Artist Profile
Marty Mitchell
Marty married his wife Rebekah in 1997 and together they have four children; Madeline, Ryan, Bethany and Joel. They currently reside in Logan City, Queensland, Australia where Marty is the Associate Leader at Kingdom Life Centre: Home of the Park Ridge Baptist Church (KLC). KLC is a contemporary Baptist church with a passion to experience the manifest presence of God. The Lord has called KLC to be an apostolic base equipping the saints to do the work of the ministry. We are committed to becoming ‘sent ones’ as we follow Jesus’ example in proclaiming the message of the Kingdom. KLC is located in Park Ridge, Logan City, Queensland, Australia.
Marty’s primary gift and anointing is that of a prophetic minstrel. He is also an anointed teacher with a prophetic edge. Marty is a passionate worshiper who is hungry for regional revival and the tangible, manifest presence of God. He has been involved in the worship ministry at KLC for over twenty years as a singer, songwriter, musician, band director and lead worshiper. Marty’s role has extended beyond the local church in recent years assisting and leading worship in many churches, conferences and contexts as well as being involved in various recording projects.
In 2010, Marty was invited to join the Australian Revival Conference Tour visiting six states, ministering in thirty meetings in twenty-six days. Invited to participate on the tour as a Music Director he had the great honour of working with Australian revivalists Chris Harvey of Chris Harvey Ministries and Ben Hughes of Pour It Out Ministries. A highlight of the tour was working alongside worship leader and revivalist Catherine Mullins who came to worldwide prominence in 2008 during the Lakeland Revival in Florida, USA. He also served alongside Joshua and Janet Mills on a regular basis throughout the tour as well.
Marty has been privileged to play in worship bands led by Heather Clark and international revivalist Roy Fields of Run with Fire ministries. He has played in many revival meetings and conferences hosted by Australian revivalists Ben and Jodie Hughes of Pour It Out Ministries. Marty has also toured with Josh Young, an anointed and gifted worship leader, songwriter and speaker from John Paul Jackson’s Streams Ministries and founder of the49.org.
Marty served as a Music Director at three Downpour Conferences and various events hosted by Revolution Church on the Gold Coast sharing the stage with keynote speakers Jason Westerfield, Kris Valloton and Danny Silk from Bethel Church in California, USA, Rolland & Heidi Baker of Iris Ministries and several other international speakers.
Since 2009 he has led the Teaching stream of Kingdom Life Centre in his role as Principal of the Holy Fire School of Ministry Logan Campus training and equipping the saints in the Word of God. Graduating from Garden City College of Ministry in 2007 he was awarded a Bachelor of Ministry by the Australian College of Theology.
Marty also serves on the board as a Director of Pour It Out Ministries.
Email: worship@parkridgebaptist.org.au Website: www.martymitchellonline.com
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New Music
We just want to let you know of some new music coming out by friends and contributors to This Side of the Cross. We encourage you to support these ministers of music who are blessing the Body of Christ with their creative gifts.
SAILING SEAS OF DESTINY - Matthew Dahlitz
Matthew has released another single in his typical orchestral style. Sailing the Seas of Destiny is a 9min soaking piece composed to take you places as you dream about the call and destiny God has over your life. Much of Matthew's music is based on what he calls "Musical Transliteration"; taking the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures and transform the matrix of letters into musical expressions. If you are interested in what Matthew is composing you can visit his site at www.matthewdahlitz.com and check out his offerings on iTunes
RENOVARE: Music to Renew and Restore the Soul - Marty Mitchell
Marty is a worship leader from Queensland, Australia and has produced this soaking CD of solo guitar to "renew and restore the soul". If you are after some calming, relaxing music then check out this CD available on iTunes.
You can find out more about Marty at http://martymitchellonline.com/
REST - Rob Packer
Rob and his wife Lyn head up Extreme Prophetic New Zealand.
Rob's New instrumental soaking CD is out -its great for kids to go to sleep to or adults to relax to. You can get a pre-release copy just in time for Christmas. Rob is doing a Christmas special of $20 (usually $25). You can either ring 09 833 6873 (New Zealand) or email nz@xpmedia.com to order a copy.
Check out more about Extreme Prophetic here http://www.extremepropheticnz.com
Revival Intensive - This Saturday - New Hope Church in Brisbane QLD Aust.
Hi there everyone. Just a brief note to inform you all of a Revival Intensive being held this weekend at New Hope Church in Brisbane hosted by Ben and Jodie Hughes of Pour It Out Ministries. Ben, together with fellow revivalists Catherine Mullins and Roy Fields will joining together to contend for revival in our city and nation in a powerful atmosphere of passionate worship, intercession and teaching. When the church gathers to enthrone God on our praise and worship, it is impossible for nothing to happen!
Registration is only $25 and more details can be found here http://www.pouritout.org
The morning session commences at 10am.
The Saturday night session starts at 7pm and is free.
The Father's Heart Toward Us (part 1) - Marty Mitchell
Over the coming weeks I would like to begin discussing the topic of the Father Heart of God.
It's a subject I'm currently leading at Holy Fire School of Ministry Logan Campus. It's our desire to not simply attain a head knowledge and be able to say by rote, 'Yes, God loves me.' Such information without a corresponding experience becomes dead weight instead of living reality. To experience the love of the Father is a potentially life transforming process that will provide everything you need to sustain you through every season of your life.
This opening paper is concerned with the issue of identity and the enemy's plan to erode your sense of self and identity in God. The key to combating this erosion is to meditate on what God is saying about us instead of the ambiguous loaded questions of the enemy.
The enemy’s sole purpose is to try to separate us, to disconnect us and use lies and loaded half truths to cause us to doubt the lavish love Father God has for us. He will use any method available to this end, even ministry activity or ‘church’ itself to distract and begin driving a wedge between you and your heavenly Father.
The ambiguous question that he used to confront Eve in the garden in Genesis 3 ‘Did God really say..?’ if entertained has great potential to derail your life, your self-esteem and your perception of who Father God is and what He is really like. And you soon realise the enemy needs no encouragement in leading you down this road of questioning God, His will for your life, His prophetic promises declared over you, your family and circumstances and His affections toward you when things feel like they've turned south.
The solution to combating such lies is truth. It is truth that sets captives free. Lie and half truths only cause most people to turn inward looking for solutions to problems they will not find internally. Half-truths are probably the most dangerous. Remember, the enemy comes parading as an angel of light whose sole purpose is to deceive people by starting an enticing argument to lead people away from God and His truth. The enemy used a half-truth in the garden, but twisted it to meet his own agenda - to separate Adam and Eve from God and cause them to question God's nature, character and desire for their lives.
The key is using the Word of God as a sword to separate truth from falsehood. What God says is perfect truth and perfect theology. Because we are His delight, the apple of His eye, His desire is always concerned with our best interests. Our self awareness and identity must be grounded in who He says we are in His sight as His children born now of Spirit and not flesh.
His words are spirit and they are life. He is not a man that He should lie. God has no desire in boosting our ego or inflate a false sense of self worth or value with a string of 'Christianese buzz words' to numb any internal pain we might be carrying.
Rather, in the flow of divine love being declared over us, a deep transformation begins to take place in our inner man when we begin to receive and believe God's revelatory truth concerning our identity and value according to how He sees us. In time this truth will manifest in how we speak, act, minister, love and relate to others, including ourselves.
Prayerfully consider the truth of these statements:
For the Father so loved you that he gave his one and only son. The primary purpose for this gift was that you would never ever feel separated or abandoned by God again. The giving of the son was an open invitation for you to step in and experience the extravagant love and acceptance of the most loving person in all of cosmic history.
This extravagant love has been directed toward you since even before the foundations of the world, even the universe itself. This love has never been based on how good you’ve been, how well you’ve done or even how successful you’ve been. It’s simply been based on the source itself – the embodiment of pure, unselfish and unconditional divine love.
What lies have you been believing concerning the love of the Father towards you? The enemy tends to come at us with statements, "You're not good enough; You're not a good enough christian; You haven't done enough; You need to give more, pray more, read more, go to church more; You're not worthy of God; You'll never make it; You're just a sinner; Did God really say?...."
Take some time right now to reject these thoughts and any others the Spirit of God will reveal to you as you wait on Him. Invite Father God to whisper His sweet truths into your soul. These words will become the fuel that will sustain you throughout your days.
Meditate on these verses:
Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture . .. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing - nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable - absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. (Rom. 8:34-39 The Message)
Remember, God not only loves You, He really likes You too.
Be blessed and thanks for reading.
Marty
Performance - A Dirty Word? - Marty Mitchell
Is performance in worship wrong? I'm sure many of us are familiar with Kierkegaard's famous quote "we perform for an audience of one" and that one of course is God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The majority of us engaged within the worship ministry, be at church, cell groups, schools, bible colleges, wherever we are in ministry, would agree that we are not doing this for ourselves, but for God. I'm sure many reading this do realise that we are not there to perform for our own ego's sake, attempting to 'WOW' a congregation with our extraordinary musical gifts, instrumental abilities or our vocal gynmastics. It's a real turn off when the worship leader, choir, band, music, song, sound, person, CD, recording artist, church, pastor, leader becomes the centre of attention and not the Centrepiece of Creation Himself.
But there still is an element of performance that I believe is necessary for us to embrace - authenticity. If we are not engaging with God sincerely and from a genuine sense of connection and relationship with Him, how can we expect our congregations to follow where we feel led to go? So, let me pose the question - do you believe in what you are singing about?
Great performers make you feel every word. They take you somewhere, untap emotions and stir passions from deep within. Energy, effort and preparation has gone into every word they sing in every song they perform. Keith Urban, the Aussie country music artist who has conquered the US market said he strives to make every word and every lyric that he sings to be full of meaning and sung from a genuine expression of his heart.
If we are striving to do that, then I propose we are on the way to leading our congregations in worship. The skill of the experienced performer is worthy of consideration – they believe what they are singing about.
As worshippers then do we really believe what we are singing about? Do we really believe in who we are playing for? Is the Word of God changing our worldview in such a manner that causes us to worship Him in fresh genuine and heartfelt expressions of praise and adoration? Is your worship whether private or public - your performance to 'The Audience of One' - sincere and genuine or has it became a matter of tapping to the rhythm and mouthing the words, singing the songs?
If it has become that, then we fall into peril, a people who worship with their lips but whose hearts are far away from the Lord. If that has become the case, then take some time right now to realign your heart and reorientate your gaze toward Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith.
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