Month: February 2009

A PROPHECY OF GREATER THINGS IN MELBOURNE IN 2009

A PROPHECY OF GREATER THINGS IN MELBOURNE IN 2009

A quote from Graham Cooke’s powerful prophecy over Melbourne (Nov’08):

“We are going to see moves of God unprecedented throughout the earth, and we are seeing something begin in Melbourne. The awakening has begun! I believe it will get to a place in Melbourne when a window will open over Melbourne and we will start to pull down things out of heaven. It’s happening right now! We are in the season! The water level’s up to our course!

We need to deliberately make decisions to walk deliberately forward into a move of the Spirit.
We need to start preparing for the way of the Lord right now.
We need to start getting together.
We need to start praying.
We need to start worshipping.
We need to start planning.
We need to start training people.
We need to come to a place where the Lord is speaking to us about things that are unprecedented and we are able to hear – outrageous things.

God is doing something here unprecedented in your history. It’s simply your day and it’s your time, and you must make the most of it.

We are in those times, a move of God, unprecedented in this city’s history, churches coming together…
We are going to see the end of turf wars.
We are going to see unprecedented cooperation, and incredibly…
We are going to see leaders – men and women of God, just broken by the love, and the beauty and the joy of the Lord, open to the majesty and the sovereignty of heaven, coming and saying ‘I want to give this up, I want to lay this down at the feet of Jesus. I want to give back to God that which belongs to Him.’
We are going to see the business community step up into a different anointing.
We are going to see the map of the city redrawn spiritually. We are going to see people who live in an area, evangelising that area. And it won’t matter what church you come from. We are going to find house to house, street to street, moves of God. We are going to get Christian neighbours coming together and just moving down their street and seeing signs and wonders, it’ll be unprecedented. It is not going to be a move of God that’s led by superstars. It will be nameless, faceless generation of people getting out there on the street, and no one is able to highjack it. It’s a move of God at grassroots’ level.

There is a place of surrender in all of that – where we are surrendering to the love, and the majesty, to the beauty and sovereignty of God. So there is an intimacy that is going to come into the city; the love of God is shed on the streets; the peace of God coming on the city.

It’s time to move out and go to a deeper place still. It’s time to sit down before the Lord and just ask, ‘What’s the abundance that’s beyond thinking?’ God is doing something here unprecedented in your history. It’s simply your day and it’s your time, and you must make the most of it.
This is the day of the Lord. This is the season of God. We are in an outrageous time and the move of God. It’s the stuff of dreams.

We are going to learn how to stand. We are going to learn how to fight for the city. We are going to fight in a new way. As we stand together, as we walk together, as we cooperate together in unprecedented ways, a window will open in heaven. When you pray that window will open. We are going to have permission. The Lord is going to say, “you are to come together with one heart and one voice in the city. We are going to see an eldership in the city raised up, with oversight.”

THE CHALLENGE: Make some deliberate decisions to commit to prayer, preparation and training so we are able to move forward together with God and each other in the imminent revival.

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ENDORSEMENTS FOR ALL MELBOURNE MATTERS RESEARCH

The “All Melbourne Matters” project is unique and nothing like this has ever been done in Melbourne. It is valuable in that it provides information and inspiration for Greater Melbourne, each of the 31 Local Government Areas, as well as the whole Body of Christ.

The project is the first ever research of the Whole Body of Christ in Melbourne, including non-NCLS (National Church Life Survey) churches, independent and ethnic churches, as well as emerging and house churches. It reveals the unique level of support for communities provided by local churches, and shows the nationalities and locations of ethnic churches in relation to ethnic populations. It also includes a major Directory of Christian ministries, organisations and networks and give this picture for Greater Melbourne AND for each of the 31 local government areas. 

ENDORSEMENTS FOR ALL MELBOURNE MATTERS RESEARCH

“This research report is a significant undertaking that will greatly benefit the wider church in Melbourne, as well as each local church, to be aware of the challenge ahead of us as we seek to reach out to our great city with God’s love. I enthusiastically commend those who have put in so many hours of work and effort to bring us this strategic information.”
Mark Conner

“I believe that this research will be a vital resource for the church in Melbourne to minister effectively in the years to come.”  Church history reveals that when the church is able to identify critical issues in culture and society and responds to these issues while remaining faithful to the gospel, great things happen.”
Wynand de Kock, Principal, Tabor College

“As a Pastor who longs to see the day when God’s people become so passionate about the Gospel, and Church leaders become so aware of the needs of their community, and congregations become the greatest force for good in their city, that whole communities are transformed by the love and power of God, I see this research project as the most important contribution made by any organisation in almost 50 years. The results of this research will give us an unparalleled opportunity to consider an informed and united response to the needs of our great city.”
Graeme Cann, Assoc. Pastor, Berwick Church of Christ, Leader of Casey Pastors Network, Founder Christian Counsellors Assoc.

“Now is the time for the Body of Christ to reach out and make its greatest impace for the kingdom of God. Through united prayer we will seek His direction and anointing in order to understand our present position through the All Melbourne Matters research findings in roder to make a pathway for the next generation.”
John Graham, State Co-ordinator, ALPHA Victoria & Tasmania

ENDORSED BY 25 CHURCH DENOMINATIONS, THE VICTORIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND MANY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ORGANISATIONS

 

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