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It’s so important to be reminded that we don’t have to commit intellectual suicide to be a Christian. This Easter Sunday, Tim takes us through some of the facts and data surrounding Jesus’ life and death, and the sheer weight of fulfilled Old Testament prophecy, and Jesus’ claims - that completely rules out Him being simply a good moral teacher. Tim ends with a fresh call to respond to Jesus, and...

The last message focussed on the “raise the army” part. Today we focus on the imperative to “set the table” - to create an atmosphere that is welcoming, loving, and healing, so that broken people can come, fall apart, and be loved back to life. Loving well requires a healed heart. My ability to love someone says more about me than the other person. And, love always takes the initiative - because H...

We are in a transition season, and what we have known in the past is no longer sufficient for where God is taking us. Israel faced this transition after they crossed the Jordan. They moved from a season characterised by “coming out” to a new season of “going in” - taking the land that God had promised them. This was an entirely new operating system. As we finish laying the foundation for 2023 at i...

Remnant seasons are a time where there is a focused purifying - often following some kind of correction from God. Not all of the people of God can handle the correction, and many grow weary and lose heart. Tim and Debbie describe the season we are in, looking at Hebrews 12 and Acts 3. God has been working to bring His people back to what it is really all about, and is calling us to a new level of...

Tim kicks off 2023, anchoring in Deuteronomy 1, where Moses is recounting to Israel their journey so far. They were at a place that God has bought them to in a mighty way… and where they could no longer stay. Israel had come out of Egypt, but not yet gone in to take possession of all that was promised. This is a picture of where the church is at. We can no longer stay where we are. His glory has c...

Too often, we achieve a breakthrough - a deliverance, a moment of freedom - and we think the work is done. In fact, that’s when the work begins. Jesus taught that when a demon leaves it goes looking for somewhere to rest, and then attempts to return to where it was cast out from. As the people of God we need to become good at occupying territory after the breakthrough - that is, filling the space...

Deliverance has been on the rise. Breakthrough is increasing, and we’re coming out of a season where we have been shut down and silenced. This week went very different to plan, and that’s ok. Tim was going to teach on how to occupy territory that’s been conquered - i.e. what to do after the deliverance has happened. More on that next time. It seems there was more breakthrough needed in the room, s...

This is the 3rd in this short series on The Spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 40 describes in part the spirit of Elijah, prophetically declaring the ministry of John the Baptist, who we know came in the spirit of Elijah. What preceded the spirit of Elijah was “comfort My people”. We have been through an extended traumatic season, and it’s easy to miss its impact, as it is something that has happened to eve...

God wants to return to us His normal for us, which is double portion. God woke Debbie in the middle of the night and said clearly, “Disengagement has to go!” The disengagement has been a trauma response to the COVID season, and God is bringing His people back. To fully receive the double portion He has for us, we have to re-engage with His apostolic call - that which He has sent us to do.

This is part 2 of 2 messages on the spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 61 shows us what the anointing that was on Jesus will do. It will heal broken hearts and set people free. But it doesn’t stop there. Isaiah 61 goes on to tell us what those who were once broken hearted - and now healed - will do. They will disrupt, heal and restore generational cycles and patterns of dysfunction and brokenness. We need h...

The spirit that was on Elijah was not only that of prophet. Malachi 4 tells us that the “spirit and power of Elijah” will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. John The Baptist came in that spirit to “prepare the way of the Lord”. This anointing to heal hearts and heal families precedes the full ministry of Jesus. As we are sent out to heal broken hearts w...

Four words that are significant right now - chaos, Emmaus, eramos, osmosis. Vaughan Blackwood reminds us that in the plethora of distractions, we MUST find the quiet place to be with The Father so that we can walk into the chaos of the world empowered to make a difference and be an agent of transformation.

Tim continues to speak on the two giants in the land of Kingdom breakthrough and heaven being fully manifested on earth … those being unbelief and orphanitis, Paul said to the Corinthians, “you have ten thouand teachers in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers”. Paul points to this as being the reason they are still stuck in immaturity. In our call to “grow up into Him” (Eph 4) we MUST shift fr...

As the church, we are commissioned to bring heaven to earth - to see the reality of heaven tangibly manifested in the earth realm. There are two key giants in our way at the moment - unbelief, and orphanitis. Today, Tim focuses on unbelief, and specifically our role as individuals to grow into a place of faith. When it comes to faith, size matters, and is a factor that makes a difference in our ab...

One of the primary ways Jesus demonstrated the Kingdom was through healing and deliverance. Healing is not an added extra - a bonus. It’s in the atonement. Tim looks at three key truths about the ministry of physical healing, mixing teaching with stories and testimonies of different ways that healing has come. The onus is on us to learn and understand how the Kingdom of God operates. We also need...

Like earth has the law of gravity, the Kingdom of God has “laws” by which it operates. If we are not seeing what Scripture promises manifested in our life, chances are we haven’t fully grasped how His kingdom works. One such “law” is the law of sowing and reaping. Sometimes we are not reaping what we want because we haven’t taken God at His word and applied faith to what we sow. Sometimes we are r...

It’s Mothers’ Day, and a great day to talk about one of the fundamentals of the culture of heaven - honour. Scripture says to “honour your father and mother that it may go well with you…” There is a sowing and reaping that happens around this particular area of honour. If things are not going well for you, there’s a chance that you have sowed dishonour somewhere, and you are now reaping from that....

Paul said to the Corinthians, “…we are not ignorant of the devil’s devices,” and he said to the Ephesians, “…put on the full armour of God so you can stand against the devil’s schemes.” What the enemy is doing is not our focus, and at the same time, we can’t be ignorant of what he is up to. Right now, the enemy wants us overwhelmed, and to dissociate/check-out as a protection against all that’s ha...

Our measures of church “success” in the western world are a bit messed up. When Paul prayed for the churches he fathered, he prayed different things to what we typically pray. Tim builds on previous weeks to bring clarity to where we are going as an i61 family, and what we are working to build. He unpacks the five core “discipleship pillars” that underpin everything we do.

Over the past 2 years, fear seems to have become a normal part of our lives, yet it is not a normal part of the Kingdom life. Tim opens up Isaiah 60 and 2 Timothy 1:7. In the context of “deep darkness covers the earth…”, we are called to arise and shine. Fear becoming familiar in this past season wars against what we are called to. Love, power, and a sound mind are in direct opposition to what is...

In our first corporate gathering for 2022, Tim opens up our core Scripture - Isaiah 61 - to remind us of the calling on us as a house, and set our calling in the context of a global strategic prophetic word from Chris Reed from Morningstar, and explained by Mike Bickle from IHOP Kansas City. We have been divinely positioned and prepared “for such as time as this”. Tim calls us to be bold in asking...

Unbelief is not “the lack of faith”. It is a substance - a weed growing in our garden. When Jesus healed the boy with the mute spirit in Mark 9, the boy’s father said, “I believe. Help my unbelief.” He had two trees growing in his garden. One that believed Jesus, and one that battled to. When we have “stuff” in our life that is less than what scripture promises, it is evidence that more than one t...

It’s not hard for a global event of COVID-19’s magnitude to throw us off centre a bit. There has been grace for that. Now the season is turning. It’s time to stop thinking just about survival and start thinking about advancement. Tim reminds us that there is a kind of faith that attracts the realm of heaven to our situation. It’s time to start building that kind of faith and re-orient ourselves ba...

There is so much opportunity to be offended right now. So much division in the air. So easy to judge those who see things differently to us. Yet, we have been given a mission to show the world what love really is. Tim exhorts us to continue to grow in mature love. If we can only love those we agree with, the problem is us rather than them. In a world that is deeply divided, God want us to be famou...

We are in unusual times, and it is so easy to get pre-occupied with everything that is going on around us - what the government is doing, whether people are vaccinating, masking, cooperating, protesting, and so on the list goes. John chapter 5 gives us some keys to stay away from victim thinking, to stay powerful, and to cooperate with what The Father is doing in this time to build His Kingdom.