The Power of God | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from ext Church. We hope this message

will light up your day today. What I'm gonna talk to you about is

God's power. Tend to your neighbors, say God's power. Do you believe

that you are living in God's power every day? Think about it? Answer

that question honestly, do you think that you are living in God's power every

single day of your life? Okay, only two percent? Right? The

rest of us not sure? Now I want to share with you from God's

what I believe he wants to encourage us with. Really, Christians, Christians,

we have God's power in us, all right, and we just really

need to really embrace it in our minds once and for all and not live

like you know, I'm not sure whether God's with me because I think we

have a very shallow understanding of God's power. And whatever I'm gonna share with

you today, right, it's just scratching the face. I'm not even the

most qualified person to talk about God's power, but I will share with you

my perspective and what I have experience of God's power. Do you know that

this year our theme is Heaven Rules right, and Heaven rules just speaks so

much about God's power, God's power in your life, in my life,

in the everyday ordinary things of God. Amen. Amen. So let me

go and ask you this other question. Now, when I say the web

power, can you just close your eyes for now? Just close your eyes

for a bit. When I say the web power, what image comes to

your mind? Sorry? Lightning? Good? What else? Diyne of mind?

I'm gonna get there. What else? Electricity? I love it?

Are you're flowing with this? What else? What else comes to your mind

when I say power? Sorry? Drive? Strength? Strength? Yes?

Strength? What else? Funny? You should talk about strength? Right,

because when you think about Samson, there was a new baby born, is

it? And it's interestingly I've been reading the Book of Judges in my quiet

time now, And what image do you see when you see Samson? Strength?

Like? Like incredible? Hark? Can I tell you that that's the

wrong picture you have in your mind? Oh? Okay, I don't know

whether I will go there, but if you are interested to know what Samson

looks like, come and look for me after this. Okay. Now that

the word power has been used so many times in the Word of God,

all right, and especially in the New testimony. Man, what is the

emation comes to your mind when I talk about power in the book of the

New Testaments, in all the letters and all the books in New Testament?

What comes to your mind when I say power, Resurrection, power of Jesus.

That's the first one, right? Anything else? What else? Holy

Spirit? What else? Miracles? Yes, when we think about power,

we think about miracles, healings, signs, and wonders. Yes, are

you tracking with me? Okay? So power is used many times in the

world of God, and we want to learn the Greek What are you learning

about? Are you okay, learning about Greek today? Do you know what's

the Greek term? The Greek word for power? Sorry? Do you know?

May as well? You're a very learned so I'm talking to a learned

crowd. Very good, okay, So let's go to this word dunamis.

What does it mean? Okay? What does it mean? It's a very

familiar word to us, and if you've been churched long enough, you probably

have heard messages around it. You probably had some teachings around it as well.

So the word dunamis comes one hundred and seventeen times in the New Testament.

And if the slight can come up, it will show you that.

And it's a power that represents Wow. What does it represent? Right?

It's force, right, energy, power and strength everything that you mentioned,

La. Yes, when we think about Dunamis, we think about all these

things that's happening now. When Jesus call out the demons, when Jesus raised

the day, and when Jesus transformed the lives, these are all dunamis power

work. Yes, so powerful? Right? Do you want that? WHOA?

Some of you not really sure? But I have been on this journey

where I want to see more of this happening. Right, I'm like hungry.

I'm desiring that God, you will begin to work in this powerful donamous

way in our everyday lives. Right, And it says Jesus says that everything

that I do, you will do even greater things. Amen. So I'm

thinking like, oh, what what is this greater things that we should be

doing? Right? And we are not doing it? And is it because

we are not seeing it? Sometimes we are already doing it, but we

are not seeing it. And so that's what we're trying to understand today,

Right, what is this donas power that God is talking about? And why

does he want us to have this? Right? So do not is power?

Let's go to the source. Okay, so we want to we want

to understand that first of all, where is the source of power? God?

Amen? All right, let's let's go to Coalitions chapter one, verse

sixteen. By the way, how many of you were at homes last week?

Homes? Yeah? So homes is our small group in church, and

we call them homes because we meet in homes most of the time. But

do you remember what was the attribute of God that we were learning at homes?

Omniportone hundred marks? What's the other two? Omnitions? One more omni

present you'll get a hundred marks. I will tell your homes leader you were

listening? Or was it the homes leader was giving me the answer? All

right? So do you know what omnipotent means? All powerful? All powerful?

Right? And so let's read from Collations chapter one, verse sixteen.

He says, for by Him all things were created that are in heaven and

that are on earth and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or

powers, all things were created through Him and for him, And He is

before all things, and in him all things consist. Amen. I want

you to look at the verse right now, the slide. Can you see

I purposely highlighted some words for you because the emphasis is that what is the

word that the owner highlight to you that you get it into your mind?

What is it? All? All is? Eighty percent? Is it?

Is it? Ninety percent? Is it? God? You can only touch

everything else except my career. God, you can have power through everything except

this sickness. All means all right, So by him all things were created.

That means you tell your neighbor, a, you were created? Yes?

Did you believe that? Or did you think that you just happened to

be an accident? Oh? No, suchly an accident. Right, all

things were created with a purpose. There is no accident in God. Right,

and all things were created through Him and for Him. Can you just

tell yourself I am created for God? Wow? Wow, I think that's

setting some people free. Now, you are created for God. Do you

know that without God there is no meaning in your life? There is no

purpose without God, because Scripture says all things were created through Him and for

him, and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Everything, every everything in your life is found in God. Amen.

I don't know how this is making you feel, but I feel very secure.

I feel it peace knowing that no matter what tribulation, no matter what

challenges, you're facing your sitard right now, everyone, if you look very

nice, right, you look very you know your Sunday best. You have

a smile on your face. But only God knows the depths of your heart.

Only God knows the troubles, the turmoil, the anger, the bitterness

within you. Do you think God doesn't know that? He knows it.

He knows it, and he wants to minister to you. Amen. Amen,

So that God is all powerful, we cannot even comprehend how big God

is. Right, and so I mean for me, with that knowledge of

knowing how God, how big God is every time I come into God's presence.

I don't know how that makes you feel. If you are coming before

a God who knows all things, what should your posture be? I don't

know, honestly, think about it. If you come before the Prime Okay,

maybe the Prime Mini isn't not a great example. If you come before

someone who is great and all powerful, what is your posture? What kind

of attitude would you come before God? Joy? Strength, what else?

Reverence? Reverence, reverence? We sang the song Early, Holy, Holy,

Holy is the Lord God Almighty? Did you come this morning into God's

presence with that sense of awe and reverence? Amen? Do you know One

of the groups the great things that you can did, and I would encourage

all of you to do, is every time before they come for the Word

of God, they will put aside your phones. Maybe I actually implement that

right now everyone, your phones can be put aside for the next forty five

minutes because you will not die without your phone. For the next forty five

minutes. You won't be playing your phone right when you're talking to someone important,

your boss, or someone like your parents. If you do, then

I would say, that's very rude of you. Please stop doing that.

Where is that awe and respect and reverence for God when we come into His

presence and I'm speaking to all generations, You're not just the young people.

Where is that sense of you know, when we are worshiping, I am

worshiping with my Ah, God says, love God with Oh, all of

your heart, all of your mind, all of your soul, off of

your strength. Did you love God this morning that way? I know It's

a hard one, right, But it's God's command. And if we say

we love God, then are we behaving as though we are loving God?

Do you know sometimes we don't see God's power in our lives. Is because

we have disconnected from the source of power. Amen, we've disconnected from God

and we say, ah, yeah, just another service, a yah.

You know, doesn't matter if I miss the word time, you know,

I go and to chat outside. Where is that sense when you come before

God's presence? You know? Do you know that in Revelation he says when

you come before God's presence, all of you will fall flat on your face,

all flat because God's power is there. Wow? God is real,

brothers, And if you don't know this God that I'm talking about, you're

in for a root shock when Jesus comes back. He's not a weak God.

Do you know? Sometimes we paint Jesus right, the meek and gentle

lamb. But do you know that Jesus is painted as the powerful Ram of

God. He's not a lamb. Mary had a little lamb, little lamb,

very cute and free. Right. I'm sorry. If that is your

picture of Jesus, then you will be very shocked when you meet Jesus,

the son of God, the one who can command wins to say, be

quiet, lightning stop, and it's stopped. Do you know our encounters with

natural powers just really, I don't know whether you've encouned that anything like that.

And anyone been through earthquakes, when you've seen volcanoes erup? Have you

seen it? Have you seen the tsunami up close? Any encounter with the

nature will just give you a sense of God's power and how small we are

and how big God is. Amen. God is the source of all power,

and he doesn't cease to have that power in him. There's nothing that

can stop God's power. God is pure power in himself. Amen. Do

you get that? Amen? So, But the beautiful thing is right,

God is not just the source of all power. God wants to delegate power.

This is my second point. Right, God wants to delegate power.

Do you know? In the Word of God, right in the New Testament,

there are four words that denote power. The first one that we're all

familiar with is do right. The second one is this word called Okay.

I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it right. It's called excusia. Who so

exotic right, excusia. It's used over one hundred times in the New Testament

as well. But it's talking about this power. Is talking about a delegated

authority, a delegated power, right, it says there, this power is

the one that let me see. Okay, there is that physical or that

mental power that the ability or the strength with which one is endued. Do

you know what is endured? Miss? Something comes on you. There is

a power that comes on you and then you have that extra ordinary strength.

By the way, since we're talking about Samson, right, do you know

that Sampson was just like a stick guy, like maybe like a bassa Johnson.

Passa Johnson you want to they're not and show everyone. Okay, he's

worship leader right, just now so you paid. Do you know why people

were amazed with Samson? If Samson was someone who was like Arno shows nigger

displaying his strength, do you think they will be impressed with him? Ah?

Yeah, he worked out wide, right? Do you know that Sampson's

power. He tore open lions right a lion's mouth, and then after that

he killed philistines with just a stick. People were amazed because where did he

get his strength? He looked like such a thin guy. So all your

images right your your Sunday school images of Samson like that, like that,

or you can burn it away ready. Because Samson was a guy, his

power came from God to work in him. An ordinary tin guy too,

with extraordinary strength. Do you see now that it was not because of his

physical ability or his strength, or that he worked out three hundred and sixty

five times a day. It was because God's power came upon him, and

do it upon him and you will see it all in the Old Testament,

right, God's spirit came upon different individuals. Yes, but good news.

I have good news for you believers, because in the New Testament God didn't

just say, okay, today you get a little bit of Holy Spirit.

Tomorrow Elie will get some, okay. Then next day someone else will get

a little bit of the Holy Spirit. No, God says, I have

come to give you the Holy Spirit. And so the Holy Spirit is within

us right now. So why are we living as though we have no power?

Something is a disconnect here, right If we believe that Jesus Christ has

gone up to heaven and has given us the Holy Spirit, God the Father

has given us the Holy spirit. Why are Christians living under the subjection of

the world's power and not God's power. There is a bit of a disconnect

there, right, And so we want to understand that God actually has given

us power. He wants to give us power, this power, to have

influenced, this power, to stand under authority of Christ, to step on

the devil and say, you have no power over me. Amen. Let's

read from Matthew twenty eight. Where does this come from, this power of

this source of delegated authority. Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen. He says,

and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying again, how much authority,

all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. So

God has all authority. He has delegated all authority to his son Jesus Christ.

And guess what Jesus did with the authority. He kept it off for

himself. Right. Okay, No, let's move on to matth two.

Let's look at Matthew chapter ten, verse one. It says, and when

he had called his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over unclean

spirits, to cast them out and to heal all kinds of sickness and all

kinds of disease. Amen. Amen, God just gave to the apostles right

because the rest of us we are not working anymore? Is it? If

you believe that you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, the same power that

was given to the toelve disciples is now given unto you. Do you believe

that God wants God is the source of all power, But God wants to

give us that power as well. Amen. Now, the third point that

we want to think about God's power is the power that we believe verse receive

is a gift. Say yay, I have a gift. It's your birthday

today. Everyone. You don't just get your birth your birthday gift on your

birthday. You get your gift every day in Christ Jesus. Amen. Every

day is a gift from God. Every day. And let's look at the

first gift that God has given us. Right. This is the power of

God's salvation. Amen. Hallelujah. Oh you're not very happy? Are you

happy that God has given you your salvation? I don't know. Sometimes many

of us take our salvation for granted. Do you know that the greatest miracle,

in spite of all the kind of powers that you've seen, right,

all the powers that Jesus has, all the miracles that Jesus has done,

and that always denotes the supernatural, the power raise the date right, heal

the sick, open up the eyes of the blind, heal the death.

Those are the things sometimes you're looking for, you know. When I was

at the death Caeme right, So, one of the questions that came up

from one of our deaf community sisters, she said, I see God's power

at work in other people's life, but I don't seem to have it in

my own life. Have you ever thought about that question? It's like,

oh, I can see or passic cannot preaching, you know, and it

was so powerful and he lay hands and boom everyone is down, and but

you're like, oh, when I pray, right, I don't hear the

heavens open. I didn't see any angels. I don't see power of God.

And sometimes we can go with this perception that, oh, I think

God's power is not within me. Can I tell you that the greatest power

that you have experienced is the power of your salvation? Amen? Do you

know how hard it is for one to be saved? Do you know how

hard it is, and it's years and years of sowing and praying, someone

praying for each one of you. Do you know that you're not here by

accident. Someone has prayed for you, Someone has wept tears for your soul,

for your salvation, and it is the power of the Holy Spirit who

was working at you since your birth. Do you know that before your from

God already knew you. How amazing God is. He's all knowing, He

saw you, and he says, yep that brother, yep, that sister.

I have a purpose for you. And he has brought you through your

life, every season that you've gone through, just so that you today you

can be seated here knowing with the assurance that God's power has worked in your

life, your salvation. I was talking to someone during coffee break, so

I was just asking her, Hey, how's your week, bin She's like,

I don't know how to feel about it because my one of my grandparents

just passed away this morning. Oh I know straight away, right, But

do you know that as believers and if our family members are believers in the

Lord Jesus Christ, do you know we It's it's a mixed feelings, right,

mixed feelings of like, yes, we're sad for the loss, but

we are rejoicing because we believe. The hope that we have is that this

precious person is with the Lord Jesus Christ. If this is the hope that

we have, you're ready to go meet with Jesus today. Yes, I

don't know. Some of you're not sure. I know the young people when

I ask this question, right, all the young people will say and not

yet, not yet. I haven't explored the world, I haven't get married

yet, I don't have kids yet. I'm not ready to meet with Jesus.

But we are saying, if Jesus is the best and the bestest and

the bestest of all things you can experience on earth, we are like,

ah, but I don't want that. I want what the world offers.

Oh, so we are a bit washila what we want. But I hope

that you you recognize that our life, seventy eighty ninety years of our lives,

is just, but like that it can go anytime. And so what

you do with your day, day by day, each day that God has

given you is something that we have to account for. Amen. So God's

so so if nothing else you've experienced in your life I've never seen the angels,

you know, I've never seen any power. Can you Can you just

acknowledge that I am saved in God, Jesus, in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And that is the power of God working in you already, and it

will continue to work in you. Amen, And it doesn't stop. Do

you know God's power continues to salvage us. Salvation is a process, right.

We are not fully complete yet, we're not perfect. None of us

are perfect. But God is perfecting us. And therefore God's power is continuously

at work. It hasn't stopped. Then you're like, uh, okay,

I don't see that evidence. But I see that I'm nicer now, I

see that I have more discipline. I see that I am giving to God

a little bit more. There's something amazing about God's transforming your life. And

that is power. And don't dismiss God's power in that. Because it says

in Second Peter one Tree that God, as his divine power, has given

to us all things wow that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of

Him who called us by glory and virtue. Do you know that now,

because of the salvation that God has given us, we have the power to

live a godly life. Wow, do you believe that you can live a

godly life? Then you're thinking, oh, man, there's still a lot

of things that I need to work out. It's fine, but I want

to tell you that you actually have the power to live a godly life.

Do you know what we are saved from? If you think about your salvation?

Right, we talk about salvation. What are you safe from? What

are you say from? What do you say from Hantu? You are safe

from sin? And therefore, when Jesus died on the cross and he was

buried, and he was raised up from the dead, he has broken the

power of sin. Do you believe this is our salvation? Guys? This

is the very gospel that we believe in. Jesus has broken the power of

sin. So now you can say I have the power of Christ to not

sin in my life. It is a lie for you to continue to believe

that I am a human being and therefore I will need to continue to sin.

No, I want to tell you that if you are a reborn Christian,

you are a born again believer in Christ Jesus, you now have the

power in you to not live a sinful life. It's a lie to say,

oh, it's okayila God, God is gonna be okay with some sin.

Right, of course, he can expect me to live a perfect life.

I'm only human. But do you know that that's just an excuse for

you to not change and to continue to just say, yep, you know

this is who I am and God has no power to change that. Oh,

that's in fact what we're saying. Right, If you're saying that God

cannot change me, it's God all powerful. Now, I want to declare

to you, those of you who are in bondage of anything, whether there

is a secret sin that nobody knows, it's a secret thought, it's a

habit. I want to set you free and say God is powerful enough to

set you free from any bondage, every wrong thinking, every lustful desire.

God wants to set you free. You receive that. Do you believe that

God can do that for you? It's here, you know, it's that's

with you believe that God. You're all powerful and therefore all this you can

do it at the snap of a finger. Let's not mess with God's power.

The devil is powerful. He's the prince of darkness in this world.

But you know what God's world says, He who is in me is weika

weika greater than he who is in this world. Do you believe God's word?

Say the one in me, holy Spirit in me is greater than any

powers of darkness. Amen, receive that into your spirit. Receive that and

say, God's power is greater. It's not me, it is God.

Yes, He has given us this gift. And so Christians, you guys,

all of us, we should be the most secure in our identity.

We should be the most confident, not in our ability, but in God,

Christ Jesus. Don't fall under the lies of the enemy no longer.

Say enough enough, right? Why do we allow the devil to mess with

our hats? And we say God's truth, God's word is all powerful.

Amen. Now see the beautiful thing. And we don't have time to read

through the whole of Ephesians. But if you run, I want to grasp

a little bit about the bigness and the exceeding greatness of God's power. I

highly, highly encourage you to read the Letter to the Ephicians. Okay,

Letter the Ephicians. Just read it and you begin to see, and you

begin to pick out what God has in store for us is an inheritance.

It's what we get to have because we believe in Jesus Christ. So many

of us right live like we are so poor Christians. Why do you think

that you're such a poor Christian? Do you know that we have so much

inheritance that God wants to give us? Wow, let me read to you

some scriptures. Okay, let's go to Ephesians chapter one, Verses seventeen to

twenty one. I'm not lying. This is God's word to you, Reading

from verse seventeen, that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the

Father of Glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in

the knowledge of Him. Amen. That is God's give just even having the

spirit of wisdom and revelation verse eighteen, The eyes of your understanding be enlightened

that you may know what is the hope of his calling, What are the

riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the

exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe a man according to the working

of his mighty power, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from

the dead, and sit to him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

far above all principality and power and mind and dominion, and every name

that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which

is to come. Imen. Paul is trying to tell the Christians who are

poor in their mindset, like, Oh, woe is me? I have

so much troubles, I have so much challenges. God, why did you

leave me? And God? Is Paul is telling the church in Ephesus,

Hey, did you not know that God has given you all these things?

The spirit of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, all this God is like

waiting to give to us. And we're like, no, I don't know

where is God? Don't know where is God? And God has already given

this to us. It is whether we want to receive it or not.

Amen. Ephesians two, chapter four to seven says is, but God,

are you okay if you read some scriptures? Ephesians two versus fall the seven

says, but God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love

with big she loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses, made

us alive together with Christ. By grace, you have been saved and raised

us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places, in

Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches

of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Amen, Christians,

we can no longer afford to live as though we are poor. We have

so much in Christ. Amen. And of course you know this verse Emphasian

chapter three, verse twenty. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly,

abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that

works in us, to him with a glory, in a church, by

Christ Jesus, to all generations, forever and ever a man. Amen.

Do you know that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is now

in you. Tell your neighbor you have resurrection power. We were once dead

in our sins right, and God has raised us up. Hallelujah. Can

you see the evidence of God's power? Look around you? You see people

alive? Or do you see date people walking? Oh, evidence of God's

power? Are you alive? And well, that's God's power at you.

Do you know sometimes we are chasing after the big things, right, and

we forget that God is actually working, working, working in US and through

us. Do you know at the death cam right, So we were,

do you know, it's a very it's a very new experience for me to

be with our deaf community, right, because we are always with the hearing

community all the time, and we take things for granted, right, we

take things like oh, yeah, we're just talking. We can't just say

hello, you know, hi, get people's attention and they will look to

you. But do you know in a death world that doesn't work, right,

And so it was a privilege for Eloping who and I to be a

ministry at the deaf community, and so it was very awkward, I have

to be honest. So we were there and so you know we started the

day with a priis and worship. Right do you know that I really believe?

Right, it's only within the deaf community that you know whether someone is

worshiping or not. You cannot run away because how they worship is they sign

right, they follow the worship leader right over here. You can just for

your arms and I can't really tell, right, of course, your body

language tells a lot. But for them if they are just like that,

right, it means they're not worshiping. God because they cannot sing, right,

so the only way they express is thru to your hands. So I

was saying one hundred percent or worshiping God, Praise the Lord. I wish

all of us one hundred percent praise to God all the time. Amen,

you don't need someone to tell you to worship God. Again, what is

your posture when you come before the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords?

You just put aside everything and you come before God. It's like one

hundred percent focus on who God is. Right, And so so we did

the praise and worship and Alopango shed a word. Do you know that within

them there's a tree, there's like a relay interpret interpretation. So we are

speaking and then there's a hearing interpreter who's signing that language, and then there

is a death interpreter who's then picking up the signals and then sharing that to

the congregation. Right. So, so that was really really interesting because the

way they understand things, the way concepts are very different for the deaf community.

In fact, actually there's a deaf community like experience on a twenty something

September. Please sign up for it, right, I think it's such a

precious group of people that God has brought into our myths, right, and

so you know, it's it's really for me, it felt like a mission

trip because it was like INTERculture all right, getting to know this people and

they you know, one of the things that I am so encouraged and so

inspired by them, right is for them, their questions always revolve around how

do I reach out to more people? They are so mission minded, you

know, do you know? And that's why Concy shed earlier that they have

a heart to plan to reach that. There's about four hundred thousand deaf community

in Malaysia and right now there's only one percent that is churched. There's a

bit of work to do there, but only they can reach themselves write their

community because they understand so anyway, and so we finished that, they had

games. It was fun to be with them, and the next session I

was supposed to share on Discible Shape, right. So you know, sometimes

we associate the power and the presence of God with hype, yes, loud

noise, my member bang, beautiful music, light and sound, right,

and then if you are I can really feel God's presence because we are so

sensual, right, we rely on our hearing can you imagine watching a movie

no sound? You're like, or not, go gop it twenty four ring,

go watch a movie and say no sound please, silent movie. You

probably be thinking that's the worst experience of your life, right, because you

can't feel the impact, you can't hear the sound, you can't hear you

know, all the impact that's happening anyways. So we associate sometimes God's presence

and power with that loud, thundering noise, right with that big boom.

And there we were after I shed the message, and then I was like,

Okay, I'm done, thank you very much. I didn't know how

to continue. Chris, You're so okay, we're so used to right,

Thank God for our extreme band Praise God because they help ease the awkwardness for

all of us. True not they play soft music. And then you're like,

okay, not so awkward, but in that camp, no music.

So it was just okay, finished sharing already, thank you. So I

went off the stage and Deafne, who is the main one of the death

hearing interpreters, she came up and she says, Okay, tonight's the last

night I can. So she was signing all this things she's like, okay,

we want to open the altar for prayer now, right, so please

come out for prayer. And all of them came out for prayer one by

one. But do you know, right this prayer, right, you pray

with your eyes open? One, you know, sometimes we're like, you

want to prayer any were close her eyes and hopefully something happened, right this

one. Don't close your eyes please, because you're praying. And you're like,

of course they have to interpret what you're saying, right, and so

you have to see their response. Or it was my most alert prayer time.

I was looking at the different ones and you know, just releasing God's

word so so so it's it's it's like, it's it's you know, sometimes

silence can be very deafening. But anyways, okay, so so we pray

and we pray, and one of the ladies, she was the other pre

believer that came. One of our deaf friends came right and throughout the whole

day, you know, she's been sharing and and and she just stepped up

and she says, you know, I'm so tired of my life. I'm

so tired of carrying all these burdens and she's got all her challenges, and

she's like, I want to rest. So I took it as sign and

I asked her, are you ready to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your

personal lot and savior? Right? And and she was like yes, right,

And then we went through the south. Of course, right in my

mind, right, all the salvation be gone ready. I don't I can't

remember. I don't know why I cannot remember. Every every Sunday we pray,

right, can you please like just remember that prayer? But anyway,

I was, I was struggling to remember the right words. But I was

just praying, you know, yeah, Lord Jesus Christ and the person a

lot and Savior. So I was like, fucking like nonsense, Lama.

But but she she signed it, and you know, and she followed it

and and she she just received the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, all glory

into God. And and the moment she was done, her friend who invited

her started sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and crying because this is a precious salvation

unto the Lord. And then after that there was another lady. Then this

lady herself came up because she also has many challenges, and she's like,

you know, I want to pray for all these things, right, so

at least five items, okay. So she was like, you know this

five dons pray for me. I'm like, okay, I can't remember.

It was like nine something then of clot already, right, we've been there

the whole day. So I was like, okakay, So God help me

how to do this right? And and so when when I I, you

know, I started praying for her, right, not knowing what's going to

happen, the Lord brought to me the woman with the issue of blood.

So I just started by saying, oh, I'm reminder of the woman with

the issue of blood. Boom, she fell down. I haven't even touched

her yet. I haven't even done anything yet, right, And she just

fell by the power of God. And and she she was just on the

floor being I say, okay, God, I don't need to no words

that I use is going to minister to her as much as God's power upon

her. Amen. And so I was just on the on the floor with

her, and I was just praying. And do you know what, I've

been a level for such a long time, right, And and we believe

in this church that we pray in tongues. Right that night, God gave

me a new tongue. And and I was just praying in this language that

I've never heard myself speak. Do you know that when you speak in tongues

you recognize write some of the words. Right, But that very night God

just gave just flawed, flawed and flawed, and and she she was just

being ministered. So I mean, I I came came out from it.

I was like, whoa, what what just happened? What just happened?

And and you know, there was no loud, fun fanfare, there were

no trumpets, there was nothing huge to shout about in that sense. But

do you know when God's power is at work in people's life, you sense

it. Do you know the woman with the issue of blood, right,

she touched Jesus. Jesus is who touched me? And they're like, soa,

are you Jesus? Everyone is touching against you? Why are you saying?

Who's touching me? And he said, I felt power really leave my

body And that is the kind of power that God wants us to release.

Do you know? God reminded me, right, I know my time is

running short, but do you know this whole the word do not missed?

You know, do not miss Do you know a dynamo? Do you know

what dynamo is? It's something it's a device, a machine that causes it

to generate electricity. That's power, right, energy that generates energy and so

that it can flow out right, We you and me, we are like

walking generators. We are like walking dynamos. Yes, say another word for

this work armies. Right, It's called potential. We only know it as

power, but there is also something called potential power. And so sometimes as

Christians, we are walking around, right, this is us. Can you

imagine got power? Right? Uh? And then but we are walking on

a two percent battery. Yes, we are still alive. We are still

doing the things. You're still going to work, we still have our families,

but we are running on two percent. What do you do when you

do it when your phone is two percent charge? How come you'll know how

to do it for your phones, but you don't know how to do it

for yourself. And that's why we feel that there is no power a two

percent left. You want to do any internet banking transactioner, you're probably like

just consider let me go and look for our source or power. Can I

borrow a power? Bang? Right? If you if you're living on a

two percent and you have not experienced God's power, then I would suggest you

to go and look for this, right, and then you will look for

a source of power. You'll try and plug it in and you connect yourself

to the source of power. Yes, and so many of us are weak

because we are not charging ourselves. Have your experienced when you plug in and

then you go away for half an you come back and it's two to two

percent? What happened? What happened? Oh, you didn't switch online?

That's right, very clever. Right. You think you're plug already, but

you forgot to switch on. You forgot to invite the Holy Spirit. Source

of power is the Holy Spirit. Amen. And so you connect yourself,

right, you connect and you charge yourself like once a week. No,

oh, technology, not there is it? You charge yourself first thing in

the morning. Right. I wonder where are we charging ourselves every day?

No wonder we are tired, No wonder we are weak. No wonder we

fall into sin. It's because we didn't charge ourselves with the power of God.

And the power of God. Right, is anything from worship, to

prayer, to reading God's word, because once you are charged with this,

then you can go about your day. Right, And this is a revelation

that God gave to me. At the end of the day, if you

feel you're tired, you are weak, it's okay, guess what you have

used up your energy? The question is what are using your energy for?

Do you know there's a lot of power leakage in us? You know,

technology has not devised something that it can keep power in itself fully, it's

leaking on. So do you know that as humans we leak also and not

the other can't leak, but leak. We leak God's power. And that's

why we need to charge every day. And at the end of the day,

I'd rather be tired and exhausted, but I know that I have been

used by God. I think that's the best kind of usage. Right.

Do you know the whole day you can be on your phone right t talking

and I don't know whatever that you're doing. At the end of the day,

you want to ask yourself, has this been glorifying to God? Or

has your life your energy? All of us have twenty four hours, all

of us have a level of energy, But what are you using it for?

Amen? And the last one I want to close with this. God

has given us all power, and God has given us this power to make

him. No, do you know that the power given to you is not

for yourself? Right? Do you think that your phone is like talking to

itself and doing things for yourself? The phone is to be used, correct,

and the beneficiary is who? Who's the beneficiary of whatever you use on

your phone? Most of the time we say it's us, right, I

just use this for myself. But God is saying, would you use this

for others? And this is in Acts chapter one, verse eight. But

you will receive power, do namis when the Holy Spirit comes on you,

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samarah and

to the ends of the earth. Why did God give us power in the

first place? So that we can be wealthy and happy and live our own

lives on an island in Greece? Is that why God gave us power?

Do you know as we were worshiping, right, God, just drop this

to this revelation to me? Do you know we do you understand that God

is the source of all power? Now? Yes, Do you understand that

God has delegated his power and his authority upon you and me, and that

we no longer have to live like weak Christians, that we have the power

of God. The thing is right. Many of us remain just potential power

and not real power to be used by God. You can't have the power.

It's in you. Holy Spirit is in you. But unless you activate

it, unless you exercise and use that power, you will remain potential power.

Correct. All of us have that potential, and we want to begin

to use it more and more, to be if effective, to be so

wide so that we can get blessed. No, so that the ninety nine

percent that needs to hear the gospel can hear it, God says in the

Lord's Prayer, for yours is there. Yours is the Kingdom, the power

and the glory forever and ever. Amen. So power is in the middle.

It's not everything. You know what power? What is above power is

purpose, purpose, for yours is the kingdom. Do you know that God

gave us power so that we can fulfill His kingdom. It's not power for

yourself power to do? What do you think Jesus raised all the day so

you can become famous and earn millions on YouTube. No, God, Jesus

was fulfilling God's purpose, which was to save all men. That is the

reason why we have power, is to fulfill God's purpose. For yours is

the kingdom, the glory, the power, and the glory because finally it

comes to praise unto God. Amen. Your power that you have activated within

you is to fulfill God's purpose and ultimately to give him praise. Amen.

And I want to share this. Just in the morning, one of my

homies came up to me and she just shared with me that she had a

great holiday, right great, And she said that before she left her trip.

Right suddenly, she she is a first gen believer in a family and

just before she went on a trip that night, she spent talking to her

mom about God and her salvation journey and everything that God has done and frustrated

in her life. And she said, for the first time, I had

no fear, no fear of judgment, no fear of what my mom would

think about me, because this person is very, very committed to God and

serving God all the time. Right, for the first time, there was

no fear, but there was just boldness and God's peace working in her.

That is God's power. God's power gives you that boldness to say I don't

It doesn't matter what other people think. But God is just rating us to

be the witnesses to those around us, and that is what God's power is

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