Gen Youth Camp 2023 - Session 1: Gotta Have F.A.T.S | Andy Yeoh

Hello, and welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We're so excited to have

you here today. It is our prayer that God's word will inspire and help

you grow in your faith. Now, let's get right into it. Okay.

I want to share quickly with you now from a passage in the Bible,

and he's found in Genesis chapter twelve, was one to nine. And

this is a story of when Abram he wasn't Abraham yet, yeah, you

can get not quite Abraham, yet he was still Abraham. Where God called

him to go to a foreign place he lived, well, he lived in

uh went to a place called Haran, because that's where the father stopped.

And then they settled there, and then the father died, and then God

called him to get up from there. There's no way you're supposed to be.

Turn to a neighbor and say it's no way you're supposed to be.

Turn to your other neighbor and say it's not where you're supposed to be.

Hah, okay, all right. So God told Abraham, Hey, there's

a place where you're supposed to be. I'm asking you to go there.

Now, Abraham had no clue where is this place or how to get there,

all right, this is the story we're reading. He says. Here

now, the Lord say to Abraham, go from your country and your kindred

and your father's house to the land that I will show you. You don't

know where it is yet, but I will show it to you. Amen.

How many believe that while you're in this camp, God's gonna show you

some things you've never seen before. God's gonna show you something. Maybe it's

a part of Him you've never seen before. Maybe you think God is boring.

God is anything but boring. Amen? How many I believe that in

this camp God can show you a side of Him that you never seen before.

Maybe for some of you, when someone tells you God is a father,

can I be real with you? You actually hate that? You actually

hate hearing that God is a father because maybe just maybe the father you know

in your life is not so kind? Oh? Am I being real?

Not so hah? If God is a father, I don't want him.

Can he be a mother instead? But maybe God will show you something different

this camp. I believe he will do that. Can you be open to

that? And God showed Abraham I will show you this place. Just go,

I'll show you and I will make you a great nation, and God

gives him a promise if you were just listen to my voice and go away.

I show you this is I will do this now. Maybe your promise

is not exactly like this. Maybe you're not going to be a father of

many nations because you're not a father, you're a girl. Ah, but

there is a promise. God will give you a promise. Somebody say,

promise. The thing I know about my God is he's a promise keeping God.

We sometimes struggle to keep promises. Teacher, I will hand up the

model, and then we don't mathille, I'll come home by ten o'clock,

and then we don't. Right, Okay, I won't do this anymore,

and we all right. So but but God is a promise keeping God.

Amen, And so God makes these promises. I will make you a great

nation. I will bless you, and I will make your name great,

so that you will be a blessing. Firstry, I will bless those who

bless you, him who dishonors you our curse, and in you all the

families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abraham, thank God for him.

He did it. He did what God said. He went he didn't

know where he was going. He didn't know exactly where to stop. But

God said go, and you went. So Abram went, and the Lord

had told him a lot where sometimes sometimes people go with you, not every

time. The point here is not is everybody coming along with me? Because

in this camp there will be moments where you will be felt, you will

feel like you need to go, need to take a step forward, whether

it's metaphorical or whether it is real word to be for you, or whether

it's like like for real you have to step forward, or just in your

heart you step forward to something. You got a few moments there, and

sometimes you'll you'll be tempted to see, he's my friend going, Is anyone

else going? If no one's going, I don't want to be the first

one. There might be moments like that, and so sometimes people go with

you, sometimes they don't. Not many people in your Abraham just Lot his

cousin, Okay, I'll go with you. It's fine, went with him.

And then Abram was seventy five years old. He was seventy five when

he started Guess what a new Adventure. The theme of this camp is new

adventer Abraham at seventy five years old. None of you is. You're dead

old here. Okay, you're way more qualified, way more prime, way

more prepared to go on a new adventure. He's seventy five, he's the

age of your grandpa. And he started a new adventure. But he did,

he did. When he departed Harun, and Abraham took Sarah his wife,

and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered,

and all and the people that they had quiet in Haran. They set

out to go to the land of Canaan. And when they came to the

land of Canaan, where God led him to, Abram passed through the land

to the place of Sekhem, to the oak of Moray, all these names

that sounds like from Lord of the Rings. At the time the Canaanites were

in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abraham and said, to your

offspring, I will give this land. So he built there and alter.

Someone said alter, we'll come back to his word in a while, but

say alter again. There he built an altar the place where God led him

to. He built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.

From there he moved to the hill country of the on the east of Bethel,

and pitch his hand with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east.

And there he built an altar. Someone said, altar. There he

is again. Every time he comes to this significant place, he builds and

what altar? And then he called upon the name of the Lord. I

saw the Lord, and he heard, and he answered Amen. And Abraham

journeyed on one adventure to another, one adventure to another. Amen, and

still going toward the app Four points I want to give you, because it's

not a full message. Four things. Number one, I want to encourage

every single one of you, whether it's your first time in a generation youth

camp, first time in a camp ever, first come in a church event,

ever, these songs are foreign to you. Whatever I need you to

have. Somebody say, have slip, say have these four things. Number

one, Just like Abraham, we all need to have something called faith.

Somebody say faith. I encourage you, I urge you, please in this

camp have faith. Faith means the ability to believe in something that you do

not see. If you see something and I tell you, hey, I'm

handsome, and then you're like, yeah, I believe that's not faith.

Thank you. I know, I'm just saying what you on your mind.

I'm married, by the way. My wife is over there. Jay is

my wife. This is my son's ian. Yes, that's where he God,

it's good. Yeah, okay, cool? Yes, yeah, so

I'm marry. I'm taken. I'm so sorry, but you gotta have faith.

Most of us we want Okay, you show me, then I'll go.

You show me where I'm going. Let me see whether there's any crocodiles,

any random rhinos there, because you never know what you get with a

rhino, right, A rhino that pushes up, a rhino that sits up.

I don't know. Is it not true? Show me, show me

that this works, Show me that this is there anyone else that tried this

thing and then it works for them? Show me that then then now I'll

take it too. I wonder how many of you here would care to admit

that that's basically our attitude towards anything, especially spiritual things, especially all this

God stuff, this religious stuff. Ah, the worker most of us show

then I'll go. Is it safe? It's okay, but you know,

but God said go, then I'll show Oh my gosh, what the ballet

one? How this is so nerve wrecking, this is so scary. Go

then I'll show God. Excuse me, God, hello? Is that how

it works? If I'm gonna go somewhere, You're gonna show me where I'm

going, then I'll go. No, no, no, God says you

go, then I'll show you where to go. This is what you need

to have in this camp. It's a good have faith. Can I tell

you something I just realized on the drive because it was a very long drive,

Oh my gosh, so long. I had a lot of time to

think, and I just realized, today is eleventh November, Right, eleven

November. You know what happened one year exactly one year ago? No,

shoppy, let me backtrack fifty three weeks ago. They miss one week before

the one year. One week before eleven November. I was at home and

I had been praying for over a month for some time now God, because

God was telling me this stuff last year in October. Go and I'll show

you go. I'm like, go where. I didn't know it was Start

Generations Church. One year ago, fourth November. I was at home and

God had already put in my heart go go plant this church. I didn't

know it's going to be called generations. I didn't know. I didn't know

nothing. I didn't know that a year later there'll be fifty over young people

in this room. Amen, you know. And there at home, I

was in my heart thinking, okay, God, I'll go. Then you

show me. Ah, i'll go. You better show me. Okay,

okay, God, I say, I say in my heart I'll go.

Then my wife comes to me and say, you don't go on not quite

that way. What she's what she actually said was, dear, if you

ever go, they must go from where you were. Then if you ever

go from this place, I have not left that place for twenty years,

quite comfortable, settled, already picked my ten, build my bungalow. I

don't have a bunklow. No, I'm quite comfortable. And then my wife

says, if you ever leave this place, don't you dare plan a church,

don't you dare start a church? Do anything but do that? Don't.

I'm like, I'm confused. God. I after the months of praying

for all that, all that kind of thing, God, I thought,

I thought you you sent people to tell me this is where I'm where I'm

supposed to go to. What I'm supposed to do. And here comes my

wife, the most important piece of the puzzle. Here comes She's she's at

home saying, don'ta don't start a church. You want you go work for

another church, or you start an n G O, or start a company

and do, but don't start a church. I'm like, God, I'm

super confused because you spoke to me through so many different confirmations, like it's

like undeniable stuff that happened that tells me I've got to go. Then God

show, here comes my wife said, don't go. Super confused, and

then I had to I realized I haven't spoken to her about what God had

shown me, all the different parts. I thought, maybe if I will

share with her, then she will be convinced too, and then go with

me. And then I heard a voice and some of you, you're gonna

hear voice, not voices, like you're gonna hear this still small voice.

It's gonna feel like it's gonna feel like you don't really know this voice yet,

but it feels familiar. That's the spirit of God that will speak to

you in this camp. And that their voice told me don't talk to her

two times out, don't say a word, don't say, ah, how

how does this work? You told me to go? My wife said,

don't go. I want to try to convince her to go. Now you

tell me, don't tell her. I'm like, okay, God, I

will I'll just okay, I won't say anything. I'll be steady. All

I told her was, dear, I'm gonna fast and pray next week.

She said, oh, when are you fasting and praying? I gave her

a date and she's like, okay, I'll fast and pray. But we

didn't discuss what we're gonna pray about one week later, eleventh November, one

year ago, exactly one year ago eleven. Remember we were sitting in a

restaurant. She was having carry laxa. I still remember. And then I

was like rushing back to the office. And then she took out her phone

and said, Hey, before you go, can you please do you have

some time to hear my proposal, my ideas for our new church? Huh?

Sorry, what do you say our new church? What are you talking

about? Last week you said, don't do this, don't you dare do

this? I don't want to do this, and now you want to you

have you? She got organizational chart, written out, schedule written out,

different ministry releases out. She's like, she's got a whole plan one year

ago today one you go wow, and I needed faith to do this.

To that, I'm so thankful that I took this step because if you had

not taken this step, I won't be able to meet all your wonderful people

and hear all your crazy cheers and look at your beautiful faces right now A

kelp, come on. So I want to encourage all of you to have

this thing called faith. Actually you already have it, you just need to

activate it. Faith. Faith means okay, God, I will go.

Then you show me how it's okay to be like, okay, call you

better help me because we are got children, right, but we gotta go.

We gotta go even even we don't have all the data, all the

details, the whole blue we don't have yet. That's faith. Secondly,

is you've gotta have an altar. Someone say alter Abraham build an altar.

Every time got l him to a place, he goes there, he builds

an altar. Amen. An altar is a place of worship. It's a

place of worship. I want you to build altars in this camp moments of

worship. You're gonna have a lot of fun. Trust me, We've done

camps seventeen years quite fun. Even I like my camps. So it's gonna

be great. It'll be great. It'll be fun. You have a lot

of fun. You're probably gonna be talking about all the all the crazy stuff

happened in your life in this camp. Great, wonderful. The T shirt

is nice, you let your goldie bag, the com Ludles is awesome,

talk shop is amazing, your angel is handsome. Whatever, Okay. But

in the middles of all that build an altar and alter is a place of

worship. So when it comes to worship, give it all you've got.

Amen, you could have had an altar. These are the moments that will

change your life. These are the moments that will change your life. You

will know what hit you, okay, God, Wow, You feel all

kinds of things. For some of you will feel peace and you can't explain.

Your life is in the term, or your family's messed up, but

you can feel peace. Somehow can explain it. Some of you will feel

so loved you never felt so loved before. Some of you will feel for

the first time you're not alone anymore. I don't know about you feel,

but in God's presence as you worship him, he really is gonna show up.

Building an altar and all. There is a place of place of prayer.

Allow yourself to pray, even you have never prayed to this God before,

give yourself a chance, O man. Prayer is not a formula.

Pray is not some kind of like mumbo jumbo some are you Okay, it's

not one of those. Pray is just this. It's not the words,

it's not the language you pray in. Prayer basically is dependency of God.

We pray because we need your God. I need your help. You're bigger

than me, You're stronger than I am, You're cleverer than I. So

I pray because that thing called prayer shows that I depend on you, rely

on you. I need you God. Amen prayer. So in this camp,

allow yourself to have moments of prayer morning, nine, afternoon, before

you eat, just before you fight, in water, war, whatever,

pray, pray and also allow people to pray for you. Sometimes it helps

somebody prays for you. Sometimes the words is given to another person for what

you feel in your heart. Okay, something you're gonna experience that. You're

like, you come up here and people pray for you, Like, how

do you know everything? You're stalking me out? You know, it's a

holy spirit who knows what's going on in your life. Gave the words to

the other person, and then the other person prays for you. Can you

allow yourself to have moments of prayer? Author of worship? Auto of prayer?

Is that okay? And all? There is a place of remembrance to

you know why they build altars in the olden days. Basically they do not

have Google Maps. They're gonna Google map to pin the rappin an you know,

the rappin Google mat rappin. This is the rippin those days, the

opinion authors. So then when they want one day pass, you know,

ah, yeah, this is where God. Hey, this is where God

touched me. This is where God answer my prayer. Hey, this is

where God hear me. And author is a place of remembrance. Can I

challenge you encourage you to build memories in this camp? I mean significant memories.

They come memories where if you maybe just one year later, we do

came here again, you come back here. You remember this is where I

cry my eyeballs out and let everything out like I don't care, Like I

don't care who watches anymore, who thinks of what of me? Anymore?

I don't care because not about I don't care who thinks one of me?

I said, it's just me and God here right here, or even the

stand is do there? Altars are places of remembrance. I don't want you

to look batter in your life one day and have nothing to remember. I

mean nothing significant. I remember the time I fell into a long gun.

I remember when I hunted cats down. I remember all those things too,

But I also remember where I cry my eyeballs out. I remember those auto

calls. Okay, when you come up to the front, it's called an

auto car. Remember those auto casts where someone said, hey, how of

you believe that God is calling you to serve him full time, like as

a bastard or something like that. I remember walking out there as a young

person and say, yes, Lord, I am. I remember those moments.

I remember those moments where you know I was addicted to pawn for like

thirteen years and could not break it in my own strength, in my own

way. What porn blockerls Okay, it didn't work like, okay, yo,

find a way one, but it's not. It wasn't until God delivered

me, and like, oh break free. Those moments are precious. Those

are my altars. What's yours? You got to have these altars of remembers

that okay, build moments of worship. Alters are place of beginnings. He

comes to a place, he builds an alter, he starts a new adventure.

Amen. So I pray that all of you here will have a new

beginning. Whatever, whoever the person you was when you came, I pray

you will leave this place different than you came, not in a bad way,

in a very good way. Amen. Alters a new beginnings. You'll

be very sad if we if any of us go home and don't have a

new beginning, you wouldn't be Why we did cam. We didn't spend all

this money for us to go back to same old same. We didn't do

all of this so that we can oh just go back to same old same.

We want to be a new person. Amen. Alters are places of

beginnings. Alters is where fire comes upon it right the sacrifice. Fire talks

about purpose, passion, power. These are things that you will discover and

experience in this place. If you allow God to set you on fire,

you become the altar. Say got here, and I'm here, worshiping you,

praying to you, building memories with you, God studying you and fresh

with you. And here I am or the altar. Set me on fire,

Set me on fire, not literally like clambering. Set me on fire,

from a cold heart to a heart that burns. Young people are supposed

to be known for passion, but many young people today don't have passion for

anything because it's just too tiring to a passion. Because how many times do

you want to dream of something when you keep on having your dreams crushed?

Right, So we get very tired at dreaming anymore, at wanting to believe

a better nation, or better life, or better family. It's fair tiring.

But I pray that that will all change. There will not be the

case for any of you. Here go back home with this new energy to

dream. I don't talk about I'm not talking about like a dream to be

the best footballer, best car racer. All that is good, it's good.

But I'm talking about like dream bigger things, like God, something's good,

It's gonna happen in my family. Something good is gonna happen in my

relationships, my friendships, something's gonna go something, something is gonna happen in

my studies. Good stuff. God, you gotta do it, fi Oh

God, and his power is gonna release that. Amen. Because you've gotta

have faith, You've gotta have and alter and altimates all those things. You've

gotta have sensitivity. Somebody says sensitivity. To do this, you need to

learn to not be so distracted, especially in moments like this. I want

you to tune in as best as you can and ask this a few questions.

What is God saying to me? Even right now as you listen to

what I'm saying, What is God saying to you through what I'm saying to

you? The question is not what I'm saying to you. I know what

I'm saying to you, like you know, I gonna have faith all that,

But what is God saying to you in all of this? I pray

through every session you're asking God, God, I want to be sensitive.

What are you saying to me? What does God want to do in my

life? What do you think God wants to do in your life? What

does he want to remove from you? What does he want to add to

you God? What are you saying to me God? What you want to

do in my life? Be sensitive? Third one is what does God want

you to do to change? To stop? What does he want? I

pray? Be asking this question throughout this camp and be sensitive. I guarantee

you God will speak. And then the final one is you could have trust

and then you obey Abraham trusted completely. I don't know where I'm going.

I will go. Then your show trust and obey. Just do it.

Just do it. You're feel in your heart I should go out for prayer.

Just do it. You're feeling how you should confess with somebody. I

will tell you, oh my dear, the secrets, the way I keep

my mother's shoes. Okay, just do it. You'll cry. I will

just do it. We have tissoes. Don't worry, you feel like kneeling.

Just do it. Good things, bad things, don't do it,

just do it, trust and obey. Amen. You gotta have FATS.

I want to have you remember this message. You gotta have FATS. FATS

is faith, alter, trust, and sensitivity. I know I can make

it fast too, but it won't be as sticky. FATS is better Okay,

in this camp, fat is better than fast. You gotta have fats

everybody. Faith alter one A alters A place of worship, a place of

prayer, a place of memories, remembrance, a place of beginnings. I

pray to all of you will have a new beginning through this camp, a

place of fire. God's power come and changes you. Amen. Thank you

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