Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

Hold on, you might be thinking, what do I mean when I say “don’t expect extras?!”. Surely God will do MORE than we ask or imagine. He is an extravagant God. He is the God of more than enough. Well I agree with that. When it comes to the results of your faith, God is extra! I’ve prayed forContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 07 Don’t Expect Extras!”

One of my favourite accounts in the Bible is the woman with the issue of blood. After 12 years of non-stop bleeding, she heard of Jesus, and she said if I touch His garment I will be made whole, then she fought her way through the crowd, encountered Jesus, touched His garment and was made whole.Continue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 06 Don’t Put God in a Box”

Smith Wigglesworth would get the congregations he was preaching at to sing over and over two simple words “only believe” . Only believe! Jesus once opened His mouth and deliberately and carefully said: “all things are possible, if we believe”. That’s not a whimsical statement, Jesus is not whimsical. It’s truth. It’s real, deep, life-changing truth. When we believe in God,Continue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 04 Only Believe!”

God is big, and wonderful, and glorious and everything God does is big, wonderful and glorious, and God made you, so you have value. A painting by a master painter is inherently worth more than a painting by someone with no artistic talent. God is a master creator and He created you and you haveContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 03 Value Yourself”

One of the things I have been trying to do everywhere I minister is just get people to accept the Bible is God’s Word and believe it and receive it. I remember as a young man, a brand-new Christian, reading the Bible, especially the gospels over and over and getting so excited about this newContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 02 Stop Thinking Small”

The fact that most Christians are living in the wilderness with Moses rather than a land flowing with milk and honey, and enjoying all of God’s promises with Joshua has become a cliche, but that does not stop it being true. Most Christians are thankfully not in a literal wilderness walking around in circles gettingContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like It 01 Get Out of the Wilderness”

At the end of the parable of the talents, the man with the one talent who buried it had his talent taken off of him! Then the “unprofitable servant” has to be cast into “outer darkness”! The word unprofitable means useless. Not tithing will always lead you into being useless. I recently had to buyContinue reading “The Glorious Power of the Tithe 22: Tithing is a Talent Part 06 – Not Tithing Tends to Uselessness!”

I have had to deal with more than one situation as a pastor where someone in one of the churches I am responsible for has been cheated of money. A conman has come into their lives and persuaded them to invest and the whole thing has been a total sham, a fraud. On the widerContinue reading “The Glorious Power of the Tithe 21: Tithing is a Talent Part 04 – God is Not A Conman”