Christine Caine Passion Update _ Girls Night ( Dec 22, 2017 )

large that none of us could make a difference but if you can break that number down so that it represents one human being one life one story then that changes everything one story that profoundly impacted me was Natalia's she went to a coffee shop to meet up with a guy that her friends introduced her to she was so excited about going on a date she remembered laughing and talking with him thinking they were having a great time what she didn't realize was when she went to the bathroom he drugged her coffee causing her to pass out we then thrown in the trunk of a car as if she was nothing more than a piece of baggage when he arrived at the Greek border he simply paid off the security guards and into the country freely when she awoke she was in a different country chained to a bed she was raped and beaten repeatedly two weeks later Natalia was sold as a sex slave we simply cannot allow this to keep happening human trafficking is a modern-day Holocaust we can't turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the cry of millions who need our help today freedom is the right of every human being and is a cause we must all fight for the whole reason we started the a21 campaign was to rescue restore and rebuild these broken lives Natalia found hope when she was rescued and brought to one of the 821 safe houses [Music] [Music] we provide girls like Natalia with life skills job training and help them to take back ownership of their lives ultimately restoring their dignity giving them freedom hope and a brand new chancellor 8:21 lawyers hope to see Natalia's track again that is the 15 and a half years in prison and given a one hundred eight thousand euro we don't allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the statistics then you and I together can bring justice and freedom to those in need we've such an incredible opportunity to make a difference in our world today this is our time this is our moment we need to act now [Music] you kind of don't know whether to clap or not you can't clap because we are winning hey you're doing and hello can you all see me back there I'm pretty pumped because I'm you kind of look at that and you can so easily get overwhelmed by the whole deal but um I've got to say in just what I've seen the Lord do in the last five years I think you know day by day the devils losing or he's already lost but you know what we're making him pay for what he's done and I just think you can look at all of a terrific twenty seven million slaves you can think are we making any difference but we just open our 10th Country office in only five years we just open in Vietnam and Bangkok and now in the Ukraine and Bulgaria and in Greece and in England and to here in America and and just in a very not long ago like we just had in nine days nine traffickers all got convicted and sentenced all went to prison for over 20 years all for over a hundred thousand euro fine so I love it we are making a difference and um hi everyone I'm Chris hi turn to your neighbor and say you the hottest looking chick I've seen all night do you say that chick say that is my husband in the room I don't know if someone just whistled at me and I was the hoping it was him but that's okay I don't know I have been waiting to come to this church I'm telling you we we I'm from you know you think you're not really in the South here you're in the Midwest but if you kind of just fly south about 20 hours from here you come to where I'm from y'all yeah y'all talk really funny but anyway I was in the back room listening to y'all talk and I thought that's very southern this is how the Queen speaks this is the Queen's English and I'm from Sydney Australia anyone been to Australia a couple anyone want to come oh we have an excursion to Sydney and this is where we speak the proper English and we say awesome and savoring after three set awesome one-two-three Wow pretty dignified and do it one more time okay now after three I want you to say it like an American one two three you just work that out okay so and so five years ago my husband and I who I am married incidentally to the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on planet earth he's hot and we've been married for for 17 years and let me show you to a future I don't know where the crew is look at that I have been sleeping with that man from 17 years since the day I married him and not before just in case anyone's wondering okay so that's him and my eldest is Katherine Bobby she's 11 and my youngest is Saphir choice and she's seven they named after two of the most influential women in my life Katherine Bobby after my mom and my pastor Bobby Houston I've been planted I've saved and planted in one church for 25 years so my pastor Bobby and saphir choices after my spiritual mom Joyce Meyer who's hilarious because when I was pregnant with Sofia and we didn't even know if I was having a girl or a boy she would like get on TV and say Kristen Cain's having a a mini Joyce and I'm thinking if this is a boy he's gonna have a gender identity issue but anyway Joyce in fine form gets what she orders so um and let me just say their temperaments are exactly representative of who they are named after and Catherine also is my alpha and Sofia is my Omega they are the beginning and the end and in case you're kind of wondering why that would be is because Nick my husband is the 12th of 13 living children his mother had 15 full-term pregnancies in 17 years she could have been from the Midwest but anyway so the point is you'll make me nervous here and and so you know I just kind of feel like I need to remind my mother-in-law that I'm only having two and so you know 15 full-term pregnancies in 17 years I'm like there was obviously no television in that part of Australia and and Nick is awesome he's from like an English kind of Irish background and I'm from a Greek background Greek is my first language I didn't speak English until I was about five so I don't know if you know anything about Greeks but we are incredibly passionate about everything and we're extremely volatile and it makes for my husband the British here a little bit more reserved you know they kind of get excited way down deep on the inside and so I think what God does is he makes sure that you marry someone like that so that he can just be in heaven and be amused for the term of your married life and so y'all okay I like you already a key we all be family I'm gonna do it like a picture of you because I'm a little bit of an Instagram nut and a Twitter nut so I want to like I've been waiting to come to Dublin waiting field to invite me for 20 years so now that I'm finally invited I want to like stick a picture of you I hope it all works out gee you look hot you better smile because if you're single this could be your moment okay so like no joke this could be your moment of destiny and smile I'm all into like marriage Thanks that's okay it everyone happy so if you want to find out more I will not talking about the a21 campaign but I am sure somewhere my team has sent something about information about a 21 or not awesome so that's it cuz I don't want to use this time for that if something to sort of just like kind of you know just clicked in your heart and you feel like you want to find out more and go out and find out because all of us could make a difference not one of us is going to stop this but all of us together can make a huge difference you can go online at the a21 campaign jog we've got loads of great information and ways that you can be involved particularly chicks we are good prayers and and we have got some fantastic prayer guides like for every day of the month how to pray I really believe that the difference why the world freaks out at the kind of results that we have because by the grace of God it is supernatural the amount of girls that have been rescued their homes that have been built the traffickers that are in jail you can't make that stuff up but that happens through prayer because that's the one thing we bring to the table that the can never bring to the table when you pray God has moved and when God has moved God moves mountains and so miracles happen and I'm a great staunch believer in prayers and we can do that together so I kind of want you all to jump on board and at least at the very least cover us in prayer you know we put traffickers in jail that are from the Russian and Albanian mafia that we you don't play to be involved at this level it's not like am I just not nice little thing it's it's literally life and death and we have a lot of people on the frontlines in many different countries and so your prayer could really make a difference and and of course any anything else you want to do so you can check all that out you know we were laughing because I first came I think perhaps 12 or 13 years ago to the church just kind of to check out the youth ministries I was the director of youth alive in the state that I grew up in in Australia and you know I stayed oh and we were talking about this in the car I stayed in youth ministry for 15 years full time because I never wanted to graduate to women's miseries and it was just like this deal when I was growing out you just did not want to do the chick thing because it was like so depressing and women would just come and cry and snot and everyone we were depressed and that have the same old issues for about forty five years and I'm like could you get a life and get over it you know like Jesus I know he died on the cross but he did rise again just in case you didn't notice and it was kind of like this at least with young people it was awesome you could say let's go charge Hill with a water pistol and they're like let's go do it and that was awesome but I got to tell you it's a new day and it's a new age of women's ministry on the earth this is not your grandmother's women's meeting anymore and things have changed God is doing something awesome he is raising up a mighty generation of women filled with god-given destiny filled with god-given potential that are ready to change their generation and do something awesome and so I am honored to be here and to be part of of this so I think it's really really phenomenal and thank you for inviting me I'm saying all that to go thank you for inviting me because it's just that what a kick but seeing it past them and if you could see how cute you look I thought I am going to look at that young when I am that old and I'm probably only just I'm three years off 50 in case you're wondering do I look at no right answer I couldn't care anyway I tell everyone I like I can't wait to be 50 I'm gonna the best party in the world and so I have to stay young because like I had my first at 35 my second at 40 so I'm gonna be like you know this is hilarious where they had grandmother's day at school like two weeks ago or something and and like I went and in my row the grandmothers in my row three of them were younger than me and I was the mother of my 7 year old I'm just telling you and so you know I've kind of like thinking if I want to still be like turning up at her wedding then I need to stay fit and stay youthful and though I think the thing that keeps you younger than anything is god-given purpose and god-given destiny and when you are full of the life and the light and the Spirit of God and you're full of purpose and you know that you are just here you know for a very short time the Bible says that life is but a vapor and so we haven't got long I'm not wasting one second what a tragedy to come to die and discover that you never lived how awesome it is to be able to live a life on purpose by God's divine design and kick some serious devil but along the way and I don't know if you say that in this church but we do where I'm from and so if I offend anyone just excuse me because I'm from Australia and we're ignorant and you know people get pumped because they think when you come from Australia and up until about two weeks ago I was blond as you saw in the video when they think you're blonde and you come from Australia and that you're gonna like and you're from Hillsong you get all excited because you think I'm gonna sing shout to the Lord but um the fact is if I was gonna sing shout to the Lord sweetheart you would cry to the Lord and so we do not all sing from my part of the world but preaching is something that we do do from down under and believing God to do something also tonight well let me say I am I had severe choice so she's seven what euro in 2013 so what year does that make it she was born 2006 so if she was born on the of January 2006 any 10th of January mum's here that have got kids 10th of January born was that a epic day not in this church obviously oh okay fantastic and so in the 10th of January now I was pumped because you know I was speaking at our Women's Conference on the closing night which that conference started exactly eight weeks from the day I had Sofia and you know it's in the Sydney Superdome where we have our Hillsong conference next week so 17,000 women and I had gone to have Sofia and I was a little bit you know what I just kind of wanted to turn up and do the closing night at the conference obviously but I didn't want all the women to ask me whether I had had the baby yet and so I was really kind of like you know very conscious after I'd had the severe that I wanted to get my pre-pregnancy body back before the color conference before our Women's Conference now you might think that's extremely carnal and that's true because you say you know what Chris God looks at the heart and you're right but he's the only one looking at your heart and seventeen thousand chicks are not looking at your heart that's all I'm saying you know God might be holy but not people and so I'm thinking you know I don't need them to be checking out how I'm doing and whether I've had the baby or not I need to say that I haven't you know I'd so me being me I had Sofia I had a a c-section and for some of you that might like freak you out but for years before that I'd had Katherine and my friend Wendy treat who I think some of you might know the treat she had sent me all you know the book the CD the DVD the t-shirt on supernatural childbirth I'm right into it I'm a woman of faith and I laid hands on my womb we professed and we blessed and I was ready for the whole supernatural thing and I'm thinking I'm a woman of faith I travel I'm there with Joyce Meyer there is no way I had my contractions on Sunday night I thought I'm gonna go into hospital pop this thing out and go to church Sunday I'm all ready to go and all the people that have had babies realize what planet were you on and so I went in and after eighteen and a half hours I'd only dilated half a centimeter and yeah yeah see I I sent Wendy a letter after I had the baby going I went in and I after going into the labor ward I realized what super natural childbirth is it is you come out alive and as and then I remember about like you know two hours in when those contractions really kicked in and I'm alright because I said you know I'm not doing the drug thing or whatever but I remember I just grabbed the nurse and I went I am Greek I know the Mafia I want drugs legal illegal I don't care what it is you shove that thing in and if you know what else I said you would not be listening to me today and so at that point if you could see the Machine you could tell after 18 and a half hours every time I had a contraction Katherine's heart rate drop dramatically they didn't even ask me they just wheeled me down to do an emergency c-section after that was done I'm gone why did we not do that 20 hours ago so next time around I'm not stupid I had booked it in had Sofia and and so we I came out and of course you know I'm like checking myself out the next day they're all like you know mrs. Cain and by then I'm 40 years old and I'm saying no no I've got to get fit so I got a trainer in and my friend Lisa is awesome but you know she doesn't know Jesus yet so she's kind of like full-on new-age she's gone to Nirvana in a tirana you know eating a piranha hugging a while kissing a tree holding a rock she's humming her way to nothingness and she comes in I'm going like Lisa I got this conference and like I've got to get fit and I can barely walk right now I mean you know if you've ever had a c-section he like and I said I think I can like crawl around the block for maybe a week and then then maybe I could just like you know shuffle my feet that I could go for a full-on jog and and I said if we get this right and I don't eat for eight weeks I should be fine by the time the conference happens and she goes to me I'll never forget it she said Chris do you know what they just did to you and I am now a firm believer that ignorant is bliss because I said no and then she began to tell me what they do when have a c-section and I mean they cut many things and so they're cut and she goes do you realize how weak your core is to which I said to her what's a call and I'm thinking like an apple you know like there's an apple core and she began to explain to me how everything that holds together your whole skeletal system or you or everything that enables you to be able to run jump walk everything you see me doing right now all that stuff is actually part of your core and she said this to me she goes Chris if you prematurely run or if you prematurely carry anything she goes that's fine you might get away with it for a little while but the truth is that whether it happens now whether it happens five weeks from now whether it happens five months from now whether it happens five years from now at some point your body will collapse because there's a disparity between your inner core and what the pressure that you're putting on it and what you're trying to do with your body if there is a disparity between your inner and your outer at some point it's going to collapse and I'm um I'm just thinking okay so she goes so you're not gonna do any running you're not gonna do any pushing she rolled out one of those sort of like blue yoga mat things and she was you're gonna lie here and you're going to strengthen your pelvic core which you know so much should have told me that before a baby but anyway so she's sitting there like you know can you feel it I'm gonna lessor I can feel nothing and I'm paying you a lot of money to feel nothing and so I'm not sure that I want to do this but as I was lying on that mat I thought the Holy Spirit's speak to me and say to me Kristine in the same way that you have a physical core you have a spiritual core and let me just backtrack a little bit for you possibly about a year before that you know my husband and I we travel about 300 days a year all around the world we've been doing it for almost two decades and I have had the privilege and the honor by of God to speak in so many different countries so many Crusades so many churches so many different platforms seen the so many amazing things seem multiplied probably a lot of people come to Christ and in the midst of all of that I remember going to my pastors just before I had had my second child and I'm and I think I'm done and they were saying what do you mean Christina said because you know what I'm sick of doing this I'm sick of traveling the world going to church up to church go in a conference after conference going to event after event having altar call after altar call seeing people respond to altar calls seeing people either make a commitment to follow Jesus or seeing people make a commitment to to get over stuff and to move on and do what God's called them to do and I said I'm sick of going back two years later or three years later and nothing's really changed and I said I am at the point where I don't even want to give another altar call unless it alters someone's call because otherwise what is the purpose what kind of game are we playing what's going on I would just rather go and do something else and so I was in this season of trying to work it all out if this is true if we believe this to be true if Jesus Christ did do what we believe that he did do at Calvary and if he did rise again from the dead then why why are we not moving beyond certain things and doing what God has put us on the earth to do because ultimately if you're wondering why we're here it's because you and I are personally responsible for the evangelization of planet Earth before the second coming of Jesus Christ you should drop that in at a dinner party over the weekend when your friends are trying to impress you with what they do for a living and there's I'm a doctor I'm a lawyer I'm a Supreme Court judge what are you do you go well I'm personally responsible with evangelization of the planet with the second coming of Jesus what do you do it's actually quite a good job profile but that's actually what we are here to do and I'll be talking a lot on Sunday about what our mandate is is the church on the earth but the truth is there comes a point where you got to make a decision that this thing is real that what Jesus did is real and what He has called us to do is real and the you and I are not called to just I've exist and wait for the rapture but we have got we are here on assignment in God's divine timing God's divine plan and God's divine purpose men and women young and old alike and so while I was lying on that mat the Holy Spirit in light of all of that was speaking to me and said Christine there's a spiritual core in the physical core and then I was having a conversation with him and then he led me to probably one of the most known texts in the scripture if you guys want to put up Matthew 22 most of you won't even need to know this jesus said to him here it is his his all the law let me just sorry guys it was my fault go back one verse before that because I want you to hear this hearing that Jesus silenced the Sadducees the Pharisees got together one of them an expert in the law tested him with this question teacher which is the greatest commandment in the law jesus replied love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind this is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it love your neighbor as yourself now check out verse 40 all the law and the prophets hang on these two Commandments on these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets 613 Old Testament mosaic laws 613 condensed into this love the Lord your God here is the cliffnotes of the gospel love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind it is incredible that God could have picked anything he could have picked anything but as he led me to that scripture is saying Christine there is your spiritual core your heart your soul and your mind and this is the problem Christine it's not that my church doesn't want to reach the world and make a difference we're to love God with all our heart all our soul all our mind and then the second is just like the first you cannot separate these two Commandments and all the Old Testament 613 mosaic Lords are wrapped up in these two things essentially love God and love people and this is how what he said to me that we do love our neighbor as we love ourselves the issue is we don't really like ourselves because we do love God with all our heart all our soul all our mind it's just that we love him with all of our toxic ER with all of our wounded soul and all of our tormented mind so when you come to God with a spiritual core muscle heart soul and mind that is broken that is fragmented that is wounded that is toxic that is tormented then that impacts how you see him which then impacts how you see yourself which totally impacts how you see the world and the issue is so many of us are trying to act like Christians rather than just being a Christian from the inside out and their issue is as spiritual core is weak we are praying and fasting and standing on our heads and trying to do more in trying to pray more in trying to fast more and trying to confess more and trying to do more when the problem is just like me i discharged myself from hospital my core is weak and then I think I want to go running and because in my natural strength I might be able to do it for a little while I can do good things for a little while I can act a certain way for a little while but at some point when there is a disparity between your inner world and your outer world your world will collapse that's why you see some Christians and you go why did they make it so far and then they did why haven't they finished their course why did it take that to highlight that weakness it's because somewhere along the line we let go of strengthening our hearts Allah mine I don't know if you know what your core is everyone breathe in put your shoulders back sit up that's actually how you should be sitting the whole time you just elevated about six inches but that that call but see you know I don't have a strong core that's all the stuff no one can see and if I could get people up if there's any who's a real fitness buff here who's really good you all know ok come up here quick come up come on fitness buff you're awesome alright jump up on stage you can use the stairs use the stairs that way here this is fantastic you gonna right round awesome ok so let's show them what our core is let's do 20 push-ups [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you just thanked me who what's your name Katie you're awesome my daughter's name is Katie Thank You Katie let's give it up okay did you see how I treat it but she is half my age [Music] see that exercise I was gonna stop halfway through but she was like so focused I did not want to stop her flow so you know those exercises which I could have then got you to do 100 sit-ups and some tricep dips you know the ones that you hate doing because you don't want to do because they're really hard and they give you what appears to be quite minimal returns but it's actually the strength of the body in the same way when we get saved we have a commitment to continue to strengthen our heart our soul and our mind now it's interesting how we turn it into some kind of external behavior modification as if somehow Jesus Christ came from heaven to earth died on a cross and rose again from the dead so that I could have some sort of behavior modification you don't even need to be a Christian to modify your behavior he came for far more than that he came for heart transformation and as we change from the inside out then you don't have to try so hard to be a Christian you just are you just are it flows out of you rivers of living water flow out of you the striving and the struggle come out of so much of our Christianity when we understand the power of a strong heart muscle a strong soul and a strong mind now I'm not surprised that God starts with our heart because the heart is the seat of everything proverbs tells us that guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flow what all of the issues of life relational issues emotional issues spiritual issues physical issues financial issues you know where it all stems from the human heart everything comes out of our heart and with a whole lot of us a lot of the issues that we have either in our marriages in our relationships in our workplace come out of the fact that our hearts are very toxic because we have not dealt with issues of our heart we push it down as if somehow it's going to go away but out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and the heart guards us and guides us in every aspect of life and because we do not have a spiritual heart checkup often often our hearts are full of toxic things like unforgiveness and bitterness and offense and guilt and lust and greed and jealousy and envy and apathy and indifference you know every year my husband and I do a executive stress test for our insurance and what we need to do it and I love it I get on this like I looked up this treadmill and they put all these things on my heart and I love the doctor oysters mrs. cane you've got the heart of a woman half your age I love that and so it's kind of like you go and you do that but you see if I had a blockage in one of my arteries then I would have a heart attack and a lot of us are not firing to the degree that we should because a heart muscle is clogged and we're headed for a spiritual heart attack so there's an apathy there's an indifference to the purposes of God to the condition of the world around us or there is insecurity or fear or doubt or jealousy or anger because we haven't dealt with issues of our heart and rather than coming to this word and allowing it to read us and to cleanse us and to come before the Lord and to allow his spirit to do what needs to be done in our heart what happens is we allow offence and bitterness and guile and anger to clog us up and then we wonder why this becomes nothing more than a boring religious obligation we wonder why this crazy woman from Australia flies in and seems to be all on fire at forty seven and the last time we got passionate for God was ten years ago and it's not that it's not a well-intentioned heart it's just a heart that's gotten toxic or poison because you haven't allowed God to strengthen that muscle you haven't led him in to those deep innermost parts of that heart and you've harbored the unforgiveness and you've heard a hundred sermons on it you've harbored the offense you've harbored the bitterness or the lust or the greed or the envy or the guile and you've heard a million servants and sat through them and not allowed the word to wash that muscle it's just like you can watch us do push-ups and most Christians think they are by carelessly getting strong by watching someone else live the life you watched us on this stage go up and down and some people that was a good workout I just gotta go to Krispy Kremes right now I can't I just can't get over the head and that's what most Christians do every week it's like we're spectated a Christian event rather than participate in the journey because it takes a whole lot of work that you don't want to do neither do i it's not my natural inclination to say I'm going to deal with things it's not any easier for me than it is for you but the difference is those who run their race and finish their course and those that don't is those that are going to say you know what like it or lump it I'm gonna drop down and do it god I'm gonna do what your word says in that situation because when your heart gets hard when your heart you know if God's got your heart he's got you we say I've got a heart after God but it's more lip service than heart service because when God's really got your heart you do what you want from passion you know I am always moved in the book of Revelation I didn't give this to the guys but if you brought your Bible in the Book of Revelations in chapter 2 there's an interesting scripture always always very challenging to us and the Bible says these are the words in verse 2 I know your deeds your hard work and your perseverance it's Jesus speaking to the church at Ephesus I know you cannot tolerate wicked men that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but or not and have found them false you have persevered and you've enduring hardships for my name and have not grown weary so your thinking they're about to get an award right now because this is the church this is like Hillsong I mean we are where we're working hard we've done great deeds we can't tolerate wicked people we've tested those that claim to be apostles in a not and we found force we've persevered we've endured hardships for the sake of Christ we've not grown weary and then he says this yet I hold this against you you have forsaken your first love you forsaken your first love see when you don't forsake the only way you forsake your love Jesus and you're enamored by other things is when your heart is calloused and hardened and the way it gets calloused and hardened is because you don't have a spiritual heart check up all the time we're more busy trying to act like a Christian rather than allow God to cleanse us from the inside out so we truly aren't Christians so we end up then forsaking our first love in a sense having a spiritual affair with Jesus so you could be a Christian for 20 years you can live in the epicenter of Christendom and you could be attending church you could do the whole deal I could be sleeping in the same bed as my husband and he'd be having an affair you can be in church every week you could be at every woman's meeting you could be in the word and still having an affair on Jesus and psychologists say there are six major ways that people have an affair and and the things that lead to affairs overall and first and foremost well obviously there's so many I could go to but boredom that's what leads to an affair people get to a certain age get to my stage 17 years I'm a bit bored I want something new and I want something fresh I don't want to do the hard work in this so I'm just gonna go and have a little bit of fun we do that to Jesus all the time a little bit bored heard that sermon before turn to that word before then to that service before we want the latest whistle and bell what's going to be bigger what's gonna be better what's gonna be brighter who's the next artist who's the next speaker who's the next this who's the next stop we just need something bigger because I thought I'd get bored and Jesus goes Wow if you kept your heart pure it's amazing how my spirit dwells there and you would be internally regulated by the power of my spirit not externally motivated by what's going on around you it is amazing how you would learn to find contentment in me because in me dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily and I then send that spirit on the inside of you what planet are you if you're bored what god do you know if you are bored he dwells within us and our heart but we get bored with the things of God so I might just go out there it's amazing familiarity familiarity is one of the worst things in a marriage you get familiar and you lose honor and respect oh you will just go have a little flirt have a little fling and even if it's not physically you can emotionally do all of that without physically jumping into bed with somebody else well we do that with God we get a bit familiar I've heard that joke before man I've been coming to this church that long I could tell the pastor story better than him I know the how that goes how many services do is sit in how many times do we read a Bible when we grow up in a culture that is just so steeped in in in churchianity it is so easy to get familiar with this God rather than stand in awe with the gratitude of what he has done what he has saved and delivered us not only from but also called us to and purposed us to familiarity will make you have an affair on God like almost nothing else you know lust lust obviously in the natural leads to having a fierce out lusts for other things or for more encounters or for some more external manifests its it's amazing how we can end up lusting after ministry lusting after position lusting after title lusting after the benefits of God and forsaking the God of the benefits in the midst of all of that it's all subtle it's only a one degree shift in your heart but if my plane leaves Sydney to come to America the United Airlines pilot just needs to set that little instrument panel just one degree of course and 14 hours later I don't land in LA I land in China normally when you end up away from your destiny it's not that you started with your heart getting off course it's just that you didn't do correction at the 1 degree shift and somehow 5 10 years later you go how did I end up so far away from the purposes of God for my life how did I end up so hard in my heart or so far away from God and where it comes from is somewhere we didn't adjust our heart and we ended up forsaking our first love oh we're still in the deal but the last time we were passionate about the things of God and he says you know what you need to turn and you need to come back to that because if I've got your heart I've got you if I've got your heart you don't have to try to be a Christian you just are you just do no one has to make you go to church notice to make you read the Bible no one has to make you tithe no one has to come up with a new gimmick to try to keep you saved between services you know what we could do on the earth as the church if we could let our pastors prophetically preach to us rather and try to keep us saved every week we've got most Christians on an IV drip going this Sunday can't be saved because we don't appropriate the word or be in the word or build ourselves up in our most holy faith during the week so we just have this yo yo Christianity and God says I've got a job on the planet for you to do could a Christian actually remain a Christian for three days that'd be awesome and so then we could move on let me know could go on but I don't want to spend turn to your neighbor and say gee they give it heart in Australia don't they are y'all okay do y'all still sort of like me three of you do thanks very much [Applause] you know Church we we just live in very urgent times I don't know if you realize this and if you don't then you don't get out enough there is a lot going on in the world and we are living I really believe in the closer obviously we're closer to the end than we were yesterday but you know when a woman is six months pregnant and starts having contractions or even seven months or eight months you're not really think you think they're a few Braxton Hicks you're not thinking that it's that imminent necessarily but when it's the ninth month and the contractions are coming every three minutes you start to ask yourself some questions I think this baby is going to come and if you just look around the planet and have a look at what's happening you've got to ask yourself the question it's not that these things have never happened before but the frequency with which they're happening and the relentlessness with which it's all happening you've got to ask yourself some question what days are we living in and what has God purposed for his church to do in this hour and let me tell you this much it's not Church as usual it's not Christianity as usual it's not chick as usual God is up to something huge on the planet he says but the first thing I would love is your heart if you've forsaken your first love return because if I have your heart I've got you if I've got your heart I've got you you don't have to try it'll flow out of who you are the second one is where I think we have most of our challenges Christian's love the Lord your God with all your heart not your toxic are not your bitter heart but all your whole heart in Christ the second thing would be with all you soul and this is where I think we have perhaps had some challenges in our Christianity and why some of us really will it well intentioned people really desperate to do something great for God what happens is I think we forget sometimes that God has created us body soul and spirit and so many of the issues that we have we think of spiritual issues but then spiritual there's soul issues and our soul is damaged and our soul is wounded and we never went to get that healed and sometimes we think that's a sign of weakness but let me use this example if you if I did a salvation altar call you raised your hand and you responded to say yes Jesus I want to get saved so you get up out of your seat you come down the aisle you come down the front we pray the single most powerful prayer you could ever pray the prayer of salvation where you are plucked out of hell into eternal light the kingdom of God you are born again you are saved there's nothing more powerful that you could pray well do you realize that if when you raised your hand you got up out of your seat you came down the aisle and you stood here if you had cellulite on your thighs as you walk down that aisle and before you prayed that prayer when you said amen to that prayer that saved you from Hell and you walked back up the aisle to your seat did you notice that that cellulite came back to your seat with you and pretty much until you get on the treadmill and stop eating the Krispy Kremes it's coming to eternity with you did you ever notice that now no one thinks that that's weird because you think of course not my spirit got born again Christine and that's true if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord you shall be safe your spirit got born again but your body did not get born again the cellulite is still there and until you go to the gym or until you're gonna be fit it's staying with you well why would we think that that's okay with the body but not the soul see if you came to Christ with a wounded soul like I did and like possibly everyone has then once I said amen and my spirit was born again I went back to my seat with a very damaged and wounded soul and it took 20 odd years of damage and it was not going to instantly be okay overnight my soul was messed up that's normally what happens when you have a background like I had I was born in Sydney Australia and I grew up second-generation migrant Greek before My Big Fat Greek Wedding when it was not cool to be Greek in Australia I was so marginalized because of my ethnicity grew up in the poorest local government area in our state the poorest ZIP code in a government housing assisted house the third poorest ZIP code in my whole nation in a culture that's so marginalized women there was no thought that a woman could do anything but be a like a lean mean breeding machine and so that's all that was the destiny for my life nothing else a woman couldn't be more educated than a man a woman couldn't really aspire to anything else and pretty much every week of my life from the time I was three years old till at least 15 I was sexually abused at the hands of four men every week and often several times a week now that messes with you I was a young woman that was full of shame I was full of guilt or full of condemnation I was full of anger I was full of bitterness I was full of unforgiveness I was so messed up well when I prayed a sinner's prayer my spirit was born again but I was still messed up most young women with my kind of background don't normally necessarily end up doing this they end up either drug dependent or alcohol dependent two or three different kids to two or three different fathers or confused about their gender identity I mean they normally end up doing anything about this and then two weeks before my 33rd birthday I got a phone call from my brother George who was 35 at the time and when you Greek or your brothers are called George or Niko or Spiro or Kahne you know so George calls me and he said Christine I just got a letter from the government department and it says that I've been adopted now I laughed when he told me that because you know when you grow you always tell your siblings that they're adopted and that they came from my husband you go but this was like freaking me out of it because I said George of course they have made some kind of administrative error call them and then call me back so George calls me back about 15 minutes later but this time Church he is sobbing sobbing and he goes Chris it's true they told me the name of my biological mother my biological father when I was born when I was immunized to have an entire file on my life their church I'm I'm freaking out and you know Greeks are very volatile and my father had died of 9 at 19 when I was 19 and now I'm thinking my mum who was 61 at the time is living at home on her own my brother's gonna go and confront my mum he literally was capable of anything I'm thinking this is a 35 year old family secret this is gonna blow up so I jump in the car I race over to my mum's house just before my brother gets there and I mean just as just after my brother got there so I go down into the front room I open the door into the living room my mother is standing there and my brother is giving her this document from the government I saw my mother take this document and there was this moment of hesitation just enough for me to go oh my gosh this is true my mum starts bawling she goes George I'm so sorry all the adoption laws in Australia they were all closed adoptions 35 years ago we never thought you would find out and the last thing I promised your father before he died was that I would never tell you so I tore up all of the paperwork and I threw it away and I never thought you would find out now ladies you gotta imagine this is like this is a moment suddenly this 35 year secret is unlocked I mean my brothers standing there he's crying my mother's crying dogs crying snots flying I mean the whole thing's like it's a big fat Greek moment I didn't know what to do so what does a woman like I don't know I'm like I'm gonna go food baklava go to the kitchen just do something I'm Greek you know like whatever I'm in there my mother walks in a few minutes she goes Cristina since we're telling the truth do you want to know the whole truth now I don't even know why I said this initially I just turn around and look to her and I went I've been adopted too and then with tears streaming down her face my mother just nodded her head now I'm two weeks out from my 33rd birthday I am stunned and I just looked it up and you know for a few minutes I didn't even say anything which in and of itself is a miracle greater than the resurrection of Jesus spent anyway so I didn't say anything then after a few minutes I kind of like looked at her and I went for the first thing I said I went am i still greek and i thought i was called a lot of names at school for a lot of years and I wanted to know there was a reason for that so when am i still great now after that right there in my Greek Orthodox mother's kitchen the next thing that came out of my mouth I went oh well mum before I was formed in my mother's womb who's ever wound that was he knew me he needed to gather my innermost paths now my family doesn't go to church so they think and I'm smoking crack as I come out with this I go before he formed my innermost parts you know he knew me he fashioned all of my days before as yet there was one of the mum I am fearfully and wonderfully made and although that day every fact that I thought to be true about my life changed everything changed what my name was what my heritage was what my history was every fact change and to this night I still do not know the facts surrounding my conception I don't know if I was the result of a one-night stand I don't know if I was the result of an ongoing adulterous affair I have no clue if I was the result of a rape but although I don't know the facts I have discovered that there is a force on the planet much higher than the facts and it's called the truth of the word of God and Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 does not say that I am the workmanship of a rape it doesn't say that I'm the workmanship of an adulterous affair it says that we are his workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them and just because I don't know the doesn't change the truth and the truth always supersedes the facts in our circumstances ladies the truth always supersedes it and so my soul was wounded it's what normally happens when you're rejected when you're abandoned when you're abused I tell people every I fit every government funding category in Australia I'm a marginalized oppressed dispossessed poor ethnic minority abused adopted chick it's awesome I could make a fortune on government funding but I read the book and my Bible says that he has redeemed my life from the pit I am NOT an ex anything I am a brand new creation in Christ Jesus and can walk in that strength and that victory but I had made a lot of hours I had locked God out of a lot of places in my life I had many char I will never trust like that again I will never love like that again I will never allow any man to do I could never be the wife that I am I could never be submitted to one of the strongest male leaders in Christendom for 25 years I could have had a hundred prophetic words about what I'm destined to do but I would never have fulfilled them if I hadn't let God go deep into those areas of my soul that I had double deadlock pad locked and made vows and see a lot of us we don't let him go in and we have this yo-yo Christianity and we have two good days and three bad days and we come here and wish under honda kawasaki and we go home and our evil twin sister comes out and our kids think what are you smoking and we're so spiritual in the premier and you know what deep down we hate ourselves because we want to do better and we wish this thing would work and we wonder why it's up and down and it's and we pray more and we fast more and we just think if I do more but the issue isn't that the issue is a soul issue that you've got to allow God to come in and illuminate that darkness with his light and allow his healing word to go in deep and bring healing and bring wholeness and a lot of us we just we just get good at the game and we get good at visiting with God and you hear the language in the church all the time and people said to me Christine there's a visitation of God like I don't even know what that means God is omnipotent God is omnipresent God is everywhere all at the same time and you just get to choose whether you're gonna really believe this stuff or not but we like a visitation because that's how most of us are with God we like to visit we like to visit on Sunday morning would like to visit a couple of times a year at the Women's meeting but we just visit with God we don't let him invade the Bible says it John chapter 1 verse 14 the word became flesh and I love the message rendition it says and moved into the neighborhood well we don't want him to move in because we don't know what to do with all the junk and he says if you would just let me move in I would bring healing and wholeness and do what my word can only do in your life because you know when you got a visitor what do you do then you get that house you clean that lounge room and make it really nice and clean you go into the kids bedroom you get all the dirty undies the pizza boxes shove it in the cupboard and you just like shut the door cause it all looks nice you go into the bathroom you get rid of the sandpaper and you put really nice soft toilet paper because the visitors coming you go and you cook the best cookies or chocolate ones and and you know but if the kids touch them they're dead because that's for the visitors and you have threatened your children with no Christmas presents for 55 years if they even look at each other the wrong way when the visitors there and you know mothers have got this sixth sense your visitor can come because they come at the appointed time and we are all ready to go and you have the ability to engage your visitor and lock eyes and if you can smell your kids are about you can give them an evil stare without taking your eyes off the visitor and they know they are dead and they are busted when the visitors go it's this thing that a mother is able to do and what happens the visitor sits at the appointed time we're all on our best behavior and then we just saw the visitor leaves and then they're hardly out the door before were like World War 3 breaks out again let's how we out with God I mean we could be having World War 3 in the car on the way to church on Sunday and I mean you've nearly killed your husband you've nearly murdered the children but you pull into that church parking lot and man that spirit of hypocrisy it just comes upon us all it's amazing I mean you can only just commit a murder but you get to the foyer the greeter is there they're like good morning and you're like you know they're like how are you and you're like I'm blessed how blessed I mean you said a lot of other four-letter words none of them were loved on the way to church but now you're blessed and then you bring in your kids and you go this is my cherubim and my Seraphim and here they are and they're going to kids church and we're all blessed together and you're in worship you're like I worship you a mighty God I hate his guts if he thinks he's getting any further in the next month and you just go through it is amazing it is amazing as you sing never once did you ever walk away never once did you ever leave me alone and I'm gonna leave him don't you worry and it's amazing what your head can be simultaneously doing with us Christian smile because you've been redeemed and sanctified and justified by the blood of the Lamb praise the Lord and so then pastor preaches a sermon and you're like taking you barely get in the car shut that - did you hear what pastor George said that was a for you every word of that sermon was for you and then you get home and maybe you're still a Christian on Sunday night but on Monday the first signs of your evil twin sister are out by Tuesday she's in full force and by Wednesday you've got the tenth tub of ice cream out and you hate yourself because you don't want to be that mother you don't want to be that wife you don't want to be that person and you just don't know what the problem is and you've prayed and you fasted you've gone to 100 church services and it's because your soul is watered and Jesus says would you let me go in to those places you've tried to hide you've tried to deny because if your souls not strong you're gonna live a yo-yo Christianity or your life I could be the most gifted person on earth but my gift would have rapidly taken me to a place that my character in my soul realm would never have kept me not because I didn't want to but I couldn't because it was broken and damaged and I had to allow the Holy Spirit through the power of God's Word to bring healing and strength and what was once one of my greatest weaknesses has become one of my greatest strengths and wouldn't it be just like God to weave all of that stuff together and that he would take this kid left in a hospital unnamed and unwanted let me show you my documents when I was born I got about a week later my documents this is my birth certificate and if you can see that it says particulars of child prior to adoption do you know when I got this document how much it was like a knife in my heart because you see there it says child's name can you see the name typed in there unnamed who on earth has unnamed of the birth certificate me see that number too 508 of 1962 see when I talk about 27 million slaves and I said on that video numbers and numbing numbers of dehumanizing when numbers are nameless and faceless they mean nothing so when we talk about billions of people going to hell when we talk about millions of children starving to death they're dying of preventable diseases when we talk about 27 million slaves as the church we've just gotten so good just numbers numbers numbers numbers but see nothing's ever a numbered to me because I was that number and as soon as you put a name and a face to a number you can't ignore that number anymore and every human being is created in the image of God and every human being has a god-given destiny and a god-given purpose and God has called us the church not just to do church on the Sunday but to be church 24/7 and that means we got to have a strong heart to do that we're going to have a strong soul to do that but see I'm not denying it the facts ladies there it is unnamed and you know the enemy starts the little tape recorder that says when I got this see Christine no wonder you're abused for all those years your mother didn't even want you your mother didn't even give you a name you're just a number that's what happens to numbers and then I got a document from the Royal Hospital for women and this is the social worker report that was written two weeks before I was born and an excerpt from that talks of my biological mother it says she does not seem to be too emotionally involved with his child she seems to want to get it all over and done with and get back to work as soon as possible and so here I'm reading a document from the royal hospital for women and it's a fact I can't deny there is the fact it says that I was unwanted and I could look at that and I could allow that to define me like so many of us do we believe the facts and so many Christians limit their life by what the facts are what did the doctors say what did the politicians say what did the Education Department's say what did some expel say what did some Excel offers say what do you say to yourself based on your mistakes and we so limit the potential of what God can do in and through our lives because we love to believe the facts our society and our world lives on the facts what are the facts Christine you can't be this kind of faith person because look at the facts and I'm not denying the facts that's what it says one document said I was unnamed and other documents said that I was unwanted and for the sake of time I'll just speed this through in the in the 28th the March 1993 if you would put out my university document this is the University of New South Wales and had the most prestigious Social Work School in the nation at the time I was running a community-based youth center faith-based which became the largest Youth Centre in Australia and we were running programs in the community for young people and at-risk kids and hurting kids and this school a whole lot of the students in their fourth year of this prestigious Social Work school wanted to do their final year placement at our youth center the only problem was the real problem the real challenge was that they didn't like the fact that we were faith-based they loved our results but didn't like our methodology which is always the case and so called me in because they decided that I wasn't qualified enough to supervise the fourth-year students because my degree was in English and economic history so basically I can count to ten and read golden books and so they were thinking that obviously is not adequate to be able to supervise students so this whole letter we're running at the time the largest Youth Center in a string and the letter said if your career ambition is to remain in the area of youth services in the longer term I would strongly urge you to take time out to study for a basic Social Work Welfare work and other relevant professional qualifications goes on to say the comments I've made I mean it was a one half page document telling me I was unqualified you know the comments I made may be difficult for you to digest but they were they reflect my honest something-or-other of the most appropriate way forward for you I see you as a young woman with enormous innate potential and I sincerely hope that the something-or-other that you will take several years out to get adequate degrees so that essentially my potential will be realized so basically all that was a really nice way of the Dean of the School of Social Work saying you are unqualified to do what you do now that was written on the 28th of March 1993 so they told me since then by God's grace I can't tell you how many millions of young people I've talked to around the world we run by the grace of God probably one of the largest if not the largest any human trafficking organization in the world we've been given the highest honor the hero of human trafficking award from Hillary Clinton in your State Department the highest honors from the European Union highest I'm not saying that for any reason but I want you to say to see what the experts said about me in 1993 and if you put those three documents up because this is what most of us define our Christian life by and we define our potential by so here we have of course if the government said it's got to be true and so they told me that I am unnamed and if the medical professionals profession says that it's got to be true they told me here unwanted and I'm not denying it you see that it is black and white ink on paper and the University the Education Department told me that I'm unqualified for everything that I'm doing so there I three documents black-and-white ink on paper all from the highest authorities from the top woman's hospital in my nation from the top social works school one of the top universities in our nation from the government in my nation all of them I am NOT in denial I'm not a blabber and grabbin I'm not like living in some kind of denial I see it I acknowledge it I see that it is the facts it is black and white ink on paper and there it is but the only challenge is is that I found myself another black and white ink on paper that's the issue I found myself another black and white ink on paper and although that document said you are unnamed Isaiah 49 verse one says from the womb of your mother I have named your name that document said that I'm unwanted but some 139 says sweetheart before you ever got in that womb I wanted you I knew you that document said that I was unqualified but my Bible says that he whom he calls he qualifies if you want to fulfill your destiny you build your life on the truth and not the facts of what everyone else says about you we build our life on the truth of God's Word but you got to get that truth down in your soul and you got to strengthen it and my times up I never asked anyone how much time I had and I do that on purpose because it's chicks it's Friday night what are you gonna do if he's already starved your kids to death they're gone that's all right if he's already given a pizza is gone so I wouldn't worry about it knock yourselves out can I have ten more minutes because I want to land this so if we do that but it says the rather logical with all your heart with all your soul with all your might and of all the might of all the muscles that I need to do more push-ups on not just every day but every hour if not every other minute of every day is my mind muscle because I'm only ever one thought away from going back to how I used to think in this mind that is so who was so tormented by the enemy for so long I couldn't think to straight thoughts when in 1992 I came across Kaycee treats book renewing the mind changed my life but let me say from 1992 to 2013 there's nothing nothing than learning the Word of God the memorizing scripture than being in the word all the time because there's a default in here they could easily go back because your heart and your soul muscle contain the potential of your destiny but it's here your mind muscle that's gonna take you to your destiny or not and the truth is our thoughts are like a train they take us somewhere you get to decide because most of us don't even think about what we're thinking about and the enemy will make up what will make sure before you wake up in the morning that thoughts of fear and doubt and negativity and defeat and anger and jealousy and Garlin lust and greed and envy and apathy and indifference oh he'll make sure they come into the platform of your mind and what we need if we are going to thrive in the day in the hour in which we live ladies used to start thinking about what we think about because our thoughts will take us somewhere I remember in Sydney when I was at university I lived in a city called black town and my university was in another city it was in Sydney but it was a 45-minute train trip and I would go from black town station to Redfern station it left that platform like clockwork seven-thirty platform for every day five days a week I would get on that train this one day I was running a little bit late so I did not check the destination board on the trains but a train pulled in it was 7:30 looked at my watch platform for so without checking I just jumped on and the train doors closed I thought man I made it awesome I'm not going to miss uni well about point zero two seconds later anger I was in trouble because my university was 45 minutes in that direction but this train took off and it started going full speed ahead in that direction and did not stop for one hour because I never checked the destination of that train I had caught a train a one-hour express train to the mountains in Sydney which was about as far away from my university as you could get I remember this train doors open I was so frustrated I came out to the platform the stationmaster was there and I looked at him and I said how did I get here and I'll never forget he just looked at me like I was a lunatic and he said well love you got on the wrong train didn't you and I think sometimes we get to the end of a day another fight another argument another depression another bitterness another extra drink and other extra this and we think God how did I get here again and God says you know what you just jumped on the wrong train of thought just because a train of thought comes into the platform of your mind does not mean you need to jump on that train of thought you can wait and you can jump on a train of thought that's going to take it'll of - joy - peace - kindness - gentleness along so you can jump on the right train of thought that's going to get you to the right destination if you know what is in this word you don't have to believe what they said but you could have to replace that thought with my thought yes you might have been left in a hospital and named an unwanted yes you were sexually abused you know the blood of Jesus does not give you amnesia and that's where a lot of us went wrong faith is not calling those things that are as though they are not that is called lying we call those things that are not as though they are I was abused I have got a lot of scars there was a lot of pain there was a lot of heartache but what use would I be to a generation to sit there and get well you know what I was abused those lived in hospital nobody likes me everybody hates me think I'll go in words that it's really bad but I said oh god I'll submit this to your word Lord that you would bring healing that you would bring wholeness and what perhaps I once hid the scars of shame I know now I could hold before a generation and go let me tell you about some of the stuff that happened more importantly let me tell you about the healer of my soul that brought healing that brought Redemption let me tell you about the one that brought salvation let me tell you about the one that will bring you a life beyond your past let me tell you about our awesome Saviour Jesus Christ and the truth is that we have to make a decision at some point that we are going to allow him to come on the inside out and strengthen our heart and strengthen our soul and strengthen our mind it's not a one-off thing it is a daily thing to say god I don't want a toxic heart that's gonna cause me to have a spiritual heart attack and pull back on my passion for you God my soul has been so wounded well I need some spiritual heart surgery and some soul surgery Holy Spirit come in and let's go to some of those places and I'm giving you a key to those areas that I've doubled deadlock padlocks and vowed nobody will go too and God I'm gonna give you my mind and we're gonna renew my thoughts and I'm gonna replace my thoughts about me with your thoughts about me because it's not just about me it's about the generations that have to come after me what kind of crazy mother or psycho wife would have I been if I had not allowed God to do that let alone not doing what I'm called to do is it just not like God in Romans 8:28 was everything that happened to me good no but has not God woven together and work together for good all of those things for his glory who would have thought I would have been rescued this is what true freedom is not just that I walk in victory but that I turn around and I opened the prison doors for those that are still bound I guarantee you that don't feel like Joseph in Genesis chapter 50 verse 20 where he says to his brothers you meant this as evil against me but God meant it for this very purpose to save many people alive I guarantee you the enemy wishes he left me alone I bet you that he wishes that he never touched me every girl that is rescued every traffic of the goes to jail is another sign of how God has totally redeemed and work together for good all of this situation to the glory of God and girls we need to do it not just for us but for the generation that is to come after us I was speaking and I'll close with this all speaking at a conference in London in England and it was in a place called bed worth really close and the band you can all come up there was really close to a a place called stratford-upon-avon where William Shakespeare wrote all his plays and did his deal and you know I'm an English major and so I studied Shakespeare at University for three years and so I thought you know what I'm so close to Willie's house I want to go and see if Willie's home and so I went to Willie's house but he wasn't home he's sort of been dead a couple hundred years but anyway I went there but across the road from Willie's house there was like this genealogy shop you know where they've got all these like I don't know maybe the Mormons owned and I'm not sure but anyway so I went in and and my husband obviously is from English descent so I'm thinking maybe Nick really has royal blood in him and this was when Prince Charles was going to marry Camille so I thought maybe I could get a wedding invitation to the Royal Wedding sir I'm gonna go and check out if my husband he might have these estates and he might be a baron or a lord or something like Lord Nicholas and I could be Lourdes Cristina's and so I'm like awesome so I go I'm not joking I'm thinking like it's gonna be awesome so I put in the name came no I'm not joking when it spot out this piece of paper with your whole history and names and whatever okay all Nick's ancestors were convicts that came to Australia and there were pirates and murderers and rapists and thieves I'm not joking like all there and I'm like burst out laughing and so I'm walking down the streets of stratford-upon-avon I'm going man I married good good blood line here a good stock I did well heads up and then I started to think of our family tree and I thought gee we did this will I over here there's you know convicts and criminals and pirates and murderers and over here there's incest and adultery and addiction and fornication and abuse and pay and I thought whoa and then I started to laugh because I thought we can't do anything to change that past it is what it is nothing will change that but when my kids spit out a genealogy chart nothing's gonna change there's going to be the same lineage there but then all of a sudden they're going to have a look at the 30th of March 1996 Nicholas Joseph Cain marries Holy Ghost terrorist Christine came and although they could do nothing about anything before that they're gonna see that suddenly everything changed they're gonna see that because two people made a decision to work on their heart soul and mind that they drew a blood line in the sand and they said you know what with us divorce stops with us abuse stops with us addiction stops with us it stops from the hints fourth all generations shall call us blessed and they shall be blessing and there shall be prosperity and there shall be abundance and you know pretty much every day since if my daughters have been born I've spoken over their lives you know Katherine Bobby you are the head and not the tail you're above only and not beneath I mean they could say this verbatim you are a leader and not a follower you are a woman of God you're a woman of Prayer you're a Holy Ghost terrorist you love the house of God when you grow up you are gonna marry a very very very wealthy Christian man I've told them since they were born I've told them since they were born I'm gonna be so old by then they need someone to look after me so my point is it's not just about you those push-ups they sit up the spiritual core it's not just about you it's about the generations that are to come after you you can't change the future we can do nothing about the past we can reach our world but when there's a disparity between your inner world and your outer world your world will collapse and you will be so self-absorbed and so self consumed that you will forget the very purpose for which God has left us on this earth to reach a lust in a broken world it's not just about God healing Chris Kane from abuse adoption abandonment rejection it's part of the destiny that God had for me and he used all of that for me to do this and all I proof is that nothing is too strong nothing is too big for God to redeem the devil ultimately has no growl he sent an assignment to steal kill and destroy me when I was still in my mother's womb when that didn't work he sent another assignment into my bedroom when I was three years old and continued that assignment for 15 for many many years I see God said to Jesus hey Jesus I've got this planned purpose and destiny for Christine and for all of humanity that I've prepared from before the beginning of time and the enemy has sent an assignment to still kill and destroy that so Jesus would you go to earth would you die on a cross would you shed your blood and would you rise again from the dead so the Christine and all of humanity could have not only forgiveness for their past but a brand new life and a hope for the future and because of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross you know there is no thing that has happened to you that is too big for God to redeem to forgive to restore to renew there is nothing that can forfeit the plan or the eternal purpose of God you could choose to live as a victim you could choose to live in defeat but this word is true and will you what Jesus achieved a car-free Israel and the challenge for some of you is you've walked with that limp for so many years that everyone around you has gotten used to it and everyone around you has gotten used to the issue and you have used this as an excuse and the problem with someone like me come into town is it confronts everything and says whoa because it's not a personality thing that set me free it's not that I'm some personality on the disk profile it's not that I have a particular love language or a strength finder it's I found the one who has strength Jesus Christ and let me tell you in our postmodern secularized privatise pluralized trendy little 21st century whistles and bells and all and we've got it all let me tell you one thing the most potent force on the planet it's not some cruise missile it's not some nuclear bomb it's not all modern technology the most potent force on the planet always was and always will be the blood of Jesus Christ it sets people free it still sets people free today we friend I wonder if you know this Jesus that I'm talking about not do you know about him but do you know him and if you don't right here right now right we're sitting I want to give you the opportunity to address the spiritual condition of your heart the opportunity to put Jesus Christ first in your life I am NOT talking about religion and I'm not talking about Church I'm talking about have you surrendered your life in your heart to the lordship of Jesus Christ maybe a friend invited you into this place and you didn't weren't even quite sure what you were coming to she lied said let's go to a nightclub she brought you here there's this five foot five foot nothing little Greek yelling at you you're like what is this a Monty Python show you know watch you are not here by accident you are here in the divine timing the divine plan and the divine purpose of God God has brought you here to restore you to relationship with himself friend you were created by God for a relationship with God and it's Jesus that connects us to God and it's Jesus that connects us to the grace of God and if you don't know him right here right now just right where you're sitting in that seat I want to give you the opportunity to have a fresh start with Jesus Christ perhaps you once walked with God but if you're honest tonight you've been away from him cold in your heart maybe even backslidden tonight friend I want to invite you to stop running from

Channel: Christine Caine Sermons

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Length: 82min 16sec (4936 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2017