Tribe Byron Bay

Ever feel weary? Or do you feel like giving up? In this message our dear friend and visiting minister, Chris McRae, unpacks some great wisdom and practical encouragement from the book of Hebrews from chapter 12: 1- 3. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” Chris looks at four unique portraits of Jesus Christ from this text that give us a clear picture of who He is in the midst of every opposition: Jesus as finisherJesus as race leader(pioneer) Jesus enduring the cross Jesus with the prize at the end of the ageBe encouraged to see Christ the overcomer in you

Today’s message is a simple encouragement to have a Godly vision for your friendships. We all need great friendships! Friends love and support us and are there for us in hard times. In Christ however, our friends are those who fight for us to fulfil our calling or destiny. They confront us and say, “come on!” or “grow up” or “you’re doing awesome, or you’ve got this!” We all need fun and we need support and all the lovely things that are a by-product of our close connections, but we need comrades who fight for us to be over-comers in the love tests and spiritual battles that are presenting. The downside of friendship can be that we lose our fire when others around us are in hard times. Beloved, we cannot be passive in how we approach this area as our friends are also our influencers. They help us discern, they affect us, and they leave a deposit in our lives. Having a vision for spiritual connection versus the soul realm, is the key for Kingdom people. Watch out for those who are only about their needs or the

God has a dream! His desire is to see apostolic communities emerging all across the globe, filled with on fire radical disciples who join Jesus in His passionate vision to expand His kingdom across the nations. This is central to the prayer of Jesus in John 17. That the world may know and that the world may believe that the Father has sent His Son! This is the “apostolic project” and it hinges upon the establishment of five fold communities arising through the restoration of the five fold ministry. The flourishing of local churches as cities set upon a hill, are central to the fulfillment of God’s dream and He doesn’t have a Plan B. Join Phil in this compelling podcast as he continues the theme of vision in 2022. 

Easter is a time when we as followers of Christ, are once more reminded that God’s ways are not our ways. On the first Easter Sunday Jesus disciples woke up full of grief, thinking and believing that everything they had hoped for in Jesus, their promised messiah, was now lying dead in a tomb. Fortunately for all of us this was not the end of the story. Jesus had risen and he revealed himself to many women and men that day including two disciples as they walked the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus. As they walked Jesus came along side them and set their hearts ablaze as he spoke to them and revealed himself to them in the scriptures. He then he broke bread with them and opened their eyes to the reality that he was indeed alive and risen from the dead. Jesus comes to us in the same way today and walks along side us, in the midst of life and circumstances that we may not fully understand. Out of his great love for us and kindness towards us, he meets with us, reveals himself to us and fills us with his living hope.

The Gospel is the power of God for salvation, and the preaching of the cross is the way into our God given free gift of resurrected life. Our vision must be framed up by this extraordinary reality. We died with Him and are raised with Him anew. As we surrender our lives and pass through the cross, we move from death to life. Jesus had to prepare for many years to go to the cross for us to be made free. He was the sinless one, but he had to learn how to obey the Father. He had to see the joy set before Him and cast out any tendency to go to the “victim mindset” even when falsely accused and rejected. If we want to live in the fullness of the gospel reality, we have to cast out the tendency we all have to be victims instead of trusting God in the process. The Lord has great things for us, and He is pouring out His Spirit in these days to get us ready for even more. Let's keep our eyes on the cross, and although it is offensive to the mind, renew your mind to believe and know that the cross is the power of God f

Life is full of storms! Relational storms, emotional storms, health storms, actual storms, floods, pandemics, earthquakes, wars, fires, tsunamis etc. And there seems to have been a lot of them lately! Our highest priority in the midst of the storms of life is to find God in the storm. David could endure the valley of the shadow of death because he found God in the storm and discovered that God was with him. We know we are finding God in the midst of life’s storms when we experience the comfort of heaven no matter how intense the storm gets. God is present to comfort us in every trial and tribulation but His comfort is found in the context of hearing His intimate voice. As the storms increase with the threat of far worse storms on the horizon, now is the time to build a deep connection with our Father and to access the unlimited comfort He desires to pour out upon us. Join Phil in this journey of finding God in the storm

Special guest Chad Mansbridge joins us today from Bayside Church in South Australia to bring a message of life and hope for those who have suffered death or division in their relationships. God knows what it is like to be the Father of a fractured family, and He has provided the solution to reconciliation through the Gospel—the power of Christ’s death and resurrection life! Beginning in Ephesians 2, Chad then walks us through the meta narrative of Scripture revealing the many causes of broken relationships, before circling back to the themes of resurrection and reconciliation in Ezekiel 37. Find out more about Chad, and his excellent new book ‘You Can Handle the Truth’ at www.chadmansbridge.com

Todays message is part 2 in a series on Grace. Grace is the empowering presence of Jesus. The Kingdom is a kingdom of grace, and we now live in the administration of grace. The old covenant is obsolete in that it wasn’t a Spirit empowered culture. Our new culture in Christ is fully Spirit empowered and Spirit led. God is brilliant at showing us how to live in His grace and stay in His grace. If we lose our way, we just have to come back to what grace is resting on us in a particular seasons. There are of course many spiritual practices that set us up for being empowered: real relationship with God, prayer, the truth in His word, being engaged in worship, communion, impartation as well as being still and resting. Further to that, there are natural joys that God has given to multiply grace such as family times and doing good for others. Another key way of posturing our hearts for more of His Spirit is by dealing with our stuff! Making room internally for more of God by emptying your heart of pain and wounds wil

In this message, Phil continues the series on vision as he explores the topic of cultivating passion for Jesus. Passion is not something we can generate or muster in our own strength. It emerges as a by-product of encountering Jesus’ incredible passion and love for us. Only Jesus can set our hearts ablaze with a burning fire for Him. It’s apparent that Jesus’ words in Matthew describe the current world mood. “There will be such an increase of sin and lawlessness that those whose hearts once burned with passion for God and others will grow cold.” (Matthew 24:12 TPT) The only way we can survive and then thrive in this season of increased spiritual lawlessness is to receive an impartation of heaven’s passion for Jesus. Lord we position our hearts for more!

We continue with a fresh vision for the Kingdom in our new series. Today’s message focuses our attention on the need for the grace of God in doing all the impossible things that God has got for you in this life. If the Kingdom were do-able in your own strength, you wouldn’t need the Holy Spirit to fill you continually with fresh grace! We were made to live a life of fullness and that is supernatural. We must understand that we can never do the works of God in our own strength. Grace is not only unmerited favour, but it is His empowering presence to do the works and wonders of heaven on earth. From the miracle of the heart journey of love, all the way through to the miracles of physical healing, it’s all by grace. From living in supernatural provision to living out the dreams and adventures of His passions for you, it’s all by grace. Grace is the atmosphere of heaven that is available to you to fulfil this wild and crazy journey. Today there is a unique grace available to you for your life! Don’t try and live

In this second part in his series on vision, Phil Mason explores the theme of the kingdom of God as the Realm of the Father. Viewing the coming of the kingdom through the lens of the Realm of the Father is a game changer as it shifts the conversation to receiving the Father’s adoptive love and our subsequent integration into His glorious kingdom family. If it doesn’t look like family it isn’t an accurate representation of the kingdom. Receive this  conceptual paradigm shift and find your heart drawn closer to what it means to receive the kingdom. 

This week’s message by Phil Mason focuses on the vision of the Kingdom of God. The new birth gives us new eyes to see the kingdom and to begin to align ourselves with heaven by praying “Your kingdom come!” A huge spiritual battle rages over seeing the power of heaven invading earth and the powers of darkness work overtime to blind us to the infinite supply of heaven. Join us as we journey into the unfolding revelation of working alongside Jesus in bringing His world into ours.

This morning my message is entitled walking through walls. But it could equally be called walking on water or scaling mountains! You get the idea. The image here is doing something that you cannot do in your own ability no matter what! Our subject matter is all about intimacy with God! There is a connection that God has for you that is so supernatural, that it is literally impossible to do in your ability or strength.Many believers stay in safe spaces because the trials of pressing into a deeper oneness with God is a battle! In fact, the battle is always about intimacy!!

Walking through life as believers, is not just a move from one feast of fellowship to the other, but a rich tapestry of both community in the Spirit with others and total alone time with God. The soul realm and the world will always be pulling you towards noise, togetherness, busy and so on. We must silence all that to meet with Him and walk with Him alone. Solitude is the life Jesus modelled to us, so we can go deep into communion with the Father. He showed us it was an avenue to prepare for major tasks, to hear from God in decision making, to grieve, to grow in authority and to just be in rest. The Father has so much to say to you for the coming year. Now is a great time to come aside and have a time of solitude and listening prayer. As humans on a journey there are some very lonely seasons. Friendships go through pain or pruning in order to drive us deeper to God. There is a loveliness to seasons of loneliness. God has allowed you to feel lonely in some spheres of our lives, so that we will walk with Him.

In todays podcast Amos Tieman walks us through Psalm 23 whilst drawing upon personal testimony from his own experience of “the valley of the shadow.”  Because we live in a fallen world due to the consequence of sin we will walk through valleys in this life. However, the most important lesson that we can learn and experience is that God is with us and that we can get to know him more deeply in the midst of these trials. We can experience his peace and presence in every circumstance we find ourselves in because he is good.

During his reign King David was given a revelation of the importance of the role of gatekeepers in the Lords temple, to the point where he appointed 4000 Levite gatekeepers during his reign alongside another 4000 worshippers. In Psalm 24 David called to his generation to cleans themselves in order that they might ascend the hill of the Lord and become gates through which God, the King of Glory, would enter. Part of our calling and mandate as believers in our generation is also to act as gatekeepers. We are a royal priesthood of gatekeepers over our own lives, hearts and families as well as over the earth. As gatekeepers there are many different kinds of gates that the Lord has given us keys for. He has given us keys to unlock prison doors of injustice and unforgiveness in hearts and lives. He has also given us corporate keys to open up gates over nations and regions so that we can usher in the King of Glory over our generation. The key of David is a master key that opens doors that not one can shut and shuts

Fasting is a continual prayer  before God that brings a deeper intimacy with him. It releases the anointing and favour and the blessing of God in our lives. I’m talking on three areas today.  1. Breakdown 2. Break up and 3. Breakthrough. It says in Matthew 6:1-18 “When you fast anoint your head and wash your face.”We are going to look at what anointing is  and how important it is in the three areas I just mentioned. Fasting is a tool and a weapon of our warfare; an act of worship for you and a spiritual feast. Fasting is amazing. I want this word to inspire you to make fasting a part of your lifestyle.

In John 12 many of the followers of Jesus and the disciples heard a thunderous sound from heaven. At that point the heavens opened and the Father spoke in a loud audible way over Jesus: “I am going to glorify You!” This verse is a revelation of many things! It says that some heard the thunder and some heard the Father! In other words their perception filtered what they heard and who they heard! This is stunning! We live in a busy world and we are all busy people. There is so much to do nowadays just to earn enough money to live, yet we must take the time to be trained in the hearing the voice of our Father. As we do that, we find we are naturally overcoming the voice of anxiety, the voice of fear and the voice of intimidation. These voices are the relentless voices  we must overcome. God moves at a higher frequency. He is love and has a great plan for each of us. We must cultivate a listening ear as a big part of our spiritual life. We must sit with Him and learn to hear how He speaks and why He speaks and wh

Prayer and forgiveness are a dynamite duo and they are not just linked by virtue of what they are, but who they are. One is talking to God about many things that we desire or want. The other is an attitude of heart that determines whether God is going to answer the prayers you just prayed! They are inextricably linked and carry much weight in the Spirit!

In Matthew 6 Jesus teaches us how to pray and it’s here we receive the Lord’s Prayer, as it has been named, or the Our Father. This prayer of Jesus is stunning, because Jesus links it to forgiveness at the end of this in verses 14 and 15. “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Prayer and forgiveness are a dynamite duo and they are not just linked by virtue of what they are, but who they are. One is talking to God about many things that we desire or want. The other is an attitude of heart that determines whether God is going to answer the prayers you just prayed! They are inextricably linked. Forgiveness is a powerful manifestation of love. It is an indicator of maturity, obedience, and more! But the big thing that is highlighted in this message, is that our ability to flow in forgiveness is linked to our prayers not being hindered and our lives being radically