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The Heart Postures Responds To God | Eld Mabel Atkinson

Acts Bandar Utama

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

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. So we are in the midst of talking about revival. Okay,

  4. today we want to find out how revived is your heart?

  5. How is it hot for the Lord or are you

  6. like cold?

  7. Hi? My favorite person, I haven't seen you in a

  8. long time. How are you Wilson? Where's your wife? Hi? Oh, Edeline?

  9. Long time?

  10. Where's the kids there too?

  11. Okay? I see one look like the mummy. Okay. We

  12. counsel them and they got married and I understand they're

  13. doing very well. My husband tells me they're doing very well.

  14. Praise the Lord. So yeah, today we're still talking about

  15. Last year we spoke about discipleship. I hope all of

  16. you are being discipled. You know, you need somebody. You

  17. need to walk with somebody. Okay, if we are not

  18. here to lord over you, because Jesus says, disciple, disciple,

  19. that's how disciples are not made. You have to walk,

  20. you know, you have to walk with somebody. Yeah, they

  21. are made, but you have to walk with somebody. Somebody

  22. to help you, somebody to talk to you.

  23. Somebody to counsel you and that's what you think.

  24. The leader's gone very free to come and counsel you

  25. and walk with you, and disciple you, we are not free.

  26. We've got a lot of things to do, but we

  27. want to do it because we love you, and because

  28. we want to honor the word. We want to respect

  29. the word. The word, says disciple, So we disciple, lo

  30. so work with us. Okay, so this year we revival.

  31. Revival is what and and growing up I always thought

  32. revival was a huge thing. You know it's about Yeah,

  33. it is a huge thing. It's it's mass, it's it's

  34. about for a big ten revivals. We've heard about the

  35. city's village church mass huge. You know, it's all God

  36. nothing to do with me, you know, Revival is all

  37. God has got nothing to do. But actually, Jonathan's said

  38. something this morning that I wanted to share. It only

  39. takes a spark to start a fire, and he started

  40. something like that this morning. And I'm telling you, Revival

  41. starts with one person. Revival starts with me, with you.

  42. Without you, revival cannot start. You think suddenly Revival will

  43. start with a huge bang, and everybody gets said, no,

  44. Revival has to start with you and me. It's with us.

  45. If we are not revived, we cannot bring a revival

  46. to the church. Why don't we start with revival in

  47. the church revival here in ex Banda, Utama. Why don't

  48. we talk about that. If you and I are date,

  49. we cannot bring revival. So let's chat today. What I

  50. want to do is a check, a heart check, and

  51. what's the best heart check? If it is not the

  52. heart postures. You know I came up with this heart postures.

  53. You know what is your heart posture towards revival? Today?

  54. We want to do a hard check and see where

  55. you are.

  56. You will know where you are either your heart, your lukewarm,

  57. your cold. So we want to bring you back and

  58. so you can learn and be revived. Okay. So when

  59. I'm a firm believer of supplements never like a prayer,

  60. I will take for more than thirty years. I took

  61. my vitamins without elder terants. I gave him three bottles

  62. for three years, his bottles. Every time I asked, can

  63. I send you vitamins? No, I still have vitamins in

  64. the office. That vitamin is supposed to finish in one month.

  65. He has kept it for three years and every time

  66. I said, can I send you vitamins? He will tell

  67. me I have vitamins, no need vitamins. So he never

  68. takes this vitamins. So we went for a full body check,

  69. and in the full body check, when the results came out,

  70. I was shocked when the doctor said, hey, you don't

  71. have this supplement. You don't have this supplement, and I'm

  72. taking all disapplaments I'm taking.

  73. But the doctor said, you're.

  74. Lacking, lacking, lacking, lacking, go back and take all these vitamins.

  75. So I'm scratching my head. I'm like, what's wrong? I

  76. missed it somewhere. That's exactly how you are you think?

  77. You think, Hey, I'm kidding to heaven. I'm doing it right.

  78. I'm reading my Bible, I'm fulfieling, I'm serving in church.

  79. I'm coming every Sunday. But have you done it right?

  80. Is the Lord going to say I know you? Every

  81. time I do my quiet time, I always say God,

  82. maybel checking in in case you don't know who I am.

  83. I'm checking in Lord, Lord, you know me because I

  84. don't want one day you know, I go to heaven

  85. and then God says, hey, I don't know you. My goodness,

  86. there's no way of coming back and making it right.

  87. You make it right now, and you make it right

  88. here today. You change. You know, you cannot go to

  89. meet him and then and find out that you missed it.

  90. We have something called tea in X ten A m

  91. t is Tanya elders anything like that. We know all

  92. the answers. We also have to go and study so

  93. that the students will come Tanya elder anything tea, and

  94. then we have to answer all your questions. One of

  95. the questions is uh. The student asks, Lord, Lord, you know? Uh?

  96. You know? And then I have done this, I've done that,

  97. I've done that. How come you don't know me? So

  98. the student asked, how if I'm doing everything? And then

  99. the Lord tells me, I don't know you. I asked

  100. that question every day. Lord? Am I doing it right? Lord?

  101. Am I doing this right? So?

  102. Okay, I won't, I won't jump.

  103. We will. We will study and then you will know

  104. what is it that actually tells you that when you

  105. go to the Lord and and and you know, okay,

  106. I want, I want okay, okay, so oh reviver so Lord, okay.

  107. A heart is often a jump started into revival when

  108. certain godly attributes come alive. Okay, physical health testschry too.

  109. And I got disappointed.

  110. We cannot get disappointed when we go to heaven and

  111. find out that we didn't make it, because that's it.

  112. We don't make it into heaven. You know what is

  113. the other end? Okay? What where you're going to end

  114. up with? So always examine yourself, Always examine, examine, examine.

  115. Every Sunday you come to church, somebody is talking to you,

  116. somebody is reminding you, somebody is telling you do this,

  117. do that. You know, remind and examine yourself. Remind yourself,

  118. examine yourself. Am I doing this right? Am I running it? Right?

  119. Am I waiting upon the Lord? The Bible says, when

  120. you wait upon the Lord, you know you saw like

  121. an eagle. You run and you're never weary. You walk

  122. and you don't faignt Search me, your Lord, Search search

  123. your heart? Where are you? Search your heart? Don't give

  124. up searching your heart. Always search your heart and say, Lord,

  125. know my heart today, try me and know my thoughts.

  126. Your thoughts are so important. So how do I come back?

  127. So if you say, Lord, okay, we're going to check right,

  128. We're going to check where we are and we want

  129. to come back. Okay, the next slight please, we want

  130. to see hunger, hunger for the Lord. How many of

  131. you are hungry for the lot? Sometimes?

  132. Uh, I just get this hunger.

  133. You know. I think it's my spirit man just becoming

  134. so hungry.

  135. Oh Lord, have you heard speech and say? Oh?

  136. Okay, next light please? I didn't do that. Next light,

  137. heart postures to Okay, the next one. I've done all this, Nathaniel,

  138. I think you didn't never mind. Next one, hard postures.

  139. God responds to. Next one, Okay, hunger and thirst. Blessed

  140. are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness? How many

  141. of you hunger for righteousness? I was just asking God, God,

  142. what is this righteousness? Righteousness is being in a place

  143. when you see something that is wrong. You know God

  144. has placed you in different places, in workplaces, in schools,

  145. in officers, you know. Wherever you are, you know when

  146. you see unjust do you keep quiet? You are the light?

  147. You know you are God's child. When you're hungry, you're

  148. always thinking about God. You're always moving and you're thinking,

  149. how can I bless the Lord? How can I bless

  150. the lot? If you see something not right? Would you

  151. make it right? Would you go and speak or you

  152. say no, better not? You know, I don't want to

  153. stick out and and be a short term I'll just

  154. keep quiet. Or will you speak out? Will you speak out?

  155. Some time ago, we saw it unjust done to an animal,

  156. an animal, you know, Me and my friends we go

  157. for walks, and in the walk we saw this little

  158. dog that was just left outside, you know, in the sun.

  159. And the.

  160. What we found out is the owner we just leave

  161. the dog outside and go away on holidays.

  162. You see, I'm so distracted. I'm telling you all.

  163. These stories because and I don't know where I'm going

  164. to finish my message. But it's okay because these stories

  165. mean something. You know, when you are placed in a

  166. place where you need to speak out, you need to

  167. voice out because that's where that's what righteousness is about.

  168. So we question this owner, can we help? Can we

  169. a dop Can we find a new owner for this dog? No? No, no,

  170. don't touch my dog. And when we went inside, we

  171. went through the little gate to find whether the dog

  172. has water, whether the dog has food. We found lovely

  173. in the bowl full of moldy.

  174. The ball was moldy, the food was terrible and the.

  175. Dog was cronying. So every time we would come into

  176. the side gate and feed the dog, the owner just

  177. went away to Pinang because his parents or someone's not

  178. well and just left the dog to fend for itself.

  179. So anyway, in the end.

  180. After speaking and everything, my daughter Alana, one day when

  181. I was going to feed, she saw the dog and

  182. she was so moved. She said, no, I'm taking it back,

  183. and we took the bag and now the dog is ours.

  184. Don't ask me how. And the dog now I have

  185. two rescues. They both bully me like crazy. So if

  186. you're put in a place, boys out, whether it is

  187. for a dog, whether it's for a person, maybe someone

  188. you know truth about somebody but lies. A being said,

  189. would you keep quiet or would you speak out? Because

  190. God wants you to be able to fight for these

  191. people that cannot fight. So always hunger for righteousness, do

  192. what's right? Okay? Humility, humility, Uh, Pride resists revival, Humility

  193. invites God. So let's check. We are doing hard check

  194. today right just now. We spoke about hunger, we spoke

  195. about righteousness. We spoke about how you need to be

  196. hungry for the things of God. Now we're talking about humility.

  197. The best example for humility is Jesus, King of Kings,

  198. Lord of lords. Every knee will bow coming, King raise.

  199. He raised the day.

  200. You know, the Book of John says, the Book of

  201. John says.

  202. In the beginning was the word, The word was with God,

  203. the word was God. And then later on you find

  204. out it says he became flesh and walked among us.

  205. Jesus walked among it. That's how great God is. We

  206. cannot even pantom our mind can't even describe what God

  207. is is so big, it's huge. You know this, Jesus

  208. came down to this dirty world for you and me.

  209. You know, he walked with peasants and prostitutes and text

  210. collectors and all kinds of people. He walked. And what

  211. did he do? Did he lord it over them? Ai

  212. am the King of kings? No, what did he do?

  213. He actually served the people. He's the best example. And

  214. not did he serve the people? He washed his disciples feet,

  215. God washing the disciples feet. Would you and I wash

  216. someone's feet? Let's think about it.

  217. Humility.

  218. The best example is Jesus. So if you want humility,

  219. God loves humility. That's why He showed us everything. The Gospels,

  220. you know, when you read your Bible, in the Gospels

  221. is about Jesus. He actually came to show us how

  222. to live, how to pray, how to love, how to forgive.

  223. You know, he actually showed us what to do, how

  224. to do it, and he did it first and showed us.

  225. God came showed us how to do these things. So

  226. if you want to know how to be like him,

  227. read the Gospels. And humility is a beautiful thing you

  228. must have. So check do I have humility? Do I

  229. love people like that? Can I go down? Can I

  230. be humble like that to do that extra mile for somebody? Okay,

  231. that's another hard check. Even when you don't feel it

  232. us sometimes I'm up here doing it because of obedience.

  233. I don't want to do it, I'm doing it. So

  234. think about it. What is it in your life that

  235. you really don't want to do. What is it in

  236. your life that's really challenging God. I don't want to

  237. wake up in the morning and come and serve.

  238. It's not easy.

  239. I need my time because last night, you know, yesterday

  240. I was at a party. My mother celebrated her ninety

  241. third birthday, and we were a party and my nieces

  242. tomorrow got church and I saw her looking at the

  243. mirror and she's I was thinking, Eh, she's going back

  244. while she's looking at the mirror. Then she said, no,

  245. Auntie Mabel, I'm going out. I said, tomorrow is church.

  246. How come you're going out? And definitely discon it's already

  247. ten something and just going out. So you can imagine

  248. what time she's sleeping. How to wake up the morning?

  249. You come to church and you yawn right or not?

  250. Thank God, I'm not seeing your yr You're better, don yon.

  251. Do you know me and my husband bye On Saturday nights,

  252. we prepare, we go to bait early. We don't like

  253. to go and take appointments. We don't like we finished

  254. everything by evening so that we don't have to, you know,

  255. be tired when we come on a Sunday. So take

  256. have a discipline. Last time in the Old Testament, they'll

  257. bring cows for sacrifice, right, you bring your offer tree.

  258. Your offer tree is a cow or a sheep or

  259. a lamp. Today we just pick up our hand back

  260. and come. Got nothing to do, right or not. We're

  261. not bringing cows and lambs and sheep and sacrificing it

  262. and they alter. We just bring our money and we

  263. just drop it, our whatever, just drop into the offer

  264. tree bag, right or not. So the least we can

  265. do is prepare. Preparation is so important. It shows God

  266. that you love him. It shows God that you know

  267. you're taking time. You're putting time aside, you're preparing, You're

  268. taking your clothes out, you're putting your Bible aside, you're

  269. making sure you don't forget anything, your offer tree, how

  270. much you're giving to the Lord.

  271. All that is preparation.

  272. In the Old Testament, they prepared in a way by

  273. pulling their offer tree to church. But we don't do

  274. that now. There are other ways preparing. So prepare. Don't

  275. come on a Sunday morning. Tiet always go to bait early. Prepare, prepare,

  276. prepare because that touches God. Repentance. The next thing we

  277. want to talk is repentance. You know, there's a prayer

  278. that we always pray, me and my husband before we

  279. leave the house. We say, Lord, you know that are

  280. we will ask you to forgive us a lot for

  281. things that we have done. Things we know we were

  282. seeing in your eyes. There are things that you know

  283. that were sinning God's eyes. There are things you know

  284. that you don't even know it was sinned, but yet

  285. it was sinning God's eyes. Maybe the thought you say, hey,

  286. it's you. I didn't do it. I didn't do that sin.

  287. It was just passing in my mind, you know. So

  288. we will cover everything. We will say, you know, things

  289. that were sinning in your eyes that didn't look sin

  290. in mind, you know, So forgive me for all things.

  291. We will cover everything.

  292. So repentance has to come from a place of you know,

  293. say you did something wrong and you want to come

  294. out of it, the grief. You need to really be sincere.

  295. God knows when you're sincere. Not. God knows when you

  296. go and say God, I'm sorry you just God is not. Yeah,

  297. he's our friend, but he's also You cannot take God

  298. like you know he said nobody, I'm sorry, Lord, and

  299. just move on, and I'm sorry I did that.

  300. Just move on, you know, don't do that with God.

  301. Always honor God, because you never lose when you honor God,

  302. when you love God, when you give on to God,

  303. you never lose. You never lose with God. You know

  304. that respect, that honor when you come in you know,

  305. sitting in front making sure. You know, it's not your

  306. turn to arrange the chess, So what arrange the chess?

  307. Put it properly, Come early, see what help is needed.

  308. You know you don't have to be on duty roster

  309. because you do it for the audience of one. You

  310. don't do it for the pastor to see, for the

  311. leaders to see, but you live for the audience of one.

  312. Always make sure there's one person who's watching you.

  313. There's one person who's always watching you.

  314. While you're sleeping, while you're in church, while you're working,

  315. while you're resting. He's always watching you. Always make sure

  316. that you are in a place where you know you're

  317. giving your best and you're honoring him. So remember repentance.

  318. If you're repenting before the Lord, don't take it lightly.

  319. You know, come with a broken heart. The Bible says,

  320. come with a broken heart, a contrite heart. God loves it.

  321. When you come with a contract like that means you're

  322. truly repent. You're grieving over that, and you're saying God,

  323. I want to change. Okay, So the next thing I

  324. want to talk about is honesty. The next line, okay, integrity.

  325. Is there a picture the next one? What is the

  326. next one? Oh no, uh, okay, never mind.

  327. I wanted to show you a picture. How come it's

  328. not there? I saw it.

  329. I saw the picture when I gave it to pasta Stephen. Okay,

  330. let's go back to honesty, integrity of heart. Are you

  331. there's a story behind this picture?

  332. Where's my picture?

  333. Lord? Never mind? It's okay? Maybe okay, never mind. Anyway,

  334. two three months ago, I was in the house. You know,

  335. I do my own business, and I'm I was speaking,

  336. and suddenly I heard the word integrity, and I know

  337. the voice of God. When he told me integrity, I

  338. was thinking, Lord, where did I? Ah, there it is?

  339. How did you find it? Okay, that's my daughter Ashley?

  340. So okay, take up, Okay, can now mind? Leave it?

  341. Don't leave it on.

  342. So when God told me integrity, I said, ah, I jump,

  343. What did I do wrong?

  344. Why is God talking about integrity?

  345. So I quickly check, check, check, check, make sure I

  346. know I'm not doing anything wrong. I am integrists before

  347. the Lord. I'm doing what's right. So I check everything and.

  348. I said, okay, Lord, you know I'm careful. I'm careful.

  349. I know whatever I'm doing, I'm careful a few days past,

  350. and he said again, integrity. Oh my god, oh my goodness,

  351. I must be really feeling. Way am I feeling? So

  352. I was really searching, and I went to the Lord

  353. in prayer and I checked myself, making sure I don't

  354. live a double life. I don't, you know, in front

  355. of you, Mabel, behind you, devil. No, I wasn't. So

  356. I checked myself. I really really checked myself. And then

  357. he spoke again, integrity through this picture, my daughter said,

  358. she sends me. My daughter's working in Kazakh Kazakhstan, she's

  359. a teacher there. Uh and and and she sent me

  360. this picture. And she always sends me all kinds of pictures.

  361. Whatever she's doing, she will send me because that's my

  362. daughter is very She loves the family. She loves being

  363. with her family. And and and when she she does

  364. things like that and she sends pictures, she feels like

  365. she's with the family.

  366. So she sent me this picture. And I didn't see

  367. her face first.

  368. I saw the word first again, so I knew God

  369. was telling something not just to me, but to all

  370. of us. See, if you are if you do not

  371. have integrity, God cannot use you. Because she cannot trust you.

  372. What is integrity? What people see you here on a Sunday.

  373. You're the same outside. You're not someone else or something

  374. else outside. You don't live a double life. You always

  375. the same, and God can trust you because there's so

  376. much work to do. Remember what the bird the word says.

  377. The Word says that the harvest is plenty, but the

  378. laborers are few, so God cannot use you. May be

  379. a Christian, why are you taking your phone? Put your

  380. phone away. This is not a phone time. This is

  381. the studying the word time, So put your phone away.

  382. This is how I preach. At ten am. I always

  383. tell them put your phone away, because God watches you.

  384. God watches when you make a joke, when the word

  385. is being preached. God watches when you're smiling and laughing

  386. and playing the fool. God says, why where's the honor?

  387. What am I preaching? I'm preaching God's word. I'm not

  388. preaching my own story. Yes, I'm sharing you that there

  389. is a living God and he's doing all these miracles.

  390. He won't do a miracle for you.

  391. If you're in church watching your phone sending a joke,

  392. I'm sorry if you don't invite me again. But this

  393. is who I am. I'm very hot for the Lord,

  394. and I say it as it is. I love the Lord.

  395. The first time I came, they all said, oh, you elder,

  396. you're scolding us. I say, because there's no honor in

  397. the house. Number one, because God will judge me. Maybe

  398. I asked you to go and share the word and

  399. you just let my people do whatever. You didn't correct them,

  400. and you saw something that was not right. I have

  401. to because one day I will have to stand in

  402. front of God and justify what I've shared. I've shared

  403. it the way God has taught me to share it. Integrity, guys,

  404. in church or outside. If in church you have no integrity,

  405. how more outside you will not have integrity. And God

  406. is watching for people he can trust and use. Can

  407. he count on you? Can he count on you? So

  408. have integrity. Be honest, Be honest, okay, doing the right thing,

  409. whether in public or private. Honesty is always telling the truth.

  410. I know it's difficult, always telling the truth. It's not easy.

  411. Be consistent. Don't one day be like this tomorrow be

  412. something else. And trustworthiness very important. Okay, So yeah, integrity.

  413. God is very big on integrity. Three times He told me, Mabel, integrity, integrity, integrity,

  414. So I can use you. I can, I can trust you,

  415. I can send you out for good works. I can

  416. send you to go share with somebody. So Church, I

  417. don't believe that integrity was just for me. Integrity is

  418. for the Church. He wants every one of us to

  419. live a life of integrity. Okay. The next thing obedience,

  420. So we haart check? Are all this are is hard?

  421. Check heart postures? Are we having integrity in our lives?

  422. Are human? Are we humble? You know what was? Are

  423. we hunger? Are we hungry for the Lord and his righteousness?

  424. Are we honest? Are we repented when we repented? Are

  425. we truly repented? You know? Do we keep doing the

  426. same sin again? Or do we repent and say God,

  427. we won't do it again. The next thing is obedience.

  428. So remember I told you earlier on I said, the

  429. student came and asked us this question. What if I'm

  430. missing it? It's so simple. Obedience is if you love me,

  431. you will keep my word. Thank God wants you were

  432. slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey his teaching,

  433. This teaching we have given you. Revival depends when we

  434. obey what God has already spoken to us. Okay, So

  435. obedience is actually loving God and keeping his commandments. So

  436. when the student asked, this is what came to me.

  437. If you're keeping God's commandment, how can you go wrong?

  438. If you love God and love people. If you are

  439. always conscious that God is watching you wherever you are,

  440. that God is watching you. God is walking with you,

  441. God is loving you. God has his back, you know

  442. has your back. How can you miss it? You cannot

  443. miss it. God will never say I do not know you.

  444. Because you love his word. You keep his commandments. There's

  445. no way God will say I do not know you,

  446. so keep his commandments. The only way you're going to

  447. know his commandments is by reading the word.

  448. Are you reading the word? So important that you read

  449. the word?

  450. Every time my husband buys me an electronic I never

  451. like to read the manual, never because.

  452. It's always so fat, so much of words.

  453. I never like to read. And he always tells me, love,

  454. if you want this item to last, you must read

  455. the manual.

  456. God has given us a manual.

  457. If you don't read the word, you will miss it

  458. because there are so much God wants to tell you,

  459. and it's all in the Word. The next thing is prayer.

  460. If my people will humble themselves and pray. It's not

  461. easy to pray. I try to do my quiet time

  462. every morning. I pray before the Lord. I do my

  463. quiet time. I take communion. Prayer is so important. Prayer

  464. is talking to God. God. Do you know that Adam

  465. and if you know, God came at the right time,

  466. in the cool of the morning to share the word.

  467. I mean to to have fellowship with Adam and Eve.

  468. And do you know He seeks that time with you,

  469. that fellowship with you. He wants to talk to you.

  470. He wants to find out how you're doing. He wants

  471. to know what you are, your challengers. He wants to

  472. know if you will need a job, what is the job,

  473. What is the job doing to you? Is the job

  474. driving you crazy? You know?

  475. He wants to know everything about you.

  476. But if you don't and you just go away and

  477. do whatever you want to do, you know, you know,

  478. sometimes somebody told me, oh, Josephine told me this morning,

  479. you know, something happened, and instead of going to the

  480. Lord first, I went to everybody. We do that because

  481. we don't see God, we see people. So when we

  482. have a problem. The first thing we do is can

  483. you you know I have this problem? So we want

  484. someone to talk to us. But what makes you think

  485. that God won't talk to you when you go and

  486. spend time with you with him in prayer. What makes

  487. you think that God will be quiet and won't talk

  488. to you. He won't talk to you. He desires to

  489. have that fellowship with you. My mom turned ninety three

  490. on Friday. We took her out yesterday. Do you know

  491. my mom walks around and we asked her mom, We

  492. always take her for a nice hotel Buffas and she

  493. loves hei teas and all that. But this time we

  494. told her mom, we always go for Hotel Bufface. Shall

  495. we go for something else? She said, crab neiety three?

  496. You know ninety three, No crab. She wants seafood. She

  497. can walk with us with her son. Yesterday she was

  498. the style of the restaurant. Everybody was looking in my

  499. mom's Chinese. You know, she's walking with a walking stick.

  500. And then of course we all broke the claw all

  501. for her so she can easy for her to eat.

  502. But you know what's the secret of my mother ninety

  503. three walking? She's a child of God. That fears God

  504. every morning, whether we are you know, we take her

  505. on our holidays. You know, whether she is in the

  506. house or at a holiday destination. At a certain time

  507. in the morning, she take a shower, she'll sit down

  508. with her bible, and she will read her Bible loud.

  509. The whole house, everyone can hear. Whether it's on a

  510. holiday destination or what she doesn't care, and she will

  511. read the Bible out loud, the Word of God out loud,

  512. because it's so important that you hear what you read.

  513. You're just not all and you don't you close your bible,

  514. you don't know what you read. You need to You

  515. need to hear what you read. So read the Bible

  516. out loud so you can hear. Fay comes by hearing.

  517. You believe God by hearing the word of God. So

  518. you read out loud. And my mother reads the Bible.

  519. She spends with God. I know it's already almost time.

  520. I'm going to give you the but I will run

  521. this quickly, okay. So if you want to live a

  522. good life, you know, doesn't matter when God calls us home.

  523. I'm ready if God calls me home. Are you ready

  524. when God calls you home? Today. Are you ready to

  525. see him? You must be.

  526. Ready, like God's going to call you today.

  527. Is your life ready or you're going to tell God God,

  528. not yet, I'm not ready. I haven't read the Bible.

  529. I've got to get my act together. Get your act

  530. together today. Don't wait for tomorrow. Get it done today. Okay,

  531. whatever you need to do, do it today. So that's

  532. the secret of Mary Ramachandra, that's the name.

  533. She's amazing.

  534. Wherever she goes, she's reading her Bible and until now

  535. you fight with us, she'll give you a good fight

  536. as well. So that's my mom, who loves the Lord,

  537. who spends time with the Bible. The next thing is teachability. Okay, prayer, hard, posture.

  538. You must have a heart to pray, you know, have

  539. a heart that wants to pray. Pray for people, pray

  540. for yourself, pray for anything. Spend time with the Lord.

  541. Pray is always spending time saying Hi God, here I am.

  542. The next is teachability. Today. If you hear his voice,

  543. do not harden your hearts. You hear the voice of God. No,

  544. you're hearing Mabel. Yeah, but you're hearing God's word. You're

  545. hearing the word being preached. Don't harden your heart. Don't

  546. come every Sunday and hear the word and go back

  547. like nothing, like water off the duck's back. They say,

  548. don't be like that every word. Whether Bradley is here

  549. preaching the word, or I am here preaching in the word,

  550. or if Jesus himself is here preaching the word, take

  551. it like today. I will change. I will make a difference.

  552. I will be something that I was in yesterday. I

  553. will be better, Lord, I will be better. I will

  554. take your word and run with it. Be teachable. Don't

  555. say I've heard it the same message I've heard. Really

  556. all this words, you know, don't say that, but always

  557. want to make a change. Make a change, you know.

  558. Be teachable. Don't look at how old a person is

  559. or how young the person is. Be teachable when all

  560. the Sudders are like, okay, we told you we learn

  561. from our young adults. It was Pastor Michelle, pastor Julian.

  562. They were all the people at quota communing. If any

  563. of you were at quota communing, I was at quota communing.

  564. Homes okay and teachable. The last one is okay. I'm

  565. ending praise the Lord I am ending. What's the last life? Yes,

  566. if you forgot everything, love God and love people, very

  567. very important, very very important. You know, the Lord himself said,

  568. you know, love the Lord, your God with all your heart,

  569. your soul, your mind, all your strength. And love one another,

  570. love one another for one another. Don't take offense, don't

  571. keep offense, because it is the biggest tool of the enemy.

  572. Offense is the biggest tool of the enemy. We always

  573. take offense with people. We cannot forgive people. You know,

  574. people have done me wrong many many times. You know,

  575. you know, and I've heard you know, Yes, you heard, Yes,

  576. you cry, Lord, How can I forgive someone who has

  577. done me so much wrong, so much evil? You know?

  578. Do you know?

  579. It's not you? Sometimes by our flesh we cannot forgive.

  580. It's always by the spirit. Go to the Lord, and

  581. the Holy Spirit will take that unforgiveness. Never keep unforgiveness

  582. in your heart. Never, because the Lord is on you.

  583. My husband always tells me that person is sleeping very well,

  584. that person did you harm, but sleeping very well in

  585. the night. You're the one that is not sleeping. Is

  586. it right? That person did me harm and that person

  587. is sleeping, But I I'm the victim, and I'm the

  588. one that's not sleeping. Is it right?

  589. Does it make sense?

  590. Go to the Lord.

  591. I couldn't. I couldn't take it anymore. So I went

  592. to the Lord.

  593. I cried. First day, I cried. Nothing happened. Second day

  594. I went to the Lord. I cried, nothing happened. You know,

  595. it took me sometime. Went to the Lord. Lord, Lord Lord,

  596. I need to take this. This hurted. I need to forgive.

  597. I don't know how. And then the Holy Spirit one

  598. day just removed it. And then guess what, someone else

  599. will hurt you. Then you got to go back and

  600. ask God to forgive. I mean, ask God, Lord, help

  601. me forgive again. So don't keep unforgiveness. Oh my, look

  602. at the time. Don't keep unforgiveness. Okay. So I'm going

  603. to ask the ministry team to come up. Love God

  604. and love people, love one another, okay, and always honor God.

  605. Wherever you are, honor the Lord because he loves you.

  606. Honor him where the people are watching, people are not watching,

  607. Honor the Lord. Come on, Bradley, come serve the Lord.

  608. So proud of you. Eight years old. We all got

  609. no excuser if eight years oldkay and serve. We all

  610. got no excuse. Do something you know. Always serve the Lord.

  611. Remember the two copper coins and don't look down on

  612. the gift that God has given you. If you can

  613. shake hands, if you can smile, you can do something.

  614. So sir, we hope you've been blessed by this message.

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  617. that this week is going to be a good week

  618. ahead for you. God bless