Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church (Part 1) | Pr Stephen Kong

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Even as we unpacked the vision. All right, here we go.

So the reason why we are unpacking the vision is

because we are preparing for our team next year.

Anybody knows our team for next year?

Yes, Reviver okay or something along the lines of Reviver

okay and Revival in simple terms basically just means returning

to the way it was meant to be.

Okay.

I think Passa knnot give an anology one of the

videos that he was she shared here about you know,

like when the doctors say that they managed to revive

a person, you know, it's like bringing them back to life,

you know, or bringing them back to the state that

they were they used to be, you know. And so

that is one way in simple terms, that we can

look at Revival, which is coming back to the place

it was meant to be. Uh, you know, back to basics,

you know, back to how God intended it to be,

how it was meant to be and uh. And then's

why we need to bring the entire church on this series,

you know, because I would say that X Church is

not small in the sense of numbers anymore. We're about

a thousand plus in Malaysia alone. But we had many locations,

you know, and so we want to make sure every

single one of us in every of our locations, I

think about thirteen locations or so, that we are all

on the same page. Is that Okay, we're all on

the same page with one heart, one vision, one mind,

one spirit. Uh, that we are united even as we

go where the Lord is leading us.

Okay.

Hence, it's very important that we unpacked this vision so

that we are we can all be on the same page.

Okay, are you following me? All right?

So the reason we unpacked is to understand, okay. And

of course you can open your book. All of the

most of the things that I would say are in

your book, and there will be some blanks which you

will be able to fill up, uh, you know, blank

spaces that you can feel out.

Okay, all right, So we unpacked to understand. Okay.

So we unpacked the vision in in order for us

to understand.

And that is what unpacking is for, you know.

It's about breaking it down, making it simpler so that

everyone can understand and we will do our very best.

Okay. Uh, that is why we need to unpack.

And when we understand, Uh, it's not just for us

to tickle our ears, but it's so that we can undertake.

So that is three us for you unpack, to understand

and to understand, to undertake, or to to carry on

with it or to take on the responsibility.

You know.

And you know when when you unpack your your luggage

at home, let's say you're going where you went for

a trip and you got back home and you unpack

the luggage, you know there's a place for everything, right,

you know, your yourtology goes into your toilet. You know,

maybe I don't know if if you're if you have

a photo fame, it goes on to the wall.

Maybe your dirty clothes goes to the laundry.

There's a place for everything, right when you unpack your

your your things, right, they need to go somewhere. And

so for us, you know that there's a place for everything.

And the unpacking will leaders to seven things. Okay, they're

all in peace, okay, uh, and as they should be

on the screen, okay.

And so the unpacking were leaders to prayer. Okay. Prayer

comes first.

You know, we we seek the Lord the passion, purpose, practice,

prepare or you can call it preparation.

Uh. And plan, you know, plan or plans, imployer.

Uh. You know. So in the weeks to come, in

the months to come, you will here some strategies. You

will hear some numbers. Okay, don't be alarmed. Okay, don't

be afraid, you know, because God is with us.

Amen.

And uh, you know there's a same saying that if

we fail to plan, we plan to fail.

Okay.

So no, we don't want to fail, Okay, especially we

don't want to fail in the things of God. We

want to do well because God is with us, and

he gives us the power.

Amen.

He gives us power of the Holy Spirit to do

all that He has called us as a church to do.

If you believe it, say amen.

All right, okay, so let me begin with the first one,

which is prayer. And today I believe I'm coming just

the five piece because the other parts will come along

the weeks, now, okay, So let's begin with prayer. So

as we unpack, there may be things that we are

not fully clear yet. Okay, because as you know, when

God gives you know a direction, you know, if you

can see in the Bible. So when he led Abram,

he won't tell you everything exactly a to see because

sometimes when we hear it right, we'd be so scared

we say.

God, no, thank you. But you know what, we need prayer.

Because God take us step by step, and if there

is anything that is unclear, or if there's anything that

we have doubt, maybe seek the Lord for an answer.

Amen. That's what prayer is important.

And we need to constantly seek the Lord throughout the

sessions for every answer to the questions in our hearts.

And I believe even as we seek the Lord, he

will give us clarity.

Amen.

With every clarity comes confidence. With confidence, there will be courage.

So maybe some of us you know, I haven't even started,

maybe or a scard, but I pray that you will

be encourage. You know, you know, God is here with us,

and don't be afraid, don't be scared, don't don't be doubtful,

because we can.

We can always pray and we will seek the Lord

for direction. Amen.

So as we unpacked, we are going to start firstly

with the why. Okay, don't you agree with me that

it's very important to understand the why? Okay, the why Okay.

Why we do what we do and say what we

say very important? Okay, So let me begin with passion.

And passion is the word. Okay, Passion is the word. Okay,

follow me, Okay. A vision will never come to pass

if we don't have passion, okay, because we can start right,

but we won't be able to finish and go for

long or go far if we don't have passion in

our hearts.

Passion is what keeps us going, is what fans.

The flame gives us, Fire gives us excitement, you know,

and so many of us, your leaders and partners as well.

You have been serving the Lord, you know almost every week.

What drives you?

You know?

And I believe one of it is passion for the Lord.

And that is why we can do it every week.

We can week out of course we do it as

unto the Lord. But passion is the fire, the excitement

that keeps us going.

And a passion that we have is simple. Listen to this.

I believe, or we believe, that God only has the

best for all of you.

We believe it.

Say amen, God has only the best for all of us,

the best blessings, the best breakthroughs that He has for us.

In fact, he says in John ten ten that I've

come to give them life and life more abundantly, and

write that down John ten ten, I think another version says,

and give them life to the full. And so that

is what God desires for us and He wants for us.

And we truly believe that God has the best for

every one of you. See that here, John ten ten.

And our passion is also that you and I will

live our life to the full, or another way of

saying it is to the possibilities, to the possibilities, because

we want to see every possible thing that God has

plan for us come to pass in our lives. Don't

you want that God has great plans for us. He

has a future and hope for us. And He is

the God of the impossible. So even if you think

that you look at a plan and say, God, I

think it's too bigger, I think it's not possible for me.

I wanted you to know that in God it is possible.

He is a God of possibilities. God is the God

of the impossible. And so we want to see you

live your life to the full, to every possibility that

God has opened for you and for me and Mark.

Chapter nine, verse Trainy Tree says, all things are possible

to those who to those who believe. All things are

possible to those who believe. Amen, And so we believe.

That's our passion. We want to see the impossible done

in your life. Heavy break too. So the next question says,

do you desire a breakthrough life? You know, we don't

just want to believe, but we want to live it out.

We want to leave out the possibilities that God has

for us to discover the things of God and his kingdom,

because the Bible tells us in Matthew six thirty three,

to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,

and all these things shall be added unto you. And

the Bible tells us that the secrets belong to those

who fear the Lord. Some twenty five fourteen, Some twenty

five fourteen. And so regardless of how all we become,

you know, we are aging. I have people that you know,

I'm growing older. All of us are growing older. But

I'm too young. And many of you here are also,

you know, of older and age, and I think majority

of you are younger than me. You know, so we're growing.

But the point is that we don't ever want to

stop growing.

Do you agree?

We don't ever want to stop growing, because regardless of

how old or how much we grow in our age,

we can always say, God, I believe there's so much more,

because you are the God of so much more.

There is more to come, There's greater days to come ahead. Amen.

And we must never grow over on the Lord, you know.

But we must continue to press on in the Lord

because there will always be more. And we don't ever

want to grow stagnant in our life, in a personal life,

or even in church. Don't ever stop growing, don't ever

stop learning. And that is our passion and desire for

every single one of you here that you will live

a victorious life because God has given us a break truth,

He has given us every blessing.

Amen. But then we realize.

That it's not just about living a life of possibilities,

but the real reason we do that is because we

want to please God. We want please God. God wants

this for you and for me, He wants every possibility.

But for us it is because we do it because

we want to please God and He has only the

best for us.

This is our purpose. We live to please God. Amen.

And that's the next point, which is purpose, the real

why behind what we do, which is the purpose. So

God wants this for you, He wants the best for you.

In fact, the Bible tells us taste and see that

the Lord is good. Taste and see that the Lord

is good Psalm chapter thirty four, verse eight. You know,

and God has great things to thought for us and policies.

I press on toward the goal for the price of

the upward call of God in Christ Jesus, Philippians three fourteen,

Philippins three fourteen.

So Paul knew.

Paul knew that there was so much more in starting God,

not just for the now, but even for the days

to come, for the future. But we don't have to

wait to taste heaven when you get there, because how

many of you know we can taste heaven here here

on earth. That's why we say God, that you will

be done here on earth as it is in heaven.

We want a little bit, a little taste of heaven

here on earth. And that's why we pray a man.

There's so much more that He has in stought for us.

And so the what is the passion, the why is

the purpose we do it because we want to please

my father and God has the best for us. In

three John chapter the third John, chapter one, verse two says, believed,

I pray that you may prosper in all things and

be in health just as your soul fast. But what

the wonderful verse and I declare it over you right now,

you know, Third John chapter one, verse two, Believe what

I pray, that you may prosper in all things and

be in health just as your soul purpose possible?

Say amen, amen? And so we've done the what.

I've covered the why, and the next part, which is

very important, is the how okay.

Because we want to practice. We want to do what

we learn. Amen.

We don't just want to be here what's of the word,

but we want to be doers of the world. And

so that's the practice, which is the how. Okay, So

let me read it.

First. Passion is the what.

Purpose is the why why we do what we do,

And the practice is the how.

Okay, what will you do with what you know and

what you hear? Okay? That's the practice.

And the best way I can think of is to

break it down, okay, is to.

Is to do it practically. Okay.

The practice of it by breaking it down. And number

one is by applying the word of God and the

promises of God in our lives.

Do you believe that apply the word of God?

Because the Word of God is alive, it is living,

it's active, sharpened any double a sword, and when you

apply it.

You're being transformation into your lives. Amen. Apply the word

of God, claim his promises. There are yes and Amen.

So it's not just about knowing the word in your mind,

in your heart, but it's practicing it, doing what you know,

what you heard from the Bible, what you memorize in

the Bible.

Amen.

Applying the word of God and the promises into our

life and from it you and I will get stories,

real life stories and testimonies that we'll be able to

share with others. And so if there was an equation

to it, this is what the equation will look like.

Truth E goals to testimony. Truth E goes to testimony

because when we know the truth, the Bible says, the

truth will set you free. Do you know that when

you know the truth, the truth will set you free.

So there has got to be transformation, and all the

truth that we know in our lives must turn and

be coming to testimonies in our life. Otherwise the truth

will just remain in your in your mind and it

will just be a truth, right, but it may not

do anything to your life. And that is why when

we apply the truth, of course, we need to first

know the truth and apply the truth in our life.

And then there will be testimony.

There will be a story, There will be an experienced

that you go to that you experience the truth to

be true.

Made it up? You experience the truth to be true?

You know? And then why you hear us sharing testimonies

in church?

You know? I I am glad to hear the testimony

of not too earlier and as well as the oh

the testimony on the on the screen just now, Eleine Elaine, right, yeah,

our prayer I can't remember the name, sorry, but yeah,

you know whereby we share the testimonies?

Because how do you know that your prayer works? Right?

We know it as a as a truth, right, But

when you share the testimony, it becomes alive a man,

it becomes alive. And the thing I love about testimony

is that it allows that miracle or that breakthrough to

be replicated.

Did you know that?

Do you know why because when someone comes up and

shares the testimony you and I, You or I may

have a similar situation. And as you hear the testimony,

fave is activated. You know, you see it happened. You

know that it's possible. Someone has tried it, you know,

and God came to for them. And then you say, Lord,

if you can do it for this brother or this sister.

You're the same God in the past, in the Bible

or two thousand years ago. You heal back then, you

still heal today, and you will still continue to heal.

And so you and I will exercise our faith and

then the miracle happens again. That's why I love it

when you share testimonies. A man, we should always share

our testimonies, and that's how our faith really comes alive,

the truth becomes reality in our lives. And so you know,

continue to ask a lot for fresh testimony, testimonies, you know,

because we don't want to keep only sharing testimonies of

you know, five years ago, ten years ago. Of course

they are great testimonies, right. God remembers them. And you know,

when the time of risers, we use the right testimony

to edify someone or to bless someone. But I pray

that you will continue to ask God to give me

a fresh testimony. You know, every week of the every week,

every month, every year, ask God for a fresh testimony.

Because God is alive. And as we continue to put

the word of God into application and the truth from

the Bible, it would turn into test timonies, it would

turn into testimonies. So do we kept what is the passion?

Why is the purpose? How is the practice? So whenever

people ask us or you know, the way how train

our preachers is that whenever we preach on the word

of God, we will always give you practical application, you know,

because it is true that the word of God can

be practiced. And we want to moderate out in our

lives every day of our lives. And so our mission

and our motto the slide will say, our mission and

our motto is helping people believe. Everybody say helping people believe.

Come on, may we as extra help people believe. And

it could be just happening to believe a little bit more,

or maybe they have not believed at all, Maybe happen

to believe just a little bit more, you know, just

a little bit closer to the Lord. Maybe they've already believed,

But we can happen to believe more, can we We

can do that and that's what we're called to do.

You know, we can never transform another person. We can

never convert another person. Our part is to help them

to believe. And it's the work of the Holy Spirit

that were transformed their hearts and their minds, because that

is the work of the Holy Spirit. Our part to

play is to help people to believe. And how do

we do it by sharing practical truths from the Bible.

There you go and coming back to the practical part

of it again, tell them your real life stories and testimonies.

And I believe every single person here has a story

to tell. You have a story to tell of how

you came to know the Lord. You know, we call

it a salvation story. You may have a story of

how you overcame your studies, how you got a job,

how the Lord healed your mom, your dad, how the

Lord heal you. You know, how the Lord brought your

family into salvation. So everyone of us have a story.

And I want to say, you know that story is

your own right, is God's work in your life, and

it is the Word of God made flesh. You know,

because the Bible tells us that Jesus is the Word

made flesh.

That's what the Bible tells us.

But how many of you know that you and I

we also have an opportunity to be the Word of

God made flesh in a sense, whereby what I mean

by that is that sometimes your friends may never open

the Bible to read it. They may never read the Bible.

But when they see your life, when they read your life,

when they hear your words that you speak, when they

see how you react to things, in some sense, they

are reading your life and the Word made flesh. And

so every single one o us here today have an

opportunity to bring the reality of God and the Word

of God to our friends, our families, our marketplace, to

people in our neighborhood around us, because you may be

the only walking Bible that someone may read. And perhaps

after they read your life, they will be willing to

read your Bible. I pray they will be after they

see your life.

Amen.

So remember, our lives may be a living testimony, a

walking miracle of God's goodness, God's faithfulness, his love for

you and for me. So every testimony has got to

be powerful. Few more peace powerful personal and practical. Every

test something it's got to be powerful because God is

involved in it. God's work in your life, God's hand,

his miracle, He's break too, at work in your life.

It's got to be powerful. It's got to be personal.

That's why I encourage you to have your own story,

because it's different when we tell a story of another person. Right,

of course, it's powerful. It's still a miracle, it's still

a testimony. But it's different when it's your own story.

It's personal because people can argue about theology with you,

but they can never argue about your personal story unless

you're lying love, you know, wish that's within you and God, right,

but they can't argue with your story. It's your encounter,

your personal story with the Lord. It's got to be personal,

and everyone of us must desire to have a personal testimony.

It's got to be practical. It's got to be practical.

When you share your story, someone is able to listen

to it and their faith is activated, and that they

will also glorified the Lord, and they also put their

faith to the test. They will apply what they hear

from the word of God and from your testimony. So remember,

if I am a reflection of walking by What are

people reading about me? That's what the question in your

book says, and you can write that on your own.

I don't have an answer for you, because that is

about you, right, it's me. It's your personal story.

Amen. Are you okay? So far? Are you following me

so far? All right?

Now let's go to the next peek, which is prepared

or another way I can say is preparation. So as

you know, if as we hear the vision, there needs

to be preparation, right, There need to be preparation of

our heart, preparation of our minds, you know, our trying,

our will so that we can fulfill the vision that

God has given to us. And today we are focusing

mainly on the vision, okay.

On the vision. Vision is what you see, okay.

And in the weeks to come we will hear more things,

and next week you will here on the mission. Mission

is what you do, okay, what you do. Vision is

what you what you see.

Okay.

So today we're covering on a vision path, okay. So

as you continue to shaw the vision, there needs to

be a preparation okay. And on the screen you will

see a sign okay, or you know, on a book,

so they should be the sign there. And this is

a sign of a button, you know. Let me ask

you a question. Is this button the start or the stop?

Start? Oh?

Wow? Okay, I like your answer. I like your optimism.

The button is the start. But did you know that

I have this button in my car and it is

both a start and a stop button.

Okay?

Okay, So I like the optimism, and I say what

button is it? You say, start, praise the Lord. Okay,

so maybe all click the start button okay, not the

stop button, even though on my car is a start

slash stop.

Okay. So the point.

Is that this button is it's a start or a

stop button. And the thing about unpacking a vision is

that you know, as we unpacked, right, some of us

will be excited to say, let's go, bastard. Come on,

I'm ready to conquer the world. I'm ready to serve

the Lord. I'm ready to be used by the Lord.

I'll click the start button. But there may be one

or two of us that may press the opposite, which

is a stop button, because after you hear it, maybe

you're afraid. Maybe you say, look, God, I don't want this.

I don't want to be out of it on no way,

But I pray today, come on that every single one

of us were pressed the start button. Come on, we

pressed the start button instead of the stop button. So

even as we hear today the vision made the spirit

give us strength and grace. You know, the Bible says

those who have ears, maybe hear what the spirit of

the lot is saying to you and to me, to

us a man. So the question is are you pressing

the start or the stop button? As you hear the

vision of X, press the start button and not the

stop even though it's the same button. Let us hear

what the spirit of the lot is saying to us.

And so the next slide will say who is a leader?

Now?

The reason why there's this question is because as we

are unpacking the vision, some of you here that here

made think in your mind that look past it sounds

like whatever I'm sharing right is for leaders or for partners.

Maybe I'm you know, I'm new here.

I maybe I don't believe it in a vision it

sounds like it's just for the leaders I wound.

Let you know, the question is who is a leader? Right?

Did you know that all of us here are leaders

in one way or another, because what is a leader.

A leader is actually a person who first leads himself

or herself before they lead others. Now, suddenly everyone who

has sound like leaders. Right, Because in order for you

to come to churche today, you had to lead your

body to wake up from your annoying alarm, get out

of your bait and make it the choice today? Right,

So you had to make a choice, You had to

make a decision. You had to lead your heart, your mind,

your body, your soul. So, in one way or another,

all of us here are leaders. Everyone can be a leader.

The statement says, you know, so whatever they were sharing today,

it's not just for leaders. But I want to say,

I want to say to you, think of yourself as

a leader. You know, you may not be leading others

behind you around you, but you are first leading yourself.

Come on, we're first leading ourselves, and eventually you will

get a chance and our desires that you will also

lead others. That's called making disciples. Amen, Being a disciple

and also making disciples by discipling others.

But all of us can lead ourselves first. Amen.

All right, So let's do a quick devotion. God makes

no mistakes. If you believe it, say amen, God makes

no mistakes. And so if God makes no mistakes, that

will mean the question is who has God given to

you or to us? You know? Why do you think

He's given us him, her, or them, whichever capacity you're

serving in, you know, And so we really believe that

God makes no mistakes. There is no coincidence even every

single person of you sitting here. You're here for a reason.

God has a plan, you know, He has ordained or

allowed you to be here. He's not a coincidence. The

friend invited you, So no one hears by coincidence. Even

those who came and have left, they are also not

a coincidence because it is your choice. It's their own decision.

But God makes no mistakes. So I believe that everyone

in your homes, everyone in your family, everyone in your classroom,

everyone in your workplace, in your office, in your neighborhood

is not by accident. So ask the question, who has

God given to you? Who has God given to me?

And what has He called us to do with who

He has put in our lives? Because it's no accident.

Remember it's not accident. You could be the only one

they could reach your family, You could be the only

one they could reach a friend.

What are you doing about it? And so as a church,

we believe that.

Not a single one of you here are here by accident,

and our job is to give you our best so

that we can draw out the best.

From each and every one of you. Really, that's our

hearts desire.

There's a passion to see the best in every single

one of you see here this morning. And this is

why you often hear us push you a little bit,

you know, when people tell us, you know what, I

can't serve in homes or I can't serve in church,

or I can't make it a Sunday. I believe and

I hope that my leaders will always tell you, come on,

you can do it. Don't skip chures on your exam times,

because the know the Lord will honor you. And I

remember still seeing Caleb when he was having his expim

he came to church, you know, And so we get

honor the Lord, and so our desires to draw the

best in you, and so their days that we will

challenge you, and I pray you won't be offended, you know,

because we want to draw out the best from you

that God has installed for you and for me.

Amen.

So there's a question there, what is the best that

you can bring to bring out the best in him

or her or them in whichever capacity that you are

serving in the Lord.

Amen.

And so God is at work in X. He is

in the midst of preparing X. I call it God's

preparation work in X. And so the slide was saying

God has been consistently and faithfully at work to make

EX church pandemic of persecution equipped for the past ten years.

I really believe that now because I've been in the

ex for more than ten years, I think about fourteen

or fifteen years and counting, by the grace of God.

And if you've been an AX long enough, you will

know that we have this thing called the worship at homes.

Can I see a shure hence harmony of you have

been to worship at homes?

Let me see your hands, see let me your okay okay,

raised high? Okay. Wow. So there's actually more than half

of you.

So at least at least fifty percent of words, yere

already you know, persecution and pandemic proof or we are equipped,

we are ready.

And that is what a lot is bepatn us.

You know our church was so it is small in

the sense of the numbers, right, but they'll all say,

go smaller, go through the numbers of tens, fifteen's in

the houses. And so we do this every year. We

call it a fire drill. Okay, So if you've been

an around you will hear us explain this ten times already. Okay,

I think I've explained it one hundred times. It's called

a fire drill. And you know you have fire drill, right,

Sometimes we will do fire you you feel like it's useless,

heav You know, I did a fire due in my office, right,

and I'm like, oh again, why must we practice this

fire duil? But you know what, the fire drill is

only important right when the emergency happens, right, And when

the emergency happens, you know what to do, right, because

if that was the first time the emergency happened and

you never practiced it, we were panning, we were penning.

There's another people you we're penning. So that's what the

purpose of a fire due is. And so when actually

did this, you know, worship at homes for every year

we will do it at least once or some years

we did it twice.

Some years we did it three times.

Whereby we will close our Sunday worship set survey setting,

and we will go into the homes you know, or

the small groups to do our worship. And they're so

powerful because instead of one preacher standing in front here,

suddenly in some money, we've got six features because there's

six diven homes. And you know we have we have

about eighty homes in actions. I think about seventy seven.

But the numbers keep changing. It becomes more and more

and less and more and less. I lost count how

many numbers, but it's almost eighty homes. Can you imagine

for the Sunday that eighty preachers. That is why when

the pandemic hit.

We were ready. We were ready.

God knew even before the pandemic hit. You know, we

didn't know that the pandemic will come. Of course, the

Bible does tell us that pastidients will come. But you know,

when you know, we were preparing for persecution when pandemic came.

But yet I must say we were prepared because of

God's preparation work in the actions.

If you believe it, say amen.

So not just pandemic proof, not just persecution ready, but

also poverty ready. What I mean by that is that

not that we will be poor. But you know, when

the pandemic hit, the nation went down in the sense

of economy. Businesses shut down, people needed help. There was

eight they needed to be going around. And what I

mean by poverty ready in a sense where by God

would bless us enough and put enough blessing in our

storehouses so that we'll be able to meet the needs

of those around us. And so even during the pandemic

we went out to help those in need. God will

continue to provide for us. We will continue to give

unto the Lord and unto others as God continues to

give unto us, because it is more blessed to give

than to receive.

Amen.

God is Jehovah driver, God our provider. You know, poverty

not in the sense of money only, but also in spirit.

Sometimes we can be poor in spirit. Sometimes we can

be poor in the Word of God. And so I

want to say to you, all of us extras, let

us continue to be equipped with the Word of God.

Let us contu to strengthen our spirit, feed our spirit

with the Word of.

God with faith.

So that when the times of testing come, you and

I were then strong as a church. Whatever that happens,

we will continue to focus on the law and the

author and finish it of our faith.

Amen.

God has been preparing us and he will continue to

prepare us for the years to come.

I've got to run running out of time, okay.

So God is calling us to prepare, just like how

uh John the Baptist, I sf you know John the

Baptist was called you know, he was sent ahead of

Jesus to prepare the way of the Lord for the

coming of the Messiah. So God is preparing us. You

and I need to need to prepare just like Noah

and they are. You know, even though Noah has not

seen I don't know seen rain or for a long time,

or maybe he has. I'm sure he's not seen the

arc that size, but God gave him specific instructions. People

thought he was crazy, but yet Noah believed, he trusted

the Lord. He did preparation as God instructed him. And

so sometimes we may not have seen something that's yet

to come, that does not mean that we don't prepare

for it. That's exactly what a fire you is for

you prepare for the uncertainty or for emergency, even though

you have not seen it, but you prepare for it.

So God is calling us to prepare, just like Peter

and the miraculous catch. You know, Peter said, we have

toiled all night. We've done all we could, you know,

but we've caught nothing. And so sometimes you and I

can be in a place of discouragement of the past.

We've done everything we could. God, I given him my best.

We have tall all.

Night, Peter said.

But after that he said this, nevertheless, at your word, nevertheless,

at your word. So Peter Obeth, even though he and

the discipers are told all night and the Bible, she

tells us they're washing the washing the nets, know, and

you know it's not easy to wash nets, because he's

not washing his nets are with fish in the nets.

You know, he's probably washing his nets with rubbish in

the nets because you know you will catch shells and

every other thing, you know, a CV whatever it is,

you know, to pick up the CV. You know, it's

not easy to wash nets, you know. And he must

be thinking, Jesus, I'm washing it. It's probably clean by now.

But God is saying, yes, with the clean nets would

give you a mimickle, you know, he's And then Peters saying,

you know, it's not time to fish, it's not the

right time. I'm good at this. He's a fisherman. But

it's not about the time to fish. Listen, it's and

it's about God's time. It's about God's time. When it's

God's time, even the impossible world be possible to those

who believe. Nevertheless, at your word.

Peter said, and he let down his net for a catch.

And so I want to say to us, it is

God who adds daily to the church.

You know the subscription the Bible that tells us, unless

the Lord builds a house, the laborers, the labor in vain.

And that's why we pray. That's why we ask of

the Lord. That's why we seek the Lord. You know,

at the time of the Pentacost, you know, in the

Bible and the extra too, I think you know, it

says that the Lord added daily to the church, you know,

those who are being saved. I think also says they

know he added how many thousand there I can't remember

it exact suddenly, but he added to the church. It

is God who adds to the church. Those who are

being saved. And so he's the one that drew the

fish into the nets, not the disciples. But it is God,

it is He is the one who did it, did

the miracle. By your job and my job. Our job

is to launch out into the deep. That's what Jesus

asked Peter to do, launch out into the deep and

let down the nets for a catch.

And when he.

Obeyed the Lord, the catch was so big that the

nets began to break. So the third point is strengthened

the nets, the nets for breaking. And it can mean

our attitude, it can mean our spirit, it can mean

our faith. That is what we need to strengthen because

God has going to bring us a big harvest. But

we believe it. Say, Amen, He's going to bring us harvest.

But we need to be prepared because if we are

not prepared, sometimes even the blessing of God can sink.

You know, That's what happened to the story, right, It

was the next not the next fish was so much

that the boats began to sink. So we don't want

to sing and go and not allow us to sink.

But he wants us to prepare, to be prepared. Amen,

and latne the boats ready the partners. That's what Peter

did he call his partners. I think it was James

and John, come and help. So every single one of

you that are called partners of extras, we need to

be ready for what God has in start for us.

Amen. Isaiah fifty four, verse two.

The three says, and large the place of your tent,

Come on and larne, let them stretch out the curtains

of your dwellings. Do not spare lengthen your cords. Can

you see all these words? Do not spare lengthen your cords,

and strengthen your sticks, for you shall expand. Come on,

you shall expand to the right and to the left,

and your descendants will inherit the nations and make the

desolate cities inhabitant. Come on, This is our part to do,

and God will bring the harvest. That's his part. Our

part is to obedient, to be obedient, to be ready,

to allow the lot to prepare us, so when the

time comes, we will be ready for the revival of God.

Amen.

And so the next part is very important. It's called

a vision of ex church. Now, if you've been in

Excich long enough, you would have seen these table or

this diagram. Okay, for the first twenty years, the Lord

has called us to be a Joseph church. Twenty years

are from year two thousand when we were founded and

to year twenty twenty.

A Joseph church. So we were a dreamer back then.

Really, you know, when we were such a small church,

we used to dream big.

We brought in big bands. I think it's called delirious.

You know, we had rallies in defer nations, itation, even cities,

different states.

We were verdy, a dreamer, a pastor.

We were still young and still small as the church

went around to share a dream Malaysia. We were a dreamer.

There was a time for that. Not to say that

we're not a dreamer. Now we're still dreaming, but that

was a time. Twenty years the first twenty years and

the second twenty years is the Daniel. God is raising

out a Daniel generation from year twenty twenty to year

twenty forty. But in this span of forty years, there

are two particular years that have very significant meaning and

not going to bring it to you. Follow me here.

In year twenty to fifteen, God gave us this vision

of from the Book of no from Hezekiah from the

story of Hezekiah. Okay I think his time was up,

you know, but God, you know, he pleaded for mercy

and God gave him fifteen more years. And the tag

line was said, your house in order.

Fifteen years.

God extended his life and asked him to set your

house in order. So twenty to fifteen. He told us

that in twenty eighteen it was nahi maya. You remember,

some of you who are around we had just it

should be the nahi maya. It's called rebuild, Rice and

re build right, Rice and rebuild. There was nahimaya in

twenty eighteen and for twelve years.

Nahim I.

If you build the walls and hang up the gates,

and walls will speak about identity.

We speak about purpose, speak about.

Who we are, you know, knowing who we are, security,

what they're called to do, What is our purpose?

That's what walls talk about.

And so if you do the math, some of you

who are good math, twenty fifteen plus fifteen is twenty thirty.

Twenty eighteen plus shelf years of naimaya is twenty thirty.

So if again use the word loosely, magic number or

the golden number they were looking at is twenty thirty,

twenty thirty. I'm gonna use use that loosely, Okay, twenty thirty.

God is preparing us for something great in twenty thirty.

He has set his eyes on twenty thirty, so that

we are prepared to be stronger, to know who we are,

and to build our next generation. And if you do

a math, you will know that's about seven more years

to come. Of seven five more years to come. Okay,

even I lost them the math. Five more years okay,

twenty thirty towards the finishing line.

So God is preparing us.

We need to set our house in order get back

to basics, to where it was meant to be, to

keep the main thing the main thing before God brings

us a great harvest.

Amen.

In twenty twenty, we celebrated our twentyeth anniversary with a

clear vision. He began with kingdom, purpose and priority. That's

why the Lord's prayer tells us, let your kingdom come

and your will be done. And if you look at

a sequence of the Lord's prayer, it comes first right,

and we've got his priority is his kingdom, that his

kingdom will come and his will be done here on earth.

So God has declared Daniel as our vision for the

next twenty Somebody say Daniel, Daniel, for the next twenty years.

He will raise up Daniels in our means there will

be ten times better out there in the marketplace, in

our schools, in our campuses, wherever He has called us

to be. So this is what it means for us

as a church. Listen to this. This is the big

vision for ext church, and it's taken from scripture in

the HYPERCUK chapter two, verse fourteen.

If you can please memorize this verse.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of

the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Come,

let's all say that together, one, two three, For the

earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory

of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Amen.

That is the big vision, or the overarching vision. Remember

that wherever God has placed you and placed me, he

wants you.

To feel it with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord. For the earth, for the earth.

So wherever you are at your earth, there could be

your marketplace, your school, your campus, is your neighborhood, your family,

you name it.

Feed in the blanks.

That is where you are called to be at no coincidence.

But God wants us to do our part to fill

the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Genesis one, verse twenty eight.

I'm coming to a close, and I'm going to invite

the worship team to come up very quickly. Genesis chapter one,

verse twenty AD. Then God bless them and say to them,

be fruitful and multiply.

Feel the earth and subdue it.

Have the dominion over the fish of the sea, over

the birds of the air, and every living thing that

moves on the earth.

So three things that we can.

Draw from this passage Genesis chapter one, verse TWENTYD. What

is it feel the earth? What are we to do?

Feel the earth? How to be fruitful and to multiply?

That's how, which also means be fruitful and multiply. I'm

not just referring to making babies by referring to making disciples.

Really it's about making disciples, and the why is to

have dominion, to have dominion, or that other word for

that is influence, influence, to be a blessing, to be

stout and light, to rob off God's goodness, his blessing,

his faithfulness unto others, and to have the truth in

our lives, to be transformed, to become testimonies, so that

we will have dominion. So that's why we can draw

from the Book of Genesis chapter one, verse twenty eight.

So the question for us today is this, what excuse

us am I thinking about?

Now? Remember I told you earlier.

Then when you see the button, you can either press

the button to start, press the button to stop. Are we.

Having any excuses or any fear in our minds? Right now?

What are you thinking about?

I want to remind us we've got there are no excuses,

only great exploits.

No excuses, only exploits.

And Dine chapter eleven, verse thirty two tells us, but

they who.

Know their God shall be strong.

Come on, they who know their God shall be strong

and do great exploits.

So let's not have excuse every one of us. We

have a part to play.

And remember I said to you earlier that you know

as you continue to hear the vision and the mission

and you hear the numbers, when you hear the strategies

the plans, it may scare us, but be encouraged that

God has the best for us. And if you know,

if the dream doesn't scare you enough, it's not big enough.

Have we had the statement before, you know? But he

is the God of so much more, and he has

the best install for us. He has so much more

install for us. So don't be afraid, don't be fearful,

be strong and very courageous. That's my encouragement, my encouragement

to all of us here this morning, because we know

our God, and we shall be strong and we shall

do great exploits.

Amen, Harley Lujah.

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