Over the years since meeting Christ, we’ve heard Christian music getting better and better, loads of great songs and bands arising. Yet so often, the music sounds derivative of popular culture. Or it all starts to sound the same as each other Christian band, as the musicians emulate each other in style and form.

Christian film and television has followed popular world trends, trying to compete alongside it; but under-budgeted, unsupported, so often not as good as what the world offers. Christian video games and cartoons, similar: not competing with the creativity we’re seeing on the non-Christian channels and shelves.

Of the seven mountains of the world (a teaching by Lance Walnau: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbGnJd9poc – education, government, media, etc.), whenever Christians have tried to compete to ‘take over’ the mountain to seat Christ at the top, we often fall short of the glory of God. We seem to make feeble attempts at emulating world culture, but with a Christian flavour or language. 

We continue to make Christian products that the world doesn’t want or need, and we wind up having to sell them to ourselves. We all say, ‘Wow, that’s good!’ but I’m not sure we really mean it, and that we’re not instead just pulling the wool over our eyes, justifying Christianese and our church lifestyle to make ourselves feel better in light of the world rejecting us and our culture.

Culture is the culprit. 

In science, a culture is a bit of bacteria or whatever that one grows in a closed environment.

Are we Christians making ourselves more and more insular, closing ourselves to the world that we claim we need to embrace? Are we trying to just add some Christianese to worldly things, making inferior stuff, and then wondering why no one is buying into Jesus as a result?

Are we pretending that we are not hurt by the constant rejections of the world that we are supposed to be reaching out to and affecting. So we seem to do and say and make things that help justify us staying in our closed environment, where our culture remains supposedly safe and unchallenged (from within).

Perhaps we are not meant to be following and emulating the world at all…

Perhaps we are meant to be going in and out of heaven and asking Papa for blueprints for things that are truly of Heaven’s culture, and then bringing those plans down and creating them here on Earth. Like Moses did when he received the plans for the tabernacle and all the items therein. Like David did when he built the first temple.

Shouldn’t we be the most creative and innovative culture on Earth? Because we are our Father’s children, bringing true heavenly Kingdom Culture to Earth. Shouldn’t we be setting the trends that all the world greedily desires?

I put it to you, that so long as we continue to intellectually attempt to win the world, that we are going to fail miserably, and remain a bacterial closed Christian culture.

But when we begin to embrace the things of heaven, the things of the spirit, then we will begin to be forerunners. We will begin to set the trends. We will begin to release the true culture of heaven, the true Kingdom Culture on earth.

And everything that we create will be salt, and create a thirst for more… 

And the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord will fill the Earth…

And every tribe and every tongue will bow down and confess Jesus is Lord…

Please hear my heart on this. I don’t want to criticize Jesus’s Bride.

Please hear my heart to encourage the Church for change…

Be encouraged. Be empowered. Be delivered.

Glory Company 

Enjoy!:

The Glory Company Band leads worship  monthly at our own worship events, Glory Parties and at other conferences and events (such as Company of Burning Hearts, Spirit-Body-Soul events, Glory Fest, etc).

You can find a load of free live music here on our Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/glorycompany

The band is currently Matthew on guitar, vocals and sometimes keys, and Pearl on BVs, though we are regularly joined by Jon on trumpet and djembe, Craig on drums, James Westie on drums/djembe/vox/keys/loops (or prophetic mixing!), and Dan or James H on guitar/bass/vox. Papa is definitely forming a set band that’s able to play spontaneous prophetic music, as well as to play the songs that are soon to be released on Glory Company’s first album.

The music varies from joyful praise to deep sombre throne room worship. 

The first Glory Company Band worship album is currently in the final mixing stages. Watch this space.

We keep meeting wounded Christians who’ve been hurt and oppressed by their leaderships. The people differ, but the circumstances often sound the same.

The love of Jesus is preached in words, but Law, subtle or overt, is often in action in these places.

We understand why it is:  

Law seems to maintain order, making it easier to protect the flock and manage the congregation and the system. But in prescribing the rules in this way, a heavy hand is laid down as the rules are imposed. And law and legalism replace love and honour and trust.

Those imposing the law are probably not aware of what they’re doing. They are just doing what’s always been done as far back as anyone can remember. They are innocent of being conscious of operating under a wrong motive because they are doing as they’ve been taught or copying the norm as its seemingly always been.

But what they are repeating comes from a long history of governing out of a system created by man. It is a form of control. If we all obey these rules, we will have something that seems like unity, that brings peace to the procession. But in actuality, what is being demanded is not unity but conformity.

What happens to those who do not tow the line exactly as it is laid down? 

Follow the rules: all is well; we are all one, united in ‘love’; we can all get along together in peace and harmony… 

Deviate from the rules: the society as we know it (and like it) is endangered. Carrying on will result in exile; withdrawal of love and relationship; because ‘you’re making the sheep nervous’… 

When the Israelites met at Mount Sinai, God invited them ALL up the mountain, not just Moses. But out of unhealed mindsets, the people opted to send Moses as a representative, and traded direct face to face relationship with their Father of Glory for a list of rules to follow. They traded Love for Law.

When Jesus came, He came to restore Love as the highest law.

So, what happened?

In the early Acts church, they lived in each others houses, met daily, ate together, prayed together, shared all that they had for the good of the community. It was early. There weren’t established ‘rules’ that had been set out by some council, dictating how things would go. 

Surely, without rules, there was a potential for complete chaos…?

Yet there wasn’t chaos, but harmony. The law of love governed them. And something arose in their midst to prevent this freedom from getting out of hand.

Honour arose.

Honour is not ‘do as I say, and we’ll get along fine’. That’s a perverted form of unbiblical submission.

Honour is the thing that arises out of love, a compulsion to be good to each other ‘written on our hearts’ by love for one another. Submission to one another, as Christ loves the Church.

Honour creates trust between people. We love each other, so we act honourably towards one another, deferring to one another out of love, and trust arises as a result…

Is it perfect? No. It’s messy where there are many sheep.

But if we can get over the illusion that we are in control of anything, it is worth trying to live this way, the way of love, honour and trust…

Will some people make mistakes, out of their own unhealed hearts and perceptions? Yes. But when it happens, the love for one another means that we can talk about what happened, try to identify why it happened so that we can heal the root cause, and then move on to try again so that love can continue to flow and trust be given a chance to rebuild again.

Much of the leadership structures that currently exist in the church, the reason why people are getting hurt and squashed by leaders, is because we’ve been following a Roman model that was instilled much later in church history to create a system of order, to control the masses to make it easier to maintain order.

Leaders are not meant to control. Leaders are meant to govern, like Jesus, as servant kings, leading by example, by love, honouring, entrusting, and fathering.

Fathering. This is the way of love. This is the way of Jesus. Giving people the benefit of the doubt to choose their own path, even if they might make choices differently than the leader is at first comfortable with…

Why did the Israelites not go up the mountain for a face to face relationship with the Father?

Because fear came upon them. When they saw the awesome lightnings and dark cloud of God, deep down they knew they could hide nothing from Him. They knew how ugly they each were at a heart level and knew God would see. In fear, they hid behind Moses, rather than have to face the truth of themselves and allow God to change them at the heart level. In their insecurity, they chose rules over relationship. They denied a chance to be healed by God Himself as a result. They left themselves in messy darkness instead of embracing Light.

Fathering people is the only way to bring people to a place of love and security where they are willing to surrender self out of humility, look realistically at themselves, and thus allow the healing process to begin.

So long as leaders continue to lord over congregations, operating from Law instead of love and honour, people are going to continue to hide from relationship, unhealed, and continue to get hurt in the process. Leaders will continue to see the mess caused and default back to Law in order to maintain the illusion of control, trapped in a negative downward spiral of hurt and oppression. 

But when we as a Church make the quantum leap of operating out of love, instilling a culture of honour to keep the actual peace, not fearing the messes when they come because we know that Love Himself will rule out; people will stop hiding, get healed at a heart level, learn to love others as Christ loves the Church, and the world will begin to know that we are Christians by our love.

Even leaders might begin to feel safe and secure and loved enough to look at themselves honestly, to get healed in their own hearts so they can be better leaders.

Be encouraged. Be empowered. Be delivered.

Glory Company 

Sharnael is a dynamic Kingdom minister of the Word of God and Biblical Divine Health. Sharnael has a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, She is an expert in Pure Essential Oils for the purpose of healing. Dr. Wolverton continues to study, learn, research and teach biblical ways to Kingdom health.

The event is open to anyone who might be interested in the correlation between quantum physics and physical healing, but delivered in a really cool and lively style. No sleeping here.

Sharnael is also an incredible facilitator of the supernatural. Her heart is to see God’s people realize their personal destinies and walk in the fullness of those destinies including mind, body and Spirit. . She also moves strongly in the prophetic and in signs and wonders and possesses an anointing for breakthrough. 

You can read more at her website: www.swiftfire.org 

3 Sessions: 10:00 am, (tea break), 12:30 pm, (nice long break for a hot meal) and 6:00 pm.

Glory Company worship at the first and last sessions.

The event is free with  love offerings at the first and last sessions.

There will be a Young Living oil stall, and a merchandise table with Sharnael’s teachings, maybe even a book stall.

Bring your sick, your weary! Bring out your dead! Let’s get them all healed and resurrected with Dr Sharnael’s vibrant brand of Kingdom ministering!

Hope to see you all there!

Be encouraged! Be empowered! Be delivered! Be healed!

Glory Company

We had so much fun making the video, we decided to share it solo, and perhaps launch us into more videos in the future.

Enjoy!

Be encouraged. Be empowered. Be delivered.

Glory Company 

Just updated the events page with some changes to event dates and times.

2013 Events Diary!

Very exciting year ahead forming up already! So get out your diaries and save some dates!

May 25: 

All Day Glory Party/Teaching with Dr Sharnael Wolverton of Young Living and author of upcoming book Quantum Healing: 2 morning sessions at 10 am and 12 pm, then evening from 6pm onwards.

Jun 15: 7:00 pm (starting a little earlier to make time…)

Glory Party with Justin Abraham and Company of Burning Hearts team

Jul 20: Glory Party: 7:30pm

Aug 17: Glory Party: 7:30pm

Sep 21: Glory Party: 7:30pm

Oct 18-19: 

Poss 2-day Glory Party with Adrian Beale and Adam Thompson, authors of dream interpretation book The Divinity Code

 Nov 16:  Glory Party: 7:30pm

If you would like Glory Company team for worship or ministering (or both) – please contact us at

info@glory-company.com

Is Sunday-only enough? Is reading your bible daily enough? Is praying daily a list of intercessory prayers enough? Is anything you do enough…? Are you ‘playing church’, performing some form of script that you’ve learned to do to be a part of the kingdom…

Or do you know Him… personally?

Do you feel CLOSE to God, and feel Him close to you? 

Do you want to know Him personally? And be aware consciously of the fact that you are fully known…

To walk with Him like Abraham, Moses, David, Enoch, Jesus…? 

At recent Glory Party with Justin Abraham, after a rollicking time of worship and glory in the throne room, Justin spoke from his heart about his personal experiences pursuing God at any cost, finding that the one he was pursuing was suddenly pursuing him… This is a man who knows Jesus from personal experience and is happy to share what he’s gleaned thus far along his personal journey. We are grateful for his input into our own journeys.

Deeply saturated with the bliss, this session expands on the joy and groaning tears of the pursuit of the presence and deep wells of God himself.

The inspirational song at the end of the Podcast is from the Prayer Room live feed at iHOP in Kansas. Visit http://www.ihopkc.org/prayerroom/ 

For more on Justin Abraham visit www.companyofburninghearts.com

At recent all-day Glory Party with Justin Abraham, Justin taught on this particularly favorite topic of ours: The Great Cloud of Witnesses.

Encountering the Cloud is a scriptural thing, little discussed in the normal church setting. Jesus, on the Mount of Transfiguration, clearly meets with two historical figures who seem to be very much alive. Many of the great saints of history whom we love and admire claim to have met with interesting historical figures in dreams and visions and waking encounters… Could it be? Are we dismissing, and thus missing, a potentially important part of our Christian walk…?

Exciting revelatory teaching on engaging the realm of Heaven, moving up the spiral of revelation, journeying, and encountering the cloud of witnesses.

For more from Justin Abraham visitwww.companyofburninghearts.com orwww.companyofburninghearts.podomatic.com

Just putting Event Post change up here.

We were meant to be having Dr Sharnael Wolverton (www.swiftfire.org) next weekend, March 16th, for an all day Glory Party speaking on Quantum Healing Glory. However, Papa’s changed our plans so they align better with His plans. So we’re postponing Sharnael until the end of May.

As we have the venue all day, instead, we’ve decided to have an all day Glory Party with mystic mentoring from Justin Abraham of Company of Burning Hearts (http://companyofburninghearts.wordpress.com/) .

This will be a time to worship in the joy, soak in His presence, and have Justin speak into us from his own experiences to help us all delve a little deeper into the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The bible tells us that the mystic secret is Jesus Christ. So a day of mentoring will be a day of deeper revelation of who He is in us, with some practical words on how to engage with Him, plus time to practice it on the day.

As we have all day, we’ll do a leisurely start at 11 am, then a long meal break, and start back up again at 6:30 pm.

Come one, come all. Bring out your dead. Come all you who are tired, weary, hungry, thirsty… Come drink from the well that never runs dry…

Free event, and we’ll take a love offering.

Very looking forward to it! Blessings! See you there!

Glory Company 

Sharnael is a dynamic Kingdom minister of the Word of God and Biblical Divine Health. Sharnael has a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, She is an expert in Pure Essential Oils for the purpose of healing. Dr. Wolverton continues to study, learn, research and teach biblical ways to Kingdom health.

The event is open to anyone who might be interested in the correlation between quantum physics and physical healing, but delivered in a really cool and lively style. No sleeping here.

Sharnael is also an incredible facilitator of the supernatural. Her heart is to see God’s people realize their personal destinies and walk in the fullness of those destinies including mind, body and Spirit. . She also moves strongly in the prophetic and in signs and wonders and possesses an anointing for breakthrough. 

You can read more at her website: www.swiftfire.org 

3 Sessions: 10:00 am, (tea break), 12:30 pm, (nice long break for a hot meal) and 6:00 pm .

Glory Company worship at the first and last sessions.

The event is free with  love offerings at the first and last sessions.

There will be a book stall, a Young Living oil stall, and a merchandise table with Sharnael’s teachings.

Bring your sick, your weary! Bring out your dead! Let’s get them all healed and resurrected with Dr Sharnael’s vibrant brand of Kingdom ministering!

Hope to see you all there!

Be encouraged! Be empowered! Be delivered! Be healed!

Glory Company