Radiant

Radiant Introduction Regular followers of my shorter writings may have perceived a recent theme. The Lord desires a mission focussed 24/7 prayer centre in Perth characterised by a harp and bowl spirituality. Not one that imitates other places (IHOP Kansas … Continue reading

I AM the Lord

I am the LORD Ps 8:1-9; Ex 3:1-14; Rev 1:9-18; Matt 14:22-33 Introduction  https://youtu.be/JugLkqVajsM This is the first in a series on the “I am” statements of Jesus in the Gospels. These testimonies of Jesus are of vital importance because … Continue reading

Total Beauty

Total Beauty Introduction God’s endgame in creating the world, a cosmos founded on the “Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world” (Rev 13:8 cf. 1 Pet 1:20), is to make “everything beautiful in its time.” (Eccl 3:11). In … Continue reading

Divine Healing

Healing James 5:12-16 Introduction   https://youtu.be/isbLqW8uFDI When it comes to illness, our secular post-God society suffers from a divided mind[1], most people[2] will stretch out life as far as possible by any means whilst others will want it terminated with medical … Continue reading

Untameable Tongue

Taming Tongue James 3:1-18 Introduction https://youtu.be/S5GIdsA_Aps As we have discovered over the last few weeks, James is a hard hitter whose teaching about life, painful as it may be to digest, is unavoidably true to our experience. This is especially … Continue reading

Justified by Works

Justified by Works James 2:14-26  https://youtu.be/p3HMveQw3ME Introduction Today’s passage from James is difficult to interpret and controversial in message. The father of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, said that compared to books like Romans and Galatians it was “a real … Continue reading

Poor

Poor[1] Ps 12; Prov 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Mark 7:24-37; James 2:1-17 Introduction   https://youtu.be/-eioYCWD1PU If we have not thought of and interceded for the poor today  we are unlike the God of the Bible[2] who always hears the cry of the … Continue reading

Finishing the Family Tree

Finishing the Family Tree Having heard many amazing testimonies at Perth Prayer (https://www.facebook.com/PerthPrayer/) I have often pondered why a disproportionate number of these originate overseas. This week I sense a reply in the Spirit.. Introduction Last Tuesday an animated Spirit-filled … Continue reading

Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare Eph 6:10-20  https://youtu.be/3C_7U5rWKGU Introduction  Ephesians 1-5 testifies of the great plan of God to head up everything, earthly and heavenly, in Jesus. this must be so because Jesus is human as well as divine. In Ephesians 6 we … Continue reading

Fully Equipped

Fully Equipped    Eph 4:7-16 https://youtu.be/daAplZwk4HQ Introduction In the last three weeks we have been working through the riches of what Ephesians teaches us about the Church, we are the recipients of eternal blessing in Christ (Eph 1), we are a … Continue reading

The Measure of Love

The Measure of Love Ps 14; 2 Sam 11:1-15; Eph 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 Introduction  https://youtu.be/d0NWG7TMrwA We saw last week from Ephesians 2:11-22 that the Church is a living temple[1] whose dimensions in the Spirit will in the End fill the … Continue reading

Dying Seed

The Dying Seed Breaks the Bubble Introduction Whilst most of the Australian population is in COVID lockdown, here in glorious WA we rarely have these sorts of problems. And with a booming mining industry we are the only state running … Continue reading