Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church - Session 6 | Pastor Steven Soon

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So we're gonna go into this just a recap of

the previous session before we go to this slide. Ah

quiz time. What did we talk about? Throw outwards?

You guys?

Remember what do you guys hear or true outwards? Throw

out just throw out words? Uh?

What was open book tesks? Open book tests?

You have the booklet in your hands, Joan join, Huh,

Leven I heard heaven for a moment, not wrong or

so Leven is bringing heaven down right ten percent for

the ninety Okay anymore anymore?

Anymore? What do we talk about tides? Yeah?

Very good?

Anymore God's diet?

All right?

What we saw.

We read? Very good? Okay, So just very quick recap

and go to I don't know if there's a slightness,

she says, yeah, there we go. Living with the power

of the tithe. When we talk about tithes a lot.

I know there's an argument out there that people say today,

do we still need to tithe? Because it's technically an

Old Testament thing. If you do the historical research and

what tithe is, it's a very old Testament thing. Right,

So then there is an argument right amongst religious scholars,

you know, theologians, judges, do we still need to do

the tithe and all that. Now, I'm not going to

go into that, although I'm very big on that. I

love going into understanding theology and all that and the

history of it.

But I just want to say this. I just want

to share for myself. I tithe.

Everything that I get ten percent goes a lot, without question.

That's me.

That's me, all right. I think I look quite healthy.

I think God has been good. God has been good.

Now the principle whether ten percent or not.

I think for us we believe ten percent, but it

has to be in your conviction. For me, I tie

ten percent and above that I give offering as well.

But know this, I don't give. I don't give these

to people. I don't just I don't see as I

give it to the church to do things.

I give it to God. That's the bottom line. I

give it to God. God.

This is my gift to you. This is what I am,

not even a gift. Actually, ten percent to me is

or is from the Lord. I give it back to

the Lord. Right, and God has been good. God has

been so good. If you are normal, I don't have

a time. I have so many times, so manays of

how God has came true for me. Right, And this

is what tithe is about. Okay, if you want to

listen Bagan, you can. You can go and listen to MPTG.

We went quite extensively into this last week. But given

to God what belongs to him. That is the heart

of tithe.

Right, And in tithing, when we saw, we reap.

There is a biblical principle, right, It's a principle of God.

What you saw, you will reap. Okay, you sold time,

you reap time. One of the things I've learned as

a leader is this. I always say I don't have time.

I got so many things to do, right, But I've

learned that when I sow into leaders I reap time.

It's a similar concept when you sow into something. When

you sow into relationships, you reap the relationship. You reap

the fruits of the relationship. Right, So what we saw,

we will reap. We also talk about the four levels,

God's diet, his deliberated our tithe and eleven. I'm just

give us a reminder. God's diet for us, not if,

but it's actually true. God's diet for us is to

feel the earth and have dominion.

Right, the thing of.

It, as steps, you have God's diet, and from God's

diet you have his daily bread. So God's diet is

feel the earth, have dominion. Then how do we do it?

The next sept make disciples, that is the daily bread.

Then talking about tithe, how do we make disciples? We

start with who we have, where we are, what we

have right, So whatever God has given to us, we

take account of it and we make sure we steward

them well. All right, disciples, those that God has already

given us. And then from there the leaven is the

next stage. Then we send them out them multiplication happens, right,

you send the disciples to make disciples. Okay, So that's

an easy way to just break it down to remind

us again what this is what we talked about the

last round. Now today it's actually going to be final

thoughts application. Now we've heard so much right condense into

the past five weeks, five rounds, five sessions, and now

we're entering the sixth session. Now when we talk about

this vision, when we talk about a vision of X,

the mission of ex Church and how we do things.

At the end of the day, it's about alignment because

when we work aligned, we will be able to move forward.

How many of you have done canoeing before? The two

person diament?

Have you tried?

Have you tried doing it without communicating with the person

behind or in front of you? Roll left, roll left

and the person roll right and end up you go

and hit the wall. Right, I have done canoeing before.

There needs to be alignment. With alignment, right comes to assignment.

You know what to do and then with assignment. It's

also one thing that we talk about is accountable. We

talk about what we do and we also have to

take note of what food we are burying. All right,

we don't just do doo doo doo do and then

we don't actually has it been achieving what we want

to achieve?

Right?

So alignment is important and we talk about the vision

of acts. We want to be aligned to the vision

of acts. We want to do things in the way

that we are all aligned. And that talks about you know,

it should be this. It has to be the same

for everyone across the board. Everyone downloads God's Daily Bread

everybody ties centralized in our spirit and lingo across the world,

not just Malaysia. We say not just Malaysia, because we

are planted across the world, so globally, all of ex church,

we all have a mandate from God.

We're going to move together, all right.

Doing the same thing, because when we don't align and

do the same thing, we will find ourselves going in circles,

right and end. We realize time is precious and we

will have wasted time. Okay, so that's number one. It

has to be the same for everyone across the board.

So thing for a moment, XVU are we aligned? There

can be different preferences. I'm not saying we all have

to have the same preference. Some people here like Beniegolocks,

are some people here like our old blocks our all right, Right,

preference is not an issue, but when we start making

preference the main thing, it becomes an issue. We have

to talk about principles and not preferences. Right, So principle,

are we on the same principle And if you're with

having the same principle, let's align and do things together

with that principle in mind, all right, So it has

to be the same so xbu can we do things together?

Can we work together? All right?

And number two supporting each other to get the job done.

Just now I mentioned about community. It's important. That's why

God established church so that no believer will be on

their own, because we are men to support each other,

all right, So to get the job done. Job of

course it's the vision, right, I as a CPC can't

do this alone. That's why I got a team of

leaders that work together. That we work together, support each

other to get the job done, to make sure church

is okay. We make sure we pray for the church,

because if the leaders don't pray, if the partners don't pray,

nobody is praying. So we pray, right, So we come together,

we support each other when one of us is dire.

And sometimes you know, the leaders do this for me.

It's very kind. Sometimes in usual fashion, I lose my

voice very fast. Right, Sometimes they'll come just like O

come to me. But even I help support you, like, oh,

I hope your worship leading this around, you know, or

share it? We do so so say hey, maybe you

take on worship leading, and maybe I'll take on worship leading,

and you take on sharing. And so we support each

other in the same way. Xbu Can we support one another?

All right? We are not alone.

Remember this is the power of community will get us

to places. Pasa kind of has this saying, we've got

and go good friends. Nothing is impossible. So there needs

to be two God and good friends. Good friends in

the sense of a community. So let's do this together,

all right. So again, the first one is it has

to be the same across the board. We have to

be aligned. The second one is we gotta support each other.

When you see someone struggling, please don't let the person drown.

Go ahead, check check in on that person. Hey, are

you okay? Do you need help? Can we support you?

I'm not just talking about Sunday church, Okay, I'm not

just talking about making this happen on a Sunday, but

the day today. Is there anything I can pray for you?

Is there anything I can help you with? Can I

help you babysit your kid? I think you need a break?

You know this kind of thing, right, Let's support one another.

Number three is this stall new wine into new wine skins.

I'm gonna spend a little bit of time here, Okay.

The Bible teaches about new wine in new wine skin.

And if you.

Read up about what this is all about.

All wine skin.

So wine skin back then was made of animal hide okay,

animal skin, leather okay. So the problem we're putting wine

back then, if they put new wine okay, freshly made

wine into all wine skin, the old wine skin will

break and burst. So to have new wine, they need

to create new wine skin to stall the new wine.

That is historically how it was done with wine, or

how they store wine into wine skins. In the same

way as the church. If we're asking God God new wine,

meaning to say, God, do a new thing. We want revival.

There is something we love to pray. The church has

been praying this for decades. We want revival, but we

don't offer new wine skin. We can never handle revival.

We can never handle the new things that God wants

to do, meaning to say, I give you an interpretation

of this. God wants to do a new thing. God

gives the idea many times to the leadership, often to

do it. But then we go, I cannot be done.

Try before. Other people never do it before.

Why we so patterned want to do this, oh wine skin,

We're not open to be new wine skins to receive

the new wine that God has installed for us.

So I want.

Challenges, ex church, Let's get ready for radical ideas. And

when I say radical ideas, you have to understand the

heart of it. We are not doing things for the

sake of it. We're not so free. Time is really precious.

But sometimes God will ask us to do radical things

so that revival will come, so that that one friend

of ours will get to know Jesus, so that that

one family of us get to experience God's healing. Oh God,

you want me to travel back to my hometown to

share the gospel with this family. You guys heard this

test of mein from me before I had to travel

back to Pinang, because God told me, I want you

to share the gospel in hockeyn, Oh my word hockey

and through a relative that is the hardest words the gospel.

Two months later, my cousin passed away. If I didn't,

I wasn't radical enough to obey as I got so Kayla,

I got timer. My cousin wouldn't have had the opportunity

to hear about Jesus. So we got to be ready

for radical things that God wants to tell us to.

If you're not open to it, God won't give us instead.

If you're not open to it, you end with frustration.

Why do we have to do this? Why do we

have to do that?

Again?

The heart of all this is ultimately to obey God,

to be open to what God wants to do in

and true us. Because God is a God of new things,

He wants to do new things.

He made us into new creation. His mercies are knew

every morning. God is a.

God that can do things new, make things new. So

we gotta be ready. Ex Church, we got to think

outside the box. When God gives us ideas, let's obey,

let's not reject.

All right.

Remember, it's not about us. It's not about what we

are comfortable with. It's not about what we are used to.

But it's about bringing God glory. He issus when does

new things and we are open, we are ready to

just flow with him. Amazing things take place, people get healed,

miracles take.

Place, things move. God wants to partner with us.

The Church is there, the body of Christ, to partner

with the hate, to bring the Gospel, the good News

to people around us, to bring signs and wonders of

the Living God. To those around us. Are we doing

okay so far? So let's never say it's never been

done before or ah, these only work in certain cultures

because there are sometimes the type of thing we will say, Ah,

this won't work in Asian country. Ana, how you want

me to go and pray for someone? Ah, this is

a Western thing. Asian with hasha shan, you do your thing,

I do my thing. We keep quiet in the office.

We don't talk about religious stuff. But if God is

asking us to do it, let's be open to it.

Be ready for radical things. Planting xbu is ready, girlfriends,

the leadership and God himself trusted a grow of inexperienced people,

no Bible school degree, no experience to plan. And if

we won't open to it, we won't have this. We

won't have people walking through our doors and getting safe

and this weekend getting baptized. Remember this, friends, We've got

to be new wine skins for the Lord to work.

So let's be radical and believe. Let's be history makers.

If it has never been done before. Good.

That means we will become the reference point.

What grow small church, planting supposed to grow big ma

other people doing that? Good we will be the reference

point for others. Again, it's not about bringing glory to us.

Remember that it's bringing glory to God. And we got

to also learn. There's something that I have to remind us.

We got to learn when we plan things forward, don't

plan looking back. Whatever has happened in the past, it

can be something that we take note off, but don't

just rely on things of the past to plan forward.

We got to learn to dream again. Ex Church, it's

a church of dreams.

I'm telling you there's a lot of things that we

do is really starting from dreaming. Dream is Freema right,

dream USA dreamler dream then we talk details right, so

be open to things like this dream. We have a

lot of things that will birth our dreams. Our Souceide

Prevention Society that is changing lives in schools, it.

Was birth out of a dream, right.

Our our Temy Society which is for you know, tutor

of special needs families or special needs was birth out

of a dream. And today's blessing families they are struggling

with children with special needs. So let's not forget the dream.

Ex Church, Let's dream, Let's dream God's dreams, and let's

be new wine Skins Philippines three twelve to sixteen says

this right, basically, this whole thing. I'm just going to

focus on one part of it that says this, brethren,

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 ahead, I press

toward the goal for the price of the upward call

of God in Christ Jesus. That's why we got to

move forward, think forward, think ahead, to look back in

the past. Don't dwell in past glories last time. You know,

I used to be able to do this. Now it's like, oh,

don't the glory days are no, the glory days are ahead.

Better are the latter days than the former.

You got to believe that because God is a God

of new things, he wants to continue to bring us further, deeper,

higher than's the God that we serve. That's why we

are never called Christians Christians. We are never called to

be in comfort. If there's any gospel being taught to

you that Christians are meant to be comfortable, that's a lie.

Christians are called to have faith, and faith is not comfortable.

Friends.

But we all here know those who have walked by

faith and not by sight.

We have all.

Ripped the benefits of faith. You've seen God move, and

you've not only seen God move, you've seen.

God and you've grown deeper with the Lord. Amen.

And when we talk about tithe, is this a lot

of things we share in acts? You may say, why

so step by step so proper, they got a manual

to follow. What we are sharing with you is what

we call from the Lord, not ways of men, but

principles of heaven. And we are teaching you that ten

percent the tithe again, the principle of the tithe this

do this ten percent, well, the ninety percent will follow,

all right. So we're not telling you how to run

your business, how to run your things and things that

you want to do. We're telling you how to run

God's business. Right, That is why we are sharing what

we are sharing. We're talking about how we should, in

the next light, how we should run God's business. It's

a ten percent we need to administer. The ninety percent

is yours again, the principle of the time. What has

God called us to do with the ten percent? Le's

honor that? All right? How it's got us ex church

to run. Let's work together and run with the Lord,

the tithe, the ten percent God's business. Now, as we

wrap up, we also want to say this right hints

for success. We can be successful with fulfilling the vision.

The vision is there so that we will one day

fulfill it. Right, there's the goal?

Right?

If not, why have a vision? Why have mission? Vision

is there so that we can fulfill it? But to

be successful to fulfill that vision. It comes down to this,

as simple as Matthew twenty eight, make disciples, Make disciples.

And I'm going to say this to the leaders. You are leaders,

be both to say follow me. Leaders, when you are

discipling your disciples, be both to say follow me as

I follow Christ. It's a very scary thing to say.

I know it's a big responsibility. What if I give

the wrong advice? But remember this, you are reflecting God. Leaders,

You're reflecting God. And many times people cannot see God,

but they can see you, so they follow you first

and you lead them to God. So remember this, my

dear leaders, when you make disciples, you got to be

bold to say follow me, and let your track record

and testimony speak for itself. Because your disciples, you see

some things in your life that go like, Wow, you

did this discipline and this practice and God came true

for you. Can you teach me? Then you say, okay,

follow me. You want to experience God in this manner,

follow me. Follow me and to go and share gospel.

Follow me, to go and pray for someone, follow me

for hospital visitations. Right, follow me. That's one thing that

will lead us to success in the vision. And another

thing is to do it small. We are a church

that does things small homes, small groups. Don't think about

reaching a thousand people, don't think about just let's organize

a rally. Oh a lot work, you know, organize a rally.

If we wait and they organized, rarey, I think we

are wasting a lot of time. But think about that

one person that you can talk to, That one person

in the office that you can pray for all or

pray with. There one person that you can go and say, hey,

you're free for lunch, you have any lunch appointments, Let's

go have lunch and and then catch up with a person.

How are you doing? How things back home? How can

I pray for you? Think about that one and let's

not think so far so far outside here, because We

are called to love one another because Jesus says this,

people will know that you are my disciples through this,

that you love one another. That's in the Bible. So

we got to love one another, all right. So just

stretch a little bit out of your comfort zone. Instead

of just caring for the person one seat away from you,

think of the person treats away from you.

Right.

We are creatures of comfort. We will sit with people

we are comfortable with. I know, I know, But think

about people that you don't talk too often. Can you

go up to that person and care for that person too.

It's not about reaching the masters, but reaching the one

or the two that's around us.

In x we also talk about this.

We have this statement where we say, plan a church

on every street and in every school. Wow, sounds crazier,

sounds crazy. You mean we got the rent holes everywhere

we go. But hey, friends, in ex church, we believe

every individual here, every believer of Jesus is the church.

People may not step into a physical church, but you

are the church to them. They see Jesus through you,

They see God through you, how you live your life,

your principles, and here's the crazy bad friends. They see

the crazy things that God does for you, then they'll

go like w So one of my really good friends, Sharon,

I had dinner with him recently.

We had dinner with him.

He's gonna be our photographer for a pre wedding shirt

and we were talking about things, and Sharon is saying

to him, because we that friendly and I we are unimates,

really good friends. Right, he's not a believer. And Sharon asked,

can you tell me things about Stephen? Back then tell

me things about Stephen. How you with you know, yeah,

my impersonation of Sharon tell me Steve. No, no, she

doesn't talk like this. And then that friend of mine

started sharing my testimonies to her. She already knew that

because I shared with her before. You know, wha I

always remember and this one, you guys said, this says

testimony that time we will do shoot above access to

small at the rooftop. This guy go and pray and

the weather change aw and he shared that testimony to sharing.

Sharon already knew. Today he say this story I will

always carry with me. I will always carry with me

everywhere I go. Today he's still talking about that testimony

to people around him, and he's not even a believer,

but he said this.

Is He said, well this one.

Don't play play this one, Steven Scott, don't play play.

Be the church where you're at. That's how people will

encounter God. Inviting people to church is great, but now

this is a threshold. It's not easy for people to

step into church because again you have to understand, is

another religion, another belief system. It's a higher threashold right,

and don't blame it on people when they don't want

to come because in the same manner it'll be tough

for us or so right. Think about it. But if

God is real in your life, show that through your

daily life.

Be the church.

That's why in Acts we say we want to plan

the church on every corner, on every street, and in

every school, because we believe in planting disciples. You plan

a disciple wherever the person goes. Think God will moved.

Your plan a disciple wherever it could be the most

secluded ulu or places.

God We'll moved.

We believe that by planting disciples, we plan the church,

and planting a disciple produces a leader. If you think

I'm always like this, I'm able to lead the church.

I've always been like, this is not true. I was

planted as a disciple for xbu and true that God

grew me to become a leader, all right, to be

able to lead. So when we plant disciples, we produce leaders,

leaders of quality. Leaders, not just leaders in the church,

but leaders that can make a difference wherever they are.

All right, met you nineteen twenty six, say say, but

Jesus look at them and say to them with man,

this is impossible, but we've got all things are possible.

Met you for.

Nineteen Then he said to them, follow me and I

will make you fishes of men. So let's not worry, fans.

God will enabled us wherever we are. We just got

to be available. God, here, I am the new wine skin.

What do you want to do with me today? I

want you to go and share the gospel. Ah, God

cannot lie. The person won't listen to me or lae.

Remember new wines can be open. God is the God

of the impossible.

Right, Hey, go.

And uh this this, Uh this this restaurant that you

always go to for lunch, Go and get to know

the restaurant owner. A God, it's only my one hour

lunch break. Like God, I want to be by myself, Noah,

oh by God, and see how God will move.

God planted you there for a reason.

My friends. You are a disciple of Jesus. God planted

you there. You are the Church. So make the difference there.

And of course, when we go, it is important for

us to know that we're not going on our own.

We're going with the power of God. And this is

the part many of us forget. Many times you think

God asks us to do this. I do a lot

of me, my strength, my capability to talk well, me

being able to not offend people when.

I say, you know, Christian things right.

Sometimes we even struggle with saying grace Gray in front

of colleagues, say grace. You know, sometimes we just pretend

we die our shoelacer thank you love for food and

just then me pray amen. Right, how many of us

were there to go a sorry? Let me say grace

for a moment, prailla. Let me pause you for a moment, Braila.

Right.

Sometimes it's something as simple as this is difficult. I

understand because I was there, right, But think about this.

You can start doing it and know this again, God

enables you. You're not doing this by your own strength.

You just have to step up by faith. Just start first.

Then God will supply what you need. And we talk

about fishers of men, right, fishers of men means fishing, right,

so we gotta learn this. For those of you who

do fishing, I've never fished. I've done prawning before. Hey,

some of you. We went prowning before one hour, fly

by really fast and we only catch one. Sometimes that's

what what they ring it.

Oh my gosh, but it's fine.

We also had to put a bait, the bait with

a worm, to cut a worm, put on a live wormer,

put in the day, and then go and prawl.

Right.

So, in the same way, God doesn't send us out

to be fishers of men to when we say fishers

of men, basically to share the gospel, to bring God's

live to people. God needn't just send us out without bait, right.

God sends us out with a bait. And that bait,

my friends, is the power of God, the supernatural, the anointing,

the signs and wonders and miracles, the healings and the deliverance,

the praying for the weather and the weather change. God

sends us out to be fisius of men. To be

sought and light, not without power, not with our own power,

but with God's power. And we sometimes forget this that

we can call upon God's power. God, you gotta help

me this God, the person is not well.

You told me to just buy faith. Pray God, you

gotta do something, man and God.

Trust in your power God, and then declare God in

the name of Jesus, I pray for healing. That this

person's sickness is healed in Jesus name.

Amen. You gotta be.

Bold to do it. And remember you have God's power.

And that is debate on the fishing rod the Bibles.

You know, the Lord's Prayer says this, right, Matthew six

is thirteen. For yours is a kingdom, the power and

the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

The kingdom comes first. We got to remember it is

God's kingdom that we want, right, that this is God's kingdom.

We want to enlarge to those around us, to show

to the world around us. Right, God's kingdom, God's ways

of doing things, God's principle, and we faced kingdom. God

gives us that power, his power to be able to

exhibit His kingdom. And when we do that, God receives

the glory. God receives the glory.

Amen.

But then there is one issue, my friends. Yeah, we

get God's power. We know the trail, share gospel, make disciples.

We've heard this for years now. The issue lies in

this in you and I confidence. We can know in

our head God heals, God saves, God delivers, God helps.

But the issue is us, our confidence sometimes in two things,

one in God, sure not, God will do this, or

sometimes in us sure not, whether I pray my prayer

powerful enough or not, where I say the right words

or the wrong words. Confidence has always been the issue,

right But I want to ask you this question. You

just watched the testimony. How do you feel when you

hear about someone getting healed? Oh?

God did this? How do you feel when you suddenly

hear someone I tell you are well.

I pray for God to give me a break through

my finances, and suddenly this happened and I had a breakthrough.

How do you feel confident? Right?

You? Suddenly again the reality of God is made real

to you. That is confidence. But I think it's a

little bit unsustainable if every time we need to hear

a testimony before we do something. I think there's the

wrong feel to rely on not sustainable this feel. I

think we need to rely on favor. And sometimes here's

the thing. Also in our daily life, right, we talk

about confidence. We feel like we need to. If you're

trying something new, right, what will bring us confidence is

also results? Right? Hey, this works? Are I try for

experiment a bit? For all these works, we can do more, right,

and I want to encourage us with this right. God

is a god of results or so, God is not

the type of are you have fun doing it? I'm

not going to give you results. Aha, you're on your own.

I think God really is excited and ready to give

us results.

But we just got it by faith before we see

the results.

And trust that as you do, as you carry out

carry out again the DNA, the vision of ex Church

in your own daily life, as you carry that out,

believe that there will be results, and I think God

will given. I'm God confident. God will give you encouragementual results, right,

and with the results comes confidence. In the next part,

there's quite a few words you can you can look

at it. I won't dive too deep, but I'll just

talk about the confidence comes with results. So there is

convision comes with revival. Clarity comes with revelation, Courage comes

with resolves, conquer comes with reliant celebration come. But I

want to talk about confidence comes with results. That's something

that we want to talk about. You see, results only

happen after we saw. If you wait and be scared

and just keep asking sure, I'm not sure, I'm not

sure or not, there won't be results. Simple math, right

is on equation. Something needs to happen to generate results. Right,

So then the key is here, take action now the

way if God has already put into your heart to

go and share the gospel to your family. Scary, I know, scary, scary,

but du la, I.

Didn't trust God for the results that.

Oh, God is asking me to go and reconcile with

this person, this person that broke my heart, this person

that did wrong to me.

Just do it again.

It's not about you. God will supply you what you

need and then there will be results. Can we do

that more? Can we be a church of faith? I

find that a very funny statement. A church of faith?

A church should be a place of faith. Right. If

we are called a church, that means it should be

the place of faith.

Right. So Let's have faith.

Let's have faith to carry out what God has mandated

has asked us to do. Let's obey and God will

give us the results. And this one also in the

next one is for the leaders. Right confident leaders. We'll

speak to leaders as well. Right conviction leads to clarity.

Clarity leads to confidence, Confidently to courage, courrec leads to conquering.

Conquering leads to celebration. Many times for the leaders here

the tough part is courage. Maybe we feel that we're inadequate,

Maybe we feel that we cannot, we feel that we

cannot really speak into this person's life. I want to

tell us this, have courage, take courage, because the Bible

teaches us first John five fourteen. Now this is the

confidence that we have in him that if we ask

anything according to his will, he hears us. So your

confidence and your courage does not come from how good

you are. It comes from the Lord, how great he is.

We don't have confidence because of lack of results, It's true.

But then for results, you've got to do something, then

the confidence will come. If not, it's just you're going

to just stay in that pull off. Not being confident

because there are no results, but you got to do something,

all right, so the results will come as you begin

to So these are things that that some statements for

us to reflect on. Pre Believers struggle with conviction. Believers

struggle with confidence, leaders struggle with courage. But Joshu one

nine teachers us be strong and very courageous. So we

struggle with this, but we don't have to stay in

the struggle. We can take action to overcome. Right, and

know this, we are not alone. Thank God that he

has given us Holy Spirit. Okay, in our daily lives.

Whatever we do, know this, you are not alone again.

And God did not send you out on your own.

God has given you the Holy Spirit to be with you,

to help you, to support you. Zachariah for six says this,

I'm gonna zoom zoom a little bit here, so do

follow along. Zachariah for six. Not by mind nor by power,

but by my spirit, says the Lord of Host, meaning

to say, it's not by your own mind, not by

your own wisdom, not by your own power, but by

the power the Holy Spirit, that you'll be able to

carry out all these things. So don't rely on your

own strength. Don't go like I can't do this. Don't

go like I've never done this before. But hey, say God,

I've never done this before, but you are with me.

I trust you.

Oh God, I'm weak in this area. I have some

leaders who tell me stive, I cannot chair one. I

cannot chair one. I cannot I really cannot do they

they are sharing so well, don't you agree? Everyone who

chairs again, not by my not by your own talents,

but by the spirit of the Lord. And you've seen

it happen in our church, with the leaders taking the lead,

paving the path. You think leaders are not scared. He

is scared also, but they just choose to have favor. Tryer, try,

I feel never mind, I try again. Holy Spirit is

with us. Look eleven eleven to thirteen. Can look at

the last part. If you, then, being evil, know how

to give good gifts to your children. This is basically

what Jesus was saying about earthly fathers. How much more

will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those

who ask him? Now, Jesus is not saying that earthly

fathers are all evil, Okay, context is important. He's saying

that even as humans, we sin, we mess up. If

our children ask us of something. We will give good things,

we won't give bad things. Right, so, eve, earthly fathers

are already like that. What more Heavenly Father, our heavenly Father

who loves us, he will give.

Us so much more.

And you know what, it's not just so much more

that he said. Jesus said, how much more will your

heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

Now?

Could it be we talk about daily bread, right, we

talk about the daily bread to do things that God

is asking us to do. Could it be that this

daily berate is actually need the Holy Spirit, that we

have the Holy Spirit every day to carry out what

we are called to do.

Look for eighteen to nineteen.

This is Jesus proclaiming from the Book of Isaiah coming

to pass right. The spirit of the Law 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 proclaim liberty the captives, and recovery of

side to the blind, to set at liberty those who

are oppressed, to proclaim acceptable year of the Lord. Guys,

if this can be a court that you stick on

the wall, this is it.

I pray.

This is how we live our faith, that we will

go out to preach the gospel to the poor, to

heal the broken hearted, to be there for people in need,

to claim liberty to the captives, to set people free

through the recovery of side, to the blind, to pray

for healing for people. Can this be our lifestyle, to

set a liberty those who are oppressed? Can we do that?

Can we start being nicer people? Can we start to

care more for our surroundings?

Start there?

Because this is what we're called to do. And again

we are called to do this with the help of

the Holy Spirit. By our strength, we cannot really cannot

too many needs, but by the power the Holy Spirit,

we can. Let's rely on our daily bread the Holy

Spirit x two sixteen to twenty one. And it shall

come to pass in the last day, says God, that

I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh.

Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall

see visions, your old men, your dream dreams. I will

pause here. It shall come to pass in the last

days that I will pour out off my spirit on

all flesh. The Holy Spirit. This is happening. The Holy

Spirit has been poured out upon all of us believers

born again Christians.

That means these will happen.

Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, Your young man shall

see visions, your old man shall dream dreams.

We are living in times like this? Are we doing that?

I will show wonders in heaven, a birth and signs

in the earth beneath that whoever calls the name of

the Lord shall be saved. This is what we ought

to be doing. Are we dreaming dreams of the Lord?

Are we prophesying? Are we seeing visions? Some of us

here as give with dreams?

I know this. Do we hold onto that? Do we

remember that? Do we remember this what God has given us?

Are we living out these gifts for the benefit of others?

Some of us catch visions. All these things are not flucal.

This is the Holy Spirit.

There are many times, even as myself as CPC, because

of my role, God will give me insights on the

things that I didn't know. One I was like, it

comes to me in the weirdest ways, and I will

find out not to scare you, not to scare you.

This just God equipping me to know how to lead

the church, to how to help different individuals with their

struggles right how to navigate different ones. God will give

in And if I don't do anything with that insight,

I'm being irresponsible to you, guys, to the Body of Christ.

That God has placed me in past the title aside

CPC leader title, aside me being in this community. I

have a responsibility with whatever gifts that God has given

me to use those gifts to edify you, to support you,

to help you, to pray for healing for you guys,

to prophesy over your lives. That's the gift that God

has given me to teach. There's one of the highest.

There's my gift in the fiveful ministry, teaching to teach.

So are we doing this? My friends?

Some of you here wake up having dreams of certain individuals.

I pray you'll do something about it. I pray you'll pray.

I pray you'll call up that person. Hey, I dream

about this. I want you to know I'm praying for

you and some of you have God given you dreams

and visions about me, and you have done that, which

I'm so thankful. Thank you for doing that, because I

feel like, Wow, I feel supported.

Okay, I better pray.

Since another person dream about days about me, I better

start praying.

Can we do that?

We are living in such times where there needs to

be signs and wonderus friends, not from ourselves, but by

the power of the Holy Spirit. Are we practicing our faith?

God has given us the Holy Spirit. It's not just

for our own benefit, you know. For the Christian life

is as such. God has given us gifts, not for

ourselves and not for our gain. Is always for other people.

If God has blessed you with finances, harley lujah, but

know this, God has not blessed you with finances just

for your own enjoyment.

Is so that you can help someone in need if

we ever give off. I don't know.

Solving problems don't just solve your own problems. Are help

people solve their problems as well. Be a solution, because

that is what God has given the whole Holy Spirit

to us for, so that we can help those around us.

So that we can do this, so that it can

bring science and wonders to the world, so that the

last part that whoever calls the name of the Lord,

they see this, then they'll think of the Lord and

they'll call upon the name of the Lord, and when

they call upon the name of the Lord, what happens,

they shall be saved.

I'm gonna come to an end now.

I focus a little bit about prophesy because I think

there is something that we kind of lost a little

bit in the reacent two years. In XBO, we used

to be really good in this. We are very good

at prophesying.

The Word of God.

I want to encourage us to start doing that again,

right because you see, when the Holy Spirit comes upon us,

the first thing that changes in us is.

Out lingo the way we speak.

Do you realize when God comes upon you, you don't say

stuff like die Ella, Saylor, hel Goddela. Your lingal changes

to this happens is okay, God has a plan. All

bad things happened. It's all in God's plan. That means

a testimony is at hand.

This happened.

I'm going to prophesy and say that the weapons of

the enemy shall not prosper. When the Spirit of God

comes upon you, the first thing that changes is your lingo.

You see First Corinthians chapter fourteen, twenty four to twenty.

Five says this. But if all prophesy, I want you

to highlight that.

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 hearts

are revealed, and so falling down on his face, he

will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

I pray this is our community, that when they see us,

they see how we prophesy, they see the convictions of

our hearts, they see how we live our life. They

can't help but notice God is here. But you see

it takes all see the word. But if all prophesy

he and then an informal unbeliever that comes in, he

is convinced not by God himself, but by all that

are here. He's convicted not by his own self, but

by what he sees is happening around him. So, as

a community, I pray we will be that community of

faith that we walk the doglar. We don't just say

we are Christian, but then the words that come out

of our mouth very flower ear right. I pray that

we will live out faith where when we are faced

with impossible odds, we will overcome by the power of God,

and people cannot deny that there is a God in

your life. The greatest tragedy is I believe living as

a Christian but never really living with Christ. To the

end of life, we realize actually our faith was really

just superficial. We've never really encountered the power of God.

I pray that there will not be the story for us,

all of us week to week, day to day, month

to month, year to year. We'll get to prophesy and

say of God's goodness and testify of His works in

our lives. I'm still I'm not I'm telling this, I

myself am trying to walk the talk as well. I'm

trying not to talk about testimonies of the past. I'm

trying to have also live up by faith so that

I have testimonies today. Every time prayer service, I got

a new testimony to share. Oh no, I say this

cornity or the chapters say past even you say right

every prayer service. But most of the times I share,

I believe most of the times I do share. But

can we can this be for us? Can I encourage

your church that we have fresh testimonies. Not only will

you get to experience God for yourself, but people get

to experience God through you.

Isn't that beautiful coming to a close?

It must Eight eleven says that I will send a

famine on the land. And this is what we believe, friends,

and this is a prophetic word that is given to

ex church. There will come a time where the word

of God will be scars. We don't know how that

will look like I personally believed in d d will

be a pivotal year for the Christian faith. We don't

know how it's going to be like. There could be

persecution in other countries. He has shown Bibles are being

altered or confiscated, and people have been punished by being

jailed or even by death for owning a Bible. But

there will be a time there we are famine in

the land, famine of God's word. But let's pray that

it will always be found in next church, that when

people see you or see me, we will half the

world of God. That means we've got to start depositing

God's word in our hearts and in our lives every day.

Let's read the Word. You guys know this, I always

say this. Please read the Bible every day.

Deposit, deposit, deposit, because one day when we don't have

Let's say we don't. We are not able to have

a physical Bible or an e Bible. That means it's

all in us right, we are living it now, the

Word of God in our lives. And I end with this,

now that we see, now that we see the vision

of God, now that I hope we can start seeing

what God is trying to do through our church. We've

got to start speaking. We've got to start prophesying. We're

got to start declaring God's goodness. We've got to start proclaiming.

That means a thing about this In every conversation that

you have. Can you do a faith proclamation that means

when people tell you the hardship, let's not start with others.

When you're yourself going to a hardship. Can you start

proclaiming and prophesying over your own self first, that I

shall not be held down by my situation. I shall

not have my soul downcast just because I'm going to

Because God is good, and I proclaim his goodness over

my life and over my situation, I will not stay

where I'm at.

I shall overcome.

Can we start with us, and then when someone comes

to you, I just got this diagnosis from the doctor.

I don't know what to do. It's hopeless. Then what

do we do? Wedeclare hope. We say, in the name

of Jesus, you are healed, trusting Jesus, and you will

be well. Your soul will be well. There will be peace.

Now that we see, let's speak. Let's stop just talking,

but let's start prophesying.

Enough with empty words.

But let's declare truth, God's worth, God's word with love.

I close with this five peace, I know, I say

I close with three times Ready, five peace, purpose, power, plan,

prosper pass on prophesia or purpose, pray the Lord's prayer daily.

Can we do that? Because in the Lost Prayer it

says this, that your will be done here as it

is in heaven. Prophesie or purpose. God, you have asked

me to do this. I prophesy that you will come

to pass. Lord. You ask me to share the godspel

with this person. I pray, I prophesy you will come

to pass and the person will come to know you.

Can we start doing that in your morning prayers when

you pray when you wake up in the morning, Can

you pray this prayer? Lord? Wherever I'm at today in

the office or wherever go, Help me be the salt

and light that I may bring the Gospel to those

who have not heard. Bring the good news, Bring your

light to those that have not seen your life.

Power.

Speak that God is with me. Start saying that to.

Yourself, I'm not alone.

If you ever feel alone, know that the truth is

you are not because Holy Spirit is with you. Start

saying that God is with me. All things are possible

in Christ Jesus. Start prophesying that plan, the third pe

God's dire, the deliberate, the tide eleven. We talked about this,

so I won't dive too deep into this. Know the

plan all the purpose, then you know.

What to do.

Prosper propheside God's blessing. We are not prosperity Gospel are.

But we've got to prophesy that God we will provide

because that is his character. He never short changes his children.

You do it for the Lord.

You think God is gonna short change you?

Past homes we talk about giving, right, do you think

God will short change you if we give to him.

I'm saying this, are not giving to the church, not

giving to people. Let your conviction be I give it

unto the Lord and you think we talk about any

of us regive. Let's not tit out with God. Lad calculative.

I don't think God was calculative with us. If God

asked us to do something, know also this, and this

is the truth I've come to recognize. Many times we

think we're doing God is asking us to do it

for him. He's asking us to do it for ourselves.

It's for our own good. It's just that many times

you don't see it. So professy God's blessings. God, you

will provide. I will have a breakthrough. I will never

be in lack because I follow my good shepherd, who

leads me by steel waters that I may drink, my

green pastures that I may eat. That I will always

before praise God, even in times of suffering, and watch

Him come true for you pass on, keep seeing it,

keep saying it, keep doing it, keep doing it, and

then the rest the people around you will start doing it.

Can you imagine all of XBU we start doing this?

What an admisphere of faith? What wouldn't God do?

Amen?

Seeing is the key understanding that this is what God

wants to do in our church, and true us speaking

and prophesying is the door. Doing is the entry into

the new thing God wants to do, the new wine

to the new wine skin.

Friends.

One easy takeaway don't overthink, just do. Just leave out

your faith God ask you to do it. Do it.

If God has put something in your heart, pursue it.

Don't sweep it under the cupboard. Don't ignore that it's

not there. You won't see God in your life. Then

you got to leave it out what God has asked

you to do.

Amen.

If that we've come to the end of the unpacking

the vision of X church, The heart of the Vision

of X if I can bail it down, is to

do things Number one, to see every single believer prosper.

And when we talk about prospers, I'm not talking about

material wealth. I'm talking about living out God's purpose for

you to the very fullness. There's a vision that the

heart of the vision number one, okay, number two, it's

not for you to keep the As you live out

the purposes of God.

In your life, you are men to pass it on.

It's man for the world to see that there is

a God that loves them. That is the heart of

the vision of X. And I pray x Banaoa Tama.

We will carry out this vision together. You'll fight this

fight together. We'll run this race together. Don't struggle alone.

You're finding your heart to be a light in your office,

tell your homes. Can you please pray for me that

God will strengthen me in the midst of all this

temptation and the wrestle for my conviction. Let's do it together.

If you need someone to talk to, can you come

visit me? Uh oh, we go Macan for dinner. I

just need someone to talk to and let's end if

I wanted to and prophesy, prophesy.

Amen.

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