Super Storm "Yasi" heading towards Queensland Australia

On Wednesday night 2 Feb 2011 (Australian time) a Super-cyclone "YASI" is forecast to hit the coast near our town. It is predicted that it will destroy and damage a huge slab of our State of Queensland which is already reeling because of flooding. Our area and shires 250km North and 250km South have already been declared disaster zones. This will allow the Government to send in the military, force evacuations, and release resources. etc. This storm is huge. It is estimated that destructive winds will be experienced 500 km away from the center. The Government stated today that it probably will be the biggest storm ever to hit the state/country. They have already started evacuating the elderly from nursing homes and people in low lying coastal areas have been told to go..

A large town on the coast 90km South of us, Bowen, has been warned that they all should evacuate as the expected storm tide surge will cover the town.

Please Pray...... "But what should I pray?"

Tonight (31/1/2011) I had a great time in God's presence, worshiping God, listening to Him. As I was enjoying His presence I "felt" God saying" "Look beyond the storms. Look at how the enemy has tried to destroy your State. Why?..... Because there is a stirring of My Spirit over your land, an enormous rising up of marching feet. An army of light. The Storm is stilled with one word. The enemy breathes out threats which have no power in the presence of the rising army of the Lord.... Peace, be still...silence..............except for the marching feet."

Please pray "Lord, release your mighty kingdom army in that land of Queensland Australia."

Bob Lipsys

Spiritual Java

Tomorrow, Friday 21 @ 7pm (Australia time) three of us from church are gathering at McDonalds for a coffee and to live out our faith and touch peoples lives. At home this week, we each read the first Chapter of Bethel Church's "Spiritual Java" book. Here Bill Johnson, wrote 3 pages on what he calls "Aggressive Faith". Our plan of action is to absorb the teaching into our spirits and then live it out in the community. There are 40 chapters in the book written by a variety of Bethel Pastors, so by the end of the year our hope/belief is that God will be able to use us more effectively to touch peoples lives with His presence. Most weeks we will meet on a Saturday. We need to begin somewhere, We need to move out of Church into the community.

Please pray that God gives us "ears to hear and eyes to see." Over the past few weeks God has been melting my hard heart. He's been making it pliable again. He has been challenging my thoughts, attitudes and words. He has been revealing the depths of His mercy and His grace. This kindness has revealed my lack of mercy, and my judgmental attitudes. "It is His kindness that leads us to repentance." not His Judgment. (Romans 2:4).

Bob Lipsys (Australia)

Right Time, Right Place

When it comes to God’s promises, it is not a matter of hoping that they will come true. They definitely will. The unknown is time. We don’t know exactly when they will be fulfilled. The call on our life is to move forward proclaiming the Kingdom of God, knowing that the yes has already been given in Jesus. Then, at the right time, on the right day, we will then be in the right location to receive all that God wants to give us.

Bob Lipsys, Australia

The floods in Australia continue

With ¾ of the state of Queensland Wrecked by floods, the Capital City Brisbane and its surrounds are now flooding. In the next 2 days 7500+ homes and businesses are expected to go under water in the city. Yesterday an 8m (26 foot)wall of water hit the heart of the city of Toowoomba. 10 people have been confirmed dead, at least 78 are still missing. They only had 10 minutes notice. A super-storm released an enormous amount of rain close to the city. Toowoomba is a city of 90 000 people and serves a rural population of 250 000. Most of the area is under water. One third of Ipswich, a city of 162000 people, 40km (25miles) from Brisbane will soon be submerged. The river is running through this city at a height of 22m (72 feet). Some country towns have been totally submerged on 3 occasions since Christmas. The whole situation is totally unreal. Since Christmas 70 towns have been devastated. Many others have been damaged. The rain is still pouring down.

Please pray for us. What to pray?
In hours of TV coverage not one political leader has called for prayer or has prayed. God has not even been mentioned. This is Australia, “we will work it out for ourselves,” is our motto. Please pray that we will come to know the love of our Father, God. We need to soak in His love. We need to know Him. We are truly a lost and Fatherless nation. How much God wants to gather this nation in His arms and love them.
Lord call us into your arms.

Rick Renner, a missionary to Russia and Greek Scholar, translates John 1:5 as “Darkness does not have the ability to suppress or hold the light under its domain.” He adds “ Even in what seems to be the darkest or bleakest situation the efforts of evil will always be thwarted by the prevailing power of God’s light.” As Australian Christians lets pray for a revelation of the goodness, the light and the love of God over our suffering communities. God is not limited by the darkness of our circumstances. He shines out in the darkness…

Bob Lipsys, Australia

Grab hold of your destiny in 2011

On Sunday we attended “Life” Church in Townsville. My daughter, who is on holidays from university, was “missing” her Church……

Wow… the worship was soaked with the Holy Spirit… The pastor preached about his new year resolution – “Enjoy 2011 with God” – a meaningful multimedia presentation. I needed to hear it. I cant say I enjoyed 2010.

The underlying message I received from the whole service was “Grab hold of 2011 – don’t just let it pass by – Receive all God wants to do through it - and enjoy it.”

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We Christians are often too passive. God speaks to us, declares to us great things about our lives, opens doors for healing, ministry, and creativity. But we are too passive. We are like the seeds planted on shallow soil in Jesus’ parable. We grasp the Word, grow vigorously, but then wilt. We need deeper roots.

Paul passed on a Holy Spirit ministry to Timothy through the laying on of hands and prophesy. But he tells Timothy not to be passive about it. He basically says: Timothy, what I have given you is a spark. Don’t let it go out. Give it heaps of spiritual oxygen so that it explodes into a great fire. “This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.” 2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)

Smith Wigglesworth stated "Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him." Lillian B. Yeomans wrote “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit - think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”

We need to enter into to the destiny, the dream, the vision God has placed into our hearts. It is the spark of God. Believe it, think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and fan it into the “Fire of God”.

Nightlight, (Bob Lipsys), Australia