Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

If you want to be a leader, you have to learn how to bring the best out of others, to inspire them to win, to lead them to their victory. Especially as a pastor, you are surrounded by people with broken dreams, with lost hopes and with wounded souls. I want to give every leaderContinue reading “Create a Better Future for Others 01: Leading others into Victory”

If you want to dishonour someone here is how: Don’t be there. I drove a six hour round trip before the lockdown to celebrate thirty years of ministry of one of my fathers in the faith. To not be there would be a mark of dishonour. If you want to dishonour Gates of the CityContinue reading “Ways to Show Honour 06 Ways to Show Dishonour”

This final way of showing honour will change your life forever. You show someone else honour by honouring them with your substance. Proverbs 3.9 says “honour the Lord with your substance”. Now, you need to read post 1 and find out that you cannot do this if you do not honour with your attitude. ButContinue reading “Ways to Show Honour 05 Money”

One of the key ways to honour someone is to be aware of them and pay attention to them! Conversely, one of the ways you can recognize or show dishonour is to disregard or ignore someone, to neglect them. If a pastor from another church takes the time to travel and visit one of ourContinue reading “Ways to Show Honour 04 Recognize”

The word “alter” means to change in a way that is significant, a way that counts. You can change the paint colour of a building, but if you start dealing with the structure – that’s altering it. To alter something to fit in with someone else is another way of showing honour. You alter theContinue reading “Ways to Show Honour 03 Alter”

In our last post, I shared that the foundation of showing honour to someone else is attitude. I also shared that unless we can show honour to someone we can never succeed in life. There are five main ways to show honour, that I use the mnemonic ALARM to remember. The first we know isContinue reading “Ways to Show Honour 02 Listen”

Jesus was going around the nation of Israel healing the sick. Everywhere He went thousands and thousands of people were healed and transformed. People loved him, they received divine truth, their lives were changed. They honoured Jesus and the anointing on Him flowed to them. How you honour someone depends how well your life goes.Continue reading “Ways to Show Honour 01 Attitude”

If you want to pastor a church of people who love the new wine of the Spirit you need to absolutely and without a shadow of a doubt develop an intense conviction that you as a pastor and leader are not leading a successful church if there are no miracles and gifts of the SpiritContinue reading “Raise a Generation That Loves New Wine 03: Realize Miracles Are Essential”

If you want to give your people a taste for the new wine, a taste for living in their promises, a taste for victory. If you want to pastor people like Joshua and Caleb and less like the ten spies, you have to point out the benefits that they have in Christ and teach themContinue reading “Raise a Generation That Loves New Wine 02: Teach People to Expect Benefits”

You are designed to win, and as a leader you need to impart to other people a sense and attitude that they can win. People come to Tree of Life Church checking us out and have a range of different ideas. Most people are weary, defeated, they feel like they are slaves to circumstances andContinue reading “Raise a Generation That Loves New Wine 01: There is No Joy without New Wine”