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How Can I Know God?
But what does this mean?
The first thing we need to do is to acknowledge that no matter how good we think we are, we cannot compare to the glory of God and His righteousness. We can’t do anything to earn a relationship with God, or His love.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
God wants us to be in His Kingdom, He has given us the gift of eternal life, we can either choose to go to heaven and spend eternity in His presence or we can choose to live in eternal suffering.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
He has made a way for anyone, and everyone to know Him, that way is through believing His Son, Jesus, who’s undeserving death paid the price for us to have eternal life with God.
Romans 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
As a first step to knowing God, wherever you are right now, you can make this prayer:
Thank you God that you love me.
Thank you for sending Your Son Jesus to die in my place.
I want to say how sorry I am for my sin and wrong doing.
Please forgive me, and make me clean of all guilt.
I believe in Jesus and that He rose from death, and is alive today.
Jesus, You are my Lord and Saviour.
Please fill me with your Holy Spirit, so I can live a new life for You.
‘One prayer, it can’t be that simple, can it?!
God loves to answer simple prayers, simple people, simple faith. It’s easier to know God through an honest heart, than an intellectual mind!
Now that you’ve made this response to God’s love, get to know God by building your relationship with Him alongside other believers. Our relationships with God are not exclusive, or private, but to be shared together. So why not come and join us on a Sunday, or at our mid-week Wednesday get-togethers. You’re in for the most exciting adventure of your life!
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SCHOOL OF THE WORD
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We have our family service each Sunday from 11am.
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Oasis City Church
PO Box 2198
Watford
WD18 1EF
England
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We support many ministries and minister around the world, we firmly believe in building local churches and communities, Ps Steve has made several trips to India and is personally interested in the mentoring and upkeep of some of the young men out there.
Ps Steve is also planning many more trips out on the mission fields, please visit the mission page for further details. These trips are essential to the growth of many individuals and bring valuable insight into many churches across the globe.
Oasis City Church are also aiming for a building for the 24/7 dream centre, the intention is to have this centre open around the clock for 24/7 prayer, praise and worship, counseling and teaching along with the facilities to encourage fellowship.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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Vision
Oasis City Church is an Apostolic, non-denominational
Kingdom Church Family.
Reaching London, Europe and the World,
through establishing and planting churches.
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OCC Foundational Core Values
1) Understanding and living in the six major foundational blocks established apostolically.
• Repentance
• Faith towards God
• Doctrine of baptisms
• Laying on of hands
• Resurrection of the dead
• Eternal judgement
2) Understanding and living in the New Covenant of the Kingdom
• God
• Marriage
• Local Church
3) Understanding and living in economic empowerment and financial breakthrough in marriage, family and business.
4) Understanding and living in the power of God in evangelism, miracles, missions and money.
5) Understanding and living in the devotional life of worship, prayer, fasting and study.
6) Understanding and living in discipleship, teaching and training in Life Groups.
7) Understanding and living in submission, honour and respect to authority.
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Missions
The OCC is a Missions Church. We have a heart for London, Europe and the World. In the last 2 years alone Pastor Steve has ministered in Fiji, India, Africa, America, Holland and Spain… Seeing many miracles of healing and many people making a first time commitment to Jesus. We desire that everyone in the church has a chance to visit and impact the mission field, to grasp God’s heart for people around the World.
(Mark 16:15-20)
We have links with many churches worldwide and benefit from their Apostolic Leadership. We often visit them to support and complement their ministries, as well as receiving them in the OCC to impart something of what God is doing in their country - to build and encourage His people in London.
Missions throughout 2009!
Dear all,
Oh what joy to have had the most amazing two weeks of my life ministering once again in my homeland of New Zealand.
Right from the outset God has been so faithful in opening up some amazing opportunities for me to minister in New Zealand and connecting me with some truly awesome servants of God and of all the ministry trips I have had to New Zealand, this was undoubtedly far beyond my expectations, it was simply the best.
It was quite a busy schedule, but it was remarkable how every day seemed to be a day full of divine appointments and surprisingly the 2 weeks went by very quickly as I ministered in Pastor Peter and Bev’s church City Impact Church in Auckland, David and Suzanne’s church Elevate in Auckland, Ps Toby and Anna Collins in Hamilton, Ps Malachi from CMF Fiji and Ps Lee’s church from Korea, also a tremendous pastors conference with about 80 pastors from New Zealand and finally finishing off with Ps Brent Douglas at Encounter in Auckland and then home via Hong Kong.
During this time, the Lord’s anointing was so heavy at times that I was overwhelmed with His presence and a fresh desire to seek Him. All of my meetings had a definite manifest presence of God resulting in salvations, healings and impartation.
God gave me prophetic words in New Zealand that during the next ten years there would be three major moves of God, I felt that God wanted to stir up a second wave of 24/7 365 Davidic worship from New Zealand back to other nations and much of my preaching focussed on stirring a new zeal for New Zealand in the areas of 24/7 intercession, 24/7 worship and of course 24/7 soul winning evangelism. Often the Holy Spirit teaches you as you go along but a real burden has come upon my heart to believe for fresh waves of God’s glory to follow the preaching of His Word. This of course was confirmed by Bill Subritzky who on two occasions spent considerable time praying for me by phone, this was a most significant time. For those who know Bill Subritzky, he has an incredible ministry, and the prophetic words and the ministry he imparted to me will cause me to never be the same again.
I was also able to catch up with many friends and had a significant time with the mayor of Auckland, John Banks, who was an old friend from the days when I ran Tony’s restaurants. It has become apparent to me that although I have been out of the nation for 12 years I am still a New Zealander at heart, I hope to be returning soon and John Banks has offered his help in my bid to obtain a New Zealand passport.
All in all, I am certain that the Lord has given me an assignment for New Zealand and I am coordinating with some of the Pastors for a return visit as many other pastors that I have known from the past with large networks wanted me to minister except there were not enough days.
Significantly I had preached on the waves of God at the Ps conference and prior to leaving I received an invitation to preach in Samoa next year, as I left New Zealand a tsunami wave of destruction hit Samoa. Almost immediately I heard the Holy Spirit say that before God sends His best the devil tries too send his worst. I will definitely be accepting that invitation and look forward to Gods restoration of His glory over Samoa. Pleas pray that I will be able to accept that invitation.
I noticed that there are changes in New Zealand, years ago it was unusual to find large churches but now there is a fresh break through over the nation and I can only see unprecedented growth and favour coming out of New Zealand for the next 10 years, with the purpose of New Zealand releasing back into Europe and other nations anointed missionaries to carry the fresh move of God.
I returned home in time to celebrate my 50th birthday in some style where I was picked up from my home in a massive stretch limo and whisked off to a sumptuous meal. My church has given us a first class ticket on the Eurostar to Paris and 2 nights in a five star hotel and one family have given us an all expenses paid trip to Portugal. All in all turning 50 has been a positive experience. My first Sunday back in Watford, I was carrying a heavy impartational anointing and the glory of the Lord fell.
My family are all well with my wife becoming more and more beautiful each day and with the children all showing signs of growing and developing in their own ways but also growing in their relationships with the Lord.
I am now off to L.A. for a large men’s conference and then down to minister in San Antonio, Texas.
There are clips about my trip to New Zealand trip on our website.
Thank you to every one who has prayed for us.
Steve Maile
Dear all,
This past weekend I was able to be with Alan Woodhouse and the Aylesbury Vale Community Church. Alan is a dear brother who I have been working with for 20 years, when he started his church in Aylesbury with his wife and son they must have had no more than 20-30 people. I can remember going there and stirring the church up for evangelism and preaching in their town centre with one guitar and a microphone. In those early days it was tough work with not much fruit, on one occasion I can remember preaching in a small service and 14 people responded to Gospel that night.
Well, it is amazing what God can do, yesterday, we had a big outreach in the town centre, the church has now grown to more than 200 members with several Church plants, they had a full band, stalls, clowns, games for children, free lamb roast, food and drinks.
It was a wonderful time and of course I had the opportunity to preach the Gospel. Literally hundreds heard the message, 11 people responded directly and I had the joy of praying for half a dozen or more people for divine healing. The first time I preached it must have been convicting one person so much that he pulled the plug out of my microphone, undeterred I continued on and the second time I preached we saw an even greater response. As people joined hands in the street and the power of God literally swept over that place, one woman who was an alcoholic was saved and delivered right there in the street.
My son Danny came with me and took plenty of photos but the most encouraging thing was to see that whenever the Gospel is preached it truly brings freedom and liberty to a city.
Colossians 1:6 which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
After I had preached the Gospel, the Holy Spirit was just hovering over the place ready to confirm the Word, the whole atmosphere changed, the joy, the singing, the unity amongst Christians and most importantly the lost that were being prayed for and ministered to, and the sick being healed was incredible. In fact for a small moment it was hard to believe this was England which shows that God has not forgotten Europe and he wants a tangible visible expression of Christianity in every town and every city.
We need to pray for Pastors, to open the doors up again for evangelists to come in and to stir up the saints for soul winning and also to lead the saints in the work of sharing the Gospel
Please continue to pray for me and our church family as we continue to minister across the Body of Christ.
Last week the churches in Dubai invited me to go back for a week to preach the Gospel and to also visit Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, I also spoke with a Pastor from Belgium who has five Church plants and would like me to come and do the same there.
Bless you all; please stay in touch, love and blessings
Steve
Pastor Steve is now available in your area for preaching/evangelism/seminars/leadership training/pastors conferences.
Auckland, New Zealand
Between 10th - 30th September 2009 Pastor Steve returned to his one-time homeland and during that time he linked up with Pastors David & Suzanne Collins. He had a fresh zeal to see the power of God manifest from the snow top mountains, to the turquoise ocean lapping shores!
Pastors David & Suzanne have an extensive 34 year history of missions and church planting, having travelled the length of the country, as well as planting in Fiji and the USA. Now based in Auckland, they launched a new ministry ‘Elevate’ in 2008, with a mandate ‘to exalt Jesus Christ in the city of Auckland so that people everywhere experience the joy of pursuing God’s highest purposes for their lives.’
Why not visit their Website: www.elevateauckland.co.nz
If anyone would like to support Pastor Steve’s missions through prayer and finances please contact us!
Missions coming up!
Córdoba, Argentina
Tanzania, Africa
Seoul, Korea
San Antonio and Los Angeles, USA
India and Dubai, Asia
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Meet the Pastors
Steve and Karina Maile are the founders and senior pastors of OCC. They are also the parents of four beautiful children: Celeste, Daniel, Hannah and Joel.
Steve and Karina have travelled extensively, equipping Churches globally. Steve’s ministry is characterised by straightforward preaching. He is a humorous and gifted communicator to young and old alike, often with signs and wonders accompanying his message. Steve became a Christian in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1979, being Mentored and Pastored by Dr Kevin Dyson. Soon after entering the ministry, he travelled through Asia, Europe, Africa, India, South and Central America, Australasia, USA and the British Isles.
Who We Are
The OCC was founded in August ‘99 (initially in the Pastors home).
Dr Kevin and Joy Dyson blessed and set Pastors Steve and Karina as Senior Pastors.
We want to grow in God and grow in number with quality men and women of God!
We have planted a church in Oxford (Visit their website), Barcelona and Argentina. We have School of the Word on Wednesday evenings and prayer meetings throughout the week, more details can be found at the Sunday meetings.
We are an Oasis in the midst of an Urban Desert!
True Stories
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Nathan’s story
Have you ever been looking for a new job, or house, and walked in through the door to be met by that assured feeling of this is the one, perfect? That’s how it was for me coming to Oasis City Church in 2004, like a home coming.
Having moved down to London to meet new musicians and further my chances in the music business, I was prompted to call an old friend of my brothers’, James, to see if he could further my opportunities. All I can remember from the conversation was his insistence that I come along to ‘this awesome church.’ I’ve never looked back!
Oasis City Church is definitely the church today for the people of tomorrow. If ever a generation needed guts, heart, leadership, friendship, character, it’s this one. Oasis City Church has been the catalyst in my life for all these things. The sense of family and belonging is hard to describe, but I know that the encouragement and love that I share in this church is a solid foundation for whatever my future holds. Vision for the future is exactly what I’ve found here. Such a sense of purpose and direction.
There are so many things for me to get involved in, from music to football, youth work to missions abroad. I’m more fulfilled than ever, and I’mjust hungry for more. There are so many reasons these days to avoid church. But if God created us and knows everything about us, then His church should be the most real, relevant and exciting place to go in any city. A place for every diversity of person. Oasis City Church is the closest thing I know to this. I invite you to walk through our doors just once, and see what it could mean to you.
Linda’s story
As a woman I was desperate to be loved and appreciated. A desire for this took me into a string of destructive relationships with men. Each relationship I entered into became more and more unsatisfying, leaving me with no respect for myself or men.
Six years ago visiting a dear friend, I was introduced to a young lady who introduced me to Jesus. She spent a whole year preaching the gospel to me until I decided to go to church. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away, behold all things have become new!”. I can honestly say that this scripture has become real to me.
My life has completely turned around. I know now that everything I need is in Christ. God is now restoring in my life all the things that the devil has stolen from me: Joy, Peace, Womanhood… I cannot imagine my life without my Wonderful Jesus, because of Him I have a brand new life in Jesus!
Ben’s story
As an unbeliever I thought I was a pretty good person. I was married to a lovely lady whom I met at university. I had a secure job as a school teacher and owned my own home. I became the British and world natural bodybuilding champion and achieved professional status in the sport. However even with all this I felt depressed in my heart, I would wake up each morning wanting to stay in bed and not face the world. I hated the state of the world and felt powerless to change the way things were. I wanted to know my true purpose, I knew there was a yearning in my heart to know where I came from and to know where I was headed.
My younger brother had been a Christian for several years and invited me to his local church on a number of occasions. Each time I made an excuse not to go. I had debated with him about religion and thought because I was a ‘good’ person I would go to heaven. I also thought that different religions were different pathways to heaven and God.
One evening my brother called and my wife answered the phone, during the conversation he invited us to his church. After the call my wife asked me if we could go to his church - O.C.C. and I agreed to go. When we got there, we were both warmly welcomed; it was like another world, everyone was so genuinely loving and caring. We both accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and personal saviour that day.
Since becoming a Christian and attending O.C.C. my life has changed radically. The depressed feeling I had went and I have a greater sense of purpose. ‘He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he wants.’ Basically true contentment for me came when I received Jesus into my life. Even though I had a beautiful wife, nice car and good job (not to mention I was the British Natural Bodybuilding champion) I was still not content. I believe that there is a God shaped hole in our hearts that can only be filled by God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the bible, 1 Timothy 6:6, tells us that Godliness with contentment is great gain. I believe that true contentment comes only with having a relationship with the Living God.
O.C.C. is a true church family. The teaching at O.C.C. has helped me to develop my relationship with God, I am beginning to understand what true love is. Before becoming a Christian I lusted my wife, I now love her. No one can know true love if you do not know God. 1 John 4:8, tells us that God is Love. God loves everyone and wants to have a relationship with everyone which is why He gave His only begotten son to die on a cross for us all - John 3:16. I thought all religions were a pathway to God, I now know in my heart that Jesus is the only way we can get to God and heaven - John 14:6.
James’ story
I was brought up in a Christian home, and was taken to Sunday school from a young age, but I could never understand what made the adults ‘endure’ a Sunday morning church service when there were so many other more fun things to be doing. As soon as I was old enough I stopped going…
Although I always believed in God, it wasn’t until I was 17 when I heard about the power of the Holy Spirit and the fact that you could have a personal relationship with Jesus, and that He is still performing miracles today. When I realised that EVERYTHING changed. I now have a peace that I know that God is in control of my life and a joy of living with Him everyday. I have witnessed and experienced many miracles since which I cannot explain with science. There are still ups and downs but I am no longer living for myself but Him.
I joined O.C.C. in 2001, and was amazed at the Pastor’s anointing to Preach. I am challenged week after week, and I wouldn’t change that for the world. God has done so much in my life since being a part of this ministry, and I am excited about what is ahead!
Claire’s story
I was taken along to Sunday school from a young age, but when I was given the opportunity to choose for myself I saw it all as boring and irrelevant. I still believed in God and liked to call myself a ‘Christian’, however my life didn’t reflect this and it was definitely a life of compromise. I chose to believe the parts of the Bible that I liked, and ignored the parts that challenged me! I used to defend the Christian faith, and people used to call me a hypocrite because I said one thing and did another - how right they were!
At 18 I left home for University and I found myself drifting further and further away from God. It was only when I came up against some frightening situations that I found myself searching for more to life. With an emptiness and loneliness that I was denying I gradually began to talk to God again, but I had a stubborn heart and refused to change my lifestyle and surrender to God. I thought He was a kill-joy and was angry with me so why would I want to follow an angry God?!
After 3 years I moved to London and a close friend invited me to go to Church. I kept making excuses until one day she asked me if I was frightened to go because it would mean changing my lifestyle and making some big decisions that I wasn’t willing to face! It was like a knife was pushed through my heart as that was exactly my situation! The next week I agreed to go to a cell group - a small group of people from the Church meeting in someone’s home during the week. (The leader of this group later became my husband!) As soon as I walked through the door I felt the love of Jesus, not the angry God I had conjured up in my head. I started to cry, releasing tears from years of loneliness and anxiety. That night I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit that was more real to me than the people around me!! I could no longer ignore the call that God was making on my life.
The next Sunday I went to O.C.C. and felt like I had walked into my ‘home’. I gave my heart to the Lord Jesus Christ that morning…and I have never been the same since! My language changed, my lifestyle changed, the desires of my heart changed and I can honestly say it is the best decision I have ever made!
As time goes on I can feel the reality and presence of the Lord in my life stronger every day and I am amazed at what He’s doing in my life. O.C.C. is like my second home and my second family! God is there - it’s a part of His worldwide Church! God has used Pastor Steve & Karina as an abundant blessing in my life and my growth in the things of God and the non-compromising stance that O.C.C. takes is a tribute to the Spirit of God and how real He is!
I can’t thank the Lord enough for not leaving me where I was…but taking me onward and upward in Him, forgiving me of my sins and having a plan for my future that’s full of hope! Surrendering to Jesus is the best thing anyone can ever do! ‘If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved’ Romans 10:9.
Lou’s story
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My life before I became a Christian was full of pride, pride and more pride. Everything came easily – money, girls, work and anything else I fancied YET I still was not happy because I was never content with what I had – UNTIL the beginning of 1999.
Whilst on a contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon, I heard Pastor Steve Maile preaching and he spoke right into my heart. Right there and then I knew I had to change my way of life. I gave my life to Christ the last Sunday in August 1999.
More has happened in my life over the past few years than ever before. I now feel a strong sense of belonging to my Church, my Church family, and my Heavenly Father. - Now my wife Catharine is the greatest blessing in my life to date. Oasis City Church has challenged me to become more of a man and leader - which when lived according to Biblical standards isn’t easy. I am stretched and tested every week! Before O.C.C. I would never have considered full-time ministry. Now I am patiently excited in the prospect of one day serving God full time with my wife!
Niazi’s story
Like thousands of people in England, I have been a ‘Christian’ in name for as long as I can remember. If an official asked me for my religion I would say Christian. If asked to swear an oath, I would elect to swear on the Bible. In truth, by the time I had come to the end of university, the only belief I would have firmly defended would have been the notion of a Supreme Being - God, if you will - who had created the universe. After all, the scientists couldn’t account for how it had all started, they couldn’t create or explain creation, but they could, it seemed, account for everything else.
Besides, I was a successful law student, heading for a lucrative career. I had come a long way on my own talents. Ahead of me was a lifetime of achievement and acquisition. I was going to have a wonderful life, filled with lovely experiences and expensive things. The churches of England were places where I had listened to and sung beautiful choral music, but I hadn’t found answers to life’s questions there. I already knew that Christianity in truth was a relationship with a living God, not a ‘religion’ in the sense of a man-made set of precepts, ideals and ceremonies. But I wasn’t about to ‘follow Jesus’, that, surely, meant giving away everything I had and becoming a preacher, cleric, or general do-gooder of some sort. Why would I give up everything for a god I wasn’t sure about?
At the same time, I was exercised by the big questions of life. What was the meaning of life? Why was I here? Would death be the end? I had studied philosophy along with law, and had been fascinated by the theories of humanity and society put forward by men such as Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Hume and Wittgenstein. I had even developed a theory or two of my own. There was plenty of time, though. I was young, death was a long way off, and I had everything going for me.
I hadn’t actually read anything in the Bible for years. I still look back in amazement at how I completely failed to search for answers there, at how I completely failed to consider even reading it critically, ‘testing’ it.
I had been brought up in a Christian family and, during these later times, my family was praying for me. In the second year of my career, my fiancée and I, through my family, encountered two women and one man of God. We heard of their travels, of their experiences, and of the miracles that they had seen. My wife prayed with one of them, was deeply touched, and in my family’s drawing room knelt and repented of all her sins, confessing Jesus Christ as her Lord. As she knelt in tears I, also, was touched. I knew, deep in my spirit, that Jesus was Lord.
For some months that was it. We had both encountered God, but our busy lives hindered us from getting to know Him better. We ‘looked for a church’, however, no one we asked, however close to us or God they were, ‘pushed’ us towards their church or any other. Then, through a series of ‘coincidences’, we came to O.C.C. We had barely been there 5 minutes before it was powerfully confirmed in our hearts that it was God’s place for us.
We continue to be blessed powerfully by God through his works in O.C.C., the teaching of His Word by the pastors, and through the phenomenal worship and fellowship there. We have learned to put God first, instead of ourselves, and in doing so we have come into a fulfilment and joy that the world cannot give. When you choose to make God your god, instead of yourself, you allow Him to guide you in His perfect will for your life, into the perfect destiny He has for you. My wife and I have not become preachers, clerics or charity workers. God hasn’t told us to become those things. I am still a lawyer, and I still aim to make a fortune. The difference is that it is all under God. As He directs me, I will do. His plan for my life is infinitely better than the hit-and-miss path I would have followed by ‘trying to do the right thing’ without Him. When you truly love someone, you desire to know them intimately, you thirst for their company. So it is with God. His Word says that if we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us (James 4:8). I, like millions of others, have found this to be true. God is no liar; He keeps his promises. It’s exactly as Proverbs 3:5-6 says it is:
‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all of your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.’
Life in God is ‘abundant’ life (John 10:10). It is a life of victory, of needs being met, of problems being solved, of emotional and physical healing, of loving and giving, of supernatural peace and joy. God does not impose His perfect will on anyone. Like everyone, I was created with the complete freedom to choose or deny God’s life for me (see Deuteronomy 30:19). Choosing Him was, and always will be, the greatest thing I ever did.
Penny’s story
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We have one service on Sunday, and the details are below.
Sunday Service at 11:00hs
This is our main service, starting with Praise and Worship backed by the Intoxx band. Following that, the dynamic teaching/preaching will keep you on the edge of your seat and will encourage, build and challenge you!!
The full address of where we meet is:
Jurys Inn Watford Hotel,
31 - 35 Clarendon Road, WD17 1JA
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Oasis City Church is a Lively, On-Fire, Kingdom Church: We love God. We love People. We love Life.
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TEACHING FROM PASTORS STEVE AND KARINA MAILE
WHEN DISCIPLINE IN THE CHURCH IS NECESSARY
Discipline is necessary when anything breaks the unity in the church and the fellowship the church has with Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 59: 1-2
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will not hear.
Joshua 7: 10
So the LORD said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.
God wants to send His glory to His church, but He has to clean up His church first.
God has given the church power to execute judgment in certain areas.
1 Corinthians 6:2-3
2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
Matthew 18:15-17
1. “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. (v15)
2. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. (v16)
3. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. (v17)
It is important for there to be unity in the local church. Biblical discipline prevents the spreading of rebellion in the church to others. The greater love of God is that he will leave the 99 to save the 1. Se we should not break fellowship because of one brother or sister who refuses to change but as the bible tells us to leave them unto God. He is the Great Shepherd and He is capable of saving the brother who is in error.
Discipline is always unto restoration never unto condemnation. We must keep our hearts free from offence.
Responsibility of the Church
1. We are our brother’s keeper.
Galatians 6:1-2
1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
2. We must demonstrate that we do not live unto ourselves
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
3. Sin is not insignificant. God is holy, He wants a Holy and powerful church, He makes us holy in our conduct, and then He will release His power.
4. To teach that sin is contagious and must be cured and go into quarantine.
5. Manifestation that the Christian life is a corporate life; involving all of us working together.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
We are to be one; think the same way, do the same things. God wants one body in unity.
The rules of the house are set by the Senior Apostolic minister. When Pastor Steve tells us to pray we pray, when he tells us to lift our hands we lift our hands!
6. Demonstrates strong recognition of membership. There are no lone rangers present.
7. Provides sovereignty of the local church. The church is like the Supreme Court on the earth. Our head is in Heaven: Christ.
8. Provides ground for the church to execute discipline in her own ranks so that God can trust her to execute judgment on the heathen.
2 Corinthians 10:6
and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
WE MUST BE IN AGREEMENT AND ALIGNED WITH GOD
Psalm 16:1-6
1 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD,
“You are my Lord,
My goodness is nothing apart from You.”
3 As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
Nor take up their names on my lips.
5 O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance.
We must remember that our inheritance is rich, undefiled and fades not away. Our Heavenly Father has an inheritance for us. People who do not get that inheritance live on cheese and crackers! Don’t live like a beggar when you are rich. We are often like that; we should believe for more and for bigger. This way we will bear fruit in our old age!
They main question we need to ask is how can we line up with the will of God for our lives. If you think of a large streamliner ship coming into harbour, you will note that there has to be order when it is coming in, otherwise there will be a major incident. Everything we do must be in accordance with the will of God, the Word of God and the work of God; the peace of God must be present and then the circumstances have to line up. We must walk by faith and not by presumption. We have to grasp it and keep praying – we will then be able to see that God has done it! When you delight yourself in the Lord He will give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Three principles that will change you forever:
1. Principle of Agreement (Covenant)
2. Principle of Alignment
3. Principle of Allegiance.
The word equip in the Greek means to set bones in place, to mend something and put a bone into alignment. The first thing we must do is agree with God against ourselves.
Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
You can only walk with God in agreement and you can only walk in a Christian marriage in agreement. The way you treat, walk, and talk with your pastors mirrors your relationship with Jesus. The strongest rope is one with three strands. You must cut covenant, it will not be in place because the pastors have prayed for you! Without a covenant there is divorce. Disagreement comes from the flesh and if you persist it will take you out of the will of God. Also, don’t meddle with someone elses quarrel!
Your disagreement could be in terms of morality – you must agree with God because fornication is out of the will of God. But if you mess up, repent and agree with God quickly!
Alignment must be in these areas:
1. Marriage – we must build according to God’s pattern.
2. Ministry – for example in your serving you used to be focused and come early and now you do not. If this is a bone out of joint it could be painful, but you have to be under fivefold ministry.
3. Your manhood or womanhood
4. Money
5. Management – you could be out of alignment in that you used to read the Word of God and pray. Get back in alignment and make sure you are planted and are at every prayer meeting.
If you hang out with leaders you will become a leader. There is power in your associations.
Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Line up with people of the same quality and substance in God. Do not be unequally yoked. Align yourself with people on fire for God and who are wise with character and influence.
When there is allegiance God’s anointing busts out and eight things will be shaken:
1. Governments
2. Apostles will be released to the Body of Christ
3. Miracles are released – they are easy when we are aligned!
4. We will choose to operate in humility
5. There will be unity with our brothers and sisters
6. You will be set in order:
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
7. The Vision is set, boldness is released, businesses are set up, cities are taken and nations affected!
8. You will be released to be the leader, the man and woman of God you are called to be.
THE HEART
The Holy Spirit is saying lets go deeper and press into God.
Luke 6:44-45
44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.
Saul could not find restoration because he never had a covenant but David did. God is restoring us and to do this He must expose the heart. David’s heart was bad due to a twisted identity. There is a deception if you will not allow the Holy Spirit to change you. If you behold Jesus you are like Him. People who look in a still lake and see self are divisive because they are in love with their own reflection. We are to love others more than ourselves – if you are self centred you can’t look at God. The foundation of sin is self.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Don’t seek things and your own desires but seek Him. The foundation of Christ is the Kingdom. People are more concerned about their condition on the earth. David fell into that way of thinking, he should have gone to war but he did not. He had a better heart when he was not promoted to success! He started looking at his own reflection and entered into sin. God is shattering the worship at the broken cistern of poisoned water. What are you drinking? Desire to behold Him, then you will love your husband, your wife, your children and people. We must be alert to the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the boastful pride of life.
Ask God to deal with the heart. We do not know the extent of our heart - we must know that when we sin we sin against God. We have been conceived in sin, not Immaculate Conception! We know that God cover our sin when we repent, but God covers without covering up. We have junk in our trunks and God removes the trash! Crisis is normal and necessary to grow and we go from different levels of growth. Every level draws a new devil. But you have to agree with God against yourself. Admit your sin but know that God will touch you for His glory.
Brokenness is needed for this message to work for you. Do not glory over yourself, this is why people fall. We are special and His chosen people but remember to always worship God. Don’t compare yourself to others who you consider to be worse! If you stand next to Hitler you may seem better, but when you stand next to Jesus – how do you look now? Ask Jesus to cleanse you – there are many things that we worry about that He doesn’t! When we hold onto things it stops us holding onto God. Set your face to seek God and allow Him to solve everything in your life – practice His presence. When you die to self, you live. Let the King have dominion in your life. You can not fool God, the truth will always come out. So look to Him!
FACE TO FACE
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
When we start meditating on the Word of God it changes us. We need to be driven deeper into Christ. Jesus is waiting to have face to face encounters with us. The Lord wants to transform this world with face to face encounters with His people.
Ps Steve had a face to face encounter with the Lord and it changed him and is continuing to change his life.
Romans 15:9-11
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.” And again he says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!” And again: “Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples!”
Jesus chooses yielded vessels like Rahab and Ruth. We have the blood of the Omnipotent One running through us. We are the gentiles who have been grafted in. When you feel as though you have lost all hope, remember that He is the hope of Glory in us. Hope is Holding Onto Promises Eternal in Him.
Jesus has called us uniquely to run a race. Our uniqueness is our finger print and DNA to our destiny. We can only achieve this by having face to face encounters with the Lord; a deep level of intimacy and closeness of relationship.
Jesus had intimacy with His disciples. We need to have a great relationship with the Lord so that we can have a great one with each other. We cannot have the Vertical relationship with the Lord without the horizontal relationship with each other. That is why we are a body and need each other. Jesus went to the Cross for us so we no longer need to hold onto offence. We deal with offences by having face to face with Jesus.
Acts 15:16 -19
‘ After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the LORD who does all these things
We need to enter into the essence of worship. Every addictive nature within us seeks a spirit encounter with God. That is what why were made to have face to face with Him. When you don’t have the face to face truth will always confront us.
1. Living face to face is God’s way of blessing all humanity.
We are saved when we repent of our sins and accept Jesus as our Lord, not through being born into a Christian family or being connected to a church.
We have been indoctrinated into the ways of Christ, we have to let go of those things that prevents our face to face.
2. Psalms of David: Are an integral part of New Testament Worship.
David lived his life by face to face encounters with God. When he took his eyes off Jesus, he lost his face to face. We have to focus on the triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We need to keep topping up on our face to face so the fire does not go out. Practice the presence of God. Jesus practiced everyday. Let it become a discipline until it becomes a delight.
3. The book of James speaks again about the tabernacle of David: Worship
4. New Testament Apostolic Worship will cause a big difference.
5. Pattern for last day encounters: Prepare the pathway for perpetual praise.
CLAIMING YOUR INHERITANCE
We as people of God have to stand in faith and believe that we have an inheritance that will not pass away!
Our inheritance is BIG! It involves finances, people, nations generational wealth, connections to the Apostolic, palaces, commerce, the market place, businesses, new ideas, hidden treasure, sealed treasure, favour, benefits; The list goes on as long as we believe we have an inheritance in Him!
We have to be strong and bold to possess the land. Just like Caleb and Joshua; different spirited people who do not just sit back but who desire and want and take hold of their inheritance.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry, but money answers everything.
Money is necessary as part of our inheritance. It involves the last day transfer of kingdom wealth to the believers in the body of Christ.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
We have to pass on our inheritance and legacy to the next generation as it was passed onto us.
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever!
We are under the dominion of the King of kings. What He owns we own. We are His ambassadors in the earth. We have to think and behave as citizens of the kingdom of Heaven.
Deuteronomy 8:18
And you shall remember the Lord your God for it is He who gives you power to get wealth that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers as it is this day.
This must be ingrained into our spirits. It will pass us by unless we grab a hold of what He has for us. Just like the woman with the issue of blood who needed healing. In faith she reached out and grabbed a hold of what she needed (Jesus) and received her healing.
We have to be in faith and declare what is to be. Not allowing fate to lead but faith.
Our heavenly Father is there to bless us, heal us, deliver us, and cause us to walk in overflow and in destiny.
Psalm 112:3
Wealth and riches will be in his house and his righteousness endures forever.
God wants us to be righteously aligned to Him. When we understand what the transfer of wealth is for, we will know how to steward it.
Principles of Claiming Your inheritance
1. We have to understand that there is no lack with God
He longs to release and restore what belongs to us.
2. We have to understand transfer
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
We cannot enter the kingdom unless we have been granted access. Once we enter we are fused with Him. We cross over from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His light. We have a blood covenant connection. We have been translated/transferred.
We have to understand the transfer, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
3. Kingdom wealth and overflow of inheritance is seeing God face to face.
Romans 8:11
But the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you
As we pursue His face then comes the outworking of our inheritance. He has ordained good works as part of our inheritance.
4. We have to break the poverty mentality of lack
Psalm 66:12
You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through the fire and through the water but you brought us out to rich fulfillment.
He has brought us out to rich fulfillment.
5. We get our inheritance when we press into God
COMING TO A PLACE OF AGREEMENT WITH GOD
Isaiah 61:1-2
1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
Luke 4:18-21
18 “ The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus’ custom was to go church! He did not just attend but He served and was into it. He chose these passages from the Book of Isaiah because He was expressing His agreement with God – He said the scripture had been fulfilled! Dare to believe God. Everything Jesus says has meaning. We say we believe prophecy but when we come to God we have to live in the fear of God and live with an expectant heart – minute by minute. We have to agree with God without reservation, not having a plan b.
Five truths about agreement with God
1. Agreement with God may disagree with people
Ruth disagreed with Naomi but she knew her destiny was there with her. It was beyond Ruth and she agreed with the Spirit of God.
Ruth 4:17
Also the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “There is a son born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
She was not insignificant she agreed with God.
2. Agreement with God may disagree with your plans
Daniel 1:3-4
3 Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles, 4 young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.
The king wanted young people to whom he could teach their culture. Daniel was in Babylon but He did not want to defile himself. Despite the rule of that wicked king he would not eat their food. It was God’s plan, not Daniel’s plan to go there. He still served God and did amazing things in God’s Name: he made the king proclaim the name of the Lord!
3. Agreement with God may mean giving up something
Hannah gave her son to the Lord – but she then went on to have many sons. Samuel became the greatest prophet. The very things that you ask of God you may have to give up. But if God asks you for this it is not for nothing!
4. Agreement with God may disagree with the way you see yourself
Gideon had to change the way he saw himself to agree with God. You could be thinking – well I am not that likeable, I am unfriendly and I have sinned – but forget that and agree with God! The Blood of Jesus that was shed on the Cross covers us and God sees this Blood when He looks at those who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour. When you do not accept you are a new creation in Christ you are saying to the Lord that His Blood is not enough – this is false humility! This insignificant man Gideon, agreed with God.
5. Agreement with God will disagree with how others see you
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
David’s father Jesse did not recognise him – when the prophet came to anoint one of his son’s as king he presented all of his other sons. Even Samuel did not now it was David – God sees the heart not the outward appearance. When you agree with God it will confound people’s minds and this gives glory to God. In God’s greatness He will use us – the most insignificant. God chooses to use weak vessels and not His legion of Angels. Have the same view of yourself that He has of you. Agree with what He wants according to His will, He has done everything so we need to step up to Him and long to see His glory!
THE TRUTH ABOUT PROPHECY
Prophecy is God entering the future; our future to touch our lives. We can grieve the Spirit of God when we rehash our past. God is into our future not our past. We need to have a ‘God perspective’ and picture of who He says we are.
Sometimes people turn back because they cannot see the future, if we camp in our past we cannot move forward. If we do not understand our future we will stay in the past. However kingdom people can see the future and will move forward!
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.
The prophetic word is the releasing of the light, love, revelation, and the DNA of God spoken into us. It must line up with the word of God.
Matthew 24:24
For false christs’ and false prophets will rise and show great wonders to deceive, if possible even the elect.
Acid Tests to prove the validity or falsity of prophetic words
1. Does it agree with scripture? If not be wary and reject it.
God releases in the right time the right word. It will line up with the Word of God. Any word we receive should always line up with scripture. If it does not line up with the Word of God, it is not from God.
All Prophecy needs to be; tested, referenced with scripture and judged.
2. Does it honour and exalt Jesus Christ?
1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed and no one can say that Jesus Christ is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
The more we give ourselves to the Spirit, the more God will give of His Spirit to us. When we receive prophetic words we are to take them seriously. It is a little bit of God speaking into our lives and situations.
1 Timothy 1:18-19
This charge I commit to you son Timothy according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you wage a good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck.
A HEART AFTER DAVID
Luke 5:36-39
36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
We need to be stretched! David had a heart after God but he broke all the commandments in one afternoon! Sin is easily dealt with by a repentant heart towards God. If we really are containers of the New Wine, where are the lost? The lost smell old wine in churches. We need living waters to come out of our belly - the Holy Spirit. People get bruised and battered in the world and then they get bruised and battered at church. This can not be! When you love Jesus you sin less – we are not sinless but we sin less! We need to be containers that can hold the new wine! The old has to go. Whatever you are in the natural could be what is holding you back. Whatever you have been or have done is dung. Don’t glorify the old – old habits need to go.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
We are new creatures in Christ. God will make a new heaven and a new earth. As leaders we all stumble but you have to live with the heart of David that overcomes in the presence of God. The new creates the new! There are new songs, sing a new song to the Lord, there are some that come here and do not walk with us as Pastors because they are unable to take the new wine.
These are the sins we are to avoid:
• The sin of young people is passion
• The sin of middle aged people is pride
• The sin of the old people is prejudice.
If we hold onto old things we become prejudiced. Jesus is the only way, let go of your formula and cultural background because these will not allow the Holy Ghost to flow. The River of God is the life changing history making presence of Jesus in the world today! Put yourself under the Word of God and you will start to flow in this. We are similar to recovering alcoholics because we are also in recovery from sin. Do not mix who you are with what you are becoming because this pollutes the new.
Leviticus 19:19
‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
We want every kind of people in this church – all are welcome from drug dealers to business men. The new wine will fix the old. When you invest in something that is out of order you get no change. If you spend your time in investing what is not God’s you are wasting your time.
The old bursts and splits and such people will run to old wine skins and they cause breakage. So make a decision today and don’t box yourself or God!
