Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church (Part 1) | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from ex Church.

We hope this message will light up your tea.

We will be reading a little bit from habercok Chapter two.

Just a few verses.

First, all right, now, verse one, he says, I will

stand my watch and set myself on the rampant.

You don't know what's the meaning of ramp It means.

A watch tower and see and watch to see what

he will say to me. Who's the here? Who's the here?

The Lord? Do you believe that God wants to say

something to you? Yeah?

Okay, we want to.

Watch to see what God will say to us and

what I will answer.

When I'm corrected.

Whoa, Okay, so there is some correction that needs to

be done, I think already.

Okay, let's look at verse two. Verse two says this.

Then the Lord answered me and said, let's read this

together three two one. Write the vision and make it

plain on tablets that he may run.

Who reads it?

Amen? Okay, all right, So that is the whole reason

why we are going through the whole unpacking of the

vision series. Why because the Lord, the Word of Lord

says so it says, write it, write the vision. So

we actually wrote down the vision into this book, make

it plain on the tablets, on this work book, so

that he may run who reads it. So my prayer

for us this morning is that when we read this,

we're gonna run with the vision of God. Amen.

All right, So that's the whole purpose.

And then you will see just reading on in verse three, for.

The vision is yet for.

An appointed time? Right means it's the future. Right, it

hasn't happened yet. But at the end it will speak.

This is a of God, and it will not lie,

though it terries, wait for it.

Hey, church, can you wait?

Let's wait, Let's wait, it says, because it will surely come.

It will not terrry. Amen, this is the word of God. Okay,

So now why are we doing this?

Okay?

What is our theme for next year?

Friends?

Theme?

Revival? Okay, revival?

What do you understand by the word revival?

What is revival?

Change your mindset?

Okay, so you revive, you change, you have a change

your mindself? What else?

What else do you do you think about when you

hear this word revival? Jums start. That's a good word,

jumps start. Keep that word in mind.

What else? What else?

Okay, let's say some leah, someone just fainted on the

on the stage, and then what do you need to do?

You wanted this to be all right?

To revive the person, to bring it back to life, right,

to bring back the person to life. And another way

to think about it is to bring that person back

to the original condition, correct alife. It was once dead,

now alive. So revival you can see on the first page. Now,

by the way, friends, do you have a pen or

writing instrument? If not, that you use your blood. I

write it with your blood, then you will remember forever.

Okay.

Otherwise, please ask your friend as your neighbor, and you

got extra pen or not?

Can I borrow?

Because this is very important, okay, or very important for

all of us to catch what the spirit.

Is saying to you.

I may be saying something, but more importantly, we want.

The Holy Spirit to speak to you. Okay, all right.

So so the.

Whole point of revival is bringing it back to the original.

And you know that exchange is not new. Correct?

How old is ex church next year? That's right, twenty

six years old, and you're not being twenty six years old.

Sometimes we forget very forgetful, right these days, young people,

old people say, all of us are very forgetful, and

that's the reason why we want to remember again the

whole vision that God has given to this church. We

passed Canna started twenty six years ago, right, and why

where we are and where we are going?

Is that okay? All right? So you will say that.

Yeah. So he says here that revival begins with returning

to the way that it was meant to be.

Okay. Now, what is the whole purpose of unpacking? We unpacked? Two? Firstly,

to understand.

Now, if you see there's a blank there, I give

you the first answer is to understand and more importantly,

to undertake. Is there a difference between this two? What

is the difference? One is to know, excellent answer, Elder Terans.

One is to know, and one is to do. That's

basically what's understanding and undertaking? Right can you do? If

you don't know, you do, you cannot right. So firstly

we must understand and thereafter we will do it. Okay,

And I just want to maybe make a note right

now to all those who are serving ex hosts ex security.

You know, maybe the only person that really cannot take

notes is xdv LA.

But please, guys, as much as you're on duty, I

don't want you to miss this as well. Okay, so

host please take note. Don't don't just move around unnecessarily

do your job. Quickly, sit down and also be part

of this, all right, all of us need to be

on the same page. Okay, all right, okay, good, So

now there is you know, when we unpacked. I just

recently came back from a trip to Vietnam.

Oh, I really enjoyed it.

And so part of the process is to pack and

then unpack, right, and then when you unpack all your things, right,

it has to go.

To different places.

Right. You don't put everything, your shampoo, your shoe all

in one cabinet. You have to put it in its

right place. And so as we unpack the vision, we

will have certain things that we will go into its place.

Now you will see on the slide.

Then there is seven things, seven areas of which the

vision will go to.

Number one is prayer.

Must always start with prayer, right, Everything begins with prayer,

even how passa Canna started this church. It is true prayer,

all right, So we must pray, and you see the

thing is right. As we go through this, there may

be things that you may not understand or fully grasp yet,

it's gonna be okay, guys, Yeah, it's gonna be okay.

If you say I'm hearing this for the first time

or I'm hearing this for the twenty sixth time, it

does not matter.

There will be.

Some things which your heart is grappling with, and I

want to say that's a good thing. It's a good

thing because the Holy Spirit is the one that is

causing your heart to go.

Like, oh right. If you don't have any response at all,

then you're date.

Okay.

So we are not date.

We are real people, we real challenges, real brains, and

so that's why your brain is functioning right now as

you're like, okay, I'm hearing this again, right, And what

is the Lord's trying to say to me right now?

So true prayer and if you don't understand, it's okay,

just say God, please help all the rules or all

the other speakers who will be sharing with they just.

Please help them so that I can understand.

Because you know that the revealer of mysteries is who

is God himself, right, So this is given by the Lord.

So if you want to understand and us the Holy Spirit, Okay,

So prayer number two is passion. Okay, we're gonna lum passion,

purpose and practice together.

Okay.

Then number five you will know that there is going

to be a time and we're going to talk a

lot about preparation. How do we prepare, right? How do

we prepare to receive the vision? How do we prepare

to run with the vision?

Okay?

Now, anyone came in sneakers today? I didn't because you

need your sneakers to run, right, So obviously I'm not

prepared to run yet. But we all need to be

prepared in our spirit.

Okay.

After preparation, there's going to be a plan, right. You

cannot do everything without a plan. Anyone does things without

a plan.

Actually, the truth is many of us just rainbowing.

Right. Ah. You know there's this word that says, you know,

if you don't plan, then you plan to fail. If

you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Okay.

So even as a church, you know God has a

plan for us, and we want to know what his

plans are. And that's why finally is the power of God.

Amen.

You start with prayer, you start with the Lord. Then

you also end with the lot. Nice? Right? How nice?

It is that we start.

With prayer and we end with God's power, and that's

how we will run to the end, to the vision,

so that God is please amen. Okay, all right, So

let's move on starting with why is that? Okay, everything

that we do we should start with the wilin right,

So we start with the end goal so that we

know exactly.

Where we are reaching. Okay.

And the why is basically this, we want the whole church.

And by the way, do you know that whichever church

plan you go to in Klang Valley's sixteen church plan locations,

we're all going to the same thing, exact same syllabus, right,

because we want the whole church to understand this and

catch this as we prepare for revival next year.

Amen.

All right? Okay, son, why we say what we say

and why we.

Do what we do? Okay? And this is.

Really also understand a part of past of Kenneth, even

though he may not be you have to preach to you.

This is catching his heart, all right, He's coming next

way you okay, So guys, don't miss out, Okay, please

don't miss out, and tell you my dear good job.

I am by faith Okay, all right? All right, So what

is it? Okay, the heart of us as the leadership

is our passion, right, and what is our passion? Our

passion is we believe. I believe that every one of

you here has the best that God wants for you.

Amen.

God really wants the best for each one of you.

You know what, when I was preparing this, right, I

have to believe this, you know, I have to ask myself,

do I really believe the best for Ellie, for tif

for John, for Llayenne? Do you know do I believe this?

And I have to come to a place that yes,

I do believe this. I believe that God wants us

to live a life full of possibilities, full of potential.

Do you know that next to you right is a

person full of potential not yet seen, not fully tapped yet,

even Elder Terrans you know, you see he's a man

of wisdom, right.

But you know there is still potential untapped.

And I want to believe that God still has the

best for Elder Terrans and Elder Maoble. The best is

yet to come, you know what I'm saying. We have

to start with the pain. Our passion is knowing that

all of you have something that God is waiting to unlock. Yeah, okay,

let me ask you a question. Are you fully happy.

With the life that you have right now?

Truck?

Question?

Now? Is it trick question? Are you fully happy? Are

you fully satisfied with the way your life is right now? No? Right?

As in? You know that there is more? Friends, do

you believe that there is more? Do you believe that

when you pray that the they can raise? I mean,

you haven't come.

To that stage.

I haven't come to that stage your faith yet, lah,

But I want to believe it.

Amen.

Jesus says that you know greater, big things than this,

you will see and do to his disciples.

And I believe that. I'm a disciple of Christ, you.

Know, And so we know that there is so much more.

There's full of potential and possibilities. And God wants all

of us to live breakthrough lives. And then tell your

neighbor you're gonna get your next breakthrough. Yeah, do you

believe it or not? Hey? Hello, don't I just say

because you're following me, but really, prophesy over your friend,

you will receive your next breakthrough. Yeah, we have to

believe that that's what we are passionate about Okay, we

are passionate, and you know we want to discover the

secrets of the Kingdom of God, is it okay? Yeah?

That you know that there's a lot of secret here

found here, so much secrets that as we uncover, as

we read, the world got more and more and we

apply it to our lives, we realize that, Wow, this

is what it means.

To live a victorious life.

This is what it means to live a life full

of faith. This is what it means to say I'm

at peace, no method what These are the secrets that

we want.

Amen. So we want to let you know that life

is full of possibilities.

Amen. Anything and everything is impossible for those who for

those who.

Believe, the question is do you believe? Do you believe?

Friends, do you believe that whatever challenge that you're going

to go through and are going through, that God will

overcome it with you. We have to believe.

It comes to a place of belief. Okay.

So question is do you desire break through life? The

answer is I hope solah. If not, then we hope

that for you. Okay, we believe. That's our passion and

sometimes you know a lot of times we need to

kind of like go sort you a little bit, challenge

you a little bit to say that there is more

to your life.

There's more than the nine to five.

There is more to living a life which is fully submitted,

fully obedient to Jesus Christ.

Amen Hallelijah Amen.

Okay, let's move on now the real purpose. What is

the real purpose? If you go on to page six

right now, that's where I am living to what God? Oh?

Okay?

Answer, is there a dy lla for you? Can you

ask yourself? Have I pleased the Lord this morning?

Not really?

Really, it's a good question. I always ask myself, Lord,

was my worship to you this morning pleasing to you?

It's not about what people are looking at me. It's

not because I hold the title a position of.

Leadership in church.

It's even if none of you are here today, Will

I still worship the way I worshiped? Will I still

sing the best? Because you know, we worship until the

audience of one. That's it right, We worship until the audience.

So it's like, it doesn't matter if you sing out

of tune, friends, I also sing out of tune, is okay?

Because God sees your heart right, So everything that we do.

We say, Okay, God, I want to please you, right?

Is it rocket science? Or not to please God? No?

Not really?

You know you know how to please your friend, right,

you know how to please your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, the.

One we all know.

I think that the time of our life in which

we try so hard to please some mona is when

we're trying to call some mona after Mary, ready forget it? No, no, no, no, okay.

Married couples life is good, right, you're enjoying your married life. Yeah,

but you know it it takes the you know, it

takes a lot to continue to live to please God?

True or not to please God? Is? You know? It's

it's a commitment, all right, So we want to live God.

Now, you know the the.

Prayer that passed cannot always praise over us is three

John two Beloved, I pray that you will prosper in

all things and in health as your soul prosper. That

is what we really want for all of us. Okay,

we want all of you to prosper. Is that?

Okay?

Yeah?

You want we want you to prosper in the Lord.

Amen?

All right?

Okay, Now then how do we do it?

Okay?

So first one, what is starting with the wir.

Right is the passion? What is the passion?

Again?

What is the passion?

The believe? Don't forget ready? See I told you you're ready forgetful? Right?

I just talk about it three minutes ago. Let's review,

let's recap. What is the passion? Believe? What? Believe? What?

That God has the best for everyone?

And friends?

Can I tell you even for the entire eight villain people? Okay,

people that you hate, God has the best for them.

All right, So that's a belief. Now what is the purpose?

What is our purpose? To please God?

Okay? We want to please God?

And the practice is the how the practical application. Now,

what we need to do then to live this overcoming life,

to live this break through life is firstly we need

to apply the word and the promises of God. Amen.

Do you know without application, if someone tell you you're

gonna be the you're gonna have the best body of

your life, and all you do is nothing.

Don't believe it? True not, don't believe.

It because there are things that you have to do.

You have to say you know, either yo, workout, you exercise,

you push the weights, you eat clean healthier, if you

don't do anything, there is no result. Don't believe the lie, okay,

that you just take one pill. I know there's not

a lot of peels out there, magic pills out there,

but they are temporary, right, temporary magic little things that

you know leads you into deception that you think I

got it all, but actually nothing except the word of

God and the promises of God. Right. And so from

this what we do is then we get stories and

testimonies to share with others. So you know how Pastor

has led this church is he takes a word of God,

he applies it to his life, and he says, guys,

this works.

That's it.

Right. Do you know if you took some supplement I

know at one time, don't maybe found this? You know

she's they've been taking supplements lah, and then she's like yo,

like steal aches and pains everywhere. And then suddenly someone

introduced this new supplement and she took it and she says, hey, hello,

this thing works.

Okay.

You know you know that when you do something or

take something that works, you want to tell others about it.

Right, So this is the application.

The truth must become testimony, because otherwise how would the

wild know it's a truth. You know, the truth is husbands,

Husbands do what love your wives, and wives submit to

your husband.

That is a truth, right.

And until you apply this into your own.

Life, you will have no testimony.

You will still go through life thinking, Hey, why my

marriage so difficult? One? Not why we are arguing all

the time? Argument is not bad. Okay, I'm not knocking arguments,

but I'm just saying, if you don't live by this

principle or this truth, it will not become a test

the money, and you will have no story to share

with others. Do you know there's so many truths. One

of the things that I've helped personally for me is

sae E first the Kingdom of God and all this

shall be added unto you.

Yeah. Do you know that my husband at the pane.

Who has been serving full time for about sixteen years now, okay,

and about six years ago I took that leap of

faith to say, okay, I will also serve full time

with the Lord. Crazy right, But until you say okay, God,

I'm gonna trust you. Because you say that you own

the cattle on a thousand hills, you say that you

created everything, and everything is from you anyway?

So why shall I be afraid?

Right? And I know the fear is very okay. It

took me two years to pray about this, two years to.

Just say, God, is this you or not?

Now? Sometimes you know you hear from the Lord, right,

then you're like, no.

This is the devil, But it's not. It's just your flesh.

Right, Your flesh is constantly fighting with the spirit of God.

And so we want to say, God, your truth shall

become testamy. And do you know, can I, friends, can

I just testify to you that as we have sought

to live our life to please the Lord and to

seek His kingdom, God has never shot changes. Never can

I say that I live a life that is comfortable

and I'm able to bless others. Come on, do you

know those who serve the Lord servants of the Lord.

You're not purpose, You are princes and princesses. If you

know your identity in who God is, right, you will

never live in lack. God says I will provide for you.

Do you believe that that's the thing? Right? Do we

believe God says.

I will provide for you? You're like, sure?

Not?

God, how I got this bill?

It's a big bial I got this hell challenge. Do

we believe? Do we really believe that this is what

it's all about? Okay, so you want to say our

testimony shall be turned into all the truth of God,

shoul return the test because our moto then is helping

people believe. You see that the next one helping people

believe everything that we do, every testimony that will share.

Do you know just not that our prayer the testimony

is to just help you believe.

A little bit more.

Believe that God can heal, Believe that God.

Hears our prayers.

Believe that God is with us even in the most

challenging time.

Do you believe?

Do you know that belief is our business? The church

is in the business of faith. Every time you come.

I wonder if you leave the church with just a

little bit more faith, we just a little bit more belief.

I believe more, you know. I'm you know because the

belief right is something that you continue to deposit into

your life. Right. It's not suddenly whoa boom, you get

a million faith coins? Those mining for big coins, you

want the billion big coins, right, No, but you know

the heart work is in the mining part. Do you

know how much resources it takes. You know, do you

know there's a lot of resources.

Put so that we will believe.

Right, And if anything else, the church is in the

business of helping people believe, believe what, believe the word

of God, believe in God himself, Believe that He gave

us this truth to help us live overcoming victorious life. Amen,

or our friends, Yeah, we want this for us.

Okay, we want to help you believe.

Amen.

Tell your neighbor the other neighbor next year.

You say, we are in the business of helping people believe.

Do you believe?

Right?

Everything that we do will stem on that.

Now every testimony you think about your own testimony?

Is it powerful?

And when I say powerful, right, it doesn't mean that

it's necessarily like, Okay, God must heal me from cancer.

Do you know that even just saying, you know, God

helped me.

Through a very stressful week and I just felt God's peace.

Do you know that's power?

Hey? Hello? Because the world you cannot give you that

kind of peace. Only God can give you that kind

of peace.

And that is power.

There's supernatural work of God is powerful.

Amen.

Nothing too big, nothing too small for God because it

is God's power. Yesterday I brought the family out, you know,

to one of the malls. Oh my goodness, don't go

on the mall on a Saturday.

Okay.

It took us like at least twenty minutes to find parking.

Then at the end of it, my patience is.

Boiling over right suddenly, I'm like, okay, God, Father, please

give us fucking la you know. And then right before that,

right there's like five cars in front of me and

one is about to leave.

I'm sure, God, not this, You're gone on right, true

or not?

Five cars before you all look for packing? This guy

is obviously living. Sure we'll go on, babie lady. I'm like, okay,

another twenty minutes. But you know, I think God blinded

the forecast in front of them because they all level.

I'm like, huh ha, come no, what to think this

fucking you know? Nicely, I got that packing, la. Hello,

you know what we forget, We forget to bring God

into the equation of our lives right thinking that, you know,

small method, it's small metal.

Don't stop God.

He's there trying to negotiate peace, you know, for his

wars in Israel.

My pucking prayer is too small for God. No such thing.

Every small thing.

As long as you bring God in, He's there to

answer you.

Amen. Powerful.

Don't think of powerful as in like whoa something huge?

You know, something magical. No, it's just small things that

God's power runs through our life. Amen. It's gotta be

personal and it's got to be practical. Is that okay?

So think about your life. Test so many and you know, friends,

when we talked about living a life of breakthrough, we

want fresh testimonies. We cannot have our testimony like twenty

years ago. Twenty years ago, got this this for me?

Good?

I'm glad God did that for you twenty years My

question to you is what did God do for you yesterday?

What did God do for you last week? Do you

mean God was absent between twenty years and yes after

your life right now? No, God must be experienced every day, friends,

Every day there is something that God is doing.

We are just too busy to recognize it. We are too.

Distracted by our phones to reflect.

That is the truth. Friends.

We forget, We forget that God is there. You know what,

I believe this invention of social media is one of

the greatest inventions by the devil. I'm gonna say he

has done good. I'm not knocking the benefits. What he

has done more is evil, evil in our lives. Distraction,

you know, tiredness after you scrow doom scroll. I learned

this word a doom scroll. Hello are you doing? You're

doing yourself?

La some more?

You do it? Why?

Why do people do this to ourselves?

Right? You know I'm doom scrolling and then you spend

five hours doom scrolling on a Saturday. Come on now,

all right, so we want fresh test. And he said,

and you know, just put a side one hour maybe

in prayer. Then you will see a difference. You will

see new breakthroughs in your life. Amen.

Are we okay?

So far? Yeah? Okay, so powerful, practical? Okay, Now, it

says right when God himself was the word made flesh

and he walked among us. Right, so God now didn't

just sit in the high heavens, but he's walking with us. Now,

you haven't heard of this term before? He says that

you are probably the old Bible that someone can read.

Have you heard of this before?

And what does that mean? We are? We are an

example to whom, to the other people.

Who are not here right now. Probably we are about

a hundred people. That means aren't there's another four point

something million people in.

Subanjaya that do not know the Lord.

And in your encounter with them and they're like, oh,

you're Christian? What would they say about you? What would

they read that? This is what Christians do? Right? So

the hard check for us right now is if someone

your neighbor is looking at you right now, what are

they reading? What is the story that they're getting about Christians? Right? Oh?

They oh, I know the Christians. They always wear green

and red and white and they sink carols or during Christmas.

That's what Christians do? Are you?

Come on?

You got to break through out of the more man.

Although we're gonna do that, but there's more to life, right,

There's more to There's Christmas stockings and presents and Christmas trees.

We are just tapping onto this opportunity. This is not

what we celebrate friends. Can I be honest with you,

This is not what we celebrate. We celebrate christ and

this is the only opportunity time of the year. Yesterday

when we're at the mall, we hurt our cousin's sister.

If you know what I mean someone of the other

faith singing.

What was it?

What was the song that was singing? Was it Noel

or Felice Navidad? Our cousin sister singing Felice Navidad? You

know in the mall busking, hey, hello on am I ah,

they're singing.

What they don't know?

In the passa pagida I go to in oug right,

Noel Noel ringing through no in my Chinese dominated fassa buggy,

Christmas carols are being played.

I'm like, okay, let's tap onto it.

Then, right, And that's why we're doing the Christmas production,

because the world understands twenty fifth December. But we know

it's not that, right, it's not the festivities. We know

it's about Jesus and the truth and the gospel that

he brings peace of God, salvation, forgiveness, hope.

Amen. This is the true message of Christmas. Amen. All right, So.

Let's tep into the opportunity. Okay, let's move on, let's

move on. Let me check my timing. Okay, I'm pretty good. Okay,

So now we have done you know, out of the

seven right, remember the seven areas of unpacking. Firstly, it's

prayer then is our passion purpose. And then we go

into practice. And I told you the practice. What was

the practice? Share your testimony, la right, share your testa me.

Every truth becomes a testimony into you know what? Friends,

if you don't try it, you never know, right true.

Not if you don't try something, you will never know.

So my challenge to your friends, try the word of God.

No really, just take the word of God and say God,

I'm gonna learn to apply this, and I'm gonna test you.

Whoa do you dare to test God? Haha?

Test him. He's not afraid of your test because he says,

try me now in Malachi.

You know the verse that we always hear. Try me

now and see.

If if you give to me in your tithes and

your offerings, Try me now and see if I will

not open up the windows of heaven and pour out

such a blessing unto you until you have no room

to contain it.

Whoa anyone want to have such.

Blessing until there's no room to contain it. You try

and apply the principles of giving unto the Lord. Okay,

you just try and see and then you come and share.

That's the money right, okay, so let's move on now.

Now how do we prepare?

So this is now onto the fifth item preparation.

Now, what do you see here? Friends? Can you see

the orange symbol? What does it look like to you? On?

On?

Off?

Usually if you drive a car these days, do you

have that button? You start and the same button that

you're off is also the same one right, start and same?

So now in twenty twenty when pasta share this, our

team for that year was purpose right, and we want

to say that we're gonna start, you know, after twenty

years that God has led us. We're gonna start the

paintieth year in the Lord with a clear purpose. And

we want to start with the wye. And remember what

is our y again, the real wine.

We are living to please God?

Yeah?

Friends, do you want to please God? Yes? Okay, so

that is our prayer now?

Okay, as you're listening right now, so far haven't here

the vision yet?

Right? Are you pressing the stop or start button for

you right now?

Some of you are might have tune off right now already. No,

I don't know you tune off. That means you have

pressed the stop button now, but I pray that you

will lead it on to start and just say, okay,

what else more? Are you hungry for? More? More? More?

Okay? Okay, good?

Now the question is this, what is a leader? Okay,

let's move on to the next one a quick devotion.

Who is a leader? Do you believe that you're a leader? Yes,

every one of you. Do you believe that you're a leader.

Even if you lead one person and that person is yourself,

you're a leader, true or not? I believe that the

first person you gotta.

Lead is yourself.

If you cannot lead yourself, then is of course very

hard to lead others. But coming by that definition of

leading yourself, you're already a leader. Nor friends, and I

can safely say all of you lead someone. Okay, maybe

if you're a three year old child, you still need

to lead yourself. You know, you still need need to

learn how to listen to mommy and daddy for instruction.

Do you know that's leadership? You might not think about it, right,

but yes, it is leadership. And what parents do is

we help our children to lead themselves first, right, Okay,

so everyone is a leader firstly, A leader is someone

who leads himself or herself.

Before they lead others.

And we believe in acts that everyone can be a leader. Amen. Okay, Now,

God makes no mistakes. Do you believe that God can

make me say a note? Hey?

How come I extraction today?

Hey? How come I visit her today? Are even if

you're a visitor? Friends, can I tell you that it's

no mistake that you're here today because God wants.

To meet with you and God wants to speak to you.

All right, So when we think about the people, and

this is past us heart and the leadership heart that

you know, every one of you, I believe they are

easily about one thousand plus of us all across Klang

Valley meeting on a Sunday like this or in the

Sunday afternoon. Right, this one thousand that God has given us. Right,

No one is a mistake, not a single person. Even

though you're still a child in the.

Warm, you are not a mistake. God brought you here.

So let us think about it. Who has God given us?

Right?

We're talking about preparation. How do we prepare to run

with the vision. It's firstly takes stock right, takes stalk

of who God has given us, and think about why

do you think He's given us these people parents. If

you have three children, five children, one child, why did

God give this child to you?

There's a reason, not you know why was the reason?

And it says you know that God gave us. So

remember again, the passion is so that we can call forth.

The breakthrough, the best.

Potential in this person given unto the Lord.

Amen.

We want to be able to say, guys, if you

call yourself a partner of ex church, we are in

the business right of adding faith to you so that

you yourself believe that God wants the best for you.

You know, God really does want the best for you.

And sometimes right in my work as a coach, what

I do a lot of the times, right, it's not

that because I the best advice.

I don't give advice.

I just help them see what God sees in them.

I'm just a.

Mirror, a reflection to say, hey, do you know what

I see in you?

Is this?

Because you know what, we are always blinded, right, We're

always blinded to our best and our worst. So God

wants to come alongside us and bring our leadership along

to say, hey, guys, I'm gonna call forth this that

God has put into you because you couldn't see it,

And as a leader, our job is to help draw

that out of you, right, so that you can be

the best version of yourself in the Lord.

Amen, God already know what the best version looks like.

Okay, we are still discovering, all right, and we will

discover together, all right. God makes no mistakes. And so

for us as leaders to think is how can we

continue to bring the best out of each other? Yeah?

Do you know that, friends, just because you are not

a leader officially in a title, does not mean that

you cannot bring out the best in your leaders. You

know you can as well. It's a two way relationship, right,

And so that's what the community is. We want to

be able to draw out the best from each other.

You know, if you always think, ah, how can I

bring out the best?

You know in Rosie?

How can I bring out the best in Jen? How

can I bring out the best in Esther? Do you

know if all of us think like that, all of

us things like that are, do you know how beautiful

and wonderful this family of God will be? Because you

know what that pleases God? Again, coming back to what

pleases God, us being able to see each other in

God's eyes. That's that's something that we continue to Prayler Okay,

doesn't happen overnight. But you know, John, I know he

deals a lot with the campus students. Sometimes ah, we'll

be blurred, but you know, the gifting that he has

is to continue to draw out the best in our

campus students, to challenge them to be better, to challenge

them to serve, to not give excuse us. That's drawing

out the best. That's pleasing unto the Lord.

Amen. All right, okay, now.

You see you think that we are only the one preparing, right,

but actually God started the preparation work. He's been preparing us,

all right. You will see in the next night. He

says that God has been consistently and faithfully at work

to make ex church pandemic or persecution equipped for the

past ten years. Whoa you mean we only started the

worship at homes this year?

Okay?

How many of you were part of a worship at homes?

Only fifty percent? The rest of you where will you holiday? Oh,

haven't come to church yet. So this is an exercise

that we do every year where we say, guys, let's

meet in small groups so that we don't meet in

this big church like this in case MCO happened again,

Remember what happened with MCO. You cannot move within ten

km radius? Right, everyone there, just meet there quietly. Do

you know, one day, if persecution comes to this country

and this land, that might be how we worship? You know?

Are you ready for that? Are you gonna say, Oh no.

This is not church.

Where's the building? Where's the sound system? How come only

five of us? Can you still worship God? Can you

still worship God with five people? Of course? Can you

still give your best even five people?

Of course? Can you still give your best offering me?

Five people?

Of course? Right? We don't need this setting, this idea,

but what we need is our faith and our belief

and people amen.

So that's what we are about.

Right. God wants us to be ready because you never know,

you never And and I like this because do you

know when you're in the spirit of preparation, it means

that you're not really settle one, you know, you know,

you agitate that you're like, oh yeah, I still got

things to do, I still got things to do, right,

And that's the spirit that we need to have. Remember

how a cookie says, I'm there watching, I'm watching at

the tower. Many of us are are sleeping, like the

security God, security gud that you always are the thief.

Come also, you don't know, right, Christians, many of us

are sleeping.

We are sleeping. We are not really watching.

You know. How do you watch? You gotta watch with

your eyes open. Friends, what's happening in the world right now?

Do you see what's happening or not? And I'm not

just talking about events. I'm talking about do you see

what God is doing? And you can only have the

spiritual eyes to see when your spirit is prepared and

how you prepare your spirit?

Prayer?

Our friends, prayer for us? Are we really praying in

our church? Are we are praying? Church?

I pray that we are, and we'll get stronger.

We'll get stronger in our prayer life, not just to

come for our copper prayers at pray or our Tuesdays,

but our own spiritual life. Friends, we are not preparing.

We are sleeping or your doom scrolling. Come on, we

gotta be praying. You don't see, you know, if you

don't pray, you cannot see God move you. One thing

is you're blinded to see when God moves. Second thing

is you don't catch it when God moves, so pering

prayer for opens our spiritual lives to see what God.

Is doing in man.

We gotta be praying, all right, let us continue to pray. Okay,

now God is calling us to prepare. How like John

the Baptist? What did John the Baptists do the next light?

What did Join the Baptists do? He prepared the way? Right?

And how did he prepare the way? What did he do?

Tell me what he did? Let's be practical now what

did he do?

Sorry?

He witness? Another word for witness is his telling people.

Sometimes we use this witness wordnice so English.

You know what I'm saying.

It's so old school, right. We don't even understand what witnesses. Basically,

John was just telling people. You understand telling people. I

break it down into simple English. Tell people, tell people

about what, tell people about Christ. That's what John the

Baptist did in the preparation work, is to tell people

about Jesus. Who's the next one? Like Noah in the Ark? Okay,

Noah did some preparation right. Do you think he was

liked by all his neighbors? They thought he was crazy, crazy,

crazy Noah. Do you know that they've not experienced rain

before that. Hey, hello, no rain, and God asked you

to build an ark. Maybe you have not felt persecution

in Malaysia, but God is calling us to prepare. Right,

you don't see yet, but the floods will come. The

flood waters will come, and only those who believe will

get onto the ark.

You know that's the preparation.

Well, even if people say you're crazy, la, I don't

believe in this, will we obey? That is the heart

of Noah. He was just a man of obedience. Right.

And finally, like Peter, we have a Peter brother, Peter

here and the miraculous cash. You remember the story of

how Peter got onto the boat and what did he

do the whole night?

Watched TikTok?

What did Peter do the whole night trying to catch fish?

Because he was a fisherman? Co why not all of

us are toiling, We're working so hard?

And then did he was it successful?

No? They toyed the whole night and they caught elect

zilch zero.

No fish means no dinner, that's what they caught.

They caught nothing right, And then came this carpenter who

knows nothing about the fishing industry coming to them and says, okay, Peter,

let down your nets.

Hello, some of you are you're talking to God?

Is all like, Hey, God, your capentela, what do you

know about fishing?

I am the expert here.

I have learned the art from my father, who's the

seafood of fishing. And right now you're asking me to

let down my nets for a cash. I've been toiling

the whole Hello Jesus, Hey, we've been working.

Twenty maybe twelve hours. We caught nothing.

You don't want the amazing spirit of Peter. And this

is the spirit that I want us to catch. What

do you say, Let's look at the bubble. What do

you say is never the less, never the less? Let

this be your spirit, nevertheless, at your word, nevertheless, at

your word. Okay, keep this vocabulary in your mind. Okay, nevertheless,

at your word, we will let down the catch. Now

that is the spirit of obedience, that says God.

It's confounding me.

God. I've used all my networks, connection, I've toiled all night,

nothing but at your word, nevertheless, at your word. And

so they let down the nets. And guess what what

was the result of it? How many fish did they catch.

There's one verse I says one hundred and fifty three?

Was it? I'm not fifty seven one hundred three. It

doesn't matter.

It's just a lot.

It's just so much that their nets were breaking.

Do you see? The thing is right?

Friends, as we prepared the vision, you know, to run

towards a vision. We know that it is God who

adds daily to the church. Right, people that come in,

who got safe? It is God. It's not us. It's

not because like I'm so popular on Instagram.

Hello, did you come because of me? Not at all?

You came because God brought you here. And God is

the one who will add daily to his church. But

you know, as God at Dailier, I counted a privilege

that we get to do something, We get to partner

with God.

Amen.

You know what a God wants to use our boat,

or God wants to use ex church, our something, our

little somethun nothing much to shout about. Maybe some of

you think are actually very old school, very traditional. Think

of it as an old something. You know what something

is a little boat, a fisherman's boat, so small, so old.

But Jesus wants to be part of us all. Wow,

Jesus wants to.

Step into the boat with us in ex church and he.

Says, let down your nuts here.

Right. So God is the one who does the miracle,

but he wants to give us the truth to be

turned into testimony so that we can be part of

God's work.

How awesome it is an important mission.

You know. God could have just said I can have

just nah like that. But God says, no, I need

you to do something or so because I want to

you to experience the power of God. Right, and he says,

let launch out into the deep. That's what we need

to do. Okay, launch out into the deep. Let down

the nets. Okay, I'm gonna explain a little.

Bit to a story.

Strengthen the nets, and launch the boats, and ready the partners. Okay,

this is what we are supposed to do. Let's go

to the next light, next leg. Yeah, what is our job.

Friends, We have a job to do.

Ah. Our job is to launch into the deep, let

down the nets, strengthen the nets, and launch the boats

and ready the partners. Can I give you a quick

testimony about this? So you know that we're in summing

for a long time, right, And then there's been many

years that we've been here, but one of our partners

have been really really you know, God brought her. You see.

The thing is right, God brought this person into our

mites and she's here right now.

With us, you know.

And the amazing thing was God spoke to her and

she started to tell others. Remember, witnesses tell others there's

a church.

In Summit, you better go. That's it.

And so what we've experienced is many of the shop

owners or the operators in Summit have visited our church. Amen.

Isn't that why we are here to reach all in

the mall?

That's it?

Right? And another initiative right now, and this is championed

by pass Yvonne Freshmen. Not talking about old story fresh one.

So do you know that we're on level five right?

Level three?

Do you know what's there?

There's a college, a college called IMC. Right is the

medical college right for nurses? Right, So there's trolls of students,

and so Yvon's heart is always for the CA student, right,

and says, Okay, God is gonna let down the net,

but God's gonna bring in. But firstly, we gotta launch

you to the deep. And you know what she did,

You say, firstly, we recognize that this is the deep,

this is the place to fish, and so we are

letting down our nests. So friends on the twenty first,

and no on the fourteen, This this Friday, This Friday,

we're actually gonna let down our nets through a Christmas party. Right,

We're gonna invite them as many as possible and then

strengthen the nets. Now, strengthening the nets, right, it means

strengthening your networks, your connection.

So there was.

One person I don't know what if it was a

lecturer or one of the stuff working there, someone who

was there that personally you won't got to connect weight.

And at first we're like, raised us. Right, he says,

I'll invite, I will invite, But manata you really invite?

You know? I think he's inviting at least five students

to come for the Christmas party. So it's like building

those kind of connections, strengthen that network, and lash the boss.

Friends, are you ready? Not friends?

Suddenly, if there is fifteen new college students come.

Into our church, are you ready? Are we ready to disciple?

My question is are we ready to disciple them? The

leaders right now cannot disciple off fifty and that means

we need you to raise up and.

To say no, these campuses. They are so precious.

You know, God added them to us and we need

to take care of them. Right, So are we ready

or our partners. That's why the whole reason why we're

doing this is to prepare all.

Of us to say, make.

Room, friends, make room in our busy schedules, make room

in our hearts. Firstly, you can well how you can panner?

It is pray for us, can or not? Pray for

this Friday? And just say God more. There's a few

students who have URSVP, but just say God more more.

There's so many hundreds of them. Now the need to

know God or need to come back to God. Right,

So just say yes God, we are ready for that harvest.

Okay. And then we let down our nets.

We need to call our partners and launch the boats

and ready the partners. Okay. Now, this is a beautiful

verse from Isaiah fifty four. This is a prophecy, and

I want us to catch it in teur spirit.

They say, okay, let's read this together. Three two one.

Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch

out the curtains of your dwellings.

Do not spare.

Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you shall expand.

To the right and to the left, and your.

Descendants will inherit the nations and make the desolate cities inhabited.

Amen.

So God is saying now it's not the time to

come see up. For my friends who don't under say,

it means, don't miss dingy, don't misstingy with your time,

don't be stingy with your talent, don't mistinging with your treasures.

God is saying, now is the.

Time to say, expand take more territory, and we want

to take over imc man.

We want one day and all this place.

Will be packed and you have to run two services.

Whoa how about that?

Oh by the way, if you don't know ow eight

am family English, they're gonna take the bridge moving forward.

Next week onwards.

And so actually, yeah, we can actually run two services

here and now already from here, think about it. Huh.

You see is no accident. God makes no mistakes. He's

always asking us to prepare. Are we ready for the fishing?

All right? Are we ready for the harvest? Okay, Now

let's move on the vision of ex Church. All right,

finally we come to the vision and I have ten

more minutes. Ha ha ha. Let's go the vision of

X Church. Firstly, twenty years is the year of Joseph.

You will see the next twenty years. Twenty twenty to

twenty forty is the vision of Daniel. Now, just a

little bit of a rewind. Twenty fifteen, God spoke to

us through the book of A has a Caya. And

remember the king has a caya, right, not the book

of it. Yeah, the king has a kia. God told

he he was about to die, about to die, and

God says, and he prayed to the Lord, and God says, okay,

I'll give you fifteen more years. Please set your house

in order. And so ex Church we took it. And

he says, God, we need to set our house in order,

put systems into place, put structures into place. And right

now we are still learning how to put our house

in order. Right and then after that, twenty eighteen twelve

years is the year that we say, let's rebuild the

walls and hang up the gates. This is talking about identity,

our identity as ex Church.

Okay?

Is that? Okay?

Now I'm gonna move on, move on, all.

Right, so it says here now if you think about

the vision, so we've gone through twenty years, when twenty twenty,

and God is saying, let's set our eyes on twenty thirty.

How many years away from twenty thirteen? O? Five more years? Right?

Whoa time? Sticking? Only five?

Do you know that this year is gone? Twenty twenty

five is gone? So we are twenty six, twenty seven,

twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty five.

Years all right?

God has brought us there and we want to be

building our next generation. Do you know that this leadership

that you see, all of us, we're getting old. That's

a fact and we acknowledge it, and we says therefore,

our vision, you know, our revival for next year is

all our young people, your ayesas your Cara Lizzie, as sure,

our young people.

Hey, can you imagine if.

They're taking the stage right now, we got to prepare them, right,

not fair to straight and put them and say pretty

sure good message. Yeah, we have to prepare them. Who's

the next generation that we are preparing for? So you

will see the next bullet point says In twenty twenty,

we celebrated our twentieth and US three. Right, there are

some blanks there with a clear vision for the next

twenty years. And it all began with the kingdom purpose

and priority. So you know that everything that we do

is for the kingdom purpose. Right, Let your kingdom come

and your will be done. Imen, this isn't a lord's prayer.

And I pray that you praties every day? Can inot

talk about application? Right? Praties every day? You will have

a new depth to the word of God. Hey, friends,

I learn a new secret. Can I shave you your secret?

The secret is right if you want to get the

best nutrients out of.

The food that you eat.

Yeah, let's say, what's your favorite food? A piece of steak,

no VEGETARIANA oh, cannot to fool you want to get

the best out of the nutrients.

It means you have to chew it well.

You gotta chew and shoe and shoe so it breaks

it down and then when it goes into your stomach,

your digestive system, it absorbs the nutrient easily. Can I

tell you it's the same with the word of God.

You cannot take one whole long stuff grow You get

indigestion that you warned everything out.

You got a chew on the word of God.

So when you say the prayer every day, you're chewing

a little bit of it, you know, a little bit

by a little bit.

Our Father in heaven.

Whoa do you know that our father in heaven got

so much to chew on? Really? Firstly, it's our father,

not not just my father, not just your father.

Our father.

It means he's a family man. And father means father,

father who loves, father who cares, father who provides?

Walk can you see in heaven?

War means he's not on earth means it's a birth

miss's supernatural means is power? Whoa? Whoa?

Our father in heaven you can meditate for one week.

Chew on it.

Our father so close, so intimate. I can come to

him anytime. Cooin, Papa, Daddy?

Do you know what I'm saying?

So bring this into application, Bring the word of God daily,

chew on it?

Okay? All right?

And God declared Daniel as our vision for the next

twenty years. You saw earlier that there was a two

chunks of twenty years, right. First twenty years was the

years of Joseph. God was calling us to prepare the storehouses.

Do you know that every church Miland is the storehouse?

Storehouse or what the word of God? And you know

who carries the word? You don't your neighbor say you

carry the word.

Of God.

Because it's gonna come a.

Time of famine.

You know, Femini is no fool, Right, There's gonna come

a time where there's a famine of the Word of God.

And so you now become the storehouse. As I'm passing

on to you, I'm feeling your storehouse.

Friends.

You are being fed so that you can feed others.

True or not, that's the whole point, right, So you

don't just get fed until you become fat. You get

fat so you can feed others. Amen. Right? So God,

So that's the years of Joseph. God is calling us

to prepare the storehouse the next twenty years. God is

calling us the Daniels. What does Daniel mean to you?

If you remember the story of Daniel, Daniel in the

Lions Dead, that's all you think about, right?

And what does that mean?

Bravery being ready for persecution, saying that you know, no

matter what, I was still trusting God.

That's Daniel.

But do you know that Daniel surf four kings. You

mean he worked in the corporate like IgM. I don't

know why I say IgM. You mean he worked in

the corporate like Tesla in Apple.

Huh you mean Daniel work in Apple maybe? But he

served four kings.

And so we are saying this generation, you will be

released into the marketplaces to make a difference. Hello, don't

just build your storehouse here, go out as Daniel's into

the marketplace. Serve the kings there, serve the kings there,

but bring God glory.

Amen? All right, So let's do that.

So Daniel is our vision for the next twenty years.

Now what does this mean to us? Now, finally I

come to the big vision of ext church. What is it?

Let's read together?

Two fourteen three two one will be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters

cover the sea.

Oh xtv ah, there you go, very good.

Hey, no habook one la, where's the habook?

Go one?

Okay, now I'm still get your cold.

Memorize that.

And I touched on this last week. Ready, right, the

glory of the of God. We talk about the glory,

but you know what's important is the earth needs to

be feeled. We talk about God's glory is there, but

the earth needs.

To be feeled.

And how do we feel the earth?

The earth is what? What is the earth to you?

Monash Sanway Tailor's Victory Academy, your corporate billa Billa, mart,

I don't know what.

Is your earth?

The earth is where God put you, Amen, And God

is saying where he put you, He wants you to

feel it. Feeling me what with your knowledge? No, with

the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

Think about what that means. Okay, I know that's quite

a bit. Don't worry. We'll go through with it more.

Okay, Now coming to our final page, final page. Oh

there there you go, Harbocock two forty Okay.

What is the big vision of ex church?

Oh?

No, let's do it. I fail.

Let's do it again. That it's a big vision of

that church.

That is the big vision.

Can you see that this vision is about pleasing God?

Did you see this now?

Can you see the connection or not that?

As God's glory.

Is filled in summit, people know God's glory, his majesty,

and we feel that we partner. We've got to feel it.

God gets the glory. And do you know when God

gets the glory.

He's pleased. Can you see the equation? Now? Is it simple?

Straightforward? Meditate on this every day? Two fourteen? Now, and

the other verse that I will leave you with as

we draw to a close, Genesis one twenty eight. Now,

let's look at Genesis one twenty eight. Then God bless them,

and God said to them, good with me, Be fruit

full and multiply. Feel the earth and subdue it. Have

dombinion over the fish of the sea, over the birds

of the air, and over every living thing that moves

on the earth. Amen, familiar us to you. Right, this

is God's commandment to Adam and Eve after he made them. Now,

what are the three things that we can draw from

this verse? Firstly, remember we talk about feeling the earth.

Do you see it in Habaco and do you see

it in Genesis one? Hey, it means God never contrading himself.

You know. God didn't say do one thing and do another.

God says, feel the earth. Can you see how consistent

he is? Feel the earth, Feel Cambodia, feel Vietnam, feel everything,

Feel wherever God has placed you. Feel the earth the

first one. That's what we need to do. Okay, So next, next,

week after this, as you go for lunch, God's gonna

ask you, what are you supposed to do?

Feel the earth? How do we do it being fruit

and multiplying?

Okay, So don't go and marry the next person you see, Okay,

and say we have to be fruitful and multiply. If

you do, then you better talk to me first. But

you know that this is about discipleship making right, disciple making,

be fruitful and multiply.

Why Why?

Because God wants all of us to have influence kingdom.

The worddom comes from the word dominion. Don't mean God

wants us to have dominion, or say, tell your neighbor.

God wants you to have dominion.

God wants you to take charge. Take charge. If you

know this mean by doctor Jill, take charge, cyber friends,

take charge, you know right, take charge. God wants you

to take charge of the earth that you're in.

It doesn't mean your positioner.

It means you take charge of the spiritual atmosphere and

you turn it around for God's glory so.

That you can be the salt and light.

That will shine so brightly until people know that whoa

who is this God?

That yourself? I want your life? Hey, brother.

I want your life.

Hey, sister, I want your live man.

Because you're always so happy, You're so joyful, you're so

helpful and so kind, you're so patient, you're so smarter.

Hello, all these things. It's God's promises for us.

Wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord.

Right, if you fear God, you will have.

Wisdom in your workplace Like everybody, I don't know if

to solve this.

Let me pray about this.

Let me ask the Lord who will unlock the secrets

to this problem. You think God will not answer you,

He wants to amen. So we've come to the end

of session one.

I hope he's been good.

You catch something right, and I pray that as you

let this meditate upon you, I'm gonna invite the worship

team to come on. Now a little bit of a

hard check is this? Are you making any excuses right now?

What are some of the things that as you here,

remember we are pressing.

The stop or the stud button.

Are you putting a pause and saying, no, this is

not for me, No, this is for the young people. No,

I already serve so much ready, you know it's not

for me. What are the excuses? Is running through your

mind right now? Can you just take a pause and

capture the thought right now? What is it? Is it

something that is from the Lord or is this something

of your own?

Think about this?

What is the excuses say you're saying, Nola, I don't

believe this. I'm not a partner of this church.

It's okay.

If you're visiting us, friends, I say thank you for visiting.

I'm speaking to my partners. If you call yourself a

partner means you have a part to play in fulfilling

this vision.

Amen. All of us have a part to play. What

is your part? Amen?

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

information on our church, please visit aschurch do org. We

are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

this week is going to be a good week, a

hit for you.

God bless