The Father we never knew

A hope on yourself, is not a strong enough hope to get drunk on. All we do when we water down the Gospel of God’s grace, is leave men thirsty enough to go looking elsewhere for a drink. Never tell anyone they need more faith. Give them the Gospel that brings faith.

You can’t train eyes to see in the dark, who have never been in the dark long enough to see through it.

To live blind to the finished work of Christ, is to live blind to the heavenly realm. Starve believers of the Heavenly Gospel (The Good News of what God has provided for them) and feed them instead with an earthly gospel (good advice on what they need to provide for Him) and they will lose their ability to see past their natural circumstances. They will lose the ability to see in the dark. Right n...

Religion is too tiny a pot to grow the life of Christ. Oaks of righteousness can’t grow in religious pots. The only thing that grows in a pot called self, is self-righteousness!

Repentance is not some work of the flesh to try and become something we are not, it is a work of the Spirit to remove the scales from our eyes, that we may see who we now are in Christ; a totally new creation, the bride of Christ.

To live the Spirit filled life, life in the Spirit, is to be rooted and grounded in heaven, not on the earth and the more the Church grows in this life, the more the Kingdom of heaven is established on the earth.

To speak in the Spirit, is to speak from a place of communion with God. It is to speak, not in the language of separation, but in the language of union, the language Christ spoke in. How can it be God’s will, that the body of Christ speak in a language, that Christ Himself never spoke in, the language of separation!

I believe that in this hour, the primary challenge before the Church, is to recognise that so much of what we have been doing for Him, has not come from being with Him!

Only perfectly loved people can live in a way that reveals perfect love.

You don’t operate in the life of the Kingdom by trying to become someone, but by being someone

Living from the right stream; the Gospel stream, not the Law stream.

There are only two types of people. • Those who live by the name they have given themselves • Those who live by the name God gives them.

For children of God, our hope of being like God, is not in what we do, but in who we are.

The Father chose to share His sovereignty .

Church, catch your breath! Now that you have stopped. Catch your breath! And the breath I made you to catch and to carry, is my breath, what I know, for to breathe in what I know, is to know that I have set you at one with me, it is to know peace and be a breather of peace.

From Believing, To Knowing by Phelim Doherty

The Holy Spirit is calling the Church in this hour, to rise out of doing and up into being. With the 'kitchen' closed, the Martha Church has a divine opportunity and invitation before her!

In eternity all truth IS. The Holy Spirit comes to witness what IS in heaven that it may be on the earth,.

The Holy Spirit witnesses to what is, not what might be. So preach the Gospel as 'what is', that the Spirit may witness to what is, not what might be.

Question: How do you know if you are beginning to see people as God sees them? Answer: You begin to speak to them as a Father, not a manager.

The Gospel is not a message about what will be, if you. It is the message of what is, because He! it is not a you first message. It is a He first message. The Christian life doesn't begin in you. Life begins in Him.

What does it mean to be resurrected with Christ?

The less you see the change that Christ has achieved, the more you will try to achieve change yourself x2 We are talking about change God’s way and the first truth we need to establish is that ..God’s way of changing men, is not through what they do, but through what they believe. So he opens our eyes to see what He sees, that we may be changed by what we see.

God is not asking you to produce His good life, the most loving and generous life in the world. He is asking us to bear that life, by being joined to Him.

When Jesus said my peace I give you, His peace was His presence, for true love comes in person.