Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Part 2 | Pr Matthew Chang

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The main premise of X Church is anchored on two

key versus Hypercook chapter two, verse fourteen and Genesis chapter one,

verse twenty eight. Okay, so if you want to go

to Hypercook chapter two again, let's just go to Hyperchook

chapter two, verse fourteen if you can very.

Quickly, or maybe can actually just help me quickly.

Flash the Hypacook chapter two, verse fourteen, so that everybody

can see. Okay, Now for the earth together, okay, one

two three, For the earth will be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters

covers there see. Okay, So so what are we about

to do? What are we called to do? To feel

the earth?

Okay?

Which also comes from Genesis chapter one, How to how

to feel the Earth? They are so big? You know

if you fly to the skies that you realize earth

is so bigger. How we need to be fruitful and multiply.

One of the key what it caally indicators of life.

If you want to classify life, whether animal is a life,

humans are alive, even vegetables are a life, is that

they can multiply. There's one of the key requirements of

a life and a correct not science teacher, I forgot

my science ready, but at least is one thing I know. Okay,

all the key requirements for something to be categorized as

life is that it is able.

To multiply itself. Ah. Did you realize that? You know?

In the world some we forgot ready, But it's true,

I ask yougpt Okay, Ah, it's true. You must be

able to multiply. Okay, So to be fruitful and to multiply.

So in our case as a church, how do we

do our part? We need to make disciples and and

how and then to not just disciples disciples when they

go around the world, to have to be able to

have influence. Okay, influence all right? So uh, through this unpacking,

we're going through the ex Church. Of course, we're covering

the seven piece. We have prayer, passion, purpose, practice, which

covered in the previous session before. So we're going to

talk about preparation in these sessions. Okay, to prepare, how

to undertake the mission of ex Church, which is two,

what to make disciples Okay, to feel the earth, yes,

but we focus in on making disciples. So we're gonna

talk about making disciples.

Okay.

Now, we may not be able to fulfill the big

vision of filling the earth with the knowledge of the

glory of the Lord. It's true, isn't it. You just

look at yourself like, ah, how to do so many people?

You know, we're not just broadcasting, you know, but we

need to let people, let the whole of understand or

bevans God. You know, it's not a job that can

be done alone. But what we can do, okay, is

that we can do. What we can do is that

is to be fruitful and multiply. And how does that

look like? First of all is to make disciples. Okay,

on our part, if we are given so mania, what

can we do with so manyea?

Do we put a big banner? That's it? God, I

don't my jail already? No? No, no.

The key difference that will affect so Mania is to

raise people disciples of Christ. You mean, we don't need

another banner that the car will drive by, but we

need people. We need disciples, leaders, followers of Christ who

can make a difference one household at a time, one

office at a time, you mean, right, one location at

a time.

That's how we make.

It, okay, making disciples that will make the difference.

And then we want to.

Not just make disciples, okay, we also want to produce leaders.

Okay.

In the ex church, you will notice that we actually

use the word leaders a lot together with disciples as well, because, uh,

you know, we believe that. You know that as true

disciples that are called, they want to follow Christ. And

sometimes following Christ takes a lot of self initiative as well.

And as you journey along with Christ, you will realize

that people will come along you, people who will you

like it or not. People will want to follow you,

and you have to decide whether you want to be

followed or not. Will you have to decide whether you

want to be an influence or not? You know, you know,

there's there's a famous basketball player called Charles Barkley. Before

you know that, you know Charld's Buckley. We call him

the round Mount of basketball. Missed a round pick. He's

a very shorter six foot sixer, but you know he

plays above his height, great jumping ability, great rebounder. Okay,

we call the round Mount of basketball. But he was

so popular with kids. But then he was always fighting,

always liked, you know, a very bad temper and fighting

and stuff like that. People say, hey, you know that

what you do on basketball court is not being a

good example. Then you go and family say, I do

not play to become a role model. Sometimes we don't

ask to be a role modeler. But because of your status,

people follow you, you know, And so you come to

this point of life where you have to decide do

you want to be a role model you like it

or not? People will follow you, but do you take

on the burden of responsible to be a good leader.

It's something else, you know. Some people are families. I say,

I never asked to have children. Oh I tell you

children have family a bit time not you know what

I mean, Radia, But parents are It's like, oh I

do it because my wife wants. Oh my because my

husband want. And then you have your children. You like

you or not, your children will look up to you

one and all, and it's and it's one of the

worst situations where you have you have children in a family,

but the parent now is reluctant to lead, you know,

because they feel like, oh I feel like I'm giving

up my career. I feel like I'm giving up my

best part of my life. And that's what a lot

of people nowadays don't want to have children on which

I feel really really against it and really sat with

it on because they want to pursue self first, you know,

but that is completely against Are you guys looking at

something else? I realize everybody's eyes are turning somewhere else. Okay,

it's you know, you like it or not. It's a

very very important thing because leadership requires you to sacrifice

a lot of your part as well. Okay, that's why

we're using a lot of these word leaders. Okay, Okay,

we want to make disciples. We want to produce leaders,

turning every pre believer to be a partner, every partner

pull be a pioneer, and every pioneer to become a

parent as well. Okay, I'm not gonna some parts. I

might skip a bit because it takes a bit to explain.

I will push all the burden to pass the Steven

and the rest to explain. Okay, but some of the

parts I will skip a bit so that if you

want to understand a bit more the next time, I

will spend a bit. But because quite a lot of material,

I will push a bit more.

Okay.

Next light is that we want to produce leaders, and

this are some examples planting a disciple and producing a

leader like pastal Lazarus. How do you know how many

of you are familiar with past Lazarus? You know which

plant is come from?

Yeah?

So fast right there, don't give them the answer, that's kidding. Okay,

from where again? In neeli Neelai can send one fellow okay,

all the way to Botswana? Okay, so many who shall

we send to?

Huh?

Wait?

Wait?

Wait?

Where shall we send to?

Ah?

Send to nothing her Maha, send to China. Come on,

let's do it. Man.

You see Ah, I can't remember much, but I know

when Passes Lazurus was still a campus student. You know

how many of you are campus student?

Here?

Raise your hands, don't be shy, potentials Okay, wen you ready?

But it was just like you guys sitting in that

chair there, and I'm just here to study. He then

after a few years, oh groomed up, you know, then

God's call start to feel their hearts. Someone who don't

know anything becomes someone who is willing. Okay, I don't know.

I'm sure he thinks I don't have everything, But I'm willing,

and step by step he becomes planted in Exportswana now

more than one planet, okay, traveling north and South of

Africa there, planting churches, you know, attaching lives there. You

cannot you really, I want to speak to young people.

You really have no idea what God has in store

for you. You really have no idea. When I was young,

I have no idea what God has in store for me.

The last thing I wanted was to become a pastor.

But look at where I am now?

Is this?

Seriously?

When I when I was young, you know, what was

the one thing that I heard about pastor from my dad?

Past us eatam high gams high gamho want? You know,

you want to become pastor dead the lifestyle you hit.

I don't want that, man. I love food too much

to settle for gams high gamhoo. You know salter fish

and saltter veggie. You know I love food too much,

you know, But that's why I think. But now I

am no that I told my dad recently that you

know what I do. My dad don't know I'm actually

a pastor.

That you look at me. Then he keep asking me

one question. Your wife working or not.

That's the one thing my dad keep asking me, you

know your.

Wife working or not? Yeah? Yeah, he keeps worrying about

now where that can survive? You know.

But God has done. But God has provided for me wonderfully.

And I'm just ting you God, you have no idea.

What God has in store for you. Okay. God's great

things in stuff for you guys.

Okay, So pastor less in Botswana, we're a pastor Benji

Orsaka pastor Joba and Melbourne, all of them I know

in the campus States.

Okay, So now where they are.

So we plant the seat of a good disciple and

in a good sod where we get thirty four hundred

folds and when we and what we get when we plant. Okay,

it's not just planting a church, you know. We are

focused on planting a leader, a disciple. There just the

person that makes all the difference.

You know.

Well, a lot of times we think it's a system,

you know, No, we think it's a system. If we

think it's just money, I tell you so many places

that people just put the money, it just dies. But

you plan the person, the DNA gets transferred properly. Man,

some things you cannot transfer the DN then just buy

money is really through the heart the person willing to

do it. That's why Jesus didn't say, Hey, twelve disciples

before I go off, I leave you all set money investment.

You get a hundred kre, you get a hundred kre,

you get hundred kre. You get hundredkre to start, no zero, okay,

just go and make disciples on me. I spent three

years with you already. Okay, he can go already. And

that's how Jesus does it.

Okay.

Now, next one, So our goal is in the third part, okay,

So we produce, make disciples, we produce leaders. And the

third part, okay, is to raise and release Daniels into

the marketplace. So what's the difference between Daniels and leaders.

Daniels are actually released in the marketplace, the domain that

they operate in.

You get I'm saying that.

So you raise disciple, didn't here, but you're going out

to become Daniels, okay. And sometimes you are a Daniel

by choice or by force. Daniel was in the different

nazas Pallas, not by choice. One, no, no, you know

what I'm saying. You know, he didn't ask to be there,

but he was there. Joseph was in Portifa's house, was

in Pharaoh's house. Not by choice one and all, he

was actually so there, you know, and a lot of

you will be in places not because you chose to,

but because you are pushed to. But even though you

are pushed to, the Dna that you caught as a

disciple remains there. And what is supposed is and it's

either you transform into a Daniel or the world becomes

comes to transform you as well, you like it or not,

the world will transform you one so you might as

well be transformed by God in transformed the world. Okay,

So that's a very important thing. So we have a

question here. Okay, so because it's in the marketplace, there's

a question here said, you know, which mountains are God

leading you to take to? You know, when we talk

about mountains right in the Bible, there are seven mountains

of influence. You know, I'm not going to go through

that much again that some of it includes education, government, entertainment,

all sort of that stuff.

So, actually, how many of you are working? Ready?

Yeah, most of you are working. Even if you're not working, right,

you are in one of these mountains. Okay, whether in

the government, you know, working different in districts you are

in certain mountains as well, and whether what are you

doing there, what identity and what calling are you carrying there?

Are you just waiting there and then just to earn

a living or do you believe that you can also

be a dandium as well and something that you want

to meditate upon, think about consider and also you know,

really carry all forth for next year as well. So

God wants us to focus on growing deep ruts to

produce group good fruits, and a root means to go

deeper into the word. Okay, everybody, Okay, so far, okay,

I again, I'm not going to cover every single thing

I'm gonna paint just but I pick and choose on

the major ones. Okay, all right, so far, all right,

So just a quick recap here. The overall picture vision

is dominion, okay, from Genesis to one. Our mission is discipleship,

and our direction is Daniel. Okay, direction is Daniel. All

of us eventually will become a Daniel.

That's the goal.

Because I tell you actually it's quite true, you know,

because a church will not remain a church in this format.

A lot of times you know I'm saying or not,

we are preparing. You know, there's a timeline that were coming. Okay,

even for Israel as well. Now, when when Israel was destroyed,

I think it was by the Assyrians, right, Okay, the

temple was destroyed, right, It felt like God's plan for

Israel was gone ready, you know, everything was gone. People

migrated to Babylon. You know, I think it's four hundred years. No,

I can't remember hundred years America my mind. For a

long time, everybody thought gone ready, wipe out from the

history readly, you know, and there will come a time

that you will feel that churches cannot start and Christianity

will be gone ready. It feels like that, but it's

not true, you know that, because what God carries, you know,

what God has put it is not in buildings or

in you know, a certain location, but it's in the

heart that even if someone in Israel is carried forth

into Babylon, right, that parents that person still carries its

still the vessel of God carries the spirit of God

and influence Babylon as well. Get mean, right, So it's

very very important with that ac always always been there, neel. Okay,

you'll come a time when church cannot operate like they are.

But yeah, Christians are still making the biggest influence.

Ah, you know, I'm saying that you will come a time. Okay.

Now, God doesn't want us to be ex to be

ex church as just a brand, oh and just a brand.

No, he wants us to be a lifestyle. Okay. What

does it mean?

What does it mean that we are not just as

a brand, but we want to be a lifestyle. It

means that when people know us, they don't know us

from a brand they see on the board. They know

us by what we do. You know what I'm saying. Now,

they know us by by what we do. It's not

just that only we do, but we constantly do it.

I mean, oh, it's like no, no, no, no.

We are not claiming exclusivit, not claiming exclusivit. But we're

saying that you're like that because you constantly exhibit Okay,

we constantly that because it is power of our DNA

and what will because we believe that people will only

be reached not by just a message, but by what

you actually do on the outside. And this includes like

practical love and I peace, you know, things like peace care, grace, friendship,

joy and prayer. And that's why you know, in twenty

twenty one, when we talk about prophesied right people, when

we speak right, it's not just speaking, but when we speak,

we speak into the world, but we speak into our lives.

We actually follow and do what we preach as well.

And when people see our acts of kindness, acts of lurks,

act or grace, right, people see what we preach come

to reality as well. I'm saying now, that's the power,

you know. And so it's like the question is, you know,

are we making sense to the world. Are we able

to connect with the world to make sense even before

we make disciples in the world. You know, hey, you

know you come to church every Sunday, you go through

all these downloading sessions. When when you go into your home,

go back to your family, when you go back to

the officers, when you go and play basketball, play pray

food so or go and play pickleball? Can people look

at you? Can people make sense or what you actually

believe in? You know what I'm saying now, And that's

very very important. You know, sometimes it's very sad. You know,

I hear it many, very many times. You know, when

people you know who you know, oh, I met Christians

before who they are really bad, you know examples, and

I feel very sad, you know, you know, because they

had you know, sometimes they meet people who who preach,

but they don't do what they preach. They don't want Okay,

it's what they preach as Well's I feel I feel sad,

of course, Okay, I'm very unfortunate, but I mean I

always tell them is that, hey, that's very unfortunate.

But not everybody's like that.

But even if someone fails, there are there's also grace

for them as well.

They are on their journey as well.

I make I'm sad that you experienced that, but I

wanted you to to know that we never look at humans, Okay,

that every one of us who are follow us, we

follow firstly we follow Christ. That even me, myself and

everyone else, we still need the blood of Jesus, you know,

until the end of every day, we still need the

blood of Jesus. So we have we need the forgiveness

of God and we need to forgive one another as well. Okay,

that's very very very important. Okay, So we need to

be able to connect with the world. Okay, through our acts, okay,

our kindness, our genuineness, you know, not just you know,

some people like to be Christian just for the branding.

Don't do that.

It's all just just you know, we say that just

because you have a license doesn't mean that you have

a good driver. You're laughing right now. Have like people

who have licenses who drive like a wild cat. And

you know, driving in a car really really humbles me one.

You know, of course my weakness gets amplified one. You know,

I really have no patience sometimes like ah, and if

someone cuts me or do something, and all I'm like, ah,

in the world God, I should not condemned, should not forgive.

If I must forgive, it's a real test. It's a

real test, you know. It's true.

Doesn't mean you're a license holder, means you're a good driver,

you know. Sometimes wait, what.

This person drives? Hey, that's my church partner, that's my pastor.

There's a tip.

But put privacy glasses. Okay, can I see that? Oh

you see a church brainder Oh I know that, Brendady.

Are you things I don't know? Don't do that? Like Okay,

there's one time I was driving to submit and was

a bit impatient. I honk you on. They might always

say they could be a church. It is true enough quickly,

Oh my goodness, there are things I learned.

A Lord, forgive me, Lord forgive me, and learning I'm

learning all right. Okay, hope you guys have fun. Okay,

So reflection, what kind of sense am I going to

make this week? Okay, now let's read. Let's move on,

reviewing some numbers. Then the Lord answered me and said,

in Habitcook chapter sorry, in Habitcook two, verse two. Okay,

after we shed about uh, to fill the earth.

With the glory of the Lord. Right. So after that,

if you read in chapter two, there is a portion

of scripture that talks about this this verse here, it says,

then the answered me and said, write the vision and

make it plain on the tablets, that he may run

who reads it.

Okay, So now there's a vision. There is a timeline.

But now there's a requirement for response. Okay, there's a

requirement for response, and it's say easier that he may

run who reads it.

It means that there are people.

Who will read it and just ignore, but there are

people who will also run with it.

And that is why it needs to be written on tablets.

There are some people who read it, you know, and

will know and not just one person, more people who

actually have to read it and they will respond to it.

So you have to make no, not everybody will do it,

but you have to make it very permanent so that

they may respond to it.

Okay.

And the key thing is that we want people not

just to know it, but we want people to run

with the vision. So that's why in here in ex Church,

we are very you know, you might realize that we

are very active in encouraging people to take up partnership.

We are very active in people trying to ask you, hey,

are you connected to homes? We are very active in

asking are you in a harder relationship? He said, hey,

how come this church do that? You know, the church

I go to in Canada, we don't even have homes.

You know, our church if it is only one hour,

only more than one hour, I don't want to go

to that church anymore already.

You know, Oh, I tell you you'd be surprised.

Just like what.

Actually, many churches I know they are run with one

hour one and no any more than one hour. I

don't want to go ready because it's always because it's

too long ready the pastor some people will put online.

Are this pastor put too long ready? Need to tell

him ready? Sorry if I see one hour. H But

it's true there are many because the world is trying

to perform how.

The church should be.

Okay, So it's kind of scary, but that's why we

encourage people to take up discipleship, connecting to a homes,

trying to be a leader as well. Not because we're

trying to control you, because like I said, again, we

have a purpose, we have a timeline. Even I'm saying,

we're trying to fulfill that timeline and their urgency as well.

It's not because of anything else, Okay, But again we

can only encourage, we can't force people to do what

we do one Okay, Like that's why we are different

from other churches, you know, in that sense we have

that urgency. Okay, Now we talk about timeline, let's recap. Okay,

So the first twenty years, I know many of you

are not here yet. The first twenty years EX Church okay,

starts from year two thousand to year twenty twenty.

Okay. Year two thousand was the year I went came

to ex Church. As well.

Year two thousand was the year I was in tailors

as well. So if you think about it, I've been

in extra for twenty five years. Ready, twenty five years

was that?

You know?

The average church life expectanc here for most leaders or

places are in overseas are five years.

You know, I have not quadrupled.

I don't know, you know, life pen top four times,

you know, five times the expantec twenty five years. Ready,

of course in between I was away for five years

in oversea, but twenty five years I've been with them.

I've never felt the need to move on to church,

just one and all. And I praise God not because

of me, but because it's the grace of God.

You know, really, you know, I don't.

I've been to oversea churches where people move from move before.

It's not good.

It's not a good position position to be it, not

for yourself, not for your family. Sometimes it's go through years.

Sometimes you know, you're in a church that goes through

many challenges and stuff, unless and until that person really

goes through heretical teaching, heoretically, really really heretical teaching. I

will always say that you are there for a reason,

not just to receive if you are there for a

reason to make a difference one. That's why we emphasize

that you are a daniel. You know you know what

I mean, right, You are a Daniel not just to

download and all. You are there to make a difference one.

You know.

I you know, if you're come from a the church,

I encourag you to stay in the church. This is

extra policy. You know, you know you have a much church.

Bless your pastor serve him be with you. Come from

a small town more and serve your church. You know

what I'm saying. Now, there's always been the close one.

Don't go just move because you feel there's a new

trend or not. No, go and sir, you feel that

the teaching not as good, it's not speaking, go and

serve there be a teacher then ah you I mean

this is true. I go one friend now who wants

to follow me everywhere I preach one and no new guy?

I said, master, mad you're preaching. Oh I take it

very complimentary or you know following me? Hey, I told

him today I'm going to many you want to come

to some one very far?

It's true.

He just really texted me. You know that you go

to mendory service. You also go mentory service. You know

it's a very good lie. You know it's pre believing

and a very good lie. But I said, you know,

you don't go because for speaker and all, I really

believe that God has called you, not to me. I

really believe God has caught you to church, and so

wherever you are, I believe that you can be blessed one.

You can be blessed and you can be a blessing.

And that's the real truth. As much as I am

flattered by him want to follow me, I know that

is not the right thing. There is not the good thing, men,

I for anyone, for any child, if you ever kid,

that's not the right thing for anyone to be focused

on as well. Okay, So first twenty years, it's a

Joseph here when I'll talk about Joseph here.

Why Joseph dreams.

Okay, Joseph dreams, and Joseph go to challenges as well,

And so we take that. So God has given us

a dream for the first twenty years with for a

few many of these dreams, God has delivered us. God

has established us as well. But the next twenty years,

for twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, which we are

in right now. Some people will call it an epoch

or a team or hey, it's the Daniel years. Okay,

it's not just about us. We are called to be Daniels.

That the Church has to prepare everyone, you and I

to become Daniels and means that the Church recognizes there

will be a come a time that all of us

may be called to different places, whether it's law, geographically,

maybe it's occupationally, you know, different places, circumstances that you

are pushing into different places, or maybe you know globally

there's something happened. But where you are, you're going to

be Daniels. You're going to make a difference. Okay, and

this is where the Church is mobilizing in two Okay, Actually,

just from twenty twenty, you realize the world has changed

so much. You know, we think twenty twenty is Malaysia. Yeah,

you know twenty twenty, but twenty twenty happened. Poom, what's

the first thing?

COVID? Poom?

You think this is a coincidenza. Some people believe twenty

thirty is something major is going to happen. You know,

actually a lot of economies say something's going to happen.

There are some conspiracy theories who say that twenty two

is something's going to major happen. Some people pretty another

type of you know, COVID thing even bigger.

We don't know.

We are not there to entertain all these things, but

we are prepared for every season. Wheever, when it hits

even more more difficult and stuff like that, we still

have to make sure that the Gospel gets preached. We

still have to make sure that people lives get touched.

We see it to make sure that we are still Daniels.

You know, you get what I'm saying now, But they

may not mistake that the time that we're living is

becoming more urgent and more is shifting more radically.

It's swinging more and more. Okay, okay.

In twenty fifteen to twenty thirty, we have the you know,

we talk about Hazardkaya, we talk about Nihi Maya as well,

rebuilding the worlds. But makes may not missake twenty twenty,

twenty twenty forty, these two decades, it's gonna see people

have saying the most shift happening in the world, faster

and quicker than we.

Have ever experienced before.

Twenty twenty also was the year that all the AI

came out, you know, yeah, yeah, change the world forever

and on our youth, our education system, the jobs and

all and everything is going to change so dramatically already

some people say that next day is the year of robotics.

You know that you're going to see robots and autonomous

casts that you never imagine. It's going to operate more

and more prevalently in our lives as well, and how

are we going to react to that as well? All right,

so let's let's look on focus for the next ten

years from twenty to twenty thirty. So what is God

calling us in terms of our time? Let's focus twenty

twenty to twenty thirty. So the ten years twenty ten days, Okay,

as we are. Daniel's the Book of Daniel actually gave

us a clue. Okay, Daniel when he was in Babylon,

when he was also they were not the only prisoners,

are okay, because Babylon actually took the best young people

from everywhere, okay, from every country, and they too, the

best young people. They want to train them, they want

to transform them, and solo to exert and to show

the world that our civilizations have better superiority.

You get me in right.

You have Malaysians, but when you go to Australia, you're

no longer Malaysia, You're Australian.

Lady came.

It's like to show that Australian influence more more powerful.

I've been to Australia. Before you go to UK, you

speak with a queen's excenarity, you know, no longer one

the Malaysian ecceinarity. You go to America, you talk like

an American. You prefer American fast food already you get

what I'm saying now, And they form you and transform

your according because not because you are just trying to

gel in, but because deep down inside and they think

as well that they actually are more superior culturally as well.

And there's nothing more powerful than to boast like that.

You know you wherever no your people come to me,

they follow like me, not like you.

Ah, that is what Babylon wants, you know.

So bab Beyloon in the Bible always talks about the

world Babylon always. You know, when we talk about Babylon,

the Bible always prefer Babylon means the world okay, the world,

the world has, the world does not come together, does

not mean face to face with God. One and no,

it's always opposite of God's want to know the world

thinks a different way. Once thinks a different way, they

are always opposing to God. So the world wants to

feed Daniel and his friends a certain diet. But Daniel

says no, Okay, I don't want to trust you. I

don't want to back. I don't want to shoe your

you know, all the good stuff. I don't want the

wag you stake.

You know.

Oh it's so nice, you know, all the Instagram things

are so it's so good. Oh, I don't want to

give me the vegetables. Oh, if you ask me right now,

you ask my son. I said no, be gone, be gone,

you know. But Daniel say no.

Test us for ten days, okay, ten days and ten

days of extra implies for us at least as we

extrapolate for us, we take it to mean ten years

until twenty thirty. Okay, test that. And when you undergo

a diet, it's not easy. You know, it tests, It

has you ham you were going through diet before. It

really tests. You want to know, it really forces you

to filter everything out one and know why friends eating

that thing you cannot eat, you know, I choose not

to eat. And you really have to believe and that

what your diet actually is from God and it actually works.

It's not you know, but when you go through a

diet of voluntary diet, right what, it's always been proven

and that is good for your body.

You want to know, and the fast and everything.

It's always it's been proven to it's been good for

you want to Fasting is actually good for you want

to know for your body? Okay, and when you fast,

it actually gets your body into order. Get mean, right,

it can so it doesn't just get everything it wants.

But when you go into a fast state, your body

starts to have its proper priority. It's very important, you know.

Actually wonder what do they call it? Wand the ward

Sell was Warner for best medical Discovery was the discovery

of fasting. You know, the fast thing is actually helpful

for body in terms of a lot of a lot

of benefits, cancer and stuff like that. I'm not saying

it cures, but it's good for the body.

Okay.

If you want to go and read a body can

read about it.

Okay, Now ten years until twenty thirty to get to

test us and to get our house in order. Okay,

so twenty twenty to twenty forty, we have twenty years

are okay, sorry, sorry, twenty years are for the Daniel,

but ten years of that half of they is to

prepare to.

Get our house in order. Okay. Getting a house in

order is very very important. Okay. Now, next thing we talk.

About is one thousand times by one thousand some stories. Okay,

so how many of you were here before year twenty

twenty years? At least more than yeah, more than five years,

more than ten years. Okay, we actually have actually exert

as with some history before some stories a longer way.

One of the things that we undertook on what cost

was a fundraising project for building the Glenn Mary project. Okay,

don't have time to go through all of it, but

basically is that, you know, we lost a deposit. We

thought that that was a direction by God. We collected,

fundraising didn't happen, and eventually that plan just pause.

Okay.

It looked like a disappointment because it looks like every

church got their own building.

You know, everybody got your own building.

It's like you know, you're buying a house, but then

your long God not a proof, you know, then you

cannot approve for alone. It's like that help feeling you know,

you do you mean that I have to rent for

the rest of my life? You know, that help feeling?

You know you cannot get a calf an you mean

I regret for the rest of my life, that help feeling.

Who knows It's affected a bit of our identity. We

went through a challenging time, but what was a disappointment

became an appointment by God.

The same thing with Daniel as well. We thought that

Israel was going.

To be beautiful, prosperous and glorious. But yet in Daniel's lifetime,

God allowed Jerusalem.

To be destroyed.

Oh why would God allowed such a glorious city be destroyed?

Because Jerusalem is not about a city, It's a people.

I mean, like the DNA they got before Jerusalem was o.

God was there, you know, before Abraham existed.

God was there.

He can I'm saying, it's not. It was never confined

to that, you get mean? I so God said that.

No. Look what I'm trying.

My message, my inheritance for the people is through my people.

But I'm looking at which one of them will truly

understand my vision and my calling.

I'm looking for Daniels. You con'm saying not.

And so God God's plan for Israel was always to

be dispersed one. But Israel was cooked up inside there

Ah and it took Jesus to come in to spread

them out. Is He realized that the twelve tribes were

supposed to bless the whole entire world, and but Israel

kept to themselves. Jesus came and reseted Israel. He came in.

He said that you desdoy this temple. I was raised

up in three days. He is the temple. And he

raised the neutral twelve trips to the twelve disciples. And

the twelve Disciples never remained in Israel. They were spread up.

You notice or not very powerful thing. Okay, Oh I

got time. Okay, oh I hope I can cover this.

Okay.

Now, the the building was lost, but we found our

vision and God said, don't build a cathedral for me.

But we spread out, so our church direction became about

not just one central building five thousand people, ten thousand people.

No.

From there, we're know through different events occurry. We start

to realize, especially passing, and that God, maybe God allows

this so that we can focus on being scattered, which

is go back to going back to Genesis chapter one.

Be fruitful and multiply.

God never says in Genesis, want to add them build

a big house and.

Stay here, be fruitful and multiply.

Don't just stay in the garden of either, take the

garden of Eiden and multiply it. Hear me saying, Ah,

it's something. It's so comfortable that we are all finding

our garden Eiven.

We just stayed there, Be fruitful and multiply.

Okay, So one thousand by one thousand, So in the

twenty years we exchange, we managed to reach about a

thousand people from three to one thousand. So if God

can use pastor can earth to build one thousand people,

can he use the one thousand people that God has

given him and multiply again.

Okay?

So through that first twenty years we have a reason.

We have a compelling testimony to believe that God has

done that God will do it again. And I'm saying

now that twenty years is a testimony.

Okay.

So we want to help us believe that God will

use every person in ex church. Okay, and so for

the next twenty years, we must believe that the one

thousand that we have cannot remain the same. Instee what

I'm saying now twenty yeth past, we cannot remain the same.

There are to be made disciples, leaders and their niels,

and they will be sent now to fill the earth

with the knowledge and the glory of the Lord.

Okay.

Now we already have one thousand people. Okay, we have

more than one thousand people. Now our part is to

be faithful. It's not easy to reach one thousand, but

that is God's responsibility. God multiplies, Okay, but we have

to forge on taking care of the one thousand. Get

me and I. That's why we focus a lot on training.

We focus on a lot of soult raising as many

leaders that we have as well. You know, I know

the leaders. You know, that's where we're focused. Oh okay,

that's the most like Okay, So there's a humble all right.

So our focus is on raising the leaders. They are

able to multiply, okay. Uh. And the how we multiply

and the bottom now of discipleship is to follow me

as I follow Christ.

Okay.

Now, when we make disciples from that one thousand that

we have. Right when we say ah, Extra always talks

about discipleship. Do you have a discipleship program? Do you

have a twelve feet program? Jesus didn't have a telfhe program. Okay,

how did Jesus disciple follow me?

He saw Peter and there are many in the NEETs.

Follow me, John Fishing, come and follow me, Matthew the

text collector, follow me. You know I'm saying no. The

key part of the discipleship is not a cause. I mean, yes,

it'd be nice if there's a course, But the true

key part of discipleship is to follow and to follow.

It's not easy because this is not just follow you

by Instagram or like in a Facebook. And all this

follow will cost you something one. It costs you something one.

It costs you to sacrifice time, energy, resource to be

because you believe that this person is worth following. Then

this where where this person is going to. He's not

going on himself. He is following after Christ. That's where

we must follow after someone who follows off the Christ. Okay,

it's very very important. Now you have to determine in

your heart. Right now you have this is something very important.

You have to determine your heart where the pastor can

is the person that you should follow?

Really deep down.

I have to wrestle with that question, not because you

know when you come to church, is that pastor really

a man that feels God?

Does he really follow God? I don't. I know.

There are many jagged edges that comes to a person.

I have many jaggard edges. Are my wife choose to

marry me or so you know me?

Right?

When you come to a church, it's the same thing

as well. You have to decide whether passic and is

the man that you want to really follow. It's very

very very very important. I choose to follow him because

I know him. When he prays for people, he really

say when he says that, oh, our prayer, he really

prays one and all. A lot of times that we

get into checkob oh you go into this our prayer

for you, we say only, but we never pray one.

Not it's true or not some of you laughing, But

it's true because we just want to be a nice Christian.

You know, he actually prays one at all. He really

prays one and all. I know that and all. I've

seen it before. And all he would drive. Oh man,

he would support for what again, let's pray about his brother.

He hardly knows his brother, but he will pray. He actually,

that's what he says.

One.

No, No, I seen him before.

Yeah, some of the things that you might not agree

with if he but I realized that the principle that

he follows is this, I fear God more than I

fear men.

That's what I told him.

I follow even sometimes I cannot understand say it, but

because I know that you fear God more than anyone tells.

That is what I what is what I I I

need from a leader more than anything else, you know,

I mean right, that is very That's why David's man

follow him before he was a king.

You know, you get me right.

David's man followed before because they Saul he was a

man after God's own heart. God annoying that he even

bought before David was sitting on the throne. You know,

he come saying no he was. He was not a

king for many many years, you know, being chased. Now,

how can this man be a king? You come saying no,

you must look at a man. Does that man fear

God more than anything else? Not by the position they

are already. But does that man fear God? I know

him were mean? This is my own conviction, but you

have to make your own conviction as well, whether you

really trust him better ways on what he shares. Really

really that's the way it is his heart.

And if you cannot settle, I really know, that's fine,

I understand, But you really have to make the conviction.

It's very very very important.

Now Okay, I'm getting there ready, all right, so let's

keep going. Okay, so follow me as I follow Christ. Okay,

so when we follow someone, what what does that mean?

Okay?

Need to you know with this saying not to uh,

to do as I do, to go as I go,

to say as I say, you get mean, right, And

that is actually how I'm actually my personally, I'm how

I'm being decipled as well. Actually, my learning has always

been through what observation. You don't learn as much from

lecture notes, but by through observation, and that is how

children learn. Your children never go through a class to

follow you as parents, but your children pick up even

your own habits by observation. You did your nose your children,

but did their knows You show temper in the car,

your children will show temple in the car. You score

your wife, your children will disrespect your mother as well.

Observation because what they observe is more real than anything else.

True or not.

People, That is why most of you after you need

you forget what you learn true or not, because you

observe in the world. Hey, doesn't make sense. You know

it's true or not. That they put you in the room,

but you cannot observe the world. But when you start working,

you observe, Hey, how come I learn?

That?

Doesn't apply?

One?

Now that you really learn by observation what actually works?

What is real? True or not? It really true, isn't

it observation?

People get upskin for courses, But no, when I say, hey,

might tell my son follow me do as I do.

It's not easy, not because I'm telling him and that

what I'm doing is the right way, you know, or

at least the best way. Like you know, it's not

easy enough. It's a commit money, not for or observe.

Why I do this? Ask and I go back as well,

do you know why I do this?

You know? What did you learn? What did you observe?

It's the same thing after you've been excemine What did

you observe about this church?

Some people come to church and say, oh, this peaker

doesn't really connect to me, and I don't want to

come anymore.

Is that all you observe?

If we do that to our parents, are that I

don't think you give me good food.

I don't.

I don't think you're a good parent. You don't always

let me eat my gimmy going. I don't think you're

a good parent. I said, we're gonna No, you observe eating?

Why they put people? Why they do they have a

lot of money, they make the best, what they do?

Why they planted? You know, hey, these place looks like

a bit you know, and you know, I'm not saying

anything better, like okay, but it's.

When they started out. When they started out, it's like

like why why this place? You know? Why? You know?

It's like but then we saw a vision. I mean,

years ago, did you imagine you'd be taking the floor here?

Do you imagine there were people think?

When?

What's more? You know, I'm saying, no, oh, why you

dress a certain way? What did you observe?

People are rigid because we only wear suits? No, because

we believe in getting giving our best?

Did you observe or not?

You catch some things from not you mean right, it's

really observation. Why not everybody is dressing casualry but we're

still trying to do. Hey, I'm twenty five years I

got not a single problem wearing tire. I don't like Taiwan,

but I go not problem because I will give God

my best even something I don't like, and I'll still

do it because it's giving its best. Giving is my best.

You know, you know what I'm saying. You know, I don't

like picking up my kids are sometimes are late at night,

but I do it because my kids is my best

for them and all he comes saying, you know, I

realized that the best part is not what I like,

but it's the best that makes the most sense and

the most love for them. One you know, okay, everybody, Okay,

So observation, So our decipe push. It has always been

observation for me. We do and everything that we try

to do we follow after our leader pass and how

he does it, we observe and he'll teach us we

do and then as we hear ex money Although we

don't have directions with pastor he's DNA. What he called

from the law is passed down to our leaders as well,

from me to the passa steven with our team here,

and our team will pass on to the homes, and

homes will pass on as well in the same way

in different places. In Melbourne, in Botswana and Japan everywhere,

the same thing as well. It's not easy, but we

keep doing the same way. So we keep going, okay,

making disciples, we keep planting churches, producing leaders and raising Daniels.

Some of these things we will expand a bit more

during the upcoming weeks as well. Okay, So after ten years,

what happened after ten days in the Book of Daniel?

Sorry, how was it?

Daniel was found to be ten times better than the

rest or ten times better.

A lot of people nowadays like to use ten x

ten x, ten next, ten next.

You know, I got one friend who started an organization

called ten nexts better, so nice the name ten next,

or I may put my money in make ten times better.

Everybody wants to be ten next. Okay.

But for Daniel, okays, when he was tested, you know,

in terms of IQ and everything else, speech, he was

found to be ten times better than all the rest

of the people who were fed with the diet of

the world. Okay, And so we have to understand that

ex Church is going through this transition period as well,

or why we are going through these challenges, why are

we different in certain ways? God wants to make us

ten next better as well. I really believe that it's

not easy. But once you drain, once you go through this,

we really believe by faith that God, wherever God places

us be, we will also make a difference that tech

next there as well.

Okay, said ten next.

It's not like just literal tenchn next, but it's the

idea is multiplicative, okay.

And so for us, we hope.

That we will be able to reach not just one thousand,

but ten thousand with new believers, not just church transfer,

which is very sad because in Malaysia.

Our Christian mus have not really grown it.

No, but we say, hey, how come I this our

ex church or other churches, And when we see I

go always got new faces there are new because not

because the are new believer, they are new because they're

transferred from churches, which is very sad, you know. But

if you remain in the church scene, the longer you

realize are the same face after eight twenty years, come

back again. Eight they're new again. But they are not new.

They're just coming back. It's not a good thing like.

That's why I say, remain where you are, be a

blessing serf and multiply.

That's what the church needs.

You know, we don't need people going around because they're

trying to find sort of a sense of belonging with one.

Try you already belong.

Ready, you got Christ ready, that's the most important. Be

don't make a difference where you are. Okay, Now let

me draw to the last three sites an cloths. So

our focus for the year, okay, is to take start

of all that God has given us. Okay, why God

has given us, whether there's one talent, whether there's two talents,

whether it's five or ten, have you been faithful with them?

Okay?

Do you even know what God has given you? But

you say, oh, bad pasta, I'm already smoke up tie.

You know, small thing only I'm not a leader here.

I got nothing to be responsible. What you got you have.

Even if you're a student you call friends, you know

that as a friend, a campus student, you have one

of the most powerful influence over everyone else, you know,

you know, as a parent, not you know, what's the

scariest thing I have for my children? Or not influenced

by friends? My friend, they are friends have more influence

than me and one and all. So you are telling

me that you don't have influence. You have every influence

of all my children. Okay, it's true. Your first week,

the first two weeks when someone is new in the

campus are they are friends have the biggest influence over

every parent everything. You have a big influence. So it's

where you so the world tells you know about you

actually have. So the moment when you choose to become

a light, to be the best version, to become the

best version of influencer, you are making a difference.

It's true, It is very very true.

I remember good friends from my unique places who really

make a difference.

You know.

Then got the first place when I went to Melbourne,

right that first I was like, oh, I'm going to

meet my friend.

I was like, really, no one.

I was supposed to stay with a housemate with someone

a pastor son you know, actually sibk past choose son.

He was supposed to stay with me.

Then after that last minute cancel out, so I have

to move into a solo apartment, apartment a room.

Now I mistake. So I was like who to meet?

You know? So the only thing I saw was just

go to the basketball corner. So I go to help

someone boom and I met my first friend. His name

is Sue Monk until now I remember, you know why

he played basketball with me until now and when I

met him he was at ten. And when I played paining,

they say, hey, so what are you doing tonight? I

was like, oh, I don't know. You want to come

our join our our church. Marcan and okay, okay, Marca,

I don't know. I know him ONLA. Then I goa

I know they have the Thursday budget pizza, so I

follow them pizza. Then I got to know a lot

of my friends at that time, have so many until

now I know. So I tell you a friend can

make a huge difference, huge difference a small you think nothing,

but you actually make a big difference. Okay, I don't

know why. I just want to share a story. Okay,

So think about God. Who God has given you, Why

do he why do you think he has given these

people into your line?

And what can you do?

Sometimes the best he can do is to invite them

and then just invite them. Once you continue invited, you persist,

you'd be the irritating personal. Just kidding, Okay, you'd be

the persistent.

And persistent.

Person, also active, but you must you persist.

A good week and persist, then you become and then

then you'll be come a blessing for them.

Okay, then not the.

Next like God will not give us more if we're

not being faithful with what he has given us. And

it's our responsibility to use all the talent and not

to bury it. Okay, we do what we can. Okay,

do all the things that is possible. You exhausted, and

let God do the impossible.

Okay.

Now, and you know it's mentioned that it start with

you know, the one thousand. You know what we have

now our people means include all of you here. You

know we don't we're not looking oh how many more

next week we can bring? You know, we're looking at her,

No our change right now. It's like looking at where

we have right now, you guys, Hey, let's have lunch. Hey,

let's connect anything we can talk to you know, what

are you passionate about? Anything we can do to help

your family and help. We want to see everybody blessed,

not helping everybody to live in the promises.

And power of God as well.

Hey, and once God has blessed you, how how can

we work together as well to reach more so that

we can reach more for the Lord as well. There's

always we are under shame in terms of our church

objective one because it is biblical. You know what I'm

saying now, It is biblical. There's always been the case one, okay.

And what we do is in one thousand is like

a tie to the Lord. Okay, okay, setting as tithing

means to set aside, you know, setting aside and on

what we have and giving the first throw to the Lord.

And we offer ourselves as a tie to the Lord.

You know, God doesn't need the money. Your most important

participation in the church is not the money, and money

is important, but the most important okay, it's you. When

God raised the Disciple, he didn't ask you to get

tired oh my money. No, no, no, no. The most

important thing is you. You know what I'm saying. Now, Once

we get you, the money will come in one. You

see what I'm saying. I'm not after money, Okay, we're

not asking for the money. You know, we're never after

the money. But if you read the book or ex

X Chapter one, God didn't say, hey, go and collect

text on everybody money because we church we need money.

God knows the church need money. God knows that they

are poor people to feed. But he says, go ahead

and rich, go and share the gospel, Go and prepare

yourself for Penticost. When Pentacosts happened three thousand, God safe.

And when the people receive the Lord, receive the Holy

Spirit a lot. What did they do? They share everything

they have because the heart, the spirit, the feel their hearts.

Everybody had one thing in common, the Bible says. I'm

saying now it's not about the money because people downloaded

the heart money.

Giving money was not a problem because everybody saw everybody's thing.

I want to help. I want to help churches. And

the money what That's what I meant by the money

will come. I'm not saying that no money is somewhere come. No,

because people become generous. Every pipe becomes open because people

connected with one another. You I'm saying, and not once

we're done, once we do that, everything will flow you.

I'm saying, now there's always been a focus. We'll never

been focused about the money, about the discipleshit and the heart.

All right, that's it, everybody, Okay, so ah, I recall it. Come,

let's send, let's pray on the closest part by praying

for people. Thank you for coming. But I want to

end this part by with this important phrase life. I

really believe that you are all here not by coincidence.

And it's very important that you also end this year

by knowing that nothing happens by coincidence. You really have

to really believe that it's important to do that so

that you redeem every high and every law in your life.

I don't know what has happened in your life. This

year has been challenging for me.

I got different members in my family either pass away

or God, your sicknesses, different challenges as well. I don't

know about you. Some of you may read good year,

someone a bad year. But you must understand that nothing

happens by coincidence, that God is working in your life.

But you have to ask are you fully and spiritually aware?

Are you sensitive? Are you tuning to God or are

you tuning into the world. But if you realize that

it is not by coincidence. We have a choice to

say to God. I want to tune in to you.

I want to hear what you have to say. I

want to reflect upon everything in my life in accordance

to your word. I want to take all these things

and submit it into you. And when I say some

means the Lord, not just by name. But I want

to say, Lord, what is it that you want me

to do? What is it that you want me to respond?

Maybe God is leading you to a person. Maybe God

is leading you to to serve in a certain way.

Maybe God is saying that I want you these are

all these things, not just to bless you, but to

bless someone to become a Daniel in some way as well.

So I want you to And what I'm asking is

that you open up your heart to the calling of

God right now, to the calling of God.

Some of you here, you know, I don't know.

I just feel like maybe some maybe some of you

will hear you. You come, but you're not settled. You

know you can't. You're visiting, but you're not settled. You're

waiting to see something, waiting for But but I want

to let you know that you know God's you know

it is. It is perfect cut off. You know, God's

perfect love. Cast off. Nothing happens in your life by concernce.

But God is in control and God wants to use you.

But to use you, you need to root down. You

need to decide. And once you decide, everything is will

come into place and you will realize that you are

also called.

To lead as well, to make a difference.

Some of you may be afraid to serve for so

long because you are noble able to commit, because it

affects your plans, it affects some changes in your life.

It might cost you something. But these are the fears

that are coming from the world, not from God. But

God calls you out of love. God calls you out

of his not his fatherly nature, not to harm you,

not to burden you, but to bless you. So as

we take this time right now and take the next minute,

just lift up our hands and say that, Lord, I

want to examine my heart and I want to make

it ready for you.

Lord.

I want to serve you. I want to submit to you.

All that I have comes from you.

You are a good, good father. And I know, and

I know, and I know that there.

Is nobody's hand that I can put my life on

that will be safer and more blessed than your hand. Lord,

You will keep me safe. You hold my future and

my world. You know my destiny. And I oh that

the best blessing and the goodness that I will you

will ever know and experience in my life comes from

your hands.

Lord, and I believe that.

And as you hold that promise and word in your life,

right now, I want you to begin to respond to

God and commit your life again and your heart again

to him, said the Lord. I want to commit right now,

just wherever you are, just commit him right commit yourself

to him, make a prayers, just commit even sometimes even

sometimes you have challenges, commit to him right now for

one minute there fear of any concerns, and it will

just cast out to him. But I want to encourage

you find faith, find faith within you. You think you

might not have faith, but I believe there is. And

God say there is faith there. Why don't you exercise that?

And you say, Lord, I choose to believe. I choose

to put my hope. It's a choice. It's a choice.

It's a choice you can choose. Don't let the enemy

say that you can't. You can choose. And after that

I want to invite every one of us here to

worship the Lord, to give our times, to give our offerings,

to say.

That I choose.

I choose against all the flesh, against all the world.

I choose to worship you. I choose to offer up

to you. I choose to exercise faith. Come on, twenty

more seconds, and then we're gonna worship the Lord, Led Louiah,

come on.

Exercise faith as we draw to a near near to

the end. Come on, come on.

We still have breath, we still have life, We still

have much to give. We still so much we can

bless and touch God's heart.

Howled Louiah.

God is feeding some of you with a vision and

some of you with a calling here maybe your family,

maybe your friends. He's opening doors and opportunities. He's opening

up the skies. He's opening up opening up grounds around

you as well, so that you may to show you

the way where you can where you can head into

and be a blessing as well. God wants to use you.

Ten more seconds and they will begin to worship.

Hallelujah.

Lord.

You see these hearts, you see these hands, Lord, want

you touch them right now, when you come alongside them

right now and strengthen them, when you come alongside them

and guide them, guide their feets, their eyes and their hearts.

Fa Locker to seek you and to.

Know you and to feel you right now the name

of geezs Halah were coming down five four three two,

and come, let's worship the Lord together.

Let's beak an offering our praise unto him and accompliment

to him.

Holor Luiah.

To Joy, help me to live, boy, your glue.

Me spear it up god.

A and to come.

Well mean me.

I want to.

Joy, help me to go your blue.

Spav it up comes form hold.

His pea, come.

Commenting, colver, hope this baby be come o hispa, come.

Commenty call this baby because o hispa, come commenta cold.

This baby come.

Come comenty God.

Amen Amen.

I just want to invite you all to close your

eyes and I'll pray. I want to pray for two

groups of people. The first group of people some of

you here. There's one group of people here. You have

a hunger, and the hunger comes from an emptiness in

your heart. There's something empty and you're just empty. Your

longing and you're longing because you feel like there's a

calling in your life. You you are meant to call

and do something or step into something to respond to God.

You don't know what it is. But God is not

showing you the vision. But He's looking for a Noah,

some one who is willing, someone who is willing.

To follow him.

And when you are willing, and when you offer up

that faith first, then he will show you step by step.

And some of you you need that because God doesn't

want you to pass by this year or next year

or the year after, feeling like you're just barely surviving.

You are just passing through. God wants to give you

a life and life more abundantly.

He wants you. He wants you to know that He

has a plan for you.

He has a plan for you, and he wants to

use you.

You are precious to.

Him and you and and I'm praying for you right

now so that you know I want to. I want

you to and I want to specifically, if you ask,

if that's you, why don't you raise up your hand,

no ice, curse and help just between you very quickly

so that I can pray for you. I pray that

specifically you will begin to exercise faith, faith that will

rise up, that small faith that will rise.

Up within you.

And then you begin to take that first step that

you will never taken. Begin to take that small step,

and another and another. And as you take that steps,

a root begins to grow in you. And you see

what I'm saying. It's not just going up, but as

you grow up, reaching towards God, your roots also go deeper.

You begin to realize that Lord, as I step out

of faith, I need more of your word. I need

to be grounded or more of your truth, because I

know I can't do this on my own.

And as you respond, God will take you on the journey.

God will take you on the journey of growing you

and maturing you and the way that you can never imagine.

You're gonna learn things.

You're gonna understand God's heart. You're gonna understand how God sees,

and you're gonna understand how God touches people and what

touches God's heart.

You're gonna have a spiritual way.

You're gonna you're gonna feel a certain hunger, a desire

that never felt before. People will come around you, people

will somehow touch you in a certain way that you

want to become a person will be a blessed. You

want to become a blessing for them in a way

that God intends you to be. So ice caused a headspout.

So if you feel for this whole year or leading

up to be that God that has been asking you

to respond, I want you to quickly raise up your

hand and say that that's passed me.

I want to be used by God. God use me.

Just quickly raise your hands, and I'll pray for you

quickly right now, Just quickly raise it out.

I see your hand quickly, just quickly two three, three.

Some more, some more, some more. I believe, just out

of faith, out of faith. You see that way, I

see a few more hands. Thank you or thank you

that I see you, Come on, come on. I know

sometimes it seems trity about now. Sometimes a simple or

a raising.

Of that that's that faith, that's that faith.

And sometimes it counter is counter against all you're growing up.

But you do it out of faith.

Lord, you see this, send you see this hand, Lord,

I see this, Lord. You see this sen and the Lord.

I pray that as you witness the hands of Lord Lord,

they are offering up their faith that ties onto you.

Lord.

Want you do that miracle again, Lord, that that miracle that,

as you have done to feed the fire thousand. Lord,

you begin to multiply what is in their heart, and

begin to multiply what is in their hands. Right now, Lord,

what begins as a small step of faith Follo God,

it becomes a walk towards.

Their destiny, Oh Lord, Oh Lord.

Right now, even as they have read raised their hand, Lord,

I want to pray for them that, Lord, all the

words that you have.

Spoken to them.

Lord, may it remain coved written in the tablet of

their hearts, of their soul. They're not that not only

will they just remembering it, but Lord, they will begin

to run with it. As Hyba two says, not only

will they remember to begin to.

Run with it.

And Lord, we ask that you will, that you will,

that you will preserve and you protect your servants there

as their as their as they respond to you, Lord,

make strict their path. Lord, help them to direct their

eyes to see, oh Lord. And even as they reach

out and draw towards you and through the world, Lord,

may you grow their roots as well.

We pray for their prayer life. We pray for their

quiet time.

We pray for their walk with you, oh Lord, that

you'll protect far lock at this relationship, this sacred bond

between you, between between them and you, Lord, we pray

that this bond, these roots will grow so deep they

will draw closer with you, Fi Loger.

They were abiding you.

Lord, more of your words will just begin to flow

into them. Their continuity be even more nourished for Locker,

expanding even that their hearts begin to swell and they

begin to overflow with maturity, with understanding, the strength, with growth,

they begin to even prophesy and see visions far Locker

and walk with it as well.

Fi Locker, Oh Lord, we pray that.

The worlds of the enemy that seeks to steal and destroy,

but they will not prevail by their Lord, That your

servants will be wise, that your servants of our Loger

will be feeled with understanding, Your servants far Lo God

will be feeled with strength, Falloger and shrewd Fi log

that they will not sway to the left or the

right our log But Lord, because of their furtherness and

their faithfulness and their wisdom, they shall represerve. Father God

protect them all. Or Lord, may this father goer seeds

by locker. Multiply fi Loger. We asked right now, multiply them,

multiply them, multiply them. Let them feel whereever, school, whereever, family,

wherever officers were there. Let them multiply, Let them feel,

let them influence. For your name's sake, call Lord Leo.

We claim all these in a mining name of Jesus.

We pray aymen, Amen, Amen, receive it.

Let's keep gout praise.

Let's get all the glory Alan lordyr hall second girl.

People just want to pray, you know, giving an opportunity

for people to rea bond. Maybe you come, you know,

you're like, wow, I'm hearing all this vision. It feels wow,

very big. Maybe you know, wow, it feels like there

is no It feels like the Kingdom of God is

so near. No God is touching the church and lives.

But what about me? And then you say that wow.

But I'm telling you that this gospel is about lives,

individual lives. It's about the gospel of love and to

bring life and life abundantly to people, including you as well.

And I want to ask if there's anyone here you

have never known Christ. But I want to let you

know that he knows you, and you're not here, and

you're here not by coincidence, and right now, even in

this place, he is calling out to you. He is

calling out to you because you belong to him. He

loves you, gave his life for you, and he wants

to have a relationship with you.

Eyes closed and heads bout.

If that's you, an account of free, I pray that

you will respond to your creator, your Mai, your father

in heaven, who loves you and has the best for you.

Hallelujah. At account of you, that's you, I hope that

you will.

Respond to it. One, two and three. Anyone here just

quickly raise your hands coming down from five four three,

two and one. Ha, hallelujah. Come on, let's pray this

prayer together today. We don't miss out on anyone here.

Halla. Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for your love for me.

Thank you for your love for me, and for dying

on the cross, for dying on a cross, Please forgive

me of my sins.

Please forgive me of my sins.

Watch me clean by your precious.

Blood, Watch me clean by your prescious blood.

And come and live in my heart.

Come and live in my heart.

Fill me with your holy spirit.

Fill me with your holy spirit.

And teach me you always teach me your ways. I

now live to worship you and please you.

I now live to worship you and please.

You in Jesus.

Then we pray, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

Hal Church.

If you said that prayer and you mentain your heart,

do let one of the hosts all leaders know so

that we can pass you what we know, so that

we can pass something to you known in this church

as a new believer started back. It will help you

get started on your journey as a new believer, and

you can ask any one of our leaders or hosts

for it.

All right, awesome.

Some closing announcements for us.

Do share your experience to someone this week and invite

them to join us for a church next weekend. If

you are not yet part of a small group we

call homes, do speak to one of our leaders or

you can sign up at ex church dot org slash

homes if you yeah, and if you have any inquiries,

do speak to one of our leaders.

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As we close and prayer praying for our leaders, hallelujah, fellow,

we pray for your current care to come Paskennath and Passsanja.

All our elders passes and church pland corneaders will here

and abroad, as well as your leaders who serve your

house so faithfully weak after week, Give them your daily

peace and protection and provide them all their needs according

to your riches and glory, especially the wisdom to continue

to get your church in line with your perfect will.

Let your joy always be their strength, and let their

lives always bring your glory In geers specious name, we.

Pray Amen Amen, hallelujah, Church.

I invite you to raise your hands even as a

decli abandediction, reading from Numbers Chapter six, Versus twenty four

to twenty six. The Lord bless you and keep you

the Lord, make us face to shine upon you and

be gracious to you. The Lord lift up its countenance

upon you and give you peace.

And all God's.

People say Amen, Amen Ali lou Yah. Watch. Your service

is officially over all right.

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