If You Believe | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day if you have your Bible with wu said Romans Chapter

one was sixteen. Romans Chapter one, verse sixteen. All right, we

shall see how the Lord will lead us. Roman Chapter one, worse sixteen.

Seen reading from New Living Translation, it says that for I'm not ashamed

of this good news about Christ. It is the power of God at work

saving everyone who believes, the Jews first and also the Gentiles. As I

opened and read the scripture, I wanted to encourage the church over here.

The Bible says in Roman chapter one, verse sixteen, that it is the

power to raon who believes. Someone say a man that now words, friend

number one, you and I need to remember. It's that there is no

eas limit to believing God. Hey, there is no issu believing God,

because it can't be that God is only alive. And we are a campus

student or youth. And as we each slightly a bit more, we get

a bit more flesh around our waist, and we grow white hair or less

hair. It doesn't mean that our the word is that our believe become lesser.

It doesn't mean that as our body begin to ash, that there is

no more excitement in living for God besides coming the shoes or Sunday. I

truly believe, friends, that as we begin to grow slightly older, that

our believe goes out, our desire goes up for the Lord, our passion

goes out for the Lord, because our youth days. It's why co foundation

and years that were set in pillar of how we're going to live our lives

for Christ. So Roma's one verse sixteen. There is no age limit,

someone say, a man, as I begin to minister to different church plan,

I also recognize that, you know, people that we grew up together

with the church one by one to get married, to have kids, and

the age and the stuff talking about making wealth, we're talking about making health.

The health is the main key. That living healthy and eating vegetables is

the in thing. When we are younger, we always say that best the

best deal for buffet. But as we grow older, we say that we

cannot take any more buffets anymore. Right, But it can't be friends,

As we begin, as I begin to go to different church plan, and

I meet one by one and some of them come out to me elder,

you know I'm in my sixties right now. What's there to look forward to?

So Roman one was sixteen said that it is power for everyone who believe.

So, friends, I want to courage you this morning, and I

really want to encourage you this morning to believe, really to believe, because

our faith requires it, our life required it, our family requires it,

our Chowan requires it. So your life this morning we have a choice whether

to believe or not. So Romans Chapter one was sixteen also says that I'm

not ashamed. Friends, You and I this morning need not to be ashamed

of Christ. So when you go for Macca and friends, please give thanks

for the food. Please don't let your prayer only be your car. Pray

for Kappa. Chris is our expert in prayer, especially to Kappa. In

fact, majority of us get our answer prayer to our carpas God, please

give me a right Kappa. All right? And I know I understand faith

gets activated because there's a need. But friends, I want to encourage you.

He has to move beyond cup up. He has to move beyond asking

God for discount. He has to move beyond asking God. We have the

word is to take our faith and believe God at the work place. Two

weeks ago, I was at a one particular church plan and a brother came

up to me, elder I got promoted. I'm so scared of this promotion

because I feel that I'm not good enough. I feel that I'm not good

enough. I mean, I'm not trained for this role. Although I leave

the role, I'm not trained for this role, and I'm so scared.

I scared I feel. Then later I guess set As I was looking at

this brother, I just got this word for him. I say, brother

Joseph wasn't even trained to be assistant to the Pharaoh, but God trained him

to his journey with the Lord. I say, you need to learn from

Joseph to ask God for wisdom on the daily basis, and courage. Not

just wisdom because love Christian asks a wisdom, but once God's revealed you really

unique courage. Someone say courage, unique courage not to be ashamed. A

lot of times, you know when the initial days, remember not you first

start the packed home, your girl friend, your whole hands. You can't

dative you're a girlfriend. And sometime when you meet your leaders, you trow

away the head on right you you you're holding the your gird, friends said

they after you meet your somebody to see me, they chew the head away

though like so like like afraid to be seen. Then later after they get

into an argument, or you choot my hand on your shame of me?

Is it? Friends? This morning? Friends, Please don't throw away Christ

because you're mid or unbelievers. Please do not only show your Christianity in church

or the words be proud to be a Christian in church? All right?

So chapter one, there's a Roman chapter one, this boy one. The

same point on one is that there is only power where we believe. Friends,

there is only power where we believe. There is no power when there's

unbelief. Too many times we live alive. The word is that try to

understand. So Romans chapter one was sixteen did not says for those who understand,

there is only power when you understand the scripture. Friends, it starts,

we believe it starts. We believe, friends, you and I,

some of us may not fully understand how a plane works, right, but

we believe that the plane will fly. And that's friend, that's why we

book our plane tickets and we go for our holidays. And we wanted to

go for so I prayed the same faith that you have on the plane that

will take off. It's the same faith that you believe in the scripture as

well. Oh, this is a tough crowd. I understand I won't been

here, so I prayed that you go with me right now. So Mark

chapter nine was seventeen, or Mark chapter nine was fourteen? Tom with me

right now. Let's see how Mark chapter nine was fourteen. It says that

when they returned to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them,

and some teachers of the religious law were arguing with them. When the

crowd saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with awe and they ran to greet him,

and Jesus asked that what are you arguing about? Was seventeen? One

of the men in the crowd spoke up and said, teacher, I brought

my son so that you could heal him. He was possessed by it was

spirit, and will not let him talk. Whenever the spirit seizes him,

it showed him wildly to the ground. So I asked your disciples to cast

that it was spirited, but they couldn't do it. Worse nineteen, you

faithless people, imagine right now, Okay, imagine right now with me,

So I put it into this context. You came up a prayer just now,

right, prayer mething, You came up for prayer and the leader pray

for you? Or you don't fear anything? All right? You didn't fear

anything, and you come up the joy. You come up the joy because

she's a chest pack coordinative for identity. Come up the joy. Joy.

I came up for a prayer just now, and you're one of your leaders

pray for me. I did feel anything. I did feel the power,

I died for the the anointing I felt, I felt worse. Could you

imagine right now? Joy, looking at you? What are you so lack

of faith? Why are you so lack of faith? Half the time,

friends, when you hear this guy's statement from a leader, right, you

will want to change hit because you're not caring enough, You're not encouraging enough.

Right, true? Right? Well, this is really a tough crowd

with it's It's true, isn't it. Sometimes you're you're hoping for the world

of encouragement. Come let me pray for you, lah, But Jesus says

you faithless people, and I choose to believe right now. That faith,

friends, has to do with expectation. Faith has to do with expectation.

When you came into church, responding, were you expecting something from the Lord?

Which part of the service today there was faith? Which part of the

service today? That you have activated your faith? I'm not talking about faith

to believe that Jesus is the son of God, but faith that God can

move moutest in your life. Which part of the service you have Because a

lot of Christians said I got faith, but the only expression is on a

Sunday. So but when it comes to prayer service, there's nowhere to be

seen. I'm going to citys down late down right now because I would see

you next week, I would joy. Joy is going to mean city a

crisis? Career? Is this? He's just very direct, But I share

this every church plant. If you believe, you say you have faith,

you have to be seen a prayer because even the disciples having faith in Christ,

they were found in the temper praying and many times in our life,

friends, our struggle it is that we want to have faith but no courage

to follow true We want to have faith but no courage to follow true God.

This point wants to remind us that when we have lack of courage,

I mean there's no expectation. You know what will happened. We return to

the natural and start agueing for things. We returned to the natural, we

start agreeing for things, agreeing about I don't like this worship, Ladila,

You see not when Pastor John lead worship, some mighty looks so sad,

like like some fish died, like you know his face. It's always like

to conducted that too, said afterward, I don't like this musician. I

don't like this. I don't like this church. It's all blackness. I

thought we called to be child of light or child of darkness? You know

what I mean? If you begin to shift your focus to the natural,

have we been looking things on a natural plane? Church? Or have we

been tuning in to the spirit? I say, God, I'm excited.

So which part of the service today was faith manifested? I shared it brun

church plan. And I say that you know a lot of Christian I know

realm in Christian their faith is only activated on Sunday, Sunday's faith. But

I say it can be because if we say be a faith in God,

we need to be found praying. We need to be found praying. And

the very next day, that Tuesday, was a prayer service. The church

plan coordinator texted me and say, Elder, you know after you spoke the

Sunday right, there was increasing people coming for prayer service because they realize that

coming to Sunday alone is not enough. And we kept the words that we

kept out faith so low, friends say, that's why some of that.

Do you expectation? It can when you come to church and then there's prayed

in front that God don't move. So Jesus saying you faithless people, he

didn't say that. You didn't understand. Faith is so important. Friends.

Power only comes when you believe, friends, power only comes when you believe.

I know some of us here are going to a different situation right now,

I really sense it. But it only comes when we believe. When

you come out for prayer afterwards, you got to believe God's going to move

when you come to church this morning. You got to believe that God's going

to move in your business, because gon move in your family to offer you

know what will happen. Let me tell you what happens. Okay, but

every there's no excitement. Let me read to you when Jesus, how long

has this been happening? It was to anyone, how long are you going

to accept things in your life like the way it is? And the father

of the boy answered him in worse twenty one he said, he replies,

seeing he was a young boy. You know we really the word is that

we accept a lot of things in our life. I'm preparing a message right

now. It's called things I accept in my life. It's like this.

You know, a mailbox, physical mailbox. I'm not talking about email,

maybe email, but physical mailbox. You know, what do you normally find

in your physical mailbox? Advertisement? Right? You never ask what the advertisement,

but it comes. Some of you are very diligently because you don't like

anything in your mailbox to or not. You hate it one you know,

in fact, you try to put a notice that please do not show any

effort into my mailbox. How do you want to let this? Only?

Right? But nobody reads the kind of thing people start training. After a

while, friends, you can be come so overwhelmed that you do not want

to clear up your mailbox. The worst, let me accumulate la and once

a week. But isn't it true? After a while that we allow things

to accumulate, even in our own life as well. We allowed thoughts to

be accumulated. A couple of days ago, I was talking to a retired

person and that person said, you know, now I'm retired. I don't

know what's next for my life. I do not know what's next for my

life. It's like in my sixties or eighty. So what do I do?

What do I do? What do I do? I do something for

Jesus? It can be that that's a retirement age when we served the Lord.

So things that we allowed, thoughts that we allow in our life,

it begin to accumulate, and they will accumulate to a point after a while.

That Number one is that we go two things. Number one is that

it comes to overwhelming. We don't even want to clear. I just show

that to quila. Maybe one day I will clear it. Right now,

there's still room for it to accumulate. The trash and we allow things.

You know, thoughts, negative thoughts, hurts we carry in, we carry

in. We just go through with life. Let miss out side out of

mine, out side out of mind. As long as I don't touch it,

it's okay. And what happens one day we want to clear becomes so

overwhelmed that we do not know where to start. It's like some people I

know that only wash the clothes once in two weeks, Sawie, are very

okay. You wash it every other day, all right. Some of you

only accumulate once in two weeks. Sie. Put in your shoes in your

washing machine. I know. I begin I was talking to different people.

What do you put in sad your washing machine? I put my white,

my sneakers, just training in a washingtee. If that's if it's you,

God bless you. Okay. I'm not here to preach about how you use

a washing machhet some pointing the shoes, putting the floor man playing the big

ship altogether with the underwear or one cycle. I felt, I follow Some

people don't say, oh, undergarments, I don't. I don't wash it

my washing mashie. It must be hand washed, I said, God bless

you. But here's the thing I was explaining to this person. I said,

it's like this would be accumulate. Accumulate, accumulate our clothes to the

extent that we can't take it anymore. That's where we said I got to

do something about it. And you approach a washing machine, right, there's

always a weight, how much a washing machine could take. Sometimes you're very

good, we obey the weight. Most time we say it can take one.

We begin to feel up the washing machine over and above the weight.

Why happens? The washing mashion breaks down. Same with our life as well.

We accumulate negative thoughts, hurt, pain, betrayer of our heart.

We accumulate not dealing with it, just because outside our mind. We don't

go to a lawn dream basket every day, Oh Sucret space, Oh Sucret

room. We normally go to our clothes ever washed it, Sucret close,

awear Sucret trousers to wear right. We accumulate stuff to the point whereby we

can't take it anymore, and we come so overwhelmed because you don't know where

to start. This is a situation with the father with a young boy.

Cecy was young. He was like that. The father allowed trying to look

for a solution, but couldn't. And many times in our lives where we

are today because we allow things, We accumulate things. We accumulate things,

and that's why we got to this place. God this morning wants to deliver

us, and Jesus said, therefore, versu any tree, What do you

mean if I can all things are possible to those who believe. Friends,

when we are faithless, we're just accepting. It is when there is no

excitement, it's like that la. When there is no joy, it's la,

that la. Everything is like that. We cannot go on without Christianity.

We just like that. It can't be just following out my faith is

on Sunday. It can be friends that our faith is just ragged. The

word is contained on that to our program, that there is no excitement,

no joy, there's nothing to look forward to. It can be our greatest

joy is to wash our cheering grow up. And that's it. It has

to be more friends. I'm employing you're all at this service. It has

to be more living for Christ. Maya Pasca did of the same age.

Although he looks and we went we were sharing the same room, and that

as I look at him, I say, last time we shared the same

room was in the youth camp. There was about there was about eighteen months

ago and we were sharing the room and we're just saying that, wow,

our age we have we have for the eighth this year or it's forty seven.

Our age for the for the eight this year we're still great for mission

trip. Great for mission trip and the trim we went to right. It

wasn't something we expected because we went to a place whereby friends there were there

were very poor ventilation where say poor ventilation. There's only one way in imagine

a warehouse. One big door opened up. There were one air corno t

air called one house power for packed. They packed a place up to about

eighty people wanted to friend in front there and so happened. Because you're a

chich leader, you have to see right in front. It was hot and

stuffy and we talked about no no ecc on these really no acc on.

All body hit and they were deaf. They can really sit down friends everything

they can really self. From eight thirty they set out. All they were

at the four pm it lunch was the city now right at the place there

hardly moved. This used to tilt and come back. And we were their

friends. We could really says that there was an excitement within them. They

came from different parts of Indonesia. There was hungry just to find out and

just to learn and just the world is to see what God has in stuff

for them. As I was totally the pasta and we were just sharing about

this how the churches around the world, there are more churches smaller churches around

the globe. The big churches are the minority. The small churches are the

majority. And I'm sharing this year because they are different. One who answered

the call of God to plant a church in a smaller town, serving God

faithfully week after week after week after week, and they believe God to move

in the community. Friends, you and I, this morning, I want

to encourage your Some of us here give up our faith because we just woke

up. We give out of faith because we have a bad relationship that we

boke up. God cannot be real. We give out of faith because we

don't believe. Because I am if you believe me the church, God asks

me the serf more, it has to be more than dead, friends,

it has to be more than that our faith. Friends. The Bible says

that anything is possible to do to believe. So this morning, you're here

in church, wherever you are, with your station of life, what are

you believing God for? Do we just allow things to happen in our lives?

In other words, that uh, it's lalla. The words Satan keep

interrupting your life. And I was preaching at ATM just now for the very

first time, I prescire so many times, for a very first time.

There was a huge fly that came in and land on my bible. Fly

never experienced before by a fly came in and landed my Bible. I look

at the flight, the fires look at me. I say, how you

go seton? Okay, Satan. It's also also city flies. I told

the whole congregation that the days where by flies who came and irritate you,

to distract you, just like the boy. The father of the boy that

allowed since he was young, nobody could hear him. So it's like that,

and we allow like that spirit to grow in our life with slight that

la, it's like that. We never given God an opportunity to fully work

reading us. Tomorrow, one of our partners is going to fly to Edinburgh.

He heard the call of God, meaning to say that God to him

to relocate at work in Edinburgh for at least a year. She applied for

it, he got it, just got she's passport back. And I was

telling him that although you hit so clearly, from God. While working over

this is nice. You will be faced with many temptations that will give up

your faith. You'll be faced with many temptations to give up your faith.

I say you have to stand strong and come back with the testimony. It

can be friends that that that that we allow things to happen in our life.

Let me share one true story. You're yesterday night, oh yesterday,

early morning. At twelve thirty in the morning, I started spelling something in

my room was a strong smell, that's check it or the wiring in my

house, whether or not something caught on fire or sudden to melt, only

to realize that my opposite house, that the industry would be caught on fire.

Huge No, no other smalled the flame, okay, huge fire and

my neighbor's cow was powered by two meters away from the fire. Right now,

the cap couple of people I've realized, Number one that would take Instagram

and post up no fire is burning up to get a hand, phard Hey

puts out the check group posts out on Facebook that that watches right and the

other people right. There's one one keep neighbor of mine who came out urgently

over with the host start the host the word is trying to put the fire

out for three minutes. I think he got scared, because he's scared that

something's going to explode inside. Remmaged the house, locked the door and turn

of the lights because as long it doesn't touch my property, it is fine.

It's not my problem. But that's some of us. I was there

with three other neighbors looking at the fire. How are we going to push

this problem? How are we gonna allow this just go on? It was

a thick smoke to the exit was so thick, right, it was really

unbearable. So we all got together. Let's take a hose and try to

hold it down. We were standing there for at least one hour, from

one am in the morning and to two m in the morning, try to

put the fire out. As I update the pass of what happened, we

were just having this conversation. As we begin to move forward for the Lord,

the enemy won't be silent one somehow. Rather, when you want to

believe and you want to take a step of faith, when you want to

cross over, things to come upon your way to make it a bit more

difficult to discourage you, to tell you that it's hard while we are there

hole, sitting down. We're like treat threat older gentlemans to try to pull

out a fire with a with a garden hose water. It's something the rain

that my names me. You don't use umbrella. I want to tell him

this. In times of crisis, it's not the time to look good.

In times of crisis, don't time to look good, friends, It's time

to get our hands dirty and our work the ground. And some of them

see are just looking good Christian. But look getting our hands dirty. If

we have to move beyond, come on right now, if we have to

move push away the fire, the flies. I say, God, if

this is what you call me to do, I want it. Could you

imagine you are the dead of the boy has said God, he was young,

like he's like that, having this, having this nothing works. Jesus

and Jesus, anything is possible to those who believe. What your response be

when Christ said that to you? What would your response be, friend,

and Christ say that to you. I know a lot of Christians say,

yeah, I will believe because it's Jesus. Well today I will let you

know, Jesus, we don't have a figure of Jesus here. Well,

you still believe, or do you think that maybe you pass an age,

maybe it's the last time. Where where I go, I tell peopodies that

you have to use this time to prepare you for what's coming. You have

to use this time to prepare your faith for what's coming. Many times in

our life you don't prepare for what's coming the day you come. Friends,

whatever your security is not, you can't use it because it requires your faith.

So some of us could be finances, so someone could be helped,

because finances can't really help when you are lying on the operation table. Friends,

people are pretty on you. You can't look at doctors say I can't

give you extra work to work better? At me? You can't. I

share this some of you notice when I was being operated on, I could

hear it. I thought that doctors and nurses would care for me, would

talk about my situation. No, they talk about talking about lunch. Could

you imagine right now, friends, Bill bring operated on and they're saying,

who's going to and you are their friends. It's not it's not just just

like you know, to patch up play. It's just to put a stand

in your heart there. And I was there like, oh God, please

next conversation. Wasn't that who ordered this equipment? Who orders this squipment?

It is not very good now I'm not sure it's some of you have been

there before, okay, but the moment they have that whole life that gives

a lot of reassurance. And you're just I mean you were their friends as

I just want to encourage you. It's power to those who believe. Doubt

started to feel feel my heart and my mind. The thing that ah,

you know, the word is that how on earth you get yourself in this

mess? I don't know how many of us ever see this ourselves? How

on earth did I ever get to this position of this mess? Right as

the doctor operated on me, I truly believe friends can turn every situation around.

Doctor just look at me. Hey, I cut you open ready,

let me help you clear up some things because you found two a couple of

spots. It's like there, it's only can be done if your heart is

if you have something along your way, is there to clear it up.

Potential in the future might have a problem. You'll not be able to take

this if we did open up, open you up. So he design use

something like to clear up on my archies and these are a couple of spots

there here have a potential problem. I want to encourage you. God can

turn the situation around to be a testimony. But many times in a lot

of it never come to this place. What carry me throughout the whole recovery

was some straining tree. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be

in one. He makes me lie down in green pastures friends, real love

the green's pasture image in our mind. But he also made me walk through

the value of the shadow of death. I shall not fear and many times

the love of Why we do want to walk through the value of the shadows

because there's fear, fear of the unknown, fear like oh, if I

start doing this for a Lord, then it requires more of me. I

cannot do it. It cannot be fear. It's an overriding factor in our

faith. Its secondary. So as I bring this message to this to a

close, I do want to courage you for therefore, how do we believe?

How do we believe? Is it's just mere believing? Like, Oh,

I believe in God, that's it. How would we believe? The

Bible says in Roman chapter four, Abraham believe and it accounted to him righteousness.

Friends, this is how we should believe. It's not just mere believing,

but believing in God involves all that he has done and all that says

promise. Believing in God involves all that he has done and all that his

parents promised. Many times we just believe a person called Jesus, but seldom

go forward to believe all that he has done. Maybe we have, but

all that has promised for us. I want to encourage you. Tentity service

is to believe all that He has promised for you. That you and I

do not need to live a life whereby that is no excitement. I said,

excitement, excitement, adventure with the Lord. You and I need to

live a life that was excited for Jesus. As I bring this to a

close, I just want to encourage you. Therefore, friends, how do

we believe we need to surrender Isaac's of our life in Romans in James chapter

two, verse twenty one. As I turned to my last scripture, James

chapter two was twenty one, says this mean book of James. James Chapter

two was trady one. Since that, don't you remember that our assister Abraham

was shown to be right with God by his actions. Don't you remember that

our assister Abraham was shown to be right with God by his action, should

right with God by his action? How do we believe about actions? How

we do? How do we believe extras abour actions? How we do we

believe? As many times we say we believe, But there is no courage

to take the step of faith as a close Right now, I may not

see you again the next round. You may just be here for the first

time, or maybe you're thinking of, you know, stopping chess altogether.

I just want to encourage you, wherever you are in your life, that

you and I friends got the word is that we need to have courage to

follow the Lord. I started its started with this statement. There's only power

to those who believe. But power can only work when there's courage to activate

the power. I have not seen anybody, friends, put up a picture

of a battery in the house. I have not seen anyone put out a

picture of a battery, a power bang. I love this power bank is

so good. Nobody disadmire powerbags or this power. But I've seen a lot

of photograph of action. Courage to take on an adventure, go for a

holiday, courage to follow the hearts, desire to get a new house,

courage to get married, courage to have kids, Courage friends. Is what's

lacking sometimes is a kingdom of God. Courage to believe God that he can

move mountains. Courage for God to heal our hearts when the heart is in

pain. Courage to surrender or pride. Courage to surrender of pride, because

sometimes our pride is the one that's stopping us. Abraham, you know the

story was challenged to surrender Isaac and the author, So the Isaac in Abraham's

life could be his biggest brickshoe or his biggest excuse. Isaac in Abraham could

be his biggest brickshoe if it's surrender, or also could be his biggest excuse

if you need a surrender. And many times the journey of life as a

believer of friends, we don't see God moving powerfully suprnatury because we try to

understand how he works. When God asked us to take a step to believe

anything is possible to those who believe, courage to surrender your Isaac and the

author. If you want to see a brickshoe, you must courage to surrender

the isaacs of your life. See God, would you take over? Would

you take over? Share another testimonybe you. I was praying for a brother

one day. I looked at him. I say, you know you've been

You've been a survivor fighter all your life. It means, Albert's your greatest

dependency is your own strength. You work very hard, you strive very hard

on your own strength, which is not wrong. But right now you met

Jesus. You met Jesus. He wants to be your obur father. He

wants to be your abba father. He wants to take care of you,

your power of God's family. And I say that you are no longer and

often no longer and often trying to fend for yourself, trying to the word

is that I can only depend on myself. I believe in God, but

I can only depend on myself. As I released that I pray for him,

it was just in tears. It's so hard to say. It's so

hard. My dad is absent, my mom is no longer around, and

I've been trying so hard to make sure that I'm taking care of and to

trust fully completely to God. It's so tough, and I know I gotta

do it. Say they would you pray for me because I need to trust

this O our Father. You're talking about some of us here. We need

that the same commissions about to trust God. We hope you've been blessed by

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