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Disciples First | Dr Jill

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day. Disciple first,

  3. that's right, okay, So every year God will give us

  4. a very specific direction for our church, and this year

  5. the direction, the theme that God has given us is

  6. everybody repeat after me, Disciple first again, Disciple first. All right. Now,

  7. So in the first half of my preaching, mainly in

  8. ex Cyberjaya and also different church plans, God has led

  9. me to preach on the basics of disciple first. But

  10. now we are already in the second half. We are

  11. going to the last quarter of the year. Already God

  12. is leading me to preach in a deeper way about discipleship. Yeah. So,

  13. if you can just look at the image. The first

  14. half of the year, my messages were mainly centralized around

  15. the basics about discipleship. But this second half of the year,

  16. God wants us to go deeper because we cannot remain

  17. as a baby forever, right, We've got to grow. Imagine

  18. if all of us remain as a baby forever here,

  19. my goodness, yeah, will be stunted and execuse will have

  20. more work to do. Yeah. Okay, So for today's message,

  21. I've got three key points or sections, and let's start

  22. with the first one. We can put number one up.

  23. So what God wants to say to us today is

  24. he wants us to go deeper. Right, everybody say go deeper? Okay?

  25. Now what to go deeper with?

  26. Leir?

  27. Right? Okay, let's move to the next line. So God

  28. is very gracious this round. In my twenty three years

  29. in ex church, God usually will reveal the theme year

  30. by year. Hi, It's like how iPhone is a year

  31. by year? Right? Is it almost year by year? Come out?

  32. They won't. They won't reveal five years plan suddenly. But

  33. this this season is a very special season in next

  34. Church because God already gave us our five year plan,

  35. our five year theme. Okay, so just to recap for us.

  36. Twenty twenty five, this year the theme is on discipleship. Yeah,

  37. and the phrase is disciple First. But next year is

  38. coming very soon already. Twenty twenty six, some of you

  39. think you're Chinese New Year ready right? Twenty twenty six

  40. the theme is Revival, and twenty twenty seven the theme

  41. is Evangelism. Twenty twenty eight the theme is Action, and

  42. twenty twenty nine the theme is Missions. Right, and all

  43. this when you line up the first alphabet of every theme,

  44. what does the acronym spell d R E A M dream.

  45. Because this is all preparing us for something big that

  46. God is going to do in twenty thirty. All this

  47. is lining up setting the stage. Okay, so we are

  48. just at the beginning of the runway with discipleship. Now

  49. let's go to the next image. So I remember in

  50. one of our huddle meetings, right our discipleship meetings, we

  51. passed the Kenneth. He shared with us about the analogy

  52. of a tree. And he said that for a tree

  53. to remain stable and rooted when there are strong winds

  54. and big storms, the roots of the tree must go deep.

  55. It must be anchored deep. Right, If not, the tree

  56. will topple over. Have you seen trees topple over in

  57. Kke because of storms? Yeah? I have, you know, near

  58. the public bank that side that road right the I've

  59. seen before big trees which I thought will never topple over,

  60. suddenly after a big storm topple over. Yeah. So you

  61. cannot judge a tree but its looks. Yeah, but we

  62. can learn that for a tree to be stable in

  63. the midst of you know, the winds of life and

  64. the wind of the Holy Spirit, the revival that God

  65. is going to bring. We have to go deeper in

  66. our roots. Okay, let's go to the next image, and

  67. so passa knnot painted this picture. Next year, the theme

  68. is going to be revival for ex church, and the

  69. winds of God are going to come strongly. And when

  70. the wind of God comes strongly, things are going to

  71. get messy. Can you imagine, Like now, you're all nicely seated, right,

  72. and when revival comes, we may have to clear the

  73. seats for prayer because the Holy Spirit wants to move. Now, okay,

  74. we will end before ten to fifteen, but when revival comes,

  75. we might take longer because the Holy Spirit wants to move.

  76. You know, can you imagine with me when revival comes,

  77. things may actually get messy. Things may go over time,

  78. things may get disorganized, right, there might be some stepping

  79. of toes because of you know, different expectations. So I

  80. know many of us call up for revival, but but

  81. also cautions that revival is definitely what God wants to

  82. bring to our land. But don't think it's all nice

  83. and rosy. It can get messy, right, just like marriage, right,

  84. it's beautiful, but it also has its challenges. And all

  85. the married people here say a or so so, and

  86. all the married people here say amen. Yes, it has

  87. it's beauty and it's challenges as well. Same like revival.

  88. But we definitely want the revival of God. But how

  89. then are we going to prepare ourselves for the revival

  90. of God? So when the strong way income, we don't

  91. get up rooted, we don't get offended, suddenly want to

  92. leave church, La, leave the Faifler, you know, blame this

  93. blame that is to actually go deeper in discipleship, because

  94. when we go deeper in discipleship, we're mature. Then we

  95. understand better why things happen the way they do. Okay,

  96. Now let's move on to the next line. All right,

  97. what picture do you see here? Roots? Okay? All right?

  98. So this is an actual drawing produced by a group

  99. of people who specialize in studying the roots of a tree.

  100. So in this world there are many professions, right, and

  101. we do know that there are people who study plants. Anyway,

  102. here is a Botanis you study plants? Anyone anyone say

  103. about that? God? Like, okay, I want to ask you

  104. to raise hens. They want to be shy, right, okay?

  105. Both and is noo? Got that? Okay? Well done? X

  106. kky yeah this first. Then every Sunday you tell a

  107. lame joke, right, So that's why I'm telling it for you.

  108. You can't be here, but I speak for you. Are okay?

  109. So but do you know there are people who study

  110. even parts of the tree, like the roots of the tree,

  111. and they came up with a drawing like this. Now

  112. can you see that above the ground the tree is

  113. actually very small and short. But below the ground, wha,

  114. the roots are so big and long, totally disproportionate. After

  115. I saw this image, right, I never look at my

  116. grass the same, Okain, And I water my grass, right,

  117. I'm like, oh yeah, you look sok cheap from the top,

  118. but I bet your root system is very long underneath.

  119. Life has changed for me. When I water my plants,

  120. I never believe tell them anymore. Yeah A small, My

  121. goodness is crazy. Here's cm. So I think the tree

  122. above ground, the height is probably about I don't know,

  123. let's see if there is six about ten cm? Yeah,

  124. but then and below the ground is nearly two meters.

  125. What is the ratio? It's a lot, right, but this

  126. is how God made plants naturally to withstand the strong winds,

  127. and not only that, to actually withstand dry seasons like drafts.

  128. So the thing about the root system is it will

  129. keep growing and digging until it finds water sauce. Water

  130. is the motivating factor for the root system to grow

  131. for plants. So if we are planted of the Lord,

  132. will we continue to let our roots grow until we

  133. get deeper into God's water sauce, his water of life,

  134. his river of life. Right, that's a hard check question

  135. for us. And you know, all the roots are are

  136. super stubborn one and super strong apparently. So I used

  137. to think if you plant plants in a thick ceramic pot,

  138. the roots cannot go through plastic pot. Maybe the root

  139. can can grow through, But apparently the roots of a

  140. plant they release this very special chemical that can even

  141. dissolve the hardest of stones, ceramic and concrete. So it

  142. doesn't matter even if you have a super thick ceramic pot,

  143. the roots of the plant can actually grow through it.

  144. And I have experienced it because I used to have

  145. a rubber leaf plant uh at in my garden at

  146. the front, and it grew from a little shrub to

  147. like two stories high. It can cover my master bedroom

  148. and the roots you can imagine, went super deep and

  149. a few months so we had to chop the tree

  150. last year because it was just you know, having a

  151. life of his own, and I was worried it would

  152. start destroying my house from underground. But so we thought

  153. that okay, once we had got rid of the tree,

  154. problem solved. But like I think one year later, which

  155. is a few months ago, found out that we start

  156. a water bill is like sixty ring it every month.

  157. That's high. Right, Yeah, it's like, hey, moly, y'ao gay.

  158. I used so much water. I know my I'm not

  159. like to stand under the water for half an hour.

  160. Yeah warm water and like, hey boy, what you take

  161. so long? You know? My water electricity bill going up?

  162. But it cannot be we used so much water. So

  163. my husband, thank God pass jack smart. He say, oh,

  164. I think there must be a leak in some pipe. Anyway,

  165. somehow God led him to the garden and he noticed

  166. a how come that spotter always got puddle or water?

  167. And then after that, yeah, we got the contractor through

  168. my dad's help, to actually dig out the ground and

  169. then really found out there was a broken pipe. The

  170. water was just running for like days. That's why the

  171. area was perpetually flooded, and that's why a water bill

  172. went up. And anyway, we got it fixed. But we

  173. found out that it was that old rubber trees roots

  174. that actually penetrated even through the pipes, the piping system.

  175. AI.

  176. Your plants, you think they're like soft, soft, but they're

  177. actually very you know strong. One where there's a wheel,

  178. there's a way. But I am so amazed because if

  179. natural plants can do that by hook or by crook,

  180. they will penetrate even the hardest of surface to get

  181. to water. What does it speak of us as plantings

  182. of the Lord? Will we will? We will? We let

  183. our roots also by hoo or by crook, you know,

  184. press through even the hardest of situations to find God's

  185. water sauce his abundant life for us. Yeah, so there's

  186. a question I want to leave with you today, because

  187. you know, God makes the natural to reflect the supernatural.

  188. Many spiritual principles we can learn from the natural, if

  189. you'll open our eyes and our hearts to see. Okay, now,

  190. fun fact, we show the next picture. So apparently the

  191. tree with the longest roots in the world. You want

  192. to guess is in which okay, spoiling, no, no, n

  193. it's okay, it's okay. It's in South Africa, Okay, in

  194. this place called Echo Caves. I think it's an underground

  195. cave that has a lot echo when you go into it. Yeah,

  196. and it is this particular fig tree. So you see

  197. this fig tree, there are already some roots above the

  198. ground right and under the ground. It has grown very

  199. very very deep until it found water sauce at the

  200. Echo caves. Now you want to guess how deep did

  201. the roots grow to hit the water sauce at Echo Caves.

  202. Who wants to give a shot? How many meters? Twenty meters? Okay,

  203. go try next, someone, I want to hear ab tree

  204. tree tries. Okay, twenty meters is a good start. One

  205. hundred eighty okay, one more.

  206. Five kilometers wow, wow, okay, okay, we like beating session

  207. like that at twenty twenty five thousand, okay, five thousand, okay,

  208. So the revealed time.

  209. This particular tree which holds the world record. Yeah, the

  210. routs are as deep as one hundred and twenty meters.

  211. So Jaden is the closest. Woo go young people. And

  212. that's the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Wow.

  213. Anybody been to the Eiffel Tower? Yeah?

  214. Wow.

  215. Some of you are so blessed, so blessed. Yeah. So yeah.

  216. Can you imagine a tree that probably isn't as tall

  217. as the ceiling here in Legacy studios, the routs are

  218. as deep as one hundred and twenty meters. Wow, wow, amazing. Right. Yes,

  219. I fell for you. Okay, yes, I will help President

  220. to bring up his jokes from time to timer. Please

  221. know that it's him and it's not me. But yeah,

  222. you know what, we allow our roots to go deep,

  223. to go deep with God. No matter how the world

  224. looks at us. We may look like, you know, uh,

  225. little shrub. You know, people see us. I don't think

  226. anything much of us, But I tell you, let our

  227. roots grow deep in Jesus until we find His living water. Amen.

  228. And you know what, we will be the last tree

  229. standing among the people who do not know God. When

  230. the winds, the femine, the draft of life comes, we

  231. will be the last tree standing because we are plotting

  232. to the deep water sauce in Him. Amen. So I

  233. want to challenge you all to encourage you friends to

  234. go deeper with Jesus even this year. Right. Okay, we're

  235. gonna go to the next line. Okay, so number two,

  236. we go to number two. So point we are done

  237. with point number one.

  238. Okay.

  239. Point number one is to go deeper. Point number two

  240. is what does God want to go deeper with us today?

  241. Because there can be so many things that he wants

  242. us to go deeper with, But what is it that

  243. he wants to go deeper with today? Okay, let's go

  244. to the next slide. So when I was studying about discipleship,

  245. I wanted to go back to the Word of God

  246. and what it talked about discipleship from the very beginning.

  247. So we know that the word disciple was mentioned only

  248. once in the Old Testament. Yeah, but in the New Testament,

  249. Jesus is the one who introduced the concept of discipleship.

  250. He's the seafuol, the og. So I went back to

  251. the Book of Matthew and I started to study, you know,

  252. what does our seafool say about discipleship? So in Matthew

  253. Chapter four, verse eighteen to twenty two. We're not gonna

  254. read it today. I'm just giving you a background. It's

  255. the first mentioned about discipleship, where Jesus started calling his

  256. first disciples. Okay. Then after that we move on to

  257. the next slide. Then in Math chapter forty Matthew chapter four,

  258. verse twenty two to twenty three to twenty five, we

  259. read that after Jesus called his first few disciples, straight

  260. away he get into actionaridy, doesn't wait too long, doesn't procrastinate,

  261. He straightway gets into teaching, into preaching, into healing, ministry, deliverance. Okay.

  262. And then we move on to Matthew chapter five, six seven.

  263. And this is a very very famous portion of the

  264. Bible known as the Sermon on the Mound. Yeah, this

  265. is where the Lord's prayer is found. This is where

  266. it is found. You know, if you you know you're

  267. angry against someone, you already commit murder in your heart.

  268. If you look at someone last fully, you already commit

  269. adultery in your heart. Yeah, this is where all these

  270. very famous teachings are found. Right, Okay. Then we move

  271. on to Matthew chapter eight, verse one to seventeen. So

  272. after Jesus taught, after he preached, he actually demonstrated in action,

  273. he continued to heal different ones. So can you see

  274. the pattern? After Jesus called his first disciples, he taught,

  275. he preached, he heal, delivered people. That sermon on the

  276. mound came, he taught, he preached. After that, he straight

  277. away go into action. He healed people. So Jesus taught,

  278. he preached, and he healed people over and over again.

  279. But would you notice that all this is still Jesus's part?

  280. How about the disciples? All this Jesus is working hard,

  281. you know, to teach, to preach, to heal. But what's

  282. happening with the disciples? Right? So that's the next part

  283. I want to bring us to, which is Matthew chapter eight,

  284. verse twenty three to twenty seven. And that's where we're

  285. gonna turn to read to today. So if you have

  286. your Bibles, please turn with me to Matthew chapter eight,

  287. verse twenty three to twenty seven. And I want to

  288. encourage you to have a physical Bible to bring it,

  289. to turn to it because it's extra special and powerful

  290. to do. So, Okay, only rely on my slides as

  291. the last resort. Let's not lose the art of even

  292. turning to a page on the book. You know, I

  293. think a lot of our children these days, they don't

  294. even know how to flip to a particular page in

  295. the book, because all they know they do is gourse.

  296. They swipe, swipe the tablet write our book also swipe. Ah,

  297. let's not lose the art of even flipping to a page,

  298. especially on the Word of God. Okay, Matthew, Chapter eight,

  299. verse twenty three to twenty seven. Are we there yet? Yeah? Okay, cool.

  300. Now I'm I want to read for us. I'm reading

  301. from the ESV version. And when he got into the boat,

  302. his disciples followed him verse twenty four. And behold, there

  303. arose a great storm on the sea, so that the

  304. boat was being swarm by the waves. But he was

  305. asleep verse twenty five. And they went and woke him, saying,

  306. save us, Lord, we are perishing. And he said to them,

  307. why are you afraid, oh you of little faith? Then

  308. he rose and rebuilt the winds and the sea, and

  309. there was a great calm verse twenty seven. And the

  310. man marveled, saying, what sort of man is this that

  311. even winds and sea obey him? Amen. Now we're gonna

  312. just unpack this a little bit. Yeah. So this was

  313. after Jesus talk preach hell, thought, preach hell. Now this

  314. is the turning point for his disciples, because now this

  315. was when Jesus wanted to test his disciples. Before that,

  316. Jesus did a lot of the heavy lifting, a lot

  317. of work, right, teaching, preaching, healing, teaching, preaching healing. At

  318. this chapter, this juncture is when we see a change

  319. in direction where Jesus actually purposely didn't do much. He

  320. was sleeping in the boat. Jesus purposely held himself back

  321. to test his disciples. Yeah, and what did he There

  322. can be a message for a whole other day, how

  323. our leaders by intention allowed us to rise to the

  324. next level. Right, Okay, but I'm not going to focus

  325. on that today. What I want to focus is what

  326. did Jesus tests in his onet to test in his disciples. Okay, Now,

  327. so when we read, let's go to verse twenty six.

  328. I think we can show the scripture in verse twenty six. Okay, right,

  329. verse twenty six, he said to the disciples when they

  330. were calling him for help because they were sinking in

  331. the midst of the storm. Jesus said to them, why

  332. are you afraid? Everyone say afraid, oh, you of little faith?

  333. So here Jesus was going deeper with his disciples. And

  334. of all the things Jesus could choose to go deeper

  335. with his disciples, he chose to touch on fear. I

  336. thought that was pretty amazing, because if I were Jesus,

  337. I would test them on can you teach like me?

  338. Can you preach like me? Can you heal and deliver

  339. like me? I would I would test them on what

  340. I've taught them. Right, teachers, here you will be fair

  341. and test your students on what you've taught them. But

  342. here of Jesus didn't test them on death. But he

  343. wanted to go deep in their hearts because he knows

  344. that really the heart of the matter is the matter

  345. of the heart. At the end of the day, what

  346. God really wants to work is in is our hearts.

  347. More some yeah, woman does sing our hearts because if

  348. we our hearts can get it right and healthy, the

  349. rest will flow out of our hearts. What we say,

  350. what we do, how we decide, how we live life.

  351. And and so today God wants to go deeper with

  352. our hearts. Our hearts, how many of us actually sometimes

  353. there to look into our heart. It's got a scary

  354. place to look into it right, and how many of

  355. us will let others look into our heart? No, I

  356. see Jaden, big big, no hate shake, I know. I

  357. also I also am like you. I sometimes are scared

  358. to look into my own heart because so many crazy

  359. things go on in my heart. You don't see your knee,

  360. and I like it, scared for people to know my heart.

  361. Ha.

  362. But really, there is one person we can trust to

  363. look into our hearts, and there is Jesus. Even if

  364. we can't trust ourselves. We can't trust others to look

  365. into our hearts because it's so vulnerable, right, But we

  366. can trust Jesus to look into our hearts and to

  367. go deep into our hearts. He's the only one who

  368. can take all this in our hearts. We ourselves cannot

  369. take it, others cannot take it, but he can take

  370. whatever's in our hearts, and he can work at whatever's

  371. in our hearts. So like this year for me personally, yeah,

  372. as we are going deeper this year in discipleship, that's

  373. been really the cry and the prayer of my heart.

  374. That is, God, would you take my heart and work

  375. at it all over again. I'm forty two years old

  376. this year, and I've been a Christian for more than

  377. half of my life. I've been an extra for more

  378. than half of my life. But yet there's so much

  379. in my heart that still needs to be worked upon.

  380. I say, God, you know, as I enter the second

  381. half of my life, I don't want to ask for

  382. better health only. I don't want to ask for more

  383. money only. But I really want to have a better

  384. heart as I enter the second half of my life,

  385. because everything else flows from my heart. So I believe

  386. that's what God is also calling each of you today,

  387. would you dare to let God into your heart more,

  388. especially the difficult sensitive areas. So recently what I did

  389. was in my journal. I drew a big heartship. And

  390. every time in life I go through that difficult area

  391. of my heart, I will write down in that heart shape.

  392. Maybe it could be I Sally, I feel so sensitive,

  393. I get offended, I put it in that heart. Or

  394. sometimes I see others got a lot of nice things,

  395. I envy them, or I get jealous. I write it

  396. in that heart. I mean, some days I feel insecure,

  397. I put it in that heart. Some days I feel

  398. so angry, I put it in my heart. Some days

  399. are I really purposely just rebel against God. I put

  400. it in that picture of the heart. For me, there

  401. is a representation of God. This is where my heart

  402. is right now. Please help me with all these areas

  403. that I struggle with. Even though I've been a Christian

  404. so long, even though I've been in church so long,

  405. even though I am a leader in church, I owe

  406. my heart it also has struggles on. So God, this

  407. year true discipleship, will you go deeper in my heart?

  408. Yeah?

  409. It's not about how long we've been around in church

  410. on earth, is how what is the condition of our hearts? Yeah? Okay,

  411. so we are going to move on. I'm also looking

  412. at time. Yeah, so what are your What is in

  413. your heart that God wants to work in today? Really?

  414. Could it be fears? Maybe different types of fears. Many

  415. times we humans make decisions based on fear. You think

  416. about it, the way we live our life, right, Usually

  417. it's because of fears, that's why we live it. Well, well,

  418. there's a place for good fear, fear of God. But

  419. he doesn't want us to live with unhealthy fear, right,

  420. and so what could be some unhealthy fears that could

  421. be in our hearts? Yeah? Think to yourself today, you know.

  422. Could it be a fear of the past. You know,

  423. maybe you have opened up your heart, you have given

  424. your best to different ones, and you got hurt, and

  425. now you don't dare to open up your heart again

  426. and give your best. God is saying, would you open

  427. your heart again? Don't let your past fears hold you back.

  428. Could some fears be the fear of the present? You know,

  429. right now I'm going through a very busy season in

  430. my life. You don't understand I've got this, I've got that,

  431. I've got this, I've got that responsibility and that that

  432. fear is holding us back from going deeper with God.

  433. Or could it be a future fear? Or I fear

  434. whether my children will have enough for their education. I

  435. feel about my health, how will it be? And then

  436. that fear holds us back from going deeper with God

  437. and all that He wants us to do. So what

  438. are some fears that are very real to you? I

  439. think the fear of man is very big also, no

  440. matter our age, right, we feel what others will think

  441. of us, Yeah, what they will say of us or

  442. do to us. I think the fear of man is

  443. actually quite big in our lives, no matter the age

  444. and season. So be honest with yourself and ask yourself honestly,

  445. what are some fears that I have in my life

  446. at this moment that is holding me back from going

  447. deeper with God and all that he wants me to do.

  448. Is it your time that's very precious to you? Or

  449. different your own family? Right? Okay? Now I want to

  450. jump to Matthew chapter nineteen. Let's turn a few chapters down,

  451. and I really feel this particular scripture is for XKK.

  452. I will tell you why. I just added this in

  453. this morning, and when we sang the songs and we

  454. watched the video, it really confirmed this word. So XTV,

  455. get ready to dance with me. I'm going to ask

  456. you to flash up a few slides. Okay, just just

  457. dance with me, Okay, all right. Matthew Chapter nineteen, verse

  458. sixteen to twenty two. It's about the rich young man. Okay,

  459. I'm going to read the scripture for us. Here we

  460. go and behold a man came up to him, saying, teacher,

  461. what good deed must I do to have eternal life?

  462. Verse seventeen. And he said to him, why do you

  463. ask me about what is good? There's only one who

  464. is good if you would enter life, keep the commandments

  465. he said to him, which ones, And Jesus said, you

  466. shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall

  467. not steal, you shall not bear false witness. Honor your

  468. father and mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  469. The young man said to him, all these I have kept,

  470. what do I still lack? Verse twenty one. Jesus said

  471. to him, if you would be perfect, go sell what

  472. you possess and give to the poor, and you will

  473. have treasure in heaven, and come follow me verse twenty two.

  474. When the young man heard this, he went away sorrowful,

  475. for he had great possessions. Okay, so this is a

  476. true story. A young man and then he was so

  477. blessed with so much at a young age. Don't know

  478. whether he inherited through his family or he was just

  479. a very capable, favored, blessed man. And he was a

  480. holy man. He did what was right according to the

  481. law of God. But what Jesus wanted wasn't just his resources.

  482. What Jesus wanted was his heart. See we're back to

  483. the issue of the heart again, because this man's heart

  484. was in his possessions, and Jesus wanted to test whether

  485. he was willing to give away his possessions. He was

  486. willing to give him his heart, but he wasn't. So

  487. I want to encourage us and also caution us at

  488. the same time that even as we are very blessed,

  489. yeah we are. I think many of us here in

  490. this room are very blessed. We are blessed to be

  491. even staying in Kota Kamoninga. We are blessed already because

  492. it's not cheap to have a place in Kota kamuning

  493. And most of us we are blessed with cars at

  494. least one cars, right, And then most of us, you know,

  495. have good jobs. We have good schools. You know, we

  496. have good health and even if the health is not

  497. too good, we can afford the healthcare. We can buy

  498. supplements on rachel A Live Pharmacy. Yeah, we can go

  499. for holidays, we can eat nice food. Yeah. And yeah,

  500. we have our challenges, but I think most families here

  501. at least are quite together, quite in Pisa, right. So

  502. I would say generally we are quite blessed here, and

  503. we are also trying to do what's right in God's eyes,

  504. Like the rich young men. We try to come to church,

  505. we try to serve, We try to be a part

  506. of homes and prayer service and hddlenight and different things.

  507. We are trying so we are blessed and we are

  508. trying to do what is right here. But you know,

  509. God actually wants you to go deeper beyond being blessed,

  510. beyond doing what is right. He's asking whether you, XKK,

  511. will you give him all of your heart? All of

  512. your heart? I think the word all is really the

  513. prophetic word that I want to live with XKK today.

  514. Al l all. He's saying, XKK, you are very blessed.

  515. I bless you, and you are good servants. But beyond

  516. all that, would you give me? You're all? You're all?

  517. And what would they all mean to you? How do

  518. I know this is the word for you all? Because

  519. I keep saying throughout today's worship service, I kid you

  520. not XTIV. Can you put up that slide that says

  521. hallelujah one of the worship songs, al but le hallelujah?

  522. Which song is that guiding like the bridge? Right?

  523. Halleluyah?

  524. Okay, just just put that word up for me, please, Okay, Hallelujah.

  525. We have sung it one hundred thousand million times in

  526. our life, and I've never seen this revelation, at least

  527. for me, maybe for you, God, bless you. But when

  528. I was worshiping, the word A L L just jumped

  529. up at me, all hallelujah and the word all just

  530. jumped up at me. And then I got convicted. You know,

  531. I'm like I felt the Holy Spirit say, Jill, you

  532. sing Hallelujah so easily, But do you mean what you

  533. sing when you sing halle Louijah? Are you really saying

  534. that God, I give you my all? Or am I

  535. singing it as lip service?

  536. Okay?

  537. None? We go on to Jesse's video, the Iskanda testimony video.

  538. Can we just play the starting and I'll tell you

  539. when to stop. Okay, let's do some word search today.

  540. Where else can we find all? Okay? Go on, sorry, Jesse,

  541. wait to mute you this round? Okay, go on stop? Okay,

  542. tell me where is al found in this sentence? Say again, challenging,

  543. You're right? And then the Holy Spring sport again to

  544. me and say, hey, you know, even when it's challenging,

  545. you can give me all. You can give me off.

  546. Oh so not just when we sing hallelujah, got once

  547. at all, when we're on the mountaintop, got once at all,

  548. But even when we're in the valley, our valley another

  549. a l there. I just got it on the spot.

  550. God wants us to give us out all, even when

  551. it's challenging. He wants us to give us our all.

  552. We go on with that video, got one more, all

  553. that spotted one more, one more?

  554. Mhm okay stop.

  555. O wait oh yeah, okay. Where is the word all

  556. found in this sentence? All the call call, we are

  557. called to give out all?

  558. Really?

  559. So what every time I worship right and throughout the service,

  560. I sit down, so I keep seeing the word all, all,

  561. all all popping up at me. And I really and

  562. actually even this morning and last night that the word

  563. aol just kept appearing to me. But I was a

  564. little bit not sure, like God, should I share it

  565. with x KK?

  566. Yeah?

  567. But then I saw all this. I cannot run away ready,

  568. like Jonah, I cannot run away. It's too bright and

  569. glaring before me. I have to be faithful to speak

  570. God's word. If not, he will hold me accountable. Jill,

  571. why you never asked me to tell my people what

  572. I want them to know. Ha. So I don't want

  573. to go through that with God. So I will say

  574. what you are to say God, And I'm gonna end

  575. with this. You know, really, SKK, you are at a

  576. good place. You are blessed, you are favored. You know

  577. you are in a comfortable place in life.

  578. Uh.

  579. And you are you are good and faithful servants. You

  580. know you're trying your best to do what's right before

  581. God's eyes. You're serving in his house. But yet God

  582. knows that there is still more that you can give

  583. to him. He's saying, would you give me all? And only?

  584. You know what is that all for you? You know

  585. what will make up there all for you? So would

  586. you be willing to give him your heart? And you're

  587. all even this day and you know this season, and

  588. see how He will move in and through your life? Really,

  589. you know, I want to jump all the way to

  590. and then we want to pray. Extreme can come up ready.

  591. I just want to spend a bit of time pray. Yeah,

  592. let's jump to Matthew chapter sixteen, or go back a

  593. bit Matthew chapter sixteen, Verse twenty five to twenty six.

  594. Matthew Chapter fIF sixteen verse twenty five to twenty six.

  595. What happens when we give God out all? Okay, let

  596. me read verse twenty five. For whoever would save his

  597. life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for

  598. my sake will find it. Verse twenty six For what

  599. will it profit a man if he gains the whole

  600. world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man

  601. give in return for his soul? And so xkk? When

  602. you there to give your all to God, starting with

  603. your heart, because that's where everything else in life flows

  604. out from. If you dare to let God go deeper

  605. in your heart and work at areas that need to

  606. be worked on, you will find the life that you

  607. desire and so much more. The life that you desire

  608. and you need is not found in the outward doing

  609. a must do this more, must get this more. That

  610. is not the life that you really want. And that's

  611. not the life that God wants for you too. And

  612. that's not the life that you need. But the true life,

  613. life that you are one and God One's for you

  614. and you need, is found when you're giving your all

  615. beginning of your heart. So I know we don't always

  616. talk about God. Look into my heart. God work in

  617. my heart ware it needs to be worked. But I

  618. feel today this is God's call to you, particularly XKK.

  619. When I spoke in x Clang two weeks ago, God

  620. also gave a word for ex Clang and it was

  621. just for ex Clang, And I feel this word is

  622. really for XKK today and those of you who are

  623. tuning in today. No mistake or chance you are tuning in,

  624. but God's word is for you today as well. We

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

  626. on our church, please visit Exchurch do RG. We are

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  628. week is going to be a good week ahead for you.

  629. God bless