Vine Thrive Podcast

Because we have a free will to choose right from wrong, the coming Anti-Christ is a form of judgment on an unbelieving world that has rejected Christ as king and therefore gets the king they deserve. We as believers in Christ are not meant to be scared but prepared and this is a time to get busy and bring in souls before all this happens.

So many will tell you that the secret to success in 2024 is BE YOURSELF when in fact, the good book clearly states that the secret to all success is to die to self. What if success all came down to next to nothing about you but WHO IS WITH YOU- THE KING.

Aaron Dowds - Christmas Presence | 24/12/2023 by The Vine Church - Dunfermline

Alan Kelly - The Gift of Christmas is an Invitation to Join God's Family | 17/12/2023 by The Vine Church - Dunfermline

Steven Paton - Merry Christmas: A Time to Forgive | 10/12/2023 by The Vine Church - Dunfermline

Mel Thomson - Expect The Unexpected: Carriers of Hope | 07/12/2023 by The Vine Church - Dunfermline

🌟 Get ready for an exhilarating journey with: "Hosting God's Presence: A Journey to Deep Rest." It's the sequel to a message that took us by storm a few weeks back, and you don't want to miss this follow up!

🌈 Ever thought about the incredible privilege we have as hosts to the very Presence of God? In this message, we're diving deep into how hosting God transforms the ordinary, mundane corners of our lives into extraordinary places of awe. It's all about living with heightened awareness and entering into His presence, and guess what? No more striving, wrestling, or climbing!

📖 We kick off by revisiting Moses' encounter on Mount Sinai, where God promises, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Moses understood that without God's presence, they were finished! Do you recognise that too? That's what being "poor in spirit" is about – knowing you're finished without God, and guess what? The poor in spirit inherit the kingdom of heaven, not just in the future, but right here, right now!

🌟 Picture this: Your seemingly insignificant, everyday life becoming a stage for the supernatural. That's the vibe we're catching from Jacob's ladder dream in Genesis. He spent his life striving for blessings that God had already planned to shower freely. Sound familiar? Are you wrestling to climb a ladder to success when Jesus already descended to bless you abundantly?

💫 Ephesians 1:3 spills the beans – we've been blessed by grace, thanks to Jesus coming down the ladder to the Cross. No more climbing for blessings – they're already yours! And the best part? We're not alone. God's presence is with us, transforming our ordinary places into awesome houses of God.

🌌 Imagine waking up to the realisation that, like Jacob, God is in this seemingly insignificant place, and you didn't even know it! Our ordinary lives can become awesome because God has come down the ladder to dwell with us. The message is clear – behold, be sure to see this, don't miss it! Your ordinary place can become an awesome place because God is present.

🏰 So, are you ready to turn your ordinary into extraordinary? Be a host to God's presence, work from a place of rest, and stop the constant wrestling. Let’s discover how to walk in His presence, change from the inside out, and become a distinguished royal house of God.

🌟 Join us in this exciting journey of transformation and discover practical steps to become better hosts of His presence. Get ready to experience more rest, joy, and peace as we delve into the kingdom of heaven right here, right now! Don't miss it – see you there! 🚀

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We took a look at Mary the Mother of Christ trying to discover some new things about her that people might not know; eg. the meaning of her name. She was actually called Mirriam - the same name as the sister of Moses and the name means bitter. We looked at the Waters of Marah Story and the waters were called Marah because they were bitter. Moses was commanded to throw a piece of wood/or tree in some translations into the waters and they were cured of their bitterness. This foreshadows how the cross of Calvary can make a bitter poison dead heart and make it new. Mirriam the sister of Moses was born into the bitterness of slavery and was delivered into freedom. Mary the Mother of Christ was promised by Simeon that she would have the bitter experience of a sword piercing her heart and yet her obedience in giving birth to Christ would bring millions out of the bitterness of slavery to sin.

We then looked at the fact that there are two women in Scripture - that it was said of them: "Blessed are you above Women!" The second woman is well known and the story is told at Christmas time every year when Mary is hailed as Blessed among women. The first however is quite surprising. It was Jael from Judges Chapter 4. She is called blessed among women for driving a tent peg through the head of Sisera, the general of the enemy Army that was attacking and oppressing Israel. that is a very strange pairing in Scripture Mary and Jael. What do they have in common? Why would they both be called Blessed Among Women! Mary gave birth to the one who would fulfil the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head. Sisera, Goliath, Jezebel as seeds or offspring of the serpent will have their heads crushed and the stories of the defeat of these villains foreshadow and then culminate in Christ utterly defeating all his enemies including death itself. Even the future beast from the sea, the Anti-Christ or Instead of Christ will suffer a seemingly fatal head wound that he recovers from in an instead of resurrection. Of course when Christ returns the beast and false prophet and ultimately Satan are thrown into the lake of fire. The pairing of Mary and Jael in Scripture is what Christmas Head Crackers was about!

The TABERNACLE that GOD commanded MOSES to build with very precise instructions (including an outer layer of what many Bible scholars believe to be porpoise skin or some other kind of marine mammal) - Everything about the tabernacle in some way represents CHRIST. We will be exploring how that outer layer of porpoise skin on the tabernacle represents Christ.

"Be of good cheer," you say, when we are surrounded by a deluge of troubles! Am I the only head scratcher when I read such verses sometimes? But hey, all through the best-selling book, God reveals how to bring every dead bone moment into one that's bursting with life.

There are two items on life's menu every single day, like magnets pulling up your chair at the table: pity party or praise party. And we get to choose, along with some secret sauce. In my message, we see in God's word the miracle sauce that turns every worst-case scenario into YOUR VERY BEST CASE SCENARIO.