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Introduction: 12+1 Core Values | Pr Sandra Chin

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  4. to welcome the Holy Spirit in our mids. Amen. He's living,

  5. He's really he's living inside of us. Amen. And this

  6. is why we're who we're gonna be talking about today.

  7. And this is the Holy Spirit. He's our best friend.

  8. He lives with us. He's you know, he's here forever

  9. with us and we should get to know him. Amen.

  10. All right? Cool? So first verse first, first, first, first, first,

  11. we want to just haven't just an overview of why

  12. the introduction about why we are? What is it all about? Yeah,

  13. what is it all about? And where did it come from?

  14. So we're introducing the twelfth plus one called values. Now.

  15. I think some months back in December and to we

  16. did the unpacking of the church vision and the mission.

  17. So again were just coming back revival to revive, back

  18. to where we began and where God is leading us.

  19. And so we we read about oh, we we were

  20. introduced to the vision of the church, the mission of

  21. the church, and the vision of the church tells us

  22. where we are hated, which is what's our vision of

  23. our church haberkurk to fourteen, that the whole earth will

  24. be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

  25. And that is the vision of any of our churches,

  26. is so that everyone will know the glory, the knowledge

  27. of the glory of the Lord haberkook to fourteen. And

  28. and and so that's the vision. And our mission is

  29. the is the why why why we do what we do,

  30. which is to make disciples. Where we make disciples coming

  31. from Matthew twenty eight and verse nineteen to twenty is

  32. Jesus says, go he therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

  33. So everywhere we go we want to make you know,

  34. lead people, help people believe in this, in this faith

  35. in Christ, so that they can then make the knowledge

  36. of the glory of the Lord to others. Amen. So

  37. so that is the mission, the why behind what we do. However,

  38. to get there, we need some fuel. Any car, right,

  39. you need the engine, You need the fuel. And this

  40. is fueled by the values that we have been laying

  41. foundation on. The values are really the foundation Amen, that

  42. helps us to get to our destination. And values. You know,

  43. when you have values, these values help us to anchor

  44. into our faith and despite many challenges. We have many

  45. types of challenges, different trials, different opposition. The values that

  46. we hold we'll anchor us, anchor our faith. Amen. And

  47. so that is where we started twenty six years ago

  48. and pass it kind of just didn't want to just

  49. plan a church with using had knowledge, using experience in

  50. our past ministries. He wanted the Holy Spirit. He heard

  51. the Holy Spirit say to it this way, and so

  52. we did it very simple, and we started right, one guitar,

  53. three chords, one simple flaw. And he didn't know who

  54. was going to come. Three people. Two people came, so

  55. we had three three men starting the church. And so

  56. we are not afraid of small We're not afraid to

  57. start all over again. Because God is there where two

  58. or three are gathered in his name. He's there in

  59. our myths, Amen, and he hears us. And so we

  60. had this heart from the Holy Spirit to is a

  61. community of faith, hope, and love. Amen. And these are

  62. found in your notes in the book. Amen. And we

  63. want to see the knowledge of the glory of God

  64. filling the earth. And this is why we plant churches.

  65. God sent us out to plant both past them myself

  66. are really called to be missionaries. But we didn't end

  67. up going away. First. We ended up reaching a tribe

  68. of people with their own language, in their own fashion

  69. and their own style, the young people. So we started

  70. doing that thirty over thirty one years ago when we

  71. did that before we planted the church. Amen. So again

  72. the introduction to this is these values are very very important.

  73. They are the few, they are the essentials for the mission.

  74. So we get to our destination. Amen. And all of

  75. it is found in the Bible. Amen. It's founded upon

  76. the foundation of the Word of God. It's not like

  77. I like I do, it's my preference, I don't like,

  78. I don't do. No, it has to be founded on

  79. something more stronger, more permanent, more un very unshakable. Amen.

  80. So we have these values. We can also say that

  81. values are like character, the character of a person. These

  82. values are the also depict the character of a person.

  83. What is character. Character is who you are, who you

  84. are in the dark, who you are when nobody is seeing. Amen. Like,

  85. if someone see you, then you do all the right things.

  86. You you throw the garbage into the bin, right you.

  87. You you you arrange the chair, or you say good

  88. morning to people. But when nobody is there, will you

  89. still do the same thing. Will you open the door

  90. for the for the lady? Would you open the I

  91. don't know, would you do it? Nobody was there? Right?

  92. Would you got your heart that way? The values is

  93. who you are, the character, the man, the woman in

  94. when nobody else sees, uh, and and and and you

  95. know if you cannot hire who you are because in

  96. the long run, it's either you have it or you don't.

  97. And in the long run, people will be able to

  98. see are you really someone who has that character? Godly character?

  99. And so values our character? Amen, it helps us when

  100. noone's watching, you are still anchored in your faith. Amen.

  101. This is I don't know if you yeah, yeah? Values?

  102. Character and so where do we get these values? These

  103. values come from the Word of God, nowhere else, not

  104. just our experience, not from not from because so and

  105. so it's so successful. We have to anchor into the word. Amen,

  106. because the Word of God is unshakable. Hallelujah. The Word

  107. of God never changes. And you see in your notebook

  108. and Matthew chapter twenty four US thirty five, Heaven and

  109. earth will pass away, But my word says the Lord

  110. will never pass away. His word cannot be shaken. It's

  111. an unshakable rock. Jesus is the rock. Amen, allelujah. Amen,

  112. I'll be glad that Jesus is the unshake of our rock. Yeah,

  113. we can hold on to him. Amen. And you know

  114. the Lord says in Psalms one three eight verse two,

  115. the psalmisis for you have magnified your name above your word,

  116. above your name. God's word is above his name, so

  117. his word is unshakeable. So, Church, we want to anger

  118. our lives in the in the world of God. And

  119. that's where X has been built on the word. Not

  120. us experiences. Uh. Yes, we can have good experiences God

  121. experiences and encounters, but it should be confirmed. And where

  122. is it found in God's word? That what's the encouragement? Amen?

  123. So I just want to lay it down for us

  124. so that we remember. So the values are key key,

  125. It's like this key rocks, key values that help us

  126. to get to our destination. Amen. So because you have

  127. some key points there, I don't to miss it. What

  128. is it? The fuel is the values? All right? Just

  129. to help you otherwise you say what you're talking okay,

  130. all right? Values? The character what we are you know,

  131. and no one is looking okay, and where does it

  132. come from? As I said, the foundation is in the

  133. word of God. Amen. God's word never changes. We're so

  134. thankful for that. He says, He is the same yesterday,

  135. today and forever, and my yesterday, I see God the same,

  136. and today he's same, and I believe tomorrow he remains

  137. the same. Faithful Amen, Ah leelujah. So why why why

  138. is it important to have these values that are anchored

  139. in the Word of God. Is so that it can

  140. help us to stand strong in the face of challenges. Amen,

  141. we have to stand strong. Our foundation is on the

  142. word of God, not just based on somebody's word clever

  143. quotes famous words. No, because the Word of God will

  144. last forever. Amen, hallelujah. The word confirms their experience. And

  145. what should we be watching out for is that? Guys? Uh,

  146. it's important for our for our in our Christian faith

  147. to establish these values, to establish another way to put

  148. it is non compromising stands, non negotiables in our lives.

  149. Do you have any non negotiable stands in your life?

  150. Ladies and gentlemen, do we do? Have we established those

  151. non negotiables and maybe in discipleship we help we have

  152. over all these years in our discipleship walk with our

  153. partners in our church, we've discipled them to establish non negotiables.

  154. You cannot compromise on these things, Amen. And if you

  155. set it up early in your in your life, now

  156. even your parents can teach you some non negotiables. For example,

  157. a parent might tell a child to not speak to strangers,

  158. so don't open the or someone you don't know. It

  159. cannot be compromise. You tell them. Another non compromise is,

  160. when you hear mommy's voice, you stop. You don't run

  161. across the road. When you hear my voice, you stop.

  162. I'm saving your life. That's a non negotiable. Hear my voice, son, stop.

  163. So these are non negotiate parents teach that right. So

  164. in our Christian work as well. It's parallel natural and spiritual.

  165. They're parallel friends, and we have to help ourselves establish.

  166. If you don't, it's it's dangerous because then we will

  167. sway anybody say what or so can right? So we

  168. cannot allow ourselves to compromise. So Hona encourage you not

  169. just to So what we're doing here is we're not

  170. just talking about it. You have some non negotiables. What

  171. we're doing here is we're defining it and then we're

  172. articulating it. Not yeah, we define it. We articulate. We

  173. don't just say yeah, yeah, we have some non negotiable.

  174. We don't just internalize and yeah, yeah I have it,

  175. and then we don't actually, uh leave it you you

  176. you have it in your in your head, but you

  177. have don't practice it. So we want to define it.

  178. We want to say, what what are some of these things?

  179. And and and and articulate am I there or not?

  180. Then I can grow in it, amen, some non negotiables,

  181. perhaps just to help you experience understand where I'm coming from.

  182. So even as a young question, a young believer and

  183. a young I don't know when I can't remember I was, yeah,

  184. sixteen or whatever. But through the church they teach when

  185. I heard I didn't have had a leader. They don't

  186. call it them people who help you grow your pastors,

  187. your leaders, your cell group leaders. So you learn right

  188. and you and you begin to not only internalize it,

  189. but you begin to put down some thoughts and some

  190. one of the don't get angry at me are ladies

  191. and gentlemen. One of the early things for for me

  192. was I was told to not to be to make

  193. the choice of not dating a non believer now, not

  194. because they're bad people. Yeah, nice and very good people.

  195. But I have a faith that is anchored in christ.

  196. Once I get involved with someone who's not a Christian,

  197. then I might eye will compromise. Not that person's not

  198. that person's fault. I might compromise. I might hurt the

  199. Lord if I continue. So the non negotiable for me,

  200. no matter how fantastic the gentleman is I cannot date

  201. this person. Okay, there's one. It was a non negotiable

  202. for me. Another thing was if it's a relationship even

  203. when the person was a Christian, even if the person

  204. was a Christian knight and I only dated the guys

  205. who are Christian. But but they weren't always on the

  206. same level of faith and vision and practice. And the

  207. Lord spoke to me, which later we get to talk about.

  208. The first care about the Holy Spirit. When I was

  209. dating somebody, a medical doctor very would take care of me, well,

  210. go no near maybe who knows family is very strong Christian.

  211. But as I got within six months actually, so I

  212. got to observe and get to know the person because

  213. the person was very interested in me, so I, okay,

  214. I give opportunity to get to know. But later I

  215. found out that we're so different in our faith level,

  216. so different in vision for life and I and I

  217. was overseized that time, and due to some arrangements, I

  218. was there and as I observed, I was doing my

  219. quiet time, and the Lord spoke to me and said,

  220. don't be unequally you and I'm like, who are talking

  221. to Who's talking to me? Oh? I'm not anequally young?

  222. This is a Christian? Bye. But I knew also in

  223. my heart that this wasn't a practitioner by name only

  224. because my father is a believer, and father is a

  225. great evangelist and all that right, very strong Christian. But

  226. the child, he himself, the young man, was nowhere to

  227. find his own faith. And I knew then that the Lord,

  228. it's not just because he's a Christian. I should connect

  229. and carry on. Where are we at our faith level?

  230. I wanted to serve the lot. I wanted to be

  231. a missionary. I had served the lot. I just had

  232. so much going for me back home in Malaysia. Here

  233. when I was there visiting, and with that word, I

  234. knew God was just alerting me to be careful to

  235. make the right choice, and so I had to call

  236. it off to the horror of the young man. Yeah yeah, yeah,

  237. the horror. Yeah, you're so unhappy. His parents had to

  238. come and see me and say all kinds of things

  239. to me, and I just didn't know. This is what

  240. the Lord said to me. So and so I tell you,

  241. it's not just any If I just want to marry

  242. any uncle, uncle and brother, I can, right, But then

  243. you know any alimu, tou and a you know you could, right,

  244. But but God also has calling for you and has

  245. a leading. So my non negotiable was to hear what

  246. the least be saying. I won'ted a non Christian. I

  247. wouldn't continue with someone who didn't share the same level

  248. of faith, vision for life, practices in life, for me

  249. giving a bribe as well, No bribe, No bribe. Even

  250. if I drove and I did a double line. I've

  251. so many times made mistakes in my driving. The police

  252. to stop me. I packed somewhere I shouldn't be packing,

  253. and then they'll tell me, okay, sure, show me your

  254. license and all that, and then they say I'm going

  255. to summon you, and I say, go ahead, I'm wrong,

  256. I should a salah, but he said. Then they look

  257. at me in shock. Normally people say, dola, no bride,

  258. give fifty dollars whatever I say, I should a salah,

  259. I'm wrong, just just yeah, hit me with the whatever. Okay,

  260. on you don't do it again. No, don't do it again,

  261. no go yeah brea. Then they then they they know

  262. no you Christian? Is it? Yes? Yeah? Then they know

  263. they know the authorities know that Christians generally don't give bribes. Yeah,

  264. they don't. They're not. And this is known now because

  265. I went for as the director of our own companies.

  266. We have to go for training, right and and they

  267. talk about Briberry and they say and this like the

  268. one giving the training say, but but no, the one

  269. no people, the one in the Christian they never give breade.

  270. Muslim lady telling us, you know the Christians don't give

  271. you away. SUSA is very good for the if you

  272. know that, they are very happy that there are people

  273. who don't give in to do us as directors of company.

  274. We can also do undercounter to get deals and all

  275. that example. But you don't need to do that, right

  276. if it's the Lord the law, open it for us,

  277. but they are aware. So do you have a non

  278. negotiable and giving a bribe you're driving a main mistake,

  279. Just accept it and paid the bribe. It's your mistake

  280. you made. I made a mistake. I chose the wrong

  281. way to drive. I pay for it, Kate, don't always

  282. ask for give. I can't say my arf okay, but

  283. if I'm wrong, just hand it over and just paid.

  284. Pray for the funds and paid. Yeah. So so these

  285. are non negotia values in our life. It helps us

  286. to stable stablers or hey, many students here you're going now,

  287. you're in church, you're so happy and you're all you

  288. are are right now, and then you're going overseas Nottingham

  289. University in Nottingham. Whoa far far, far far far away

  290. from passus Stevens and all all your leaders yere one

  291. are something no negotiables that you won't date a non believer.

  292. Number two that you want. You want a premarital sex,

  293. very easy, nobody watches, nobody sees you get you hang

  294. out with some guys, some dude girls and all the

  295. guys as well. It's very easy to get together, very easy.

  296. And then you think it's Okay, no you hurt. God's

  297. heard you break his heart. We haven't decided now that

  298. I won't no matter how how amazing the girl is

  299. or how amazing guy is. I'm in love. No, you're

  300. not in love. You just lasting after Come on, we

  301. go homones. You know it runs. I'm old, but I

  302. know what homemones are. Okay, I remember made mistakes, and

  303. I'm telling you put the non negotiables in place. Ask

  304. someone to be accountable. You be accountable. It helps you

  305. a lot. Amen. So that's what I mean. Having values.

  306. The values is the fuel. It keeps us going towards

  307. hit our destination. When you don't have those values, you

  308. might just go off the road of your destination. Then

  309. you have to you know, God is still kind. You

  310. bring us back. Amen. So those are what we should

  311. watch out for, having non negotiables in our lives. Amen.

  312. Moving forward, therefore, will come to our first core value.

  313. We're starting with spirit film now it's called the twelfth

  314. plus one core values. All right, twelve plus one number one.

  315. We started with spirit fail. How you plant judge spirit feel?

  316. How come it's not word feel first? Why not? Jesus there?

  317. Oh give you explanation we give you the explanation. Okay,

  318. it's spirit filled. Got my little dove that represents Holy

  319. Spirit the fire core value number one spirit failed. Now

  320. what is the heart behind this value? When you look

  321. at the book of X, you'll see the title X

  322. of the Apostle. Yeah, but actually it should be called

  323. the ax of the Holy Spirit. The scene opens to

  324. us where the twelve less than twelve, now eleven disciples,

  325. the main the main apostles, right, the main Disciples and

  326. all the followers, all you know, frightened and scared. She

  327. bring going up in the upper room praying. And yet

  328. Jesus tells them in X one force is to wait

  329. for the promise of God. They're all gathered and they're

  330. praying there, and they're waiting, right and and the and

  331. they're asked and they're saying, Holy Jesus say, wait for

  332. the promise of God. Amen. Wow. Wow. Jesus is reminding

  333. them to wait for the promise of God. And they

  334. are waiting. Although Jesus spend how many years? Three years

  335. with them, right, like going to university, you know, three

  336. years for for you graduate. Ready, you know, these guys

  337. should have graduated. And yet Jesus said wait, wait for

  338. the promise, right and get and experience this the Holy Spirit.

  339. And so we we might say, hey, but Jesus is

  340. the foundation of church, no doubt about it, no doubt.

  341. But where does the book of X open and what

  342. does the scene we see in the early Church? The

  343. early Church was perth through the fire of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

  344. So X chapter two is where we established and this

  345. is the foundation where our founding team founding leaders have

  346. planted and built the church based on the Holy spirits

  347. leading Amen. So in X chapter two two to three,

  348. it is am I right. Yes, Actually Apter two two

  349. to three, the scene opens with them waiting and as

  350. they tear it as they waited, and Jesus had gone

  351. to the Father, and then the Holy Spirit was given

  352. to us on planet Earth. Remember, my dear brother sisters,

  353. the Holy Spirit has been on the earth weaver since

  354. the day Jesus left. He has not gone back to Heaven.

  355. He's waiting here for the coming of the Lord, very lonely,

  356. you know, the only spirit because you forgot to say

  357. good morning, Holy Spirit, Good morning, Holy Spirit. And he's

  358. living in your heart. And nobody's talking to the Holy speakers.

  359. We always talk to Jesus or Father God. But we

  360. forget the Holy Spirit is a person, the third person

  361. in the trinity. And so the Lord says, because Jesus

  362. was in a human form, he cannot be everywhere anytime.

  363. So he is Father says, come, it's time. You've done

  364. what I sent you, what I sent you to do.

  365. And then as you come, then the Holy Spirit can

  366. come and he will dwell with us. He is the

  367. guarantee living with us until the lot comes, and he's

  368. helping us. Right. So just giving us just the foundation

  369. where we definitely know that it is Christ who has

  370. laid his life down for the church. But why we

  371. use the spirit field as the first core values, because

  372. it's the Holy Spirit that was the one that brought

  373. that the breath of life, the new anointing into the

  374. early Church. And so Act chapter two, verse two, you

  375. see this saying the verse here. And suddenly there came

  376. sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind. It

  377. filled the whole house where they were sitting. Verse three.

  378. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire,

  379. one and one set upon each one of them. And

  380. then verse and they were filled with the Holy Spirit

  381. and they began to speak with other tongues as the

  382. Spirit gave them utterance. So they were filled. And the

  383. evidence of them being filled with the Holy Spirit was

  384. the ability to speak in other tongues in the gift

  385. of the Holy the language of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

  386. And our church is founded on this, on Jesus, the

  387. firm foundation and the infilling, the flowing of the Holy Spirit.

  388. Because again it is the Lord who said in X

  389. one four, he says, for John baptized with the water,

  390. but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not

  391. many days from now, a man, hallelujah. So he says, wait,

  392. wait for the promise of the Father. And that's where

  393. it all began. The Church k started with the Holy

  394. Spirit coming and filling them, and then it closes with

  395. them thriving and reaching the world. Amen. That the world

  396. as it was at that time. Amen. So this Holy

  397. Spirit who's living with us, is not an option. It's

  398. not an it's it's like, oh yeaha is an option.

  399. Ayah is an addition. He is important. He is essential

  400. for each one of us and for church. If we

  401. ever leave out the Holy Spirit, we have left out

  402. such an essential strength, such essential power. Of God in

  403. our church, in our lives. Amen. So ex church is

  404. a spirit filled church. We believe in the Holy Spirit

  405. who fus us and empowers us. Amen. So as you

  406. see through the slight number one, he is the promise

  407. of God. Hallelujah. Right we we we read there in

  408. x chapter one and verse four five, Jesus said, wait,

  409. brothers and brothers, there was some sisters as well. Anyway, wait,

  410. he said, because there's a promise of the Father for you,

  411. and it's the Holy Spirit. Before you do anything, wait,

  412. wait for the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit came.

  413. You see that X one four. Holy Spirit says, this

  414. is the promise. And then and then Jesus was actually

  415. teaching in John chapter four. You read in fourteen and

  416. fifteen and sixteen he preparing them about the Holy Spirit. Right,

  417. because the promise of God is so that as you

  418. have the Holy Spirit. He's the one who leads us

  419. to Christ. Amen. And Jesus is at the center. Ah

  420. lelujah Jesus. The center of our lives is Christ. Amen.

  421. So he leads us to Christ, and he reminds us

  422. of the teachings of Christ. What is this promise of God?

  423. The Holy Spirit He reminds us of the teaching of Christ. Amen,

  424. because we all forget, are you, Oh we forget? Yes,

  425. it is miracle. They Forgod right, yes it is God

  426. help us, and we forget. But then the Holy Spirit

  427. who lives in you will remind you. Ali's remember remember

  428. right like like like you know, telling us and reminding

  429. us and guiding us. What the Holy Spirit does. He

  430. leads us to Christ. Amen. He also teaches us. Amen,

  431. he feels us, he leads us, he empowers us, so powerful, hallelujah.

  432. I want to tell you from my own experience as

  433. a student. Again, I'm not a I'm not one of

  434. those A style like you know everything eight nine a's

  435. and my time and my timer. But I was in

  436. the top class, so a lot of level students around me,

  437. all my friends. I'm there. I'm there, but not so clever.

  438. Matt's very bad. But I was doing my SPM my

  439. final year high school, and I really it just became

  440. a Christian. But I felt the lack of confidence that

  441. I can scoler. Okay, do you want to school? I'm

  442. so competitive, yes, until now I'm still competitive. Must call yeah, yeah,

  443. I'm doing my master's to have to scoll a right,

  444. I'm so only I don't score it fail that now,

  445. so I must finish well. Right, So I said, Holy Spirit,

  446. I need help because I heard from scripture that John

  447. chapter four and verse this six. John chapter fourteen and

  448. verse twenty six. He says that the Holy Spirit will

  449. teach you. He's your helper. He will teach you all

  450. things and bring all things to your memory. So one,

  451. because I'm not good in my advans, I took literature.

  452. A Sign student taking literature, you're doomed. You're doomed, okay,

  453. because you're all the science paper and then you take literature.

  454. I tried art. My art teacher said, because it was

  455. rolling in his grave. So I had to give up art.

  456. I had to give up. It was so bad. I

  457. don't know what I painted. She said, you can, you cannot.

  458. So then I jump into you know, by choiceaid, okay,

  459. I'll try literature, and I join my art class students,

  460. you know, all my arts at the art side. I

  461. was the only Sign students just taking that one subject.

  462. You know, all of them in that classroom. I was

  463. the only Chinese. They're all Indians. No Indian, sister's very

  464. good to English. Yeah, my classmates today. They all whole PhD, etcetera.

  465. That's how clever they are. Right. So I joined that class,

  466. but I only join it from five, which means I

  467. lost a whole from four. Oh yo, I say, how

  468. so took my exam, but test you know, the what

  469. you call the trials before you're and I fail. And

  470. the teacher said, Sandra, just give it up, just give

  471. it up so bad. No, she didn encourage me to try.

  472. I think you just cannot make it, like, just give

  473. it up. Then I'm like, oh no, so never mind,

  474. I cannot. I know already admits I'm gone case with you.

  475. I need. It's got every aid I can. So I say, okay,

  476. now my mission. She's a Holy Spirit. Teach me. You

  477. say you are my helper. Teach me all things and

  478. bring all things to my mements. I don't know how

  479. to do all my subjects. Same thing. I pray and

  480. know this way, that's how I studied for five. Holy

  481. Spirit teach me. Come on, students, you cannot do this

  482. on your own. You need the Holy Spirit and tell

  483. it is powerful. Again, I'm not like you so clever, right,

  484. so I have this Holy Spirit teach me guite me

  485. in holy spit. And so you just prailler, right, you

  486. ask right and you trust? So I did. I studied

  487. why I'm reading all these parts. Came day of exam,

  488. took the exam, came day of results, got my results.

  489. Who he he yeah, I'm just like all my friends were.

  490. Got ala right, but thank you, thank you Jesus. I

  491. got a because I tell you, and I took the

  492. exam on the exam day. It's so funny. I looked

  493. at all the questions and then it was weird. All

  494. the questions that were that I could answer were all

  495. about the little people in the people not important in

  496. the book. Yeah, merchant of any don't know, some unimportant

  497. person I wrote, and some other appetite story. So anything,

  498. wow wow wow, right, alright, right right right, get right, hey, okay,

  499. still don't know what's this? Right? And the teacher met

  500. the teacher met me, and she said, so, what did

  501. you get a? She wid, huh, So you're the only

  502. one who got an A in the whole school. I did.

  503. She was so shocked, she said, I said, what do

  504. you mean? So my classmate mad a friend, goodfriend said,

  505. and she asked me. So she called me, you donkey.

  506. Why you call me donkey because you're the only one

  507. who scored an A. All of us had a B

  508. or C like, cannot be you all England very good

  509. swan Yeah right, say no. Teacher said you're the only

  510. one like, so become book prize winner for the school. Right.

  511. Then she offered me Form six. Would you like to

  512. do literature? No? Thank cute? I said, I'm gonna do

  513. be cause susastra and basa. I'm like you are you

  514. don't fool basa literature instead of English. And then I said,

  515. why no, thank you. You would all say give it up, right,

  516. But I tell you it was the Holy Spirit. He

  517. just led me to go to this because nobody will

  518. read about the meat. Who read about you know the red?

  519. You know about all these small people? And I said, wow,

  520. Holy Spirit. Oh, even my geography or we used to

  521. have to do geography and my science papers just could

  522. do it. I tell you, the Holy Space is your teacher.

  523. Come on, students, auntie uncle here, you cannot do something.

  524. He's your helper, helper, he helps you, he really does. Amen, hallelujah.

  525. The Holy Spirit is our helper, and so he's the

  526. promise of God. He leads us to Christ. He reminds

  527. us of teachings, reminds you about the non negotiables. Hey,

  528. come on, you know, girl, don't walk there, red flag,

  529. red flag, red flag. Don't go there, wrong place to go,

  530. red flag, red flag. Hey, don't remember. Don't eat that thing.

  531. Don't eat that thing. It's not good for you. And

  532. the Holy Spirit, the promise of God is the one

  533. that feels us. And the Holy Spirit leads us. Amen,

  534. this is core value number one. Holy Spirit, we are

  535. spirit failed. Amen. The Holy Spirit feels us, and I

  536. have to say that this Holy Spirit is also the

  537. power of God. Amen. The power of God. Why, power

  538. of God? In Zachariah chapter four, verse six. Zacariah four,

  539. verse six. So we have the we have the promise,

  540. and then now the power of God. Amen. In Zacharia

  541. for six. Remember this verse. Every we always like to

  542. quote this. Wow, we won't do anything for Jesus says,

  543. not by my not by power, but by my spirit. Hallelujah.

  544. Power Whose spirit, God's spirit? Not our hot spirit. Oh,

  545. I don't know. We tryna no, not al hey my spirit,

  546. cause it's not by my strength, not by power. Bye bye,

  547. my spirit, God's own Holy Spirit. Remember, the Holy Spirit

  548. comes from the Lord himself. Amen. So spirit filled. Amen. First,

  549. even the church in the Early Church was first filled

  550. with the spirit. Amen. Harleeylujah. Because if you say, don't

  551. throw it holy Spirit, you cannot. It was filled with

  552. the Spirit on day one, the birth of the Early Church. Amen.

  553. And the Holy Spirit, who is the Power of God,

  554. is our helper. Amen. He is our helper. Do you

  555. know that Jesus had to tell us in John fourteen

  556. in John or I want that verse? In John sixteen seven?

  557. John sixteen seven, he says that, uh, it is to

  558. your advantage that I go. If Jesus don't go and

  559. he remains physically on earth, holy Spirit cannot come. He says,

  560. it's to your advantage I go, so that the Holy

  561. Spirit will come and you will live in you. Or

  562. ever so, friends, a lot of us say I feel lonely.

  563. I'm alone. All kinds are alone. Not the word lonely

  564. and alone. I don't tell you this, Morney. Come on, babies,

  565. come on, beloved of the Lord. The Holy Spirit is

  566. living in you. You are never alone. Michael Jackson did

  567. not write the song you are not alone. I'm here

  568. with you. Now Jesus wrote that song. I am here

  569. with you, but if you are a Liverpool fan, you

  570. will never walk alone. Come on, ha halleluis, because the

  571. Holy Spirit is with you all the time, and we've

  572. got to come alivee with that knowledge today. Friends, you

  573. feel alone. Sometimes you say you're I'm the only one day,

  574. but you are not alone. Hey, Jesus sent Father, sent

  575. his Holy Spirit to live in us. We have this helper,

  576. you know. I know I don't have I kind of

  577. thought help her in my house. But I have a

  578. helper living in me. Allelujah. Amen, tell you is so

  579. amazing that the Holy Spirit hears you and he helps you.

  580. I'll tell you how he helped me when my husband

  581. broke his ankle last April, you playing playing what pickle

  582. ball in Singapore while or his wife Nepal doing mission trip.

  583. Husband played pickupball with just member there Brocky's ankle cannot walk.

  584. I you, oh, by time I came back, I have

  585. to take care of him and he cannot walk. So

  586. I'm up and down, up and down, upstairs, come down, up,

  587. cook for him, do everything, and then I have this

  588. garden right that the garden is full. He leaves every day.

  589. My dad passed away three years ago, and he handled

  590. my garden beautifully. Now no more daddy, So Daddy's gone.

  591. Nobody's gonna care for the garden. Every day I have

  592. to sweep the leaf come back from work, you know,

  593. or if I work from home, I have to sweep

  594. the lead a lord of leaves. So while I was sweeping,

  595. you know, I said, not only spay, be nice. If

  596. someone can help me. I can't do that. But I

  597. have to cook and wash and work still, you know,

  598. I said to do a lot of things you had troublesome,

  599. it'd be nice. Finish. I go back there, make a

  600. caller to Jesus, right, I call the Holy Spirit. Finish

  601. and then I is done. And I looked across my

  602. neighbor's house and there was this car, you know, And

  603. she asked me, man, do where where is your the

  604. other helper? Because we had those people come and clean

  605. for the day. I said, oh, no more. She valle

  606. come home ready went home to a town. Oh so

  607. you need help. I just I just made a call,

  608. you know, I help me on this spirit. And then

  609. she said you need her. I don't mind, I can,

  610. I don't mind. My neighbors. They come time to clean

  611. ones or whatever. I say, you serious, I need to

  612. clean my leaves. Love can can And it was said,

  613. I mean in a way, it was set there was

  614. someone to help me sleep the leave. Hey, have a

  615. chat with the Holy Spirit. Have a chat. If you

  616. haven't have a chat, yeah, just find just talk to him.

  617. I just repair it will be a nice Holy Spirit,

  618. thank you. But it's okay. I can still do it.

  619. I just don't know how. Every day the leave this friendship,

  620. Penny Tree, the live draw. Every day we love the

  621. dream house and loves. He says, you make a house

  622. like a house in BALI yeah, who's sweeping me? And

  623. so the Holy Spirit listening, helping me because I couldn't

  624. do everything by myself. So he really he's the power

  625. of God in our lives. Amen. And you know, do

  626. you know what he says that even Jesus put the

  627. priority of the Holy spe period. So you see helper there,

  628. he's our helper. Don't forget there's someone to help you.

  629. You feel no one help me. I tell you Holy

  630. Spirit is your helper. He will send you help. Ah,

  631. God will touch someone's heart and help you. You need

  632. finances God will help you and send the finances. It

  633. happens to us all the time, especially right, I don't

  634. know where if money come from our friend or no

  635. it was salary, right, you got no money? But no,

  636. the Lord provides. There's so many years. It just has

  637. that faith to trust God Holy Spirit guide him. Amen.

  638. So then I see the priority of the Holy Spirit.

  639. You know in Matthew chapter twelve, verse thirty one, in

  640. your book Matthew twelve thirty one. Why why we say

  641. priority because Jesus said, Jesus said, you gotta read it.

  642. If you haven't, he says, Jesus said, therefore, I say

  643. to you every sin and blesphem me will be forgiven

  644. you men will be you will forget you. Even you

  645. can say I don't believe in you, Jesus. Okay, you

  646. say that it will be forgiven you. But the blasphemy

  647. against the spirit will not be forgiven. He's telling you

  648. the why. Because the spirit is the Holy Spirit that

  649. comes from the Father. It's father, Father. God said, Oh,

  650. by my not baa, by my capital M my spirit.

  651. So it is God's spirit that you don't simply laugh

  652. at the things of the spirit. H No, someone God's

  653. ministry and or tells someone to do something. It was

  654. funny when you do. Let it. Don't laugh at the

  655. things of the spirit. Maybe we don't understand. Be careful

  656. because the things of the spirit is spiritual things, and

  657. you know God is serious about those things to make

  658. his will be done. So the priority of the Holy

  659. Spirit in our lives. Amen, are you? Time is flying away?

  660. All right? And so I put their priority And wait,

  661. now what is waiting? Jesus said, wait for the promise, right,

  662. And so okay, they waited, and then then the Holy

  663. Spirit came and wait so that there will be the

  664. helper to lead them and help them. And there's something

  665. that the pastor was teaching us. And say that waiting

  666. also means this. And whether you agree when you wait

  667. on the Holy Spirit, aren't you saying I acknowledge that

  668. you are in us, you are with us, and that

  669. you will lead us. Amen, that you will put an acknowledgement.

  670. I acknowledge Holy Spirit, you are with me. Therefore I

  671. will wait for you to show me what where I

  672. wanna go? Where you lead me? Wait? Look right, ah, wait,

  673. look well I want to know your ways. How immediately, No,

  674. as you walk with the Holy Spirit. As you wait

  675. on him, you are acknowledging it's so powerful. As you

  676. acknowledge the Holy Spirit with you, Amen, he will lead us. Amen.

  677. And that's how it has been for us here. Why

  678. are we planting simply in so many years? Simply? No,

  679. as Holy Spa, we wait on Holy Spirit, God touches

  680. somebody's heart. Do you think Paster Stephen just decided, yes,

  681. I can do this? No, he waited, We asked, I

  682. don't know, wer we asked he as somebody asked the Hey,

  683. you want to plan plan in Nottingham? There? You know

  684. this place here? Where? Where? Where? God show us this place?

  685. And God show us them man Stephen and Samuel? Right,

  686. they say, okay, yes, And where were all of them?

  687. Kneelaiah x Neela so x neel like birth so many

  688. by sending out Stephen and Samuel the twinies, all right,

  689. they're all tweeting away. They're really twinning. Baby. It's the

  690. same Mary, same time, and baby, so come same time,

  691. Harlene Louis, I think it's always gonna give birth tomorrow

  692. all right over you already. So I tell you it's

  693. the Holy Spirit who leads us this story of x

  694. continues to unfold because the leadership continues to trust the

  695. Holy Spirit. No one I encourage you church, if you

  696. haven't had the chance to experience the fullness. Holy Spirit

  697. is the one leads you. Your faith builds up. Amen.

  698. Wasn't a powerful testimony? Just now? Hey, no food out,

  699. God provide footnot just stand there, you just stand there? Eh?

  700. God was just someone will invite you and don't you worry.

  701. Don't you worry about a thing? Yeah, he will lead

  702. you and provide for you. Amen. Amen, Praise God. So

  703. wait if you have to wait, because this is the

  704. power of God. And lastly, be lastly is talking about

  705. walking in the spirit. Amen. So you see Galatians chapter five,

  706. verse twenty five says if you are now living in

  707. the spirit, because the Holy Spirit lives in us, let

  708. us also walk in the Holy Spirit. Now we as

  709. we are all bras saces in Christ, we're all growing.

  710. We're all at different faith levels. That's fine because every

  711. child is at different stage in like we are child

  712. of God. So your faith level, my faith are different.

  713. But we're all walking. Amen. And so if we're living

  714. in the spirit, we must also walk with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

  715. Why because in your in Galatians chapter five, verse sixteen

  716. and seventeen. Galatians chapter five, verse sixteen and seventeen says,

  717. if you have a Bible turned today, or if XTIV

  718. wants to help you, Galatians chapter five and verse sixteen

  719. seventeen says, is say Danna. Saint Paul says, walk in

  720. the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the last of

  721. the flesh, for the flesh lasts against the spirit, and

  722. the spirit against the flesh, and these are always contrary

  723. to one another, so that you don't do the things

  724. that you wish. Amen. Now this is the verses in

  725. your page in your book, cup behind the next page right.

  726. So the Holy Spirit as you walk with the Spirit,

  727. you and I as we walk and get stronger and stronger,

  728. instead of so if you're following the spirit, we won't

  729. follow the flesh. Our flesh is very powerful, you know.

  730. It likes to trip you up all the time and

  731. tell you know what, just go, noa, just do. But

  732. the only Spay is saying no, this is the way

  733. walk here. But we allow the flesh, the flesh to

  734. lead you. And that's why he says, if you walk

  735. in the spirit, you won't fulfill the desires of the flesh.

  736. You will fulfill the desires of the spirit. The things

  737. of the spirit. Now these are part and passive, growing

  738. and learning, getting used to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

  739. And also you have learned to submit yourself to the

  740. Holy Spirit. Yeah, you are made spirit, soul and body.

  741. If your spirit can lead, then you will lead your soul,

  742. which is your mind, and your heart, and your and

  743. your your mind, your feelings, your emotions, and your will

  744. lead you. And then your body also your body very

  745. very active and no, cannot eat, cannot eat eat you know,

  746. eat like people who have health issues tell you do

  747. eat so much sugar. You I love sugar, You love

  748. the cakes for yousel the flesh. No, just eat it

  749. be okay, No, it's not Okare your blood you go

  750. go up so the spirit, your spirit man can be strengthened. Amen,

  751. we walk, We slowly grow as we walk with Relationship

  752. with the Holy Spirit. Is to say, is the walking

  753. with Jesus as well. Amen, walk with the Holy Spirit.

  754. Talk to him. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Every morning I

  755. wake up application for you. I say good morning Father, God,

  756. good morning Lord, Jesus, good morning, Holy Spirit. And I

  757. say Holy Spirit, feel me afresh today it's a new day. Come,

  758. Holy Spirit, feel me, Come, Holy Spirit. I ask the

  759. Holy Spirit feel me every day. Application. This is what

  760. I do daily. So we have a relationship with him, Amen, hallelujah.

  761. And one things here we put that. Not only relationship

  762. as you relate with someone, you also Holy Spirit help

  763. you to be obedient to God's word. Amen. The obedi

  764. of God's word. He who help us, the Holy Spirit,

  765. so he never leaves you alone. Don't feel like, Oh,

  766. God except me to do all these things? Why by myself?

  767. But no. Holy Spirit is here to help us to

  768. obey God's word, to live victoriously, to live overcoming lives

  769. together with the Holy Spirit, not alone. And of course

  770. God also brings us people to encourage us. But who

  771. is with you twenty four to seven? Holy Spirit? Even

  772. if we are married, brother and sisters. I'm married for

  773. thirty one years. Do you think my husband is with

  774. me twenty four hours? No? No, I have to work,

  775. he has to work. We are not all the time together.

  776. So to the young ones here, the young love, Oh,

  777. I need to have a boyfriend. No, you need water?

  778. You see you don't have water? You die right? No?

  779. Food never mine, not no water, cannot write. I need water.

  780. When I was a teacher teaching in a school, I

  781. had all these students, you know, and then they're so chicky,

  782. the boys. They say, don't mind me, I'm just telling

  783. you what I experience. Teacher. What is it? Oh yeah,

  784. we're talking about future and things that you need, you know,

  785. And they say, no, I think there was seventeen years

  786. old or eighteen teacher. We need sex? Oh really yeah?

  787. And these guys say, yeah, we can have four times

  788. four wives. You can have four wives, but you don't

  789. need sex. Why you need water? You need the oxygen.

  790. That one you don't you won't die when I see it,

  791. and four you're crazy? Or one wife was as to

  792. that problem? Okay, you think college students, come on, you

  793. just beginning your life in university. You think you need

  794. a man or woman in your life to fulfill what

  795. but don't want to be alone? And I'll tell you

  796. be careful, choose correctly, choose wisely. Not everyone's good for you, right.

  797. Let God lead you. So listen amen, Ah, I have

  798. to I have to experiment, No need to experiment. You

  799. are guy, and you know what your body is very precious.

  800. You know you want to test everywhere, test everywhere. Way

  801. cannot sow seats. It's plea you know, ah, al you

  802. have are not everywhere? Be careful children everywhere. No, you

  803. cannot sow your seats everywhere. Come on, I've done this

  804. for years, brothers and sisters. My work is young campus

  805. students for a long time. I just tell them the

  806. plain truth. We are not in love with love. We

  807. are not in love with the person where I love

  808. with love me wrong answer. You have to love the

  809. person except them. Get Are you already married tomorrow? Then

  810. you can have sex every day? Why not? Because he's legal.

  811. Now it's somebody else's daughter that you are making out with.

  812. You know, uh huh m. Somebody has a son or

  813. somebody's future wife, and you broke the package. Seal. How

  814. thankfully we all have needs. I know, hormones raging. Once

  815. he got to the Holy Spirit, he's your helper. You

  816. bring your homones. Help me someone say I kill it. No,

  817. you cannot kill it. Why God give me homones because

  818. he made you learn to manage it, manage your emotions

  819. by asking the Holy Spirit to help you help me.

  820. I love this I like this girl. Pray first, get

  821. to know how la wan jumping to bits like that. God,

  822. love me a relationship so that like you look back,

  823. you have a relationship, not a bid sheep. You're not.

  824. It makes sense. I'm making sense, not brother. Thirty one

  825. years of ministry here, God bless me. I've been carrying

  826. all the broken heads. Okay, all the broken hands I

  827. have to carry. Hello. So I'm telling you don't have

  828. a broken heart. Well you want my bitch, she don't need,

  829. don't need. Live, start fresh when you're ready. God give

  830. you the best. Amen. That's our Holy Spirit. Help us

  831. with our emotions. Help us with our decision. Ask him

  832. to help your help help. I can't help it. I

  833. help you, Holy Spirit with it. I gotta have you,

  834. I gotta have him, Holy speed help me. We all

  835. have to. We're all natural, we're all humans. We have weaknesses,

  836. we have hormones raging up down, left, right center. I'm

  837. not asking you to be a robot. I'm not asking

  838. you to wear a potato sec I'm not he as

  839. good looking, as attractive as you can. But please, you

  840. have the Holy Spirit living in us to help us

  841. even in our growing up and developing into young men.

  842. And young women. Even even if we are elder I

  843. have to say, I'm elderly. Can you believe it? Ah, elderly.

  844. We also have to ask all this wait to help

  845. us to be faithful. Husbands have to pray to be

  846. faithful to your wives. When you're away, you find I mean,

  847. if your job sends you here, there, everywhere, go to

  848. the hotel room. But now, hey, open TV on NS

  849. all these funny scenes, you know, lots of pornography stuff going.

  850. If you make a non negotiation, you just turn off

  851. the TV. You say, easy for you. No, I go

  852. overseas jaz. I'm like, I don't turn on TV anymore

  853. overseasle I know what's out there. Just don't turn it on.

  854. U just listen, Sptify Jesus, Hello, you have some non negotiables.

  855. Why the Holy Spirit walk with him? Amen. He helps

  856. us to be obedient. He keeps us pure, He keeps

  857. our marriage, He keeps our promises to the future woman,

  858. future men in our lives. Keeps us as a community living,

  859. you know, and supporting one another. Amen. The power we

  860. have that we have the promise of the space. We

  861. have the power of the Spirit of God. And he

  862. walks with us. Amen. The presence of God is with

  863. us when you walk, you up, the presence of God

  864. is with us. Amen. Praise God. This is the Holy Spirit.

  865. So friends need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

  866. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. In

  867. Jesus' name. We need him. You cannot say I need Jesus.

  868. But then Godfather wants to give you the Holy Spirit.

  869. So the first core value in our church, in our lives,

  870. in any church, Holy Spirit. That's what Jesus said, Wit

  871. for the promise of God. Holy Spirit. Amen, yes, Holy Spirit. Amen.

  872. Constantly being filled with the Holy Spirit. That's what you

  873. and I want. Do I fail sometimes I do, and

  874. and I have to come back and say, Lord, forgive me. Lord,

  875. I made the wrong choice. Lord, I lost my temper. Eye. Oh,

  876. that person frustrated me. Go back to the Holy Spirit.

  877. Holy Spirit. I'm sorry for teach me again. Jesus forgive me,

  878. and I want to start over again. Amen. Hallelujah's powerful

  879. for your application as you read this on your own

  880. and you have your discussions the Holy Spirit every day. Amen,

  881. have personal devotion. Have the personal devotion. Talk with the

  882. Lord you know and remember the Holy Spirit lives in

  883. You have time and build your relationship with the Holy Spirit.

  884. He's a person. Yeah, as real as Jesus is always

  885. the Holy Spirit.

  886. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  889. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  890. for you.

  891. God bless