Hillsong Church - Levi Marychurch

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the oceans right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] chase down my all of my failure [Music] ah you created the light of the world abandoned in darkness too [Music] then as you speak Oh hundred million [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] sure [Music] [Music] tonight never dear friend with us helping us to lead a church and worship could you please welcome Kim Walker Smith and as she leads us in as we continue to worship throughout tonight let's just open our hearts all that God has for us and expect miracles expect God to really reach down transform lives and fill our hearts and fill us with His Holy Spirit amen we say amen [Music] nothing can compare you're our living hope your present [Music] taste it and see for the sweetest of Love's where my heart becomes free in my shame is undone your present [Music] holy you this your glory God is what our hearts Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] when the heart becomes free [Applause] yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] aware of your presence let us experience the glory you're good let us speak up there are six [Music] [Applause] love [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] only spirit [Music] God is what our hearts alone to be overcome by your presence [Music] you love [Music] can we lift our hands can we sing that again if you want [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank You Lora no doubt God is doing something in the place and the Holy Spirit's moving and it's just so good that you happen to be a Hillsong Church a big warm welcome to Hillsong Church my name is Peter togs I'm one of the pastor's here and it is just so good that you're here and it's also good to have a guest worship leader with us get Kim who I know is introduced before but so cool to have you here can we love you and Kim Walker Smith from Jesus Culture she'll be leading us later on in the service so it's gonna be absolutely amazing but hey you're in the right place at the right time God wants to move God wants to speak to you tonight whether you're online whether in this meeting right here do you know God wants to encounter you more than you want to encounter him God wants to meet you where you're at and you know in my hands right now I have many different needs so many things from people needing provision to visas to God's favorite from health to finances and relationships so many different needs but even today on Australia Day where we consider Australia we're gonna pray for our nation as well we love our nation we love our landscape we love it's people and so we are gonna pray to that end we still need these bushfires to come to a complete stop we need to believe for water and the rains to come and so we're gonna lift up our nation so when we pray right now for these prayer requests we're also gonna pray for our nation and also mindful of the outbreak of the corona virus as well so look many different needs many behind me on the screens come on we're a praying church that believes in a God answers prayer would you stretch out your hands come on let's believe forgot to turn around situations father we thank you God what you do turn around the worst of situations and so right now we bring every individual need towards you God Lord we thank you that you can he you can provide you can restore God but you can take things that are dead God and you can bring a life gone so we speak over businesses we speak over marriages we speak over hospital rooms right now God healing in Jesus name favor God but we love our nation Australia God and Lord right now we lift up the nation of Australia the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit look we know you love our people it's people God and so God we believe for restoration but we believe for healing God but we believe for these bushfires to come to a complete stop and Lord would you keep sending the rain to where it needs to get to God we believe right now for boring of your spirit like never before come on church from the front to the [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen amen can we give God a hand a praise for what he is doing in the lives of his people as I said a big warm welcome especially those of you who are new visiting maybe checking out Church and kind of considering what you're doing this year when it comes to being planted in a home and listen I got to tell you right now Hillsong Church is the place to be we want you to feel right at home feel like you belong and we've got an incredible kids ministry with an incredible youth ministry with an incredible youth pastor and just just putting it out there but hey more than that we would love to meet you and after the service there's always things going on we have like a big food banquet we have a cafe out here we've got things going on and the food has no calories in it as well I don't know it's just this special thing that you know it's going on but hey we do all that because we want to connect with people we connect with God but we also believe in connecting with people so please come and have a conversation and be awesome to meet you but why don't you take a moment right now and say hello to someone as you grab your seats give them a good long 10-second hug one of those awkward ones you know [Music] as you grab your seats I'm gonna let you know of some praise reports so good [Music] there's anyone at young-adult Summerfest this week what an amazing time we had together so many great press reports but I like this one praising God that after years of being on a permanent residence visa her husband will receive his Australian citizenship today how cool is that so cool and someone here is thank you God for providing help and contacts for a family after fire and so that's pretty cool that God sending help their way praising God for his blessing over a children and their commitment to his way and guidance I would be praising God if my children were doing that as well so that's absolutely amazing so many great things this is cool last week someone had praising God for receiving the power of the Holy Spirit and the gift of speaking in tongues last Sunday night so that's awesome Pastor Brian has been really importing into our church when it comes to the Holy Spirit and believing for a move of the Holy Spirit like never before so it's really cool hey another praise report just want to thank every family every person that sent their young people to kids camp summer camps high school camps and young adults Summerfest we just wanted to give you a shout out believing that you're gonna see miracles in your home they're gonna be cleaning their rooms washing the dishes doing as they're told but hey just a little glimpse of what took place this year and a thank you to our entire church check out the screens of what took place hi Church I'm here at old size de Kamp's what about many kids camps that have happened across the country but everyone who registered a child or sponsor the child we did want to say a big thank you there is nothing like seeing he's encountering God in such an amazing environment for the friendship and son thank you so much [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so come on let's thank all our youth volunteers youth pastors kids leaders kids volunteers grateful for you guys and so if you knew we have programs throughout the week for kids and youth on Friday nights and so we'd love you to be a part of it send your young people along and God will move in their life all right we're gonna continue in our worship and come around there giving and so you're gonna you can go ahead and begin to prepare for that ways behind me on the screen the apps actually a really cool way and I want you just to think about the part that you play and the team's going to worship just in a moment as we consider our tithes and our offerings if you you're visiting in this place absolutely no pressure but those of you call Hillsong Church home you know what to do you can begin to prepare is there envelope and I love this verse on it 2 corinthians 9:8 and God will generously provide all you need then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others that's a great promise right there the team are going to lead us in worship and the host can begin to get ready and as they worship pastor Brian's faith decree I think it's a good reminder for all of us let's you can read that consider your part but thanks team why don't you lead us as we just think about our part and what this she holds for us go for it [Music] Turner's kind kind of I can never to be somebody [Music] [Music] to be some money [Music] amen father we thank you for a people that puts you first week in week out god I thank you God for families marriages individuals God but that bring their first fruit or their tithe and the generosity we thank you for what we're a part of and I pray that you'd bless every person that gives today in Jesus name I pray amen amen thank you beautiful hosts you can begin to serve us yeah yeah come on give it up for the hosts we put these guys through boot camp to get on the team all right just so you know these guys are some of the most agile fittest people you ever see in your life you know I'm joking right okay now you don't know I'm joking I am joking right man stop talking nonsense dogs okay check out the screens Church news all that's coming up in church life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I want you to win I want you to have a great life [Music] there's no reason that you have to be stuck somewhere you need to decide I am gonna control the controllables I am going to change some things I believe the Holy Spirit by God's grace has been in and on her church and the spear of the Lord upon a church has rarely seen incredible incredible things happen now believing 20/20 with the increase of the Holy Spirit and I greater openness to the Holy Spirit we're gonna see more people saved right a momentum more miracles borrow the supernatural or divine turnarounds more can't explain environments but we believe in the Holy Spirit will become upon us in an ever-increasing way [Music] [Music] [Music] save the date vision Sunday is only three weeks away and this is an exciting time to be alive at Hillsong Church I got to tell you right now a vision Sunday three weeks away put it in your diary this is a special weekend where our senior pastors Brian Pastor Brian Bobby Houston get to express their heart and Sunday morning of vision Sunday we get to be a part of a short film presentation where we give expression to that ongoing vision of Hillsong Church and it's so exciting its captivating it's really captivating on what takes place and then Sunday night we're gonna celebrate with baptisms and it's a revival night and then Tuesday we roll out its global ongoing amazing vision and we kind of look at it locally and what that looks like practically in our church so it's a really exciting time you don't want to miss it hey a big warm welcome back to any returning Hillsong college students by the way all right so cool we've missed you guys we've missed you guys and so it's so good you're back and special warm welcome for those of you who are here and you're about to start college for the first time is there anyone like that by any chance all right all right anyone else welcome really cool and college is a great place to meet people fall in love and it's already sorted yeah so good but hey College is about to begin but hey our own young people our own Australian young people you know we want to make sure that nobody misses out on building biblical foundations in their life and it's not too late to be a part of college but we're making it easy for you if finance is you know an obstacle for you we've got payment plants for our Australian students who want to be a part of it's okay come and have a conversation with the college guys and we'd love to try and make Owaisi all right well we're blessed tonight it's like I said it's been an incredible week at young adult Summerfest and no doubt Kim Walker Smith has been amazing but also a young couple who I think are some of the most incredible people in the world the most genuine authentic people you'll ever meet and this couple they have planted a church in Canada in Ottawa and it's doing so well they started from scratch in their lounge room and God's doing amazing things and Levi and Nadia Mary church have been an incredible blessing to our church they're a great gifted young couple and you're gonna love Levi tonight he's gonna come and bring the word so come on let's stand let's really really give it a good warm Hillsong welcome as Levi Mary church comes to bring the work [Music] amen thank you grab a seat please and I think the team as they grab a seat also brilliant just wonderful thank you so much Hey look as you grab out your Bible tonight - with me - the book of Judges and and can I just reiterate what what Peter was saying just a minute ago visions Sunday it's it's not just a day that you should keep in your calendar it is an absolute must attend Sunday in the life of what dear I say our church I'm family because if you're not there you're gonna be out of the loop your church is probably launching a campus on Mars this year and I don't think that you want to miss then it's a great honor to be here tonight and to be speaking to you I want to talk to you tonight I guess in the theme of what Pastor Brian has been speaking on over the last few weeks theme of the Holy Spirit and the message I want to talk to you tonight is entitled and you can write this down God awareness God awareness tonight and the book of Judges chapter 16 and verse number 1 says this one day Samson went to Gaza where he saw a prostitute he went in to spend the night with her the people of Gaza were told Samson is here so they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate they made no move during the night saying that dawn we will kill him verse 18 for times sake says this when Delilah saw that he had told her everything she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines come back once more he has told me everything so the rulers of the Philistines returned with silver in their hands after putting him to sleep on her lap she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair and so began to subdue him and his strength lift him verse 20 says this when she called Samson the Philistines are upon you he awoke from his sleep and thought I'll go out as before and shake myself free but note this tonight but he did not know that the Lord had left him verse 21 says then the Philistines seized him gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza binding him with bronze shekels they set him to grinding grain in the prison but the hair on his head began to grow back after it had been shaved and the Book of Luke chapter 3 and verse 22 says this in the Holy Spirit descended on him speaking of Jesus in bodily form like a dove and a voice came from heaven you are my son whom I love with you I am well pleased let's pray tonight father we love you love your presence love church love being together father tonight we love your word it's the only book that as we read it it reads us we pray tonight read us speak to us we ask in Jesus mighty name and everybody said amen been a great honor this week with my wife Nadia to speak at Summerfest here and then in Queensland and it's been a it's been a a particular honor and a privilege to hang out with Peter and Laura togs one of the great things about about Peter is that there's two of him there's Peter and then this Toxie I mean he's self professed tonight shouted out himself stop talking nonsense tog Z he's the joyful if Avastin charismatic loves to clown around and have a great time tog Z but young and free is not what it is just because of tog Z it's what it is also because of Peter Peters the fearless leader it's the one that drives us forward the one there behind closed doors is making sure that registrations a good young people are safe everyone gets home venues a looked after and everything is kept in good order there's Peter and there's tog Z we laugh because it's true we also laugh because we can relate these two of us as well there's there's two halves of us that keep us together this the half that we are and the half that we're trained in the half that we know we're trying to become but there's the half that we're born like when you look at me for instance and you see Ethel eat but I'm not just an athlete I'm also a closet nerd I've read four books this year already first John second John third John and the book of Philemon no no it's true nothing I haven't read those books but I have in fact read four books this year already I love a good debate I love a good conversation I'll have to read a good novel I love to get involved in the nuances of the language that we speak the English vernacular I love to find out the quirks of the nature of the language that we speak for instance it's nothing like a good cliche like this don't throw the baby out with the bathwater like I should hope not well I Curtis should hope this is more than a cliche but something we actually literally believe let's get down to brass tacks keep your ear to the ground let's not beat around the bush we have these weird phrases and we don't know where they come from it's a rule of thumb we're not sure what it means another one that I love is this phrase read the room we like that phrase because it's a nice way to say to someone don't be silly like you just were when you walked in have an awareness and an understanding that your off-color jokes aren't funny here tonight read the room read the room is a phrase that's about awareness it's a phrase that's about self-awareness because there's nothing worse than someone that stands too close like if you're that person I pray tonight that the Lord speaketh - you gave verily unto the Bible links apart there's a safe distance we don't want to feel your breath and smell it all at the same time I just think a safe distance they inch closer subconsciously I think we in spec words the conversations started at the coffee machine and ends up at the front door self-awareness is good but we don't read the Bible necessarily just for self awareness we don't read about Sampson necessarily just because of self awareness if self awareness is good we can learn from the story that God awareness it's just much better every generation every era every age and indeed the Canon of Scripture has the strong man Marvel has the Hulk we have Samson it might come as a shock to you but I can't relate to Samson on a strength level I can't relate to Samson on a strength level but I can relate to Samson on a source level and by source I mean it so you are seee because he gets his strength where I get my strength from where you get your strength from from the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit I can't relate to him on a strength level but I can relate to him on a source level you and me without the Holy Spirit as our source how can we live this life that God has called us to live how can I be kind without him how can I have peace without him how can I love without him he is our secret source of strength now we had this man whose name is Samson who was used to doing damage for Jesus there's one time he defeated a thousand Philistines with the donkey's jawbone I think he did it as a joke because surely if there's a donkey carcass there there's in the femur would be a good would be a good whipping but a jawbone that how do you even what are you throwing teeth that people I'm not sure what he's doing there but but he took down a thousand Philistines this man was used to having the indwelling power of the spirit in his life the anointing that manifests presence of God and he gets up one days in the wrong place at the wrong time this man is we're making some bad decisions with his life and he gets up and he's so unaware that he doesn't realize that his head has been shaved clean like I just think if over time you go bald I think that's different but I think if you have here and then wake up and have no hair and don't realize I think I think we need to have a conversation about what's been happening in your life and he says ah he says this and I think this is a religious expectation that we need to watch out for and the motions in our life they can lack meaning he sees this all go as before and shake myself free in other words he says I'll just keep doing what I've been doing ah no big traumas new year new here whatever I'll just keep doing it no problem and he doesn't realize that the Lord had left him I'm not talking about the salvation presence of God I'm not talking about the salvation the salvation presence of Jesus in our life I'm talking about the indwelling manifest power of God Bill Johnson a few years ago preached a message based on the scripture that I read second tonight from the Book of Luke chapter 3 verse 22 which is a powerful scripture and it says this the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus in bodily form in the form of a dove and the voice came from heaven that said you are my son whom I love you are well pleased this my friends is a powerful illustration because it's one of the only moments in all of the Canon of Scripture that we see all three members of the Godhead present at the same time Jesus being baptized God the Father speaking and the Holy Spirit present in the bodily form of a dove if you still use Microsoft Word this is the bolded underlined in italicized moment in scripture I would have loved to be in a part of the brainstorm of this moment because I'm not sure I would have chosen a dove I don't like birds I'm not saying I'm afraid of birds I'm saying they're afraid of me because you have in that moment really like limitless creativity like if we were there with God hey God is like hey guys thinking about sending the Holy Spirit and bodily form at Jesus baptism I think the whole family should be there I I would say that's that's a great thought what are you thinking he's like always came for your thoughts but my initial feedback was a dove I would say I'm not sure about that really we've got limitless creativity here God what about a unicorn what about Smaug the dragon what about a Gryphon we could really do just about anything but a few a feeling if you're thinking dove hey I'm onboard heart and soul on with you if doves what you're thinking let's go with the Dove I mean sure it's a weak bird that doesn't really achieve much and it's gonna be a little bit strange but if that's what you're thinking I'm with you that's all good and so the brainstorm finished and the Dove was sent boo Johnson and the Sermon posed a question he said this I'm yet to find in Scripture I wonder if you could find in scripture where the Dove leaves Jesus so I furiously read the Bible cover-to-cover trying to find a moment in the scriptures where that dove left and friends I couldn't find it I'm not proposing to us today that Jesus was that quirky guy walking around with the parrot I'm not saying there I'm I am not saying Jesus was akin to the home alone to Central Park woman I'm not saying there I'm not saying that I'm not saying that at the Summer Fest in Queensland Conference Summer Fest gathering in an outdoor tent very hot I was staying at a place that was a bungalow room that you would get you through a boardwalk walking through a jungle but I was like it wasn't you know was like a place was like they drop me off on the side of the road I'm giving you them it's like we have not much time to go into all the details apart from this they dropped me off at nighttime so get there at nighttime and I already checked in and been to my room but when I get back at nighttime it's dark and I'm walking to my room on the boardwalk through the jungle and I'm a New Zealand ER who's moved to Canada to start a church let me tell you why that's important nothing in New Zealand can kill you apart from the people so the animals are not dangerous like the Kiwi is not a dangerous animal that you look out for I then moved to Canada where nothing much can kill you apart from animals that let you know they're coming like a moose I don't know if you've ever seen a moose it's ten foot high see you later oh that's a ten-foot moose we should avoid it right there's a beer run or there's different ways of dealing with beers but we weren't going to the details but at least they at least they announce their arrival not in Australia you can stand on death just like that there's venom at every corner I'm walking through the boardwalk through the jungle at night and my my my like um everything is heightened I can hear all kinds of rattlesnakes in the bush and I kid you not out of the corner of my eye whilst walking through the boardwalk in this jungle at night to get to my bungalow room I'm on my phone and I can see on the handrail at eye level what looked to me like an Australian Turkey and I don't know if it's venomous but I didn't want to stick around to ask but you know it was crazy I freaked out which in and of itself is crazy but the bird took off went to tell his friends about me I say all of that to say this it's difficult to keep a bird calm because birds are very cautious in fact if there was a bird in the room right now it would be freaked out it would be hard to catch that bird and let that bird be still let's use this analogy and bring it back to Jesus who God in our brainstorm despite our pushback decided to still use that dove and land on the shoulder of Jesus the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove do you remember Noah solid guy forty days of flooding waters begin to dissipate what does Noah do what does know what choose chooses our Duff sins the Dove though flies that comes back flies out comes back third time comes back with an olive branch interesting choice of branch universally recognized as a symbol of peace that the Holy Spirit is a picture of peace in our life but at the same time I think is a picture of something that's looking for peace I've never tried to walk around with a bird on my shoulder I don't think we should try but imagine for a second that we did imagine how careful you would walk imagine what things you wouldn't say imagine what places you wouldn't go if you had a bird that represented the infilling of the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit in your life what conversations you wouldn't have what movies you wouldn't watch what music you wouldn't listen to that dove brings peace but I do believe that dove my friends is looking for peace and Sampson woke up and didn't know that the Dove had left him and he thought he could break those chains like before and his life was altered in that moment if you're taking notes tonight friend I would like us in this new year to figure out how we as a family can stay God aware and if you're taking notes would you write this down we need to if we are going to do that we need to value our relationship with God we value the strangest things we value the most brilliant things we value gold and jewelry and clothes in fashion but at that same time we value relationships and family and friends I value my wife Nadia in fact I value her so much that when I was at university studying law I worked three jobs to pay for a ring that would embody my love for her funny we do that on the proposal night I worked the whole day to make sure that she had all these gifts but still no idea what was happening romance my friends was Abreu that evening I booked the movie theater out and paid for every seat it was just her and I watching her favorite movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 days movie finished credits began to roll I got down on one knee and I proposed to my best friend she said yes we would get married and my life would be changed forever it would be remiss of me though to hang my hat on that moment and think that that moment of great value that I showed to her would be enough to last a lifetime of marriage for me to get two years in and treated her poorly but say honey I treat you badly but I did a great thing for you that time on that night remember the marriage will be very rocky there will be some difficult and tricky conversations that we would have and many nights sleeping on the couch but instead of that and my maturity and my wisdom I realized that when you value something you must remind what you value all the time that indeed you value it I love my kids I'm sure if they were here they would tell you that but every week I'm thinking and the wintertime in Canada how often can I get them up the slopes get them skiing and snowboard and get them enjoying their time how how quickly can I get them their pocket money so they know that their hard work is being invested back into their lives how how much can I make sure that through my actions I'm showing my kids in my family that I value them in the same way through my actions how can I show God that I value him oh I remember when I got saved a man changed my life but I can't just hark back to that moment and let that be the only moment I hang my head on to my relationship with God that he's a stranger after 10 years and I said no we caught up that one time I don't want to get to the pearly gates and me waving at Jesus my name's not in the book someone tweeted out but hey remember I'm the guy from way back when but our relationship with him should be ongoing it should be about a continual relationship where we value and invest and spend time in his presence Facebook Oh Zuckerberg this does a genius algorithms I mean they know human nature better than we do this is why on your Facebook page anniversaries come up because they know it's in human nature to remind yourself of the good things that you've done in your life so then you click on it and go back and you remember then you text your friends memory that time how good Oh anniversary this week hey love you you know happy birthday and they collect all these good memories and they bring them and they remind us remember the Old Testament remember that when they walked across the Jordan River and they would step in the water and and and it would it would be dry and the end and the water would dissipate and they would walk across on dry land but they didn't want to forget it but they had an oral history it's like we're literally gonna ride it on and so they would gather rocks and they would make a monument to God so that another generation would walk and trip up on the rocks and see our choice that's a pile of rocks and they would stop and read and remember the great things that God has done in their life that's why I'm Spotify I've got an old-school bangers playlist praise in worship bangers songs from long ago that remind me of moments in my life where God has moved we celebrate summer camps for the kids the teenagers and the young adults not just because it's a great idea but because they're creating memories creating moments and it's that song if every songwriter out there keep writing please because you you add a fingerprint to a moment that allows us through melody and harmony and to remember that moment so that we can go back and not just hang our hat on one moment but on many moments value your relationship with God if you're taking notes not just value but can I encourage us tonight - not just value our relationship with God but to protect it I'm cautious of this microphone let me tell you why it's probably quite expensive you know why I know that because it's heavy my arm is sore but I don't want to drop it because if I drop it it might break this microphone guarantee you this is Hillsong Church is smart good stewards how never seen guarantee you this side of stage there's a case for this microphone I no doubt about it there'll be a case for this amp I don't know what kind of thing this is looks like the death star over here that's a Mac 3 that's what that is without a shadow of a doubt without without a shadow of a doubt there is a case that might even be more expensive than the light that protects that light because you've got to be careful for the youth minister for that for the ministries and the trip for the ministries and the church cuz you got you got that he got the GM you got the insurances and you've got the policies to make sure that we don't want to invest in a light that's gonna break so we keep it in a case your brain is in your head if the ring was in a box your heart is in your ribs you live in a house your car is in a garage baby's in a crib we protect the things that we love we look after the things that we love the Larry O'Brien trophy if it was on this table would be about this high I'm not sure what it's made out of but it looks like gold it's the trophy that every NBA basketball team is trying to capture this year ah yeah we're crazy it's funny I bring that up actually because the the Larry O'Brien trophy is in Canada right now I'm I am I'm loath to bring it up but the Toronto Raptors own that trophy now here's the crazy thing before I moved to Canada they had never won a championship don't you find that bizarre and an absolute coincidence for 27 years they've tried to win that trophy and didn't come close not one time then I moved there and what was crazy was that once I moved there they won the trophy I'm not saying that I had a part to play in the winning of the trophy or my wife and kids I'm just presenting the facts to you oh let you decide because here's what's crazy for 27 years they tried and of all the time that I've been in Canada there's only been one basketball season therefore there's only been one chance to win that trophy therefore they have won all the trophies available to them since I've been in Canada again I present the facts you here's what's crazy mathematically they have one infinitely more championships since I've been there than before I came again I simply present the facts to you I'll let you decide the NBA has just done a collaboration with Louie Vuitton Louie Vuitton has built a case to encase the trophy I wonder friends what's more valuable the trophy or the case I reckon they'll build a case for the case just in case that's what I think [Music] in life what we value we protect you'll have a far better job of protecting your relationship with God when you are well-rested when you have sleep when you exercise when you make good decisions when you have the right influences in your life and when you work on your character in the private place you'll have a far better chance of protecting your relationship with Jesus value it protect it but maybe as the keyboardist comes tonight let me encourage us share your relationship with God one of the funny things about New Zealanders and Australians alike where we come together as an Zechs is in our answer to this question how are you will say this yeah not bad what does that mean not bad if this is bad and that's good all I'm saying is I'm just not that young people listen to me there's a whole vernacular that you can use to describe truly how you are without saying what you are not in a bit in fact we had a young person come up on stage at Summerfest as a go mate have you found Summerfest and he said yeah he actually said this he said year not bad actually author there was a nice new dynamic to the standard answer actually unfortunately as Anzacs what we can do is we can let the not bad attitude creep into the good news of Jesus Christ but I want you to know that the news of Jesus Christ is not not bad although theologically you're not wrong because it's not bad it's just only good when it comes to your relationship with Jesus and the news that he brings to your life of relationship with God right now in filling of the Holy Spirit an eternity with him it is more than not bad it is wonderful it is special it is the good news and the news of Jesus is meant to be shared and embraced by those around you in the Book of Ezekiel talks about the four phases of the church the ox the man the lion and the eagle well we weren't going to a sermon and it's far too late in the night and it's been two camps to go into what that means in Robert Ferguson no doubt is more aptly qualified to preach that sermon but what I would say is this what I observe of that scripture is this the four phases of the church always looking outwards and never inwards it's very important that we gather very important that we come together it's hugely important to lift up his name and edify one another in our faith but once we gather we must leave once we finish we must go out and fulfill the Great Commission and tell people they're not not bad news of Jesus but they great and the wonderful grace-filled mercy loving sharing with our neighbor our colleague at school in your workplace and your family the good news of Jesus Christ it is meant to be shared unfortunately it's a mystery to us we read books and listen to podcasts trying to figure out how we do it we call it evangelism even the word sin to shutter up our spine we're not sure how to do it many of us are introverts they get our energy from being alone but you want me to share my faith well then there's that one or two people who are though who are the the flagship evangelist of the youth ministry these young people 10 million followers on tik-tok how do they do these amazing feats they bring 35 new people on a bus every week and then know them by name and we honor them so we should kids are getting safe through the influence of these young people in high schools that's amazing I don't know how they achieved these amazing feats but they do unfortunately what it can do is box the rest of us and who don't have those charismatic extroverted and dare I say anointed skills to share the gospel like these young people so what do we do we jump the fence and we have a cup of tea can I tell you about Chris before I tell you about Chris can I tell you about myself just for a minute I got saved at the age of 12 my friend met jump the fence invited me to church I went to church it was an all-nighter which means the starts at 7:00 p.m. finished at 7:00 a.m. cost about 20 bucks starts off you know you get together and you go and play some sports little indoor sports whatever then you go for meager laser strike maybe paintballing it's a mecca's in the middle go for a swim wrap it up with a trip to the movie theater this one particular night this is how I met Nadia her brother was the youth pastor in the church that I was that I attended that night he got up to preach after the matrix you remember the matrix what an absolute classic that brilliant film neo Morpheus Trinity are so many biblical references Jesus characters redemptive themes Alvin finish the movie red pill blue pill he gets up I want a perfect storm to preach the gospel kids who were tired sleep-deprived have just watched a post-apocalyptic AI and he's using red pill blue / 100% I need Jesus I think I'm naked in a RIT in a pool of pink jelly lying next to Keanu Reeves plugged into an AI that's using my body energy as a battery to fulfill but taking over of the world and I can be on the side of Morpheus 100% I'm saying yes to Jesus so I left my hand I pray a very simple prayer and respond to Jesus what was crazy is that it worked like a genuine encounter God that night my every major decision in my life has come back to that moment everything I've done in my life that's of any value to the world has come back to that moment I went home woke up the next day I mean son was warmer grass was greener life was better now my mum raised me single from the age of two five boys my mum is an absolute weapon her name is windy I came home I said hey mom crazy had a great night at youth group and I met Jesus he's a good sort she's like great that's cool thank you she's never been a church I've never been to church no one in our family has ever been to church I found it easier to talk about money or politics than religion to my mom there's a bit I see and but that's a coward's kind of trying to figure out a way that I could get my faith in her life and in the family and I was trying to just maneuver my way through that that process five years past went to university started studying law sociology finished university with no degree but $30,000 of debt I wouldn't recommend that to anybody my mum was less than pleased University wrote me a letter some years later and by the grace of God I was able to just simply cross credit some law points across I was able to graduate walk across the stage my mom was there she was happy got married to Nadia my mom loves Nadia who doesn't had four kids my mom loves those little gremlins too but still it was hard to to to get my faith into her life and find a way that effectively communicated that Jesus was real and that he loved her very very much and then we moved to Canada and she found that very hard but still I tried to find a way time would pass and I'll get a text message from my friend whose name is Joel Millgate from correct church in Mount Maunganui New Zealand he said hey your mum this is about three months ago he said hey your mum is in church I was like no way I mean what a response from someone who's been praying for 20 years or something to finally happen amen mums in church there's no way Road now someone else's mum I said is probably Nadia's mum they live in the same area in New Zealand it's none of that it's not ladies man it's your mum bro it's windy I said I need a photo I need a photo seems me photos leathers my mum and my stepfather whose name was Rick in the photo be me she calls me up face comes me hey went to church today changed my life she says you were right I made a decision for Christ today and and I think it's gonna impact everything that I do and when I come to Canada in a month I can't wait to talk to you about it I've got so many questions so my mum comes to Canada and I'm like I need to know exactly how you ended up at that church that day and she goes oh you know Chris Christian soot from down the road I said no I don't I don't remember Chris or soot tell me about Chris she says all chris has got cancer he's got a tumor in his neck the size of a balloon it's terminal he's going through chemo tough tough scenario I was like well I'm praying for him that's that's horrific she's years crazy he jumped the fence and we had a cup of tea and I asked him how it was going and he said oh it's really scary but my church communities railing around me and I know that my mortality is is about to come to an end but I've got a relationship with Jesus and I believe I'm gonna live forever with him and she says really this is yeah she says that's crazy he says yeah in fact I'm being baptized this week you want to come and she and my stepfather Rick both the same time say yeah we'll be there so they go to church that week then my mom gets to Canada we have this conversation and she says to me hey women now that I'm here could you do me a favor I said yeah of course what's up she says while I'm here before I go home could you baptize me I'm like mom all baptized you in a bath of my heavy tears of course I'll baptize you [Music] [Applause] I say I say that to say this I think you and I could both agree that 20 years of prayer made a difference but Chris was the one who sealed the deal he jumped the fence and had a cup of tea not all of us have 10 million followers on tick-tock and their friends that we can fill a bus with every week to bring to youth but all of us have a fence and all of us know how to brew a cup of tea one on one authentic real conversations about Jesus is how we are going to change the world [Applause] value your relationship with God protect your relationship with God but it's not the knock bad news of Jesus it's the good news and the good news of Christ needs to be shared there are some Levi's in the room don't stop praying and don't stop believing for your parents and your kids and your siblings and your friends to be saved do not stop praying and believing that God can work miracles there's some chrissa's in the room we're all Chris we've all got offense and we want to had a steeper cup of tea but tonight there are some Wendy's in the room that's my mom's name and you're here because someone's been praying and someone bought you and you're the reason why we gather we're here for you this moment is for you you're here and you don't know much about what on earth is going on you think God is distant and aloof but he's not he loves you in fact his name Jesus is the way the truth and the life that first word way is special because he made a way to you theologian once said we can't get to God trying to get to God is like trying to climb to the moon on the moon the moon sorry on a rope made of sand it's not possible to get there so God came down Levi has been praying chris has been inviting but this moment is for you God loves you very much and if you're here and you're saying I'm distant from God I don't know him I'm not walking with Jesus I would love to pray with you could you close your eyes right now if your person would you mind just for privacy sake if you're here and you're saying I do not know Jesus I'm not walking with him I do not have relationship with God I don't know if I was to lose my life tonight where I would go friend this moment is for you for certainty and assurance of your salvation if you're not walking with God if you don't know Jesus then friend I would love to pray with you tonight the prayers gonna be very simple this is what we'll do on the count of three I'll simply just ask for you to throw your hand in the air if you're here and you're saying I don't know Jesus as you lift your hand off I'll acknowledge it and believe that in that moment your whole life can be changed we'll pray a prayer together you'll lift it I'll acknowledge it you'll put it down and we'll pray if that's you on the count of three three your hand so I can see it one two three lift it nice and high brilliant yeah amazing there are hands all over the room people are saying yes to Jesus tonight from the front to the back on the side to the side if you haven't yet lifted up your hand and you're saying yes I need Jesus in my life I'm not right with him throw your hand up right now so that I can see it and lift it nice and high yeah amazing what we're gonna do right now church is very simple with every hand now put down we're all of us gonna pray together a very simple prayer that I'll lead us in this prayer will change the lives of those who pray it and we'll all pray it out of support of those who have lifted up their hands tonight the prayer goes like this dear Lord Jesus I come to you I need you in my life I ask you forgive me of my sin and I thank you that you do I thank you Jesus I thank you Jesus amen as I hand back can you put your hands together and lift a huge shout for every person tonight who's lifted up their hand come on you could do much better than that this sounds like a golf clap heaven is going crazy for even one person who gives their life to Jesus for every sinner that comes home come on church put your hands together and thank God and honor every single person tonight [Music] death could not hold you there taught me from silence the blows I've seen [Music] crazy [Music] you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] beautiful a big congratulations to those of you that responded to the Levi's prayer for you and listen if you did raise your hands at the end there we want to give you a gift it's a it's a gift to mark today to mark Jan 26 of January where you decided to follow Jesus when the service concludes we still got a few things to do but when it concludes when you walk out someone's going to be holding this Bible high because they want you to see them please walk up to them and say something like hey I prayed that prayer or I I responded I lifted my hand at the end they can I have one of those Bibles they wouldn't they want to start a conversation with you they want to gift you this it's on behalf of our church a beautiful New Testament Bible like this to mark the day we decided to follow Jesus come on one more time congratulate there were many hands in the room many hands I saw her so cool and I think while we're standing I think we really need to appreciate Levi Mary Church powerful [Music] [Applause] man that was so good did you receive that man you can just keep thinking about that chewing on that's absolutely amazing so thanks again thank you for - Levi and Nadia for being with us this week you guys absolutely amazing hey take your seats for a quick moment in a moment I'm gonna pray us out and then you're more than welcome to go and pick up your kids but look it's still school holidays from what I understand we are gonna let Kim Walker Smith loose all right so but I'm gonna pray fear then I'll release the service but then we're just going to hand it over to Kim and then she's gonna lead us in worship so you're more than welcome to hang around but listen I want to take a moment and receive a love offering we don't do this for everyone we don't do this for our team we we do this for guests who have sacrificed time in their schedule I know for Levi and Nadia and Tim they've left family behind on the other side of the world to come and be with us and serve us and lead people into relationship with Jesus into the presence of God and we call it a love offering because it's simply a no-pressure if you would love to do so do so but I know if you're a young person if you're a young adult we've got so much to thank God for why not show appreciation in this and anyone else who more than welcome to but look there's ways on this envelope you can do it or on the app and you can follow what needs to happen there why not let's come on let's really bless Levi Nadia and Kim Walker Smith and send them out of here with a blessed gift so that'd be awesome so you can go ahead and begin to prepare and do that father thank you for Levon Nadia and Kim Lord we thank you for what they're doing in brought in their part of the world but abroad God they have blessed us this week thank you so much for the gift on that's on their life we pray for their family we send them back home blessed we just believe for your protection your provision over them keep taking them from strength to strength me 2020 be a great year for them in Jesus name I pray amen amen hosts thank you so much we can receive that giving hang around I've been told there's cheeseburgers I think after this I think that so make sure if you're hungry but if you're hungry for the presence of the Lord hang around as well okay see what I did there see what I did there it's cool it's cool we're gonna do something pretty awesome young people University students high school students you're about to go back to school and I know for our high school students are going back this week who goes back to school this week you're going back to school who's pumped to go back to school this week oh it's awesome hey you're gonna have an incredible year but this is what we're gonna do young people returning back to high school University students returning what I want you guys to get up you're gonna come down the front here I'm gonna wear it we as a church are gonna send you back to school with a prayer of faith we're gonna send you back to school with the prayer of courage and I'm gonna ask Donna Crouch pastor Donna Crouch if she would come up and help us lead his prayer but come on church let's stand together if you're returning to school returning to university come down the front we're gonna lay our hands on you and we're gonna send you back into our schools so come on come on move quickly move quickly young people university students high school students Bible College students anyone who's a student we're just gonna fill the front whip you pray for whoever you want to pray for and it's gonna take them some time to get down the front here but quickly young people yeah I feel the front go for it Donna all right this is pretty exciting moment where are all the high school students where are you guys okay I need you guys to help me here and University students where are you guys okay squash down Oh oh no we're going back I need to go back bible college students new and returning ok i want to hear a little bit of noise from school students and university not just Bible come on but are you alright so here's the deal you're not just going back to study because God is doing a new thing and you're going back to get ready for what he has put you on this part of what a big part of what he has put you on this earth to do and this is our year of being people who are full of his spirit so we're gonna pray and I want some of our pastors and leaders to get around here we are gonna pray that the hand of God is gonna be on you it should go into your schools who universities like we just heard from from Levi tonight that his spirit is gonna be on you to reach out and share Christ but also that his hand is gonna be on you to study that you're gonna be the best that you're gonna be the brightest that you guys one day will be the Australians of the year getting the awards and getting the prizes because God's doing a new thing and he needs you to be that Daniels and the joseph´s and the Deborah's and the Esther's and the Phoebe's and the greatest people like in the Bible that have ever been that are able to lead this nation can you say Amen so why don't you lift your hands to him wherever you are because his Spirit is able to be on you come on church put your hands towards this generation who God is called to do things on the earth that have never been done before in ways that we have never seen so father God tonight we commission every young person every young woman every young man to go into their high schools to go into their universities with the hand of God and the touch of God and the fire of the Holy Spirit and the friendship of the Holy Spirit deep on the inside of the Lord that they would know what it is look to be students Lord that study Lord in that private place to know how to go into a world and be in it but not of it to not compromise Lord and yet love the people around and to be sold and live in a world that's gone dark Lord and Lord study and know what their passion is and Lord may you give them dreams may you give them visions may they see new ways of doing things God that have never been done before and know that Lord you are doing a new thing and the Lord your head is on the Lord and you look to and fro across this earth looking for hands and hearts mind set up for you and you're able to raise them up and do mighty things for mighty exploits for such a time assists in Jesus name and the church said together amen and amen come on let's give him praise [Music] Thank You Donna don't you love the generations and I love being a part of a church that absolutely believes in the generations so going from strength to strength it's gonna be absolutely amazing hey let me pray for us as a church send you out of here you'd go for strength to strengthen your weak God goes before you and then I'm gonna hand it to Kim and you're more than welcome to pick up your kids or hang around and let's worship God together and encounter the presence of the Holy Spirit father I thank you God for tonight Lord what a powerful night a revival night lord I pray for your people Lord as they go before as they go into their week thank you that you go before them you come behind the Lord you surround them with your presence may we be aware of the Holy Spirit in our lives God so go into workplaces going to schools go into universities going to families this week God we thank you for it in Jesus name I pray and everyone said together amen amen we love your church we'll see you soon come on let's worship [Music] everything else can away I've come to see your face so everything else can await I'm here for you I want to just be here at your feet just be here on my knee here in your presence I Jesus your [Music] everything else can't away I've come to see your face [Music] so everything else can away I'm here for you I just me [Applause] just yeah [Music] Jesus [Music] there's nothing not one more it's nothing matters more there's nothing not one more it's nothing matters no [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's nothing like one more it's nothing matters more no [Music] there's nothing not one more right now in this moment god stir our hunger stir our hunger stir our hunger for more the Jesus we desire more we desire [Music] there's no striving there's no striving in your you are here because you love your channel you are here because you love you you blow out your love [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] it's nothing matters and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] just me here at Alfea just be here on my knees here in your presence I am complete Jesus you're all that I need missing out one more time I'll just be here at your feet just me here on my knees here in your presence I am coming Jesus you're all that I need [Music] [Music] [Music] listen just like you said [Music] the word is not in a hard-to-reach eh [Music] shouting tear the fabric come Jesus [Music] nothing left I'm shaking we love for more child porn unleashes shall Tori we need a friend shall Tori unleashes shall Tori [Music] [Music] on this [Music] [Music] come geez [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come Jesus come bread of heaven not be left on shaken we long for more and there is fire story Nina [Music] a shout is revived it's rising up inside Sophia come on your policy is calling ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we need a fresh apple put on your spirit God horridest be read come on can we for just a moment our own words just pray this out that this prayer lives up from somewhere deep down inside this cry for more this cried is contending for more more of his presence more of his presence more peace more joy more of the supernatural power of Jesus working through our lives and in our homes and in our families and in our schools and in our churches that there would be a greater move of your spirit even greater wave of your spirit [Music] [Applause] come on just a little bit more more pressing right here just a little bit more it's so powerful when you speak it out with your words when you use your voice just speak it out to sing it out hunger so can be stirred up inside tonight [Music] aha [Music] your spirit [Music] by your spirit [Music] [Music] your fear [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we need a fresh unleash [Music] and I ask that you just release a spirit of intercession the intercession would stir up inside of us but even as we go about our day and in our week and through our lives and the different things that the tasks that we have going on that we would feel intercession stirring up inside of us moving us into prayer moving us towards you moving us and just speaking out your words and your promises declaring with faith declaring who you are God speaking to the mountain and telling the mountain to be moved in Jesus name god I ask that our days would be interrupted which is be interrupted with your presence with your presence be stirred up inside of us pushing us pushing us close pushing us closer to you running into your presence Jesus that there just be a heightened awareness a heightened awareness of you there was us with us throughout each of our days Jesus a fresh outpouring of your spirit of God because there is so much more you're so good and loving father to pour it out on us [Music] we need a fresh for he unleashes fresh poori we need a fresh al bouri on Alicia fresh [Music] [Music] he is jealous for me loves like a hurricane I am a tree bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy when [Music] all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are how he loves Oh how He loves us how He loves us [Music] he is jealous for me loves like a hurricane I am a tree [Music] merci [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] kissing hard turn [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I think we need a dance before you leave can we thank Kim walker-smith be with us here's some charity girl was one place on dancing tonight I come on you ready you can later [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the song that stirs the spirit and a car [Music] his name can you feel start around [Music] get it every son singing it's not time [Music] [Applause] because there's a you win sort of lift your [Music] [Music] see ya [Applause] is too [Music] to the streets I can feel that Trumpy Oh I can hear Oh every tribe singing Jesus yeah [Music] [Music] yes we see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] one time they know laughs is nowhere in sight for the Lord he is alive see the Love's return [Music] see beautiful size [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we love you Church what a night it's been we'll see you next week [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 124min 55sec (7495 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 26 2020