In a challenging prophetic message for this season of change and transition, Tim opens up Haggai 1 and 2. The remnant had returned from captivity in Babylon but had given up on rebuilding the temple and were just focused on their own lives - living comfortably, while God’s house was still in ruins. God spoke through Haggai to call the people back to His priorities. Then, from 1 Cor 3 and 2 Cor 5, Tim reminds us that we will all have to give an account to The Father for what we have done with what He put in us.
What's The Table You Are Called To Set?
At the start of the year, God spoke two key strategic words to Tim - set the table, and raise the army. (They are on our podcast back in March and April). We are heading into a new wineskin - a new paradigm, and the new is in you … that is, how church will look and what we will do will form around the unique callings and blueprints of the people. The day of fitting people into a “church” structure is done. The new day is church structure is built around the people, to empower and enable people to set the tables they are called to set, in combination with others with like callings. What started as a “prophetic potpourri” ended up as a significant strategic word.
Thresholds - Part 4 - Desert To Promised Land
When Israel crossed over from the desert into the promised land, it represented the most significant shift in a generation. 40 years of doing things the same - largely focused on themselves and their families and practicing their faith in the desert. Then in one day everything changed. Where God once was, He now was not. The focus of God’s activity in regard to His people shifted - from getting Egypt, the old, out of them, to getting them established in the new, and taking territory. We are at a threshold moment. God is moving us away from self focus to taking territory. We don’t know what the new fully looks like, but we can’t stay in the old. Tim Ferris and Megan Edward unpack the significant strategic prophetic moment we are in, and from Joshua chapter 3 show us what is needed so we can “cross over”.
Thresholds - Part 3 - Scripture and The Lordship Threshold
Last time Tim talked through 4 thresholds in Kingdom life. The second of those thresholds was the threshold of Lordship - where Jesus is not just IN my life. He’s lord of my life. Tim and Vaughan Blackwood have an interactive discussion on the place of Scripture in that lordship threshold. As a church culture we are barely a generation away from a biblically illiterate generation. Without a deep relationship with scripture, we wander away from the ways of God and from truth, and we elevate our own opinions and experiences to be level with what God says. That’s dangerous ground. This discussion calls us back to a living relationship with God through scripture that keeps us off the throne of our life and Jesus well and truly on it.
Thresholds - Part 2 - 4 Thresholds for Kingdom Life
In part 2 of this series on thresholds, Tim looks at 4 thresholds in Kingdom life. These thresholds are part of a meta-process of growth and development into the fullness of our calling and destiny. At each threshold, there is warfare, and a series of choices that need to be made. The temptation, when we don’t understand what is really happening, is to retreat to our “false refuges” rather than embrace the challenge and step into the next season.
Threshold Moments in Destiny
The concept of “thresholds” in Scripture is one of those subjects that you don’t see and until you see it. Then once you see, you can’t un-see it, and you see it everywhere. Tim shows us that a threshold moment is a transition place from one season into another. It happens in the natural (e.g. puberty), and it also happens in the spirit as God leads us into a new season in our calling and assignment. Whenever we are at a threshold, we will generally have an encounter with the enemy who wants to keep us stuck in and old season. Jesus had one such moment at His temptation - the doorway between staying private, and launching into public ministry. Many of us are at threshold moments right now. At i61, we are at a threshold corporately. The decisions we make here are critical if we are to walk into everything that God has promised us. Prophetic ministry follows.
Jesus - Mad, Bad, or God - Easter Sunday 2023
It’s so important to be reminded that we don’t have to commit intellectual suicide to be a Christian. This Easter Sunday, Tim takes us through some of the facts and data surrounding Jesus’ life and death, and the sheer weight of fulfilled Old Testament prophecy, and Jesus’ claims - that completely rules out Him being simply a good moral teacher. Tim ends with a fresh call to respond to Jesus, and to find life in Him.
Set The Table - Raise The Army - Part 2
The last message focussed on the “raise the army” part. Today we focus on the imperative to “set the table” - to create an atmosphere that is welcoming, loving, and healing, so that broken people can come, fall apart, and be loved back to life. Loving well requires a healed heart. My ability to love someone says more about me than the other person. And, love always takes the initiative - because He “first-loved” us.
Set The Table - Raise The Army
We are in a transition season, and what we have known in the past is no longer sufficient for where God is taking us. Israel faced this transition after they crossed the Jordan. They moved from a season characterised by “coming out” to a new season of “going in” - taking the land that God had promised them. This was an entirely new operating system. As we finish laying the foundation for 2023 at i61, Tim looks at Joshua 5. Before Israel could take Jericho - the first city they were to conquer - there had to be a fresh consecration for a generation that “had not been circumcised along the way”. It is a season for us to “set the table” and “raise the army”. The dry bones from past seasons are starting to rattle as the Spirit of God is breathing new life over us!
The Death of Consumer Church - Part 2 - The Remnant Season
Remnant seasons are a time where there is a focused purifying - often following some kind of correction from God. Not all of the people of God can handle the correction, and many grow weary and lose heart. Tim and Debbie describe the season we are in, looking at Hebrews 12 and Acts 3. God has been working to bring His people back to what it is really all about, and is calling us to a new level of holiness - being set apart for Him alone, so that times of refreshing come.
The Death of Consumer Church
Tim kicks off 2023, anchoring in Deuteronomy 1, where Moses is recounting to Israel their journey so far. They were at a place that God has bought them to in a mighty way… and where they could no longer stay. Israel had come out of Egypt, but not yet gone in to take possession of all that was promised. This is a picture of where the church is at. We can no longer stay where we are. His glory has come off some things that we are very used to. The days of consumer church are done. Tim looks at 5 areas that His glory is coming upon in this season. He is reorganising His people around His kingdom, rather than what we have made church to be.
Learning To Occupy - Part 2
Too often, we achieve a breakthrough - a deliverance, a moment of freedom - and we think the work is done. In fact, that’s when the work begins. Jesus taught that when a demon leaves it goes looking for somewhere to rest, and then attempts to return to where it was cast out from. As the people of God we need to become good at occupying territory after the breakthrough - that is, filling the space with the opposite of what got you into captivity. This is true in individuals, and it is true in spheres and geographical regions. Tim then sets the stage for what God wants for i61 in 2023. It’s time for what’s in the house to flow through the house and go out and impact our community and our city.
Learning To Occupy - Part 1
Deliverance has been on the rise. Breakthrough is increasing, and we’re coming out of a season where we have been shut down and silenced. This week went very different to plan, and that’s ok. Tim was going to teach on how to occupy territory that’s been conquered - i.e. what to do after the deliverance has happened. More on that next time. It seems there was more breakthrough needed in the room, so that’s what we pursued. Listen to this with your heart and spirit, not just your ears.
The Spirit of Elijah - Part 3
This is the 3rd in this short series on The Spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 40 describes in part the spirit of Elijah, prophetically declaring the ministry of John the Baptist, who we know came in the spirit of Elijah. What preceded the spirit of Elijah was “comfort My people”. We have been through an extended traumatic season, and it’s easy to miss its impact, as it is something that has happened to everyone. Comfort is the answer to trauma, and God wants to minister to, and lift off the trauma of the past season, so we are free to bring that same comfort and healing to the world around us.
Simplifying, Purifying, Intensifying
God wants to return to us His normal for us, which is double portion. God woke Debbie in the middle of the night and said clearly, “Disengagement has to go!” The disengagement has been a trauma response to the COVID season, and God is bringing His people back. To fully receive the double portion He has for us, we have to re-engage with His apostolic call - that which He has sent us to do.
The Spirit of Elijah - Part 2
This is part 2 of 3 messages on the spirit of Elijah. Isaiah 61 shows us what the anointing that was on Jesus will do. It will heal broken hearts and set people free. But it doesn’t stop there. Isaiah 61 goes on to tell us what those who were once broken hearted - and now healed - will do. They will disrupt, heal and restore generational cycles and patterns of dysfunction and brokenness. We need healing not just for ourselves. Our healing becomes the launchpad that sees others set free in the same area that we were once held captive. You have been placed in the midst of pain and brokenness to be an agent of healing to the world around you. It is time to be activated and sent out!
The Spirit of Elijah - Part 1
The spirit that was on Elijah was not only that of prophet. Malachi 4 tells us that the “spirit and power of Elijah” will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. John The Baptist came in that spirit to “prepare the way of the Lord”. This anointing to heal hearts and heal families precedes the full ministry of Jesus. As we are sent out to heal broken hearts we prepare a highway that Jesus can come in on.
Chaos, Emmaus, Eramos, Osmosis
Four words that are significant right now - chaos, Emmaus, eramos, osmosis. Vaughan Blackwood reminds us that in the plethora of distractions, we MUST find the quiet place to be with The Father so that we can walk into the chaos of the world empowered to make a difference and be an agent of transformation.
Orphanitis To Sonship
Tim continues to speak on the two giants in the land of Kingdom breakthrough and heaven being fully manifested on earth … those being unbelief and orphanitis, Paul said to the Corinthians, “you have ten thouand teachers in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers”. Paul points to this as being the reason they are still stuck in immaturity. In our call to “grow up into Him” (Eph 4) we MUST shift from our focus on programs, events, and tasks, and truly open our hearts to giving and receiving adoptive love - growing together as family. Much of the immature fruit we see in the Body today is a “pandemic of the unparented”. God is wanting to raise up mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, so that the world experiences the fullness of Jesus.
Faith - Size Matters
As the church, we are commissioned to bring heaven to earth - to see the reality of heaven tangibly manifested in the earth realm. There are two key giants in our way at the moment - unbelief, and orphanitis. Today, Tim focuses on unbelief, and specifically our role as individuals to grow into a place of faith. When it comes to faith, size matters, and is a factor that makes a difference in our ability to usher in Kingdom breakthrough.