The gift,the giver and the gifted | Pr Sandra

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We hope this message will light up your day.

My message today is not about the lion, the witch

and the Lord wardrobe. When it's about the gift, the

giver and the gifted. Okay, cool, And just to just

give us a little yeah, just to open our hearts.

And not only just that one time giving, but anytime

when God speaks to you, or when you want to

prepare something for the lot, just something to a spin

inspiration for you. So if you are okay, do you

mind we read God's work today?

Yeah, we'll read it. I'll read it together.

You read with your eyes, you can read it, We'll

believe you want vocally, but with sound. Boone bolet Okay,

I'm reading today Second Corinthians, chapter eight, verse one to fifteen.

Second Corinthians, chapter nine, verse one to fourteen, from the

New Living Translation. Okay, so you can follow through with

me in your own Bible versions or you can see

that watched the screen because XTV helped me put the

scriptures on slights this morning.

Amen.

So let's read and if you would just follow me,

you will discover the story here. We're going to be

reading Second Corintiance, chapter eight. Now this is Paul writing

to the church that he planted, the church that he planted,

and now he's writing letters to them to remind them

about God's call on their lives.

All right, here we go.

Now, I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters,

what God, in his kindness has done through the churches

in Macedonia. They are being tested by many troubles, and

they are very poor, but they are also filled with

abundant joy which has overflowed in rich generosity.

For I can testify that they gave.

Not only what they could afford, but far more, and

they did it of their own free will. They begged

us again and again for the privilege for sharing in

the gift for the believers in Jerusalem. They even did

more than we had hoped for. Their first action was

to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just

as God wanted them to do. So we urged Titus,

who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return

to you and encourage you to finish this ministry of giving.

A man wow, a ministry of giving.

We have ministry of hospitality, ministry of ushers, and now

we're a ministry of giving. Since you excel in so

many ways in your faith, in your gifted speakers, your knowledge, your.

Enthusiasm, and your love from.

Us, I want you to excel also in this gracious

acts of giving Verse eight. I am not commanding you

to do this, but I am testing how genuine your

love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the

other churches.

Verse nine. You know the generous grace of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor,

so that by his poverty he could make you rich.

Amen. Here is my advice.

It would be good for you to finish what you

started a year ago. Last year, you were the first

who wanted to give, and you were the first to

begin doing it.

Now you should finish what you started.

Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched

now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have.

Whatever you give is excel if you give it eagerly

and give it according to what you have, not what

you don't have.

Of course, I.

Don't mean your giving should make life easy for others

and hard for yourselves.

I only mean that there should be some equality.

Right now, you have plenty, and you can help those

who are in need. Later they will have plenty and

can share with you when you need it. In this

way things will be equal, as the scripture says, those

who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those

who gathered only little had enough.

Amen, hallelujah.

The last you know scripture there those who gathered a

lot and nothing left over. It comes from Exodus chapter sixteen,

where the children of Israel gathered manner. They if they

had more, nothing left, if they had less, just.

Enough, always enough. Amen.

Now we move to Second Corinthience, chapter nine, verse one

to fourteen. Try to follow me, Amen, and or read

through So nine chapter nine, verse one. Paul says, Yeah,

I really don't need to write to you about this

ministry of giving for the believers in Jerusalem, for I

know how eager you are to help. And I've been

boasting to the churches in Macedonia that you in Greece

were ready to send an offering a year ago. In fact,

it was your enthusiasm that stirred up many of the

Macedonian believers to begin giving.

But I'm sending you these.

Brothers to be sure you really are ready, as I've

been telling them, and that your money is all collected.

I don't want to be wrong in my boasting about you.

We could be embarrassed. Not to mention your own embarrassment

if some Macedonian believers came with me and found that

you weren't ready after all that I had told them.

So I thought I should send these brothers ahead of

me to make sure the gift you promise is ready.

But I want it to be a willing gift, not

one given grudgingly.

Verse six.

Remember this, a farmer who plans only a few seats

will get a small crop, but the one who plans

generously will get a generous crop. You must decide in

your heart how much how much to give, and don't

give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves

a person who gives cheerfully, and God will generously provide

all that you need. Then you will always have everything

you need and plenty left over to share with others.

As the scripture says, they share freely and give generously

to the poor, their good deeds will be remembered forever

Verse ten. For God is the one who provides seed

for the farmer, and then bread to eat. In the

same way, He will provide and increase your resources and

then produce a great harvest of generosity in you verse eleven. Yes,

you will be enriched in every way so that you

can always be generous. And when you take your gifts

to those who need them, they will thank God. So

two good things will result from this ministry of giving.

The needs of the believers in Jerusalem will be met,

and they will joyfully express that thanks to God verse thirteen.

As a result of your ministry, they will give glory

to God for your generosity to them and to all believers.

Will prove that you are obedient to the good News

of Christ. And they will pray for you with deep

affection because of the overflowing grace God is given to you.

Thank God for this.

Gift, too wonderful for words to the reading of God's Word.

Amen. All right, if you've never read chapter eight and nine,

now you read it with me.

This is a portion of Second Corinthians. Now the background

of the Corinthian Church. Said, as I said, Paul planted

the Corinthian church. He was the pastor there, and then

he handed it over like how we do here. We

planned the church in Pasidor Pasadenia, and then he went

away to plant other churches, and he heard about some

stuff that was happening in the Corinthian Church that was

not good. People were doing things like, you know, marrying

their brothers sister something like that. Not so good, not

so healthy. And then there was gossip bickering. So he

wrote to the church. He almost fell I have to

write this hard letter. But then there's this section where

he was reminding them about their their their eagerness, the

enthusiasm to support the church in Jerusalem, the believers who actually,

if you know by history that the believers in Jerusalem

were highly persecuted because they did not believe that Jesus

is the King of kings and the Lord of laws,

that he's the savior. They don't judaism, amen, all right,

And so they were raising funds to send to Jerusalem

to help the believers because they were under much persecution.

And so the church in Korin said yes, we will

do it, but then they forgot. So early year they

said yes, and later they forgot. So the following year

Paul writes this and to remind them. So I'm just

going to draw out my thoughts and my own readings

of what it can reflect on us just from scripture.

Is that?

Okay, Church, you're very quiet. Come on stand forty five service.

You should be alive. Amen.

All right, no time, no time, finish quickly sent Okay,

I finish quickly, all right?

Okay.

So the gift, the giver, and the gifted. My encouragement

to you Church, as we prepare for not only our

aniversary giving, but just to understand the heart of giving,

as the Lord will speak to you over the year

whatever God would speak to you, that you'll be ready

whatever time God speaks.

Okay. So I first start with the gift. Amen. So

the gift.

The gift is like seed, Amen, seed that you will sew.

So I think you all have a seat. Whatever that

you have in your hand is a seat, the seed

that you will sow.

And what is the seed?

It's your money, all right, I said it. Okay, don't

stone me. I have to talk about money in judgment.

But then Bible, God talk a lot about it. Seed

during your soul. What is it your money? It's a

sacrifice of your love. It's a willing and generous gift.

This gift needs to be a willing gift. It needs

to be a generous gift that you give out of

much sacrifice, and you're going to sow this Amen. So

as you prepare and you think, why am I giving

this gift? What is this gift? This gift, according to Paul,

is like seed that you sew.

Amen.

So I want to encourage us. Perhaps you have not

been along with us? And how do you do this?

How does God would speak to you?

For me?

When I prepare the gift, I give from my own

heart by desire. This is what I want to give

to the Lord. And many times it could be more

than what I might have. But of course, as we

read scripture, he says, you know, give what you have,

give in proportion to what you have in chapter eight, right,

and and give accordingly. Give Give whatever you give is acceptable,

and may you give it eager?

All right? So give from what you have, not what

you don't have.

So you know, one is no one can tell you

how much or whatever you give and don't so this

gift that you're on your hand, don't feel like it's competition, No,

sh I say earlier, Hey, Richard, how a much you giving? Alma,

I don't have that much to give? Then you feel pressured,

and you actually give so much you little or you know,

then you get so I give so much?

Pressure again, how come I'm here should give less? So

the pa you say, don't feel pressure.

Whatever you give, you give according to the proportion that

you have and how God is speaking to you. So

two ways you can go about it. You can tell

God like I do. I say, Lord, I'm blessed by you.

So I have this gift I desire to give. Lord,

help me meet that amount of seed that I want

to give. Some of you will say Lord, how much

should I give? You can also ask that and then

let the Lord speak to you. So for me, I

just am I feel so blessed, I'm saved, I've been

here delivered. I just say, Loh, whatever I have is yours.

So I want to give you a gift, and and

for most times the Lord provides. I'm amazed at how

God provides the gift that I want to give, and

and it comes in different forms.

How does it come?

So this year praying, praying about it, and decided to

set aside the number and.

Then guess what government give me back? Money? Two years?

Two years one? I'm like.

In fact, it's called it what you give me back?

Money you give me once, when do you give me

a second?

One?

Then found out, oh, during the pandemic, I still paid.

We put in our what do you got it our

he is in come text? Yeah PCB.

But they didn't read fund back our funds.

Oh, very quickly they gave me back all our two

years worth of texts.

And and so there's funds now whoa okay, and there's

another halb that know whatever? And I want to give.

So God gives as you desire to give to him.

You and ask him, you pray about it. You know,

you put yourself out there with a lot to experience

God's provision.

Amen.

So now I'm ready with the seed and I want

to sow that seed.

Amen. So seed is in our hands. We need to

sew it.

And when we sew it, it will go further from

when we first started.

Hallelujah. Amen.

We may have sown a lot in Singapore back in

two thousand and nine. There's a long time ago, but

we're gone further.

Than sing Upore.

Now. As a church, we've had the opportunity not only

to plant jas, but to touch many other lives, other ministries.

So even the context of church. Your money you're giving,

your hard work has gone further than where you are.

Somebody's going to meet you in heaven one day and

shake your hand and say hey, thank.

You, Daniel. And you're like, who are you? I don't

know you?

Is it?

I know you?

Just like the Macedonian Church was poor, they were persecuted,

but they wanted to give to the believers in Jerusalem.

And they maybe Macedonian don't even know their names, don't

even know their face, but one day in heaven they

will say, hey, thank you because the gospel reached me.

Thank you Daniel.

And you're like, whoa, I didn't go to Siberia, but

the funds reached me. So there's always seat in our

hands on and encourage us. Whenever you give to the law,

always look at it as seat that God has given

to you. It's a generous seed, it's a willing seat.

It's a sacrificial seed of love that you're going to sow. Amen.

If you can look.

At it as seed and it's not departing from you,

it is extending yourself.

Amen.

Yeah, it's hard work. You work very very hard, and

you earn it. It's your blood, sweat, and tears every

day you work. Okay, it's your gift. Someone gave it

to you. Whatever you know, it's seed in your hands.

And you know that your life, actually your life is

your money because you work very hard for it. You do,

and God some of you. God has given you power

to make money. That's what Deuteronomy it says, God give

you power to make money. You're so good at doing business.

So whatever God has given to you is a real blessing.

How do you want to sow that seat that's in

your hand? They will go further than your hands and

feet can ever take you. This is how the Lord does,

and his economy never runs dry. God never forgets you.

He's so good and this is what He's done. Here

for the challenge of Paul speaking to the church in

corinth to the believer, saying, Corinthian, you forgot, but you

better continue to give.

Why because the Macedonian.

Church, who's poor, persecuted, in trouble, hurt that you want

to give all. Wow, they so inspired, not pressured, inspired

to give, and so pausing. It's okay, it's okay, Macedonian brothers.

You already persecuted. You really don't have you don't have

to give your poor don't call me poor, don't rob.

Me or my blessing from heaven. We want to give

to go and now no, we want to keep giving.

That's why it says that they gave more than they

could have.

They just that they I have every set I give

you because the believers in.

Jerusalem, who are under greater.

Persecution need our support. WHOA they said, don't stop me,

let me give. And so Paul was just encouraging the

Korean church. The Korinthian Church was a very The people

in Korine were very you know, eloquent, They were very rich.

They were very well off people there and the church

where he planted, they wanted to give. But then they forgot.

I think somewhere along the line. The church problems. So

see problems everywhere, okay, but Paul had to address the issue,

and he was encouraging.

Them to give. Amen.

So you have the gift, and you hold that gift,

don't hold it too hard. Also, don't tell please let

go the gifts where they can fly, because.

Sometimes we give it. Tell me where no, cannot do this, No, you.

Gotta let me let them have wings to fly and

to perform that which God wants it to perform. Amen,

let it go. Let it go, and he will go far.

Then the giver to the giver.

Amen. Well, the giver is the willing, willing vessel. Amen.

Guys, you're the carrier. Yeah, praise God. Don't carry disease,

carry blessing. Okay, you're a carrier. You're the carrier. You're

the generous sower. The giver is the one that sows.

You're the sower.

And every time you sew, there's overflowing grace on your life.

God a bounds to you. Have you experienced this church?

I hope you have because you give. You give your

not only your tithes. You give your offerings, you give pledges,

You give to different needs around you, as the Lord

ministers to you.

So you give. Right. Have you given at times when

you didn't have enough, but you gave?

Have your experienced God's over flowing, abounding towards you are

kind of provision?

Amen?

And that's what he's saying. Paul is encouraging the church

in Corinth In chapter nine. He says, you must each

decide in your heart how much to give. Please don't

give reluctantly or in response to pressure don't because God

loves the cheerfulgiver, and God generously provide all you need.

I pray you have experienced this one way or another.

Then you always have everything you need, plenty life over

to share with others. And as the scripture says, you

know you chef freely and give generously to the poor,

their good deeds will be remembered forever. Or give to

whatever they need, not not just the poor. Maybe there

are needs people, family friends. We try, our best women

is here we see. Then there's usual wisdom discernmined depending

on the different circums census. I just have to say,

as God brings people to our myths, especially in our church,

we we do get a lot of needs from refugees,

We get needs from different organizations, and we pray and

decide who and how to sew in and so you're

giving always goes further. It touches many lives. It helps

others to do the job, to do the work. Recently,

we I don't know whether you know this, that we

have a deaf ministry and recently the the some of

one of our defly leaders of who works for it?

Who works for a I don't know say translation Bible translation,

but they translate silent translation.

Okay, silent yeah for the deaf.

The Bible for the dea. Have you seen the Bible

for the death sign signing. It's actually a video. So

when I preach, I say, here's verse so and so

versus John Da da, and then I go like that

and they're signing.

Everybody silent. I also have to be silent.

So they're signing, and then the whole chapter John chapter

three wherever.

They understand that.

But if I read the Bible to them, they can't

because the English is not their language, but Hasa is

not the language.

Signing is their language.

So when I started using the Bible signing Bible, then

they were very appreciative and they said, now I understand

the scripture because I'm reading this life. I don't know

what you're talking about because it's hard to sign, but

they can and then from there break down the message. Right.

So someone who works in that line, that whole organization

is an arm of Weekliffe.

But America pulled out, so.

Now they have no funding and so everybody gotta go

and drive grab. Not no problem driving grab. They do

that most of their definitely drive grab.

Have you thought about that.

Wow, right, they're definitely drive grab and so one of

our guys see very very important role in places.

So they wrote to.

Us it can be right to extra sure, right to us.

They said, we're raising funds so that we can have

this fund that was pulled out, so that we can

pay us stuff to keep the translation of the Bible.

Now they got like only a very short number like

Genesis mark here, and they're no, they don't have the

full Bible in sign language yet. So I'm being educated

as I'm going a lot though they already had it.

Oh sorry, no, only so much just started five years ago.

But funds have been pulled out, and so wee Cliff,

which is a Bible translation organization Christian they now are

taking you know, they got different answers Southeast Asia, US, whatever,

and so now they say we'll try to fund you,

but not enough. So they have raised their own funds

so they can have full time workers. So they asked us,

would you fund since Chris works Chris worships at your church,

would you consider So we thought yeah, sure. They were

to raise a certain amount, so together KL and London

Combiner to support him for I don't know a year.

They want three years. I can't, come on, I can't

go fort with three years. Yeah, so I said, give

you a year's salary so that he can keep the

job and don't have to do it part time, but

do it full time to quickly translate the Bible. So

your funds have gone further. Two then then you you

will know, I will know. Right then the opportunity comes.

We have the funds and I combine it with the

UK because they also wanted to be a part of it.

So we shay and to support them. It's not like

a lot, but it's still their bread and butter. Praise

God right that your gift, as you carried it was

sold now into the deaf community so they can have

a Bible.

Amen.

And I pray that as you prepare and pray, pray

and ask a lot of you desire and your heart

to give, that you would also experience the generosity of

God for you and so that you can give and experience.

The abounding grace of the Lord. Amen. Amen.

And I want to I just want to say that

I not we're not gone money, you're not asking you

please give it free will to any time, anytime there's

anything that involves funding this us. Just do it out

of free will, willingness love. It's your sacrifice. You give

your the carrier, and you're going to give towards whatever

God is speaking to you, especially through the church, because

the church is still God's answer.

To the world.

As much as we're a lot of issues in the church,

but the church is still the answer to the world.

Mind you, if Jesus comes, don't believe what all these

speakers says, he'll be found not in the church. He'll

be you know, he'll be found in the church first.

They never read their Bible. That's why the speakers and

for years I listened to if Jesus comewed, you think

you'll be out defeating the poor.

No, no, no, He'll be in.

The church first speaking to us, and then you go out.

So the church is the answer for all things, his bride,

don't you forget that.

And man, we're the carriers.

Let's be willing vessels to carry to sow and to

expect earns the abounding grace of God.

Amen. Amen, Amen, Oh, come on, any carries in the

house today? Who amen? Right?

I I'm not used to silence, so you must think

my house will be saying, right, my husband is an introvert.

He's an introvert. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the house is silent.

Mm hmm, yeah, so I make a noise, all right.

So moving on, moving on the gifted, the gift that

the one who receives. Wow, when the when the need

is met, they are rejoicing. That's gratefulness. Somebody hurt my cry.

There's joyful thanksgiving and then a scripture says you met

the need, and then they pray for you when they

remember that somebody got.

Sent to pass to give this to us. Do you

know what we do?

Almost sometimes I struggle with isla, but there you just

so you know, mission past a not easy job. We

got a lot of people request save for money. I

have to discern who I give to. But I know

I give as a change that we have to do,

so I don't mind sewing. But the Pakistani refugee is,

oh my, I don't know. They have five children each

family and then they're still pregnant, so supor.

So super. They're like, please help. I'm saying, why you

have not a baby?

No, I say that they're not myself in there in

one of ours all they say, and they just need help.

And really I always say I will provide the funds.

We will give towards your you need to feed your family,

but I can't pay your hospital bills because that's a

way above.

We have.

We set a budget and that's the way above. But

we make sure we feed you. So we really try.

And it's not it's many. You're the old company and

we already noted in Pakistani. Ready say if you go

to Malaysia and nobody helps you, there's this church called

ex Church. God, I don't know dey find us? So

we finished one gang left radio. Now another gangame another

new gangler so like how you know us? So I

heard they ready called Radar So it's us or the

church next door to us. So we work together with

the other church.

And we thought, all, I say, how if we've got funds,

we give.

Honestly, we have supported one family really closely and they've

got they got to be placed. What you've got the

repatriation there.

Now this family is in Canada.

Our former our former team member, our church member now now.

Moved on Radiolar.

So because of this positive story, they all think we

can make miracles to send them to Canada. You know,

because they successfully repatriated to Canada, and they said, we

didn't do anything.

It's God thing. They found a way.

We just we just took care of one family. This

family was especially.

Somebody form from Kadjak, and the church say, we have

a Pakistani family. He got no job. He was okay

as a guard or some security. Got no job.

Now he has to move to Subank. You can find

all people in Suba. So they are just leaving behind

our summit. Can the church in Subank tack then?

Okay? One man? Yeah forever?

Yeah. The other churches say, but you just think. So

I say, for your contributing sola, but not for long.

And so now X is known. So there's some radar

there in Pakistan and Kama and nobody helps you. You

go to ex church, Yo, I have to figure out.

I mean, this is the money of the church, the

missions or whatever not. All your university goes to dead

like other things to support. So I want to say

the alien the foreigner. The Bible talks about the alien

and foreigner. Don't don't because one day we might be

alien somewhere. Right, we pray people be kind to us,

so at least feed them, feed them, feed them, they

come to church, they come to our service, and yeah,

just I seem to balance this out. But we gave

towards whatever that we can help to support. So we

gave and and and and it says that you know,

God will provide for us, that we always have plenty

leftover to share with others. And the service that they

attend our church members, partners or ex they are super

also very very generous. So they took up the six

thousand dollars of hospital bill. I see you, crazy man.

You're gonna do it again? Is it? No? Cannot, cannot, okay,

But they took it up to help this family, our partners,

and we paid for some things help them, but they

took up They say their mind may help. So I'm

partners in one particular service, Hooper kind. We are going

to find them next time we need help.

So because they say, but we can.

They're all working adults and family, So they say, so,

I just see the one who received is then blessed,

comforted at the time of need. They're joyful and me

they always remember you in prayer Amen, that they will

give thanks to the Lord. And we've we've gone further

than when we began and so my encouragement to all

of us is as we maybe we as a church,

we do many things, we do different things. We're always

out in the community, we're doing missions or you know,

just here. We're busy with our lives.

We're just so much.

There's one area and time when while we're busy in

our lives, there's this one time we get to give

a gift back to the Lord and let the Lord

teach us and show us.

Where to give. And if you look at all my pictures,

they all have hands in it. They're hands in it.

Because even as past I mean pastor has been living

by faith for these thirty years, as much as he tells.

Us about the story.

But a monkey pull, not chicking the bag from the

coconut tree.

We've never experienced that.

But sometimes it's supernaturally, like I don't know who, but most.

Times God uses brothers and sisters.

And even who are non believers sometimes but brother and

sisters to support the need or to give to anything.

It's so amazing. It's surprising.

I don't have the kind of faith that my husband

has because I really look at him judging Leno.

You know, like where are you getting it?

Because I kin't of afford the sponsor or something something,

And sometimes he just gives, But then it comes back again,

pressed down, shaken together, running over. If you've never experienced that,

you got to And then I slowly learned as well,

and and and just seeing how God continues to supply

all our needs. But I have to humbly say, it's

not like it fell from heaven.

It didn't. It needn't turn out at my doorsteps.

Sometimes it does, but most times I have to say

thank you to somebody and and and look at them

in the eye and say thank you and receive it

with humility. That God would choose someone a person to

bless us. That's that some people can't handle this. It's

like no way, like it's too hard to receive from people.

But it's an act of humility, those the act of

to accept people that you.

Might not know or might not have met, and they

are strangers that God sends to you. Wow.

Is that amazing that God still uses you and I

to bless people.

And we cannot judge them as what you need to.

He asked that God speak to you you give you

wanna let it go, so that whatever the need is,

they will need to use it, and they're answerable to

the Lord for what has been given to them. Whatever

we give to the Lord, we've given to the Lord.

As the Church, we're also responsible how we use it

them means I have to answer to the Lord.

Amen. So hands are still the way to go.

Meaning the Lord always provides through the people of God.

Amen.

Amen, if you've read through the Bible, even in the

even in the building of the temple in Moses time,

God could have just breathed it because he owns the

kettle of a thousand years.

The gold and the silver is his. But who provided

for a temple? Who? Church?

Jappa, no answer anybody who provided for the building of

the temple. In the In the Book of Yeah, people

respond la respond less even say something people, thank you,

thank you.

I need some voice. Yeah people.

Right. He used his own people, his children, and he said,

if you want to give, give, give willingly, and and

got touched them and they gave willingly for the building

of the temper until it was too much.

Amen.

And then Moses is say please stop, you stop can

already because the artisans, the people building said OK, no

place really, no place to pull your gold, your silver,

your purple you're blue. You know your rocks and all

that you can't put ready, So please stop short. Wow wow,

I tell you what believers beloved of the Lord. I

believe God really blesses his people, the church. It's just

how we're going to give the gift. When do we

give the gift? And how generous can we be? La? Okay, Well,

we're just so thankful to the Lord that he never

never shot changes. I prayed you you will experience that

not shot changing, your experience the abundant, overflowing gifts of

God in your lives.

Amen. So I just want to encourage.

Us that it's not just for for our anybody giving.

I just the concept of giving. It is really the

power of your heart and your hands. Because Paul says,

please don't give grudgingly. Please don't give under pressure or

reluctantly like you ask me that attitude will not get

anything pressed down? Sha could together running over. Okay, you're give,

but you're reluctant. You feel false?

Are your idea? I feel false? I'm under pressure. It's

better not to give give because you really believe in it.

You want to for the Lord, you like, you trust

a lot and even you don't have much. You give

it says, when you give, give it because it's pressed down,

shaking together, running over. If we if you never experience that,

you've got to experience it, Amen, because the Lord really

wants to give you that experience of when you generously,

so you will get a generous crop. How whichever way

you experience it.

Amen. And again, there are a lot of things in life.

Money can't buy.

Money can't buy you sleep, Money can't buy you joy,

money can't buy you health.

Right, money can't buy you peace. But Jesus is your

prince of peace. Amen. He's the one who gives you sleep.

That is sweet.

You ask him, he gives you. You know, he's the

one who who's kind to you through people. You can't

buy with money. You can't buy your health. You can

have a lot of money. A lot of people with

a lot of.

Money have no health. So you say, Lord, you are

my health, and I better give you what I have.

And you've given to me so that Lord, I know

you will go further for eternity.

Amen. Praise God.

So the gift, the giver, and the gifted, Halleluijah.

Did the Lord.

Bless you as you take time to if you're participating,

and encourage you to want to participate with all of

us in our aniversary gift. May the Lord give you

really your heart as you seek him. Then you give

to the lot the best that you can give, without

any pressure or any forcing, not commanding command.

You don't do it, no pressure, But it's such a joy.

And this is what I've experienced over the twenty five

twenty six years counting this year. Already the Lord has

provided half the amount, and then the other half came

from another source. The God just blessed, blessed, and I'm saying, Wow, God,

you never failed to help me. Since the time I

decided this was the figure that I want to give.

The Lord has just keep providing, just providing and providing.

So may you experience he's giving to you back to you.

Because God is no debt of any man. Trust him,

experience him in a deeper way.

Amen. Money is very much part of our lives.

You can't live your walk in Christ without talking about money,

because that He also would touch your pocket. All right,

touch my heart touched hardly to touch your pocket because

money is your life.

Really, you work very hard.

It is your life, So give it to the Lord,

and he will always give it back, pressed down, shack

it together, running over it says, you always have something

left over to share with others you might not have.

The verse says you might not have anything, like you

gather a lot but had nothing to left over to waste.

And if you didn't gather too much you are only little,

you would have enough. And it's amazing how you live

life like that. Amen, I don't know how many I

have grandma's or my grandma. My grandma is not it's

not rich. My mom just hated it, my grandma's house.

And I was talking to Jessica Kong, her mom, her

grandma can remember my grandma's house was open to everybody

all the time. My mom had nine brother and sisters,

but grandma opened a house to anyone who would want

to come and have a meal. And the children just

hated it because that was never alone time, ride like peace.

But the house was filled with people. Stomachs were always filled.

And my they went towards when my grandma lived here

in Malaysia, and then she they migrated. My grandfather is British,

so he had to leave Malaysia. He chose to go

to Australia and even in Australia.

Plus he's in armed forces.

All the army boys would come to my grandma's house

and they'll say, you know, Millie, cook us your curry,

you know, and she'll cook them a curry and they

love eating. So the only place to get curried back

in the seventies was go to Mellie Monk's house and

there will be curry. It's all these Ausy Army boys

would have curry in my grandma's house. In a house

it's always open. She never had more, but she never

had less. She just had people who really appreciated her

for loving them, for giving them a meal. I never

got to experience that because you know, I didn't I

don't live in Australia. But but in her when she could,

when she was younger, she always had the doors open

and the little that she had she would just cook,

just come and eat. You know, my mama was just

hated it. She said, everybody is in the house every day.

But I heard that by Jessica comes Grandma as well,

and it's just generosity. It's just it's so hard to find.

Now you ask me open my house every day. I

don't have my pink son because I can cook. I'll

cook the same thing every day, right, But if I

could do it, I think I would love to.

My life's different.

But grandma reminded me that she didn't have a lot,

but she gave. And every time my husband would take

me to see my grandma.

Every year.

We had no money, but he would make a point

that he would take me to Melbourne when he got me,

when he married me. The first year and from the

first year till my grandma passed away in two thousand

and eight, he would fly me every year, We'll go

and visit Grandma again. My grandma's really old and she

don't have much. You know, Aussie lifestyles that children don't really.

Care about you.

My mom's here is difficult, but she would cook me

my favorite whatever, and she would just say, come and

have lunch.

I say I'll take you out to say no, I'm

going to cook for you, and she would cook for me.

It's hard to find that kind of heart and generosity.

In the busy world.

I pray that we can learn from our grandparents. We

can learn from aunties and uncles who.

Who have given so much of themselves. I believe God

will never forget them. Amen.

So let's pray, Amen, and just allow God to use

your gift and use you so that the one who's

going to be blessed will overflow with thanksgiving and you

too will experience this abounding grace.

We stand. Thank you Jesus. Let's look unto Jesus.

He's the author and the finisher of our faith. Amen,

And you want to see your faith grow, Let the

author of your faith work in you.

Amen. Surrender to him, and he does amazingly in our hearts. Amen,

Thank you Jesus. Let's pray Halleluiah.

Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus, Father, you are the

god of everything.

We sing. We sang it. We said that there will

be less of us and have more of you, And

we're learning this lot.

We're daily learning to surrender our own self and then

lifting our hearts to you that you may have more

of us, Lord, and we like It's like we will

own less of ourselves so that we don't make decisions

because we want it, but we want to live because

you own us. You are the master of our lives.

You are the owner of everything that we have, and

that God, you would make a way so even right now,

in the name of Jesus, Perhaps there are different ones

in this room that you also have a need.

Can I pray with you? I don't know what your

need is, but this is my Father.

He's a God that sees your need, your prayer, your

You know you're desiring for something. You could be at

the crossroads. It could be a health issue, it could

be a family issue. But I'm gonna call my heavenly Father,

who never forgets, he always remembers you. He is the

Father who eyes much across to and fro the earth,

looking at who he can help. I just want to

ask for God's miracle, God's open door for you so

that you would be at the right place, at the

right time, the right favor.

Maybe it's the right doctors.

Maybe it's just just him touching you and filling your life. Amen,

that's you. Why don't you look to the Lord. You

know what that need is. You want to raise your hand,

go ahead. It just takes just us for us to

trust in him. In the name of Jesus, Father, this morning,

even as we look to you, I remembered and just

reminded that Father, you are good, good God, You're good

father to us, and you see your son and daughters,

sons and daughters here who.

Have a heart cry, who have a need in their lives.

And Father, no man can open that door except you.

You are the God who opens doors for us. You

are the Lord who is able to lift us up

out of our Marrie Clay. You are the Lord who

can carry us through our storms and our mountains.

And even when there's no way, you make away for us.

You make away in the desert, and you cause streams

to flow in the desert. And you will feed your

children in the desert. That's what you did for the

children of Israel. More miracles happen in the desert than

after Lord, because you are Father who provides, who.

Generously lavishes on your children. Father, stretch forth.

Your hand and touch the hearts and lives and bodies

of those who need your touch today, who need the

makeaway for me, Lord, for you are the Way, the truth,

and the life. I speak truth to those of you

need truth. And if you need a way, God needs

to make a way. I speak away the way who

lead you into that higher ground for you, and he

is a life. You need life, and you know things

around you have been robbed from your eyes. Pray the

life of Christ would come in. When Christ is in

the house, in your boat, he gives you life and

life more abundantly. In the name of Jesus Holy Spirit, takeover.

In Jesus' name, release your blessing, release your healing, release

your forgiveness, release your open.

Doors to your children. Release that provision for your son,

your daughter. In the name of.

Jesus, release them into the fullness that you promise that

the joy will be full, That our joy will be full.

Because we ask for what we don't have and what

we need. We ask in the name of Jesus, Lord,

that you meet a need. You would lead them, you

would carry them, you would touch them, you would open away,

you would favor them. Lord, if anyone's you seem to

have like this ceiling over your life, if are just

saying Jesus name, Father, lift that ceiling off their lives.

Lift off that ceiling and break that ceiling so that

they can be lifted up on high. Father, another level

of faith and not a ceiling to stop them from

experiencing and expecting from you. In the name of Jesus,

Thank you, Father, Thank you that for those who need

a healing by your stripes, we are made whole. Lord,

Thank you that you send your word to heal us

and to deliver us from our infirmities.

In Jesus' name, thank.

You for restoring our health, restoring our hearts, restoring our minds.

In the name of Jesus, Thank you, Father, that your

peace just flow right now.

The shalom shalom of God flow right now.

The shalom shalom of God, as we have been taught,

shalom to you. The fullness, the fullness of God's peace,

the fullness of His blessing, rests upon you.

In the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, Father, we surrender all that we are,

all that we have belongs to you.

Lord. May our treasure in heaven be great, and.

That we might not have a lot on earth, but

may our treasure in heaven be great.

Lord. Thank you.

We'll learn to surrender to you all that we have,

all that we own, so that Father, we are able

to Lord, be used by you as the giver when

you put the gift in our hands, so that we

can sow further than where we our legs can take us. Father,

lets every every giver here, every cheerful giver, every joyful giver,

every eager, enthusiastic giver, and Lord, may their experience your provision,

your blessing, pressed down, shaken together, running over in their

lives and open heaven. Bless you, Father. We thank you

for it. I believe you for it. Oh Lord, I'm

just saying, thank you, Daddy, God for loving us, for

just choosing us, translating us out of darkness into your

marvelous life. We walk in your fullness, we walk in

your victory, we walk in your joy. We bless you, Lord,

because you are the God of everything.

You bless us so much.

Father, Thank you, thank you, thank you, We praise you,

We thank you. You are the God who takes everything,

everything for us.

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