"Today, if you hear His voice..."

It’s always great to have Keith (and Nova!) Hazell around. As well as being great company and wonderfully normal, Keith has a prophetic ministry that I really appreciate. Kings Community Church has been significantly shaped, and encouraged to take some bold steps over the last 20 years through Keith’s prophetic encouragements and provocations. Of course, we recognise that actually it is God working through Keith, and we always weigh up such prophecies against Scripture, and God’s leading in other ways, but oh we do love to witness God’s leading!
Keith was preaching here at Kings this morning, encouraging us to be ready for God’s surprises, to be ready for new opportunities, new opening or ‘gateways’ as a church, realising that they can often be surprising – and challenging!

Last weekend Angie and I were in Copenhagen with CCC (Copenhagen Community Church) celebrating with them the fact that papers had just been signed on their new building – praise God! And it’s a great building, offering great opportunities in the heart of that influential international city. I love the fact that God has allowed us at Kings to be strongly involved with CCC – what a great opportunity for us! I believe that many of us from Kings will be making the (easy!) journey to Copenhagen to serve CCC in all sorts of ways. And the beauty of this arrangement is this: my going to Copenhagen has released Josef to go to Turkey where he is working amongst, lets just say, a very mixed company of people , presenting Jesus in words and deeds. And lives are being wonderfully changed!

Doesn’t this all sound very familiar? Isn’t this just what Jesus did – challenging and changing people’s lives, offering new possibilities and opportunities wherever he went? When we discover and welcome God’s call and leading in our lives, something special happens. We experience God’s love and care for us personally, and a whole new world opens up before us. We are invited to leave our former, familiar, self-centred world and enter His world where Jesus is doing wonderful things, drawing men women and children to himself, bringing hope to the helpless, mending broken lives, making all things new. And to think – we are invited, no, we’re called to live in His world! This is what it means to be a follower of Jesus! There really is no better way to live your life, certainly none more fulfilling – it’s what you were called for!

Enjoy the journey this week!

Goff