The Kingdom is all about the community from on high - a community that builds with the open hearted practice of vulnerability. Vulnerability gets a bad rap but its such an important thing for New Testament life to be full and to be vibrant. The opposite of living with an open heart is to live with a closed one, and the result of doing this will, without doubt, be shame and secrecy - which leads to judgement and fear! Because we are called to build a confessional culture (James 5:18), we have to make sure we are learning the practice of truth and love together. It’s not easy and we will fail as we learn but we are called to speak the truth with the powerful ingredient of enduring love. We can not close over and let our hearts be shut down or we will suffer as a result. It’s time to get back out there with courage and build relationships and communities of the heart! The kind of one you would want to visit and maybe even join! New Creation Communities!

In this pandemic season everybody’s relationship to the church is being refined and purified. In this timely message in the new ‘Building Community’ series, Phil invites us to explore the state of our heart toward Jesus’ bride. Paul described the church as “the mother of us all.” (Galatians 4:26) Many of us carry unresolved ‘mother issues’ and church wounds. These wounds hinder our ability to love the bride the way Jesus loves His bride. This is a good season to get our heart right toward the universal body of Christ.

Prayer is for everyone in the body of Christ. It’s a beautiful sacrifice that God allows us to participate in. It’s how we learn the language of Heaven and release His Kingdom on the earth. It breaks the strongholds of the enemy and exposes Satan’s plans in the earth. If one persons prayer can move mountains imagine what a group of people prayer could do for His name sake.

Jesus outlined in John 15 that the Father’s desire is for us to bear much fruit and that the fruit would remain (leaving a legacy)!

This week we examine 3 ways in which believers can grow naturally in bearing spiritual fruit and spiritual gifts:

1. Abiding – dwelling in and being aware of the goodness of His love and presence

2. A lifestyle of Devotion – setting ourselves apart to Him through prayer, study the word, worship and faith etc

3. Through receiving and releasing impartations of the Spirit – dwelling with the saints and doing “body ministry”

In this message Phil Mason explores the story of the lost son in Luke 15. The Father celebrates every son and daughter who comes home to the Father’s house but they older brother “refused to go in and celebrate” his return. Can we celebrate one another or do we refuse to celebrate one another because of offense? If we cannot celebrate one another we end up outside the Father’s house. We are all called to carry the Father’s heart for one another.

Conviction plays a vital role in our walk with the Lord. It’s supposed to lead us to repentance but often it leads us to point out sin in others. Jesus demonstrates true conviction in the story of the woman caught in adultery. He does not condemn her but also tells her to go and sin no more. This is what love looks like.

The Holy Spirit is so powerfully at work in us to do the ministry of Jesus our prayer warrior! He lives to make intercession for us and to call us forward to fulfill the Father’s plans in our lives! He is fighting for you on the inside at any given time. The enemy however is the Father of lies and desires to send as many fire filled darts your way to affect your faith, hope and love! It is time to pick up your sword  and the full armor of God, in partnership with Jesus, and defeat what ever is attacking your faith. Stand strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might!! Ephesians 6! You will defeat the enemy with prayer and praise!

In this third part in our Holy Spirit series, Phil opens up the teaching of Jesus from John 7:37,38 where Jesus promises that rivers of living water will flow from our innermost being. The Holy Spirit indwells the people of God as a river, not as a lake. There are keys to releasing the flow of the Spirit and this message unpacks the most significant keys to letting the river flow in and through our lives. Let’s get in the flow of the river and see where it takes us!

Jesus breathes on the disciples and says “receive the Holy Spirt”. Ever since the fall mankind has experienced chaos as a result of sin. The first words Jesus speaks out over the disciples, after the resurrection, is “peace” and then “peace” again. It’s a new day, the new birth has begun. We are now sent as the father sent the son. It’s time to come out from shame and step into the power of the gospel.

We all talk about it and pray for it but what do we mean when we cry out for a ‘move’ of the Spirit? In this inspirational message Phil Mason explores the theme of the moving of God’s Spirit. God is always in motion and He is always seeking to move. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity who is always moving upon us just as He moved upon the face of the waters in Genesis. He is the mighty rushing wind of Acts 2 and He is never stagnant. This is the first message in a brand new series on the Holy Spirit.