Knowing What You Have | Elder Kien Yiak

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The hat bit of God, the hot bit of God.

And sometimes in our life, in our journey, we can

actually forget, forget what we have. It's not because we

want to. It's not we purposely lose things on right,

none of us here to our car keys say I

don't know where I place my carkis. But in the

course of our life, you know, things happen, So I

want to share review today, you know. Knowing what we have,

I think so okay, okay, yeah, yeaheah cool.

Knowing what you have?

Right, I love the already screen at the back there,

so right purposely must have been picture otherwise all right,

lunchtime is coming, and said, right, we've got you in here,

so I'm trying to take it too long, right, So,

knowing what we have heavy ever wonder before right the

what do you have in your handbag or your sling back?

Sometimes we be clear of stuffing we discover that receives

data back twenty twenty four. Right use tissue paper is

very common, use rappers and stuff that is very common

over there, sometimes named cast is given to us that

we totally forgot about it. It's inside our sling back.

But in most cases we actually can forget because the

bigger the bag is, or rather the more something, we

keep shoving things inside.

Not realizing what we have. And in our life what happens.

We carry the back till the day the back dies,

meaning say that the back it breaks, the straight breaks

or something the zippers broken. Then only we start going

into the back. Or in this case it could be

a water. Your wallet all a sudden has grown in size.

It's not because you can more cash, but sometimes you

have more cards than you really need. And in live friends,

that's what happens in your life as well. We can

actually forget what we have. And most times, right it's

at the field, it's at the mission field we get

reminded again what we really have, what we really have.

I remember, for the I brought the first team from

ex Church to the Orange as Lee in the ral

We got there about eight pm, but because they didn't

have elasticity right, it was pitch darkness. So the team

got in there and we had dinner with touch like.

But after dinner we have to do the necessary. Wish

is to shower. I think those few teams that got

the privilege to bathe really in the river at night. Friends,

being the river was fun provided one very important thing

that nothing touches your lake while you're in the river.

Nothing touches your lake the way is you know what

I mean? It could be a leaf or right, it

could be a branch or right, and stuff like you

because you never know the worst of the worst thing

you could You could imagine right now is a snake,

right and stuff like that. Okay, friends, nobody nobody did

big business because you know, we say we want to

do anything big.

Just go down the river, all right, those one shower

go up the river. Okay.

In that sense, we wear a communal, right, we had

a simple understanding. What matters worse as well is that

you have the past shoes like a small patch of grass.

So you can imagine, right now, friends, in the pitch darkness, right,

you pass your tall grass to get to the river.

Right.

It reminds us of what we really have back home.

It could be a very simple toilet about. Praise God,

you have a doll.

Praise God.

You turn open the tap water comes out. But many

times in our life isn't it true that we can

forget what we have and we compare, compare, like your

why my toilet is not instagrammable? And why my toilet

is not featured in the architect these digests or something

like that. Right in fact, if anybody will grip my toilet,

it's like, you know, it's down right at the bottom,

you know, stays, you know, let's not get there, right,

Lunch is coming, all right, so and the feeld you

get reminded, got the chance stopped the worship leader and

he was playing his guitar, and only after five minutes

I realized.

There was no strings. It was just a guitar without

a streak.

But he was just trying to strum an air guitar

only because that's all that they have. And there's the

expression of worship, right and sometimes all here back in

the urban right, and you look at the first thing

you see a guitar is look at a brand?

What brand of guitar is he using? This one? Not

even a tailor? Huh?

After that you even even see if it's a tailor,

this is the cheaper range have ever been there? Before

you you begin to the one is it's only what

this great on here and and after what we actually

can forget having a guitar. You know it's not cheap, right,

and you can't forget all right? So the scripture here

right now is John chapter ten, vers ten. You know

this scripture, right, John chapter ten, verse ten says this

like the likes not huh right? Okay, I prepared this

for something else. Actually, okay. The tief does not come

except to steal queue and to destroy it. So enter

this character called the thief. The thief, what's the main

way of the tief is to steal? Have you ever

been pick pocketed before? How many have you been pick

pocketed before? Seriously, no one here in this room, no one,

no one, no one being pick pocketed before?

You had one time? Right? I had twice twice.

This is back in the days without cell phone, back

in the days of no cell phone came out already,

but a bit more expensive. But this we have to

take public transportation, and you have never taken public transportation before. Friends,

The word queuing doesn't exist. Afterward, the word queuing doesn't exist.

All of us have first come, first serve. Whoever gets

pushed into the bar holaday, I get to get home

early So I was actually in one of those you know,

like like like twenty people try to go to like

a single door like that. I realized that my wallet

at the back of my pants got lifted and I

went like it was really quick, didn't realize the bus

driver saw it, and I got into the bus.

The bus driver looked at me. I say, they tried

to do it.

I say, yeah, I don't think so, I think stolen.

Really Now, may I just let you get on the bus.

So I thought I learned my lesson. I thought I

learned my lesson.

Right.

Six months later, same thing happened again. Right, and after

the Wild Friends, you realize that you know things that

happened because there is a thief. There is someone with

an ultimate motive of taking what doesn't belong.

To them, right and many.

Times the journey Friends, the Bible says, the thief doesn't

come except to come on to steal, kill, and to destroy.

The question here is these trends. Have you seen any

thief taking something that's not valuable? Have you seen anyone

breaking a house and take ten boxes of tissue, say

Mahabuni tissue?

Right? Have you seen anyone? No, I have not.

Heard anyone reporting that my toilet paper got stolen. It

was a tree ply toilet paper with la Verras Melwan right.

No friends majority. In fact, these days friends, they don't

even touch the TV anymore. Last time, back in the eighties,

TV gets stolen and stuff like this day TV forget

it too heavy to bauki. Right, these days there's no

such thick as a eight inch anymore. Sixty four inch

you need two people to carry, right, They go after

watches and stuff like that. What I'm trying to see

here is this that do we know what's valuable in

our life?

Come on, do we know what's valuable?

I'm not talking about physical possession, because if it's a

physical possession, we know that's what's valuable.

What's not?

But I'm talking about something that can be seen. Do

we know what's valuable in a life? Because the Bible

here says there is a teeth, friends, the Bible not

says that I will put you in the place about

the teeth doesn't exist. There's so we are surrounded by pressure,

surrounded by things that's trying to rob us. The word

is to steal, kill, and to destroy. But here comes Jesus.

The Bible says that I come to give you life. Friends,

is in Christ frength. We are not here just to

have life. Because if you're here to have life, the

Bible have just stopped there and just say as long

as you exist, that's sufficient. The word Jesus uses abandoned life,

meaning you say, there's so much more that your life

can produce.

There's so much more your life can be an impact.

You heard Albert's story about the Dream Village Football Academy.

I want to let you know if you if you

didn't notice the video, the video was purposely shot under

the hot sun. We told Albert said, if you want

us to do the video, you stand in the sun.

We want you to know. We want the people to

know the how difficult Albert friends goes out every Saturday

morning and Sunday morning to do the football coaching clinic.

He goes for the Want Today services. We say that Albert,

you can do all this, but you cannot miss church.

Your wife needs it, your children needs it, because what's

the purpose of.

You going to church.

I'm not going to church and your wife just goes

to church. So he makes extra for their days.

Friends.

He shared with me their days whereby it was he

himself at sixty the morning driving to the football field

only to.

Discover that there was event help.

And the secrety God will tell him that bum how

we need to believe practice at sixtyy body he was.

He had the sec of footballs and with him balls

with him and another jerseys on their sex by himself

driving at sixty in the morning. And the many times

he said, I feel like this giving up. I felt

like this better's worthy enough. But he understand he's worthy,

but he understood the price he has to pay, the

sewing he has friends. What you heard just now was

just only one of the stories. Let me show you

another story that he shared with me that's not on

this video. There was one time he was actually at

the people your flats, the low cost flats, and I

think he had to fetch some of the players for practice.

This is towards the evening. As he was waiting for

one of some of the students to come down, he

noticed some really suspicious foreigners around. Foreigners around and they

were engaging or trying to this serp the either the

secondary school girls or the primary school girls trying to

Albert being big sized and stuff that he got up

from his car, approach this few individuals and say, mam,

you bought up acaccini. What are you doing here? He

approached them and just say I know what you're doing.

If you don't stop, I'm going to call the police.

This is his contribution understanding that God give us life

and life more abundantly because many times in our journey

in our life, friends, that we don't know how valuable

our impactful, our life can be.

But this is what the devil come to steal to

let you know that there's.

All that you have, this all that you can do,

this all that defines you. And God wants to remind

us to their friends, there's so much more in your

life that you can do.

Let's see next light. Can you remember this side? We

need to know.

We need to have valuables in your life for the

thief to be interested. Right I'm not talking about physica,

I'm not talking about physical items right now, I'm talking

about more than that. Some of you are doing community work, okay,

so this is how the thief comes. Thiscouragement, this courage.

Do you know how many times that we stopped doing

because you are discourage?

Discourage was very.

Real, friends, misunderstanding the thief comes and so misunderstanding, friends,

is there's no perfect church in the world. There is

no perfect leadership in the world. In fact, always are

so imperfect. That's why we need the Lord. It's amazing

how our church can function.

Friends. But yet at the same time, this is what

the thief does. Right. He was so doubt, doubt, question.

Statements, whispers, a simple thought in your heart to let

you know that something is not right. You saw the

We just launched the album. Ah, it was a long

journey process, friends.

Uh. I was head of the project very.

Interestingly, one person who who cannot singing key, who doesn't

know any music, not at all.

The only thing I know is not bulk.

The only keys I know all my car keys and

stuff like that, and house keys, So I do not

know DIFFERENTI between c and d Orthough and stuff like that.

But I have this weird thought, you know that after

watching like one hundred hours of reality TV and singing programs,

I wanted just to inject excitement TV. Hey, let's think

a bit different. Let's divide and conquer and decide. Let's

do an outrageous project by putting three languages in one

album that was a recipe for disasters, because with three

languages comes three different interpretations how a song should be.

Some they will tell me that the album must be cosive,

it must flow, it must have some sort of arrangement.

I look at them, arranger, I just put the song together.

Isn't it a range? No, it must flow, the tempo,

the bit.

I'm like, why it's so complex on You're just us,

just sing who you word?

We sing the song on Sunday. We know complete. So

that comes to details, right, the details.

I'm like pulling my whatever head that's left talking to

them and I when like, okay, then comes friend comes

really like I don't like this musician, I don't like

the singer.

I don't like this engineer. I'm like, you still sing

in church plant like.

That never complain, right, come when you produce an album,

want to complete?

I'm like I open.

Okay, and I mean then I ask myself, I did

out signed up for this. I did not set up.

I didn't want to produce an album. I just saw

I put like I think we need to it's about

time ready. And this thing about like coming with three languages,

it was such a crazy idea. I thought that people

be excited, people were jumping about.

People. Let's get the job done. Friends. I got one.

Engineer say I don't want to do anymore because I

cannot hand the other engineer. I'm like, you guys are

not married, you're not even boyfriend girlfriend. You only see

each other work. Just get the job done. It's like,

you go, you got to work. You understand those if

we are working, you don't. You don't you you had disagreement,

but you still get the job done. Then just go

back home and just complain on you after that, Right,

I'm like a lot of things begin to brew, happened

to project got start half way, different interpretations and stuff

like that. Then we started praying. We say, guys, look,

I just want to let you all know, right, I

just want to let you all know that. For the

longest while, everyone in this group of friends, until we

got onto this project of producing an album. Okay, friends,

it's not a secular album. It is not one of

those like Lady Gaga album, nothing a lot, nothing like

Listen album. This is a spiritual album because it's it's

under the genre Christian and gospel O kids. So therefore, friends,

how do you if you know that if we want

to advance the gospel, there will be opposition, correctly right

not So there is the TIF that's trying to rob,

trying to rob the unity.

There's the THEIF that's trying to rob the project.

Don't even get it started. The place we saw of

redesigned our studio, the place that we had the studio. Friends,

we had this space for almost three years, three years.

It was sort of a place whereby we put stuff,

like just a spare room that we just put our

stuff inside there. So we said clear out the room

and started turning round studio. For three years, Frands, there

was no link, no water coming out from the walls.

The moment we declared that it's gonna be a studio

where praises and worship songs is gonna be produced out

from this room, we heard noises vibration from the war

that we have never heard from the earlier three years

because our that room was behind that room was the

compressor k on the huge shot for the shopping mall.

Three years before, they never heard.

All of sudden we started hearing water started coming through

the walls.

Frands.

Three years early on we put the doors that would

no water. Lenk the moment you declared an album, water

started coming in. You can't get more speecher than that.

Friends.

So you and I friends, you and I need to

know what's valuable, what God is trying to do tru

in the church and in our life, because if not

the easiest things. Forget about the album. We don't need it,

We didn't sign for it. None of us get extra

pay one. It's okay, just let it go. But all

of a sudden, determined Joe came back. He said, I'll

fly back from Melbourne. Right, this is this time coming back.

I'm going to work on this album with the team

and praise God he came back and helped us out

with the project and stuff like that. You got to

hear because there are one or two things. There's a

bit more different this time. But at the end of

your friends and people say, oh, I have this, this

I gonna share with you, right, Oh, I'll share it.

So we were asked like I, So I asked a designer,

could you design I will cover for me. You've asked

any designer design cover? They say, can you give me

a brief? Can you give me a brief? Like what

color you want? What concept you want. I'm like, you,

just designer, why will you exact? I'll just take it

one you ask me for real? I m myself drove

the cow for you. But so I do everything. I'm like,

so hard. You know what full size you want? What

type of force? I'm like, soana, just give me a cattle.

You know how it's easy. You give me a cattle.

I just think and think. You just produce something, right,

So I did something, give it to the designer. Designer

came out to me. None of the designers sput any

joy in the team. So I decided the next best thing.

Put everything to check GPT, put everything to change, please

Lord help out of the blue friends. Out of one

hundred designs I I I ran into check GPT, this

design came out. The one currently we're using came out

decent enough, which passed.

Say can you use this? Add the Holy Spirit?

The flaming there because remind us again, remind us again

what it's all about. Because the Holy Spirit. Nothing this happened.

I couldn't get back. I could and no matter what

prompting I tried, I couldn't get back these fonts.

This richeal nothing at all.

I knew that The Lord has just given this, I said,

always resonated with this design, and I just have to

thank God, give God the glory for everything. I'm sharing

this to you, becose because I'm smarter than nothing.

Friends.

It's just one of those very unique things that God

is in control. But see the teeth ones is still

que and destroy. Did you know how many lives abandoned

their destiny because of it? Discouragement, I say earlier on disunity, anger, disappointment,

because everything else like that. Next night, let me show

you a couple of scriptures. The next scripture is Matthew

chapter six ninety one. Do not lay up treasures for

yours on earth, where mouth and rass destroy, but teas

break in and steal.

Some.

When we talk about treasures, always the physical things, all right, car, house, cash,

everything right, But God reminds us the game. But layer

for yourself treasures in heaven, treasures in heaven. So all

that we do, friends, the community, work and stuff that

our treasures in heaven in heaven, in heaven, friends, there

is no such thing as a wasted sewing. In the

Kingdom of God. There is no such thing. Many times

in our life we think that, oh, I've wasted my life. No, friends,

anything you sow in the love we now go to

waste one. That's my firm belief being in church for

twenty five years, to this church except the law. At

the age of sixteen, and there was a young king,

a doubt or campus student. I was sixteen and he

was I think twenty. He came, visited me, deciphered me,

took me off from meals, believed in me all that

he has done. Frands laid the foundation. So there was

never a waste.

Friends.

So the question here is this, the friends, is that

have you been sewing? Have you been sewing into the kingdom?

Have you been sewing? I'm not talking about finances, friends,

I'm talking about your life. So yesterday at the Mission conference,

when we learn we have heard about Jim Elliot from Passsandra,

one of the most amazing things about the whole story

was this is that how an individual give up his

life to follow Christ? To follow Christ. Now, first, I'm

not asking anyone here go full time, but I just

wanted this. Constantly thought that we are all full time

wherever we are. There is no on off switch as

a believer. But many times in our journey, in our

life that on our street happens only because that we

don't know what's valuable. We do not know what's valuable.

We do not know what's valuable. Friends, we're off the

swish because you think it's not valuable. But if you

know this valuable, you keep the sish on. It says

that layer for your self treasured. Heaware neither mouth nor rass,

and rere teas do not break in and steel. So therefore, friends,

all that you've done for the Lord of friends, no

one can rob it, no one can take it away.

It's a testimony that you carry on for the day

you go hope to be with Jesus in your journey, Friends,

there has to be this investment. I was sudding past

it that you know it's the album is not just

another album.

It's a start actious. The earlier days.

We we dream a lot, we have big dreams. But

in the in the dolecent years after that, that, the

fifteen year, the sixteen year of doing church, we stop dreaming.

It's almost like, you know, when you're in school you

dream a lot, that when you're at the college, you're

at the working world, you stop dreaming.

Reality hits.

Then after we hit like twenty five twenty seven, Do

you want to start to dream again?

So we past just saying that extra start to.

Dream again and the album oning we calls friends, we

need to dream again. We have amazing talented musicians and

singers in our church. We do, we do, but many

times in our journey in friends, we stop dreaming and

we just think that it's just another chore.

We stop.

We have to dream again, friends, that's when the devil comes.

Still kill our dream, Come on, kill our dream. Some

of us here, when we were younger, we did crazy stuff.

Doesn't mean as an adult we stop dreaming.

We stop. Doesn't mean as an adult we stopped dreaming

one month ago.

I always have been too little with Pastor and the team.

Pastor was ministering to the youth.

Already, the b M gathering over there.

It was amazing because not not because it's Malaysia, but

the amazing thing is this that we've got to meet people.

We got to meet people and they were just sharing story.

How one guy say that there was a church. There's

a deep in the interiors whereby can't be. It's not

accessible by car. So the model of transport is this

first is by speedboat, car, speedboard again. So in this place, Frans,

there was supposed to be a church is supposed to

be started, and no one rose up to the occasion.

No what they say, I want to help start the

already build the church, the physical church, the building. So

this brother, who is a businessman, say, I'll tell you what,

if nobody wants to go in there, me and another

church elder will go. Took them, friends, three years to

build the physical church, three years to build the physical church.

Three years to build the physical church. And right now

the church is driving in the interiors over there. Friends,

You and I friends, have a choice. For where your

treasure is, there, your heart will be. Also where your

treasure is, your heart will be.

Also.

God is reminding us again that there's so much valuable

that's given to us that our heart sometimes may not

understand how valuable it is.

The next light, let me just show you what.

Okay, all right, here we go near my intense is

that go your way in the fact during the sweet

and send the portions to those Can I dispray for

this is the holiday. Do not sorrow, For the joy

of the Lord is your strength. Let me focus it.

Do not sorrow for the joy of the Lord is

your strength. Just two more points and our close. The

Bible says, do not sorrow, for the joy of the

Lord is your strength. Friends, God has given us the

joy of the Lord as a sustenance for our strength.

For many times we allow sorrow to rub our strength.

Come on, because we have never kept the joy of

the Lord. And no matter how difficult life can get, Friends,

the Lord wants to remind us this morning that you

have my joy and that shall be your strength. You

have my joy and that shall be your strength. You see,

the thief will come to remind you that you can

never overcome it with your own strength, which is very true.

And you have anything to rely on? You?

Do you have any expertise to rely on? You? Do

you have any connections to rely on? But how may

you know? We don't need any We don't rely on

human connection alone. We rely on God. We rely on God. Friends.

So many times, friends, why we sold because we don't

have any access to strengthma. But the Bible here reminds

us again, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

If the joy of the Lot is your strength, what happens?

The teeth want to steal away the strength. I have

not heard see that the teeth won't steal awa your weaknesses.

You'll got this weakness, I want to take it away.

If you've got this thing, I will this. I want

to take it away.

First.

I've never seen any thief takes away chu people. One

use tochue people unless you're a famous love. So and

so passes wants soon use this use tasue people kept

kept put it off for auction. I will not just

kidding right, So next like this show you just one

or tomorrow slightly met Chapter seventeen nineteen. The training says

that the disciples came to Jesus primaly, why can't we

cast it out?

Then?

Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief. Or surely,

I say to you, if you have faith as a

master seed, come on, faith as a mustard seed.

The Bible is not safe.

Faith as big as a tent time lorry, faith as

big as a mustard seed. In other words, friends, sometimes

we think, i'll faith is small, But the faith friends

that we have, can move mountains. So many times you

compare faith and go like, my faith is so small,

But please God, because our.

Small faith can move mountains. The Bible did not make it.

Even even the Bible didn't say that if we have

faith as big as an orange, because the bigger can

be Seema right. Our faith as big as the real

or coconut's visible, you can see it's heavy. But friends,

faith as small as a mustard seed, and many times strengths.

We always disregard our faith because oh I don't have

a strong faith as a leader, I do not have

a strong friends, as long as you have faith in God,

that faith can move mountains. So I say earlier on

the thieth, come to steal, kill and destroy. He wants

to rob us all this belief that we have in God.

That you can pray.

And that's why you say the speaker of this shire

so eloquently. She just say I serve a big God.

They say anything I hit a.

Wall, I did have to go and pray. Moms in

this show, I want to encourage you. You can pray

for your child. I always remember this story. Remember one

time a speaker came and just say, I came to

full time ministry because my mom prayed for me. I

was young and I was rebellious, and I didn't want

to go to school. I didn't have anything to do

with the church. Parents are I think they are superintendent

of a big denomination.

They want to go to school.

In fact, skip school to watch movie. One day, God

spoke to the mom and just say, please go to cinema,

the cinema down the street. Your son is in there.

She is a praying mom. And she was a prayer mom,

and she went to the cinema. The moment she opened

the door, she shouted the son's name. Shouted the son's name.

The sun stood up. Seriously, true story it starts stood up.

How do you know I was in this cinema. God

spoke to me. God spoke to me.

From the day on.

Friends, he knew that he can escape his mom, but

he cannot escape God.

Friends.

Many times in our journey, friends that we always say

that we need human connection, but this faith we have

in God is so key and so important. As I closed,

let me just share one story. So our church, we

have a magazine called It to White Too. Don't Despise

your youth started many years even before the church. About

twenty seven years ago, many people told pass the kennel

that you're not going to get a license from the

comment that I'm the Gaie for Christian Magazine.

Unique connections. You know the people up there. You need

to know who's in charge.

Back then we will nobody be there, any connection, nothing

at all but passages felt from the Lord, right in

and putting your application, putting application.

Five days later application came back. It was a proof.

First you and I need to know friends there are

God has put people in places that you and I

will never fully understand how it works. Never until today.

God has put people like come across our path, never

fully understand how it works.

But God's in control of everything.

And many times our journey in our life, friends, we

think that we need to work very hard.

It's true we need to have to work hard, but not

discovering in the hard world.

But I'm trying to say is that our full dependency

is not a human connection, but on God.

We need to pray. As I close fresds. You know what,

you have.

Faith as small as a mustered seed. See the devil

ones who remind us you can't do it. Your your

faith is so small. You have strength. You want to

do this. What you have need to have strength. The

word causes you got to have greed. You need you

need to push through but God reminds us again that

the draft lot is our strength. He came to give

us life, a life more abundantly. Your life, friends, is

not just here for a living, but friends, we are

here to make an impact. As I close friends, I

want to encourage you.

Know what you have.

You have a Bible with you, you can read, you can't, can't,

just share.

We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

information on our church, please visit ats Church do O RG.

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that this week is going to be a good week,

a hit for you. God bless