The Father we never knew

The gospel is not the promise of the dawn, it is the dawn rising on the darkness. It is not the promise of glory that dispels the darkness, it is the present glory in us, that dispels the present darkness in the world and that is why right now, when the world has never seemed such a dark place, has never been so blinded and deafened by man-made light and sound, this is not the hour for the Church...

Until you know your true worth to God, you cannot say you know who you are.

"I" can never be like God, because God is not an "I".

Countless believers have deferred their hope of salvation to a place one day, rather than a life today. Better days are always coming, but never seem to arrive. To know God as your father today, is to know today the life of His son, the life that is content in all situations, the life that no longer looks at circumstances to see if God is still my father or not.

Man-made religion can only present us with a god like us; a god who is never satisfied.

"God’s not asking you to make your life new, by leaving your past behind, because in Christ, He has already left your past behind! "

"The best the voice of a manager can do, is tell you who you could become. Only the voice of a Father, can tell you who you are. We have 10,000 managers, but not many fathers!"

When you are full of the Spirit of Him who is no longer counting people’s sins against them, you will no longer count their sins against them

"So then, no one is to be boasting in people. For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.' 1Cor 3:21-23

f the Gospel your heart has believed has not astonished you, then it was not violent enough to shake the foundation of your old mindset; I. If the foundations of our captivity are not shaken, then there is no lasting freedom. The life you are believing in, is the life you are living.

Jesus lived in the IS of the eternal life of the Father, Son and Spirit and from there, He called men and women out of the darkness of religion, the world where everything is becoming but nothing is, into this eternal life, this eternal IS, where you are who you are by the grace of God. That is the Christian life, the Christ life.

He never had a plan to save the world through our obedience. His plan was to save the world through His love

God is not expecting people to come up with repentance and faith in Christ ‘by themselves’, because ‘by themselves’ is the very condition that they are perishing from.

What would that look like, if we gave the same grace to the stranger, as we do to our own children.

The Gospel is not good advice, it is good news and there is a profound difference between the two. • Good News is the news of something that has already happened, that benefits me. • Good advice can only be about something that hasn’t happened yet, but might happen, ….if I follow the advice. Can you see then, that • good news leaves your attention on what was done for you, but • good advice leaves...

"Hear the voice of the Spirit, to a church waiting for a better day. Do not receive the grace of God in vain, for I heard you. I helped you and I tell you, “now is the time of God's favour, now is the day of salvation. (2Cor 6:2). The Kingdom of God only manifests on this earth, when God’s people operate by the knowledge of what NOW IS, not the knowledge of what MIGHT BE. For the Kingdom of the So...

"Don’t let some fiery passionate preacher on repentance, simply lead you back to eat of the self-effort tree, rather than to partake of the Tree of life. How do you know if that is what has been happening in your life? No matter how many times you hear the Gospel, you can’t seem to help hearing it as good advice, not good news."

"Doing all the right things is not the way into the right life; God’s life for you. Such a belief has left many people very religious all their lives and yet they have ended up bitter and alone because their faith was actually in what they were doing for God, rather than in what He had done for them. They had been living on good advice, not good news. One is earthly food and the other heavenly foo...

Without a revelation, that we are the habitation OF God, we will always be waiting for a visitation FROM God. When you cannot see what God has done, you will spend your life grasping for something better. Here is the Gospel. There is nothing better, than Christ in you, the hope of glory. To see that we have already been blessed in the spiritual realm with every spiritual blessing in Christ, brings...

Faith, the capacity, to live from our union with Him, comes by hearing this gospel, (that’s Rom 10:17 ‘faith comes by hearing’) so what are you hearing and so believing about you and Him? • Is it the unchanging, eternal, timeless Gospel, a message that never changes in any year, because it points to Him who never changes and the sufficiency of His work? • Or is it a message that seems to change ev...

"What is the Gospel? If believers are living shrunken lives, it is for one reason and one reason only. Honey, we shrunk the gospel.! And when you shrink the gospel, you shrink the kids.

"God is not good to you because you are good. He is good to you because He is good and to be persuaded of just how good He is, is to be set free from the self-centred religious life that can never please God, for He has always known, what so many of us are only now glimpsing for the first time; the self-life can only ever produce a self-ish life."

"If you, then God" is a message for a people who are waiting for God to do something. Here is the Gospel. God did something and He didn’t do it in response to your goodness!

You may think your greatest need right now, with so many strong opinions flying around, is to know who is right and who is wrong, that you may choose the right side of an argument. But we all have a greater need than to know the right thing to do. We need to know the heart of Him, who went to the Cross, not so that He would be right, but so that we, who were his enemies, could be right.

Ministry, wasn't where Jesus got His name from. To come out of the desert knowing your name, is to come out in the power of the Spirit.