Sunday Talks with Matt Bird
by Issachar Global with Matt Bird · 33 episodes
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Helping you understand the times and know how to live and lead. Every week Issachar Global founder Matt Bird broadcasts a 15 minute talk and prayer to encourage you in your life and leadership.Matt Bird is a leader, speaker, author and broadcaster who has been teaching for thirty years.
Latest episodes
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12 min
Models of Mentoring 8 : Mentor as Teacher
The Mentor as a Teacher is someone like Paul, who passed on his knowledge and his understanding to somebody like Timothy. In 2 Timothy 2:1-2 Paul instructs Timothy to “find reliabl…
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17 min
Models of Mentoring 7 : Mentor as Sponsor
When you think about a sponsor think about someone who gives you access to People, access to Places, and access to Provision. Think about them as people who sponsor you financially…
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12 min
Models of Mentoring 6 : Mentor as a Sharpening Stone
When we hear “mentoring” we tend to think about somebody who's more experienced and more knowledgeable working with someone who is less experienced and less knowledgeable. When we…
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10 min
Models of Mentoring 5 : Mentor as Mirror
Really good mentors are people who hold up a mirror to us and say, look here, this is what you look like. This is how other people experience you. And this is really good. And this…
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13 min
Models of Mentoring 4 : Mentor as Springboard
The Mentor as a Springboard is the idea of helping others excel and achieve even more highly than we have done. In 2 Kings 2:1-9 we read that Elisha asked Elijah for a double bless…
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15 min
Models of Mentoring 3 : Mentor as Accountability Partner
In this third talk in our series we look at Luke 10:1-17 where we see that Jesus sends out, not just his 12 disciples but he gathers 72 people and sends them out ahead of him into…
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13 min
Models of Mentoring 2 : Mentor as Guide
We all benefit from people in our lives who guide us. In the book of Ruth we see that Naomi became a mentor guide to Ruth. (Ruth 1:16-17) Everyone benefits from having people who g…
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12 min
Models of Mentoring 1 - Mentor as Role Model
In our latest Issachar Sunday Talks series, we’re going to be looking at what we call #ModelsOfMentoring, one-to-one relationships through which people are developed and grown to h…
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16 min
Visions & Dreams #12 : Heaven to Earth not Earth to Heaven
This is the finale of our series called Visions and Dreams, in which we looked at people in the Bible who had a vision or a dream, and what it meant to them. We then discussed what…
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11 min
Visions & Dreams #11 : Follow the Spirit of God not the Spirit of the Age
Saul, AKA, Paul was a Roman citizen from Tarsus and a religious zealot who persecuted new religious movements. He later had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus and was…
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14 min
Visions & Dreams #10 : Evolve not Entrench
Pete - formerly known as Simon until Jesus renamed him - was a fisherman with his own fishing business - Simon & Co. One day they experienced a turn around at the hands of Jesus an…
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15 min
Visions & Dreams #9 : Trust not Doubt
Joe was a highly skilled craftsman probably specialising in carpentry, skills he learnt from his father who in turn learnt them from his father. He lived in a small town called Naz…
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14 min
Visions & Dreams #8 : Right Relationships not Righteous Religion
Amos was a shepherd, To be a shepherd was one of the top professions in the Middle East in his time, Patriach St Augustine called him a ‘minor prophet’, not based on importance but…
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18 min
Visions & Dreams #7 : Head in the Sky not Head in the Sand
This is about Neb’s Dream and Dan’s Vision. It will help you to have a transforming impact in your neighbourhood.Neb was the King of Babylon, used by God to conquer Jerusalem. He d…
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19 min
Visions & Dreams #6 : Life Giving not Life Draining
Zek’s Visions: Zek, AKA Ezekiel was known as a prophet of doom, often warning God’s people to stop idolatry or else God would punish them. One day, what he had warned the nation ac…
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13 min
Visions & Dreams #5 : For the Good of Humanity not For the Good of Yourself
If God was to offer you anything you wanted what would we ask for? Would you ask for something that fulfilled your ambition or desire or would you ask for something for the benefit…
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14 min
Visions & Dreams #4 : The Divine Voice not The Human Voice
How do you know when God is speaking? How do we discern between the divine voice of God and the human voices around us?“The reason I believe God led me to this Visions & Dreams ser…
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18 min
Visions & Dreams #3 : Saturated in Faith not Dominated by Fear
How to be saturated in faith not dominated by fear.We hear about Deon, AKA Gideon, an Israelite, and the sequence of three dreams sent to him by God. These dreams guided Deon over…
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17 min
Visions & Dreams #2 : Limitless Strength not Self Limiting Beliefs
In this episode we hear the story of Mo, and the apparition he saw in the desert when God spoke to him from within a burning bush. God asked Mo to go to Pharoah and say ‘let me peo…
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14 min
Visions & Dreams #1 : Be Big Hearted not Big Headed
We commence this series by hearing about the story of Joe and the two dreams he had when he was just 17 years old, and what unfolded in his life afterwards. Genesis 37:1-11“The mos…