JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019

Each new year often brings with it a  mixed bag of circumstances, emotions and memories.  It could be that 2018 was your best year to date and that you are anticipating even greater things this year.  Conversely, there may be some of you who have struggled against unbelievable odds just to sustain life and normality.  Whatever your situation, God still has so much more for you in store!  Healing, success and victory are the agents that God employs to assist each one of us to achieve our God given destinations and goals.  No matter how isolated you may feel God wants you to know that you are never alone.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy 31:6 (KJV)

The God of all God's is with YOU right now in your present state and status.  His name is Immanuel,  which literally means God with us. Even though things and people around us constantly shift and change, our God never changes.

My Prayer For Your Life

Dear Lord and Father, 

We give You thanks for yet another day of life and the opportunity through prayer to change our lives.  We bring You the old things and ask You through the transformational power of prayer to  make all things new not just for me but globally for your people everywhere. 

Father God, guide us, lead and direct us with all of our daily decisions and desires to the better locations of life.    I ask you to take us to places of Open Doors that will ultimately bring us to places of greater opportunities and promotion in every area of our lives.   

Teach us Dear Father how to be better people in the better places that you have prepared for us.  We ask these things in The Name of Jesus Christ... AMEN!

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?

I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:18-19

DECEMBER 2018

What Does Christmas Mean 

to You?

DEEPER MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

I would like to take this opportunity of wishing you all a very Blessed and Happy Christmas!  As the Christmas season comes and goes this year, may hope be found in the truth of God’s word and the knowledge of His unchanging love for you every day of the year.

Across the globe we celebrate Christmas every year almost as a ritualistic routine and festivity. We know it to be a time for family, friends, socialising with special events and reconnecting with people that we do not have the time to catch up with throughout the year.

Christmas is just a date on the calendar for so many.  This year, I would like to share with you the true meaning of Christmas:

The Word became flesh (John 1:14)

While God had walked in the garden with Adam and Eve and showed up in various forms and moments in Israel’s history, the event of the birth of Jesus Christ was different. Why so?  Because this time, He didn’t take the form of an angel or just do some incredible, unexplainable feat. This time, He came as One of us! The Eternal God became a finite man. He entered history at a specific time and place as a member of His Creation. The angel Gabriel announced His coming to Mary and God also sent a message to Joseph. He caught the attention of the magi from the east who came looking for the Messiah King. Angels appeared to shepherds in the field praising God and announcing the birth of the Saviour. God broke 400 years of silence with a different sound…the cry of a baby! This was a holy, truly awesome moment in time that changed time for all eternity!

Christmas Divides History

No other birth in the history of mankind has carried greater significance. This event  literally split history in two. Take a moment to ponder on this.  There is no king, emperor, prophet, or spiritual leader ever who has influenced the course of history more than Jesus Christ. 

While Christmas is a time to remember the birth of Christ, it also marks a gigantic, God-sized day in the history of man’s relationship with our Heavenly Father. 

Many have tried and some have made noticeable ripples in history, but none like this. Jesus was a carpenter’s son and itinerant preacher. He didn’t lead armies or write books or earn rewards and honours and accolades. He didn’t try to organize people (though they were drawn to Him) or even really spread His teaching (though it spread like wildfire). Yet, He changed history like no one ever has or ever will simply because of who He is. 

Immanuel

What a name! What an earth-shattering reality. God with us. Our Creator God who formed the heavens and earth and all the universe with but a word was here as one of us. Not to mete out judgment and wrath, but first to reconcile to Himself all who would believe. He is God with Us who will never leave or forsake us. This is the significance of the birth of Christ. This is why the angels announced it to the shepherds and the star led the magi to Bethlehem. God, Himself was here, the silence was finally broken, and Salvation was coming!

So…Spread the Word!

The birth of Jesus is the moment in history when God stepped into His Creation not as Creator, but as one of us. And not as a ruler, politician, or military figure. But as a baby, the son of a carpenter, born in a place for animals with a feeding trough as a bed. From that humble beginning, He turned the world as we know it upside down. God is with us! God is with you right where you are now and Salvation and everything that it embodies is now at your disposal. 

I pray that this season when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ that it will also bring new life to you and your loved ones in Jesus name.

May 2019 when it arrives bring with it a new dimension of

change, victory and success!  

Prayer Points For the Christmas Season

1. That Christ will reawaken our spirits and return in our thoughts and thinking and become the main focus of our lives. In the Name of Jesus we pray.
2. That as Mary had her encounter with God, that we will also have an encounter that will change our lives and impregnate and impact us with new authority and power to live our lives for the better and good of others also.  In the Name of Jesus we pray.     
3. That every distraction, disruption, disappointment and delay will fail in their assignments against our successful outcomes.  In the Name of Jesus Christ we pray.

NOVEMBER 2018

WHY DO WE NEED TO PRAY?

For the month of  – November  I want to put the subject of prayer under the microscope and look at why you and I need to pray.

A Christian philosopher who was also a scientist - Blaise Pascal (1623-62) wrote, "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing … " Over the next few months I am going to serialise why we need to pray.

God's Word Calls YOU and I to Pray!

The primary reason we need to pray is because God has commanded us to do so. If we are to be obedient to His will, then prayer must be part of our life when we are in relationship with Him. Where does the Bible call us to prayer? There are several passages that are relevant:

• "Pray for those who persecute you" –Matthew 5:44 (NIV) [1] 
• "And when you pray …" –Matthew 6:5 
• "This, then, is how you should pray …" –Matthew 6:9 
• "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." –Romans 12:12 
• "And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests." –Ephesians 6:18 
• "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." –Philippians 4:6 
• "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." –Colossians 4:2 
• "Pray continually" -1 Thessalonians 5:17 
• "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone …" -1 Timothy 2:1

Prayer is an act of obedience. God  has called you to pray and if you are intending to establish a working relationship with Him you need to respond by so doing. 

Scriptures are taken from the NIV (New International Version)

JUNE/JULY 2018

JUNE/JULY 2018

PRAYERS TO BUILD YOUR FAITH

For the next half of this year I want you to saturate your life with prayer and begin to use your faith in so doing.  Begin to rebuild your life with prayer and faith.

This month I will give you prayer points that will enable you to pray, speak and prophesy into your life based on Hebrews 11. 

Allow the Spirit of Faith (2 “Cor 4:13), The Gift of Faith (1Cor 12:9) and the Fruit of Faith (Gal 5:22) to begin to grow in your life. 

If you would like to take your prayer life to a higher level  join our Prayer Academy today and get hold of the Keys to The Secret of Spiritual Power.

Contact us for more information or to enrol at Prayer Academy:

Email:  prayercoaching@gmail.com

Pastor Avis

PRAYER POINTS (say each of the following 3 times each aloud into the atmospheres of your life then begin to pray)

1.     Matthew 17:20 I command the seed of faith to grow in my heart. By faith every mountain in my life will be flattened this year, I shall see God’s glory in my life...in The Name of Jesus Christ.

2.     Matthew 14:31 Faith take hold of my life now, I break the spirit of doubt, increase me, stir me up, The Spirit of faith is planted in my life today, I speak turn around, change, recovery and breakthrough I have NOW FAITH (Heb 11:1).  Today faith is  working in my life in The Name of Jesus Christ.

3.     Matthew 21:21 I refuse to doubt/fear, faith rise up, live in my mind/mouth, possess my spirit/heart/vision and view.. I will do exploits this year in The Name of Jesus Christ

GOD'S HIGHEST LAW - APRIL 2018

STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED (2 TIMOTHY 2:15)

God wants us to study His Word.  Many things of depth and value can be missed if we just read The Bible.  Do you know what  the most important commandment in the Bible is? (Matthew 22:36).  Jesus says, “Love the Lord with all your heart and love your neighbour as yourself.   On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40).  

So The Word of God tells us that everything in the Bible is about loving God and loving our neighbours.  It is important that we not only read our Bibles but that we also understand what The Bible is trying to teach and tell us.   Jesus points out  that there is more to serving Him than just performing duties or rituals.  The whole Word of God is based on loving God and the love that God has for his children.  Love is the message that runs consistently throughout the Word of God,  love is the Law of God and one which every believer of Christ must endeavour to live and be ruled by.  God wants us to conduct our lives according to His higher "royal" standard of love.  

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, 

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

James 2:8-12 (KJV)

Everything in the Bible hinges on loving God and loving our neighbours.   Some people interpret the Bible in different ways, picking and choosing particular passages—paying attention to the letter of the Bible but forgetting how the Lord said, “The two most important things for us to remember: 

1.  Love the Lord and 

2.  Love your neighbour.

Why not make Loving others your mission this month.  Do something to and for someone around you - display the love of Christ to a stranger.  

Prayer Points:

1.  Dear Father and Lord - teach me how to love you?

2.  Help me Lord to  make love my first response.

3.  Teach me Lord how to walk in love.

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PASSOVER CELEBRATION 30.3.18

Join Pastor Avis for the Celebration of Passover and Prayer

Good Friday 30th March 2018 - 11.00am

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MARCH/APRIL 2018



Welcome to the Season of Passover/Easter

Passover is a week-long commemoration celebrated in the early spring from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. Passover commemorates the exodus of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. 

The word Passover is taken from the Hebrew word Pesach which means "to pass over".   Passover happens in springtime and gives rise to a greater understanding of  new life, growth, stimulation, change.


What exactly is Passover?  

Passover is an annual Spiritual Window of freedom from spiritual oppression -  it is a time of realignment.  We first encounter the story of Passover in Exodus 12.  

The original Passover, found in the Bible, is a memorial to God passing over the houses of the children of Israel when  the firstborn of man and beast in Egypt were killed. This miraculous event and its meaning occurred during the night of the fourteenth of the Hebrew month Nisan. 

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

For the New Testament Christian the Bible meaning of the Passover  revolves around the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  It is a memorial of his death as the true Lamb of God. Believers partake of unleavened bread and wine (Communion) in remembrance of the sacrifice of Jesus' beaten body and shed blood. This sacrifice makes possible the forgiveness of our sins. By partaking of the Passover symbols of bread and wine, we are proclaiming and remembering our continual faith in Jesus' sacrifice.

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! THE LAMB OF GOD who takes away the sin of the world! " (John 1:29, see also 1Peter 1:18-19, 1Corinthians 11:23-26 and Matthew 26:19-20, 26-29)

Passover/Easter through the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ  celebrates and commemorates our deliverance from Spiritual death and all of the strongholds and curses of life. 


Today I pray: 

-  that you will come into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

-  that every "holding spirit" that has kept you in a state of bondage of any kind  
    will be demolished, devastated and destroyed  in Jesus Name.  

-  that you will passover from the slavery of your past to "newness of life" in 
   Jesus Name.


Wishing you all a very Happy Passover.