The Tabernacle

Creating ‘spaces’ to experience the presence of God

From His perspective

November 14th, 2011

Nothing that stands against us, around us, or that is leaning on us is formidable from God’s perspective. When we truly know who God is and His stance and affections towards us then we can always rest and sleep firmly and deeply in His arms. He is GOOD! MG

Faith

November 14th, 2011

There are a lot of massively awesome things in the Bible, we just have to choose if we are going to believe them and then live as though we do believe them. Hang on that’d be Faith!

Handy work

November 12th, 2011

God wants to reveal to you the significance of His handy work in your life. Bill Johnson

Love response

November 11th, 2011

Worship isn’t a production, it’s a Love response.

Play Worship

November 11th, 2011

Do some Play worship with your kids today. Invite them to play with Jesus, it’s awesome what they will come up with. No adult rules allowed, whatever they come up with is great.

Screwed in right

November 10th, 2011

Just listened to another CLASSIC message by Bill Johnson. Awesome! It is all about being properly connected to Him, it’s not about us and what we do.

http://www.ibethel.tv/watch/1139/screwed-in-right/2011/10/23

Rest

November 10th, 2011

Why do we get so hung up on doing works or deeds for God, when He has told us that His desire for us is to enter into His Rest? We need to move from thinking like slaves to thinking like sons.
www.All4Him.org/scriptures/rest/

Where it wishes

November 10th, 2011

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

John 3.8 NKJV

Prayer

November 10th, 2011

Prayer is soooooo powerful. Why do we neglect it so?

Certain number of tears

November 9th, 2011

Every sad or tragic event has a certain number of tears. If you stop crying before they are all out or don’t cry at all (guys) then they will block you up inside. If there are tears there then let em rip. feel what is there, cry and shout if you need to and then look again into Gods beautiful eyes and move forward.

Favor & Love

November 8th, 2011

Today’s miracle. The auto in our car has blown up. Bad! I was in a shopping centre 25mins from my house when I heard I wasn’t going to see my car again for a few days. I called the people who are also on this property to see about borrowing a car. They were 100m away in the same shopping centre! They hadn’t been in this shopping centre for 18mths and had felt to wonder around rather than rush off. I rang just as they were leaving. Thanks God for that beautiful reminder of your favor and love over us. You so have us covered.

Stray thoughts?

November 8th, 2011

Have stray thoughts in your mind? Crowded thoughts? Oppressive thoughts. Grab an iPod or MP3 and spend an hour with God/Jesus focused worship on, right in your ears. I have just done this and it was awesome. If the problem persists then repeat the dose ASAP. :-)

Intellectual assent

November 7th, 2011

Jesus doesn’t want your intellectual assent. He wants your heart, all of it, even the bits you think He doesn’t want.

Holy

October 31st, 2011

The Holy Spirit is Holy. He isn’t called the common everyday spirit.

Lifes work

October 29th, 2011

Is your life’s goal to be doing work for God? Or to be finding what God is doing and then investing your life into that?

Fierce

October 27th, 2011

Fierce: His love is fierce, the battle against us and our hearts is fierce. What is our stance to Him? What is our action towards protecting our own hearts? Ignorance here brings death. Move toward God and your own heart today. They are both worth it.

Seek

October 26th, 2011

When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” Psalm 27.8 NKJV

Schedule – Intimate – Hunger

October 26th, 2011

We must schedule time with God. You can’t be intimate with God if you hardly know Him. We need to realise our hunger and pursue, pant 4 Him everything else can wait.
Realise the awesome audience we have with God. Be honoured to be with the King.
It’s not about you its about Him.
Be still & know that I am God. Let Him show you.
God came to give life, don’t let anything get in the way of that; not programs, not cars, not houses, just Jesus.
The Spirit & the bride say come.

Seeing the face of God!

October 26th, 2011

Just last week I was privileged to personally hear the following account of an individual’s encounter with God. I arrived at a set apart Tabernacle space and encountered a person there who was clearly moved and very deeply affected by something that had just happened. They proceeded to tell me what had just taken place.

They had received a vision from God where they were standing in Heaven before the throne of God. They were looking at Him from His left side, while He was seated on His throne. As this person was taking in the vision, suddenly God turned at looked right at them! They saw His whole face; cheek bones, eye sockets, chin, jaw line. This person was then struck physically with awe, almost shock. They told me they didn’t know if they were about to throw up or instantly die. They felt a dread as when all strength melts instantly away. This was GOD! As they were recounting the vision there were lots of pauses as the retelling was clearly powerfully reliving this moment. They said they could feel the blood draining from their face as they took in what was being seen.
They then saw the eyes of God. They were burning with fierce, roaring flames of fire. Their “power, passion, intensity, fierceness, consuming directness looking straight at them!” They looked right at me and said, “Mark it was so fierce, this was not Father God it was Elohim, Holy God!”
There was such powerful ‘Spirit’ on their words I was being physically affected by the telling of this account and the Spirit that was on them. I was deeply affected inside as I contemplated those eyes. The stark reality of God impacted me deeply, it was like I was fully aware of Him right then and there. All of a sudden every doubt or queried thought of God’s goodness, or willingness or ability to supply and do so abundantly and lovingly and generously just melted away. There was no doubt left within me about anything. There was just knowledge of God. It was a very powerful yet ‘dread’ feeling, I was overwhelmed! And just from an account.

This person was so overwhelmed and impacted by what they had seen they said they doubted they could stand. They looked drained and I would even say stunned as they sat and spoke, searching for words or expressions that would come even close to what had been encountered.
Later we followed what we believed to be the prompting of the Lord and went and did a Prophetic act to dispense some of this amazing deposit of God into the ground. This person was very impacted and ‘whacked’ by what God was doing as I was I just being in the vicinity.

Thank you God for your awesome revelation. That you are revealing more and more of yourself in these days.

For quite a few years I have been sharing a story or definition of revival it is:
Imagine a land where it is always cloudy, where there is always a thick layer of cloud both day and night. I can imagine this as when I was a missionary in St Petersburg Russia we went for quite a few months at one point without seeing the sun. This was because the clouds were just so thick and the sun was just a dull glow low on the horizon.
Anyway in this cloudy land there are lots of people who speculate what actually provides the light that they live by day by day.
One person says that the light comes from thousands of little lights that are spread all over the sky. Another says that it is just one light that actually is in the sky, and just glows during the day. Another wild suggestion was the their light came from a big ball of burning gas that never burnt out but kept burning all of the time and actually went under them at night returning each morning to the same place to travel over the sky each day!!!

Revival is not when through persuasive teaching or general acceptance someone’s theory is accepted. Revival is when God blows away the clouds and everybody looks up and says “There is the Son.”

God is blowing away the clouds and there is a greater revelation of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit being released on the Earth.
We are in exciting and wonderful times, our goal and aim needs to be that we keep our eyes firmly and solely fixed on Jesus as He is the Author and perfector of our Faith.(Heb 12:2) The revelation of God is increasing on the Earth and I want to do all that I can to be pursuing Him and to be finding Him just as He wants to be found and that is Holy and Pure and God.

God Roars

October 22nd, 2011

God roars from Zion, shouts from Jerusalem. Earth and sky quake in terror. But God is a safe hiding place, a granite safe house for the children of Israel. Joel 3.16 MSG

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