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From Despair to Deliverance | Pr Ronson

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts Church.

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

  3. My topic for today is from despair to deliverance, and

  4. I'm going to take today's reading from the book of Ezekiel,

  5. who is an Old Testament prophet. Now, when you read

  6. the Old Testament, you realize that there is a distinction

  7. between the major profits and the minor prophets. Okay, to me,

  8. my simple definition of minor profits and major profits is

  9. just this, minor profits. That chapters are very few, so

  10. you've got AMers, have a cooke. Joel is all three

  11. for seven chapters. Major profits because they carry such an

  12. important and major messages like Isaiah Jeremiah. That chapters are

  13. easily more than forty chapters fifty six and all right,

  14. so Isekiel was a priest who was called to be

  15. a prophet while Israel was in exile in Babylon. Yeah,

  16. and when we talk about Babylon most of the time,

  17. who do we remember Babylon?

  18. Who do you remember? Just shout out a name? Sorry?

  19. Who NEI very good? Who else? Daniel? Sorry? Daniel? Right?

  20. So Daniel, Nobesa, Shad Rag misscheck abanago. Whenever you mentioned

  21. babylong we remember them right now. In terms of Ezekiel's timeline,

  22. he exists within that time frame where Daniel and friends

  23. and Kanza were in Babylon. Daniel was taken to Babylon. First,

  24. we know Daniel's story. He was of a noble lineage

  25. and king the Bucanza decided to take the best looking,

  26. the most wisest men in Judah, bring them into Babylon,

  27. and train them in the literature and culture of Babylon.

  28. So the first wave of people who were actually captured

  29. and being put in Babylon was during Daniel's time. Ezekiel

  30. was about eight years later, which they call it the

  31. second second wave. Right now, you may be wondering how

  32. did Israel or Judah ended up in Babylon. This is

  33. God's judgment for the entire nation. Why, because the nation

  34. has turned their back against God. They became wicked, they

  35. were violins all around. There were idolatry worship even in

  36. the temple. A lot of unrighteous acts were done during

  37. that time. So God decided to raise the Babylonian empire

  38. up to send judgment to Israel. So, in other words,

  39. Israel's spiritual climate back then was quite dark.

  40. Was quite dark? Right?

  41. Many of you here you watch superhero movies. I think

  42. Avengers x Men. No, okay, thing of a superhero movie

  43. where the goods the bad. All right, So think about

  44. this timeline, right, Daniel was in the palace, Isekiel was

  45. outside of the palace most of the time. Ezekiel was

  46. preaching to the Israelites who were in exile. God used

  47. Daniel in the palace to influence system and structure.

  48. Okay, So Daniel.

  49. Is your typical marketplace person, easy kill is your typical

  50. full time pastor profited who is not in the marketplace

  51. but in full time ministry. Okay, So the Kingdom of

  52. God is so wonderful that we need both, you know,

  53. people who are in a full time marketplace and people

  54. who are in the full time ministry. The people who

  55. are in the full time marketplace cannot despise the full

  56. time worker and say you don't know nothing. I am

  57. in the marketplace, I'm earning big box. You don't know nothing.

  58. Neither can the people in the full time ministry despise

  59. the people in the marketplace and say you are of

  60. the world. You know, stop being worldly, stop being this that. No,

  61. that is not how God o praed, because scripture is

  62. clear God planted Daniel in the marketplace for a reason.

  63. Without Daniel, the entire government will not be influenced. Without Ezekiel,

  64. the whole nation of Israel will probably not be able

  65. to listen to a message of hope. I wanted to

  66. start with this context because not everyone will be called

  67. to the marketplace, and not everyone will be called to

  68. full time ministry, because each of us have a unique

  69. calling from the Lord. It's either marketplace or full time.

  70. If you're called to full time, you will have the

  71. grace all right to even succeed. If you are called

  72. to the marketplace, you will also have that measure of

  73. grace to succeed. And to the full time workers here,

  74. I know in say we don't have a lot of

  75. full time workers.

  76. In fact, we have not zero. We don't have a

  77. full time pastor.

  78. I'm not even a full time past I have a

  79. role in the marketplace, always job with people. The role

  80. of a pasta is full time. Just that if you

  81. talk about nine to six, nine to five. We are

  82. attached to our role in a marketplace, right, so we

  83. need each other the full time and the marketplace. So

  84. Isaiah and Jeremiah actually prophesied many hundred years ago about

  85. the situation of the Israelites. In Jeremiah, he prophesied that

  86. for seventeen for seven zero years, people from Israel will

  87. be captured and entered baby Long. In fact, it was

  88. during a time where one of the king of Israel

  89. decided to show off treasuries in God's temple right to

  90. foreigners coming in, and the God was displeased, and the

  91. prophecy came that the day will come where all these

  92. treasures that you have shown off will be taken away

  93. and will be put into a foreign land. So actually

  94. fulfilled that prophecy. Now, why I wanted to start off

  95. with this premise about the condition of Israel is because

  96. in Deuteronomy twenty eight and levety Kiss twenty six, God

  97. had already worn the Israelites that if they give themselves

  98. to worship false God, or if there's persistent idol or three,

  99. that will result a nation being plucked out from their

  100. land and they will be scattered to serve their enemies.

  101. With every scene, there is a consequence, So we shouldn't downplace. Hi.

  102. God always gives his people that choice, the choice to

  103. obey and submit out of that willingness and love, or

  104. the choice not to. So every scene leads to a consequence,

  105. and for the Israelites, unfortunate dias is being plucked out

  106. of the land, being put into the land where they

  107. serve foreign kings.

  108. So the Book of Ezekiel is divided into three.

  109. One is a judgment of Judah, where God's glory lives

  110. the corrupt temple. In fact, during the time of Jesus,

  111. you all will remember this. We all think that Jesus

  112. is fun, loving and all, but you will probably remember

  113. the scripture he overturned the tables that were selling merchandisers.

  114. Not to say selling merchandis is wrong, but you have

  115. to understand the context. Back then they were selling things

  116. that chippen worship for the people. Then they make it convenient.

  117. So it's not just convenient, they exploited it. So it's

  118. as though that when you enter the temple, the animals

  119. that you bring we won't take. You must only take

  120. our animal, and you must purchase it from us.

  121. So that's expectation.

  122. So please, when you're coming to church next time anyone

  123. sell anything, please don't overturn their table because.

  124. There's a wrong context. Okay, guys, there's a wrong context. Ah.

  125. So when Jesus overturned the table, it is in the

  126. context of worship and how people choose convenience and expectation

  127. over that. And whenever God pronounces judgment, God will always

  128. pronounce hope. So it's not all doom and gloom when

  129. judgment is pronounced. In fact, when you read the Book

  130. of the Prophets, you realize that there's a lot of imaginery,

  131. a lot of very duk things are being described. But

  132. when you read clearer, you always realize there is always hope,

  133. because that is our God.

  134. He always gave us hope.

  135. Now, in a book of easy Gil in chapter thirty seven,

  136. it's a famous scripture where God brought Eazykiel out to

  137. the value of the dry bones. Now, let me help

  138. you to appreciate the gravity of the situation. Think about it, right,

  139. It was a national crisis. Hey, many of you are

  140. students here. We prayed for you for your final exam,

  141. final project. Imagine you graduate and you secured a top

  142. job already. But unfortunately the next day another nation come

  143. and decided to take all of us captive and go

  144. serve them Imagine you just got married. Before you enjoy

  145. your honeymoon, another nation came and decided to take all

  146. of us as slave to serve them for those who

  147. are working. Imagine you celebrated your retirement, you collected your

  148. money already, and then the nation came and decided to,

  149. you know, take us all captives because of our disobedience,

  150. because of a very seen that we have turned away

  151. from God. It's not just turning away, you know, it's

  152. like serving other gods. That's wickedness, that's unbelief. So the

  153. entire nation couldn't see hope. When a nation who is

  154. who is stronger than you come over and take hold

  155. of everything. You lost your bank account, you lost everything.

  156. You begin to question your own future. You begin to

  157. question whether there is hope for this country. So it

  158. was a very very dark time. They can't see hope.

  159. So when God brought Ezekiel out in the spirit in

  160. verse one, it says, the hand of the Lord came

  161. upon me and brought me out in the spirit of

  162. the Lord, and set me down in the midst of

  163. the valley, and it was full of bones. Then he

  164. caused me to pass by them all around and behold

  165. there were very many in the open valley, and indeed

  166. they were very dry. And he said to me, son

  167. of man, can these bones live? So I answered, oh,

  168. Lord God, you know you can underline that if you

  169. want to. Old Lord God, you know what's for. Again,

  170. he said to me, prophesy to this bones, and say

  171. to them, all dry bones, hear the word of the

  172. Lord pass, says the Lord God, to this bones. Surely

  173. I will cause breath to enter into you, and you

  174. shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring

  175. flesh upon you, cower you with skin, and put breath

  176. in you, and you shall live. Then you shall know

  177. that I am the Lord. So I prophesy as I

  178. was commanded. And as I prophesy, there was a noise,

  179. and suddenly a rattling, and the bones came together, bone

  180. to bone in need. As I look, the sinews and

  181. the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over.

  182. But there was no breath in them. Also he said

  183. to me, prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of Man,

  184. and say, to the breath, says the Lord God, come

  185. from the four winds of breath, and breathe on this slain.

  186. That they may live. So I prophesy as he commanded me,

  187. and breath came into them, and they leave and stood

  188. upon their feet, and a seemingly great army. Then he

  189. said to me, son of men, these bones are the

  190. whole house of Israel. They did say, our bones are dry,

  191. our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off.

  192. Therefore Prophesy sigh and say to them, pass, says the

  193. Lord God. Behold, oh my people, I will open your

  194. graves and cause you to come out from your grave

  195. and bring you into the land of Israel.

  196. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

  197. When I have opened your grave, all my people, and

  198. brought you up from your grave.

  199. Last verse fourteen, I will put my spirit.

  200. In you, and you shall live. I will place you

  201. in your own land. Then you shall know that I,

  202. the Lord, have spoken it and have performed it, says

  203. the Lord. So the Lord gave Isekil an image that

  204. is depicting how the spiritual climate and condition was in Israel.

  205. Dry bones, dry bones, And it ended with a.

  206. Hope that they are going to be taken from this

  207. land be brought back to their land. Not only that

  208. God will put his spirit into them. Not the first

  209. point that I want to share with us today is

  210. how we see things matter. How we see our situation

  211. matters because we are people who are not without hope.

  212. We're all God's people. If you're a believer here, you

  213. have the only spirit already in you. Right in fact

  214. four things. Also, it's like a fulfillment of a prophecy.

  215. I will put my spirit in you. And Jesus when

  216. he was assended to the right hand on the Father,

  217. he says, I will send the promise of my Father

  218. to you. So when you believe in Christ, the only

  219. spirit comes lives in you.

  220. So how you see things matter.

  221. So when I was reading the scripture, I was curious,

  222. why did Ezekiel answered God when God asked him can

  223. this dry bone slip?

  224. And he answered, oh, Lord, you know, have you thought

  225. about it?

  226. Why the Ezekiel gave that answer because in a very

  227. simple mind, if I literally ask y'all, can the dry

  228. bones leave? Most you'll say, the ry bones, how can

  229. they live? The most spiritual of us will say, of

  230. course it can live. In God, all things are possible.

  231. You see, if easy girl were to answer, Lord, these

  232. bones can live, he will speak out of presumption. He

  233. will jump the gun. He will not be able to

  234. see things from God's lens. But he will to answer

  235. it is impossible that these bones will leave. He will

  236. speak about his unbelief. So his answer reflects that a

  237. lot on spiritual maturity.

  238. Lord, only you know.

  239. So in our situation sometimes they are going to be

  240. walley of dry bones, where the Lord often will present

  241. us with a question like how he asks, ezekil, will

  242. these dry bones live? I pray that our answer will

  243. be like eazykill. Lord only you know, because by saying Lord,

  244. only you know, it speaks about three things. Number one,

  245. it is a surrender of our human logic. It is

  246. a surrender of our own wisdom.

  247. You know.

  248. Wisdom and faith often clash, often clash. If Peter were

  249. to go by wisdom, he would have chose to stay

  250. in the boat rather than walking right and stepping out

  251. of the board to step into the waters. Because why,

  252. conventional wisdom will tell you sing. Of course you will sing,

  253. little go and try and see you will sing. But

  254. but Peter clearly heard from the Lord the word Peter, say, Lord,

  255. if it is you call me, that may come to you.

  256. So it is based on that word that Peter needed

  257. to surrender his own logic, and logic got to submit

  258. to God's word. So it also means that we need

  259. to admit our limitation and it surrenders to God's will.

  260. Because sometimes even when we pray, of course, we should

  261. pray specifically, Lord, I desire this, I desire that, but

  262. please always say, Lord, if it is your will. Or

  263. sometimes we are so careless in our own prayer that

  264. if we pray this particular prayer it doesn't turn out

  265. like how we have prayed.

  266. Who gets disappointed that we But if.

  267. We always prayed the Lord, I may desire this, but

  268. if it is your will, you'll make it to pass.

  269. If it's not your will, a closed door basically just

  270. mean the right door will be opened soon for me.

  271. So old Lord, you know so the only spirit is

  272. asking what is the walley of dry bones in your life?

  273. Today?

  274. That God is asking, my child, can these bones live?

  275. Maybe the dry bones are found in your marketplace. Maybe

  276. you're entering in your marketplace. You enter in your company,

  277. you pray and you believe God for an open door.

  278. God open the door for you, and you enter into

  279. this company. And then when you begin to walk in

  280. the company, you see a lot of challenges, a lot

  281. of conflicts. It's hard to get things done, and you're wondering, God,

  282. why did you place me in this value of dry bones?

  283. Maybe even in your own family, maybe there are relational challenges,

  284. maybe they are marital issues, maybe there are family issues.

  285. And every time you go back to your own home,

  286. you go back to your own house, you see dry

  287. bones all around. Let me share with you that no

  288. family is perfect. No family, every family, one day is

  289. bound to go through relational challenges, every family or one

  290. day go through conflicts. But it is how we see

  291. our dry bones that matters. Because today God wants you

  292. to know that every value of dry bones, even if

  293. you see it as an obstacles, you see it as

  294. a challenge. God sees as an opportunity for his glory

  295. to come throue for you. Or if you know I

  296. serve in Eli, my friends here who are working in

  297. Eli into Nili Okay. Anyway, many years ago, we planted

  298. the church in twenty ten. In twenty fourteen, I wanted

  299. to give up Xnlimn because you're noticed. I stay in

  300. Subang and I'll travel every day, and for four years

  301. I think the church has done well but it was

  302. during the fourth year. Fruits are not coming up right.

  303. In our first three years we were very strong. So

  304. people like Pasta Steven you know back then he'll need

  305. to go to cyber Cafe and do some fellowship there,

  306. and we needed to counsel him and give up follow God.

  307. Ah Ah.

  308. Eventually did right. He spent one year foundation in in

  309. uh in t and no better.

  310. We are doing very well.

  311. But when he hit four years, because students like a

  312. graduate right three years. If you're a student here, you

  313. are if you're an undergraduate student here, and if it's

  314. your fifth years, six years, you always tell us that

  315. you're trying to complete your studies, but the exam hasn't

  316. been kind to you. But typical student cycle is three

  317. years or four years. So a graduating badge gone, I

  318. see that there's no fruits. I'm a very discouraged. Every

  319. time go to Neil, I see dry bones. Now well,

  320. the most discouraging thing that can ever happen to a

  321. leader is so you saw, you saw, and you don't

  322. see fruits. Even the most faithful of all can be

  323. put in a place where it's discouraging, and we begin

  324. to see ministry out of faithfulness rather than joy. Right,

  325. we want to serve out of the joy that God

  326. has given us. So I spoke a pasta, I think

  327. my time is up. A lot of Christians when they

  328. want to give up, we always use this very famous line, Hey,

  329. wait for this. My season has coming to an end.

  330. I think it's time to move on.

  331. Yeah.

  332. So as part of that crowdler Ah, the passa told

  333. me a very simple thing. You know, just pray about

  334. it and if the Lord once should be there, he'll

  335. speak to you.

  336. Enough. I pray, la. Hey, when tell you pray, you

  337. really pray la.

  338. Okay, don't tell a pastors pray about it as a

  339. way to just try to will calm him down and

  340. then come back. I really prayed, and God led me

  341. to scriptures The Better of the collect David. They lost everything, right,

  342. the mighty man lost everything. They weep and he wanted

  343. the stone David, what did he strengthened himself in the

  344. Lord He's got based on a scripture. God then reminded

  345. me of the wonderful testimonies that we had had in

  346. the past three years, and he promised me there will

  347. be many more to come. And today I want to

  348. share with you this one particular testimony about a guy

  349. by the name of Aaron Sicombe. He's a Zambian student.

  350. Right when he studied in Nelai Uni, he applied for

  351. a green cart to go to America.

  352. Right back then.

  353. I'm not sure about now, but back then they say,

  354. if you make it to America, you're able to leave

  355. the American dream, all right. So he got the green

  356. cart and he was at a stage where o, hey,

  357. now it's getting real. Should I go to America or

  358. should I stay in a place called Neelai which is

  359. actually nothing much lie in Nearli.

  360. We don't even have our cinema.

  361. Back then, when they begin to build Mesa Hill, my

  362. friends from Nearli, they put the first cinema there. Actually

  363. it's not a cinema, you know, it's a Sydney plex.

  364. And they don't show mainstream movie and they will show

  365. the Indian movie for some reason, all right, probably the

  366. Indian movies' is not found in the mainstream cinema.

  367. And there's really nothing in Eli. And chances are if.

  368. You're an African student back then, you will face a

  369. lot of discrimination. A lot back then for some reason,

  370. because not every students who come here and want to

  371. study orso they'll do other hand ke and panky and

  372. then the authorities will we'll try to do something. So

  373. I always remember one day when I was just striving

  374. for Congoli students in my car, I'm the only Malaysian

  375. for Congoli students.

  376. We were stopped at the traffic lights.

  377. Okay, before we were stopped, there were two traffic policemen

  378. telling us a ready, and I was writing them to

  379. church my morning. They were next to us of spring

  380. so high, say God, mind their eyes.

  381. God, don't let them see us. Blind the eyes, blind

  382. the eyes.

  383. We've got a church to go to through Now we

  384. got flag everyone panny just look at their eye card,

  385. their student past everything. Eventually they let us truller. I

  386. want to say that back then. Now I think it's better,

  387. but back then, chances are if you're an African student,

  388. there was very high stereotyping as hell, so foreveron NELI

  389. is like a dry bone place.

  390. For him, there's really nothing.

  391. I speak to international students who is from either emerging

  392. country or developed country, always ask them, so after graduate

  393. was your plan?

  394. Let me get out? Then? Don't want to go back?

  395. Sious eat out of them don't want to go back

  396. because they can't see hope in their own country. They

  397. would see Malasia as like a breach. And they always

  398. tell me, oh, we'll go Europe, we go Canada, We'll

  399. go Uh say, okay, our good pastor what do we

  400. usually do?

  401. Yeah, pray about it.

  402. I believe God has a plan for our own country,

  403. and he stirs your heart. Go ahead and serve in

  404. your country, your country to young people like you by

  405. a they way.

  406. So he prayed about it. One day he came for

  407. a church conference.

  408. He heard his speaker spoke about the God of the

  409. mountains is the God of the valley.

  410. It's the same god.

  411. Right, doesn't mean a god of America is different from

  412. a god of Malaysia. Come on, right, It doesn't mean

  413. a god of Zambia is different from a God of Malaysia.

  414. Amen.

  415. Those sometimes the language is different by the same God.

  416. So based on that, he had a conviction, you know,

  417. you know, he had a conviction. He gave up his

  418. green cat. It is I stay in Neeli. Of all places,

  419. he completed his studies in Neeli, America is here he

  420. could have gone. How do you know it's a big

  421. thing for a young person to give this up.

  422. It had to be God.

  423. Because God helped him to see, because if he can't see,

  424. he would have lived America now and his life course

  425. would have been different. But today he serves as an

  426. economist with the Ministry of Finance in Zambia. It all

  427. started with his ability to see past the dry bones

  428. and to hear from God. I have got stayed on

  429. from twenty fourteen to now, oh my twelve years.

  430. And there will be many many more years ahead. See.

  431. If I didn't stay on, I wouldn't have help you

  432. guys with axe menie because Xi Mana was planted twenty sixteen.

  433. So if you're in a dry bones season, a dry

  434. bone welly season, you're in a good place. Guys, you're

  435. a very good place because the Lord is with you.

  436. He'll help you to see. Okay, all you need to

  437. answer is to just be like easy kill oh Lord.

  438. You know, because sometimes the marketplace, it's not always about

  439. your boss, you know.

  440. Yes, sometimes we have been praying Lord, remove, remove.

  441. It's not about your coliques, you know, sorry, pray Lord remove

  442. my clique place. Hey, it's not about your lecturer, you know.

  443. Please don't blame your lecturer. For you yourself get thinking

  444. a bad results. Maybe you didn't study. Yeah, and all

  445. the lecturers say amen. In whatever situation, say Lord, you know,

  446. and I'm ready to surrender to your will. See Aaron

  447. surrender his human logic, human logic say.

  448. Go America, Go America. Human wisdom will say go America,

  449. Go America.

  450. But he gave himself the opportunity to hear from God.

  451. See second speak.

  452. The authority of God's word is e When Ezekil prophesy

  453. in verse four again, it said to me, prophesy to

  454. these bones, and say to them, all dry bones, hear

  455. the word of the Lord. Underlying the word here the

  456. word of the Lord. I want to encourage ex money

  457. to cultivate that habit where you pursue God for yourself.

  458. You honor your quiet time. You keep God's word in

  459. your heart. Please please, That's very important, because Ezekiel shows

  460. us a very powerful truth. He prophesied not according to

  461. the word of men. He prophesied according to the word

  462. of God. Prohabs eighteen twenty one say is death and

  463. life are in the power of the towngue, and those

  464. who love it will eat its fruit. John six sixty three.

  465. It is a spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing.

  466. The words that I speak to you are spirit and

  467. they are live. Oh is amazing picture John six six three.

  468. You see how Ezekiel prophesy to the dry bones. It

  469. all came to life, and prophesy over the breath as well.

  470. Now I want to share with you that in the

  471. last days, Jesus says there will be many false prophets

  472. that will rise up, and you have to know them

  473. by their fruits. Christians shouldn't be so quick to be

  474. wild by signs, wonders and miracles. You gotta be very

  475. careful just because a person can heal someone, whereas like oh,

  476. so very powerful that it must be a man of God.

  477. You have to look at the fruit of the person

  478. and not give because if you just identify the gift

  479. of the person, it is very shallow. We will one

  480. day all be judged by our fruit. So that's the

  481. first point. The second one is, please do not go

  482. from pastor to pastor, man to man and ask do

  483. you have a word for me? Right, Please do not

  484. go TikTok to TikTok, reels to reels, video to video,

  485. selecting messages for yourself. All these are very helpful, right

  486. in an Actually it's very helpful. I think every good

  487. pastor will want to pray for you, encourage you. But

  488. God has already given us his written word, and out

  489. of his written word, he can birth revelation.

  490. For your situation.

  491. So if we're all you're going to seek a word

  492. for your situation, you've got to take personal responsibility to

  493. seek it for yourself. And that is true cultivating your

  494. quiet time. We cannot be lazy Christians, guys. In fact,

  495. do you know there's an acronym for the Bible b

  496. I B l E. Yeah you know, right, Okay, I

  497. don't know. Ask those who know later.

  498. Okay.

  499. It basically stands for this is an official lab as

  500. someone cointed basic instruction before leaving Earth. That's not the

  501. actual acronym. It's a crafted acronym. In case the Bible

  502. scholl is here, say, how can you say that? By

  503. said to help us to remind ourselves that all of

  504. life's instruction is found in the Bible.

  505. The Bible should be our compass.

  506. So in twenty twenty four there should be a screen

  507. here twenty twenty four. Oh yeah, here, this is my Bible,

  508. my actual Bible right, just to share with you. Yes,

  509. we honor the word of God. Our Bible should be

  510. as clean as possible. But sorry, my Bible is not cleaner.

  511. I read the word of God whenever I feel this

  512. Holy Spirit speaking something, our highlight, our write notes, all right,

  513. and I want to encourage you to do the same

  514. if the spirit leads you. So it was in a

  515. year twenty twenty four. People have been asking, hey, per's answered.

  516. You know, have you ever considered having your own pleaser?

  517. Just like some money?

  518. You know, you guys have been weekly doing weekly rental

  519. here there?

  520. Have you ever considered having your own place?

  521. Say? I'm open to the idea, In fact, I do

  522. really want, but the church must be redilar because whenever

  523. we issue a call, hey guys, it's Saturday, who like

  524. to come and clean the toilets together? I hope we

  525. all ten up and clean the toilets together?

  526. Right? Who like to clean the church together? Who like

  527. to vacuum the church?

  528. How we are with an up LA because the idea

  529. of having a place of our own is good, It's

  530. really good. But it must be supported with good ownership,

  531. and the responsibility cannot always be upon the leaders. It

  532. should be every one of us come. So when I

  533. was praying, I was open to the idea. I was

  534. really open to the idea. And I felt that God

  535. also have stirr up in my heart when he says, Uh,

  536. build me a place where I can dwell. And this

  537. is very personal because for many years we are subjected

  538. to the mercy of the owner. Of course, God raised

  539. owners up and all, and if the owners are failable

  540. to you, great. You know what really impacted me also

  541. is that when we wanted to start our kids ministry,

  542. we just couldn't land on a venue.

  543. So I just spraying to God.

  544. And then you know, one day in nine January two

  545. or two four, when I was reading the Life of Abraham,

  546. this is what came out. A rise, walk in the land,

  547. through its land, and it's with before I give it

  548. to you. And that became that revelational with for me,

  549. I contextualize it into Nila. I say that wherever the

  550. Church of God is, whether you're a church, a B church, c. Whatever,

  551. as long as you're church where God places you, you

  552. are to take that land and take dominion over that

  553. land to be sought. And like the Church exists to

  554. seek and save the loss. Must always understand that the

  555. church is not a building. The church is the people.

  556. But God's people also need a place together to worship him.

  557. People also need a place where His presence dwell come in,

  558. minister and all. So I take that and I say

  559. that God, this is the word. And it was also

  560. twenty twenty four, right after COVID, right probably two years

  561. after COVID and all, our church was still at a

  562. place where where we're growing. We're growing, and there are

  563. campuses that are you know, post COVID. Not many people

  564. want to come back to church, and it's harder to

  565. do ministry, it's harder to do outreach, it's harder to

  566. work with campuses to have that open door. And most

  567. of our campus numbers are not doing very well. One

  568. particularly is IPG. We only left.

  569. One student by the name of Crystal, one student.

  570. And every week we have to faithfully pray, La pray, pray, pray,

  571. and today IPG we have close to seventeen twenty students.

  572. Praise God. It opens. It was in December twenty twenty four.

  573. Then when I read the Book of Acts, God dropped

  574. something into my heart. He says, you know where I

  575. read how radically lives are transformed.

  576. People didn't give up their land.

  577. You know, they saw their land, they saw their houses,

  578. and they brought it to the apostle's feet. And I

  579. felt I resonated. I say it lot, Could it be there?

  580. One day you raise people in Eli who will do

  581. the same. They say, Hey, I got a piece of land.

  582. You know, God has been so good to me. God

  583. has transformed my life. I believe in the vision of

  584. your church. Here take it. Wow, it is a fantasy,

  585. you know, that's faith to believe. So I put there

  586. Lord land for ex Neeli. Please, maybe you ask, please, cover, provide.

  587. If you don't ask, please, maybe you're not not judge. Okay,

  588. So I put it there. Joy four right fast forward

  589. twenty twenty six. Right to say, as this too being fulfilled? No,

  590. but I believe it is fulfilling.

  591. Now.

  592. The point I wanted to make is this, for prophecies

  593. to come to pass, it is God's responsibility to fulfill it.

  594. It is not our responsibility to manufacture it. Because if

  595. you're to manufacture, if I say I go to every

  596. rich person in Eli, it's done.

  597. Three you're no sponsor. That's what three?

  598. You know, sponsor I'm manufacturing it right. Sometimes God may

  599. lead that, but if God doesn't lead, the best is

  600. to stay and let God be God and let me

  601. be faithful. Because His role is to make it happen.

  602. My role is to believe that He will make it

  603. happen for us, for his church. So last week it's

  604. very exciting. Last week we got a contact. So someone

  605. in the Subank Church has an uncle. The uncle is

  606. doing something in Eli and past one the and CPC

  607. wanted to reach out to this book ca failure to

  608. do an unplucked event as an outreach. So we found

  609. out connected. Then we found out where our church meets

  610. currently a few blocks away. They have this grand plan

  611. of putting an education institution there. They have a grand

  612. plan of putting a spots complex there.

  613. This is a it now, I thought, I say one that.

  614. We need to be listening because not every door is

  615. an open door from God.

  616. But who knows?

  617. This might be from God. We don't know, right, But

  618. when I hear that, it excites my heart. I remember

  619. of this. Maybe I flip through my Bible, I look

  620. at the dates, like, hey, December, I'm just giving an

  621. example when what's for it says all dry bones.

  622. Hear the word of the Lord.

  623. These two scriptures give me the confidence I say the

  624. ex I can't pray Neeli, hear the word of the Lord.

  625. You know, have a cook to fourteen. The day will

  626. come and Neeli will be covered with the glory of

  627. the Lord as water cow is to see. In whatever

  628. situation you are in, right, it could be your family condition,

  629. it could be a personal situation. You draw from the

  630. word of the Lord. You draw because there will be

  631. days where it's difficult. There will be will be very

  632. difficult twenty fourteen to twenty twenty six. It hasn't been

  633. easy for us either. I made that decision, but I

  634. always remember back twenty fourteen, David strengthened himself in the Lord.

  635. And you'll speak into that situation because only the word

  636. of God can give us that life. Amen, So sex

  637. thing comes up. I'm just going to end by closing

  638. in prayer. So you can't remember a lot of things,

  639. just remember these two things. How you see matters and

  640. how you speak matters as well.

  641. Amen.

  642. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  645. this week is going to be a good week, a

  646. hit for you. God bless