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12+1 Core Values : Prayer-Powered | Pr Kenneth Chin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church.

  2. We hope this message will.

  3. Light up your day.

  4. Let's go to our topic for the day. Prayer powered.

  5. And I want to thank x TV for helping me

  6. with the slides.

  7. My slides look very different on keynote, but on PowerPoint

  8. it looks like this. But still as long as you

  9. can read it, that's fine, okay. X DV, thank you

  10. very much for helping me with this. Prayer powered. All right,

  11. let's say a quick prayer, Holy Spirit, thank you that

  12. you are already here with us.

  13. You love us so much.

  14. You give us your word because your word is living

  15. and powerful, and you know that when we receive your word,

  16. your word is gonna really transform us and give us

  17. guidance to live a victorious life. So we receive it

  18. by faith, Holy Spirit, have your way. Thank you that

  19. you're already here. I said it already, and I want

  20. to say it again. You are already here, and you

  21. love us, and you want the best for your children,

  22. and so we receive it.

  23. All by faith.

  24. Leaders guide us, help us, Holy Spirit in Jesus' name,

  25. we pray Amen. Let's look at the slides now. Prayer

  26. powered tild plus one called values Series. Today first time

  27. I'm sharing this, and that's why the camera is on. Okay,

  28. let's look at the next line. All right. It's one

  29. thing to know that prayer has power and another thing

  30. to be prayer powered.

  31. Do you understand this?

  32. So all of us know that prayers power, but it's

  33. another thing altogether to be powered by prayer. All right,

  34. So we don't just want to know, Oh yo, you

  35. know there is power in prayer, but are we as

  36. a church? Are we as individuals, as a merried couple,

  37. as a family, are we powered by that prayer that

  38. we believe has power? So this is why we are

  39. sharing this, and this is why this is a value

  40. of ex church. We don't just want to know there

  41. is power in prayer. We want to be a church

  42. that's powered by prayer. Let's look at the next slide please. Okay.

  43. So I'm going to now get going without notes. There's

  44. a point one point two point three. So if you're

  45. looking at your notes and you are a note taker,

  46. you will probably be thankful that I want to get

  47. through the notes first because just in case I get

  48. into my kind of preaching, which then goes a little

  49. bit crazy, A little bit deeper.

  50. Then you got to a pasta.

  51. What is this? You know, you're not following the notes.

  52. And then when homes come you go like, I don't know,

  53. Passa just went on, you know, a rent he just

  54. went on.

  55. I don't know where he was going.

  56. You know, he went to Plutock, to Earth, you know,

  57. went to Mars and came back to you know, the moon.

  58. So before I go everywhere, I want to deal with

  59. the notes. Okay, So point umer one, prayer is a

  60. gift or on your nose is the gift of prayer,

  61. the gift of how of you know that prayer is

  62. a gift. God gave us this gift. He said to

  63. us pray, not only if you pray, but when you pray.

  64. He expects us to pray.

  65. Is the gift of God that works because our God

  66. is a prayer answering God.

  67. So let's look at the next slide.

  68. So here in Matthew six five to six, when you pray,

  69. that's what I said earlier. When not if you shall

  70. not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray

  71. standing in the synagogue and on the corners of the streets,

  72. that they may be seen by men. That surely, I

  73. say to you, they have their reward. So there's a

  74. reward in prayer, even if you are pretending you know,

  75. or even if you are doing it for men to see.

  76. There is a certain reward. But that's not a kind

  77. of reward we want. We want a reward from God.

  78. And this is the verse that says it you. Somebody

  79. say you, point at your neighbors, say you you, when

  80. you pray, go into your room, and when you have

  81. shut the door.

  82. That's right.

  83. Pray to your father who is in the secret place,

  84. and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

  85. Come on, all pernly, praise the Lord. This is a gift.

  86. God wants to answer our prayer. He wants to reward

  87. us when we pray, and to reward us all pernently.

  88. So you can really see that prayer is quite a

  89. private matter to begin with. Yes, we also pray in church,

  90. we pray with one another, we pray in prayer services,

  91. we pray in our groups, we pray with our husbands,

  92. we pray with our families. That's okay, But it is

  93. in that sense a private matter because you are going

  94. to God without any frills or thrills or you know

  95. the King's English. You know that you want to show

  96. that you're really good at the language, and so you

  97. go and pray for ten minutes when you could have

  98. just done it in one, because you know, after a while,

  99. we just get caught up with the act of prayer

  100. instead of the power of prayer. All right, So we

  101. don't get caught up with the act of prayer.

  102. And that's why the.

  103. Pharisees get caught up with the act of prayer, and

  104. the Lord says, they have their reward because they just

  105. want to show off. We are not into showing off,

  106. even when we pray with one another. We really want

  107. to see prayer work. Someone say, amen, let's look at

  108. the next slide. So this another verse that talks about,

  109. you know, prayer being a gift. Be anxious for nothing,

  110. the Bible says, So don't worry. Don't worry, everyone in

  111. this room, don't worry, because.

  112. The Bible says, be anxious for nothing, but in come.

  113. On everything, everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. You know,

  114. I could do a whole message just on this verse,

  115. but today that's not about that. And so I will

  116. withhold myself just in case. You know, I surpass lunchtime,

  117. which is not going to be very good, And with thanksgiving,

  118. let your requests be made known to God and the

  119. peace of God.

  120. Wow.

  121. Early on we heard about a reward that He will

  122. reward us openly. Now we hear about a peace that

  123. surpasses all understanding. So if you don't have that peace,

  124. please pray. Prayer is a gift. You have been given

  125. a gift. Sometimes you can receive a gift over Christmas

  126. and don't use it. You know, sometimes I is still

  127. in the box after three years. You know, you should

  128. open up the gift and use it. Because there is

  129. a reward from God, and there is peace that surpasses

  130. all understanding. It will guard your hearts and you will

  131. guard your minds. So if your minds are trouble, I

  132. pray the peace of God will come upon you. If

  133. your hearts are trouble, made the peace of God just

  134. envelope your heart. Come on.

  135. If you believe, you say amen. Next slide.

  136. Please. So I had a sticker in my car about

  137. thirty years ago. When I started driving, I drove a

  138. car that was given to me. It was second hand,

  139. maybe third head by then, and it was as old

  140. as we. I was twenty one, the cow was twenty one,

  141. and he grew with me. And we call it the

  142. most anointed car in Malaysia because wherever the cow.

  143. Went, it left oil everywhere.

  144. And he shook. He shook, you know, because it cannot

  145. go above ninety five. When he touched one hundred, it

  146. just shakes. And one time the police caught me and

  147. put me, pulled me aside and said, you have gone

  148. beyond one hundred and ten. I said, my car cannot

  149. go one hundred and ten. I'm telling you right now.

  150. And the police said, well, we've got the recording. I said,

  151. please show me the recording. Please. In fact, the last

  152. thing I said to him is Chegu. And I don't

  153. know why I call police chake Gou. I learned it

  154. from one of my police friends, because you know, everybody

  155. comes from the marked, up from the from the school,

  156. from the police academy, and in that place, you know,

  157. everybody calls their senior che gu. So so with the police,

  158. I said, you go, you know cannot I said to go.

  159. Would you like to come into my car and let's

  160. drive and let's see whether we can drive that fast?

  161. And so he saw the confidence and say okay, Jalan, you.

  162. Know he says, so, not not to say that you

  163. should use it with any police. But on on my

  164. dashboard there is a sticker why worry when you can pray?

  165. Why why worry when you can pray? Simple? Not simple,

  166. but why worry? No, we should we do worry. And

  167. Jesus knows we worry. And then he says, don't worry

  168. because he knows we worry. You see, he does have

  169. to say don't do something where he knows that you know,

  170. you know we don't do it right, No, he knows

  171. we do it, So he says, don't and so don't

  172. worry when you can pray, seek if first the Kingdom

  173. of God and his righteousness, and all these.

  174. Things shall be added to you.

  175. That's prayer when you're seeking right the Kingdom of God

  176. his way. You know, people talk about Kingdom of God

  177. and they try to explain it many ways. But I

  178. only have one simple explanation of the Kingdom of God.

  179. The Kingdom of.

  180. God is the way of God.

  181. This is his way. Therefore your kingdom, come your way, come,

  182. you will be done. If it's not God's way, it

  183. will not be God's will. So if your Kingdom come,

  184. your way come first, and then your will. So never

  185. never expect God's will to come. If his way is

  186. not done, his way must be followed, then you can

  187. expect his will to be done. So, you know, I

  188. really want to believe that we are seeking first the kingdom,

  189. meaning we are seeking first God's way in our lives,

  190. in our marriages, in our work, you know, our with

  191. our family, and then you know his will will be

  192. done God's way I seek, and all these things shall

  193. be added unto you, all right, So why worry when

  194. you can pray next life? Please? All right?

  195. Number two, are you following the notes.

  196. Because this is just for you to follow the nose today.

  197. After that, I'm gonna go crazy. Okay, So.

  198. Not following time, okay, passa Nachin is being very very disciplined.

  199. He's following notes.

  200. One time, my wife told me that, you know, you

  201. went to the place at the share, all of them,

  202. of course, you all wanting to write notes, and then

  203. you went on a tangent. No, I say, I was

  204. just let by the spirit, you know, And she says,

  205. I know you're let by the spirit, but no, can

  206. you please help the people you know go through the

  207. notes first, because you're going to use it home. Okay, okay, first,

  208. and I turned to descript in Genesis and God said

  209. to Abraham, listen to your wife. So I think that's biblical.

  210. The integrity of prayer. Okay, let's move on the integrity

  211. of prayer. Let's go to the next slide. Please, So hey,

  212. don't just say I've prayed and then go on doing

  213. what you wish to do.

  214. Christian is very good with this. Be careful, be careful,

  215. don't be like that.

  216. Don't say, oh, I prayed about it, therefore, oh I

  217. prayed about it. And sometimes some of these major things.

  218. And I love the fact that Laura said, no, we

  219. prayed about it. We saw this thing. Because this is

  220. a big thing that they're doing. It's sort of like

  221. mini migration, right, and so it's big. Some people say, oh,

  222. I prayed about it, and therefore I left church. When

  223. you and ask them, how long do you pray about

  224. one week? You cannot pray one week and then feel

  225. led to go and leave a church that you've been

  226. with for ten, fifteen years, twenty years. These are big decisions.

  227. So I think to myself, people just say I pray

  228. about it and Therefore I pray about it. Be very careful. Christians,

  229. don't do that. Don't do that. It's important when you

  230. pray that you pray so that you really want to

  231. do God's wheel and not your own.

  232. And this is very is a thin line.

  233. It's a thin line because many of us have our

  234. own desires, our own dreams, and so we go like, oh, God,

  235. should I eat ice cream? Amen? Amen? I think I

  236. should because I just saw someone pass me with ice cream,

  237. you know. Amen. No, It's very, very easy to convince

  238. you when you want something, right God, should I go

  239. out with that girl?

  240. You know whatever?

  241. And then suddenly you scroll, oh, you know the girl

  242. comes out first in your Instagram. Oh yeah, it must

  243. be God's confirmation, you know. Should I marry? Should I?

  244. You know whatever?

  245. Should I buy a new house? Uh? This house? Is it?

  246. This house? Lord? You know? Uh? And and and we

  247. have to be very careful because the next light will

  248. will show you some versus of why we need to

  249. be careful.

  250. Because in Exodus thirty two.

  251. Six, which is repeated in First Coriintians ten seven, the

  252. Bible says they rose early on the next day whire

  253. offered burn offerings all very spiritual, very good, and brought

  254. peace offerings. Wow. I didn't know they were so spiritual.

  255. They woke up earlier on the next day to do this. No, no, no,

  256. they woke up early so they can get on with

  257. church service on Sunday because what they really want to

  258. do is after service they want to play. And the

  259. people sat down to eat and drink and rose up

  260. to play and gee and and and the words in

  261. First Coritcients, I was gonna say, Jesus said, but I

  262. want to say First Coriintients ten to seven says, and

  263. do not become idolatous, meaning people who look into something

  264. and they have idolatry means this has become an idol.

  265. Maybe your golf has become an idol, maybe your work

  266. has become an idol. Maybe you know.

  267. Food can become an idol, and sleep can become an idol.

  268. Do not become idolatists, as were some of them talking

  269. about the extras.

  270. Thirty two six people.

  271. As it is written, the people sat down to eat

  272. and drink and rolls up to play so many times.

  273. If you're not careful, we think we are spiritual. Wake

  274. up the next morning, offer burn offerings and broad piece offerings.

  275. But we just can't wait for service.

  276. To be over.

  277. Because what we really woke up early for is something else.

  278. So I know it's very quiet in this place. X

  279. got the communing. You know, we have got two services now.

  280. We're touching about one hundred and eighty people. You know, at

  281. one time, when I was going to start the eight

  282. fifteen service, we call it eight fifteen worship, a fifteen worship.

  283. Everybody says, fuss too early, too early, to early, and

  284. I said no, the Holy Speech said to me, start

  285. two services, and I'm gonna start eight fifteen. So I

  286. hope you guys will be okay with it right now

  287. today today eight fifteen has trumped ten forty five as

  288. far as people right, I think is about sixty seventy

  289. percent coming to the eight fifteen and the rest coming to.

  290. The ten forty five.

  291. If you go around interviewing them, everybody will say, good word.

  292. Come at least it is so that we can the

  293. love in this room, So that we can so that

  294. we can didn't really wake up for the Lord, but

  295. so that we can out there's a few God's presence

  296. coming into this room right now. Just pausing for a

  297. moment because I might get emotional. Okay, I'm okay, next night,

  298. next night, Oh getting warning swaller Isaiah twenty nine thirteen. Therefore,

  299. the Lord said, in as much as these people draw

  300. near with their mouths, or were drawn near to God

  301. with our mouths, honor me with their lips. But they

  302. have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear

  303. toward me is taught by the commandment of men, then

  304. Jesus now is correct to say. Jesus repeated the Old

  305. Testament when he was speaking, and he said, these people

  306. draw near to me with their mouth. So we are praying,

  307. and we're drawing near to God with our mouth. Oh God,

  308. should I yeah? I should? Oh God, you know? Should I? Yeah?

  309. I think I should? Oh God, should I yeah? I

  310. thought so I should. They drawn near to me with

  311. your mouth, and honor me with their lives. They're praying, praying, praying,

  312. but their heart is far from me. So the one

  313. thing good to understand as we are being prayer powered

  314. is that prayer is a matter of the heart. Yeah,

  315. the Bible says, their heart is far from me. So

  316. when we draw near to go with our mouth with

  317. our lips, make sure you include your heart.

  318. Can I hear good?

  319. Amen? All right?

  320. Next slide.

  321. Prayer is community communicating with God from the heart. So important.

  322. Please everyone in this room, involve your heart. And if

  323. your heart is deceiving, as the Bible says, then make

  324. sure that God checks your heart. Check it again and again, two, three,

  325. four times, Check it again and again. Why this girl

  326. you want a date? Why this guy you want to

  327. go out with? Why this house? Why this business? Why

  328. this work? Oh? God, search my heart and know my ways?

  329. Try me. Now, you know that the Bible says the

  330. God is not just listening to your mouth. He's listening

  331. to your heart.

  332. Let's look at the next slide. All right, b okay, a.

  333. Is what again? Is again? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I forgot?

  334. What is what a again? Ah?

  335. Don't just don't just say I pray. Don't just I

  336. prayed about it?

  337. Yeah?

  338. Yeah, sure you did. Yeh uh okay, don't just say okay,

  339. good good good.

  340. Uh. B. Prayer is not just talking a two but

  341. listening to God. Did you know that a lot of

  342. people go one way one way? Jarlan Sahara, one way street.

  343. We just go one way, nothing coming back the other way.

  344. That's not prayer. Prayer is when you get to hear

  345. from God as well. Let's look at the scriptures. You

  346. can see how quickly I'm going through the notesir, because

  347. I've got other things to tell you. And it came

  348. to pass when Moses entered the tabernacle, says Exodus thirty three,

  349. nine eleven. When Moses entered the tabernacle, then the pillar

  350. of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle,

  351. and the Lord talked with those as I underlined and

  352. boulded it. Do you know, when we come into God's presence,

  353. the Bible doesn't even say that we talk to God.

  354. Bible says that God talked to Moses, underlining and bolding

  355. and highlighting the fact that when we pray enter God's

  356. presence is more important that he talks to us than

  357. we talk to him, because the Bible already says that

  358. God already knows our needs before we even ask. Yes,

  359. God already knows our needs before we ask. So it's

  360. not so much not so important that we say all

  361. the right words for the next ten minutes, but we say, okay, God,

  362. you know all my needs, you know my heart, you

  363. know my desire, you know what I'm praying for a

  364. family member that needs your healing. Oh God, you know

  365. where I'm going.

  366. You know you love me. I know you love me,

  367. You care for me. God, speak to me, Speak to me.

  368. So a lot of people just say I prayed about it,

  369. but never heard, never really hurt, because they already wanted

  370. to do this, and so it's very easy to do

  371. it without any confirmation from God himself. So he continues

  372. to say, the Lord spoke to Moses face to face.

  373. All right, this is the first facebook God had a

  374. face to face meeting with his servant, And I loved

  375. the last part. The last part says that he would

  376. return to the camp by his servant, Joshua, son of

  377. Nanda's young man, did not depart from the tabertacle. I

  378. believe that Joshua, because he was so close to the

  379. tabertacle serving Moses. I'm sure that he also heard God's voice,

  380. because God must have spoke audibly to Moses those days,

  381. and the Lord spoke to him face to face. And

  382. I think that Joshua must have listened in on some

  383. of these conversations and desired, Oh God, when it comes

  384. my turn, when it's my turn, When it's my turn.

  385. Oh God, I want to hear your voice God, because

  386. this is what Moses is showing me that true prayer

  387. life is not just talking one way, but hearing Lord.

  388. I want to hear your voice God one day, Please

  389. also speak to me like you spoke to Moses, and

  390. he knew that the secret was lingering in God's presence.

  391. So it's not about shortcuts. It's not about all quick

  392. fix of a prayer. It's not about all I pray

  393. about it already two days. No, it's about God. Have

  394. you spoken? Prayer is about lingering in God's presence enough

  395. to hear his voice.

  396. Okay, let's go on. Let's move on, all right.

  397. Number three, Okay, this is the third point on your notes,

  398. and therefore we are closing. All right, we are closing

  399. very soon being prayer powered. All right, Let's look at

  400. the notes now. Okay. A for above, A for above

  401. and beyond. JESZ an event prayer service or PR four Y,

  402. which stands for prayer revival four times a year. It's

  403. a lifestyle. If you believe it, say amen, it's a

  404. life style. You will only attend a prayer service and

  405. attend it with conviction because you are praying all the time.

  406. You're not just waiting for a pr four y to

  407. go and then you know, let your attendance be counted. Know,

  408. a person who has a prayer lifestyle usually ends up

  409. being at prayer services, prayer events.

  410. Prayer rarelyes it is.

  411. It is a good way to show you how important

  412. a person takes prayer in their lives, because individually and

  413. privately they are already doing it, and now there's a

  414. chance to do it together as a family, a chance

  415. to do it as a church. They want to be there.

  416. But prayer has to be a lifestyle if you are

  417. ever going to be found at events. But it's above

  418. and beyond events. Can I hear a good amen? All right?

  419. Next slide is a verse. I think, pray without ceasing,

  420. Pray without ceasing. How many of you know how to

  421. do that? Because I think a lot of us, If

  422. we're honest, you'll say no, I haven't prayed without ceasing.

  423. Let me let you in on a on a little

  424. bit of a secret. The more we depend on God,

  425. the more we pray. So God sometimes will allow things

  426. in your life that need you to pray, because when

  427. we don't have those things, we become prayerless. Yeah, so

  428. in the I found out myself praying more. I won't

  429. say I pray without seizing, but I tell you what,

  430. I don't pray for more than ten minutes, as someone

  431. said before, but I don't go more than ten minutes

  432. ten minutes without prayer. I like the card lifestyle. I

  433. don't pray for more than ten minutes. But I also

  434. don't go more than ten minutes without prayer. And the

  435. reason is because I have not been well. I know,

  436. been well. I went to a city scan just recently, okay,

  437. and so there's some blockages, but it's UNDERD fifty percent,

  438. so I don't have to go for any stent and

  439. anything and that.

  440. But sometimes my breathing gets gets affected.

  441. Sometimes when I travel on the plane, you know, I

  442. get a little bit of like, you know, just that's

  443. why I went to check.

  444. So I tell you what.

  445. Then, you know, when I was going through different things,

  446. and I at one time I had constipations and at

  447. one time I had a broken ankle, and at one time,

  448. you know, I'm not saying that God will make your

  449. life difficult, but he will make your life dependent on him.

  450. And that's why when I hear what Laura is saying.

  451. She's exactly saying that I'm going to Laos to be

  452. more dependent on God. If you, if you have listened

  453. to her properly, I'm going there to be more dependent

  454. on God. And some of you are going through different

  455. things with your children, with your marriage, hopefully not your

  456. marriage are but with your neighbors, with your colleagues. Right,

  457. God allows, He didn't make it happen, but he allows

  458. so that you become a very prayerful person. Because listen,

  459. if your life was all good and nothing wrong with it,

  460. I tell you what's going to be harder to do this,

  461. not to say impossible, meaning you can probably come to

  462. a place whereby even without problems, you're still preferful. That's

  463. gonna be great. That's gonna be great, that's gonna be

  464. the gold standard. But I tell you why.

  465. I let you you know another secret.

  466. This last three months I have been depending on the

  467. Holy Spirit like I've never depended on him before.

  468. Because I learned from the Word that He is my helper.

  469. So listen, if you had a helper at home, all right,

  470. an Indonesian helper, or a man Mary's helper, or a

  471. Filipino helper. You expect them to help you. That's why

  472. you hire them all right now, if your helper is

  473. sitting in front of TV, you know ten hours a

  474. day watching Korean movie is not her fault. It's your

  475. fault because you allow your helper to not do anything

  476. to help you, and you just go around complaining. I

  477. see her, this person. I told her to wipe the table,

  478. but you know she's watching I never mind, iye pila,

  479. you'll see her. This is the clothes are all still unwashed.

  480. Never mind a let her watch to finish a series.

  481. You know, that's your fault. So the name that is

  482. given to the Holy Spirit is helper? Did you know that? Oh?

  483. So silent? The name that's given to the Holy Spirit is.

  484. That's his name?

  485. But how many of us use his help? That day

  486. I had a conservation. You know your passer has be

  487. very honest with you. Uh, And I don't mind washing

  488. the tillion in front of you, because if I could

  489. watch the tillinan, if I have you, hopefully you can

  490. be clean. But the thing is, I said, the Holy Spirit,

  491. can you help me with this? Because I'm rushing for

  492. a meeting and I can't sit here for long. Right

  493. within one minute, boom all came out. I don't know

  494. you're you're doing on trauma. You don't try, you don't

  495. see her. I went to the hospital to day. Every

  496. time I go to the hospital lot, I have what

  497. you call the white coat syndrome, you know that, meaning

  498. I'm my high blood pressure right al but my blood

  499. pressure just goes a sky high one hundred and eighteen

  500. hundred and ninety over one hundred and ten. The idea

  501. I went for a checkout stress test, though I was

  502. stressed before the test two hundred and ten over one

  503. hundred and ten or something like that, and the nurse said,

  504. but to a girl, test me again, two hundred and

  505. five to five, went down five. Yeah, you celebrate, no,

  506. two hundred and five. She's like, I think you need

  507. to be admitted. I said, no, no, no, no, this

  508. is a white courte syndrome. So ten out of ten

  509. times I get high. Okay, it can be Columbi Asia

  510. can be anyway always. So I said, God, us it

  511. be like this, us, it be like this. God help me.

  512. So I went to the Columba Asia the idea for

  513. my city engine gram test, and she said, oh, we

  514. need to get your blood pressure first, because if your

  515. blood pressure is not good, you can't go in right

  516. because they put inside and your your book present needs

  517. to be at a healthy level. So I sat down

  518. there and she puts the cuff. I said, Holy Spirit,

  519. can you please give me an accurate, accurate reading? Right?

  520. And the first three readings is no reading? Can you

  521. imagine that?

  522. Now? The Holy Spirit taught me something. The Holy Spirit

  523. taught me that a lot of machines are not under

  524. God's covering.

  525. You think about it. See yah, I don't know why

  526. you've heard before that the enemy can move chairs and

  527. move tables.

  528. Have you heard before? Yeah? So if you if you

  529. have done deliverance, he can in hotels all right. That's

  530. why I cleansed every hotel room before I sleep. H No,

  531. because the enemy can can can open windows, close, They

  532. can do that. They can also play with instruments. I

  533. always pray for pilots and the instrumentation or not because

  534. sometimes insation can be played around by the enemy.

  535. So I said, I covered all the instrumentation. I cover

  536. the pilots.

  537. Yeah. If the devil can enter Juda's why can't you

  538. enter a pilot way quiet way?

  539. Quiet, so I cover the pilots blood of the lamb.

  540. No enemy can enter the turn you know, no, no way,

  541. not on my not on my watch, okay, And the

  542. enemy cannot play with that's so that's why sometimes that

  543. we go and then we get tested and then little

  544. on what test? What test? What tests? You can't find

  545. anything right? So I really play right. So the enemy

  546. has been playing my cuff in hospitals for so long

  547. long one hundred eighty two D and ten right, good,

  548. You're gonna die, right, So I said, Holy Spirit, please

  549. take care of this. Let the enemy not play around

  550. with this machine. And I know the enemy wanted to

  551. play around Coursa the first three readings zero zero, that's

  552. why I die, No zero. She had to turn on

  553. the machine again. The guy just who use it before me?

  554. And now I use it three three times until the

  555. nurses are all get ay need machine? You know it's

  556. a machine spoil. They were, they were panicking. I said,

  557. never mind. I won't panic because the more I pandiced,

  558. the more you know, I'm going against my own prayer.

  559. So I said never mind.

  560. And the fourth reading, fourth reading, Now you know what,

  561. by the fourth reading, I should penning more right, I

  562. should be worse than before. No, it's one hundred and

  563. thirty five over seventy nine, right. And then the Holy

  564. Spirit I went to the doctor. The doctor said, uh, actually, Kenneth,

  565. we got you to do the CTA City droogram tomorrow,

  566. but you're fasting read right, maybe you can't do it today.

  567. At that time, it was eleven o'clock in the morning.

  568. I said, okay, are you fast? Yeah?

  569. You know I fast since seven seven pm last night. Oh,

  570. there's a long time.

  571. Let me check. So he's checking whether there's a slot

  572. at the radio graphy radiology department. And the person said, yes,

  573. treat the t hello eleven to treat the d Do

  574. you know that this body did not survive on fasting

  575. this this body survived on feasting, and and and and

  576. I'm not controlling. And the doctor saying that, okay, it's

  577. four or five hours time. You know you're slot And

  578. then so I can't guarantee. They say treat the t

  579. by before, right, So I say, oh, so, I say,

  580. Holy Spirit, if you want me to do it today,

  581. give me a slot, right, give me an earlier slot,

  582. because I'm already very hungry. He's your helper but how

  583. many of us ask for help? You just allowed the

  584. Holy Speed to watch Chorean movie the whole day. No, no,

  585. I know, it's how we would say, hey, bles fhemous. No, no,

  586. I'm joking. Okay, but but but you know, you just

  587. allowed the Holy Spirit to be the only spirit you

  588. know wherever he is. You just sing about him on Sunday,

  589. on Monday to Friday, he say, please ask me for help.

  590. I'm called you a helper, that's my name, you know,

  591. allowing me to help you. Okay, So I said, Holy Spirit,

  592. help me. And then I went to take a call

  593. with passed back to you. Pass back you had an

  594. urgent call, So I said, nurse, I go out and

  595. take a call for the timer only twelve o'clock. Okay,

  596. travel go and take a call to a call. And

  597. then now there's another call coming Bysandra emergency.

  598. She said, hey, where are you? I thought you are

  599. the hospital. See yeah, I am just, I'll saying, and

  600. she says, the nurses trying to get you. I said,

  601. why call it back?

  602. Call back?

  603. So why call it back?

  604. She says, So we are you? I said, I'm just

  605. I'll say, yeah, I told you I'm going to a caller.

  606. In fact, I told the nursa nurse. I'm going to

  607. take the call for ten minutes. She said, take twenty

  608. right there, No, I says, your fault, She said, take twenty.

  609. That's what I'm talking tobout some man. Oh emergency, okay, okay, okay,

  610. what's mad? All right? Okay, I think you do this.

  611. I think you do that. Yeah, okay, great, gat and

  612. this call. There's a slot for you. Now, travel clock.

  613. There's a slot for you. Now you know, Holy space,

  614. I tell you. So I walk in there, I said,

  615. what happens if someone cancer? If someone can say that

  616. I can, they can give someone else. I no, not you.

  617. So I walk in there and then they're like, you know,

  618. putting the needle and I took four of the need

  619. to put it on my uh Instagram just in case

  620. you guys want to pray for me, because we are

  621. prayer powered church. Yeah.

  622. Okay, so you know so uh and and uh.

  623. And then you know that when I went into the radiology,

  624. all the nurses there they remembered me from the last time.

  625. You know, everywhere I go, I tried to be nice

  626. to people. You know, someone said before, right when you're

  627. on your way up. Be nice to everybody on your

  628. way up, because just in case, when you're on your

  629. way down you meet the same people on your way up.

  630. Always be nice to people, because on your way down

  631. you could be meeting the same people. So I am

  632. nice to all the nurses, all the doctors are gay nice.

  633. And then that says, hey, mister, change your back again.

  634. I said, yeah, I'm back again, and they wheeled me

  635. and they took care of me, and they make sure

  636. and the imagery, you know, the last image that I

  637. had on the city scan was bad and the doctor said, no,

  638. it's bad, but I can't see her bad.

  639. But I can see, you know, I mean, it's not clear.

  640. It's not crystal clear.

  641. And so when I was on a machiner, you know,

  642. and they're putting the die or the die is away

  643. in oh warm, no warm, how I may have you

  644. done it before? Warm dye right going inside, and they say, uh, sir,

  645. just just just to let you know what this die.

  646. When it goes in there, you can vomit when no

  647. holy people help me, not a woman ask you for everything, like,

  648. come on, holy peoplease help me, not voment. I didn't

  649. vomit this one can go down and honey, you mean

  650. you want to urine. Know, I say, Holy speoplease help me,

  651. not urine, Holy speel help me. I see you see

  652. I'm almost praying and seizing. Lino. That's how you do it.

  653. That's how you do it.

  654. You continue this conversation with the Holy Spirit, and then

  655. my images of the CTA came out perfect, so clear.

  656. The doctor could see everything. He says, Uh, this is clear, exact,

  657. perfect report. I'm going to give you. You probably don't

  658. have to go to this machine again for the next

  659. five years. Let's do it every every five years. You are, yeah,

  660. bill fifty, maybe between twenty twenty five to forty nine percent,

  661. and calcium scoring is at sixty three point five. He

  662. said that, you know, above two hundred, probably you start worrying.

  663. But so I don't know why it's any He calls

  664. me doctor Kenada. I don't know where he heard from,

  665. Doctor Kenth. You know you're you're you're at a good place.

  666. I asked the Holy Spirit for help. Really I do. Uh,

  667. And I got many more testing me to share with you,

  668. but I don't have time. But every time I ask

  669. a Holy Spirit, he he really really helps because he

  670. is our helper. Can I hear a good amen? Are

  671. you going to any challenges? You know? Just just talk

  672. to him? Talk to him, Holy Spirit. I'm a bit

  673. afraid about this, Holy speit. Can you help me not

  674. be so afraid? Not be so afraid? Holy Spirit, help

  675. me to get over this. Holy Spirit, help me. I'm

  676. feeling very hungry. Speak at you, you please help me

  677. with my hunger pangs. Let it last for another you know,

  678. half an hour before lunch comes, and I'll tell you

  679. what you know, I pray that before and then suddenly,

  680. you know, you lost your hunger, and then I can't

  681. remember it until it went for lunch. How come I

  682. not hungry? You know where you asked the Holy Spirit

  683. to help you. So prayer without seizing is a church

  684. that is prayer powered. Let's move on.

  685. Be for belief.

  686. Believe that where we are today this is a good statement.

  687. Believe that where we are today and where we will

  688. be tomorrow is because of prayer.

  689. You got to believe that.

  690. A lot of us, you know, sometimes we are tempted

  691. to think that it's our own strength, our own wisdom,

  692. our connections, our contexts, our good looks. And you know,

  693. I say good looks because you know, so many people

  694. in exclaim look so good. You know, I don't hear amen,

  695. But oh you're humble too. Yeah, all right, some of

  696. the good, the best looking people are in explent Amen,

  697. siris and okay, next next slide. So y'all have heard

  698. this before, I would just share with you again. We'll

  699. only go as far on our feet as we have

  700. gone on our knees. The reason why we have gone

  701. as far as London, it's because before X London was

  702. planted on my feet, it was planted on my knees.

  703. Before X Botswana was planted on my feet, it was

  704. planted on my knees. I went there already, or I

  705. understand that you probably went there new lows on your knees.

  706. You know understand therefore you can get there on your feet.

  707. A lot of people try to get there on your feet,

  708. but haven't yet got there on their knees. You want

  709. to go anywhere, you want to climb any mountain, you

  710. want to beat any sickness, get there on your knees.

  711. See the vision that God will give you here the

  712. voice of the Lord, and then I tell you what

  713. on your feet will be no problem. But we fight

  714. on our knees. First, we fight on our knees. We

  715. do battle on our knees. We get there on our knees.

  716. We're already there in Laos on our knees. We're already

  717. there in Germany. Ex Germany's planted. I'm going to be

  718. there by the grace of God in September for the

  719. second anniversary. Is planted on my knees. It's planted on

  720. your knees. Ex Claimer. Brother has been growing from strength

  721. to strength. I know you you guys have been going

  722. through some challenging times the last few years. A few

  723. of your good guys you know, either migrated or you know,

  724. it's his life, lives life.

  725. But I don't see you guys doing ingal I don't

  726. see you guys dying.

  727. You know. I was standing here listening to the children singer.

  728. Tears are rolling down my face because I mean, and

  729. I think to myself, if tears can roll down my face,

  730. and guess what about God? He must be bawling out

  731. there or less we respectful to God? Like he doesn't

  732. cry like that, but you know he rejoices. He's like,

  733. come on, you know, and if you guys don't have seen.

  734. The children were saying, this is like Jesus said that.

  735. Jesus said, what if you guys don't cry out, the

  736. rocks will cry out, right, the rocks will cry out.

  737. I don't need you guys to cry out. My other

  738. creation will cry out because he's worthy. Amen. Yeah, that's right.

  739. So I just believe for better days, brighter days, And

  740. I call for the laborers to come. I know that's

  741. what you desire. Laborers for the teens. Huh, Laborers for

  742. XTV laborers, labors, laborers. What does the Bible say, ray

  743. Ah to the Lord of the harvest right to send

  744. out laborers. So let's go on our knees first, before

  745. we ever go on our feet. Come on next us slide.

  746. I think we're finishing already. I'll see. For constant dependence

  747. on the Lot, that's what being a prayer powered church means.

  748. It's constant dependence on the Lord.

  749. And earlier on, I told you about my own life

  750. and my own sicknesses, and my own diseases, and my

  751. own problems and my own constipations like that, I depend

  752. on the Lord day and night. The moment I wake up,

  753. I said, good morning, Holy Spirit, I've learned that lat

  754. I've learned that those days.

  755. I never used to do that.

  756. Then I get up from the better because my back

  757. was pain, was in pain before and I couldn't even

  758. get up. No, so now when I get out, I say,

  759. oh God, thank you that I can get up for

  760. my bit. Then I stand up because I had my

  761. ankle broken last year. I stand up and I can

  762. stand up on my two feet. Say Lord, thank you,

  763. I can stand up on my two feet. I'm starting you,

  764. thank God. That's also prayer. And then I walked to

  765. the toilet. I say Lord, thank you, I can walk

  766. to the toilet because one year ago I was on

  767. the crutches by what you call it? What it was

  768. the other one that walker? I felt I was eighty five.

  769. But I'm just the other way around now, and I'm walking,

  770. you know, and I couldn't sit properly on the toilet.

  771. And then away I go and stand in front of

  772. Sorry to be so visual, I'm standing in front of

  773. the toilet bol and it goes forth. I say, Lord,

  774. thank you that the plumbing works today. All the plumbing

  775. works today. And then when I flush, sh I said Lord,

  776. thank you that the flash work. How many of you

  777. have ever done your thinger and then a flash will work. Oh,

  778. thank God, the flash work. However, you turn on the

  779. tap and clean water came out, and you didn't thank

  780. God for that because it becomes so normal, right, Oh, Lord,

  781. thank you for clean water. You know, just just just

  782. a heart full of thanksgiving. And I go and do

  783. my quiet time, and I said, Lord, thank you that

  784. I can spend this hour with you. Constant dependence on

  785. God is what ex church must be. What else do

  786. we have? Come? Let's go?

  787. Is there anymore?

  788. Thank you so much x TV for helping me trust

  789. in the Lord with all your heart and leano on

  790. your own card, understanding in all your ways, acknowledge him

  791. all your ways. You have to acknowledge him, acknowledge. I

  792. acknowledge you, Julian, I acknowledge you. I acknowledged you. I

  793. acknowledge you. Laura, Laura, I acknowledged you. I didn't comment

  794. in this look away. I acknowledged you. I acknowledge you.

  795. I I acknowledge you. J said, I aged Rome, I

  796. acknowledge you. We don't just walk away right. Daily Christians

  797. could be walking away carrying a lot of problems, a

  798. lot of pain and then you got God is here.

  799. No right, But instead of trusting you with all our hearts,

  800. we lean on our old understanding.

  801. No no, no no no no no no. Give God arrest.

  802. He's answering everybody else's problem. Maybe I go now to

  803. my mother, my father, my boss, my supervisor. Maybe I

  804. go to UH check gipt. Maybe maybe I go now

  805. to YouTube. All right, No, we don't want to lean

  806. on our old understanding. We want to trust in the

  807. Lord with all our hearts and acknowledge him. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord,

  808. you know you just keep going. Yeah, this problem, Lord,

  809. this problem. I know. I acknowledge you in this area.

  810. I acknowledge you in my life. I acknowledge you in

  811. my work. I acknowledge you. As I'm getting into the plane.

  812. I got into a plane, I lay hands on of course,

  813. just before you step into the plane. You know. I

  814. know some people do that as well as well. They

  815. lay hands on the plane. I lay head on my plane,

  816. because on my plane, chare I lay lay hand on

  817. the plane. And I said, say, Lord, this plane is

  818. your playing today, and you'll get me to where you

  819. need to get me because I'm doing your work. I

  820. acknowledge you. I sit down and acknowledge. You know, I'm

  821. talking to the people I acknowledge. Now. I'm not saying

  822. I'm perfect. I'm just saying I'm learning and I'm growing

  823. and I'm trying. Okay, everybody, Okay, now what else is there?

  824. Let's go deeper. Okay, let's go deeper. Mess I go

  825. to my notes. Now, all right, I'm going to draw

  826. to a close not too long from now, I guarantee you,

  827. but I want to go through some things with you.

  828. Like guys, I say, okay, all right, I want to

  829. show you something that the Lord showed me. All right, Ah,

  830. let's look at the next life. First, the disciples ask

  831. Jesus to teach them how to pray. So we all

  832. know this real because we heard this message before this part.

  833. The disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray,

  834. and there is no other reference in the entire New

  835. Testament at least that says that the disciples ask Jesus

  836. to teach them anything else direct reference. Jesus teach us

  837. how to fast, don't have right, Jesus teach us how

  838. to do missions, don't have. Jesus teach us how to preach,

  839. don't have There was one one clear reference that a

  840. disciple asks Jesus, teach us how to pray next life, please,

  841. And this is the scripture we can find Luke eleven one.

  842. Now it came to pass as he was praying, as

  843. Jesus was praying in a certain place. Oh yeah, that's right.

  844. Jesus also prays. He prays a Lord. He prays the

  845. Lord when he sees I'm guessing that when he was praying,

  846. all the disciples watching him. Wow, we don't know when

  847. he's going to finish her, and he's praying. I don't

  848. know when he's going to finish her. But when he stopped,

  849. and Jesus did stop, he stopped praying, and then one

  850. of it iss had enough guts to go to him

  851. and say, Lord, teach us how to pray. Teach us

  852. to pray as John also taught his disciples. So in

  853. the church, we need to teach our disciples how to pray. Everybody, Okay,

  854. all right, now it's obvious is there a next light.

  855. It's obvious that in the tree and a half years

  856. they were walking with the Lord, that they watched him

  857. very closely. That's what discipleship is, and must have realized

  858. that there could be no other way, nothing else but

  859. prayer that powered his ministry. Do you believe this? Do

  860. you believe this? They watched him, and they watched him.

  861. How come he can hear this? Is he his hand?

  862. You know? Is it because you're watching our disciples? Maybe

  863. his hand's moving this wheeler. But you know what, he

  864. never hears the same way. Some spitch really close his eyes. Dog,

  865. he thought I was going to do it. Yeah, some

  866. he made mud, but some he said see right, the

  867. blind see. But he had to, he said twice because

  868. the first time he saw trees right like shadows. So

  869. he says, so do we pray twice for everyone? Because

  870. Jesus only did once in the Bible lay hands Ah

  871. Mark sixteen seventeen eighteen says, and they.

  872. Shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

  873. So lay hands. But Jesus didn't always lay hands on.

  874. He comes in front of a man with a withered hand,

  875. and he just says, like this, right, he just stretched

  876. out that hand and the with it hand went on. No,

  877. not with a sound effect, but you know, just right now,

  878. didn't touch him. Didn't touch Jim. Right. The friends that

  879. let down their friend from the roof right. He just says,

  880. your sins are forgiven, right, and as how can you

  881. forgive sins? So okay, let me do another thing. No

  882. one I do I forgive your sins.

  883. Take up your walk.

  884. Now, there's many ways. So as they're watching him, they

  885. can't quite figure him out there, they can't quite figure

  886. the formula. And then they thought and thought to themselves,

  887. I'm sure I'm just trying to now be speaking to

  888. a whole group of young people in a youth meeting.

  889. And so in youth meetings we always use our imagination.

  890. The order we get our imagination just gets into the

  891. dark ages.

  892. But if all of you in this.

  893. Room are young, you can imagine with me, I'm working

  894. with Jesus, trying to put him in the box, trying

  895. to understand him, trying to see, hey, is it one finger?

  896. Is it one hand? You know? And they couldn't get

  897. any certainty except one. And they must have gone around

  898. each other, twelve disciples and say, hey, I think I

  899. think it's prayer. I think every time we try to

  900. find him and cannot find him, he's gone somewhere. No,

  901. he's gone somewhere to pray it.

  902. Could that be there? Could there be the secret?

  903. And maybe or every time he disappears and he goes

  904. and looks for his father because I can't quite put

  905. him together, maybe maybe this is the only reason why.

  906. And so let's ask him how to pray. All right,

  907. let's ask him how to pray. Okay, let's look at

  908. one scripture and then I'll go deeper, and then I'll

  909. draw toward close.

  910. So the Bible says in Isaiah.

  911. Fifty three, it confirms that Jesus wasn't handsome, for he

  912. shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as

  913. a root out of dry ground. He has no form

  914. of comeliness comeliness, and when we see him, there is

  915. no beauty that we should desire him. Mmmm. Jesus came.

  916. He was so normal that when you walk past him,

  917. you could miss him. Now, if you want to do

  918. a Bible study, form is a physical form. Six pack

  919. is a form, muscles, big shoulders, tall form. So he

  920. didn't even have that.

  921. You study.

  922. If you go into your study, form means physical attractiveness.

  923. Comeliness is different. Comeliness is royalty. So you can be

  924. actually not good looking, right, but you could be riding

  925. a rose royce and then suddenly you're good looking. You

  926. know a guy that was talking, I think his name

  927. is Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey said, don't worry about your looks.

  928. If you can come in a ferrari, you look good already.

  929. So first this looks didn't have that. Then now comeliness.

  930. Comeliness is majesty, a royalty, and majesty that's coming. He

  931. didn't even have that. Let mean, when he walked into

  932. a room, he didn't come, Oh, here comes the king

  933. because he carried this king.

  934. He didn't have that.

  935. No form, no comeliness, and no beauty, no beauty. He

  936. will not appear. Jesus will not appear on the front

  937. page of a magazine. Okay, so now it's where I

  938. head to the last lap and tell you a few things.

  939. And those of you who are long enough with me,

  940. oh no, this is true, ladies and gentlemen. Let me

  941. tell you about ex Church. Let me tell you about

  942. ex Church because ex Church has this value called prayer power.

  943. And I want to tell you a few things that

  944. God told me.

  945. Are you ready? I don't know why you're here now,

  946. but if you're here, you're here because of Jesus, and

  947. you're here because prayer is alive in this house.

  948. So point number one I want to give.

  949. Very quickly, don't you if you take it down, is

  950. just one of those things the lot just dropped on

  951. my heart. One thing I think the lot all show

  952. me and encourage me. You will never be able to

  953. point to a foreign a foreign founder in ex. Church one.

  954. You will never be able to point to a foreign founder. Now,

  955. some churches are drawn or drawing people because they have

  956. a foreign founder.

  957. I know when I was part of SIB.

  958. SIB that now looks very local will tell you that

  959. SIB was started by Australian missionaries. We don't have that.

  960. There is no foreign pastor. Unless you think that your

  961. pastor being born in Singapore tells you that a foreign

  962. pastor can also draw a lot of people.

  963. We don't have one.

  964. We don't have people hired from outside because every one

  965. of our pastors was built from inside. There's not one

  966. pasta in extras that has been hired from outside because

  967. God told us build your leaders from within. Trust them,

  968. believe in them, empower them and let them lead, let

  969. them plant just that's number two. In fact number three, okay,

  970. we don't have any Hirings. When I was speaking in

  971. Planet Shakers camp in Melbourne many years ago, a pastor

  972. Madfielder was still there and I spoke the last message

  973. that he said to me later because almost all of them,

  974. all five hundred of the young people are almost all

  975. of them were the Auto co.

  976. Couldn't even take them.

  977. So the Holy Spirit came upon all of them, and

  978. four hundred ninety five of them were Asians, only five

  979. whites in Melbourne Planet Shakers Church in the campus. And

  980. then Madfielder told me later as he was drinking music,

  981. Passa Kenneth, I want to let you know that last

  982. message has confirmed some things to me. And because of

  983. that last message, I will go to Malaysia with my

  984. family and we will do whatever God told us. Before

  985. that message, he said to me he was struggling whether

  986. he should go or not. And so a lot of

  987. us will point to the amazing personality in a Passer

  988. Madfielder for the how Kingdom City has grown. Oh, I

  989. tell you this man is a good man. He loves

  990. Asians that he was one. You know. He loves chili,

  991. he loves fright food. He loves it, he said to me,

  992. Passer Kenneth thank you for that message. I want to

  993. tell you that my family and I are deciding to

  994. go to Malaysia because God said to me, don't let

  995. The message I spoke at the camp was don't let

  996. t h e y, don't let thy dictate your future.

  997. And a lot of us are surrounded by T Y.

  998. They they they, he said they did this. They went

  999. on a holiday, they bought a car, they bought a house.

  1000. They you know this day, TG Y can be one

  1001. of the worst four letter words in the world. And

  1002. we are so pressured by t g Y. And so

  1003. that was my message. And uh, and I love the

  1004. fact that Pastor Matt said to me, I am gonna

  1005. stop hearing what they say, and I'm just gonna hear

  1006. what he says. Then you have this foreign pastor who

  1007. comes and the church has grown. I want to tell

  1008. you that there's no foreign mentor. Someone asked me today,

  1009. you know, Pascana, do you have a foreign mentor. I

  1010. don't have one.

  1011. My friends have got one. They got one in Singapore,

  1012. they got one in America.

  1013. They can say my mentor is from America, my mentor

  1014. is from London, my mentor is from Singapore, my mentor

  1015. is from Australia.

  1016. I don't have one.

  1017. I'm not saying it out to be proud. God showed me,

  1018. he says Kenneth. I want to tell you this is

  1019. truly a Malaysian made church, a church made in Malaysia

  1020. by my grace.

  1021. And for my glory.

  1022. You didn't start with a foreign founder. You have no

  1023. foreign pastor you have no foreign mentor you have no

  1024. foreign support. Every bit of money that built X came

  1025. from the Lord. Somebody say, amen, Kenneth chan, let me

  1026. tell you another thing. You don't have any foreign speakers

  1027. week after week is your own people that's rising up

  1028. to bring the word of God to the church.

  1029. Sometimes.

  1030. I remember I was part of FGA and MG had

  1031. very many good foreign speakers. And that's not wrong, it's

  1032. not wrong. But you can't give glory to your speakers.

  1033. That's why I'm trying to get at so as I'm

  1034. going to go through this list, and I hope that

  1035. by the end you know what there for brought us here.

  1036. That should be the question you asked as I go

  1037. through the list, Prayer brought us here? Just plain dependency

  1038. on the Lord. I think every time you're are up

  1039. to speak right, You're probably going to depend on the

  1040. Lord like right, Jason, because none of us are born

  1041. to speak, none of us are trained to speak in

  1042. that sense, but we depend on the Holy Spirit. Next one,

  1043. no foreign speakers, okay, no foreign highers. I said that really,

  1044. no external highest, No sugar daddy. Do you know that

  1045. God has not allowed ex church to have many millionaires?

  1046. I thought of myself why I got it?

  1047. Helped? Of course, a liter just got no the idea.

  1048. When I was talking to a pasta chewing g of

  1049. Sib Kenneth, let's do this together, okay, you and I,

  1050. let's reach the young people of Malaysia. I said, yeah, great, Passau,

  1051. I really have this vision to reach young people of Malayia.

  1052. And then he tells me money is not a problem.

  1053. I love it. I mean, I wish more pastors with

  1054. the minute. But of course, so many millionaires and that

  1055. dogs and tund streets are in Sib. Great they have

  1056. been able to draw that. And you know, rich people

  1057. draw rich people. I usually don't have all, so I

  1058. cannot depend on multi millionaires. I've got to depend on

  1059. people with a millionairs. So don't lose your hair so quickly.

  1060. This is normal. People. Hello, Normal people who love Jesus

  1061. who put into the offering are like the lady put

  1062. two mites and on that God builds his house. No, sugar, Daddy,

  1063. don't have. Don't have again. Let's do this right, Let's

  1064. go plan now. The next church we're gonna plan is

  1065. probably nothingham uk. Okay, so the nothingham here universe Nottingham

  1066. will will link with the nothingham in uk. Uh. Oh,

  1067. no problem, I'm just going to I'll just go and

  1068. ask time tree so and so so I can get

  1069. the budget. No, no, there's't there's no time tree so

  1070. and so. There's no tree. There's just you and me

  1071. and prayer. Oh God, please, if you don't move, there

  1072. is no church. That's right. That's exactly God how God

  1073. wants it. He doesn't want you to depend on anything else.

  1074. No famous personality links, no famous personality links. I don't

  1075. know you're taking notes or not, but I'll give these

  1076. thoughts to you if you are, if you're interested, this

  1077. is your legacy as ex church. There is no famous

  1078. personality links. I remember a time when our dear friend,

  1079. Pastor Kevin Lou built a city hoverse. His famous personality

  1080. link was come he right, and of course when com

  1081. he fell, you know they had to change the name.

  1082. Of the church.

  1083. No poster boy. The recent election was won by BN,

  1084. and everybody says the poster boy is on, that was on.

  1085. He's a poster boy of BN.

  1086. Here in exchigs don't have post the boy don't have

  1087. no prestigious Bible school, right, Pastor Kenachinu graduated from all

  1088. Roberts universe. No, in fact, can I please confess to you,

  1089. I don't have a Bible's School degree. I only have

  1090. a law degree. And actually it shouldn't work because we

  1091. are doing the work of grace. No best selling book.

  1092. At least some passes got best selling book. People come

  1093. by the tensend. I tried to write about but it's

  1094. far from being bestseller. If I lose money, I print,

  1095. and I because God said write the book, I print

  1096. and then I let it go, and then you know

  1097. it's losing money. No best selling album. We tried, Julian,

  1098. We tried experiment one. Do you know why we still

  1099. call the experiment because after today we still experimenting our

  1100. own guys. I remember was you know, really like we

  1101. can't do an album? Who are we to do an album,

  1102. you know, And I said no, the Lord says to me.

  1103. But it wasn't supposed to be a best selling album.

  1104. It was just supposed to obedient to the Lord, pray

  1105. and get an album out. No best selling album. Okay,

  1106. now I have to really go fast. No superstar band. Sorry, John,

  1107. I I I John, you look like your superstars, seriously

  1108. said I'm fine, I'm fine. I fine. Yeah, I don't, don't.

  1109. Don't there, But you're still here. You're still here because

  1110. you didn't come for the book. You didn't come for

  1111. the album. You didn't come for the band. You didn't

  1112. come for the personality. You didn't come for the speaker.

  1113. No big band, no big sound, no big lighting system.

  1114. You know, the sound system in this place can all

  1115. be packed in a box and put into a storage

  1116. here and still not think over the storage.

  1117. You know, you only have a small part in the storage.

  1118. But there's done.

  1119. You didn't come for the sound, you didn't come for

  1120. the band. You didn't come for the system.

  1121. No lavish or expensive equipment, that's right, No lavish equipment,

  1122. No new fashion worth talking about.

  1123. Yeah, you guys addressed really.

  1124. Well, seriously, but there's no new fashion worth talking about

  1125. I know, and I look around. The fashion in churches

  1126. are changing, and people go like, Oh, that's cooler, that's nicer.

  1127. There's mobile, don't have don't have no new trend worth following.

  1128. I'm gonna enter it. I got, I got three more.

  1129. No denominational backing. I see some churches do very well,

  1130. but they could be part of the Methodist Church, do

  1131. U MC. I see some Baptist churches doing well. I

  1132. see some SIB churches doing well, but extras has no

  1133. denomination to depend on. No beautiful building, no numbers that

  1134. draw numbers.

  1135. Let's look at the next light. Oh is this the

  1136. next lil ready for you see your Is this the

  1137. next night?

  1138. Okay?

  1139. You see your calling? Brethren?

  1140. That not many wise according to the flash, No many mighty,

  1141. not many noble are called. But God has chosen the

  1142. foolish things of the world to put the shame the wise.

  1143. And God has chosen the weak things of the world

  1144. to put the shame. The shame of things which are mighty,

  1145. and the base things of the world, and the things

  1146. which are despised. God has chosen, and the things which

  1147. are not to bring to nothing, the things that are

  1148. that no flesh should glory in His presence as I do.

  1149. To a close.

  1150. This is what it is to be a prayer Howard

  1151. church is to be a church that lives and breathes

  1152. and survives and succeeds on total dependency on God, which

  1153. means that prayer has to power us. When people come

  1154. to our office, they come to my office. My office

  1155. base small, you know, one of the smallest pastor's office.

  1156. I think it's just that corner that can only sit

  1157. two people in front of me. And it's a small office.

  1158. But it's okay because on my walls it's empty. I

  1159. don't have any Bible degree. I pray, I pray, and

  1160. I ask God, God, where next? What do you want

  1161. for this church? Maybe a keybodies or a guitarist can

  1162. just come up, not the whole band yet, Maybe maybe

  1163. just I just send God's presence moving in this place.

  1164. So I just want to have someone just make this

  1165. into a worship more than just a closing Thank you Jesus,

  1166. Thank you Jesus. There's nothing else that we can offer you.

  1167. There's nothing else that I can offer you. There's nothing

  1168. else that Jason can offer you. There's nothing else that

  1169. will make Julian and Laura are successful in allow us.

  1170. We are a prayer powered church. Nothing else, no form

  1171. or comeliness, no beauty, nothing. Our walls are empty. We pray.

  1172. We pray for every need let we have, we pray.

  1173. We pray for every direction we need to take.

  1174. We pray. We pray for every church plan before it starts.

  1175. We pray for every partnership. We pray. I want you

  1176. to know that you are part of a praying church,

  1177. and the reason why you're here is because of nothing

  1178. else but Him. We have no external attraction for you,

  1179. no external thing, nothing. The reason why you're here is

  1180. because prayer brought you here. I'm gonna give you the

  1181. last slide if I can. Prayer means humility before God.

  1182. Prayer means dependency on God. Prayer means powered by God.

  1183. Prayer means relationship with God. Prayer means glory to God.

  1184. That's what prayer means. You don't want to know what

  1185. Pastor Kenna Chin's biblical degree is, because he has none.

  1186. But what you might want to know is that I

  1187. was in my quiet time this morning from four fifty

  1188. five in the morning to seven fifteen.

  1189. That's what you want to know.

  1190. I woke up at four forty five, was in my

  1191. prayer room at four fifty five, and I was just

  1192. caught up in God's presence, downloading from the Lord. And

  1193. when I was finished at seven fifteen, I felt so

  1194. full of the Lord. I felt so blessed, so confident

  1195. in God. What you want to know is not how

  1196. long Kenneth Chin has been in ministry. You want to know.

  1197. Whether he prayed for you this morning.

  1198. There are many things that we run after that actually

  1199. has no bearing on our faith. There's many things that

  1200. we run after that actually has no bearing on our future.

  1201. What you want to know is whether your pastor has prayed,

  1202. spend time in God's presence. What you want to know

  1203. is whether Jason before he preached has been in the

  1204. presence of Almighty God. What you want to know before

  1205. a family goes to Laos is whether together they have

  1206. spent time talking and listening to God and will continue

  1207. to do so allows what you want to know. What

  1208. you want to know is that we are prayer power

  1209. and that nothing else about X has brought you here

  1210. because there's nothing else we have to offer. We don't

  1211. even have our own building, we don't have many things

  1212. that people chase. After. All I can offer you is

  1213. that we seek God. Don't have all the money, but

  1214. we seek God. He gives. Don't have all the money,

  1215. but we seek God and He plans the church. We

  1216. are a prayer powered church. What is the power behind

  1217. X NO? Not that pastor? What's the power behind the

  1218. x NO? Not that building? What's the power behind x NO?

  1219. Not that best selling book? What's the power behind x NO?

  1220. Not that winning song? What's the power behind x NO?

  1221. Not that band? What's what's the real power?

  1222. The disciples up for We're asking what is it?

  1223. What is it Jesus? What makes Jesus take?

  1224. And they said to themselves, it must be prayer. It

  1225. must be prayer.

  1226. Lord, teach us how to pray, because we know that's

  1227. where the power lies. As church, that's where your power lies.

  1228. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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