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Fuel 'Em Up//12PM// Elder Brett Rodway

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. Let's get into it. Amen.

  9. Amen. God, it's so good.

  10. It's so good and how amazing to be able to be in a place with

  11. others who love Jesus and to celebrate him, celebrate his

  12. goodness, celebrate his kindness, celebrate his work in

  13. our lives, celebrate the love that he's poured out in our

  14. hearts to celebrate him and to do it together with those who

  15. love Jesus. I love it.

  16. Thank you, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia, for the

  17. opportunity it is to be able to share today at this noon

  18. experience. And thank you so much for your

  19. commitment to being obedient to the call that God has given you.

  20. And we are recipients of your faithfulness.

  21. We appreciate you, we love you. Will you give them a round of a

  22. hand? Our pastor, Pastor Terence,

  23. Pastor Julia for those that may be visiting.

  24. Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia Richmond are the senior pastors

  25. and founding pastors of Love Quest International Church and

  26. they're a blessing to us. They're away this week and so I

  27. have the privilege to be able to share the word of God with you

  28. today. Last week we were remembering.

  29. Pastor Terence spoke on Count Em Up and was remembering the

  30. goodness of God, remembering the great work of God and taking

  31. that time to remember. And if you remember in Luke 17

  32. there was a story of some lepers.

  33. How many lepers were there? There were 10 lepers and they

  34. were all given the word from Jesus to show themselves at the

  35. temple. And as they went, all ten were

  36. healed. All 10 received healing from the

  37. leprosy and how many came back? One.

  38. One came back, one came back. It says in Luke 17 verse 15.

    Luke 17:15

  39. One of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back.

  40. He turned back from where he was going.

  41. Glorifying and praising and honouring God with a loud voice.

  42. Say loud voice with a loud voice that's right.

  43. There was loudness to his praise.

  44. There was a loudness to his praise.

  45. There was there was you could be heard.

  46. There was a loud voice of praise and he lay face downward at

  47. Jesus feet thanking him over and over and he was a Samaritan.

  48. There's there's a key here for your breakthrough.

  49. Just a minute. If you, if you could listen with

  50. me, I'm going to praise the Lord for a minute, OK?

  51. Do you agree? What?

  52. What? You didn't hear me?

  53. Oh, what you're saying is my praise can only benefit me in my

  54. head, but it benefits you when you hear it, right?

  55. There's something about you declaring the goodness of God

  56. with your mouth where you say, man, God's been good to me, man,

  57. I got to tell you how he's worked in my life.

  58. I want to encourage you. So there's something about that

  59. loud voice declaring the goodness of God, Pastor Terrance

  60. said in last Sunday's message. When you remember who God has

  61. been, you regain confidence in who God will be and all that to

  62. say, take the time to remember. Take time to remember what God

  63. has done. Take the time to consider how

  64. he's worked in your life, in your family's life, in the life

  65. maybe of your friends. But take that time to remember,

  66. because when you remember who God has been, now you've got

  67. confidence in who he will be. You take that confidence and you

  68. bring it into your presence. So count them up.

  69. That's what Pastor Terence spoke about last Sunday.

  70. Count them up. There's a a good old hymn and he

  71. goes, I won't sing it, I'll just tell you the lyrics.

  72. There you go. Now come on, now come on.

  73. But it says count your blessings, name them one by one,

  74. count your blessings, see what God has done, count your

  75. blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what

  76. the Lord has done right. This is taking the time to count

  77. the blessings, to recognize what God has done and completed

  78. already, to take the time to look back and to see the

  79. faithfulness of God, to see the goodness of God, to see how He's

  80. moved and blessed, to see how He's protected you.

  81. Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters God

  82. prevented to sometimes, you know, looking back, Pastor Tara

  83. talked about last Sunday. You know, looking back, also

  84. recollect the things He's kept you from.

  85. Perhaps that near miss, but the Lord moved.

  86. Perhaps it is that business opportunity that got away, but

  87. God was protecting your soul because He cared for you.

  88. There's near miss opportunities, but God was looking at you and

  89. desiring your blessing and your keeping for this moment so we

  90. can have a praise for the things that God has prevented in our

  91. lives. Pastor Tara said.

  92. We look forward with hope, with faith, believing, but we look

  93. backward with gratitude. In our looking back, we're

  94. recognizing how God has moved, but they take that and look

  95. ahead now with hope because of what he has done.

  96. We are not turning back. We are building a memorial.

  97. At times in the Old Testament they would set aside markers

  98. that would be a marker to recognise what God had done, how

  99. God had moved. When they went through the

  100. Jordan, they took stones for the riverbed and set them up as a

  101. memorial to say, hey, when you see this, tell your children

  102. that God took you out of Egypt and brought you into this land.

  103. It was a memorial. It was a positioning that was to

  104. be a reminder for generations of the goodness of God.

  105. So we're not turning back. We're building a memorial to

  106. recognize who God is. Psalm 103 verse 2 says bless the

    Psalms 103:2

  107. Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

  108. It's like I'm going to bless God, but I'm also going to tell

  109. my soul, Don't you forget, Don't you forget God's goodness.

  110. Don't you forget what He's done? Don't you forget how he's moved

  111. upon your life, how His peace has guarded you, how He has

  112. moved into into your heart and transformed you.

  113. Don't forget, soul, all that God has done.

  114. It's a charge to remember the goodness of God.

  115. It's a charge to my soul that says, yes, I will remember what

  116. you've done and how you've moved.

  117. I will remember those times when I felt alone.

  118. But then you would come, Lord, and bring presents when I felt

  119. like I had gone too far and strayed too far away.

  120. But you said no when I felt I had turned away from you.

  121. But you drew me back. That's the kindness and the

  122. goodness of God. Remind your soul.

  123. Remind your soul of his goodness.

  124. And the pastor, Taran, said recognition triggered

  125. remembrance in this man who'd come back in that story from

  126. Luke 17, the leper who had been healed and came back,

  127. recognition of who God was triggered His remembrance and

  128. praise always begins with recognition.

  129. When we take the time to recognise who God is, when we

  130. take the time to remember who He has been in our lives, how He

  131. has worked in our lives, when we see Him even in our troubles and

  132. our trials, but realise He's actually the one who made the

  133. way of escape. When we take the time to

  134. recognise who God is, it will release praise in our hearts.

  135. So we're in remembrance. But our remembrance has a

  136. purpose and that purpose is to fuel them up.

  137. So we had to count them up. Now we're going to fuel them up.

  138. Fuel them up. The remembrance is a reminder

  139. not just to remember the past, to prepare us and propel us into

  140. what God has for us. And so we remember.

  141. I want to share a story about a church from the New Testament

  142. and it's the Church of Ephesus. Ephesus is in around where

  143. Turkey is today. In that area and around 60 AD,

  144. Paul writes a letter to the Ephesians and he had actually

  145. been been with them. He actually spent about three

  146. years there sometime earlier and helped build the church up was

  147. an encouragement to them. In Acts 20.

  148. We we actually read the story about his last farewell to them

  149. because he knew that he was going to go to Rome.

  150. And in this letter to the Ephesians, he makes some

  151. powerful points. And I'm going to let you kind of

  152. figure out what you think the the theme is.

  153. OK, in Ephesians 115 it says for this reason, because I've heard

  154. of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's

  155. people. So Paul's writing says, man, you

  156. guys have got such a great reputation of how you love.

  157. Your reputation goes before you, this love you have for all God's

  158. people. Chapter 2, verse 4 but God being

  159. so very rich in mercy because of his great and wonderful love

  160. with which he loved us. Wow, that love of God poured at

  161. us. Visions 317 to 19.

  162. This part is a prayer that Paul's praying.

  163. He says then Christ will make his home in your hearts.

  164. As you trust in Him, your roots will grow down into God's love

  165. and keep you strong. And may you have the power to

  166. understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how

  167. high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of

  168. Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.

  169. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life

  170. and power that comes from God. Ephesians 5 verse one and two

  171. says imitate God therefore in everything you do, because you

  172. are His dear children, live a life filled with love, following

  173. the example of Christ. He loved us and offered Himself

  174. as a sacrifice for us. A pleasing aroma to God.

  175. Wow, I love that part Imitate God.

  176. Imitate God, how you live your life.

  177. Imitate God, imitate God, be like your father, imitate God.

  178. That's a big one. We'll talk about that one day,

  179. I'm sure. Imitate God, imitate God.

  180. All right. And then in Ephesians 6, verse

    Ephesians 6:23–24

  181. 23 to 24, these are the last two verses of the letter, and it

  182. says, peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters, and May

  183. God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with

  184. faithfulness, and may God's grace be eternally upon all who

  185. love our Lord Jesus Christ. OK, so here's the test.

  186. What was the main theme from these verses?

  187. Anybody. OK, good, I made it clear.

  188. All right, I just want to make sure it was all the

  189. highlighting. It's all the, all the

  190. highlighting. I did right.

  191. Love here. He's writing in 60 AD and

  192. saying, man, you love God, God loves you love, love, love,

  193. love. You're rooted in love.

  194. You're grounded in love. His love is great.

  195. There's love around 35 years later here we have in the Book

  196. of Revelation now that was written 35 years after that

  197. letter was written to the Ephesians.

  198. And in chapter 2 and 3, Jesus is speaking and speaking to the

  199. seven churches and the first one is Ephesus.

  200. In Revelation 2, verse one, it says, write this letter to the

  201. Angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one

  202. who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks

  203. among the seven gold lampstands. Just you know, from chapter 1,

  204. the gold lampstands were representatives of the churches,

  205. the seven different churches that he was writing to.

  206. In verse 2 it says, I know all the things you do.

  207. So Jesus was aware of the activities of the church.

  208. He knew the doings of the church, what they were involved

  209. with. I have seen your hard work and

  210. your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil

  211. people. You have examined the claims of

  212. those who say they are apostles but are not, and you have

  213. discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for

  214. me without quitting. That's pretty good.

  215. You work hard. You got discernment to be able

  216. to, to figure out who's lying, who's not lying.

  217. You're enduring, right? You've got endurance.

  218. These are great things to do, right?

  219. You would think these are really positive, right?

  220. And they are. They've patiently suffered

  221. without quitting here in verse 4.

  222. But I have this complaint against you.

  223. You don't love me or each other as you did at first.

  224. Hold on, didn't know we just read a whole letter, this whole

  225. letter to the Ephesians and he's talking about your love is

  226. great, you love others. Here's the love of God poured

  227. out love, love, love, love, love. 35 years later, you lost

  228. your love. You lost your love.

  229. You love for God and you love for others.

  230. You lost that you forgot. You didn't remember.

  231. You didn't remember that love, that first love that pulled on

  232. you, that drew you into the arms of Almighty God, the love of God

  233. that had been poured out. Love.

  234. They'd forgotten. They'd stop remembering.

  235. They had missed the memorial. 3540 years is about a

  236. generation. So a generation later, they've

  237. forgotten. They've forgotten that first

  238. love. You don't.

  239. You don't love me or each other as you did at first.

  240. Look how far you have fallen. Turn back to me.

  241. So here we see. Turn back again.

  242. Just like the leper who had been healed.

  243. Turn back to give a praise. Jesus is saying, turn back

  244. again. Turn back to me.

  245. Turn back and do the works you did at first.

  246. If you don't repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from

  247. its place among the churches. You warn a child forcefully to

  248. not run on the streets, not because you're being mean, but

  249. because you love them. You want their protection.

  250. And in the same way Jesus is saying you've got to stop this,

  251. come back, don't run on that street, turn around, come back.

  252. Come back to that first love. Turn around and remember again.

  253. Remember again what he has done for you.

  254. Remember how he is love is poured out for you.

  255. Remember that first love, that first love, that moment.

  256. Do you remember that time when you first said to Jesus?

  257. Jesus, I love you, I receive you come into my life that first

  258. love, that first love, that first love that drew you into

  259. the arms of God. So he's calling us to return to

  260. remember First Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 23, Paul's

    1 Corinthians 11:23

  261. writing about communion. Communion is a memorial of the

  262. goodness of God. It's a memorial that we have

  263. even to this day in the church because it reminds us of the

  264. fulfillment of the new covenant and the love of God that's been

  265. poured out for us by the blood of Jesus, by his body broken,

  266. and that we can walk in the fullness of his resurrection in

  267. life. And in First Corinthians 11,

  268. Paul's writing and he says, for I pass on to you what I received

  269. from the Lord himself on the night when he was betrayed.

  270. The Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.

  271. Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body which is

  272. given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.

  273. Verse 25 In the same way he took the cup of wine after supper,

  274. saying, This cup is the new covenant between God and his

  275. people, an agreement confirmed with My blood.

  276. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it.

  277. For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you

  278. are announcing the Lord's death until he comes.

  279. So here we have within the church a memorial instituted by

  280. Jesus. We call it communion and we do

  281. it to remember so that we don't forget all we have received.

  282. We don't forget what he has completed.

  283. But rather in that memorial, in that time, we're remembering

  284. Jesus sacrifice for me. His body was broken, his blood

  285. was shed, poured out so that I can live.

  286. My sin is dealt with, my relationship with Almighty God

  287. is reset through Jesus. And so we remember.

  288. We remember in this memorial. We remember so that we can have

  289. our faith fuelled again. Every time I take communion, it

  290. fuels my faith. Every time I take those

  291. elements, it fuels my faith because it's a reminder not just

  292. of his sacrifice, but of his covenant that he made, that I

  293. get to walk in because he is kind, He is loving.

  294. He gave his life that I might live.

  295. So I remember how you remember. Stalls you or launches you.

  296. OK, Any of you guys had people who their best time of their

  297. life and they'll still talk to it 10/15/20 years later?

  298. Oh remember high school right? Anybody remember the back of the

  299. day? Hey hey, it's good to remember.

  300. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind remembering, but they got stuck

  301. there. In fact, for some of them, the

  302. music they listen to is still stuck back there.

  303. All right. It doesn't mean you can't listen

  304. to the old songs. I'm not saying that, but don't

  305. get stuck there. But don't get stuck there.

  306. They got stalled. Some people receive, have an

  307. encounter or a trauma in their life and it becomes this, this

  308. stall in their life that they've stalled, like a car has stalled.

  309. It's run out of fuel. Sometimes I test the limits of

  310. my fuel gauge, right. And yes, it has happened once

  311. where we're driving on a highway and it's stalled and, but they,

  312. but people become stalled like that.

  313. They run out of fuel, they run out of gas and it stopped them.

  314. But how you remember? See, when you remember things in

  315. your past, do you remember just the negative or do you see how

  316. God made a way out? Do you see?

  317. Do you remember His goodness? Do you remember His goodness

  318. that helped you through? Do you remember that He brought

  319. along somebody to come alongside you and encourage you?

  320. Do you take the time to remember in a way that launches you, that

  321. actually brings you not out of this stalled position you've

  322. refuelled and now it's launching you into the next possibility,

  323. out of a stalled position, into the launch position.

  324. Remembrance is not a call to nostalgia.

  325. It's fuel to ignite belief. See, when we get stuck, that's

  326. when we have not allowed our remembering to actually be fuel

  327. to proceed and it you don't even have to get stuck by a bad

  328. thing. Sometimes you get stuck because

  329. the past was so good. I've met people who will tell

  330. you about all the cool things that happened.

  331. You know, hey, back, you know, when we were young, God was

  332. doing this and we saw these people saved and we, we saw

  333. miracles and we were there when this happened and that happened.

  334. Powerful. But do you allow that

  335. remembrance to go? Oh, I wish I was back there.

  336. Or do you allow that remembrance to propel you in faith that God

  337. can do it now? God can do it today.

  338. God is more than able now to do it.

  339. It's great to remember those things, but God is able now see

  340. because we remember and then we believe.

  341. We remember. And in our remembering, it is

  342. fuel for belief. It's fuel to believe God.

  343. It's fuel to be able to step out in faith.

  344. It's fuel to be able to move ahead for the now for this time,

  345. John 20 and verse 30 and 31. This is the end of near the end

  346. of the the gospel that John wrote.

  347. And he says there are also many other signs and miracles which

  348. Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not

  349. written in this book. So there's lots of other things

  350. that he did that didn't make it into the book.

  351. But these are written, say these are written in order that you

  352. may believe that Jesus is the Christ.

  353. You see, these were written so you would believe they aren't

  354. written. So you have information.

  355. They're not written. So I go, Oh yeah, I know that

  356. bit. I know that verse.

  357. I've memorized that verse or yeah, I can, I can figure out

  358. the timeline of Jesus. I've kind of gone through all

  359. that. It's not for that purpose.

  360. It's so you believe this is the author saying I wrote this.

  361. So you would believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is

  362. more than they will, and that through believing and cleaving

  363. to and trusting and relying upon him, you may have life through

  364. and in his name. You see, the purpose of remember

  365. is to believe. The purpose of of the gospel is

  366. that you might believe that you believe that Jesus is the Son of

  367. God, that you believe and receive the life that he has for

  368. you, that you would believe. We remember the things that God

  369. has done that you might believe, believe now, not believe just in

  370. the past because your parents did it, not believe because your

  371. grandparents had a great experience, but you to believe

  372. now you see, God didn't give your family bloodline

  373. experiences and encounters with him to be left on the shelf.

  374. They're memorials. They're memorials, they're

  375. memorials I shared shared in the 9:00 AM experience about some of

  376. the things God had done through my grandparents and, and, and in

  377. their lives. And, and, and there are things I

  378. know that God has done through my parents and Stacey's parents

  379. and their lives and encounters with God.

  380. And then I was reminded when I first came to when we were

  381. courting. She's now my wife.

  382. It's OK, But we were caught. We were, we were.

  383. Well, I did not caught it. We were dating and getting to

  384. know each other. I lived in Australia, she lived

  385. here long distance. It worked.

  386. Yeah, definitely good for me. And I came over for three weeks

  387. because we'd met in Australia and her, because she had some,

  388. some family members there that she was visiting with her mum.

  389. And six months later I came over to visit her family.

  390. Because you have to make sure they're not too crazy.

  391. Now they're going to be a little bit crazy, but they're too

  392. crazy, right? Every family's a little bit

  393. crazy. And, and so during that time, I

  394. went to church and, and one of the Knights that were having a

  395. youth gathering at a house and I was there and one of the pastors

  396. gave a word to me and I went, well, that's, that's a lot.

  397. OK, All right. Now, seven years later, we're

  398. married. Thank you.

  399. And it's 2005. And we actually would have been

  400. eight years later, because I think it was 97 when we we had

  401. that first encounter. And 2005 we're married and we've

  402. just found out that Elder Stacey is pregnant with our first born.

  403. And yeah, but you know, we were a couple of months in the

  404. pregnancy. We didn't know for a while to

  405. few other things. And we hadn't really even, I

  406. don't think we'd even told my mum and dad yet.

  407. No, we hadn't. We'd kind of kept to ourselves

  408. for the first little bit and we'd gone to Sydney, Australia

  409. and we're just finished actually, I think.

  410. Were we going in or we're just finished, We're on our way in.

  411. We're on our way into this service in Sydney.

  412. And this elderly gentleman says, oh, excuse me, yeah.

  413. Hi. Do you have children?

  414. And we said no, but knowing, yeah, that she was pregnant, but

  415. OK. Well, the Lord's given me this

  416. word, and then the word was a confirmation of everything that

  417. God had said in 1997 through this other man, from someone in

  418. a different person, in a different continent at a

  419. different time of our life. Don't ask me for the details of

  420. it right now. God's still working it out.

  421. But what it did was tell me God cares about the details of your

  422. life. You see, in my remembering of

  423. that, I was remembering. Wow, God, look at you.

  424. You did. You knew I needed that.

  425. You knew we needed to hear that from someone else as a

  426. confirmation that you are operating, you are doing things.

  427. See, God cares about the details of your life.

  428. We we remember so we can believe.

  429. And that in that believing God is moving, but belief must be

  430. fresh for every generation. I said earlier, it's not good

  431. enough that you believe just because your grandparents

  432. believed or what your parents believed or what do you believe

  433. in God? What are you calling on God for?

  434. What do you believe? How are you pressing in to what

  435. God has for you? What do you believe he's capable

  436. of? What do you believe that He can

  437. provide? How is your belief fuelled?

  438. You see, remembrance fuels our belief.

  439. It gives us a fuel to be able to get going again.

  440. As long as we don't stay stuck in the past, as long as we

  441. remember well, we don't remember to stay lost in our past.

  442. We remember the goodness of God to propel us forward because God

  443. is a present God. The scripture says He's not the

  444. God of the dead because he's the the God of Abraham, Isaac, and

  445. Jacob. He was a God of generations.

  446. He's a God. He's alive and at work now.

  447. He's the same God right now, same God back then, same God

  448. right now, same God back then, same God right now.

  449. Amen. So we believe that God is able.

  450. We we remember, we believe. And now we speak.

  451. In Acts chapter 4, verse 19 and 20, Peter and John had actually

    Acts 4:19

  452. healed a cripple and then had declared the goodness of Jesus.

  453. And then the the Pharisees and Sadducees brought them in and

  454. questioned them about Jesus and told them you're not to speak

  455. about Jesus. And then they beat them.

  456. So imagine that you just get beaten for just talking about

  457. Jesus. They beat them and then said,

  458. don't you talk about Jesus anymore?

  459. Don't you talk about Jesus? And here's their reply.

  460. But Peter and John replied, do you think God wants us to obey

  461. you rather than him? We cannot stop telling.

  462. Cannot stop. We cannot stop telling about

  463. everything we have seen and heard.

  464. Can't stop, Won't stop, can't stop.

  465. I don't know where that one goes anyway.

  466. But can't stop, I can't stop. Can't stop declaring the

  467. goodness of God. I can't stop sharing the love of

  468. God. I can't stop telling people

  469. about how good he is. I can't stop.

  470. We believe, therefore we also speak.

  471. So in our remembering, we remember the goodness of God.

  472. The remembrance of the goodness of God fuels our belief.

  473. Our belief rises up within us and now because we have

  474. believed, so we speak. We speak the goodness of God.

  475. In 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 13, it says, yet we have the same

  476. spirit of faith as he had who wrote in Scripture.

  477. I believe, therefore I spoke. We also believe, therefore we

  478. also speak knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will also

  479. raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his

  480. presence. So we believe, therefore we

  481. speak because we know that knowing comes out of our

  482. remembrance, right? It's fuelling us, it's fuelling

  483. us, it's fuelling us, it's fuelling our belief, it's

  484. fuelling how we see God. I said in the in the first

  485. experience, I said don't be afraid of stealing other

  486. people's encounters with Jesus. We're one big family anyway,

  487. right? So if you're not sure, you're

  488. saying, man, I, I got a little bit, but I don't steal it from

  489. others. I'll give you a few of ours and

  490. steal those remembrances because then you can bring that into

  491. your life. You know there's great men and

  492. women of faith who have pressed in, who obtained the riches of

  493. God. Learn from them, learn from them

  494. that God is more than able lay a hold of that, Pastor Tara said

  495. on Wednesday. There's 3 powers of the voice of

  496. faith. Firstly, the voice of faith

  497. breaks silence. Faith, I broke your silence.

  498. The voice of faith breaks the silence.

  499. It's breaking through the silence here in Acts 4 verse 29.

    Acts 4:29

  500. This is a continuation After they had left and been beaten

  501. and and told them we've got to, we can't but speak of the

  502. goodness of God. They came together and they

  503. prayed and this is the last part of the prayer that they had

  504. there with the other believers of Jesus.

  505. And they said, And now, Lord, observe their threats and grant

  506. to your bondservants full freedom to declare your message

  507. fearlessly, while you stretch out your hand to cure and to

  508. perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the

  509. power of the name of your holy child and servant Jesus.

  510. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were

  511. assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy

  512. Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with

  513. freedom and boldness and courage.

  514. You see, the threats were put there to silence them.

  515. Don't you speak in the name of Jesus.

  516. Be quiet. That's a threat to us.

  517. Jesus is a threat. And the voice of faith said

  518. we're breaking that silence. Now these were real threats.

  519. They could. They just put Jesus to death of

  520. the cross. These weren't idle threats by

  521. somebody who had no power. Remember that when they were

  522. threatened, they were threatened by people who had already showed

  523. that they would follow through on the threat.

  524. But that attempt to silence them was broken because of the voice

  525. of faith in the voices. Faith said, Lord, we want to

  526. preach your word with boldness, with courage, with strength.

  527. The voice of faith speaks. To the voice of faith releases

  528. faith in others. Do you know how much your story

  529. builds the confidence in others? First Thessalonians 5 verse 11

    1 Thessalonians 5:11

  530. says so encourage each other and build each other up just as you

  531. are already doing. How much more powerful is it

  532. when you hear other people sharing the goodness of God?

  533. Man, at the end of the week, it's like, guess what?

  534. This is what Jesus did this week.

  535. We'll go wait till next week. Maybe this week is like man, I

  536. was dealing with the pressure of finance, but man, the peace of

  537. God, just man overwhelm me and I may not have that final answer,

  538. but man, I've got the peace. Wait for instalment too, right?

  539. Because I'm believing God, because I already know that God

  540. provides. I already know that he is the

  541. provider. So now I'm building.

  542. We're building each other in faith.

  543. And the voice of faith builds and builds and builds.

  544. It grows and grows and grows. Because your faith encourages my

  545. faith. My faith encourages your faith.

  546. And we keep remembering the goodness of God through

  547. testimony. We keep remembering the goodness

  548. of God. We keep building 1 upon the

  549. other. You'll imagine how fired up we'd

  550. be, imagine how stirred up you'd be in your spirit mean how that

  551. would stir you when you start encouraging each other and

  552. building 1 on top of each other. Third, the voice of faith, open

  553. cities, Acts 8, verse 5. It says Philip, for example,

    Acts 8:5

  554. went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the

  555. Messiah. What do you do?

  556. He told them. The voice of faith speaks.

  557. Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager

  558. to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did.

  559. Many evil spirits were cast out screaming as they left their

  560. victims, and many who had been paralysed or lame were healed.

  561. And so there was what great joy in that city.

  562. The voice of faith opens cities speaking.

  563. The voice of faith open cities. It opens, it opens, it opens.

  564. First of all, it opens our hearts.

  565. And as we build up one another, it opens our hearts to be able

  566. to share it out and speak it out.

  567. And as our words go out and we encourage one another, first of

  568. all each other. And then as we go outside and we

  569. start saying, man, I tell you, God's been good to me this week.

  570. I tell you, God's working in my life.

  571. That voice of faith builds and builds and builds, and so we

  572. remember. We believe, we speak, we've

  573. exposed. The enemy wants to trap us in

  574. our memory, but the memory and remembrance is actually to

  575. propel us in belief. We're equipped because we're

  576. laying a hold of that belief and we're running with it.

  577. I tell you, this is exciting. This is powerful.

  578. I don't know if you had a chance this week to remember this week.

  579. Remember, I don't know if you had a chance this week to build

  580. your belief this week. Remember in such a way that you

  581. see how God moved and recognizes the same God today as He's

  582. always been. Man believe God, believe God and

  583. in your beliefs speak out to one another, encourage one another,

  584. build your faith build up your holy faith by encouraging each

  585. other with a Word of Faith. Maybe it's just just in your

  586. family. Start talking about man.

  587. I'll tell you I forgot about this, but you remember God did

  588. this man I man I I just remembered I God answered that

  589. prayer and I haven't thought about that for so long, but God

  590. answers my prayers. Build your faith step into it.

  591. I encourage you engage. We are stepping into a dimension

  592. of God that if we do not take the time to remember, we might

  593. miss it. There are many who have prayed

  594. for revival who did not see it because they thought it would

  595. come in a package that they would understand.

  596. But God is doing a new thing. He's doing a new thing and right

  597. now our hearts are being prepared for what He's about to

  598. do. Now.

  599. I encourage you, we're in a time to build our belief.

  600. We're in a time of opening our mouths.

  601. We're a time where God is moving in power through our

  602. remembrances to equip us and fuel us for the now.

  603. We're not remembering to remember.

  604. We're remembering to fuel. It's like an athlete.

  605. There are athletes who eat and there's athletes who eat to

  606. fuel. There's a difference.

  607. An athlete who just eats will eat whatever.

  608. An athlete who eats to fuel will think about how their balances

  609. between their protein and the carbohydrates and their starches

  610. and all the stuff that other people know, I don't know much

  611. about, but they're, but they're, they're, they're, they're

  612. fuelling for purpose. We are, we are fuelling for

  613. purpose. We are fuelling with purpose.

  614. We're fuelling to be able to run.

  615. We're fuelling to be able to run with the vision, run with the

  616. purposes of God, run with what he's called us to.

  617. We're fuelling to run. I encourage you fuel to run this

  618. week. Take the time to remember so

  619. you're fuelled up to run, not to stay at the same level no more.

  620. There's too much to do. There's too much for us to do.

  621. To stay sitting back, stalled in our faith.

  622. There's too much to do. There's too much.

  623. God has given us this great purpose.

  624. There's there's too much for us to sit still any longer, to sit

  625. back any longer. We're in lunchtime.

  626. I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that your word

  627. is alive and powerful. Lord, I thank you that you were

  628. doing a great work in this house, Lord.

  629. I thank you, Lord, for what you have begun here at Lovequest is

  630. to impact this city. Lord, I thank you and rejoice in

  631. you, Lord, because you have given us the tools.

  632. You've given us remembrance, Lord.

  633. You've given us the word to believe.

  634. I believe, though, You've given us the tools to be able to run

  635. with it, to run with the coal, to run into what you're calling

  636. us to. Lord, I pray that each one here

  637. will be stirred up out of this comfort level, out of comfort,

  638. into coal, out of comfort into the place of God's greatness,

  639. out of comfort into the coal of the love of God, because the

  640. love of God is sometimes uncomfortable.

  641. Lord, I thank you. This house is a house that

  642. honours your presence. This house is a house that

  643. honours what you're doing now. Thank you, Lord, for our pastors

  644. who speak the Word in truth Have prepared this way.

  645. Lord, I thank you, Lord, that we are running together the vision.

  646. Lord, we stir up the gift of God.

  647. We stir up the call. We stir up again our

  648. remembrance. We stir up again the remembrance

  649. of that first love. We stir it up again.

  650. Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up.

  651. Lord, we're stirring the gift of God.

  652. Lord, we're stirring into remembrance those encounters

  653. with you, those encounters that we've sat on for too long.

  654. I thank you, Lord, You're stirring today.

  655. You're calling us up. You're calling us higher.

  656. You're calling us up into new dimensions, Lord, that our

  657. belief in you is it stirred up. Oh, so we're encountering Jesus

  658. kind of faith when we step into our workplace, we're

  659. encountering a Jesus kind of belief.

  660. When we're coming home to family, we've got a Jesus kind

  661. of faith that's stirring us up. Lord, Lord, we have a voice that

  662. declares the goodness of God, a voice that breaks the silence, a

  663. voice that stirs the city. Lord, a voice of faith that

  664. loves, that declares, that walks in the goodness of God.

  665. Lord, we encounter the risen Saviour.

  666. Lord, I thank you, you're stirring.

  667. Thank you, you're stirring. I encourage you, stir yourself

  668. up in prayer. Now, Lord, if you, you could

  669. pray in the spirit, pray in the spirit, whatever mechanism you

  670. have to pray, just stir yourself up.

  671. Start to recite the word in your prayer.

  672. See, I am the head and not the tail.

  673. I am the redeemed of the Lord. I am filled with the Spirit of

  674. God. The same Spirit that raised

  675. Christ from the dead dwells in me.

  676. That's just the Spirit of God that dwells in me.

  677. It's the same Spirit that dwelled in Jesus.

  678. I thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord for your

  679. goodness. Thank you Lord, for your great

  680. love. Lord, I stirred myself up that

  681. love that I've received as a love that others need.

  682. I stir the belief and a memory of the love of God, Lord.

  683. I stir myself up, Lord. I thank you that we're stirring.

  684. Thank you, Lord. We're stirring the goodness of

  685. God. We're through our remembrance.

  686. We're stirring up into that place.

  687. We're stirring up, Lord, stirring our hearts, stirring

  688. our memory, stirring ourselves into the goodness of God.

  689. The things you have for us, Lord.

  690. Lord, we're fuelling up for the future.

  691. We're fuelling up for the now faith now kind of faith, Lord.

  692. We're fueling up from the word. We're fueling up from the

  693. declaration of those who believed in you and trusted in

  694. you. We're stirring ourselves up,

  695. Lord. We pick ourselves up off the

  696. floor and we get going again. We pick ourselves up from that

  697. stall position and we're ready to run.

  698. Lord, we thank you. Lord, we stir up.

  699. We stir it up. We stir it up.

  700. We thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, You're fueling

  701. us. Fuel us with your fire.

  702. Fuel us Lord, with our remembrance.

  703. We're fueled, Lord, we're fueled for what you called us to.

  704. You fueled us up, Lord, you fueled us up to run in Jesus

  705. name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning

  706. into this week. 'S sermon We pray you were

  707. challenged, equipped and encouraged make sure to follow

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  712. But until next time you know the drill.

  713. You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see

  714. y'all real soon.