Kingdom Teaching Night

After you've prepared your heart and removed the lies that so easily keep us trapped in trials, what do you do?

The bible says you can personally be taught by God. His heart is to walk with us through trials and to teach us His heart and His kingdom as we go. Bring your questions, doubts, fears, concerns and anxieties before God and seek answers, clarity and direction from Him yourself!

The state of your heart towards God is always your decision to make. You can be soft-hearted in humility and ready to receive the word of God into you, or you could be hard-hearted and proud and unaware that you are repelling the Kingdom of God and the work he wants to do in you to give you life. It's your decision. It could mean the difference between you walking out of your trial closer to God or not following him any longer.

Knowing how to respond when you find yourself in a trial is super difficult. Usually, we feel very tempted to distance ourselves from God in anger or bitterness. But this is the one thing we cannot do. The only way to properly heal from a trial is to remain in Jesus, the vine, and as you do, he will naturally bring the good fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control) that everybody desires out of your life. This is the path to true spiritual healing.

After a 1.5 year pause we are back! Let's keep moving forward in Jesus and in the kingdom of God together by talking about how to deal with the heavy trials of life. If you are overwhelmed by the heaviness of life in your current season, then this is for you. Nothing strange is happening to you, and you are certainly not the only one; this is just how life can be sometimes. So let's acknowledge the pain and then find a way to walk through it with Jesus who is always transforming us from glory to glory from the inside out.

Hear about Jess's massive transformation through her time in Mozambique with Heidi Baker's mission school. Going from super unsure who she is or what she's doing to being found in Jesus.

Plus we also look at what faith looks like in our life. If you believe in God and have a relationship with him, then you will walk in good works. There is no exception. Faith always produces works or it's not faith!

The story of the bible is that God has made us right with him through faith and through no other means. No works, no being born into the right country at the right time. The only way you can be in the benefits of his promises is if you believe in him. This week you can follow my 6 year journey through trying to understand predestination, Romans chapter 9 and how this big message of "justified by faith" impacted my view on this super confusing topic.

It is impossible to live a life like Jesus if we are controlled by the flesh instead of lead by the Spirit. So many Christians are unpassionate and thrown here and there by the ever changing desires of the flesh; not realising that the flesh/the old man/your sinful nature is dead and buried. It is absolutely essential to understand that your old man is dead and you are a new creation in Christ Jesus, otherwise you will continue to live as you were before Christ which will lead you to death, even if you are saved. Set your mind on the things of the Spirit and you will live by the Spirit. Put to death the works of the flesh and cut them off from who you are. You are more than that, you're better than that and you're true nature, your true life is hidden with Christ in heaven.

How do we keep the same mindset of Jesus every day? How do we keep focus when life is always pulling you back into its rhythms? How do we keep consistent?

You set your mind on the things above, not on the things below. You remember who you are in Christ and who he is in you right now. You are raised and seated with him right now in the heavenly places. We need to find a way to make setting our mind on such things a habitual daily practice. That way we can keep our focus and filter everything through the lens of heaven.

True Christianity is the do nothing, get everything gospel. If you don't understand this, you will guaranteed default into works and trying to earn something rather than believing and receiving the free gift that you are already who you want to be. Works will produce death and it will make you see the gospel as bad news instead of good. You'll turn away from God in either pride or despair and will blame him for not rewarding your good behaviour or being too difficult to please. Works equals death. The only way out is the understand it's all a free gift by grace and faith is how you connect with that. I don't mean "BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE" kinda faith - that's actually works with the label of faith - I mean true faith where you are actually so convinced that God's word is true and he truly has blessed you already with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places that all you can do as a proper response is rest. That's the gospel.

Ever wondered why on earth we should pray and ask God for things if he's supposed to be a good father? Don't good fathers give their children the things they need without them having to ask?

If prayer is a bit of a mystery to you, or if your prayer life is dead, then listen up. Jesus constantly tried to get his disciples to pray. There was a reason for that!