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Adventurers is starting up in Mullumbimby! Open to children aged 5 to 10. First meeting this Saturday the 28th of March.
25/03/2026

Adventurers is starting up in Mullumbimby! Open to children aged 5 to 10. First meeting this Saturday the 28th of March.

07/11/2024

My Dear Friend,

When we talk about “surrender” in the Christian life, what does it look like? Surrender is not a surrender of the external life, but rather the surrender of the will — when that is done, all is done! The greatest crisis that we face as humans, is the surrender of the will. You will find that God never forces our will into surrender — He waits patiently until we yield up our will of self-governing to Him.

When we surrender, we surrender for deliverance. “Come to Me… and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:28 NKJV. This is a call after we have experienced what salvation is, that surrender our will to Jesus in order to receive rest. Whatever is perplexing our heart or mind, is a call to the surrender of our will — “Come to Me” — has to be a voluntary action.

Surrender is a surrender for devotion. “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way…” Luke 9:23 NLT. This is a surrender of self to Jesus, recognising that Jesus is aply sufficient to take care of all aspects of our life. He says “If you would like to be my disciple, give up your right to yourself to Me.”

Thirdly, it is a surrender for Death — “…you’ll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don’t want to go.” John 21:18-19 MSG. Have you yet learned what it means, as with Peter, to be bound unto death? It is a question of being united with Jesus in His death until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.

My last question is this: After surrender — what then? O my friend, that is what my prayer for you today is all about — that the whole of your life, after surrender, will be a yearning for an unbroken communion with Jesus.

29/10/2024

Dear Friend,

Moses was trained in all the wisdom and military might of Egypt and was powerful in speech and action (Acts 7:22). So when he saw the oppression of his people, he felt that he was the one to deliver them. In righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. It took only one strike for God and for the right, that God allowed him to be driven into discouragement and fear for his own life. What followed, was a forty year wandering in the desert, feeding and tending sheep. At the end of that time, God re-appeared and told Moses to go back to Egypt and bring His people out, and Moses said — “Who am I that I should go…?” Exodus 3:11 NKJV.

In the beginning Moses knew that he was the man for the hour — the man God had raised up to deliver his people. But he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in terms of his calling — but he was not the man for the work until he had learned communion with God.

Is it any different with us? We may have the vision from God, and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and we start to act on or towards the goal, then comes something equivalent to the forty years in the wilderness, giving us a sense that God has completely ignored the whole thing — leaving us thoroughly discouraged — but God comes back and revives the call, and we get the flutter and say — “Oh, who am I?” Remember that the first principle in our walk with God is: ““I AM WHO I AM have sent you…” Exodus 3:14. We have to learn that our individual effort for God is a lack of respect — our individuality is to be rendered ablaze by a personal relationship to God — to the extent that a voice can come from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved son/daughter, in whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17 NKJV.

It is so easy for us to fixate on the individual thing; we have the vision — “This is what God wants me to do;” but where we need to be, is being in step with God. If you are going through a time of discouragement right now, maybe there is a mission awaiting you… but first focus on communing with God!

24/10/2024

My Dear Friend,

What was the joy Jesus had, that He also prays that we would alhave? — “I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” John 15:11 NLT.

The word ‘Happiness’ just don’t capture this fully!
The ‘joy’ Jesus here describe, was the absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice of Himself to His Father — the joy of doing that which the Father sent Him to do — “I delight to do they will.”

Jesus’ prayer therefore is that our joy would become so complete, until it’s fully reproduced — the same joy as His.

This leads me to ask: “Have I allowed Jesus Christ to introduce His joy to me?”

The fulness of this joy is not found in the absence of disease, not in external happiness, nor even in seeing the gospel succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God in the intimate communion that Jesus Himself have had with His Father.

The first thing that will rob us from this joy, Jesus said, will be “the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things” Mark 4:19 NKJV. Before we know it, we are caught up in the show of it.

My prayer for you today is that you will become rightly related to Jesus Christ — that you will find your joy there, and then, that out of you will flow rivers of living water. Further to that, I pray that you will become a ‘centre of influence’, so that through you, Jesus can pour living water — that your life will become less self-conscious, but a life lived and hid in and with Christ Jesus. Remember, the life rightly lived with God is as natural as breathing. Think about this, the lives that has been of most blessing to you, were those who were unconscious of it!

Have a blessed Preparation day tomorrow !

12/09/2024

My Dear Friend,

Have you noticed that in Holy Scripture, personal relationship with God always requires separation? This is clearly demonstrated in the life of Abraham — in his separation from his country and from his family - “By faith Abraham obeyed… and he went out, not knowing where he was going.” Heb. 11:8 NKJV.

Today it is not much different, although our separation is more of a mental and moral separation from the way that those who are closest to us look at things, that is, if they do not also stand in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (Luke 14:26).

The interesting fact about faith is that it never knows where it is being led, but it loves, knows and trusts the One who is leading in their life. It therefore is a life of faith — not of intellect, nor is it of reason — it is a life of knowing Who makes us to seperate. The fundamental principle of faith is rooted in the knowing of a Person!

The final stage in the life of faith is found in attainment of character. The life lived in faith is not a life lived in an ecstatic spiritual euphoria, but rather a life of walking and not fainting (Isaiah 40:31). It is a life of persistence and intentional focus on Him. It is not a question of holiness, but of something far more that that — it is about a faith that has been tried, tested and proven and has stood the test. Abraham is a type of a life of faith, a tried faith built on a real God — “Abraham believed God… obeyed… went out, not knowing where he was going.”

My prayer for you today, is that as you come aside today, that your separation will lead you into an intimate personal faith building relationship with Him, and that of you also will be said …and he/she obeyed and went out, not knowing where he/she was going! May your separation be into the hands of Him who already holds your future in His steady hands…

May Gods richest blessings be poured over your life today.

30/08/2024

My dear friend,

I’m encouraged by the following thought and would like to share it for your encouragement. Paul writes in Romans 8:26 NLT— “And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.”
We know that we are energised by the Holy Spirit; We know what it is to pray in the Spirit; but we do not always realise that the Holy Spirit Himself is praying into our prayer that which we are unable to utter. In other words, when we are possessed by the Spirit of God, He will express for us the unutterable!

“He,” the Spirit in you, “make intercession for the saint according to the will of God” (verse 27), and God searches your heart not to know what your conscious prayer are, but to find out what is the unconscious, the prayer of the Holy Spirit.

No wonder that God’s Word declares that “Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 6:19). He wants to use the nature of the believer as a shrine in which to offer His intercession on our behalf.

Here is the challenge: If we recognise that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, then we must be careful in order to keep it undefiled for Him. Then we also have to remember that our conscious life, is to be regarded by us as a shrine of the holy Spirit. He will look after the unconscious part that we know nothing of — but we must see that we guard the conscious part for which we are responsible.

May God richly bless you as you ponder this thought this Sabbath!

23/08/2024

My Dear Friend,

Let’s take a few moments to consider the distinction between the burden-bearing that is right and the burden-bearing that is wrong. We should never bear the burden of sin nor that of doubt, but there are burdens placed on us by God which He does not intend to lift off, He wants us to roll them back on Him. Psalms 55:22 invites, saying “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you…”. The RV Margin reads “Cast that He hath given thee upon the Lord.”

If we accept a calling from God and get out of touch with Him, the sense of that responsibility will be overwhelming and crushing — but if we role back on God that which He has put upon us, He takes away the sense of responsibility by bringing in the realisation of Himself.

Many christian workers have gone out with great courage and fine intentions, but with no intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ, and before long they are crushed. They do not know what to do with the burden, it produces weariness, and people say — “What a bitter end to such an inspired beginning!”

Friend, if that is you today, if you have become exhausted along the way, I invite you to “roll your burden upon the Lord” — you have been bearing it all — deliberately put one end on the shoulders of God. “The government shall be upon His shoulder” says Isaiah 9:6 KJV. Commit to God “that He hath give thee”; not fling it off, but put it over onto Him and yourself with it, and the burden is lightened by the sense of companionship. Never be tempted to become disassociated from the burden. That burden might be exactly what you need, inviting you back into an intimacy with God…

I am praying for you!

08/08/2024

My Dear Friend,

Listen this morning to another gem from the Bible (Message translation) of 2 Cor. 3:18: “All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of His face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like Him.”

The indisputable characteristic of a Christian is this unveiled frankness before God, to the point where their life becomes a mirror for other lives…. By being filled with the Spirit we are transformed — by beholding we become changed, and by becoming transformed, we become a mirror. You can always sense it when a man has been beholding the glory of the Lord — you feel it in the inner spirit that he is a mirror of the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything which would blemish that mirror in you — it is nearly always a good thing, the good that is not the best!

The golden rule for your life and mine is this concentrated keeping of our life open towards God. Let everything else — everything on earth — go by the board, saving that one thing. We have to maintain ourselves in the place of beholding…. Let other things come and go as they may. Let other people criticise as they will, but never allow anything to conceal the life that is hid with Christ in God. Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him. It is the one thing that is apt to fluctuate but it ought not to. The severest discipline of a Christian’s life is to learn how to keep “beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.”

My prayer for you today is this: to abide in His presence today — may those closest to you (and others), notice (as through a mirror) that you have been with Him…

09/04/2024

Session 11 - World War III

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Session 10 - Afterlife

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