Too many of us, under the guise of surrender and obedience, live with a checked-out will. Tim shows the importance of our own will in terms of our authority on the earth, and then unpacks how, in response to pain and trauma, we make judgements and inner vows to protect ourselves from further pain. Because God is a good and healthy Father, He doesn’t violate our will, and as a result, these judgements and vows continue to bear negative fruit in our life until we break agreement with them. Tim finishes by challenging us out of learned powerlessness into an intimate engagement with the heart of God around our dreams and desires.
Love - And What Wars Against
God defines Himself as love, so it’s imperative that we mature in love so that we represent Him accurately. Most heart issues come down to experiences of absent or distorted love especially in our formative years, and to how we interpret our strongest emotional events. In response, we tend to form inner vows and judgements to protect from further pain, but in the long term, these vows and judgements wage war within us against the manifestation of mature love and undermine our mission to the world.
Covenant - The Highest Expression of Love
Our mission is to show the world what love is, and the highest expression of love in a relationship is covenant. In this message, Tim looks at the example of David and Jonathan to unpack the core aspects of a covenant relationship, and invites us to be a covenant family.
Building Family
Aimee Talbot talks about Maturing Love - a love that chooses depth of connection and Oneness within church family every day even when it costs. Using her personal testimony and convictions learned in the dark, Aimee challenges The Bride to reconsider the gift she is to people and to reconsider our value for corporateness.
Your Behaviour And Your Worth
Tim reminds us that the foundation of all freedom and security lies in knowing your true worth, which comes from hearing the Father’s voice over you.
You Are Who He Says You Are!
We explored Galatians 5 & 2 Corinthians 5: 14-18 in The Passion Translation. We discovered that we are completely & wonderfully free because our past with all it’s bondage to the law was crucified with Jesus. Our old self is dead & our new self is alive in Christ.
We watched a short clip from the movie Moana. This showed us a great example of how powerful it is when we speak to the gold in each other & we call out who we truly are in Christ. You are not defined by your past or your behaviour, you are defined by the voice of God over your life. You can view the video at https://youtu.be/A4QuKwfv6Wk
Moana Restores the Heart
I have crossed the horizon to find you
I know your name...
They have stolen the heart from inside you...
But this does not define you
This is not who you are
You know who you are...who you truly are...
Cultivating God Awareness
In this final message in The Practice of Corporate Presence series, Tim and Deb tag team. Tim looks at two of the outcomes of the fall - we became more conscious of ourselves than of Him, and we gained the ability to self-evaluate apart from the voice of God. In Christ that curse is broken, and it’s now our choice to cultivate that place where we are more aware of Him than of ourselves. Deb reminds us that ultimately it’s all about Him - no other agenda than Him, and that cultivating God awareness goes against the momentum of our “me first” culture.
Learning To Receive From God
We've been looking at the importance of learning to receive from God. Rather than do another teaching, we want you to hear from three of our people, Hannah, Sarah, and Steve on how they learned to receive from and experience God, and how they access His presence at any time.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
Confessions of a Serial Head Tripper - The Importance of Learning to Receive From God
The religious spirit wants to keep you operating in one direction with God - from you to Him. The Kingdom is heaven to earth - Him to you. Learning to experience God is a core Kingdom discipleship discipline. Jesus’ first miracle, the birth of the Church/Bride, and the metaphors of the Bride in Song of Songs all involve wine. Learning to drink of the wine of heaven, and living out of “first love” is something we cannot forsake.
Worshipping Bigger Than The Room - Part 2
In part 2 of this series, Deb goes deeper into the “assignments’ we receive in worship that empower us to take ground. As we worship bigger than the room we are taking ground well beyond the room we gather in. It’s part of who we are supposed to be as sons and daughters of God.
Worshipping Bigger Than The Room - Part 1
Continuing our theme of taking ground in spirit together, Debbie unpacks the power of our priestly function and authority - a function that marries intercession and worship. We start by exercising this function in our own world, and as we use our priestly “super powers” our authority increases beyond our own world into cities and nations and begins to shape history.
The Practice of Corporate Presence - Part 4 - Present Your Bodies
Tim continues on the theme of sacrifice in worship. In this session he looks at presenting our bodies as living sacrifices, and what that looks like in the practice of corporate presence. True worship that breaks through in the spirit realm involves our whole selves - spirit, soul, AND body. It’s much more than just the words we say or sing.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
The Practice of Corporate Presence - Part 3 - Unity and Following The Lead
A great example of a corporate people taking ground together was Israel taking Jericho under the leadership of Joshua. If that was a modern day church service with the standard consumer mentality, that situation probably would have played out a little differently. Tim draws principles from this story on the role of leadership and our response, and the power of agreement to create a "critical mass" that leads to corporate breakthrough.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
The Practice of Corporate Presence - Part 2 - Bring Your Fire
We're not meant to come to corporate worship randomly or unprepared. Paul said, "When you come together, each of you has a..." - each of you - not just those "on the roster". Fire falls on sacrifice, and as we all learn to step out of the consumer mentality and bring a sacrifice of praise, His fire falls and we ALL break through to a higher level in the spirit.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
Four Shifts in Worship and Corporate Presence
Steve Frost shares his own journey around four shifts in worship and corporate presence, and encourages us, like a good Aussie BBQ, to always "bring a plate to share" when we come together.
The Practice of Corporate Presence - Part 1
In part 1 of this series, Tim explains that "it's different when we're together". We can't approach corporate presence the same way we approach our individual God time. 1 Corinthians 12 - 14 gives us the clearest instructions on how to do corporate presence in a way that raises the "water level" for everyone.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
Taking Ground In Spirit, Together
2018 has been prophesied as a year of taking ground. So far we have been focussed on taking ground IN us. Now Tim moves the focus to taking ground in the spirit, together as apostolic kingdom family. Worship is one of our primary weapons in taking ground, and it is our first and most important ministry. The invitation of this season is to upgrade our fire - our hunger levels. The church in Ephesus found out from Jesus in Revelation 2 that taking a whole city, persevering, and holding fast to truth are not enough. We must cultivate first love!
Reflections On The Season
In preparation for this Sunday's LifeHubs, here's 3 questions to reflect on from this season. Come ready to share and pray for each other so we can all step into the full upgrade that's available.
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
Convictions - Who Am I
In this final session around "the squeeze", Tim leads us through a process of uncovering my convictions about who I am - looking at the early voices that form our view of our identity, and some of the Scriptures that need to be part of that foundation. Tim finishes by leading us into an experience of being unconditionally loved, to anchor us to the deepest reality of our identity.
You can download the worksheet HERE
You can download the “Who Am I In Christ” Scriptures HERE
You can see a full video version of this message on our website at www.i61.com.au/teaching
Convictions Workshop - Who Is God For Me?
In a follow on from last week's message, Tim leads us through a process to to define and process our convictions on who God is for us, so that unprocessed negative experiences don't war against the revelation of the nature of God in us.
You can download a blank copy of the worksheet here
You can download the sample of a completed worksheet here