Catch The Fire Toronto - Live, 11:15AM (September 26th, 2021)

oh [Music] is [Music] fix my eyes [Music] oh [Music] is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] all right here's the black mic check check check one two [Music] fix my [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] and i'm yours [Music] [Music] i'm loved by you [Music] if we believe [Music] i'm [Music] [Applause] all right [Music] who you say i am oh striving season [Music] lord i [Music] say am am oh striving sees [Music] me [Music] well welcome to catch the fire toronto welcome everybody who is here in the room and those of you who are joining us online my name's sarah jackson and i'm so delighted to welcome you here we are going to be worshiping this morning and this sunday is vision sunday so get ready may your hearts be full of expectation uh i'm we're so excited as a team with what we're going to be sharing with you if you're here why don't you stand to your feet we're going to get ready to worship this morning i want to encourage you as you position yourself yourself to worship that worship is is more than just singing it's more than uh just singing lyrics but it's a position of our heart it's a position of of of the the focusing of the eyes of our heart the focusing of our internal world is fit we're fixing our gaze on jesus we're fixing our gaze on him and so let's just take a moment to do that whether you close your eyes and look within a vision with the eyes of your heart whether you look into a bible story whether you say jesus where are you in this room right now because he is jesus jesus emmanuel he's god with us we know that he is with us wherever we are [Music] so jesus we fix the eyes of our heart upon you this morning we fix our attention on you and we just want to tell you we love you we're thankful for you as we're doing that i want to let all of the youth know that you can go to your youth class after worship this morning jesus we love you i don't know what your your week has been like whether it's been turbulent challenging whether you've needed to pray for the grace to get out of bed each morning but the choice of our hearts the positioning of ourselves today is jesus i love you i worship you i choose to give you my time and my attention i just speak peace to all those swirling thoughts right now i feel like some of you've been in a bit of a whirlwind and the lord is speaking peace to your mind let's just start asking him jesus what do you want to say to me this morning what are you wanting to reveal this morning let's start thanking him as one of the best ways for me to get my mind on track is jesus thank you for who you are thank you for the grace this week thank you that you helped me when i was at the end of myself thank you each little piece you can say thank you to him for that's our worship that maybe feel pretty sacrificial today but let's choose it if you're at home in chaos choose choose to put your inner attention on him jesus we love you and we give you the sacrifice the joy of our worship this morning in jesus name [Music] i love you lord for your mercy never failed me all my days i've been held in your hands from the moment that i wake up until i lay my head where i will sing of the goodness of god [Music] [Music] i will sing for the goodness of god i love your voice you have led me through the fire in darkest nights you are close like no other i've known you as a father i've known you as afraid and i have lived in the goodness of god [Music] and all my life you have been faithful [Music] yes you have all my life you have been so so good with every breath that i [Music] of the goodness of god your goodness is running after it's running after is [Music] is running after me [Music] and all my life here i've been faithful all my life you have been so so good with every breath that i am able i will sing of the goodness [Music] my life you have been so so good with every breath that i am able to sing all the goodness of god i will sing of the goodness of god [Music] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is i'm surrendered now i give you everything your goodness is it's running after me with my life laid down i'm surrendered is [Music] me all my life you have been faithful [Music] all my life you have been so so good with every breath that i am made [Music] of the goodness of god [Music] [Music] [Music] you so good [Music] god you're so good god you're so good you're so good to me [Music] god you're so good [Music] [Applause] me [Applause] cause you're the name above all names you are worthy of praise my heart we'll see how great it [Music] who is your the name above all names you are worthy of praise and my heart will see how great it is [Applause] oh yes you're the name above all names you are worthy and my heart will see how great [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you are worthy of praise and my heart will say how great is our god [Music] one with god [Music] oh it's now revealed you of christ what a beautiful name it is what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus christ my king what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to this what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus [Music] you didn't want heaven [Music] [Music] my sin was great your love was greater and paul could say a parade us now what a wonderful name it is what a wonderful name it is the name of jesus christ my king what a wonderful name it is nothing compares to this what a wonderful name it is the name of jesus what a wonderful name it is the name of jesus [Music] the name of jesus hold the name of jesus beautiful name beautiful name [Music] and death could not hold you the field tore before you you silenced the post are seen and grace the heavens are roaring the praise of your glory for [Applause] yours is the kingdom yours is the glory yours is the name above all names what a powerful name it is what a powerful name it is the name of jesus christ my king [Music] what a powerful name it is nothing can stand against what a powerful name it is the name of jesus [Laughter] [Applause] christ [Applause] [Music] oh foreign [Applause] what a powerful name it is what a powerful name it is oh the name of jesus christ my king what a powerful name it is oh nothing can stand against what a powerful name it is the name of jesus what a powerful name it is the name of jesus [Music] [Applause] jesus the jesus we call your name jesus oh we love you we love you jesus jesus [Music] jesus jesus jesus you're the name of [Music] in my heart how great is our god [Music] you're the name [Music] [Music] in my heart will see how great my house [Music] oh my is will see how great [Music] is our god [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] only give you the highest he'll give you our first place in the sounds of our praises hear big glorified [Music] oh we give you the highs [Music] we give you our first place in the sound of our praises healing glory so come let us sing lift up our praises [Music] to worship the one the god of the ages [Music] we give you our first place in the sound of our praises hear be glorified name above all the others a king of glory we give you the highest praise [Music] until the ordinary [Music] [Music] pray your love will be the banner we raise [Music] the savior of all we lift up your name [Music] or we give you we give you the highest we give you our first place in the sound of our praises oh keep it glorify we give [Music] in the sound of our praises you'll be glorified [Applause] name above all the other king of glory will give you the highest praise until the underpowered [Music] us pray [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] is [Music] will lift [Music] up is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] there [Music] is [Music] name above all the others the king of glory we gave you the highest praise and all the all [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] is [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hearts praises [Music] holy [Music] [Music] glorify to hold [Music] father holy son [Music] we lift you up we lift you up [Music] we lift you [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] leave [Music] oh [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] do you welcome baby welcome me find a resting place among your people [Music] find a resting place among your people [Music] oh we wanna tell you you're welcome [Music] you welcome me joe welcome here you're welcome [Music] [Laughter] [Music] left you [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] oh left you spiritual [Music] holy [Music] you [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] you are [Music] we love to [Music] you're worthy of my heart [Music] you bring light to the darkness you give hope you restore every heart that is [Music] it's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise it's your bread in our love so we pour out our praise [Music] are you [Music] great are you lord [Music] you give life you are love you bring light to the darkness you give hope you restore every heart that is [Music] [Music] [Music] only in our so we pour out our praise [Music] and all the earth will shout your praise our hearts will cry these bones will sing [Music] great are you [Music] [Applause] [Music] our hearts will cry these bones will [Music] all the [Music] earth will shout your prayers our hearts will cry these bones [Music] it's your bread [Music] so we pour out our praise we pour out our praises your bread in our love so we pour out our praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] who you are you lord [Music] [Music] are you lord [Music] are you lord we say grace [Music] we say grace [Music] all across the earth [Music] [Music] we pour out our praises your breath in our love so we pour [Music] out you lord [Music] greater [Music] where are you [Music] as we've been in worship this morning i felt that there has been a revelation of jesus being downloaded into our hearts there's been a revelation of who he is a revelation of how much he how how worthy he is how much he's to be glorified and jesus we it is our honor it is our joy to worship you to fix our eyes on you to see you in your glory to see you in your majesty [Music] i heard the words come to me all you who are weary and burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for i am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light [Music] i felt the invitation from the heart of god this morning to come to him to come to jesus the one who spoke those words he who is gentle and humble in heart [Music] and as we've been worshiping some of you some of you may have experienced that drawing that invitation to know him more deeply and some of you may may never have met jesus may never have met this man who said come to me all you who are weary and burdened and heart and i will give you rest and so this morning there's an invitation for you when your heart has sort of burned within you saying yes i want to know you jesus i i my heart is drawn towards you in this worship i want to know you or i'd like to give you an opportunity for that and it you know it's not complicated unless you could just pray with me jesus i want to know you i choose to come to you i want to meet you and you see when we give an invitation to jesus when we bring ourselves to him he always meets us he always meets us and some of you may may just right now be so conscious of the weariness of your heart of the burdens that you've been carrying and this invitation is for the it's for first time people who've never met jesus and it's for those of us who've known him for years are you carrying weariness are you carrying burdens come now to him bring your weariness bring your burdens to him you may just want to speak them out say jesus i bring you myself i bring you the weariness of this journey the weariness of this season we have a team right here if you prayed that prayer for the first time to say jesus i want to meet you i want to know you rob and the team right here would love to pray for you and to introduce you to jesus to help you get to know him if you're joining us online we have we have a team in the chat room ready to pray for you and minister to you if this is the first time you've said yes to him thank you jesus you are so worthy of our love so worthy to be glorified i saw two angels um on the stage this morning and they were they were gold angels and the lord said they are the angels of abundance and wow [Music] what i sensed was they are they are angels of abundance who have been sent here this morning uh to release financial breakthrough and abundance in people's lives so if if you want that in your life if you are if you want to say yes to that i want to invite you to stand up right now because i felt like the lord was going to release something uh through this room or in in the room where you're watching online that the there is a releasing of abundance and so father right now in the name of jesus for every single person who is in need of abundance in need of financial breakthrough father would you release your angels to to supernaturally outpour the heavenly abundance of finances into their lives i just speak to those business deals that have stalled and i say be released in jesus name i speak to the inheritances that have been held back and i say be released in jesus name i say to the promotions and the pay rises that have been withheld from you be released in jesus name and i call forth that financial abundance and and i see the angels walking to you and releasing something in it's like a charge into your spirit that is shifting the spiritual atmosphere around you and so father we just say yes yes yes yes yes to the abundance that is being released in in this room right now and i felt like they were quite high ranking angels that there was a significant authority that they were carrying that is releasing releasing things that have been long held up in your lives and so i bless you to step into the new season of abundance that you are walking into in jesus name thank you god uh the lord has been speaking to me recently and one of the things he said was i am in the midst of my great change project in the earth and i am positioning people to be able to receive the new that i am about to do and i sense i i felt the lord wanted me to share that for two reasons this morning one there are some of you who are experiencing dramatic change in your life and some of it has not been initiated by you and i felt the lord wanted to give you faith that he is in the change he is in the transition that the change you're in though it may be uncomfortable the lord is saying have faith that uh uh you are in this great change project with me you're not alone in that so father for those people wave a hand if that's you're like oh i'm in the discomfort of change well i release faith into your spirit right now in the name of jesus that you would experience emmanuel jesus emmanuel god with you in the midst of this change and i feel the lord saying do not fear because i am with you and i am leading you and i am going to lead you into the good place this the wide open fields with me trust me in this journey and so i bless that that experience of change to know that god is with you and god is leading this change process uh secondly i felt the lord um share that there were some of you who are trying to uh move trying to transition trying to experience change in your life and it's been it's it's been contended it feels like there's so much pushback spiritually and naturally that you've been experiencing and i felt the lord was saying this morning is a morning a breakthrough and a morning of freedom and that he is pushing he's pushing back uh the the resistance you've been experiencing so who are those people who've been experiencing resistance yeah okay well we're gonna pray right now and i felt the lord um is the winds of change from the lord are blowing through this room and he is uh he is blowing the resistance that you've experienced and so father right now in the name of jesus each and every person who has been contending for change for the new for transitions in their life and has been experiencing resistance in the spiritual realm right now i i speak the winds of the lord to bring change for you and father i just speak to the the spiritual resistance in the spirit and i say get away from them in jesus name it's the now time it's the transition time and i felt the lord say that he is going to battle on your behalf he is going to war on your behalf and i see the lord pushing a path ahead of you and all the resistance melting away and and i just speak to those um the business deals i speak to moving um i i just see people trying to move house and it's kind of got stuck and i see say that i just see the lord just moving on your behalf father i thank you that you you go before us into every into every situation into every walk every moment of our life and we can trust you to do that with us in jesus name [Music] well welcome it's vision sunday here at catch the fire and we're so delighted to have you with us i'm going to be handing over to steve and sandra right now who have got so many exciting things that have been in the works for the last two years there's been so much prayer and and time placed into what we're going to be sharing with you this morning and we're so delighted to have you with us both in person and online so welcome steve can i hand this over to you yes you can thank you sarah for those who don't know sarah because sarah's not always here she's a mom of three and her husband sometimes is here and her husband is ben jackson who is leading worship last sunday so like many parents they're on split shifts kind of thing welcome church everybody good perfect glad to have you here today there's a couple here that i met coming in the morrisons whereabouts you guys morrison family over here friends stand up real quick these people are very special the reason they're special they live they're based in oakville which is where i live more than that they have been missionaries with roland and heidi baker in most sorry mozambique malawi africa where i grew up that's them right over there my mom you guys met my mom uh who's lived in malawi many many years so god bless you guys thank you for joining us today that's the morrisons [Applause] we used to have i don't think he's still here but we had one of the gentlemen our church was a malawian and my mom before she passed away would be here on sundays and she loved to talk to him and they speak a very unique dialect a little bit of swahili kind of thing it's called chichewa and my mom had no one to practice with other than this gentleman in our church so that was pretty cool well welcome everybody those of you that are new to our church today's a uh an overview of the last years i'll get into that in just a moment and we're really really excited to to share what we feel god's got for us for those of us those of you that are also new just to let you know we don't pass an offering bucket we stopped doing that a few years ago it turned out that was good news because when kova began and we're not meeting there's no one to pass the bucket to so almost everybody in our church uses a phone app called push pay so thank you for those of you that do that online giving and so if you're new though and you're not used to that at the end of the meeting if you're in the building go see james he'll be sitting by the tv screen over there he can help you also over there will be connect leaders small group leaders for those of you in the building that are looking to find a small group there'll be people over there but i just want to say thank you for everybody that has been generous uh god bless you uh we're gonna be talking a little bit about the destiny of our church and what we feel god has and all of those things are accomplished because of your generosity that we've we have not lacked to be able to push into things that we feel that god has for us amen good next weekend not next weekend yeah next weekend this coming friday we're having friday saturday next sunday we're having a weekend called going deeper and next friday night we're going to have our first friday night meeting in two years almost two years and we have john arnott our founding pastor he's going to be with us starts at 7 p.m worship and then john's going to be ministering healing miracles those are the things that he feels god's put on his heart so it's going to be lots of ministry uh probably not able to lay hands on people but still the holy spirit's going to be here next saturday six hours of non-stop worship 6 p.m until midnight and just a time for us to worship the lord be in his presence push in for more of god going a little bit deeper good and then next sunday we have guests with us marie nash smith who are the leaders senior leaders of catch the fire in raleigh north carolina and we have a pastors the canadian pastors are having a retreat starting a week monday so that's what they're here for we ask them to come and i was talking to them this week and i said do you want to preach a sermon or would you like to just flow and just go with whatever the holy spirit says for the full 90 minutes that we normally take place and they said let's do flow so they know it's a going deeper weekend and so that's we're going to do next sunday as well are you good with that a push-in weekend for the holy spirit perfect well if you were here early december 2019 we had an irish lady she's a prophet by the name of emma stark and it was a transitional sunday for us she met with our leadership team on the saturday and she said i've got some big words for the church this is what i'm feeling can i have permission to share them and it was like i think so and anyway she went for it and basically if i can put all of emma's words in a nutshell she said massive transition for catch the fire we didn't know that covid would be beginning lockdowns would be beginning we didn't know any of those things and so here in in december two years ago she's prophesying that and in february of uh 2020 we got our leadership team our pastors together and we began to say okay holy spirit if we just had a prophet that has said that our church is in a transition that there's changes coming we've had amazing years but we've got even better to come what is it and we began to do some analysis we we listened to uh we called out to different prophets from around the world that are friends of catch fire what are you feeling for catch the fire what's god wanting to say and we began to assemble those things we began to be mentored by a couple authors that happen to be followers of jesus uh just in help helping us to figure out how do we determine what god has for us as a church and we spent hours and hours and hours praying into this all of our pastors getting input our all of our staff getting input and we came up with 35 statements of what we feel catch the fire is to become some things we're doing some things were we yet to be doing and the last three weeks we've shown you a little video we have a different video today that summarizes all 35 of those and over the next 30 to 40 weeks because not necessarily every single sunday but we're going to show you those 35 statements for those of you that were keen observers when you came into the room this morning as you walked at the back of the auditorium on your right you passed 35 plaques each one had a little statement for those of you at home if you go to our website right now and just click on the very first banner it's vision and you'll see all 35 of those statements and as the 35 videos are released one after each other you'll see them all on that page ctftoronto.com vision and friends today we want to give you an overview of what we feel god is saying for the next five to ten years are you good with that so some of it's looked back and some of it's looking ahead so here we are it's had to get my computer on vision sunday why do we exist what's our mission our mission friends is this to continually encounter god's presence to lead people in transformation so that we can bring the kingdom of god to our city and the world that's our mission that's what we feel we are three key words that we've been focusing on for the last few years encounter presence and transformation and to us the word encounter is that we are intentionally helping people to have god encounters so this morning at the very beginning sarah was welcoming us to encounter god during a worship experience sarah was just on the stage sharing prophetic things visions that she's seen all for us to go deeper to encounter god that's who we are friends we're we're believing that every single person needs to have three encounters they need to meet jesus as their savior they need to meet the father as someone who loves you extravagantly and is just there's no conditions to the love of god and we need to meet the holy spirit as our friend our best friend he's the one who's going to be helping us for the rest of our lives and we do it a number of different ways the word transformation we're looking for our lives to be changed because of meeting jesus because of having a connection with father god because of meeting the holy spirit and that change is supposed to be evident to our family our friends people that are in our places of work uh our extended neighbors etc and we've got a list of different ways that we do transformation and the third word is the word presence and this is where we seek to push in it's what this coming weekend's all about a weekend for presents for going deeper and a number of different ways that we seek to do those things so friends these are the three key words so if someone says to you let's catch the fire and you can't remember it you say encounter transformation presence say with me encounter transformation presence that's who we are yep that's it the bible has an interesting story a lawyer came to jesus one day and he said this teacher which is the greatest commandment in the law now this lawyer was there actually to trick jesus to try to mess with them and i think eventually they figured out we can't mess with jesus he's smarter than we are here's the question which is the greatest commandment in the law all of the scriptures up until that point what's the one thing and jesus said this love the lord your god with all of your heart with all your soul with all your mind so heart is your emotions soul is basically who you are your ego and with all your minds and then he said this is the first and the greatest commandment the second is like it love your neighbor as yourself he's quoting from the book of deuteronomy for both of these and then he says all of the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments and so friends the the essence of the whole bible is right here and i would say the essence of our church in terms of what we're trying to do is to fulfill this what's called the great commandment to love god to love others as we love ourself and so we say it you'll hear us using different phrases but we have what we call the upward journey of loving god we have the inward journey of inner healing and deliverance and we have the outward journey of loving people helping other people to experience jesus so how do we do the upward journey well we push in we worship we do all those different kind of things sandra this is your cue to come on up thank you my lovely wife worship is a big part of what we do france we devote half of our meeting when we gather together on sundays just to presence and to be able to worship god and to extol him and to say how wonderful he is that's how we love god it's one of the ways that we love god the second thing that he talk tells us to do is this inward journey and in the inward journey it's all about loving your neighbor as you love yourself so before you can love your neighbor really well you have to love yourself really well i'm gonna brag but i think my wife sandra we've been married 39 years probably is one of the best people in our congregation at loving people how many of you would agree wave your hands clap your hands something like that those of you encountered sandra a few people agree sander we've been at this church since 1994. in 1993 we were offered by john and carol to come and join the team this is before the the revival's begun before the holy spirit's meeting in our building and we've had three four million people come to conferences and nightly meetings and the couple that did the interviewing on behalf of john and carol were jeremy and connie synod who are now the pastors of catch fire barry ah they were our worship pastors at the time and john and carol's sort of right left hand and they came to our home and john said to jeremy and connie we want to hire stephen sander as part of our pastoral team jeremy and connie didn't know us they're in our home we had a meal together talking to us getting to know us and at the end they said well john and carol would like you to join the team and sanders response was um not a numb yeah it was very definitive wasn't it now you have to remember i'll just give you a little back story so you don't think i'm totally crazy when i say what i said but um here we are in this interview but our previous church we had gone through so much trauma we had two major church splits lots of betrayal lots of hurt i had a nervous breakdown anybody being there you know it's really difficult when you have that my nerves were were shot there was just just so much going on and so um when connie and jeremy bless their hearts when they said you know would you come i said fine i'll come but i won't love any person anybody in the church and and i realized i don't think i realized the impact of how wounded i was inside until um i said that and it was um now like in hindsight i'm like man that was really brave how did you how did you get a job by saying you don't love people well you know the good thing is yeah or you won't love people it's not that you didn't look people you're not i'm not going to let anybody catch the fire right how did you get hired well i think they had mercy on me but no i think they realized that um they had started the part of the foundations of catch the fire was inner healing and so they realized that most of the people that have come through the doors of catch the fire um knew nothing about inner healing and so that was us and so yeah that's where we've come from so that's sanders side my side to difficult difficulties in church and we were leading helping to lead a baptist congregation nothing about the baptist that's just sort of where we were at the time and steve long internalizes everything sander internalized very different i internalized i became very critical very judgmental uh sander can't do anything right in our home my kids can't do anything right and we were very very wounded people the reason i say this to you is that sandra and i for the last 28 years have been on an inner healing journey which is those of you that are new this is a big part of who our church is we probably focus on loving yourself more than most other churches in the world do because we realize if we can if we can get to a place of wholeness now we can love people really really well can i just tell you friends most of the city of toronto do not think highly of followers of jesus these days why because they've met unhealed hurting judging vindictive people that's not who they're supposed to be meeting they're supposed to be meeting people who express jesus in every single aspect of their lives so sandra you and i have had all sorts of ministry we've we've done pretty well every course that's been offered at this church and right now you and i are having trauma ministry why are we getting more ministry because we need it no you know yes we do yes that's why we're having ministry yeah i would say that the enemy more than ever and especially in this season wants to steal our destiny and i really get mad at the enemy and i just want to kick him you know and i do and the way i do it is i go get my heart healed up so that nothing will be stolen from me and i'm just going to say that more than ever god has a call on all of our lives he's got to call on stephen and we have a call in our lives and the lord has been very specific and if i didn't get the inner healing i would have hidden away i would have quit being what a pastor quit being in ministry and just worked in the world and just kept my mouth shut and become a very bitter person um i can't even imagine that's not who god created me me to be and i think that the thing for stephen and i is that we know our calling we know the prayers that our parents prayed over us and we know what we said yes to and we don't want anything to get in the way and so i feel like as a church of catch the fire here our people here i don't want anything to be stolen from you no nothing and i would say in this season even i was sharing in the first service last night or not in the in the afternoon i was just having a time with the lord and all of a sudden i could feel this grief coming on me and it was um a sense of loss and i started just crying out to god and i'm like god i can just feel the loss that our city that our nation is feeling right now with everything going on and and there's families and people of lost people they have died ahead of time just because of coven in other areas and i've just i've just felt this grief of loss and and and and the thing is the only way that we can handle this is with jesus and getting our hearts healed up and so i feel like listen even this morning when sarah was doing ministry she was releasing people into businesses you know releasing finances and we want to have those things and we want to walk with those things and have wisdom only with a healed heart because how many of us have made decisions or spoke words out of an unhealed heart and it's got us into trouble anybody like me yeah and have said things and i've gotten in the way of that so i would just say stephen for us we've spent many many years and whenever let me just tell you this more than ever in this season we're in a season of new right the lord and and there was an illustration that i've used that i heard and i think it's great we're he's put new train tracks on the the tracks we can't go back we have to go forward and so if anything is getting in the way get your heart healed up because it could be that you're getting in the way and you keep tripping yourself up and that's what i think stephen and i had done we had experienced lots of betrayal lots of hurt and you know let me just say we've hurt people too i know it's really hard that would be true yeah and yeah and we have never intentionally never intentionally twice tender for me yes but i would just say bless them note um i would just say um in this these last two years i think that the lord has been working on our hearts and um and and where we've needed to repent we've done our best to do that where we've and and we know that that you know hurt people hurt people so there we go how do you do inner healing real quick friends repent renounce forgive bless that's that's what you do problem comes memory comes repent of what you did renounce your decisions renounce your vows renounce your judgment judgments forgive and then whoever it was that hurts you begin to bless them and the lord does the inner healing friends just before we show a couple videos the outward journey for catch the fire is very simple we have a local outreach where we primarily focus on the community that's called north kipling which is just north of us right behind this is a street at wall drive 403 highway sorry 409 highway and then the community that's north of that is the lowest income highest unemployment newest canadians highest crime rate in all of the gta that's our local mission and that's what we focus on we also focus so we also partner with another number of ministries like scott mission and followers mission which are downtown caring for new canadians homeless people we give money and time to helping those and we had a partnership last year for the very first time with prison fellowship and one of the gentlemen our church leighton had a dream where he felt that our church needed to help kids in the gta whose dad is in jail and as it turned out we were able to help 500 kids we got christmas gifts for 500 kids whose dad is in a jail in toronto we're going to do that again this year friends where it comes up for christmas but we wanted to let you know we had planned to have an official ministry focus of choose one international ministry one nation one city that we can also focus on internationally we had planned to share that with you two years ago and lockdown just said no we can't do that and so i'm very very pleased to say we're going to be partnering with a ministry called shine the light it's a couple from winnipeg amazing people we've known them for many many years brent and wendy wong brent is a dentist he's been god's blessed him he's got three uh practices that he oversees and they were on a vacation in puerto plata dominican republic and as they're walking along the beach they sort of left where the resorts were the condos and fancy places and they walked a little bit and they came they crossed a little creek a little river and on the other side of that is the poorest of the poor in that community and huts didn't have proper houses and they just felt compelled to do something and brent being a dentist the next time they went down he just said advertising the community any dental things that people need he'd do that free of charge next time he went down he had a doctor friend that said you know can i come and do some medicine and the long story friends is that they started to lead teams of doing medicine and dentistry in dominican and then people said but i'm not a dentist i'm not a doctor i'd like to go and do something and then they began to build houses for these people and for every about for about every 15 people that go on a trip they can build one house it costs around 10 000 us dollars to build a house and then they give it away to someone who's in that community and two years ago all of our pastors from around the world we we went to this or sorry we went to a resort uh that brent and wendy stay at and then they arranged for us to have a visit and see what they were doing and sandra and i specifically went there because that's what we feel god's put on our heart is to help them partner with them and we got a little video to show you what it's like just to let you know if you're wanting to go on the very first trip that we're looking to go march 27 to april 3 2600 canadian dollars all in we're staying at a resort all your meals there then a little bus taxi will take us maybe 15 minutes to where they minister we'll minister during the day we'll do one of three things if you have medical skills you're doing that if you don't have those skills you're helping to build a house if you're not good at that you're loving people just hanging out with people yep and so we're gonna go for a week and we're hoping to have a team there's a maximum of 25 people that can go on that trip so we'll let you know how to how to join that in uh days to come but jonathas if you're upstairs let's show the video about shine the light this video is from two years ago and catched for raleigh and catch for greensboro in north carolina they combined and they built two houses and you're gonna see two families that at the end of the week are given keys for a brand new house [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for who you are my eyes are open [Music] i can see [Music] me all i can say is [Music] so if there's 25 of us we get to build two houses yep each house they put a little starfish on and that's sort of their brand and they built 50 houses in the last seven or eight years and uh friends when sandra and i were there it was just like they're bringing transformation and we felt for a while that our church needs to have an international focus and being someone who likes beaches where could we go that's warm in the winter and yet we're loving people and so dominican republic is where we're going to go puerto plata and all the information we'll be letting you know in weeks to come we told you already 35 different statements that we feel that god's said for us as a church we're introducing them one a week but we have a little video to show you that basically sums up all of them and so this is who we are [Music] our church exists for people to encounter god's presence to lead them in transformation so we can bring the kingdom of god to our city and the world we welcome everyone from all walks of life we are on a journey together to be healed equipped anointed and released to impact society we are building a church with people passionately pursuing god surrendering in his transforming love and sharing his goodness to our families friends communities and cities we are building a church where god's presence is a priority our desire is to be so close to his presence that the atmosphere of heaven is all around us miracles of all kinds happen and doors of favor open we passionately pursue him through extravagant worship and prayer we revel in his majesty pray in his authority and walk audaciously in his favor we are hungry to experience god in every area of our lives we believe that when god shows up people's lives are changed we are building a church grounded in the father's love a church that experiences the mercy and grace of jesus daily and moves in the power of the holy spirit we say yes to the spirit of god to work in us as we repent renounce forgive and bless healing comes to us and those around us when we fully embrace who god is we mature out of our past and into our destiny we are a church where the reputation of experiencing god's love personal transformation physical and emotional healing and financial breakthrough draws people from every walk of life jesus came to bring abundant life we want to live in that and be known as a church where others can experience the same breakthroughs the radical and redemptive truth that we find in the life death and resurrection of jesus propels us to take his good news to every sphere of our lives we are building a church filled with god-inspired people who bring revolutionary impact to every sector of society our history is grounded in revival where we always push for more we want to always anticipate that there is more of god to be experienced this is our church this is catch the fire we encourage you to take hold of this vision dive in and immerse yourself in the journey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] how about you stand up that's us people that's us is that you yes hold your hands out holy spirit would you come spirit of god you've brought unique people from all around the world that are part of our church in this room right now watching online right now you've gathered us from the nations you brought us here you've set a destiny in front of us to love people to love you to love ourselves you've you've given us opportunities father to see our family our friends our co-workers you've given opportunities father for this church as a group to have impact to see people's lives changed and daddy we've had some amazing things in our history already 32 years i think we've been going as a church four or five million people came to encounter god in this building and father the bible says galatians chapter three that we go from glory to glory and so if our past has been amazing that means our future is even better and daddy we welcome you by your spirit as individuals and as a community we need your help to move forward we need your help to impact our city to love the people that are around us in our communities in our condo and our apartment on our street we need you holy spirit we need your favor we need your presence to keep us healthy to keep us in line with everything you have we need favor for doors to open for finances to roll our way so that there's provision for the vision we welcome you holy spirit and father i'm asking that even now lord that you would expand our hearts expand our hearts to receive all that you have for us and lord expand our hearts with passion and compassion lord compassion to love the people around us the people that you bring before us father passion that we would we would be go-getters and we would like yes lord and we would have vision for our our cities our schools our our businesses father the government lord all those things lord that that wherever you lead us lord that you would stir our hearts again with compassion and passion and father we thank you lord teach us to love teach us to love and so holy spirit i'm asking that you would release your love on these ones right now father and lord it's almost like um you know the lord is shifting and sifting right now and things are gonna settle and you're gonna see exactly what you need to see and so father i'm asking that you would give us eyes to see ears to hear father give us words to be able to speak encouragement and blessing to those around us and father we want to say as a catch the fire church we are so grateful we are so thankful lord for all that you've done in this place but lord we are excited and father we are coming in expectancy now lord for what you're going to do father and what lord you have given us this building lord this is your church these are your people and so father we come into agreement with expectancy from heaven this morning lord and those that are watching online that father that you would stir us more than ever and in everything lord we give you thanks in jesus name amen church those of you in the room have a seat for two minutes those of you online thank you so much for joining us if you want to see all those 35 statements go to ctf toronto.com vision and you'll be able to see everything those are you in the room when you get home go to our website everything's there all 35 of those statements you can go through them you can watch the video again and those of you at home right now if you switch over to the website that's on the screen or is going to be on the screen ctftoronto.com getprayernow we have some amazing people that are in their homes just like you are and for the next half hour they're happy to minister to you they're good at healing they're good at prophetic they're good at just general ministry prayers so if you have a need you're watching right now go to that website and get someone to minister to you church family in the room three things we highlighted in the last three weeks this is for those of you online as well but church is belonging find a small group if you're not part of a small group go to the tv over there and our team will be able to help you to find a small group best part of our church is the amazing people that host in your homes or through zooms to be able to have community number two be a sharer share what god's given to you be generous in every aspect of your life help us in the in the mission with financing what god's asking us to do number three serving we talked about that last week find a place to love other people and serve other people that's who we are is catch the fire if you'd like prime minister this morning those of you in the room just over here i'll be through those doors we have a house of prayer right behind us and the prayer ministry team would love to minister to you those who go on the prayer team you can begin to head in and get ready and if you'd like someone to minister to you it's all the social distancing stuff they're going to be six feet away from you but loving people would be able to would love to minister to you and pray for you this morning amen friday night 7 p.m saturday night 6 p.m next sunday 9 and 11 15. let's stan one more prayer sandra do you want to pray him out yes lord i thank you for my family i thank you for my church family lord i ask that you would bless them father um even today as they um lord that they would be envisioned for what you their part in in this vision father but lord as they leave this place they leave light they leave loved and they believe that they know that they belong and so father i bless them in the name of jesus amen amen remember to say hi to everybody on the way out we bless you guys bless your friends thank you so much for coming and uh the normal sort of things keep your mask on until you're outside try to keep six feet away from each other book shops open coffee shops open for the next 20 minutes or so god bless you we'll see you next week for flow [Applause] [Music] what a girl [Applause] [Music] [Applause] to me [Music] you show me goodness and mercy and love without it again and again you show me goodness and mercy and love without it again and again [Music] you show me goodness [Music] without it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] god [Applause] [Music] [Music] when you show me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sure [Music] mercy and love without it again and again [Music] should trouble come [Music] when my spirit weak [Music] you're the strength that i need you uphold me in your life [Music] whatever comes would ever [Music] i will trust you completely [Music] through the rise [Music] i will trust you completely [Music] [Music] you're always with me you're not alone i will trust you completely [Music] completely you're always with me [Music] i will try to [Music] been completely to this [Music] is [Music] you've been faithful to this heart of mind

Channel: Catch The Fire Toronto

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Length: 110min 49sec (6649 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021