Ps Andy continues the series on Miracles withinour overall theme of Magnify and Multiply. God's heart is one of multiplication for us, through miracles. Luke 5:1-11 and John 21:1-14 are the key bible verses for Ps Andy's message today where Jesus instructs Simon Peter to put down his nets the other side of the boat after an unproductive evening of fishing. The second passage refers to a similar instruction, this time after Jesus' resurrection.

Ps Andy continues his explanation here that the miracle occured again after the fishermen were asked by Jesus to undertake a seemingly embarressing and unusual request. Experienced fishermen had been up all night and caught nothing, yet here was a carpenter telling them what to do. This was a challenge of obedience for them.

In this moment there was a revelation of who Jesus was for Peter because Jesus had been preaching earlier and Peter had been on the shore listening, but the penny had'nt dropped. This was not just a man, this was the son of God and suddenly Peter sees his miracle knowing it was a miracle because he was a fisherman and he said, "this doesn't happen, I've been doing this since I was a kid, this doesn't happen.....". But it did!!

After this, Jesus tells Peter to leave his boat, leave everything, join Him and He would make him a fisher of men. This was a miracle that positioned him In what God had designed for him to be - not just provision but intention. Sometimes we eat the fish, move on and forget to stop and say, "God, what are you doing in this moment that concerns me and my future. Miracles reveal the hand of God, but often they also reveal his intentions.

Are we positioned to listen to God in the moment and be obedient to seemingly extraordinary requests from God?

Ps Andy continues the series about miracles that Ps Sean began last week. A common thought in this series is how unusual requests made by God can result in supernatural multiplication in our lives? This is something consistently seen throughout teaching in both New & Old Testaments. Crazy things can happen but are normally always followed God asking someone to do something that seemed unusual, even unreasonable. Are we able to hear God ask us to do something unusual? This is a real challenge...placing a demand of faith on us.

PS Andy today speaks about the miracle found in 2 Kings 4, 1-7. The wife of a man cries out to Elisha because her husband is dead and creditors are coming to take her boys as slaves. After a conversation, Elisha tells the woman to collect containers and pour the small amount of oil she has into them. Miraculously, oil flows until the last container is filled. Now she can sell oil to pay her debts.

The amount she received wasn't a provision issue, it was a capacity issue. She could only receive according to what she made room for. God's provision met current needs and her future security.

Do we need a miracle?, are we listening for God's unusual request? Is God trying to highlight something in our lives? If the widow's actions (ie her faith) had not been commensurate with the instructions received from Elisha, her needs would not have been met, the miracle of supernatural provision would not have occured!

Today Ps Sean starts a new series about Miracles, still within the overall framework of our theme of Multiplication.

He begins by speaking about 'lack' and the varying forms of lack we can experience in our lives. Sometimes this is through comparing ourselves to others around us, sometimes through genuine lack of resources, food, shelter, clothing etc. The story of Elijah and the widow in 1 Kings 17 is well known.....he asks her to make him a small peice of food from the remains of her flour which she was going to use just before she and her son died of hunger. But, this never happened, the jar of oil and the flour never ran out, just as the Lord had spoken thtough Elijah.

In Matthew 14, Jesus feeds over 5000 people with fives loaves and two fish. But, he had given thanks to God before the miracle began. From a position seeming to be of lack, a supernatural God turned a natural situation into a miracle of supernatural provision and abundance.

Ps Sean makes the point that this can be the case in each of our lives, but we need to surrender our lives, posture oursleves into submission before God, and act with obedience and thanksgiving. Leaning on our own understanding will never work (Proverbs 3:5-6).

We are to acknowledge Him, then He'll make straight our paths. This means our relationships need to acknowledge Him, living God's way. Our finances have to live God's way. My eyes must honour Him, my ears must honour Him. My language must honour Him, every part of who I am acknowledges you to be, God, of all creator of the Heaven and the Earth. Therefore my body honours you, my desires honour you, my thoughts and intent honour you.... every aspect of every part of my life honours you. When we do this, we start to get more than enough breaking out of the depletion, the lack, around us.

This is when we start to get Mana falling down from heaven into our lives, where we start to see supernatural provision in dry places.

Surender, Submit, Give Thanks to God....then Miracles come......

Today is Global Sunday in Family Church, a day when we celebrate all the nations and nationalities represented in our fellowship. It is also Pentecost Sunday - Pentecost being the day the Holy Spirit flowed into the collected peoples in the first church as described in Acts 2:1-4 (NIV) "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them".

Today, Ps Sean speaks about this and how in Joel 2:28-29 scripture states "that I will pour out my spirit on all Flesh". This is a very inclusive statement and relates today to our multi-lingual, multi-racial congregation!

Ps Sean further speaks about how Jesus told His disciples that His Father would give them another helper if they kept His commandments (John 14:15-17). Jesus said that they would receive power when His Spirit came to rest upon them that they might witness to His name in all Judea, Sumeria...

The challenge of this message is to ensure we all realise we are heirs to God and that His spirit will come down upon all of us in order for us to live power filled Kingdom lives.

Today is My Church Sunday, a service specially designed for those who are not fully familiar with the Christian Faith or Kingdom Living. Pastors Sean and Paula Finch interview three congregational members who have totally differing life stories - Vanessa, Hector & Sarah. Each of them show similarities in their search for somthing meaningful in their lives (resulting in their giving their lives to Christ), but from completely differing backgrounds.

Their stories challenge each of us to check our relationship with Jesus, dismissing religion and ritual.

We are called to represent God in a fallen world, we carry his salt and light, and it’s our duty to put on the new self daily.

Following on from last week's message, Ps Andy continues to speak about growing God's family. This week, the focus is 'Reaching all of our World for Him'. Ps Andy's starting point is that we are not looking at arena events, more that every believer says "let me take responsibility for one soul". Referencing Mark 16 and Matthew 28, it is clear that Jesus is saying to each and every one of us "Don't sit there in silence regarding your salvation, be a person with go in your heart". When it comes to reaching others, we need to get uncomfortable. One day when we are all dead and in heaven worshipping, Jesus is going to ask us who we brought with us!

We all have a local 'Jerusalem' - the circle of people we are in contact with regularly. Ps Andy speaks at length about how we must initiate conversations with people who are in our circle of influence. Jesus wants us to be witnesses of what has happened in our lives.

We all need to take on the challenge of identifying people in our circle, praying for them and asking the Lord to intiate times for us to speak them. The time has passed for undercover Christianity. We must begin to talk about Jesus, because of who He is and also what He means to us.

Ps Andy continues the series about God wanting a big family, this week speaking directly about how we are all responsible not just for our Judea and Sameria but those of our own family too. He shows us many scriptures where in the early church it was commonplace for people who had just heard about Jesus to go fetch all their household to tell them and also to baptise them immediately aftwerwards too!

A famous verse is John 1, 41-42. Andrew meets Jesus, he encounters Jesus. The first thing he did was to go and find his brother Simon. So really this is not just about ourselves as individuals but also our whole family, our hosuehold too.

Andy challenges us to pray for the salvation of our whole family network, then to be 'inviters'...bringing them to church and also to purpose to live Godly lives to demonstrate the love of God in our daily walk.