Sermon
The Faith
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Without faith, it is impossible to please God. How will
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I be provided for? How do I provide for my wife?
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And the Lord said to me, you don't worry about provision.
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I will take care of you. And so there began
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my life of faith. And for the last twenty two
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years I've not had a salary. So it's not about
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working on your expectations, about working on your perception. If
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you really believe that God has something through me, you
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would come and you would receive and you would be blessed.
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And whoever else who takes this stage. It can be
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a young pastor, it can be a young child, It
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can be a donkey, because God can use a donkey
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to speak. And the Bible says in Hebrews eleven, verse six,
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without faith, it is impossible to please God.
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You know that scripture. You know that verse.
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It doesn't say it's difficult, you know it says it's impossible.
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It's really impossible to please God without faith. Now, for
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every Christian, I believe we should have at least one
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goal in life that is similar and the goal for
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every Christian should be that we live to please God.
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We live to please God, and.
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If you really want to please God, the Bible already
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says it is impossible to please him without faith. Now
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Christian's listened to me. I have been living by faith.
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Someone told me many years ago, don't say you've been
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living by faith, because everybody needs to live by faith.
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And he says, maybe you should say living by the Gospel.
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And what that really means is that when I was
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a lawyer, I worked for about three and a half
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years and God caught me to the ministry and I
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asked the lawyer. I said, Lord, you know, how are
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you going to provide for me? And he didn't say
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anything the first time I asked him. So I thought,
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maybe I wur coach tennis because I used to play tennis,
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and I want to be a tennis coach and coach
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all the smaller ones because the smaller ones won't complain.
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We just collect money from them and have them pick balls,
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you know. But I bought the basket, I bought the balls.
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I bought an extra record, and I booked the tennis
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court for one month, and I began to go around
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and knocking on doors, asking people to send their kids
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so that I can train them. I'll charge forty ring
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kit per head. You know the kind of thing I knew.
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I had it all worked out. I will survive serving
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the Lord teaching tennis. And then it rained for one
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month non stop, only at the time when my tennis
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slot was and I knew God was speaking to me.
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And it didn't go on well. So I prayed again.
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I said, Lord, how will I be provided for? How
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do I provide for my wife? And the Lord said
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to me, you don't worry about provision. I will take
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care of you. And so there began my life of faith.
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And for the last twenty two years I've not had
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a salary. But you can see that God has taken
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care of me really well.
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Can you see it? Can you see it?
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Some people say my middle name is food. I love food.
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I really do love food. So it's Kenneth's food chin
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kfc uh and uh uh.
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No I I am.
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I am a testament of God's faithfulness. We serve a
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very very good God who takes care of us. But
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that's the way of the Lord.
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You know. The Bible says that we should.
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Not not honor our people who are serving full time. Uh,
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we should not muzzle or ox while it's out treading
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the field. A worker is worthy of his wages. I
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believe in all that, and I believe that pastors and leaders.
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Should be paid well.
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But this is my story, My story with God is
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God says to me, I'll take care of you, Kenneth.
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You don't worry about your salary.
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And God has been so good to me and my wife,
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and today we are also caring for my wife's parents,
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and my parents in law are living with me, and
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now I'm able to also care for them.
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And God, God is just so faithful.
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But what I'm trying to say is that faith is
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a very powerful thing. And the scripture carries on to say,
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not only without faith it is impossible to please God.
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It carries on to say, but he who comes to
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God must believe that he is and He is the
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rewarder of those who.
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Diligately seek him.
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So I want to give you Hebrews eleven six, because
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it's not just without faith it's impossible to please God.
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But I want to deal with something that's really important.
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It's what you call perspective. But he who comes to
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God must believe that he is. That's why he said,
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my name is I am the Great. I am I
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am what, I am everything that I want you to
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know about me.
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I am everything.
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I am your all, I am your provider, I am
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your protector, I am your father. I am So look
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back at Hebrews eleven six, And what do you get?
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He is? He who comes to God must believe that
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he is.
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You see a lot of times we don't get our breakthroughs,
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not because we don't have faith, but because of our
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perspective of God doesn't allow us to have expectation.
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Now, what's that?
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Maybe you've heard it before, You've heard it in this church,
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I'm sure, But faith and expectation they're merrit. It is
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not the magic that comes from the man. It is
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the faith that we both have in Christ. I believe
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you will hear you, and you believe God will heal you,
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and together we join our faith and we expect. So people,
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please listen to me. Faith with that expectation is not faith,
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you know that.
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Now. Let me move on to another deeper thought.
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If expectation determines faith, what determines expectation? If expectation determines faith,
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what determines expectation. I give it to you. This is
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the answer. It's perspective, perception.
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Let's use that word. I like that way better.
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Perception determines expectation determines reception. You do not receive because
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you do not expect, and you do not expect because
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you don't perceive.
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You see, some of you might be here.
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You're thinking, oh, who is this chubby guy speaking up
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on stage? And if that's all you think about me,
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then you will go away receiving nothing. It's usually our
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perspective and our perception of who's on stage. Some of
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us are perceiving someone. You know, your favorite speaker can
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be said know a stage, and because he's your favorite speaker,
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he can do no wrong, No, he can quote wrong
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scriptures or ay amen. Because your perception of I don't
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know TD Jakes, Russell Evans. You know, you go like
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yay right, and when you say yeah, you're just hungry
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and you are ready to soak.
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In every single thing this man has to say. Are
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you all still with me?
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But if it's nothing to you, you don't know him,
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you won't even buy his book. You know, and and
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and and who is you know?
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This guy? Comes on you once say yeah, who is he?
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Like?
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You know who is he? You?
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You probably be folding your hands and say impress me.
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I don't have to impress you, guys, this was my
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prayer this morning. That's anybody. I just want to impress you.
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There's only one audience to me, and I just want
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to please God, so I will speak his word if
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you don't mind.
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But perception determ means expectation.
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So God is very rarely working on your expectation.
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He doesn't have to work on your expectation.
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God usually, if not mostly, works on our perception because
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if we can have the right perception, we will have
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the right expectation. So it's not about working on your expectations,
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about working on your perception.
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If you really believe that God has something.
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Through me, you would come and you would receive and
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you would be blessed.
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And whoever else who takes this stage.
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It can be a young pastor, it can be a
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young child, It can be a donkey, because God can
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use the donkey to speak. Can imagine if a donkey
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was a speaker today. You know how many of you
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were already left taken the next bus? You know, I
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mean you know you have the chairperson saying, and today
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this morning we like to as you can see, because
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the donkey is hard to miss. That's right here. He
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will be coming to give God's word. Now listen, God
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has used donkeys before. Now the way you perceive is
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the way you will expect, and the way you expect
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is the way you will receive. Okay, God is always
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working on my perception. I prayed. Someone else before him
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said why do you ask the lot?
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How much? How much?
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How much do you give? Why do you ask the lot?
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So I practiced her, Lord, tell me how much? Tell
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me how much you want? No, I remember, and I said,
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speak to me, not speak to me, because sometimes are
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the person on the stage says, please ask the lot
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how much to give? Actually, you don't know how much
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to give. You don't even know how to hear. Right,
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you're probably already thinking as long as the voice says,
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give less is best. Thank you, Lord, you know that
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must be you.
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Well.
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The day I wanted to hear from the Lord, I
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took out my wallet and I look into my wallet.
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I was seventeen and there.
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Were only two notes, two notes, and they were both blue.
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One was fifty and one was one, and that was
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my dilemma. And I prayed hard. I said, God, which
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one is the best? Oh, please tell me, Oh God,
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da dah blah blah bah shah lahlah blah blah blah,
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whish one?
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Which one is the best? Which seventeen years old? And
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to make it worse that there's always a challenge. One.
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If there's no challenge, there's so faith anybody can do it.
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What was the challenge?
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I was hungry, ladies and gentlemen. You see this frame,
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this frame one? Bring it enough? Now?
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Where good enough?
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So I look, I prayed, you know some of us
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are we know the answer, you know, but we still
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want to pray.
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Oh Lord, which one? Which one will please you most? Lord?
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Which is my best? Lord? And I don't know how,
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but I felt the Lord saying, it's your fifty?
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Are you sure? Lord? Are you sure?
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I tell you I took my fifty and I prayed
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so hard, not because I was so hungry and I
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knew I only had one ring in there. I was
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so hungry, I said, Lord, and I began to pray.
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You know, the bag came very slowly, and by the
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time he reached me, I think the agon was pressed
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so hard that he started to cry.
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The argon was crying.
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Actually it was sweat, sweat because holy no, so hana,
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which one is the best?
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Which one is the best? Of course you know which
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one is the best? Come on, people know me. It's
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almost beauttual. Which one is the best?
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Fifty put inside the back, put inside the back, you know.
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And then really with fear and trembling, I was saying, Lord,
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you know I'm gonna fast. I'm going to fast today. Okay,
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Lord Almila. We were we were taught fasting and prayer
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in the church. It's good for you, man, hallelujah. It
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was not planned, but this one, never mind, it will be.
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So my first, my first encounter of a real miracle.
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So I got up and everybody's giving high five, and
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I was giving high five, no strength to give high five.
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Mazie, haven't eaten, you know.
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I walked out and just like this, you know, one
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thousand people outside right at the foyer, and someone's calling
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my name at the other end. I'm walking out. I'm
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going to the right. Someone's calling my name on the left.
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Kenneth wellal, you know, not shy at all across all
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the hits Kenneth. I said yes, and then he's come.
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I walked towards him. He says, are yo, where were
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you this last two three weeks? I say, I'm humor.
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I cannot find you, Tod. I saw you out of
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the crowd. I saw you. I've been looking for you
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for three two two three weeks. I said, brother, I've
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been here. I promise you I've been here. Say yo,
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you know I've been recently blessed financially and I could
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only be thinking of I'm thinking of you.
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You need to take out for lunch, ladies and gentlemen.
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God can find you in the midst of one thousand
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people at the fire. If it's your time, is your time,
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And he says, come, let's go. I said, yeah, let's go.
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And he brought me to a team some bouffet.
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You know, you think what just one place team some
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boofa which ended up to be more than the fifth
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During git, I put in, I want to tell you
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God is no man's debtter.
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That began my life of faith. But I tell you
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what my perspective change, my perception of this God who
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knows all.
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My needs even before I ask him. Do you know
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what you underst that God can actually do a lot
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of things with our lives, and it's easy for him
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to do, except when it comes to perception.
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He just wants you and I to know he's bigger.
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Every time he's trying to take you from one level
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to another level, he's trying to change your perception.
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He's still the same God, you know.
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With every level of faith and counter and every level
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of breakthrough.
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You know what he's after.
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He's after the change of the way we see him.
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Is he really that good of God? Yes? He is?
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Is he really that knowledgeable that he knows your need
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even before you ask? Yes he is. Is there anything
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too difficult for him?
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No, that's not. Are you all stay with me?
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But when we are challenged, we're not challenged so much
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in our faith only or in our expectations. We are
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challenged in the way we see God. Can he come
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through or not? Will he come through or not? Is
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he that good? Is he that loving? Does he really?
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Yes? He does? Somebody say amen, and.
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So let me fast forward to just five years ago,
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and every testimony I tell you what I If I
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bring you through, it'd probably be one hundred. When you don't,
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when you don't have money. When you don't have a salary,
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everyone counts. Pumping patrols will count. You know, everything counts.
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So I got too.
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Many testimonies to tell you, but let me tell you
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one one more before I move on. So my grandfather
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he had courage enough to rent a house. When it
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came to my father's time, he had courage enough to
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rent a house. No, no big deal about rental. I
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think rental is fine. Rental is not bad. It's not sinful.
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It's okay.
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So I was rent It's fine, it's not bad, it's
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not evil, it's not wrong.
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The only thing that's wrong is that if.
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God has something better for you and you settle.
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That's wrong. That's wrong.
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If God has got something better for you and you settle,
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that's short changing yourself and short changing God.
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So when it came my.
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Turn and I was married, I rented, and then I
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rented again because we moved, and I rented again the
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time removed. At the third venue, the lord spoke to me, he's, Kenneth,
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enough of this renting. Your grandfather rented, your father rented.
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I want you to break out of this rental mentality.
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I said, God, I'm fine. No, I'm fine. I'm not complaining.
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He said, no, I know you're not complaining, but I
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want something better for you. I said, yeah, but God,
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you know, I'm really quite happy. And you know why, seeah,
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quite happy because I know that with every challenge of favor,
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it's going to be it's going to be crazy. I'm
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going to have to go up to another level. I'm
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going to have to pray harder, I'm going to have
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to maybe even fast. There's just a lot to do
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from one level. So sometimes we shrink back because we say, no, Lah, God,
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I know what this would take. It would take a
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lot from me to go at the other level, to
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go another level with you. And so I said, Lord,
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I'm okay renting this semi detached house. Let me tell
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you about the semi detached house. When my father had
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a stroke, I took him to from a small apartment
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to a house. The lord told me, honor your dad,
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Honor your dad. Give him a room with a bathroom.
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Honor him. I said, Lord, I don't have a salary.
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I don't bet I can afford anything more. He took
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me to got the commoning. I found a house, and
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my wife and I liked it, and the renter was
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one thousand, eight hundred in one thousand, eight hundred init
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And because we said, if we feel the peace, I
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could only afford eight hundred ring it eight hundred and
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a ford, meaning that I knew that from my love
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offerings and love gifts and speaking engagements I will get
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at least somewhere average of eight hundred to a thousand.
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The renter was a thousand, eight hundred ring it. And
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I said to Sandra, I said do you want this?
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She said yeah, could we have it? I said, only
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God could make it happen, And so I prayed. I said, Lord,
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we feel the peace. And so what happened was we
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told the agent we'll have it. And then the next
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day I went to speak in a like a food
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gospel business man fellowship, and towards the end they took
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me out for lunch and they said, Kenneth, we heard
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about your dad. I said, yeah, you know, I'm trying
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to bring my dad to a new place where he
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can heal, where he can recover. I'm trying to give
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him a room, a bigger room instead of an apartment
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with a bathroom, attached.
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Bath room, a big attach back room, because usually.
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Homes have got this small room downstairs is maybe for
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the helper, the maid, and it's not easy for my dad,
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who was a big man, to heal. And so I
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wanted to honor my father. I wanted to honor the lord.
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And the Lord says, I'll give you this house. And
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I remember one of the corporate guys at lunch, he said, Kenneth,
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where's your dad. I said, I'm going to get him
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to this new house, new house.
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Oh yeah.
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I told him the story why we need to get
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a new house. And he said, oh, that's very good,
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very good. Your dad should need some space to heal. Hey,
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so have you got the new house? I said, yeah,
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I'm getting it. I'm getting it. He says, what's stopping you?
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I said, well, they asked for one thousand, eight hundred and.
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I can't afford one thousand, eight hundred.
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And then the next day his secretary calls me and says,
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my boss wants to donate to you one thousand ring
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it every month.
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I didn't tell him how much I could afford. No,
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I didn't tell you how how much I go for it.
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I could have ford eight hundred. I didn't tell him
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how much, I go for it.
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He decided, after listening to the Holy Spirit, he would
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give me a thousand ring it every month, and he
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did it for about four five years.
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All right, Praise God, hallelujah.
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But now, but now, the law says, Kenneth, I want
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to give you a house. I said, God, h I'm
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all right. And then finally my perception had to change
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and I look at God and I realized, Wow, God
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is not actually giving me an opinion or suggestion. My
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father is saying, my son, I want to give you
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a house.
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I look at my father and my perception has to
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change and go.
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Like, oh, God, okay, you love me so much, you
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want to do this for me. You know that I
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need this another level of faith, you know, from seventeen
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years old or fifty ring it until the ado is
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crying to the day comes when you want to give
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me a house. Wow, we've gone through a long journey, Lord,
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and today you're telling me, no, it's not because of
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jes you know I need it or don't need it. No, Kenneththine,
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you need it. And it's not just a house. You
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see a lot of people are thinking about the house.
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The car is not the item. It's not the property.
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It's your own heart, it's your own faith. Sometimes we
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can't have fought to do something. Sometimes we can't have
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fought not to do it. Do you get that? That's
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in one of my courte books, Very very important. Sometimes
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you can can afford you, sometimes you can afford. Sometimes
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you can't afford. And then you say, oh, I cannot
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afford this house, and God is actually taking to me. No,
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kennec Chin, your future has brought you to a place where.
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You cannot not afford it.
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You need this testimony to take you levels higher. It's
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not about a house, can e Chin. Please understand, it's
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not about the car. It's not about this that. It's
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about your own heart, it's about your own mind. It's
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about you breaking out of the past testimonies for a
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new testimony. Kenna Chin, you cannot remain in the testimony
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of nineteen seventy seven. You cannot remain in the last testimony.
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When was the last one or about six years ago? No, no, no,
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How can we live in a six years old testimony
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and just depend on that. God is always about fresh
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manner and fresh bread, and God, Sayskenneth, don't say no
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to me because you need this. I say, okay, Father,
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I get it. I get it. My perception changes. And
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when my perception changed, my expectation change. I said, okay, God,
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if you want to give me the house, you give
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me the house. I said, which house? God, you know what?
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He said, this house? Are you and your wife like
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it so much? I said, God, please, this is a
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semi detached house. My neighbor just told me that he
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sold his house. Sold his house are for seven hundred
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and seventy thousand. Okay, this is seven, eight, nine, ten
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years ago, and so I didn't have.
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That kind of money.
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Seriously, friends, probably seventy seven ring hit in the bank.
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Kay had to add a few more zeros. If you
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say that zero do value? I think again, zero put
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behind numbers are very valuable.
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Ah.
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So I said to the law I said, Lord, never mind,
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never mind, I say, okay, now, first step, I accept
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the fact that you are going to give me a house.
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So I went around one month looking for a cheaper house.
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I already heard him.
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Know. He says, I'm going to give you this house
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because you like it. I'm gonna give you this house.
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My faith, I believe it got seeah all of us
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do descripture. Know, nothing is impossible with God, say Nila,
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when the robber means a road can or not? Can
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or not fj He wants to take us higher, He
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wants to take us further. Amen, he wants to do
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something in our lives.
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So listen.
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I ran around, take second month, looking looking, looking my
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wife like something I don't like. I like something she
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don't like. No peace, you know, and it's very important.
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No husband and wife need to be at peace together,
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you know, making a big decision like that. So you
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know what happened after four or five months? Are I
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still looking and God through me?
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Cannon? Is this house?
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My perception of God was God, I know you love
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me and you want me to have a house. I
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at least accept that, but I don't have a perception
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that God can afford a million dollar house for me.
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And so I went around and God is probably just
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look at me, going like son, some hours.
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Go around, not a wilderness forty years son, Hey look up, Hey, hello,
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you've gone from the fifty ring gate, gone crying.
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I want to take you further. Son, Look at me,
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Come on, look at me. I want you to know me.
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He who comes to me must believe that I am.
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I am your God, I am your lover, I am
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your father, I am your provider, I am your healer.
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And I remember the fifth month, six month, I got
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a call from the owner. You know what, the owner said,
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mister Chan and mister Chean. I said, yes, can you
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get ready to move out of the house? Not because
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I plan to sell it? Ten years of being in
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the house, aren't He don't even say what he never
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even caught me. No. But now after five six months
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of going around looking for another houser, God has his ways.
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Why no, he has his ways because he loves me
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so much. Man, So he send the owner to tell
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me you move up.
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Now. I feel the fire, No fire, my bump. I
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feed the fire.
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And I said, I said to him, I remember this
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conversation that it was yesterday. I said, I said, uh, hey,
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don't like nah, I leave you ten years, did you know?
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And then I got so many things.
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And then my father and mother in law I said, sorry,
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my father and mother in law, and I was like, oh,
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Correen movie, Korrean movie, come and and and and telling
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all his Korean story and and and then he says,
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he says, I'm sorry, Kereta, I'm sorry.
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I have to sell it. I have to sell it.
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I'm selling all my properties in Quada Comuning. I'm I'm
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you know, I'm I'm gonna. I don't know where he's
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going on, but basically he's going to just sell all
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his stuff in Quota Communing and he wants to move on,
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and so please find another place. You know what happened?
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Something rolls up within me. No, and I said, hey,
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why you don't offer me? You know when when when
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that came on my mouth, I'm like, ah, cannot take
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back now, why you don't know for me?
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He said, huh you want me? I said what yeh?
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Then he said, uh, how much you want? Offered me? WHOA,
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Now it's getting serious.
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No, I said seven hundred and seventy thousand, but seriously, no,
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one thousand ring kils. So I was in my bank
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at the time. I tell you this is honesty, okay.
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Because you live live by face, sometimes you have more
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somebody less. And I tell you what, I did not
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even have seven hundreds off they Ringgate, I says. I
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said seven hundred and seventy thousand. You know why, because
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I heard my neighbor's solely for sertain one hundred and
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seven thousand. You know what he laughed, you know in
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the evil car way more ha, you.
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Know he laughed and I said, hey, why you laugh?
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Why you laugh? A lot of money? Now? He said,
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where you got a number from? Seven and s D?
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I said, my neighbor, my neighbors solely, No, don't think
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what bla mere? You know he is it when your
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neighbors wore it Christian canl Lionel five years ago. Then
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he laughing more, stop laughing at you, Canneth, change. I
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will offer you nine hundred and fifty thousand. God spoke
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to me right that moment. You know why, because I
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was about to say, kennon na, you know, but you
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know what God said to me, Kenneth. You just offered
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him seven hundred and seventy, and then he's offering you
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nine hundred and fifty. There is no difference between seven
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hundred and seventy and ne hundred and fifty.
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For the one who doesn't have anything perception, perception, perception.
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He wants to change our perception. That's it.
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Because if you can see him the way he wants
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you to see him, your expectations will flow. So I
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said fifty misstep right. He says, well, take you leave it.
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I'll think you'll leave you No, So I got down
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my knees. I prayed, as a father, can you do this?
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Of course I can leave it to me.
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Father.
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I've never seen nine hundred and fifty thousand before.
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Father.
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You know I've seen other things. I've seen other things.
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It's gone from glory to glory, strength to trend, but
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I've never seen this.
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Well, you've never seen me in this.
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I am your father, who is who is the god
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of so much more. You've got to see me the
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way I want you to see me. Perception, perception, perception?
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Do you see me? Or do you only think I
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can handle Algong who's crying from fifty during kids? What
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kind of God do you think I am? Okay, God,
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I trust you. I really surrendered and I prayed. I said, God,
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you run to give me this house. So sorry, I
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had to take five months to go around searching for
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a cheaper house. Why he says, for cheap house because
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God can only afford cheaper things. See perception, God, your God,
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I don't know, but your God might got different way
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I know you're come to the same church, but everyone
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you got different God here. No, no, not different, got
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different perception of God. You think he can only afford that.
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That's why the three offerings that I love it. You
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know why, because someone to me before, No, I don't
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believe in building fun I don't believe in taking money
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for for for buildings.
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I say, why you don't believe?
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Actually, when we collect money, we should collect and give
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it to the poor. Echoes power, Let's give it to
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the poor. I used to think that for years. Yes,
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I think, yeah, how can you church be taking.
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Money for this to give money for that? Or the
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money should be giving to the poor. And then God
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rebuked me.
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You know, a couple of years later, he said, can
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you think I'm so poor man?
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You think I cannot give you the poor and give
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you a building and go for missions? You know it's
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all here, you guys, do.
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You understand that poverty is not in the pocket. Poverty
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is in the mind, and we need to break out
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of his mindset. I'm not talking about prosperity gospel of please,
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it's a difference. I'm talking about God's perception of God.
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See God as he is, and he is the reward
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of those who diligiately seek him. So I said, God,
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I believe you, I trust you. Please please take over. God,
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I said, please take over, and.
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He did.
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I remember coming back from church one Sunday and on
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my desk, just two weeks after I said yes, Lord,
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I surrendered, I trust you, there was a white envelope
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and I saw the white envelope past the Kenneth Chin.
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So my father in law brought it back from someone
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who he knows from this church, that lady has passed
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away recently, but at eighty three years old, she wrote
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me a check. She was on her knees and she
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heard from God and she wrote a small note on
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this check in this envelope, a small note past the
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kenna chin. I think it's about time you buy a house,
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and I hope that this will be enough for at
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least the deposit. And I took out the check and
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it was one hundred thousand ring it, one hundred thousand
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ring it. I cried, you know, living by faith for
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the last tween in two years, I cry a lot.
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I remember taking my father for his stroke treatment and
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there was no money, and the stroke treatment that I
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wanted to give to him cost me a thousand, six
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hundred every week.
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Every week thousand six hundred he.
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Start up and all that I didn't have any money.
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And each time when I walked to the hospital to
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pay the bill, someone will stop me and say this
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is an envelope. Someone will stop me and say, I
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paid your bill already. I've seen it over and over again,
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and every time I just cry. I cry because not
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because I I didn't believe, or not because you know
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I'm faint hearted.
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No, I cry because of God's faithfulness.
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He comes true again and again and again and again.
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This God is a good God.
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Some of those handshakes, you know, I like those handshakes
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where there's paper in the middle.
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One I never knew UNTI I only live by faith.
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And what's that up?
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The first time, I was not so you know proper.
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I was just you know, I should have you know,
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better manners. But because because I felt people for the first.
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Time in my hands, what's this? Oh? Moneyer? Oh?
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And the guy felt so embarrassed in like I shouldn't
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do that right, actually, just a few people. But if
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I don't, don't don't look at the paper in front
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of people?
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Are you can your money like you.
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And uh and and and God vibes, God provides, So okay.
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So I'm crying and crying, in rejoicing in joy as
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I'm crying.
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Then I remember something. Now I remember that, Hey, how
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about a ninety percent? Can you imagine? People?
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We just got a testimonia of ten percent? Immediately am
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mind thinking about a ninety percent? I said, God, thank
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you for a ten, but where's the ninety? And God
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says you, I tell you, I just give you ten.
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Someone you want to ask me for ninety? And now, mind,
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I got an answer for you. Ken you go to the
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bank and you will ask for a loan, I said God,
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somebody I talked to I need to go a couch
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or I sorted. I talked to this with God. I said, God,
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are you sure not? I don't have a salary. I
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don't have a salary slip, I don't have EPF nothing.
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God are you sure? And God says, go to the bank.
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I've got it alsoted for you. Go to the bank.
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This bank I won't name it, and uh, and this this,
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I got one bank manager there waiting for you. And
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I said, God, he's probably gonna ask me or some collateral.
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He's going to ask me for some letter. He's going
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to ask me, you know, for salary.
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Sleep.
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I went to the bank in obedience. I knew an idea. God,
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you know, God, if you want to embarrass me, just
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embarrass me. That's okay, I know. I just go anywhere
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in obedience. And the band marriage said, oh, hallo, Passa, Kenneth.
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I've been waiting for you. I said, oh, hello, brother,
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And so I was shaking his hand, and then he
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set me down. He sat down. He says, so, what
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can I do for you, pastor? I said, I need
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my knee. He said for what. I said, I'm buying
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a house. He said how much? I said, I told
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him how much? He said, oh, so how much do
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you need? I said ninety percent? He said, no, the
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bank's usually only given eighteen.
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You know. That was then eighty.
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You know, pass especially such a big amount, you know,
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I mean, I know him, know, he said, He said,
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only they.
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Probably only give eighteen, know I look at him. I said,
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no I need ninety, No, no, no, no, no.
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No, I need ninety. He said to me, oh, okay,
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all right, Passa. If it was four hundred thousand, I
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can sign it. On the spot because I'm the bad manager.
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I can do that, but yours is so much you
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have to actually put in a letter to the headquarters
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and let them decide. I said, we've gotta do it.
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We've gotta do it. Say but there maybe no Christian.
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No they're in the committee.
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Maybe no Christian? So what to do? No Christian? No
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christ No?
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You think go Carrols speaking non Christian? You mean got
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carrots speaking non Christen only can speak the Christian.
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God is amazing. God is awesome.
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So he said, But as we put in an application,
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you can you give me your salary slip?
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I knew, I knew he's coming. Can you give me
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your seary slip? Three months?
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I said, Brother, I forgot to tell you that I
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don't get a salary. He said, ah as, oh, oh okay.
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I could see him like going like, okay, what to
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say now? What to say?
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Now? His eyes rolling, he says, oh, but you know, Pasta,
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you've got one to give you the house. He'll give
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you the house right or bag manager can talk to
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you right now. If God wants to give your house,
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he'll still give your house. Passa, you got anything, not
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anything to show me any property.
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I said nothing.
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I was not giving this bank manager a good time.
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But he was a faith bank manager and God put
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him there. And he said to me, Pastor, give me
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a letter like at least that you are from ex Church.
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I say, I can give you a letter from ex church.
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But he doesn't say whether get a salary or not either.
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I'm not hired by ex Church. I'm their pastor, but
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I'm not hired.
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He says.
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Okay, now I just give you to me. I gave
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you to him. He says, Pastor, let's pray. If God's
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will it shall be done. We put our hands on
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the application he's send in one way. Later he calls me.
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He says, Pastor, I don't know whether this is the
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first time ever in Malaysia to be able to get
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a loan without a salary. But passa right. You asked
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for a loan, right eight hundred and fifty you cony
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of one hundred thousand, So eight hundred and fifty thousand right,
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pass a Seriously, I never heard of it in all
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my banking life. Okay, asaid this idea, I can retire
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it is it? But you just got your loan approved
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by the headquarters at the lowest rate.
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He cried, I cried us all to Christians, cry over
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the phone. God, you're so good. Yes, he's so good.
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Did you know? And my perception blown away again blown away.
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