You don’t rise by effort alone you rise by what you honour consistently. In business, leadership, and life:

Value → Access → Authority → Impact.

If you want more, don’t just work harder—value deeper!

Using biblical lives such as David, Paul, Peter, and Onesimus, we explore what it means to walk in both our natural design and our born-again purpose. This message challenges cultural conformity, fear-driven living, and survival mindsets, calling the church to courage, faith, and intentional growth.

A timely invitation to move beyond routine, rediscover purpose, and step into what God has prepared for you.

What does it mean to have new life given to you, and what does it mean to have the robe placed on you?

Pastor Ezra describes the significance of identity, status and acceptance. The older brother was focused on duty rather than relationship.

Explore with us all these topics and listen to the full message....

I believe that if we are going to step into the next level, we need to look at these four steps:

1. Encounter – We need to encounter Jesus again. In Luke 5:1–10, we read about the disciples’ first encounter with Jesus. Everything started there.
2. Instruction – Once they encountered Jesus, He gave them an instruction. I believe God is ready to give us something to do, something that may even go against what feels logical to us.
3. Response – Our response to what Jesus asks us to do must be a response of obedience. If not, we risk being set aside by God until we learn to work with Him.
4. Transformation – Transformation is birthed from revelation, and revelation brings change. We cannot follow the instructions of heaven and expect to remain the same.

Listen in for the full message.

1. We Value People
2. We Value New life
3. We Value Relationship with God
4. We Value Church Family
5. We Value Gathering
6. We Value Commissioning

Each of these is represented by a part of the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15) - a central Christian teaching on God's unconditional love and forgiveness. All Family Church congregations heard this message and everyone received a booklet entitled Reach, Grow, Empower, explaining these values. Please refer to www.family.church for further details.

In this season of transition it’s important that we seek out the ability to be consistent and make a stand, like a markers in the sea that don’t move around with the wind and waves. Such markers serve as a warning and also an encouragement helping to define what is safe and what is dangerous - we then become a safeguard to those coming in from darkness into light.

So let’s put on the whole armour of God and stand, not to fight against flesh and blood but against spiritual principalities. Let’s stand together and make a difference by the grace of God.

You’ll be encouraged to walk in forgiveness, embrace your identity in Christ, and return to God as your source of strength. Whether you feel tired, stuck, overlooked, or unsure of your next step, this message will remind you that God has equipped you. Because His grace is fresh. His grace is enough and through Him, you have the grace to do, to lead, to forgive, and most importantly—the grace to go.

He didn't come into the world to condemn the world but to save the world.

Now if Jesus forgave us, and we carry his nature and spirit then we should be people of forgiveness.......Join us for some time together and embrace for the forgiving freedom of his grace.

We operate from a seated position of being joined to and hidden in Christ. He has been positioned in all power and authority, with dominion. Everything has been placed under Him. His name is above every name and we are seated in Him, with Him.

God doesn’t assess us based on our own merit but according to what Jesus has done. We need to release ourselves to be seated in a place of complete rest to become stewards of the miraculous, stewards of Glory. We are human beings to be able to do, not human doings to be.

We are established by grace to do, and we do it from a place of complete authority and rest.

Grace produces a holy discomfort in our lives which is the evidence of growth, we need to stop living in a way that is too small for us.

If we do not tie our shoes they will fall off as we journey along. If we are committed to our journey, growth is required. This means we need to commit to the appropriate life style and the correct areas in our lives. Faithfulness lasts longer than excitement - the latter wears off in time. Often only a minor percentage of people in church are involved in the life of the church. This is the norm across the nation. Currently, Waterlooville betters this average!

Ps Ray then shares about his prayers and thoughts for the next few months of the church. Discipleship, growth and leadership are key here. Much of this covers discerning and uncovering all our giftings and how and when they might be used for His glory. We all need to remain submitted in authority remaining accountable.

This is a key message summarising the path so far in recent weeks since Ps Ray & Sarah were appointed to leadership, looking forward to the new year for growth and spiritual maturity.

Nazareth was a small, overlooked village, yet God chose it as the setting for the greatest miracle—the incarnation of Christ. Likewise, Mary, a humble young woman of no social status, was called “highly favoured” and entrusted with a divine purpose.

Her faith, humility, and willingness to say “Let it be done to me according to your word” reveal how God works through ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary plans. The message invites listeners to reflect on their own lives, recognize God’s favour, and courageously say “yes” to His calling, even without knowing all the details.

Are we all going in the same direction? Do we have the same goal? The early Church was so powerful because they were in one mind with one heart focused on one outcome. Today we have the potential to be so distracted. But coming back to the same vision is key to being effective.

This is the conversation we had this past Sunday, we talked through what God expects of us, what we believe about that and how do we respond to it? 

This morning we don't just uncover more of Jesus, but we see how he called us out of the crowd and asks us bring our skills to him so we can help him build something amazing on the earth that glorifies him. 

If he is leading us into the promises he has for us, maybe we should stop shouting at every demon and start taking responsibility for changing the way we think. 

We are not practicing manifestation manipulation but we are declaring the goodness of God by faith. We are confident not delusional in what God is doing in our lives and the harvest we will see based his promises.  

Then if we are observing their belief system, in something that is false, but produces such devotion. We need to ask ourselves, what do we believe about our God and the Bible? And is what we believe in, producing fruit and devotion.

I asked the question, if fellowship means the sharing of life, then what are we sharing our life with? Who are we sharing our life with? 

Do we have the grace to disagree and still walk together, do we still have the ability to love first? 

God wants us to be carriers of his glory and his presence we need to be able to steward this out into the world. We do this together through relationship, the way we fellowship will be the evidence of God in the world today. 

Ps Sandy provides some conclusing remarks following the key message by Ps Chris.

Whilst filled with gratitude for the Cross, we are not to be fixated with it as an object, but rather to focus on the achievement of it, and the incredible statement God made through it.

He loves you and demonstrates it in the most extreme fashion. Now we are to live in what it achieved for us, and in this Easter message we begin to open up some of the rights Jesus died to buy us, and that we – like the children of Israel who were to go into their Promised Land ‘and possess it’, we too will have to possess our blood-bought rights.

• Our belief in who He says He is. Our faith in who He is will determine some of our experiences. Our faith doesn't change Him, it accesses Him!
• Our submission to His lordship in His word - it is possible to believe in him but not submit to him
• Obedience to Him

Ps Andy quotes many examples from scripture where these three ingredients caused great things to happen (the Centurion in Matthew 8:5-13 is not a disciple, but his faith, his submission to the authority of Jesus and the spoken word of Jesus healed the servant)...

Andy explains how often we need to lay aside our own natural experiences, our thinking, our rebellion to the worldly thinking and submit to God. When God speaks something into our situations and it doesn't make sense, let it be. Let it be according to your word, may it be so.

This week, let's hear what God says to us, submit to it, walk in accordance to it and see the power contained within it released into our lives and of others. 

Ps Andy then speaks about how we are to move to a third part of our discipleship series, which we are calling 'Jesus Empowers'. This is Pneumatology and it's the Doctrine or the study of the person and works of the Holy Spirit.

Ps Andy continues with an introduction to this series which again is fundamental to our understanding of our Christian walk.

This is a MUST LISTEN message!!

This is a continuation of our series House of Prayer, this week, Ps Steu explores the prayer languages we have at our disposal....

When we read about the day of Pentecost, we see it today when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon all flesh. But we also see it was the moment that the church was born. What was the church doing before it was born? They were praying and suddenly in their prayer meeting the Holy Spirit fell and the church of Jesus Christ was born.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) says "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land". The people called by Hs name are us Christians!, our land, our lives can be healed and our sins forgiven if we humble ourselves before our God and pray and seek Him.

Next week, we begin to unpack all this in greater detail.

There are covering words from Ps Chris as well.

• by who God is
• by ourselves
• and by others

The NIV Bible titles this ‘The fellowship of the believers’

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

The NKJV Bible titles this ‘A Vital Church Grows’

 42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ [n]doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43 Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. 44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

All of our Pastors draw vitally important nuggets from this scripture in relation to the future of our Church Fellowship. This is a ‘must listen’ message!!

The Bible says in Hebrews 12 we are a part of a Kingdom which cannot be shaken. We are in a world where everything is currently shaking. There will be revealing of a Kingdom and a Kingdom people which cannot be shaken because their God is God. This is a Kingdom moment, a moment when God is about to move. We must be ready for what God is about to do – a continuation of the theme of encounter.  

Pastor Andy defines this as a Kairos moment – a God ordained moment in history, as opposed to Chronos (sequential and quantitative). Alternatively, view Kairos as the most opportune moment for action. Andy refers to many scriptures as examples of God ordained moments of time but perhaps the best example comes from the book of Esther. Esther was positioned to prevent destruction of the Jews, although she did have to use her influence with the king in order to do so.

As we walk through this year just maybe we also have been positioned for such a time as this. Where we have congregations in England and the Philippines with any favour that we are walking in just maybe we have been positioned in life for a time such as this for a moment that God did long before any of us were born. God says there is a year called 2023, that's the Kairos, there is a moment in that year where the world is falling and in that moment, the church is going to stand on our feet, and begin to be my body, my hands, my feet, my whole life.

Esther could have shrunk back, she could have said “I like my life, I am the Queen, I could lose everything….” She knew when she appeared before the king, he would either extend his sceptre or not. If he didn't extend his sceptre, she would have been put to death. If he extended his sceptre, she could ask for up to half of his kingdom – quite a lot of pressure! She prays and fasts and walks in before the king presenting her request. A God moment follows resulting in a complete change of the circumstances saving the Jews.  

This is a Kairos moment.  Esther 4:14 (NKJV) says “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” We need to awaken our hearts and say, God use me. If we are a prayer warrior, it's time to pray; if we are a giver, it’s time to give; if we are a server it’s time to serve and so on. The Kairos moment is upon us….for such a time as this.

• Stick to the rules
• Win the victory

As believers, God has empowered us to do all that He's called us to do. We just need to step out in faith and respond in obedience to what He's prompting us to do.

Pastor Andy speaks of the story of Joseph and his amazing release from wrongful imprisonment (Genesis 39-41) to provide interpretation of Pharaoh’s dreams. The doors of lockdown were opened for him then and God did incredible things with Joseph becoming in charge of Pharaoh’s palace and all his people.  God will do equally incredible things with us as he did with Joseph. He came out of the prison cell ready to run his best lap yet using the gifts God had given him! Just as God used Joseph in his time He will use us individually and as a church in all the places He has positioned us.

Hebrews 12, 1-2 speaks of those who ran their best race (the great cloud of witnesses) but also speaks of us as well….instructing us to throw off all sin and that which entangles us and then to run with perseverance the race set out before us fixing our eyes on Jesus who perfects our faith.

Ps Andy goes on to speak of 2 Timothy 4:7-8 (NIV) “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.” Our hearts desire should be to say we have run the race God set before us, lived our lives in pursuit of Him and are ready to receive a crown of righteousness!