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Faith In Who God Is

Acts Church

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. So some of us can look at Jesus and still

  4. have no faith. You with me, So he's looking onto Jesus,

  5. the author and the finisher of our faith. So it

  6. doesn't do much to you if you just look at Jesus.

  7. But there's no faith in it. But it's not just

  8. faith as we know it. It's faith in who God is.

  9. I've been taught all these years to look to Jesus

  10. in good times and in bad times. But I've learned

  11. from the Lord while being in this cave that is

  12. not just about looking at him. In fact, some of

  13. us sometimes don't even know what it means. So we

  14. look at the cross on the wall. Do we look

  15. at the picture of Jesus. Did he gaze up to

  16. the heaven and say, Jesus, you know, show me a

  17. cloud that looks like you. Do we just call on

  18. his name, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus now looking onto Jesus, the

  19. Lord taught me. It's not the completion of that statement.

  20. The statement found in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse two, is

  21. looking onto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith.

  22. Another translation says the perfector or rady, the pioneer. Yes,

  23. he is the pioneer and the perfector of our faith.

  24. So it's about faith. Yes, so some of us can

  25. look at Jesus and still have no faith. You with me, Oh,

  26. I'm looking at Jesus, pastors saying, look at Jesus, but

  27. I still feel down. I look at Jesus. I'm not praying,

  28. but I'm looking at Jesus. I feel nothing when I

  29. look at Jesus. But I still look at Jesus, you know,

  30. daring at the cross on the wall. I'm going to

  31. the Catholic church and I'm looking at the Jesus on

  32. the cross on the wall. What does it mean. I

  33. don't feel anything. I don't feel breakthrue. No, it's looking

  34. onto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. It's

  35. about faith, and the Bible says it is our faith

  36. a gift from God himself that overcomes the world. It

  37. also says without faith, it is impossible to please God.

  38. It also says that we are to walk by faith,

  39. not by sight. So it's looking onto Jesus, the author

  40. and the finisher of our faith. So it doesn't do

  41. much to you if you just look at Jesus. But

  42. there's no faith in it. Amen, I've come to realize,

  43. especially in the most difficult times of my recovery. Now

  44. let me pause, he it for let me pause to

  45. say this. In this very room where this recording is happening,

  46. I had one of my toughest moments just three days ago.

  47. I was on the floor because I was receiving my

  48. first physiotherapy. It's a house call. Thank God for that.

  49. There's another testimony that is physiotherapist actually does house calls.

  50. But my knee, my right knee, my good leg that

  51. has been supporting my whole body's weight for the past

  52. eighteen days. My knee was totally inflamed, swollen like an

  53. elephant man's foot, you know. And it was so painful,

  54. and so even if physiotherapist didn't even dare touch the

  55. area that right knee, but because I needed my right

  56. leg to get back to my bed or get to

  57. the toil, I was really in such pain and turmoil.

  58. And it was one of the toughest moments for a

  59. man who can't get up from the floor, trying with

  60. all his might to push himself up from the floor.

  61. My wife tried to help, she couldn't because she can't

  62. sustain my way. And I cried out to God. I said, Jesus,

  63. please help me. I had to cry out in this

  64. room and I had to just be on the floor

  65. for fifteen minutes trying to find a way. Left lick

  66. couldn't use, right lick couldn't use. And then the enemy

  67. again tried to take advantage. Where's the God that you serve?

  68. Where's the God that you pray for other people's healing?

  69. Where's the God who does miracles? Where's the God who

  70. does signs and wonders? Who heals? He can't even get

  71. you up out of there, up from the floor. How

  72. are you going to go to toilet? How are you

  73. going to go to your bed? My mind was thinking, Oh, God,

  74. where are you? And do you hear my cry? Do

  75. you hear me? God? And some of you could be

  76. crying out like that, Where are you God? Do you

  77. hear my cry? And then the Lord began to speak

  78. as I was able to find my way to get

  79. up from the floor, get back to my walker and

  80. got on my bed. I was a little bit concerned,

  81. even afraid to go anywhere for the next twenty four hours,

  82. because you know, it's just it's hard for a man

  83. to not be able to do the things that he

  84. usually can do so easily. The Lord begin a minister

  85. to me. The Lord begin to minister to me. God

  86. is working to strengthen my faith. Remember, I'm looking to Jesus.

  87. But it's all about the author and finisher of my faith.

  88. But it's not just faith as we know. It is

  89. faith in who God is, not just a healer, not

  90. just a mighty miracle worker, but who He is in

  91. the core of his being. The Bible says in First

  92. John chapter four that God is love. And I tell

  93. you what. God began to minister to me in such

  94. a powerful way. I felt his love just coming from

  95. heaven and feeling me like a mighty waterfall just coming

  96. upon me, wave after wave of his love. Is his son.

  97. I love you. There's no one else in this world

  98. that I will ever love you more than I love you.

  99. I was there when you couldn't pick yourself up. I

  100. was all the way there when you suffer the injury

  101. in say Paul. I was there when people had to

  102. go home and leave the hospital because the hospital, visiting

  103. hours was done. I was there when you came back

  104. and had to spend one or two nights alone. You

  105. were never alone. I will never leave you, nor for

  106. sake you do you believe that all the enemy will

  107. have us think that he is the first one to

  108. leave God, the first one to walk out the door,

  109. the first one to say forget you. You're so hard

  110. to be with. You're such a stubborn fool. I told

  111. you not to do that, and I told you not

  112. to go there, and all that right, and you don't listen,

  113. and you're just a stubborn man. And I'm gonna walk

  114. away from you. Serve you writing, serve you. You deserve

  115. the punishment. No, no, no, no no. The Lord's love

  116. this minister to me, and his river of love just

  117. flowed through me. And it takes faith also to believe

  118. that he loves you so much, and that nobody on

  119. the face of the earth can ever love you more.

  120. That's why it says. And the main scripture is this

  121. one Corinthians thirteen thirteen. Now Abide, faith, hope, love, these three.

  122. But the greatest of these is love. I thought faith

  123. was already great. We talk about faith so much faith.

  124. We one faith that can move mountains. But you know,

  125. in this cave moment, in this cave season, God wants

  126. to take us deeper. Your pastor is already a man

  127. who is not unfamiliar with faith. You know that I've

  128. been living by faith all my ministry life. God says,

  129. you want to go deeper, Kennon, Do you really want

  130. to see revival? Kenneth, It's not just gonna be a

  131. revival of faith and miracles. It's gonna be a revival

  132. of my love. My love is just gonna sweep across

  133. this nation, in every nation that would believe that I

  134. so love the world that I gave my only begoden Son,

  135. that whoever believes in me shall not perish but have

  136. everlasting life. I am love. I'm not just power. I'm

  137. not just healing. I'm not just salvation. I am love

  138. itself and love will never fail. Love covers a multitude

  139. of sins. Oh, I tell you, When I saw God

  140. in that way, and I look into the scripture in

  141. a new vision, in a new you know perspective, Abide, abide.

  142. You know you only abide when there's no one else

  143. to go to, nowhere else to go to So you

  144. stay here, and you stay put, because nowhere else. Peter

  145. even said to Jesus, where do we go? Lord? Where

  146. do we go? You have the words of internal life.

  147. We must come to a place in our lives. Where

  148. we go? Yes, Lord, where do we go? Who is

  149. like you? Who is like you? God? Where do we go?

  150. This is home? This is heaven. Being with you is

  151. being in heaven. So abide, stay close, stick to be

  152. one with. There's no one else there, no one else

  153. out there. Abide faith, We have that. Amen. Hope. It's

  154. good to hope. And hope is serious, you know. Hope says,

  155. I really want it. I really want this healing. I

  156. really want to get up from the floor. I really

  157. want to get up back on my feet and serve

  158. the Lord again. I'm getting a little bit bored, you know,

  159. on my bed. The Lord says, be patient, take time.

  160. I want to speak to you some more. I want

  161. to prepare you some more. God only has the best

  162. in mind for us. The greatest of these three is love.

  163. That's why we call it revolution. It turned the word

  164. around the word love is there lov We want a

  165. revolution of love for Malaysia, a revolution of love for Singapore,

  166. and for all the nations that God has planted x

  167. in and even where we are not in. For God

  168. soul love the world. Soul loves you. He loves you.

  169. Don't let the devil ever lie. He doesn't. So let's close.

  170. No wonder. It's said that the greatest of this is love,

  171. But it still takes faith to believe that He loves

  172. you that much. So don't just look at Jesus, look

  173. at the author and finisher of your faith, and how

  174. does it finish. He can start faith, and faith that

  175. starts sounds like faith for salvation, sounds like faith for healing.

  176. But the finishing of that faith is that third one,

  177. love that is the greatest of all. Remember and believe

  178. with all your heart as I close, that God really

  179. loves you and that He cares for you. He really does.

  180. You could be on the floor, You could be having

  181. your last five cuple dollars in your pocket. And if

  182. this message goes further and say help more than five pounds,

  183. five ring it five pulas, which is very small, five

  184. rupiahs even smaller. Or maybe you just got a letter

  185. telling you that you have been retrenched, and you say,

  186. can a good God do this. Don't let the devil

  187. take advantage of what God is allowing, because when God

  188. allows it, it's going to be for the better, if

  189. not the best. The Bible also says, cast all your

  190. cares upon him, because he cares for you. First Peter,

  191. chapter five, Cast all your cares upon the Lord. He cares,

  192. He cares, He really cares. He's always thinking good, always

  193. only good. Don't don't we do things like this for

  194. people we love. Think about it, the people you really

  195. really love, you really care, You think good all the time,

  196. and you're always planning good. That's the kind of God. Myself,

  197. I couldn't get up from the floor, But he's still

  198. planning for my good. Are you with me? He's still thinking, Kenneth,

  199. you will get up, and you will get back to

  200. your bed, and I will be there for you, and

  201. I will never leave you, nor forsake you. And in him.

  202. Remember I think it's Romans eight twenty eight. And we

  203. know that all things, or whole things, including me on

  204. the floor and me on the bed, all things work

  205. together from good to those who love God and to

  206. those who are the called according to his purpose. He's

  207. in the boat with you. Remember the boat story where

  208. the winds and waves were hitting so hard that the

  209. disciples thought they were going to drown. You know what

  210. they did. They woke Jesus up, who was actually asleep,

  211. and the first thing they said is, don't you even care? Lord,

  212. don't you even care? And so howevers could have been

  213. struggling like that, being bombarded by the devil with the

  214. thought God doesn't care. I'm here to tell you he does.

  215. I'm here to tell you that ninety percent of the

  216. swelling on my knee has gone. And this morning I

  217. woke up feeling ninety percent better on my right leg.

  218. I went to the bathroom on my own, did everything

  219. on my own. Pass Andro just helped me a little

  220. bit as I took my shower and then did my

  221. quiet time. The lot spoke to me some more, found myself,

  222. you know, walking hopping really on my good leg. To

  223. the second therapy that happened just an hour and a

  224. half ago, And it was a good therapy, and I

  225. feel much better. And I have movements now on my

  226. injured leg. And couldn't move it a few days ago,

  227. but you know, with the therapist's help, it could move.

  228. And I said, I just have to give you this

  229. message that God is not done. He is in the

  230. boat with us, He cares hallelujah. He will not allow

  231. us to sink. He will not allow you to sink.

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