hillsong conference

the LORD's perfect timing again...I have been to Hillsong conference 4 times, 3 as a delegate. Each time it has been amazing for lots of different reasons. Last year I went and I heard some awesome messages, but for me, it felt like the conference was more about Myles - it was his first time.

Last year: Reinhard Bonnke's teaching stirred me to believe that if he can save millions in Africa then Australia was all in a day's work for the LORD. The Holy Spirit gripped my heart so much in his sessions that I wrote very little down but cried a lot. The LORD's love for the lost, the broken-hearted, to save his children filled me.

Joyce Meyer with her teachings convicted me as she spoke the truth about how we sometimes walk around with a 'DO NOT DISTURB' sign on us.

At the end of the conference, I had a sense that my conference days were over. That I was filled up with good teachings and had to get out there. The safety nets of christian church life were not for me.

So this year, being sick and preggy, was a completely new experience for me. I didn't make it to half the sessions including the last night. But I had no problems missing out because, like Myles, I had heard it all.

For me this year was more about hearing the heart of God's leaders in his body - his church. It was awesome because even though they had such big churches and huge success they had the LORD's heart - to save the lost, to help the poor, to not just preach but to build relationships even with their neighbours and people like Irene (my friend that died). That's my LORD's heart AND that's my heart.

I kept thinking of my life's purposes to be 'a refuge from the storm', to heal the broken-hearted and set the captives free, to give beauty for ashes... Isaiah 32 and 61...to help the outcasts, do all that the LORD will do to use me to remove poverty from Africa and make Jeremiah 29:11 true for all his children...blessed to be a blessing....this is my heart - a simple ordinary little christian in God's body. It was awesome to hear that the BIGWIGs in God's body have the same hearts. His message is the same for all.

It shows me how God does teach his family to be UNITED IN PURPOSE to do everything they can to save the lost and not just ACCEPT that they are the privileged few who can afford to live in comfort in their big churches and homes. They understand that they are not building a personal legacy, but God's legacy to span the generations to come. It's not enough for them to sit back and think they have accomplished great things, saved enough people and finished their race, securing their place in heaven.

If anything their hearts are even more certain of their christian purpose - they are blessed to be a blessing.

My man in his short christian life is already full to the brim of good teaching, already equiped to serve - if he didn't have all these resources at his disposal, it would have taken longer, but the LORD has given our generation no excuses to sit back and do nothing. He's equiping us faster and better than previous generations so that we can get out there and do his work - big and small.

This reminds me of one of Joyce's messages about how she equips us and sends us out, but some people are so full of teaching that it's overflowing out of them. They haven't realised that the season for learning is over and they need to actually go out and DO IT. Some of us are just collecting but not putting these teachings into practice in our every day lives.

I'm not doing hillsong next year as a delegate - I will go to some night rallies still. But that season is over - the LORD's perfect timing is that my man and I have reached the same conclusion in the same year. Another example of ONENESS - hoooraaaay!