on the
phone about Jesus and he lives in Mackay, teaches at the
university there. Smart young guy.
You see, he had no one. When you come across those
people every day of the week, they get no one.
You're the light, you see, You are the salt of the earth.
This is the cause of Christ. This is don't, Jesus said don't
be afraid of their faces. I've seen my face, some of the
photos of my face before I saved it.
It looked like the back of a bus.
I'm telling you, it didn't look real pretty because I was
carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders.
And the people you meet are the same.
Some of them are rich, some of them have got power, some of
them have got authority. But they're still in a rut and
they're crying out for you and I.
You can do it. You know, Victoria, on the
workplace, there's men there. Every day you meet them.
Driving down to Brisbane, praying.
Father, he got open the door today.
Just one. That's all I want.
I just want one. How do you change the world?
Just one person. Eli, you're here today for a
reason. Just one.
Just one.
Don't be afraid of them. Just one.
Because you have the truth. You don't have a truth.
You have the truth. So this morning we're going to
stand. And if that's you today, say,
Dan, I want my 2026 to be the one where I see miracles.
I want 2026 to be the one where I embrace the cause.
I want 2026. I want to pay the price.
I'm going to cast off the burdens and I'm going to grab a
hold of this. I'm going to run with endurance.
This race. I'm going to run with endurance.
I'm going to put off disappointments.
I'm going to put off whatever it may be, and I'm going to grab
it. Going to stand.
And if that's you, I want you to come to the front today.
Come on, come on, come on, you slackos.
If you're a slacker, wives, if your husband's a slacker, give
him a kick. Tell him to come to the front.
No, just if. If that's you today.
Thank you, Sir. In fact, come on.
In fact, Jesus will take you on an adventure that you never,
ever dreamt possible. Or will you fail?
Yeah, you will. But you're failing now.
Better to fail for Jesus. Will you pray for people and
every one of them get healed? No, unfortunately.
Will everybody accept your testimony?
No, unfortunately they won't. But I'll tell you what, You only
need one. You only need one.
And you've changed the world. That's all you need there.
That's all you need. You only need the 1.
You only need the one. Come on.
Those guys down there in Melbourne and they're buffets,
aren't they? But they need Jesus.
They're good buffets. They need Jesus, don't they?
They need steam. He's going to carry a message.
God's touched your life. He's touched it for a reason,
not just to make you feel better about yourself.
He's touched it for a reason because there's a heap of people
out there. He wants to use you to touch.
That's why he's done it, Thomas. He's going to use you.
Pull your shoulders back. Come on.
Stand up straight. Pull your shoulders back.
Why? Because you're a representative
of the Kingdom of God. And your words do mean things.
Your words do have power. Your words do have freedom.
Your words do have liberty. They do.
Come on, Gordon, you're not in
your job traveling over Australia and New Zealand for
nothing. You are a traveling evangelist
disguised and somebody selling medical equipment.
That's what you are. You are a travelling evangelist.
You carry the Kingdom of God within you.
And God wants to he. He wants you to start laying
hands on people. He wants you to see you start
seeing miracles. Come on, it's a time to fast.
It's a time to say come on, come on you young people, you've
never been up dry gullies before.
Isn't that a blessing? Hey, your whole life is fresh in
you say God today with my education, Lord, I want to be
able to change the world just one at a time.
Come on Father, today of every person out here this morning,
Lord, I pray you stir the gift of God within them.
Lord, to stir the gift of God to stir the power of God over their
lives. Lord, let them be a beacon.
Lord, let them be the light. God over.
Jess. Oh, Jess.
Jess. God wants to open your eyes to
what's out there. New Horizons.
It's got to be new. It's got to be interesting.
It's got to be miraculous. Father, today over this couple.
Come on YouTube. You've been married for a lot of
years. Oh jeez, a lot of years and
God's going to use that testimony to get around young
people, to be able to get around people who are broken, who don't
know how to do marriage, who don't know how to do
relationship. God today over their lives,
Lord, let the anointing, let the anointing and the power of God
rest upon them, rest upon them, rest upon them.
Come on, you got to start getting more radical, girl.
You too get too brim and proper. Get too brim and proper.
Start dancing on the tables. God put a song in your heart.
Come on, come on as you go. As a school chaplain, you got to
take something to those young people.
They're going to touch their hearts and their lives with the
Kingdom of Godfather. Let these hands be hands of
miracles today. Let it be hands of miracles
today. Holy Ghost over these hand
miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles.
Oh, you're going to speak a word and cease.
And to him who is weary and you're going to hear specific
words and people are going to go home after you've preached
Pastor Melanie and they're going to say there's something she
said today. And it's going to be 1 phrase.
It's going to be 1 phrase. And the power that God's going
to put on that one phrase is going to change people's whole
paradigm of life, to set people on new directions.
Father, let it rest upon a life today.
Come on, Henry, you're a brickie.
You know what it is to build a house 1 brick at a time.
You know what it is to lift the weight of the brick.
You've learned endurance. You've learned endurance.
You've never been as smart. You've never been as
knowledgeable. You've never been as wise.
Don't hide it. Don't hide it.
Speak it out. Speak it out with power.
Speak it out with power in Jesus name.
Gordon and Rachel, it's time for you to cut the past off.
Go on, Rachel, time to cut the past off.
God and Rachel, there's some relationships you need to cut.
You need to cut. They're not healthy for you.
They're going to stop you from growing up.
They're going to stop you from maturing.
You need to step out of that world.
You need to step into the world of maturity.
You need to take the load of the anointing, the load of the
Kingdom, the cause of God and go out with authority and power in
Jesus name. Come on, give me your hand.
Come on this week you need to lay start laying hands on
people. It's going to sound stupid and
there's some are not going to get touched, but by G you get
one in every 50. That's worth it, worth it.
Endurance father over these hands.
Let them be healing hands, healing hands today thought in
the name of Jesus, Jesus name. Well, we better close this
meeting. We've gone over time Victoria of
you. And so as you're looking at
retirement, don't get the definition from the Oxford
dictionary. Get it from Hebrews 11.
What does, what does retirement mean?
People say to me, oh, you're retired?
And everyone laughs. Oh what?
No, it still starts his day. It's 3:00 in the morning.
Wait, you're retired? Why?
Because I've got things to do, place to go, people.
See. So he's going to read, he's
going to be re firing you. Re firing you.
He's going to be re firing you. So put the old off.
He's kept you alive this long for a reason.
The days ahead of you are far greater than the days have past
you that have gone past. They've gone past past John.
Forget the dyslexia. Forget it.
I got it too. It's been my power, mate.
It's been my power. I may not read a lot of the
Bible, but I tell you what, I might read one verse a month,
but that one verse a month changes the world.
Don't get hung up on it. Don't get hung up on it.
Get hung up on the call and the purposes and the power of God.
Come on, there's a whole new world waiting for you.
But you got to be prepared to change, and it takes energy to
change. I'm an engineer, I know takes
energy to change water into steam takes energy.
It's going to take you energy, but you got to prepare to do
some things differently. Oh no, the old.
No, the old thing's got you where you are today, and that's
good. That's not going to work for
tomorrow. Some new ideas, new stuff, new
stuff, new stuff, new stuff. Father, touch their lives, touch
their lives, touch their lives. Touch the schools.
I see you guys starting Bible studies in your schools.
I see you guys starting Bible studies.
I see you guys starting in the universe.
I see you starting stuff in university, the strawberry
grower. Your days are growing
strawberries are over, but your days for growing people are not.
Make your voice heard. There's some good stuff in
there. You need to open up that voice
and let it out. You need to let it out.
You need to have confidence in yourself.
You're more than a strawberry grower.
Jesus said to the disciples, Come follow me and I'll make you
fishermen of men. And that's what he wants to make
you, a fisherman of bed. Got good stuff in you, but don't
put it under a bushel, don't hide it, don't hide it, Don't
hide it, don't hide it, don't hide it.
And those guys in that government job, they need a move
of God. They're style, they're boring
and they're stuck. And he's got you in that job for
a reason. Don't get him cranky with you
because you're not doing your job.
You've got to take the call of God into that workplace.
Father, today we thank you for this meeting.
We pray this great awakening Lord would brood in our hearts
tonight. It would brood in every soul
that would wake us up during the night and stir our hearts afresh
to see a greater move. A greater move.
Father Day, let this message, let it be your word that births
as in the day of creation. Lord it be the author and the
finisher of our year, our perfector of our year, this year
in Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
Amen.
Can you come down here for a moment, Holy Ghost?
I just want to do this quickly before we close, and I want to
do it here and now because it's important for the whole church
to hear. So Graham Mountain, you can just
stand really close together and hold your hands.
I want us as a church to just extend your hand towards this
couple. Now I know somewhere on your
calendar you have a commissioning somewhere there,
whatever that is. As I was praying this morning,
God said to me that it's not a matter of commissioning people,
but He's decided to recommission this church and He's putting His
stamp upon it like He's never put it on before.
It's a corporate recommissioning of this place.
He's putting His grace upon this place in a greater measure than
it's ever been before. And I don't feel to share too
much more. And then I I just want God to
unfold that as time goes forward.
But he says prepare your hearts because over this house is going
to come an outpouring of grace because of his cause and his
commissioning. So let us all pray for what God
wants to do in 2026, because He's begun a good work.
Father, Father, let the anointing the Eunice the grace.
Lord another level in the spirit.
Father, over their lives, over the ministry of this church,
over Pastor Graham, over Pastor Melanie.
Lord, today a new authority. Lord, a new authority, a new
word. Father, today as we team beside
them and come alongside, Father, Lord over this church.
Lord, today we pray, let that grace a grace for growth and
grace for enlargement, a grace for maturity.
Father, today let a new level of the Holy Ghost rest upon them
and upon their church. Today in this church.
Lord in this church and bribey Lord, in the name of Jesus let
it rest growth increase Jesus name.