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Deliverance has been on the rise. Breakthrough is increasing, and we’re coming out of a season where we have been shut down and silenced. This week went very different to plan, and that’s ok. Tim was going to teach on how to occupy territory that’s been conquered - i.e. what to do after the deliverance has happened. More on that next time. It seems there was more breakthrough needed in the room, so that’s what we pursued. Listen to this with your heart and spirit, not just your ears.

This is the 3rd in this short series on The Spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 40 describes in part the spirit of Elijah, prophetically declaring the ministry of John the Baptist, who we know came in the spirit of Elijah. What preceded the spirit of Elijah was “comfort My people”. We have been through an extended traumatic season, and it’s easy to miss its impact, as it is something that has happened to everyone. Comfort is the answer to trauma, and God wants to minister to, and lift off the trauma of the past season, so we are free to bring that same comfort and healing to the world around us.

God wants to return to us His normal for us, which is double portion. God woke Debbie in the middle of the night and said clearly, “Disengagement has to go!” The disengagement has been a trauma response to the COVID season, and God is bringing His people back. To fully receive the double portion He has for us, we have to re-engage with His apostolic call - that which He has sent us to do.

This is part 2 of 2 messages on the spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 61 shows us what the anointing that was on Jesus will do. It will heal broken hearts and set people free. But it doesn’t stop there. Isaiah 61 goes on to tell us what those who were once broken hearted - and now healed - will do. They will disrupt, heal and restore generational cycles and patterns of dysfunction and brokenness. We need healing not just for ourselves. Our healing becomes the launchpad that sees others set free in the same area that we were once held captive. You have been placed in the midst of pain and brokenness to be an agent of healing to the world around you. It is time to be activated and sent out!

The spirit that was on Elijah was not only that of prophet. Malachi 4 tells us that the “spirit and power of Elijah” will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. John The Baptist came in that spirit to “prepare the way of the Lord”. This anointing to heal hearts and heal families precedes the full ministry of Jesus. As we are sent out to heal broken hearts we prepare a highway that Jesus can come in on.

Four words that are significant right now - chaos, Emmaus, eramos, osmosis. Vaughan Blackwood reminds us that in the plethora of distractions, we MUST find the quiet place to be with The Father so that we can walk into the chaos of the world empowered to make a difference and be an agent of transformation.

Tim continues to speak on the two giants in the land of Kingdom breakthrough and heaven being fully manifested on earth … those being unbelief and orphanitis, Paul said to the Corinthians, “you have ten thouand teachers in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers”. Paul points to this as being the reason they are still stuck in immaturity. In our call to “grow up into Him” (Eph 4) we MUST shift from our focus on programs, events, and tasks, and truly open our hearts to giving and receiving adoptive love - growing together as family. Much of the immature fruit we see in the Body today is a “pandemic of the unparented”. God is wanting to raise up mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, so that the world experiences the fullness of Jesus.

As the church, we are commissioned to bring heaven to earth - to see the reality of heaven tangibly manifested in the earth realm. There are two key giants in our way at the moment - unbelief, and orphanitis. Today, Tim focuses on unbelief, and specifically our role as individuals to grow into a place of faith. When it comes to faith, size matters, and is a factor that makes a difference in our ability to usher in Kingdom breakthrough.

One of the primary ways Jesus demonstrated the Kingdom was through healing and deliverance. Healing is not an added extra - a bonus. It’s in the atonement. Tim looks at three key truths about the ministry of physical healing, mixing teaching with stories and testimonies of different ways that healing has come. The onus is on us to learn and understand how the Kingdom of God operates. We also need to process our past disappointments in a healthy way. These are both critical so that we don’t create room for unbelief to grow.

Like earth has the law of gravity, the Kingdom of God has “laws” by which it operates. If we are not seeing what Scripture promises manifested in our life, chances are we haven’t fully grasped how His kingdom works. One such “law” is the law of sowing and reaping. Sometimes we are not reaping what we want because we haven’t taken God at His word and applied faith to what we sow. Sometimes we are reaping what we don’t want, because we have sown something in the past that has now grown a crop in our life. We blame many things, but don’t realise we are actually reaping something we sowed. Other times we lack because we haven’t sowed anything at all. Tim explores this law of sowing and reaping, so that we can work with it and start to experience everything that Scripture has promised us.