Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
I'm here with me too but we're eating doughnuts.
I'm not saying that sounds all right. Special delivery she ordered like just to support some of the local people that are trying to drum up some business so she ordered them they delivered them.
And we just came back from the dentist and there are a dozen doughnuts hanging on our front door.
So, classic.
Classic that's great well I believe we are live now, and in the group, and got a few people starting to join in so welcome everyone whether you're watching live or delay, that's great if you are live.
If you're watching in the Facebook group in the zoom room then click on the link and come and join us in the zoom room. Good morning, Elise, welcome.
Thank you to have you with us. Now have you got doughnuts as well.
No, you don't have any done it's just these guys in Canada that are munching doughnuts.
No, I don't have them.
I have curry and rice.
Curry and rice.
What would Jesus eat.
I can.
Yeah, the doughnuts I'm sure you'd be able to tell a story about the crucifixion, you know,
Good morning, Petty.
I've lost you.
Good evening.
Static there.
Someone.
Good to see you guys.
So, while we, while we kind of get started.
I thought we should, you know, we've had a pretty intense week a talking about failure. It's pretty, pretty goes pretty deep pretty reflective.
And pretty tense when we start exploring our own failures.
Yeah.
So, um, so I thought we should have a couple of laughs, while just to ease the tension right because failure is always nasty and intense when it's your failure.
Morning. Morning Dorcas. Morning Gail. Good to have you guys with us.
That is always really intense when it's your failure, but it's often the opposite when it's someone else sometimes it's slightly entertaining. So, depending on what it is I thought, just to mix up the intensity it's had a couple of laughs.
So I'm going to.
I'm going to play us a couple of couple of videos. Is that, is that right, just, just for a bit of a bit of break the ice. And then after that, the Holy Spirit still around that will pray.
And, you know, hopefully we don't scare him off too much I think he'll be mildly entertained as well.
But part of part of as we just watch some of these funny videos part of what I want to just get across is the fact that you know failure is actually high Dorcas there I see Dorcas in the chat saying she's driving kids home from school.
So she's driving so no video for now that's right Dorcas we'll see you when we see. And we'll probably we'll just, we're just going to be an hour.
Today. Okay, so we've got a window of an hour, and we're gonna do everything that we can in an hour but we're going to start off now with a couple of funny videos on Friday just to kind of I guess like a little bit of a message on our hearts because it's been pretty intense I think for some people.
reflecting on failure and reflecting on
some of, you know, some of the most intense life moments.
So let me share my screen.
And,
hey, morning, Ashley, welcome.
So I'm just gonna share the screen now.
And we're jumping onto YouTube.
So,
so,
here we are, this is us, guys.
I'm gonna take one moment here.
So have a little bit of a giggle.
This is not a random ad.
Thanks, YouTube, for the ad.
Here we go.
♪ Feel, almost can't remember how it feels ♪
♪ Things are turning real, so unreal ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the ocean's warm? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when you see the sun? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the sky is blue? ♪
♪ I know I do ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ We're wasting all the time ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ Put it in the sky and raise your hands ♪
♪ We ain't got no worries, no big plans ♪
♪ To make everybody dance when it feels we can ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the ocean's warm? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when you see the sun? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the sky is blue? ♪
♪ I know I do ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ We're wasting all the time ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the ocean's warm? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when you see the sun? ♪
♪ Do you like it better when the sky is blue? ♪
♪ Do you love the water? ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ Did you waste it all this time? ♪
♪ In a summer state of mind ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Okay, that's it.
That's it for now.
Let me stop that screen share, come back in here.
Welcome, everyone.
We just, for those that just jumped in, hello, hello.
We just took a moment there just to watch a funny YouTube video,
Fail Army versus People Are Awesome.
A couple of reasons for that.
One, I just thought, you know, we've had a pretty intense week exploring failure.
Who's found it pretty intense just doing some reflection on their biggest life fails?
Wow.
So, on that note, we're going to get Gail to pray for us.
So, Gail, why don't you pray for us this morning as we kick into it.
We're going to go till 8 a.m. New Zealand time.
And it's going to be beautiful.
So, Gail, you take it away.
Pray for us.
Thank you, Heavenly Father.
Thank you, Abba Papa, for bringing us all together.
Thank you for our group.
Keep us safe.
It's lovely to see you all.
And thank you in Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
Beautiful.
All right.
Thanks so much, Gail.
Appreciate that.
Yeah, Papa, we are so grateful.
to be together.
We thank you for the family that's building here.
We thank you for what you're doing in our lives.
And Papa, we thank you for giving us eyes to see
and ears to hear and hearts to understand
and wisdom and revelation to process failure
like we've never had before.
We ask that you go deep, deep, deep into our hearts.
You go deep into the core of our being and you speak life
and you give us, Lord, I just ask that you would bring in
your love that casts out all fear,
that would silence the storm of the fear of failure
inside our hearts, that you would silence that storm
and that you give us eyes to see and ears to hear
and hearts to receive in your beautiful name, Jesus.
Amen.
All right, good stuff.
So, who would like to share with us
something they've just been processing this week?
You know, as we've looked at big life failures,
who's in the space where you're good to share?
You're gonna have to jump right into it this morning
because we've got an hour window this morning,
so it will be to the bowl.
So go for it, Patty, that'll be great to hear.
The mic kind of space, the space this morning
will belong to the bowl.
So if you're hiding this morning,
you know, don't hide this morning, jump up,
we wanna hear your heart, so you jump out.
Okay, so Linda next, but Patty, go for it.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you, okay.
Well, I'm actually rejoicing today.
I'm full of joy because I've had
a major breakthrough today.
Wow.
And that's all because of the dreaming with God.
And I was working on my second one,
I've done them, but now I'm kind of refining them,
working on them to make them really come alive.
And the second one is about my husband.
My husband, I'm his carer, he's got lots of problems.
He's almost totally deaf.
He has memory problems, which are very similar to dementia.
He's got celiac disease, a pacemaker,
and can be very depressed and he can get very,
anyway, I won't say any more about that.
Life has been really tough in the past.
I mean, for example, I used to cry every night
for nearly three years, crying out to God
to help me to deal with it.
But I've done my declaration about my husband
and it really challenged me to think differently about him.
And your story of failure, Benji, in your marriage
encouraged me and helped me because I was saying to God too,
what am I doing wrong?
Where do I, and I've done that all along,
but this was like a new level of what,
I've come to the end of what can I do
to help to change the situation,
to make it livable with for the next 20 years.
So this is, if that's okay,
I'll quickly read the declaration that I've made.
And I've had a fantastic day with my husband.
He's been amazing.
He prayed for me, was so loving, so kind,
and it was awesome.
It was like the last few years, I don't know,
maybe six or more years just melted away.
It was awesome.
And this is my declaration now.
I've only done it three times,
but already it's like a miracle.
I turn to hide myself in you in the face,
in the fire and fury of Andy's frustrations and anger,
sarcasm and negativity.
I received wisdom and grace to overcome evil with good,
to diffuse the situation and rule over it
by letting Christ reign in me in the moment.
I dare to imagine, to think, to dream.
I decree Andy fully restored.
That is more than he ever was.
Fully liberated into glorious sonship identity,
reveling in love and glistening hope,
freed from all past failure, hurt, injustice, and pain,
freed from the negative things in his family line,
free from Asperger tendencies and the dementia,
free from deafness, coeliac disease, and heart block,
a prophet to the nations,
a joy-filled Andy, full of humor and wit,
who laughs every day,
an outgoing Andy who takes the initiative,
is bold and full of faith,
an Andy who enjoys.
his family to the full and has fun with us. An adventurous Andy, a carefree Andy,
an affectionate, kind, loving and romantic.
Now that, I think, Paddy's theme, Frozen. It's not just me, right? Everyone else has said
it's Paddy, Paddy, Frozen. We love you very much, Paddy, but it's like someone,
you know those cartoons where they have freeze guns? Someone shot it with a freeze gun.
So that was really powerful. We were loving it, Paddy. I'm not sure what's happened, but
we're just going to wait for her to come back online. But whenever she does,
um, whenever she does, you can...
Now you are frozen, Benji.
I think we have to do it ourselves now.
I think Linda was second.
Yeah, yeah, she was.
You gotta unmute yourself, Linda.
Right, okay. Should we go ahead or what are we doing here? I'm really emotional this morning.