Kia ora whānau! How are we this morning? God bless you, you're looking great!
Hallelujah! I trust you all slept well. Well here we are again. Day, what is it?
What day is this? Day five. That's what it is. Day five. Day five on our 30-day free
warrior activist course teaching. So there we go. So if you want to take a
photo of that whānau, let me try and get it for you. Actually, let me just turn it
around and take a photo of it, okay? Okay, that's what we're gonna be talking about,
some of the stuff we're gonna be talking on today. Oh, it's probably back to front
for you. Hang on, sorry about that. Let me press this and press that and
doesn't help, does it? Okay, can you get that? See that? Take a photo. I'm gonna
give you three seconds. Tahirua toru. Ah, it's four seconds. Kapai! Okay, great getting
some testimonies yesterday from people who have been healed of different things,
receiving miracles after this session, praying for the sick and seeing
what God has done. It's just been wonderful. Hey, yesterday Jesus healed
lots of people but not all responded or not all replied. So for those healed but
didn't respond, please respond especially. This morning someone woke up with more
energy. You woke up with more joy because your blood conditions healed. That's why
you feel that way. There's some others and you've got
air and air, you can hear clearer in your ear. There's others, eye conditions, a
cataract dissolved. I haven't heard back from you yet. Others, there's an
internal bowel condition that has been healed and some of you don't
respond because you think if you testify that the devil might rob it of you. Hey,
that's operating in fear not faith. Jesus said that Satan
came to rob, kill and destroy but he came to give you life. When he gives you a
healing, he doesn't take it away. So get out of fear and get into faith. So
you need to respond. If you've been healed, you need to respond. Why? Because
1 Thessalonians 5.18 says, In everything give thanks for this is the will of God
and Christ Jesus for you. Quench not the spirit. And so in giving thanks in
everything. So there were ten lepers that Jesus healed. You know how many came
back and gave thanks? You got it. One out of ten. And Jesus, where's the other nine?
So Jesus expects thanksgiving, thanks to be given for what he heals people. And
so to testify is to glorify. So those of you who haven't given thanks, haven't
brought in the testimony, please do that today. Send it in. Message me. You
might say why? Well, I will say because it's a free gift you receive from Jesus
and it's free. But it cost me years and years, decades of blood,
sweat and tears. And I would like to hear your testimony back because I use
your testimony to help others because we overcome Satan by the blood of the lamb
of the word of our testimony. So bring your testimony in place. And okay, okay.
So on that note, I'm sharing on the three H's. What are the three H's? The
three H's are honour, humility and hunger. And these three things God showed
me many years ago. When you have the three things operating in a meeting, in
a church, anywhere, if the three H's are present, wow, it's like God's perfect
storm for glory. It's like God's perfect storm for glory, the three H's. And so
I'll tell you about the three H's in a minute, but I'll use an illustration. I
think it was 2016. I went to the Solomon Islands and I was ministering over there
for the first time ever. And so I wanted to, I was walking in the steps, well, I
wanted to walk in the steps of the great Māori evangelist Murray Thompson, Murray
Thompson, Murray Thompson, sorry. A great man of God that I never had the blessing
to meet the man personally, but I've heard so many great testimonies about this
great, great evangelist. So God used him to strike, spark revival off through the
through the Pacific Islands, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and so forth, as
well as the New Zealand way back in the day. And so.
2016, I was on my way over to Solomon Islands.
Now, before I went to the Solomon Islands,
I had gone through hunger.
And so I'm gonna teach that tomorrow
because it's quite a long teaching.
And don't mistake your frustration for hunger.
You know, I was so hungry for God
that I said, God, you've got to give me something more.
I can't keep living like this.
And he said, you're not hungry, you're just frustrated.
And so I went through a eight month period
of hungering after God, like I've never hungered.
And he said, it's not more faith you need, son,
it's more hunger.
So I'm gonna teach about that tomorrow.
But the other two, humility, honor and humility, honor.
Okay, so I go to the Solomons.
This is after eight months,
I've been seeking God, pushing into God.
And after eight months, the spirit of God came on me
the Sunday before I left to go to the Solomons.
Holy Spirit came upon me in a way that I,
well, the Father said to me that morning,
I left the Sunday, I left on Sunday
and I was there by Tuesday, I think.
I had to stop over in Brisbane.
And when the spirit of God came upon me,
far out, I tell you, the Father said,
I have given you what your hunger has cried out for
for the last eight months.
And so the spirit of God came on me
and I flew out the next day.
I caught a taxi in Brisbane to start a motel overnight
and then to fly from Brisbane to Solomons.
You know, when Moses went on the mountain
and he came down from the mountain
and there was so much glory shining off him,
but he couldn't see it, he couldn't feel it,
but others saw it on him.
Well, what came upon me, I couldn't see.
I didn't realize what God had given me,
what I'd been hungering for eight months,
I wasn't sure what it was.
But when I got in the taxi, this guy said to me,
he said, where are you going?
I said, I'm going to the Solomons to preach the gospel.
And he said, oh, I used to go to church once,
13 years ago, I was on the music team.
I said, Jesus said, he misses your songs.
And this guy who was driving the taxi,
Samoan guy, he just stopped talking
and I thought I defended the man.
But when I got to the motel, I went to pay him,
but he wouldn't take the money.
He says, no, you're doing God's work, keep your money.
And I noticed he was having a tangi tangi, he was crying.
I said, can I pray for you?
He says, when you said God misses my songs,
he says, and he started weeping.
So I prayed for him.
See, there's something on me that's touching people,
but I wasn't aware at that time.
And I'm coming to a point here.
Okay, so that happened.
The next morning, another taxi driver picked me up.
And man, he was like the devil, this guy.
He picked me up and he took me to the airport
so I could fly to the Solomons.
This is the next morning.
He said, why are you here?
I said, I'm here to preach the gospel.
And he started swearing, I mean, big time,
calling me an effing this and an effing that.
You effing preachers, you're all effing liars and thieves.
You rob, you steal money off people, blah, blah, blah.
He's going off his face to me.
And this is a taxi driver.
And I thought, man, I could get you fired, mate.
I was thinking that, but I'm not that sort of guy.
But I'm not a little wussy wussy Christian either.
So I straight back at him.
I said, oh yeah, you're Australian, are you?
He says, yeah.
I said, oh, you're a child abuser.
You're a pedophile, aren't you?
You're a child abuser.
He says, what?
And he's going off, how can you call me a child abuser?
I says, well, I'm using the same logic that you're using.
You're saying that every preacher is a lying thief.
And I'm saying that it's like me saying
every Australian's a child abuser.
I'm just using your logic, mate, right back at you.
And he apologized.
Oh, well, he didn't apologize.
He actually, oh, well, maybe you're one
of the good preachers, he said.
And anyway, by the time he dropped me off at the airport,
he'd calmed down and it was a demon in him manifesting.
He calmed down and apologized and so forth.
What I'm saying is that there was something on me
that was having an effect around me,
something that I'd been hungering for,
but I didn't know what it was.
It's like Moses came down and he's carrying something.
He wasn't aware of what was on it, but others saw it.
And so I get on the plane
and I go to the Solomon Islands
and I go to this big church.
It's a big church and the leaders of the church are there.
The superintendent, his wife,
who's got a detached nerve in her eye,
she said she'll be blind in a year.
The doctor said there's no cure for it.
There are a lot of people there.
A lot of them are sick, deaf,
and all sorts of diseases in their bodies.
I didn't know that at the time, okay?
And so they did a bit of a pulferry for me,
a bit of a welcome for me, a cultural welcome.
And then I stand up the front
and it's my first time I've been to the Solomons,
my first time I get to speak to these people.
I don't know them from a bar of soap.
So I get up and just before I got up,
I saw a couple of guys standing.
I says, just stand and step forward.
As I step forward, the power of God came on them.
It's like they got shot with a shotgun.
I mean, they went, boom, blasted through.
I didn't touch them.
Just boom, and they're down on their,
their backs, which was dangerous because the floor was made of, you know, of that, those hard tiles.
And so anyway, I thought, oh, that's unusual, the power of God's here today. And, and so, so I gave
a bit of a mihi, and a bit of a greeting, and from New Zealand, as a Māori, as a son of God.
And then I am, I saw a woman in a green dress that had blood disease, and I saw a woman at the back,
and there was a demon oppressing her, or a family. And Jesus said to me, Holy Spirit said to me,
tell them the moment they stand, they will be healed. And so I spoke it out. I says, the moment,
I didn't say who they were, I just knew where they were. I says, the moment, that person with
the blood disease, the moment you stand, you will be healed. And the, and the lady being oppressed
by a demon, the moment you stand, you're going to be delivered. Just stand up now. And they wouldn't
stand. They didn't stand up. So I repeated again, here's the instructions, when you stand, Jesus
will heal you. And they didn't stand. And you know what, the Holy Spirit whispered into my ear, and
he said, don't minister my presence here. He says, they have no hunger, they have no honour, and they
have no humility. And he says, so don't, don't minister my presence here. This is not a safe
house for me. That's what Holy Spirit said to me. And I thought, what? I'm a guest here. This is my
first time. All their leaders, all their, they're sitting right there, and I'm going to say this to
them. And because I love Holy Spirit, but I'd rather offend a man than the Holy Spirit
anytime. Not that I intentionally go out to offend people. Okay, it's not about, it's not a justification
for being rude. Okay, so don't get that wrong. So I just shared, I said, Holy Spirit said, I'm not
allowed to minister his presence here, because there's no hunger, honour, or humility. I said,
I've come all the way from New Zealand. Jesus sent me. I'm not, I didn't come by myself. Jesus sent me
with gifts. And the one who sent me, I'm offering you his gifts, and you won't receive them. It's
not me you reject, it's the one who sent me. The gifts you won't receive, it's the one who sent me.
You're rejecting him, not me. I says, and he said that you have no humility, honour, or hunger. I
says, is this honouring what you were doing when I offered these gifts? Is it honouring the one who
sent me? Is that humility? Is that hunger? And to their credit, you know what they did? They repented
immediately. I mean, right there, right then, people started repenting, bowing their heads. In fact, the
two women, they stood up immediately. And as soon as they stood, boom, they went down. They were
instantly healed. And that night, my goodness, there were about 30 or 40 people ran to the front
repenting. I've never seen repentance like it. I mean, there was wailing and wailing, and I could,
I had nothing to do. It was just the Holy Spirit. And then, then Holy Spirit said, you can minister
me now. And so I began to pray for people. And there were, I don't know, the first 30 went down
under the power like rockets, like stones. And, and when they got up, they weren't just imparted,
blessed. There are, I've got a whole, I've got about 20 testimonies of that first meeting.
I remember one who had 19 years deaf in one ear, the superintendent's wife who was blind in one eye,
opened just so many miracles, so many miracles. And so I was there for about four days, and I
prayed for about 600 people over the time. Every person I touched was hit like a, like a shotgun
blast. And, and I'm going to show, I'm going to put a video clip on after, after I've done this,
this post, I'm going to put a video clip on to show you just a little bit of what happened in
some of those meetings. And on that clip, you're going to see me releasing the power of God and
doing impartation. That night on the clip, you'll see that I prayed for over a hundred people. So
you're just seeing probably the end of the meeting. But I'll just give you an idea of, you know,
that what I'm talking about, I'm not just speaking from theory. It's not just hui hui, it's dewey
dewey. And I was saying to God, what is this? People are going down under the power. It's like,
I feel like Benny Hinn Lord. And people just go down under the power, but they're getting up healed
and miracles and all this stuff happening. And he said, son, this is what your hunger brought
out of heaven. This is what your hunger brought down out of heaven. I mean, that stunned me still.
It still sobers me. If I think if that's what my hunger brought out of heaven, what else is up there?
What else am I not hungry for? So hunger is such a big thing. And so humility, honor, humility,
and hunger. When you have those three components, you have a perfect storm of God. And so I'm going
to talk about the first, the first one is honor. Okay. So, so in Mark six, verse, verse four,
you know, Jesus, Jesus went to his hometown, excuse me, and, you know, the story that he
couldn't do any miracles there because there was no honor to him that I mean, the local people had
so much for me.
They said, oh, who's he? We know Jesus. He's just a carpenter's son. Who does he think he is?
And this, you know, the spirit of familiarity, it's such a terrible thing. And Jesus could only do a few healings.
He could do no mighty work in that place. No miracle. And when there's no honor, there's no miracles.
I'm telling you, when there's no honor to the presence of Jesus,
there's no miracles. Because if there's no honor to the presence of Jesus, it grieves the Holy Spirit.
It quenches the Holy Spirit. And there was no honor to Jesus.
And this, unfortunately, that's in so many churches. I see so many miracles on the streets.
But sometimes I go to a church to pray for people, and there's just no honor.
And it's so sad, because Jesus loves his people. And no miracles can get relieved, because there's no honor.
And I just think, who do you think you are? You know, and all this familiarity stuff.
So Jesus, in Matthew 8, 19, Jesus, after Nazareth, I call it the Nazareth attitude. It's a killer.
He goes up to Capernaum, and there's a centurion up there. He's not even a Jew. He's not even a Hebrew.
But he said to his friends, go and tell Jesus, just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
And the centurion said, I am not worthy to be under the same roof as this man.
Compare that attitude of honor with the centurion to the Nazareth people. Compare that,
where the ones in Nazareth said, who is this guy? Who does he think he is? We know his family.
Just an attitude of no honor. Then you go to the centurion up the road, up at Capernaum,
and this guy said, I'm not worthy to be under the same roof. What incredible honor.
And you know the story, what happened? Jesus said, I haven't found faith like this in all of Israel.
This isn't even a Hebrew. This is a Roman. And Jesus healed his servant. His servant was healed.
And what else? Yeah, I was in a village over in India once.
I've been to thousands of them, or hundreds of them anyway.
And excuse me, I've been seeing so many miracles, blind people seeing, and deaf ears opening,
cripples walking. So my faith was at a high level. So I went to this particular village,
and all these, I don't know, a dozen people came out. So I said, I'll pray for the sick,
and then once they see the miracles, then I'll tell them about Jesus. And so I started praying
for the sick, but nothing happened. No miracles happened, not even a healing. And then some of
their leaders came out and told me to pee off. They were communists. They said, we don't believe
in that rubbish. We don't believe in your God. Get out of here, pee off. And so I did. I left,
and I was wondering, why is that God? There's an anointing on me to do miracles, and there's no
miracle could happen. So I went about 100 yards down the road, or 100 meters down the road,
and there was an old man sitting on his seat having a cup of tea. And I looked down at him
and said, namaste. And he looked up and smiled, but he's in pain. So I said to my interpreter,
ask him, would you like me to pray for him? And what's wrong with him? And so the old man said
he fell off a push bike many years ago, and he did pain to his back, and he's been paining ever
since. But he would love prayer. So I prayed for this dear old gentleman, just 100 meters down
from where I tried to pray, and nothing happened. I prayed for this old gentleman, and the Lord
instantly healed this dear old man. And I said, why is it, Lord, that there's an atmosphere of
healing here, but not an atmosphere of healing up there? And he says, because of honour, son.
He says, they had no honour for me in my hometown, and they had no honour for you up there. But this
man's got honour, and honour opens the door for miracles. So that's how I learned about the first
stage, honour. Okay, next stage is humility. Humility. Okay. Luke 4.18, how's your homework
going? So you should know this. Luke 4.18 says, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.
He has anointed me to preach the good news to the, well, in the King James, it's the poor.
Now, do you realise that the word poor means humble? Okay, it doesn't mean, and of course,
poor people often are humble, or humbled by the sickness, but the poor means in the Greek, humble,
humble. And so the anointing is on us to preach to the humble. God says He knows the proud, and He
knows them from afar, that the proud He resists. And I used to wonder how come I'd preach the
gospel to some people, and they'd receive Jesus, and others, they didn't want to receive Jesus,
they'd manifest. And it took me a while to realise that the anointing to preach the gospel is only
for the, we're only anointed to preach to the poor. The anointing doesn't work on the proud.
Remember Jesus, He had preached to the common people, they receive Him
eagerly. But when He preached to the Pharisees, they want to kill Him, they want to stone Him.
See, one heart's humble, and one heart's proud and arrogant. And so the anointing,
the anointing on your life to preach, only works on the humble.
This will save you a lot of heartache if you can catch this message, catch this lesson.
So it's the humble.
So where there's humility, where there's honor and humility, you've got two components.
But when you have honor, humility, and hunger, miracles break out.
Miracles break out.
You get an open heaven.
Okay.
We can set atmospheres by our attitudes.
And that's why I teach people to walk in humility and walk in honor to those around you.
Honor men and women of God.
Honor one another.
Honor God, but honor each other.
People can say, I honor God, I love God, but they go to church and backbite and criticize
and gossip about other Christians or the pastor.
And they wonder why miracles don't happen.
They wonder why the heaven's not open.
They wonder why God seems distant, because God resists the proud.
So it's about learning to walk in honor and humility.
We're going to do a little homework lesson for that today.
Mark 6.39, where Jesus, they were all hungry, and Jesus broke the loaves and the fish and
divided it.
But he made them sit in companies of 50.
He said, sit, sit, you know, today to try and get Christians to obey, just to get together
and to work together.
It's flipping hard.
Why?
They don't want to work together.
He said, no, I'll do my own thing.
This is spirit of individuality, the spirit of rebellion, actually, no, I don't need to
do that.
Well, Jesus released a miracle.
When people learn how to work together, they have the humility to work together for the
good of each other, not just themselves.
And say, sit, when God's people know how to sit together in humility and working together
rather than doing their own thing.
So humility.
And 2 Chronicles 7.14, of course, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves
and pray, okay?
So that's humility.
Okay, so I'm going to go somewhere else now, whanau.
I'm going to go somewhere else.
A lot of Christians are saying God's judging the nation of New Zealand because of the abortion
bills and so forth.
And I personally don't agree.
I don't think that's biblical.
I think it's a knee-jerk reaction.
You've got to realise unjust laws have been passed by successive governments in this nation
for the past 200 years.
This isn't just something that's happened.
I was around 35 years ago when the spirit of God told me he's going to punish those
who pervert justice.
That was when the biggest petition in New Zealand history was signed against the homosexual
law reform bill.
It was signed by 500,000 Kiwis, the biggest petition in New Zealand history.
It was when the Lange government was in, and in spite of that, in spite of half a million
petitions speaking against the bill, it still went through.
The government still pressed it through.
And then you go back further, you know, in the 1800s, for decades, the government set
successive laws in place to kill, to destroy every Māori, to wipe out the Māori race.
This evil, this snake under the beehive, it hasn't been there just in the last couple
of years.
It's been there for decades.
And so the bigger issue is not so much about the law.
I mean, I hate abortion.
I hate the laws that are being passed.
I don't agree with the unrighteous laws, the abortion, the euthanasia, the marijuana.
But there's a bigger issue.
And that issue is why isn't governments influenced by the church?
Why are we not influential?
Because the early church had influence over leaders, over government leaders, and over
kings.
And the church had influence, the church had power.
God used the church and he would remove ungodly influences in order for the kingdom to thrive
and the church to grow.
So why doesn't the New Zealand church have influence over the government of this nation?
That's the bigger question.
And so this isn't something new to me.
This has been, well, I've known Jesus 40 years, but it's been 34 years that this issue has
been on my heart about ungodliness, for righteousness promotes a nation.
Righteousness exalts a nation.
But you know what?
The government leaders, most of them aren't righteous.
It's not up to them to exalt the nation.
It's up to us.
We're the ones that know what righteousness is, and righteousness exalts a nation.
So let me just read you some notes.
There's an earthly government and a heavenly government, amen?
The heavenly government is the government is upon his shoulders, the government is upon
the shoulders.
And so here's, now this isn't a doctrine, this is just what I've observed and what I
see in scripture.
1 Peter 4, 17, for the time has arrived for judgment to begin in the household of God.
And if it begins with us, what will be the end of the world?
those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news, the gospel of God.
So judgment begins, it says, in the house of God.
It doesn't begin in government, it doesn't begin in the ungodly's house, it begins in
the godly's house.
That's what it's saying.
And I believe personally that the nation is a mess because the church is a mess.
I believe that there's fatherlessness in this nation according to the prophet Malachi, who
spoke about a curse that would come on a land when the fathers turned their hearts
away from the children and children turned their hearts away from the fathers.
And I believe that, and we see that today, that at least three quarters of Māori households
are without their natural fathers.
Half of Pākehā households are without their natural fathers, apparently according to stats.
That's fatherlessness, that's natural fatherlessness, and I always look, what's happening in the
church often reflects what's happening in society.
And in the church there has been gross fatherlessness for decades.
Students produce, no, teachers produce students, and fathers produce sons, and the fathers
of this nation, and there are a lot of them.
But yeah, this stuff's happened, and we need to fix it.
I'm not putting blame here or there, but there are things that are out of alignment that
we need to bring back into alignment.
So when God says he's going to judge, if he's going to judge a nation, look out, he's going
to judge us first.
Now, when you say judgment, straight away, many Christians think, oh, punishment, and
you equate judgment with punishment.
And in the Old Testament, it was punishment too, and Sodom and Gomorrah and all that sort
of stuff.
Okay, but at the same time, in this context, when God judges his house, the word judge,
it means to bring back into alignment what is out of alignment.
So when Israel, when they walked away from the living God and sinned, they went out of
alignment, and they allowed the enemy to destroy them.
God loves them.
And God says, I'm bringing judgment, I'm bringing judgment upon you, I'm bringing alignment
back on you, so you come back and love me so the hand of the enemy is lifted from you
because I love you.
Time and time again, God had to bring judgment on his people, not to punish them, but to
bring them back into a loving relationship with him.
And so judgment is not about so much punitive, it's about restoration, it's about bringing
back into alignment.
You're with me?
So we're going somewhere.
The nation's a mess, I believe, because the church is a mess.
And I don't believe, well, we don't have the mana, we don't have the ear of the government,
we don't have the air or the mana for them to listen to us.
Because when unbelievers look at the church, and what is it?
There's no one voice.
There's so many voices.
I was at Waitangi a couple years ago, Treaty of Waitangi, first time on Waitangi Day.
And I was there on the Waitangi grounds, and there's all these voices speaking, there's
political voices, there's Christian voices, there's Māori voices, but there are different
Christian voices speaking off the Treaty grounds.
Te Wairoa Tapu said to me, son, that's why my people are confused, because there's no
clear one voice.
They all have little voices, but there's no clear one voice.
And the early church, when they spoke, it said they were of one mind, one heart, one
voice, one Lord, one baptism, one God.
And the early church is the pattern.
Today in New Zealand, we don't have that.
We don't have that pattern.
But there's good news, God's pressed the reset button.
So I believe we're heading towards that now.
There is a pattern.
And so let me keep going about this thought I have about when the house of God is out
of order, it reflects intimidation.
And so, for instance, if my marriage is out of order, if my arguments with Jess, if we're
fighting all the time, but we go to church on Sunday, but our kids see us fighting, our
kids are in the atmosphere of antagonism and of stress and anxiety and strife.
And we go to church and we're praising God, but our kids are, they're antsy, they're playing
up.
And it's because they are affected by the atmosphere that we create.
When we have contention as the parents, then it's going to affect the children.
And we go to church and try to look like we're all happy, but it's not truth.
And it's the same with the house of God.
If there's contention in the house of God with the parents, it's going to reflect on
the kids and it's going to, and I just see this as in the natural side of the spiritual.
So God wants to bring divine order back into his house so he can bring blessing upon the
house and that blessing can flow through the house to the nation.
So let's go to Ezekiel 47, well, or in Ezekiel 47, sorry, Ezekiel 10 verse 18.
And the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the
turban.
So in the days of Ezekiel, the glory of God
was on the temple, which represents the church today.
And when the glory was in the temple,
when there's glory in the temple,
kaiti pai, it's all good.
But when there's no glory in the temple,
then it will lift.
And when there's no glory on the temple,
it will affect the land.
And so what happened was that Ezekiel,
the prophet, saw that in the temple,
behind the walls, there was idol worship.
There's all this rubbish going on.
And as a result, it grieved the Holy Spirit,
it grieved God, and he lifted his presence.
And his presence lifted off the house of God,
which in turn lifted it off the nation of Israel.
And then in Ezekiel 47,
we see when the glory came back upon the house of God,
when there is divine order in the house,
a divine presence comes.
And I believe, generally speaking,
that the body of Christ, that the house of God,
that the Western style of the way we have operated
is out of order.
And God's glory can't sit on that,
which is not in his order.
He doesn't bless a mess, it's gotta be done his way.
And so I'm gonna come to that.
What is God's way for the Church of New Zealand?
How are we gonna move forward after this?
And what's the face of the church gonna look like?
Well, let's just keep going.
So in Ezekiel 47, we see that when the glory
came back on the house of God,
obviously, because the leadership inside the house,
something must have been right.
Right, they must have come up into alignment.
Then what happens?
The river flowed out from the gate,
from the east gate of the house of God.
Where did it flow?
It flowed across the land.
It flowed to the different levels,
ankle, knee, waist, big river.
But it flowed out across the land,
and it brought healing to the land.
If my people who are called by my name
will humble themselves and see my face
and turn away from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven,
I will forgive their sins,
and I will heal their whenua.
I will heal their land.
And so we see that when the glory came back into the house,
the glory flowed out from the house, from the church,
and it affected the land.
And I believe when we get things back into alignment
in the house of God and our nation,
that not only is the glory of his presence
gonna come and bless and influence the church,
I believe it's gonna bless and affect our nation.
I believe it's gonna affect our land.
I believe it's gonna have influence also
over those in government,
because when the government of God is in order on earth,
then the government, the natural government on earth,
it will be influenced by the government of God.
Hallelujah.
So we're going somewhere today,
probably we didn't think we were gonna go,
but it's in line with honour, humility, and hunger.
We've gotta get honour back into the house of God
and humility and hunger for God's pattern.
So do you know the most powerful nation on the earth
is not the United States, Russia, or China?
It's you and me.
1 Peter 2.9, but you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation.
It's the holy nation.
We're the most powerful nation on the earth,
but it doesn't appear that way.
The most powerful nation on earth
is not manifesting that power
because of church dysfunction.
The early church had an influence
with leaders, nations, and society.
The early church system of leaders
is nothing like the Western church leadership system.
The early church, which fathers were five-folders.
They were apostles, prophets, evangelists,
pastors, and teachers.
They had particular giftings and functions.
That was the early church.
And they submitted one to another in honour and love,
and they used their gifts to help build the church.
And so in Ephesians chapter four,
you read that God gave gifts unto men,
some to be apostles, some to be prophets,
some to be evangelists, some to be pastors,
some to be teachers.
And Ephesians 2, 20, 20 says,
and God said in the church,
first apostles, then prophets.
And so there's a pattern,
there's a recipe for a successful church, yeah?
There's a recipe for a successful chocolate cake.
My wife makes the most amazing chocolate cakes.
But you know, I'm not a cook, I wouldn't know.
But I know this, that if you're gonna make a cake,
you gotta have eggs, and milk, and cocoa,
and sugar, and butter.
I know you gotta have the right ingredients.
And so if I don't make a chocolate cake,
but I don't put in eggs, or I don't put in chocolate,
then the recipe's wrong, I'm always gonna get a flop.
And if we keep trying to build the church
according to human patterns,
it's gonna keep flopping.
Psalm 126a, unless the Lord builds the house,
they that build it, labour in vain.
And what is the recipe God has given to build the church?
It's not just pastors and teachers.
God blessed pastors and teachers and evangelists.
But for the past 200 years,
it's generally been pastors and teachers and evangelists
that the church recognises they're gifting,
and submits to it, and thank God for them
without the pastors and teachers.
I wouldn't be here today in the church,
but God didn't just call the threefold
to build his church.
He called the fivefold,
and that there needs to be a recognition
and acknowledgement of the body of Christ in this nation
to the ministry of the apostle and the prophet.
But there's that, sit.
We're not gonna sit, we're not gonna listen.
Who do you think you are?
We'll just roam the hills like goats.
No, you're a new generation.
God's given the fivefold,
Ephesians 4, 11, Jesus gave gifts to men.
He gave the gift of the fivefold ministry to the church.
Why?
To equip you and me for the work of the ministry
that we might become mature,
that we're no longer tossed to and fro
by every wind of doctrine,
that we grow up together in love,
that we grow up.
And the reason why the church is still so immature
in our nation and most Western nations
is because it takes a fivefold leadership,
not the threefold leadership,
to mature the body of Christ.
So, listen to this.
Sorry for saying it like that, listen to this.
God's ways are like a jigsaw puzzle.
He's got a plan for this nation.
Ecclesiastes 3 says,
for everything there is a season
and a time for every purpose under heaven.
Does the church now understand the season that we're in?
Does it understand the time and the purpose that God has?
God has pressed the reset button.
God wants to reset His church.
And it starts at the head.
He wants to reset.
And so God's plans for this nation,
they're like a jigsaw puzzle.
It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
And each apostle and prophet in this nation has a piece.
I have a piece, okay?
I don't have the whole piece.
I only have a piece of the jigsaw puzzle.
I know I have a piece,
but that piece isn't the whole picture.
And unfortunately, what happens is
many apostles or prophets,
they get a little bit of revelation, a piece of revelation,
and they think this is the whole picture.
And they start spouting off,
this is what the Lord is saying.
This is what God, and it's true.
It's what He's saying,
but not just in the context of their little piece.
I put my piece of revelation next to other apostles,
and there's some great young men and women,
and older men and women of God,
apostles and prophets in this nation.
And when I put my piece of revelation
next to their piece of revelation
on the table of no ego, of no denomination, of no agendas,
just the table of the kingdom of God, sitting with Jesus.
When I put my piece of revelation
on the table for this nation,
and they put their piece,
suddenly we begin to see a picture form.
And at the moment, we're not all sitting at the table.
Not all sitting at the same table.
And that's coming, that's coming.
We've got a wee way to go, New Zealand.
But imagine a gathering of New Zealand five-folders
sitting at a table.
I mean genuine God-appointed five-folders.
There's so many self-appointed ones,
and it's dangerous for them.
But God-appointed, genuine God-appointed five-folders
that you honour, that you acknowledge,
that you respect, that the body of Christ honours
and respects.
Imagine us, we're sitting at a table,
figuratively speaking, and using our gifting,
putting our pieces together, and using our giftings
to work together to build the body of Christ,
to extend the kingdom of God,
to build the church according to his pattern.
It doesn't mean that we're putting pastors
and teachers out of work.
No, no, we need each other.
We work together rather than working apart.
So I acknowledge, and I recognise the gifting
on our other apostles, and I submit to that,
because I'm gonna learn from another apostle,
another prophet, another pastor, teacher, evangelist.
I learn.
They help build me up,
but my gift also helps build them up.
We need this culture of honour,
and this culture of humility back in the body of Christ,
starting with the leadership,
to begin to recognise and give deference,
and submit and commit to one another,
and our gift, and use our gift to help build each other up.
Use our gift to help build our churches.
Use our gift to help speak and bring influence
into our land, into our nation.
That's what God wants.
Now, it's already happening in a lot of regions
of this nation, in different towns and cities.
There is a coming together of godly five-folders,
and that's awesome.
But I'm talking right across the board,
the whole nation, because we need a voice
that speaks, representing the body of Christ.
We need a national voice, not a committee.
Not a committee of administrators and teachers.
We need, God didn't have a committee.
He had apostles and prophets stand up
and say, thus saith the Lord in the time,
but they had the backing of the church,
and it wasn't just one prophet,
that one prophesied and two weighed up the matter.
So it was safety, it was true prophets, true apostles.
And imagine, God wants that for this land.
So the five-fold are a gift to the church.
Okay, I'm gonna read to you Ephesians.
No, I'm not, you read it yourself, it'll take too long.
So the past 200 years, the Western Church in New Zealand
and around the world generally has been led by God-fearing
and blessed pastors, teachers, and evangelists,
and bless them, but we need the apostles and prophets
also to join in, we want the right recipe,
we want a good chocolate cake, yeah?
Therefore, the church can never mature to be
who Jesus called it to be until the five-fold are operating.
So imagine a coalition of genuine God-appointed five-folders
led by apostles and prophets in Aotearoa
walking and serving together.
Imagine that they have the respect and honor
and the backing of the whole body of Christ in the nation
so that when they speak, governments listen.
Now, coming to a close, God gave New Zealand a glimpse
of what I'm talking about, of how we could be,
of what we could be.
Over 100 years ago, God raised up
one of New Zealand's greatest apostles,
an apostle prophet that the church has ever seen,
one of the greatest.
My personal view, I believe he is the greatest.
And this apostle, this man, his ministry shook the nation
as he honored and preached Jesus.
Holy Spirit confirmed his ministry with incredible signs
and wonders and miracles on a scale
that haven't been seen since in this nation.
Tens of thousands in New Zealand came to Christ
as they repented of the things that robbed them
from being sons of God.
More were saved through this man's ministry
than all the crusades done in New Zealand.
People from around the world sent letters for prayer
and healing and received amazing miracles
by this apostle prophet that God raised up in this nation.
This is just some of his ministries.
This man was in London just before the outbreak
of the Second World War.
And as he was walking across London Bridge,
he saw all the buildings and he stopped and he said,
I see all these buildings in ruins and smoking.
And it was only a couple of years later,
but the Nazis sent the blitz and they bombed that whole area
and what he saw came to pass.
He went to Japan and while he's in Japan,
he warned the emperor that if he didn't repent
from the people worshiping him as a God,
that the living God would have to judge his nation.
And he said, as he is saying this,
he saw two bright lights would come over
the emperor's nation of Japan.
And I mean, what happened?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bombs
humbled that nation.
And he prophesied, it wasn't just prophecy,
he was a prophet on a high level, on a global level.
To this day, government leaders of all main parties
in New Zealand are still influenced
by this apostle prophet's ministry.
And they go to the place where he operated from every year
just to get the favour of many of his people.
Imagine today, if there were a group of apostles
and prophets in New Zealand that had the influence
that God gave to that one man.
Do you know who that man was that God used
a hundred years ago, over a hundred years ago?
Do you know who he was?
Tahu Potiki Wirimu Ratana.
Some of you just know him as Ratana.
Wirimu Ratana.
It's interesting, history repeating itself
because it was during the Spanish flu in 1918
that God put his call upon him.
It was in 19, I'll read this.
Just over a hundred years ago, the world was overtaken
by the Spanish influenza.
During 1918 to 1919, an estimated 500 million people
contracted the virus and 50 million died as a result.
This was in the early days of Pentecostalism.
Similar measures were put in place,
group gatherings were banned
and churches were shut down over this time.
People were in self-isolation.
A hundred years ago, 1918.
Here we are a hundred years later,
we are shut down all over the world,
most of the world anyway.
The church is shut down, group gatherings banned,
self-isolation.
Isn't this interesting?
Well, that was happening over a hundred years ago
when Wirimu Ratana, when God put the call
on that man of God and raised him up
to the nation of the nations.
But the church generally back then didn't recognise him
and at large today, still much of the church
doesn't acknowledge or recognise
Tahu Potiki Wirimu Ratana
as one of the greatest apostle prophet,
gifts that Jesus gave to the body of Christ, to this nation.
Maybe you need to repent of that.
He's my hero, one of my heroes.
You say, but he's dead.
No, he ain't dead.
He's as dead as Abraham then.
God's the God of the living
and he's looking down on us right now.
So during lockdown, a hundred years ago,
God put the call of God upon this man,
which shook this nation.
Could it be that a hundred years later,
we're in the same lockdown,
God's pressing maybe wanting us to press reset,
begin to
seek Him first, to begin to get our first love back,
to begin to maybe get together
and allow God to raise up the fivefold.
Now, if you're not a fivefold,
if God hasn't called you that,
it's no just, it's, this isn't a judgment.
This is, He doesn't choose everybody
to be an apostle, prophet, or being a vengeance pastor,
teacher, and you should be glad for that.
You don't want to be one unless you're called,
because there's a price to pay.
You've got to die for it.
But if you're not, you know, what can you do?
You can pray.
You can pray for the apostles, prophets,
vengeance pastors, and teachers of this nation,
the genuine God appointed,
that their ears will open, their hearts will soften,
and that they'll allow God to reset,
and that we will come together.
That we'll understand this is,
for everything is a season and a time for every purpose.
It will understand the season and the time
and the purpose for this nation.
So this is what I'm going to do.
Pray for me for wisdom and favour,
because I'm going to send an email out to every,
who I consider a God appointed firefolder,
and I'm going to share some of these thoughts with them
that I'm sharing with you this morning.
Okay?
And so there we go, whānau.
What can you do to help bring this reset?
Pray.
Pray for the firefold.
Pray for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Pray for His church
to accept, to humble itself,
to show honour to the giftings
that God has given to the church.
That it's not just the firefolders, it's Christians.
So many Christians in this nation,
great men and women of God,
but hey, we can't be mature
unless we've got humility, honour, and hunger.
I'm hungry.
I can't keep going like this.
I want more.
I want more than revival too.
I want transformation.
I want social transformation,
and I want generational transformation.
I don't want just a revival, a flash in the pan.
I want what God wants.
I want on earth what is in heaven.
So, there we go, whānau.
There's my message.
I'm going to give you the homework now,
and then I'm going to pray for you.
Here's the homework.
Homework, Luke 4, 18, declaration, keep doing it.
Acts 10, 38, keep memorising that.
Now, to restore honour, here's your homework.
Here's your homework to restore honour.
Let's bring it home now.
Is there areas of honour you need to deal with
in your life, personal life?
Go before God and ask him if there are any areas
that you need to repent of regarding dishonour
to God or to man.
Just ask him, is there any dishonour in my heart, Father?
Because we can't sow honour into others
if we're carrying dishonour in our own hearts, eh?
We can't try and sow honour and unity into the body
if we've got dishonour and gossip in our own hearts.
So, if he shows you've dishonoured someone in your mind,
repent in your head and ask God for forgiveness.
That's it.
But if he shows you've dishonoured someone publicly,
you've gone and gossiped and said,
am I telling you to do something I would do?
Yeah, I've had to do this several times.
And it's painful, it's embarrassing,
but it keeps you clean.
I'd rather have a clear conscience
than to look good on the outside.
And so, I remember a time when I gossiped
about my pastor, actually.
I didn't like a decision he made,
so I went and told the receptionist
I didn't agree with that and blah, blah.
So I gossiped.
Then I went and talked to another pastor
and back-bit behind my pastor's back.
When my pastor walked into the office
a couple of days later, suddenly I felt all guilty.
I just felt guilty.
The Holy Ghost was really grieved.
And he said, you go and apologise, number one,
to the receptionist for spearing your gossip over her
and you go and apologise to the other pastor
for spearing your gossip,
and then you go and apologise to your pastor.
I said, can't I just ask you for forgiveness, Lord?
I don't have to do that, please.
He says, if it was in private in your head, you could.
But what you did publicly, you publicly dishonoured,
you publicly honour again.
Oh!
So I did it, whānau.
I went to my receptionist and I apologised to her
for gossiping about my pastor.
I shouldn't have done that.
That was just dishonourable, an abomination to God.
And I asked for her forgiveness.
Then I went to the other pastor
and I did the same, asked for forgiveness and apologised.
So I shouldn't have done that.
Then I went to my pastor and I sat down
and I told him what I'd done.
And I apologised and I asked for his forgiveness.
And thank God, he's a real father in the faith.
He honoured me and he thanked me for doing that.
And he said, man, I can see God's
in her deep work in you, Norm.
I thank God for that, man.
He helped me become a man of God,
because I learnt how to submit to him.
I learnt how to commit to wisdom of God, the Holy Spirit,
but also to that man that God put over me.
And some of you, you know, some of you,
maybe you haven't, you've been hurt by churches
or hurt by other people.
I understand the leadership abuse and all that,
but you've got to get over it, you know.
We've all been hurt.
Who hasn't been hurt?
If you say you've been hurt,
well, take a number and join the queue.
We've all been hurt.
But Jesus was hurt.
You heard Jesus, I heard Jesus.
You and I, we put him on a cross.
We nailed him to a cross with our sin,
and yet he forgave us.
And so if He forgave us of the sin that we did to Him, who are we not to forgive others
who have hurt us?
And okay, so if you need to forgive someone who hurt you, but at the same time, if you've
hurt others, if you've gossiped over somebody, then listen to the Holy Spirit.
You know, use wisdom.
What's appropriate?
What's He saying to you?
Is it, it might be, it might, there's some cases you need to talk to your pastor.
If there's some abuse cases from the past, yeah, you better talk to your pastor about
how you handle that wisely.
But if it's just plain gossip or backbiting, then you need to apologize to them.
Because God gives you grace, but He didn't give the people you gossip to grace to handle
the situation.
And so now they've got something in their heart towards whoever it was you gossiped
about, and you've defiled them.
And so it's not to condemn you, but it's to free you.
Judgment means bring back into alignment what's out of alignment.
So we need to judge ourselves, Paul said.
If we judged ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
So this is just self-judgment.
This is what we do in the Warrior Activist Course.
This is why it's called a Warrior Course.
We are warriors.
Kia kaha!
We are warriors.
We don't talk about it.
We don't, it's not waha, it's kaha.
Okay, it's not hui hui, it's dewey dewey.
It's making changes in our lives, becoming more like Jesus.
So that's number one.
That's honor, homework.
Here's your humility homework.
Restore humility.
Ask God if there's any pride or arrogance in your heart you need to repent of, okay?
He gives you grace to walk in humility.
So 1 Peter 5, likewise you younger, submit yourself to the elder.
All of you be subject one to another, be clothed with humility, for God resists the
proud and gives grace to the humble.
Humble yourself therefore unto the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time.
So God wants, God gives grace to the humble.
Grace is a divine empowerment to do what he's called us to do.
And we need grace.
But grace only comes to the humble.
And so I need grace every day to walk as Jesus walks.
I need grace so I don't backbite, just gossip.
I need grace.
So I keep my eyes clean.
I need grace.
But he only gives it when we humble ourselves.
And we humble ourselves by being honest to God, honest to one another.
If you have sinned, you just confess it to God, ask for forgiveness.
He wipes it just like that.
He deletes all the naughty bits of our lives.
He's so wonderful.
He's so merciful.
He's so magnificent.
That's our Jesus.
Okay, fine.
There's your homework.
I'm going to pray for you now.
Okay.
Thank you, Jesus.
So as I count to three, I want you to lean forward into the presence of Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
I just bless you.
I give you praise, Lord.
So if you've got sickness in your body, I want you to put your hand over your heart
right now.
And on the count of three, I want you to lean forward into the wonderful healing presence
of Jesus.
I'm receiving so many testimonies from people who've been healed, have woken up, and pain
has left their body.
One lady in particular, she's had, I'm going to wait to get the doctor's clearance, the
doctor's report from her, but literal real miracles are taking place out there, whānau.
It's not I that heals, it's Jesus.
On the count of three, I want you to lean into the presence of Jesus.
Are you ready?
On the count of three, lean forward into the presence of Jesus.
One, two, three.
Thank you, Jesus.
Silver in God, I have none, but what I have in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I release.
Holy Spirit, I thank you.
I give you praise, Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus, for touching, for your healing presence going out.
Now, whānau, I want your hand to touch the screen.
As you touch the screen, something's going to feel like an electric shock going through
the screen.
There's a power of God right now.
Touch.
Thank you, Jesus.
Touch.
Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
By my spirit, says the Lord.
Touching Lord, you said, I will lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Father, as I'm touching the screen, I touch it also.
And I thank you, Lord, that your hand is on my hand, your hand, the substance of your
presence is flowing through my hand into the hand of that brother and that sister right
now.
That's, Lord, better than 9,000 volts of electricity.
That is healing that's taking place right there.
That is power taking place right there.
Some of you, oh, be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Be baptized in the name of, be baptized in the Holy Spirit, in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name
of Jesus.
Thank you, Father.
Rheumatoid Arthritis, you leave now.
Okay, fine, this is... So we put limitations on God, what He can and cannot do.
There's no... Jesus forgives every sin, right? There's no sin... There's only
one sin He won't forgive, that's blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. And most of you
don't even know what that is, so don't even worry about that. But He forgives
every sin. As far as Easter from the West, He removes every sin. There's no sin that
He cannot forgive. There's no sin that His blood cannot wash away. You believe
that, eh? You know that. And there's no sickness He cannot heal. There's no
disease. There's no sin greater than another that He can't wash away. And
there's no disease greater than another that He cannot heal. It's in the
limitations of our minds that we limit God. And He's not limited. He's
able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think. And so, okay, I'm
speaking right now, and I command schizophrenia to come out of you in the
name of Jesus. Christ's schizophrenia leaves. I command cancer to come out of
you in the name of Jesus. I command all trace of cancer to leave your body, all
trace of swelling to go down and leave your body in the name of Jesus. I command
that sugar diabetes to leave you. I command your need for dialysis
to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I command your
bones to be healed, your back to be healed, and that you no longer have to
walk with crutches. You no longer have to walk with a walking stick in the name of
Jesus of Christ of Nazareth. I command that neck to be free, that back that
you've been bedridden all these years. Be healed in the name of Jesus. Be healed in
the name of Jesus. Now right now people I want you to do something you couldn't do
before. If it's your back and you couldn't move it, do something. Test
yourself and see what the Lord has done. Faith is an action. Let's move yourself
around. Thank you Jesus. Now I'm signing off now because the power of God
is still flowing while I'm offline. It doesn't mean the Holy Ghost is offline.
There's that fire of God just burning through there. So tomorrow whanau we'll
see you. Same time, same place. Do your homework. Consider the things I've spoken
about and pray for me please. Thank you Jesus.