Beyond the Upper Room | Eld. Kien Yak

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The title of my message is beyond the Upper Room.

Thank you, check TBT, thank you Jesus. I just have

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but beyond the Upper Room only because I do think

that you know, as a believer, as Christian, we are called,

you know, to live beyond the four walls of the Church. Amen,

You're called to live beyond what we could even think

or imagine during the CNY. You know, as you talk

to different people, you also realize how far you have grown,

which means this is how far we have grown in

the Lord. Because sometimes you know, when you talk to

different ones and all they could just assume me was

just problems after problems, or situation after situation. It's almost

like there is no room or there is no exit exit,

there's no sunlight at the end, there is no light

at the end of the tunnel. But as believers, I

do believe that we have a way out, and we

have a solution.

We have you know, away of escape.

So it really got me this place just to think

about as believers, how much God has deposited within us,

the ability to see beyond just the four walls of

a church, beyond the four walls of the room, in

your life, in your journey, as well as you grow right,

there is no such as the date end. If you

are a believerd someone say, amen, Really, there is no

date end.

As a believer.

You know in everything, friends, there is a way out,

there is hope, there is salvation right Actcepter one, Verse

four starts off with this, I'm going away from four

to I think verse eight, Verse four starts off with this.

And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not

to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise

of the Father, which he said, you have heard from me.

For don't truly baptized with water, But you shall baptize

with the Holy Spirit, not for many, not many days

from now. Therefore, when they have come together, they ask him, saying, Lord,

will you at this time restore the Kingdom of Israel?

And he said to them, it is not for you

to know the times or odd season, which the Father

has put in his own authority. But you shall receive

power when you when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You

should be my witness to me in Jerusalem, in all

Judea years and Maria, and to the ends of the earth.

Amen.

So I do believe that all of us here are

called to live beyond the boundaries of what we could

take off. The disciples was really focused on seeing the

Kingdom of Israel, the physical kingdom of visual being restored.

And however, you know, sometimes you know, once you are fashioned,

once we are caught up in the way we think

is all we could think of in this room, in

this way, in this is my life, this is my

something could have happened to us, all right, And because

something could have happened to us, it imprinted somebody within us.

This is all I deserve in my life.

But the Bible here says, and because the Holy Strait

is reminding the Apaustus that you are supposed to be

caught to the ends of the earth, you're supposed to

be caught to live beyond Jerusalem. I think many of

us sometimes you're just so stuck with Jerusalem. Really not

physically they're so stuck with our ways, So start with

our thoughts and how we see life. You know this

this Chinese year I was, I had a reunion with

my my brother, came back from Singapore, sitting down with him,

and you know, and family and stuff, you know, every

CN why I'm not sure. Growing up, as has always

been as a child, we've been asked like, so, how

do you.

Do in your exams? Right? Right? You have a report

time at the.

School and give up report cuts right sometimes CMI also.

Is a report cut time was as well.

Comparison between siblings and also cousins and stuff, how many

age you will get and what position you are in

your form, in your class and stuff like that. And

after a while I decided, no, I was just too

lazy to be caught up in the red race. I

decided not to do very well in the classes. So

they start asking me not not not not the good

testimony back there growing up, but they start asking me,

it's only my brother who.

Was it's still in the race.

Night A one seven A ones and stuff like that,

And then like, okay, so that one one person in

the family championing that that cause the other person just

decided to focus on eating.

But sometimes you can get so caught up.

This is the way to live our life, right, But

God wants to remind us this morning, no matter what

we have been through in our growing up years, that

we are called to live beyond Jerusalem. We are created

by God for a bigger purpose and calling. Although you

have heard this before, and you maybe you've been pushed

to before, every reminded before. Really I want to want

to encourage you. We are called for a bigger purpose

and calling in our life. I truly believe everyone of

us here we are so uniquely, so uniquely imprinted by

God that none of us here are the same. And

therefore we must understand and know that you and I

do have a purpose here on earth. Besides you know,

doing our daily grind, getting married, having kids, going to work,

getting a degree, all those it's what we are called

to do. But beyond that, there is a calling that

only you and I could fulfill. That's why God has

given us life and life more abundantly.

You and I need to be reminded.

Even this Chinese seria right when you go and you

re see your relative go like, is this all to life?

Really? Is this all to life.

You know, the only reason why my brother coming from Singapore,

besides seeing my dad is to play fire crackers. To

play fire crackers, right, I've never seen somebody is so

excited now, different than when you're growing up. But you

got no money, right, so you just quick whatever fire

creakers you could fight, you know what I mean, the

pop up one and stuff like that. Now when you

start making good currency money coming from Singapore over here, right,

the fire crakers has decided to expand bigger. Right. I

saw from the videos it was it was one of

those like yo, you should up in the sky and

just have a lot bag and stuff like Now it's

really like what what Disney closing ceremonies like that. A

friend of mine who's working in Singapore also came back

and all I could see from all their videos is

fire crackers, right, and the fire works amazing?

Right, what money could do?

But friends, I think, honestly speaking, it's beyond the fire crackers.

Is beyond the fireworks, right, And it really reminds us

that you know, during this Chinese seriy, right as you

meet a relative, right as you talked to them, you

you caught up with their news and catch up with

their life and stuff like that that we could impart encouragement. Really,

your presence is also an encouragement to some of them, right,

your spouss and courage you. So therefore we are called

for a bigger purpose, not just to finish, to help

people finish. They are choices to your cookies. I went

to a house and you'll really like come eat and

eat like one cookie, punk cracker cookie, cookie, cookie chocolates.

So when the right ice cream to my wife, that's

that's large, that's breakfast, large, a dinner. But first we've

been entrusted by God to be his witness, so over

almost over every meal, I want to ask, so how

how have you been? Not the better, just really ask

how people, how have you been? Because really true the

whole year, right, people will go through their journey, their journey,

their journey that lies ups and downs, their challenges, you know,

and we go to such pace of life whereby to

stop for a while to ask people.

It's hard.

We're all wired to do things on friends and sometimes

my text messages is it's.

Like have you done this? Have you done that? Right?

Very seldom I don't have to ask you whether you

eat or not because automatically, if you're hungry, you're going

to eat right.

You don't have to.

Tell me what you eat for lunch because I don't

need to know, because I wasn't in the lunch meeting.

Because if I know that, I'll be blessed we as well, hallelujah.

So therefore, first you'll be entrusted by God to be

a sweetness, to carry his presence. I want you to

imagine that, friends, if you are caught by God right

for every occasion into a meeting room, into a bodroom.

Friends.

So therefore, we are not just there to represent ourselves.

You understand that we're not there in the reunion line

to represents ourselves. You're not there, you know, brought me

thing to represent ourselves. We also represent God in the picture.

Really God in a moment, all right. I remember one time,

you know, I was driving. I was driving and someone

actually couldn't stop his car and crash into me. It's

like nothing much really like the bumper just cast a

couple of scratches and stuff like that, right, And I

know that some people really so I'm not here to

tell you what to do what not to do, but

this was my response.

I look at her. She was she panicked.

She I'm so sorry, you know, I crashed your car,

and you know, stuff like that. And I think she

was panic because she thought she has to pay a

lot of money, right, I know people do it once

scratches actually repined the whole doll.

I understand that I've been there before.

I can before the same time I scratch, pin back

the whole doll, okay, and stuff like So. I remember that,

you know that at the very point in time you

have a choice, like what's your response is gonna be?

Are you gonna need pick? Are you going to like

one scratch one one? One? Thing?

Right? I remember looking at.

Her, I said say, I say, miss, don't worry about it.

It's just a very very small, like one or two

lines to need. It's okay, you know, a couple of polish,

it will be fine. Of all the cards a bit

older already. So that's me all right. Then, I remember that,

you know when I got in when I actually crashed

into someone else, right, very something, but once about you

do one crashing someone else? I were like, lord, you

know I've extended this favor to someone else, though, would

you I extended this grace to someone else. I extended

this mercy to someone else. Lord, I would like to

experience one. Does he like to receive mercy as well?

You know, how do we understand? I'm trying to say, right,

and I did? Okay, the I show you I crashed

it into a murk. Okay, one of two scratches, same

one or two scratches, Okay, the bumper still in place,

halle Ah praist. Everything was okay. It's just that he

could if he wanted to. If you do not understand,

you could if you wanted to, because it's your weaker

nothing like God. Please, I love to receive that, and

I did, and I did. I did receive that. And

I do believe, friends, that when we've been trusted by

God to represent God in that meeting room. Friends, how

many of you know that you're not the only Christians

out there? You're not the only believer in the world

out there. When you're at someone else mercy, right, and

the mercy is given to you when you receive it.

When you receive it, friends, you recognize that you've been

entrusted by God to extend the mercy to someone else,

just like you extended the mercy to someone else. So

therefore it's all starts with the promise. Friends, The Bible says,

it all starts with the promise. It's all stuff with

God's promise, God's whisper to Moses and the bush. I

want you to that, because many times in our journey, friends,

we Forgod. We can forget. We can forget, we can

we don't remember because of different things that God always

starts with a whisper.

Calling out your name.

God always starts with a notch in your heart to

bring to remembrance. God always used circumstances.

Movies, right song, the news to bring to remembrance his word,

his promise.

I want to let you know, friends, you can't run

away from God.

You can't. Actually you can't.

I only heard the story that someone just told God, God,

please leave me alone. And God did, and and and

and this creature just said that he really died and

miserable death because at his death, bait, he will just

croyd to God. I said, what's happening to me? Could

you imagine the whole existence of your life? You just

told the Lord leave me alone. The Bible says, you

cannot run away from his presence. So the metal way

you are with your journey, or what what choices you

have made right, or what choices that other people made

about you, That doesn't change his call upon your life,

his word for you. Moses, friends, ran away from Egypt.

I mean, come on, you educated the best of university.

You know, you know, But because he couldn't control his

temper that very moment. One incident, friends, you know me,

you know that one incident something that could really change

your life. That one incident, friends, just you lost it.

You lost it. Keep someone Moses killed. Someone ran away

to the back of the desert tending sheeps whereby last

time he had people attending the ships. Now he has

to do the job. And the burning bush God remembered Moses.

So what let you friends? It's all stuff with the promise.

Some will may think that, you know, I'm so bad,

I'm not good enough that I will have any promise

of God. There's no specific promise. Every Bible verse is

a promise, It's true. But I want to let you

know that also that God knows you by name. So therefore, first,

what what inspires me may not inspires you, But what

inspires you may not inspires me. What gods how God

speaks to me will be very different how God speaks

to you. I mean, not everyone reading the Bible had

the burning bush experience, because if it is, we'll be.

Looking at every bush, this bush burning? Is this bush burning?

Is it right?

No, don't have friends, So therefore, friends, I do believe

that all of us here have God's promise. So every

promise requires waiting. Come on, every promise requires waiting. We

just don't like waiting, my friends. A time prayer for

the promise to come to pass, is it true? A

time period for the promise to come to pass? As

human being, waiting, it's not our strongest strength. I think

back in those days before the technology, we think, what's

our strongest strength? You wait for a bus? Okay, this

was before person, before all, this was s j busses.

If you're living, you understand, okay, Sejia busses, buss mini,

I name, what is that?

You say?

This? The buss Mini, Sjia busses and stuff like that. Right,

So we were very accustomed to waiting for busses.

We know that the bus will come on.

Friends, whether or not the buss that will come and

pick you out space for you to squeeze it. It's

a separate story altogether. I've actually before if you're back

in those times, it's your buss number. The bus is empty, however,

bus where we decide not to stop just bypass you.

And I've known people friends who wait for the next

one to come. Very seldom say oh the bus messed

me read we decided to walk home.

Very seldom.

One friends, as everyone who's in the bus, stage bus stop,

we'll all wait for the bus rain or shine. Every's

raining is even worse because the seat that they desire

you cannot see one friends, everyone way standing on the

seat because the water that's from the road will overflow

to the bus stop and there will be cramming every

way way kramming inside could imagine the body order in there.

But every promise to cryst waiting, just like live friends.

Sometimes you wait. So on Thursday, chay some south of

your celebrating. I went to JBG to sort or something

or I paid a summer long time ago, but it

was still outstanding on my GBGP. So I just thought,

no Thursday month, nobody would be around but low and

behold when they eleveled something. I'm so sorry, sir, you're

the number for to pay the summer or finish read.

I want to shream the the peper article. I thought

you see that.

These people say there's no such as a finish number,

but anyway to come back at two o'clock. So I

came back one forty five, and they had this very

rare system, very very rare system. You're supposed to scan

the QR code for the q number, right, just supposed

to scan. All of us was frantically out of the

hot sun scanning the QR code.

Right.

But friends, they turn off the system. So every time

you scan it, you just pop up there. I'm so sorry,

the number is finish red right, come back in another day,

but we know that the counter's gonna be open at

two o'clock. By two clock, I'm sure. So almost a

frantically scanning scanny. You want to be number one, Want

to be number one? Want to be number one because

you want to wait? There we craze waiting, friends, It

really we promise you crie waiting and also a time

for the to be dependent on the promise, to fulfill

the promise. This is one of the hardest things, no, friends,

because I think in our life and your journey of

upbringing right. A lot of things have been promised to

you but now will come to pass by someone you trusted,

someone you've known close to you, someone is not close

to you promise you something that you go like, okay.

This is why.

Like, for example, someone not close we say one day

we catch up. Okay, oh coffee. After fifteen years you

catch up. Those are not very close that you understand.

But those who are close to you when you say

catch up. And I know people now church really take

those statements very seriously. One how do you see see

ketch up? But after two years never catch up with me?

One still waiting. It's really dependent on the promises. Who

don't the one who made the promise? Right, Isaiah forty

Wait upon the lots you know the sscripture shall renew

their strength. They shall moount on like wings, like ears,

they shall not they shall run, and not be weary,

and not faint. Wa think with expectation. Those that weigh

upon the Lord shall renew their strength. I guess what

it really means is that when you wait, friends, when

you wait, you're supposed to be in a sense stationary

at a particular's space, not location of friends, not just

the bus stop space restleless your heart.

You're not going to be r waiting.

And putting yourself checking all the app for whether it's

grab where there's something else to look for transportation. When

you wait for something, you just wait for something. I

think many times we are always looking for solution, constantly

looking for an answer. Everything is a solution out there.

But the Bible us is asking us to wait upon

the Lord. Waiting waiting, it's expecting something to happen.

It's called hope.

Really waiting for something that happens, call hope. Think about

it for a moment. Just everybody's low some d year.

Everybody had a chance to low some and you know

everybody just see a lot of nice greetings out there

from good business to after that decide to be creative

when you find your life partner and you have twins, right,

and you have your pet dog and stuff like that,

and there's a nice hope, friends, and we're hoping that this.

Everyone's hoping that DC will be kinder, nicer, less surprises, right,

if you're hoping and throughout the whole year, we are

just cling on to this hope that God will see

this come to pass. Waiting help us to reset our priorities.

Think about for a moment. Because you have to wait,

your priorities get resetted. It helps you to slow down

for a moment to think what's really important. When you

go to a gem, praise the loss of you're so

brave to go up to Pinang and down down south

your whole during the gem time, Right, you go up

and down and what you have to go to really

resets your priority because you can't go anywhere but just

go along with life already that the road.

That's prepared me in front of you.

Right, you wish your car could fly, but couldn't you

wish you could take the emergency leader and you're the

only one with a special pass everywhere. Look at you

were greed and envy who right? You wish we just

turned on and some led switch in your car that

had flashes blue light right our change But the vehicle

one time? Okay, the land crew from the one from

from from a secondhand shop or rather from a guy

who plays forward drive and the record itself. He had

a shot wave radio all right, but he also in

started a police siren. He also is a police siren

in he goes to the jungle.

All the time.

Right, if we goes in younger, there was a we

were testing of the police siren not here, right, but

we didn't use it. We only use it to we

use only use it doing cammony.

To wake people up, all right.

It's devotion type, right, So we think help us to

reset our priorities. We think we knew our strength. Come on,

because you don't have to run helter skelter, You don't

have to go everywhere and everywhere. It renews your strength.

Strength comes always comes for purpose, and friends, you think

about it, that God gives you strength for a reason

and for a purpose. We so much strength we you friends,

After a while, there's only so much could take off

yourself looking in front of a mirror. No body builder,

I know, built the body with such strength for him

to be a mare alone. There's nobody that goes to

the gym and build really good guns on arms around

the arms. There friends to be a mire alone and

come out wear really beggy clothes. I don't want people

to know I've not seen that. I have not seen that.

Friends.

I used so back then before this modern day gym

came up, right, friends, you know those old school gym

up in the shop second floor, first floor on those

really all nothing nothing nothing nothing, nothing electronica or mechanical one.

So there was a there was a there was an

anchor that was managing the gym I used to go

to when I was fifteen years old, former bodybuilder and

this stuff like that.

Friends, he was huge, huge, but he.

Rarely small little singlet, small little single friends carrying it

out of the whiter parts of these friends. Right, I

want to day got cool you, I'll give you. I

got beggy size T shirt I give first. I've not

I've not seen anyone who works out tried to hide

their masters. So therefore, friends, once God gives you strength,

the strength is not for you to enjoy alone, enjoy

your loone mean to say that you look in front

of the mirror that, oh I love my bicep?

Who right, I love my tray?

Said?

Oh yeah right, put more oil.

I've not seen anyone who just indulges themselves in front

of the mirror that way. That got oh yo, let

me hide, let me hide it, okay, let me wear

beggy cloes.

Who I don't people to see?

No, so it could you imagine if that's real for

the physical body, how much more realforce spirituous strength, how.

Much more rail?

And God said, those wait upon us shall renew their strength.

Strength always comes for a purpose, and for a reason.

The strength may not be for yourself and before someone

you are going to meet, whereby who really needs your

help support prayer to journey with them through the course

of life, whereby the person don't have enough strength anymore.

So sometimes you always think that this strength is only

for myself. See, only God knows your life journey. Therefore

he knows what strength you need. God knows your life journey.

Therefore he knows what strength you need for this life.

He doesn't prepare you give you extra strength because your

driver needs a bit more. Chess macilla, you see the

white rolling? Ok? Sorry God, So therefore God no, So

we think it reminds us who we trust? Who us

who we trust? Reminds us who we trust? All right, however,

we don't like to wait. We want now immediately, you

know that, right, We don't like to wait. Galisious five,

verse seventeen says, reminds us is the flesh last against

the spirit, right, the spirit against the flesh. And this

to a country to one another so that you don't

do the things that you wish. So the flesh says,

don't wait, don't wait, don't wait. It's hot under the

hot sun, under the hot weather, and you know that

it's reachable within your strength. Those are every thing publics

from transportation.

Before you understand this.

Your house is not very far away, maybe about two kilometers,

and that's about twenty four minutes walk. Not far away,

but yes, under the hot sun, you know the bus

is gonna come. So the time for you to take

to go back home, the time for you wait for

the buses about the same. But the flash, you say,

I had to wait for the bus. How sure are

you this bus that's coming later. Right, we'll pick you up.

I've been on before. On the bus friends, no space.

I really believe the script you say, God, we'll make

away where it seems to be no way. Seriously, I

was literally hanging out from the steps of the bus. Right,

those that we've been there before. One hand, you're holding

onto the railing where you go up the bus. Word

last time, the bus used to have this railing at

the windows. So one hand there, one hand the other way,

and all of.

Us who were kids enjoyed it.

We felt we were actually heroes back then, right, And

the bus conductor was enjoyed it okay, because they were

helping the students to talk that heroes that.

And every are.

The parent who look at us say that these guys

are crazy but friends. Sometimes the temptation has always been this.

When God asks us to wait in Jerusalem for the

promise to come, we say, God, we understand. But at

the same time, can we just gone with our journey

and it can still bless us along the way. If

you are God, therefore you should be able to bless us.

But we're gone on our own, separate journey anyway. The

temptation has always been this that we try to the

word is explain our Christianity away to the way our

flesh wants it. We try to explain our Christianity, our

beliefs a way to our flesh wants it, rather than

what the spirit wants. It's very easy to adept Christianity

to our own flesh and tell me as Christian belief

rather than our conviction or the lost's conviction upon our heart.

It's very simple for it. It's it's so easy for

us God. If you are God, right. Therefore, if I

walk out from JUU so I don't have to wait here,

you can bless me wherever I am.

But I would choice make.

If we have done that before, we have seen that

before God blessed my plans. Bless my plans because in

your planning there was God has wasn't involved.

In that planning.

If God was involved somehow somewhere and you're planning, then

can But if God has never been involved in the

planning and all suddenly say can you bless I remember

one time the early days of church, you know, like

like like the prayer between your prayer time and you know,

and the leaders were out there was out there. A

guy came up. Could you pray for me? I said, yeah, sure,

what can I pray for? Could you pray and bless

my relationship?

Oh? Cool?

Great, finally got a good friend. I said, Hey, is

she around or oh there, she's not a Christian now

believer And I'm like, oh, I say, God, I can

pray for you. I can pray for you, but asking

I said, did you pray about your relationship with us?

And when?

Of course you know it's we can adapt christian it

to what our flesh wants, I said, did you did

you pray about it at least? Did you think the

lot about this relationship? Did you give a thought to

God in this picture or was it all just you

one in your way and asking God to bless it?

And therefore, friends, it's a reminder for us, friends, waiting

urism sometimes really helps us to put our flesh at

this place. Don't go there, don't do this right, wait,

go through that process, don't jump ship so quickly, and

by the time at the end of the journey you

go like, wow, I did not know Lord that you

brought me through this journey of life.

And time you come out.

From the tunnel or from the situation, you go like,

now you finally understood why God prepare you in such

a manner such a way. Your flash screw me to

you forgetting her? Leave this process? You know, why trouble

yourself only to come to realization and this place where

by by the time you finish the process like wow,

I didn't know that God is able to bring you

true See, real transformation happens when you go on the

journey as well as you wait for the next journey,

not constantly on the move all the time. Second thing

is this that friends, the Bible reminds us to reminds us,

you know, all of us, reminds us really to cultivate

a relationship with God. Cultivate your relationship with Lord. So

wait in Jerusalem. Friends, you do not wait because just

an instruction. You wait because of relationship. Come on, you

wait because of relationship. I've seen people before I'm going

to study, wait for me, Okay, I'll come back. And

some that can get married and something stuff they go over,

see their things, they woke out final life partner. But

you wait, you wait, you're because of relationship. You wait,

right if there is no relationship, friends, you won't wait

one friends, think about it for if there is no relationship,

you won't wait. If there's no relationship, friends, you won't

be complaining that. You know, my friend always sees to

study and waited for her.

No relationship.

I thought she would come back, but she didn't. She's

such a cruel person. You because I've seen people complain,

friends complain about waiting too long for their food to meaning,

say five minutes to Really, I've seen people complain before

five minutes. Really want lots to complain. I put your

name out on social media and stuff like that. You

go like, I've seen people who wait because of relationship

with the with the restaurant and no problem. Just say

your time and say you're busy training meutes and said, right,

it happens on friends. But because there's no relationship, so long, right,

complain all the way been before, reunion't need it's one

of them, right, those are outside of one friends. You

order your order to set me one of friends. So

my Singapore and siblings one of them right, and in laws. Right,

I'm not in the sister law. But why so long

want the food? I say, you just asked them the

hatred ten minutes ago.

What do you want?

You asked the bigger the dishes ten minutes ago. This

is not McDonald's, okay, right. They could not go like wow,

because we've been we've been the restaurant before. They know,

they know we are Christian, they know we are part

We are also just leaders, right therefore we are we

are kind of We say, are anything?

You're very busy right now?

We came you wanted to serve the dishes earlier, we

weren't ready yet. Because we weren't ready yet, it's our faller.

We the people haven't come yet, so you actually can

you put on hold that they put on the whole year.

You're the only table in the whole restaurant. They will

wait for Yuma, so they have this is other big

of us. You understand the cuesester how it works? Then

my single print siblings, why so long when I hear

what a restaurant is on this Manu're not cheap? Okay,

all complaints because there is no relationship for us.

It was Malaysia.

Bit more relaxab It's okay right now, I'm trying to

say this is that a lot of times people just

wait without a relationship. Come on, Yeah, we heard they

shall wait upon the Lord? Shall we rely? They should we?

Isn't it true? Friends?

The first word that we're focusing on in Isaiah the

word strength because there's our desperate need. Yeah, but very

seldomly focused on with upon the Lord God. I've been

waiting since the day I was born, So you can't

I'm exempted from.

This part of scripture.

I just want my strength right now, right, Give it

to me right now, because I've been reading since the

day I was born. Right, But the Bible says wait

upon the Lord let me therefore, cultivate your relationship with

the Lord. They therefore you understand where he gives you strength,

it's not what we imagine strength to be. You have

to come to a place why you know how to

cultivate your relationship with the Lord. So, therefore I'm gonna

ask you your quiet time. We talk about revival, right,

it comes back to your quiet time. How is our

quiet time? Do we read the Bible? Or are wedependent

on the Bible? Who give you one scripture a day

as a reminder to read the book to weak cultivate

a relationship? Do you know more about God? It's very

important for us. I understand. If not, you know what

will happened. We assume this how God will move. We

presume this how we're going. It's just that sometimes you

don't spend enough time with our love. Once we just

assume and make all the decisions all the way right,

only to find out that actually did not. It's not

what they wanted. So I had the prillaship take care

of my dad. I always got stories about my dad

and I have prilliers take care.

Of my dad.

Right, So I'm the only one left in Malaysia to

take care of my dad. When I was young, I

knew it is whoever first to leave the country don't

have to take care. That was my aim. My aim

was to get a college to get my Unity degree Australia.

Australia. That's it.

Don't come back anymore, right then the last person have

the biggest sacrifice.

Man, what the do?

God caught me. I'm here in Malaysia. So my brother

flew off to Singapore, my sister after that. The last

person also flew off after that, so I'm left back here.

So being around with dad ever since Mom passed away

very different. First three years. Cannot those stuff with we

cannot right, Mom's clothes cannot touch, shoes, can touch everything? Okay,

everything touch only recently, about one month ago, I went

and I said that, look, you gotta celebrate this two year.

Right.

My older brother typica more efficient on let's hire someone

a cleaner to come and clean the house. And older

people are very resistors to change, very hard, cannot change

very hard. Or that my brother, go hire you cleaner?

Why are you cleaner? Completic company? Complain again, know no relationship,

they spend enough time. I say that it's okay, one

all you need to do is to tell the person

what to do and the person will do it.

You don't have the strength to clean anymore. He doesn't.

Again, every time when we don't develop relationship, what happens

we just assume that the person needs helped, just hand help.

But if you deep, you dig deep a bit further,

you have relationship.

So I say, they say that, look, I understand your

your fears. Number One, you're not used to giving instruction

to someone else because in your eyes, you don't see

a class you've you always felt like it's very degrading

to give someone instructions like that because he grew up

in a kampung setting. It was hard times back then,

a Robbert Tapper son and stuff like that, so very

hard to see someone else. He's always like, I'll just

do it my own strength. No relationship. Let's say that

it's okay. One, you see how it happens. When you

don't wait, you'll develop relationship. You just can come to

a place whereby you assume this, how God will move, this,

how God will carry out his plans for my life right,

because I actually know I woke very differently than what

you what you think. I woke very differently than what

you think. How you could imagine because you don't spend

enough time, and because I'm here f so like I did.

I spend about five hours cleaning the house. I say

that this five bag of stuff, I've got to take

control away. He was so happy telling everybody his second

sack and clean the house very good, and went there.

You can you just tell everyone else how successful I

am something else besides the house. Okay, I know they

an extra, you know, merry point. If you're saying to

me much earlier, when I was younger, you do very

good to myself image. But now I'm fifty something already,

no one's around this hearing. No secondly is going to

be this all right, the Holy Spirit, I can just

end this, end this one more point, Holy Spirit, right

John forty Most twenty six. The help of the whole

Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

will teach you all things and bring you to remembers

all things I've said, the help of the Holy Spirit.

So the Holy Spirit, friends teach, will teach you. The

Bible is Holy Spirit will teach you, teach you very

potful us to understand to come this hardware. But we

want to learn, he's willing to teach about are we

willing to learn or are really willing to listen? So

don't be confused friends, to what your thoughts is, to

what the.

Holy Spirit is.

Okay, I've seen a lot of Christian everybody's they just

anything they want their away something said, God told me so,

Holy Spirit told me so. When the Holy spirits and

the person SiZ I didn't say a single word. The

Holy Spirit told me so, especially if it comes to dating,

when your friends, especially it comes to dating, the Holy

Spirit told me.

So, this is the right individual. Can I use Holy Spirit? Namely? Who?

Who are? Who are? Who are we?

Right?

Your parents are? Who am I? Your God spoke to

you so clearly? Or really right?

No, not problem and stuff like that.

However, when things don't work out well, and things don't

work out well, friends don't work out well, the Holy

Spirit wasn't in the picture. And I want you to

observe this, kid the next time someone tell you the

God brought me together. Then after when they argue things, well,

you never go to hear God aswers to break up one.

They start with the law, but always envy themselves.

Then I thought to myself, why God would bring two

indued individuals together to go through a life To argue, man,

I know the Bible says iron shoppends I, but not

this way. I. I don't think God would bring too

induies together.

How are you.

Call so that you can mature in Christ?

I don't think so? Does he does this kind of thing?

My friends?

The Holy Spirit will teach you, bring you to remember

all things. That will say, come on, basically, first he

teaches you, But.

How many of us? We'll say?

This? Right?

True to us?

That whyever we have learned? Not everything we can remember?

So the Holy Spirit will remind us what he has

taught us. That's why sometimes after we get angry with

less Globo direct to someone else, don't you ever get

a sense like she should have done that.

Don't you ever get the sense that maybe she didn't

use that.

The choice of word, Maybe he could frame the word

a bit better. Holy Spirit is bringing you to remembrance,

to reminder the next time when you ever get into

that situation, perhaps you could tone down, be a bit

more relaxed. Don't be so the Holy.

Spirit bring you to remember us. Isn't it amazing? Person?

The Holy Spirit right he will guide you to all

truth and empower you to glorify the Lord. Guide you

to all truth, empower you to glorify the Lord. Finally,

it's going to be this power to move forward. I'm

going to end be this, Okay, So I say alt

on except the one It says that you shall be

my witness in Jerusalem, Judeo Samir, and all the ends

of the earth.

The Holy Spirit.

Friends, when empowered individuals to be transformed, you know, the

disciples when they met Jesus. I'll being you fisiers of men,

from fishers of men, to become my witness, to become

martyrd to die for Christ.

I'm not worried.

I'm not sure of friends, that if Jesus used the

word you shall be my witness. Martyr Martes died for

me at the very on stage when the Jesus called

the disciples whether they are willing to or not. Could

you imagine that the day you accept the Christ the preatures,

how many we really to die for Christ? To be

sent into the ten forty windows to preach Christ to

Central Asia? Come forward and say goodbye to all your

friends and relative right now We're gonna send you out.

I can guarantee you, friends, it will be zero. People responding,

it's because you know why our flesh.

Really like you know, we like it here. We like

it here, we like what we are used to.

But Holy Spirit comes and help us to filter some

of our priorities and say, hey, while you're holding on

right now, it's just temporal. So transform you from my

individual that's a bit frightened to be by witness. So

transformation happened when the Holy strict falls upon you. He does,

he does. I'm just gonna end with this story, your friends.

I know it's three five.

What do you end? Actually? Treated Okay, I.

Just end with this story, right, I have to tell

it nicely. I don't wise you think I'm just okay,

I'm not very good. My words so came out. Jessica

very good with the words and stuff like that. She

writes the radio friends, everybody wants you, She writes your resume,

everybody wants to hire you. A ready ex kidding so

uh so doing commissionings that were there, right, My name

was fleash Or one particular position, one particular position position

all right, it's called the studio.

Right.

Some people asking what on earth is that I said,

I also don't know, but I unders said that.

Right, I know what is?

I know what is?

All right?

The studio and spassa John from Singapore couldn't stop laughing.

He just couldn't stop laughing. I told him what the

studio is all about? His he laughed for this three

good meaning it's really good laughter. No, it's not the

laughter that's that's putting you down.

Just really good laughter.

Say oh, the for a person who do not know

music in terns of the studio, I say, well, I said, God,

massive is raceler.

I said that.

There After that he said that, oh, what do you

do actually for that purpose? Uh? So we know of

a common friend, common friend right in another state, common friend.

I said, well, it's like.

This person a right who manages, produces music and stuff

like that. He just he he just couldn't stop laughing. Oh,

you don't understand a single note. I say, I know,

I don't know music. I don't know everything. But I

guess this fall upon my lap. It's not that I

wanted to know that. Pass the please give me this, okay,

and therefore my life missions for fuel. I was put

in the position, put in the place I only smile

only because I told you John is John. Look, I

guess God massive plan right number one, masterful plan, So

I saws are given some things that we should never

ask for. So therefore got masterful plan. Number two is

going to be this my own strang because if with

my own strength, friends, it will be nothing ever get produced,

our friends nothing to get ever get produced.

And stuff like that.

I say, I only have one, just one aim. The

scripture I got was every tongue, every tribe shall proclaim

every just the word, every tongue and every tribe. I

just had this imagination, this really imagination. I say, we

are such a diverse groul malicious. It is, I think,

one of the only very few diverse country in the world,

very few, so many dialects here existing. I say that

we are not the word is this that that's a church.

We are not maximizing it, we are not leveraging on it.

I say, English is not the only spoken language in

our church. Right, I say, therefore, I say, by God,

give us something like this. I say, I have you

taken it into my imagination and stretch it as far

as I can, so I always have a desire, really

like I'm not so much into an English album, right,

because I think that people championing it, I say I

would love to. I will love to. I say, produce

one song on hockeyn one song Hockey because I think

there's a space for that. There is a space for that,

because I say that.

There are people.

I know, my wife something at a phone call, al there,

did you know any hockey peryers of worship?

My grandma is dying.

She needs to hear the gospel, and she was and

my wife does have a least in her handful that

she followers through that you listen to this song, listen

to the song and stuff that.

Do you have a song in hakka? Right?

I know haka it's very written, right, and the stuff

that how can more spoken?

Right?

Hakkas were small minority, right and more it's more for

scolding rather for praise and worship.

Right, But anyway, price worship hakka. I say that, I.

Went like, if GPCC church in Indonesia there to branch

out to produce a singer in in Japanese, what's stopping us?

I say that, yeah, we may not be as talented

as them, but at least we want to embark on.

The journey to try out.

So the Holy spirit, friends, and the Holy speak comes

right upon my heart really like a desire to see right,

so as I talk.

So we were away at the Global Past's retreat. I

talked to and guys from UK.

They say, Elder will let you know we we have

written eleven songs already eleven songs written, really, but so

we are trying to figure out how to produce it.

I say, great, have you heard about the studio? Right

that I spoke the ex Botswana, Right Sydney is in

charge of the album. Say old, we have raised up

one thousand US dollars. I said, what do you do

with that? We booked studio time. I went like, how

is he working for you? We went to the studio

of and the studio manager just told.

That you guys got to work on your workers.

So we spend the first eight hours working on our workers.

I say, hey, can we help you or not? We

have people here in Malaysia who's very good in this.

Let me hook you up with someone. Right, we have

Andrew Or ten in cheg Mih is very good. Right,

So Pastor say that why don't you help us help

me to put a global album together? Because extra as

a movement, Malaysia is not the only one that writes

songs globally. We have people around so, as I close friends,

the Holy Street comes upon you, not just for us

to say, look we've got guns, yeah, fantastic, right, but

the strength given to you to be a blessing to

the ends of the world. So therefore for us, I

truly believe, as I close friends, that why it fall

upon my lives, because it just tells me this, Can

you just help me to see this come to pass?

God has always had a unique calling upon ex church.

Music is one of them.

We have been very.

Strong musically, and yes, some things we are we can

get better, It's true, but we have never allowed budget

to stop us, to limit our imagination. Never do you

know that we have really good lyricists in our church.

If you remove we composed our music, all right, I'm

just gonna say this, save mistold me and you put

it through AI to come out with a song, and

you put it out there for other people to hear.

Someone that will ask you that where and who have

written this song? I'm more interested in the story at

the end of the day.

The story.

We have very good scriptwriters in our church.

Very good.

I always ask myself this as like close friends, why

can't we produce a good script? Why can't we produce

a good script?

Then?

Why will touch people's heart?

People watch a movie? Friends?

So recently, I just watch a movie, said, heard of

a movie sancha woman choir, right, a Taiwanese movie.

That that really?

That that that really? But I just saw the this

people's feedback on the show.

It's a very interesting show.

My wife just cried, like she used about forty shue paper,

so so she look at you cry?

Not I looked that.

I told my wife like my Mom's wakes away, so

I didn't cry. Do you actually cry for a movie? Anyway?

This's this episody, right, I'm right.

Very differently, I cried my own other other times I

just told this, I said, it's very interesting that how

how people can relate to story and just say that

this movie give me encouragement to press on. Because I

was raised up in abuse family. My mom went to prison,

I went to prison. I hated my mom. But when

I saw the movie, I understand why my mom had

to make those choices. And I thought to myself that

as a church, as a church. If we see we

have gotten on our side and the Holy street on

our side. We we should be the one carrying, one

of the people who carry the torch in this world

that's so broken and so hurt. So therefore, for it

is the power to move forward. The Holy Spirit come

upon our life. It's not just for us to have

a good time in church alone or Christian concert or

stadium event alone. Friends, is to be the light out there, really,

to be a light out, to be a source of encouragement,

a strength to someone who really needs it.

That's what revival it's all about. Friends.

Revival is not for us to yeay goose bums, yeay

holy spirits. Here we enjoy the praise of worship another lever.

But revival happens for friends. Where we go out there, where

people see us, they see the Lord, a message of

hope and encouragement. As I close, I want to encourage you.

Do not just limit yourself with the four walls. Friends,

It's beyond the upper room. It really is beyond the

upper room.

Cultivate your relationship with the law.

Because to make assumption this how God will move friends,

Because you never ask the thing that you wanted It's

not necessarily a thing that God prepared for you, prepare

for you, But somethings you've never talked. Four upon your lap,

go like, why what is this the studio? What on

earth is this? There must be a reason, There must

be a purpose.

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