He Makes All Things New | Pr Sandra Chin

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your tea. I want to share with us today, not

because only because it's a new year, but I believe everyone when we are

in Jesus, we can experience the new in Christ. So I've entitled it.

He makes all things new. He makes all things new. Hallelujah,

Thank you Jesus. Okay, we all like new things, right, yeah,

yeah, new day, new year, Praise the lot. Yeah,

new experiences. We cannot have new spouse, Amen, but not new person,

but new in the spirit. Praise the lot, Nickuay, Yes,

just new good things, that new that refreshes us, that releases us to

enjoy everything that God has for us. He makes all things new. Only

the Lord can make all things new for us. Amen. Okay. I

want to hopefully and urage you to you know, yeah, make be able

to experience that and make those decisions that need to be made so that you

can experience the new. Amen. Pray Scott all right again, Thank you

so much ten thirty for celebrating my birthday and John's birthday. Passa John and

others who are here. I won't be around actually for my birthday, I

will be flying off to Botswana. So if anyone will follow us, we're

going to Botswana. Me and Passa Yvonne. We'll be flying out to Botswana

on Wednesday morning. It's gonna be thirty four hours and then we will reach

there on on Thursday, on my birthday. Actually, yes, okay,

pray for us that we will reach there safely. We are going to Africa,

okay, and because of the connecting flight, so we really bring that

my luggage. Everything will be okay. First time flying a different airline after

the pandemic, all our familiar airlines stop flying straight from Malaysia to Johannesburg and

from Joannasburg to Botswana. Africa is a continent, so every every country.

It's many many countries in Africa. So we're actually flying inter national from South

Africa into Botswana. Our church is doing really well there and we have not

been back for five six years. And Past is supposed to go, but

he couldn't. So I said, I don't think I can let the people

down with my people, so I said I will go, but go alone.

A bit not so easy for me go alone because the flights are new

for me. So pass. Yvonne has agreed to go along with me,

and I hope we will really just yeah, meet our the new partners there.

They've just been doing so well, so yeah, pray for us and

that we will really be a blessing there be over the weekend and then we'll

be back after that about five six days over there, all right, So

God makes all things new Revelations twenty one and verse five. Revelations Chapter twenty

one and verse five says, then he who sat on the throne said,

behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, right,

for these words are true and faithful. Then he who sat on the

throne, who is this who sat on the throne, Yes, Jesus,

Amen Jesus. He said on the he's the one sitting on the throne.

Amen. And he says, you know, I make all things new.

And he said to John here, the apostle, John, right, for

these words are true and they are faithful. Praise God that in Jesus we

can experience things new. Amen, Praise the Lord. He says, I

make all things new. How many of you want to see all things new

in your life? Amen? Tamn on, Amen, new new in the

spirit, new even the things that you are praying about, whether it's for

your health, whether it's for a new job, whether it's you know,

circumstances in your family, God's provision, providence. Amen, in all things,

God is able to make all things new. Tell your neighbor, find

a neighbor and say, He makes all things new for you. Ah,

Turn to the other neighbor, then another neighbor opposite. He loves you.

He loves you. Okay, praise the Lord. This is church. You

can talk, you can smile. Yes, when we birth twenty four years

ago, this church was really taught to say Amen. So everybody say Amen.

Do you know what Amen is the name of Jesus. Did you know

Amen is the name of Jesus. Read that in Revelations chapter three. He

is the Amen. So everybody, when I say yes, Lord, you

say yeah, you're calling on the name of Jesus. Every time you know

we want to agree on the word, and you say amen, you're saying

Jesus, hallelujah. He is the one who sits on the throne. Amen.

He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he says

that he makes all things new. I want to tell us we don't have

to wait until the new heavens and the new Earth that your experience new.

We will have a new body. You will not look like this. Ah,

you will look like twenty one forever. Apparently. I don't know.

I haven't gone to heaven yet, but I read those people who went to

evern and came back. They say it like they like, you look young

forever. No, like Jesus are young. You know, I don't know.

Whatever it is. You don't have to wait till the new heavens and

new Earth. Today, as long as Jesus is in us, he lives

in us. You love him, you worship him. He makes all things

new for us, especially when we have been going through really tough times.

You know, I tell you what, tough times don't last. Tough people

do. Come on, are there any tough people in the house? Oh?

Come on, all looking at me like that. I know you're new

maybe here, because I'll be here about twenty four years. I'm very active,

ferent so, and I love a good respond So tough times don't last.

But tough people too cannot hear Amen, hallelujah. Amen. You know

tough times will be for a season. But when you the one who is

resourced and empowered by the Lord. You are the tough ones who will last.

Yeah. Remember, no matter what, you know, the tears will

come sometimes it's so hard, but joy comes in the morning. A man.

We might be going through a difficult challenge, we might be going through

illness. I've been there, you know, as I walked with my dad

four years of battling with liver cancer. And you're doing well and up and

down. You know, it's like God, you said, you take care

of my dad, and he did. He was well until it was just

that's it. It was time. And you know the Lord just came and

took him home because he said, I want to go home. But my

dad served the Lord all the way eighty three years old, serve the Lord

all the way on the last Sunday in his church, until you couldn't walk

anymore. I tell you, he makes all things new. My dad is

all things new in the presence of God. But not only that, you

and I who are here, You and I who may have lost family or

lost the different things. God makes all things new for us. If you

believe that it is true and that He is faithful. He's faithful to do

it for us, Amen, hallelujah. And we must want to move on

and grow and carry those good memories. Whatever it is. Maybe you're in

a you know, in a circumstance in your family, in the you know,

it could be finances, it could be a job, whatever it is.

The Lord is for us. He's not against us. That's why we

follow Christ. He loves us so much. You know, other person on

this earth, on heaven and up in the heavens, on earth, in

the outer space, nobody loves us more than the Lord. Amen. I

know when you are in love, you think your boyfriend loves you the most,

right, Well, only Jesus love will love forever. Hallelujah, Thank

you Jesus. Amen Amen, Amen. All right, He makes all things

new. And if you're entering into the new year, what are you looking

forward in the new year? Come on, Church, what are you looking

forward to? You know, twenty twenty three was a very very difficult,

a very challenging year for me personally. So much happened. I just carried

such a burden. I know we cast our cares on Jesus, but you,

nonetheless, you go through because I love God's Church. And when things

happen to God's Church. I am burdened. But you know, as I

approach twenty twenty four, I say, Lord, I'm going to walk into

twenty twenty four and I'm expecting for better days. Every day in Jesus is

a better day, better day, better day. Amen? And I say,

I cannot carry all the burdens, all my sadness to into twenty twenty

four. That was an experience. As I was talking to my friends,

we're all in ministry, they said, Sandra, you just went to next

level testing and trials law. Next level in that when you are where you

are in your position, you're leading a church, you're at this stage every

church, not everyone who's leading, who's in the position of leadership, you

will have another level, the next level of testings and trials. You are

not exempted, and you go through it even from within those who are believers

who will give you a hard time. He says, next level. But

you know what, the Lord is our strength, He's our covering. Hallelujah,

Thank you Jesus. But you know, I just want to say I

heard a wonderful testimony from a friend of mine who was who was appointed to

be a pastor of a church, and then things happened in the church and

they removed him. You know, he was so broken and he said,

why Lord, you asked me to come, you do this, and then

now they remove me? What happened? Low? Why did you not come

for me? You know what? The Lord spoke to him. I couldn't

even come for my son. But he took the cross for all of us.

Jesus took the sin. And when the sin came on Jesus, father

had to turn his face because of the sin of this world. Even for

Jesus, he couldn't come at that time. That Jesus had to fulfill and

walk through it. And then there was resurrection. So sometimes we go through

something, then why God? Never? I don't? And Lord Christians,

are you say? Why God ever come through for me? Why go?

And it's like God's fault. It's not. We will go through it and

we will rise up and we will be resurrected. God is faithful, He

will lead us to and I can say and testify over forty years of following

Jesus, he is faithful. He is ever so faithful. And that is

a trait that you and I will have as the fruit of the spirit is

called faithfulness. We must continue faithful with the Lord. Amen. Oh,

tough times will come, but tough people will go forward. Amen, you

will last. So what are you looking forward to in the new year.

In Genesis chapter one and verse fourteen, the Lord God said, let that

be lights in the firmament or in the skies of the heavens, to divide

them day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons and

for days and years. Amen. You saw me underlying that Genesis one fourteen.

Here the Lord say, let them be lights this at creation. Let

them be lights in the firmament, in the skies of the heavens, to

divide between day and night, and then let them be for have these days

and nights, so that there will be signs and seasons and for days and

years. Amen. I love the words signs, seasons, days and years.

Signs and seasons mean in the Hebrew moad, which is appointed time,

the word signs and seasons are appointed times, a fixed time, an appointment,

appointed season, festival's feats, solemn assembly, appointed place. God had

set up, you know, day and night, to set up times and

seasons. There will be winter and spring and summer, and fall in different

com Malaysia. Just monsoon la, okay, and then and then hot hot

hot for a long time now coming already. I'm grateful for some hot hot

hot gose raining every day, my house leaking. No still they are fixing

my house. No fixed yet the words, but anyway getting fixed, getting

fixed. But you know, we have just the two seasons. Other countries

have four seasons, all right. But thank God for signs and seasons,

days and years, Amen, so that you know your morning and your your

dark tunnels won't last forever. The sun will shine again, and if you

are in Jesus, the so o and sunshine will shine again. Amen,

praise the Lord. Sometimes we live like there's no tomorrow. Hello Charla God.

Anybody saying amen, there, hello charl of God. Amen. There

are signs and seasons and when we come through a time. But can I

say a season is not two days? Luck? Tell your name of a

season is not two days, it's not even one year. Seasons take time,

So don't go around telling us your season is over over for what giving

birth? Maybe la when fifty care not no more? Fright, okay,

thank you Jesus, now a no more. But other things in life.

Your season ain't over till it's over. It ain't over till it's over.

Don't simply say your seasons are over. But God does appoint times and seasons.

When we go through that we know and that time is over. Sometimes

even in a year, we go to different things. We want to say,

Lord, what is this time for me? What is the appointment?

Is it over? Do I? Therefore? Do you lift me up and

move me on? God appoints times and seasons. I just want to say,

nothing is forever. You will not be in there stuck forever. There

will be a rising up, there will be a turn. We have to

have that hope in the lot. I know that in different circumstances, in

different people, in different nations, and even in our nations. You know,

we go through many, many things, some are That's why we have

a voice for those who cannot speak, because sometimes that season seems to be

forever, and we try to make those changes. We go out and try

to do something. I met a young girl in Isa under church, and

this child it has no icy because the father's Malaysia, the mother is a

different nation, foreigner, the child. What an irresponsible thing to leave a

young girl without any papers. My heart broke. It's such a pretty,

such a sweet girl who come and speak to me, doesn't even know me

for the first time, small size, not you know. She came and

say hello to me, and then I asked them what's her name? Her

name is Grace. Just only eight or nine years old, and she came

to say hi to me. Oh yeah, there's Grace there. She came

to say hi to me. By the way. Yeah, she didn't know

me at all, but she came and said hi. And she told me,

you know, my friend not coming today for church. And I didn't

know who her friends were, you go friends, but didn't. I didn't

know she was from the home, from an orphanage, and then later I

found out. You know, I'm und now trying to find a way.

I don't even know how how can she get an icy because I can't imagine

what she will come out and do, what work. It will end up

maybe in prostitution because maybe that's what her mom is doing. And especially it's

an orphanage. You know, this is a father who's Malaysian. Oh man,

my heart breaks for some persons those seasons. Will it change? Lord?

Would you move even for so many like that, and that's why we

have people who speak up for them. We have people who work in the

midst of these things to speak up. And when we can't speak up,

we must speak up so that that season can change. Okay, Amen,

But for you hear you're seated. I don't know what you've been through,

what kind of challenges, what kind of highs and lows that you've been through,

How it was in college, how it was at work, how it

was in your family, in your marriage, in your friendships, what season

you've been in. Some are new season, newly married, you smell like

new some are going to be new parents. You have a baby kicking in

your tummy. Some of you are you know, ticking on a new role.

Others are still in the same role. And you're thinking, am I

going to roll on? Praise the Lord? But every time, every time

there is a sign, there's a season, there's appointment that the Lord will

bring you through the next and the next. But we must hope in the

Lord. Amen. Do not hope in a man or a woman. Do

not hope in a system or a program or anything else, but in Jesus

alone. Amen. That's why we come together and we celebrate the Lord.

We speak, we worship together is to encourage one another that there can be

hope spoken to another's life. What are we saying to each other? And

as I say it, as I walked out of twenty twenty three, I

say, Lord, I cannot live the things that have been spoken over my

life. In twenty twenty four. I want a new day. Lord,

Make all things new for ex church, Make all things new for everyone of

our partners in this church, and for us to look to Jesus afresh and

a new Amen. And I pray that all of you will come and celebrate

with us. I know it's a bit far put your jyre never been before

anniversary service. Let's celebrate together. God's amazing in grace right there in Putajaya.

Make make make arrangements, LA ask each other. We'll come and fetch

you. Okay, tell me tell me all right, I don't know how,

but tell me, tell me, and we will make arrangements to celebrate

the faithfulness of God of twenty twenty four years that the Lord has been with

us. Amen. I bring you this verse take Second Corinthians five seventeen.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, say

new creation. All things have passed away. Behold, all things have become

new. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, anyone in Christ, hey,

you are new creation. Amen, you are beautiful creation of God.

All things have passed away, he says, all things. Ah, not

all people have passed away. Here, don't fundy me? Okay, I

old people ready? Okay, No, all things have passed away, Amen,

old things, and all things become new. Amen. So there's you

and I can look for all things, all things all everybody say all you

can say in the Aussie way, all all right, all things can become

new because we are in Christ Jesus. Amen. So how do we live

in that newness? As we are walking the Lord? As I said,

all things made new doesn't mean only can happen in the new year January.

It can happen anytime of our days, our life, anytime and season of

our lives. God makes new all things. First point for us, I

believe if we want to step in, and I had to speak this to

myself, empty ourselves, that we may be filled by the Holy Spirit,

fresh wind, fresh fire, empty, meaning to let go of the things

that have been burdened in our hearts the year before or the years before.

Some people carry much burdens until they look like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

Notre dumb is in the fronts and the hunchback of not just the story,

all right, So you don't want to carry all these burdens and walk around

with you know, with the bump on your shoulder, you know, under

that. But empty ourselves from those things from the inside. The bump is

on the inside, not on the outside. But if we had an X

ray machine, we can see how many people are hunchback. We don't want

to walk with the hunch We want to walk up right because and I hold

our head up, because it is a lord who's the glory and the lift

of our head. The Lord is the glory and the lift of our head,

no one else. And so we need to empty ourselves of our pride,

empty ourselves of our tears of regret. Some of us live with regret.

You know, I I didn't I didn't invest in that shair. Now

I don't have yo forgetting. It's over already. Don't regret. There's a

new day. You can invest when when the Lord leads to weach want to

invest. Oh, I should have yo, I should have said yes to

that job. I should have said yes to something or take up I don't

know what. But sometimes we gotta let go and empty ourselves of that regret.

Sometimes we have to let go of the pain that has been we've been

carrying in our hearts, you know, disappointments, unmade expectations. Husband didn't

buy you that ring that you asked him to buy. If he was blind,

he didn't see it. La. But next this year, New year,

I pray here bye for you live. Okay. I don't know what

it is. We need to empty ourselves so dead we can be filmed by

the Holy Spirit. We need a fresh fire, We need a fresh wind

of the Holy Spirit. Only unless the Holy Spirit feels us, we may

walk in the stale wind and the stale you know, moldy bread. Anybody

eats morny bread. No, we don't eat moldy bread. We don't want

stale. We want a fresh wind and a fresh fire from the Holy Spirit.

So your Holy Spirit wants to feel us. But if we are so

pardata, so full of we all the you know, the heaviness and the

you know, just ugliness of the things that weighed us down because we were

too proud, because we were too hurt, because we were too so much

of disappointment, so much of you know, unmade expectations. Oh this didn't

work, that didn't work out, and it keeps feeling it out. There's

no way you can feel the Holy you want to feel you But Tabu soul,

he's not calling in. So we want to say, I know it's

been tough, this, this situation has been tough. That person has been

tough on me. This is a closed door. But Lord, I still

want to empty. I want to surrender to you. Lord. I want

to let go so that I can receive a fresh anointing. A fresh fire

is for all of us Church. It's not anointing is for every one of

us. Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly. He came

to give us his Holy Spirit. Amen. So Philippians chapter two and verse

five to seven. He says, let this mind be new, which was

also in Christ. Jesus, who in being in the form of God,

did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of

no reputation. Look at that Jesus made himself of no reputation. Although he

was a prince, he was God's son, and he took the form of

a bond servant, a slave, and walked, and he came in the

likeness of men. He walked as a man. Hallelujah. Even now,

Jesus reminded again this years I sought the Lord. I said, you know,

sometimes we're so insecuar, so insecure. Come on, we're so insecure,

because maybe are you I come this age. I haven't reached this,

I haven't done that. God didn't get my master's din't get my PhD,

didn't get that promotion. Whereas and our insecurities take the better of us,

and we really get upset with a person who got the promotion. Slap your

face, all right, but you know, but we're wren to come to

a place where he say, Lord, I Jesus made himself of no reputation.

He humbled himself and walked as a man. Although he was the son

of God. He emptied himself a man, and he walked in the form

of a slave, a bond servant to the Lord. And he came in

the likeness of men. So Jesus understands our pain because he walked as we

walked. Don't ever think that he only oh, he caught on the angels

who set him free. You know he didn't. He could have called the

legions of angels to bring him down from the cross, but he didn't.

He went all the way. He went all the way for us. Amen.

So he came as the likeness of men. So I want to say

to us, one of the things that will hinder us is our pride.

And I will say it because I too will have to empty up my pride

because of my insecurities. You are insecure. It is a sense of pride.

It's called false humility. We cannot have false humility. Either we're humble

or we're not. No false humility a man let go, because then on

a free flow, holy spirit, fresh fire, fresh wind, we need

to let go. Look at Jesus in Matthew three sixteen. Matthew three sixteen

says when he had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water,

and behold, the heavens opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of

God. John the Baptist saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,

alighting upon him. Hallelujah. Even Jesus went through the waters of baptism and

got John the Baptist to baptize him, because John the Baptist was saying,

no, you are the Messiah, you are the Christ. You should baptize

me. But Jesus said, no, we need to fulfill all that the

word has been spoken. Let all righteousness be done. Baptize me. I

will. And he went through the waters, went down, and then when

he arose, you saw the fresh fire, the fresh wind of the Holy

Spirit alighting on him, coming and filling him. And then after Jesus was

anointed and freshly for I fill it the Holy Spirit. Guess what, he

didn't go and do the miracles. Yet where did he go? He was

sent to the wilderness to be tempted for forty days, but he passed this.

So don't fall for the devil's lies and the chicks steal the same tricks

he plays on us. But we got to learn from Jesus. He's you're

no tricks. All the same tricks, same, same old same. All

right, okay, friends, some of you are older Amy, sav you

are my younger Emi. Some of you I can be your mom or your

grandma. Already you see you don't know how I am okay, but they're

coming. You know, I've been in ministry for thirty years. I'm a

manasuring to young people for the longest time, and to their parents and to

the adults. The same tricks happen when it comes to relationships. I just

hated because I had to go through the same thing I've cried for for my

real the broken relationships that I went through, and and my sisters are going

to irrigate and again, how young ladies and young men and you know go

through relationships and they get cheated or they get broken hearted, and sometimes because

of this fear of being alone, fear of not getting married like everybody else.

But we are not called to be like everybody else. And the tears

that have been cried and the hearts that have been broken, you know,

geez saying come come to me, I will give you rest, and I

will give you that hope. Let me be the husbandman do the lover of

his soul, and I will open that way. And others get cheated,

others get really just marriages. There's so many, just in this past week

that news has come to me about broken marriages. It was us, you

know, and I just I just say, wow, you know again,

why the devil throws the same things at us? Come on, come on

church in Christ. I pray that you can step into the new that the

Lord has for us. That let us know how to look to the Lord.

We humble ourselves before the Lord. Wait upon the lot, and let

the Holy Spirit fell us. Jesus went through that he was filled by the

Holy Spirit. And so when you say, when the Holy Spirit comes,

you get a fresh win and fresh fire. What else happens? In Galationans

Galations chapter five twenty two twenty three says, but the fruit of the spirit.

Ah, no, isa, the fruit of the spirit. Look at

your friend, you got the fruit of the spirit. What is the fruit

of the spirit. Patience, kindness, goodness, then faithfulness, gentleness and

self control? Self control, self control. Everybody say it's for me,

Tell yourself it's for me. Aha. Self control? Yeah, sometimes I

know very self control. I go around giving people pieces of my mind.

I should tell you I cannot after no my brain. Ah. So self

control, hold back the words you don't need to say, don't say no,

need to say it, don't say self God control, praise the lot.

That is the fruit of the Spirit. Amen. When the Holy Spirit

fusues, he says, that's fruit that will come out of our lives.

Are we looking for some fruit? Yeah? Love joy, Joe. Don't

let anybody I rob you of your joy. The joy of the Lord is

your strength. Amen. There's always something to smile about, especially when you're

in the storm. Wow. Wow wow. Someone asked me, you know,

I was talking to this other person. They say, how's everything and

this situation that happened. I say, yea ha ha ha ha ha.

He said, Oh, the way you're laughing is like, that's all that's

the best thing you can do. I said, Yes, when your heart

is broken, you laugh. You just laugh it out and let the joy

of the Lord feel your broken heart because I don't know what to say because

I don't want to say the wrong thing. And then you think that I'm

being, you know, pessimistic, but I'm not. I'm just laughing at

and say like, thank you Jesus, it has happened. It has happened.

Praise the Lord. Amen. I cannot go back and revisit. Sometimes

we just have to have the joy of the Lord, which is our strength.

Amen. Hallelujah. God is for us. Not against us. So,

friends, are you gonna bear the food on the spirit is here?

Yes? Amen? Why because you and you're empty yourself. The Holy Spirit

wants to and you want to receive that from the Holy Spirit. Amen,

Praise the Lord. Number two, letting go the things which are past and

reaching forward for the things ahead. Are you ready to let go or some

things and reach forward? Let go of the words haven't spoken of you,

let go of the hurt. Are you ready to let go to reach forward?

Amen? That's what we have to do. In Philippines, Chapter three,

verse fourteen to fifteen, Brethren, I do not count myself to have

apprehended, but one thing I do. I need to forget those things which

are behind, and I reach forward to those things which are a head,

because I press forward toward the goal of the price of the upward call of

God in Christ Jesus. Amen. This is Paul saying, Hey, I

cannot say I reach. I also cannot say I've reached. I haven't reached.

So we want to reach. Amen. Everybody take your hand up.

Okay, reach, come on, reach. That's why you reach forward,

right, So be in order to reach, you have to let go of

something. If you don't let go. You cannot reach because you're holding onto

the pain. So I have to let go and then reach. When you

reach, you can share and touch somebody with love. When you let go

and you reach, you can, you know, share some joy. And

when you reach out, you can share some laughter. And when you reach

out, you can share some gentleness. When you reach out, you can

share some self control. Hold back the words. Amen, all right,

the holiespe will feel us. And you know, we want to be able

to let go and reach for because there's a goal that God has for you

and for me. Amen, reach out. Sometimes it's difficult, but we

say, Lord, I want to let go of those things where the good

eccolades or those that have been painful are past. We must let go so

that new things are ahead of us. And you can reach out and then

grab hold of the good that God has for us. But if you cannot

let go, then you cannot reach out. Then you're still holding holding.

Then if you say, if I let go, drop Howard, drop drop

blah, drop la, It's okay, drop it la, and then reach

out, because this is useless, This is causing you pain, This is

causing you regrets, this is causing you to blame yourself. Why did I

do it? Is it my fault or whatever? Sometimes we blame other people.

Stop blaming, Stop saying all that, and let go so that we

can reach out for What is a hit? What do you want to reach

out for? As I said, what do you look forward for? This

year? I pray all of us want to be more like Jesus. Amen,

At least one of the girl is to be more like Christ. That

his love feels us, that we can really identify with Jesus and walk in

his grace. Amen, because he is a good father. God to us,

isaay you forty three, verse eighteen to nineteen. Do not remember the

former things? Okay, come on, people, do not remember the former

things. Not consider the things of all. Behold, I will do a

new thing, says the Lord. Now it shall spring forth, shall you

not know it. I even will make a road in the wilderness and rivers

in the desert. Amen, this is where the song comes from. God

will make away where there seems to be no way. Amen. God can

make rivers in the desert. Hah, rivers in the desert. Nobody's in

the rivers in the desert. But the Lord will make a river in our

desert. Don't remain in the desert very hot. But we say, Lord,

I will pass, I will forget the former things, and I'll look

forward to that which is new. Lord, make away for me. Make

rivers so that I don't have to live the sea forever a man, and

you will make a road in our wilderness. Even in the wilderness, you

can see a road that is clear direction for us. Amen, as you

know, as human beings, and we always say, oh, but we're

just human love. Yes, we are flawed. Amen, Your pastor is

flawed. We all are flowed. God. So if I've missed, if

I didn't meet your expectation, because I'm a flat human being, all right.

But but but I want to be more like Christ, meaning I must

also grow in my love for Jesus, might grow in my humility before man,

before the Lord first, and BEFOREMN to be humble enough to say sorry,

enough to say I'm wrong. And I must be ready to do that.

If you tell me I am wrong, I will have to do that,

to say sorry. But as much as I said, we live in

a fallen world. We live in a very fallen world. It always paints

us. But we cannot keep making those excuses and putting blame on this and

that and then not growing ourselves. Come on, children of God, you

can't keep saying is this person's fault, that friend, that person, this

institution. That you and I must decide. I'm going to grow. I'm

going to be here at church. I'm going to be at my office and

shine like a light. I'm going to be at university and turn up and

speak up for those who have no voice. I'm going to be at my

community, whatever, whatever, because that is what about letting go the pain,

letting go regrets, letting go. Are you didn't happen? How this

year? No? Reach forward? Friends? You and I reach forward.

Let's encourage each other to reach forward. I failed last year? But can

I reach forward? Can you help me reach forward by reminding me God is

good? And we remind each other that God is good? Amen, hallelujah.

And we're all made with so different You know one of the things I

don't know, not all of you are church pastors. Somebody told me,

why no, my dear friends, Wow, I don't envy your job because

I'm a pastor. Yeah, I marry I Bury. I'm only good for

that other things, they don't come for me, say, Pasta, I

don't envy your job. Hah, yeah, but I used to ask me

to do all these things right. So I pray for you, I cry

with you, I weep with you, I laugh with you. Says I

don't envy your job. Well, but this is God's calling, so I

will do the job right. But we work with so many kinds of people.

Everyone is different. With the mark of God on your life, with

the creative, beautiful creation of God in your life, and we learn to

just receive people except people, and lay our lives down before the Lord,

to really serve the Lord by being a blessing to somebody. So I wanna

say to us, sometimes it's tough when we deal with human beings because we

are flawed. And I hope that we will be quick to forgive. I

hope that we will look past our shortcomings because I am flawed. Forgive me,

my senior past founding, say a, Pasta is flawed. Forgive us.

Some of our leaders are flawed, but so are you. You too

are flawed. But it's by the grace of God that he gives us grace

and mercy to live every day. Every day so friends, could we just

leave the former things behind and look at what God will do a new thing

in your life, in your community, in your church, in your family,

in your university, in your workplace. Expect that God will do a

new thing as you decide. Amen. Look, He will bring rivers in

the desert, make away in your wilderness. Amen. Thirdly, so firstly

again number one, we were saying that we want to empty ourselves that we

can receive all of you know that you want fresh water. You gotta throw

away the old water in the cup and get fresh water. Makes sense and

not everybody makes sense and not. Yeah, So don't keep drinking putting the

old water and waiting for fresh water in gonna come. You gotta throw it

away and put a cup to the new fresh water. That's what your life

is. Fresh anointing, freshness of fire of the Holy Spirit, Fire of

the Holy Spirit, not downness, but freshness. And then the fire and

the Holy Spirit lives in you. He bursts within you the fruit of the

Holy Spirit. You can have the love, the joy, the piece to

share with others. Fruit from the tree is always eaten by us. Right

now, right now, right which tree, young God? Fruit now Okay,

the tree eat himself, no man. The fruit fall everywhere. We

all eat the fruit. Praise the lot. Your fruit is being tasted by

other people around you, and that's what they're going to taste. The fruit

of the Holy Spirit. We all have it, and we can even develop

further as we allow the Holy Spirit to give us fresh fire, fresh wind,

fresh anointing. Amen. Number two. Let go and reach forward.

Let go and reach forward, Amen, hallelujah. I pray that many things

that are holding us back today, thoughts your mind, a lot of things

that you've been thinking of it which you asked a lot to help you to

release those thoughts, negative thoughts, blame me, thoughts, Let go so

that you can have a mind of Christ, more importantly, the mind of

Christ. Amen. To know that it also change the way we're thinking that

you are loved. God loves you. Nobody else will love you the way

God loves you. Yeah, I love songs will be written like I love

you, like nobody else love you. But honestly, only God loves us

at the highest. Then comes the next and the next and the next.

But we must have the assurance there were loved by the Lord. God loves

us Father, God loves us that he really wants to do a new thing

for us. Amen, So let go and reach forward? Amen? What

do you need to let go? All mindsets, all words? May God

put a new song in your mouth? Are you speaking the old words?

I also want to let go of my old words and speak new words,

new conversations. What conversations are you having in your back room? What conversations

are you having when you meet together? Let there be new conversations upbuilding,

looking forward, reaching forward, being a blessing. Amen. Those are things

we need to let go and reach forward to. And thirdly, I love

this. Seek the Lord, the Lord. When you don't know, don't

seek man, Seek the Lord. Come on, just shut yourself in and

seek the Lord. Read his eternal word. Build your faith upon the solid

rock Jesus Christ. Can I hear an? Amen? Amen? Seek the

Lord. You know if you get angry with me for telling you to seek

the Lord, please forgive me. I cannot tell you anything less but to

seek the Lord. Seek the Lord. Don't seek another. You know this

done? Three dead? Okay, this wasn't that person, this doctor.

Seek the Lord first, because when you seek the Lord, you will find

him and he will direct your path. Amen, seek the Lord, read

his word or listen to his word, and build your faith upon the solid

rock Jesus Christ. Friends, we must grow. Turn it any four next

level of growth. Don't compare your walk with Jesus to another person. Where

you are at, Amen, hallelujah. If you are doing quiet time five

minutes last year, this year, can make ten minutes or not. What

is ten minutes nothing? Lah yop, yeah, but ten minutes non?

Moving up? Moving up to fifteen to thirty minutes to an hour, himen.

Come on, seek the Lord because he wants to. He wants to

meet with you. Why he's waiting there? Every day God sits and waits

for you, Eliza, and then Sandra. Then I always say to the

Lord when I wake up if I'm late, sorry, Jesus, I'm very

die you today. And then I'm accountable to mass but I'm sorry I woke

up late. I couldn't do my coin, you know. But the Lord

waits for us, and he keeps the same place about you and me.

A man seek the Lord, and seek the Lord, hallelujah, and listen

to his word. By reading his eternal word to us, a man build

our faith I bring you Jeremiah twenty nine. Jeremiah twenty nine, verse thirteen.

And you will seek me, says the Lord, And you will find

me. And when you search for me with all your heart, with all

my heart, with all my soul, I adore you. Or will you

seek the Lord, you will find him. Will you search for him,

he will be found by you. Don't say you cannot. You need to

quiet turn down. I'm a math at heart. Any Mathers in the room,

I'm a math. I'm not a marry at all. I cannot sit

down quietly. I will sleep if I don't put me and don't do anything,

I will sleep. But I have to learn to have the heart of

Mary and the hands of a mather. Yeah, we need some mathers.

People. Stop being just the heart of men and then Noah, mater hens.

Give me some mater hens hands that will hold the plow and work the

ground. Hallelujah. Ten thirty. Come on enough, I'm sitting down and

doing nothing. Come on, young people, can you be horsing on my

young people here? My teens? Yeah? Express, Oh, they are

express sewing. They are express sewing. Expressing Amen, coffee, peanut colada.

I don't know. All right, come on, you know we need

to Wow. God is so good, hallelujah. Seek the Lord and you

will find him. Amen. And when you find him, go you would

hear what he's saying to you. Oh, you know, come on,

judge, it's a new day. I didn't know I will live under twenty

twenty four. Yeah, I didn't know I'll live under twenty twenty four.

Seven times my life has been almost taken, you know, not taken like

taking the movie. I know. Yeah, but you know I would have

died or I could have been whatever. But God has reserved me. I'm

here, Yeah, living for him. Come on, seek the Lord.

Oh, he says. If you seek me and find me, and you

search for me with all your heart, you will you will find me.

If you read verse fourteen, he says that you will find me and you

will be found by me. Amen. I want to encourage us to make

time for Jesus. Amen. Without talking to the Lord, without seeking him,

you cannot receive because you're only receiving from me what I'm telling you,

or my testimony. Can I tell you that God will come? I know

time is about I don't know if I told you the story. Can I

tell you, did I tell this service about the story of the French lady?

There? Tell you what the French lady? Can I tell you again?

Have you heard the story of the French lady? French Lady? No,

I'll tell you. Last year just to say that when you seek,

you will find a friend. I met a French lady. You know that

I have the uppertunity to go to the hospital the end of days for people

who are dying. The hospital will call me and say would you please come

and give the last rites. So I got that chance to do it.

I prayed, I prayed about saying God, I want to do something else

where I can reach people. And then the hospital opened up and as I

go as a minister, a chaplain. And so one day last year,

middle of the year, I think a call came. I was in camp.

I was Extein's camp. Anybody was in extens camah, I was in

extins Cam. And a call came and said, you know, pastor,

could you come and come. I'm this person still has some time to live,

but she wants to know God. I said, I can't come now.

I mean my favorite teens cam, so I can't come now. And

we were away, so I said, I'll come the first thing when I'm

done with Cam. And so when Cam was over, I had to make

time and I went to the hospital to meet this French lady married to an

American lived in Malaysia for eighteen years because they think Malaysia is groovy. And

they live in Putrajaya, and they think Sunway is the best. It comes

from the cradle and bring you to the grave, all right, the services

from Sunway. And they said the best. We have the best medical here.

Everything is so good, the doctors are so good. And then somebody

people say it's terrible hospital. I don't know what they said, this is

the best. I said, amen. And they are non believers, they

don't know Jesus. They have a background, a Catholic background. When they

were young, they lived a wildlife. You know. Girl goes to America,

guy falls in love. Girls go back to France. Man chases after

her and France they get together, live together. Many years later, they

get married, they have children. And he said, I don't know what

his job is, but he's been everywhere in the world. I didn't get

to say ask him what he did. You know, this lady is seventy

eight years old Vincoln's autoimmune disease. And she said, I want to know

God. Wow, I said, I'm here, but how can I know

God? I said, well, I would tell you. So I brought

Jill doctor Jill with me and we shared our stories and then we shared Jesus

about how she can know God. And she said, but I want to

know God. I said, it's very simple. It's a prayer away from

heaven. Would you pray this prayer? She said, okay. Remember she's

French. I speak English Malaysian. She speaks English French. I cannot understand

her England Lam. So we let her in the salvation prayer. It took

a very long time to pray because she cannot breathe. With every breath,

it was effort to ask Jesus to come into her life. And finally she

said amen. And she said, is that it? I said, yes,

Jesus is coming to your life. Oh, she's very sick, very

ill. And I say, could I pray for you? Say okay?

And I prayed for her, prad prad and I could hear tears someone crying

away, thinking who is this crying away? Her husband bawling his eyes out,

she is just receiving that prayer. I finished the prayer and said amen,

and there was no sound. I thought she died. Jill, you

doctor, what happened? He's crying? The Lord was touching his heart.

Someone who just left the faith or whatever background they head, there's no God.

In fact, she said, why would God want me? I've been

I've been rude to God. I've been sarcastic to God. Why would he

want me? I said, he wants you. He gave his son for

you. He loves you, and you seeked him. You see someone who's

not even yet knowing God. Seek God, and God sent us. You

will find him. She found Jesus that day. She did get up from

that prayer. After a while, she opened her eyes very slowly, Praise

the Lord God. I prayed her to heaven. Lah be awesome. But

and you know, the husband said, wow, you know, he couldn't

explain it. I came the next day. I brought all the material,

Bible, everything, and then I prayed for her again because she said she

couldn't sleep and now she was seeing a lot of vision's illusions. Basically,

in Cantonese, we say more choir demons trying to take your life. But

she's in Christ now, remember that. So I prayed for her. He

cried again. He said, is this what you do? You just make

me cry every time you come. I said no, I'm not paid to

make you cry. I said it's the Lord, and he said it must

be God. He said that he would touch our hearts. There was the

last I saw her. I couldn't visit her again, and they went home,

and the children came from overseas and to visit her. She had good

two weeks and then she went to the Lord. When I visited the wake,

they said it was such a peaceful homegoing. They are non believers,

but they were so happy that if it worked for mom. I'm glad that

Mom found God ours in tears, because that's how faithful God is. You

are a child of God. See the tears. Are you going through a

tough time? If you seek Him, he will come. Don't stop seeking

the Lord. This person who has been rude and sarcastic and didn't want Jesus

lived a wildlife. Yet God came when she seeks him. Hallelujah. That's

why I want to say to us, you have time. Seek the Lord.

Come talk to him as you would talk to a friend. God,

I need your help. Lord. I am lost. Lord, I'm suffering

with this pain. Jesus, I've got arthritis. Just talk to him like

you would talk to a friend and any person. You Just humble your heart

and say, Lord, I need you. Seek him and you will find

him in the midst of your difficulties. Matthew Chapter seven, verse twenty four.

Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mind and does them, I will

liken him to be a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Amen, are you building your house your faith on the Jesus or on the

shaky sind and search your hearts today? Is your faith on shaky ground or

on the rock Jesus Christ? Are you following your friend to church because when

your friend leaves, you also leave? Or are you following Jesus and you

say he is my God, I'm building my faith on the rock, not

on the shaky ground. Listen to his word? Do it? Just do

it. That is what Nike means. But don't simply do it like have

premeter sex with your girlfriend. All that want do it? God, Anna

Dan, you a bottle cannot lie dot that kind of do it. I

want to try. I want to experience that kind of experience known it.

I became Indian Sandly. Okay, all right, all right, whoever hears

the sayings of mine, do it. I will liken him to be a

wise man who built his house on the rock. Friends, every day that

you have life, you have a chance to build your house on the rock.

And this was the word that was released at the first of January.

One of our church plant cord Natus, Jason Martin said, I sense God

is saying, build your house on the foundation Jesus Christ. That is the

only thing that's unshakeable. Amen. So friends, wherever you are, you

can be coming every Sunday. But I want to say, it's what happens

from Monday to Saturday. Are you building your house on the rock? Are

you hearing God's word that you're reading and you and I act on his word?

I too must do that. Amen, hallelujah. This is what it

means, sick to hear God's word, read God's word. Amen, build

and build your faith. Last verse But his delight is in the law of

the Lord. Someone verse two. But his delight is in the law of

the Lord. His delight is in the word of God, and the word

of God. He will meditate on it day and night and night. I

cannot say that I'm faithfully meditating on it day and night. I meditate on

it day and night. I do other things. You, yeah, I

do cooking show at night. I can not what to cook? What to

cook? Right now? I must meditate, eat God's word, so you

know, keep God's word, to meditate on it too, on it in

the day, memorizing God's word, reading God's word, thinking about reflecting something

you and I can do to build our faith. It's not enough for you

to just hear what we speak here. You need that on your own.

Amen, hallelujah. Can I just leave you quickly some things you some things

we can meditate upon and do. I want to leave you with these two

verses so important I feel. Number one is the verse verstimothy for and verse

twelve. We always say, you know, young people, let no one

despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in your word,

in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Now listen, anybody here under the age one hundred hands up. Anybody under

the age of one hundred you are a young person. You are young persons

because father Abraham was older than one hundred had a baby at one hundred baby

okay, one hundred and below young, So don't despise your faith in Christ.

Can you decide that you're going to be an example in your words that

you might be young, but you don't have to speak rubbish your conduct.

You and I can be conducting ourselves better for who for one another first and

then for those on the outside. Sometimes we are so insecure and our our

selves were so selfish. We are like I've done this, I've done it.

I'm guilty every time, come and repent before Jesus. Because I'm selfish,

I choose not to have a good conduct. I don't say hello to

you. Try, don't let your face John's face. Okay, all right?

Can we be an example in our word, in our conduct? How

you love people? In your spirit? What kind of spirit do you have?

Gentle spirit, friendly spirit, forgiving spirit, kindness? How about your

faith? How can you be an example in your faith? Sometimes sometimes my

favor is very like Shaquilla, Like when something happened, I go like,

oh no, But we can encourage you to say no in Jesus, we

will try again. Let's let's try this in Jesus, Let's do it again.

Let's let's make something out of this which seems like nothing. How about

your purity, the purity in your words, how you think about people,

how you see people, how how you how you how you conduct your purity?

If you're dating a girl, if you're married, do you keep pure

and not get involved with your colleague Again? I came from a week where

people are just you know, getting involved with their stuff with their colleague and

they're married. When people have these secret relationships until they found out. Come

on, even when we're married. We have to keep your even if you're

a single normally to the singles, why I say keep y'all watch what you're

watching. You're caught up in pornography? Burn that Netflix? You can't burn

Netlix. Sorry, nowadays it's not magazine anymore, it's digital digital. Are

you caught up with what? I don't know? You caught up with something

in the on the net Internet? Or you're talking to someone on the net

and then asking you do things like photo of yourself naked and you're showing it.

Stop it, get out of it, involve your colleague. Stop it

because you will fall in danger, You will break your household, you will

break the church because we love you and we will cry with you purity.

How can you and I be an example in our kindness? That's our condrac

our spirit. Stop it. That's what Jesus would say to us. Stop

it, because don't let anyone despise you. You can say, but I

am human me, I'm human too, you human to all of us,

human too. But there is such a thing as care care. That that

is my wife, that is my sister, my brother. I would not

ask of that of my sister. That could be your grandmother. You look

nicely in your naked picture. If it's your grandmother, you died dating on

an Ali man, Lord right, really, then don't see? Come on,

people, we hurt ourselves, we hurt our children. My father said

to my husband, because I love my daughter and I respect her, I

will not be found having any other relationship outside of my marriage. I'm thinking

for your wife, love. But he said, I respect my daughter.

Fathers you have a daughter. I never knew this, but my dad said

that to my husband. For the sake of my daughter, I will not

have engaged in any other, even though many girls come to me, But

no I thought for your wife. But yes, wife, one thing,

But for my daughter. What I will pass on Fathers in the room,

if you have a daughter, live upright, you have a son, live

upright. It was so important. We don't despise our faith, don't despise

what we have, and conduct ourselves this year. Make all things new in

Christ. In Christ, he says, I make all things new for you.

Amen. And I want to say one more Malachi, Chapter three,

verse sixteen. All of us need to listen to this. It says,

then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened

and heard them. So a book of remembrance was written before him for those

who fear the Lord and who meditate on his name. When I read this

verse many years ago, I'm like, what God is listening to my conversation?

Oops? What was I saying about sister Jessica? What was I saying

about Brother Ben? Because God wrote it in his book. So God listens

to our conversations, but he writes those that are good stuff the way we

encourage one another. What conversations? What kind of conversations are we having?

But they who fear the Lord will watch what they speak, because the Lord

will write in a book and remembrance of what you and I speak are You're

not really got to jugga my mulot la hey juga muload way right in our

word be an example para. When I read, I'm like, Lord,

you listener, Really you're not like tired. God of Israel never slumbers nor

sleep. He's everywhere. He's He's with us when we are down. He's

in the corner with us when we're when we're hurting ourselves, self, hurting

ourselves. He's there when we are don't know how to manage the baby,

the new mom. He's there when we're taking our exams, we're failing whatever.

He's there. He hears our very conversation. What it was your and

my last conversation? What kind of words were we speaking? I want to

be a I pray I can be that person who can speak well. Off

I'm learning, I'm hurting. But do I speak? How well? Can

I speak? Amen? Because God writes all your conversations, and he remembers

what you say is a book. But those who fear the Lord and who

meditate on his name, I want God remember the good words that I've spoken,

not the weird words that I said. Amen. Behold, He makes

all things new, He is true, and he is faithful. Hallelujah.

Church. God is for us, not against us. Stand with me,

and we're going to close this time. We want to We want to just

worship the Lord and give you time to just allow God to stir in your

hearts again. If we stand here, I really don't know where every one

of you are at. I don't know who knows Jesus. How many of

you are just following your mom and your dad to church. Do you even

have a personal relationship with Jesus? Do you want Jesus? How many of

us want to experience what the French lady was saying. I want to know

God? How can I know him? She says? How I said,

God brought me here. I am the answer to your prayer. So BEI

got me to say that, right, you have to have some confidence to

say that. Love, and I said, you are a prayer way from

heaven. Come on, some of us need a prayer way from heaven to

give our hearts to the Lord. Amen. Amen, I hope your bless

and reminder, because the Lord loves us. The Lord provides a way for

us. The Lord has so much for us. The only way you and

I will know is by seeking him, reading his word. Knowing who we

are and Jesus, don't wait for someone else to preach to you. Read

it in his word, Share with one another, speak about his word,

encourage one another. That's how we build our faith, not tear people down.

Not gossip. That just simply means no gossip. Long time ago in

Bethlehem when Extra started pass this word that says gossip not allowed here, but

unfortunately people still gossiped, gossiped, gossip, gossip like be hockey and gossip.

Yeah, sip sip fast. I don't know. We don't want to

gossip because it's written that God won't one. You won't God, Remember,

oh, gossip, go one. Remember the praises. When you are down,

you want to praise God. When you are really lost, you want

to praise God. When you are really going to a tough, tough time

in the storm, you want to praise God. Friends, I've been in

a storm. I don't know about you, however, take care of Father,

take care of my mom. It's a storm and you're serving God.

You're running from hospital to church, running from one hospital to the other.

It's a storm. It's tiring, but God's grace is there. And when

you're doing all that and your best and you're gonna nicey backstep, you are

what you do, warming blood, love uster. After that's wallowed, say

thank you Jesus, you blend me for once. Already enough I don't need

to bleed again. Amen. Your life counts. Your life counts. The

choices you make count. Who you serve matters. Serve the Lord. Amen,

Worship the Lord. Worship and serve. Serve the Lord. Let him

make a new day for you and for me. Amen, Oh love the

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