Small Offerings, Great Impact: Trusting God's Multiplication

1) "I believe that we are in significant days. I think that the spirit of God is blowing through his church in this hour and refining some things and changing some things. And I think to those who would have ears to hear and eyes to see, I think, you know, it's not too much of a stretch for me to say that I think we are on the cusp of potentially, like, the next great awakening in the Western church. And so my heart is to just really contend and press in through prayer to Jesus, to ask his presence to come. And transform culture and capture the hearts of a generation in a new way." [49:33] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "It's way easier to feel on fire for him and feel like you're on the pulse of heaven when you know off the back of like a big worship you know moment or a service or a conference or something like that but the problem is is that most of our walk with Jesus just isn't that it's we don't know how to walk with Jesus we don't know like live in that space most of our walk with Jesus is you know experienced in the boring everyday mundane usualness of life that's where most of the walk with Jesus occurs." [50:06] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "God doesn't want you to hack your walk with him your friends don't want hacked relationships your kids don't want hacked parenting your spouse doesn't want hacked marriage but a beautiful life is cultivated daily nourishing the roots of what is meaningful and valuable over time consistency not intensity in the long run you're much more likely to be consistent in your walk with God by reading a small section of scripture each day praying for a few minutes than by going on a 40 -day fast and scripture binge you'll have a way better relationship with your kids if you play with them for 20 minutes a day rather than thinking you can plug the relational gap with a trip to Disney focus on the roots not the fruit focus on the seed days not the seed age so far you probably need to focus on sow wins not the harvest focus on consistency not intensity." [50:06] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "It's little to do with what you can bring to the table and it's everything to do with what Christ can do with that which we bring him. So, and I think Jesus shows us this in this passage in John 6. So at this point, just contextually, Jesus has called his disciples. He's begun to, you know, perform signs and and wonders, you know, turning water into wine. He's got people like the attention of Nicodemus, a Pharisee who, you know, it seems in his heart of hearts knows that Jesus is the Messiah, so he's, you know, healing the sick, he's casting demons out of people who are spiritually oppressed, and he's amassing a bit of a following, they're following him around, and that's kind of where we find ourselves in this moment, where there's this large crowd following Jesus, and they're hungry." [50:06] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "This is the God we serve, this is the God we serve, when we rely on our own resources, and all of that, if we draw from what we can bring, like, we will fail, but when we rely on the abundance of God's resource, of God's grace, and mercy, and power, and strength, from the vault of God's treasury, guys, we're not left, wanting, we're not left wanting, and so if you think, like, if you're there today, and you're just like, Johnny, I have barely anything to bring, you don't know my life, like, I have no energy to devote to developing a rule of life for myself, maybe I'm a single parent looking after three kids, silence and solitude does not really play into my life in this season, mornings are chaos, I was, if I was able to read three verses of the Bible, that would be a miracle, I have very little money at the table, and I actually don't have much, you know, maybe I'm barely making ends meet, I don't have any margin in my life to be hugely financially generous to people, I have not much to work with, well, guess what, Jesus can work with not much, Jesus can work with not much, and I believe this is the key that's shown to us in John 6." [50:06] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "Little is much in his hands, little is much in his hands, do you feel little, do you feel like you have little to offer, do you feel like your life is all over the place, and you are possibly overwhelmed at the idea of, you know, walking with Jesus, and adopting spiritual practice, and stuff well friends little is much in his hands and i believe in these days the lord is drawing close to his bride reminding us that it is he who has what the world needs the generation before us will be won not by what we can bring to the table so not by how smooth our sunday services can be not by the next celebrity pastor not by the next church marketing model or ministry model but by what jesus can do the miracle wasn't in in what the disciples were just like in their distribution of it they knew their role it was jesus who had what people need it is jesus who has the bread that jersey hungers." [50:06] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "If we want to love this island serve this island see it renewed and restored the best thing that we can do isn't anything we can bring in our own strength but the best thing that we can do is come into agreement with the lord jesus and call upon him to feed jersey the bread it hungers for and we're never left wanting by the way if you're worried about that we're never left wanting that boy left his house that morning with five loaves and two fish how much did he eat more than that more than that they all ate till they had their fill and there was leftovers we are never left wanting by god." [50:06] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "There's a difference between a meager offering and a cheap offering we mustn't bring a cheap offering even if we can bring meager ones you think of the widow's mite it's a meager offering but jesus looked at it and said what she's she's given more than anyone here because she gave with a full heart and so guys i pray that you would get the pressure off you to be the next james clear atomic habit john mark super christian it's not going to happen and i say to all our team in newcastle all the time particularly on sundays when we're coming to do the stuff and you know sometimes it's like oh we don't have a drummer today and it's like oh maybe we don't the people who were going to do coffee have dropped out and we don't know how to replace it and at one time in our history we would have freaked out over that and been like it's all going to be perfect it's all going to be the experience that's geared towards people and stuff and sometimes we would do that and be so focused on getting it right for people that we would forget to minister to the lord." [50:06] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)