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Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church - Session 6 | Jason Martin

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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 tea.

  3. You know.

  4. I won't go into too much details, but there is

  5. three l's. Okay, how are we going to get this done?

  6. The execution? The first L is the lost, the eleven,

  7. and the leaders. Okay, these are the three l's and

  8. the practical plan. How are we going to reach the

  9. ten thousand? If there's one thousand of us and everyone

  10. invites or invites one person to church a year by

  11. the end of nine years. Because when pass I can

  12. share this vision is twenty twenty one by the end

  13. of nine years. One thousand plus one thousand times nine

  14. is ten thousand. That was how we reach the ten thousand, Okay,

  15. So that is the destination. Okay, next night, this is

  16. the engine, the engine that will lead us towards twenty thirty.

  17. So the engine is what was shared. If you are

  18. were here when Elder Terrans was sharing, Elder Terrans was

  19. sharing about God's diet, the daily bread, the tide, and

  20. the eleven. So this is the engine that will help

  21. us reach that vision. So God's diet, God's diet is

  22. the same diet where in the Book of Daniel. God's

  23. diet for Daniel is that hey, that you keep yourselves pure.

  24. And because of that, the daily bread that God gave

  25. to Daniel is that he gave them favor with men,

  26. gave them favor God. Because Daniel and the friends relied

  27. on God, God continuously supplied their needs.

  28. But they are tight. What was Daniel's tide? He did not.

  29. He abstained from meat and all the king's food. They

  30. only eat fruit and vegetable. And the leaven, leaven is

  31. very important. So what is the leaven? The leaven is

  32. like what washat earlier? When you are baking bread, okay,

  33. and you put if you make bread, how many of

  34. you all have made bread before? Okay, I have never

  35. made bread before. I eat bread. But if you have

  36. made bread before, one of the important components is yeast.

  37. So if you do not put yeast, your bread will

  38. look like if you put yeast, the bread a rise

  39. and it will become a fluffy loaf of bread.

  40. So the leaven is faith in action. Faith in action.

  41. So with the daily bread and with the tide that

  42. we give God, then we need to put our faith

  43. into action. And that's what Daniel and his friends did

  44. They continuously seek God five times a day, regardless of

  45. what happened, regardless of all the threads that were thrown

  46. at them, they continue to work out their faith and

  47. glorify God. Okay, so this is the engine that we

  48. need to stick to. God will give us a vision.

  49. He will give us the daily bread that will strengthen us.

  50. We have to give back a portion back to Him

  51. because that is how we acknowledge that he is God.

  52. And then we have to continuously work out our faith

  53. so that God will continue to develop us and help

  54. us grow to achieve that vision. Okay, thanks, So the

  55. phase one of this journey was when we were saying

  56. that conviction. This vision is only a vision or only

  57. words on paper unless we are convinced. So we have

  58. to be convicted. We have to be convinced about it.

  59. And then once we are convinced, that is when the

  60. second part is conditioned.

  61. We have united teaching.

  62. This is why we are trying to share it across

  63. so that all of us are on the same page.

  64. Point three is that we need everyone. Everyone needs to

  65. make this happen. Everyone is important to make this vision happened.

  66. And because we know that God has given us that

  67. vision and we are also part of this church, so

  68. everyone plays a role. Community. So we also need to

  69. do this with community. Here in ex Lang we have

  70. a community. We have a bigger community called act Church

  71. right and we have our own community in homes in

  72. your dream teams. So we can't do this in isolation.

  73. And of course we have training colleges. You know, we

  74. have our partnership class, we have leadership class, we have

  75. different we have the homes material. So all this works

  76. together and then goes into the engine and then finally

  77. we deliver the vision in twenty thirty next light. So

  78. this is how it looks like. Okay, so this is uh,

  79. this is a bonus. I decided to do this because

  80. I feel this is very much important before we close

  81. up the whole vision. Okay, so this is basically the

  82. plan on the plate page. So I shared this with

  83. with Pasta Cannas yesterday. I just shaded a Pasta. I

  84. needed to figure this out, so put this.

  85. Does it make sense?

  86. He said, yes, it makes sense, So that's why I'm

  87. sharing it with you all here so that y'all, I

  88. hope it helps you'll capture the the whole essence of it.

  89. So today session six, what am I touching about in

  90. session six? So Session six is I'll be touching on

  91. this mainly on this prophecy of the five piece where

  92. it's talking about the power. You know, we have the

  93. plan right now. We need the power of God to

  94. help us achieve His plans and purposes. Got it, all right,

  95. So let's go into this, okay, So next light?

  96. Okay, So as.

  97. This is the final session, this is the final thoughts,

  98. so it should be next light. The same for everyone,

  99. meaning that not every one of us has purview to

  100. receive the download from God the daily bread. You know,

  101. it's not because that, hey, only the pastors can receive

  102. it or only the worship leaders can. Everyone receives from

  103. God daily bread, you know, like the israel Lights, every

  104. single one of them received manna from heaven. All they

  105. had to do is go out and collect it. And

  106. that's what we need to do. So God's daily bread

  107. is there for us. We have to go and get

  108. it collected, all right. Everyone tides so tides, you know

  109. what it's tithes tides is saying that God, you are

  110. God and I am not. If if you do not

  111. have to give God anything, then how would you know

  112. that he is God? Because when God was in Uh,

  113. when Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden,

  114. God only gave them one rule.

  115. What was the rule? Correct?

  116. See, so only one rule and by obeying that one

  117. rule they acknowledge that God is God. But the fact

  118. that they disobeyed that one rule, it says that, Hey,

  119. I don't regard you as God.

  120. And that's what tide is.

  121. Tithe is say God, this is a portion that I

  122. want to give back to you. All of us tied

  123. because we're saying that God, you have blessed me and

  124. this is a portion that I want to give back

  125. to you.

  126. So all of us tight.

  127. And we are centralized in our spirit and our lingo

  128. across the world, not just in Malaysia. So we are

  129. talking about faith and talking about what God. I mean,

  130. the words that God us speaking to ards us should

  131. be the same whether it's in Malaysia, where wherever act

  132. church we have across the world. Okay, next, so we

  133. need to support each other to get the job done.

  134. You know, like this morning, how many people did it

  135. take to get the service up and running this morning?

  136. How many people do you all think.

  137. Any guests.

  138. Ten Okay, next question, how many of y'all are serving

  139. this morning? Can you raise your hands all right?

  140. Can you see.

  141. It takes everyone to make this service happen, and it

  142. takes a community for us to reach the lost. It

  143. takes every single one of us. And when we raised

  144. our hands just now, you will see that it is

  145. different people, different ages, different talents, different gift things, but

  146. all going towards the same goal of getting service ready

  147. for God this morning.

  148. So it takes community, all right.

  149. The power of community will get us to places.

  150. Okay, next lighte.

  151. So to achieve the vision twenty thirty right, or to

  152. reach new souls ninety percent new believers. You know this

  153. is not looking at church transfers.

  154. That me is right.

  155. By the end of twenty thirty right, there will be

  156. more new believers than Christians in the church. And that

  157. is God's plan for us. But to do that it

  158. seems like impossible.

  159. But with God, he.

  160. Will give us new ideas, radical ideas, and this is

  161. called the new wine into the new wine skins. So

  162. we are we have to be ready for God to

  163. pour into us new ideas for us to reach the lost. Okay,

  164. there's going to be a lot of radical new ideas

  165. that God will give us just to get the job done.

  166. Let's never say it has never been done before or

  167. only the Westerners can do this, you know. So Pasta

  168. Canada was sharing that. You know, sometimes when we look

  169. at all the churches in America or the churches in Australia,

  170. you know all I mean they can reach they have

  171. so much ideas, so many and they are reaching so

  172. many people. God can use every single one. God is

  173. color blind. What I mean by that is he is

  174. not He treats every one of us the same. All

  175. we have to do is to avail ourselves for Him

  176. to use us. So don't plan forward looking backward and

  177. what we've been used to and what we are comfortable

  178. with now. So this is where I would want to

  179. encourage every single one of us in whatever area of

  180. influence that we are in. We might have had success

  181. in the past. It can be your job, it can

  182. be your school, it can be sports, it can be

  183. whatever it is.

  184. But for us to go to the next level or.

  185. To capture to go even further, we need to do

  186. things differently. So this is why it needs new ideas.

  187. You know, what's one of the definitions of insanity. What's

  188. one of the definitions of insanity. Doing the same thing

  189. over and over again but expecting different results, that's insanity.

  190. And none of us here are insane.

  191. Right. But so that's why we have to be open

  192. to new ideas.

  193. And only God can give us that wisdom even as

  194. we seek him. Right, So let's read from Philippians three

  195. twelve to sixteen.

  196. All right, let's see here.

  197. Not that I have already attained or am already perfected.

  198. But I press on that I may lay hold of

  199. that which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren,

  200. I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one

  201. thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, and

  202. reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press

  203. towards the goal for the price of the upward call

  204. of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let us, as many

  205. as are mature, have this mind, And if in anything

  206. you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless,

  207. the degree that we have already attained, let us walk

  208. by the same rule, and let us be of the

  209. same mind. So this is written by Paul, and Paul

  210. was a trailblazer. He did things differently, and because he

  211. did things differently, he planted more churches and he spread

  212. the Gospel further than any other person because he was

  213. open to God leading him. So for us as well,

  214. we have to be open to God leading us. And

  215. then God will paw in that new wine into new

  216. wine skin, and we are the new wine skin, and

  217. then we will be.

  218. Able to do what He has called us to do.

  219. Right next line.

  220. Okay, so he says here, we're not telling you how

  221. to run your business, but how we should run God's business,

  222. his house, and his kingdom. So what this means is

  223. that when we tie our ten percent, So do you

  224. know that tithing goes beyond your money. Tithing goes to

  225. your talent. Talent, tiding goes to your time, tiding goes

  226. to your influence. When we give and set apart ten

  227. percent and give it to God, and then God will

  228. be able to use this for his glory. That's not

  229. where every time when we are come to a time

  230. of offering, right and we say that God, we want

  231. to give you a portion of what you're blessed us with,

  232. use it for the furtherance of your kingdom.

  233. When we give our talent, when we give our time.

  234. When we give our treasure, God is able to multiply there.

  235. And use it for his glory.

  236. Is the same as the eating of the five low

  237. five thousand. If they anything times zero is what zero,

  238. but infinity times one is what infinity. So all we

  239. need to give is our ten percent, and God will

  240. multiply it and use it for his glory. All right,

  241. it's the ten percent that we need to administer. The

  242. ninety percent is ours to use, but it is ten

  243. percent when we give it. So when we talk about time, right,

  244. you know ten percent of your time is two hours

  245. and forty minutes a day. Is it a challenge to

  246. give two hours and forty minutes to God?

  247. How many are we?

  248. All?

  249. Say? Yes? Challenger? All right, no, because it is a challenge.

  250. Right. All of us need more time. All of us

  251. need more time. You know, No, it doesn't matter who

  252. you are. You can be two years old, so you

  253. need more time. But but every one of us, if

  254. we are following this principle, we are supposed to tie

  255. two hours and forty minutes. This tiding two hours and

  256. forty minutes. If we think beyond most of the time,

  257. when we think of giving God two hours and forty minutes.

  258. We think that it is doing our devotion two hours

  259. and forty minutes. But I challenge us to think otherwise.

  260. They say that these two hours and forty minutes I

  261. give it to God. It means it can be if

  262. I am intentionally being kind to somebody.

  263. That could be part of the two hours and forty minutes.

  264. If I am listening to a sermon or listening to

  265. a podcast which which helps us build and grow closer

  266. to God. If I am worshiping God in my car

  267. while listening to music, that is also part of the

  268. two hours and forty minutes.

  269. You know.

  270. So it these two hours and forty minutes is saying

  271. that God, this is yours and I am intentionally using

  272. these two hours and forty minutes to glorify you. So

  273. it can be in our actions. It can be in

  274. our intellect, It can be in our just in our work.

  275. It can be in now school when we tied and

  276. we say God, this ten percent, I'm going to give

  277. it to you. Let's go and think beyond just the devotion,

  278. because when we are called to be Daniel's in the marketplace,

  279. it means we have to spend most of our time

  280. out there, and part of that tiding is also there.

  281. So let's ask God to give us ideas, how else

  282. can I tithe God?

  283. What other things can I do? And consecrate it to you?

  284. All right?

  285. Next line, so hints for success. We can be successful

  286. fulfilling this vision if we are first of all, make

  287. disciples equals follow me, so we have to.

  288. If we don't know it, then we probably.

  289. Have to look at someone who is probably emulating this

  290. behavior and say that, hey, what is something that I

  291. can learn, right and learn from that, and then we

  292. do it in smaller groups. It doesn't mean you have

  293. to do it, you know, if you're just even if

  294. your friend is sick they said, hey, I just want

  295. to pray for you. Can I pray for you? That

  296. is also tiding, you know, because it is giving God

  297. and saying acknowledging God in that situation. God, I'm acknowledging

  298. you in this situation, and I want to tie this

  299. time to you. So it doesn't have to be about

  300. the big Sometimes the biggest impact is in the smallest groups.

  301. They are realize that the biggest impact is in the

  302. smallest groups, and that is what we are called to do.

  303. That's why were we are called grow big.

  304. By growing small, and by growing small, that's when we

  305. can make disciples. So a plan on every street and

  306. in every school, bring church nearer to you, So a church.

  307. When we are looking at it, you are the church.

  308. I am the church.

  309. Wherever we are placed in our schools, our marketplace, our taman,

  310. we are the church. And if we function as a church,

  311. then we will draw all men unto Him and glorify God.

  312. Right so Matthew nineteen twenty six, he says, but Jesus

  313. looked at them and said to them, With men, this

  314. is impossible. But with God all things are possible. So

  315. we think that, hey, it's impossible. How am I going

  316. to do this? You know? That's why we have to

  317. depend on God. God to give us the new ideas,

  318. new wine skin. And then with God all things are possible.

  319. Matthew four nineteen, Follow me and I will make you

  320. fishes of men. So did Peter and Simon and all this, right?

  321. Did they have to go through any training to become

  322. fishers of men? They just dropped everything and then they

  323. just followed Jesus. And when do we follow Jesus, he

  324. will make us fishes of men. So let's not worry

  325. about Okay, what am I supposed to do? But seek

  326. God and he will enable us. He will give us

  327. the ideas right next, So this is the important thing.

  328. Power. We can talk about everything.

  329. We can talk about the vision, the mission, and we

  330. can talk about plans. We can talk about strategies. You

  331. can have the most powerful Evy car in the world,

  332. but without electricity, the car is useless. Right Your handphone

  333. can be the most You can have the iPhone seventeen probas,

  334. but if it does not have a charge, it is useless.

  335. You can use it as a paperweight.

  336. The same thing.

  337. Our mission, our vision, unpacking this whole series will be

  338. useless without power from the Holy Spirit.

  339. We need power from the Holy Spirit.

  340. So let's go fishing with the power of God. Okay,

  341. so gives us the power. Yes, Jesus gives us the power.

  342. And right now, Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit.

  343. The Holy Spirit has given us the power. And the

  344. thing is, a lot of us are not tapping into

  345. the power. You know, we are not tapping into the power.

  346. We try and do things on our own mind, and

  347. that's why we it's very difficult for us to succeed

  348. next line.

  349. So to fish. If God called us to.

  350. Be fish as a man, to fish, if you've gone fishing,

  351. you need bait, right, and God did not leave us

  352. alone as fishermen without bait.

  353. The bait is the power of God.

  354. It's called the supernatural anointing, signs and wonders, miracles, healings,

  355. and deliverance.

  356. Does that make sense?

  357. Because when you go and fish for man, right, and

  358. you do not have a bait. If you go fishing

  359. and you do not have a bait, you will not

  360. catch any fish. And when we go fishing for men,

  361. if God has called us to be fishes of men

  362. and we do not have bait, we will not be

  363. able to fish for men.

  364. We will not.

  365. Be able to draw any man unto God. And we

  366. need bait. So the bait is the power. You know,

  367. what is the power? Miracles, testimonies, signs, and wonders. Why

  368. do we share our testimonies. We share our testimonies because

  369. we want to glorify God. And when we glorify God,

  370. that's when he draws all men unto you. You know,

  371. I think I've shed previously or so that when we

  372. shared our testimonies with different ones. A lot of Jerome's

  373. school classmates, the parents, they wanted to come to church.

  374. That was the bait. The bait was because they see

  375. the power. They see that, Wow, your God is powerful.

  376. Your God.

  377. With your God, there is signs and wonders. With your God,

  378. there is miracles. That's why they want to come. It's

  379. not because of a free gift. Not because our coffee

  380. outside is awesome. I mean, if it's for our coffee,

  381. I think we will not draw any man. I say,

  382. is because of the power of the Holy Spirit. That's debate.

  383. Next, light for yours is the Kingdom.

  384. The power, and the glory forever and ever. The Kingdom

  385. comes first, then God gives us the power and it

  386. all goes back to God for his glory. When we

  387. say God, your Kingdom come, then he will give us

  388. the power. When He gives us power, that's when miracles happen.

  389. That's when testimonies happen. And when all this happens, we

  390. then glorify God and make his kingdom famous. So death

  391. is how the power of God is very important. Next,

  392. but why is it that sometimes it is very difficult

  393. for us to share about the goodness of God. It

  394. is a challenge right sometimes to share about how good

  395. God is, what God did in our lives. One of

  396. the reasons could be because of lack of confidence. When

  397. we are lacking of confidence, right, what does it mean?

  398. It means that, hey, I'm not very sure. I'm not

  399. very sure. I think so, but I'm not. You know

  400. when we when you want to recommend food to a tourist,

  401. or you want to recommend a restaurant to your friends,

  402. and then you say, hey, the food there, I.

  403. Think it is good.

  404. The use you use the word think there to save

  405. God yourself because if it's not good, you just say, oh,

  406. I thought it was good lack. But if you want

  407. to say that, hey, the food there is awesome, your

  408. confidence level is very high because you have tasted there

  409. and you have seen and you know it's good. But

  410. sometimes when we say that we are not sure, we

  411. have lack of confidence.

  412. Why is that is?

  413. One of the reasons is probably because we have not

  414. tasted and seen the power of God. So there are

  415. a few questions here, right, how do you feel when

  416. you hear that our partners were healed of cancer? You

  417. know here right in exclang we have so many testimonies

  418. of our partners overcoming cancer, going through the different stages

  419. of cancer, but coming out as overcomers. They are not

  420. living under the circumstances, but they are living as overcomers.

  421. What does that build our confidence in God? It should?

  422. It should build our confidence in God.

  423. If you know that someone has can say in your office,

  424. or you know of your friend.

  425. And then you know you can just say, hey, you know.

  426. My friend in church, she was going through this, but

  427. then she trusted in God and now she's seeing healing.

  428. You can say that in confidence because you witness it

  429. on your own. And that's why here in church we

  430. have so many testimonies, so many miracles that has taken place,

  431. But do we remember it and do we glorify God

  432. for it? The feeling is called confidence. And however we

  433. struggle in ministry due to the issue of lack of confidence.

  434. It's because if we do not believe what we are sharing. Now,

  435. of course you're not confident. Can you sell ice the Eskimo? Yeah,

  436. you won't be confident selling ice to Eskimo, right, because

  437. you'll be like, I don't think they really need it,

  438. you know, And then you won't be very confident if

  439. you approach an Eskimo. That's just an example. But we

  440. know that God works. We know there is power in

  441. the name of Jesus, and that should give us the confidence,

  442. the power to go out and reach that one person

  443. every year for Christ so that we can achieve God's

  444. dream and vision for our church by twenty thirty. But

  445. without us depending on the power of God, if we

  446. have no confidence, we can't execute.

  447. Neant.

  448. So conviction comes with revival, and I think this is key.

  449. That's why this is the year of revival. Conviction comes

  450. with revival. Why we need a revival. You know what's

  451. a revival. Revival is that time when you first accepted

  452. Jesus as your personal Lord and savior and you say, God,

  453. I want to give you my life. It could have

  454. been in a camp, it could have been in an

  455. altar call, and that was when you were closest to God.

  456. How do you know you need a revival?

  457. You know you need a revival if in when you

  458. look back, there was a stage in your life where

  459. you were closer to God than you are now. That's

  460. a simple way to gauge whether we need revival. Was

  461. I more on fire for God last week? Last month?

  462. When I was a teen when I was a kid,

  463. then I am now because if it is, then we

  464. need a revival. And when we are revived, then we

  465. are convinced. So that's conviction. Clarity comes with revelation, you know,

  466. when when the secrets, when God reveals the plans you,

  467. then he reveals revelation. The word revealed comes from revelation.

  468. Then she's like, oh, no, wonder, no wonder, and that.

  469. Gives you clarity.

  470. And confidence comes with results. So the reason why sometimes

  471. we have lack of confidence is because we may not

  472. have seen results. Same thing if you go, you know,

  473. like earlier, we signed up Geroman Jude for badminton class,

  474. you know, badminton class coaching. So when coaching right then

  475. was paying for them like one month, two months?

  476. There like no confidence, La, I'm not seeing results.

  477. I'm not seeing results because I don't see results, I'm

  478. not confident, right, So after a while I decided to stop,

  479. and then I decided to train them myself, you know,

  480. to do that, and we do that in the natural.

  481. The same thing.

  482. If we are not seeing results, if in church we

  483. are not seeing God move, if in our own personal

  484. life we are not seeing God move, if we are

  485. we we do not have a quiet time with him

  486. and we are not hearing from him, we start losing confidence.

  487. But sometimes we start losing confidence is because we are

  488. not putting God in the center of our life and

  489. we are getting everything else to draw our attention away

  490. from God, and then suddenly our confidence in him drops. Okay,

  491. Courage comes with resolve once you are Once you are courageous, right,

  492. you'll be like, hey, all right, let's go do it.

  493. You are resolved no matter what comes my way, I'm

  494. going to do it. And conquer comes with reliance because

  495. you know that greater is he who is in me

  496. than he who is in the world. So I'm going

  497. to conquer whatever the enemy has put again me. I'm

  498. going to conquer it because my reliance is on God.

  499. God's got my back. And then celebration comes with reward.

  500. Whenever we win is because we achieved the goal and

  501. that's the reward. So this is how we build our

  502. confidence next life. So conviction leads to clarity, So to

  503. be confident leaders, right, all of us are leaders. Conviction

  504. leads to clarity. Clarity leads to confidence. Confidence leads to courage.

  505. Courage leads to conquering and conquering leads to celebration. So

  506. think about it in your circumstance. So these principles, right,

  507. it applies to every area in your life. Right now,

  508. I give you an example. Are you convinced you have

  509. to do well in school? If you're convinced you have

  510. to do well in school, I give you an example

  511. for school. Right If you're convinced you have to do

  512. well in school, then it is very clear why you

  513. go to school every day. Clarity, It's very clear why

  514. you have to go to school every day. And when

  515. it's clear, you go to school and you're confident. I'm

  516. going to school to learn. I'm confident that I'm going

  517. to learn, I'm going to receive, I'm going to grow.

  518. When I'm confident, then I become courageous because the more

  519. I learn, the more I grow, the more confident I am,

  520. the more courageous I become.

  521. And when I.

  522. Learn more, when the exams come, I can conquer every exam,

  523. every test that comes my way, I'll be able to

  524. conquer it. And finally, when I conquer. After you finish

  525. your exams and you get top marks in your exam,

  526. won't you celebrate.

  527. Yes, you will.

  528. So this principle applies to our work, It applies to

  529. whatever area in our life. If there's an area in

  530. our life where we have lack of confidence, is it

  531. because we lack clarity? Is it because we lack confidence courage?

  532. What is it?

  533. If we identify it and then we tackle it and

  534. surrender it to God, then God will help us to grow.

  535. So first John five fourteen.

  536. Now, this is the confidence that we have in Him

  537. that if we ask anything according to his.

  538. Will, he hears us. If we live by this verse.

  539. We should be fully confident, especially if we are walking

  540. in his will. Whatever we ask of him, according to

  541. his will, he will do it.

  542. Won't you feel confident? I would feel confident right next?

  543. All right, so we don't have confidence because of lack

  544. of results, but we let's pray that the results will

  545. come and we begin to sow. So Sometimes if we

  546. are before, pre believers or those who have yet to

  547. know Christ struggle with conviction because you're not sure whether

  548. Jesus is God or not. So they struggle with conviction.

  549. Believers struggle with confidence. We know that, okay, we believe

  550. that Jesus is God, but we may God. Are you

  551. sure you can work in my situation? Are you sure

  552. I will be?

  553. Okay? You know?

  554. Are you sure you will give me the strength? And

  555. leaders start a struggle with courage. A leader that does

  556. not lead is not a leader. And a leader does

  557. not lead sometimes is because they are scared to offend people.

  558. Why are they scared to offend people?

  559. Is because they do not have the courage to lead.

  560. So in Joshua one line, it says God told Joshua

  561. be strong and very courageous. So when we are courageous,

  562. then we can go in confidence the path with God

  563. told us to Next so we are not alone. Thank God,

  564. we are not alone. He has given us his holy spirit.

  565. So next slide says here in Zachariah four, verse six.

  566. So he answered and said to me, this is the

  567. word of the Lord to Zerubabbel. Not by might, not

  568. my power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of Host.

  569. By God's spirit, he will give us the confidence. If

  570. a son asked for bread from any father among you,

  571. will you give him a stone? Or we ask for

  572. a fish, will you give him a serpent instead.

  573. Of a fish.

  574. Or if we ask for an egg, will he offer

  575. him a scorpion? If you, then, being evil, know how

  576. to give good gifts to your children, how much more

  577. will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those

  578. who ask him?

  579. So, parents, here.

  580. You know, right?

  581. Your kids ask you.

  582. For for okay, iPad, Maybe they may not give you iPad,

  583. but they will give you. If you're you're asking your

  584. parents for breakfast in the morning, for bread in the morning,

  585. your parents will give you bread.

  586. Right will they give you a stone? They won't.

  587. They won't give you a stone because your parents love you.

  588. The same thing is God will.

  589. If you ask God for the Holy Spirit, God will

  590. give it to you because it is according to his will.

  591. Same way for your parents.

  592. It is according to your parents' will that you be healthy, you.

  593. Grow eat nutritious food.

  594. So if you ask your parents for nutritious food, your

  595. parents will give it to you. And if we ask

  596. God for the Holy Spirit, he will give it to

  597. us because that's what he wants for us.

  598. All we have to do is ask, right.

  599. Next light, So could it be that our daily bread

  600. is the Holy Spirit? So the spirit of the Lord

  601. is upon me because He has anointed me to preach

  602. the gospel to the poor. When we have the Holy

  603. Spirit It gives us the power to preach the Gospel

  604. to the poor. It gives us the power to heal

  605. broken haartet. Gives us the power to proclaim liberty to

  606. the captives, to the recovery of sight to the blind,

  607. to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and proclaim

  608. the except double year of the Lord. This is what

  609. God has asked us to do with the power of

  610. the Holy Spirit. If we do not have the confidence

  611. to do so, is because we need to draw closer

  612. to Him. We need to eat his daily bread, be

  613. strengthened with him, and then we can do great exploits

  614. for His glory.

  615. Acts Chapter two.

  616. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel,

  617. and it shall come to pass in the day. In

  618. the last days, says God, that I will pour out

  619. my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters

  620. shall prophesy. Your young men sons shall see visions, your

  621. old men shall dream dreams. And on my man servants

  622. and maid servants. I will paw my spirit in those days,

  623. and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above,

  624. and the signs in the earth beneath. The sun shall

  625. be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before

  626. the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

  627. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on

  628. the name of the Lord.

  629. Shall be saved all right next night.

  630. So God will annoint us afresh with the Holy Spirit

  631. to prophesy, to preach, and to give solutions and answers,

  632. and to speak into solutions. Des Why the Spirit of

  633. God right what we speak is very important. If we

  634. speak death, then we will have death. If we speak life,

  635. then we will have life. Life and death is in

  636. the power of the tongue. And when the Holy Spirit

  637. comes upon us, the Holy Spirit will give us power

  638. to prophesy. And when we have prophesying, we're saying that

  639. a god your will will be done next light. So

  640. there will be a famine of the word of God.

  641. But let us pray that it will always be found

  642. in and true acts Church. So Amos eight eleven says

  643. here before the days are coming, says the Lord that

  644. I will send a famine on the land, not a

  645. famine of bread, nor a tust of water, but of

  646. hearing the words of the Lord. So how will the

  647. last hear the words? Only if we speak it. We

  648. need to prophesy. All of us are given able to

  649. prophesy with the Holy Spirit.

  650. All right, next light, even as we are drawing to

  651. us a close.

  652. So now that we can see the vision, let's speak it,

  653. because seeing alone is not enough. By speaking it, by

  654. proclaiming it, we're saying.

  655. God, your will be done.

  656. So chat wright, speech, preach, declare, suggests, proclaim, converse, encourage,

  657. word of knowledge and wisdom. Let's stop talking and start prophesying.

  658. So enough of talking about the vision. Let's let's prophesy. God,

  659. your vision says that you will give your Holy Spirit

  660. to me.

  661. If I ask on it, and I will. I am

  662. asking for it. God. I prophesy that I will be

  663. filled with the Holy Spirit. God.

  664. I prophesy that my situation you are fully in control.

  665. God.

  666. I prophesy that the blind will see, that the lame

  667. will walk, that the dead be raised to life again.

  668. That's when revival comes, when we are living with the

  669. power of the Holy Spirit. So this next line, so

  670. this is the five piece which I mentioned just now.

  671. God's diet.

  672. The plan is God's diet, his daily bread, the tide,

  673. and the leaven. The purpose is that we prophesy our purpose. God,

  674. you have called me to make become vicies of men,

  675. to make disciples, and we need to pray the Lord's

  676. prayer daily and power speak that God is with me.

  677. All things are possible with God. We need the power

  678. of the Holy Spirit pass on and when we see

  679. people see the power of the Holy Spirit, that's the bait.

  680. That's the bait that we can then for others to ask,

  681. and then we are able to pass on.

  682. We keep seeing it, we keep saying it, and we

  683. keep doing it.

  684. And finally we prosper because we are prophesying God's blessings

  685. and we continuously praise Him. When we put God first

  686. and we prophesy, that's when God's kingdom comes in our lives.

  687. And that's His our will, his will for us. So

  688. even as I draw towards the clothes right probably yeah, yeah,

  689. I can put no one. So I condense whatever I

  690. shard just now into this one page as well. So

  691. the execution plan, we have to break it down. Numbers

  692. must become names, you know, are we praying specifically? And

  693. our ideas must be practical and the ideas come from God.

  694. And we need to schedule our investment tiding, our time,

  695. our talent, our treasure, and the power source debate is

  696. the power of God. Have we experienced the power of

  697. God in our lives recently? If we have, have we

  698. shared about it? And confidence comes from results? Okay, not

  699. by mind, not by power, but my spirit Zachariah four,

  700. verse six. So the action right now, what do we

  701. do going forward? We need to from seeing to speaking,

  702. stop talking, start prophesying, declare God's promises over your life.

  703. And speak. What does it mean to prophesy?

  704. It means to chat, write, speak, preach, declare and encourage

  705. with the words of knowledge and the wisdom of God

  706. in every situation. And that's how God's power will make

  707. this plan come to pass. So even as I get

  708. the band up right now with the slide, with the

  709. whole plan. So this is a plan on the page again,

  710. it's for us to visualize and every part of it.

  711. God is using us.

  712. God has counted us as partners in this plan that

  713. He has for us. So it's whether we want to

  714. be a part of it or not. So even as

  715. we draw towards the close of the six sessions, right,

  716. I think the vision and the vision is very clear

  717. right now, we need the power of the Holy Spirit.

  718. We need the power of the Holy Spirit. We need revival.

  719. Have you been on fire, more on fire before than

  720. you were right now? If yes, then today is a

  721. call for us to like God. I need a revival God,

  722. I need I want to go back to that place

  723. where I was all on fire for you, because that's

  724. what revival is.

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  728. this week is going to be a good week. I

  729. hit for you.

  730. God bless