What has God been saying to us so far this year (July 09):

• We must declare the Word & will of God publically
• Dare - Risk - Believe
• Love - Grow - Serve
• Fruitfulness
• Double up
• Loose the tongues of men, set free to prophesy, others are in lack because our tingues aren't loose (Is 61-62)
• Change of Season, a new name, a "John season", priest to preacher, new thresholds & standard
• A larger influence that cannot be ignored
• Lift the ceilings, take the lid off
• Church of: The Spirit, supernatural, pioneering, cutting edge, symbolic, resourcing base church, dispensing the power of God
• Focus on the Gospel
• Fishing Seasonin officially open
• Big vision - dream Big
• A Cloud & Trumpet people
  
• Win the battle in the Spiritual
• Deeper friendships
• Something happens in the atmosphere when and where we worship, we need to host the Presence of God
• Intentionality in worship, Ministry unto the Lord, Honour the Lord
• Fan the flame into fire, tongues of fire, the "woof" of God
• It's in our DNA to reach the Lost
• Bring about generational change
• Pruning Season
• We don't know what prayer is for until we know that Life is a War!

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• “You have entered a time of transition Urban Life Church – transition into a new wineskin, a wineskin of different dimensions, a wineskin of larger capacity, a wineskin to receive new wine!During this time of transition I am taking the scales from your eyes, eyes that have perceived Me in a certain way… I am so much bigger than you have seen… I am so much more than you have experienced… I am infinitely greater than anything you have hoped for or imagined.Allow Me to re-shape you, to re-form you, to re-fashion you that you might be ready as a people to inhabit the new wineskin.  Do not be amazed at lead guitar solos, do not be amazed at the unusual, for I am going to expand your concept of Me and I am about to do it. The new wineskin I am bringing is going to gush forth new wine to a dying world, a broken and hopeless generation.  You will not contain the outpouring in the current wineskin.  Be open to me and my leading my children for I will lead you, I will show you the way.  This new wine of which I speak is life-giving, life-changing and I will pour it forth in abundance.Revival will break out in Midrand and I see lines of cars, lines of cars making their way onto Ikaya to come and taste the new wine.  Do not limit me, do not try to contain me, do not try to rationalise me for I am infinitely beyond your understanding… I am, Jehovah.” (Lisa Mitchell May 2009)"I believe God is saying that we are fighting a battle for the souls of the lost who will be pouring on to our property.  An outpouring of the Holy Spirit is coming, but there is a battle raging for this release and the hope and freedom it will bring.  When the fire of God falls, there will be repentance – there will be purification – there will be purging.  Christ will return only for a spotless bride – one without wrinkle or blemish. I believe that God is saying that worship is the key to this release of the Holy Spirit.  In 2 Chronicles 20: 21 + 22, the army was led into battle by the musicians.  The battle will be won in worship – a combination of praise warfare and Holy Spirit honouring"
  

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• I believe God is saying that we are fighting a battle for the souls of the lost who will be pouring on to our property.  An outpouring of the Holy Spirit is coming, but there is a battle raging for this release and the hope and freedom it will bring.  When the fire of God falls, there will be repentance – there will be purification – there will be purging.  Christ will return only for a spotless bride – one without wrinkle or blemish.
   
  I believe that God is saying that worship is the key to this release of the Holy Spirit.  In 2 Chronicles 20: 21 + 22, the army was led into battle by the musicians.  The battle will be won in worship – a combination of praise warfare and Holy Spirit honouring. (July 09)
  

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•  Prophetic Word from PJ Smythe (29 September 09) | For Urban Life Church
  You yearn for more don’t you? God has put you together as this perfect blend. You are saying to yourself , “We are not just designed to be sold at the Urban Market, we should be on the supermarket shelves. This coffee is just to good to be here. We are the best kept secret, this is a new type of coffee”. The Lord says, “I’ve got you on that. I have got you on that and I will honour that, the satisfaction and the dissatisfaction. I feel the Lord just wants to say to you as a church, “Well done for knocking on the door and asking – God what’s next? – and I promise I will show you because I am building this church! It’s my blend, I promise I will. You won’t miss it. I just feel God would say “I love you”. I can feel His pride & delight in you. This is a unique work of God. It’s an awesome blend a new blend.

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Prophetic word to church -October 4th 2009
(Liz East)
We are at a tipping point- a critical time
 There is a revealing:
 - of the things of God: a seeing into heaven and bringing heaven to earth
- of the things of the enemy: a revealing of things that have been hidden
- of the Sons of God; it’s time to put on new clothes- time to put on authority, sonship, strength, dignity, boldness.
 
It’s time to call notice on the restrictions of addictions, mindsets, strongholds, legalism, sin. It’s like the wax over jam which has bound us and we are to allow the fire and intimacy of the love of God to so impact us and burn away the wax so that the aroma and sweetness of Christ will spills forth- 2Cor 2.14
 
For we are to be a city without walls- a visible city-  Zech2.4. A city living without walls- spilling into the community and the community spilling into it- no normal limits, blurred edges; a way of living that is totally reliant on the Holy Spirit.
 
It’s a time for freedom, for liberty- to live in it and to proclaim it for those who God puts us alongside. Feel to proclaim this over the church: Isaiah 52.1,2, "Awake, awake o Urban Life and cloth yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendour. O Urban Life, holy city. Shake off your dust, rise up, sit enthroned, O Urban Life, Free yourself from the chains on your neck".
 
How did the walls of the walls of Jericho come down? With a shout; there needs to be a shout in us, a waking up, a sense of aggression to  be all that God has called us to be, to be the aroma of Christ …

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Word for ULC | 4th Oct 09:
(Esme Bense)

I believe there is an invitation, a stirring, a cry from Heaven to participate in what the Father is doing. There is a cry for us to live in more. I believe Isaiah 60 is our portion and it is His declaration for us and to us to “ Arise, shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will be seen upon you”

I believe that our world, our businesses, our city is waiting for us to take our place. Creation itself “waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God” as its groans under the weight of bondage, futility and decay (Rom 8).
I believe  God is serious  for us to go beyond, to reach higher, to desire more...
I believe there are new seasons for the hungry, the desperate. I believe God wants mankind touched through us
I believe  there is cry of the Father to live so grafted into the vine that our fruit is formed straight from the Fathers life giving sap and becomes true food for others to eat. That apart from Him we can do nothing.
I believe  He is calling us and reminding us again to “preach the  message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
I believe its time to go beyond the safe Christian borders we have placed around ourselves and move into the adventures of God…. wherever He has placed us
I believe there is a future for each one of us that we have only started… there is so much more
I believe its time to dream again
I believe this is the church’s finest hour to be all she was meant to be. To live in all she was given to live in.  Vessels through which God will manifest His wisdom and power (Eph).
 
For, Is this not the day I have called you to step out of yourself into Me says the Lord says the Lord, to do the works I have called you to. Is this not the day that I will open eyes to see and ears to hear for those that seek me, that hunger after Me. For have I not called you to be a city on a hill, a light that shines brightly in a dark place. Have I not called you to set captives free, to bring release to those in prison and to proclaim the year of the Lords favour. Is this not the day of My Power, My glory, My salvation...Have I not called you to be a part of what I am doing says the Lord.