This week we had the pleasure of hearing from Josiah's brother Matthew speak on the goodness of God. Following on from Felix's talk last week on the parable of the foolish virgins, Matt talks on the next parable in Matt 25:14-30 - The parable of the talents.

God gives us unique talents

How we use these gifts will determine our future

We all have different amounts of talents and we are expected to this wisely based on our ability

The master in this parable is Jesus, as the only one who can make this judgement is Jesus.

1 - We know God through intimacy with Him, through listening to Him

2 - Obey God, take what He says and put it into action quickly.

3 - Removing the lies and replacing them with God's truth.

Lies we believe about ourselves or God can hinder our faithfulness

Trust God in the weak position and the power position.

This week we had the pleasure of hearing from Felix, a father in our church, speaks on living fully surrendered to Jesus. The reality of death as humans can be a daunting reality or an incredible force that builds hope. We need to keep a big picture vision for life, remembering that we cannot live without His strength.

Just because we are saved doesn’t mean that He is pleased with the way we are living

It doesn’t mean that He is automatically going to trust us

That takes time, it takes us being faithful to God

And letting Him save us continually

Miserable Christians are the result of them not letting go of their lives

Deeper surrender

We need to come to this place where we realise our struggle to lay down our life

But it is letting Jesus do what He does

This week Josiah shares a word on staying engaged to not step back from the season God has for you.

He will crown this year with abundance and your paths drip with abundance.

It says in Jeremiah that the Goodness of God causes the people to fear Him.

Daniel 7:25 The enemy will speak pompous words against the people of God. He harass' and wears out the people of God to seek to change times and seasons.

He gets us to question God's goodness in order to wear us out.

If God is saying it’s a time of His favour, the enemy would be try and get you to be worn out. If you are worn out you will want to fall asleep.

Hebrews 4 - we are to strive to enter His rest, we need to pursue His rest.

We need to understand that when the enemy comes like a flood, that the spirit of the Lord is going to raise a standard over us.

We cannot look at our life's through the eyes of man, but through heavens eyes.