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The Empowering Word Of God: God’s great gift to humanity, the word of God, the Bible, can empower your life today. It was and has been paid for with the blood of the Martyrs and has come to us at great cost. Faith and belief in God through the person of Jesus Christ is imparted when we receive the implanted word. The word of God is living and powerful and has the ability to read us before we read...

Expecting To Receive Something. Peter and John, walking by a man lame from birth and unable to walk for over forty years, got their attention, expecting to receive something. As believers, who can refute that God is sovereign? Yet when our faith and prayer connect with God, heavenly interventions not only happen, but are inevitable and common. Have we been conditioned in any way, that our answers...

Meekness: Evangelist Dylan Oakley With only days before David was to ascend to the throne of Israel, one of his severest times of testing at Ziklag was thrust upon him. How would he respond? And would he in fact, survive? Joseph was brought forth as a deliverer and prime minister to Egypt, only after the word of the Lord tested him. His calling taunted him while behind prison bars, for yet another...

100 Good Men. Give me one hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or layman, they alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven upon the earth. John Wesley  

Follow Me And I Will Make You Jesus said in Matthew 4:17 "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men" This is an enormous promise from Jesus "Follow Me and I will make you" God is no respecter of persons, and this promise was not just for Peter and Andrew, but for any disciple of Jesus who would truly follow Him. If you feel you don't make the grade, you are in good company. None of us do. Why?...

Arise, Call Upon Your God The prophet Jonah, running from his divine mission to bring a warning of judgment to the city of Nineveh, fled. He went down to Joppa, then down into a ship. He further went down to the lowest part of the ship and went to sleep. Having been thrown overboard, he then went down into the belly of a fish, which took him down to the very depths of the ocean floor. When our liv...

If God Is For Us Then Who Can Be Against Us? Paul encourages the Roman Church in his writings throughout Chapter 8 that “God is for us!”  He has invested every part of His being into us. The Father demonstrated His love by giving us His Son. Jesus died that we might live and now both Jesus and the Holy Spirit make intercession for us. Every intent and every facet of God for your life “is for your...

My Eggs Are All In One Basket Putting all your eggs in one basket is someone who puts all their effort and resources into one thing. The world will advise that we diversify and cover many bases and spread the risk. Hedging your bets is the gambler who places the each way bet. When it comes to eternal life, many have shipwrecked their eternal destiny by placing their faith in a multiplicity of beli...

The Secret Place In the middle of the “Sermon on the Mount", Jesus said to the multitudes to go into their room, shut the door and pray to the Father in the Secret Place. Also central to the Christian life, is our relationship with God through prayer. Praying through doubt, unbelief and fear, until the breakthrough and assurance comes, will require us to shut out the world, and to be shut in with...

Crucified With Christ. In the latter times, the bible speaks of a period of lawlessness and a great falling away from the faith. We are observing increase in opposition to the church as demonic influences flex their muscle. The Lord has in times past, and will always have, a faithful remnant through whom His power and purpose will be wielded. These days are not dissimilar to those of the early chu...

Tithing I am excited to bring you today what God’s word has to say about tithes, offerings and Christian stewardship. When understanding and revelation comes on how God wants us to handle His money, His resources and His increase to your life, many people will be released into His provision.   God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, but many believers still live as vegetarians, because we have no...

Believe Do you yearn for the days when everything seemed so much simpler? We now have the bigger home, car, mortgage and bells and whistles. These have been added year by year to our lives; only to realise that in most aspects of our lives, less is best. This same principal applies also to our christian walk with God. Come back to our first love and only believe. The apostle John in his gospel nev...

Born Again. What’s next? Thousands of people throughout Australia every week respond to the altar call for salvation. They repent of their sin, ask for forgiveness, invite Jesus into their heart and lives, and ask the Holy Spirit to fill their very being. When that heart felt prayer is prayed, a person becomes born again, born from above, born of God or born of the Spirit. What next? This is where...

The Love Of Christ Compels Us What moves, drives, inspires, motivates, masters or rules us? Does fear, fame or fortune? Or the bibles list of the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh or the pride of life? All of these can be the relentless driving influences and compulsions that urge people on. The apostle Paul, enduring a list of horrendous hardships while fulfilling his life's calling, never succ...

Jump in the Jordan and do it 7 times! So many of us are believing and expecting great things from God. Naaman the Syrian army commander, a leper, came to Elisha the prophet for healing. The man of prestige, power and position, came also with silver and gold. None of these impressed Elisha who sent his servant to the proud military commander and said, “Go jump in the Jordon and do it seven times.” ...

Mountain Moving Prevailing Prayer Do you need a mountain moved, a valley raised up, or a crooked road made straight? Then this message is for you. The patriarch Jacob returning from a twenty-year exile, with a dysfunctional family, sibling rivalry and a death threat, was greatly afraid, distressed, and alone with God. The Lords promise to Jacob was “I will be with you.” Wrestling with God before t...

Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus. Separating this fallen world from God and His glory is this blight upon humanity called sin. Man’s predisposition and default mode is one of sin, and all self-efforts are futile in our efforts to overcome sin and its consequences. We can kick, fight, butt and even bite against sin, but all these are but human effort and will inevitably fail. There is however one age...

He Will Carry You If, when you and I were enemies of the cross and haters of all that was God and good, that God did not withhold His best and gave His Son Jesus for us; how much more so, will He now give us all things to those who are children of God. Christ bore and carried the cross as well as our sin, sickness and disease, and you can trust Him today to carry you through whatever you may face...

70th Wedding Anniversary Vow: Behold The Bridegroom Comes. Warren And Mina Saxen’s 70th renewal of Marriage vows was a very rare and special occasion and an amazing milestone for all to celebrate. Hear from Warren himself the key to sustaining a beautiful and love filled marriage and life. The ancient Jewish betrothal and marriage ceremony is used in the word of God to demonstrate Jesus relationsh...

The Favour Of The Lord The Psalmist wrote in Psalm 103 To Bless the Lord and to forget not all His benefits. God is the one who forgives, heals, redeems, crowns your life and satisfies your mouth with good things. God’s ability to remember His promises can only be matched by our propensity to forget God and His benefits towards us. His promise to the children of Israel, that they would not only po...

Faith Fit For Purpose:   Throughout the bible are people who exemplified an astounding belief in God. Through them, God was able to do amazing and mighty deeds that defied their situation, and any adversity, and against the odds, came through victorious. Living a life of great faith is a learned behaviour. Elijah was described as a man with a nature like ours. What God has done for one He will do...

Keeping The Faith Ignited A knife needs to be constantly sharpened and resharpened so that it doesn’t lose its edge. A dull knife requires more effort, and injuries are more frequent as a result. In the same way surveying instrumentation periodically needs to be adjusted and readjusted to maintain accuracy in its function. They say it needs recalibration. Likewise, our faith too can become dull. A...

The parable of the sower tells us that the seed is the word of God. The success of the word which is described in scripture as incorruptible does not depend on the seed which is perfect, faultless and pure; but totally on the soil in which it is planted. Hearing with a noble and good heart and holding on to that word will ensure the blessing for which it was intended. As believers in Christ we are...