12+1 Core Values: Faith Evident | Pr. Alvin

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Today's topic we're gonna talk about faith evident faith evidence.

And I told you know my my chesch plan just

now in the Xperia. I really like this topic. Okay,

I really like this topic, and mainly because I've lived

it right and I'm like, oh, this topic no very

hard to share, of course, hah, you're so confide. Let

me share you why I say that. Okay, if you

got your Bible, so if you please starn to Hebrews

chapter eleven. We're gonna read a bit of scripture and

then we go into it. Uh, and I've got some

stories to share you guys. Okay. So Hebrews chapter eleven,

it says, now, faith is a substance of things hoped

for the evidence of things not seen. For by it,

the elders obtain a good testimony. Amen. By faith, we

understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,

so that the things which are seen were not made

of things which are visible. Amen. So faith this talks

about faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for

and the evidence of things not seen. So let's learn

a little bit about faith. Uh here do you know that?

So just just use you guys as an example. You

don't know what faith is? Right? Do you know that

you have faith? You know? I believe that you have

faith because you're here. Let me ask you a question

here you're answer here. Anybody here saw Jesus die in

a cross for you? Anybody here you saw Jesus like

you explicitly saw Jesus die on the cross for you?

God not. Don't have right? Everybody? How how are you believe?

Why do you believe? It was the word of God's return? Here?

You see right? By faith, we understand that the worlds

were not framed by the worlds were framed by the

word of God. So we understand the word of God.

Therefore we believe. Therefore we have faith that Jesus died

on the cross for us. Amen. So you guys have faith.

Everybody here have faith? Look at neyhbody say you faith? Okay?

By being here and by believing, you know, you might

have different More specific stories are like, oh why do

you believe? Of course my friend is or I experience

goose bumbs. I hear Christians say that a lot. So

then every time they feel goose bumbs, they say it's

a holy spirit. Sometimes we skettle so we feel goosebumps.

Not so I get very like, oh okay, you're sure. No,

it's it's just because that can be different reasons. Why

you know all my my auntie reach out to me. No, no,

by But you have faith, amen. So it is by

faith that you're here. Okay. So I would say you

understand what faith is because you believe in something that

you didn't see. Right. It's the substance of things. Hope

for you? What do you hope for you? Hope that

Jesus will save you? Love? Correct? Not right? And it's

the evidence of things not seeing. What's the evidence? This

is the evidence. So when we say faith evidence, we're

talking about not just a faith like oh I have faith,

But no, it is in action, it says here. Faith

is active obedience. Right, faith is active obedience. We also

know that in faith he rules eleven six says, but

without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he

who comes to God must believe that he is and

that He is a reward for those who diligently seek him.

So we also know that if you've got no faith.

You can't please God. Okay, and we all want to

please God. You got no faith, you can't please God.

If you read Hebrews chapter eleven, you also read that

different ones did different things because of their faith in God. Right,

right able provided a better sacrifice. Abraham believed, you know,

different different people in the Bible. It also tells me

that faith is something that is not Yes, faith is personal,

you believe in it. But faith is also something depending

on our people, your your cash. That not right because

it says in the Bible that we are so surrounded

by a cloud or winnesses. Know how are we here today?

It was someone else's faith that caused me to be

here today. I remember my parents sharing me a story

about how they receive Christ. And you know our parents

might have this story if you are a second third

generation Christian, that a missionary came all the way from

don't nowhere, Scotland.

Lie.

I heard you know us. I think my parents are us,

came here, reached out to them, planted church with the past.

No came out. My dad got saved, my mom got

saved to the ministry, and then they joined another person

and planted the church. See it's why that man's fave

that I am here now a believer. It is by

my father's faith that I believe in. Why I believe

because I see my father pray believe right, So it

is also reliant on another person's fath That also means that.

But of course it's not fully realized influenced by pure's faith.

So I'm just trying to tell you that it is

your faith, yes, but it is also whether people encourage

you to believe more. That's why it is active, friends, right,

Romans ten seventeen says, So then faith comes by hearing,

and hearing by the word of God. So where does

faith come? It comes from God's word. It cannot come

from anywhere else. I can share a very powerful testimony

here about my story. But if it's if it's just

me and my story and there's no God's word, there

is It's not. There's no power in it, friends, there's

no it's just a good story. It's just Oh, I

feel no. But when you hear the word of God,

there is power. Do you know that everything I'm reading

right now to you is the word of God? Right?

It is the word of God that brings our faith.

It is the call what we do. Amen. Faith is

also r I s K is risk. Okay, because let's

let's let's let's let's do a bit of a let's

not be a reflection today. Okay, let's still be a

reflection because without risk, I'm not sure whether it's really

faith or not. Okay, let me ask you a question here. Okay,

think of a time in your Lifelah, go think of

a time in your life where you were encouraged or

you had to step up in faith. It's a step up,

min it's a step up. Right, think of that time.

Let me ask you a question. Was there was everything

sorted when you had to make the decisions? Was it

all laid out for you that you actually had to

step by in faith you know? Or was there uncertainty?

Maybe out of ten things, two things you're not sure

they were quite good at yeah? Right. For a lot

of us who step by in faith, sometimes only two

things you're shirt, eight things you're not sure, or sometimes

even worth one thing you're sure. We just trust God

or God said right everything asked, you're like, I don't know, man,

I know what's gonna happen? Right? Then? On need you

have to stay up in faith? So isn't it risk?

Isn't it risk? Let me ask you another question. Can

we as believers be doctrinally correct? Can we be doctrinally

correct but have an inactive or hidden faith? Don't answer me,

just think about it. Can or not treat question now?

Because God's works got to say something about it? Right,

Because it says in James chapter two, well I would

read second Timothy first having a form of godliness, but

denying it is power. The Bible says in the latter

days there will be those people like that you, So

we can actually be doctrinally correct. Everything correct, everything correct,

everything correct? I follow everything. But faith is hidden. No

one knows, right, James two seventeen eighteen says does also,

But faith by itself, if it does not have works,

it's dead. But someone will say you have faith and

I works. Show me your faith without your works, and

I will show you my faith by my works. Friends,

faith in your life must be alive. So you have

faith by believing in Christ. You do have faith. But

that's not the end goal. Friends, Because faith is alive

every day. We have to make decisions every day. It's

one thing to say I believe in Jesus is another

thing to act like. You don't believe in Jesus, so

you understand what that means or have a separation? Oh,

in church can hallelujah? A man prays, the Lord pray.

All the moment reached outside is all different. You don't

understand the world operates differently. I cannot survive if I

don't operate how the world? Friends? Can you read the Bible?

The Bible constantly talks about don't follow the world constantly

talks about that. Okay, so we know that faith and

works go hand in hand. Faith and works, Okay, it

does well. The sad thing is a lot of people

have faith. You have faith, but we don't have work

to prove it. That is why one of our values

is faith evident. Your catch that faith evident because faith

needs to be evident. There needs to be an expression

of faith. Right going back to Second Timothy, it shows

that we can actually do everything right in our Christian life.

Can can We can get everything right, say the right things,

do everything right, but not experience the power of God.

When we think about faith, we need to connect back.

We believe correct because faith have faith when we have

a be of faith, have a little faith right, got

people have this other line that they say, so by

not in the Bible, Oh take a leap of faith.

For some of us who are super reserves, that one

step is like a leap, right, Okay, but actually by

by then say take a lot of faith. By ways,

say walk in the spirit walk by what? No not jump? No,

don't so fast jump walk. See, God is so good

to us us just to take one step first, then

take the other step. Then take the other step, then

take the other step. What do you know the full

end results? You will know a lot of you here.

I know for those who are close enough to know

your story. I know during the time of struggle, during

the dram a challenge, it was a walk, some even

a crawl. You couldn't even see the end, but you

still walked by faith. That is power in that amen

faith connectpect to believe, obedience, walking with the Holy Spirit.

It's opening up ourselves to God's radma word, you know,

Ramma log us ramdma right. The ability to hear God speak.

Hear Lots of Christians say things like, oh God spoke right,

the ability to take God's spoken work and obeyed right.

Can I can I clarify something to you? God spoken

and ramdma world does not contradict his logos word you

know it doesn't. That's that's how we know whether or

not it is God speaking or something else wiking okay,

or someone else wigaking. That's how we know. And can

I give you another secret, that's how church leaders know

whether God is speaking to you or not. But because

you say godspeak, you can't say anything you know, So

be very careful when we say God spoke to me

that I will do this, we really do you really

read the scripture to fully understand that is this something

that God asks you to do? Be very careful when

we say that. At the same time, not everything. Need

to pray on because I believe if God really wrote

it here, you should do it. Corona honor your father

and mother should do it right, be generous, should do it,

be kind, should do it, love one another to do it. Okay,

let me go for the hard ones. Serf your serve

your unbelieverab boss as though you're serving God. Need to prayer.

Should do it because when you serve them as yourself

like because God honor you, MA see a lot more

harder things are there. They were like I think I

better pray for us. What's difficult? No, we should follow. See.

So this is my my argument. You are if we

cannot follow the written word, right, what if God gives

you a specific word, how do you how are we

going to follow it? If we cannot even follow the

written word that sometimes it's difficult, how are we going

to follow a customized specific word that God is speaking

to you? Half? No, half to you will be tough,

But we step by in faith, right and we open

up to God's red our word. Really, the ability to

hear him speak, the ability to take his word and obey. Okay,

real talk. Is it going to be easy?

No?

But it starts small. Can I show this to you?

It starts small. That's how I say. When I saw

this stopping, I'm going to do I quite well. I've

lived it, friends. Let me give you a bit of

a Let me give you some perspective of why I

say that, Not to say that I'm boasting. That are

a very big time No, no, no, no, no, I've

lived it. I've lived a life of faith. That's why

when I talk to people, I encourage people to live

a life of faith because I see that it works,

and not just that I not just how to say.

It's not just I live it because I know it,

but because I've heard other people go through it. You know,

the wonderful thing about being in our church is that

there's so many stories of faith. A lot of you

here have stories of faith about how you obey God

and then things happen. How you obeyed God and trusted him,

how you stepped out in faith, how you don't have

all the answers but you still went anyway and God

moved right, And then we encourage one another. Can I

share your story? I was reminded of this story about

how I came into full time ministry. You know, I'm

not sure that I've shared this with everybody, but how

I came into full time ministry was so I graduated

as a film and animation student. I say, oh, so,

I can I imagine? I'm here now film and animation

student from Multimedia University, and my goal that time was

to join Pixar and work there. Right. Thank god I

didn't fulfill that goal, because if you know an animator's life,

thank god I didn't. Right. And the first job I

told was animation company called Persists of Vision, and they

do a lot of exciting work for Disney and all friends.

Can I be honest with you, if you are doing

animation here today and you're doing very well, please are

this not for you? Okay? Or if you're thinking about

doing animation, this not for you. So don't be discouraged

by this. But from what I know, doing animation in

nature is factory work because you're not going to get

the big projects. But you're the factory la. Your name

might not even come out in in the credit is

now okay, it's just the way it is. But fun

market to do the work. So during that six months

of job, I had an epiphany from the Lord. Okay,

I say from locks every humla, because I was still

you know, young, aspiring, going to be the next film director,

stuff like that. But then as I was doing my

work in the factory, I had a pyphony, like I

work so hard, I do so much, and all I

do is make people laugh. All I do is entertain people.

All I do is Again now I say, if you're

doing animation and you're passionate about it, it's not for you, Okay.

I had a papny know you know, you know you.

I had a ephony, like I work so hard, just

to make people laugh, just to entertain people. There has

to be something more in life than this. And I

quit my job and that was jobless for six months.

See God knows how to set you up one, you know,

because I was job that was six months. I was

so desperate to find a job. And then lo and

behol I had a job opportunity for ay a right.

A close friend say hey, come, you know, we're looking

for a part time part timer to do video. No

I win my call do video, right, And I'm like, okay, La,

I okay, I say yes Lah, actually desperate And it

was part time. It was not even full time right

at that time. It was under a flat Fish Communications.

That was the first company and we close that and

then now we got at the flat Fisher, but that

was the company I joined and we did an online magazine.

I was doing video for them, right, and it was good,

it was fun, it was meaningful, it was purposeful. But

it was part time. I was surviving on a loalvekeif

I'll tell you how much seven hundred a month?

La?

Did you go? Seriously? And I was saying, clang driving right,

of course, do you have to pay ran? Right? But

the agreement that I had with then my then employer

was you know, my predicament, So I will do part time,

but I will go and look for a job. I

will go and search, I'll go and do interviews. So, friends,

let me tell you how many interviews I did. I

sent up at that time. I got no job. Street

got no indeed, got nothing, you know, got no like

it was. It was like you had to send out

emails and write letters. I sent out to one hundred

and twenty companies to find the job. I went for

seventeen interviews. I was so good at going for interviews

that I asked them questions. That's how good I was.

But I was e sperate. I remember some of the

jobs I applied for while I was working in Aya.

Some of the jobs I applied for, I applied for, uh,

you know, you just not will be closer to your

you know one ONEMA have these screens the screen that

not a lot of happening. Right at that time, they

were just starting up the department. So I met the

manager and they were looking for an animator person. I

went for the interview. I thought I did well. I

didn't the job. Then I went for another interview with

ATV a system producer. They wanted me to work twenty

four to seven, twenty four hours, seven days a week, right,

And I say, yes, I will do it. But why

I hope you younger, and I hope you catch this.

But that extra just one service one on Sunday ten

o'clock to the clock. Can don't touch her? Of course

I need to go to church, I asked in the interview.

I didn't get the job, I said, I worked my

ass off for you. I worked later, so I need

to But the one can don't touch on it? How

a system producer? How cannot lae? Right? I spoke to

the producer it was gonna hire me, she said, I

mean I didn't get a call back. So I was desperate.

I got desperate and after three months of working, and

of course during this time prayer, I prayer asked a

lot for direction. After three months of working, I'm like

still way like restless where wrestlers still trusting Lord? Why

I like the job but they cannot hire me? But

what is the plan that you have for me? All

these questions? Right? Because you believe that a lot will

provide for you and you give you a good job

and stuff like that. I went through that struggle, and

I remember my haarder leader then got me a job

interview with a startup skincare company. I won't use the

name NA right to be a designer, right, proper paying job. Okay.

They were offering one point eight. So I went for

the interview right like say, in between jobs. In between.

I mean it was good. I know, go halfway, go

and find job, then still do whatever I need to

do part time. Went for the interview action war asked

for two thousand war Okay, I know now one point

eight now is like low income, low low wage. No, no, no,

last time it was not low, which was quite high.

So one point that's what two K. On the way

back to the office to a YA and SC, I

call my mom and I was telling her. I was

so excited. Oh Mom, this good job. You know they're

gonna hire me full time. They got plans. You know,

it's a startup. After junior designer, I'm gonna be senior

designer and I'm going to do all these things. You know,

my mom is a wise woman. All the moms are

a wife. She asked me this one question, you really

like what you're doing now right, yes, but they're don't

bring me full story. So how you know I need money?

You know? Okay, okay. Then she asked me this other question.

Do you see yourself as a senior designer for a

skincare company in five years? Hm? Hmm, I said, thanks, Mom,

put on the phone. These treat months of learning lower

than MINIMUMA. You know, God, where are you?

You know?

So I pard, Lord, Lord how I was struggling, and

then God gave me this verse, don't be loot warm

you are a heart or your call? And I said, God,

I know what to do. I went back to my

then manager's office. I went met him. I said, hey,

this is what's going to happen. I was ready three

months in and I was waiting monthly. Are you gonna

hire me? Are you gonna hiar me? And I said,

you know what I'm going to do this. I'm not

going to look for jobs outside. I'm going to commit

until the end of the year, which is the next

three months until the end of the year. And if

at the end of the year beginning of that you

hire me, great. If you don't hire me, I will

move on, so I won't be in between. But ya know,

I was asking for right. I was saying, I'm going

to commit to not do any other thing and to

survive on seal hiring it for the next three months, right,

and to fully commit. So I said okay, and then

she like, of course, sha sure or not? I like, yes, sure,

God said, don't be loot warm. Then after that I

got a phone call miscalled from the lady, the hiring manager.

There was a Friday miscalled me right before, but I

was so busy what I didn't see then because I

decided I didn't answer. Then came the weekend. Then on

Monday morning I got a phone call again. She called me,

and I picked up Elvin. I've got good news. Yes,

we're gonna hire you and we will match your asking salary. Well,

how many of you go Praise the Lord? You've answered

the prayer you've been praying for three months. You know

that you're gonna get a job and you're gonna How

many of you will go there? I said, oh, thank you,

by I think I'll stay here. Are you sure? Because

the hiring manager was a good friend of my heart

leader then and she knew where I was. And I said, yeah,

I'm sure, and I put on the phone, and I'm like,

what the heck did I just do? I turned a

two thousand dollars paying job that I wanted for seven

hundred bucks. Lord, you've got to come true for me. Friends,

I survived the other three months. Come January, a y

I gave me a job and I've been working there

until today. Okay, you can see the Lord has blessed me. Okay,

look like I have all money, no money? Look like okay,

looks can be the same anyway. I can also tell

you that that's six months working in a y A.

I will never trade it for anything because I learned

about faith in the six months. There was once where

I ran out of money. Okay, see I still work

in Clang. I still work in sorry away in Subang,

I saying Clang, I said take the part. The time

on Federal Highway got to now no, already the time

got to have to pay patrol. So no, thank god,

that time patrol still got sla. Okay, I only take

money to last a week to pay patrol and toe right. Oh,

but before that, let me let me rewind a little bit.

Why was I so confident taking the job. Well, maybe

because the time my pasta Passa Kenna share a lot

of story about how God moved in his life through faith.

Share about how and saw you might have heard his

story before God challenged him to give and when he

looked in his wallet only got wondering git or hundering git.

And he prayed, I's God, God, which color you want

me to put? And I got say, Papa color God,

is that really you? And then he gave the huntering git.

And then he was hungry. And then after church someone

saw him and said, I've been looking for you, took

him out to it and he still had his wondering git.

How Passa Canna shared when he was driving his car

and he had no cash, he only could script whatever

cash he had, and he had enough money to go.

And God has never, never, never put him in a

place where he has zero in his bank account close

to zero? Gola, Can I tell you that I've experienced

those things so so But as I hear my pastor's share,

I was so encouraged. I say, if God can do

it for him, God can do for me. It's just

fafe stories. And I experienced my fave stories in the

six months as a young adult, and God moved there

was once I okay, go back to the story. I

had no cash, only had cash, and then god aya

got free my low. So I read plenty, I'm gonna

survive my low and magi me and like, God, you

still provide. I went to office a bit discouraged. Went

to office in the morning, unlock everything, went to my

table and I saw nicely my keyboard, the old school keyboard.

Last time, Okay, now it's happening, but last time he was,

you know, not so happening. One hundred dollar bill just

propped out on my keyboard. I was staring at it

for a while that I was like looking around. No

one else is in office. And then I'm like, in

my mind because somebody actually dropped, it cannot be what

it's propped up nicely on my keyboard. And then I

knew it is for me. Until today, I don't know

who gave me the hunting kit. It's probably what my

colleagues are. Definitely like, I cannot be anyone else that right,

But I never tell my colicue. I never tell anyone

my predical and I don't like, oh you know, I

got no. I never never do that. Just trust God

and Keller just a Wifler right, Malusola, Right, Maluso. I

have so much more testimonies in the six months. And

the cool thing is, let me read the next point.

Faith as a legacy for the future generations. It is

not just the testimonies of the past, but the testimonies

of our future as well. Not just past the Kennef

and extra testimonies, but our children and our next in

line experiencing God in their lives. So, friends, I recognize faith.

That's why I'm so big on it. That's why when

I talk to people, I encourage them to act in faith,

not because I, oh, you just know. I know it works,

and I've heard other people having stories of how faith works.

It just works when you're trust in God. I've heard

so many buss here they got amazing faith testimonies about

how God provided for them. Don't talk about so far.

Even Xbu Xbu would not have started without faith if

Steven didn't obey God, because honestly, he was not in

the radar at all, zero in the radar. Right. I

thought he just like this young chap, you know, trying

to be funny, right, Sorry, Initia, Initia thoughts that Inia

thoughts like Okay, I really sad before that I'm a skeptic. Okay,

that's why when got work in my lamb. Like, okay, Lord,

you know this funny, right, faith it was by faith

that this is just one started. And look at how

beautiful it's become. Right, you can you can go and

find out from Sharon steven story. So also a faith

field story. Right, A lot of you don't know now open, really,

I can share more. Okay, So let me share Sharon's side, okay,

because she's from XBJA and she's one of my my

camera students, right, I quite protective now, okay, but this

boy is in my handle.

So so like, oh Lord, give me grades now you

have to be you have to be neutral.

So of course I try my best to support her

in the difficult times, but I ken you not friends.

Sharon really has a lot of faith because she was

part of the original group that wanted to plan x

Kota Damansara. And then when we change the name, of

course I can understand why because she was in Katie

and all. And I remember I said, you have a

choice because we're changing the name, and I know you

want to plan there, I mean, not just me, but

we had a conversation and pastor and all. But for

Steven it was good. I think I've said before that

I never really understood why it was Stephen until we

had to change the name to be and they're like, okay, lord,

it's your plan from day one, because it was any

other person that wanted to blant XKD. When we change

the name, it will not have happened. Yeah, I mean

only got knows, but Steven don't really care that. I

mean whatever name, I can't know, right, So so that

was that was a good thing. That was a good

thing for me. It's like, yeah, it's fine. You know,

as soon as your bland church. That was the that

was the word I got. It was not exec it

was planted church. That was that was it. So that

was very clear. So when we clear that, we move forward, right.

Sharon Coury just said, no, I'm not gonna do it.

It's okay, you know, come at PJ. Right, but she said,

I hurt God and I will continue. And then after that,

unfortunately it didn't really work out relationally between them. Lah,

I won't go too much to do detailer and of course,

to be really honest, A this is why I said

come back to PJ. I know your hurt thing is okay, one,

the cool thing about X Church and I will tell

you honestly, the cool thing about X church is sah,

you don't have to leave X chess one, just go

to na chich plan. No, really, there is the benefit.

And I've seen how people get healed. And then the

media life partnering a notch plan. Okay. So so if

any of you here hurting friends, you'll know where to go. Okay,

just check with your s CBC. Just tell you because

I've seen it happen before. You know, two people in

my chest plan got heartbreak. Now like, okay, then you

go here, you go here then don't know why, different

church planner, but somehow the law can connect them and

all then now they're married doctor Jason and mean anyway

you go ask them a story. Okay. So so I

did that. I said, come come come, you know, I know,

come come, just come. It's okay, it's okay. One, I

hope you're okay. I'm me showing this too late. No,

it's a testimony, friends, it's a testament because this young

girl then I know when when she's she just said

passel and then she said ah, let me pray about it,

these kind things, and you pray pray about it, and

I remember clearly after one week it's okay, past I

will stay because God asked me to stay for the people.

I was like, oh, okay, it is a tough thing

to do, you know. And when she did, I knew

it was out of faith. Did she know that? One

day she and him She don't know. She's been faithful.

And of course after that I got here her complain

about a lot of things are but it's okay, you know,

we'll live you at dead, we'll leave you at that. Okay,

we'll go to watch you do that, and then the

church is blessed. Right, friends, There are so many stories

of faith and people acting in faith, and people taking

the steps of faith even though they don't know everything.

It's a race. It's hard, it's not easy. But when

you obey the word of the Lord, and when you

follow the word of the Lord, testimonies after testimonies of

God moving in your life, what happened. This is why

faith evident. It's a value in our church. Not because

it sounds good, not because he's faith every diener, No,

because it works. Because we see people doing it because

when so I shared about my job, let me share

you a few more testimonies, right, I guess, okay, okay,

I go another five minutes, so I will maximize the

five minutes I remember. So you see, you must understand

how I function after that, and how pass it cannot

function as well, because he's experienced so much of God

that you cannot deny that God can do things right.

And it's from that itself. It's not just from all

understanding the world. Yes, all these God will so la.

But the confidence come from the experience. You know. You know,

when you expe see, you're more confident. You know, it's

one thing to not hate knowledge and to be confident.

It's another thing to experience it and be confident. Right

I I I got married without money? Man, Right, I

didn't I tell you? I tell you this is an

interesting conversation. And so confident now you know my thing

young and THEMB but so confident, you know, did the

girl then gonna get married? I remember clearly when I

was gonna propose, I had a chat with baske Enow.

Then I said, yeah, Pasa, I think in another manla

by the time to throw just so, I said for

five years. Okay. She was very disappointed when I told

her that, you know it was intentional. Okay, I said,

four five years. But it was like, okay, another month

somewhere in like November December. Around that time, I roughly

know I had no money for ring our friends, but

I was so full of favor because maybe fresh experience

God in that time, God will provide you one. Right,

I went and look for ring first. This is why

I help people find ring, because I got experience it, right. Help.

It's a privilege to help my other guys gore look

for ring. They know all the tips. You go ask

themay all the correct tips. So when and look for ring?

No so one I really like. I still remember the

price so funny two thousand eight ring git? Why God

ring get? As we don't know? It was a shopping clang,

and I said, this is the one, This is the one.

And then I prayed and then got provided. You know

how I provided. He gave me a freelance job, right,

a freelance job that I could complain in two weeks,

and you know how much was to pay? Funnily enough,

two thousand ring git. He then the ring get how

when they no no, no, sorry, not too darringit ah, okay,

I remember it was not too daring gad. I don't

remember how much was the pay the exact amount because

it was in single dollar, but when they transferred the

money to me, it was two thousand and eight ring git.

Can you tell me it's not the lord providing? Yes,

I said to work for but it was money that

I didn't have. So we did two thousand and eight

ringgit convert to Malaysia rink from Singapore dollar. I think

it was like five hundred bucks around there, okay, about

six hundred, so it converted nicely, you know. Two thousand eight.

I draw out the money and I bought the ring

friends still know, money for a wedding, and then I

confident legal and proposed to her. Long story shot right

before the wedding. One week before the wedding. Of course,

I budgeted about twenty kayla at the time at that

time now maybe more expensive, okay, the time we budgeted,

and I didn't count the dinner and all that kind

of stuff. And even with that, right, I was shot

by five thousand ringgit. Okay, I was shot by five

down ring git one week before the wedding so can

you imagine how stressed I am? Now? Right, God, you

say you provide, right, and then shot five dollar in

kit okay, and then I'm like killer, just trust scholar.

And I was stressed out. You know, Jess was enjoying herself,

but I was stressed out. I'm like, I don't know

How'm gonna pay for days and stuff like that. But

I was and said, God, you've done it before, you'll

do it again, right, But coming on five thousand, suddenly

it's a bit too like suddenly, so I said, just

don't worry. We will trust God to move. And of

course people keep encouraging you, like, oh, you know, the

dinner will help. But I'm like, I don't know. Okay,

I don't know. I am not I'm not important. I

didn't if I need that. Know that tal came to

my wedding. I think if that comes, the better. I

see a lot of people got that. I don't have that.

I only got God, you know, I got past. Okay,

maybe he's a I don't know, ah, And and I'm like, Kayla,

lot and I tell you my resolve. I was like, Lord,

you were just probably I was stressed out. I was

stressed out. And I was like, but okay, I will

work hard. So my solution to things work hard, I

will sell my car if I need to after we

get married, so that we will not start with that.

Right went through the wedding. I also had story of

wedding didn't go properly. You know my team that I

was reading ext me. My team wanted to do a

video for us, did a church vide announcement for us.

Couldn't play on that day, so they didn't play it. Yeah,

it was so funny because they were like, oh, let's

play a video. Cannot play then okay, Uh, you feel

like you're to go behind. Okas is fine. So we

went through, had a good wedding and my only main

concern was to pay off the dinner okay, because I

didn't really care about extra or whatever, like not happy,

you know, I don't worry about that. So five k

less pay off the dinner, finished the dinner, your your catches,

and went to the room chill. And then my my

my best friend Sunny caught me. Then my main my

first question cover say, don't worry, bro, don't worry. Cover.

Cover You're like okay, okay, okay, Cover, Oh thank god,

cover right, And then I had to ask that. I said,

go extra, and you're like, go go, go extra, go extra.

Oh how much I beg in to you, like I

beging to you to find out? Okay, okka, So he

beging to me there was an additional in two thousand

two weeks after my wedding. My mother will come up

to me. Hel mean this Auntie giving you don't know

from where, don't know from where? Give you unpower? I'm

getting unpower after my wedding. No, the lot provided, the

lot provided, and of course after that, so there was there.

Now this all old story, right. This is why when

I talk to couples, are very confident because I've experienced it.

This is why when you when I talk to young waders,

I wear confident because I experienced it. You gave. I

mean it's come from somewhere. No, because I know God

works right and God can move and of course it

might not be the same predicament. But faith works right.

And I said, faith not just in the past, but

faith in the future. That's why when it comes to

different things like planting church and the ministries and all,

I recognize faith, I recognize God's hand in it, right,

and not just me, A lot of leaders and passers

who understand this. In our church, we recognize and we

can see it, and we encourage people to always act

in faith. When you say cannot, God says can. But

start smaller. Don't expect you to do big things yet, right,

Start small, because if you don't tackle the small, it's

very hard to tackle the big. I could only tackle

big things right now because the small things got culty. Really,

don't fret about the small things sorted? Ready? Right? Learn ready? Oh,

come ready, don't keep going back to it. Now you're

a bigger fish for fry. Now their important things to do? Amen? Right?

I wrote here how we started the timmy ministry. Did

I know? No? I not know. I recently heard a

very sad story about how a pastor also had a

child with special needs, and unfortunately he left the faith.

He was very angry with God. But I can relate

to him because I was very angry at God at

that time. I was very angry. I wanted to quit

full time ministry. I wanted to do a lot of things.

But I think the one thing that saved me was

that I prayed laughter that now ah and pray yeah Okay, lot,

let's see where this goes. Right. But now the ministry,

the expressionist ministry, my goodness, not me, our friends, because

I am none, I am not. I'm not trained, right

I I I didn't get us. I'm a creative person,

not psychology degree. Right. The Lord has given us access

to a lot of people, like even see bells, with

us doing so many great things for families. They're coming

up to say and say thank you so much. There

was no solution until I met your We are nobody,

you know, we are not expert. Now where I'm not expert,

maybe you see we're expert, right. But God knows that

when we act in faith and we move forward, he

will make things happen. That's why faith is evident. I

can tell you the ministry now that's happening. It's not

just the past stories, but the ministry. And I am

so amazed at what God is doing. Not me, you know,

I just fay phony kill, I call this person, do this,

God say talk to this he mean, but God is

the wonder that He's doing all these things. When we

continue to end in faith and when we continue to

move forward, God will move in our lives. Amen. That

is my encouragement. Imagine, everywhere we go in our church,

faith is expressed. Faith is being lived out. No, not

just talk and then no lived out. No, it's real, friends,

Faith is real and the constant obedience to the leading

of the Holy Spirit and the voice of God in

our lives. That is important. Amen, That is what faith

evidence is all about. And I really pray that xb

you will experience it. Maybe you've not then, not dared,

or or not sure or not you know, maybe you've

not been challenged to step by in faith. Why don't

you ask God to put you in a place where

you need to? Right? I share this with the experier

crowd if if you don't start acting up in face,

because see, we're all about getting people to believe, getting

well to do, getting people to mature. You know, when

you're mature as a believer, our friends, when you understand

your faith really deeply, right, do you know that when

tough times come, you will not be shaken because you understand? Right,

I cannot deny that God has worked in my life.

So when tough times come out, I'm like, Okay, tough

times are, but God is too good. But do you

know that when you don't have the experience when it's

just a piece of paper or some words on the

oh favor, it's just it's just that. Do you know

when tough times come you will follow away?

This?

Why has a church? You want? You want to mature

in your faith? When will go deeper? I want to

challenge people to really believe because when you do that, Wow,

you experienced what wonderful thing God can do for you.

And then you will overcome as well, because God saying

his word that he'll make us overcome us. I tell

you so many testimonies, I know Passal said and Pastor

Tajin got so many. And remember one of it was

that when they planted a church and they had no

ex kids, no excites, no about their young family and all,

and Belle and Isaac was there and they're like, oh,

our kids, how are we work so hard? By've met Bell,

She's an awesome person. You know, the law has provided

the load has taken care of them. Right, what is

the thing that God is asking you to do? What

is the thing that we've been challenged? Because see, if

we've been Christian for a long time, I really do

believe that the Holy Spirit will be speaking to you one,

and that's the one thing in your life, or that

you need to address one, or you need to step

up and faith one. What is that one thing? Maybe

today's the day to say, Lord strender it to you.

What should I do? Where should I go? How should

I move forward? Amen? Let's pratt.

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