Message from Pastor Seka (Excerpt from DCC Magazine Oct/Nov 2011)
Praise God! After six weeks of constant pain I am totally well and pain free and I thank God for that. As you may know, I recently suffered with my sciatic nerve to the point that I was bent over for several weeks and even having to crawl to move around. Again I have experienced that in terrible situations God will still bring good out of it. Over the course of my healing process, apart from prayer and standing on the Word of God, I was swimming most days.
 
I was amazed by how many people came to talk to me. It was great opportunity to share how I was believing in God for my healing. Again and again I would talk to people who had some physical ailment that doctors could not heal. Back problems, knee problems, arthritis, sciatica and the list go on and on. 90% of these people shared with me how they have gone to alternative medicines and therapies because western medicine, general practitioners and operations have not helped them. I believe that God planned for me to hear these stories. A while ago I thought myself “is there a necessity for the church to pursue divine healing when there is so much advancement in medicine”. In Jesus day we can see that they did not have all the information and availability of medical treatment we have today. Subsequently, is it possible that their need was much greater for divine healing? Through talking to these individuals and countless other, who have not found healing? I am more determined than ever that the way we are going as a church is right.
 
There is just as much desperation was when Jesus walked the earth. So let us all come together Sunday after Sunday EXPECTING to experience the manifest presence of God and His glory to touch lives. Know that God will equip us with grater anointing power to follow through us so that we can be the instruments of healing as Jesus told us to be in the Great Commission.
 

Message from Pastor Seka (Excerpt from DCC Magazine Aug/Sept 2011)
As a church we have been believing and praying for the Holy Spirit to take over in our services. My prayer has always been that man would not control. Over the last month that is exactly what we have experienced as the Holy Spirit has taken over and the normal routine of the service has changed. I trust that this will continue, and that God will keep having His way as we continue to remain responsive to Him.
 
It is very clear that God is wanting to heal His church, that is, the things that hold us back that we don’t even realise- those weights, burdens and areas of defeat in our lives that we have resigned to. I mentioned in a message that the cry of God’s heart is the same that he had for the children of Israel, “…Why are my people enslaved again” (Isaiah 52). I believe that God will continue to do this, to dig deeper and deeper in our lives to bring to light those giants that we need to destroy. His reason for this is that as He has said to me many times, that He wants us to live in the freedom that is rightfully ours. Recently in my own life God has been doing exactly that, as He is preparing me to move into a “Large place”, just as He did with David in Psalms 118:5.
 
I believe we have a choice, we can choose to live below the freedom and the full inheritance that Jesus gave us through his death and resurrection or we can take a hold of everything that belongs to us. I believe that we all need ta walk in grater freedom, authority and power- so my encouragement to you is – don’t settle for anything less than what God wants for you. spend quality time in God’s presence so that He can reveal those things that need to be dealt with.
 
As we do that we will enjoy a greater freedom, we will experience a greater sense of the power of God in our lives, and share the goodness of God to others and see them receive what we have freely received.
 

DCC adds a Youtube channel
Every now and then we will make an extra effort at DCC to do something special for a Sunday morning service. In the past we have done large scale productions and more recently we have had special mornings like our Amazing Grace morning or our fanatic morning last year. We do more than just these events though. Every year we have a family fun day at the end of the year and of course we randomly do special things every so often. Now we have created a youtube account where our videos will be able to be seen after any events.
 
We are hoping to start advertising through this as well. With carols and other events coming up soon be sure to subscribe to our Youtube channel and participate by commenting.
 
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Message from Pastor Seka (Excerpt from DCC Magazine June/July 2011)
The month of May has been and gone, and as you know I shared with the church how I felt that we were to use the month of May as a time of awakening. We are often so aware of bills, family pressures and work commitments, but how aware are really of the presence of God in our lives? I called the church to use this month as a time of becoming more aware of Gods presence. I trust that you took a hold of this opportunity to listen to the heart of God, and grow in sensitivity of His presence in your daily life.
 
I would like to share with you my experience of what happened for me in setting aside this month of May. By the end of May the Lord gave me a much greater revelation of the weapons He has given us against the enemy and to live a victorious life. 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds”.
 
I believe the Lord has given me a stratergy. He told me to speak in tongues for 10 minutes every morning. In the few days that I have done this, I have sensed and seen in the spirit; walls coming down over my own life and over the church.
 
When we use our heavening language we dont speak out our own agendas and thoughts, and I have had to stop myself so many times from praying in English. I have felt that this has been very powerful and sensed that as I prayed in tongues I have hit the bullseye even though I dont know exactly what I am praying.
As penticostal Christians we must understand that we have not just been given a singular weapon, as spoken about in 2 Corinthians 10:4, but “weapons”. My understanding of that is, that our weapons are the Word of God, our faith and also our heavenly language. It takes us to a new level in the Spirit and takes us out of the relm of human thinking and logic, where we rely on our own agendas and understanding.
 
I now understand why tongues can sometimes be such a sensitive and controversial subject, because the enemy understands the power of it and doesn’t want us to use it. The apostal Paul was thankful that he spoke in tongues, as he understood that it was not the wisdom or intellect of man, but of the power of God that makes all the difference (1 Cor 2:5).
 
I trust that you will speak in tongues daily. If you have not spoken in tongues, every Sunday morning and evening there are people wanting to assit you receive Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues.
 

Message from Pastor Seka (Excerpt from DCC Magazine Apr/May 2011)
Looking back over the start of the year, I can see how as a church we have had great and wonderful things happening. Every Sunday morning we have had testimonies ranging from Gods miraculous healing of a young man that was braindead for almost an hour, Gods protection and provision in the lives of our church family. God’s presence has been very tangible in our meetings which excites me. It has been lovely to see new babies, engagements and young couples getting married. I have really enjoyed celebrating these happy occasions in one anothers lives. It again reinforces to me that we are a healthy, growing church community.
 
On the other side of the spectrum is the very sobering events we have all witnessed happening around the world and in our own country. The devestating floods in Queensland and Victoria, earthquakes in Japan and
New Zealand, cyclones in Queensland and the Japanese tsumnami. These events have been very concerning and have caused many people to fear what is next. There have been many prophecies and much talk about this notion that we are in the last days. The bible told us many years ago that we are in the last days as I preached recently (Acts 2:17, Joel 2).
 
It is amazing how life continues despite all the tragedy we have seen around us, as we carry on with the activities of everyday life. It is exactly as Jesus said it would be in Matthew 24:36-39 before his sudden return. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the
ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”
 
My challange to you is the same as the challange that Peter gave to the church, where he talked about the coming of Jesus in 2 Peter 3:11-12 “Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming”
 
Let’s take every opportunity to share the good news with people.
 

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