DREAM BIG DREAMS.....

A wonderful message at church this morning!

Today there is a fresh breath of grace over us today to Dreams dreams!!! To reignite dreams in men today! When fathers are not dreaming we cripple the generations to come! 

God originated DLC in a dream 30 years ago.... 

"For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph 2:10

"We are created for more than salvation...we are saved for good works so that Jesus can put a dream in your heart to live a significant life, to be a world changer & to see Gods Kingdom come here on earth!" Pete Markgraff DLC 6/10/13

We need to dream dreams to see Gods Kingdom come here on earth as it is in heaven! We are born for all the people around us to sow seeds in their lives...seeds of purpose & destiny! 

We don't exist purely for consumption or for retirement but to live a life of destiny, purpose & significance!  Don't let the things of this world rob you of your destiny! 

What do you use your things for? Do they further this Kingdom of God?

A humble person is not someone who thinks less of themselves but thinks of themselves less! 

Lets dream big dreams & get to work & see Gods kingdom here on earth....

Our current church facility....a dream of our previous leaders...

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday 29th Sept...visit to the new land..

What an incredible day as about 60 of the Dlc family flocked to the new facility to explore it & pray on the new land after an incredible service where Pete reviewed the prophecies over our church!

It was a moving experience & there is much excitement & expectation!

We're on the move.....

On Sunday 25th August at early morning Prayer, Pete felt expectant and had some big decisions to make about the building facilities etc! And he felt we needed to fast and pray as a church! So at the service on Sunday he called a corporate 3 day fast and time of prayer!

So we met last night, Tues 27th Aug 2013, for the first corporate prayer time where Pete shared the most exciting, incredible news with our church family.  Our building is sold and we have identified the perfect new building! There was much excitement! Now we are trusting God to "give provision for His vision!"  When I was in Peru earlier this month, God showed me storehouses and said they are full and it is just a matter of tapping into them for the appropriate distribution!

Pete explained that just after the service on Sunday morning, 2 men asked to speak to him! Well.....they want to buy the building! They are from Life Abundant Church! AMEN! Our building is sold at our asking price! And they want to move in by January 2014!

We had the most incredible time of praise, prayer, worship and ministry last night!

Sharon came forward and shared that on Tuesday morning she was led to read Ezra where the children of Israel were given all the money they needed to build the temple! Everything they needed was provided! In same way we believe God will provide for our every need for our new building and for our move by January 2014!

The time of ministry was just too awesome for words...people were touched and healed and there was an incredible time of surrendering to God!

We are super excited and expectant!

Join us in prayer and fasting as we pray for:
1. The church Vision
2. The buildings - the sale and purchase and that the sale deal is protected by God
3. The Presence of God

Join us for prayer this evening at 6pm!

Don't let your heart harden, keep it in rich soil and bear much fruit!

Sunday 4th August 2013

Life beyond Reason - the empowered life

Don't let your heart harden

In the morning service yesterday Chad had a word "It is a time for releasing old wine skins!" In the word it states:

Mark 2:21-22 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. And noone pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins."

When we reflect and unpack these verses, we learn that a wineskin was a goat skin sewn together at the edges to make a watertight bag. As new wine ages it expands and stretches the wineskin. Therefore, if you put new wine into an already stretched wineskin, it will stretch it more and both the wine and the wineskin are lost and ruined! (NIV Life Application Study Bible, 1991)

So how does this apply to our lives? Jesus used this analogy to explain how the pharisees had become old and rigid like old wineskins - they could not accept faith in Jesus that was not contained by man made rules. Likewise, our hearts are like wineskins and can become rigid & tough and hardened like old wineskins and when this is the case, this may prevent you from accepting the new life that Christ Offers. So keep your heart pliable and open to accepting the life changing truths of Christ! (NIV Life Application Study Bible, 1991)

At the evening service, Illana brought a word "Don't harden your hearts! She had a picture of a juicy steak on a braai and when it was cut to eat it was as tough as ever!" She went onto to say that we need to marinade our hearts with the holy spirit and keep them tender to avoid our hearts becoming hardened by circumstances!

So I believe God is really talking to us and we need to walk together in this exciting time of TRANSFORMATION! We need to keep our hearts tender, remain soaked in the holy spirit to release the old wines skins and fully embrace the new ones!

God needs you and your unique colour, don't disqualify yourself from what God has prepared for you!

One of the big obstacles that often prevents us from releasing old wine skins is that we disqualify ourselves! Gerhard shared a beautiful image that he had of a big canvas that God is painting and He is saying its time for TRANSFORMATION! But in order for the canvas to be painted in His Will, God requires certain colours to mix together to get the perfect colour He needs for the canvas! He continued to say that each one of us are a shade of colour that God needs to use and He needs to mix us together to get the perfect tint! Some of us are holding back and not letting God put our colour onto His paint palette and he needs you! Some of us are disqualifying our selves from what God has called us to do!

I had shared a word about this in the morning and Pete shared the same message in the evening! Previously I had disqualified myself to be used by God, I suffered from much anxiety and self doubt about my ability and thought that I had nothing new to bring or contribute to this world! I now know that was all a lie and actually an insult to God who made me perfectly for what He has called me to do!

We are made in Christs image and made perfect according to the will and purpose He created us for! Don't disqualify yourselves - Jesus came as the ultimate sacrifice so that we can live as kings in the fullness of the life God intended for us! Don't let your circumstances and past harden your heart and make you disqualify yourself! Boldly walk in the free grace Gods has showered upon us and open your heart to let the Holy Spirit in and release those old wineskins and walk in the fullness of Gods Grace and Love! 

In order to release old wineskins and walk in the fullness of the life we are created for we need to have tender hearts rooted in rich soil to produce a bumper crop!

In line with that, Brian shared an excellent message on the parable of the sower! I believe this is totally linked to the above message from God! In order for us to walk in to the abundance and fruits that God is preparing for us, we need to have our hearts and roots growing into the deep rich soil which produces a bumper crop! In line with Brians word, some of you may remember this from the family camp...Charles opened the Saturday in prayer and this was part of his prayer:
"25% of the seed fell on good ground - The people who are here on the camp this weekend are key in the next season of DLC - We will grow 30%, 60%….100%…..abundance coming! God is deputizing & commissioning us to operate in the gifts!"
That was 5 months ago and look at what has happened in the last 5 months! Get ready people - there are great things in store for us!
In line with that - it is so awesome that just today at church Reagan has stepped out and started a Healing Room "operating in the gifts"!

Brians message...
God is a farmer and He is immensely concerned about productivity, with increase and yield! 
There is so much happening in our church currently - Lesotho, Zim, Frasers etc and God is wanting to increases this. We need to have prepared, tender hearts!

Brian continued to explain the 4 types of soil (4 categories of people) as follows:

1. The Scoffers - people who have an agenda and feel threatened by what Jesus had to say so they pick holes in what He says and does. They are hostile and like old tough wine skins!
2. The Opportunists - These guys look like they following Jesus but they have ulterior motives! They look the part but in the tough, testing times they fall away! 
3. The Earnest - these people resonate with Jesus to a certain level but they lack clarity of WHO Jesus is. And therefore they do not produce fruit!
4. The Emphatic believers - these guys believe Jesus is Christ, the Messiah! They have their roots planted in deep rich soil and produce abundant fruit! They are mature in Christ and have a high yield, increase and productivity!

Where am I?

Brian expanded on the 3rd type of soil and listed 7 characteristics of people in "Soil 3"

The Earnest are people who hear the word but their behaviour does not always reflect it! They are lacking in revelation and their plants won't die but they also will not produce any fruit!

7 Characteristics of The Earnest / 7 enemies of the empowered live!

1. The believer is choking!
• They are sharing ground with free radicals and they are being robbed from full maturity!
• They are deceitful and desire things of the world and let the worries of the world affect them!
2. They are lacking full revelation - they have imperfect revelation
• They are almost right about Jesus, they see but they don't see, they are all seeing but not perceiving!
3. They are ineffective on the Great Commision
• They have their minds wrapped up in the worries of the world and they desire worldly things!
4. They are indistinguishable from the world
• They blend into the world!
• John Piper "Don't waste your life, you are created for more!
5. They are double minded and unstable in all they do
• They doubt, they are tossed about.. 


• James 1:6 "For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind."
6. They have an unhealthy balance of REASON and FAITH
• Reason can be deceitful, there are some parts that are not helpful!
• Reason fails us when a) it blinds the truth, b) a worldly understanding is not the prophetic, kingdom reality and c) it tells is the facts not the truth! Reason can cripple us!
7. Incapable of living large before God
• They have lost proportion and are not living life large and are not open and living in the adventures of life!

What soil is your seed in?

The 3rd soil is a great struggle for Christians!

God wants to rebuild your house! He is knocking out walls etc and changing the structure - He is TRANSFORMING your country cottage to a palace fit for a king!

(Brian Rea, Message at DLC 5th August 2013)

LIVE BIG!