Good News 4 the Crisis Hour

Fellowship will be at Coldstream this Sabbath with the usual meeting times as shown in end box on this page. Don't forget the Cafe for a Day on Sunday starting at 11am, fundraising for the Kenyan Orphan project, Change 1 Life. 

Good News 4 the Crisis Hour - 3:00 this Sabbath afternoon a special presentation on the message for this hour. What has been the steady march of prophetic fulfillment over the last 2 decades? Where are we in prophetic time? What is the special message of Good News for this crisis hour? What is God's word to us today - Present Truth?

This Sabbath 22nd March!

In case you missed it hiding away in the second post, (sorry! :) we are meeting this Sabbath at the hall at Coldstream, the usual times of 10am for fellowship and study, 11am for the message, 1pm for lunch and 3pm for some study, discussion and growth. May we abide in His love until then.

Cafe For A Day Sunday March 30

Jen and Georgina from Change 1 Life, are hosting a Cafe For A Day to raise awareness of and money for their Kenyan Orphanage, and Health promotion projects. 

You are invited and so are your family and friends to come and enjoy a beautiful meal at Avondale Park, 251 Victoria Rd, Coldstream (Melways ref 280 C3).

Lunch will be from 11am - 3pm with an unpriced menu - guests may donate to current projects.  

They request an RSVP by 20th of March to Jen or Georgina on 0401 065 161

Good News - Complete in HIm!

Greetings with good news!  There is nothing that will hold us up in this time but the power of God. Nothing will satisfy us but the character of God. In the matter of business and money in the world, we cannot depend on any of these things, but only on the things that God gives. We cannot count on life itself anymore. The only thing that will satisfy, the only thing that we can depend on that life that is better than this one is the life of God! 

Where do we find the power of God? In Jesus Christ. "Christ the power and the wisdom of God." Where do we find the character of God? In Christ.  Where do we find all things? In Christ. Where do we find a better life than our life? The life of God in Christ. 

What else do we and the world need but Christ? What do we have to depend on but Christ? Christ the power of God; Christ the unsearchable riches of God; Christ the righteousness of God, Christ the life of God, Christ is God! That is the message for the world. "In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him." (The Third Angels message #7 by A. T. Jones 1893)

In Him, you are whole, you are complete, you lack nothing, all your needs are met. In Him you have all the resources of the universe, in Him every gift is yours! In Him you are defended and protected, in Him you are provided for. In Him you lack nothing, you have all spiritual blessings and an inheritance. In Him you are a victorious conqueror. May our Father give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened that you may know His great hope, the riches and the power! Eph 1:17-23

This Sabbath we are meeting at the hall at Coldstream at the usual times of 10 am for fellowship, 11am for the message, 1pm for potluck lunch and 3pm for an afternoon time of study, discussion and growth. 

Sabbath

Jaro and Maggie invite you to meet with them this Sabbath at their place. It is McKinley Track, Cobaw near Wood End, for futher details ring 54270744 

How much our Father and His Son love us! They have given us all things for life and godliness. Resting in their love we are safe and peaceful while the storms blow all around. The great storm is arriving, cling with all your strength to the Rock! His promises are rock sure - rock solid. I choose to believe them and thank Him that He is fulfilling and will fulfill them. I praise Him for fulfilling them before I see them fulfilled. When I mix faith with the word it becomes living and creative - the two must be mixed - God's word with my faith. God gave Abraham a promise and he mixed faith with it! What did that look like?  Abraham BELIEVED GOD! He was FULLY persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform and this faith was accounted righteousness! It was right thinking because Abraham agreed with God and God is right - He is true, He doesn't lie! 

The greatest problem is unbelief, which was Abraham's problem - not believing God and then legalism - trying to do the work himself outside of God - as if!  Distrust of God's word - cut the Jews off from Him, cuts me off from him. We enter God's kingdom by faith. Unbelief shuts us out. The Christian's warfare is the fight to believe, to trust His word over my own understanding! I wrestle to believe his promises and when I thank Him for fulfilling them as He has promised, then he floods me with his peace and He does His miracles! Father shifts my focus from myself and what I do - to Him and what He has done and will do!

What good what great and wonderful news! His promises are that He has not forsaken or left us - He is with us at the end of the world. He who began a good work in me - HE will be faithful to complete it! He always gives me victory and He will keep me from falling! He who is shining on us, will cause us to arise and shine that glory over the nations. Praise and thank Him for his wonderful works! 

Update note....

Just a note that there are two posts below this one that provide update information,  Bridal Preparations and Knitting Together.  Also the link across from this, at the top of the page, about a politicians warnings for 2008-2012 are certainly not inspired, but of considerable intrest where they correlate with what Ellen White was shown about the final conflict.  May Father be with you, He has promised He will contend with him (the adversary) who is contending with us and He will save our children.

Bridal preparations

Christ's bride is a temple made up of living stones, who are his people - those with His spirit of love in their hearts.  The organisation that was established on papal principles against God's express wishes is built on sand that will be swept away in the storm. But God's living temple bride is being built - the foundational cornerstone has been laid (Christ, the only begotten Son of God), and on this rock He will build His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. It will stand during the storm so let's be sure we build on the rock. The spirit of Elijah  restores the altar and prepares the bride to meet the Lord,  turns the hearts of the fathers to the sons and the sons to the fathers. This spirit of Elijah restores relationships, turning hearts from baal to Yahweh, to appreciate the value of the sacrifice (that the Father gave his son) and to build on the divine principle of fatherhood and sonship established in the foundation.  

Because Christ's bride  is an invisible, relational temple as opposed to Babylon's visible, materialistic one, she is built by the ways we relate and connect to one another.  The tool of relationships is communication - without communication, our spirits shrivel up and die.  God's great purpose is to live with us and in us, and through the sanctuary he brings us into his presence where his principles are located for healthy relationships. In his presence in the Most Holy place, He desires to communicate, interact, connect and be intimate with us.  This is His heart's desire and purpose, for us to live there from now on.

Before that can happen, we have to be ready to hear and receive what he wants to share.  We need to confess our ways of blocking intimacy with him and one another over the Lamb's blood, we need the cleansing of the water, and then to learn his ways in the bread and receive the power to do it in the spirit and then tell him everything on our heart in the sweet incense. Then we can enter his holy presence to hear his voice, to meet with him, to live with him, in the secret place. 

In that place is his sacred law - the law that protects relationships.  They consider God's, others and our own rights and responsibilities. They are principles for healthy and safe relationships.  The first four are God's rights which it is our responsibility and joy to honour.  It's His right to be loved with all our hearts minds, souls and strength because He delivered us from bondage, he recognised our rights were being trampled on by the slavery of Egypt, and He proved himself the greatest human rights protector and provider. He has proven that he values and respects our needs and that he will defend us, He has proven his character is one of love, that he is deserving of our trust and love, our honour and respect. 

So it's His right to be the only One we worship.  It's His right to feel jealous if we worship other idols, images or gods, it's His right for his name to be reverenced and it's His right to spend time with us on the day He designated.  The last six are others rights which it is our responsibility and joy to honour and respect. Because he has protected and provided for us and recognised our rights, we are to recognise others rights too and protect and defend them as he does. It's parents rights to be honoured by their children.  It's everyones right to and responsibility to keep themselves sexually pure. It's everyone's right to own possessions free from others taking them, it's everyones right to enjoy physical and spiritual life that is not injured or killed.  It is everyone's right to a reputation free from lies, and everyone's right to enjoy relationships free from the other person wanting what they've got. When those rights are abused, there is pain and suffering caused which we need to confess and be sorry for. It hurts God when we don't honour his rights. It hurts others when we don't honour their rights.  Love will recognise, honour and defend other's rights. Abuse will not recognise, honour or defend other's rights. God is abused and wounded when we don't recognise his rights. Abuse is sin and love is righteousness.  

Back to the temple. Now mortar holds the stones together.  God's way of building up his bride is by putting one living stone next to another and using sand and water to hold them together. He places one living person with his spirit in their heart next to another and He holds them together with the mortar of truth and love.  Too much water and the stones slide around, and too much sand and the connection is too brittle and they fall apart.  The perfect mortar mix is a balance of speaking the truth in love.   God connects people together, one stone along side another, one on top of, underneath another.  We are all as living stones built on the foundation cornerstone, Jesus Christ.  The foundation which is the truth that Jesus is the Father's only begotten Son cannot be moved and it will stand strong in the coming storm and wind.  Paul reminds us not to forget to communicate, for Jesus is very pleased with this sacrifice.  Communication in love and truth holds the temple together.  Communication that is free from the blocks of sin, that respects and honours and defends one another's rights. Communication that connects firmly to the living stones all around. 

Knitting together

What a precious Saviour and Father we have, who give us life and sustain it, by every breath, every heart beat, who provide every good gift, who inspire every good thought and meet every need! I praise them for lifting us up, reclaiming us, reconciling us and giving us a new identity and the spirit of sonship, teaching us relationship principles, and giving us value in our relationship - 'you are my beloved son/daughter, in you I am well pleased.'  It was beautiful to have so many join our Communion service and Body Building, we were blessed by those who helped out.   Our greatest need is to seek God for a complete emptying of self and sin and a complete infilling of his spirit, to give us the robe, the gold and the eyesalve to see and meet the needs of those around us and especially one another - Christ's body.

The next two Sabbaths will not be at Coldstream, we have Enoch walk next week, and then the third Sabbath we'll be meeting at Jaro's.  During the week, Nick and Dina - 29 Leigh St, Oakleigh - hold a meeting on a designated night.  This week it will be 6:30-8:30 Thursday night, they invite you along for fellowship and worship, and interesting videos!