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We looked at the new season & era we are entering into this week with the New Hebrew Year 5780 ‘Pey’ the mouth. We also looked at what our ‘asks’ are. We explored whether we are ‘settling’ for just enough or are we asking with boldness for our big & possibly scary dreams & desires. We gave our disappointments & fear of Rejection to Jesus & chose to trust Him with our big ask which we then shared w...

In part 2 of this series on faith, Debbie looks deeper into the process of how faith forms in us. Then, it’s no good having faith if we don’t put it to work - i.e. use it! Debbie looks at how we use, or release our faith, giving some real life examples of the faith process in action, so that faith is turned into reality.

Deb unpacks part one of a message on faith. What is faith? God chooses to invade the earth through spirit-filled men and women. This is why faith is important in the Kingdom. Deb looks at the nature of faith and some of the barriers to our asking.

Tim brings together two prophetic words given in the past two weeks that were on an identical theme. God is releasing waves of healing, and is inviting us to ask Him for what we want - especially calling back that which has been stolen from us.

Our dear friend Chris McRae, Senior Leader of Overflow Church Medowie unpacks 3 key truths of the voice of The Shepherd from John 10.

The Great Commission is to make disciples OF nations, not make disciples IN nations. While we have been busy in church, others with a different agenda are being really smart about shaping culture in the vacuum we have left. Tim looks at what our responsibility is as the people of God, how we go about fulfilling it, and where the heart journey fits into it all.

Tim continues where Vaughan left off last week, talking about the power of covenant. Covenant is the highest form of human relationship, and God is a covenantal God. Tim explores the nature of covenant relationships, looking at Ruth and Naomi, and David and Jonathan. We need to understand that Biblically, all fruitfulness flows from covenant. Walking in true covenant relationship opens the door to...

Following on from last week, Vaughan Blackwood helps us explore Jesus’ praying in John 17, looking at the critical relationships Jesus prayed into, and the fruitfulness that comes from them, and the role spiritual mothering and fathering plays in it all.

It was one of those weeks where multiple praying people shared the same prophetic words and themes with us. The theme was… at the end of the financial year, God wants to break financial constriction off us. That constriction is part of the spirit of the air, and Tim speaks into how to come out of alignment with a constricting financial spirit, and how to bring our financial world into alignment wi...

This week was more of a corporate ministry time that a message. Tim speaks again into how the “spirit of the air” operates in our region - by relegating our Kingdom activity to something we do on the side - and how to make ourselves immune to its creeping influence, by “fanning into flame the gift of God that is within us.”

Tim wraps up (we think) this series on the Ekklesia, bringing together the key concepts from the series, and reinforcing that the heart journey is at the core of heaven’s blueprint for the church. The early chapters of Acts are the closest in time to Jesus stating the He will build His Ekklesia. We know they manifested heaven’s blueprint because cities were transformed. Heaven’s blueprint was deep...

Sandra Sellmer-Kersten travels and teaches extensively with Elijah House Ministries, and is a world-leading minister of freedom and inner healing. Sandra brings a powerful prophetic message to i61… Pray that your arms may be enlarged so that you may wrap them around people’s pain and bring His comfort and healing.

If our churches are growing, while the social statistics in our cities are worsening, something is wrong with the blueprint from which we are building churches. The Ekklesia that Jesus instituted turned the known world upside down, and it impacted all of society, not just the church meeting. Tim gives most of this message to a documentary by Ed Silvoso on the transformation in the city of Ciudad J...

In a key strategic word for i61, Deb and Tim Ferris, and Megan Edward tag team in exploring the fact that we have authority in the earth realm to legislate through acts of justice, and in the heavenly realm through our authority to bind and loose. In our region, the python spirit has been a key atmospheric stronghold. The team looked at the symptoms of this spirit’s operation, and lead in ministry...

Steve Frost continues our series on the Ekklesia. Jesus’ design and intention for his church, revealed in the word He chose to describe it, was a group of people called out of their homes into the public square to act and make decisions for the welfare of their city. He didn’t have in mind a group of people doing religious activity. His heart is a family that loves well, and practically enacts tha...

Steve continues our exploration of what it means to be the kind of church Jesus intended, looking at the importance of justice, mercy and faith. As the church, we’re not called out from the world; we’re called out in the world + for the world - to engage in the secret economy of the giving + receiving of love.

Tim continues the series on the Ekklesia. What Jesus had in mind when He said He would build His ekklesia was different to the church we see today. His ekklesia turned the world upside down in a relatively short period of time. The early church’s statisticss were far superior to what we see in the Western world. His blueprint for the ekklesia sees us discipling nations into being “sheep nations” w...

When Jesus introduced us to the church for the first time, He used a term that was not from any of the religious language of the day, and told us what He would build would advance against the enemy in an unstoppable way. Many of us have had painful experiences with Christ’s Body, the church, and yet, Jesus has not changed His plan. Tim finishes with a prophetic call to be reconciled with the Bride...

Deb talks about why our authority and our partnership with the Father is so important in prayer. The principles of agreement, faith and the authority we have over the earth realm were God’s idea set up from Genesis 1 and when we partner with Him, with a Heaven to earth perspective, our corporate prayers can bring regional transformation.

1 Tim 2 gives a strategy from seeing heaven released around us that is so simple and practical that we often miss it. We have a responsibility to pray for our civic leaders in such a way that it changes the atmosphere in which they make critical decisions. On the day after the NSW Election, we pray for our new government and elected members.

Tim spends some time interviewing Paul Green MLC - member of the NSW Legislative Council for the Christian Democratic Party - ahead of the NSW State Election on 23rd March. In a wide-ranging conversation, Paul lets us in on the significance of having Christian values and principles represented in government, and shows us just how different the landscape would be in our state if the CDP wasn’t ther...

We have all been uniquely designed by The Father and wired to take specific territory on earth. But, there’s giants in the territory, so we must understand that, in the process of taking ground, we will encounter resistance. Tim unpacks the nature of the battle in the heavenly realms, and some keys to being victorious in the battle.

Tim takes some time to cover a key foundation - the heaven to earth paradigm. Taking ground means making the situations in front of us look like heaven’s reality. Prayer is less about a spiritual discipline or routine, and more about seeing what God is already doing, and seeing our situation from heaven’s perspective then declaring what we see.