a house of prayer for the nations

When the anti-Christ spirit, the religious spirit and the Jezebel spirit have been removed from the Church what is there left to fear?

False teaching & Pride will no longer be there…

Expectation & Striving will no longer be there…

False authority, Injustice & Condemnation will no longer be there…

Rejection & Apathy will no longer be there…

When everyone, irrespective of the gifts and mantles they have been given by the Lord, takes their place in considering others as being more important than themselves and takes the place of a servant in the Church, then there is unity, then there is peace and then there is harmony…

Then, in that genuine place of knowing that only God does anything of value in our own individual lives and only God sets us free from our sin to enjoy Him and enjoy serving others, in that place we can be (within the bounds of peace) truly transparent with each other and as the Lord releases it, we can receive freedom from the Lord from our besetting sins as the entire Body works together to nourish itself in love…

When the anti-Christ spirit, the religious spirit & the Jezebel spirit are not ruling in a meeting where God’s people come together (i.e. they are given no place) and the Holy Spirit is given His Place to have absolute freedom to minister to His Church, then where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty – absolute liberty to share and be healed without fear – in an atmosphere of acceptance – in the Presence of the Lord…

I long to see that day in the Church, I long to be a part of a Church where this occurs and Revival follows… 🙂

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves. (1 Corinthians 5:9-13 NASB)

This topic has definitely been on my mind…

It was strongly on my mind before going to sleep early (surprisingly early for me) last night and I’ve woken up early this morning and still can’t get this topic off my mind…

I need to explain where I’m coming from on this before launching in…

I am by no stretch of the imagination perfect with respect to the above list of sins…

God knows my heart and He knows that my new self doesn’t want to do or do any of those things and when His Holy Spirit is working through my new self neither does my body…

I’ve shared on this previously in A New Creation…

Sin which dwells in me, however, wants to do and does the things on the above list of sins both inside me and also out through my body at various points in time…

Paul clearly states in Romans 7 that this is not me doing those things but sin which dwells in me…

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. (Romans 7:7-20 NASB)

So what exactly is Paul talking about in 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 above?

Because honestly, based on my forty-seven years of life experience to date, I wouldn’t be able to associate or eat with anyone (including myself) who called themselves a brother, i.e. I would never be able to go to any Church or meet with any so-called fellow believers based on those words if I interpret those words to mean that those sins are going on within a person on the inside and practised by them on the outside when the Holy Spirit isn’t in control of their bodies…

Holding each of our lives up to God’s truth means that each and every one of us falls short of the glory of God, whether we have a new creation or whether we don’t…

Those who don’t have a new creation fall short 100% of the time, those of us who do have a new creation fall short somewhere <100% of the time, but we all fall short…

So what is Paul trying to say?

If we were to believe his literal words in the scripture above from 1 Corinthians (factoring in what he says in the above scripture from Romans 7), Paul wouldn’t have been able to associate with or eat with himself either…

Only Jesus would have been able to associate with and eat with Himself but not with any other so-called believer…

And yet we see Jesus living with and eating with the twelve (who called themselves followers) for three years, even cooking them breakfast on the beach when they’d patently disobeyed His command to go to a certain mountain and wait for Him but instead went back to their old fishing jobs (to me that disobedience is being covetous of money, looking after themselves and their livelihoods instead of waiting on the Lord for His provision), they’d also forsaken Him in His hour of need with one of them even denying that he knew Him (and this was the one whom Jesus reconfirmed to be the leader of that group)…

You might argue, “No Andrew, Paul isn’t speaking about what goes on on the inside, he’s speaking about what is actually practised on the outside – it doesn’t matter what goes on on the inside as long as you ‘keep it together’ on the outside”…

I disagree with this, Jesus Himself said, that if a man looks at a woman to lust for her he has already committed adultery with her in his heart – deed done…

That’s the severity of God’s Law…

It’s absolute, no one is practically perfect, no one is practically sinless…

If someone had of been then Jesus wouldn’t have needed to come and sacrifice Himself…

When the woman caught in adultery was brought before Jesus to be stoned to death, “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves” which is the verse Paul is quoting from the Law, what did Jesus say?

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone…

How dare we condemn what God has justified!!!

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one will bear his own load. (Galatians 6:1-5 NASB)

So knowing that Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, what exactly was it that the Holy Spirit was meaning through what He wrote through Paul?

Was the Holy Spirit wanting each of us to have the gift of discernment to such a degree that each of us could look into every other potential brother or sister and see whether they were thinking or doing the sins of that list every time we were about to say hello to them or head out for a bite to eat with them?

Did the Holy Spirit want us to have to complete sleuth work, like private detectives with respect to any potential brother or sister we ever encountered before we’d even acknowledge their existence?

That would not be the Holy Spirit that I know…

I’m just calling a spade a spade here…

The Holy Spirit I know has given me discernment about what’s going on inside certain believers and He’s specifically told me to keep that to myself and pray for them, to encourage them and to accept them, just as Jesus has accepted me, to forgive them and encourage them, to point them towards the good plan that the Lord has for them, to encourage them that the Lord loves them, has accepted them, that there is no expectation on them from the Lord to perform but that He will, through His Holy Spirit within them, do the work and that Jesus’ yoke is easy and His burden is light…

I encourage them that anything else is striving…

I take the pressure off them and encourage them that it is God who works in them to will and to work for His good pleasure…

I don’t want to know what is going on inside my brothers and sisters hearts, I honestly don’t…

When the Lord gives me discernment to see some of those things I then have a responsibility to pray for them and that is honestly hard work…

What I’m trying to say is that I’m much happier to just mind my own business and not know what is going on inside my brothers and sisters…

To their own Master, they stand or fall and stand they will because the Lord is able to make them stand…

I have no business to be a busy body and focus on all my brother and sisters potential faults and think I’m offering some service to them by pointing those out…

That’s why the Holy Spirit has been given to each of us – operating inside each of our new selves – to point out to us the lies which we’ve believed which are allowing sin which dwells in us the ability to keep practising the sin which it so loves to practise…

Love always trusts and love covers a multitude of sins…

Who would want to be a part of a ‘church’ where your behaviour was continually scrutinized (by your fellow ‘members’ and ‘leadership’) with the end result being that you could potentially be removed from that ‘church’ because of your behaviour?

I know that I personally wouldn’t want to be part of such a ‘church’ – that reminds me of being in Communist China/Russia or Nazi Germany – I’m just being honest…

I don’t believe the Church should be on an introspective witch-hunt amongst its own members – life is too short…

Our job is to surrender ourselves to the Holy Spirit, allow Him to lead us into all truth from the scripture and to transform us as He wills – it is His will to sanctify us – we just offer ourselves to Him in this process and trust Him to do the work…

I’ll never forget back in my twenties how I did a street ministry called ‘Drug Arm’ on Friday nights and my fellow team leader was a guy who’d been saved out of drugs (which I believe is included in the ‘drunkard’ category from the list above) and how his Pastor at the time wisely told him, don’t worry if you get high a few more times, don’t focus on it…

It was that advice, freeing him from the fear of failure and showing that his Pastor accepted and believed in him (really believing in the Holy Spirit within him and seeing his new heart) which freed him from his drug addiction…

That’s the Holy Spirit I know…

The Holy Spirit I know has sat with me in all my sexual addictions and promised me that I will be free…

He hasn’t ‘excommunicated me’ or told me that He won’t associate Himself with me or eat with me until I’m perfectly whole sexually…

In fact, He’s done the opposite…

If it wasn’t for Him I’d still be just as sexually addicted as I was on the inside before He saved me in the first place…

He’s done a lot with me in respect of the renewing of my mind so far but He’s still got a lot more to do in the future – I know this, I’m happy with this and I’m content to let Him do it in His time…

Jesus Himself welcomes us to associate with Him and eat and drink with Him as often as we take the bread and wine to remember that it was His death, burial and resurrection which gave us life…

OK, so here’s what I believe this scripture means…

I believe the Holy Spirit is telling us that if we come across a person who says defiantly, openly, proudly and publically, “I practice [insert name of particular sin from the above list], I have no intention of ever stopping, God’s OK with it, God’s got nothing against it, it’s not a problem, I’m a Christian but I’m also going to keep doing this for the rest of my life, you should accept me into your Church, I should also be able to have a leadership position, I fully belong with the rest of you as an equal but I’ll be practising [insert name of particular sin from the above list]”, in that case – being as (a) that is the testimony of that particular person, (b) in giving that testimony they are encouraging others to ‘go and do likewise’ and (c) being as that testimony has been heard by two or three witnesses, i.e. it wasn’t ‘witch-hunted’ out of that person but they declared it freely themselves as their intent – they shouldn’t be allowed to be a part of that Church, that local group of believers…

There’s a huge difference between saying, as I have personally stated in the article above, “Look, I believe in Jesus, I submit to the authority of the scripture, what scripture says is sin, is sin, it is wrong, I believe the Holy Spirit will remove it more and more and more from me, I’m not perfect yet, I’m trusting the Holy Spirit to sanctify me more and more and more, every sin is surrendered to Him by me, I want Him to fill me entirely and Baptise me with His Holy Spirit and with Fire more and more and more, as per His word I am ‘hanging limp’, I have ‘ceased striving’, I am ‘being still’ and knowing that He is God, I am trusting Him to transform me into His image and as such I submit myself to the Church to receive any genuine words or insights from the Lord and in accordance with scripture to head me in that direction”, and the preceding statement…

The preceding statement is proud and arrogant and willful and rebellious and is setting up an alternative authority to the word of God as revealed in scripture – that just doesn’t belong in the Church…

There can only be one authority in the Church – and that is Jesus Christ Himself and His written word the scripture…

It’s OK for us as believers to be broken, I am broken, I understand brokenness, I understand addiction, I understand the importance of undoing lies which we have believed, I understand the importance of forgiveness, I understand that there are layers in our behaviour which bring us into deeper and deeper and deeper freedom in the Lord, it’s exactly that – and exactly that pursuit that we should be pursuing together in our Churches – without any shame or any ‘looking down on’ behaviour – but encouraged by the leadership of the Church knowing that there are no taboo subjects in the Lord, that the Lord is not scared of us openly discussing our failures, our failings and our sin, as in that open discussion – that bringing of those things hidden in darkness out into the light – in that place and in that place alone (not in jamming them down inside us and hoping no one will ever find them because we’re scared of being rejected or despised by our so-called ‘church family’), that we will together find freedom…

When one suffers we all suffer…

When all are free, imagine what that freedom will look like – we will all share each other’s joy in being free… 🙂

So the person who does not submit themselves to Jesus and His word revealed in scripture – His truth revealed in scripture – to the person who does not align their confession or their testimony with that of scripture but endeavours to establish an alternative truth, i.e. they call evil good and good evil, they are not welcome in the Church of Jesus Christ…

I personally believe that those people are to be treated as if they are not believers at all – they should not have any part in our meetings or voice in what we believe, I believe we need to tell our Church members what those people have said so that our Church members can know what they stand for and make their own decision as to whether they agree with them and also want to leave our Church or whether they submit to scripture and the process of believing truth which we have not yet perfectly walked but are surrendered to continue to believe as we’re transformed more and more and more into the image of Christ but with no time-frames set (i.e. no expectations set) on how quickly this must happen for any of us – just the trust in the Lord and in each other (the discernment) that we belong to the Lord and are here to help each other (without any force or control) as He leads us towards us as a Body becoming individually and collectively more like Him…

Thus our testimony to the world is intact, i.e. that we submit aspirationally to the practice of all the truth revealed in scripture, but we are also seen by the world as being real in that we have not yet attained to this aspiration but are on a journey of trust and discovery as we look to the risen Jesus to achieve this transformation within us as we journey together from grace to grace… 🙂

The Lord has shown me what sexual intimacy will look like in a relationship which He inspires and blesses with the freedom – in His Holy Spirit – to be surrendered – both husband and wife to exist for the pleasure of the other – in freedom and abandon…

He has promised me that I personally will experience this with my wife at a point in time in the future where He brings me and my wife into that place where we are one soul with each other…

I have seen a vision of Him literally blending our souls on that day so that we are no more two separate souls but one blended soul – in the picture it was as if our individual blood was blended together (that was the metaphor He was using) – He was blending it together to make us one…

Our consciousnesses were shared and what I knew about my wife was total – there were no secrets – and what she knew about me was total – there were no secrets – and in that place, there was absolute acceptance – from each other – of each, and a sharing of both our strengths and our weaknesses – both of the good and the bad – so that she became me and I became her – we were literally one…

We thought together, we solved problems together – any problem either of us had was our problem – there was no expectation on us to sort anything out – we were trusting (together) in the Holy Spirit to continue His work in us – we were brought together into this place by Him and for His Glory – and He was the One making us one in our souls…

He had already made us one in our spirits – we were walking on the same path, in the same direction, with the same understanding of His call on our lives and the path which was ahead of us, although steep – was sweet and anointed with His newness and dripping with His new day fragrance…

This fragrance led us forward in eager expectation of what lay ahead and a desire to walk with Him right to the top of the mountain which was His call for our lives together…

I knew her and she knew me, I loved her and she loved me, I desired her and she desired me…

There was no need – only appreciation and the desire to give and receive from each other as freely given to by the other…

The desire to meet the deepest needs in each other and to give to each other in the deepest possible way, pleasure in every aspect of life – culminating in the sexual area…

The sacredness that I saw in this oneness truly took my breath away…

It was so intimate, so sacred, so given, so exclusive, so free, so genuine, so real, so felt – it was truly that we knew that we genuinely loved each other and were giving – wholeheartedly – to each other with no regret or filter and in the knowledge that this was ordained by God and blessed by God and in the power of God for our pleasure and enjoyment and to blow our minds at His love for us in creating such an amazing other-centred relationship – in which there is no regret – for us to enjoy and see His nature at work…

It was so sacred that it wouldn’t be talked about or discussed with anyone else – except in those overall terms – but what we specifically did in those times of sexual oneness or intimacy were private and confidential – protected by His boundaries – a special personal relationship just between us – which was just ours – just our business – which was so special – and meant that we could completely relax in His presence knowing that we were safe to be absolutely transparent with each other because this experience would forever stay within our bedchamber…

I have to say that when the Lord showed me this it completely took my breath away in awe at the Lord…

The Lord is the opposite of a prude…

The Lord has created intimacy between a man and a woman in a given covenant relationship where each has unconditionally given themselves to each other to be each others’ – come what may (forgiveness is key in this relationship) – for the rest of their lives together on earth…

The issue of acceptance is covered – it is a given…

The issue of trust is covered – the Lord gives the faith to believe and know that to give yourself to this other person is the right thing to do and that He will enable you (and them) to grow in this relationship and trust Him that He will hold you and cause you to come closer and closer and closer to each other and to Himself…

The issue of letting down your defences or your walls is covered as what is shared with your partner stays between the two of you – it is safe in the vault of that sacred privacy and will never be used against you…

The two become one and tackle life’s problems together as one – putting all their combined talents and wisdom together – to forge a way through life which is efficient and wise (yes, I can’t think of a better word so I’ll use that word again) – perfect…

It is no one else’s business what goes on on the inside of this relationship – that is the beauty of it – it is not broadcast or publicized – it is not displayed on a reality TV programme – it is the privacy of it which gives it God’s special stamp of intimacy and makes every unique couple who He so calls together special…

Every unique couple, whoever they are, from whatever walks of life they are from, with whatever financial endowment they so find themselves with, have each other and this special relationship, given by God to them – and they know this – that God has brought them together to be one inside His covenant relationship of marriage…

Male and female – made one – perfect diversity – dwelling together in unity…

Intimacy – it is just beautiful – based on honesty and acceptance…

Not seeking honesty and acceptance but flourishing off that foundation which has been set there permanently by God Himself…

Growing in freedom from that place of acceptance and love – knowing that this is the one who the Lord has given to share the rest of your life with (or however long it is until He takes one or both to be with Him in Glory)…

In The Future of the Church & The Future of the Church – Indigenous Leadership I believe the Lord has been building a picture of what the Church will undergo to prepare Her for the great end-time harvest and His ultimate coming…

In this post, I believe the Lord wants me to share what He showed me with respect to Honouring His Word…

There was a Prophetic Conference held recently in Christchurch, New Zealand…

My wife attended this conference…

I didn’t feel from the Lord to attend but one morning during the conference as I lay in bed the Lord gave me a vision…

This vision was New Zealand specific but I believe it has ramifications for the Church in all localities as the Lord brings Revival…

I saw a Church, it was as if I was seeing the heart of the Church, they were a Church who honoured the Lord’s Word (what He has said in scripture) – this means that they trembled at and respected His Word – they held what He said in scripture in honour…

They wanted to protect His Name, to honour His character…

They didn’t have all the gifts, they didn’t have all the frills, but they did – on the inside – in their hearts – honour His Word…

I saw the Holy Spirit fill and consume every Church in New Zealand who were standing in honour of His Word (as revealed in scripture)…

I literally saw them consumed – set on fire – and all of sudden – they were in Revival…

This will occur…

Then I saw other ‘churches’ who didn’t honour His Word – they may have had a lot on, they may have had hype and frills and excitement – but they didn’t honour His Word…

In an instant, I saw these ‘churches’ completely reduced to ashes…

All that was left was the black soot of the remainder of their foundation and the smoke rising from their ashes…

I saw the entire superstructure burnt to the ground in an instant of time, incinerated…

This was quite a sobering picture or vision for me…

I knew what the Lord was saying…

He will take those who have been faithful in their hearts with what they’ve been given and who have honoured Him in their lives – may not have been flashy or impressive – may not have been popular but they’ve been faithful and stayed true to Him – He will Baptise them with the Holy Spirit and with Fire and they will come to life and burn in this nation…

The others, who have an appearance of being alive but have strayed from their honour of His Word and sought experiences and feelings in place of allowing Him to bring them into submission to His Word – who have compromised His Word – these ‘churches’ will be removed by the Lord – He will spew them out of His Mouth…

He will not have their testimony blighting His Name…

Immediately I started seeing this vision or picture I was reminded of the word which the Lord gave Smith Wigglesworth which I quoted in full previously in Speak the Vision – I re-quote a part of that word again below…

When the new church phase is on the wane, there will be evidenced in the churches something that has not been seen before: a coming together of those with an emphasis on the Word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit.

When the word and the Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, indeed, the world has ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores, even the Wesleyan and the Welsh revivals of former years. The out pouring of God’s Spirit will flow over from the United Kingdom to the mainland of Europe, and from there will begin a missionary move to the ends of the earth.

(Smith Wigglesworth, 1947)

This word was for Great Britain and what I saw was for New Zealand…

What this says to me is that this is what the Lord will do worldwide…

In my previous post, The Future of the Church, I mentioned that the first thing which will occur in the future of the Church is that the individual Churches who will remain, will sit in silence waiting for the Lord to release His vision as to their continued existence, i.e. whether He wants them to continue existing and if He does what it is that He has planned for them to do, and then to continue to sit in silence (believing) waiting for Him to provide the finances necessary for them to pursue that vision…

Those ‘churches’ who will not remain will not do the above and will be removed by the Lord, their candlesticks will be ‘snuffed out’ by the Lord…

Either more and more and more people will leave these ‘churches’ disillusioned with the lack of genuinely Holy Spirit inspired life, freedom and vitality which they possess or the Lord will open up the eyes of those who belong to such organisations what is being practised in the darkness in these organisations, bringing everything hidden in the darkness to light…

As the Lord does this, people will leave these dying organisations seeking for the real thing and they will join those Churches who are seeking the Lord for His vision and waiting for His provision, in humility and meekness, in submission to the Lord…

As we wait, the Lord will speak to us about Indigenous Leadership…

I am a white male…

I was born in New Zealand to white parents…

My mother was born in Birkenhead, England to white parents…

My mother’s lineage is English…

She emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1950’s…

My father was born in Blenheim, New Zealand to white parents…

My father’s lineage is a mixture of Scottish and English…

On the inside, I feel like England is my home (my native soil)…

I’ve felt this for a number of years (it’s been a growing realisation for me)…

I believe that New Zealand is the home of Maori…

The Maori people have authority or power or mana in the land of Aotearoa (the land of the long white cloud)…

They were given this land by the Lord…

Paul tells us in Acts 17:26 that the Lord set the boundaries for the people and gave the different pieces of land all over the world to those whom He wanted to give them to…

and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, (Acts 17:26 NASB)

When the Maori stand up in New Zealand and speak the word of the Lord over this nation, this nation will be in Revival…

This is what we are waiting for, for unity among the various Maori tribes or iwi (including the Moriori who are just another Maori tribe who went to the Chatham Islands) and then a council of Maori elders who are in the Lord to stand up and welcome the Lord to possess and fill Aotearoa with His Long White Cloud of the Presence of the Holy Spirit…

The ministries which this council of Maori elders welcome to minister in New Zealand in the name of the Lord will be blessed and flourish in this nation but not without the blessing of these Maori elders, we need their invitation and they – in the sight of God – have rangatiratanga in this land, over the land…

Permission is required from these Maori elders, once they arise, to minister in this land, they are to be the spiritual gatekeepers of this land…

This is God’s Divine Order…

What have we seen instead of this?

The marginalization of Maori believers in New Zealand…

And yet we ask God for Revival?

How can there be Revival when the covenant which was made before God has not been honoured?  When Divine Order has not been executed?

The Lord’s blessing is released when brothers dwell together in unity…

Has this occurred within the Churches of New Zealand?

Paul went to Ephesus and set up a Church in Ephesus teaching the believers for three years and then set in place Indigenous Leadership before leaving…

This was the Apostolic pattern, go, preach, people get saved, baptised, baptised in the Holy Spirit, taught, elders are appointed to look after the people and the Apostolic team moves on and does it again in the next province or nation…

The Apostolic team didn’t settle down in the foreign territory and create a kingdom based around themselves…

They understood that the power came from the Indigenous People, the Tangata Whenua, having responsibility for the Spiritual Authority over their own land over the believers in their own land…

This is where the power comes from…

Who are the Tangata Whenua of Jerusalem?  To whom was Jerusalem given to by the Lord?  To the Jews…

Who are the Jews?  Well, the sign set above Jesus’ head as He died said, “The King of Jews” so we know that Jesus was a Jew and that the sign set above His Head was a true Prophetic Statement…

The Jews are all the physical descendants of Abraham, via Isaac and via Jacob, Jesus Himself was a descendant of Jacob’s son Judah as He was born of a Jewish mother via Mary…

Who therefore has true Spiritual Authority in Jerusalem?

Those physical descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel to whom Jerusalem and all the territory of Israel was given…

Were the ‘Ashkenazi Jews’, whom the Rothschild family identify themselves as being apart of, descended from one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel?

The Rothschild family paid for the establishment of the Knesset, the Parliament Buildings in Jerusalem where the Israeli Government sit and have a street heading up to the Knesset named after themselves, Rothschild Street…

But are the Rothschild family and are the ‘Ashkenazi Jews’ really Jews or are they actually usurpers of those who are really intended by the Lord to have spiritual authority over their land, i.e. the true physical descendants of the land?

We see that the native American Indians have had their place, their mana, their rangatiratanga, their turangawaewae, stolen from them by usurpers…

We also see that the Australian Aboriginals have had their place, their mana, their rangatiratanga, their turangawaewae, stolen from them by usurpers…

We also see that the New Zealand Maori have had their place, their mana, their rangatiratanga, their turangawaewae, stolen from them by usurpers…

What does this mean?

The Lord knows who He gave the lands to…

The Lord knows who He had in mind as being guardians of the individual boundaries which He set…

He knows…

And He will honour that authority…

It is those who have authority on their lands…

They have – in the spirit – the ability to welcome the Lord and the Lord’s people to minister life to those lands…

When usurpers are in control there is a false authority system in place and true authority cannot function…

There is no blessing…

So if we find ourselves as a foreigner residing in a land in which we are not the Tangata Whenua (the people of the land), what do we do?

We pray that the Lord will uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow all false authority systems in place in that land and then build and plant all true authority systems in that land under true Spirit-led Indigenous Leadership…

This is in line with the call of Jeremiah in scripture…

The Lord called Jeremiah to be a Prophet to the Nations, as such here was his Divinely given mandate…

Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:9-10 NIV)

This is the Lord’s intention in giving us this Prophetic Mantle…

False authority is not of the Lord, there is no blessing there…

The Lord’s blessing comes in unity and unity can only come when we all submit in our proper places under Divine Order…

There is order in Nations, there is order in the Church, there is order in Families, there is order even within our own individual beings…

All things must be done decently and in order, this is the command of scripture…

When we do this, i.e. line up with God’s word in surrender to His Holy Spirit with His Holy Spirit doing the work through us, then there is blessing released on ourselves, our Families, our Churches and our Nations…

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:13-19 NASB)

Peter was given a correct understanding of who Jesus was and for his true confession, he was rewarded with a true confession of who he was in the sight of God and what God would do through him and all after him who held the Apostolic office until the end of time…

God always gives back better than what He enables us to give Him… 🙂

I will build My Church…

This is the thought I want to focus on, the fact that Jesus will build His Church…

And the reality is that He will continue to do so until He comes to ‘pick us up’ in the air…

This being true, that Jesus will build His Church, means that we are not responsible to do this for Him…

Specifically, what this means is that we are not responsible to try and drum up enough financial support (from wherever) to make this happen…

What this means as Hudson Taylor said so many years ago in his quote below is that whatever the Lord needs to do He will provide for…

Depend on it.  God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.  He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

If the Lord hasn’t provided the financial provision for whatever it is that we believe He has told us that He will do, then we need to wait for that financial provision to be made available…

Waiting teaches us to go through that process of the Lord’s word being refined seven times…

The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. (Psalm 12:6 NASB)

After our waiting, we are even more convinced as to the depth and power of what the Lord has promised us…

There is a release of faith in which we experience the releasing of what has been spoken in heaven on earth…

The Apostolic office is the speaking of heaven’s decrees into reality on earth…

It’s not about speaking our will or our desires or our bright ideas into reality as the Lord will not honour these…

It is about becoming surrendered to His will and learning to hear and know (through testing) that what we’re hearing is His will and then the time will come where the Lord will speak that out of us with settled authority – whether it is binding (restraining) or loosing (releasing) – and we’ll know that this has happened in the spiritual atmosphere and will happen in the natural in His time…

But even then after all that, we still need to wait, to wait for the financial provision to be manifested in the natural – we can’t ‘move’ until this happens…

This is God’s final stamp of approval of what He’s told us…

If we wait quietly and don’t try and ‘grab’ on our own behalf what God has said He will provide but instead wait for Him to Supernaturally provide these things, this gives us the most joy before the Lord, in this place of peace we have authority to possess the result of what the Lord has said and His presence fills this and accomplishes the fulfilment of His word…

Turning this around to make it practical, there are many organisations in existence at the present time which would not exist if the above pattern (which I believe to be the Apostolic pattern) were being followed…

These organisations (which are often called churches) are not experiencing the Supernatural flow of heaven’s provision…

They exist based on the donations of those who belong to these organisations…

Some (if not a lot or all) of those donations are solicited from those who belong to those organisations based on fear…

If God owns everything and God has said that He will do something, can’t God do this Supernaturally thus giving His seal of approval to the word which He has (supposedly) spoken?

If God has not provided Supernaturally, then logically speaking that can only mean two things, either, (a) He didn’t say the thing which we believe He did or (b) He is testing us, testing our faith, in the waiting process, to see whether we’ll wait for Him to act (or die waiting) or whether we’ll take matters into our own hands (as the devil tempted Jesus to do in turning the stones into bread when Jesus hungered after His forty day fast) and take God’s place and provide for ourselves…

If we do take God’s place and provide for ourselves then we do not have God’s blessing on the work of our hands…

There is control in that place and the freedom of the Holy Spirit is not there…

The first step in the future of the Church is to come out of that system of control, that is, of financial control…

Only what comes freely from the heart, through the Holy Spirit giving us the generosity and joy to give from our hearts and instructing us to do so Himself without any control from any other source, is what should be given by any of us, then there is no regret…

I believe that no organisation (which calls itself the Lord’s) should request any support or any donations from any of its members to ensure its continued existence…

If it can’t exist with those of us who are leading it trusting the Lord directly to provide, then those of us who are leading those organisations should not be leading them, we should hand them over to those who have chosen to wait on the Lord to provide, or even more poignantly, we should seriously consider whether the organisation we are leading should continue to exist at all, considering before the Lord (and through scripture) whether the Lord has really spoken the vision which our organisation presently exists to execute…

If the only Churches which existed were Churches where the Lord had control of the vision – a.k.a it was His vision – and was providing financially for the fulfilment of that vision – then we would be seeing a true depiction of what Jesus prayed for in John 17 before He faced the cross (this is what we want to be seeing)… 🙂

If all other Churches, who were surrendered to the Lord’s vision for their existence, but haven’t yet received His financial provision, set ourselves to wait, as the one hundred and twenty did in the upper room, then this experience would remove the chaff from all of our lives as we learnt about how insidious our own human control is in all aspects of our lives which the Holy Spirit (in submission to scripture) does not yet have full control over…

This purging would then show us that truly we are, as Jesus said of the Laodicean Church, “wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Revelation 3:17b NASB) and coming to this position would place us in the position of submission to the Lord, of ceasing from our labours, our dead works, and would place us ready to receive Grace from the Lord… 🙂

Thank You Lord… 🙂

Amen, So let it be, release a new generation to stand in the victory of Your Name and let us stand until the very end until You come again to reign… 🙂

I’m sure I’ve shared this before but feel to share it again as the Lord has been putting this on my heart with greater clarity recently…

The Lord’s plan was to use the nation of Israel to bring His Salvation to the world, from Judea to Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth, as Jesus spoke before He returned to the Right Hand of the Father…

The Gentiles were not to be viewed anymore as unclean but holy (as per Peter’s vision), and the Jewish Church was to spread throughout the world encompassing all who believed, both Jew and Gentile as one new man (as Paul spoke in scripture)…

Jesus is Jewish, from the tribe of Judah, and when we believe in Jesus we are placed ‘in Christ’ and become ‘spiritual Jews’ and are grafted in to ‘the Israel of God’, the group of all saints from all time who have believed in Jesus…

The Church is and always will be a Jewish Church, all that preceded Jesus’s coming in scripture spoke of Him and what He either has now accomplished or will soon accomplish…

Where Israel is spoken of in the prophetic scriptures which still have a future fulfillment it is the above definition of Israel which is in God’s Mind as He is speaking…

When the Lord speaks in Isaiah 54 or Isaiah 45, for example, He is speaking to those who may be either Jewish or Gentile by blood, who are part of ‘the Israel of God’ spiritually, who will join with God by going “to the Jew first” (Romans 1:16) with the gospel, believing that this is the time of the restoration of Israel and believing that through the restoration of Israel the world will be saved (Romans 11)…

This is the grand plan of scripture, God choosing a nation, seeking for their salvation and through their salvation bringing salvation to the rest of the world…

God commenced this work with Abraham (while still a Gentile), made him a Jew (through the covenant of circumcision) and promised that through his Seed (Jesus) all the nations of the earth would be blessed and that his (spiritual) offspring would be as many as the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore…

Paul tells us in scripture that we are all children of Abraham by faith (Galatians 3:7)…

Thus, the Household of Faith is a Jewish house (with Gentile origins)…

See the balance?

How can God bless any ‘Gentile Church’ who neglects their Jewish roots by not going to the Jew first?

Romans 11 is so clear that it’s not going to be until the Jewish nation is restored to faith that the salvation of the world will occur…

Romans 11 is also clear that if the ‘Gentile Church’ neglects their responsibility to their Jewish roots that they, as wild olive branches, will be ‘cut off’…

When one suffers, all suffer…

Any mention of Revival which we hear about which is not (ultimately) focused on the salvation of the Jewish nation first, is not going to be blessed by God…

It is a counterfeit…

God’s focus is on the salvation of Israel, the physical nation, the blood nation, of Israel…

Once they are saved they will lead the greatest missionary effort which the world has ever seen resulting in the salvation of the world…

When I say that I am waiting, what I am saying is that I am waiting for the Lord to enable me to move in the above calling…

To align me to be able physically and practically to move in the above calling…

In my heart, I am surrendered to this calling and to make it my top priority until the nation of Israel is saved, the missionary explosion to the world is taking place and to continue to fan the flame of the salvation of Israel right until there is no more time, i.e. until Jesus returns…

“for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.” Matthew 10:23b NASB

This is what I want to live for…

I am in an incubation or waiting phase at this point in time, waiting to be released into this call…

Everything else I’m doing (in submission to the Holy Spirit) is focused on this objective, which I believe is surrendered to the will of God…

I believe the Lord has shown me my place in all this and that I am to wait for its fulfillment, for it can only be fulfilled by Him, in His timing, for His glory, for my good and for the good of everyone else who will come to know Him… 🙂

“I spoke to you previously Andrew, while you were in Manila, about trusting Me for your pleasure”…

“You have made the decision to do this and I am honouring this in your life”…

“You will grow in your ability, practically, to trust Me for your pleasure”…

“You have sat before Me and asked Me how it is that you can surrender more to be able to experience trusting Me for your pleasure as a way of life – to practically experience this in your life”…

“There is nothing that you can do to make this happen”…

“I am working it in you – there is nothing you can do to make it happen – I told you this on a separate occasion in Manila also – I am working everything together for My Glory”…

“When you judge others the judgement you have on others falls on you – do not judge”…

“Do not judge anyone – everyone that you have ever judged – repent – then you will be free”…

“No one is able to do any better than I enable them to do – this does not take away their responsibility for their actions, but you are not God – I am – and you cannot judge them for you do the same things – in other areas – yourself”…

“Stop judging others and you will be released from your sin – every sin – you will be released from it – they will all go as you stop judging others”…

“View others as you view yourself – forgive others as you forgive yourself”…

“Petition Me for others as you petition Me for yourself”…

“In unity, you will be established and the whole world will worship Me”, declares the Lord…

This blog post has been percolating through my mind for a few days maybe even weeks now as I’ve contemplated something which the Lord started to talk to me about back in 2012 relating to my own personal life…

It was something which He said about willingness which started this whole train of thought off and it’s been percolating in the background since but really been coming to the boil over the last few weeks and now to the point of sharing…

It’s not those who say they will journey with you and express that in beautiful tones, like music to your ears, but those who actually come and roll up their sleeves and do it, who we are to invest our lives in to ensure that they are successful in the call on their life…

Jesus told a similar parable in Matthew 21:28-32 (NASB),

“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’ And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went. The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?”They said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

There’s another couple of scriptures (in bold below) related to this which I never understood either which He’s just shone His light on over the last few days,

“Hear then the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away. And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.” Matthew 13:18-23 (NASB)

For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14 (NASB)

“These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.” Revelation 17:14 (NASB)

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17 (KJV)

There are different calls, there is a general call where the Lord has a plan for each and every persons’ life and if that person is willing to come to Him (‘whosoever will may come’) and then surrender to Him and continue to let Him take possession of them, then that call will become a complete reality in their lives…

In that sense, everyone is called…

Those who actually respond to that call, actually surrender to the Lord and actually continue to let Him take possession of them are the ‘called, chosen and faithful’…

Within the definition of ‘faithful’ I believe are the sub-groups of 30 fold, 60 fold, and 100 fold…

I believe that relates to how much of us the Lord manages to practically possess throughout our journey, the more of us the Lord manages to practically possess, the more fruitful we are…

It is possible to be ‘chosen’, i.e. given the gift of salvation, without being ‘faithful’, as 2 Timothy 2:13 indicates,

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

Also, as 1 Corinthians 5:5 states,

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

This is because anyone who joins himself to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him…

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17 (NASB)

So prophetically we see the future and see other people, specific people, with us in that future and believe that they will be with us and begin to invest time in prayer to see them with us, in unity with us, towards that future…

But then part-way through that process as we commit all that to the Lord, we begin to hear the Lord telling us something different, that, “Such and such is not willing to come” and that His plan that He’s already shown us prophetically, which had His stamp of approval, is no longer going to happen through them… 😦

This can be ‘soul-destroying’ for us as prophetic intercessors and can leave us questioning the integrity of God, questioning His reliability and questioning His honesty…

It also makes us double our efforts in praying for that particular person or people and petitioning God for Him to change His Mind but after we do this we get to a place where we see that this is not going to happen and we let go of what He initially told us and trust Him for the result…

This is where He explains to us, ‘whosoever will may come’…

Adam and Eve were meant to be together, the Lord provided all they needed…

Eve decided to leave Adam for the promise of the forbidden fruit…

Adam decided to leave God to stay with Eve…

The dream was ended…

Abraham told his servant the below,

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there. “But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there.” Genesis 24:7-8 (NASB)

So on the one hand, “you will take a wife for my son from there” but on the other hand, “if the woman is not willing… then you will be free…”…

Thus we see that the Lord can tell us that something will happen but if the other party isn’t willing then we are free in that instance, our faith and our believing were good but we are released…

This is a great freedom for the prophetic intercessor, otherwise, there is no release from the burden which we are carrying and we go ‘over and over and over’ with God petitioning and fighting with God (as Jacob did that night) to get what He originally told us was His plan to fulfill…

There’s something very powerful about the biblical principle of ‘in the loins of…’ in relation to this topic…

And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. Hebrews 7:9-10 (NASB)

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:29 (NASB)

Because the gifts and the calling of God – the thing He wants doing and the ability to get it done – are irrevocable and because God’s word doesn’t return to Him void but achieves everything for which He sent it, it is possible for the call on one person’s life, when rejected by that person (due to their lack of action in accepting it, no matter what they say with their mouth), to pass on down to the next person on God’s list, and down and down and down until God finds someone who is practically willing to fulfill that call and give themselves fully to Him for Him to work that call through them, Amen? 🙂

This should be really encouraging for us as prophetic intercessors…

Elijah was told that he would do three things by God after he fled from Jezebel but in reality, the first and second of those three things, ie. anointing Hazael as king of Syria and Jehu as king of Israel, Elijah never personally completed…

Elisha, his successor completed the Hazael task and we read that Elisha delegated the Jehu task to one of the sons of the prophets, who completed that task…

Thus Elijah’s task (or call) was delegated to Elisha…

Moses task (or call) was delegated to Joshua…

Peter’s task (or call) as Apostle to the Gentiles was delegated to Paul…

There we have examples of God getting His word (His vision or purpose) fulfilled, through whoever was willing…

The same is true today with the Apostolic Mantle which I believe proceeds down from generation to generation waiting for someone to take it up – Jesus’ final words to us before He went back to heaven about ‘discipling the nations’, ‘baptizing the nations’ and ‘teaching the nations to observe all that He commanded us’…

That Apostolic Anointing is still available today – David replaced Saul – David was willing to ‘serve God’s purpose in his generation’ (Acts 13:36) – where the word ‘served’ means literally like a rower on a ship (most likely a galley slave would have been the meaning in view there)…

The Lord tells us in Daniel 4:17 (NASB) that He gives His authority ‘to the lowliest of men’…

The ‘lowliest of men’ are those people who are willing to submit themselves to the Lord and trust that He will do everything in them – not to strive to prove that they can do it but to trust that God will do it through them – this is true humility and the absence of pride…

So God waits to be gracious to us…

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. Isaiah 30:18 (NASB)

Even if we’ve been the son who first refused but afterward went and actually did it, the thing his father wanted him to do, this delights the heart of God, until our heart is set on being forever unwilling to come to the Lord to fulfill His will (His call) on our lives, I believe the door is always open from the Lord to use us in whatever way He still can while we remain on earth…

It might be that we are the pot which was marred in the Potter’s Hand (Jeremiah 18:4), but even so He will still make something beautiful out of the remainder of our lives when we come back to Him in repentance for our unwillingness – it might be that we don’t complete the initial call which He had on our lives – but then it might be that we complete the unfinished portions of a call which was on someone else’s life…

It is true that we need to ‘Seek the Lord while He may be found’ (Isaiah 55:6a NASB) and in my experience in praying for certain ones there have been times where the Lord has shown me that the time given for a certain one to be willing to surrender to Him and to accept the call that He has placed on their lives has come to an end and that what He had planned will no longer occur…

I wondered about this and the Lord explained it to me in this way – none of us are islands – our lives and our willingness to submit to the Lord affect other people, we have ‘flow on’ or ‘ripple’ effects on others…

If someone else in our sphere of influence who needs our input is willing to ‘go on’ with God but we are not then for their sake the Lord needs to bring others into their lives to fulfill those things which we have not been able to due to our unwillingness to submit to the Lord…

The surrendered one cannot suffer (long-term, in the short term there is suffering) for the lack of surrender of the unwilling one – as ‘no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly’ (Psalm 84:11b NASB)…

At the end of the day – everything God does is good – so whatever part we can play with Him is a blessing to us and reveals His Character to us – He gets done what He needs to get done through whoever is willing and available at any point in time on His earth…

It is our privilege to partner with Him in this… 🙂

“All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’ Daniel 4:35 (NASB)

As per my post on our Transparency Group website ‘The Church…’ I have it on my heart to start a church here in Christ’s Church, New Zealand called ‘Transparency Church’… 🙂

A church which is very much what I described in the above article…

A transparent church (I believe transparency is the armour of light) where those involved, are honest with themselves and everyone else involved about how ‘non-perfect’ they are and instead of focusing on eliminating their ‘imperfections’ (a negative focus) focus on allowing Jesus to live through their new selves more and more and more (a positive focus) in line with John 3:34, 1 John 1:7 and Romans 13:12…

Where we allow each other to grow at the pace which the Lord provides for each one, where there is no condemnation and no pushing but all who hold to ‘Our Values…’ (which are basically identical to the values I’ve shared, for our company), share ‘Our Vision…’, don’t have any opposition to ‘The Call…’, who know the Lord (or want to get to know the Lord) can be involved, in a non-threatening environment where they don’t have to pay anything to be involved (in keeping with 2 Corinthians 9:7)… 🙂

Initially, I will be the ‘Growth Facilitator’ and our key scriptures (or triple tagline) will be ‘Your banner over us is love’ (taken from Song of Solomon 2:4), ‘You who began a good work in us will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus’ (taken from Philippians 1:6) and finally, because of this, ‘We will grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’ (taken from 2 Peter 3:18)…

There won’t be any pattern or formula which we will follow in our meetings together, or any pre-planned agenda, we’ll just endeavour to give the Holy Spirit room to do whatever He wants to when we get together in line with Romans 8:14, 2 Corinthians 3:17 and 1 Thessalonians 5:19…

We believe in everyone being released to take part in our meetings together, in submission to the Holy Spirit and the scripture with everything being done decently and in order in line with 1 Corinthians 14:40 under His leading for the Glory of Jesus and God the Father… 🙂

We believe that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God, we believe that They love all people, we believe that all people have turned away from God and gone their own way, we believe that Jesus came to earth as God and as Man, lived a perfect life, sacrificed himself on the cross, became sin for us, shed His Blood, shed His Water, experienced God’s Wrath and gave up His spirit (i.e. physically died) on behalf of all people so that all people could look to Him (Jesus) and be saved, we believe that He rose bodily from the dead on the third day in the power of the Holy Spirit and that He ascended to heaven and now sits at the Right Hand of God the Father making intercession for all who believe in Him…

We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus and His Finished Work, which is a gift from God not by works so that no one can boast, we also believe in water baptism as a symbol of what God did when He saved us in crucifying us with Christ and causing us to be born again, giving us a new heart, a new spirit and a righteous soul by which He enabled us to believe in Him unto salvation, we also believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of Fire to prepare and purify us for His service…

We believe that the purpose of the Church is to build ourselves up in our most holy faith (Jude 1:20) and to radiate Christ Jesus to all the peoples of the world (Matthew 5:14) showing them and each other His likeness in everything we do – this is a demonstration of the Manifold Wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities in the spiritual realm (Ephesians 3:10) – and shows to all of heaven His imminent right to rule and reign on the earth (Romans 15:12)…

If this – the creation of Transparency Church here in Christchurch, New Zealand – is of the Lord then He will provide us somewhere to meet (either gifted to us without us asking anyone for it or paid for by our company or a mixture of both) and also provide at least 7 founding (over the age of 21) members (of whom I will be one, so 6 more founding members) who share the same vision and values, have a desire to become a house of prayer for all nations and want to allow the Lord to work with them to shine the light of His love and salvation out to the entire world so that every nation will see it and be saved before His return in line with Matthew 24:14, Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 13:19, Joel 2:28-29 and Isaiah 9:6-7…

This post is really just a statement of intent that Lord willing will become a reality in the Lord’s time in the days to come, here in Christ’s Church, New Zealand, within The Great Southland of the Holy Spirit & The Pacific Ring of Fire Region… 🙂

My pleasure is experiencing Jesus living through my soul…

I had just gotten back from one of my weekday runs and was getting ready for the shower when this thought started to form as words in my mind…

Back in March 2010, the Lord whispered these words to me, “You have not been trusting Me for your pleasure”….

Those words broke me, what He said so non-condemningly to me was the absolute truth but His words came to me in absolute heartfelt sincerity filled with genuineness and love (there was absolutely no pressure put on me and I felt His protection around me – like He really cared)  – I love the way the Lord gets through to us…

I had been thinking about those words before my run tonight and when I got back I got these new words which really answered everything for me…

Even if I’m drowning in lava or being eaten by piranhas or any other tragic situation, whether I’m blind or deaf or unable to verbally communicate (mute), whether I’m able to relate to any other person or not, whether I have a job, a house, a car, a place to sleep, whether I have food to eat or pineapple juice to drink – nothing can change my pleasure…

Experiencing Jesus living through my soul is something which I can experience every moment of every day and I don’t have to try and stay up late to squeeze in more time with Jesus because, “He gives to His beloved sleep” as the scripture tells us, so I can rest in Him and let Him do the living through me…

I’m just seeing this tonight, I’ve definitely had other pleasures but I believe I’ve now seen the way forward…

Thank You Lord… 🙂

My pleasure is experiencing Jesus living through my soul…