Hillsong South Africa's Podcast

Our Father is not absent. He is always present and His presence is powerful. He's worked His way to us, and His Holy Spirt now empowers us to outwork the reality of His Kingdom here on Earth. He forms us into the image of Jesus, so we can't take credit for being a good or bad person but simply look to our Father who created us. 

What a great message from Pastor Tyron Whittaker, visiting all the way from Heart Church in Cincinnatti. We pray this messages blesses you, wherever you are in your journey of life.

We often talk about the fruit of the Holy Spirit as if it was something that had to find a way into our lives. It is not multiple fruit which means if you stay connected in the Holy Spirit, it will be the overflow of your life. It is one fruit like an orange with all these different segments, but it is one fruit. 

There is so much more that the Holy Spirit wants to do in our lives. He wants to give us freedom from sin, sickness, oppression and brokenness. But what do we need to do to be able to access it?

How can we make the Holy Spirit a real part of our everyday lives? What are the gentle prompts that He helps us with in our everyday lives and how can we fully embrace it?

How wind works is that hot air rises and the cool air comes to take its place. And in the same way, we believe every time we step into a place, whatever has been dry, whatever has been hard, whatever has been harsh lifts... and the cool, refreshing power of the spirit comes in. And in the same way, Jesus was speaking to us and when you have the Spirit of God, you'll step into an atmosphere. You'll be able to discern the spirit of God, and it will lead you to where there is luck, to where there is brokenness, to where there is fear, to where there is a lack of the Kingdom of God. The Spirit of God will lead you from a high atmospheric place to a place of need. And I believe the Spirit of God can come and refresh today.

Looking at the early church in Acts, we can learn a lot from their successes and failures. We observe how they handled false teaching, demonstrated love and unity, particularly through prayer. We focus on what is the true marker of being a disciple and how we can work that out today.

What did Jesus want us to know after the resurrection? When we read the bible as followers of Jesus Christ, we often see that they made mistakes in the Bible. When they got it wrong, we could see the impact had devasting consequences on communities worldwide. And when they got it right, we also see how much impact the stories had that they told about the teachings of Jesus, the life of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus and how much it impacted society throughout history.  Even though we are flawed, we all have a stories to tell about Jesus. 

Join us for a very special message as we reflect on the moments Jesus went through leading to the cross.

Jesus is the way. Where does this come from? Jesus Himself? He says in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." In the Greek it's translated in 2 ways. A literal translation is a way or a pathway but metaphorically, it means of manner of thinking, speaking, a manner of living behaviour and a way of life. So when we're looking at "Jesus is the way", this is what we are talking about. 

God is calling us to ascend. This year we are focusing on stepping into a divine partnership with God. That might require us to climb some mountains and go higher and ascend to the holy place. If we want to see what God wants to do in us, and if we want to see what God wants to do through us, we have to climb some mountains. We need to get quiet, be still and go to the mountain with God.