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Sunday Message - Mara Kong (July 01, 2018) | Life Bible Church

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  1. Awesome. Well, Pastor Brad and Jenny are in Brazil

  2. over the next couple weeks. And actually just

  3. heard from him a few minutes ago. Just continue

  4. to pray. He's speaking, I think he said, 18 different

  5. times in 17 days or something like that, and

  6. a lot of prophetic ministry, and Jenny's right

  7. there with him. And so if you would just continue

  8. to surround them and cover them in prayer, that

  9. would be awesome. But we are extremely, extremely

  10. blessed today to get to hear Mara Kong. Now,

  11. Mara and Leah are some of the main leaders in

  12. Cambodia. have actually been in relationship

  13. with Life Bible since kind of before Life Bible.

  14. And so it goes back, I would say, 20 years. Been

  15. a really great relationship. We support them

  16. now. And you guys saw everything that's going

  17. on in Cambodia. So would you guys please, I mean,

  18. it really is an honor to have them here. Would

  19. you please give a warm Life Bible welcome to

  20. Mara and Leah Kang? Wow, thank you so much. We

  21. love you guys. We love your church. If you don't

  22. know it, you have a great church. And it's a

  23. privilege for us to be here and just to see.

  24. It's my home, you know, in case you didn't know

  25. that. So I feel at home, and I feel at home here.

  26. Love you guys. I just wanted to share something

  27. really brief. We hear a lot of bad news, but

  28. I want to bring a good report. I want to bring

  29. a good report about what God is doing in the

  30. world. I have the honor and the privilege to

  31. get to go with him to a lot of places. And I

  32. just want to tell you, God's moving. God's moving

  33. in places you would be surprised that he's moving.

  34. And you never hear it. It's not on the media.

  35. It's not on Facebook unless he posts it. But

  36. he posts a lot. But you know what? God's moving,

  37. and he's pushing back the darkness. And I just

  38. want you to know, my brother was in the military,

  39. and when he was in the military, he told me that

  40. they told him that it takes seven people in the

  41. military to support the guy on the front line.

  42. And the Lord was just reminding me, that's all

  43. of you. You're supporting us, us on the front

  44. line. And I want to tell you it makes a difference.

  45. Don't underestimate your role in what you do

  46. to support us. Prayer, finance, just loving us,

  47. hugging us when we see you, when you come over.

  48. It makes a huge difference to us. So I just really

  49. don't believe the lie of the enemy because he

  50. wants to say you're not. as important as you

  51. are, and you are important, and you support us,

  52. and that makes a huge difference for all of us

  53. and the team in Cambodia. We can't do what we're

  54. doing unless you're behind us. So I just want

  55. to tell you thank you for that, and also just...

  56. Don't underestimate. When you feel the nudge

  57. of the Holy Spirit to pray, it's because we need

  58. it. If you feel the Holy Spirit telling you to

  59. do something, do it. Because it's making a difference

  60. on the other side of the world where we are.

  61. And we feel it. We know it. We can tell when

  62. you guys pray for us and when you support us.

  63. So anyways, I just wanted to encourage you that

  64. we're just thankful and grateful for what God's

  65. doing. We're trying to keep up with what God's

  66. doing over there, and he's making us work out

  67. pretty hard. We really appreciate your being

  68. behind us. So please don't ever take that for

  69. granted that we need you and we need your support.

  70. So we just appreciate. Thank you for the report

  71. today. It's amazing what God's doing, but I won't

  72. tell you more because he's going to tell you

  73. it all. So thank you. Thank you, dear. Hallelujah.

  74. We have a great day, right? We privilege living

  75. a great generation. The gospel is everywhere.

  76. Before, when you want to look to buy a Bible,

  77. you can't find it. Or if you don't have the money,

  78. you can't find it. But now, the Bible is everywhere.

  79. A lot of resources. that you can, you know, access

  80. in and to and learn from it. And a lot of encouragement,

  81. you know, post on Facebook or, you know, YouTube

  82. and all that. Don't go to the bad one. Go to

  83. the good one. All over the world, God is doing

  84. amazing things. I just want to take this opportunity,

  85. you know, on behalf of our team back in Cambodia,

  86. Pastor Jesse and Saul and all the team and all

  87. of the senior leadership team and all of the

  88. New Life Fellowship Cambodia churches. I want

  89. to appreciate New Life. I mean, sorry, Life Bible

  90. and Pastor Brett and Jan and, you know, all the

  91. pastors and leaders. You guys make us feel like

  92. home. Your presence and worship is really like,

  93. you know, we are one. I'm glad that I get to

  94. go to the church that has the same DNA and believe

  95. in the same thing and push through the same thing,

  96. that we fight the same battle. I really appreciate

  97. it. I am so grateful, you know, to this. And

  98. on top of that, you guys go to help us. and be

  99. with us and lift our arms and pray for us. You

  100. know, so appreciated. And, you know, people in

  101. this congregation, I want to honor as well this

  102. morning. I want to honor Duane and Leanne over

  103. there. They are grandparents to, you know, all

  104. of the Cambodian people over there. They just

  105. go in and love people. Good and love people and

  106. share their resources, share their prayer and

  107. hug them and love them and speak life into the

  108. people. I'm so grateful. And also Rob, Smucker

  109. and Smucker's family, you know, you guys come

  110. over, you keep making over, trip over to Cambodia.

  111. I know it costs something. It costs your time.

  112. It costs your money. It costs everything. But

  113. you do it. Thank you so much. This morning, I

  114. feel irritation, you know, that the devil trying

  115. to, you know. I take salt to have my throne.

  116. This morning's okay. I woke up okay. Everything

  117. okay. But when I was praying, it was okay. But

  118. just, you know, right before this, I feel like

  119. irritation in my throat, like something weird,

  120. don't want me to talk about it, you know? Just

  121. pray for me. Would you reach your arm and pray

  122. for me? Keep praying, keep praying. Speak in

  123. tongues. Rebuke it, rebuke it in the name of

  124. the Lord Jesus Christ. I know there's something,

  125. you know, the demon trying to, you know, take

  126. this, rebuke it in the mighty name of the Lord

  127. Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Yep, yep. Hallelujah.

  128. Yes. Thank you, thank you. While I'm talking,

  129. Keep praying for me because this irritation can't

  130. be here. They don't want me to, the devil don't

  131. want me to talk to you. You know, I know that,

  132. you know, I know about it. So the title of my

  133. sermon today is God Have All the Answers. If

  134. you're looking for answers, go to God. He have

  135. all the answers. You know, we bless that we have

  136. a life. This life is so precious. Really precious.

  137. But in the journey of this life, might be some

  138. rocky, you know, some hardships and stuff like

  139. that. But there is no nothing that our God cannot

  140. do. Our God is on our side. It might be, it's

  141. a little hard, you know, in this journey. But

  142. you push through. You believe God can do it.

  143. God is on our side. Always remember that this

  144. life is so precious. And the devil wanting to

  145. stop you from reaching your destination. Along

  146. the journey, the devil put this, the devil put

  147. that, put obstacle, put disease, put sickness,

  148. put confusion and all that. They want to stop

  149. you. But there's nothing can stop you when you

  150. believe and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. The

  151. Lord Jesus Christ have all the power. The Lord

  152. Jesus Christ has all the authority. Let's go

  153. to a scripture in the book of Judges. Can we

  154. all read together? I want us to read together.

  155. Okay, one, two, three. See, always enemy in this

  156. world. Always enemy. Gideon, you know, he's a

  157. little bit freaky. Because, a little bit freaky

  158. because the enemy is around it. You know, even

  159. though he is not the enemy, you know, when you

  160. look at that. But he's hiding. He's afraid. Sometimes

  161. in this world, there are so many things, so many

  162. bad things, you know, around us. We want to hide

  163. from it. We don't want to expose to it. Gideon

  164. was hiding because of the enemy. You know, when

  165. the country have enemies, and it will affect

  166. you and affect your family and affect your individual.

  167. Because terrifying. The whole country just in

  168. fear. Midnight is coming to our nation. Control

  169. over our nation. What about us? What about our

  170. family? So many issues that you and I, we are

  171. afraid of. Oh, we are afraid of this. Oh, we

  172. are afraid of that. Afraid of, afraid of, afraid

  173. of. Where is God? Where is God? Gideon was so

  174. afraid. When you live in the life of being afraid

  175. long enough, you start to doubt about everything,

  176. anything. Start to doubt. God, where are you?

  177. Is there a God? Is there a God that have all

  178. power and authority? Is there a God that can

  179. help people? Where are you? Where is this God?

  180. How come we live in this kind of life? This life

  181. is bad enough. Why enemy come into our life?

  182. It's hard. This life, it's hard. The journey,

  183. it's hard. But God is on our side. There's always

  184. enemies. Always enemies. You know, you and I

  185. are the same. I don't know about you, but as

  186. for me, the same. This is Gideon. I grown up

  187. in wars. One war after another. You know, my

  188. mom and my dad, until now, they're afraid to

  189. talk about politics. Because when people talk

  190. about politics during their generation, they

  191. will get killed. You know? Just to talk about

  192. it. You don't accuse anyone. You're just afraid.

  193. And you talk about it. When people are afraid,

  194. you talk about it. And people put you to death.

  195. They kill you. I tell you that God is alive.

  196. That God is with us. God is here. God has all

  197. power and authority. He can help us. And they

  198. said, where? Where are you? Where are all of

  199. those power and authority that God take all of

  200. our forefathers out of Egypt? Where? Where is

  201. that God? God is alive. But Gideon and his whole

  202. family living a life in fear. Fear control over

  203. Gideon's family and go through Gideon. And Gideon

  204. adopt that fear. And then Gideon live in the

  205. life of doubting. Where are you? Is there a God?

  206. Is there a God can help us? Of course, there's

  207. a God. Of course, God can help us. God is alive.

  208. God is near us. God is with us. Just allow him

  209. to do the work. Look at this picture. I want

  210. to ask you to look at this picture. The earth

  211. and the sun. Is there a picture in there? Yep.

  212. You see? You see the earth is so tiny. See that?

  213. So tiny compared to the sun. There are 13 million

  214. earths fit in the sun. 13 million. Look at another

  215. picture. But look at that. But sometime, someday,

  216. it's light here and dark in Cambodia. Sometimes

  217. it's light in Cambodia, dark here, you know.

  218. Why? The earth is so small, but why the sun can't

  219. just shine it through the whole world bright

  220. in one time? You know, because the earth is rotating

  221. and stuff like that. But can you imagine? 13

  222. million times bigger and bright. It's so powerful.

  223. God is so powerful. God have all power. God have

  224. all authority. But sometimes people live in the

  225. tiny earth. Say, where are you gone? Is God really

  226. have power? Even though, you know, you feel you

  227. live in the darkness at the nighttime in your

  228. country, in my country. But I tell you, the sun

  229. is still shining. The sun's still shining. Even

  230. though you might not feel the presence of God.

  231. Even though you might not experience the presence

  232. of God. The presence of God is there. He's there.

  233. He's ready to help us. Just be patient and love

  234. Him. Say, God, it's your turn to do it. Not just

  235. our turn. Allow God to do it. The presence of

  236. the Lord is with us all the time. God is existing.

  237. God is not dead. God is alive. God is kind. God

  238. is love. God loves you more than you love yourself.

  239. God loves me more than I love myself. Just remind

  240. us like that. Every time you go through trial

  241. and tribulation, remind yourself that God is

  242. alive. God have all power. God have all authority.

  243. And he loves you so much. And he loves me so

  244. much. Sometimes in the bad situation in life,

  245. we seem to think, is there God? Can God help

  246. me? This situation is too hard for God. No, it's

  247. not too hard for God. Because we don't want God

  248. to do it. We want to do it ourselves. You know,

  249. we want to do ourselves like the earth and the

  250. sun. The earth is so small. The sun is so big.

  251. Where is the light? Is there a light? Of course,

  252. there's a light. Yeah. So, of course, God is

  253. stronger than any devil. God is stronger than

  254. any issue that you are facing in your life. God

  255. is powerful. Look at 1 John chapter 4 verse 4.

    1 John 4:4

  256. You dear children are from God and have overcome

  257. them because the one, the one God who is in you

  258. is greater than the one who is in the world.

  259. The one God that loves you is stronger than the

  260. demon that tried to irritate you. Yeah. The one

  261. God that lives in you, he's ready any time, any

  262. time. Sometimes when we pray one time and we

  263. don't see the answer, no, it doesn't work. Pray

  264. one more time and keep believing. Pray third

  265. time, fourth time, 100 times, it's okay. Keep

  266. praying, keep believing that one day, one time,

  267. you will see it. I tell you, let me tell you.

  268. Every time that you pray, you weaken the demon.

  269. Yeah, you weaken the demon. And some demon is

  270. so stubborn. Demon are liars. They lie to you.

  271. They trick your mind. They trick your eyes. They

  272. think that they have power. Of course, they have

  273. some power. But compared to God, they're nothing.

  274. Of course, they have power. But compared to the

  275. power that God gives you, that demon is nothing.

  276. Yeah, it's nothing. But sometimes, you know,

  277. we see the issue still there. The problem still

  278. there. And we get discouraged. We get sad. We

  279. don't know what to do. We cry. But I tell you,

  280. every time you pray, you weaken the devil. You

  281. weaken the devil. One point, the devil will be

  282. destroyed completely. because the Lord loves

  283. you so much. So the devil wants to take you away

  284. from God. The devil wants to fight with God,

  285. even though they are, excuse me, even though

  286. they know that they lose, you know, they lose

  287. the battle. I got point number one over here.

  288. Point number one, believe God for big thing in

  289. your life. What is big thing? Believe God for

  290. your whole family will be saved. When I first

  291. believed, you know, start believing in Jesus.

  292. I'm so grateful that this love is so great. I

  293. never experienced it before. And I don't just

  294. want to believe in the Lord God by myself. I

  295. want... My whole family to believe, to experience

  296. the greatness, the love of God. One by one, my

  297. brothers start to get saved. I pray with my brother

  298. for our family. One more brother saved. And then

  299. one more brother saved. And now my whole family

  300. is serving Jesus. My whole family is serving

  301. Jesus. One time a month. I invite them to come

  302. to my house and worship God together. It's like

  303. a small church, you know. It's like if you get

  304. every one of them coming, there's like 30 people.

  305. They come to my place and, you know, we feed

  306. them, we encourage them, and we worship God together.

  307. We pray for one another. This is what we do in

  308. our family. One time a month, I gather all of

  309. them to our place and speak life to them. Speak

  310. blessing to them and encourage them to continue

  311. to love Jesus, to continue to praise Jesus. You

  312. know, two of my family members lead worship for

  313. our church. You know, all of us are involved

  314. in the house of God. My father, you know, he's

  315. always there early, you know, greet people and

  316. love on people. I'm so grateful. Start to believe

  317. God for big things. Not small things. Don't just

  318. ask God for bread. Ask for tons of bread so that

  319. you can share with people. Don't ask God for

  320. enough, you know. Overflow salary so that you

  321. can share with other people. If you pray for,

  322. oh Lord, give me enough, that is, you would say,

  323. a selfish prayer. Don't do a selfish prayer.

  324. Lord, give me abundance so that I can share with

  325. people. If you have enough just for yourself,

  326. you don't get to share. You can't share because

  327. only enough. But I pray, Lord, give me overflow.

  328. Abundance. My whole family saved. My whole community

  329. saved. Lord, I want to see my whole school saved.

  330. Whole school saved. Ask the Lord for the big

  331. thing. Don't just ask a small thing. Yep. The

  332. demon is not or cannot fight against it. They

  333. only, you know, try to trick you. But look at

  334. this picture. There's a man. There's a man, that

  335. guy in the middle. This one day. He go see the

  336. doctor because he kind of sick and, you know,

  337. all kind of issue. He go see the doctor and come

  338. back. The result was he got growth all over his

  339. liver. When he share with me, I was sad. I start

  340. to cry a little bit. And the guy said, Pastor,

  341. when you cry, I don't know what to do. Now I'm

  342. so discouraged. I thought that I got issue and

  343. I tell you the issue and you pray and you believe

  344. God for great thing. But now I tell you, you

  345. look sad. You know, of course I was sad because

  346. I heard the bad news. He was so weak. He cannot

  347. do anything. He thought he got cancer. He's going

  348. to die soon. Because grow all over his liver.

  349. But, you know, we pray. I call him up. His name

  350. is Pastor Noon. He lives in a village which is,

  351. I would say, like six, seven hours away from

  352. Phnom Penh. I call him up. The other thing, there's

  353. a power through prayer over the phone as well.

  354. Yeah, because it's prayer. So I call him up.

  355. And he said, how do you know my phone number?

  356. I said, oh, I ask people. Okay, so can I pray

  357. for you? So I pray, I speak live. He said, sin

  358. that day. Sin that day. He said something is

  359. quickening into his body, you know. He feel like

  360. stronger and stronger. He serve the Lord and

  361. he love the Lord. He said, Pastor, I never feel

  362. the same. I don't know why I'm so excited all

  363. the time. I don't know why I feel so much, you

  364. know, I have so much strength in my body. I can

  365. do so many things. I want to go do this. I want

  366. to go do that. His body is healed, I believe.

  367. Because the power of prayer. Another time, I

  368. go to visit his village. And he's excited. He

  369. took me to pray for this one man. Don't eat for

  370. five days straight. You know, maybe some of you

  371. might know when you go to Cambodia, you see Cambodian

  372. people are so skinny. Some of them don't have

  373. enough to eat. They live in the village and they

  374. don't eat. This man, particular man, don't eat

  375. for five days straight. Sick in bed. All he could

  376. is drink water. That's it. So he took me to pray

  377. for the man. Me and the pastor and the other

  378. guy pray for the man. After I pray, usually when

  379. we pray, we get to see God doing something right

  380. away. After we pray, we ask a man to sit up.

  381. He cannot sit up. So, oh my, I feel a little

  382. bit discouraged, you know. I feel a little bit

  383. discouraged because the man's not sit up. I pray

  384. with this guy. So, and then we have that man

  385. to sit up, sit up a little bit. We pray one more

  386. time. The man's still weak. And it is time for

  387. us to leave the man's house. I feel like God

  388. said, don't be discouraged. Just say something

  389. to the man. That's it. That's what God's telling

  390. me to do. I don't know. God, what is that word?

  391. Just say something. What is that something, God?

  392. And I said, okay, I'm going to say something

  393. then. Because I feel like the Lord's telling

  394. me to do that. So I said something. Sir, after

  395. we leave your house, the Lord will heal you.

  396. You will be healed. Can you imagine if you are

  397. a patient, you are a sick person? When that person

  398. pray for you, you're not healed yet. And after

  399. you leave, and that word say, you will be healed

  400. after I left your place. You know? But to make

  401. a long story short, after we leave, the man sit

  402. up, and the next day he go to work like normal.

  403. This is the power of prayer. This is the power

  404. of speaking by faith, believing for great things,

  405. believing for big things than just believing

  406. for small things. Let's look at Romans chapter

    Romans 12:1

  407. 12, verse 1 or 2. Therefore, I urge you, brethren,

  408. by the mercies of God, to present your bodies

  409. a living... And holy sacrifice to present. Your

  410. body of holy and living sacrifice. Acceptable

  411. to God. Which is your spiritual service. Of worship.

  412. And do not be conformed. To this world. But be

  413. transformed. By the renewing of your mind. So

  414. that you may prove. What the will of God is.

  415. That which is good. And acceptable. And perfect.

  416. This world. People in this world. They have so

  417. many things to say. They say about this. They

  418. say about that. This one time I was watching

  419. CNN. And one bad news after another. One hour

  420. straight. I start to feel depressed. You know

  421. after watching that. All of those bad news. Start

  422. to feel depressed. Can you imagine? You know.

  423. You're living a life like that? Because so many

  424. people, you know, I used to work as a journalist.

  425. Bad news sell a lot, you know. You make a lot

  426. of money through bad news. But good news sometimes

  427. don't make so much money. So we sell bad news.

  428. We take all the bad things, you know, put it

  429. in a newspaper and sell it. People buy news like

  430. crazy. And so bad news sell. But we live. in

  431. the world that love to embrace bad news. Because

  432. this is what the demon, this is what Satan wants

  433. to embrace. This is what the demon and Satan

  434. want to stir it up, stir the nest up. But you

  435. know what? Renewing your mind. If you see that,

  436. it's okay. I'm not going to believe it. I'm going

  437. to trust in the Lord my God. If you see what's

  438. going on not right in your family, I'm going

  439. to believe in my God. I'm going to believe that

  440. my son and my daughter and my husband and my

  441. wife, we get saved. Yeah. Keep believing. Keep

  442. believing. And keep speaking. Because your word

  443. has power. The word that comes out of your mouth

  444. with, you know, faith, mixed with faith, has

  445. so much power. Keep believing. Keep proclaiming.

  446. Keep receiving. You will receive by faith. Point

  447. number two. Put your faith to the test. Oh, come

  448. to the church. Everyone worship, you know, good

  449. man and James, you know, leading worship or whoever.

  450. And they lead worship. They're excited. They

  451. praise the Lord. A good voice and good team playing.

  452. When you go home, you don't have music. You don't

  453. have anyone sing for you. Yeah, and then the

  454. faith starts to go down a little bit. When you

  455. go to your workplace, your boss starts to say

  456. something, you know, one word's not appropriate,

  457. you know, supposed to say, and you start to feel

  458. bad. This and that. You go to the store, you

  459. hear bad news. Put your faith to the test. Test

  460. it. Test it. You know, all of the cars, after

  461. they make it, they test it first to see. Is that

  462. car good enough or not? You know, this one time

  463. I was in the lake in Texas, was rowing a boat,

  464. that's me, into the lake, you know. Just enjoying,

  465. you know, rowing the boat. I don't row for a

  466. long time. You know, rowing a boat, it worked

  467. for me. It's not fun because I used to do that,

  468. you know, to take our rides, you know, from one

  469. place to another, take people. You know, I used

  470. to work for my family, just like that, you know.

  471. And my friend just take us into the lake. You

  472. know, I have one boat, and you call it canoe,

  473. right? Yeah. Kajak or whatever. Yep. And as I

  474. rove, I feel the wind kick in a little bit. It

  475. feel good, you know, feel good. And then on the

  476. way back, the dark cloud start to come and the

  477. wind start to kick strongly. It reminded me.

  478. It's like 1987, 88, around that time. I went

  479. out fishing with my uncle in the lake, you know,

  480. near our village. We caught lots of fish. But

  481. that day, a big storm come, you know, big storm

  482. come, and so I thought I was going to die. You

  483. know, it's a lot of water in the boat. And so,

  484. thankfully, I didn't die. You know, and we can't

  485. see from me to you because it's so dark and the

  486. big waves coming, and I thought that, That's

  487. it. I wasn't there supposed to go to men's camp.

  488. But one day before the men's camp, I was in the

  489. lake and having fun. On the way back, I feel

  490. like, is this going to be a tornado or what?

  491. My son said, Dad, you go to Texas? I saw a lot

  492. of tornadoes in Texas. My son, Josh. So I was

  493. praying for you. That word reminded me, oh, is

  494. it going to be a tornado? Or what does a dark

  495. cloud in front of me mean? I use all of my strength

  496. to row the boat, pushing myself, believing that

  497. I will reach the shore. Believing. You never

  498. know how much strength you have, how much faith

  499. you have until you're facing bad situation in

  500. front of you. Yeah. Don't be afraid. Push through.

  501. Believing. Keep believing. It's okay. You will

  502. reach the destiny. You know, destination is in

  503. front of you. Don't worry about it. Keep believing.

  504. Keep rowing. I don't know because I thought,

  505. oh, I don't row the boat for a long time. Maybe

  506. I can't do this. But my life is so important.

  507. I'm going to keep doing it. You know, one, you

  508. know, how you call it? The thing that I do it,

  509. you know, put in the water. You know, I know

  510. in Khmer. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the

  511. Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I speak

  512. in tongue, you know. Speak in tongue. Keep speaking

  513. in tongue. Finally, I get to the shore. And I

  514. look back. Oh, I got so much strength. I can

  515. do this. You can do it. Another picture of a

  516. man. That man, he's one of our pastors. He's

  517. poor. He lives in his village far away, you know.

  518. But he served the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said,

  519. he told me, Pastor, don't worry about me. If

  520. the Lord don't feed me, let me die. He said that.

  521. I'm going to trust in the Lord my God. If the

  522. Lord is not going to feed me, let me die. He

  523. proclaimed good news to the people. He said,

  524. why you tell people good news about the Lord

  525. and you yourself don't believe it? You got to

  526. believe the gospel that you share with others.

  527. He said that, don't worry about me. He's the

  528. only one. Look at his house, so poor. I went

  529. to visit him, you know, and pray for him and

  530. teach him and teach his people, teach his leader

  531. in his area. And he want to pay for my guest

  532. house. Want to pay for my diesel to go there.

  533. He said, Pastor, let me pay for it. This guy

  534. have a heart for the kingdom. And he live his

  535. life. He has a little bit, but God give him wisdom.

  536. And every penny he saved. And he buy so much

  537. of land around him. And now this guy have, he

  538. still live in that house. He got more than 20

  539. hectares of land. And the Chinese people go and

  540. make development in his area. This guy is going

  541. to own millions of dollars in the future. Yeah,

  542. he's going to own millions of dollars. Yeah,

  543. because he's focused on the Lord, his God. He

  544. doesn't focus on the situation that he's facing

  545. in front of him. He trusts the Lord. And now

  546. his land is starting to increase in price. You

  547. know, he said one day, Pastor, don't worry about

  548. it. I'm going to own millions of dollars. I said,

  549. even though you own millions of dollars, you

  550. keep giving. Keep being generous. In Hebrew,

  551. chapter 12, verse 27 to 28, the word once more

  552. indicates the removing of what can be shaken.

  553. That is my eyes that Create things so that what

  554. cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since

  555. we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,

  556. we believe in the kingdom that cannot be shaken,

  557. let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably.

  558. With the reverence and awe. The kingdom that

  559. you believe cannot be shaken. The kingdom that

  560. you live in, the spiritual realm cannot be shaken.

  561. You know, people step out of the faith. Believing

  562. that God is doing something great. Put your faith

  563. to the test. Chuck and his family. Put his faith

  564. to the test. He leave the United States, go to

  565. Cambodia, and make a great impact. My wife come

  566. to Cambodia. She make a great impact. So New

  567. Life Fellowship, in our database now, we got

  568. 2 ,600 people as a member of New Life Fellowship

  569. Phnom Penh. And the church have a big influence

  570. in the Cambodian societies. Last year, there's

  571. a Buddhist guy. He's Buddhist. He gave us 2 .5,

  572. you know, acres of land to New Life Fellowship

  573. that cost $4 million. He gave to us for free.

  574. Can you imagine? He gave to us for free. This

  575. is what we're believing for. We believe God for

  576. great thing, big thing, and keep put our faith

  577. to the test. And among New Life Fellowship of

  578. churches, Pastor Chuck has shared, we have planned

  579. 200 churches. And this year, we plan 90 churches

  580. more. We believe that the country of Cambodia

  581. is so small. The kingdom of God is going to be

  582. spread like a fire. People are going to be saved.

  583. We believe that the whole nation will be saved.

  584. Not just one family, two families. From January

  585. to June this year, We baptized 540 people. Brand

  586. new believers. Go through our system. This is

  587. not just, this is not just simple thing. We believe

  588. that God is good. God is so awesome. And we believe

  589. the whole nation will be saved. So, God is so

  590. good. You know, so many people asking for revival.

  591. Come on. Revival, revival, revival. Revival happened

  592. more than 2 ,000 years ago. It's happened a long

  593. time ago. And the revival still remains. Still

  594. remains. But some people think that, oh, revival

  595. is not here yet. It's not here yet. We need to

  596. push ourselves, push our heart, push our energy

  597. to be revived. Stir it up. Stir it up. Wake it

  598. up. Wake it up. Rewind. You know, 2 Timothy chapter

    2 Timothy 1:6

  599. 1 verse 6. This is why I reminded you to fan

  600. into flame. The spiritual gift God gave you when

  601. I laid my hand on you. He said, stir up the gift.

  602. Paul tells Timothy, stir up the gifts in you.

  603. Come on, in your family. You can bring revival

  604. to your family. Don't just pray for revival.

  605. Revival is there already. But you just wake up

  606. every single morning, you make yourself excited

  607. about it. Make yourself excited about it. Excited

  608. about your wife. Excited about your family. Excited

  609. about your children. Excited about your work.

  610. Excited about your church. Make it excitement.

  611. I tell you, if people don't be excited, your

  612. dream, your vision will die. And people will

  613. die after their dream and their vision die. Do

  614. you believe that? So therefore, stir it up, my

  615. brothers and sisters. So many people, it's so

  616. sad. When I come to this state, so many people,

  617. some people used to worship God and stuff like

  618. that. And later on, they stopped believing in

  619. Jesus. What's going on? Why? Why is it like that?

  620. I'm not here to judge them, but I just feel sad.

  621. Why? They experience the taste of God only a

  622. little bit. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

  623. Of course the Lord is good. But eat it. Don't

  624. just taste it. And experience for your whole

  625. life. And stir it up. Keep stirring it up, my

  626. brothers and sisters. Could we all stand up?

  627. Could we all stand up? Let me remind you us one

  628. more time. If we don't stir it up, who will stir

  629. us up? If we don't. You know, believe in revival.

  630. Who will believe? You are the revival. Every

  631. one of you are the revival. Bring revival to

  632. your home, to your kid, to your family. Be excited

  633. for the thing you do, right? The more we excited,

  634. the more life that we have. But the more we complain

  635. about it, the more dead we have. The dead thing

  636. and people will start fall away. They go to church

  637. as work. Oh, I go to church again because of

  638. my father and my mother go to church. No, we

  639. go to church. We're going to worship God together.

  640. We're going to experience a fresh renewing of

  641. the Spirit of the Lord. So, could us jump three

  642. times? You know, I mean, it's not anything. Just

  643. jump three times just to remind ourselves to

  644. wake up. If you cannot jump, it's okay. And your

  645. spirit can jump. You know, jump three times.

  646. Okay. One, two, three. One, two, three. Amen.

  647. Keep jumping. Let the spirit of the Lord stir

  648. you up. Amen. Amen. And you will see. And you

  649. will see that this room is too small. This room

  650. is too small. Going to be more and more people

  651. come and they will experience the power of God

  652. and they experience healing. They will experience

  653. miracles. You will carry it out wherever you

  654. are. Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, Lord

  655. God, thank you for my brothers and sisters over

  656. here. Lord God, thank you for the work that you

  657. have done in their life. Lord God, continue that

  658. work. Continue to stir it up, Lord God. Hallelujah.

  659. You are the answer for all of us, Lord God. Help

  660. us to find that answers, Lord God. Thank you,

  661. Lord God. I lift all of them into your hand in

  662. the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

  663. Or call us at 541 -995 -8282.