Kingdom Teaching Night

True freedom comes from within. When you are free from the lies that inwardly bind you and the fleshly desires that corrupt and control you. Jesus takes whoever wants to go on this journey of becoming inwardly free and creating peace within your heart.

Nick teaches us about the power of the prophetic and the culture we can establish as we start to see the world through the lens of God-reality. We no longer judge anyone according to the flesh and to their history; rather we can view them through their destiny as a holy son or daughter of God. The prophetic is powerful. God did not intend to grow his church without it!

Nick shares on his my favourite topic in all of life: The presence of God. It changes everything.

Continuing on from last week, looking at our new identity in Christ. This week Janine takes us through the difference between having a slave mindset versus a son of God mindset.

Janine shares about who we truly are in Christ now that he has dealt with the problem of sin and united himself to us. The old man is gone, the new man has come and our growth in this life comes not from striving to be like God, but in becoming aware of what he has already done for us through Jesus!

Your heart must believe deep down that God is truly truly good. It needs to be a foundation of your life as it filters how you perceive every other topic in Christianity and life. Break down the lies, stop accusing God and work with Holy Spirit to get your heart into a place of exploding at the goodness of God.

Jules teaches us about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He shows the different ways Holy Spirit was made manifest in the old and new testament which ultimately culminates in the Spirit being poured out at Pentecost in Acts 2.

Jules teaches us about the importance and the 'why' behind water baptism.

We cannot expect to experience the abundant life God has on offer for us when we have one foot in and one foot out of following Jesus. We must lay our lives down fully and completely for him or we'll never taste that beautiful abundant life that's been given to us as a free gift through Jesus.

Jesus give us HIS peace as a gift. The peace he had every day of his life he leave as a gift to us. And this peace is unlike anything else in the world. When you experience it, it changes everything.

After you've prepared your heart and removed the lies that so easily keep us trapped in trials, what do you do? The bible says you can personally be taught by God. His heart is to walk with us through trials and to teach us His heart and His kingdom as we go. Bring your questions, doubts, fears, concerns and anxieties before God and seek answers, clarity and direction from Him yourself!

The state of your heart towards God is always your decision to make. You can be soft-hearted in humility and ready to receive the word of God into you, or you could be hard-hearted and proud and unaware that you are repelling the Kingdom of God and the work he wants to do in you to give you life. It's your decision. It could mean the difference between you walking out of your trial closer to God or not following him any longer.

Knowing how to respond when you find yourself in a trial is super difficult. Usually, we feel very tempted to distance ourselves from God in anger or bitterness. But this is the one thing we cannot do. The only way to properly heal from a trial is to remain in Jesus, the vine, and as you do, he will naturally bring the good fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control) that everybody desires out of your life. This is the path to true spiritual healing.

After a 1.5 year pause we are back! Let's keep moving forward in Jesus and in the kingdom of God together by talking about how to deal with the heavy trials of life. If you are overwhelmed by the heaviness of life in your current season, then this is for you. Nothing strange is happening to you, and you are certainly not the only one; this is just how life can be sometimes. So let's acknowledge the pain and then find a way to walk through it with Jesus who is always transforming us from glory to glory from the inside out.

Hear about Jess's massive transformation through her time in Mozambique with Heidi Baker's mission school. Going from super unsure who she is or what she's doing to being found in Jesus. Plus we also look at what faith looks like in our life. If you believe in God and have a relationship with him, then you will walk in good works. There is no exception. Faith always produces works or it's not faith!

The story of the bible is that God has made us right with him through faith and through no other means. No works, no being born into the right country at the right time. The only way you can be in the benefits of his promises is if you believe in him. This week you can follow my 6 year journey through trying to understand predestination, Romans chapter 9 and how this big message of "justified by faith" impacted my view on this super confusing topic.

It is impossible to live a life like Jesus if we are controlled by the flesh instead of lead by the Spirit. So many Christians are unpassionate and thrown here and there by the ever changing desires of the flesh; not realising that the flesh/the old man/your sinful nature is dead and buried. It is absolutely essential to understand that your old man is dead and you are a new creation in Christ Jesus, otherwise you will continue to live as you were before Christ which will lead you to death, even if you are saved. Set your mind on the things of the Spirit and you will live by the Spirit. Put to death the works of the flesh and cut them off from who you are. You are more than that, you're better than that and you're true nature, your true life is hidden with Christ in heaven.

How do we keep the same mindset of Jesus every day? How do we keep focus when life is always pulling you back into its rhythms? How do we keep consistent? You set your mind on the things above, not on the things below. You remember who you are in Christ and who he is in you right now. You are raised and seated with him right now in the heavenly places. We need to find a way to make setting our mind on such things a habitual daily practice. That way we can keep our focus and filter everything through the lens of heaven.

True Christianity is the do nothing, get everything gospel. If you don't understand this, you will guaranteed default into works and trying to earn something rather than believing and receiving the free gift that you are already who you want to be. Works will produce death and it will make you see the gospel as bad news instead of good. You'll turn away from God in either pride or despair and will blame him for not rewarding your good behaviour or being too difficult to please. Works equals death. The only way out is the understand it's all a free gift by grace and faith is how you connect with that. I don't mean "BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE" kinda faith - that's actually works with the label of faith - I mean true faith where you are actually so convinced that God's word is true and he truly has blessed you already with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places that all you can do as a proper response is rest. That's the gospel.

Ever wondered why on earth we should pray and ask God for things if he's supposed to be a good father? Don't good fathers give their children the things they need without them having to ask? If prayer is a bit of a mystery to you, or if your prayer life is dead, then listen up. Jesus constantly tried to get his disciples to pray. There was a reason for that!

Why don't we see more of the kingdom of God? One, because we don't believe, and two, because we don't persevere when we are believing. The power of perseverance is hard to overestimate. It is an absolutely essential characteristic that you must develop not only in your relationship with God but for success in anything in life. An attitude that says "I will never give up. I will never quit." - such a person is unstoppable. Every successful person knows this truth. But so often Christians try one theology for a week or two and move on when they don't see immediate results. We can't fall for this trap. We need to believe in Jesus, hold on to his word and never let go of them until we see them come to pass.

Part one of a series on why we don't see more of the kingdom of God manifest even when we think we're believing in God. We live with limited minds, limited perspective and limited beliefs. Yet all of Jesus life, teaching and ministry was a demonstration of the limitless beliefs and thinking he has for all of us to walk in. He says the most ridiculous things sometimes and we can't even imagine how they make sense. But yet, he still says them. So what are you going to do about that? Make up a theology that gets you off the hook? Squirm away from believing that what he says was said to you? That's the broad path that most will take. They hear his words and they don't believe them. But there is a narrow path, that very few take, where they actually settle in the minds and in their hearts to believe his words no matter what. These are the people who usually leave the most impacting of legacies. Because they took his words and ran with them despite everyone else telling them they were wrong. We need to realise that haters are gunna hate when we try to walk like Jesus calls us to walk. But we should just do it anyway because eternal life is found when you believe his words.

Living free from financial stress, worry and fear by trusting God for today's needs and becoming a river of abundant generosity. 0:00 - 13:51 - Ben Crazy Testimony 13:51 -45:05 - Becoming a river of abundant generosity (Ben) 45:05 -1:27:09 - Living free from financial slavery (Nath) Bless you :)

Monique walks us through her trust journey with God through six crazy months in Mexico by herself.

We hear a lot about how Jesus has forgiven our sins, but what exactly did he do to help us remove the effects of sin? How does he help us remove the heavy weights of shame and feeling unworthy? I would propose that everything that Jesus did to remove sin, he also did to remove its effects (shame). But without knowing this and applying faith to the message, we can't expect to experience this free life of living without the burdens of unworthiness.

Sex is so taboo. In the world and in the church. Not many really feel comfortable talking about sex and especially not if it involves what's going on with you sexually at the moment. We keep that to ourselves in the dark places of our heart. We're ashamed and embarrassed. Terrified someone will discover we're not enough or we've fallen too far. But God wants to bring sex into the light. His plan from the beginning was "naked and unashamed". The first step towards getting back there in the church is an honest an open conversation about sex. Being vulnerable. Bringing it into the light. "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5

God's design of marriage is utterly incredible. It's better than you think. He's designed it so that your marriage is the primary (but not only) place that you can experientially know the love of God. Where theory becomes reality as you learn how to love each other like Jesus by laying your lives down so that the other can benefit.

The church is the God's bride, Christ's body and his A plan for ushering in his righteousness to the world he loves so much. You wouldn't want someone speaking bad about your fiance behind your back, so don't do it to God! Let's honour, revere, respect and uphold the church because she's God's plan A and there is no plan B.

A "short" talk on having a simple, ordered and clear mind. Simplicity, order and clarity are a part of God's character and clear thinking and clear perspective is something he wants for his children. Also, we have an open discussion/Q&A on mental health issues :) * Sorry for the audio quality/volume *

Ben describes his battle with mental illness and suicide and how Jesus delivered him of it all. He shows Jesus paid the price to remove sin and all of its effects from us and has disarmed the powers and rulers of darkness and their influence over our minds. "For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind." 2 Tim 1:7

One of the most practical ways we can love other people and value them is by listening to them. Genuinely listening. Hearing each word they say and the heart behind what they're saying. When we do, we are equipped to truly love them.

Sin, Destiny and the Love of God. Message from Luke Walker.

Our highest priority as we gather in the name of Jesus is to love one another. We cannot say we love God and then not love our brothers and sisters. Loving and knowing God should always manifest in love for other people - or else we do not truly know him.

The love of God is passionately and relentlessly others centered. It's pure selflessness. It's the core of who He is. He's not a being who has needs to be met by others. He is always and only pouring himself out for the benefit of others - and in that, he finds his joy. And if we are made in his image then we are the same and ought to walk in perfect love too.

When life is a walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we don't need a new revelation or deliverance or to start introspecting what could have gone wrong or what spiritual door we opened. We need the simple gospel. The unchanging immovable love of God for us expressed through his Son.

What's it like to live life as a son of God? What privileges does it come with? Life as a son of God is simply waking up each day and walking with your Father through life. It's no more complex than that. No more trying or striving to keep your position, if you are in Christ, you are a son or daughter of the King.

Your righteous identity not only changes how you view yourself but also how you relate to everyone else. We no longer need to strive to find who we are but we simply receive by faith who God says we are and live from a place of completion rather than using everyone else to try and become complete.

We've been born again and our very nature remade in the image of Jesus so that we are no longer slaves to sin but are slaves to righteousness with God's law written on our hearts. Sin will have no dominion over you - so consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. All we do in this talk is take Romans 6 line by line and say "We believe."

No longer sinners but made righteous by faith in the blood of Jesus. That is who you are. Once you were unrighteous but now you have been washed and made clean.

3 stories from the life of Jesus - which is the truth of who God is - to show the unimaginable goodness of God.

The Gospel is the good news of Jesus. The good news is that he is taking all of creation back to it's original design and created value. "The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost." - Luke 19:10

God is far better than you could ever imagine. If you don't see, know and taste his goodness, you won't draw near to him.

Luke Walker shares with us how we can know we are going well with God or not.

Do you know that God loves you? Then what does it matter that it doesn't "feel" like he does! Your feelings don't rule you - the truth of the gospel and life by the Spirit leads our lives in the Kingdom.

Jesus has set us free from the law (have-to's) and so now we're under grace (get-to's) and we're completely free from all guilt, shame and condemnation in Jesus.

Real biblical faith is that whatever the bible says - that is our reality.

Faith need not be more complex than simply trusting in God in all areas of life.

Hope comes before faith. If you are struggling to believe and find a place of faith in any area in your life, learn to hope in God first. For in the garden bed of hope, faith grows.

Brad shares with us his journey of transitioning out of religion and into relationship with God.

The idea that God lives and abides in us but doesn't speak to us outside of scripture needs to die. God is always speaking to us and guiding us through his Spirit Rom 8:14 - but how can you tell when he is speaking to you?

It is overwhelming how much disagreement and different opinions there are in the church today. Yet at the same time, Jesus seems to suggest we can KNOW the truth. If you're struggling to know that what you believe about God is right, then this talk is for you.