Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church (Part 1) | Jason Martin

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We hope this message will light up your tea.

So the first slide was actually unpacking the vision of

ex Church. Right, So X Church vision there is across

the years ex Chess was born in birth in twenty

twenty so this year is twenty twenty five, right, so

we are how old twenty five years old? Simple? Right,

twenty five years old? And if you see right, across

the years God has given true pastor can different different callings,

different visions, different teams throughout the years, and all this

right ties together. Okay. So today is the start of

the first part. Okay, I wouldn't be able to cover everything.

That's why there is the part two, Part three, four,

five and six. So next night. So why do we

need to unpack the purpose of unpacking? So even before

we go into the vision, we have to unpack the vision. Okay.

So if you look in your books, I think the

first one the purpose of unpacking is we unpacked to

understand and then to undertake. Okay. We So when someone

gives you a vision, for example, if you are in

in corporate if you've been working or you are in

the corporate world, and somebody tells you, hey, the goal

is this, We're supposed to reach ten million dollars in sale.

That is the vision. Okay, there is the vision, But

then you'll be asking like, how what does it mean?

Ten million? Ten million? Is it gross? Is it that

where we're going to get it from? You know, the

vision is set, but we have to After the vision

is set, we have to slowly unpack it. So even

before we go into what the vision statement is, we

have to understand why. Unpacking it is very important. Okay,

So the first thing, like what is mentioned is we

unpacked to understand, so why we are getting the whole

church on board. You know that across all thirteen church plans,

every single speaker today is speaking this because every single

church plan represents ex church. Every single person sitting in

church who calls X church your partner is part of

this vision, right and by us understanding first of all,

you understand, it will remove every confusion. Once you understand,

then you can undertake what is undertake. Undertake means you

can do it. You know, for example, they say, hey,

go and get ten million sales. If you don't understand it,

how are you going to go forward and achieve it.

So that's the goal why unpacking is important. Okay. Next,

so the purpose of unpacking, well, you see, yeah, even

before unpacking the vision, you got the purpose of unpacking,

and that will cover it like the majority of today's

session already, and for today we will cover prayer, passion, purpose,

and practice somewhere around there towards the prepare. Okay, So

the purpose of unpacking when we unpack, When you unpack something,

for example, you have your luggage or you just shifted

into a new house and you're unpacked, different items go

into different places. They go into different rooms, they go

into different drawers, they go into different cabinets, right, and

each one of these seven we consider it as different

rooms or cabinets or spaces. So when you unpack the division, right,

the first part, of course, we need to unpack it

with prayer because although God has given the vision to

act such through past the kenneth there, it doesn't mean

that he has all the answers, right, And all of

us are part of the All of us are part

of the Yeah, all of us are part of the church.

Hence we have a part to play. So there will

be things that we are not clear of and that's

when we need to take it to God in prayer.

All right, we need to take it to God in prayer.

The second one is passion. When you unpack it and

you have no passion, no passion for the vision, what happens.

It's dead. It's a still born. The vision can be cast,

but if we have no passion, it will die. Okay.

The third one is purpose. What is the purpose of

the vision? You have to understand it as well. Okay. Subsequently,

after that we practice. Okay, the vision is given, we

take it to God in prayer, we get clarity, we

are passionate about what God has in store, and then

we understand why God wants to do it. And then

after that we start practicing it. Practicing it doesn't mean

we get it right the first time. That's why it's

called practice. While we have to continuously do it over

a period of time until we see the fullness of

what God has in stall. Right, So that's practice, and

then we also have to prepare practice. Every time we tweak.

We then couple it with preparation, and that's how we

get better and better and closer towards the vision that

God has in stock. Of course, with that comes with

a plan. We practice and we prepared, but with the

plan that God has given us. And most importantly, we

need the power of the Holy Spirit. Man can plan,

but without God, everything else fails. Right, So this is

the purpose of unpacking. Okay, okay, So the first one prayer.

So prayer, you'll just follow in your notes, right. If

there's blanks, you'll just feel the flank, because it'll be

quite difficult for me to say, okay, now there is

a blank, and then you feel this blank here. Okay, yes,

but the notes are quite in sync with the slights,

so you can see that, all right, So prayer, as

we unpacked, there may be things that we are not

fully clear about. That's what I mentioned. How many of

you all, right, your boss gave you a goal? Then

you're like, whoa immediately very clear? This is the target,

you say, like what, I know exactly what to do,

how to achieve it. I know who to talk to,

I know who will help me out, I know what

at the gaps immediately. How many of you all have that? No,

I just don't have that, you know most of the time, right,

Like I just share I just got just started a

new job. Okay, So this is a new role. New

role meaning there was nobody else doing this before. It's

a new role. So during the new during the interview process,

they said that hey, this is a new role. I say, okay,

what's the JD. We don't have a JD, we don't

have a job description. I was like, okay, so what

you plan to achieve? So they told me, hey, we

want to concert of customers. That's the thing. So it's like, okay,

I think after that right, based on the interview, and

after I got the job, they crafted the JD based

on what I said. And then after I got my

awful letter, then oh this is your JD. It came

after that. And it happens in the natural. You know,

when God gives us a vision, or when even your

boss or whoever gives you a vision, you may not

get it fully clear at one go. You have to

take one step at a time and seek clarity, and

we have to take it to God in prayer. That's

why it's a continuous thing to seek God. I'm telling

you the vision that was shared when pastor can I

share this it was twenty twenty one until now right,

we are still seeking God for clarity. You know because

God is the one that would direct our path. Okay.

So that's why prayer is very important. And why is

prayer important to you personally? Because you have your role

to play in the vision. It's not that he the

pastor has to pray or I Jason has to pray

because he's leading, ex claim, so he has to pray

for all of us. Now after that he just tells

me us what to do or whatever. Is not the case.

The fact that you're sitting here, the fact that you

are actier partners. It means that God has a plan

for you and you need to do your role as well. Okay,

So pray and ask God for clarity. Seek God. Okay. Next,

So next is the three other pieces. So the first

one was prayer, right, followed by passion and then subsequent

only purpose and then practice. So passion you start with

the why why we do what we do and say

what we say? So it's very important in terms of it. Okay,

So let's go to passion. Okay. So passion, passion? Why

is passion very important? Have you been in a team

which is really passionate? Have you worked together with people

who are really passionate? When you work with people who

are really passionate, nothing is impossible. When you work with

people who have no passion, everything is impossible. Right, Like,

there's a the what's this? I watch different shows right

where I like spots, So I like a lot of

those sports movies. So those sports movies, right, the movies

that usually is a crowd favorite will be when the

team is an underdog. Underdog meaning nobody expects them to win,

you know. But one thing that this team has, although

they are the last team that's supposed to win, they

have passion, and passion is the thing that propels them forward,

you know. And what more, for us, when God has

given us a vision and we take it to God

in prayer, we need to become passionate about it. The

only way we can get passionate about it is for

God's Holy Spirit to fallow fresh onness gives you passion,

so we believe, first of all, believe that God has

only the best for all of us. This is a

mindset shift. When we talk about vision. It's like, oh,

when you go to a company town hall, Okay, guys,

this is the vision everybody, uh, because it means more work.

Most of the time, it's stretch targets. We are going

to do new things, We're going to expand and stuff

like that. But when it comes to God, we have

to first of all, believe. The mindset shift is that

God has only the best for all of us. Do

we believe that you are here in actus? God has

given us a vision. You are part of that vision,

and that vision means that God only wants the best

for you. Okay, live life to full, meaning right all possibilities.

That means right now it might seem impossible, but with

God all things are possible. So like what this means

right is like for example, this when God challenges us

to do something, all right, First of all, do we

shrink back or do we propel ourselves forward? What causes

us to shrink back is because we think it will

cause harm towards us. Harm meaning it's uncomfortable, we will

have less of our own space, time, and stuff like that.

But if we get our perspective right and say that, wow,

God is challenging us to do something, and that something

means that God has owned the best for us, of

course we will propel ourselves forward. So an example is

when when pasta Kenner asked me to take over x

clang right because there was a void John radj and

family they migrated right. So Pasta Kenner asked me to

step into it. First answer, what will I say. I

would want to say a very spiritual and say yes, fashionate, yes,

I want to go forward, but I wasn't okay. I

had the same reaction, I'll there like this is not

for me. Instead of propelling forward, I shrunk back because

my perspective was that, hey, this will it will be

detrimental for me because it will eat more into my time,

it will cause me to be more busy or whatever

it is. But as my perspective changed and I say

that God, okay, I will say yes to you. I

do not know how, but I come to you in

prayer and I see clarity, and then I decide to

take a step forward slowly. Right, what happens? The point

two happens. God has enabled me to do things which

I never thought was possible. God has expanded my capacity

into ways that I never would have imagined. And that

is the only possible. If we step into God's calling

with passion. Don't do it reluctant me, because you can

be the older brother who did what the father won him,

but reluctantly that there's no blessing. But if you do

what God tells you to do, and you do it passionately,

the possibilities are endless. Can you imagine that, you know

that God has the best for you, you decide to step

forward and you do it passionately. Wow, Everybody will be

like how come? It's like, how come you can do this?

Or what is this? How is this possible? I'm telling you, Okay,

I want to be very honest, right It's it's not

easy to lead a church plan while still working full time.

And then we had different challenges in our family as well.

And then at the same time, I still like to

do my spots okay and stuff like that. So when

I put all that around, I'm like, uh, how is

that possible? That people ask me, how is that possible?

I think I never thought about it. Just do an

ela and And the thing is that because it's not

about me, it's about God. It's stepping into what God

has called you to do, and then God will the

possibilities you. With God, the possibilities are endless. You have

don't have to do it on your own strength. Okay,

So that is key and then the third point is

do you desire a breakthrough life? All of us? One

point number three? Right, we all want a breakthrough life.

But a breakthrough life requires first of all to step

forth in faith with passion into what God has in store,

and that will be uncomfortable. Right, So that is passion.

Next one purpose Okay, so purpose is living to please God?

Why did Jesus come down to earth? Remember I shared

this in Under the Discipleship series. Jesus came down to

earth to do his father's will because he wanted to

do what pleases God. That's what That's why Jesus came

down to earth to do the father's will. And our

purpose is to live to please God. Again, it's not

to please men, is to please God. Whatever we do

ensure that don't. Sometimes we say, hey, should I do

this or not? Should I go for should I go

for this holiday? Should I buy this house? Should I

take this job? Should I date this person? The best

way to answer that question is this decision? Will this

decision please God? When we every decision that we take,

if we measure it against this ruler, will it please God?

We can't go wrong? Right, Instead of trying to find loopholes.

You want to find loopholes, you can find loopholes. But

if we really want to be honest with ourselves and

achieve the plans that God has in stare, we have

to measure each of our decisions and say, God, does

this please you? Okay? So that is purpose and next line,

so the turn one is practice. So you got passion,

which is the what. And then you've got purpose which

is the why. Now is practice which is the how. Okay,

So the how? How are we going to do this?

How are we when God is passion, God has instilled

that passion upon us and told us to step forward?

How are we going to do it? Because it is

still scary, it is still tough. What we need to

do is we have to check the manual. God has

given us a manual, and the manual is the Bible.

So we need to apply the word of God and

the promises of God into our lives. Because what okay,

coming back to the example of me in I mean

taking on the Church plan and stuff like that. Right,

if I wanted to say, God, how am I going

to do this? Who should I refer to? Who has

the exact same situation as me? Who has this exact

same situation as me. Nobody. But since God has told

me to take this path, God will direct my path.

And God's word. You know, they say God's word is

like a GPS. He will only tell you the next

He won't tell you right. Okay, you go to the

left right straight trail, or you go to a GPS right.

It's every direction is your next step. Go straight five

hundred meters, turn left two hundred meters, turn right three

hundred meters. And that's how God's word is, you know.

But if we come back to the thing, we believe

that God is good and he has the best in

store for us. We know that whatever direction he's taking us,

it will always lead us to where he wants us

to go. Okay, When you do that and you follow

the word of God and the promise of God, what happens.

You get testimonies. When you have truth, When you have

the truth of the world of God and you live

by it, it results in testimonies. Do I have testimonies?

I have a lot of testimonies. I tell you after

taking up is I had more testimonies then. But you know,

when testimonies come testing testimonies are birth from testing. But

if we are not willing to be testing tested, how

are we going to get testimonies? And when we go

through testing, we need the truth. The truth is the

one that helps us endure the testing and come out

with testimonies because God has given us the way forward. Okay,

So transforming truth into testimonies. That's why we encourage everyone

to share your testimony, because what was the truth that

you applied in your situation? And how did God come true?

Whenever you share your testimony, measure it against the word

of God as well. What was the promise I'm going

through this situation? What does the word God of God

said regarding healing? This is a scripture that I'm going

to hold on. I'm going to catch onto it, and

when I get the testimony, I know it is because

God's words says it. I claim it and it is true.

And that's how I get my testimony. Okay, Right, next life,

So our mission. If you've been in the acts, you

might have heard this. Helping people believe, helping people believe?

How do you help people believe or believe? What? You

help people believe that God is good? You help people

believe that Jesus is the only way and the only

way you can do this. It's not by it's not

a lip service. People will know that God is good.

People will know that Jesus is the way, truth and

alive true. What we practice, every testimony that we have

needs to be powerful. Every testimony that we have is personal.

Every testimony that we have is practical. That's why it's like,

you know, what's the format of the testimonies that we

usually share. I went through this struggle, I sought God.

This is what God told me, this is what I prayed,

and this is how God came through the more, if

each and every one of us shares our testimony, we

are practicing what we preach. People will believe because it's

not about how eloquent we are, but it's about what

God has done in our lives. Right, So there is practice, okay,

all right? Next, So with that, if I'm a reflection

of a walking Bible word made flesh, what are people

reading about me? So Jesus was the Word made flesh.

If you're ready, in the Bible in the beginning was

the word. The word was God, and the word was God.

So Jesus was the word of God. But he came

down and made flesh and I. You and I are

a reflection of a walking Bible. You and I might

be the only representation of Jesus that and some people see.

So if it is, what are people reading about me?

There's what I practice, resemble what Jesus stands for, my

testimonies glorifying to God. Am I passionate? You know? Am

I purposeful in whatever I do? And do? I practice

what I preach? Okay, all right, so that is practice? Okay.

Next one is prepare. So how many of y'all if

you're in church, you remember this logo. We had a

T shirt with this logo. It was a green colored

T shirt with this logo. So this was in twenty twenty.

So the good thing in I mean in ex clang,

quite a few came post pandemic. So to all this

might be new, but I feel that's why this is

good that we are we are going through the whole

visions thing so that you get understanding of what this. Okay,

So in twenty twenty, we had had the team for

that year was purpose, you know, like how the team

for this year is disciple first, discipleship first. So the

team for this twenty twenty was purpose. So it started

with a clear purpose symbolized by a start button. But

you know that your start button is also a stop

button in your car. The button that you pressed to

start is also the same button that you press to stop. Okay.

So for some people, when they hear the vision, it

may cause them to start, and they are passionate about it.

They find purpose and then they practice. But for some

people they look at a vision and okay, this is

not something I agree, and then they decide to stop.

You know, and again this one God has given us

free choice. But we believe that if God has called

you the ex church, that this button would resemble start. Okay,

so we start and we move forward next light? So

are we Are you pressing the start or the stop

button as you listen to the vision of X. Hopefully

none of y'all would have like, okay, this is like

I don't understand what's happening, or I cannot get behind this,

or hopefully some for some people if I'm trying to

understand a bit clearer. So hopefully a majority of us

are pressing the start button. Okay. It doesn't mean that

we get it all, but again we come to God

in prayer and never passion, and then we practice. Okay,

let us hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying. Okay,

all right, I know it's a bit heavy. How are

you all doing? Okay? Am I trying to be as

clear as possible, you know I was. It's a it's

not very easy trying to to distill all this, but

I'm trying to string it together so that we can

see where it is leading as well. Okay, so after

we prepare right, so there there's a there's a quick

short devotion which faster cannot shed next line. As you're

hearing this, you might be thinking that, hey, this is

only for leaders, or this is only for those who

are this is only for or the pastors or the

home leaders, or whoever it is. I'm just attending ex church.

I don't have to pay attention so much. But the

question right now is who is a leader? You know

that all of us are leaders, because first of all,

you have to lead yourself. You have to lead yourself,

and if you are a parent, you're already by default

a leader. If you're in your workplace and you're leading

different ones, it can be direct reports or it can

be indirectly you, all of us are leading someone, so

all of us are leaders. So a leader is firstly

one who leads him or him or herself before they

lead others. So everyone one can be a leader and

then past. The cannon also mentioned that God makes no mistakes.

So whoever He has brought into ex Clang, whoever he

has brought into ext Church probably next light it is

because God has a plan and a purpose. So does

that mean that there are people who came to ex

Clang or people who came to ext Church and they

decided to move on or leave and stuff like that.

Does that mean that God made a mistake. No, It's

just that everyone has free choice, right. But God has

a plan and purpose. So the fact that we are

here and if we are honest with God and we

seek God and the Holy Spirit and the Holy says

that hey, you are here to root in to build

yourself yourself first your own faith with God and subsequently

to build Exchert. Then that this is where you need

to be. So who has God given to us? It

could be the people in your own homes. Who has

God given to you? The people that you interact with

in your dream teams, the people that you interact with

in different in ex. Kids, you know that the kids

that come from El Shadai as well, God has a

plan and purpose for them, and it's not by mistake

that they God brought him here. And the fact that

we are here, we if we are passionate and we

practice what we preach, we can be Jesus today them

as well, and then they will then accept Jesus as

their personal Lord and savior. So what is the best

we or you can do to bring out the best

in them? So this is a very important question. Whoever

we are dealing with, whoever we are interacting with, are

we bringing out the best in people? Or are we

bringing out the worst in people? That means, right, you

know that if you bring out the best in people,

people want to be around you. And because right, hey,

when I'm around you, I'm better. When I'm around you,

I feel hopeful, I feel confident. You give me encouragement

to do to go further than what I could ever

thought possible. So this is on a personal level. These

are questions that we need to ask ourselves. First of all,

acknowledge that you are a leader, because you first have

to lead yourself, right. And the second question is Am

I bringing out the best in other people. Okay, So next,

so God's preparation work in acts. So God has been

consistently and faithfully at work to make ext church pandemic

and persecution equipped for the past ten years. So what

does this mean? Have you all been to service at homes?

Worship at homes? Y'all had worship at homes. You know

that worship at homes happen even before the pandemic. It

happened before the pandemic because right the worship at homes

is when we do not have service on Sun here,

but we have service in different homes in preparation. If

there was a time of persecution and you're not able

to meet in big groups, that we are still able

to meet. And what lo and behold, the pandemic happened

and we were still able to meet in service at homes.

So God has given acts that vision and we have

to acknowledge that. So in that way, we are no

longer like a mega church. You know, previously we were

a church of one thousand, three hundred in one location,

but right now we have thirteen locations and about one

hundred each in different areas. And that is what God

has called us to do. Okay, all right, Next, so

God is calling us to prepare. God is calling us

to prepare. That means there will be a time where

we will go through what happens, if another pandemic happens,

or persecution happens, we should be ready. Right. So God

has called us to prepare. Next light, like John the Baptist.

So John the Baptist was like prepare the way. He

prepared the way for Jesus. Like Noah and the Ark.

Noah built the ark before the flood, like Peter and

the miraculous catch. So Peter listened to God even though

it was not the right time to fish according to men.

But Peter need listened to God's timing. So we have

to be like John the Baptist, like Noah and the Ark,

and like Peter, where according to the natural or according

to men, it is not the right timing. But if

we follow God's timing, then we will reap the harvest

or we will achieve what God has planned. God has

installed for us. And like what I mentioned earlier, what

God has installed for us is good. Okay, So next slide.

It is God who adds daily to the church, and

he who drew drew. Yeah, at least we drew. He

who drew the fish into the nets. Peter cast the nets,

but he cannot force the fish to jump into the net.

But Peter had to be obedient to avail himself and

cast the net. If we are not available to when

God calls us to do and what he calls us

to do, we will miss out on being part of

God's plan. Okay, next, So it is our job to

launch into the deep, to let down the nets, to

strengthen the nets, to enlarge the boats, and ready the partners.

This is what Peter did. He had to launch into

the deep. All Jesus did is say go and fish.

Peter had to do a lot of work. He had

to launch into the deep, let down the nets. He

had to strengthen the nets. You know, the nets were breaking.

The nets were breaking. He had strengthened the nets. He

had to enlarge the boats because his boat was sinking. Sometimes, right,

God's blessing is if we can't. That's why they say revival.

If we are not ready for revival, he can wipe

you out. Of course, revival will come like a flood.

And what did Peter do? He called the other boats.

You will need support, and you need to partner with others.

And then yeah, ready the partners. Enlarge the boat and

ready the partners. So at the right time, then we

can achieve what God has called us to do. Okay,

all right, let me see. Okay, wow, next, So this

is from Isaiah fifty four. Enlarge the place of your

tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings.

Do not spare, lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes, for

you shall expand to the right and to the left,

and your descendants will inherit the nations and make the

desolate cities inhabited. So he says heer, do not spare

lengthen your courts. It will cause you to be stretched,

but it's for good all of us. You want to

live a breakthrough life. But breakthrough life comes with breaking

right and stretching, and then God can use us. So

do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes,

which all of us means that we have to strengthen

ourselves in the Lord. Okay, So now now I'm coming

into the vision of Acceps. So you're already the importance

of unpacking. Okay, so don't worry. I'm not scarying y'all.

But like what I mentioned, the vision of access, it

will be we will just be touching the first part only,

so let's go into it. Okay, I'll do this in

ten minutes next. Okay. So ex Church was birth in

the year two thousand, So the year two thousand to

the year twenty twenty, we were sort of like a

Joseph Church where we had to discover ourselves. We have

to go through different challenges, different thing, but continuously war

into where God has called us to walk. And then

we were able to even grow from three all the

way up to about one thousand and five people. And

then we charch plants all across okay, and then the

second half is twenty twenty to twenty twenty four. So

this one I think a twenty forty Sorry, So this

is the Daniel. So remember we were speaking about Daniel

I think last year, right, So the whole Daniel period

is twenty twenty to twenty twenty twenty forty. So these

two angles, right, we will cover in detail in future sessions,

but the main thing is twenty fifteen, So twenty fifteen

is the year where pass Cannet chat about Hezekiah. So

Hezekiah was actually supposed to die by he prayed to

God and God gave him an additional fifteen years. Okay,

So these fifteen years God gave Hezekiah to set his

house in order. So this was also a time when

in act church right, we had to set our house

in order. That we were about a teenager at that time,

so a lot of us came during campus students and

then suddenly became a young working adults, suddenly became parents, family,

so everything was like havoc, a bit havoc, you know,

a lot of changes. So that's why at that time

I think God told pass Kenneth that hey, if we

had to set our house in order, we have to

really get it right so that we can move forward.

So this has a kayah. Fifteen years is twenty fifteen

to twenty thirty, okay. And then subsequently twenty eighteen, the

word was given also on Nihimaya. So if you all

were around, you know the team was rise and rebuild.

So rise and rebuild twenty eighteen. We also went through

different struggles, but we had to rise and rebuild and

then become stronger. We know our identity, like how the

Israelites they went back and then they rebuilt the walls

and then they became stronger and they achieved what God

in them to achieve. So this is what we're doing

also up to twenty thirty. All right, so rebuild the

walls and hang the gates. Okay. Next, so God has

set his eyes on twenty thirty so that we are

prepared to be stronger and build our next generation. So

all of us are involved in building the next generation. Okay,

and that's twenty thirty. That's why you know, the twenty

twenty five to twenty thirty, we we have the team

which is called Dream, d R, E, A M. There's

a lot of teams, but try and follow. So twenty

twenty five was disciple first, twenty twenty six will be revival,

you know, and then E in twenty twenty seven will

be evangelism. A in twenty twenty nine will be Action

and m IS missions and then subsequently we will reach

twenty thirty. Right, But so what happens in twenty thirty, okay?

That one's not very like a recording in past Canada

is not very clear yet. It doesn't mean that Jesus

coming in twenty thirty or whatever. It's just that this

is what God is asking us to prepare for. Okay, next,

So in twenty twenty, we celebrated our twentieth anniversary with

a clear vision of the next twenty years. It began

with kingdom, purpose and priority. That's what I mentioned purpose.

So let your kingdom come and your will be done.

So God declared Daniel as our vision for the next

twenty years, with Joseph being the vision for the first

twenty years. Next line. So what does this mean to

us as a church? So the big vision is actually this,

I think y'all would have heard this verse Habakuk two,

verse fourteen. For the earth will be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters

covers the sea. This is the big vision, that the

earth will be filled of the knowledge of the glory

of the Lord as the waters covers the sea, that

all may know. Remember we had the them that all

may know. So this is the big vision. Okay, next line.

So there is a similar verse in Genesis one twenty eight.

Then the Lord blessed them and said to them be

fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it. Have

dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds

of the air, and over every living thing that moves

on the earth. So next light, So three things that

we can draw from Genesis one twenty eight is the

first of all is what what is what the we

need to do is fill the whole earth? How by

being fruitful and multiply, And that's by banking disciples and

why so that we have dominion. So the word dominion,

we also can replace it with the word influence because

we need to have influence as well. Right, we need

to make disciples. We need to have influence for the

glory of God. Not to be an influencer on your

own is to be a positive influence for Christ. And

then you can draw all men unto Him for all

may know. Then people will come and find out, Hey,

what do you know that I don't? Who do you

know that I don't? What should you do? What should

I do that I'm not doing? And that's how we

can draw all men? Right, And this is the last light.

Right now, So even as you've heard all this right,

and you've heard different things about the vision and stuff like,

what thoughts are going through your mind. For example, the

question here is what excuses am I thinking about right now?

We're thinking that, Okay, this one doesn't make sense to me,

or I can't get behind it, or this one seems

too big, or whatever excuse it might be. You have

to identify it first and then take it to God,

because right, it's easy to miss what God has in

store if we think it's too difficult on our own

strength and we just discard it. But what we have

to do is identify. After I've shared all this, right,

what's the response that you have? How do you feel

about it? Are you passionate about it? Or are you

wanting to seek clarity wanting to understand? Which is fine,

But if there's any negative emotions or excuses that we

need to find, address it personally and say that God,

why am I feeling like this? Take it to the

Holy Spirit to convict our hearts so that we can

clarify that and then we can move forward. Yeah, and

He can speak to us as well. Okay, because I

don't have all the answers, but what I do know

is God has a good plan for me, and I

want to be in the boat when he is in

the boat. I don't want to miss the boat. And

if I need clarity, I will seek for clarity. If

it's tough, I will check the manual and ask God

for direction. But whatever it is, I don't want to

miss out on the testimonies because what is testimony is

truth applied equals testimonies, and that's what we want for

each and every one of us. Right So, even as

I get the band up, the call to action is

what is God speaking to me? There was a lot

that was said this morning, but what is right now?

Just take this time to seek God and say, God,

what are you speaking to me? Because right all it

takes from God is just one word, a rama word

that can change our lives and can draw us closer

to Him.

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