Church In Perth - Hope To The Nations

Dr John Yates, BSc.(Hons) Dip. Ed. and Ph.D (thesis The Timelessness of God)
Born in Melbourne and married to school teacher Donna and together they have five children, John moved to Perth in 1988 as associate minister in an Anglican inner city parish focusing on university ministry. His last posting with the Anglican church was in the parish of Leederville the in 1994. He is currently a lecturer at Tabor College and an itenerant speaker. John is actively involved in citywide prayer, prophetic and mission movements.

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God's Glory	Do you put your family, your health, your ministry or your work before the glory of the living God? Is there in your heart a clear and persistent sense, “I will definitely give my life for this vocation to which God has called me?” Without this sense, “glory” will be to you just another religious word. This eternal principle remains the meaning of the universe, love brings glory through sacrifice.
Respect	We show respect by being at appointments and answering invitations on time, never being late in paying taxes or bills. The Lord expects us to return phone messages and emails promptly. Speaking to all manner of persons in a grace-filled tone, and “standing up for the aged” is what God expects in a culture of respect. This is not easy.
Shaking of Heaven and Earth	The present shaking of the world is a reflection of the action of God in heaven for the sake of his building a glorious house made up of men and women on earth. The current global financial crisis is the latest manifestation of a pattern of the shaking of foundations that leads men and women to turn desperately to God
Flowering Beauty -A Reflection	As I sat down to write this piece my eyes were drawn to a spider’s web above the window sill. It glittered with brilliant purples and blues as the light of the sun fell upon it. I believe this was a sign from the Father to confirm his word about the beauty of the Son.
Resurrection Power: Sonship and a Unique Mission Move of God	Some years ago I predicted a time would come when the presence of God would be so strong in Western Australia that whatever the original nationality of Christian immigrants all would come to identify Western Australia as their spiritual home. Some years later I saw multi –coloured streams of people flowing out from Perth into the world. This represented multi – racial outreach teams taking the gospel back to the nations. Only in the last few weeks do I believe God has been giving me keys as to how he will accomplish this.
Boom, Bust and a People Prepared for Revival	Western Australia is currently experiencing unprecedented economic growth that benefit the people quite differently giving rise to considerable social problems which Christians are somehow trapped within. This article seeks to identify the root cause and outline the mindset to set the Church apart in preparation for a revival.
The Identity Crisis in the Church: Christianity versus Jesus	The primary spiritual struggle in contemporary Australia is not between Christianity and secularism, or Christianity and Islam, but between Jesus’ kingdom and Christianity. At the root of the widespread apathy in the church and the broadly acknowledged lack of intimacy with God, is confusion between Christianity and Christ. Contemporary Western Christianity largely defines itself by its relationship with itself and its history. It is extremely introverted. This is indicated, for example, by the inordinate focus on leadership, ministry, church growth, gifts, the Bible, anointing, prosperity, revival etc. rather than on the person of Jesus and his living presence amongst us.
Brothers of a Heavenly Glory	When Jesus said, No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, he provides the framework whereby Christians ought to relate also one to another. The sacrificial exercise of individual giftings and callings guided by a complete devotion to Christ and his church and expressed through the unifying prayers of the saints will moved heaven to respond. This process is referred to in Hebrew 2:10 as the bringing many sons to glory - brotherhood of a heavenly glory.
Revival without Reformation: Reception without Preservation	In this article I would like to elaborate on what I see God doing in ‘the time of discipline’; to understand this work of God we need to distinguish between revival and reformation.
Beauty Radiant	As a loving bride longs to be increasingly beautiful for her husband, so the Bride longs to please her Lord. The measure of her true adoration for Jesus is not found in ornamental displays of gloriously painted chapels or doctrinal orthodoxy or in the size of a congregation nor in financial giving but a hunger for the Word of God.
Revival in Western Australia – Friends of Jesus	I believed the Lord is saying about the essential pre-conditions which centred on the visitation of grace. This latest meditation, generated by things coming to me in the night, left me with an unusual sense of joy and expectation. The Church is a community of friends in an environment of trustful love who recognise the gifts God in one another and work to release these together for the common good without competition or one-upmanship. This is true mateship and its a prerequisite for a revival.
Shaking and Transforming	The release of the authority of the blood of Christ will generate power to witness in word, sign and deed. The Father is about to “entrust blood mediated power to his witnesses” EVERYWHERE – in offices, homes, schools, factories, shops, streets, clubs, pubs… the church is being led into “the witness box” where it will give testimony to the unconquerable fact that the shed blood of Christ has cleansed heaven and earth.
Tears of Lordship Lessons from life of Joseph	Becoming a wise and godly person of power to supply the needs of the deprived on the earth is a very attractive model. This article addresses a neglected dimension of the of Joseph, his profuse weeping. Interestingly his weeping happend after Joseph was elevated to the highest office in the land.
The Spirit of Elijah	One young aboriginal woman said to me, “You see these young men wandering the streets of Belmont, they all have the same problem, none of them have fathers.” The lack of fatherly influence is more evidence in Australia than other nations. May be that we have inherited this trait from our convict past. Sadly, the Church in Australia has failed to address this problem. Pastoral visits to homes and workplaces of parishioners are becoming less frequent then in the past. This is a poor reflection of God as an interested Father. The reviving of the spirit and power of Elijah is the divine solution to these problems.