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The Manifestation of Glory
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Transcribe →The Deborah Anointing
4w ago00:36:17Tap to summarizeIn this powerful Mother’s Day message, Debbie explores the story of Deborah in Judges 4 and 5 and unpacks what she describes as “the Deborah anointing” — an anointing marked by wisdom, worship, humility, courage and spiritual authority. Beginning with the name of God, El Shaddai, Debbie reflects on the Father’s heart to nurture, provide and pour out His goodness on His people. Just as a child confidently places a demand on a loving parent, we are invited to approach God as sons and daughters who trust His provision, His love and His sufficiency. From there, Debbie moves into the account of Deborah, the only female judge of Israel, who led from a place of humility and intimacy with God. Sitting under a palm tree, accessible to the people and attentive to the voice of God, Deborah carried wisdom, released prophetic strategy and partnered with others to bring breakthrough and peace to the land. This message is not about competition between men and women, but about honouring the anointing on one another and learning to walk together in covenant, maturity and unity. Deborah’s leadership carried both the tenderness of worship and the fierceness of a warrior spirit, and Debbie challenges the church to recover both again. There is also a strong prophetic call throughout this message for the Church to walk in greater transparency, humility and unity in worship. In a time where there is so much division, noise and self-promotion, Debbie reminds us that the people of God are called to pursue peace, honour one another, and become a unified sound in the earth that displaces darkness and releases the presence of God into regions and cities. More than anything, this message is an invitation to deeper surrender — to become people who carry the wisdom of God, who worship with abandon, who pursue unity instead of division, and who are willing to let the refiner’s fire burn away everything that hinders the fullness of Christ in us. Because the land finds peace when the people of God walk in wisdom, worship and unity together.
Transcribe →Threshold Tactics - Silencing Backlash and Birthing Promises
May 900:33:25Tap to summarizeWe are in a threshold season. And thresholds require a different posture. In this deeply prophetic and pastoral message, Michelle Wilson explores the contrasting responses of Zechariah and Mary to the announcement of impossible pregnancies in Luke 1. Both were visited by the angel Gabriel. Both received a promise that defied natural reality. Both asked, “How can this happen?” Yet the response from heaven was completely different. Why? As Michelle unpacks the story surrounding the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, we begin to see the importance of surrender, honour, hiddenness, and yieldedness in moments where God is birthing something new. Zechariah nearly disqualified himself at the threshold through dishonour and unbelief, while Mary’s surrendered heart created a landing place for the glory of God to break in. This message carries a timely warning and invitation for anyone navigating transition, promise, waiting, or breakthrough. Sometimes God hides what He is growing. Sometimes the embryonic stages of a move of God require protection, stillness, and deep trust. And sometimes the greatest danger at the threshold is not opposition from the outside, but careless speech and dishonour from within. Megan Grigg then leads the church into a powerful moment of reflection and repentance, asking the Holy Spirit to expose any place where dishonour, resistance, or hardened posture may be hindering what God wants to birth in this season.
Transcribe →Displacing Powers and Taking Cities
Apr 1300:41:18Tap to summarizeThe Great Commission was never just about people. It was always about nations. In this message, Tim brings together the threads of the past few weeks and reveals the fuller picture of what it means to displace powers and take cities. Starting in Matthew 28 and moving through the book of Acts, we see that discipling nations is not a passive idea — it’s a strategic, sustained invasion of the ways of the Kingdom into every sphere of society. Education, media, institutions, culture — not by force, but through truth, influence, and the demonstration of power. Again and again in Acts, a pattern emerges. The gospel is preached, the Kingdom is demonstrated, and eventually the stronghold behind a city is confronted. Sometimes that confrontation leads to breakthrough, with whole regions turning to the Lord. Sometimes it leads to resistance, persecution, or partial impact. But the strategy remains the same. We don’t primarily fight powers by confronting them directly. We displace them. Through a sustained pattern of discipling, and through the unmistakable demonstration of the Kingdom — healing, freedom, authority — the influence of darkness is pushed back until it has no place left to stand. This message is a call to lift our vision, to move beyond a small, contained expression of faith and step into the assignment of seeing cities, regions, and ultimately nations shaped by the rule and reign of Jesus. Because the end game is not just full churches. It’s this: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.”
Transcribe →The Powers, Ideologies, and Discipling Nations
Apr 100:52:28Tap to summarizeOur battle is not against flesh and blood — but if we don’t understand how that battle works, we’ll fight in the wrong place. In this message, Tim builds on the foundation of principalities and takes us into the next layer: powers — the spiritual forces that shape ideologies, systems of thought, and cultural patterns within a nation. Drawing from Colossians 2 and Ephesians 6, we see how these powers work to disciple territories through philosophy, worldview, and institutional influence — shaping how people think, live, and ultimately what they worship. Behind every ideology is a spirit. And whether we realise it or not, every one of us is being discipled by something. Here we uncover the Kingdom strategy for nations and regions. Jesus didn’t just defeat the powers at the cross — He disarmed them. And instead of calling His people to “fight” them directly, He commissioned us to disciple nations. To bring the ways of heaven into the fabric of society so that darkness is displaced, not just confronted. This message is both a wake-up call and a commissioning. A call to discern what is shaping our thinking, what is discipling our children, and what is influencing our culture. And a call to step into our assignment — to carry the Kingdom into our spheres, to live as light, and to demonstrate a better way. Because the question is not if you are being discipled. The question is — by what?
Transcribe →The Lion, The Powers, and Cosmic Geography
Mar 2601:02:32Tap to summarizeOur battle is not against flesh and blood. In this message, Tim takes us deeper into the unseen framework behind that statement — tracing a biblical worldview from Deuteronomy 32 through to Ephesians 6 that reveals the reality of territorial powers, spiritual authority, and the cosmic nature of the battle we are in. Beginning with the Tower of Babel and the dividing of the nations, we explore how Scripture points to a spiritual geography — where nations were given over, where principalities took influence, and where God set apart a people for Himself with a redemptive plan to reclaim the nations. From the divine council language of the Old Testament, through to Paul’s categories of principalities and powers, this message brings clarity to what is actually happening beneath the surface of world events, cultural movements, and even national identity. But this is not abstract theology. As the Lion of Judah begins to move in justice and judgement, this teaching calls us to discern rightly — to understand the nature of the battle, to refuse agreement with what God is confronting, and to step into our mandate as a prophetic and intercessory people. Because the assignment is not just personal. It’s territorial. This is a call to lift our eyes, sharpen our discernment, and pray in alignment with what God is doing in our nation — so that His Kingdom would come, and His will would be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Transcribe →Getting To Know The Lion
Mar 1500:38:39Tap to summarizeIn Matthew 11 we encounter a surprising moment: John the Baptist — the greatest of the Old Testament prophets — sends word to Jesus from prison asking, “Are you the Coming One, or should we expect someone else?” How does the very prophet who declared “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” end up questioning whether Jesus is really the Messiah? In this message, Tim unpacks the prophetic tension behind John’s question. John had seen something real in the Spirit — a Messiah who would come with a winnowing fork in His hand, separating wheat from chaff and executing the justice of God. Yet the Jesus he was watching seemed very different: eating with sinners, touching lepers, extending mercy where John expected judgement. What John was experiencing was the tension created by prophetic compression — when two realities that appear side-by-side in prophecy are actually separated by time. John saw the Lion of Judah. But in that moment he was encountering the Lamb. The challenge for us today may be the opposite. We are deeply familiar with the Lamb — the healer, redeemer, and friend of sinners. But Scripture reveals another dimension of Jesus: the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King who brings justice, confronts corruption, and vindicates the oppressed. As the world and the Church move through a season of shaking and exposure, this message calls us to know Jesus in the fullness of who He is — Lamb and Lion — so that we are not offended when God moves in ways that stretch our expectations. Because if we only know the Lamb, we may struggle to recognise the Lion when He begins to roar.
Transcribe →It's Time To Level Up - Part 2
Feb 2400:52:11Tap to summarizeLevelling up sounds inspiring. But what does it actually require? In Part 2 of this message, Tim moves from prophetic theme to practical framework. If 2026 is a year to level up, then we need more than language — we need transformation at the level of our internal operating system. Opening in Romans 12, this message unpacks what it really means to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind.” The Greek “nous” is not just your thoughts — it’s the faculty through which you interpret reality. If that internal system is misaligned, it will naturally keep producing the same results. Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. So if we want different fruit, something deeper has to shift. Tim explores generational flows and inherited constraints, unprocessed wounds and vows that quietly limit capacity, skill sets required for the future God is calling you into, constraint theory — identifying the true bottleneck in your growth, and Physical health as a legitimate Kingdom stewardship issue. This is not a “try harder” message. It’s an invitation to present yourself to God and allow Him to confront the internal architecture that is capping your capacity. The struggle may feel like a chrysalis — tight, uncomfortable, even suffocating. But what if the fight is actually building the strength required for the next level? If glory to glory is real, then staying where you are is not an option. The question is: Who does your future require you to become?
Transcribe →How To Position Yourself In The Shaking
Feb 1200:34:21Tap to summarizeThe world is shaking. The church is shaking. But God is not. In this tag-team message, Tim and Debbie name the tremors rocking the body of Christ and the broader world — from public moral failures in high-profile ministries to the collapsing foundations of celebrity church culture. Against that backdrop, Haggai 2 becomes a prophetic lens: though the former glory may feel like a distant memory, God promises, “I will fill this house with glory.” Tim opens with a call to reckon with what we’ve anchored our faith to. In “consumer Church”, we are anchored to the “superstar Christians”, and when they fall we are shaken to the core. When we are anchored the the Rock - Jesus - we will not be shaken. Then Debbie brings a timely word from the Father’s heart: stillness. Not passive denial, but the kind of stillness that positions us to remember His promises, hear His voice, and let Him be our Defender. Whether you’re facing external battle, internal storm, or trauma response, the invitation is the same: be still and know. This message is a calibration moment for 2026 — and a prophetic alignment for those who feel the shaking and are asking, “What now?” “Do not be afraid or discouraged… Take up your positions. Stand firm and see the deliverance of the Lord.” (2 Chron. 20:17)
Transcribe →It's Time To Level Up
Dec 1900:58:43Tap to summarizeWhat if the limits you’ve accepted as normal… aren’t even close to God’s version of normal? In this end-of-year message, Tim calls us to confront the thinking that has kept us playing small — not just in areas of obvious struggle, but in the zones where we’ve “settled” for good instead of contending for God’s best. This isn’t about trying harder. It’s about letting the Spirit confront our old defaults, and partnering with heaven to rewrite the narrative. We dig into the short but powerful story of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4) — a man born under a name that meant pain and toil — who refused to let that script define his future. His bold four-part prayer becomes a template for breaking through restriction, reclaiming lost territory, and asking God to confront our inherited limitations with Kingdom perspective. This message presses into themes of divine favour, renewed mindsets, prosperous soul, strategic influence, and generational redemption — and closes with a prayer of consecration and commissioning. “God is asking to confront your normal with His normal. Will you let Him?”
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