Session 4 - Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church | Pr Alvin Keng

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How are we preparing for the next twenty years? Okay,

we're talking about twenty years. You know, why are we

talking about in area of yars. Let me tell you

a very simple reason. Past the Kenough has the annoying

thing of the prophetic, a lot of things to share

in the beginning, very radical, but he has come to pass. Right.

He has come to us, not because we are very

powerful or we've got a lot of money, but it's

come to us because God wants it to happen. Right,

That's why we're talking about in years forty okay, And

all we need to do is just be faithful and

then we will see it come to us. You don't

have to do anything else, actually, because the thing about

prophecy is that you know, I still remember someone asked

it all like, oh, and I've asked this question before.

How do you know that prophecy will happen? Well, it's

very simple. It will happen. What happens are So when

you know you just need to not do anything and

let God do it. You don't have to go and

help God know because if you read the Bible, everybody

they try to help God in the prophecy create more problems,

you know, and you shouldn't do that. Okay, So how

are we preparing for the next two years? Last week?

Who is the put right? W I'm sure you'll have

a lot of notes. Stay up the right now joking?

Five ways, five seas to the conviction conditions? You can remember?

What else? Corporation college?

Okay?

And this is the college part. This is the college part.

That's why you're doing this training. This is the college part. Right,

And how do we make disciples? Today? We're going to

talk about making disciples? How do we make disciples? Is

very simple? Actually is The first one is yes the

shampoo brand, second one is feed my sheep, right, and

third one is so if you can remember it, just

think shampoo, sheep, and fish. Okay, not so. The summary

of the mission of the scipenship is to always give

only our best God. You cannot remind anything, right, It's

actually very simple. Want the heart of our church, and

this is a parent in every other area. Right, is

that we give God our best. God only deserves our best. Amen.

You agree that God deserves our best? Not changed, not

whatever our best. Okay, So let's go into it. So

you've heard many things before. Actually, how many of you

here are in X for the past one year? One year? Okay,

ex chrach right, two years, three years, five years and

above all? Right, Okay, you've heard it many times a

day one you're still fresher okay, but you've heard it

many times? Right? So what makes this round different? Well?

Can I give you a challenge this morning? There are

three things we need to consider? Friends? Firstly, what is

God actually saying to you? I just established that we

call extras our home? Right? We come because why? There

could reasons why it come? But have you considered what

is God saying to you? Why did God lead you here? Right?

Is it just for fun? Is it just because he's

near your house? Right? What is God saying to you? Well,

maybe it's difficult to know what God is saying right now.

Maybe the next thought is what is or are your

leader saying? What is past Stephen saying every Sunday? What

is he saying right about all that we are hearing about,

the unpacking of the division? What is he saying? And finally,

the question that is the most important is what are

you saying about it? Actually, all these things all many

times before the not gonna work right, not gonna happen, right,

I remember I had one. Uh it's very funny one.

I see you this story because it's very powerful story.

You know, when we want to start X, no not X.

But we wanted to start homes in Kota Damansara, right,

and I had six college students, and I remember we

saw the lot bring them to PJ in my miner. Actually,

now if you're a build, then they will come here

a lot in my miner. They will go to somewhere

suban suba war happening PJ is like small chess plan.

But I don't know why they travel all the way

to PJ. No. And then got brought two, three, four, ten, eleven,

and I'm like okay. And I remember used to said, hey,

you know, you better do something, and I didn't. Not

six months later he asked so and I was excited.

Oh got testimonior. You know. Now I've got sixteen of them.

Then he asked me, are you doing anything. I'm like, no, okay,

I'm going to do something. And then we started homes

and then I've got six of them came and I

remember clearly one of them when I had the one

on one conversation. You know, you try to get buy in,

pus buy in, like, hey, we're gonna do this, you know, Pasen,

I don't believe it. I don't believe in this chesch

plannding thing. Right. I don't want to do it. You know.

I look at this brother, and I say, it's okay.

I believe for you, it's okay. I will do it

because hey, hello, you don't believe Nama. I know I

have to drive on a Wednesday, ask permission, leave early.

I mean I cannot because I'm full time right right,

bring my oven to go in big chicken for them

to show them what it means by giving got your best.

You know why I cannot handle so because the first

time I cook for them in homes it took two

hours because I was using their knife and boat and

it was not shot, and it took me one and

a half hours to cut onions. Friends, that is persecution

for christ Man, and this I say, I don't believe

in it. Ne'ama, I believe you're not a funny thing.

As I tell you, I love for gay young people

because you really tend to say I told you so,

but you won't and you just listen to them and

you got stories. I to hell because two months later

after we consitantly, we have homes and it was really good.

It was really good. We had a good home. Small

wile came sunniest person say, I don't believe it. Come

a person been. You know, we should have training. Let's train,

you know, because last time we were training homes, greatest

pace on earth. Let's do it. Now. I'm like, where

where did this? I don't believe in it? Person? When now,

of course I didn't say alah. A few years later, Yeah,

I used the story eline, you know, and then the

person remember and then she appreciated person you're talking about me?

I said, no, no, no, no, no, another young person. So, friends,

what are you saying? The one word that God is

challenging me now? Is this thing about belief? Do I

still believe? Do I still believe in the region of

the church. Do I still believe that this is what

God is calling us to do? You know, It's one

thing when you have not walked the talk to talk

and done it. It's another thing when you've done it

for twenty years and then you get tired and you're like,

do I still believe in it? So, friends, I asked

you this question, what are you saying when we unpack

the vision? Because the thing about what you're saying is that,

can I be honest, you will come to pass what

you are saying. If you are saying it's not gonna work, yes,

it's not gonna work for you. But if you're saying

it's gonna work, it will work for you because out

of your confession it will come. That's what I've seen. Right,

So what are you saying? So you must go away

saying something. It has to be yes or no. Don't

be in the middle. Right are we going to run

with the vision or not? Right? Remember Jesus, after hearing

what others said about him, asked with the who do

you say? That's what they had to come. The disciples

had to make a decision. Oh you know, some say

you're join the Baptist some say you're Elijah, some say this,

and I say it. Look, thank you for telling me

what everybody is saying. What are you saying? Are you

going to be sitting at the sidelines? You are the

discipler and know what are you saying, friends, you just

said that you're calling this your church. You're challenging us,

is it? No? No, no, I'm not right. What are you saying?

Let's talk about the tree. L's okay, there's a lot

of acronyms. I hope you will catch it. So the

vision of X has always been about the loss. It

has always been about a loss, and we need leaders

to rise up. Who are leaders? Well? In Acts, we

believe that everybody can be a leader. I know sometimes

when it comes to the word leader is like bad

word leader, more responsibility. I remember talking to a leader

and the leader tell me I don't want to be

leading homes because I more work. Read day my mom, Like,

you're a ready doing so much work. Really, it's not

much difference. Actually, you're already a leader. Why are you

worried about the title. Maybe because you want the responsibility

or whatever. And again you might have another time person

that say leadership, I want to take by person already. Okay,

so yeah, both ways, But we believe in Acts that

everybody can be a leader. And we're not just talking

about church. I'm talking about leading another person. Isn't that discipleship?

Jesus led So who are you leading? Right? If you

become a parent, whether you're like you're not, you're leading

your kids right. That's the reality of life. We are

leading someone, right, and we need leaders to rise up.

We already have a group of people. Yesterday we met

the leaders met okay, the leaders of the church, people

who are leading the church met about hundred plus two

hundred right, the thousand that we have. Everyone should be

a disciple, Corona should write and eventually lead someone to

the Lord. That is what we should be doing. That

isn't that our call? However, so we need the loss.

All of us can agree that we need leaders. Maybe

were green and some say I'm not ready and no,

it's fine. However, can I can I let you know

that we also need eleven seven? He is speaking King

Jam's English. Well, let's read the word of God Matthew thirteen.

Matthew chapter thirteen, verse thirty three says that the kingdom

of heaven is like eleven. God's kingdom is eleven. We

have we have the lost people who don't know God.

Yet we have us here on earth, right, But then

we need the eleven. Let Maybe we'll go to Matthew

chapter thirteen and read what it says there, right, So

it talks here about okay, the purpose of parables. Right,

let's see thirteen thirty three. Okay, let me go. There

are guys, okay, right, so let's talk about the parable

and the mustard seed. Now another parable he pulls off

to them, The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard

seed which a man took and sowed in his field,

which indeed is the least of all the seeds. But

when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs

and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the

air come and nest in his branches. Right. And then

it says another parable. He spoke to them, the Kingdom

of Heaven is like eleven, which a woman took and

hid in three measures of meal, did till it was

all eleven. Right. So the secret sauce, friends, the secret

sauce is the eleven. The secret sauce is God's Kingdom.

Do you have God's Kingdom in your life? Matthew Sextredy

Tree says, sick. If it's the king of God, and

all shall be added to you, don't worry. Question is

do you have God's kingdom? Pase wants there now well,

don't just explain what it means. I prayed. I read

the word I prayed, and something happened. God's kingdom is

in effect, not men, not money, God's kingdom. He's in effect, right,

so we need leven. When leven and years is put

in two doors, it became to rise for those that

know how to bake those that don't know a bit.

You just need to take my word for it. You

got no yeas, you got no sour door. Sour door

is ye sir. I remember I wanted to do sour

dough and I know a good friend that has you

know that's really good. Sourdo goes to ex Hyberjaya androw

and I asked him, Hey, I want to dola. Can

you give me some of your starter? And no? He

said sure. Then he said, are you sure? He's like

taking care of a pet. No, I'm saying, what do

you mean? He's like, you need to feed it like

three times a day? Huh? I said, how you feed

it three tis a day? You bring with you? He said, no,

my mother helped me. I'm like, okay, I don't have

mo day at home to help me. Okay, my mother's

in heaven, not a joke, no joke, but anyway, nobody

at home can help me, you know. So I'm like, oh, man, imagina,

you see me start then I'll be like having a

little thinking. Care what you're doing. I'm trying to feed

the the sour door. We don't heaven. The door won't rise.

Without levening our lives, we will remain stagnant and flat.

Leven gets disciples and leaders out of their comfort zone.

Send out labors into the harvest field, be kicked out.

That's leven. Do you have leven in your life or not?

Let me use other words. You have God's presence in

your life? Do you have the Kingdom of God in

your life? You want to experience victory in your own life?

You gotta all have all these things. But the thing

is the thing about following God is that it will

not be comfortable. That's the reality that people don't share. Yes, yes,

you will have peace, you have all these things. It

will be awesome. Ask any of these leaders here who

follow God, Sharon easy or not? Follow God? Not easy?

Right?

But is he fulfiling? Are you seeing the dreams of

your life come to pass? The dreams of your life

come to pass? Go out inside joke, okaret, answer about it? Okay,

A lot, a lot, a lot lot right that fulfilling

corent not not easy, definitely, nobody wants it one but

fulfeeling worth it? Right, That's what leven is. So next

point the secret to real growth? Do you want to

grow up this year? Friends? Do you want to grow

this year in the lot? Sorry? Do you want to

grow this year in your own life? Do you want to? Well?

The secret to real growth is radical obedience? Can or not? Not?

Just obedience? Are radical obedience? And when we think radical

obediences you mean you become radical? No, no, no, no, don't

think of it in the extreme. Actually, radical obedience are

It's not very difficult for us. It just means something

that you won't normally do. Right, I don't normally go

prayer service. Then you better radically obey this here by

going prayer service. It's not very hard. No, actually, think

about it because we think radical. Oh you mean I

know you don't ask for the days? And friends? Chill lla?

Do you say it was okay? I'll make time on

a past story forty days. God's not dumb, you know

what I mean? Where's the foolish is coming from right.

Not everybody here is meant to do full time. No, seriously,

every time someone come in and tell I got full

time call, I would ask the person ten thousand questions

first because I know how the figure is. And when

you can't answer this question, I'm like, okayah, I can

give you a child. Prover you was a wife. Right,

But radical obedience that was the foundation of exches the

first twenty years. Now we are in twenty twenty six, right,

So twenty two thousand until twenty twenty twenty, we had

radical obedience. It was crazy, right. There was radical unity,

there was radical generosity. I share you one story, personal story.

Right twenty ten, I still remember we were poised to

get a building on our own. And that was the

That was the trend. Okay, use this word. That was

the trend of every church, get a big building. Always

come together. We are a big you know, big everything,

big big, big, big, big big. That was the plan.

Why because we knew you meet people. We need to

get all the people on board. It's not about numbers,

it's about souls. Right, got the building we all gave.

I sought my car, the only my first car. I sold, convicted, sold,

my car, no nor money. It was a few thousand

ring and second hand lime green. I don't know, lime green,

lime green color proton is what I love that car.

Convicted sell it? Right? Of course you hope like, oh,

you know, then someone will come and say, Perselvin, since

you saw your car, here here's the brand new Alpha Romeo. Friends,

didn't happen until now, I have no nobody came. You know,

I'm still waiting. I saw my car, gave to the building,

and then we lost the building war. I'd be honest.

You're a lot of story where things like this happened. Now.

The church per ready by then, but redical obedience. I

knew I was not giving to a man, and not

just me. There were many many. I remember a friend

during that time or so gave their kids education fund.

Of course the Lord bless them, and you know, but

we believed, and we lost the building and we didn't leave,

and then God did other things. So in the first

two years we had to go through the fire. Right,

that's the friends, that is the legacy of your church

and some of the leaders of your church. That's the legacy.

You know, when you have a legacy, right, that's powerful. Right,

you know that you're set for success one because someone

has done the hard work. Ready, none say that now

you don't lah. But now when you go hard work,

don't don't shann la. Right now, when you go Howard,

don't shut it because that's the legacy you have, right,

So radical that is the first twenty years. Do we

need to go back there again? Well, I don't know.

I've got causes that maybe right, But what is the

requirement for the next twenty years for our growth as

a church? Radical ideas, deliberate, The foundation is set, redifference,

the foundation is set, Radical initiatives tiding and I'm not

just talking about money, your time and radical implementation. The

level what else do we sow into that's gonna be

from twenty twenty to twenty forty? And can I let

you know the shift because the first time, the first

twenty years, it was working out the details. It was

getting the foundation right. It was the working out the

family values five WS, the unpacking, the helping people believe,

the proving whether this works or not. And it works

it works. If not, you will not have continued proving

whether the Bible works or not. That was the test,

That was the experimentation that was the first twenty years

and the next twenty years. Growth comes from the implementation

of it. And do you know that you guys are

part of the implementation. I asked some questions, sir, Okay,

maybe Sharon again? Okay, Sharon, when you started coming xs? Right?

Do you ever think that you were planning Chester? Huh no? No?

When when was it you came to college?

Twenty sixteen?

So xbu How many years are tree years? Tree years? Okay? Right?

You still quite young? Right?

Yes?

How are you twenty nine?

Wait? Look at him? You don't know she did have

to check him twenty nine? You probably didn't. I remember

sharing when she was a Campis student. Know did I

knew that she was going to plant chesh No, way,

no way? Right. You see, if you look back where

especially some of us here at where you were, John,

will you ever will you ever be assistancy BC in

your mind? He's right, He's right. Sorry, I have to

double check, you know, I just giving out. You know,

will you ever believe that you were gonna be the

assistant church Bran church bran card?

No, bro no, no, no, how long you've been extra

sh D, I don't know thirty thirty years, two years.

I know John for a very long time. Okay, will

you ever never right?

Never? No, John, actually since last time he really dreamed

I'm gonna be pastor John one day. No, friends, you know,

I know I'm using this sun, but I want you

to see it. The implementation part. It is not man's job.

It is God doing something. And these are people who

have been faithful. These are people who say, yes, God

sent me with fear and traveling right. The structure we

have right now local senior passes office mana that last time,

last time, just senior pastor Like you're worry about the

problem everything, every problem you have, you throw at them

right no now, any bu problemer, CPC assisting PC. Look

as we are your cut team. Okay, what does that

show you? Empowerment? What does that show you? We believe

that everybody can, you know, every believer can. No, no, no, no,

no no no. Josiah, you must go for a ten

year geologic cause, get masters, become a bishop. Then only

maybe your planner church by the time Jesus come back.

You you know, we all laugh about it, but I'm

trying to show you that it's happening. In front of

your eyes? What will bring radical growth? Sorry, we'll bring

growth in the next two nearest friends. As I'm reading this,

I'm like, yeah, Lord, I never imagine I'll be planning

to just honest to God. Honest, I thought I'll be

happily doing XTV for the rest of my life. Never imagine.

But God had other plans. Do you know that God

has plans for you if you will say yes to him?

Because all these people had to say yes. No, that's

the thing. All have to say yes. You don't say

yes and it won't happen. Have to say yes. So

back to this what and then of course now we

got global church lab Will we ever imagine? I tell

you as I think regret. I cannot brain it sometimes,

but it's so natural. Now we got a church plan

in Mianma, we got a church plan in you know,

Botswana is growing and bounds, right man, I tell you friends,

it is only God that can do it. No where

with our contact connection, money, no way. It has to

be God. Do you recognize it? Friends? Do you recognize

the XBU is part of something bigger, is beyond just

this Sunday? Okay, with every big vision and everything and

every good thing that's happening, there's always challenges. One, So

let's talk about the challenges. Can we talk about challenges.

Let's let's let's look at it realistically, because if we

don't look at it realistically, you know, very hard light,

you know, it cannot just be like I'm in the air,

say you need but you know, but these are the challenge.

First challenge, the loss. So the greatest challenge to the vision,

and you'll know what the vision is that the earth

may be failed with the noise of the glory of

the Lord, as the water has covered the sea, right, okay?

That for that, as that bundled Utama we filled with

the knowledge of the glory of God as the world's

see right, okay. So the greatest challenge to our vision

is that we cannot achieve it without winning the loss.

How is the whole of ex the whole of Bana Tama, No,

the whole ex Banadama, yes, not done really, you'll know,

the knowledge of the glory of Lot ready done. Really,

but the whole of Bandama? How would it happen without

us going out? How do you happen without the loss?

The people who do not know about Christ yet the

people who do not know yet. I mean, don't talk

about those that ready, those I know already. The Christian

know already enough? Ready, good? Ready? What about those that

don't know? Right? So he cannot that's the challenge. So

the church isn't here in Malaysia to just look after

the ten percent. No, right, we have to have that mentality.

We have to have that perspective because if not, we

are going to get comfortable being in church. How do

you That's it. There's no urgency. But we're here to

leve even the ninety percent. For the Son of Man

has come to see and save that which was lost.

That was his goal. We were once lost, now we

are found. There are many loss out there. So that's

the first challenge. By the way, that scripture is from

Luke nineteen verse ten. So here in our church, when

we talk about the loss, we think about witness right

and can be honest with you weakess, w weakeers right.

God wants us to engage the fifth gear and take

this vehicle up to a maximum speed with Mexican distance

before he returns. Friends. The setting of the stage church

now is small. Ready, we believe that you see the

structure is there. Really the foundation is there. Now the

work begins. Actually you think about it, because we don't

have to argue about a lot of things that day.

You don't have to argue about a lot of structure

is being set ready, right, worship structure. There's the reason

why you come. That's the homes. No need to argue ready.

Homes is good, Church is good, Praser is good, worship

is good. It works, friends, because it doesn't work, We're

not gonna have multiplication, but we're multiplying church like no

one's business. Because it works. If you go all the

way to what Tswana, if you go all the way

to it's the same or no. Sometimes I joke that

x Becausie looks more like exchange us because they will

actually put up all the you know, if you've been now,

please go, please please friends this year, please go for

mission trip. Go go go for mission trip. Go to

another church plan half across around the world and see

whether God is doing see whether there's any similarity or not.

And then you're not Okay, God, you're real. I'm not

just in my little bubble. Right, go go go mission

trip organized organized organized mission trip. I think, yeah, a

mission trip is happening, right, go for it. That's the challenge, right.

The losses of a second challenge is the leaders. The

greatest challenge that we can't do it without leader slash laborers. See,

the harvest is plentiful by the labors. Are you? I

used to not understand this. Now I fully understand it.

So every time someone comes up to me and say,

perse you know, we need to save people. We need

to you know, all we need to, I say, great,

can the harvest? I agree? Harvest is plentiful. You want

to know us? The problem you have that chikok Oran

the long because everybody expect full time for us to

do it an so the only way you can reach

out is to become full time.

Right.

But that's the mentality that's the problem. No, friends, we

have to change the mindset. Everybody here can do something

about it. Everybody here can pray for someone this week.

Everybody here can talk to a friend and know that

your The rejection lebl's going to be higher, our friends

is going to be higher. Out of ten people to

talk to, maybe one person says, okay, I allow you

to pray for me here, but you got to keep

doing it because once you get that one. You'll be

encouraged once you hear that one testimony it thanks so much,

and that for praying for me, because thanks so much passes,

then you'll be like, wow, God, you're using me. But

it has to have that one, right. So the leaders,

he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but

the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of

the harvest to send out laborers to his harvests. So

now when people come to me and tell me a

problem again, now after this, none of you will talk

to me about needs. I said, great, thank you so

much for that heart. Why don't you do something about it?

That's the truth. You got a conviction, ma, Why not

you believe that God will use you? Right, that's the reality.

The problem was never being with the harvest but the harvesters.

We were never thought to pray for the harvests, but

for the laborers. Matthew four nineteen says that he said

to them, follow me, and I'll make you facius for men. Friends,

let me give you this challenge. If you're afraid or

your concern about whether or not you are good enough

to disciple someone to do something about it, let me

give you a very simple answer. Follow Christ. He will

make you vicious of men because it's not about you.

It's not about me. It was about me. Right, I

will be some guru like Tony Robbins sharing or Simon

Sinek sharing the why of life and all and write

a book and get rich. No, it's not about me, friends,

it's not about me. It's not about any of the

leaders here. Yes, thank you for the honor, but it's

not about us. It's all about Christ. Amen. So that's

the second challenge. The final challenge, which actually is also important.

The greatest challenge, friends, is that maybe we have a

perspective of the loss and then oh, yeah, we have enough.

But let's say everybody, okay, everybody sign up for sign

up to reach out. Okay, all kind of let's hold

a plan less do it. The third greatest challenge is

that we cannot do it without the leaven, the sending out.

Roman Stentataine says, whatever calls on the name of the

Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on

him whom they have not believed? And how shall they

believe in him whom they have not heard? How shall

they hear without a preacher, How shall they preach unless

they are sent as it is written? How beautiful are

the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

who bring glad tidings of good tidings. So what is leven? Friends, Well,

leaven is the discipline. First Corinthians nine twenty six twenty

seven says Therefore I run thats not with uncertainty. Does

I fight not as one who beats the air. But

I discipline my body and bring it into sub subjection.

Less when I preach to others, I myself should become disqualified.

So leven is the doing. It's the execution, is the implementation,

the momentum, the habit, the custom, the culture. People who

are in fitness, people who who are coaches understand this

really well. People who coach you, who train people understandings

really well. It is not the go on. No, oh

you must have the biggest why. Yeah that's great. Right.

Oh you must have a big goal. Yeah that's great.

Do you know that nothing happens without the action? That's

the reality, right. And I also realized that we can

all know what's important to do, but won't do it.

On for example, everybody here knows what it takes to

be healthy. You know, exercise it properly, don't eat super sweets, right,

all of us know? Are you doing it? That's eleven?

Are you doing it? That's the reality. Oh, I know

that I must sleep early? Are you doing it? I

know Instagrams don't go for me. Reels are don't go

for me. I know great knowledge is not the issue.

Discipline is the issue. Co or not same. I think

about this myself all the time. Let me tell you

my mindset fast time. When you talk about fitness, right,

sports is not for me. I'm not a sporty person.

You know. When I developed this mindset when I was

in school. From that time onwards, sports day was never

a thing. I was skid sports day.

Then.

I remember once we had a joggaton. I'm talking about

like primary school. No how convinced I am right, and

no one encouraged me, No one taught me right. I

will go for joggaton, put my attendance and run home.

That's what I used to do all the way. The

only time maybe I play sports is padminton when everybody

likes bedminton and I play with it, and that's it.

That's it. No sports, no fitness, nothing, never had any

encouragement until I had to go and get a stand

in my heart. Touch the heart now right one night

in ic you not fun? Not fun? Right? How many

more wake up calls we need to have before we

start taking things seriously? You got to think about that,

you know. And I realized that it is a mindset

ship because I was just talking to someone yesterday about

exercising and the persons shaking his head, no la, no la,

no la. And I'm like, I used to be like you,

exactly like you, and now I know different. Now I

have a different mindset. Now. The top process is the

more I want to know. And there are many reasons,

wh oh I can't cause my schedule and again nothing

nothing wrong with that. I told this person and another

percise it. You know, you have a child now my

perspective of choice, raising birth. If I can exercise more,

I'm investing in the future because I know now right,

I've got it. So it's it doesn't take a lot

now to motivate myself, right, but we have to have

the level. That's that's the reality, even though it's not

gonna happen. I hope you guys are catching something from

this so it is actually the doing. But the doing

is hard. I know, I admit the doing is hard.

That's why I will encourage you. But you gotta think

of it this way. You got to force yourself. Sorry,

no other way. You don't force yourself is not gonna happen.

You don't push yourselfs not gonna happen. You don't discipline

Yourself's not gonna happen. You expect some good feeling, No,

you want to know when it's the good feeling going

to come after you suffer. Then the good feeling will

come only after you put effort and time in it

and you're sweating and you're tired. Then you will feel good.

Then you want to do it again after you put

yourself to pain. That's how life works, right, So friends,

something to think about. You can write on your own

what are some of the habits or customs that will

make you an effective laborer? And actually, this little thing

is something that you can apply. This thought process is

something that can apply in everything you want to do

in life. What are the habits that you can do

to make you a better blank can In the church context,

we asked this question, what are the habits? Is it

commit and don't think big thing, small incremental changes in

your life. Right. The thing that I realized helped me

as I started the finness journey was small, incremental. I

didn't straight away Okay, every day I'm going to go exercise,

I will fail, I will get discouraged and I won't

do it. So it started with one day. First, push myself,

push myself consistent, two days, push myself consistent, three days

after that, exercise when holiday because holiday exercise, then stortally

change other things. It's still changing. It's been three years,

two years, two years, still making changes, right, still making

now more discipline on different things. Yesterday, Oh I can

tell you I owe it yesterday. Since then lost a birthday?

Had you know, waffle with during ice creams laha bas right?

So today fast one mela, no problem, I don't feel

no nothing. Maybe last time incremental changes in your life.

So in the area of faith, what the incremental changes

can make? Read Bible for five minutes. Ne's only increase,

right buontai yourself cannot because if you tellt her cannot, Yeah,

you cannot. Maybe once a month, come for prayer service

once a month. Huh No enough? Read once a month

then later when becomes habit twice a man? Right, What

are the incrementals of little incremental change that you can

make in your life? Think about it? Think about it,

and you only can make it in your life. No,

no one can force you one. Right unless pastus Steven

is your housemailer, then he will force you ala. If not,

what is think about it this way because if you don't,

then can I give you a sobering thought? You and

twenty twenty six the same. That's the reality unless you

start making small adjustments. If not not big small adjustments. Okay,

so think about it. What are some habits or custom

That's why we use the word custom. Custom is customary.

It's customary to open it up, or girls, it's customary

to say hello. It's custom We have been trained so much.

I'm training my kid now. Every time you see someone

say hello, Hi, no address, the name, it is customary.

I was trained b like that when I was young.

That's why I see someone who's say uncle, Auntie. Right,

it's customary. It's becomes so I don't want to do so,

I'll do it right. I don't like this, Auntie, but

I will still wish it anyway. What is your custom

that you can adjust, friends, if all of us can

slowly adjust, adjust, adjust, right, let me give you this perspective.

Imagine the day. Imagine, just imagine, imagine the day when

witnessing so winning disciple, ship making leader, producing Daniel releasing.

You're not Daniel. Any Daniel's here. Well, we're talking about

the prophet Daniel. They mis released to the marketplace to

be an influence, right becomes momentum becomes our habit becomes

our culture, becomes our custom. Do you know that when

we started church planting it was an alien concept when

we did the and some you will here probably be

affected by when we when we the not nice word

we use is decentralized. I would say multiplier when we multiplied. Ha,

send me so far we have? Some probably feel great

now near my house, I don't have to travel so far.

Some probably feel that way. Some probably feel some I

feel my friends are all gone. You know that's how

it felt, right, uncomfortable changes. Oh, I cannot see past

us all the time? Right, that was dead. Look at

where we've come now, Look at how things have changed.

Look at how church planting is normal, normally right, normal?

In fact, some of us are seeing the benefits of

church planting. Now it's a close environment. You know, when

I was in the two thousand church plan, nobody said

hello to me. Nobody cares now, or I want to

run away from pass the sea wars cannot He will

definitely ask me how I'm doing, or pray for me.

The benefit see a lot of things we do in life.

You might not see it at first, right, but it's

become normal now. Going and visiting church, the church planter's

overseas is normal now when people go holiday. Last time

it was a in huh. Now it's normal now. You

actually see you have planning your holiday around around the

church plan, which is very interesting. You think about it, right,

this is where God wants to get us, friends, That's

where he wants to position us. That's getting our house

in order, rebuilding the walls, hanging the gates. That's what

we want to live our next generation parents here, think

about it this way. Imagine passing on faith to your kids.

Think about it, passing on faith. The benefits you are

experiencing right now, can we pass it on to them?

Can it be so normal to them? Right? That's the

road forward, friends, that's the road forward. How do we

implement this? So I talked about the challenge, right, I

talk about the different challenges, But let me give you

the action plan which everybody can do it. How do

we implement Well, we need to take in God's diet.

What's God's diet, God's diret So Daniel, he lived on

vegetables and water for ten days and became stronger and fatter.

That's what happened to him, right, And this is the

way that God wants us to fulfill our purpose, that

we live on God's diet. Right now, I just heard

that you asked, just change the pyramid now more protein.

So all those guito people say, amen, you like rice

and bread. Sorry for you. He has changed the balaity. Okay,

So we got to break God's side. Now what's God's died? Well,

first is daily bread? Do you have daily break from God?

You know the devotion daily bread? Actually it's quite ap

They name it daily bread because it is daily bread.

In the morning when you wake up, do you ask God, morning, Lloyd,

what's my daily bread today? What's my manner from heaven today?

What are you saying today? All? Straight away? Like, huh,

I need to do these these, these, these these I

got this exam, I got have you asked? Got God?

Can you help you my exam? What's your daily braid? Friends?

Everybody can do, right? Do you need revel from heaven? No,

everybody can do. What's your daily bread? What's the idea?

What's God asking you to do to be a blessing?

Can you make a list? Lord? How can I be

effective as a labor today? Make a lista whatever it

comes your way? You know, download from him? Do you

know God speak? You know? The one thing that I

will tell people this is that you know when you

ask God, God actually say something. Side the scripture, Ask

and you will get your answer. Seek and you will

find not and the door be opened. It's very true. No,

it's very rudimentary and elementary, but it's so true. You

don't ask, you won't get law as la right, that's

the daily bread. And then once we receive. Okay, God,

thanks for the revelation, Thanks for giving me the download.

What's the next step? Make a commitment your tithe? That's

where you say, Lord, I tithe to you, I give

to you, Thank you for this. I will I will

do my part right, you know? Okay, God, everything on

all you are, yes, all him. But we have to

do our part. We have to obey. Once you receive

the word. The greatest thing you can do is obedience.

And do you know that when you obey, you please him.

So it's your benefit that you obey him. And then

after that it's where the leaven comes in, where we implement,

where we make it count right, and we account right,

you know, we got to account for things, you know,

that's that's that's the thing about somethings when we come

to you know, we we we count a lot of things.

We keira a lot of things, right. You know. We

always say like, don't kee it up, we've God la right,

but actually we do. We cra God, I gave you

this mount then I get you know, we kee it out.

Maybe that's the Chinese insarvest. Must count everything one, you know,

and we say God don't count. Actually know what I

think he does count. You know, he's not gonna hold

you to it, but I think he does count. Because

we all have to take an account of what we

have done. We all have to do that. That's a reality. Right.

Are we gonna keep counting the blessings or the thanksgiving

or are we gonna count now? God? Now you never

answer no, I tell you whish one I don't know.

Maybe ask you if you were God right and you've

got your kids coming to you or those steps follow

you coming to your who you like? You want the

one that count? Lord? Thanks so much, Thanks for this

you did for me. Thanks for this you did for me.

Thanks or you're gonna Lord, I want to keep out

of you. You never do this. You never do who

you prefer to talk to? Think about it? Then you

flip it? Which one are you? Wouldn't you want to

give more to the ones that is more thankful? Think

about it, think about it, just challenging that thought process. Okay,

So let's make it count. Download from the Lord. Okay,

daily bread can do every day? One okay? And then

again incremental changes maybe difficult. Your schedule is hard. Five minutes,

five minutes, one minute, pray one minute. I don't know, right,

Maybe just do something to connect we've got and then

after that upload to him and then implement. So there

are five steps. I give you the five sets of

God's diet. We've got to make a list, right, because

a short pencer is But of course, now we got

I pen and all. But please make a list. No

we cannot remember. And once you have the list, commit

to it. Okay, God, thank you for this. I want

to commit. And then you got to make it count. Okay,

revisit it. Maybe you've got the list ready. Maybe God

has given you something but you've not acted on it

for past twenty five. It's not too late. Revisit the least,

just the least, yes, maybe, and make it count. Make

time to help others.

So so.

Right, that was very encouraging. Pray God answered, come share,

help others. Others are being helped. Now you'll know if

you want to have extension for your landlord, you know

you can asked because you got example. If it can happen,

it canpen to me as well. Help others. And of

course finally we remember the vision. What is it all about? Friends?

It's about the loss, It's about helping people believe, it's

about making disciples. Right what he's making disciples? Oh no,

I must be you know, affiliated with pasta Steven? And

then he must say his friends. It's not so complicated

on cat no, can we can we simplify it a

little bit. The moment you can influence someone to follow Jesus,

you are discipling the person like how or some of

you here, I'm really discipling you because you are listening

to me at least la but they are one there,

ones are like tuning off. I'm not discipling you. It's

very simple. Maybe someone else can. Maybe you listen. He

will disable you, but at least that's disabled happening. And

of course here we go deeper. Don't just be discipled

from a far because no accountability. I want to know, right,

there's nocountability. Do you know that it's harder when it's

close proximity because you got no choice for the cow right.

That's why one of the one of the benefits I

feel for me in my finest journey is that I

have a coach. Until now I'm being you know, discipled

by my coach right the day I went a coach

shorea I know Freela today. Then he's like, take a

photo of the work I do at home. I'm like, okay,

cannot run away, but it's good for me, so I

do it right. So, friends, I got three questions. Oh sorry,

there's something that I'll just share with you is in

a slide. So remember geat the vision. The vision is

dominion influence. Does ex bundall Tama have influence in Banda Tama? God? Not? Right?

And who's influence not just the influence of the church,

the influence of God in this place? Right? And what

is the mission disciple? Shape that more people are the same.

And the direction that we have as a church is

the Daniel direction. Where you are the influence where you

are there where people recognize you as the believer in

your marketplace. That's Daniel right. And the focus is God's died.

Just break it down really simple for you. Actually everybody

can do it right. But there's a cost to it.

You know. The Bible says if we don't count the cost,

that's that Sometimes we set up to do things for God, right,

but we don't count the cost. No, friends, You've got

to count the cost. That's why you The question is

what are you saying? Is there a cost? The cost

is disciplined, that's the cost. And if you don't do that,

it's not going to happen. Right. So three reflection questions

and you can go back and think about it and

do it right. What is your heart for the loss?

You got heart for loss of them? I wrote that

easy even that is to myself is my heart for

lost even there because it's you can. You can say

a lot of slogans here, a lot of things, But

do I really even care for people who do not

know God? Yet? Do I really want to reach out

to them? What are my challenges in being called to

lead others? Well? I wrote here, I'm not good enough,

but then the Lord has encouraged me and told me

in Philippians for thirteen that I can do all things

to Christ, who strengthens me. So it's not about me.

There are a lot of people I know when we

talk about this, especially, I'm not going get someone else,

get someone else, get get pass to see you here

all Anxi. You know, to disciple, I'm not lengthxyed enough.

So when I thought people don't listen to me, it's

not about me. I can do all things to Christ

who strengthens friends. You can do all things to Christ

who strengthens you. Your own definitely cannot, but through Christ can.

And what is the one discipline that I want to

work on? Well, I wrote here, meditating on God's word,

this is myself lies. You know we talk about downloading

from God. Joshua want It encourages us that the law

and his commandments, of the commandments of God do not

depart our mouth. That we will meditate it in our

hearts and minds, day and night, and it shall be

well with us. It will bring us prosperity. That's what

happens when we meditate on God's world. That's the thing

that sometimes we need more proof. But friends, I tell

you so much, profety, so much profety. Don't know how

much more to prove. Every time you hear peopleshap message

about you know, following God and and and seeking away

kingdom and then being in a place where the Lord

has blessed, it's profety when you hear testimonies, it's proof

God's word. What does God's worth say? Follow? It's as

simple as that. There's no secret, right. That's why I

want to end with maybe, extremely come up. So I

hope that you've caught something. Yeah, try to make it

as real as possible for your can I encourage you

with this one thought? You know, when we you know,

when we pursue after God and his kingdom, sometimes we

think that we have to sacrifice our dreams, our desires.

We have to sacrifice a lot of things. And yes,

maybe at the start it may feel that way, the feeling,

but our friends, I tell you, are God will surprise

you one because he will bring all dreams that you

think have died a long time ago, and he will

just give it to you and make it come a

life again. And the crazy thing is, you know, I've

experienced these few times I pursue the something maybe I

didn't consult God there and get it, and then I suffer.

And the alternative is I surrender it to the Lord.

I let the dream die, die, die to self, and

I be faithful. And then suddenly when he comes back,

and it's not even like I'm asking for it. When

it comes back, it comes back in a place where

it's more fulfilling and more at peace. Then when if

I pursued it on my own in the beginning. I

find it very interesting, this, this relationship, you know, because

I believe that whatever desire he plays in your heart,

it is from Him because He made us. So you

don't shun the desire, but you submit it. You catch that,

you know, you you either submit to God or you

submit your dreams or your ambition or your fear or whatever.

But I've come to realize that when we submit to God,

he will short this thing out. Design meant you six.

The tree is so real. So my encouragement today is, hey,

can we submit to God? Can we surrender to him? Yes,

there's desire, Yes, I know God, don't don't. Don't cut

it off, laid to rest for now, leave it here first,

say Lord. When it happens, I know it's going to

be from you. Because the one other reminder that I

got in the beginning of the year and can doing

a devotion, is that you don't want to come to

a place right when you can afford what God doesn't

want for your life, because that's a very dangerous place

to be at because if you can afford to do

something that God doesn't want you to do, it might

destroy you your cashtre no not too deep bla, you know.

So I think sometimes even if we can and we

feel like we cannot, maybe it's not for us, and

we surrender it to the Lord because it's very dangerous

when you can afford it. You get mean, but actually

that's not what's God's plan for you know what's gonna happen.

You're gonna destroy yourself, right, that's very dangerous. Amen.

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