Glory Release Ministries

Reading a wonderful Psalm this morning, Psalm 31:14-24. My times are in your hands... v16 Let your face shine on your servant, save me in your unfailing love. Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I have cried out to you; v19  How abundant are the good things  that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you. In the shelter of your presence you hide them  from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling  from accusing tongues. Praise be to the Lord, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege. In my alarm I said, " I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart,  all you who hope in the Lord." This psalm really encouraged me as I was pondering at the time  ho...

Several years ago Jim and I owned a caravan at Pauanui Holiday Park.  It was a permanent caravan that was ours that we could go over to anytime.  But after owning it for a few years, the next season we were in dictated that we sell that caravan.  We have gone back since and wandered through the campsite remembering our times there and all the good times it held, and at times wishing we still had that, but now in going there, we can barely recognise the place we had, because it too has changed so much and it is not how it was.  Recently Jim and I went down to Queenstown where our daughter now lives.  But it was an area that I went to for some of my time as a child.  I grew up for a time spending my holidays at Lake Hayes in Arrowtown.  And now after going back there all these years later, can once again barely recognise what it was like in the past now things have changed and developed so much since that time.  The once carefree memories of a child...

Apathy or expectancy? If you want see the view, then you're going to have to climb the mountain. This morning praying with Jim and we realised that we have slipped into some 'apathy' about a few things. And when we slip into that place, there is a sense that we have given it over, or left it for God to do with a come what may attitude, instead of stepping out, preparing, planning and advancing in our heart and mind when He has already given us the yes and amen and He is waiting for us to step into it. I believe too many of us leave it up to God, give it over to God, in a sense abdicating the authority He has given to us to rule and reign and take dominion on the earth. A word that I have heard being given to the body of Christ of late is to 'wake up' but what does that look like on a day to day basis. And for myself it's the faith, the action and the expectancy, all coming together from a place of 'rest' and 'trust' in God, that there is a yes ...

A couple of weeks ago I have had several visions which I believe is a prophetic picture of what God is currently doing and what He is about to do.   Fi rstly, I saw ahead on the highway a huge explosion with black smoke billowing up and as I came to it I saw people had been burnt and I could smell the smell of burnt flesh.   Our God is consuming fire (Heb 12:29).  His love is in the fire.   Something the Lord has been talking to us about is the fall of the acts of the flesh, the strength of man.  This vision I saw was a representation that of the fire of Gods love is coming and going to burn away the things of the flesh, the things that were not of the Lo rd, the things that may have been good in their time but today is a new day.   Perhaps the familiar things we are so used to that we don't even know it's there.  The way we might speak, the way we might act, the way we might respond that are familiar with us but aren't necessarily of the Kingdom natur...

I have been reading through the book of Song of Songs and a couple of scriptures that jumped out at me as I read it this time was all vineyards. In Song of Songs it reads 1:6  "My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect." So often we can be looking after other people's vineyards, other peoples fields, and our own can come into a state of neglect, often without even realising it.  In the scripture above it writes they 'made me take care of',  but often it's not other people making it, rather we sometimes can't say no,  or perhaps we have lost sight of what is important, or we have just got busy and we haven't even noticed. I know as a mother we often look after our children's welfare before our own.  In our job we can look after the welfare of the business we are working for, or if we are the boss, the employees in our care.  In marriage we become familiar with one another that ...

This morning the Lord revealed to me that there is a battle going on for destinies, for promises, for dreams that are still yet to be fulfilled.  There is a battle going on for the dreams that He has put on our heart and we need to stand up and fight the fight of faith and declare what the Lord would declare over these dreams and destines that are waiting for us to walk in and for those things we have already begun to walk in that is this time is being contested. In the natural there is a fight going on for life and death, and so too in the spiritual.  Life and death over the promises and future destines that He has declared over each one of us. Now is the time to stand and fight and declare life and truth to those things He has put on your heart, those things that have been prophetically declared over you. It is almost as though the focus has been on Covid 19 and what's happening in the natural and so things are 'slipping away' without us even realising it as our ey...

Last Sunday I shared about being 'Positioned for Expansion' but this morning the Lord added more to that.  If you would like to watch the video recording of last weeks service it is on the Church/Worship page of this website. This morning I was planting some plants in my garden.  Some plants I had already and they had been waiting for me to put them in, others I bought just prior to lock down knowing that if I didn't plant it now I would have nothing later in the season when I needed it.  So in the initial rush to get into 'lockdown', I went to the plant shop thinking about the future.  Right now we as a people need to be encouraged to look at the future and hope that we have, not just focused on the 'now' of our situations.   So planting these plants this morning the question came "What are we planting now that we will be expecting a harvest from later?"   If we as a people are expecting an inheritance or a harvest further down the line, then ...

Something I realised in my recent trip away to the Canterbury region is again the confirmation and call of my heart to see the bride raised up to be who she is called to be. A pure spotless bride who is ready for her beloved and walking in everything He has promised us as His authority here on the earth.  I realised afresh as I listen to different people, hear and see different reasons as to why people aren't going to church, or perhaps have recently moved churches for some reason, basically peoples hurts and frustrations regarding 'Church', that there is a disconnect in how people see things and how the word of the Lord the bible teaches us in how we ought to love one another and forgive one another.  Hence why we are seeing a 'powerless' church.  The word says that if we bite and devour one another we will be destroyed (Gal 5:15) All of us have a heart and passion, yours might be for the lost, it might be for the single parents, or the sick, etc. but the Lord...

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." This scripture has been jumping out in my heart most of the week. When we don't know where we are going or what we are doing -         " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". When we can't find our peace and living from a place of fear and anxiety -          " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". When everything seems to be falling apart and you can't find a way through -          " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". His word gives us peace in the midst of the storm, faith in the midst of fear, hope in times of despair and discouragement.  His word sustains and gives us life when all else is failing.  I encourage you today if you are struggling in any way, take some time to spend in His word and then everything will fall back into place and His peace that passes understanding will com...

This morning the Lord has been talking about double mindedness speaking from a position of seeking the Lord re direction.  This seems to be a constant struggle for Jim and I.  Do we ...... or do we do.....? We are questioning direction, things that have been started, do they continue and the reason why the questions come are usually from not seeing what we believe we should be seeing or perhaps because of finances, or was it just the promise for a season? Matt 12:25  says "Every Kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and every city or household divided against itself will not stand". We are seeking the Lord from a heart to hear His voice and move with what He is saying and yet we constantly 'wobble'.  And in so doing we don't make decisions at all and we stay with what is familiar even if it's uncomfortable and perhaps not working. Over the Christmas holidays we sold a section we believed the Lord told us to buy.  Land in Waharoa.  A p...

The journey of faith and finances has been a long one for Jim and I.  First as 'missionaries' leaving our home land by faith with hardly any finances coming in and seeing God provide, and in the process teaching us to stand on His word.  Then returning home and believing for finances in the home town while still living as missionaries in NZ and learning how much we look to man for finances even whilst 'working' for the Lord we still put our trust in man to provide.  Learning that our trust needs to be completely resting in Him for everything, thinking that we actually do trust the Lord but in reality finding out that we are still looking to man, for finances, for honour, for approval, for acceptance.  And yet the Lord wants to be first in our lives and so he strips everything and shakes everything that can be shaken, taking us back to the things that really matter.  Love of God and Love of others as ourselves.  The one true measurement that we can use as a ...

This morning I am praying and my beloved stands at the door and knocks and I invite Him and we dance together and my head is bowed low and He lifts up my head and looks at me in the eye and His eye touches mine, I cry. I cry because I am tired, I cry because sometimes it just too much, too hard, I cry because I don't know why but my heart knows in the face of my beloved, in the face of His love which overwhelms me and I feel safe again, I feel hidden again, I feel protected again. He makes everything beautiful in its time We chat and He shows me that its okay to be 'dry', its okay for things to 'die' because there are seasons in our lives and without the dry and without the dying then new life, resurrected in a new way, would not happen.  He shows me not to get discouraged by the brokenness, He shows me not to be sad in the dryness but to enjoy the seasons that are necessary in order for new things to come. He takes me into the 'garden' of m...

It's been a challenging few days as I have sat and questioned the Lord on many things. Like Gideon in chapter 6:13 where he writes:      "Pardon me, my lord," But if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?  Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, 'Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?  But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian." The Lord turned to him and said, " Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand.  Am I not sending you?' Pardon me, my lord,"  Gideon replied, "but how can I save Israel?  My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."  The Lord answered, " I will be with you and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive." But in the asking and seeking come the answers.  If Gideon can ask the questions so can you and I.  If our God is a covenant God who is faithful t...

1 Peter 4:10 "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.  If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.  If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.  To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.  Amen." Gift of Hospitaltiy I have been reading through 1 Peter and the above scripture stood out to me.  As we ponder this New Year and all that God would have us do or step into by faith, we don't need to look far outside of what is already in our hands and what we naturally love to do.  We are all gifted in many ways, for example, I love hospitality and it is a gift I have and so the Lord is encouraging me in that gift again.   But we all have different gifts and when we function in who God made us to be, we are fulfilled in...