Every Nation Brisbane

God's Desire

We are privileged to have here in Brisbane, Pastors Larry and Elaine Matsuwaki, founding pastors of Every Nation Singapore and key prophetic voices in our movement. Pastor Larry brings our message today about knowing God's Desire. God has called us to be sons and daughters of Faith but how do you know if our desires are God's desires The more we desire God the more we'll fall in love with him. God births our desires based on his promise which builds a dependence which builds our destiny.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 13:12 (ESV)

Kill The Spider - Know Your Enemy

Join us as we continue our Kill The Spider series. Today we have our Every Nation Campus Minister Mark Dellit speaking to us about how well we know our enemy. Webs (outward behaviours) and spiders (root cause) come from a place of no Jesus but when we put Jesus on the throne he kills the spiders we have crawling in our life. There is freedom to be had in Christ. God wants us to be joyful. He's not trying to rob us of our joy, He's trying to restore it.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
- John 15:9-11 (ESV)

Kill The Spider - The Four Masks

Join us as we continue our Kill The Spider series. This week Pastor Neli refers to "Enemies of the Heart" by Andy Stanley when he talks about The Four Masks of guilt, anger, greed and jealousy. When our "above the surface" lifestyles become distant from the true state of our hearts, we wear masks. God wants you to take your mask off and enter into your healing.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
- Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)

Kill The Spider - King Of Hearts

We continue our new series, Kill The Spider. This week we're talking about the King of Hearts as Pastor Neli gets us to check the condition of our own hearts. Are you consumed about what other people think of you or do you trust the power and the authority of God? Don't worry about the things of this world that will be consumed at the end of life but rather the condition your spirit will carry on into eternity. Do what it takes to get your heart right.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
- Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)

Kill The Spider - Sowing and Reaping

We start our new series today - Kill the Spider. Pastor Tina gets to the heart of a bitter root judgement by getting to the root cause of the issue. Why do we address the issue of cobwebs and sinful patterns in our lives? Because our sinful reaction to others can cause bitter roots in ourselves. Christianity is not just an event, it's a process. So long as we are submitted to the process, the cobwebs are cleared.

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled
- Hebrews 12:14-15 (ESV)

Neighbours - Betting On A Sure Thing

Join us as we conclude our Neighbours series. This week Pastor Neli asks us to reflect on our investments. A lot of people base their investments on what they can get in return. God is after servants that will steward well the relation of the gospel that he's given us. No matter what we have, God wants us to invest. The best way we can invest our time, talent and treasure is to introduce people to Jesus. What will you invest your life on today?

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost
- Luke 19:10 (ESV)

Neighbours - Who's Your Friend?

Join us as we continue our Neighbours series. This week Pastor Neli helps us to identify who our friends are and introduces us to the one that calls as friend. If we want to go deeper in friendship we need to connect to the one who calls us friend - God. The love we have for our neighbour will only be as deep and authentic as our love for God. If we are strengthening ourselves in the Lord we are also bringing honour to God.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
- Mark 12:30-31 (ESV)

Neighbours - Rock Bottom

Join us as we continue our Neighbours series. For a structure to stand the test of time it's necessary for its foundations to be strong. Pastor Neli compares this with our biblical foundations. Your foundations will only be as strong as how much you know God. We know Him through prayer and the knowledge that comes through the word of God. How solid is your foundations? According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 (ESV)

Neighbours - Home and Away: Coming Out of the Bunker

Join us as we continue our Neighbours series. This week Pastor Neli encourages us to step out of our "bunker". Let us leave our homes where it's most comfortable because if we are meant to follow Jesus then let us follow Jesus to where the broken are. How ready are you to share the Gospel? Let's not wait any longer.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
- Matthew 9:36-38 (ESV)

Neighbours - Discipling My Neighbour

To continue our Neighbours series, we have Henry Peterson who will unpack John chapter 15 with today's message about "Discipling My Neighbour".  In today's message we find out how we can establish foundations for our neighbours, how we can build an environment for discipling them, and what that environment looks like. What did this look like for Jesus and his disciples?

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
- John 15:16-17 (ESV)