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D.R.E.A.M.

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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. But I really believe that it will come a time

  4. when the things that the world cannot do to help

  5. the church will be the answer. When there was a

  6. curse that came down on the earth, God separated the language.

  7. But when there was a blessing that came.

  8. By the way of the Holy Spirit, he gave them

  9. punks the five.

  10. Pillars.

  11. That is good for the whole country, but also good

  12. for one church. Right, even if it's just one church

  13. doing d R EAF and you were involving nobody else,

  14. it's still good for one church. So dream d R

  15. e A M is from Fabruary twenty twenty five to

  16. February twenty thirty. Fabrue twenty twenty five is now we

  17. are declaring the ciples. First, that's d and then M

  18. will be missions. We want this movement to be a

  19. mission minded movement. All the earth will know and that

  20. will be declared in twenty thirty. For the rest whatever

  21. else after twenty thirty, the Holy Spirit will lead us

  22. after He has strengthened us in all these five areas.

  23. Let me tell you why I need to share this

  24. in the last six months and even today. This is

  25. like a refresh button, you know, after you play a game,

  26. video game, you know, and then you refresh. Everything refreshes.

  27. So we've been doing this for some time. We've we've

  28. been playing this video game for some time, and then

  29. we feel like God is putting his finger to the

  30. refresh button and he wants to refresh the whole movement

  31. because once upon a time, maybe xkl was doing this,

  32. and then maybe X Manma was doing that, and then

  33. maybe x Chang Mai was doing this. And while we

  34. serve the Lord together, we might not be together, and

  35. so it's very powerful when we move as one, very powerful.

  36. So I feel like the Lord says to me, Kenneth,

  37. as the leader of the movement, I want you to

  38. refresh the button, press the refreshed button so that the

  39. whole ex family is on the same page. There's nobody

  40. doing number three, and then someone else doing number four,

  41. and someone else doing number seven. No, we refresh the

  42. button and bring us all back to number one, and

  43. we start from there together, roll out everything together for

  44. the next five years at least, okay, at least means

  45. it can be more than five years with no one

  46. missing out. No, I don't want anyone to miss out.

  47. Suddenly we forgot X, me and No, I don't want

  48. that to happen. Okay, no one left behind, no one leading,

  49. also too far ahead.

  50. Okay, we all move together.

  51. The secret is to work on getting more centralized, even

  52. as we get more decentralized. Our care, you know, someone

  53. to before. Even when it comes to exercise, the call

  54. is very important. And when you don't have a strong call,

  55. other problems come. You can't run properly, you can't walk properly,

  56. you can't do any properly.

  57. The care.

  58. So there are days where the training, yeah, we're not

  59. seeing deglect the other parts of the body. But make

  60. sure that your care is strong. And so the Lord

  61. is saying to us twenty twenty five, make sure the care,

  62. what we believe in together is strong. You understand the call.

  63. Once the call is right, everything else will start to flow.

  64. And then, of course strengthen your arms or so strengthen

  65. your feet. But the call, the call, the care, So

  66. there's time to come back to the care, time to

  67. come back to the centralized. The secret is to work

  68. on getting more centralized even as we get more decentralized

  69. because the power of decentralization is found in the centralization.

  70. Many languages actually in the in in terms of the

  71. earthly language. But one language of heart, one language of spirit,

  72. one language when when you when you go back home

  73. and tell your people why they should do it, I

  74. pray they don't hear just you know what you're trying

  75. to say. But why you're saying, you hear the heartbeat

  76. of God when you're saying it.

  77. Very important.

  78. When there was a curse that came down on the

  79. on the earth, God separated the language. But when there

  80. was a blessing that came by the way of the

  81. Holy Spirit, he gave them pangs. One language unites, so

  82. we need to speak the language of the spirit, same

  83. language wherever you go. So yeah, yeah, that's right language

  84. same Oh i'd see. Oh I heard this also in.

  85. Language. I heard this also. Yeah, we're speaking the same.

  86. And when we visit anybody, you don't even feel like

  87. you're outside your your own home. You feel like, wow,

  88. I feel like I'm at home. I'm at home because

  89. it is home, and we speak, we understand each other,

  90. you know. Yeah, that's very very important. Okay, So uh,

  91. let's move on to five to twenty two, six February

  92. to February. We are declaring disciple ship or disciple first.

  93. Why did we use disciple first?

  94. Why?

  95. Because when you move around, you want to declare two things.

  96. One is I am firstly a disciple, before I'm a pastor,

  97. before I'm an evangelist, before I'm apostle. I am a

  98. disciple of follow up price. Firstly, Then you're also saying

  99. I also firstly want to make sure I'm discipling others. Okay,

  100. I'm not raising up a drummer first. Oh, this is

  101. just the drummer. Just go get a drummer. No, before

  102. I get a drummer, I want to get a disciple

  103. who can play drums. Therefore, when you're the drummer, actually drums,

  104. he drums as a disciple, not because he saw some

  105. other drummer in the world and then today he wants

  106. to repeat back the same movements. No, he has a

  107. heart to serve the Lord, and he drums according to

  108. his heart beat, which is for the Lord.

  109. Amen. And then you won't have any problems with you know, flesh.

  110. So you can actually be a disciple with the Holy Spirit,

  111. because it's a doctrine. You just doctrine that you follow

  112. the doctrine, so you're a disciple, your follower. But without

  113. the Holy Spirit, that there's no power. So we want revival,

  114. so there will there will follow, but we'll just make

  115. sure we get our discipleship right first, and then the

  116. Holy Spirit will take our obedience and he will go far.

  117. Okay.

  118. And of course he talks about prayer because revival always

  119. is uh followed.

  120. Uh.

  121. So a lot of people are trying to witness without

  122. the Holy Spirit. You can't, you can't. Uh, you can't

  123. just say, baila, you know no. It is a spiritual thing.

  124. And so the Holy Spirit, when it comes upon you

  125. and me, we will become a mighty Ivagalism's force.

  126. Can we believe it? For this year? Yes we can. God.

  127. We will not limit God to our dream, but.

  128. We will say that we will build on each letter,

  129. build on each move of God in our lives. Okay,

  130. I'm prophesying now to all of us that this is

  131. what is going to happen, all right.

  132. Twenty twenty nine.

  133. Action action means social action means let's see our cities transform.

  134. So we're not looking just as church anymore.

  135. We're looking at business, business, company schools, community centers, old folks,

  136. young people, you know, drug addicts. I don't know, but

  137. I really believe that it will come a time when

  138. the things that the world cannot do to help the

  139. church will be the answer. They'll say, you know what,

  140. how come a pastor, we've tried this? Are we usually

  141. one billion ring gator to try to help the drug

  142. edicts of Malaysia? And then we you know, we got

  143. only five percent success? But how come you guys? I

  144. really believe that God is going to do a movement

  145. of community transformation like never before. So how does it start?

  146. It starts by disciples saying, yes, Lord, here I am

  147. send me. And as you step out, the Holy Spirit

  148. feels you because you're ready to serve Him. And then

  149. you you want to tell everybody about the goodness of God.

  150. And then people will say, hah, you only priest gospel

  151. to be here.

  152. How about good works? How about changing the city?

  153. You know, we don't want to be here so holy

  154. and righteous and so spiritual that we bring no change

  155. to our community.

  156. The poor, still up, the still dryggs. What's going on? Why?

  157. So the light is so full of light in the

  158. church and then there's no light outside. So again not

  159. to say that we cannot do it now. We can

  160. start now already, but it will come a time when

  161. you will start to begin to feel the earth. The

  162. light will shine everywhere, even and especially outside of church. Okay,

  163. we want to make the difference, all right. It is

  164. the final one, and it's missions. We want to after

  165. we have succeeded making disciples filled with the Holy Spirit,

  166. shared to as many people in the country. You know,

  167. now there's no more, no, no, no one else to

  168. share with it. Right, You've done all the social action,

  169. You've loved the people around you, you've brought transorhivision, and

  170. now you've got to say, oh, is there any anyone else.

  171. That we have to reach. Yeah, it will be cross cultural.

  172. It will be outside your comfort zone, outside your color,

  173. outside your creed or rather your your your language.

  174. Uh is going to be outside.

  175. So we want to be a church planting and community

  176. prospering church. We want to take the success that we

  177. have that God has given us over four years and

  178. now say let's spread it out to the rest or.

  179. Let's branch out. Let's take this.

  180. You know, I think Kentucky Fried Chicken had to be

  181. successful Firus before they can branch out. McDonalds had to

  182. be successful to where they are before they can branch out.

  183. They branch out because they were confident that it works

  184. and refranchise franchise only because it works somewhere.

  185. If it didn't work somewhere and people.

  186. Weren't saying finger looking good, they'd be like, Okay, let's

  187. just stay here. But because he was finger looking good

  188. and people from overseas were coming to America and eating

  189. KFC and wow, it's so good. I wish it was

  190. in Malaysia.

  191. That's how.

  192. I pray that people everywhere will come and taste you

  193. wherever you are and go like, can I start this

  194. in Tibactu? And you say, of course, because we are

  195. not using cultural standards or cultural values, we are using

  196. biblical values. If it's cultural, then it will be limited

  197. to culture.

  198. Or this one.

  199. Cannot work in Indonesia, So sorry, past the can this one?

  200. Can?

  201. You don't understand the sale problems are no, no, no, no,

  202. we're not it's not culture. It's not culture as in

  203. like earthly culture, it's biblical culture.

  204. Are you with me? You can take scripture and you

  205. can apply it anywhere, all right.

  206. And that's why every time when I speak to you

  207. are I don't just like to speak opinions. I like

  208. to speak to you from obedience that comes from the

  209. word okay, so that you don't have to tell me

  210. that past this word doesn't work here. Maybe strategy can

  211. change methods, but the word is the same everywhere, okay.

  212. When I first received this from the Lord almost thirty

  213. years ago, I thought it was just for our youth organization,

  214. you know, to bring it around Malaysia. So even though

  215. I had the dream in my heart for thirty years now,

  216. I never shared it really with X. And then when

  217. I retired as the senior pastor of X, and I

  218. am now going to focus on Malaysia because there's so

  219. many to reach in Malaysia, so much to do in Malaysia.

  220. I felt the load saying to me, revive the dream

  221. the ram.

  222. But he says, bring X together with you, because X

  223. is a force now, a force of prayer, a force

  224. of manpower, a force of even finances. Bring bring X

  225. and make X a blessing to the nation. Make X

  226. a blessing to the nation. And that's why I started

  227. to tell X about it before that I never really

  228. apprecied about it, never said very much about it.

  229. Some people heard dream but don't know dream what.

  230. That's why now we even did a hoodie, right, you

  231. know how you saw the hoodie at the conference you

  232. established since nineteen ninety four, that is when I first

  233. got the.

  234. Vision dream Malaysia.

  235. All right, But ladies and gentlemen, brothers, this is it

  236. can also be dream Indonesia, Dream Singapore, because it's not

  237. just a dream for a country.

  238. That's plucked out from the sky.

  239. It is d R I mean, which country doesn't want

  240. to have strong discipionship, Which country doesn't have revival, Which

  241. countries doesn't want to have effective evangalism, Which countries doesn't

  242. want to social action that can transform your nation? Which

  243. country doesn't want to be a missions minded country? So

  244. it does not ex Malaysia Onia. It's what I believe

  245. almost every pastor dream about the five.

  246. Pillars.

  247. That is good for the whole country, but also good

  248. for one church. Right, even if it's just one church

  249. doing d R EA and you were involving nobody else,

  250. it's still good for one church. Maybe maybe you can

  251. even boil it down to one family. As for me,

  252. in my house. I will serve the Lord. I've got

  253. three kids. Here we go disciple them. I want my

  254. whole family revived. I want us involved in vangialism. I wonder,

  255. as you know, I want to If my son is

  256. a doctor, I will tell him, you know, go into

  257. the medical field and no, change the medical field for

  258. the Lord. You know, I a action and then am missions. No,

  259. we'll go on missions together. And we love the other cultures.

  260. We love the other colors, we love the other people

  261. of the world that got made. You can even apply

  262. to a fair mearly. So I thought to myself, Wow,

  263. this is God. But you know what I was about

  264. to share with you is when I caught it them.

  265. No one taught me it. No one's showed me that

  266. it was the Holy Spirit. And the reason why I

  267. know is the Holy Spirit is because of the order.

  268. You thought maybe persecuted had to write the word dream out.

  269. So I started with D and you thought it was

  270. his wisdom that brought about R as a second. No,

  271. every one of them lined up, one after the other,

  272. and I knew it was the Holy Spirit because are

  273. did not come first. Some people think our revival, you

  274. know what revival? Sometimes is is a cop up, cop

  275. cop out? Why why did I say that? It's because

  276. God already said make disciples right, So what does the

  277. disciple look like?

  278. We read our bible?

  279. Okay, Now, even without the revival, you're supposed to read

  280. your bible, give to God, tithes and offering, uh, serving

  281. church witness for God, be kind to the poor.

  282. Okay. Disciples do this.

  283. Just because their disciples now, because the church now is

  284. doing less and less discipleship. We appreci on Sunday and

  285. then we think that's discipleship, right, and then it's done,

  286. and then we hope people catch it right and then

  287. half don't. We gonna tell me if you know, sometimes

  288. when we leave a room after inspiring message, we can

  289. still forget until we practice it. But that's not the

  290. best pictures we have heard. We only remember one word

  291. or one sentence. The rest we forgot, and if we

  292. don't practice it even worse. After a while, a little while,

  293. we totally it's gone. Yeah, the bird of the air

  294. comes and takes the seat by the wayside gone. And

  295. then unless it's good seat on good ground, then you

  296. will take root bare fruit.

  297. Okay.

  298. So this is this is important that some people ask

  299. for revival because they want God to do the discipleship.

  300. Why do I say that? So when the Holy Spirit comes,

  301. boom revival. Oh, I want to read the Bible. You

  302. see the hypo write, Oh I want now to pray.

  303. Then the revival gone, we stop praying. No, no, it

  304. doesn't work that way. So the revival when it comes,

  305. it comes. Yes, the kind of revival that comes to

  306. a country, it comes for a period of time to

  307. get everybody back to discipleship busy. Because you don't need revival,

  308. or rather God to have to do the discipleship for

  309. you and for me.

  310. We've got to do it ourselves.

  311. But the revival that I'm talking about is not just

  312. that one time Holy Spirit falling on the country and

  313. causing everybody to just suddenly become not themselves suddenly. I

  314. can't wake up every morning for quiet time and turning tomorrow.

  315. I can wait because the revel hit. But most revivals

  316. only last for a while. Because what God is after

  317. his revival in our that maintained forever, not the dependence

  318. on the one time God. Please pour something out you understand,

  319. because because if you are the one time revival every

  320. ten years or no then you are asking.

  321. God to do the job of discipleship for you. We cannot.

  322. We are to do the discipleship. And there are days

  323. where we say, yes, Lord, revive that brother. I'm trying

  324. to tell him to read the Bible blah blah blah.

  325. But you know, if I is it hard, holy sweet

  326. priests come upon him, give him. But you know, let's

  327. not depend on the one off, one time, you know,

  328. revival I want. I want that from Malaysia. Malaysia needs that,

  329. but we cannot depend on that. We've got to move

  330. on and we've got to start going from our to

  331. eat evangelism because almost every revival you study, evangelism is

  332. the result. You start seeing millions coming to the Lord

  333. right because of the Holy Spirit. And then they begin

  334. to look outside the church and go like, I want

  335. to change the society. I want to change the old

  336. folks home, I want to change the orphanage.

  337. People start to have a heart so big, so that's action.

  338. And then finally, now that we see work here in

  339. our land, we want to see it expand. And that's

  340. how people take what they have, the success they have,

  341. the formula that they have, and they go out to

  342. say as it worked for me here, I want to

  343. see work for you here, right, or work for me here,

  344. I want to see it work for you there. All right,

  345. So every letter needed to make the dream. Let's move on.

  346. It's a big picture, very big picture, but small plan, okay.

  347. So all of us share one big picture, and then

  348. we go back to our small plants, small homes, and

  349. we work the big picture out. Because I want everybody

  350. to understand, even back in your church plans, that you

  351. are not You might be small in number, but you're

  352. part of a big movement who serves a big God

  353. who has given us a big vision. We're not small,

  354. We're actually big and the biggest days I hear of us. Really,

  355. So I want you to feel like family, or feel

  356. like we're one in this, not only here in some

  357. small place, in some you know whatever, seemingly God for

  358. second place, no where, I'm.

  359. Part and parcel of a move of God.

  360. There's a lot of work to do, but I believe

  361. that God is with us, and he will help us,

  362. and he will give us all that we need.

  363. Amen.

  364. I can tell you again and again how He chose

  365. child disciples who are all not what we think they

  366. should be. Someone asked a question before many years ago.

  367. If you were Jesus, would you choose Peter? If you

  368. were Jesus, would you choose Thomas? If you or Jesus,

  369. would you choose you? But he did, and we want

  370. to give him all the glory because here alone will

  371. bring this dream to pass by his strength and by

  372. his anointing. But he still looks for men and women

  373. who will say yes. And this continues even when you

  374. go back home. There are people who doesn't look like

  375. they're the next guy, or doesn't look like they will

  376. say here, I am Lord sent me.

  377. But it begins with us. And I pray that you

  378. all understand this.

  379. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  382. this week is going to be a good week.

  383. I hit for you.

  384. God bless