FIRE | Pr. Kenneth Chin

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TEA theme for this year in X Church is revival. Amen.

And so I want to start speaking about that. And

I know that all our pictures in X Church has

been briefed to prepare on this topic that the Lord

has given to us.

So I want to just share something with you now.

I'm not even sure whether you heard this message before,

because the Lord gave it to me about maybe fifteen

years ago. I think here and there, big meetings or

small meetings, I've shared it, but I was glad to

share it again today. So I asked was the Stephen

was Stephen, have you heard this message? He said, not

in the past year, in the past year, That's what

I mean. That's all right, that's all right. So some

of you are knew, you know in the pasty you

joined us, or maybe you haven't heard it. Maybe those

of you are older here, maybe you've heard it. But

it's okay to revise and review and to repeat. You know,

some of these messages that Go has given us. I

want to acknowledge in our miss our dear brother Yong Hui,

who was a student when he first came to us

many many years ago.

Do you know yong Hui? Yeah, and young he comes.

From Allo Star and Yonghui was with us I think

maybe what twenty years ago two thousand and one as

a student and now are you a lecturerer teacher in

a school, teacher in a school.

One thing I remember by Yonghuia is that he loves dudent.

I have never heard of a person that can eat

doudent for breakfast, lunch, and dinner by Yonghui and his family. Okay, anyway,

so Yonghu is really really good to see your brother, Amen,

Praise the Lord. Okay, let's put on the first slide

if you can help me x TV. And of course

the first light gives you the title revival. How many

you know that X Church yourself is a revival not

just ex Church EX Church, but X in the Book

of Acts. And most of us who want to be

like the Book of Acts, it's because we have a

desire to see the Holy Spirit palm and take over

and and and just bring about a revival where people

just awaken, you know, and the things that are difficult

becomes easy. You know, people are told you know why

don't you read your Bible? It'say oh, because you know

it's so boring. And then the revival comes, is no

longer boring. Can you wake up to do a quiet

time or yore?

I cannot. You don't understand. You know, I'm in this

excuse the.

Next excuse, right, And as the Holy Spirit comes and

there's no more excuses, people are able to wake up

in the morning and excite it as well. And so

there are many many things in our lives today that

are excusers that will only become non excusers when there's

a revival, when the Holy Spirit takes over. Okay, so

that's the what the next slight says. The next light says,

when God takes over. So that's really the Are you

looking at something that you need help with? Okay, Okay,

he's looking and somebody I'm thinking. You know, there's one

time when I was speaking uh in New Zealand and

someone was looking at me very long, and I didn't

I didn't, I didn't notice that he was looking at me,

and then later on I realized that my zip was

down the whole forty five minutes of preaching all.

So you're looking, I'm okay, my zip's okay again? All right?

Praise God? Yeah, yeah, yeah, stop.

Look at me.

No, he don't look at me. I think he's looking

something here, something falling.

No, okay, all right, cool, faying, thanks man, thanks, thanks

for carry all right. When God takes over, somebody say, amen,

how many of you want God to take over your life,

take over your family, take over your loved ones who

are not yet safe, take over some money, take over Nottingham.

Amen, come, Holy Spirit and take over.

Praise God now, uh, you know, we want him to

take over just like he did in the Book of

Acts Jazz, like he did in the Book of Acts.

You you, you should read it again.

If you haven't read the Book of Acts for a

long time, read it again from the very first chapter

to the last chapter, and you will just see God's fingerprint.

Okay, it's all God, all right.

The Church in Acts is known as the Church in Revival,

says the next slide. The Church in Acts is known

as the Church in Revival. It is often called the

acts of the Apostles, but it's truly the acts of

the Holy Spirit. It's not the act of the apostles alone,

because apostles didn't work alone. They worked under the anointing

and the power of the Holy Gods. Can I hear amen?

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of revival.

So this year we are saying we need more of him.

We want more of you. Holy Spirit.

Come, Holy Spirit, Come and take over our hearts, take

over our minds, take over our thoughts, take over, take over,

take over, take over our church, take of our worship,

take over our press service, take over ex kids. Come,

Holy Spirit, Come, we need you, Come take over. We

need more of you, Holy Spirit. How may of you know?

There's a verse that says, it's not my mind, nor

by power, by my spirit, says the Lord Za Crier

four six. Not by mind nor by power, but by

my spirit. So we want more of the Holy Spirit.

Acts one says you shall receive power when the Holy

Spirit has come upon you. Somebody say power. The Greek

word is dou namis or dynamite. Just radio explode inside

of you and explode through you to your surrounding, and

it will affect and impact.

Everyone around you.

Someone say, amen, you shall be my witnesses, or you

shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all

Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.

Now with that power, you shall be. Now we can

be without that power. That's what it also means. All

of us try to be and we fail. A lot

of us try to be victorious, but we fail. A

lot of us try to be free from sin, free

from sickness, but we fail. A lot of us try,

we try to come out of pornography, but we fail

so desperately because there is no power. So what we

need is the Holy Spirit power. Somebody say, amen, dynamite,

douna miss and we shall be. We shall be when

there is power. I just recently met some people, a

couple actually from Bintulu, and this couple are on fire

for God.

They just got got married in September, and they came

and they.

Had their honeymoon just recently because right after their wedding

in September, they couldn't have time to do their honeymoon,

so it is a sort of an extended honeymoon. And

they came to kl stayed very near KLCC twin towers,

and they called me h. They regard me like air

their spiritual father here in Peninsula Malaysia. So they wanted

meet me and a wife, who is I think Clabbate

clubbit She said to me. Clabate is a tribe from

East Malaysia. She said, past, I have a question for you.

She asked it in Malay because her English is not

as fluent. So she passed the bully bullys Tania and

so she she meant to ask me a question, and

I said, go ahead. So how do we get young

people interested in the things of God? Because she and

her husband are now in charge of young people in Bindulu,

or rather sib Bindulu, how do we get young people

interested in the things of God? We are eating teams

and uh it was. It was delicious, and it was

my treat for their wedding because I couldn't attend.

So the question was asked, and uh, I don't think

it's just for young people.

The question should be how do we get anyone interested

in the things of world? Not just young people. But

the question was young people. And so let's before you

get my answer that I gave to her, let's read

X two one to four x two one to four.

When the day of penticcourse had fully come, they were

all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there

came a sound from heaven, hallelujah, as of a rushing,

mighty wind, and he filled the whole house where they

were sitting. Then they appeared to them divided tongues as

of fire, and one sat upon each. Oh, hold on

a minute, are you looking at the right slides? Oh?

No, okay, my apologies, my apology. I had two messages.

I've got to give you the other one, so so

sorry for that two messages. But okay, let me do

this one now, Okay, anyway, just give you the answer

I told the young lady.

Is that the reason why you look at the slides? Okay,

you look at somebody.

Behiv Okay, all right, So I told the young lady,

I said, what the young people need is a personal

encounter with the Holy Spirit. Okay, now, let me now

go backwards and go to the message that God told

me to give you. So that's why I shouldn't be

giving you the other one, which is actually newer, but.

I'm going to save that for another day.

Extrach Team for twenty twenty six, let's look at this

one part of Dream twenty thirteen Revival, First Kings eighteen

twenty to thirty nine. Let's read that first kings, I

don't have it on the slides, but follow me please

as I read the word of God. All right, first, kings,

eighteen twenty to thirty nine, let's read so A have

said for all the children of Israel and gathered the

prophets together on Mount Carmel. And Elijah came to all

the people and said, what a way to get you in?

Just say in the end of message, I hope that

you will come for another meeting that I will Maybe

I will speak that as salt.

I don't know.

Maybe no, no, no, no, no no. So I there what a

pray praise coming up? Fourteen off March much, okay, okay,

maybe I'll share that one. Guess what you guys are

already no twenty percent of twenty percent, so you can

act like, oh, you know, I've heard of this before.

Elijah came to all the people and said, how long?

How long will you falter between two opinions? If the

Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal follow him?

But the people answered him not a word. Then Elijah

said to the people I alone and left the prophet

of the Lord. But Boo's prophets are four hundred and

fifty men that's a lot. Therefore, let them give us

two bulls, and let them choose one bull for themselves,

put it in pieces and lay it on the wood,

but put no fire under it. And I will prepare

the other bull and lay it on the wood, and

put no no fire under it. Then you shall call

on the name of of your gods, and I will

call on the name of the Lord, and the god

who answers by fire, he is God.

So all the people answered, and say it is well spoken.

Now Elijah said to the prophets a Baal, choose one

bull for yourselves, and prepare it first, for you are many,

and call on the name of your God, but put

no fire under it. So they took the bull which

was given them, and they prepared it and called on

the name of Baal.

From morning even till noon, saying, oh, Baal, hear us.

There was no voice. No one answered. Then they leaped

about the altar which they had made. And so it

was at noon that Elijah mocked them, said cry aloud,

for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or

he's busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps

he is sleeping and must be awakened. So they cried

aloud and cut themselves as they as was their custom,

with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

And when midday was they prophesied until the time of

the offering of the evening sacrifice. Well, what a long

worshipper from morning to the evening. But there was no voice,

no one answered, no one paid attention. Then he led

usaid to all the people, come near to me. So

all the people came near to him. And he repaired

the altar of the Lord that was broken down, and

he lighted, took twelve stones, according to the number of

the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the

word of the Lord had come, saying, Israel shall be

your name.

There were the stones. He built an altar in the

name of the Lord.

And he made a trench around the altar, large enough

to hold two seers of seed. And he put the

wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid

it on the wood, and said, fill four water points

with water and pour it on the burn sacrifice and

on the wood. Then he said do it a second time,

and they did it a second time, and he said

do it a third time, and he did it a

third time, ran all around the altar, and he also

filled the trench with water. And it came to pass

at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice

that Elijah the Prophet came near and said, Lord, God

of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this

day that you are God in Israel, and I am

your servant, and that I have done all these things

at your word. Hear me, Oh Lord, hear me, that

these people may know that you are the Lord God,

and that you have turned their hearts back to you again.

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the

burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust,

and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now,

when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces,

and they said, the Lord he is God, The Lord

he is God. Amen. The Bible says, as we just read,

let the God who answers by fire.

Be God. Let the God who answers by fire be God.

I want to remind all of us this morning that

our God answers by fire.

Just let us sink in for a moment.

I was many years ago at a rally in Indonesia.

It was a very very big event that I took

about eight of my leaders to go with me, and

the finale was held at the stadium.

One hundred thousand people came.

The speaker was Yongi Cho Cho Yongi, pastor Cho Yonge

at that time, pastor of the largest church in the world. Okay,

I think the church was about eight hundred thousand people

in South Korea, Yourido, Yourido Full Gospel Church. And as

Pastor Yongi Cho was speaking, he said he was speaking Korean.

He said that God used Korea or South Korea to

introduce to the world.

The prayer movement, prayer movement.

All right, and sure enough, everybody who ever talked about

let's do prayer, let's get into prayer, let's do more prayer,

will look at Youngi Cho pass Youngicho and his church

as an example. All right. All his pastors once upon

a time had to pray a minimum of three hours

a day. That was the minimum for every one of

passing Youngicho's passes at minimum.

Okay.

His mother in law was also a prayer warrior. She

will pray about four or five hours a day.

Okay. Then they started the prayer.

Mountain all right, where I also went with my team

to the prayer Mountain.

I went into a growtho. You know, a GROWTHO means a.

Little small room half into the mountain and there is

no lights. I had to actually go on all fours

and crawl. That's how small a little room is. I

had to crawl into the grow too, lock the door,

and I had to put shoes outside. Because some people

are praying that growth toe for one week. They fast

for one week and they pray and you can hear

them cry out to the Lord because the growth is

just about each growth is.

About ten feet away from each other.

But when the South Koreans are crying out to the Lord,

and you can hear it ten growths away, oh o,

Lord help me, you know, be crying out to the

Lord and you'll be there. So then their shoes had

to be outside. So then that's the only time you

will know that someone's inside. And sometimes they will check

on you because they don't do better. You died inside,

you know. But I was in there thinking to myself,

how do I pray for one hour? That time?

As soon as I walked in.

There and crawled into the gro to close the door,

and I said, Lord, how do I do this one hour?

But there was such an anointing of prayer inside that

room that I prayed for one hour without even these

By time it came out, I was late to go

to the bus that was waiting for me. But Yongi

cho or Cho Yongi said, uh, pray movement came out

of Korea. And then he says, but you know Indonesia,

And of course he was speaking Indonesia, Indonesia will provide

to the world the praise movement and a lot of

songs of praise have been coming out from Indonesia, a

lot of songs of praise ocasion. So you know what happened.

I closed my eyes and I bowed my head as

I heard about what so South Korea provided for the world.

I heard about what Indonesia is about to provide for

the world, and I just say the race, silent prayer

about my head. I say a silent press, Lord, if

South Korea did that for the world, Lord, if Indonesia

is going to do this for the world, what will

Malaysia do? What will be Malaysia's contribution? And then, of

course all of us were encouraged to pray now, and

so I was praying. But that was my only question.

Oh what will Malaysia provide? You know, I mean, we

don't just want to wait for the United States of America.

We don't just want to wait for Australia. We don't

just want to wait for the UK. Mala. Malaysia is

not second class. You know. We serve the same God. No,

the God is never different. Jesus is never different around

the world. It is the people. The people will believe

or don't believe. See, but the same Jesus is miracles

all around the world and also do it here. The

people must be different. The God we serve is not

different with me. He's the same yesterday, today, forever with

me Hebrews Chapter thirteen, verse eight. He is the same

in America, UK, Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, and Lasia. So

I was crying out the lad law, Please don't forsake Malaysia.

Don't forget Malaysia. Something great it's gonna come out with Malaysia. Lord,

show me what it is, and the watch his passion.

I got in my spirit passion and the next word

was fire. So fire and passion, it is related. It's connected.

And then we uh, you know, around the stadium people

said amen, you know, because people are praying. I was

in my deep in my own prayer, but as everyone

said amen, and I opened my eyes, and in came

a person running into the stadium with a torch fire

like the Olympics, and he lighted up you know, like

like the Olympics. It's huge. What do you call it, Yeah, Audred, Yeah,

this huge torch and he lighted it up and boom,

set on fire.

And the law says, that's your confirmation. That's your confirmation.

So I have believed that since then until today, that

Malaysia's contribution to the world will be passion. We will

show the world how to serve the Lord with fire

in our hearts. Do you believe it? I believe you

all my heart. I believe you all my heart. And

so the confirmation was there. But then as I read

First King chapter eighteen, God reminds me that he answers

by fire. Now you think about it, the guys, the

God who answers by fire means that every prayer you

ever prayed is firstly answered by fire before it's answered

by specific answer to your prayer. Think about it now,

think about it. Now, you say, Lord, I would like

to migrate to the US. If he's really his real

he will tell you better. You should my grade or not.

But his first answer to that prayer is fire? Why passion? Why?

Because what's the use of going to the United States

of America without fire? Australia? Lord, send me to Australia.

But you know, a Christian can die in Australia. A

Christian can lose his faith in the US. A Christian

can forsake the Lord in the UK if he doesn't

have fire. Lord, give me one million ring. It could

be your prayer. Give me ten million ring, It could

be your prayer. But what is money without fire? Because

you can be rich and forsake the Lord. So do

you understand one press? Say you can ask for anything,

but the first thing he answers is fire.

Say by there for a moment, Lord, give me a wife.

Give me a husband, right, But do you know you

can have a wife who's not a fire for God

and lead you astray no longer found in church. Lord,

give me a husband. You know the husband looks Christian,

has a Christian name. But God is so far away

from his mind. Of course, when he marries you. He

say all the Christian words, and I don't mind marrying

the church. I don't mind saying the vows, because he

just wants you. And when he got you, that's it.

Right now, this becomes the smallest handcuff in the world.

This becomes the smallest hand cuff in the world. Are

you still with me? You want a husband who's on fire.

You want a wife who's on the fire. Who don't

just ask for a spouse, Ask for a spouse who's

on command. Amen, Praise the Lord. So our God answers

by fire. Jesus said, I came to send fire on

the earth. Wow, And how I wish he would already kindle.

This is God's wish for you and for me, even

in this room this morning, How I wish he would

already kindle. Amen. Those of you who are on fire

already this morning, say Amen, Praise the Lord. Now. Fire

is powerful. Fire changes everything it touches. Do you understand this?

Everything?

When you come in touch with fire, you will never

be the same again. Things will burn. All these balloons

touch fire gone, right, this cup, touch fire gone, this paper,

touch fire gone, this chair, touch fire gone, this ipat

touch fire gone. This popeit touch fire. Gone, This jacket

touched fire. Gone.

You touch fire gone?

You know the metal? You say, oh, but metal won't burn,

but you will get hot. Nothing remains the same. That

means if you are on fire and you touch somebody's hands, Hello,

and fire goes through your hand, that person will never

be the same again. Do you understand if Expemine is

on fire, anyone who comes in here will be changed.

You don't even have to do anything else but be

God's channel of fire. Amen. Matthew three eleven says he

will baptize you with holy spirit. And did you understand

that not this holy spirit, but with fire? And the

Greek word for fire is poor. P you are if

you're taking notes, you can take it down poor. And

another meaning of poor is lightning lightning poor. He will

baptize you with lightning, zap you right, and you will

be filled with electricity so much soworld that, my God,

when you read your Bible is different, When you praise different,

you are filled with power.

Zap you from on high.

That's why in the in Revelations he talks about, you know,

the golden bowl of incense, and then when this full

lightning is.

Coming from heaven. Are you also with me?

In fact, there's another lightning that the Bible talks about

that he saw Satan fall. Like lightning.

Satan is a copycat.

He wants to copy everything that God has, so he

also tries to copy himself like lightning.

But his lightning is he falls under the power of God.

Amen. He gets thrown down lightning. And I want to

be God's lightning on this earth. Wherever I go, however

I preach and pray, I will be electrified and I

will electrify others. Because of His power, You shall receive power.

Can I hear a good?

Amen?

The fire doesn't need to change ladies and gentlemen in

this room. With the stages or stages of life, I

find that, you know, some older ones will come to

me say, oh, don't you know, Pasta, I'm already retired.

I'm not like the young ones with so much energy,

right or Pasta, you don't understand. I just got married,

so you know there are different demands or personally you

don't understand. But I've got three kids.

Listen. I want to tell you right now, and I

pray you will take it with all your heart. The

fire doesn't need to change with the stages or status

of life. We're not talking about you jumping only and

you know, doing crazy things, no, or running around the

church like a young guy can and an older guy

might not be able to know. I'm not comparing like that.

But why should your fire and my fire deplete or

decrease with age? Do you agree I'm talking about fire?

I see older people here in our midst and thank

God for older people here in our miss I can

also see the fire. This lady with a red blouse

in the back there, all right, she's wearing great because.

She's on fire.

No, no, no, she's not right, grate because your fire chines

to you. I know. But the thing is, how many

of you here agree? I see you as I know.

She's on fire, right, her her hair is full of snow.

You know, this is what I sat on the same

table in Stapaure with right her bunk right, her book

was just opposite me.

And he says in his German accent. You know, he says,

there may be snow on the roof. This is what

he said.

There may be snow on the roof, but there is

fire in the fireplace. Right, Only ten of us were

at that dinner. I just love his fire. In fact,

his conferences are called fire fire conferences, snow on the top,

fire inside. He was saying that at seventy two years old,

when he was at the same table seventy two years old,

why should the fire twindle were still dye?

Amen?

So now, very quickly before we close, how to attract

God's fire?

How to keep being on fire?

All right?

Are you ready?

Because we read in the scripture fire came down when

Elijah prayed. Yes. So when I go and speak this

message in different places, I understand that there are many

people all around the world saying Wow. When I read

first King's eighteen, I wanted to happen again in our

time and age. I wanted to happen again. God, where

are you? So the question he asks, where's the God

of Elijah? Where's the God of Elijah today twenty twenty six?

But the real question should be where's Elijah? Because as

I said to you earlier, how God hasn't changed, He

hasn't got anywhere he Brews thirteen, verse eight. He is

the same, yesterday to and forever, the God of the

Us and the God of Australia, and the God of

the UK. It's also the God of Malaysia. He's your God.

I know, you celebrator. Maybe you say Bethel or maybe

you say he was. I don't know what church you celebrate,

you know, but it's time to also celebrate what God

is doing here ten birthday. God is alive in this place.

So don't ask, where's the God of Elijah? You know,

God of Elijah has always been here. Where is Elijah

is the question? It takes Elijah. I see the brothers, yea,

lay heads on each other. Ah, go ahea yeh yeheah, Yeah,

you can lay heads on. Yeah, be there like God.

Turn your neighbor said there, Elijah, be there, Elijah be there,

Elijah be the Elijah. Is there any Elijah?

Say in his room? Elijah actual name?

Not yet? Not yet? So never mind all of you

being Elijah, okay Elijah. Yeah, don't just look for the

God of Elijah. God is looking for Elijah. If God

can find Elijah, he will move.

Are you ready?

Five characteristics I'm gonna share you First King.

Chapter eighteen, verse twenty one.

First characteristic. First King, Chapter eighteen, verse twenty one says,

and Elijah came to all the people and said, how

long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord

is God, choose him or follow him rather? But if

Baal follow him? The first characteristic for any Elijah who

wants to be Elijah is we must daily choose. Joshaw said,

choose you this day whom you will serve josh twenty

four verse fifteen. Yes, every day when you wake up

in the morning, you've got to choose. Will I do

my quiet time first or will I read the messages

on my what said choose? Will I do my quiet

time first? Or will I go and exercise first? Will

I come to church first on Sunday? Or will I

just watch online on in my own convenience? Do you

know every day you're choosing, like right now and you're

seated here, you're also choosing better you want to listen

to me or whether you want to scroll your phone.

It's a choice, do you understand? Oh, but it's not

really a choice. I'm addicted, So forgive me because I'm addicted.

Do you know how you become addicted? Because you choose

every day? If you choose every day, addiction will follow

you with me. But habits are also like that. Habits.

If you do the same thing every day, it becomes

a habit. Choose. Choose.

What are the choices your faced with today? I'm not sure,

but think about it because this year, if you really

want to see your life come on fire, God is

going to ask you to choose. And I just have

a sense that in my spirit now that some of

you are seated here are already being You're you're already receiving.

You're already you have already received something from the Lord

that is stirring your heart to choose. I remember a

pregnant lady. You know, my friend Susan. She was eight

months pregnant. And when I looked from because this church,

I was part of the same church, and I was

at at the balcony one day and I looked down

and Susan, at eight months pregnant, was standing up.

What she being the Lord?

And uh other pregnant ladies at eight months will sit

down throughout most of the was she? And I say Susan.

And Susan is a dynamic lady, in a dynamic lady.

Today she's a pastor of FGA. Got the Damasara, I said, Susan.

Everybody will understand like you're eight months pregnant. Sit down. Last,

she said, I know people understand, but I don't make

decisions based on what people think. I choose to stand

as long as I can, and if I'm really tired,

I will sit. I'm not here trying to test myself.

I'm here trying to give God my best. Do you understand,

So in every day of your life, right, you got

choices to make. Let's move on because I think you

got me. I think you got me. Okay, First King's

eighteen twenty three, twenty four. Now, therefore, let them give

us two bulls, and let them choose one bull for themselves,

cutting it in pieces and lay it on the wood,

but put no fire under it. And I would prepare

the other bull and lay on the wood, but put

no fire. Listen, So the second sea I put all

five points in C's first one is you gotta choose.

The second one is challenge. Once our lives begin to

have less of a challenge in our work with God,

you will find that your fire will begin to diminish.

So I want to just encourage you again.

Maybe you've heard of this message before, but I think

it is the word of the Lord. For us today

because it's a good reminder for all of us that

the way you keep your fire burning and burning strong,

if not stronger, is to always be sensitive to what

it is that God is challenging you to do today

or this year.

And take it up. It will take faith. Are you

with me?

It will take faith, It will take some courage. But

don't forsake the challenges that God bring to your life. Again,

it's a matter of choice. You have to choose to

take up the challenge. In this last thirty five years

of following Jesus, I have seen so many challenges that

He's brought my way. And he has done it because

He knows that we are creatures of comfort, meaning to

say that we lean more towards comfort than anything else.

If it can be comfortable, we want it. None of

us will be silly enough to choose this comfort. And

yet God allows this comfort in life, in our lives,

to keep us in the straight and narrow. You understand this,

and so I've understood the place of challenge in my life.

When I was a lawyer and the Lord said give

up your law and come follow me, it was a

challenge if I said no to the Lord. We won't

be here right. And then came the time when the

Lord you know asked me to give all my wedding armbous.

All my wedding armbows are the balance of whatever I

had after I paid all the bills. The balance was

seven thousand ringing. Oh a lot of money. No, nineteen

ninety five a lot of money. The road says, would

you put your own money before you ask other people

to give money? We don't mind asking for donation, but

we ourselves won't give you that.

Donation.

The row says, you give first, then I will touch

other people's.

Heart to give.

If you also won't give us, Why should I touch

other people's hearts. It's just shows that you don't believe

you need yourself. If you believe it, put your money

where your mouth is. That's challenging me. I put all

seven thousand ringing. I remember telling you the sorry I

was crying at the banground and it was not tears

of joy. And I started a you center, a youth center.

I started Aya aging youth in messades on that, and

then on and on and on and on. Every year

a few challenges. The year the Lord challenged me to

give my car my only car. Someone gave it to

me same as as me when I was twenty one.

It was twenty one, Who say twenty two? The oldest

car ever? All right? It leaks so much oil when

we were driving. I call it the most anointed car

in the in the country. Oil everywhere, oil, oil of blessing,

all of anointing. You kind of go beyond ninety kilometers

an hour. Okay, after ninety kilimeters, it has to shake,

like like Christians when they're under the power over it shakes,

you know, the most anointed car in Malaysia. And my

uncle needed a car. Without a guy, you cannot get

a job. The Holy speel says, would you give him

your car? I said, I that's the only guy I have. Lord,

would you give challenge? Challenge?

Challenge, challenge, challenge, challenge?

Would you take up a j put no fire? How

do you offer sacrifice? What you put no fire in it?

You put no fire in under it? I will also

put off. This is a challenge, yes or no? So

I gave my uncle the car, even though by that

time I was twenty seven years old. But the but

twenty seven year old car was better than the thing.

And because of the car, he got the job. My

uncle at the time, he was really in his fifties.

A man without a job in his fifties painful, it's tough.

He got a car. I gave it a car that

was a Friday.

Saturday. Sunday came and I didn't go anywhere because I

had no car. This just went to church. Someone fetched

me to church. And Monday came. Monday is my day off.

Monday is my day off. But it wasn't the day

off for a particular corporate company in KL and the

secretary called me earth. I said, yes, how are you fine?

She says, uh, I gonna need to ask you a

question once againda. I said, yes, do you need a car?

Just three days?

You need a three days Saturday I gave my uncle

on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Do you need a car?

I said, whire? She says, my boss told me on

Friday Fridays. The boss told her, Paul pass A Kenneth,

I want to give my one of my company cars away.

So I got the car. The car is very old,

four years old, four years old, four years old. Come

back to my trainees every year, OKR. And not only that,

if Paskena wants it, give it to him and let's

pay for his road text two years. Do you understand

that in your life? I want to challenge you right now,

a breakthrough is about to happen. It's just around the corner.

Some of your prayers are going to be answered so close.

But you know it's so easy for Good to answer

the prayer. But he wants to make sure that we

take up the challenge because it's faith, and without faith,

it's impossible to please God.

Are you also with me?

God wants to give it to you willingly, abuttantly, but

he puts us all through this challenge. Why because the

fire keep burning? You understand care I just throw this

out to Ax right now, Bassus Stephen. I know maybe

actually given you a hateup, but why don't you please

pray about starting X in Nottingham UK. Look at this

seriously this year because it might be a challenge that

you have a lot of excuses why you cannot. But

I think it's on your heart. I think it's on

your heart and I think it's on your heart. And

when I spoke about the David, David said, we are

ready for X Nottingham. If X is ready, we will

walk together and they will use some of the pounds

that is in the ex London Bank account to help.

But the people must.

Come from here because every year I hear that you

have students going back and forth.

I know it's a challenge. Come on, is a challenge,

and I know you can. You can probably tell me

ten reasons why you shouldn't.

But I'm not thinking that says a lot because I

don't want to put you in a place you know

of bondage.

I don't want to bind you to this.

I just want to offer you a challenge and pray

about it, okay now, and then I will revisit you

and say what you think.

What is the lad said?

I feel it, I feel it strongly. The other thing

I want to challenge you is a dream Malaysia. A

few of us past us came together last week for

a retreat and we have discovered right that one of

the greatest problems in the church in Malaysia is succession.

Most churches, if not all churches, are struggling with succession.

Past The chewing Chi of sib considered succession for fifteen

years before he did it because it was so hard.

He has four or five thousand people in this church,

millions in the bank.

Right, who does he give the leadership to?

I know a lot of senior pastes are wondering how

how I give it to the wrong person.

Everything will go down the drain.

Pastor Daniel Hoe of the UMC took me many years

to consider his successor.

Now his successor is finding another successor.

It's not easy. I go up to Pinang, I go

up to Alostar, I go down to Johobaru, I go

to East Malaysia.

Everybody is struggling with a succession issue.

For me, of course, I retired and I passed it

on to the SBO and I made the pagholder exity pastor.

You understand also not easy for me.

But I've retired and I've considered a lot of things

that the Lord had to teach me. But listen, the

thing I want to also challenge X so many to consider,

is we are going to now, as you're praying, go

and visit different pastors in and around Malaysia, especially pastors

who are desperate, meaning you say that they are at

their wits end. They don't see, uh, there's a pastor

up north. I won't mention this the city at unless

you want to ask me later. There's a pastor who says,

amazing pastor, I've known him for years. Yes, a good,

good man who's done great things. He said to me,

Uh no, maybe about a year or two ago, if

you come up to Alosta. Uh you know Alosta? Okay, Okay, Okay,

I just said it Alosta. Okay, never mind, because sooner

or later you hear it. Uh, and you come up

to Alosta, I will call all the pastors from police

to come uh and and hear you speak. Because all

of us are having the same challenges. What is the challenge?

Most young people leave Alosta or Kada or Pelice and

they go to k l they go to Pinang, they

go to Singapore and they never come back. Okay, Now

you might be from there, but this is not a

message to make you feel down. Okay, it's not a

message to make you feel condemned. I just if you

tell it the truth, are you okay with truth? So

I asked this pastor how your youth ministry? And the

passer said, what youth ministry? I say, why, Pastor? He says,

they all leave by form five, they're gone to college.

They most of them don't come back. Okay, listen, I

really believe the Lord is moving in this nation and

it will come soon, very soon. God touching people's hearts

firstly in ex Church because I'm leading this movement called Malaysia.

So the first example has.

Got to be from X that God will move people's

hearts in our own fifteen branches in KL move people's

hearts to one to go back and make a difference

in their city. And I will be the first one

to not only send you, but support you. Not to

plan an ex church. I think this one not is

all this just planting my own day man, planting my

own denomination. One is a thing of the past is passinating.

Now. We need to find a solution for our nation.

And not be selfish with our own names and our

own brand and our own denomination. Just say a lot

of these pastors are in their seventies and some of

them are so burnout they don't know what to do,

so burn out. If I tell you stories are there's

a seventy eight eight year old pastor in Khaki bookit.

I don't even know you better you know where there

is Khaki bookit. Seventy eight years old? You know how

long he's been a pastor forty years, but no successor,

can't find a single young person. So as seventy eight,

he's still playing basketball with the young people to try

to reach them for the Lord because no one man.

So we cannot just sit here and oh, let's pray

for them and hope they find an answer.

No, we've got to be the answer. I also do me.

So think about that challenge and if the Lord touches

your heart, just like the Lord touched past Daniel Cheng

and his wife. He came out to me the day

is a pastor because I shed export community a day

and he's a pastor.

H Me and my wife, we have a heart for Clanton.

So if there's ever opening plant and pasters, send us

because the churches in Clanton are dying.

Churches in Tregardo are dying.

Uh.

My pastor friend from the.

Baptist uh Convention meaning the Baptist Convention that takes care

of all the Baptists touches here in Malaysia. He says,

we might have to close down ten churches before the

end of the year if they're no there are no workers. Hey,

imagine it saddens me when I hear churches had to

close down. I don't even mind if McDonald's had to

close out. But the church the house of the Living God,

and many are in small towns. The pastor can even

afford his salary because there's only twenty people or thirty

people in the church that yours doing me. I want

to challenge this to you. Are you really take up

a challenge from the lot? Okay, you're you. You've heard

acts nothing, have you've heard dream Malaysia? But let's move

deeper into your own lives, even individually in this room.

I am sure there are some challenges that God is about.

Some of you are could be just this know this

year twenty twenty six, go for missions, because how have

you gotta I don't want to go for missions. You know,

I miss my bed, I miss my pillow. Missions don't

accord you know. Take up the come on challenge and

you will remain on fire.

Maybe one or two of you here I should sign

up for ex kids.

Yeah. Maybe some of you are have been seated here

in church for the past one year and haven't served yet.

Take up the challenge. Don't say oh if you're very

bored like these church, oh, you know I come late,

leave early. You know I don't feel the community. You

know why all these are unimportant because when you start serving,

you will all come one by one. So don't sit

down too long without serving the House of God. Can hear,

great man, take up the challenge next one. First kick

is eighteen thirty to thirty five. Okay, we read it already,

but read it again. Verse thirty Elijah said, to all

the people, come near to me. So all the people

came near to him. He repaired the altar of the Lord,

a La Lujah that was broken down, and Elijah took

twelve stones. Then with the stones he built an altar

in the name of the Lord. And he made a

trench around the altar large enough to hold two sears

of seed. He put the wood in order, had the

bull in pieces feel four water boards the water.

He said, horrid on the sacrifice on the.

Wood that he said, do it the second time, it

third time verse thirty five. So the water ran all

around the altar, and he filled the trench in water pumps.

The crate is the third sea. Consecrate means set your

life apart. Now I want to say this to you

before we draw to a close. The preparation is as

if not more important than the presentation.

Sometimes we just call for fire.

But before Elighten called a fire, he actually rebuilt the

altar that was broken down. He used trial stones to

represent tild tribes. There is a way to call down fire.

There's a way to obey God's word and to do

it right. Are you also with me? The Bible says

he put the wood in order? You know, the scripture

is not there for no purpose. A lot of us,

our lives are not in order. We sleep where we

should be awake. We awake where we should be asleep.

We should only spend at the most two hours on

social media, but you spend eight And how do we know?

It's because the phone will tell you you have just

spent forty eight hours last week? Right, and in quiet

time five minutes?

You say, is long? Not in order? Our lives are

not in order? Are you all with me?

No? But the Bible says he plays the wood in order.

See here, before the fire came, all these had to

come first. We've really got to get our lives in everybody, Okay,

what do I mean by the preparation is as if

not more important than the presentation. I think I'll share

this with you before I say it, I'll share it again.

This engains you forgot? How long does it take to

do an exam? Three hours? How long to prepare for exam?

Three days for some of you, three weeks for others

wiser three months for others? Who are you know thinking

that I won't just depend on my memory skills. How

long does it take to run a marathon? Two hours,

three depending on how far? How long to prepare for

a marathon? How long does it think you to go

up to monkbo one day, half a day? How long

does it take you were trained to go up to

How long is a wedding? One hour? How long to

prepare for a wedding? One year? One year? Do you

get on trying to say you know how long I

have to take to preach this message? Well, usually forty

five minutes, but because it means when I went not

as kidding, but how long to prepare for the message?

So a lot of Christians don't understand the preparation is

very key in the fire of God burning in your heart?

Do you know why you're kind of worshiped so well?

In the last half an hour because you didn't come

worshiping as soon as I woke up this morning. You know,

every morning you'll know, y'all know by now I need it.

I try to do my quiet time so it will

be between one and half hours to two hours. This

morning was one hour fifteen minutes because I was watching,

I was rushing, so that means I had to wake

up a five. It's okay, find a problem, so I

spend time with a lot. Quiet time, spend time with

the lot. And I tell you it is. It is

no joke when I tell you, the only reason why

I got the best of the thirty minutes when you

guys let me worship is because I was already worshiping

as soon as.

I woke up.

The first thing that came out of my mouth this

morning was good morning Jesus. And when I went to

wash my face, you know, I say, thank you, Holy Spirit,

there's water coming out on my tap because we think

it's so great for granted right that when there's no

more water, Yeah, and then you flash the flash not

working on that you can still see your stuff in

the toilet.

That all right?

You think everything for granted one. So I said, oh,

thank you that my flash works today and I walked

out and I went to open my You know, I

draw my curtains. You know, as a man of the house,

I will do that. I said, Lord, thank you that

there was no robber who came to my house last night.

I want to I want to just tell you this

before before I close. In Christianity, preparation is as, if

not more important. How may you know that when you

give you offeringness? Now, I don't know how much you gave,

right Maybe you gave ten ing gaits, Maybe you gave

fifty ring game, maybe you gave three hundred gait. Okay,

I don't know how much you gave, But you know

the mound is not as important as how you prepared

your heart. You know what I said, The Lord wants

to know how you prepare your heart. The reason why

I like to still give cash is because I keep

that cash aside. I opened my wallet, I think fifty

ring it out and I put it aside. I said, God,

this is yours. I will not touch it.

Do you know this? This whole concept of setting things aside?

You know why setting things aside is so important to

God is because it means that you thought about it before.

How many of you like to receive president, Oh, it

is your it's your birthday. You know, hold on that

you start, hold on, hold on. I think I got

something like a liness and you know, ex men, it

gave me to gave this to me.

And now I said no, because it's just after thought.

And how many of you would like to know that

Lioness thought about your birthday? And I prepared this a week.

Now I went to the topic of blacks got my money.

I went to each shop thinking what would Linus like?

What would Linus like? What you understand I prepared? Everyone

here likes if someone remembered and goes a little bit

more to prepare. Give to God, not just what you want,

but what he wants.

I why do I say this?

It's because the Bible said when fire came down, it

burned the sacrifice, It burned the wood. All all was wet.

You know, how do you burn wet wood? Because they

just pot water three times?

Right, how many times? Three times?

So, so the sacrifice was wet, the wood was wet,

and now the water flowed and filled up the trench

or the drain. Okay, you know what I like so

much about this is that God didn't leave the water

by yourself. I think you've heard me preach this before.

I'll preach it to you again because it's so important.

Do you know what the Bible says he licked up

the water? Did you see where that is found? Is

found in verse?

Uh?

Where's that?

Verse?

Verse thirty eight? You think then the fire of the

Lord fell and consumed the burn sacrifice, and the wood

and the stones and the dust that he licked up

the water. The fire came and licked up the water.

Wow in Chinese? Wow, so fong gore.

Water?

So you don't let go so here here here, what

the fire did? The fire of God came down? And

why why was the water suprecious? Because it was a

time of drought. It was a time of drought that

this happened. So buller easy, bull easy, bull easy. A

lot of Christians like the easy way of what you've

been gone?

Easy?

What easy?

Water?

Water precious commodity, more precious than goal.

You know what I think?

What I think When they found the water, it was

probably hard to find number one, number two.

It shouldn't be wasted.

Yeah, how many of you are if you're living in

some drought and your neighbors washing the car.

It would not be allowed.

In fact, in Australia they banded, he ain't call. Once

upon a time they did not allow it. No, because

there was drought for a few months. And so nobody

is allowed to wash their car. And said, and this

one holder water on the sacrifice. And I can imagine

the people are wait, wait, keep me some try throat,

dry throat, Hey Elijah, michiesener, ladies, are you crazy here?

Water harden buy money goes no water pol it on

horr in all the sacrifice. Give me a little bigin

of one drop, one dropper hor again, please, Elia, are

you crazy? Yeah?

We Christians, I tell you what when we follow God,

her look like crazy.

Sometimes third time, third time, poor again, Please Mosiah, don't

waste you know what.

Sometimes we give to God what we want to give.

We don't give to God what he wants.

Sometimes we are here right and we're saying God, I

give you a lot of money, and God says, no,

I don't want your money. I actually want you to

go home and say sorry to your mother because you

argue with her last night and you fought with her.

You say some very not nice things. Do you see

what he wants and what we want to different things? Here, God,

I give you because I got money. Here you go,

got three hundred kids, and God says, I don't want

your tree hundred gid. And when you go home and

say sorry, mom, you see do you see what he

wants and what we wanted to different things? And so

it was not the board, It was not the wood,

It was not the fire. It was the water, and

he licked it up. Do you want to hear how

satisfy God is Ah?

That is the picture of satisfaction. Have you ever heard

God say.

Over your life? I woke up this morning and in

my quiet time, and here God say, one day we

will start exk nothing him God willing, and God will say, Ah,

we live to satisfy God. Paul is found in First

Kings eighteen thirty six twenty seven. I won't read it further.

You know Elijah care of the Lord, he did all

this preparation. He says, now that I've done it all

according to your word, which which is the verse that

say at your word verse thirty six, you are God

in Israel, and I'm your servant. And then I have

done all these things at your word God, I call

upon you now. Hear me, God, I call upon you now.

If you really want to keep the fire burning, learn

to call on the Lord. The Bible says, if you call,

he will here. But understand that Caul is the fourth

see a Lord of people like to call first and

then have no answer because they don't realize that it

shouldn't be called first.

It should. We choose you this day, whom you will serve.

Take up the challenge that God is pull in your heart.

Consecrate yourself, set yourself apart for the Lord, and say, God,

I will make myself holy as you are holy. And

then Paul.

And then finally a cause, what's the cause? Verse thirty seven.

Hear me, Oh Lord, hear me that this people may

know that you are the Lord God, and that you

have turned their hearts back to you again. There must

be a cause in everything that we do for the Lord.

Somebody say, Amen, what is the cause? The last slight says,

they turn their hearts back to you again. Lord, in

the name of Jesus. You can close your eyes and

bow your heads for a moment. Lord is the name

of Jesus. I want to pray that as the fire

comes down from heaven into our hearts this morning. It

is not just for our own pleasure. It is not

just for our own spiritual you know shocks thegnity, you know,

self pleasure. I like the sound effects as happy as

I speaking. The fire is not for sure, The fire

is not to make me look more spiritual. But I'm

asking for the fire of God to come down upon

extra money today so that revival will come, so that Lord,

many others will turn their hearts back to you.

This should be the cause.

Lord, I pray that this will be our cause, that

when we live our lives on fire for Jesus, that

it will be because many many will see that fire,

many will taste that fire, Many will feel that fire.

Many will experience the same fire and turn their hearts

back to you.

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