Glory Release Ministries

This morning I had a dream and in the dream I saw I was shifting a nest of blackbirds as they were in a bad place that was going to get destroyed shortly, but as I went to shift them, the Father of the babies came and tried to attack me.  I wasn't going to hurt them, just shift them so they wouldn't get damaged. Of course the Father was just trying to protect what was his and thought I was bringing harm to his family, but actually my intent was to help them. Often we can have the wrong mindset about a situation as illustrated by this picture.  Both had the intent of heart to help and protect, but because of the mindset of how we see things, often our reactions comes from our point of view without even taking the time to understand why another is doing what they are doing. 2 Cor 2:10  "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.  For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them."  We often find ourselves fighting with those w...

The other week I had a dream and I was taking my child to a new private school and while there, I was invited by the teachers for lunch.  But just before lunch I decided to go to the toilet, along with other teachers.  But what I noticed was I was on a toilet that was like that of those we have had experience on in the Tibetan Plateau in China, open, exposed and very public, no embarrasement but a part of every day life, but the other teachers were on the style we have here in New Zealand, private and  a personal cubicle. As I pondered this I was reminded of a book title the Lord gave me a while ago about Kiwi Culture vs Kingdom Culture.  And the picture in the dream above illustrated a wonderful of example of how easily people can be misunderstood because of the culture that they have lived in and by the experiences that one has had which determines world view, verses that of what is actually a Kingdom culture. In dream interpretation, going to the toilet often repr...

We are so very thankful for the new resource centre that we can make it 'home'.   A place of refreshing, healing, restoration, a home base for those coming and going, a safe place for anyone.  Church in the community/marketplace. We would like to see planter boxes, a barbecue, outside chairs and tables, children's play equipment etc outside to make it a place where people can come and take time out, perhaps weed in the garden, have a coffee, get some prayer etc. feel at home and yet a part of the body, a place that feels safe, feels like they can be involved and yet 'church' all at the same time.   So we are asking if you would like to contribute to this vision, whether you have extra planter boxes, or perhaps vegetable plants, garden plants etc.  Then we would love the excess.  Also we are in need for finances to help purchase some media equipment and some of the above, so we can record better to go out 'live' for the wider body etc.  Please see the donati...

To speak or not to speak – this is the question? Or perhaps it should be ‘how to speak?’ We live in a world where the rights of man are rising, the voices of differences of opinion are growing stronger and louder.   The justice of the world, right and wrong as seen through our own eyes, starting to arise.  I n this nation of NZ where "tall poppy syndrome' has been an issue as the accepted norm of the past, people are breaking out, rising up and learning to use their voice.   As rightly we ought as Christians.  All good things to happen, all needed to happen.   For the bride to stand, awaken and arise and to shine for righteousness and justice.    To stand up for the poor and needy, to speak on behalf of those who can't. With anything new, you have the swings in the spectrums as we all learn how to walk in a new way.   We say things more strongly than we ought, or perhaps we say things weaker where watering it down and don’t come across to effe...

I shared last night about 1 Cor 15:36 "What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body..." I was preaching on it last night and it will come up in video form later in the week on the GRM sight, mainly reflecting on we can sow things one way, but God raises it up as HE determines how it should look. But this morning I got more revelation which will be quite obvious to some, but to me it struck me afresh. When we sow something it get's buried, it cannot be pulled back up. It no longer has 'connection' with 'me' if you like. It gets 'covered over' unable to be pulled up. And yet I recognise in my own life how we can sow something but there are still 'strings attached' as such as we often are still determining or expecting it be rai...

Our most value asset is:  TIME I don't know about you but I find it is easy to get distracted and drawn away from what I was intending to do or where my focus needed to be. I often find myself getting 'entangled in civilian affairs' as it says in the scripture above.  But the discernment is knowing if that is God's interruption for the day or a distraction that takes me away from the purpose and plan that God would have me walk in. I think we can often miss those God opportunities and God calls on our life because of distractions. " A distraction is something we do that moves us away  from what we really want." Distractions bring confusion, feeling like you are in a muddle, not knowing where you are going, often feeling like you are busy but probably not really achieving a great deal. The opposite of distraction is TRACTION. Traction is an action that moves us toward what we really want.  Momentum and movement toward the desires of the heart.  But often we don...