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In studying revival history, one of the many common threads I’ve discovered is that the individuals who were catalytic in igniting revivals around the world had a personal re-awakening, renewal or personal revival. It was from their full-to-overflowing spiritual tank that they were able to bring something of God into their world. If we are to lead and be good stewards of a move of God in 2023…how should we (individually) prepare? Matthew 12:34-35 NKJV For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. Let’s spend the rest of this year tending to the condition of our hearts, prepare our hearts for INCREASE and prepare our hearts for MORE! Psalm 51:10-13 NLT Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you. Psalm 51:16:17 NLT You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering. The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God. Let’s do a quick pre-2023 heart check: HOW SOFT IS OUR HEART? Hard-hearted people often hide their vulnerabilities behind business…and even worse they dress up their hyperactivity as a ‘sacrifice to God.’ BUT The REAL sacrifice God is looking for is for us to allow the Holy Spirit to break the hardness off of our hearts. To allow the Holy Spirit to clean us up from the inside out! For us to be IN the presence of the Holy Spirit long enough for Him to restore to us the joy of our salvation… This is why Worship will be so important in 2023 HOW OPEN IS OUR HEART? An open makes room for more… More room for more of the presence of God… Intentionally carrying out time for private and corporate worship… More room for more of the power of God … This is making room for saying yes when you are called to activate the gifts of the spirit….praying for healing, giving words of knowledge, offering hospitality, stepping into leadership, prophesying etc…. More room for more of the people of God… Is our heart ready to include new and often difficult people? Is our heart ready to do the work to keep our friendships strong and healthy? Will we be mature enough to keep short accounts, deal with our stuff, and chose not to be offended? HOW GENEROUS IS OUR HEART? What are we willing to give to Jesus? Our time, money, skills, resources etc…

Mastering Your 2023 Vision Goals // 3 Words To Master Your 2023 Vision Goals // Search out your own ‘God Vision’ Search for VISION in atmospheres of faith Church services / conferences / prayer meetings / missions trips You won’t find your God vision in a room full of negative, naysaying devil’s advocates. - “Position yourself to hear the Sound of the Spirit” Search for VISION with people of faith Life Group/church teams / spiritual mentors Search for VISION within the book of faith Approach the word of God with high levels of expectation when searching for fresh vision for your life…. God is always speaking…but are we always listening? Set your own ‘only God’ vision goals + share them with a friend - being specific about your goals for 2023 is where most of us will drop the ball…but today we can arrest the tendency toward simple lip service and we can make an INTENTIONAL COMMITMENT to the SPECIFIC + the MEASURABLE - So for us as a church we want to ALWAYS be growing, which means we need to count what counts and measure what matters. We need to write down the goals for our church AND keep an accurate record of those throughout the year. … This is where people think we move from Holy to crude and impersonal….THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH…it isn’t that the DEVIL is in the DETAILS it is “DETAILS are DEVINE” “We count what counts and we measure what matters.” How could this relate to your personal goals for 2023… - number of phone calls to that family member you are believing to see restoration with - number of dollars in your savings account - number of books to read - kms run - days addiction free Be accountable Be ok with failure + take ownership of your mistakes … that’s actually how we learn and more often than not is God’s tool to grow us…The ONLY way to grow in it, is to own it! Pursue your ‘God Vision’ with ALL  of your heart Deuteronomy 30:8-10 MSG And you will make a new start, listening obediently to God, keeping all his commandments that I’m commanding you today. God, your God, will outdo himself in making things go well for you: you’ll have babies, get calves, grow crops, and enjoy an all-around good life. Yes, God will start enjoying you again, making things go well for you just as he enjoyed doing it for your ancestors. But only if you listen obediently to God, your God, and keep the commandments and regulations written in this Book of Revelation. Nothing halfhearted here; you must return to God, your God, totally, heart and soul, holding nothing back. “Let’s throw off the discouragement and disappointment of the last season of uncertainty and instability and receive a fresh anointing to go after all God has for us in 2023.”

The 6 Catalytic Imperatives To All Revivals It is remaining faithful to ur FOUNDATIONS and seeing our METHODS as MALLEABLE Gathering We have to position ourselves to catch the waves that God sends. Revival culture can not be caught in isolation. Prayer revival will only grow from a soil rich in prayer. Arthur Tappan Pierson a famous American presbyterian revivalists of the 1800’s who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books said: ‘There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer’. Worship Revivals have a sound Worship is a FOUNDATION for revival! Word Of God Bible reading and bible preaching are central to the individual and to the church Holiness / Heart / Humility Humour It’s ok if you miss a move of God because, like the waves of the ocean, there is always another one coming, BUT I am going to do whatever it takes to position myself and our church to catch what is coming in this season. Q: From that list of revival imperatives, which one do you think you resonate with most?

Writing Your 2023 Emotional and Spiritual Budget If you liked what you heard you can listen HERE. Time, like our finances, can only be spent in ONE of two ways…as an investment, or as a waste - we can either invest our time or waste our time… Today I wanted to look at how we can invest of our time into our EMOTIONAL and SPIRITUAL lives for 2023. START WITH VISION Where is God leading you in 2023? Financial and time budgets should be written to strategically pursue vision…But to plan and schedule the pursuit of the ‘God vision’ for your life for 2023, you have to know what that is… BUILD A TIME BUDGET WITH EMOTIONAL HEALTH AT THE CENTRE Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Schedule The Rhythm Daily Devotion Weekly Sabbath Annual Leave Select The People Date nights Family dinners Mentoring/Supervision Maintain friendships Monitor your spending (some people are emotionally EXPENSIVE) Set The Scene - WHERE…fills your emotional tank? Go to places that fill your soul - explore, travel, and say yes to adventure! BUILD A TIME BUDGET WITH SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT AS AN IMPERATIVE Acts 4:13-15 The council members were astonished as they witnessed the bold courage of Peter and John, especially when they discovered that they were just ordinary men who had never had religious training. Then they began to understand the effect Jesus had on them simply by spending time with him. Standing there with them was the healed man, and there was nothing further they could say. 2023 can be a year where you can see astonishing, supernatural activity, outworked through your life…You have no reason to discredit yourself from this as this verse demonstrates, you do not need a degree in theology for the Holy Spirit to work through you…BUT! We MUST spend time with .. HIM! I can’t stress enough how this is different to simply, keeping your emotional health strong, this is not just reading a daily devotional…This is about leaning into the supernatural…and you can budget for it: Budget to be in atmospheres of faith Church services / conferences / prayer meetings / missions trips Budget your time to be with people of faith Life Group/church teams / spiritual mentors Spend time practising your gifts of the Spirit (encouragement, healing, hospitality, generosity, administration, words of knowledge, prophecy etc…) Leave margin in your schedule, so you can respond to Holy Spirit promptings AND  be flexible enough to change your schedule to answer the call of the Spirit.

Embedding and Integrating Powerful ‘God Encounters’ Into Your Life If you like what you've listened to, you can watch here https://youtu.be/JwPg7myiR6A Supernatural encounters change lives IF our lives change. This thought is all about how to embed and integrate powerful God encounters into our lives so that change is enduring. Lessons from the prophet Elijah who had just had some extremely powerful breakthroughs in his ministry: He prayed for rain and it came after a 7-year drought. He had just called down actual fire from heaven. He had just taken out 850 pagan prophets in a showdown. He had supernaturally outran the king's chariot. But in 1 Kings 19, we meet Elijah on his Monday after a powerful Sunday in church or on the day after the conference finished or the weeks following an addiction is broken off your life, or days after miraculous physical healing. From this chapter, we can glean 8 lessons from Elijah that will help us embed and integrate ‘God encounters’ into our life so change is enduring. ONE 1 Kings 19:2 So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.” Lesson 1: Be careful whom you let speak into your life immediately after a powerful encounter with God - You can choose whom you tell, you can choose where you go, you can choose what you look at (social media) you can choose when to open your emails etc… TWO 1 Kings 19:3-4 Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. Then he went on alone into the wilderness, travelling all day. Lesson 2: Don’t travel alone Position great people in your world and do the work to keep them there If you are travelling alone, that’s on you Leading lonely will lead you astray / into the wilderness THREE 1 Kings 19:4 “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.” Lesson 3: Don’t compare YOUR God’s encounter with the experience of others God meets you right where YOU are at. Just because your experience with God wasn’t like those that others have had doesn’t discount its supernatural power at work in YOUR life! Don’t compare THIS experience to those you’ve had in the past…”in the good old days God use to . . .” God is up to something new…! FOUR 1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him, “Get up and eat!” Lesson 4: Keep your rest Elijah had had a powerful season of effectiveness and tremendous God encounters…However, this was taxing on his physical and emotional health….But as soon as he had a good night’s sleep….God showed up again! FIVE 1 Kings 19:6-7 He looked around and there beside his head was some bread baked on hot stones and a jar of water! So he ate and drank and lay down again. Then the angel of the Lord came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.” Lesson 5: Keep your healthy habits The supernatural encounter of the angel in this part of the story is ironic because it took the supernatural to remind Elijah to do what was natural….eat enough food and drink enough water for the journey, not too little, not too much and get MOVING! Healthy lifestyles and healthy habits help to embed and integrate those unique and irregular experiences into our lives. SIX 1 Kings 19:11-13 And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Lesson 6: Keep listening to God …in the small things (Elijah heard God in the whisper) SEVEN 1 Kings 19:15-16 Then the Lord told him, “Go back the same way you came, and travel to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive there, anoint Hazael to be king of Aram. Then anoint Jehu grandson of Nimshi to be king of Israel Lesson 7: Keep serving God …in the small things (Elijah went back to anointing the people of God for ministry as in the bread and butter of the prophet) EIGHT 1 Kings 19:16 and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from the town of Abel-meholah to replace you as my prophet. Lesson 8: Look for Legacy These God encounters were never meant to elevate Elijah’s status, but position him to identify and raise up the next generation and leave a kingdom legacy…who is the NEXT you?

If you liked what you heard you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/beyondchurchau?sub_confirmation=1 Trimming Wicks and Filling Lamps Matthew 25:1 - 10 TPT “When my coming draws near, heaven’s kingdom realm can be compared to ten maidens who took their oil lamps and went outside to meet the bridegroom and his bride. Five of them were foolish and ill-prepared, for they took no extra oil for their lamps. Five of them were wise, for they took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. When the bridegroom didn’t come when they expected, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. Then suddenly, in the middle of the night, they were awakened by the shout ‘Get up! The bridegroom is here! Come out and have an encounter with him!’ So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps. But the foolish ones were running out of oil, so they said to the five wise ones, ‘Share your oil with us because our lamps are going out!’ “ ‘We can’t,’ they replied. ‘We don’t have enough for all of us. You’ll have to go and buy some for yourselves!’ “While the five girls were out buying oil, the bridegroom appeared. Those who were ready and waiting were escorted inside with him and the wedding party to enjoy the feast. And then the door was locked.” In this story, the oil represents the infilling power, presence, provision and direction of the Holy Spirit and the lamps are the vessels that carry all of that. The lamps are you and me…the church … today God wants to challenge our BC leadership team with this one question … Q: ARE WE TRIMMING WICKS AND FILLING LAMPS? Our leaders must focus on what matters most: the presence, power, provision and leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives and our churches and teams. Oil doesn’t come cheap…if your pursuit of the presence, power and provision of the holy comes easily…it’s cheap oil … Build margin into your week, to be in prayer, in the presence of God, in worship … We can not draw oil from the lamps of others and other leaders …you can learn how to trim your wick and polish from others but YOU are responsible for your own spiritual temperature … only YOU can fill your lamp with oil. trimming wicks vs buying oil … YES we all need to lead with a trimmed wick = leading with excellence - this story isn’t saying that a functional and excellent vessel/leader isn’t necessary! We need to be excellent at the maintenance of our leadership gift - we need to be reading, studying, and developing our skills as leaders +  we still need to be executing tasks with excellence and in a timely manner - we still need to be wick trimmers, BUT spending ALL of our time trimming wicks is simply foolishness if your lamp has no oil… Why is it so important to have a full lamp and a trimmed wick? Finally, when we lead full of the Holy Spirit AND we have the leadership capacity to carry it (lamp) AND we keep our wicks trimmed (bringing our best, doing the work)…then and only then are we truly ON FIRE! … lighting up a path to the bridegroom,….that is what this is all about!

In yesterday’s message: https://youtu.be/cYExAK5WQog ...I listed 9 things that the bible explicitly invites us to pray for: Forgiveness / anxiety / wisdom / your enemies / healing / miracles / revival / The Holy Spirit / EVERYTHING ELSE! So from that list, I asked God, what is one thing that I should bring to our team today and invite them to focus on praying about over this next week….REVIVAL… There are 3 key verses that we can meditate on ‘IN PRAYER’ over the next week, that will help keep us focused as we pray. 1. Mark 11:24 TPT This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours. DON’T PRAY PIDDLY PRAYERS (PATHETIC, TRIVIAL, TRIFLING) BE BOLD - Revival prayers have, historically always been imbued with BOLD BELIEF…due to the fact that many (if not all) of the recorded revivals in history were born from a season of deep desperation among the people of God AND the wider community. Desperate people pray BOLD prayers! 2. Matthew 9:38 MSG What a huge harvest!” he said to his disciples. “How few workers! On your knees and pray for harvest hands! DON’T PRAY FOR WHAT ALREADY EXISTS! What I love about this verse is that it reminds us that it is not our role to generate a harvest…the harvest already exists! This verse calls us to set our sails in prayer! To be READY, and for us to prepare as many others as possible for What GOD WILL DO, and for what ONLY GOD CAN DO. The great Welsh revival at the turn of the 20th century was led primarily by Evan Roberts, whose first job at age 12 was as a coal miner in 1890…He prayed every day for revival for 13 years and in 1904 God turned up and revival broke out. https://www.samstorms.org/enjoying-god-blog/post/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-welsh-revival-of-1904-06 3. 2 Chronicles 7:14 MSG If I ever shut off the supply of rain from the skies or order the locusts to eat the crops or send a plague on my people, and my people, my God-defined people, respond by humbling themselves, praying, seeking my presence, and turning their backs on their wicked lives, I’ll be there ready for you: I’ll listen from heaven, forgive their sins, and restore their land to health. From now on I’m alert day and night to the prayers offered at this place. DON’T PRAY FOR THE WORLD TO CHANGE! MAKE A CHANGE How should we respond after a plague? How have you responded after the loss, grief and disruption of the last 2.5 years? How did you respond during the plague? Were you praying that God would, change the government, change the mandates, change the restrictions, change the rules…? God calls us to respond by getting to our knees, getting into His presence, and living a Holy life… Maybe these 3 simple verses brought to God IN PRAYER could change the game, and bring revival to our land. If you liked what you have heard you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/beyondchurchau?sub_confirmation=1

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When You Are Winning Stop and Celebrate Celebrate the person Celebrate the specifics Celebrate the cultural alignment Stop and Strategise Ask the question: Why are we winning? Andy Stanley has said, “ If you don’t know why it’s working when it’s working, you won’t know how to fix it when it breaks.” Don’t Stop There The enemy of winning is not losing, the enemy of winning is complacency. Losing is actually a great motivator…winning on the other hand can move us into maintenance, maintenance eventually leads to losing. “Day 1 Culture vs Day 2 Culture” - https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/how-amazon-defines-and-operationalizes-a-day-1-culture/ Read this recent blog from, Daniel Slater Worldwide Lead, Culture of Innovation, Amazon Web Services and read it through the following lens…Churches are called to reach their world for Jesus…the people in our world are the same people that a successful company is reaching…they are doing some things right…is the church as relentless at reaching its world for Jesus? Liked what you heard - subscribe to our YouTube Channel HERE

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About You Can you tell us a little about your family life, your current role at Lighthouse and your responsibilities within our ACC Movement? Young Leaders One of the key areas of focus for you as our NSW ACC State President is the development of young leaders. We also see this need apparent in our context. What do you think is missing from our churches that has meant we are short of young leaders, and what is it that we can do to find, raise and release young people? Finishing Well There have been many leaders, both high profile and unseen, that have become COVID casualties, both during and whilst emerging from this pandemic. My heart is to see our leaders rise from strength to strength into the post-pandemic world. What would you be encouraging your leaders to be focusing on today, so that they are still winning tomorrow? Your Legacy If you had unlimited time and resources, and if you knew you couldn’t fail, what is something that you would start today that would become your legacy for the church of tomorrow? Your Influences Whom do you like to read, listen to or follow? Whom would you recommend our young leaders look for inspiration from? Like what you've heard? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch this video http://tiny.cc/BeyondYouTube Lighthouse Church Paul’s Books Re-Think It Thank God It’s Monday Paul’s Podcast Re-Think It Carey Nieuhof Paul Scanlon

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Why Vietnam? Tell us a little about your journey toward full-time on-the-field missionaries in Vietnam….not a common calling, but a much-needed one! Leading Cross-Culturally All of us have to lead people who are not like us…different values, beliefs, worldviews, and in your role you have ALL of that plus a significant language barrier….what leadership skills have you had to learn to lead in a different culture? Ongoing SupportWhat are the top 5 5hings that non-missionaries, like us, can do to support you and you and your teams in Vietnam? Support Beyond Church and Our Missionaries in Vietnam https://beyondchurch.org.au/connect-and-giving-page Spotify Raising Leaders http://tiny.cc/SpotifyRaisingLeaders Apple Raising Leaders http://tiny.cc/RaisingLeadersPodcast Google Raising Leaders http://tiny.cc/GoogleRaisingLeaders

Women in Leadership Is it biblical? Why is it still such a hot topic in the Christian world but not so much in the marketplace? Theology In our conversations, and in your preaching, you clearly have a passion for biblical literacy and rigorous theological study. Where does this passion come from? Can theology help us in a practical way or is it simply knowledge for knowledge’s sake? Social Media I’ve seen you jump in and out of social media over the years. What role do you think social media should play in our personal lives, as a leadership tool, and in the church more broadly? Personal Leadership Development Would you agree with the thought that ‘Leaders are Readers', and whom do you like to read/listen to and why? Subscribe to our Leadership Podcast on Itunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/beyond-church-raising-leaders/id1470582090 Subscribe to our Leadership Podcast on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1a8eEMZgeuUsGhs6PpuhEf?si=ksaFEq5DSDWwEp38HU8Y5w

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International Women’s Day 2022  FULL NOTES I love seeing International Women’s Day as an opportunity to reflect on the past and where we’ve come from, while also looking ahead to what we can still do to make sure women and men have equal opportunity to bring their unique contribution to the world, without privilege or persecution. I am proud to be a woman, but like most women I know, have experienced challenges based on people’s perceptions of gender and how they thought I should look or act, or which roles I should aspire to in my life based on the fact that I am a woman.   I think the one word I would convey to people, both women and men, boys and girls, this International Women’s Day, is that you are enough. God sees you and he loves you just as you are. I, in fact, believe he has made you and given you everything you need to be all that you desire to be in your life.   This International Women’s Day I want to honour and celebrate all the women who are thoughtfully, intentionally, passionately and prayerfully going after everything that is in their heart to bring to the world. Whether it’s in business, family, work, leadership or ministry, I am here today cheering for you and reminding you that you have been given everything you need to accomplish what you feel called to bring to the world. Whether it’s an entrepreneurial enterprise, a strong family, a contribution to your local community and the social fabric of your sphere of influence, senior leadership in the corporate sector or not-for-profit space or church and ministry leadership that’s on your heart, your contribution is NECESSARY.   To the men who empower women in your world, don’t get tired or give up! Your contribution is equally necessary in a world where men have throughout history been automatically given more power, influence and authority than women, simply based on their gender. I am so grateful for the men in my life who have not only empowered me to bring my unique contribution to the world, but have gone above and beyond by taking a step backwards in their own career trajectory in order to reset the equilibrium as their own contribution toward equality for women.   Let me finish by saying this: Jesus, the person throughout history who I personally allow to have the most influence into my thinking and actions, spent his short time on earth beginning the work of turning a culture where women had little value, power or opportunity to better themselves and their families, upside down. And here’s what he said about you being enough: “Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.”   In these words lie the answer to feeling overwhelmed as a mum of young kids or a woman juggling the tension of solo parenting or work and study. Here is how we can carry a grace for dealing with infertility, or relationship breakdown, or the toxicity and evil of abuse in all its forms. Here is how we find our calling and become reinspired that we are, in fact, enough. We bring our full selves, simply, honestly, authentically, just as we are, to the God who loves us. We pour our hearts out to him and just watch how he begins to build us back up again when we empty our hearts out to him. Happy International Women’s Day.