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Preparation For The Journey Ahead | Jason Martin

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

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

  3. So we will be continuing on a series that we've

  4. been doing in church. It's called the Unpacking series, where

  5. we unpack what the vision of X church is. All right, so,

  6. how many of y'all brought your books? Hopefully you brought

  7. your books. If you if you have not received the book,

  8. you can raise your hand. You can get it as well.

  9. And so why is it important to uh go through

  10. this unpacking of the vision of X church?

  11. Okay, even as I was preparing.

  12. This this yesterday this morning and just reflecting, so you'll

  13. be thinking that, hey, this is the vision of X church.

  14. What does that have to do with me personally? And

  15. especially at the start of the year, what does that

  16. have to do with me personally? You know because usually

  17. start of the year, you if you when I check

  18. my YouTube play not playlist, YouTube feed, I think yesterday

  19. two days ago. Right, everything is about yes your twenty

  20. twenty six goals, about how you're going to achieve your goals,

  21. how to do well? You know, I think the algorithm

  22. just kicked in new place. And then you come to church,

  23. you also will be expecting that, Hey, what does God

  24. have in Stall for me? You know, even as a

  25. take on this year, what are his promises? And you

  26. know that going through this unpacking series directly has an

  27. impact on you as well personally, has an impact on

  28. you and me personally, especially if we call ACT Church

  29. our church, because the reason why we call ACT Church

  30. our church is we believe that God has brought us here.

  31. And when God has brought us here, it means that

  32. the words that are shared here, the vision that is

  33. shared here, has direct implications in our lives, not only

  34. in church, but also in our marketplace, in our families,

  35. in our homes. So we shouldn't compartmentalize whatever we learn

  36. in church and just say, Okay, the vision of the

  37. church is just for church, just important for Sunday. But

  38. actually the vision of the church is what God has

  39. in Stall for church corporately as well as us individually.

  40. So that's why it's very important because if you are here,

  41. if we believe that God has placed you here in

  42. this church, and we miss out on what God's promises

  43. or direction is for the church, and then we will

  44. miss it for our lives individually as well, and then

  45. it will be quite. It will be quite sad if

  46. we missed the boat. So that's why it's very important

  47. in terms of it. So that's just a bit of context.

  48. So when I realized that, I realized that, ay, there

  49. is so much more.

  50. That we can experience God in this year. Okay.

  51. So the first two sharings were done on early December.

  52. How many of y'all remember, you know, start of the year.

  53. Don't start with Liza. Okay. But okay, it's tough, okay,

  54. because the first two weeks of the December seems so

  55. long ago.

  56. You know.

  57. Then you had Christmas, you had New Year's so so

  58. many things going on. So I thought I would do

  59. just a brief refresher, So the unpacking the Vision of

  60. X Church.

  61. So this is the third session, okay, so next light.

  62. Okay, Actually there was another slide which I sent earlier,

  63. I mean after that as well. Uh now mine, let

  64. me let me read us through this, okay, So unpacking

  65. the Church the vision. First of all, we need to

  66. know what is the vision? Do you'll remember what is

  67. the vision? So the vision if you go into.

  68. Your book. Okay, so the book here is, let me

  69. see okay, page nine. Let's look at page nine.

  70. So the big vision of X Church is on page

  71. nine and it is there. Maybe somebody can just read

  72. it up if you see it, page nine.

  73. The big vision.

  74. Yep, So that is the big vision of actions. Okay,

  75. that's the big vision. So in for me to paraphrase

  76. it is that we want everyone to know God and

  77. to experience His glory.

  78. So Haber Cooke two fourteen.

  79. That's the big vision for the earth to be filled

  80. with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as

  81. the waters cover the sea.

  82. Okay. So that's the big vision.

  83. And then you know, after we have the big vision,

  84. we have the mission. So that's the vision, right, So

  85. next is the mission. So is the mission of AC church.

  86. You can turn to page thirteen. So this I think

  87. pasta Julian shared on this on the second week. So

  88. what is the mission of EXT Church? Anyone can read

  89. that out. It's in the orange box. Yeah, making disciples

  90. that make the difference. That is the mission. Okay, there

  91. is the mission of action. So the vision is Haber

  92. Cook two fourteen. And the mission is to make disciples. Okay,

  93. so even as we are that is the vision and

  94. the mission. So to unpack the vision, if you turn

  95. to page five.

  96. There were the.

  97. Seven piece, the seven piece at the top there, so

  98. it was prayer, passion, purpose, practice.

  99. Prepare, plan and power.

  100. Right, so those were the seven piece on how we

  101. are going to unpack the vision and the mission because

  102. the vision seems very very big. The vision that God

  103. has given the act Church, it seems very very big.

  104. And the vision that God has given to each of

  105. us individually seems very very big. That means to make

  106. God famous on earth. In a nutshell, that's the whole vision.

  107. So we need to unpack it because you know, when

  108. you go to work, right, how many of y'all have

  109. already started work this year?

  110. Y'all started ready? How many of y'all are starting tomorrow?

  111. Okay, so you start tomorrow right, you go into office

  112. and then you might be having a town hall or

  113. you might be having some management meeting anytime this month

  114. where they say that, hey, the vision of this year

  115. is to hit this number.

  116. And you look at the number.

  117. Every year the number gets bigger and bigger, right, the number,

  118. the big number is shed there and then the management

  119. says that, okay, this is the number. Now is how

  120. are we going to achieve that number? So to achieve

  121. that number, we need to unpack. We need to know, Okay,

  122. what do we need to achieve? First, second, third, and

  123. then slowly we will work towards reaching that big goal.

  124. Similar to this vision, the vision here is to make

  125. Jesus famous on all the earth. It seems like a

  126. very very big vision. How we're going to do it

  127. is through the mission, which is to make disciples, and

  128. then from there we need to then break it down further.

  129. Okay, So today we'll.

  130. Be touching on one of the piece, you know, the

  131. seven piece you're just now mentioned in page five Prayer, Passion, Purpose, Practice.

  132. So now we will be touching on prepare. Okay, prepare,

  133. so prepare. It is taken from Daniel, chapter two, and

  134. it is about a display of God's power.

  135. Okay, So can I go to the next slide. So

  136. for those of us.

  137. Who are probably familiar, Daniel was actually a prisoner of war.

  138. He was captured by the Baby Unions. He and his

  139. friends were captured by the baby Unions. And because they

  140. were one of the wisest and smartest people of the Jews,

  141. they were captured by the baby Unions and they were

  142. called to serve the king because they are very smart,

  143. they are strong, and they were also good looking. So

  144. they wanted the best of the Israelites to serve the Babyloons.

  145. So that is who Daniel was, and he became very.

  146. Wise that he served as one of the wise men

  147. to the king. But unfortunately, this king is very unreasonable. Okay,

  148. the Babylonian king is very unreasonable. How unreasonable was he?

  149. He had a dream and then he asked all his

  150. wise men, tell me what my dream is and tell

  151. me what it means.

  152. That is how.

  153. Unreasonable King Nebukeneza was. So can you imagine? Are you

  154. able to tell somebody what their dreams were? You know

  155. you can't. Sometimes you don't even remember your own dreams. Right,

  156. But now this king is saying, you tell me what

  157. my dream was first, and then you tell me what's

  158. the meaning. If not, all of you will be put

  159. to death. That's crazy. You think you want to hit

  160. your kpi? Very difficult? This kpi like it difficult if

  161. the KPI was one or zero. You either tell me

  162. my dream and what it means, or you die. There's

  163. no in between.

  164. Okay.

  165. So what did Daniel do? Daniel he decided to pray.

  166. He did what he did best, which was seek God. Okay,

  167. so this is something you can learn from Daniel. And

  168. when he seek, when he sought God, God actually revealed

  169. to him the dream. So it's written here in Daniel

  170. two twenty seven twenty eight. Daniel answered in the presence

  171. of the king and said, the secret which the king

  172. has demanded, the wise man, the astrologers, and the magicians

  173. and the zoothsayers cannot declare to the king.

  174. But there is a God.

  175. In heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known

  176. to King Nebukanessa what will be in the latter days.

  177. And then David revealed to King Nebukana his whole dream

  178. and what it actually meant. And because of that, King

  179. Nebukanesa worshiped God and say that, hey, everyone needs to

  180. worship this God, because only this God revealed the true.

  181. Meaning of my dream. So what is important here is

  182. in Daniel right the word.

  183. The key word which Daniel spoke to the king is

  184. he spoke the word of God. He spoke the words

  185. that God gave him.

  186. Not fear, not doubt, not worry.

  187. But he thought God God gave him the right words

  188. to speak, and he spoke it. So in other words,

  189. Daniel prophesie. So that is what you call as prophecy.

  190. Daniel prophesied, you know, and prophesying.

  191. Is basically speaking what God has said out loud. Okay,

  192. So next.

  193. Line, Daniel had to tell what the dream was, and

  194. then the interpretation of the dream, which was impossible for

  195. men but only possible for God the supernatural. So even

  196. as Daniel prophesied, God was glorified right, and of course

  197. all the other wise men who even did not other

  198. wise men as well, you know, all the other wise

  199. men also would be put to death if the dream

  200. was not revealed. But because of Daniel, because he thought God,

  201. God gave him the right words to say, and Daniel prophesied,

  202. there was a miraculous deliverance. All of them didn't have

  203. to die, but instead Daniel was even given more favor

  204. from men as well. So when we prophesy, there will

  205. be next line, there will be a supernatural move of God.

  206. There will be miracles that will take place.

  207. There will be the.

  208. Spirit of God moving like never before, and the gift

  209. of the Spirit will manifest and come to pass. So

  210. how does this again, the word prophesy right was actually

  211. the team in ext Church in twenty twenty one. If

  212. y'all were around at that time, it was actually the

  213. team in ex Church in twenty twenty one. But it

  214. does not mean that now in twenty twenty six. This

  215. is not relevant because every year when we have a

  216. team in church, we.

  217. Grow more and more.

  218. That means, right, we learn it and then we apply

  219. it for the years to come. So when we learn

  220. this in twenty twenty one, this prophesy. And when we prophesy,

  221. we see God's supernatural work in us. We see the

  222. miracles of God, we see the Spirit of God moving,

  223. and we see the gift of the Spirit manifest and

  224. come the past. This can happen in your life as well,

  225. not only in church, because in the natural right when

  226. it is all of us are prophesying. Do you believe

  227. that all of us are prophesying? It depends what you're prophesying.

  228. You're either prophesying God's goodness or you're prophesying death. You know,

  229. like for example, you get was this, Wow, the price

  230. of things are going up? Dala, that's prophesying as well.

  231. You know, I guess this traffic jamma is going to

  232. be really bad tomorrow Monday. It's going to be really

  233. just now. I just came into chest as I saw

  234. somebody holding her bag. I hate Mondays. I'm like, why

  235. are you prophesy? It's Sunday? You know you it's Sunday.

  236. It's a great day, but you're carrying a back. I

  237. hate Monday. You're like, you already foresee what is going

  238. to happen. And you know right that there is a

  239. saying whether you can or you can't, you are right.

  240. Whether you think you can or you think you can't,

  241. you are right because what you prophesy, well then dictate

  242. whether the direction that you're moving in. So it's very

  243. important all of us are prophesying. It's just what are

  244. we prophesying? And that's why the vision of ext church,

  245. then God has given to us one of it.

  246. When we prepare.

  247. To execute the vision and also the mission, we need

  248. to prophesy and speak life, not only here in church,

  249. but in your families, in your marketplace, in sickness and

  250. in health, in all circumstances. And when we prophesy God's promises,

  251. this is what happens.

  252. The supernatural will move, you know, right when.

  253. We prophesize prophesied death means we are prophesying unbelief. You know,

  254. when we prophesy unbelief, it means there is no faith.

  255. When there is no faith, God will not move. So

  256. when we prophesy is we are speaking it into life.

  257. And this is not wishful thinking. You know.

  258. Sometimes you have the one where you I've got what's

  259. the word you have to Yeah, it is the power

  260. of positive thinking. You know, you call it into existence. Yeah,

  261. you manifest are the word manifest? You manifested. You want

  262. to be rich, you manifested you.

  263. You you have your vision board, you have your all.

  264. This is not wrong, you know, but it needs to

  265. be based on the word of God. You know, what

  266. are God's promises? What is God's direction for you? You know,

  267. if we are going through difficult situations, different challenges, what

  268. is God's word?

  269. And then you take that and you prophesy.

  270. And you say, God, you said that all things are

  271. possible to Christ, who strengthens me. I can do all

  272. things through Christ who strengthens me. That's what I'm going

  273. to prophesy on my Monday. On my Monday, I'm going

  274. to say I am more than a conqueror, you know,

  275. over my finances I'm going to prophesy God, you will

  276. supply all my needs according to your richest in glory.

  277. When you prophesy that you are speaking fourth life and

  278. you are saying, God, I need you to move and

  279. only then God will be pleased and faith will arise

  280. in you, and then there will be a breakthrough. So

  281. how this is If we get this right in the

  282. first week of the year, we speak fourth life starting

  283. from the start of the year.

  284. How powerful is that?

  285. Because this is the type of thing that we need

  286. to learn when things are good. Because when things go bad,

  287. you can recall this. You know, when you go for

  288. an exam, right, you don't study during the exam. You

  289. study before the exam, so when the exam comes, you

  290. are able to excel in the exam. Same thing goes

  291. for this. When we learn about this thing about prophesying.

  292. We should learn this at the start because we know

  293. that the year is going to go up, down, left, right, everywhere.

  294. But God's promises are yes and email right. So when

  295. we prophesy, Okay, next line, Daniel opened his mouth and

  296. became a vessel, a mouthpiece of God to speak the

  297. words of God. Use our mouth to become a mouthpiece

  298. of God. Where do you need to be a mouthpiece

  299. of God? Do you need to be a mouthpiece of

  300. God in church? You need to be a mouthpiece of

  301. God where God's presence needs to be invited into, which

  302. is outside of church. Daniel prophesied Daniel.

  303. Who was Daniel?

  304. He's a prisoner of war and that and he was

  305. prophesying life in the prison in while he was a prisoner,

  306. and he spoke the words of God. And even through

  307. the worst circumstances, God was still favoring him. So wherever

  308. God has placed you, wherever you are right now. That's

  309. why I say, take Monday, you know, take Monday, Take tomorrow.

  310. I also told myself that, hey, Monday is going to

  311. be a good day. Monday should be our favorite day. Wow,

  312. you know, can we can we be that kind of radical?

  313. You know everyone because Friday is everyone's favorite day.

  314. Okay, But if we really want to be radical, and

  315. you say that, hey, all of us are how many

  316. of us are serving in church full time?

  317. None? Right here? None? All of us.

  318. All of us have jobs in the marketplace or your homemakers.

  319. None of us are serving in the church full time.

  320. So it means God has placed us in wherever we

  321. need to be, and the mission that He has given

  322. us starts on a Monday. If we say we hate Monday,

  323. were like, man, you like? That means we are poised

  324. for failure instead of success.

  325. So instead we should say, wow, Monday, bring it on.

  326. That's radical, but it requires a shift, and the shift

  327. comes from prophesying. So find a few verses in the

  328. Bible that says that speaks forth life into our spirit,

  329. you know, and say that God, you have a plan

  330. and purpose for me, and your plans and purposes are good.

  331. Declare that take one or two promises of God. When

  332. you're driving to work and you're stuck in the gym,

  333. I think I'm going to do that. Take a few

  334. verses and just con youre declare that speak fourth life.

  335. So when when you go into your workplace, you are ready.

  336. You are ready to do what to become the mouth

  337. peace of God and to speak the words of God,

  338. and then there will be supernatural, miraculous moving in your

  339. marketplace or wherever your schools, wherever it is. So I

  340. think I will I wanted to teach this to my

  341. kids as well, because my kids have been on a

  342. holiday for so long and then you're.

  343. Like, oh, Monday back to school.

  344. But then I'm like, if we can teach our kids there,

  345. They're like, hey, Monday back to school means you're back

  346. on mission. You know you have a purpose and you're

  347. going there to achieve God's purposes for you, and you

  348. speak for life. Wow, then you will forward to every Monday. Right, Okay,

  349. next light, So the theme prophecy was downloaded from the Lord,

  350. and all of us must learn and speak. Be ready

  351. to speak the word of God in its right and

  352. proper time. This is key, right and proper time. But

  353. if we do not know the word of God, we can't.

  354. So we have to.

  355. That's why I continuously read the Word of God claim

  356. his promises. And then when we are going through different

  357. trials and tribulations, challenges, we can speak it. Okay, what

  358. kind of words? Words of life, words of blessing, words

  359. of encouragement, words of peace, words of way, healing, deliverance, breakthrough, prophecy, discernment,

  360. knowledge and wisdom. Why do you need all these kind

  361. of what kind of words? Because the offices opposite of

  362. this is what you know. Maybe you're having lunch with

  363. your colleagues, there will be words of death. There might

  364. be words of curse speaking bad about other people. There

  365. might be words of discouragement you didn't do a good job.

  366. There might be.

  367. Words of hatred in a war, you know, instead of peace,

  368. there might be words of sickness, bad reports that there

  369. would be words of instead of breakthrough, words that will

  370. break cause us to be chained down. And sometimes and

  371. all the time, we need knowledge and wisdom. So especially

  372. when we are going through tough times, we need knowledge

  373. and wisdom. When there is lack of knowledge and lack

  374. of wisdom, what do we need to do? We need

  375. to prophesy. So anytime there's a lack of peace, there's

  376. a lack of joy, lack of knowledge, lack of discernment,

  377. lack of faith, what do we do? We don't affirm it.

  378. We prophesy instead God's promises. Okay, and then God will

  379. show off his power. But will it begins with us

  380. speaking it? For can you imagine this if if your

  381. kids spoke like this? Wow, I mean as a parenter,

  382. you know, like right now, we were.

  383. Our kids.

  384. So we're trying to trying to win them off some

  385. of the screen time stuff like that, you know, some

  386. of the shows and because we feel that not very good.

  387. But then they are speaking for uh.

  388. Death, It's like I'm going to die. It's so boring.

  389. I can't do anything, you know, and stuff like that

  390. because they're going through different for them, this is the biggest.

  391. Challenge that they have right now in their life, you know.

  392. But then, for example, if they we told them that, hey,

  393. we're doing this, it's for your own good. You know,

  394. all of us have heard that from our parents, Like

  395. what do you mean for own good? We don't really

  396. understand it. Okay, But if we understand that, hey, our

  397. parents mean one the best for us, you know. And

  398. and then you say, God, mom and dad, I don't understand,

  399. but I believe that you have the best in store

  400. for me. I believe you want what is good for

  401. me any man. My kid tells me that I give

  402. him everything. Really what more God? You know, because they

  403. are view.

  404. It's the same. Do we view God as God?

  405. I believe that you are good, and I believe you

  406. have the best in store for me. I may not understand,

  407. but I will prophesy your goodness.

  408. When you do that.

  409. Wow, God will move mightily because it is who we

  410. view God as.

  411. Okay, next.

  412. So God is calling us to prepare. It's not our

  413. responsibility to bring the rain. It is our responsibility to

  414. bring the umbrella. So we can't bring the rain, right.

  415. But the Malay saying is what Sadia Khan bayomblum Hujan.

  416. You know, you get your umbrella ready before it rains.

  417. But when it rains and we are not, we do

  418. not have an umbrella. What happens We get wet. So

  419. we need to always right now is the time to prepare.

  420. If twenty twenty six the team is supposed to be

  421. a revival, we are supposed to prepare because when revival happens,

  422. when it rains, it palls, and if we are not ready,

  423. we will be soaked, you know. But we have to

  424. be prepared. So God is telling us not to worry

  425. about the numbers. Numbers here being the number of people

  426. in church, or even in your workplace, even in your marketplace,

  427. even at your home, but be concerned and focused on

  428. doing our part.

  429. Don't worry about God doing his part.

  430. We need to do our part, and our part is

  431. to speak fourth life. And in order to speak forth life,

  432. we need to know God. We need to read his word.

  433. We need to draw closer to him. Okay, So next,

  434. so preparation for the journey ahead? What will we need

  435. for the journey ahead? We need the five seas? Okay,

  436. so the five seas. The first sea is conviction, next life.

  437. So the first c is conviction. If we don't believe,

  438. how will we even begin?

  439. Okay?

  440. So what does this mean? How many believe that eating

  441. healthy is good?

  442. How many belief? How many are convicted?

  443. You know, all of us believe, all of us believe,

  444. but convicted, right, you know, conviction the word here conviction

  445. is a deeper meaning. So the first line is if

  446. we don't believe, how will we even begin?

  447. Okay?

  448. You know when a lot so right now at our

  449. current stage, right, all of our friends are like forties

  450. and stuff like that, right, all of us suddenly going

  451. for medical checkup and then medical checkup, you know, and

  452. and then suddenly I see a lot of my friends

  453. suddenly getting very healthy, suddenly into workout, eating healthy.

  454. Yeah, like, why what happened? Medical report?

  455. So before medical report, you don't believe, it's important, say

  456. I believe, but not strong enough. There is no motivation

  457. strong enough. But the medical report, the doctors said, if

  458. you do not change your lifestyle, you cannot see your grandkids.

  459. You know, some of them they said, if you do

  460. not change your lifestyle, you cannot see your grandkids. That

  461. suddenly gave them a conviction. They're like, wow, I am

  462. convicted in my heart of I believe that I need

  463. to change my lifestyle.

  464. And then right from.

  465. Living an unhealthy life, right suddenly they are super healthy,

  466. super fit because they have conviction and it needs to

  467. be internalized. We look for external motivations, but you know,

  468. external motivations come and go, but if it's internal, that

  469. is the thing that keeps us going. So it starts

  470. with believing, and our motto is helping people believe. Hence

  471. we need to catch this vision. So vision can't be thought,

  472. it must be caught. So our vision again for experts,

  473. is to make Jesus famous. Why because we believe that

  474. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. There's

  475. no way to the Father except through him. And if

  476. we believe that, are we convicted, then we will make

  477. that vision happen.

  478. You know.

  479. So conviction is very important. It is more than hate.

  480. Knowledge is more than hate knowledge. The second part is condition. Next,

  481. so conditions is centralized. So this is from Judges twenty one,

  482. verse twenty five. In those days, there were no king

  483. in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

  484. So if we have a conviction, then we need to

  485. move together, you know, centralized. So in Judges right, in

  486. Israel there was no king. Everyone did what was right

  487. in his own eyes. So everyone has its own interpretation.

  488. This is my version of truth. This is my truth.

  489. You know, it's quite funny. There is no more the

  490. truth anymore. This is my truth. That is your truth.

  491. That's how people are speaking nowadays. But we need to

  492. centralize it. Okay, thanks, So a church, family or organization

  493. cannot move forward if we are not united, if we

  494. don't see the same things, if we don't believe the

  495. same things, if we don't catch the same things. It's

  496. important to centralize and set the conditions of how things

  497. should be done so that we are all clear and

  498. understand the same thing, not to be left to everyone's

  499. understanding of what is right in their own eyes. So

  500. why we're doing this is just to get hey, everyone,

  501. this is a common understanding, same as a company. Once

  502. the goal is clear and we get everyone, hey guys,

  503. this is what we are all committed to we all agree,

  504. then it is very easy to move forward.

  505. Okay, next cooperation.

  506. So the third one is commitment. So centralized is when okay,

  507. the information is passed down, everyone gets a common understanding,

  508. everyone agreed. Then we need to cooperate. So conviction comes

  509. from the Lord. Again, conviction comes from God. I cannot force.

  510. Nobody can force, you know, convictions come from God. Condition

  511. and centralizing come from the leaders. So that's why the

  512. management will pass the information down and say that hey,

  513. this is the standardized this is what we agree upon

  514. and stuff. However, even if there are convictions and conditions,

  515. if there is no co operation and commitment from everyone,

  516. we have nothing.

  517. This is where all of us come into play. We

  518. need to cooperate.

  519. Right.

  520. It's the same.

  521. As a unit in the army. If you watched war movies,

  522. you know a unit in an army. You have the

  523. medic you have the communications experts, you have the sniper,

  524. you have the infantry. Each of them has their role

  525. to play. If one does not play the role, the

  526. squad or that unit will die. In the same way,

  527. all of us has our part to play, and we

  528. need to cooperate to make this happen.

  529. So a vision is nothing without provision.

  530. God always provides by providing the people, and His plan

  531. has always been you and me.

  532. So that's why all of us and in being here,

  533. we catching the vision.

  534. And by prophesizing, we are enhancing the talents that God

  535. has given to us. God has given all of us talents,

  536. and we need to enhance that talents and use it

  537. for His glory. And that's how.

  538. The whole earth will be full of the knowledge of God.

  539. Okay, next, community, So God does not want us to

  540. move forward alone or we work in isolation. So for example,

  541. the example giving here is losing weight together with others.

  542. You know, if you do it together, right, it's easier. Right,

  543. You're going to work out together, you go and play together,

  544. eat together.

  545. You know.

  546. You know, there's this thing called trauma bonding.

  547. Have you heard of trauma bonding?

  548. When you're going through tough times together, it's easier also,

  549. and you draw people closer because of a shared experience,

  550. a shared vision, a shat goal.

  551. So don't do it alone.

  552. So that's why here in Exclaim we are a community,

  553. and we are part of a bigger community with is

  554. ex Chra. So sometimes when you are going through tough times, Hey,

  555. leverage on community.

  556. And when you are going through a good time or

  557. you are.

  558. Riding high on God's promises, then you can help those

  559. who are in need as well. And that's how a

  560. community and community everyone in that community.

  561. Like all ships rise with the tide.

  562. Have you heard that saying? So when the tide rises,

  563. all the ships rise. Same as a community. If a community,

  564. the whole community builds together, everyone in that community grows.

  565. So community equals support and we need each other, I

  566. need you and you need. A community that truly cares

  567. is a community that.

  568. Is truly safe.

  569. So a big part of community is communication. And let's

  570. get better at this, okay. So, and the motivation of

  571. community is love.

  572. Next.

  573. Yeah, the motivation of community is love. So you do

  574. all these things not for selfish ambition. But if you

  575. do this for everyone's benefit, if everyone gives, everyone gets.

  576. You've heard this right.

  577. But if everyone gets nobody and nobody gives, then it's

  578. it's not a community.

  579. Okay.

  580. Next, So the five things we can learn about love

  581. is love looks, listens, lens, leads, and leaves. So leaves,

  582. meaning that what's your legacy worth following?

  583. Okay, so and moving on so it's easier.

  584. Have you experienced the next line? Have you experienced this

  585. kind of love before?

  586. So this is something we.

  587. Aspire to as extra to build a community that builds each.

  588. Other up, and it is built with love.

  589. Right, we have the best intentions for everyone and because

  590. God loved, so the commandments is to love God and

  591. love people. So that's what our community is based on.

  592. Right. And the final see is next.

  593. So college or training, because it's written in five seats,

  594. so that's why you put their college.

  595. So it is to equip each of us.

  596. So we have a vision, we have a mission, but

  597. we need to equip each other, equip one another as well,

  598. so those who know can teach and then those who

  599. teach can do. Okay, So make disciples, produce leaders, raise

  600. and release daniels into the marketplace. So that's very important.

  601. We need to raise and release daniels into the marketplace

  602. because that's where.

  603. We make God famous. Okay.

  604. So next, so this is so even as I draw

  605. to us the end, right, it's the ingredients of discipleship.

  606. So what do we make? How do we make disciples?

  607. So there's three So the first one is next, follow me,

  608. so follow me. It's not about following a program, but

  609. it's about people following people. So we're not following following ideas.

  610. If we don't practice what we preach, we can't ask

  611. people to follow us. So we only can't ask people

  612. follow us if we are following God. Right, so we

  613. know how to do something because we have seen others

  614. do it, for example, how they worship, lead, how they chair,

  615. and then then we can then ask people to like, hey,

  616. follow me even as I follow Christ.

  617. Next one is feed my sheep. So feed my sheep is.

  618. We need to continuously, even as Jesus told Peter, feed

  619. my sheep, So that is we need to tell, preach

  620. the word, equip people with the promises of God so

  621. that they know that they will continue to grow. Why

  622. do you feed somebody? You feed somebody so that they grow? Okay,

  623. And the final one is fishes of men. So once

  624. we feed someone, that person can in turn in turn

  625. become fishes of men and lead others as well. So

  626. let's not get spiritually fat and only be on the

  627. receiving end. But let's exercise our faith by giving true

  628. making disciples.

  629. Right, so probably can go to the second last light.

  630. So in summarya right, it's like this, how do we

  631. disciple or how do we do discipleship? You educate first

  632. of all, I do you watch? Then you equip, I

  633. do you help? Third one you do I help? And

  634. the last one is you do I watch? We do

  635. this with our kids as well. First of all, I

  636. do you watch? For example, you wash the car with them?

  637. I do?

  638. First you watch, then you tell, okay, I do you help?

  639. You know they'll be like, okay, you spray the water.

  640. Next is okay, you go and do it. I will

  641. come and help you. And finally, if you do it successfully,

  642. you'll get your kid washing your car for you. But

  643. I mean that's just an example. But that's how it

  644. is that we raise other people up so that you

  645. get to learn more and you're able to grow and

  646. do more as well. Okay, So the last slide is this,

  647. so do plass teach? Don't just teach, and don't do

  648. practice what we preach. We need to practice what we preach,

  649. all right, So it's very easy that you just tell

  650. people what to do just teach, but we ourselves don't

  651. do it. You know, have you gone to a gym before?

  652. And then you want to hire a PT. And then

  653. you look at the PT like, are you sure you're

  654. a PT? Of course you don't. You don't practice what

  655. you preach because he doesn't look like super fit. You

  656. know you won't hire that PT, right, you want to

  657. hire somebody who like, wow, you look like super fit. Okay,

  658. I think I will spend my money and hire you

  659. because you know what you're talking about out because I

  660. can see the results.

  661. And that's the same way that we have to do it.

  662. When we teach. We have to make sure that we

  663. are doing.

  664. We practice what we preach. Okay, but it's an investment.

  665. It's ten percent of our time and talent. So even

  666. as we draw towards the close, I get the band up.

  667. So this morning, I think the main thing that we

  668. have to take away from from this is that we

  669. have to prophesy. We have the prophesy and of course

  670. the five seas, which is it starts.

  671. With commitment.

  672. And then we go into the different conditions that's required.

  673. We need to cooperate with each other, and we do

  674. it in a community and finally college which we train.

  675. We continuously improve by training and learning, and that's how

  676. God's vision for the church God's vision for you and

  677. me can come to pass right. So this morning, even

  678. if I invite us to stand.

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

  680. information on our church, please visit as church org. We

  681. are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

  682. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  683. for you. God bless