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Unless the Lord builds the house, we labour in vain!

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Hi Church! Today is not only the first day of Spring but it's the first day of September when we look forward to hosting and participating in our long awaited EN Oceania Regional Conference - BUILD 2022 at the end of this month!  This conference is going to be life changing and powerful for all of us! We have all been working hard, putting in long hours, most are volunteering their time to make this happen! God loves our hearts as we put Him and His kingdom at the centre of our lives, giving our time to serving Him. However, Psalm 127:1,2 says:  "Unless the Lord BUILDs the house, its builders labour in vain! Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain"!   King Solomon knew a thing a too about the hard work that goes into building and guarding.   He was responsible for the building of the temple of God and oversaw that in his lifetime.  As a King, he knew what it meant to have guards watch over his kingdom from potential t...

Prayer and our hearts

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1 John 3:21-23 (CSB) says " Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God  and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.  23 Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us.  Sometimes, either consciously or subconsciously, our hearts can condemn us and that affects our prayer life. It could be condemnation from something we've done that is displeasing to God / lies we believe from the enemy (Satan) / lies we believe about ourselves / lies spoken to us or over us either knowingly or unknowingly by others.  No matter what we've done, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin and removes every sense of condemnation in our lives. This makes us righteous before our Holy God and gives us total confidence to come before Him in prayer. Confession and asking Jesus to cleanse us of our sin is somet...