Session 6 - Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church | Pr. Stephen Kong

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

We hope this message will light up your tea.

So let's begin by doing a quick recap from the

session five. Okay, how many of you here were at

We're here for session five. Let me see your hands? Okay, okay,

that's at least half of you. Okay, that's good. Okay,

So let me just quickly recap session five before I

go into session six. Is okay? All right? Okay, because

we tend to forget, including myself. So part five we

talked about the plan or the implementation, okay, of the vision,

and let me just go back all the way to

part one. First, what is the vision? Okay? I heard

some time I say, help people believe me? Okay, what else?

What else? That's the Bible?

Worse?

Come on, good? Remember this Bible was okay, very good?

Hyper Cook two fourteen. Okay, if you forget everything, please

away and read Hypo two fourteen, which says for the

earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory

of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. You

should be able to memorize it by now, because I

think I've said it like like ten ten times or

twenty times for the last month, okay. So so you

should be able to memorize it. That is the vision.

You want to see the whole earth filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters

cover the sea. Okay. And so last week of session

five we spoke about a plan. We spoke about the

implementation of this vision. Because it's big, right, somebody say big,

it's big, right, you think about it for the entire earth, okay,

don't know. I'm going to try to break it down, okay.

And so in order to see this vision come to pass,

first of all, we need to live by the power

of the type. Okay. We spoke about this last week.

It's called living by the power of the tithe okay.

And so if we are familiar with tiding, we will

go back all the way to the Old Testament. Right,

and someone uys may go back to the law of Moses,

which is not wrong, which is right. But did you

know that the principle of tiding and she began all

the way back in the book of Genesis in the

Garden of Eden, when God said you shall not eat

of this of the fruit of this tree, of the

tree and the name but it's the name of the

tree is called the tree of knowledge of good, good,

good and evil. Right, you can eat any other tree

except this one, okay. In other words, don't touch this tree, okay,

don't touch the fruit okay. And so in our lives

they should be certain things in our lives that we

cannot touch and that belongs to God. Only God can

because if we can touch everything in our lives, we

become God ourselves. You're gotta be very careful with that.

And so the time belongs to God, you know, it

comes on the Lord. It belongs to him, and he

must have the final say. He must have the first

say and the final say. And so this principle began

all the way in a book of Genesis when God

said you shall not touch this or you should not

eat of this fruit. And that gives us perspective that

God is bigger in our lives, and there is the

things that belongs to the Lord, and we must give

it back to him. And so the principle is not

just talking about money. You know. Of course, if you

if you tend to be very specific, you will tell me, Yeah,

the word tithe actually is ten. Right. If you try

to go more detail. It's true, but we're not. We're

not just talking about money by it's the principle whereby

we can live our live by the principle of the

tithe even with our time. If you know that, because

we can also tie of our time to the Lord.

And ten percent of our time is about if you

do the math is two point four hours per day

times by seven. I don't know what's the number. Chlcolate, Okay,

I don't want to try my math, but it's two

point four hours per day. And so I thought about it. Right, Wow,

if she got it's true. You know, if we were

just to tie ten percent of our time every day,

think about it. You will have enough time to do

everything that God has called you to do. You have

enough time to serve the lot. You have enough time

to read your Bible. You have enough time to pray,

You have enough time to worship. You have enough time

to spend in people. You have enough time to go

to missions. You have enough time to come to church,

to homes for service. Try and see if you can

create the time you have enough. I thought about it.

It's true. If we were to tie our time to

the Lord ten percent, there will be enough time to

do everything that God has called us to do, and

that is why we will be one step closer to

seeing the vision come to pass. It becomes a little

bit more possible, okay, But of course we're not doing

it that strength. That's just our commitment, our tithe back

to the Lord. But all I'm trying to say is

that is the principle. And even as we tie onto

the Lord, we will continue to stand to be blessed

because the Love will bless us back in return, even

as we get back unto him. Amen. All right, So

that's called living by the Prince, by the power of

the tithe. Okay. So I won't go too deep because

we already talked about it last week, but let me

move on. And we also talked about breaking down to

four levels for four parts, okay. And we spoke about

God's diet about we spoke about his daily bread, we

spoke about our tithe, and we spoke about the Leaven.

Remember that, okay, So let me just go to it briefly. Okay.

God's diet is the vision that we I shed to

you earlier, which is feel the earth and have dominion.

That is God's diet for extras in the years to come. Okay,

even as all the way until training the tea, feel

the earth and have dominion. And in simple words, to

feel the earth just means wherever you're at. Okay. That

means in your marketplace, in your school, in your campus,

in your office. That's what it means. To start there,

start wherever you are at, Okay. And to have dominion

just means to have influence. Somebody say influence. That's what

it means, to have influence, to have godly influence over

those around you. And so that's the diet that we

want to take on this year. And the daily bread

is what we download from the Lot every day, okay,

his daily braid, that's what we download from the Lord, right,

And so when we read the sentence, you know, feel

the earth and have dominion, it basically means to make disciples.

So that's why we're downloa from the Lot. We ought

to make disciples. To have influence, that's what it means, Okay.

And the time is our part out come event or

what I call it, I will upload to the Lord.

That is what we will commit to do. And the

commitment is simple. Start with those people whom you're already

close with Okay, go so far you go one or

two friends, two close friends, start with them. You know,

if you're not a believer yet, share the gospel with them.

You know, if they're already a believer, you know, have

have you know, godly conversations with them, you know, bring

them pointed back to the Lord. So that's why it is.

There's a commitment. Start with those around you, okay, who

has God given you? And finally is the eleven, which

is be accountable. Make a list because we are away

forgetful people. Do you agree, So make a list. And

when you make a list, actually go and do it.

Look at the list and do it. Pay and summit

to the Lord, and actually go and do it, and

see the leaven rise, and we will see the vision

come to pass. Amen, come on. So every one of

us got a part of play, and that brings us

to today's session, which is part six. Okay, So on

your books, page forty seven, for those of you look

at the books, page forty seven. Okay. So the slide

says final thoughts, okay, final thoughts. It should be the

vision should be the same for everyone across the broad

across the board, okay, same for everyone across the board.

That means everyone downloads God's Daily bread, okay. Uh, that

means that everyone has got a type, everyone's got a

part to play. Uh. You know, we're gonna be more

centralized than ever before. You've heard this saying that X

church is one church in many locations. You heard that before, right,

and so we've got to be more centralized than ever before.

So whatever they were saying here, whatever they were practicing here,

what is our culture, what is our DNA? Whatever we

do here in some money, it's going to be the

same if you go to Cyberjaya, if you go to Ampang,

and can I go further, even if you go to Australia,

even if you go to the UK, if you go

to Singapore, if you go to Thailand, it's going to

be the same, okay, because it's the DNA in our spirit.

It's got to be the same across the board. And

you know, in today's day in time, everyone is trying

to be more independent. Now I'm trying to be different,

do you know this? But I realized that the time

has come that the church has to be more united

than ever before. We actually have to because the days

of evil. You know, the days are more evil than before.

Uh you know. There are a lot of fake news

or false news, uh you know, and people are something,

are confused, they are in they're hungry for the truth.

And the church has to be more united than ever before.

And actually I see more churches from different denominations also

uniting more than ever before. One more excers. We need

to also unite more than ever before, because we cannot

afford to be like the people in a Book of Judges,

whereby everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

Think about it. We will be a lot of trouble.

Just imagine if you're driving on the road and the

law says do whatever you think is right in your eyes. Yeah,

I think we will stop driving, you know. So it

doesn't work right. So all of us got to be

got to be on the same page, same mind, same spirit.

We've got to be united to take on God's sire,

and it would be the same everywhere across the board.

So that's number one. It's got to be the same

because we are excers and this is where God is

taking us and leading us, and we've got to be

we gotta be united. Amen. Second thing is we gotta

support each other to get a job done. Now, even

though that in church, church is a community, We're never

meant to be alone. We can never walk our faith

journey alone because you know, if you look in the Bible,

in the Book and the Book of Acts, they will

tell you that they broke bread, they had fellowship from

house to house. You know, they pray for one another, right,

they supplied one another's needs. So in community is very

necessary in church. Otherwise you will only be praying for yourself, okay,

and they will not be anyone praying for you. That's

very sad. But in the community, we not only get

to pray for ourselves. Okay, nothing, I'm paying for ourselves.

Jesus are prayed, you know, for himself. Nothing we I'm

playing for ourselves. But we get to pray for one another.

How cool is that? And to support one another man

so that we can do this together. And so the

power of community will get us to places. Unity is

really really powerful. And all of us love to be

part of a winning team, don't we. When we're winning,

when we are thriving, when we're united, everyone loves to

be part of the team. And you know, we've got

and good friends. We can go far. Amen, we've God

and good friends in church, we can go very very far,

and we can see the vision come to pass. So

remember we're not doing this on our own. Don't go solo.

Even your faith journey is never meant to be alone.

Find a brother, find a sister. Of course, we encourage

male to male, female to female the journey in your

faith so that we can grow together and see the

job come to pass, or to get the job done.

As you say, amen, all right. The third one is

store new wine into new wine skin. So all over

us has got to have new wine skin. And do

you understand the concept of wine skin. When they pour

wine into the wine skin, you know, as it as

it ferments, it releases gas. Right, And if you pour

new wine into old wine skin, which is tough and rigid,

it may break, or it may explode or I don't

know what else will we do. It cannot contain the

new wine. And so you and I need to put

on new wine skin. In other words, you've got to

open our minds, got to have an open perspective to

the things that God is doing in our lives, because

there's gonna be a lot of new and radical ideas

that God will give to us in order to see

the vision come to pass. Remember I said, down over

the Lord our daily break. So it's got to give

to you and to me radical ideas that come from

the Lord on how to reach our neighbor. Maybe it's

to bake a cookie and give your neighbor, you know.

Maybe is to invite your colleague, uh, you know, and

and and maybe it's to get you put us out

your fear and you just invite them to come for

our anniversary. Whatever it is, the Lord is going to

give you vertical ideas and you've got to be open

to it. You know. Don't be too too quick to

say no, or don't be too quick to say it

can't be done. Come on, have new wine skin, because

remember God is going to give us the ideas, and

as we implement it, God will get all the glory

in return. It's not about us. It's not about how

smart we are. It's not about how good we are,

not how working, how hard working we are. It's all

about God and all the glory and praise goes back

to Him. So we must change our attitude. And this

is how we might change it. We must never say

it hasn't been done before this that sound familiar, or

it can't be done, Oh it's impossible, you know, or

sometimes we hear these things. Oh we hear people say

only the West can do it. But how many of

you know great things can come out Malaysia? You believe

you say? Amen? Come on, X Church was Burva in

Malaysia at the time we put it. They don't believe me,

you know. I'm like, oh, you're a little faith X

Church was birth in Malaysia, not from the UK, not

from America. You know. In fact, we are going into

Europe now to plan back into those places. And it's

not easy. But who said something that is not easy

can be done Because we've got all things are possible,

Great things and radical things can come out Malaysia. We've

got to believe it. We don't want to be history.

We want to be history makers so the others can

see a reference and follow. And so you heard us

say before an ex church, we have this thing called

a new normal. Ready becomes the new normal where young

people can be involved in church, young people can serve

the Lord. I still remember when I tell people that, uh,

you know, so many was birth ten years ago. By

the grace of God, myself, my twin brother, and two

more other girls in the in the core team, we'll

be prayed for at least two to three years. And

we started a church. When we first started the church,

I was twenty three years old. Twenty three years old.

As people say it's impossible, but we said, no, We've

got all things are possible. So come on, have new

wine skin because radical is going to be the new

normal for us. Amen, be a thermostat and not a thermometer.

We're going to change the atmosphere. We're going to change

the situation, turn things around, and remember to give all

the back to God. Amen. Philippians. Shepherd three, verse twelve

to sixteen says, not that I have already attained or

I am already perfected. But I press on that I

may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has

laid hold of me. Rather, and I do not count

myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do forgetting

those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those

things which are hit. I press toward the goal for

the price of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore,

let us as many as are mature, have this mind,

and if in anything you think otherwise, God will be

real even these to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that

we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.

Let us be of the same mind. Even so as

you can see this verse, you know, it talks about

how we got to walk together. We got to do

it together. You know, I press on even as we're

moving forward. Let's not always be looking back, even as

we're moving forward, because you can never drive a car

looking at the real mirror. Got to look forward, right

And I always tell people that we only look back

to remember of God's goodness, his faithfulness, to remember who

He was to us and how he's he came to

for us during those tough times, because that reminder will

give you enough feel or enough guests to go, you know,

to act by favor, to live by favor, and to

continue to move forward. But we must always look forward

and not look behind. And so the phrase in your

book says, you're not telling you how to run your business,

but how we should run God's business his kingdom. And

as a pastor, this is my responsibility to tell you

this is how we're going to do it. In Church,

it is our responsibility to administer the ten percent that

you give unto the Lord. So if you got ten

percent of your time, ten percent of your treasure, ten

percent of your talent, that's where our job comes in.

We administer it not for ourselves, but for God's glory

and for his church and for his people. And so

we're here to administer the ten percent. The ninety percent

is yours. Now, those of you are sitting here and

very spiritually, tell me if I thought one hundred percent

belongs to Lord, well, yes, of course everything that comes

from Him belongs to him, and we are merely stewards. Yes,

but I won't go that far, but I'm saying that. Look,

we're here to administer the ten percent. Okay, you do

what you do with the ninety percent as God has

told you, or God has instructed you, or as you

felt led in your quiet time in your daily break.

You do what you need to do with the ninety percent.

We are here to administer the ten percent to be

accountable so that God's work will be done and his

business will be successful. Amen point, says heins for success.

We can be successful fulfilling this vision if we make

disciples and in your book, the blank there is make disciples.

It goes to follow me. Just in simple words, Okay,

make disciples, it goes to follow me. Because I think

about it this way. We can only make disciples if

we are first a good disciple. Does that make sense

to you, Because if we never learned how to be

a disciple, we will not be able to make another disciple.

So it's as simple as learn how to follow me

us like the follow me as Paul says, imitate me

as an immediate Christ. Right, So we need to learn

how to first be a good disciple. Then we will

be able to make disciples. And we're not talking about

doing it in big scale, right, Uh, break it down,

you know, to smaller groups. Think of the one thing

of the two people. You know, make it small in fact,

as you say, make it even smaller. You know, to

plan a church in every street, in every school. And

that is why we never stop planting homes in different

parts in semnyay. And actually this week itself, we are

launching out into a new homes uh in I think

it's called Makota Hills, right, Marcota Hills, right into new areas.

And so you know, for the rest of you. If

you have houses, you know, you want to open the

house in your in your in your neighborhood so that

we can break ground. You know, we can go. We

can bring church in the sense because it's not a building.

We're not we're not bringing the building. Bring the people

right into the neighborhood, into your compound, in your village.

And the closer it is to people is it is

to invite them, right. And so we want to see

a church in every street, every school. And sometimes we

may not be able to bring people to church, maybe

they don't want to travel too far. But if you know,

we can bring church to people, we can visit the homes,

we get near to them so that they will experienced

the Lord for themselves. And in ext church we don't

just plan a church. Actually, essentially we are planting a disciple.

Think of it this way. A church that is planted

for some reason may only be there for a season

of time. Because we have had some churches, you know, planted.

I think it's like Oxford or some of the other

churches whereby the church planter was there for a period

of time to three years, and after a while we

couldn't find a successor. So the church plan as itself

the building. We had to close the service. But if

you know, we didn't actually plant a church. We planted

a disciple. Because wherever the disciple goes there there will

be a church. It's a disciple. So we are planting

a disciple really because a disciple work produced leaders, and

the leaders will take out the church and eventually they

will be continuity. But what I want, I'm trying to

say is that we are planting disciples wherever we go,

not just a church. Or we are planting disciples two

Bible verses. For yous is there on the slide. But

Jesus look at them and say to them, with men,

this is impossible. But we've God. All things are possible.

Somebody say, amen, all things are possible. We've God. Then

he said to them, follow me, and I will make

you fishes of men. I will make you fiscures of men.

Look at a statement very carefully. Jesus says, follow me

and I will make you fiaciures of men. He didn't

say follow me and you will be features of men.

You should know that because it is the Lord himself,

God himself. Jesus is said, I will make you. I

will make you fires of men. So do not worry.

We're not on this alone because God were enaghbles. God

will help us to get a job done. God would

use us as his vessel to be fishes of men. Amen.

And so when you go fishing, how many of you

here love fishing? Let me see your hands? It. Don't

be shy, it don't be shy. Okay, you love fishing? Wow? Okay, okay,

if your hands go up? Okay, okay, how many of

you don't like fishing? I don't miss your hand now, Okay,

it's all right. Okay, but if okay, let me ask

Let me ask you this way. How many of you

have went fishing before? You went fishing before? Okay? At

least more hands go up? Okay, that's good. Okay. So

when you go fishing, right, what is one very important

element in your fishing? What do you need? You need

a rod? Okay? What else? Bait? Yes, very good, you

need a bait. And I remember when I went fishing

by my dad in a young age. Right, the bait

is very important. You know you need a good bait.

You need the right bit and a good bait. Because

I don't know requite me if I'm wrong. I'm not

expecting this, right, But I find that the days that

my dad uses braid as a bait, it's not as

successful as the woman touching. I don't know. Is that true?

Is it you? I don't know, Okay, So I find

it to be true. When I was young, I realized

even I used to bread as a bait, not so successful.

But when you use the touching right, which I'm very

scared off. So I don't do it, ask my father

to do it. I just show the word. You know,

it's very successful. So we understand it, right, we understand it.

The bit is important, and so even as we become

facious of men, listen to this, Even if you become

facius of men, the bait does not come from us.

It's actually the power of God. Come on, you have

the best bit on the face of the planet. She's

the power of God. What am I referring to you

refers to the supernatural, refirst to the anointing. You refirst

to signs and wonders and miracles, healings and deligence. That's

why I really love you. Know, A simple testimony that

JJ and shard because we little faith at such a

young age, you know, you can experience the power of God.

You know, imagine what he will be when he grows up,

you know, and so whenever we hear you know, but

the power of God. That's why you see in the

Bible that many of the people believed when a miracle

was performed, right because they saw it and they knew

that there's got to be a supernatural power involved. That

man cannot do this, It's impossible.

You know.

We have heard many, many testimonies, even in church. You know,

I think it was last week that the our prayers

shared the testimony, right that is, Lady I believe, you know,

had the injury and was supposed to go for a surgery,

very urgent surgery. Okay, I think apparently it's life shrettening.

But later on when he didn't need to go for

the surgery and the doctor said that it was, it

got gotten well by itself. Even the doctors cannot explain

what happened. So I'm gonna say to us, the supernatural

is the bait where when people experience the supernatural, they

know that God is real. God see heals today, God

loves them, and you've got to point them back to

the Lord, and God gets all the glory, not us.

But the point is is God has never left us alone.

He has given us the Holy Spirit and the power

of God. That's why in the Lord's prayer at the

end of the Lost prayer that you know Jesus prayer,

he says, for yours is the Kingdom, the Power, and

the glory forever and ever. Amen. So the Kingdom comes first,

His kingdom comes first. He gives us the power to

do what he has called us to do. And after

the miracle has happened, the salvation has happened, we give

him back. All the glory goes back to him. And

this is where we have an issue, many of us.

We have an issue of confidence. We have a lack

of confidence. So let me put it this way. How

do you feel when you hear of our partners who

are heal of cancer? What do you think? How do

you feel? You feel? Yeah, very excited? Right? You feel

we rife? You feel your favorite gone to none? That

another level, and we have actually heard partner's heat of cancer. Actually,

this testimony the past Shad in twenty twenty one actually

was sharing about two partners who were healed with cancer

at that season. And when you hear about a testimony

of someone being here of cancer, wouldn't your faith just spike,

you know, wouldn't you have someone say excited, or you

have a feeling. You know what a feeling is called confidence? Confidence, faith.

And so when we see a miracle or supernatural happen,

we will have confidence to continue to do it because

you've seen it happen again and again and again, and

you're very sure it will happen. There is confidence. However,

many of us, include myself, sometimes we struggle in this

area of confidence because maybe we have not seen the results,

or maybe we are not seeing it happen enough, you know,

And so we struggle with a confidence because you're not

really seen the results. So I want to point to

us on the slide. You will see it says conviction

comes with revive. And so I pray this year that

our hearts will be arrived like never before. We will

come to say, Lord, I believe you've called us to

be visis of men. You've never left us alone. You've

given us the power of God with the supernatural. And

I'm gonna start with conviction. I'm going to believe it.

I first need to believe it to be convinced. So

conviction comes with revival, Clarity comes with revelation. And so

that's why we are that's what we're doing today. We're

trying to break things down, make it easier to understand,

to unpack the vision, and with that revelation we will

have clarity. Remember everything that we do in church, it's

not for ourselves. It's to save the lost, right. I

told you, it's to save the loss, you know. And

the goal is to see the entire earth filled with

the knowledge of the Lord Right. And so even as

you become clear of the vision or the revelation, we

will be confident, which is the next point. Confidence comes

with results. And even as we continue to do it

again and again and again, as we see salvations happen,

as we see healings happen, as we see signs and

wonders happen in church, and it's possible God's still heals today.

You believe it. God still heals today. And when we

see the results, we will have confidence. Courage comes with

withs of you know, sometimes we may have doubt, we

may have things that are unsettled, we may have questions,

you know, don't live it to yourself, talk to somebody,

bring it to me, or bring it to one of

our leaders. And we were discussed. We will have closure.

Closures were important or another word is resolution vis of

and with resolution there will be courage to move on.

Conquer comes with reliance. That means we put our hands together,

everyone building their part of the wall. Everyone puts their

hands to the plow. We will be able to conquer.

We will be able to get the job done to

see the vision come to pass. And finally, celebration comes

with reward. Even as we continue to work. We will

celebrate every salvation, will celebrate every dedication, every life transform,

every healing. We give it all back to the Lord. Amen.

And so this is what confident leaders look like. Confident leaders.

Conviction leads to clarity. Clarity leads to confedence. That's the word.

You need to feel it in. Clarity leads to confidence.

The clearer we are with the vision. Come on, I'm

not just speaking to leaders, I'm speaking to all of

us here. The clearer we are with the vision, the

more confident we will be. And we're confident. It leads

to courage, with courage to conquering, and finally, conquering leads

to celebration, and the whole of heaven celebrates when even

one soul comes to know of the saving grace of

Jesus Christ. Amen, are we ready to be confident? Can

we be confident? Believers? Come on with clarity? You know

we of course, conviction leads to clarity and clarity to

confidence and confidence to courage, courage to conquering and conquering

to celebration. John chapter five, verse fourteen. Sorry, first, John

chapter five, verse fourteen says, Now, this is the confidence

that we have in him. This is the confidence that

we have in him. If we ask anything according to

his will, he hears us, he hears us. What an

amazing verse. This is the confidence that we have in

him if you ask anything in accordance to his will. So, friends,

how do we know his will? Again? To download the

daily pray? Then we'll know his will. Then we'll be

able to pray in accordance to his will. And the

Bible says that he hears us present tense not he

was here, not maybe, but he hears he hears us. Amen.

And so pre believers often struggle with conviction. Uh, you know,

they often struggle with trying to decide or trying to

be fully convinced. Believers were struggling with confidence, and leaders

will shrugged with courage. Does that make sense to you?

Were believers struggle with conviction? Believers struggle with confidence because

sometimes we're not very sure, as all leaders struggle with courage.

But I want to say to us show short. Chapter one,

verse nine says, be strong and very courageous to all

of us. Come on, be strong and very courageous. If

you're not sure, you're not confident yet as a believer,

make sure you read your Bible more, or make sure

you talk to someone, get a mentor get a discipler,

ask the right questions so that you will be clear

and that you will be convinced, and that you will

be confident and courageous. Amen, I pray and hope that

you're catching something this morning. And so the next point says,

we are not alone. Thanks be to God, we are

not alone. We have the power of the Holy Spirit.

And God has given us a helper, the best helper

that we could ever get, that we could ever have.

He is the Holy Spirit. And oftentimes I also when

I pray, I confess, I ask for forgiveness from the

Holy Spirit, because I think sometimes the Holy Spirit is

one of the loneliest persons on earth, because oftentimes you

are only praying to Jesus, paying to the Father. But

hew me, if you know the Holy Spirit lives in us.

He's our helper, our advocate, our comforter. So I'll say,

Holy Spirit, forgive me, help me, help me, Holy Spirit,

because he is our helper. God has never left us alone.

Second four six says, so he answered and said to me,

this is the word of the Lord to zah Barbara.

Not by mine, no by power, but by my spirit,

says the Lord of Hols. I'm going to give you

a whole bunch of scriptures. Is there, and you're in

your in your book or on the slides. Not by

power nor by mind, but by my spirit. The next

verse says, if a son asks for a bread from

it from any father among you, will he give him

a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will

he give him a serpent instead of a fish. Or

if he asks for an egg, will he offer him

a scorpion. If you, then, being evil, know how to

give good gifts to your children, how much more will

your father, your heavenly Father, give the Holy Spirit to

those who asks him. Well, So when I look at

this verse, it starts off by saying, if a son

asks for bread, okay, if if a son asks for bread,

and then he ends by saying, how much more will

your heaveny Father give the Holy Spirit to those who

ask him? So could it just be in that our

daily bread? Come on, are you listening our daily bread?

It's the Holy Spirit, because actually we have the Holy

Spirit with us every day. And I thought about it.

If you ask for our daily brain, it's not just

asking for provision, because God can provide for you for

a day, but He doesn't want you to just survive

for a day. He wants us to thrive. He wants

us to be more than a conqueror a man more

than overcome us with the help of the Holy Spirit.

So with the help of the Holy Spirit, we'll not

just get our daily bread for today, but with the

help of the Holy Spirit, we have it every day.

Holy Spirit will give you the ability and the power.

You know, Brain talks about provision, so I'm talking about

the Holy Spirit give you the ability to be able

to make wealth yourself, not just for ourselves. But we

are called we are we are blessed to be a

blessing and too others. Amen. So I thought about it

really is the power, the Holy Spirit that helps us

every day. So could it mean that our daily break

really is the Holy Spirit because he is able to

help us. Amen. Luke Chapter four, verse eighteen to nineteen, say,

it's the spirit of the Lord is upon me because

he has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to became,

liberty to the captives, and recovery of side to the blind,

to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim

the acceptable year of the Lord. Come on, we are

anointed with the spirit of the Lord. To what preach

the Gospel to the poor. How wonderful is that? Worse

the worse preach the God spoke to the poor, healed

the broken hearted for king, liberty to the captives, recovery

of sight to the blind, and liberty to those who

are pressed. So remember, it's not about our own ability.

It's not our one power. We can never do any

of this with our own strength. The healing, the miracle,

the power comes from the Lord. And here were neighbors. Amen.

So Don't be afraid to pray for your clique. Don't

be afraid to ask your neighbor to pray for your neighbor.

Don't be afraid to say to your friend in your class,

Jesus loves you. You know God cares for you. Can

I pray for you? Don't be afraid, have the confidence,

be strong and very courageous. Amen. Act Chapter two, verse

sixteen says, but this is what was spoken by the

perfect Joe, and he shall come to pass in the

last days. Say God, that I will pour out my

spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall purphesy.

Your young man shall see visions, your old man shall

dream dreams. And on my man, on my men's men's

servants and my maid servants. I pour out my spirit

in those days, and they shall purthesize. I will show

wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth. Beneath

blood and fire and vapor or smoke. The sun shall

be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before

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

And he shall come to pass that whoever calls on

the name of the Lord shall be saved. Whoever calls

the name of the Lord shall be saved. But what

this verse is basically telling us is that in the

last days, And how many have you know that? I

believe that we are in the last days more than

ever before. We are closer to the second coming of

Jesus Christ, more than ever before. Maybe you have heard

people say that for decades already, But yes, it's true.

We are closer to the coming, the second coming of

Jesus Christ. God is pouring out his spirit upon all flesh,

not some, not a few, but all that includes you

and me, every single person seated in this room. We

have the power of the Holy Spirit in us. Amen.

First Covintence fourteen, verse twenty four says, but if all

prophesy and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in,

he is convinced by all. He is convicted by all,

and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed, and

so falling down on his face, he will worship God

and report that God is truly among you. Actually, the

context of this verse talks about about the tongues. If

you're gonna read it, you know that they're saying that

if if unbeliever comes in or pre believer comes in

among us and we're purely speaking tongues. They may be

confused or they may think they're crazy. But Paul, she's

saying that if we all prophesy, come on, if you're

all prophesy, even an unbeliever or pre believer, when they

hear it, and when they see it happen, they'll be like,

God must surely be among you. They will be convinced.

They will they will believe. And you know, the probably

the question that they're asking in the entire life is

that it's God will. Is there God out there? And

when they come into our mize and they see us

prophesy into into day things. You know, the Bible tells

us to speak into things, as to speaking to things

to exist as do they did right, And even as

you prophesy, these people will see they will believe it

because they know that God truly has got to be

among us. That is the power. When you and I

were prophesied, the next word says Amos eight, verse eleven.

Behold the days are coming, says the Lord God, that

I was sent a famine on the land, not a

femine of bread, nor a turst of for water, but

of hearing the words of the Lord. So I want

to say to us, there will be a famine, not

of bread or food, but of the Word of God.

I think we're seeing it more and more these days.

There is a femine of the word of God. But

I pray that when somebody walks into extra or maybe

I should break it down smaller, when somebody meets you

in the marketplace, meets you in your classroom, they will

hear the word of God. They will not be starved

from the word of God, because you and I carry

the word of God with us, not just in church,

but wherever you are at, in your market base, in

your school, your campus, is your family. Come on, let

there not be a famine of the word of God

in exchers, I say to us, So we got to really,

you know, deepen our understanding of the word of God,

Deepen our knowledge of the Word of God, Deepen our

passion or hunger for the Word of God. We are

living in those days with you know that there is

a famine of the word of God. And maybe some

people have never even heard about the name of Jesus,

They never even heard about God who loves them, And

maybe they thought that they're forsaken for good, but they're

waiting for someone to tell them the truth that God

loves them and that God cares for them. Come on,

let it come from us, that it come from extras,

that it begins with us, and everyone of us have

a part to play. Amen. Now that we see this vision,

now that we can see, let us speak. I'm gonna

say that again. Now that we can see, let us speak.

So your book says chat, write, speak, preach, declare, suggests. Yeah,

maybe it suggests ideas of how we can speak the

word of God to some people. Speay the word of

God to someone to reach the more people proclaim the

word of God. Converse with your friend, have discussions, Encourage

a brother a sister who needs that encouragement. Don't just

bring your own words, but bring bring the word of God.

Bring the words of knowledge and wisdom from the Bible,

because there is plenty of it in the Bible. If

you read the Book of Proverbs, there's plenty of it.

So noway we can see the vision. Don't just see,

don't just hear, but let us speak. And I'm gonna

go deeper. We're not just talking about speaking in the

sense of talking about one another. But we're talking about prophesying.

Somebody say, prophesy, prophesy, because we don't just want to talk.

We want to start prophesying. Not that talking is bad, okay,

but sometimes when m okay, because talking sometimes if we

talk too much, if we discuss too much, we may

not get a job done. And what's even worse is

that sometimes we talk too much in a sense whereby

we gossip in Jewish and believe me, it happens. It

does happen. So let's not come to a place whereby

we are chatting about things that are you know, that

are not good, things are bad. You know, did you

hear what this brother did or what their sister did?

You know? Let's always give each other the benefit of

the doubt. Can we do that? Give each other the

benefit of the doubt? Okay? So we don't want to

just talk, okay, if but if you have to talk,

talk to the good talk the words of God, you know,

speak to all our clves of God. The Bible tells us,

you know, but we want to profstige and prophesying is

very powerful because we are foralthesighing the word of God,

and that something will come to pass, and in order

to purfect sie, we must know the word of God.

Protheside the word of God. Say to the value of

dry bones, live or breathe into the value of dry bones,

and they shall live again, you know. And so when

you hear somebody tell you about something that is difficult

or tough, they tell you that there's the situation there

in the day end, speak life into them, because life

and death is in the power of the tongue. Amen,

life and death is in the power of the tongue.

So you want to propose side into them. And so

I remember those in those days. I have a clique

that I'm very close with. He is seeking the Lord.

He has come to church many times. He went to

my my boss's church because that's nearer to care, something

that is quite far. And he brings his kids to church.

And oftentimes we check over over meals. Right, It's very common.

And then sometimes there are days that he feels discourage

or feels down, and I will the opportunity to share him,

to encourage him to prophecy into his life. And so

I want to just encourage you. We always have those opportunities. One,

you know, don't just talk, but learn how to prophesy

into their life, prophsize life into their situation. Amen, And

so five piece for you, even as we close purpose

prophesie or purpose every day, not just our purpose, but

prophesy God's purpose into our lives every single day. And

one way to do that is to pray the Lord's Prayer.

And so may I encourage us to pray the Lord's

Prayer every day daily. I think the teacher that executes

don day right, pray the Lord's Prayer every single day.

And sometimes as adults we also then to forget. You know,

I tried it. You know, sometimes I get momentum, I

get to pray for a couple of days, maybe a week,

and after all, after a while, you forget. So I

encourage us. Come on, if you if you want, if

you want one simple tic home point today, pray the

lords Prayer every day because in the Lord's Prayer it's

very complete. Our father who won in heaven, Hello, would

be your name, your kingdom. Come, you will be done

on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this

day our daily prayed, and forgive us our debts. As

we forgive our debtors. Leaders tant into temptation, but deliver

us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom,

the Power, the glory forever and ever. Amen. So pray

it every day. Pray it every day, and protesize God's

purposes into our lives. Second piece power, he says, speak

that God is with me and all things are possible.

So if you're going to a challenging time, then propheside

into your situation. Furtheside the power of God into your situation.

So I like it when Jajon shed the testimony about

the finger that was injured, and the parents came and

prayed with him. So they prophesied the power of God

and God's healing power over his hand or his finger.

And that's why you and I need to do take

every opportunity to purposely and to speak healing to someone

else's life, and to be very honest with you. I

sometimes I'm very shy about that, especially with my cliques

who are pree believers sharing me. I got these sick

nurse and everything. I tend to say, you know, God

can hear you. Oh, I tend to say, I'll pray

for you, But I find it very difficult to pray

for them on the spot, very difficult so you're not alone.

I'm also similar like that. I want to encourage you

and encourage me and encourage all of us. We can

do it. Come on, we can at least try. All

things are possible. And I still remember, actually one of

my coliques needed to go to a surgery and when

he shared my boss, my boss actually prayed for her

in the office, and his prayer was very specific. His

prayer was that you would not need to go for

the surgery, and actually he did. He didn't have to

after that. And so really we need to be challenged

that way, you know. And so I pray to you

and I will have enough courage to pray and to

prophesye into the situations of those around us. Remember the

bait is the power of God, not not our own strength,

but the power of God. Amen. Plan is God's diet,

the daily break, the tithe and eleaven. As I shard

to you earlier, the diet our daily break as you

download on the Lord. Tithe is our commitment as we

upload to the Lord. And the eleven is make a list,

see it come to pass, take action, and just rise

to your call. The next piece is prosper prophesy, God's

blessing over our lives and over those around us. Praise.

And even as you experience his blessing, praise, give him thanks.

Don't keep it to yourself. And the last one is

pass on. Keep seeing it, keep saying it, keep doing it.

And so we started by saying that. We started these

vision by saying, we all need to see the same thing. Okay,

we all need to see the same thing, because seeing

is the key. Seeing is the key. We all need

to say the same thing because saying is a doll

And we all need to do the same thing because

doing is the entrance to the newness of God and

the miracles of God. So come on, extra, even as

we have seen the vision, even as we have heard

the vision, we got to say the same thing. And

even as we say the same thing. We don't want

just to talk in our mouths, but we want to

do it. We want to be do us of the

world of God, and not just hear us. Can I

hear good? Amen? We all need to be in one spirit,

in the same vision, wherever we are at. I reminded

in the verses A close when you invite a worship

team to come out, this is my last verse. I

think it's not under slide have a cook to Verse

two says right, write the vision and make it plain

on tablets that he may run who reads it. So

I'm got to put our challenge or encouragement to my

leaders or my church in eximoney, maybe we need to

start feeling some boards, signboards or walls with our vision,

our direction for a year so that everyone who sees

it and reads it, here's the vision, will run with it.

Don't you want that? I think we need that. I

think we need that. We really need it. And I say, Lord,

help us, Holy Spirit, help us, because it's going to

be work. I know some of my leaders are already laughing.

It's going to be work. But we can do this.

Even we've got all things are possible. So that wraps

up the Unpacking Division series. And remember, if you forgot

everything I just said, or if you forgot everything that

we see in the entire Unpacking series, you need to

remember the vision. The vision is to see the entire

earth filled with the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters cover the sea. In simple terms,

just look around you, who's around you, in your workplace,

in your office, in your school, in your campus. Everyone

needs to hear of the saving grays of Jesus Christ.

We're going to be accountable because we have one thousand

people in access today. And if every one thousand person

just brings one person to church, did you know we

were double? We were double And if you think about it,

bringing one person doesn't sound too difficult. It's possible. We've

got all things are possible. We have of the Holy Spirit.

And are you ready to see the vision come to pass?

Beginning with Malaysia, beginning with sermon YEA, beginning with the

villagers and you know the different neighborhoods in SEMONYA, beginning

with our campus just opposite us in Nottingham. Let it

begin here. Let Vivor begin here. Revivor begins with you

and with me. Even as our hearts have revived, we

will begin to do what God has called us to

do and to see His vision come to pass. Amen.

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