REFER | Pr Matthew Chang

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

We hope this message will light up your day.

And how many have you know? Melbourne rever and not

Geelong to Melbourne City. It's far. It's about one and

a half to two hours drive. He picked me up

at six in the morning. Six in the morning. That

means he left his house at four in the morning. Okay,

four in the morning. He's probably like seventy plus years already.

He picked me up a four clock. He drove work

up in the morning Saturday. You know, you know in Australia,

you don't do that. I want to know. Okay, I

recently went to Australia. After ten everything is dark on

don't know. I was having a tea, tried to I

tried to Mamma with my friends in Melbourne, and I

realized it's a very different experience. Twelve o'clock when I

drive on the highway for a go half an hour,

I didn't see a single car on Monas s Freeway.

They didn't see a single car. Course was empty. So

for him to wake up at four o'clock in the

morning to do he was doing something really out of

his uh, his norm. Pick me at at four o'clock

and then I showed up, like I know, I shot,

but it was a bit late as well. I remember

I red detailed and I putt in the car. I

could hardly say anything because I don't know how to

connect with this guy. He's like fifty years old, h

gate with me, you know, it's like how to connect

if you I don't know what to talk. I don't

know what he's here, So so I say in the car.

He drove me back, oh the way to Geelong. Maybe

talk a bit, a few things, drow me all the

way back to Gelong. Then took me to his house.

And in his house, his house is so old school,

it's like not even sixties, not probably like the nineteen

forties kind of house, you know, you know, it's really

really really old. You can hardly find anything electronic there. Okay,

and they still have the old China wed couple and

on the cops I was like so already and mat

his wife, really really lovely couple. And then after day

he took me to a church. And the church is

very very fascinating church. When you're the church, I couldn't hear,

I couldn't recognize a single song they sung, not heal

songs and all whatever? What song is that? Apparently they

wrote all their songs and it's one lady with a

jet with in a keyboard and then they were playing

Bonsanova type of you know, buship songs and all. It's like, oh,

I was so unique. You not that they wrote all

their gospels, simple church playing there. They were Italians, there

were Argentinians, they were Colombians, and I was like, wow,

fascinating and went in there. I said that bed, oh,

what's a shore like? You know how they're over there.

They get a few people together and the elders to

pray for me. I was like, okay, okay. But then

out of all although it was so strange and awkward

for me, in a way, I could felt that they,

you know, especially from Pastor stiel Radiate, he really tried

to give his best to try to connect with this

young Asian dude. You know what did I do to

deserve that? And to be honest, I don't remember what

they pray, I don't remember what they taught, but I

felt the generosity more than anything else. And when by

the time I left, right, you know what, I remember

what I caught from this this is what I caught. No,

he said, when I grow old, I want to be

just like him. You know what I'm saying. I want

to be just like him. I don't want to just

sit at my house and wait for retirement to finally

finish me off. You know, you know what I'm saying.

You know what I'm saying. I've seen many people who

do that. I've seen many of my own families who

going through that, my mom, my dad, you know, thank God.

You know, they interviewed and got intervened and changed their life.

But I've seen how they started. I tell you, it's

it's it's it's not what I want. But when I

experienced this for her, I think pative were probably asking

that what he was doing. I don't think he knew

who they knew he was doing. I don't think he

had a full planing. He was just like I think,

I'm just going to pick this dude up and then

bring into whatever I have in my showroom, you know,

and then see what God does. Like this is what

he did. But I tell you, when I left it,

that was the only interaction I had really meaningful interaction

with him. Nothing else, anything, I don't know. I don't

know anything else much about him, But when I came

back from there, I just told myself I want to

be just like him because of his generosity. See a

lot of times we don't realize that our generosity really

extends so much to really touch people's lives. You know,

I'm saying, we really truly touch people by the way

that we give and the way that we sacrifice. You

want touch the world. Think about what you're willing to sacrifice,

not so much about the things that we are willing

to accumulate. So why do I talk about this because

I don't think that our church has so much of

a problem of or an issue of giving money. You really,

I don't think that's the or if there's a problem

in the church as well. But I feel that this

more of this season that what God is speaking to

the church and to the world as well. It's not

just our ex Church believing that this is the legal Revival.

Any places around the world really believe that this is

truly the year of revival. You know what I'm saying.

It's not just ex Church. You know, God is speaking

through man and to many churches all at the same time.

It's as if there is like a theme around the world,

and there's a revival that's happening, and you're like it

or not. There is a theme that going around that

the church, the churches and no leaders are are also

acknowledging and signed to perceive that twenty thirty is going

to be a very important year. And that is why

we're given a five year plan. Until twenty thirty, we

don't really know what it's it. I'm not the kind

of profit it's going to tell you that, I'm not

that kind, but we do send something. When you do

have to send something, you have to open your eyes

to see. But God's eyes right now is on the church,

while the church is on the world. God's eyes, like

my eyes are around you. So the key is like

where are the church looking at? Are they looking just like, oh,

do you still have enough? Do you still have enough?

Or are they looking to God and understanding what God

is speaking to them? And so when we talk about giving,

one of the marks of revival is actually giving, like

you or not, the true marks of revival is actually giving.

Of course, I can give you some examples, like you

know it's the kiss. I mean, if you know it's

the kis the Chaos was a text collector. Okay. Tax

collectors were famously rich. Okay, because text collectors were actually appointed.

He didn't go and study to become a text selector.

And most of the text collectors were priest. Why would

text collectors priests? Okay, Matthew the text collector, Matthew was

a priestiner actually a levite. Okay. The reason why most

of the priests are tax collectors is because when the

Romans came, they took control of the text collection. Before that,

text collection was done by who by the temple office?

Ah makes sense or not? Whoever controls the temple controls Israel.

You see what I'm saying. No, the Romans understood that

very clearly as well. But they cannot just do that.

What they did was they changed the law is there

right now? Okay? If you want to collect text, you

need permission from Rome. Ah I say you need a

collect text, you need permission from Rome. And so because

of that, a lot of the priests lost their jobs.

And just keeping very short, a lot of them lost

their jobs. Certainly got you new but as they lost

their jobs, they've got new opportunity. You know, text collection,

I cannot work for a temple now because there's one

thing I do now, I work for Rome Law. And

so a lot of Levites became a like became like

a you know, not a nice name in household because

of this change, and the law then became very profitable

as well. Like my name, Matthew the text collector, We

were one of them, like you know, text collectors, you know,

used to be a Levite priest as well as the

keys was one of them as well, HM most likely okay. So,

and he when he come, when he was touched by

God because God saw him, you know, it's kind of funny,

and that Jesus saw him. Were far away, and the

key is, you know, he was eyes was on Jesus.

Was not on his all his the things, all he accumulated,

but his eyes was on Jesus. He will will always

wonder will Jesus ever notice me? Some of you probably

be asking what will Jesus ever notice me? I want

to let you know, as you draw near to God, right,

God calls on to you. That's the truth. As to

come out from your shell, you willingly, out of faith,

you draw come out of your shell to approach God,

to draw near to God with all you, with all

you can, with all you have, God calls on to you.

It is it is what he except. Here is what

he has promised. You draw near to me, and I

will draw you to you. Okay, And as the key

is does that and he goes through this transformation. What's

the first thing that he demonstrates? Giving? Giving? Because he's

so grateful as he looks at the Lord and then

looks into him. The thing that he does is that

he gives. Of course I'm not giving. He is to

repay back, but he said, Lord, but not only he gives. No,

he wants God to look at it, because he wants

God to look at it because he knows God has

always been watching. Not just look at how much he gives,

but look at my heart. I'm touched by you, you see.

And when I when, when when I say that I

want to be like Stewart Ray, You know why? Because

I realized that when I was touched by him, right when,

by what he generous, what he did, right, I knew

that whoever and wherever I become, whether I'm going to

be successful SEEO and an entrepreneur one billion, two billion,

five million, I want to be someone like him, at

the end of the day, I may not be known

and stuff like, but I want to be the kind

of person that God uses to touch lives. You come,

I'm saying, it's truly like that, because you're saying God

sees you know, you said, wow, I've been touched. When

when you when you when when you've been touched by God?

And it's God sease and everything. What you want to

do saying God, Hey, look I'm giving my life is

not the same an I want to give. I want

to give. I cannot help, but giving yes along the way,

not life gives us gives us a lot of lemons.

Sometimes God brings challenging people. Sometimes God brings offense. Sometimes

God gives no personal challenges health challenges as well. But

in all these things, we know that this life is

very temporary. You know, you know every healing in this

world is temporary. You want to every healing you heal,

God peace, heal this person's cancer. Eventually the persons you

have to die one. I know it's a bit more

beat up, but it's true. It's true. Not but then

if there's a case, then why do we pray for healing? True? Not?

Why do you pray for healing because of that, because

of pasta mess theology, do we stop praying for healing?

Then they're going to text past the centrality and this

past the matter telling people know you to come pray

for healing. Really, why do we pray for healing if

we know that eventually everybody would die? Which is truer.

Why do we pray there? Why do we pray? Why?

Because miracles are not for us. Miracles are for people.

Miracles are for people so that they know there is

a God and they will turn to him. They see

what I'm saying. Miracles is not for the sake of

just the healing. Yes, it is. But when you see miracles,

what's the first thing you react? Wah, clap your Handah. Nice. Sure,

you think if there is a real miracle performer coming here,

a man of God comes here, raise a dead manner,

you think you would shower? Yeah, I tell you half

of you, at least more than half of you are

will start to shake it when you see it. To America.

You know what's the first thing that comes into the church. Fear?

You know why? Because you realize God is real and

God is watching. You know what I'm saying, No, and

you realize that most of us are not ready. That's

what happens when you see a miracle one. You know,

you see what I'm saying, No, because I like, wow, God,

Then you're like, does God know what I did last night?

You know? It's like, without saying what you the fear

of God comes upon you. And then when the fear

of God comes, there's this overwhelming reality of God coming

down on you, and because of that, faith increases. It's

not the type of fear that people run away. Yeah,

people can choose to hide, but then they realize, even

if I go home, I cannot shake off this knowledge,

you know. So the only thing that I can do

is to not run away from God, but to run

towards God. You know what I'm saying. Now, that is

the proper fear of God. It's not the fear you

see it goes you run away. Now, the fear of

God is the fear that makes you run towards Him.

You know what I'm saying. You know, it's the run

towards Him because you know there's nowhere else you can

survive or sustain, but by under His mercy you're That

is the proper fear of God. Coming into our lives anyway,

talking about uh, you know this, uh, you know, giving

and miracles. So coming back is that when we look

at lives and we talk about, you know, the giving

is one of the clearest evidence of transformation. We talk

about the kias, we talk about the early Church as

well in Book of Acts Acts chapter two, where's Peter

and the disciples, but from great miracles as well in

the temple, what's the first thing they did? Fear come

upon them. They cuddle together, they study the Word of God,

they have communion, and they gave Giving is something that

naturally must happen if you are touched by God. Okay, David,

King David as well, not before King David passed on, right,

if you read the book or Second Chronicles or just

starting the King David in my own life, he did

a lot of things. And then after that the Solomon

saga passed by already, you know, with his civil war

in Israel has passed already just before he passed on.

If you read the last part Second Chronicles, right, it

says that that something moved in him to count the

soldiers his army. Okay, remember now David's census. Some people

you know. So David went on to do something there

was sinful before God, to count and by counting towards

his last days. And you have done so many things ready.

It's not like suddenly going to do stock. It was

he was going to die already, and suddenly before I die,

the last thing I want to do is to count

my money. How many of you will know people who

do that? One you could tell me how much money

my rental properties are generating before I die, you can,

I mean, it sounds ridiculous if you hear it from

someone who's going to die, you can mean right, because

it just tells you what his heart is thinking, you know.

And David's being someone so successful, with such a illustrious

career in the latter suddenly in his last days, I

want to talk about counting his army, you know. And

his general Joeb knew that you enjoy it. It's not

the nicest guy. Also, he also got blood on his hands.

One knew even just by simple it's it's the wrong

thing to do. You have done so many victories, You've

done so much, by the Lord, why would you want

to coin count? Because if you do, it's not just

about you everyone Because when you count, it is that

when a counter you have to give a coin one

and know you know, So that's how the counting do one.

So when you go and count, you actually have to

collect money you want so that it's considered counter. So

the money you collected is actually the count to be

double checked by the government. So that's how they do it. One. Okay,

it's not like just how come one and two? You're

not mark ready? So they say a coin, they collect

a coin. So when you collect the coin from all

the country, right, everybody know you are counting, and everybody

will be asking why does King David need to count?

He's gonna diel ready, why is he counting? And everybody

will follow in his sin because now he has stumbled

the whole nation. You don't say why I'm saying not.

You unders say why I'm saying not. It's like when

you are elderly, if you're you're a grand grandfather and

you are telling before you all your grandchildren or your family,

I'm going to count my money, and you're gonna make

them all counting to it. You also are stumbling them

because you are telling them what is important, what is

in your heart as well. So by David's sin is

very grave, you know saying what I'm saying David, thing is,

it's a very spiritual sin. You cannot see it, but

it's a very spiritual says something is happening and the

people are not comfortable with it as well, the general

is not comfortable, but they still do it. Then other

than what they got to do. Say you have seen

the words is when when he was on the area,

sin choose three things, which punishment you want? Then off

the day he went for what the last one? Three

days of plaguema. Then he repented. You know, David repented.

In his old age, he still has such a flesh

that he has to wrestle with. Okay, he repented, and

what did he do? He offered did alter offering at

what is this place? Already? Suddenly from what's the person

that he bought? Uh? He basically he paid six hundred

go chack, go see hundred to buy this land. Okay, see,

I will not give an offering that cost me nothing,

but that same piece of you know what became of it.

It's the same land that he built, or he let

his son build the temple of God. Did you realize

that it's the same piece of landing on you read

he read second chronicles, you read them demarcation when David

repented and he bought that land. It's the same land

that he put in his heart. God, I want to

build your temple. It's always like that. Want to know

when you're seeing and you and God shows grace in

your life, your heart must change one now, something in

new changes. For David is such a person who so

something changing him. You know, I must give to it

because he's so full of of course, fear of God

mixed with gratitude as well. I must give. And even

though he cannot build it, right, God said, I know

you want to build me. I recognize that. Okay, but

your son is the San Solomon who build it for me.

But David could not build it. But yeah, David did

something amazing, you know, really amazing. You can see that

he spent almost one third of the book. Now the

book say the boat spent one th almost. We're talking

about what David's preparation, the past that we all skip.

He went to this place to ask for timber. He

went to this place to ask, you know, and then

you see all the measurements. But the Jesuit. He he

has prepared so much at the Boy and spent wonder

of it. His preparation even actually, I will say I

exceeded Solomon's working on you know, his preparation was so

so so good. Okay, everything prepared. He prepared things spiritually,

he prepared things physically. It's why he prepared the materials,

he prepared the skillsman, and he prepared for the people

to rally around him. The three key things that he

actually prepared. So next time with you, if I got time,

I'll talk about, you know, building a legacy. Build You

need a legacy. You need three key ingredients from King David.

You need to prepare the materials. You need to prepare

the skills. You need to prepare the people that was

around him. Three key things to build a legacy in life.

A lot of times we prepare the materials I will

give my children inheritance, but we don't give them the skill,

and we don't give them the right environment and the

right connection of people to help them succeed as well.

David was very very very very veryvise he did. And

so when you see David, even in his last days,

someone who is being transformed right. His heart was moved

to be to be generous to God, to be generous,

always giving, always giving. And you see that the giving

has always been such a very important what they call

the attribute of a life that is transformed, of a

life there has been touched to revive. Okay, very touch

to revive. Now let's apply this into our lives, right, Okay,

Like I said, I don't think money is the main

main thing of course church, anything that we do missions

will always require money. I think we're going try en now,

but I'm thinking more about what are some of the

things that God is asking us to look into. Okay.

What we are called to do is about giving resources,

and the resources is not just about money. But firstly

it's here the road. Here, it's time and attention, Time

and attention. Okay, how many of us know that, you know,

what we need in our family is not more money,

it's time and attention. As recently, I was in a

SMKA government school. I was with Lily Nets and we

went there because you know, partnering with the government to

launch a program there. And we were talking with a

lot of the local teachers and said, what's the biggest

challenge with so many kids who are having so many

you know, mental problems. You know, the number one thing

is they don't have attention from their parents. Lack of

attention is the stat is that so many of them

hardly have any let's say, or half an hour to

one hour of interaction with their parents are every week,

you know, hardly. You know, they're just left to their

own hardly. It's quite said that it's not it's not

like when you have more money, you you actually you know,

you don't have time for the kids. You don't have money.

So a lot of people don't have time with their kids,

you know. So it just what does it mean attention?

Giving you attention and your energy is a choice, but

it will cost you something. That is why it's so

hard to give. The hard thing is because it is

it's very the challenge is is very hard to give

our attention energy a lot of times, you know, with

you know a parenting. You know, I'm sure most of

you are parenting. It's not easier when you come back

home tired. There's this minds like I wish my children

would understand me. I wish my spouse would understand me.

But yet they're like me, your attention sometimes. I mean

also sometimes when I'm tired that phone is calling me,

you know, I feel like just I feel like just

dumping my brain, you know me right, dumping your brain

and just like God, just give me half an hour

of like no bring deadness, you know, not just I

just want to vegetate, you know, yeah, I just want

to vegetate you. This is you know, like not conscious

and you know you know it because just so drained,

you know, by different things. But they'll call you. But

the most important thing you can give to them is

your attention. Sometimes you don't have to say anything. You

don't have to give them now life's advice, you know,

it's just attention. And even my daughter reminded me that

I just want your attention. I was like, okay, do

you get me right? It's true and what we need

actually it is true or so and on the other

way is true or so? Children, what your parents really

need from you is your attention as well. Parents agree

or not it's true or not. What you really need

from you. It is not just obedience. We're not all

not tyrants right now. What they really need from you

is your undivided attention. That's the true thing. That's the true.

Sometimes attention is hard to give because you really have

to put aside a lot of whatever preconceived thoughts. Ah,

but just be there just to represent to listen go bad,

you have to listen. Actually, when you grow older, you

start to realize this is the most important thing you

can give to your own parents. You know, true or

not true, not because they were Whatever they need to say,

isn't it. I have my own day. My dad or

something called me. He talks ninety nine percent of the time.

I meane, know what I'm talking about, y'r no. And

I've learned that when I in my earlier years, I

used to fight my dad, and I'm like fighter, but

it never end well, like it always ends up like

you know, hurting more than I know. I feel like struggle.

You're wear my way, your wear my way in my house,

your house, you know, ah, tear you up down left

like you know. I've learned as I grow older, he

really needs her. It's just attention sitting there right and wrong.

I'm just but I'm focused on you, and my dad

is smart or not to know that whether I'm doing

something else is are you doing something right? Now? No? No? No, no,

paras are smart, okay, so they know what they really

need from you is your attention. And I tell you,

if you want to touch the world, start giving them,

you know, your attention. Okay. The other ones I want

to talk about is giving of our talents would influence

and our connections. A lot of us have skills, abilities,

strength and connections and everything else. I think that you

guys are so blessed you have so many kids. Actually,

our kids is a very powerful ministry, you know, really

really powerful ministry. The moment that you have a kids

ministry are everybody will look for your church one. There's

a truth on it. Know, I tell you it's the truth.

I used to try to connect with my one of

my friends to call the church. You know, what's the

one thing that the first thing they asked me, got

kids ministry or not? It's not who's your pastor you know,

it's not how long your service is a it's not

where the HOWI fi? Got kids ministry or not? God

kids saying okay, they will drag the husband from sleeping,

they will drag them out kids ministry.

We go.

It's such a powerful invitation I'm doing to you to

call them one they will come one. I tell you,

it's such a powerful thing. But the challenge with kids

ministry is one labor labor skill because nobody wakes up Sunday.

I want to be surrounded by you know, a lot

of kids want to know.

You're like, yeah, yeah, it's a holiday, you know holiday.

You know, it's a holiday. But for them, it's a holiday.

For me, you know, I don't wake up. Tell some people,

I just want to go golfing. You know, someone asking me,

what can you never I'm surprised until now you haven't

not learned golf. You know, someone say ask me, you know,

so we go and learn golf. I was like, bro,

the time they takes that. You know, if I go

for eighteen corts, I that's it ready, man, I tell

you cannot It's really but but I tell you, but

I'm talking about kids ministry.

It's it's so important. But the truth is it takes

up so much of your energy. It sucks you. Then

after day you need a good black, good day meal.

You know. Then from two to four, don't touch parents,

you know. But but I tell you we need teachers.

By the way, and Jason didn't call me to talk

about is my heart for it because as kids, ministry

is so so important, it's so powerful, so many lives

can be touched by it. I still remember some of

my old my kids teachers when now every time passed

my Oh I remember, sister Joy. I remember one or

two teachers in my life. They really touched me. But

I never told you, guys, are I mean I didn't

plan to have so much structure about giving. But I

want to tell you, guys that the power of giving

a sacrifice. They tell you, guys about Pastor Steven's fiance.

I haven't showed this before. Yeah, I show you for

you guys. Are Pastor Stevens fiance. He's her father is

my tuition teacher and teacher. So when passtive one went

back when to visit him, you know what's the first

thing they did? The father took him and to visit

my house. I was like, pasta Stevens, take a picture

of me. Why are you visiting my house? Because the

father and Sharon's Sharon's father, which is the fiancees father.

Apparently it has not been going to church for a

long time ready, But I told him, said, if you do.

I told Steven said, if you do see him, remind

him to tell him that when I was young he

touched me as well. He really touched me as well.

So you like it or not, all of us are

at this I know my story. All of us are

on a byproduct who people who gave one? To know

who really gave one. I know some people gave not

some nice things, but people who give meaningful and powerful

things are it can overtrump every other thing in our lives.

Want and know really really truely you wan don't know.

So I just want to encourage people, say, you know,

I hope that this world will produce one hundred thousand

more Stewart Raice. I know that most of us here

are probably on the you know, older ones ready, okay,

you know it's that we will continue to serve and

willing to serve, willing to step up, willing to offer

your house to become homes. You know who taught me

that my wife. When I got together engage with my wife,

we were looking for a house, right, I have a

different understanding of a house. You know, My house are

for me. The biggest room I should be the bedroom

you know, and my studied room, you know, But my

wife said no, the biggest room should be the living room.

I was like, why, Oh, I want a big dining table,

I want a big so far, I want a big counter.

I was like why because I want to host many people.

I'm like, no, my home. When I grew up, I

can count the number of times people had come to

my house to visit before I tell you my whole life.

My whole life and my house are were hardly are

visitors for nobody even But when I met my wife,

I said, oh, we ow my house too. Have people

have party? And I'm like, I was like horrifying. Oh yeah,

I mean right, I'm married into this and know it's

like my house is going to be like you're not total,

you know, like you know, it's like people aren't. I like,

bring this.

Oh.

My mind was like I learned now and I learned

the beauty of it. I learned like, it's really not

a house, It's a home. It's not just my home,

you know, God gives the home. And one of the

things that you can do instead of just hey, can

you dedicate my house? Which everybody does, but it's really

dedicate your house with the latter. You know what I'm saying,

You really dedicated your houser means you open the front

doors came and you open the door as the lord

opens this door for you, you open the house of your

door as well. That means you sometimes maybe you need

to invest. Sometimes I'm down my door so opener. The

kids when they come to the house, and you know

what they do. They go straight exactly to which cupboard

that they know, and they open it and they take

all the goodies, you know, and then they bring it

to my son's house and they eat and they live.

They leave the reports there as well. But it's part

of life, you know I'm saying. You know, it's it's true.

There's one time in a way we're doing home studier.

You know, suddenly I was I wasn't inside about I

was outside, and then Evan, Evan, you was teaching. Suddenly

we smell something, you know, smells like toilet. You know.

I was like, look, if someone didn't open the toilet,

someone the baby poop or not. Then after there we

saw something on the floor. It's like an Easter chocolate

chocolate egg, you know. Look. So then my one, my

my homie co charm, there's a pop life poop on

the floor. No it was like it was like literally

when we were teaching homes and I was like I

was like, oh, my carpets, and one was like, oh,

apparently want the boy. You know. I was like, you know,

popping so much that he was working. Then he just

dropped off and drop one day, you know, Okay, so

everybody can smell up and doing homes. Then I was

telling evan A, truly your teaching is full of crap,

and oh my goodness, literally teaching full of crap. Just

just joking. But this his life, you know, I'm saying,

And it's his life, you know. Open up your open

up your time, open up your homes, and you know,

and this year revival starts beginning. It's like about how

about how we want to open our hearts to use

all that we have. Your connections? How many have you

actually talked to your neighbors? I would say, very convicted about

this last year and this year, you know, God said, hey,

you care about your neighbors? Do you actually spend time

to pray for them? And for the first time, I

was like lying on my bed there okay remembering, and

I begin to like, okay, I want to pray for

this house pray for this house, prayer for this house.

And you know what, that same way I met all

of them, one in the gym and I got and

two in the gym. I don't get to talk to

them for one hour. One hour, and I realized that

one of them has a serious what they call it

auto immune where they got the health problem as well.

Then another guy I met, you know, just two days ago.

You know, it's so funny. I didn't plan to talk

to him. Then I'll know what it's. God is like

saying something to me, And I said, suddenly he dropped

his grocerrea and all his brewberry all over the floor.

So me, they was like, oh, you know, my legs

are still soft for work out. As I went down

that It's okay. You know this one if you want,

you can still watch him and eat it if you

want what I do that and then other that when

I bring up. Then yesterday a day when I saw

him cray from a fast so far away, he didn't

have to say hi to me. You know, sometimes I

we see our neighbor forware quickly go, you know, going

to say high with them. Money. No, I still have

that sometimes, you know, But forgive me you know, like

the man I said, looking, thank you so much, and

I was like, yeah, okay, but I reminded that you

wanted you wanted to connect your neighbor. This is how

you connect your neighbor. And are you going to stop praying?

Do you? Are you willing to spend time to do

what if it affects your routine? What you know? What

if it affects your routine? What if it gets you

out of your comfort zone? Are you willing to really

meet for them? I'm saying no. This is other people

that sometimes we are so full of ourselves because we

have our self routine. Every day, I will come home,

I will play with my phone right now now. The

day I were doing in XPG, I was trying to

get everybody aking and take out your phone and then

check how much time you set to your on your phone.

How many of you have under five hour and some

how many of you have more than five hour, most

of them more than five hour? Should we do these exercise?

It's okay, I know some of you are like looking already,

but it's true, isn't it. What if we take up

two hours from that? How much more would you do

with your time? You I'm saying, now, your business connections,

what are you doing with your business connections? Huh? This

is very very important thing if someone was telling me

any business connection when you you spend so much time networking,

going for goals, going to traveling, met so many people, Yes,

some of them, God has blessed you through redeals, But

what have you done with them? You met suppliers, you

met people, agents, customers. Why have you done with them?

You're holding so close something you scare for them to

know that you're a Christian and the moment they know

you're a Christian and they put you on a black

list that you never put yourself at risk. Then when

you are you know, when you are, you know, taking

your final few breaths, and God said, what have you

done with the people are given to you? What are

you going to say to God? You bring it down

to your grave? Oh, at the very least you will

say that I try to reach through them. I really try,

and know as I draw too close here, all the

testimony I want to give is, uh, it's about my dad. Now,

my dad is not the believer, and my dad is

like a very tough onion to peel. Tough onion I

will spare you some other details. It's very complicated. But

my dad has a lot of anger issues. He's a

hard man. Even now, he still has road rage problems.

He's like ninety ready, he still he still has road

rage problems. If you cut his car, he will chase

you down. I don't know Inclin you do that, but

something some there are some when I where I come

from in Seaboo, there are certain cars you don't cut.

One black honter called black Sea Begs. I don't know.

In Klan maybe a which car you don't cut one? Now?

But when I started, It's funny when I when I

started driving Invicible, I cut my dad. Look at me,

how dare you you know I'm going to find trouble

for my family. There are some cars you don't don't cut,

you know, but including my my dad's car is known

one you don't cut one. Okay you know. It's like

I'm not proud to say it, but you know when

I say this car, most of the time I close

my eyes one okay, okay, I really cause it's really valent.

My wife said in my desk car one time came

out half pregnant. A pukelould and if he if you're

slow to get out out of a t junction, now

he will bump you one and literally bump you. He

won't home, you know, he will bump you know, he

will bump you know. I was like, in the world,

what kind of world am I living in? You know?

It's like he does it, you know, and he will

tell me. You'll come back to see what I did.

You know. I was like, no, don't tell me what

you did. It's like it's a different world I live in, Okay.

So yeah, anyway, so for a long time I wondered,

like how my God will actually reach me, you know.

And I when I stayed in k alright, I had

a long guilt. My guilt was like, hey, I'm leaving

just my eldest brother in coaching as a doctor, and

I'm here. And for a long time I never told

my dad that I'm a pastor a long time. I

just tell him I'm in the service and education line.

And he knows, like not to ask me any for them,

like whatever you want to do, yeh, and right, as

long as you can feed and take care of yourself,

find you get me, right. But I'm so scared of

his reaction. I have my own weakness. That's my that's

my that's my my own weakness. I still have time

my dad that you're okay, right, Sorry for taking too

much time. I just thought I tell a lot of

stories with you guys like okay. So I carry a

lot of guilt because I'm a pastor. I'm supposed I'm

the youngest son ends up supposed to, you know, telling

my dad, hey, you go to church or not. But

yet I'm not there to be an example to him.

And you know, I felt, I felt, I felt a

lot of guilt on that, and I keep praying that

God maybe how And the only prayer I could prayer,

he said, you know, I know that you learn my dad.

Can you say an angel? Can you say an angel?

You know? It's I don't know how, God, I don't

know how you're gonna do it. But he's saying an angel.

You know, I don't know kind of angel. I don't

know what friends is around with. I can't imagine, you know,

but saying an angel. I don't know how. But I

leave it up to you. I know, if it feels

like I feel like a very irresponsible, you know son,

you know, but I still care for my dad, but

you know outsourced, you know, yeah, God please, and I remember,

I'll get my children to pray as well. You know

that when my dad recently had cancer, and then when

I visited him ra, I found out that my aunt's

youngest aunt my dad's side. They have twelve siblings and

then the youngest one is my aunt. Actually I don't

know all other I no idea. There was one time

I went there, I thought it was my I thought

it was my aunt, and I realized it's my cousin. Okay, okay,

very bad confusion. And then you know, anyway, so my

aunt has been converted into Christianity. You know, I don't

know how, okay, but she converted. Who reached her? And

then she has been very persistent in encouraging my dad

to accept christ. Dad was God's answer for angel for me.

And I tell you, I mean cut the story short.

Is that? Can I as well tell you the story?

Then it's not like every time I come to Klangor's

all right? So my dad I actually booked a I

actually didn't know my dad got cancer. But every time

I go to back to couching, it was very hort

because my dad would want to meet me or the children.

My dad doesn't really meet my major. Can you please

keep this to yourself that if my dad does come

to call, don't tell him. Okay, please, But I'm doing

this for the glory of God, not about myself. Okay,

But my dad doesn't really want to see us for

things I don't want. I don't want to devouch, Okay, Bi,

it was difficult. So my wife and my children don't

get to see even my brothers as well, so it's

just the three brothers of us. But I just felt

like this year and last year and the years after that,

it's gonna be very few years left to see my dad.

And so I decided, I know if I go down,

I don't know if I have a chance to go

and see him. But I'm gonna buy this ticket by faith.

So I bought a ticket to go by faith. I

went down there. Before I go down there, two days

before that, I got the news that he has cancer. Okay, relapse, relapse.

Then my dad will normally say you don't need to

visit me. I'm very expensive one. And also so reason

they were saying ah, because they themselfs feel the weight

of burden. But they actually want but they don't know

how to how to separate it and how to ask,

how to how to you know, you know, you know,

to be a father. That's not a burden. Okay. So

then but then I told you I already bought, so

it's ready done. So I went down there visited him. Uh,

And then my aunt was there and she brought a reverend,

a lady reverend, to minister to my dad, and then

my by The reverend asked my father, and also, have

you heard about No Jesus? He said, yes, I have,

you know? My dad said yes, my late wife and

my children all Christians except me. Oh, say, so how

do you feel about this? I feel very lonely okay?

And I said, oh, and why because they are all

believing the same thing but not me, and I feel

very alone for a long time. Then my dad's a

hard man. I make him saying this. And then then

the reverend asking oh, then, uh, why is stopping you? Oh?

Because I have guilt and I have responsibility. And then

I said, oh what guilt and responsibility is its stopping you?

Then he said, because if I follow Christianity, I will

betray all my father and my grandmother's believe they expect

me of something for me. If I follow, I will

have betrayed them. And that moment I had, that is

the said moment. Of course I was there. I was

there with my brother. He said, Mom, the world, God

just came into me to say something. You know, you

know what's what was the word I said? I said that.

I said that if you feel like you're betraying, if

you feel like accepting christis betraying your mom and dad,

does that mean that we are betraying you by being here?

You don't see what I'm saying because he clearly knows

that we believe in a different faith. But yet we

are here. But yet, if you feel betrayed, you have

never chased us out before we are here. So you

have to really ask yourself what is really betrayal? Is

it really betrayal that's not true to your children are

here and you, as a father knows it's not the

religion that's separated? Is what we do? You can said,

your love for us is that you allow us to

choose one. You see what I'm saying now, you allow us

to choose and our love to you regardless whether you

believe will love you, and we will come down and

visit you. But what we what we need you to do,

is that you need to decide what is truth for you,

Truth beyond this life that God has God been speaking

to you all this while, through all these things that

God has been speaking to you, and all these things

of betrayal and everything. It is a lie. It is

a lie, that quiet for I just felt I had

to say it, you know. But of course I just

say it'd be gentle, a loud here, not like I cannot.

I cannot say that I'm from the pupit lie you

know different now, you know. But I just said, but Dad,

we're not are you saying we betray you? But we'll

not betraying you. Right then he understood. But then of

course he will say that, but my feelings. But then

he just kept quiet there, kept quiet there, you know.

Then when I you know, then some some weeks and

months past, I went back to my cooking to attend

the wedding, and my Auntie came back to me again.

You know what your dad has asked to get baptized Secretly.

I don't know why he's secretly. I cano understand, my dad.

I really can't understand, my dad asked, but I'll take it,

you know, I'll take it. He gave me from a

plate from you see, from where I was in my bed,

and I said, God, I don't know how you're gonna

save my dad, and then asking for angel, of all

the most likely prayer, ask God, saying an angel, God answers,

God answers. You know, it's amazing, isn't it. Really? God

is good. And also I just want to say that,

you know, and I'm thankful for the angel who's my auntie.

She really, you know, made a difference in my life

and my dad's life by giving herself to be that angel,

you know, souwing and touching and touching. I really believe

that revival is not defined this year by the money

to give. I think people would be generous, But I

think the revival will be defined by so much that

how much our extrage people are willing to go out

to bring lives, to really touch the lives. I think

there'll be so much in more stories like my dad,

and then your parents, your families, your children, your neighbors.

Because you went out, you gave your time, your resources,

your attention, everything as well. Amen come, let's stand together.

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