Hope you guys are all doing great. It is a beautiful day today in paradise once again
just a
stunning day excited for
Everything that's going to happen today, and I hope you guys are all doing amazing
I'm just fiddling with a light here. I
Changed my plan at the last second a
Saturday beautiful Saturday today
I'm not sure what you guys have been up to so far, but I have
Been having a good morning. Oh a few things crashing here. He thinks crashing around a by world
Gabriel good to see you and
Who else is there just give a wave if you're if you're on board I see Gabriel hello Gabriel. Love you
We're about to pray for you this morning. Thanks for sending in your message about
You know your prayer request for your eyes
We're gonna pray for that in a moment, which is going to be good and some other people are out there
Just do a thumbs up say hello
So that we can we can see but this morning. We're gonna have a great morning
We're going to talk about kingdom building community Michelle great to have you with us this morning as well
short and sweet and powerful session this morning on some keys to
Building kingdom community
I've had a good morning this morning. I've just finished a workout which was good, so I'm pretty pumped. I'm pretty pretty sweaty
This morning my exercise my workout was a high intensity
interval training session I just jammed some action on YouTube and
That was great a guy there doing a 15-minute workout session
Run and some sprint training too, which I love I love sprinting
I haven't really done that for years actually so I've just been getting into that this week again, which is cool
So it's been good sunny good to have you with us from Germany this morning as well
So
Yeah, I just thought I thought I'd share that um I
Just might I'm working your exercise is one of my goals
I've got a goal when I'm 50 on refitter faster and stronger than I was at 30
So I'm putting that into action on a pretty close to a daily basis
You know we talk try to encourage people with this concept of doing something
You know I put five minutes into things that you value on a daily basis because success isn't just a an event
Success really ultimately success is a state of being I was thinking about that this morning actually as I was doing some exercise
Hi, Sonny. I was thinking about how
Success
is
Success is the absence of chaos you know in the eyes of God as well
What a success looks like and the eyes of heaven what a success look like
success looks like the absence of chaos and so
What are you doing in your world to remove chaos and introduce Shalom introduce that
Divine design into your world one thing. I did today was tidying my house because chaos was in my house
Doing things with my kids so today's gonna be a good day of bringing bringing balance in my world have a family day
I'm gonna do stuff around the house. I've been doing some dishes and some tidying that makes my wife happy
So today's gonna be a good day bringing balance
Bringing him into my world by bringing balance into my world and part of that is fitness and part of that is you guys
So I'm stoked to be here this morning
We're going to gonna pray pretty quickly gonna have a quick prayer jam, and then boom going to blast into
building kingdom community part one and some keys on
Building healthy relationships, so why don't you pray with me? Why don't you pray in the spirit with me?
Let's pray in tongues, and let's see what the Holy Spirit's gonna do
Oh
That's cool
Gabriel's been given lots of hugs to babies that definitely increases the amount of heaven in your world
Hey, let's pray if you're able to pray with me
We'll pray in the spirit to start with and then we'll see what starts happening, and then we'll be just praying for the family as well
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Oh Trinity, we love you like crazy.
We delight in you.
Every part of our whole being, body, soul, and spirit explodes with delight in you.
We give you glory and honor.
Jesus, you are the King of Kings.
You are the Lord of Lords.
At your name, Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you, Yeshua
Messiah, you are the King of Kings.
You are the Lord of Lords.
And we declare it all over the earth this morning.
From the north and the south and the east and the west, we declare that Jesus Christ
is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and of the increase of peace and of his government,
there will be no end.
Jesus, truly, the nations will bow.
You sit and you laugh in the heavens, you've declared, ask of me and I will give the nations
as your inheritance.
So this morning, Jesus, we ask for nations.
We say give us the nations.
Raise us up, Jesus.
Anoint us afresh that we would be raised up to rule and reign and power and love.
Give us the grace on our lives to be those giant slayers who would disciple nations for
your glory.
Well, Lord, we thank you for strategies being released right now.
I thank you that strategies are being released right now for people to take their mountains.
Strategies are being released right now for people to raise their family in amazing ways,
to run their businesses in amazing ways, to run their ministries, their churches in amazing
ways, to create what you've called them to create with excellence and extravagance in
Jesus name.
We say that there's an anointing of breakthrough and momentum in Jesus name.
And right now I prophesy momentum over your life.
There's a kingdom, heavenly, divine momentum coming on your life.
So I prophesy momentum over your life right now in the name of Jesus.
Momentum from the spirit of God is upon your life in Jesus name.
So I just say to you, arise and shine right now.
Arise and shine right now.
I see pictures of people who have been under this cloud of oppression, just slightly average
thinking or mundane thinking or negative thinking.
And right now I prophesy it's time to arise and shine.
The momentum of heaven is upon you.
The spirit of the living God is upon you.
It's time for you to arise and shine in power and love to rule and reign over that which
he's called you to have dominion over.
Wow.
So Papa, right now I prophesy in the name of Yeshua Messiah.
I prophesy arise and shine.
People are arising and shining.
I prophesy.
I see, I just see our tribe are stepping up like that dark cloud that has come upon people.
I just see people rising up above the dark cloud.
I see them rising up above the oppression of darkness, above the clouds of oppression
and rising up with their heads, their minds, their eyes, their attention fixed on heavenly
things.
It's time for you to fix your thoughts on things above, seated in heavenly places, Ephesians
2, 6, doing only what we see the Father doing, John 5, 19.
So right now I say, I declare Isaiah 60, arise and shine for your light has come and the
glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Behold darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord
rises upon you and his glory is seen upon you.
So I just say arise and shine, arise and shine.
The momentum of heaven is upon your life.
The spirit of God, the glory of God is upon your life.
You were called to rule and reign.
You were called to be victorious.
You were called to ride and triumph on the heights of the land.
Isaiah 58 says that we will ride and triumph.
We will ride and triumph on the heights of the land.
I prophesy momentum.
I prophesy triumph.
I prophesy victory over your life right now in Jesus' name and I don't know if you can
release a shout right where you are right now, but I'm going to release a shout of victory,
a sound of victory over your life right now.
I'm going to be like a living trumpet.
I just feel the spirit of God boom just instantly on me intensely.
I'm going to release a shout, a sound of victory.
I prophesy in the name of Jesus, there is grace upon your life to arise and shine.
There is grace upon your life to arise and shine today.
The spirit of God, the glory of God, the momentum of heaven is upon your life and I prophesy
acceleration.
I prophesy upgrades.
I prophesy fresh grace.
I prophesy open doors.
I prophesy increasing favor is upon those who will arise and shine today in Jesus' name.
And papa in this realm, in this atmosphere of dominion surrounded by your glory, filled
with your spirit, in this atmosphere of intimacy and dominion.
Atmosphere of the glory of God and this atmosphere of the the atmosphere of heaven from this place
I stand in the anointing I stand in the authority
I stand in the grace and the calling and the identity and the glory that you've bestowed upon me and Lord all of us together
We rise up we stand together in the name of Jesus. We just declare freedom right now over this family over this online family
I declare freedom and a clear breakthrough over every single person in Jesus name right now
I declare freedom and breakthrough in Jesus name. I declare freedom from sickness and disease in Jesus name
I declare healing right now over Gabriel's eyes
I declare healing and life right now in Jesus name over the ankle and the oh gosh
I'm just trying to remember the prayer request that we had before
Let me jump on here for a second um Caroline asked for
Healing for an ankle and a tooth
So right now Jesus
For Caroline's ankle and a tooth we declare healing in Jesus name. We declare Shalom
Papa for Gabriel's eyes
Lord we just declare the soothing balm of your presence your anointing touching those eyes bringing healing in the name of Jesus
Lord for Alistair and those that are there in the sun and the online school those that are there at the
Prophetic evangelism training in Nelson today. We declare Lord
We declare favor and blessing on all that they're doing and those that are part of it
Lord just release your grace on them Lord release angelic activity release supernatural
signs wonders and miracles
Visions dreams and encounters upon them and Papa open up the realm of heaven for this school for everyone in it open up the realm
Of heaven eyes to see like never before
ears to hear like never before
Hearts to respond like never before hands and feet to run and do what you've called us to do so Papa
We declare healing we declare freedom, and I prophesy a spirit of wisdom and revelation over this family in Jesus name
That's causing massive massive breakthrough in Jesus name massive massive breakthrough. I see people right
I just really see this you know Isaiah 60 says arise and shine
I can really see that today this picture of out of our tribe arising and shining into new
new heights of the kingdom new heights of revelation new heights of our understanding of our identity new heights and intimacy new heights and
experiencing the extravagant love of God
Ha wow amen wow that was glorious
Jesus do all that you love to do in our lives we surrender afresh
We say fill us we say anoint us we say use us we say send us we say we're all yours
We want to do everything you've called us to do and be who you've called us to be amen ha beautiful
Wow that was juicy. Hey, um we're gonna get straight into this now
I don't think that I'm just gonna lift my camera up a little bit because I can just notice here that you're not quite catching
There we go
That's got it there right there. Oh little bump there, okay, so sweet what you can see here
As you can say you see my responsibility your responsibility, so I just want to take a moment now to share about this
concept in
relationships and in the context of building kingdom community to build kingdom community we have got to be
we've got to be experts at
relationship and
This is one thing that I have had a crash course on and being a pastor for the last 10 years and even in asking
What does heaven look like? What is the atmosphere of?
heaven
Look like what what does it look like to bring heaven to earth and the blueprint the model for bringing heaven to earth?
Hey, thanks, Michelle and the blueprint for bringing heaven to earth is always
the fellowship of the Trinity the fellowship of the Trinity is the model for us and so I
Just look to the fellowship of the Trinity their unbroken cycle of divine love to see the model the blueprint
for what heaven on earth looks like and so
this process of doing that with people is really really dynamic and
so the skill of having great you know being able to build exceptional relationships and being powerful people and being really really
Exceptional building relationships is really key. So I want to give you one key to building healthy relationships this morning
It's really really a massive part of bringing heaven to earth. In fact
Relationship skills communication skills. I think they're more
important and the process of bringing heaven to earth then signs wonders and miracles in one sense because
You don't need if you want to if you want to reproduce the fellowship of the Trinity
More than needing signs wonders a miracle
we need great relationship skills. I've seen more, you know, I think it's far
easier to train people for signs, wonders and miracles than it is to actually see
people have great quality healthy relationships and great quality healthy
community. Personally I'm all about let's have it all, let's have it all, let's have
it all, let's have the signs, wonders, miracles, let's have the visions, dreams
and encounters, let's have the trips to heaven, let's have the face-to-face glory
and let's also have communities where our quality of relationship is absolutely
divine, where our quality of relationship mirrors that of the
fellowship of the Trinity. So the key that I want to give you today is in a
relationship with anyone, what are you responsible for and what's the other
person responsible for? So what are you responsible for? What's, you know,
what is it that you need to be taking responsibility for in relationships with
people and what do I need to take responsibility for in relationships with
people? This is really really important in the process of becoming a powerful
person in your relationships. If we have a victim mindset or if we have a passive
aggressive mindset or if we have a way over-the-top aggressive mindset when it
comes to relationships, we can really destroy our own relationships and so
what I want to teach you is one thing about how to be a powerful person, one
key to being a powerful person in the context of relationships and that key is
knowing what your responsibilities are and what the other person's
responsibilities are. So let's jam on this, a real real simple breakdown of
who's responsible for honor. Now in a relationship you are always always
always responsible for honor. That looks like keeping your love on all the time
so regardless of another person's behavior there's never an excuse to step
out of out of honor. This is our responsibility. If we want to be able to
build kingdom community then we have to understand that that my first
responsibility in relationship, my first responsibility in a relationship with
anyone whether it's someone some tiny little kid or whether it's like the you
know the boss of the world you know whether it's whether it's your
relationship with God you know like on it or whether it's relationship with
someone that you meet on the street it doesn't matter who the person is your
primary responsibility in relationship your number one responsibility is always
honor. So for us we don't honor and the kingdom culture is not to honor someone
if they honors you. The kingdom culture is to honor people because we are
honorable but full stop we just we honor people because that's who we are we are
men and women of honor and that's how we roll that's what sonship looks like it
always looks like walking in honor regardless of the circumstance. You know
I have had some crazy crazy betrayals this year and ministry and business and
in all sorts of areas you experience dishonor you experience betrayal you
experience people hating you you experience persecution and what was
Jesus model for us in the midst of that when he was on the cross Jesus never
stepped out of honor he showed us what love looked like he showed us how we're
called to operate and we're always always called to operate in honor so boom
if you want to be a powerful person if you want to be empowered to bring heaven
to earth this is this is like imperative this is our this is where we
live from we live from honor regardless of how other people are acting there's
never a moment that we step out of honor and that's what Jesus modeled for us on
the cross he's like boom this is what honor looks like I honor people because
I'm honorable you didn't see Jesus getting angry with the people when he
was nailed to the cross you didn't see Jesus going I hate you you didn't see
him you know really attacking people because they had viciously betrayed him
and you didn't even see Jesus getting offended so when you walk in honor you
never walk in offense this is so crucial it's so crucial that we never step into
the realm of offense if we step into the realm of offense we've already lost the
battle we've stepped into enemy territory and we are you know we're
going backwards if we step into offense so number one thing that you're
responsible for in relationships you're responsible for you you can't control
other people we're not called to control other people we're called to control
ourselves now this would sort out most of our issues and relationships if we
could just control ourselves by never stepping into honor
out of honor, never stepping into offense, never stepping into dishonor, never
stepping into talking behind people's backs, cursing people, betraying people,
bad-mouthing people. Honor. This is our home. This is where we live. When
we're operating as sons we never step out of honor and that's what Jesus
molded for us on the cross. Give a thumbs up if you like that action or a shout out
if you're like, whoa, honor, that's what we're all about. If you're all about honor
just give me a fist bump, a thumbs up, a high-five, something, let me know you're
out there. Honor. Boom. It's the way of sonship. It's the way of the kingdom. The
second thing we're responsible for is forgiveness. When people when people let
us down, when people betray us, when people backstab us, when people fail us,
we are responsible for forgiveness. Freely give. As freely we
have received, so freely give. We're called to just freely forgive. We're
called to offer forgiveness and grace to people regardless of where they're at.
Regardless of the offense, regardless of the abuse, regardless of the
trauma that you've been through, we are called to live in forgiveness. This is
this is just giving grace to people. It's not judging them. It's not
holding offense. It's not keeping a record of wrongs. Freely forgiving,
effortlessly forgiving. We forgive as we have been forgiven, effortlessly. Now just
because we are willing to honor people and we're willing to forgive people, it
doesn't mean that if you're forgiving someone for, you know, something nasty
that they've done, or if you're forgiving someone from a past offense or a past
abuse, even if it's really, really serious. If you're forgiving someone from a past
trauma that might have been a really massive trauma in your life, it doesn't
mean that you necessarily trust people, okay? So this is what we're
responsible for in a relationship. We're responsible for honor. We're
responsible to always keep our love on, to never step out of that place of honor.
We're responsible for forgiveness, to always offer, freely offer forgiveness to
people. But just because we can honor and we can forgive people doesn't mean that
we just throw our trust out carelessly or casually. This is our responsibility
in a relationship, and this is the other person's responsibility. Now we can't
control people. We're not called to control other people. We're called to
control ourselves. We're called to have some self-control, and never step out of
honor, and always offer forgiveness. But other people are definitely 100%
responsible for stewarding our trust. Now if you're going to, if
people are going to have unsafe behavior, if they're going to be, yeah, if they're
going to be having unsafe behavior, if they're going to be disrespecting, if
they're going to be just being genuinely unsafe people, they're going to
really struggle to gain our trust, okay? So what other people are responsible for,
they're responsible for their behavior, and whether or not we can trust that
they will be safe people, whether or not we can trust their behavior. Hey, thanks
Caroline, that's good. And other people are responsible for their behavior, and
we can't always respect someone else's behavior, right? We can always honor
someone for who they are, we can always forgive them, but we can't always respect
their behavior. If they want our respect, they're responsible for earning
our respect, they're responsible for earning our trust, okay? So you aren't
obligated to give someone respect, you aren't obligated to give someone trust.
We are called, without a shadow of a doubt, to always walk in honor, and to
always walk in forgiveness, and to always offer that. But we're not called
to casually give our trust away. Trust is something that people are responsible
for stewarding trust, and people are responsible for stewarding respect. What
I want to talk about in our next session is boundaries, how to set healthy
boundaries, and also talk about how boundaries are not, boundaries are not
about pushing people away, boundaries are about showing people the way home.
And the more people can honor our boundaries, and honor our requests of,
hey, if you do this, I'll feel safe, the more people can steward our
trust, and steward that with safe behavior, then the more the level of
trust
is going to increase and the more the level of respect is increased. But I hope that is
a valuable moment for you. Boom! We're responsible for honor, we're responsible for forgiveness,
other people are responsible for stewarding trust, stewarding respect and building that.
And if we can do this, if we can create communities where we all understand this,
where we're all powerful people, where we're all walking in that really well, then ultimately what
that is going to create is going to create communities where we have really high levels
of trust. And the more trust we have in our relationships, the more trust we build into
the infrastructure of our communities, then the deeper the level of connection will be,
the deeper the level of intimacy will be. Love you guys, we'll catch you soon.
I think maybe I'll just share just for another, just another moment on this because this whole
concept of forgiveness, sometimes, sometimes in some church contexts, it's taught for people,
you know, like when you, if someone has abused you or someone's done something real nasty and
you're offering them forgiveness, sometimes there's been a miscommunication. They've said,
well, if we're going to forgive them and then we're going to be able to trust them again.
Absolutely not. You know, forgiving someone doesn't say, it doesn't mean that you're going to,
you can trust them. Okay. So we're going to freely forgive people, but then trust as a journey,
respect as a journey, and other people are responsible for stewarding that level of trust
and respect. So love you guys. Have a great Saturday. Why don't you just do a shout out as
well? What are you up to this Saturday? Be cool to hear some of the stories of what people are doing
for their Saturday. I'm hoping to go for an adventure in the wilderness this afternoon
or this evening. Might be able to go on a hunt and track down a deer or something like that,
but I've got a friend that I'm keen to go for an adventure with, so I'm going to be doing that
and I'm going to be having family time. I'm going to be doing probably some lawns and I might mow
a friend's lawns as well. They've been overseas, so I might try and smash that out for them as
the weather clears up this afternoon. Love you heaps. Oh, actually, Caroline, you just raised a
really good point there about this is an interesting concept when it involves leadership.
Your pastors, your leaders are not above this principle. Pastors, I'm a pastor, I have to earn
trust. I can't demand trust. It's totally wrong. Caroline, this is such a good point on this. And
if you have questions about this or discussion you want to start about this, then feel free to
chuck those comments down. Feel free to chuck questions down about this. I'm more than happy
to do questions in the comments. Chuck that down. We can have a conversation about that.
Would be great to hear that because leadership has been notorious in the church for not doing
this well. And going forward, we want to do this well in the future, but just because someone's
a pastor, they can't demand trust. And just because someone's a pastor, they can't demand
respect. That's a process. That's something that we have to build. That's something we have to grow.
And as a pastor, I don't actually expect, and it's wrong for me to go into someone's life and just
expect trust or expect respect if my behavior doesn't warrant trust. If my behavior doesn't
warrant respect. And in any relationship, this is a process of building this. But I tell you what,
the more that I operate here in self-control as a pastor, the more that I operate in honor,
and the more that I operate in forgiveness as my protocol, as my state of being, it actually
becomes quite easy to build trust and build respect. So if we get our part right of walking
in honor and forgiveness, if we get self-control right, we won't have to control others. And it
was a really good point that you made there, Caroline, because in the church and in lots of
other places... Oh, cool. Off you go. That's going to be awesome, Caroline. Have a great time
at the conference. But yeah, the more that we as individuals nail this, walking in honor and
forgiveness, the easier it is for us to build trust and build respect with other people. When
we slip up in honor and slip up in forgiveness, that's when we will struggle to be building trust
and respect with others. Love you guys so much. Have a wonderful day doing everything that you're
doing all around the world. I love you. Have a wonderful weekend. Bless you, and we'll catch you
Next week with Origins of the Gospel Part 3, and I'll do a Part 2 on this next week,
we'll look at setting safe boundaries. Have a great day, and please do feel free to share
what you're up to. I love it. Caroline, thanks for sharing, and why don't we just chuck up some
videos too of fun things that we're doing for the weekend. I'll hopefully send you a good,
fun video of my adventure today too. Love you. See you.