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In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul draws a direct correlation between the spiritual state of the Corinthian church and the degree of supernatural power that was flowing in the church. He confronted the reality that the Corinthians were full of dishonor toward one another as members of Christ’s body. “For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.” (1 Corinthians 11:29-30 NLT) While there were clearly healers and miracle workers in the Corinthian church, they were unable to heal the sick and some were even dying of illnesses that were commonly healed in evangelistic settings. Paul hands us a major key in releasing greater healing in the church. We must deal with our offenses, our unforgiveness, our judgments and our dishonor toward our brothers and sisters if we want to see the fullness of God’s healing power flow inside His church.

In this first message for our new Awakening Series, Matt Prater from New Hope Church Brisbane, shares a powerful message on the importance of evangelism. Matt has been passionate about sharing his faith since a young age, with a rich background that spans radio, youth ministry, DJing, and even children’s entertainment. Now serving as Senior Pastor at New Hope Brisbane, Matt continues to spread the Good News to people all over the city and beyond. With decades of experience in radio and ministry, Matt brings unique insights into how we can boldly share our faith. Join Matt as he encourages and equips you to make an impact through evangelism, sharing stories and practical tips that will reignite your passion for spreading hope.Tune in and be inspired to share the Good News!

In this message, Rosie discusses the transformative power of a community that practices safe, confessional culture. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 12 and 13, we explore how, as the body of Christ, we deeply need one another and how being connected in community is essential for both our growth and healing.Jesus tells us that we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. As we anchor ourselves to the truth of God’s Word as our standard, we become less vulnerable to buy into voices and ideas that lead us away from intimacy with Him. Staying connected to God’s Word and His body is crucial for discerning the truth. When we choose to courageously expose the thoughts, lies, and accusations that come against us and against God's character, to the light, we will experience increasing measures of freedom and healing. Moreover, we will be equipped and activated to help those around us step into greater freedom.

Ken dives into God’s purposes and calling on our lives.He proposes that “a critical part of our own restoration is making peace with God, by making peace with who God made us to be”.Ken further clarifies a process of deducing our calling by suggesting that when we come to an understanding of who we are without Jesus, and who we are with Jesus, the contrast allows us to see more clearly what His purposes for us are.Ken speaks of God using everyday things in our lives to build the foundations, and assures us that God supplies the gifting needed.Yet floundering, rebellion, avoidance, and distractions are often habits keeping God's plans at arms length, while slowly drowning out His voice.Ken calls us to accept who and what we are, and the purposes given to us, and to begin to walk with confidence in God to lean into the Divine pattern for our life. He reminds us that our journey into our high calling is constituted by many heart thresholds and powerful heart processes.

In this particular message, Joe uses the Restoration of the walls of Jerusalem from the book of Nehemiah, a prophetic picture of what it looks like to build into the future as Father and sons.He uses what he thinks is the mundane details of Nehemiah’s building plans in the Old Testament to draw out processes and mile-markers to the restoration project of Christ on the inside of us. He uses it to cast a vision for healing and calls us to not just settle for peace for the short term, like king Hezekiah, but set a pattern for generations to follow.God desires to restore us completely, and there is nothing that He cannot do! He wishes for our inner and outer world to shine like polished gold, like clear glass. This long-term vision gives us purpose to follow Christ even though the journey costs us. God wants to send out fully healed sons to lead others into their own journey as sons and daughters, so that Jesus can get what he prayed for in John 17:11 ‘that they may be one, even as we are one”

In this ‘fireside chat,’ Phil and Maria Mason open up a conversation around deep level heart healing, their journey into this theme, their personal experiences on the way and their vision for a community where everyone is on the journey. They lead us on a journey through some of the big concepts surrounding inner healing, such as letting God into your core, validating your trauma, repentance and dismantling sin structures, attachment issues, breaking agreements with lies, inner vows, bitter root judgments, and overcoming offense: all light and breezy topics. A huge part of our transformational journey is finding the right language and building an authentic heart culture within the church that values prayer ministry with one another as a lifestyle rather than a six-monthly tune-up. We hope this conversation blesses you and shines a light on the power of building a deep heart culture in every local church.

Andy Dozier, a team member of Orbis Ministries (Ken Fish) spoke recently at the Northern Rivers school of the prophetic. He presented a phenomenal message that gave a wonderful introduction to the ministry of inner healing. He opened by talking about the fragility of the human soul, and how we were never designed to be exposed to so much trauma and rejection. He went on to explain how God brings healing to reverse all of the choices we have made in our negative responses to the trauma and the pain of life on planet earth. This is a tremendous message and we would encourage everyone to give it a listen Andy was a tremendous blessing at the school of the prophetic. We hope you enjoy this message and that you are also blessed. Andy’s biggest point was that a heart that is healing is a heart that is hearing everything God is saying.

Maria Mason begins our new series on Heart Life this week. This series explores all things related to inner healing and heart management. In this particular message, Maria delves into the book of Nehemiah, a prophetic picture of the profound restoration of the walls of Jerusalem. This unique story of Nehemiah in the Old Testament imparts invaluable lessons to us about our journey. It teaches us to fight for our healing, just as Nehemiah fought against the distractions that the enemy brought to thwart God’s purposes during the reconstruction.God desires to restore us completely, and there is nothing that He can not do! Do you have some broken spaces in your life? Do you have any broken connections? Are you feeling wounded? That makes you a perfect target for walking with the Lord toward healing. The restoration of the heart ministry is a central message of Jesus’ ministry in the Kingdom of God. Let’s step up for fresh commissioning to heal the broken-hearted places in our lives, reassured and comforted by our

The call to intimacy with God is a call to draw near to his heart and listen to his heartbeat. What is on the heart of our Father in heaven? What moves him? What motivates him? What are his highest purposes for our lives? For those who long for a deeper intimacy with God, the concerns of heaven ought to become our concerns as we align our hearts with the heart of our Father.In this message, Phil Mason explores a dimension of our intimate relationship with God through the lens of the role of the fivefold ministry as outlined by the apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 4. The fruit of fivefold ministry is an explosive “knowledge of the Son of God”in the local church. (Ephesians 4:13) This is the knowledge of the heart of the beloved Son in his relationship with his beloved Father. May this message challenge you to draw near to God and align yourself with the things that move his heart: his desire to see a mature Church with a mature expression of sonship. We hope you enjoy this message.

The battle for the secret place is ultimately the battle for the focus and the affection of the heart!We see in the book of Exodus that God chose to lead His people through a wilderness on their journey from Egypt to the promised land. This is not an isolated story. There are many accounts throughout the whole bible of followers of God who experienced wilderness seasons. Even Jesus himself was led into a wilderness after his baptism. In this message, Rosie looks at the purpose of these wilderness seasons in our lives, as times of testing and strengthening with the goal of transformation and drawing us into deeper trust and dependence on God. Rosie looks at Song of Solomon chapter 8:5 as a key verse which describes the Shulamite as one who is, “coming up from her wilderness leaning on her beloved.”The Lord is seeking a bride who will trust him, partner with him, depend on him and lean on him like John the beloved at the last supper. He is also longing to set us free, to heal us and to transform us. These are t

In Luke 10, we read about Martha and Mary, two sisters who offered hospitality to Jesus and the people traveling with Him. They had a brother, Lazarus. The three young people were friends of Jesus. When Jesus came to eat at their home, Mary sat at the Lord's feet and was consumed by His teachings, heart, and ministry. On the other hand, Martha was consumed with serving and preparing the dinner, but as we dive into this portion of scripture, Maria Mason opens an even deeper reality of what was happening. Martha represents our orphan heart, which often manifests a victim mindset and uses victim language to distract us from love. Mary represents the transformative power of the secret place, a place of intimate communion with the Lord. She chose the ‘better thing’ because she had already decided to be a person of the heart. Mary had predetermined to take responsibility for her inner life, which is the most important choice.Maria shares some wisdom about our needs when we come to God. We need time to process our p

The Good News is God loves you with an unconditional love and He chooses to love you in that way every single day. God wants to be in relationship with us, and He values every moment we will give Him. So what kind of relationship does God want to have with us? All of Scripture is full of rich wisdom and insight on this. In this message, we take a look at the relationship between Mary of Bethany and Jesus. Mary went on to participate in the Messianic mission of Jesus because of the special insight she had received from her time with Him. Many who were serving Jesus completely misunderstood and ultimately missed out on partnering and supporting Jesus through the greatest act of love the world has ever seen. Why is it that not all who served Jesus knew what their Master was doing?In Luke 10:42, Jesus says of Mary of Bethany that she had chosen the good portion and that it was a good thing to do and would remain with her always. What did Jesus mean by choosing the good portion? We explore the Psalms to uncover wh

David Balestri takes us on a tour of the concept of the Imago Dei, the image of God. Human beings are image bearers, meaning we carry and express the very image and likeness of God. In Genesis 1:26, we read, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” Through the fall, certain aspects of the image and likeness of God were lost, such as His holiness and His glory. However, through redemption, the glory of God has been restored to the sons and daughters of God. Paul now declares, “Christi in you, the hope of glory!” (Colossians 1:27) David encourages us to step into the glory God has ordained for each of us to walk in. We can now shine with the glory of God. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine…” (Matthew 5:16). May this message inspire you to put on Christ and live large in your witness of Christ in this world.

In Matthew 5:9, Jesus said “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God”. What is this ‘peace’ that Jesus is encouraging us to ‘make’? And in particular, what does it look like to cultivate this kind of peace within a Christian community? Join us in Ephesians to hear how Paul encouraged the Jew and Gentile Christians in Ephesus to unify and foster this harmonious peace, despite their cultural differences.

This week our message is from Wayne Benn, our local Crosslink Network leader for Southern QLD. He shares on the power of the outpouring of the Spirit. The ancient custodians of Judaism loved an argument.…and they  had plenty to argue about around the time of Pentecost.However, their arguments became tired and weak against Jesus disciples.Those disciples (fishermen and rascals) were academically inferior and theologically lacklustre. They should have been no match for the theological prowess of the rulers in the synagogue.But Pentecost changed all that.Gods power and authority was given to ordinary people. Its amazing how religious arguments always lose out to Gods power/ miracles/ signs and wonders.Pentecost still happens because God is continuing to pour out His Spirit in the last days. Australia needs to see a church ablaze with the fire of God. Lets keep praying like the Bride for that which has been promised.

In this message in our Good News series, Phil Mason explores our reception of the gospel message. The gospel is not a subject to be mastered by the mind. It is a feast of God’s love for the heart. But the Western world has sold us a lie that the mind is the primary organ of perception. That’s how most people think in Western education. The truth is, according to the Scriptures, that our heart is the primary organ of perception and that we are to see with the eyes of our heart and have our minds subsequently informed by the revelation light that streams into a soft, open heart. Jesus said, “The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. If your heart is unclouded, the light floods in!” (Luke 6:22 TPT) Our goal in receiving the good news is to pursue an ‘unclouded heart’ so God can fill us with His love and His light. Jesus said the pure in heart shall see God. (Matthew 5:8) We hope you enjoy this message!

In this message we unpack Ephesians 1:5-6 where we see that the goal of God’s grace is His glory. The avenue for which this glory is poured out is through His “tremendous love cascading over us”. Specifically, the cascading adoptive love of the Father. This love as it says in Ephesians is what will “glorify His grace”!We journey through the unpacking of what is grace, why we need it and what it leads to. We learn that God’s grace is full of His empowering presence, that grace has dominion and how we can carry that as beloved sons and daughters into a hurting world.We finish with the verse from Matthew 5:14-16 with the stunning revelation that God wants His house, the church, to be the radiant light on the hill where His glory dwells. From here we are sent out as glory carriers to bring the lost and broken back home into these high-level radiant places of his glory. Evangelism is meant to be the overflow of the glorious love that is radiating in the House of God! We are coming into the hour where the church is

In the opening chapter of 2 Corinthians Paul strongly exhorted the early church with the good news that our God is a “Father of compassion and and the God of all comfort” ( See 2Cor 1:3)Paul wasn’t just making a “nice” statement. He and Timothy were writing to the Corinthians from circumstances of great hardship, pain and persecution. However in the midst of their trials and weakness, they were experiencing a supernatural encouragement and comfort of God, which enabled them, intern to release this comfort to other believers. Jesus also gave this same message to the apostles before he went to the cross. He said I will not leave you alone, as orphans. I will send you a helper, who will be a comforter, he is called the Holy Spirit (see John 14).In a world full of many false comforts Rosie reminds us that the only true and lasting comfort comes from the Lord. He is calling us to draw near today. However, we always have a choice how we will walk this out. As secure sons and daughters of God we will choose to come

Lent is a time to traditionally fast and seek God before the Easter celebration of resurrection. Our community will begin a corporate fast on March 10 – Easter Sunday! Watch our social media for ways you can partner with us in this season!Today, however, Maria Mason teaches from Matthew 22 – the Parable of the Banquet. Traditionally, this parable teaches us about the two main groups in history- those who want in on Christ’s salvation from sin and those who reject His Lordship. But there’s another metaphor as well - those who were once willing to go out of their way to get filled up and those not interested in feasting on the invisible banquet of encounters with God! Jesus said: “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”This feast is His Kingdom and His love! Encountering God is our birthright and not a deluxe form of Christianity. We must learn to encounter God, and it takes some practice. Being “known by God” is the key. Spend time with Him and let Him know you! It's not all about

The gospel is the greatest news ever to hit the planet. Whether we are called to the ministry of evangelism or not, we are all called to “do the work of an evangelist.” (2 Timothy 4:5). We all have people in our lives who don't know Jesus and because we know the truth we have a responsibility to share the gospel with others. It is vital that all followers of Jesus know and understand the gospel. It is called “the gospel of grace’ because salvation is a free gift for all who believe and repent. We need to prioritize our own personal understanding of the gospel message so we are ready in season and out of season to preach the good news the way Jesus and the Apostles presented it. Salvation is a free gift, but discipleship costs us everything. When we see what Jesus sacrificed so we could be saved, it moves us to sacrifice everything as our act of worship and devotion to Him. We hope this message from Phil Mason blesses you to carry the good news everywhere you go.